I picked up issue #6 of Comic Art magazine last week. What a treat. There’s a long article about Seth (creator of Palookaville) with plenty of pictures, including a cardboard city he built (seen on the cover) and a page from his sketchbook (which I scanned here — incredible! Click on thumb for enlargement). Unfortunately, no pictures of Seth. I’ve only seen other people’s drawings of Seth. (He’s always wearing a vintage hat and suit and chain smoking when people draw him.)
There’s another article about Virgil Partch (aka “VIP”), a delightfully wacky cartoonist from the 40s and 50s. If you look closely at the hands on VIP’s characters, you’ll notice that they have more than five fingers. Sometimes they have as many as 12 fingers on a hand! He did this because he used to work at Disney, where he was forced to draw four-fingered characters. The extras fingers were his way of evening the score.
The price of Comic Art is $9, which is a good deal, because it’s glossy color throughout.
Aaron sez: In response to Mark’s post on Comic Art #6 where he mentioned never seeing a photo of Seth, I figured I’d point him over to the NYTimes article from July 11th. Along with a great interview of Seth, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, Adrian Tomine, and Art Spiegelman, there’s a nice photo of them all together. Seth is in the top right of the photo. Link
