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CITY LIGHTS: Seth at Drawn & Quarterly
One evening in the early days of November, a group of 50 or so admirers crowded into a small bookstore on Bernard street, quickly occupying its 30 or so chairs, filling up its aisles and then finally sitting on the floor when no more room could be found. The shop, The Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, is perhaps the last outpost of indie high culture that stands on guard along the northern border of Montreal’s Mile End before that neighbourhood, known for it’s Sesame-esque street life and thriving hipster population, extends into the decidedly un-gentrified Siberia of Parc Ex, where there are presumably no complete Peanuts anthologies in the window displays, no complete box sets of eclectic McSweeney’s postcards to purchase, and no 2ft high “Sof Boy” figurines that stare up at you like the most perfect embodiment of pure wonder and glee. The audience was an alchemy of those born after the year 1980, and those born in some mysterious time period prior to that, who looked remarkably similar to the 80’s group in dress though disturbingly altered somehow. They gathered there to sit at the heels of (or kneel in some cases) the cartoonist Seth.