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Seth in Conversation with Douglas Coupland at VIWF!

by Dan
Events + Graphica / August 26, 2009

In what promises to be one of the highlights of this year's Vancouver International Writers Festival, Canadian cartoonist Seth will be in conversation with author Douglas Coupland on Friday, October 23 8:00 pm at the Waterfront Theatre.

Tickets, which go sale Friday, September 11, 2009, are $18 and are available from the VIWF box office.

I would get your in there early if I were you!

In the meantime, The Daily Cross Hatch have posted a great 3-part chat with Seth.

In the interview Seth discusses a whole range of topics, including Comic-Con, Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Watchmen, Alan Moore, WIMBLEDON GREEN, and Seth's most recent book GEORGE SPROTT (1894-1975):

I wanted George to be someone who was in the public eye, but obviously not a genuine celebrity, because then you'd have to deal with the problems of real celebrity in the story. It's not a story about fame, because that's too easy. But George's limited fame is an essential ingredient. It's a story about things falling away with time. That minor fame of his simply gave me another element of his life to fall away.

Read Part 1 of The Daily Cross Hatch Interview

Read Part 2 of The Daily Cross Hatch Interview

Read Part 3 of The Daily Cross Hatch Interview

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!