It's a kind of screwball comedy send-up and homage to the work of comic book collecting and making, too, very odd and quirky and funny and who would care about some obscure Canadian small town nerd comics guy, but he makes us care, and helps us see how important comics were to him and so many of us. He dedicates the book to Ware and tells us to read Rusty Brown and not read his own inferior-in-comparison work.

This is honest of him, and like Chris Ware, his friend, typically self-deprecating. 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 George Sprott, Wimbledon Green, and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.Seth writes in his introduction that this is not a good book it's poorly drawn, the lettering is sloppy, the pages are done poorly, the narrative is badly done, and so on. Clyde Fans, for example, balances present-day action against narratives set in the past. Subsequent works expand on those preoccupations and themes. Seth's first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, announced his fascination with the past and with earlier cartooning styles. 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. 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. His primary influences are underground comix, newspaper strips, and classic cartooning. Though he was influenced by mainstream comics in his teen years and did his earliest comics work on Mister X, a mainstream-style melodrama, Seth remains one of the least mainstream-inflected figures of the alternative comics' movement.

Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, pen name Seth, emerged as a cartoonist in the fertile period of the 1980s, when the alternative comics market boomed.

Wimbledon Green by Seth