Tag Archive | "Seth"

Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X

Saturday, May 5, 2012

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I was prepping tomorrow’s Art For Art’s Sake post and happened to come across this…. Mr X by Paul Rivoche (via Comic Alliance) Which put me in the mood for more Mr X… so much to choose from…. and the more I look the more I can’t decide. And you must understand here that I’m [...]

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Lemony Snicket and Seth….

Saturday, April 7, 2012

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Lemony Snicket’s new 4-book series is called “All The Wrong Questions“, and deals with a version of Snicket’s childhood in a ”fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted“, and talks of his experiences as “an apprentice in an organization nobody knows about.” It’s also being described as having “illustrations by Seth”, although no idea [...]

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Dan Clowes and Seth interviewed on WNYC

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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Leonard Lopate has two stellar comics guests on his WNYC show – Seth and Dan Clowes, both currently touring North America with The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists and Death Ray respectively. Better still the audio for the show is up on the WNYC site now to listen to. (thanks to Adam Cadwell for [...]

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Seth wins the Harbourfront Prize

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Top Canadian comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly drop us a line to let us know that the artist Seth has scored a major literary award in Canada, the Harbourfront Prize (part of Toronto’s International Festival of Authors) which was established in the mid 1980s to reward “individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the [...]

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A very small new Seth comic?

Sunday, August 21, 2011

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That’s a brand new Seth comic. A very, very small Seth comic, done as a gift? Or just one of those strange things Seth likes doing? As for the tiny little comic inside…. it looks like this… And then there’s this at Boing Boing…. which is from Seth’s new graphic novel “The Great Northern Brotherhood [...]

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The Criterion Collection – dvd covers and more by comic artists

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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Over at Comics Alliance there’s a complete gallery of the cover art to various dvds in the Criterion collection, whether actual covers or posters created for the 2010 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival. See here for Sean Hughes doing Tony Curtis in The Sweet Smell Of Success. And here’s a couple of the stand-outs: Divorce Italian Style [...]

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New stuff to get excited about…

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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2011 is already shaping to be another year with some great looking books: New Seth is always going to make a great year. Palookaville has gone the route of annual hardback with issue 20 and hopefully we’ll see issue 21 late in 2011. But there’s definitely going to be a new Seth graphic novel in [...]

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Seth talks cover design

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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The brilliant Seth talks us through how he approached his cover artwork for the July/August issue of The Walrus. (tip of the hat to Tom Humberstone for the link): “Whether I’m doing a commercial illustration, drawing a picture in my sketchbook, working on a comics story — that’s all very different in approach.  Sometimes it’s [...]

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Palookaville pics…

Sunday, July 4, 2010

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Seth’s Palookaville has long been one of my favourite things in comics, and it’s transition from 22 page comic in the early 90s to the hardback volume 20 due out in August, has been wonderful to behold. As has Seth’s confidence and storytelling abilities over the years until he quite rightly takes his place right [...]

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Doug Wright Awards Charity Artworks….

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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A lovely set of artworks sold to benefit charity over at the Flickrstream of the Doug Wright Awards. You could have had this gorgeous Seth Dr Fate for just $1450.79 Canadian – bargain! And amongst all the other great works there’s a Kate Beaton Wonder Woman, which gives me the flimsiest of excuses to remind [...]

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Best of the Year: Jim Medway’s picks

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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For today’s selection for the Best of the Year its the turn of the excellent comics creator and educator Jim Medway, who has the special distinction of being one of the particular favourites of our youngest contributor, Molly, who ranked Jim’s Crab Lane Crew as among her very favourite strips in the now sadly gone [...]

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Seth speaks

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Seth talks on Q TV in a really nice quality video about his own cartooning and designing other books (via CBR’s Robot 6):

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Three Interviews for your Sunday entertainment: Bissette, Talbot & Seth.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Bissette, Talbot & Seth – possibly the strangest legal firm in the world? It’s Sunday morning and you have nothing to do all day. Well, how about spending a while with three fantastic interviews: Steve Bissette: The artist and publisher talks about the lifetime of work, the bad days at DC, Swamp Thing, publishing Taboo, [...]

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