We went to the free night at the art gallery last night to see the Seth exhibit. ( This link only takes you to the main AGO page since it is in flash ) - it was a really nice exhibit. He is another one of my favorite local cartoonists/illustrators and he is friends with Chester Brown.
The show had original pages from some of his comics, sketchbooks and an entire model of his fictional Canadian town, Dominion. All the buildings are painted in sepia shades and are built from Fed Ex boxes and have a wonderful nostalgic feel.
When the show opened, I read an interview in the newspaper where he mentioned being vaguely suspicious that an art gallery was suddenly interested in a cartoonist when only a few years ago, comics would not even be glanced at by and art gallery. It made me smile.
Paul happliy came over to me in the exhibit to say " Who would have thought we'd see the day! An art gallery guard rushing over to a kid, telling her to not touch the comics!" It was cute.
Seth happens to be married to a girl named Tania! But it's not me.
Here is a rather interesting interview with him.
I like the looks of those. They remind me of Dexter's lab... not in looks, but maybe in feel?? Dunno.
Posted by: Jesser | September 02, 2005 at 10:03 AM