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Seth
Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, 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 endeavors. 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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Chester Brown
The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in
subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new
methods of publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities.
Among those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown (b.
1960) quickly developed a cult following due to the undeniable
quality and originality of his Yummy Fur (1983-1994).
Chester Brown: Conversations collects interviews
covering all facets of the cartoonist's long career and includes
several pieces from now-defunct periodicals and fanzines. Brown was
among a new generation of artists whose work dealt with decidedly
nonmainstream subjects. By the 1980s comics were, to quote a by-now
well-worn phrase, \"not just for kids anymore,\" and subsequent
censorious attacks by parents concerned about the more salacious
material being published by the major publishers--subjects that
routinely included adult language, realistic violence, drug use,
and sexual content--began to roil the industry. Yummy Fur
came of age during this storm and its often-offensive content,
including dismembered, talking penises, led to controversy and
censorship.
With Brown's highly unconventional adaptations of the Gospels,
and such comics memoirs as The Playboy (1991/1992) and
I Never Liked You (1991-1994), Brown gradually moved away
from the surrealistic, humor oriented strips toward
autobiographical material far more restrained and elegiac in tone
than his earlier strips. This work was followed by Louis
Riel (1999-2003), Brown's critically acclaimed comic book
biography of the controversial nineteenth-century Canadian
revolutionary, and Paying for It (2011), his best-selling
memoir on the life of a john.
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Sunday Profile: Top Of The World
Legos are more than a toy for the world-famous architect Moshe Safdie. They were the inspiration for one of his most famous works. Martha Teichner has the portrait of an artist on top of the world.
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Dave Sim
In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publishCerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004. Over the run of the comic, Sim used it as a springboard to explore not only the potential of the comics medium but also many of the core assumptions of Western society. Through it he analyzed politics, the dynamics of love, religion, and, most controversially, the influence of feminism--which Sim believes has had a negative impact on society. Moreover, Sim inserted himself squarely into the comic asCerebus'screator, thereby inviting criticism not only of the creation, but also of the creator.
What few interviews Sim gave often pushed the limits of what an interview might be in much the same way thatCerebuspushed the limits of what a comic might be. In interviews Sim is generous, expansive, provocative, and sometimes even antagonistic. Regardless of mood, he is always insightful and fascinating. His discursive style is not conducive to the sound bite or to easy summary. Many of these interviews have been out of print for years. And, while the interviews range from very general, career-spanning explorations of his complex work and ideas, to tightly focused discussions on specific details of Cerebus, all the interviews contained herein are engaging and revealing.
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Mastering building: restoration architect Susan Turner brings new life to old spaces
Susan Turner has come a long way from building tents out of blankets as a child, after announcing at age 6 that she'd be an architect. Now 37, Turner has made good on her claim and risen to the top of her field. Her award-winning restorations led to her being named chief Canadian architect restoring historic Canada House in London, England.
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