Seth: Wimbledon Green Signed in 2011 with a Sketch

Seth's 2005 book Wimbledon Green is subtitled The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World. One doesn't have to be be a world-class comics collector to appreciate the book, but certainly an obsessively acquisitive habit of some degree couldn't hurt. Perhaps one of the finest personalized copies of this book out there was sold earlier this year on eBay:

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Wimbledon Green:  The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World
Montreal:  Drawn and Quarterly, 2005

Signed and inscribed "for Chris/Seth/2011"
with a figure-length drawing of Wimbledon Green

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eBay Listing Retrieved May 9, 2018

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Cartoonist+Seth+Signed+with+Sketch%21&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=16&_osacat=0&_odkw=Seth+Wimbledon

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eBay Item Description

Three related eBay listings show Seth's book covers rather than the unique sketches. That simply can't be a good business practice.

Note:  Is it possible for this blog to have too many original drawings by Seth? Send me scans or photographs of what you have and we'll find out.


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Seth: A Funny Dream

Canadian artist Seth--why Seth? If I had an alliterative name like Gregory Gallant, I wouldn't call myself Seth. All right, sorry for the early digression. Let's try again:

Canadian artist Seth produced this original George Sprott artwork for the New York Times Magazine. It is entitled "A Funny Dream," but that header did not appear in the Sunday Times, perhaps because the word funny is used ironically, and the Times was already calling this feature "The Funny Pages" anyway. A different version was created by Seth for Drawn & Quarterly and ultimately the book George Sprott (1894-1975). Seth, as usual, manages to include great emotional complexity in his comic strip subject matter.

"A Funny Dream"
Seth (Gregory Gallant)
Original artwork for "The Funny Pages" in the New York Times Magazine, January 14, 2007.
Chapter 14 of George Sprott (1894-1975) as it appeared in the Times.

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eBay Listing Ended May 2, 2013

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SETH-George-Sprott-CHAPTER-14-ORIGINAL-COMIC-ART/360642894497?_trksid=p2045573.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D27%26meid%3D7292689611730433963%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D1011%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D360642894497%26

["A Funny Dream"]
Seth (Gregory Gallant)
The New York Times Magazine, January 14, 2007

http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/magazine/20070114_FUNNY.pdf

"A Funny Dream"
Seth (Gregory Gallant)
Original artwork for "The Funny Pages" in the New York Times Magazine, January 14, 2007.
Chapter 14 of George Sprott (1894-1975) as it appeared in the Times.

"A Funny Dream"
Seth (Gregory Gallant)
As it appeared in George Sprott (1894-1975): A Picture Novella.
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2009.

Image added March 24, 2014

Note:  Additional posts about Seth may be seen here.

In the midst of March Madness, some of my readers may be wondering what I have to say about basketball. Well, this is it.

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