Forging the Past: Seth and the Art of Memory

by Daniel Marrone

Book Overview

At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists--and perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. 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. Even when he appears to look to the past, however, Seth (born Gregory Gallant)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496814797
• ISBN13: 9781496814791
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"