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The life of a small-town celeb
by Dan
Graphica / August 10, 2009
Seth's wonderful graphic novel GEORGE SPROTT (1894-1975) was reviewed in the Globe and Mail at the weekend:
The graphic novel builds on the material of Seth's fictional biography of Sprott, a local TV host past his prime, which was originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine's Funny Pages in 2006. Within the constraints of that assignment, each one-page instalment functioned as a self-contained story; now collected and expanded, the chapters of the character study add up to a sprawling, unsentimental exploration of memory!
Though imaginary, Sprott's world is so fully realized that small-town settings occupy three-dimensions, sometimes literally. Photographs of Seth's painstakingly constructed cardboard maquettes of the narrative's important buildings are inserted, like pauses, throughout the story: the CKCK building, the Radio Hotel, the Melody Grill (once the stomping ground for the entertainers of the day) and Coronet Hall, home of Sprott's weekly lecture series.
A PDF preview of GEORGE SPROTT is available from the Drawn & Quarterly website, and Seth will be touring across Canada in the fall--details to come!
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