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An extravagantly designed portrait--in comics, photos, and a DVD documentary--of the world-building artistWhen you live in an ornamented world where your home is a museum of 1940s design, you don't leave the house without a hat and tie, and your wife owns a barber shop--which you designed--it's hard to imagine letting a documentary about you go to press without constructing an exquisite package for it. In
Seth's Dominion, the National Film Board documentary by filmmaker Luc Chamberland about the acclaimed Canadian cartoonist, Seth has done just that.
Presented here as an innovative double-spined hardcover that opens in two directions, one side opens with a photo essay narrating Seth's life while the other offers a generous sampling of Seth's art: comics and sketchbook pages, but also puppetry and
New Yorker illustrations. Seth also speaks to the experience of making the documentary through a comics diary, constructed from rubber stamp images.
Between these two halves lies
Seth's Dominion, a masterly portrait that mixes insightful biography with vivid animation in an artful fusion of filmmaking techniques that perfectly captures Seth's manifold creative universe. From his melancholy reflections on childhood to his descriptions of his creative habits, Seth narrates his own life story enchantingly. With special features including two short animations and a taping of Seth speaking at the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore,
Seth's Dominion is a triumph.
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Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville and
Clyde Fans, the first graphic novel nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His comics have appeared in the
New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics, and
McSweeneys Quarterly. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications including the cover of the
New Yorker, the Walrus, and
Canadian Notes & Queries. He is Lemony Snicket's partner for the series
All the Wrong Questions. He designs several classic comics reprint series, notably collections of work by Charles Schulz, John Stanley, and Doug Wright.
He was the subject of a National Film Board documentary entitled
Seth's Dominion. Seth lives in Guelph, Canada, with his wife Tania and two cats in a house he has named Inkwell's End.
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Through comics, photos, and a DVD, this piece tells the story of Seth s creative prodigious output on the page and beyond, allowing the reader never before granted access to the world of the artist s home and studio, his myriad art practices and the personal motivations behind his work.
