Munro Beattie Lecture 2019-2020: Seth Presents “Inkwell’s End”

March 21, 2020 at 7:00 PM

Location:Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa

Cartoon image by Seth of a man with a top hat, pausing in front of a bookstore in an empty street.

The Dean of FASS and the Department of English are delighted to announce that the 2019-2020 Munro Beattie Lecture will be delivered by the Canadian comics creator known as Seth. Seth’s cartoons have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, McSweeneys Quarterly, and on the cover of The New Yorker. He is the creator of the comic book series Palookaville. Other books include It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken (1996), The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists (2011), and, most recently, Clyde Fans (2019).

Image of Seth, sitting at a table in a full suit with tie. He is holding a hat and looking directly at the camera.