The story is told through a series of vignettes, with talking heads alternating with more adventurous segments. As with both hero and villain, those that provide commentary on him oscillate between awe, fear and resentment. Or perhaps he is a supervillain, with his dubious means and selfish outcomes.
Green in particular is part superhero, with his hazy origin story, his henchmen and so forth. Wimbledon Green is "the greatest comic book collector in the world", in a story that imagines collectors as being super heroic. Seeing a skilled but sometimes austere artist like Seth gambolling off on a loose comic romp is a joy, and there is surprising depth here, interleaved with the foolishness. He treats them as a personal creation (though he admits in the introduction that this is a wilful delusion) and is loose and playful, and with Wimbledon Green he is experimental. Seth is my favourite, and one is reluctant to reduce a favourite.īoth works are "From the Sketchbook of the Cartoonist 'Seth'", that is, he presents them as informal works.
But all of this takes me further and further away from writing about his work, and perhaps that is more than just laziness. Now I really want to re-read George Sprott, which to date I think is his best work. I read that with the intent to review it, but then decided that I needed to review Wimbledon Green first, so I re-read it, and then re-read it again. Most of what I read comes from the library, but the works of Seth, Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes I buy, read, then plop on a shelf.Ī recent addition to this sleepy collection was Seth's follow-up to Wimbledon Green, titled The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists. I am not a big re-reader of novels, and this includes graphic novels, though it really shouldn't. I bought and read this book when it was released over five years ago, but I hadn't read it since. I buy everything he authors 1, and while it isn't all equal, I always enjoy it deeply. Full disclosure: I am a hardcore Seth fan.
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