![]() ![]() Unlike in Hicksville, where Horrocks uses the lighthouse library as a device representing all of the great comics that could have been (but were never published because of an apathetic industry), the fake cartoonists and comics Seth introduces in The G.N.B. In terms of its spontaneity and sketchbook origin, it resembles Wimbledon Green, but it's also like George Sprott in its resolute Canadianness and lack of plot. It's mostly a work of fantasy as Seth takes the reader on a tour of the Dominion, Ontario branch of the G.N.B.C.C., a cartoonist's organization slash lodge that previously existed only in Seth's mind. Indeed, Dominion itself is another product of Seth's imagination as the setting for several of his comics. Seth apologizes to Dylan Horrocks for inadvertently biting his concept of the Hicksville lighthouse library, containing all of the great comics that were never published. Somewhat like Horrocks, Seth creates his own alternate history (of Canadian cartooning here), but there's an important emotional difference between Hickville and The G.N.B. Double C, or The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, is perhaps Seth's strangest book to date. ![]() ![]() The Great Northern Brotherhood Of Canadian Cartoonists ![]()
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