{"product_id":"seth-conversations-paperback","title":"Seth: Conversations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDominick Grace\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanadian 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 \u003ci\u003eMister X\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eIt's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken\u003c\/i\u003e, announced his fascination with the past and with earlier cartooning styles. Subsequent works expand on those preoccupations and themes. \u003ci\u003eClyde Fans\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eGeorge Sprott, Wimbledon Green\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eOppen: A Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e. He coedited (with Jason Sacks and Dominick Grace) \u003ci\u003eSteve Gerber: Conversations \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJim Shooter: Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e; (with Dominick Grace) \u003ci\u003eDave Sim: Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eChester Brown: Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels\u003c\/i\u003e; and (with Nina Goss)\u003ci\u003e Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century, \u003c\/i\u003e all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also author of several books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eThis Thin Mean: New Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePresence of Life\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLosses of Life\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDominick Grace\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb: A Critical Reading\u003c\/i\u003e. He coedited (with Jason Sacks and Eric Hoffman) \u003ci\u003eSteve Gerber: Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJim Shooter: Conversations \u003c\/i\u003eand (with Eric Hoffman) \u003ci\u003eDave Sim: Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eChester Brown: Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 16, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42168237752455,"sku":"9781496807885","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/48eb57c2547a200d1ca20cd76f8fe03b.webp?v=1733333917","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/seth-conversations-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}