Seth (cartoonist)

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The first volume of The Complete Peanuts from Fantagraphics Books with cover design by Seth.
The first volume of The Complete Peanuts from Fantagraphics Books with cover design by Seth.

Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant (born September 16, 1962), a Canadian comic book artist and writer.

Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto.[1]

Seth's first published comics work was as an illustrator on the short-lived series Mister X, but he soon moved to his own series, Palookaville (published by Drawn and Quarterly), which was part of a miniature boom in non-genre alternative comics from Canada in the 1990s. Seth, Chester Brown, and Joe Matt not only also began their own semi-autobiographical series at the same time, but were friends and sometimes depicted each other in their stories. Palookaville began as a low-key chronicle of the artist's daily life, but moved on to longer and more ambitious stories, including what was later collected as the graphic novel It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken— an apparently autobiographical tale that was actually fiction.

He is also a magazine illustrator and book designer, perhaps best known for his work designing the complete collection of Charles M. Schulz's classic comic strip Peanuts. The books, slated to be released by Fantagraphics Books in 25 separate volumes combine Seth's signature aesthetic to Schulz's minimalistic comic creation.

Clyde Fans, the story of two brothers whose trade in electric fans suffers from the invention of air conditioning, has been serialized in Palookaville. Seth's short graphic novel Wimbledon Green, about an eccentric comic-book collector, was published in November 2005.

In April 2006, Penguin Classics released the revised Portable Dorothy Parker, with a jacket and French flaps designed and illustrated by Seth. He said, "It’s fun when you care about the project, definitely. In fact, I’ve been a commercial illustrator for years, besides being a cartoonist, and that's not fun. That's like the kind of thing, I find, you're just selling style in a way." [2]

In September 2006, Seth began a new serialized graphic novel for the New York Times. The story is to be titled "George Sprott (1894-1975)".[3]

Seth's affection for early- and mid-20th century popular culture, and his relative disdain for pop culture since then, is a recurrent theme in his work, both in terms of the characters (who are often nostalgic for the period) and his artistic style.[4] His artwork has landed on the cover of The New Yorker twice, which he said was a professional milestone he was happy to achieve. [2]

[edit] Bibliography

Graphic Novels
Other
  • (2001) Vernacular Drawings [sketchbook] - Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, ISBN 1-896597-41-6

[edit] References

  1. ^ drawn and quarterly, Retrieved August 2, 2006
  2. ^ a b Seth's Dorothy Parker Society interview, Retrieved November 18, 2006
  3. ^ Sequential interview, Retrieved September 2, 2006
  4. ^ "An Interview With Seth": Bookslut, June 2004
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