George Sprott, 1894-1975
of Seth
Description
First serialized in The New York Times Magazine âFunny PagesâThe 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 Georgeâs 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 Sethâs work. Characters lamenting societal progression in general share the pages with images of antiquated objectsâproof of events and individuals rarely documented and barely remembered. Likewise, Georgeâs 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.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96 pages
- Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication Date May 26th 2009
- First Publication January 1st 2009
- Language English
- ISBN 9781897299517
- Edition Not informed
- Category Graphic Novels & Comics
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