Lakes International Comics Festival: Seth

Drawing From History

Seth is an acclaimed Canadian cartoonist who is best known for his series Palookaville and graphic novel It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken (1986). His work has also appeared in magazines, on book covers and on DVDs like Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights for Criterion. His work is heavily influenced by the New Yorker cartoonists of the 1940s and 1950s. Seth was a guest at the Lakes International Comics Festival this month and so Tripwire caught up with him to talk about his career, the changing face of the comics industry and more…

Interview and photographs by JOEL MEADOWS

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