Well done, that boy

Having very much admired the work of Canadian cartoonist and illustrator Seth for many years (well, since the third issue of Palookaville), I was very excited, and pleased for him, to see that he finally cracked the cover of the New Yorker this week. The impression one gets from Seth's work is that he very much sees the world through the eyes of the New Yorker of the 1950s (nothing wrong with that whatsoever), and in the case of his story "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken" he even puts the central character on the trail of an obscure (and, as it would appear, entirely made up) NYer cartoonist from that era, so one may even go so far as to suggest this might be something of a dream come true for him. And so we say, "well done, that boy". It's just a shame this uplifting story will be kept from the wider public because of saturation Olympics coverage. Oh well.