1. Seth Fisher was born in Seattle in 1972, and lived in Coronado with his mother from age 5 to 10, until his mother remarried and the family moved to the East Coast with the Navy.
18 Facts About Seth Fisher
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In junior high school Fisher went to live with his father in Custer, South Dakota; his mother and stepfather soon moved back to Coronado, and he came every summer to visit.
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Seth Fisher decided he wanted to be a comic book artist after attending his first San Diego Comic-Con when he was a freshman in college, circa 1991.
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Seth Fisher studied the intricacies of manga, and wanted to go to a country where an adult could read a comic book in public without feeling the need to hide it behind a copy of Newsweek.
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Seth Fisher spent four years in Japan, and during that time started looking for a writer to do a comic with.
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Seth Fisher first gained mainstream recognition for his and Andrew Dabb's Vertigo series Happydale: Devils in the Desert.
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Seth Fisher met Dabb online in 1996, and they did an 8-page mini-comic that gave a feel for the story to pitch to a publisher.
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None of the contacted publishers accepted the story as, at the time, Seth Fisher's style was considered too risky to publish.
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Helfer liked the presented work, agreed to pass it to Karen Berger, then-Vertigo editor, and in the meantime assigned Seth Fisher to do some work for his Paradox Press imprint.
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In 1999, Seth Fisher was hired by Presto Studios as one of the designers for Myst III: Exile, and took a year off of comics to work on it.
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Seth Fisher returned to comics in 2005, wanting to do a Fantastic Four or Iron Man project.
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Seth Fisher was a great artist, and I had the pleasure of calling him my friend.
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Seth Fisher had such a great outlook to life and was always willing to think of things from another perspective.
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Seth Fisher's work is some of most unique I have seen.
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For those who don't know what Seth Fisher has done in comics, do a search for his name.
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Seth Fisher always had this way to make you laugh and not to take things too seriously.
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Seth Fisher died in late January 2006 as a result of injuries suffered in a fall from a seventh story roof of an Osaka, Japan club where he went to celebrate the completion of the last issue of Big in Japan.
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In 1998, Seth Fisher married his college girlfriend, April Brody, and they moved from Japan to Florence, Italy for a year so that April could study Italian.