Forging the Past: Seth and the Art of Memory (Great Comics Artists Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496814797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Marrone offers carefully articulated and significant insights into Seth’s work, especially in his comprehensive consideration of all of Seth’s major work to date, most of which has received little critical attention. He is not the first to recognize that Seth’s interest in the past extends well beyond simple nostalgia, but he is the first to devote extensive attention to a troubling of nostalgia as Seth’s defining trait, making instead a case for Seth’s complex and transformative engagement with the past.”Dominick Grace, associate professor of English at Brescia University College and coeditor with Eric Hoffman of Dave Sim: Conversations, Chester Brown: Conversations, and Seth: Conversations, all published by University Press of Mississippi
Daniel Marrone, Toronto, Canada, teaches English and visual culture. His work has appeared in Studies in Comics, ImageTexT, and Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, as well as the anthology The Canadian Alternative.
Marrone discusses collecting, Canadian identity, New Yorker cartoons, authenticity, artifice, and ambiguityall within the context of comics’ unique structure and texture. At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer existsand perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. Even when he appears to look to the past, however, Seth (born Gregory Gallant) is constantly pushing the medium of comics forward with sophisticated work that often incorporates metafiction, parody, and formal experimentation.Forging the Past offers a comprehensive account of this work and the complex interventions it makes into the past. Seth’s distinctive drawing style strikingly recalls a bygone era of cartooning, an apt vehicle for melancholy, gently ironic narratives that depict the grip of the past on the present. Included as an appendix is a substantial interview, conducted by the author, in which Seth candidly discusses his work, his peers, and his influences.. Moving beyond co