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Remembering Joe Matt
A collection of tributes to the cartoonist Joe Matt, who died earlier this month at the age of 60. Longtime friends mingle with young artists Matt befriended, affording us a variety of new perspectives on one of the standout memoirists of his generation.
Joe Matt Dies at 60
Michael Dean’s obituary for one of the standouts of autobio comics; Joe Matt died on Sunday, September 17, aged 60.
Seth on Joe Matt, 1995
From The Comics Journal #183 (January 1996): Christopher Brayshaw followed up his Joe Matt interview with a conversation with the Peepshow cartoonist’s friend and fellow cartoonist, Seth.
Seth’s Palookaville 24: “Can a memory die of neglect?”
Canadian arts and culture writer Vincent Cherniak presents a free-form appreciation of the latest release from veteran cartoonist Seth, with special appearances by critic Dominick Grace and cartoonist Charles Jaffe.
Remembering Justin Green
An extraordinary group of artists, friends and admirers has been gathered by John Kelly to pay tribute to the great Justin Green, one of the most influential and powerful storytellers of the underground generation.
Turning Away From Reality: Seth’s Clyde Fans
“Seth’s skill and talent is not up for debate any longer. We must instead move on to the implication of what he is trying to say, the only way to engage with an artist of consequence.” In the latest installment of 10 Cent Museum, Austin English examines Clyde Fans.
A Clyde Fans Roundtable
Seven comics scholars and Seth experts discuss the long-awaited, twenty-years-in-the-making complete collection of Seth’s Clyde Fans.
There’s Power in a Name: Seth on His Twenty-Year Project, Clyde Fans
After twenty years, Seth’s Clyde Fans sees publication this month from Drawn & Quarterly. In this extensive conversation, he talks about the story, the work that went into it…as well as David Lynch, likable characters, the mysteries of writing, God & Chester Brown.
Seth’s 2018 Center for Cartoon Studies Commencement Speech
Advice for cartoonists about to enter the profession
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/19/17 – A ball of gold in the sky.)
Sales techniques routinely awry.
Don’t Move: The Still Life of Pete Morisi
Ken Parille explores the work of Pete Morisi, an unsung master of un-action comics . . .
Fact and Fancy in Seth’s G.N.B. Double C
Everybody misunderstands Seth. Popular mythology has pegged the cartoonist as a nostalgist hankering over the lost past. In fact, Seth is a fantastist obsessed not with the world-that-was but rather the world-as-it-might-have-been.
Maurice Sendak: Tributes
Artists and writers comment on one of their own.
Creating a Personal Vernacular Canadian Design Style: The Collected Doug Wright
Book design, narrative, and an unlikely inspiration.
A Chester Brown Notebook
Some notes that try to tease out a fuller account of Chester’s remarkable “comic-strip memoir.”
The ABCs of Autobio Comix
In 1971 Justin Green’s Binky Brown started a revolution. Here’s what happened next.
The Seth Interview
In this interview from TCJ 193 (February 1997), Seth talks developing his aesthetic and style.
