It’s also probably something that is part of an older Canada that has changed. “I eventually boiled it down to three very simple elements of what I thought and felt was a Canadian design sense. Why is something Canadian? What makes an image Canadian? Why is a particular approach Canadian? Over about eight years, I gathered up tons of ephemera, put them in a giant scrapbook and wrote about them. So I sat down and said to myself, ‘What is the essence of Canadiana in design?’ I actively studied it. “I realized at the time that a lot of the design I like has intrinsic qualities of the countries where the (artists) came from. Not long into the 21st century, the cartoonist Seth, whose storytelling, illustration and book design work has made him one of the most revered artists in his field, made what he calls “a very concerted effort to be more Canadian.” The lifelong Ontarian was already well versed in the ways of his homeland, but he wanted to dig deeper. The enduring legacy of Canada’s greatest cartoonist, Seth
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