MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03230cam a2200421 i 4500
001 2014024115
003 DLC
005 20150703121638.0
008 140702s2015 msua 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014024115
020 $a9781628461305 (hardback)
020 $z9781628461312 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN6733.S48$bZ46 2015
082 00 $a741.5/971$223
084 $aLIT017000$aLCO006000$aBIO001000$2bisacsh
100 0 $aSeth,$d1962-$eauthor.
240 10 $aInterviews.$kSelections
245 10 $aSeth :$bconversations /$cEdited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace.
264 1 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2015]
300 $axx, 230 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aConversations with comic artists series
520 $a"Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, (b. 1962), pen name Seth, emerged as a cartoonist in the fertile period of the 1980s, when the alternative comics market boomed. Though he was influenced by mainstream comics in his teen years and did his earliest comics work on Mister X, a mainstream-style melodrama, Seth remains one of the least mainstream-inflected figures of the alternative comics' movement. His primary influences are underground commix, newspaper strips, and classic cartooning. These interviews, including one career-spanning, definitive interview between the volume editors and the artist published here for the first time, delve into Seth's output from its earliest days to the present. Conversations offer insight into his influences, ideologies of comics and art, thematic preoccupations, and major works, from numerous perspectives--given Seth's complex and multifaceted artistic endeavours. Seth's first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, announced his fascination with the past and with earlier cartooning styles. Subsequent works expand on those preoccupation and themes. Clyde Fans, for example, balances present-day action against narratives set in the past. The visual style looks polished and contemplative, the narrative deliberately paced; plot seems less important than mood or characterization, as Seth deals with the inescapable grind of time and what it devours, themes which recur to varying degrees in George Sprott, Wimbledon Green, and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aCollection of interviews originally published in various sources.
500 $aIncludes index.
600 00 $aSeth,$d1962-$vInterviews.
650 0 $aCartoonists$zCanada$vInterviews.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aHoffman, Eric,$d1976-$eeditor.
700 1 $aGrace, Dominick,$d1963-$eeditor.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSeth, 1962-$tSeth$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015$z9781628461312$w(DLC) 2014026729
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1343/2887543/image/lgcover.9781628461305.jpg