''George Sprott: (1894–1975)'' is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist
Seth
Seth,; el, Σήθ ''Sḗth''; ; "placed", "appointed") in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and Sethianism, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. A ...
, published in 2009.
The story tells of George Sprott, a vain and selfish 81-year-old retired television personality who reflects on his life, and whose life is recalled by those around him after his death. The comics are sprinkled with photos of models Seth made of buildings in the fictional Southern Ontario town of Dominion.
The story first ran as a serial in ''
The New York Times Magazine'' in one-page episodes in 2006. A collection in large dimensions appeared in 2009 from
Drawn & Quarterly. The book won a
Doug Wright Award in 2010.
In 2017, Vancouver-based composer Mark Haney premiered hi
Omnis Temporalisbased on the story with an immersive cartoon space of the television station, CKCK, designed by Seth himself.
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Comics by Seth (cartoonist)
2006 graphic novels
Canadian graphic novels
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