{"id":4097,"date":"2010-07-14T10:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:24:26","slug":"seths-canadian-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=4097","title":{"rendered":"Seth’s Canadian Antics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian Notes and Queries, re-done by Seth.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As I’ve pointed out before<\/a>, there is a side of Seth that rarely gets seen outside of Canada, the design work and writing he does for small Canadian literary concerns. A good example of the care Seth puts into these projects can be seen in the new issue of Canadian Notes and Queries<\/em> (CNQ<\/em>), a very smart literary journal with a ridiculous title.\u00a0 Seth has re-shaped the whole magazine from top to bottom. Aside from giving the interiors a new elegance, he also did the cover and supplied a two page comic strip about the magazine’s new mascots, the lumberjack Hudson (“I handle the notes…”) and the dandy Stanfield (“And I deal with the queries.”) This comic can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Seth talks about his re-design in this National Post article<\/a>. An excerpt:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt first I wasn\u2019t sure,\u201d writes Seth in an e-mail to The Afterword. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of work to redesign a magazine and I was pretty busy. But it was really something that sounded like a challenge. And it couldn\u2019t have been more \u2018up my alley.\u2019 I love Canadiana of all sorts and I particularly loved the absolutely stiffness and dullness of the magazine\u2019s title \u2013 I mean, you just couldn\u2019t have a more quintessentially Canadian masthead title than Canadian Notes and Queries<\/em>. If you made it up, no one would believe it. \u00a0In a way, the name of the magazine hides the fact that it is a very smart and entertaining read \u2013 not stuffy at all. I figured I could do something amusing but elegant with the magazine to draw attention to that fact \u2013 perhaps \u00a0poke some fun at it\u2019s purcieved stuffiness while at the same time pointing out what a marvelous magazine of criticism it is by giving the interior a look of class and austerity, but still showing off some charm and sense of humour about the whole thing.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Seth-watchers should try and get their hands on\u00a0the magazine, which can be ordered here<\/a>. I’ll add that aside from Seth’s contributions, CNQ <\/em>is a very fine literary magazine, notable for it’s sharp-tongued and bracing critiques. If you go to the bottom of\u00a0CNQ’s main page<\/a>, you can find a fair selection of articles from recent issues. For more on CNQ<\/em>, go here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The current number contains strong essays by Clark Blaise, Douglas Glover and Ryan Bigge as well as a powerfull\u00a0short story from Rebecca Rosenblum, a formidable young writer. I’m also in the issue with a review of Leon Rooke. Over the last 15 years, CNQ<\/em> has been one of the hidden gems of Canadian culture. With Seth’s new design, we can hope that the gem will no longer be hidden but shine forth for all to see.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve pointed out before, there is a side of Seth that rarely gets seen outside of Canada, the design work and writing he does for small Canadian literary concerns. A good example of the care Seth puts into these projects can be seen in the new issue of Canadian Notes and Queries (CNQ), a very smart literary journal with a ridiculous title.\u00a0 Seth has re-shaped the whole magazine from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[192,1189],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-canadian-identity","tag-seth"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}