Origin
Seth was born and raised in small-town Ontario. His family moved around throughout southwestern Ontario for much of his youth. At some point he moved to Toronto, where he works as a cartoonist. He suffers from mild depression and is deeply attracted to the past, feeling nostalgia for a time period he never personally experienced. Â Â
Creation
Seth was created by writer and artist Gregory Gallant, who uses the nom de plume “Seth”. He is an author avatar. Â
Major Story Arcs
It’s A Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken
Seth discovers an affinity for the cartoons from the old New Yorker magazines, and begins collecting them. While amassing a respectable amount of anthologies and issues, he discovers the work of the cartoonist Kalo, whose work is obscure and about whom little is known. Seth becomes dedicated to finding everything ever produced by Kalo that he can, and in so doing discovers that Kalo is a Canadian from a small Ontario town, like himself. He becomes obsessed with finding out everything he can about Kalo, travelling to the town in which he died, Strathroy, to learn what can be learned.