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Book One of this trilogy focuses on the lives of two brothers and their fan manufacturing company. After one more disastrous attempt at selling, Simon returns to the office defeated and unsure of what he'll do next. In the eyes of his brother Abraham, he is a failure.

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"""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"

"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"

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

Author Information

Seth is the cartoonist behind the graphic novel Clyde Fans. His comics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics, and McSweeney's Quarterly. His illustrations have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker, The Walrus, and Canadian Notes & Queries. He designs collections of work by Charles Schulz, John Stanley, and Doug Wright, and was the subject of a National Film Board documentary entitled Seth's Dominion. Seth lives in Guelph, Canada in a house he has named Inkwell's End.

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