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George Sprott

Author : Seth
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770465693
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book George Sprott written by Seth and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to encapsulate a life, in all its messiness, epiphanies, misunderstandings, disappointments, and joys? With George Sprott 1894-1975, Seth offers one tragicomic answer. Page by page, we learn about George—outmoded television host, creature of habit, charming if pompous old man, selfish lover, man about to die—and though this is ultimately the story of one man’s death, Seth leavens it with humor and restraint. The book’s omniscient narrator offers a patchwork tale: a series of “interviews” with the people who cared about George, flashbacks, and personal reminiscences. The thwarted love of his life, Olive Mott, and the woman he marries, Helen. His trips to the Arctic and the exoticized portrait his documentaries painted of a Great White North. His habit of falling asleep on air. His humdrum demise. What emerges is a story about memory, loss, time, and the stories we tell (and retell) to get through the day. George’s romanticizing and repeating of his adventures up North, “adventures” that are revealed to be entirely fictional, holds a mirror to the ways we each historicize our own lives. Originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine before being published in an expanded, large-format hardcover by Drawn & Quarterly, this new edition is the definitive George Sprott.

George Sprott

Author : Seth
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 9781897299517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book George Sprott written by Seth and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First serialized in The New York Times Magazine "Funny Pages" The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker illustrator Seth weaves the fictional tale of George Sprott, the host of a long-running television program. The events forming the patchwork of George's life are pieced together from the tenuous memories of several informants, who often have contradictory impressions. His estranged daughter describes the man as an unforgivable lout, whereas his niece remembers him fondly. His former assistant recalls a trip to the Arctic during which George abandoned him for two months, while George himself remembers that trip as the time he began writing letters to a former love, from whom he never received replies. Invoking a sense of both memory and its loss, George Sprott is heavy with the charming, melancholic nostalgia that distinguishes Seth's work. Characters lamenting societal progression in general share the pages with images of antiquated objects—proof of events and individuals rarely documented and barely remembered. Likewise, George's own opinions are embedded with regret and a sense of the injustice of aging in this bleak reminder of the inevitable slipping away of lives, along with the fading culture of their days.

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

Author : Seth
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770464476
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken written by Seth and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken–one of the best-selling D+Q titles ever--Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his dissatisfaction with the present, Seth discovers the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s. But his obsession blinds him to the needs of his lover and the quiet desperation of his family. Wry self-reflection and moody colours characterize Seth's style in this tale about learning lessons from nostalgia. His playful and sophisticated experiment with memoir provoked a furious debate among cartoon historians and archivists about the existence of Kalo, and prompted a Details feature about Seth's "hoax".

Forging the Past

Author : Daniel Marrone
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496807340
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Forging the Past written by Daniel Marrone and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists—and perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. Seth's distinctive drawing style strikingly recalls a bygone era of cartooning, an apt vehicle for melancholy, gently ironic narratives that depict the grip of the past on the present. Even when he appears to look to the past, however, Seth (born Gregory Gallant) is constantly pushing the medium of comics forward with sophisticated work that often incorporates metafiction, parody, and formal experimentation. Forging the Past offers a comprehensive account of this work and the complex interventions it makes into the past. Moving beyond common notions of nostalgia, Daniel Marrone explores the various ways in which Seth's comics induce readers to participate in forging histories and memories. Marrone discusses collecting, Canadian identity, New Yorker cartoons, authenticity, artifice, and ambiguity—all within the context of comics' unique structure and texture. Seth's comics are suffused with longing for the past, but on close examination this longing is revealed to be deeply ambivalent, ironic, and self-aware. Marrone undertakes the most thorough, sustained investigation of Seth's work to date, while advancing a broader argument about how comics operate as a literary medium. Included as an appendix is a substantial interview, conducted by the author, in which Seth candidly discusses his work, his peers, and his influences.

Material Cultures in Canada

Author : Thomas Allen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771120169
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Material Cultures in Canada written by Thomas Allen and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each of whom examines a different object of study, including the beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body. The book’s three sections focus, in turn, on objects that are persistently material, on things whose materiality blends into the immaterial, and on the materials of spaces. Contributors highlight some of the most exciting new developments in the field, such as the emergence of “new materialism,” affect theory, globalization studies, and environmental criticism. Although the book has a Canadian centre, the majority of its contributors consider objects that cross borders or otherwise resist national affiliation. This collection will be valuable to readers within and outside of Canada who are interested in material culture studies and, in addition, will appeal to anyone interested in the central debates taking place in Canadian political and cultural life today, such as climate change, citizenship, shifts in urban and small-town life, and the persistence of imperialism.

Seth

Author : Eric Hoffman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626743878
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Seth written by Eric Hoffman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, pen name Seth, emerged as a cartoonist in the fertile period of the 1980s, when the alternative comics market boomed. 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. His primary influences are underground comix, newspaper strips, and classic cartooning. 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. 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. 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. Subsequent works expand on those preoccupations and themes. Clyde Fans, for example, balances present-day action against narratives set in the past. 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.

Hinterland Remixed

Author : Andrew Burke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077355971X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Hinterland Remixed written by Andrew Burke and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television, and music to show that Canada never fully left the 1970s behind. Andrew Burke reveals how contemporary artists and filmmakers have revisited the era's cinematic and televisual residues to uncover what has been lost over the years. Investigating how the traces of an analogue past circulate in a digital age, Burke digs through the remnants of 1970s Canadiana and examines key audiovisual works from this overlooked decade, uncovering the period's aspirations, desires, fears, and anxieties. He then looks to contemporary projects that remix, remediate, and reanimate the period. Exploring an idiosyncratic selection of works – from Michael Snow's experimental landscape film La Région Centrale, to SCTV's satirical skewering of network television, to L'Atelier national du Manitoba's video lament for the Winnipeg Jets – this book asks key questions about nation, nostalgia, media, and memory. A timely intervention, Hinterland Remixed demands we recognize the ways in which the unrealized cultural ambitions and unresolved anxieties of a previous decade continue to resonate in our current lives.

Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason

Author : Thomas Bayly Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason written by Thomas Bayly Howell and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comics and Stuff

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479800937
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Comics and Stuff written by Henry Jenkins and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable—you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels—clothbound high-gloss volumes that can be purchased in bookstores, checked out of libraries, and displayed proudly on bookshelves. They are reviewed by serious critics and studied in university classrooms. A medium once considered trash has been transformed into a respectable, if not elite, genre. While the American comics of the past were about hyperbolic battles between good and evil, most of today’s graphic novels focus on everyday personal experiences. Contemporary culture is awash with stuff. They give vivid expression to a culture preoccupied with the processes of circulation and appraisal, accumulation and possession. By design, comics encourage the reader to scan the landscape, to pay attention to the physical objects that fill our lives and constitute our familiar surroundings. Because comics take place in a completely fabricated world, everything is there intentionally. Comics are stuff; comics tell stories about stuff; and they display stuff. When we use the phrase “and stuff” in everyday speech, we often mean something vague, something like “etcetera.” In this book, stuff refers not only to physical objects, but also to the emotions, sentimental attachments, and nostalgic longings that we express—or hold at bay—through our relationships with stuff. In Comics and Stuff, his first solo authored book in over a decade, pioneering media scholar Henry Jenkins moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. Through over one hundred full-color illustrations, using close readings of contemporary graphic novels, Jenkins explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. Comics and Stuff presents an innovative new way of thinking about comics and graphic novels that will change how we think about our stuff and ourselves.

A Complete Collection Of State-Trials And Proceedings For High-Treason And Other Crimes and Misdemeanours

Author : Francis Hargrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Complete Collection Of State-Trials And Proceedings For High-Treason And Other Crimes and Misdemeanours written by Francis Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Scotland: From the accession of Mary Stewart to the Revolution of 1689

Author : Peter Hume Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book History of Scotland: From the accession of Mary Stewart to the Revolution of 1689 written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Scotland

Author : Peter Hume Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Scotland written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Scotland: Volume 2, From the Accession of Mary Stewart to the Revolution of 1689

Author : P. Hume Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107600316
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book History of Scotland: Volume 2, From the Accession of Mary Stewart to the Revolution of 1689 written by P. Hume Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second volume, reprinted in 1911, covers the accession of Mary Stewart in 1542 to the Glorious Revolution in 1688-9.

Memorials of the Earls of Haddington

Author : Sir William Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Memorials of the Earls of Haddington written by Sir William Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Collection of State-trials and Proceedings, Upon High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, from the Reign of King Edward VI. to the Present Time

Download A Collection of State-trials and Proceedings, Upon High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, from the Reign of King Edward VI. to the Present Time PDF Online Free

Author : Sollom Emlyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Collection of State-trials and Proceedings, Upon High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, from the Reign of King Edward VI. to the Present Time written by Sollom Emlyn and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland

Author : Robert Pitcairn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland written by Robert Pitcairn and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: