Boston Book Festival

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2011 Presenters

Seth

Graphic Novels: Drawing the Story 2:30pm Trinity Church Sanctuary

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Seth's graphic novels include It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken, Wimbeldon Green, Clyde Fans Book One and the illustrated memoir of his father, Bannock, Beans, and Black Tea. Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville, and he serialized the story "George Sprott: 1894-1975" in the New York Times Magazine. Seth's work frequently appears inside and on the cover of The New Yorker. He has exhibited his work in group and solo shows throughout the world, and he is the subject of an upcoming National Film Board documentary. His newest work, The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, is a fictional, yet historically based, account of the world of Canadian comics.

LINKS:

Seth's page from Drawn & Quarterly publisher

Article by Seth on The Quiet Art of Cartooning, from The Walrus

The Onion AV Club Q&A with Seth on classic cartoonists

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