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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 15, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...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):
Continue reading...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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Sunday, February 13, 2011
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