Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville, which started as a pamphlet and is now a semiannual hardcover. His comics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics, and Timothy McSweeney s Quarterly Concern. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, including the cover of The New Yorker, The Walrus, and Canadian Notes and Queries. He is Lemony Snicket s partner for the series All the Wrong Questions and he designs several classic comics reprint series, notably collections of work by Charles Schulz, John Stanley, and Doug Wright. He was the subject of the National Film Board documentary Seth s Dominion. Seth lives in Guelph, Canada, with his wife, Tania, and two cats in a house he has named Inkwell s End.
Seth is one of the greatest cartoonists who's ever lived and Clyde
Fans is one of the greatest graphic novels ever written. What more
do you need to know?"--Chris Ware, Author of Building Stories Clyde
Fans is a masterpiece of storytelling that reinvents a medium as it
goes along. Seth is one of Canada's great storytellers and writers
who bounds from strength to strength. We are lucky to have him in
our world.--Douglas Coupland A tour de force that captures the
strange sadness of nostalgia and how it betrays the past and makes
the present unobtainable. Seth masterfully recreates the lives of
two brothers--one too rough, the other too weak--by illuminating
painfully bleak isolated moments in hotel rooms, coffee shops, and
highways. He also chronicles collections of tiny knick knacks and
household objects in mundane montages that will break your heart
with their beauty. The drawings are a feat of wonder, their
composition built on the architectural blueprint of
loneliness.--Heather O'Neill author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel A
sprawling yet intimate work of melancholy beauty... an impressive,
beautifully constructed volume that is certain to be a benchmark
for much of what will follow in graphic fiction.--Winnipeg Free
Press Clyde Fans is Seth's magnum opus.--Paul Gravett, Times
Literary Supplement Readers will be dazzled by this impressive
graphic novel... This isn't just a story, or even, as it terms
itself, a "picture novel"--it is a brilliant journey into the heart
of midcentury darkness.--Publishers Weekly starred review Though
Seth fills his comics with old buildings, vintage logos, and
retro-looking toys, all drawn in a deft ink-and-wash style that
would be at home in a New Yorker magazine from the 1940s, Seth uses
these visual cues to draw the reader into stories that explore
richer and deeper territory than mere longing for the
past.--Publishers Weekly Rich with the melancholy and sad swagger
of great salesmen stories like Death of a Salesman and Glengarry
Glen Ross, Clyde Fans is fueled by its interrogation of, and
nostalgia for, the past.--Lit Hub
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