Happy Birthday Seth
Canadian cartooning icon and Guelph, ON resident Seth celebrates his 47th birthday today. Happy birthday!
24 years as a comic creator, Seth launched his comics career working on Dean Motter’s creation Mister X for Bill Mark’s now defunct Vortex Comics and has gone on to international acclaim for his work on his Drawn & Quarterly series Palooka-ville. Several stories from Palooka-ville have subsequently been reprinted by D+Q – as the graphic novellas It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken and Clyde Fans Book One. Clyde Fans Book One was selected for the Doug Wright “best book” award in 2005, the same year that saw the publication of Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World.
In recent years, Seth produced a series of short stories for the New Yorker magazine’s “Funny Pages” which were recently collected with additional material in the handsome hardcover volume George Sprott: 1894-1975. He also produced the journal format “Thoreau MacDonald”, which was reproduced on 2-pages for the large format Kramer’s Ergot 7 from Buenaventura Press — for which he is nominated this year for a Joe Shuster Award in the Outstanding Canadian Cartoonist category. Seth has been nominated twice before – in 2005 for Palooka-ville #17, and in 2006 for Wimbledon Green. He has also been designing the dustjackets for the hardcover Complete Peanuts reprint collection series from Fantagraphics.
Seth, along with writer and journalist Brad Mackay, founded the Doug Wright Awards, the first of which were handed out in May 2005 at the second Toronto Comic Arts Festival. In 2009, Seth and Mackay completed the first volume of their Doug Wright retrospective – Doug Wright: Canada’s Master Cartoonist.
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