http://notesandqueries.ca/the-doug-wright-awards-inaugural-speech/ Canada's Literary Review and Opinion Magazine, Online. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:46:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://notesandqueries.ca/the-doug-wright-awards-inaugural-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Seth and Scott Symons « sans everything Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:53:51 +0000 http://www.notesandqueries.ca/?p=628#comment-331 [...] 1. Seth on Doug Wright. The best writing on comics tends to come from cartoonists themselves: Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Chris Ware, Eddie Campbell.  There are few other art forms in which the critical discourse is so totally dominated by practitioners. Seth belongs to this elite company of cartoonists/critics. His writing on cartoonists like John Stanley and Chris Reynolds is filled with sharp observations grounded in a rare in-depth knowledge of comics history. The latest issue of CNQ reprints Seth’s speech on Doug Wright, delivered 5 years ago to launch the Doug Wright Awards. It can be found here. [...] [...] 1. Seth on Doug Wright. The best writing on comics tends to come from cartoonists themselves: Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Chris Ware, Eddie Campbell.  There are few other art forms in which the critical discourse is so totally dominated by practitioners. Seth belongs to this elite company of cartoonists/critics. His writing on cartoonists like John Stanley and Chris Reynolds is filled with sharp observations grounded in a rare in-depth knowledge of comics history. The latest issue of CNQ reprints Seth’s speech on Doug Wright, delivered 5 years ago to launch the Doug Wright Awards. It can be found here. [...]

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