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Clyde Fans : a picture novel Cover Image Book Book

Clyde Fans : a picture novel / by Seth.

Seth, 1962- (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

"Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a middle-class that has long ceased to exist in North America--garrulous men in wool suits extolling the virtues of the wares to taciturn shopkeepers with an eye on the door. Much like the myth of an ever-growing economy, the Clyde Fans family unit is a fraud--the patriarch has abandoned the business to mismatched sons, one who strives to keep the business afloat and the other who retreats into the arms of the remaining parent."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781770463578
  • Physical Description: 477 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Montréal, Québec : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
Donation ; Marni Stanley ; 2023/10.

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Topic Heading: Scotiabank Giller 2020 Long List

Available copies

  • 11 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

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Gibsons Public Library 741.5 SETH (Text) 30886001073473 Adult Nonfiction Volume hold Available -
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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 & 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.

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