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 comix, 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 preoccupations 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.
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