{"title":"Books by Seth","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781770464094","title":"George Sprott","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst serialized in The New York Times Magazine \"Funny Pages\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe celebrated cartoonist and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e illustrator Seth weaves the fictional tale of George Sprott, the host of a long-running television program. The events forming the patchwork of George's life are pieced together from the tenuous memories of several informants, who often have contradictory impressions. His estranged daughter describes the man as an unforgivable lout, whereas his niece remembers him fondly. His former assistant recalls a trip to the Arctic during which George abandoned him for two months, while George himself remembers that trip as the time he began writing letters to a former love, from whom he never received replies.\u003cbr\u003eInvoking a sense of both memory and its loss, \u003ci\u003eGeorge Sprott\u003c\/i\u003e is heavy with the charming, melancholic nostalgia that distinguishes Seth's work. Characters lamenting societal progression in general share the pages with images of antiquated objects—proof of events and individuals rarely documented and barely remembered. Likewise, George's own opinions are embedded with regret and a sense of the injustice of aging in this bleak reminder of the inevitable slipping away of lives, along with the fading culture of their days.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302785724789,"sku":"9781770464094","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770464094_8cfc6116-80bb-454c-bb37-564992eae667.jpg?v=1786024183"},{"product_id":"9781770464865","title":"Clyde Fans","description":"\u003cb\u003e \"A masterwork… Clyde Fans is a brilliant trip.\"—Brian Seznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLegendary cartoonist Seth’s magnum opus \u003ci\u003eClyde Fans \u003c\/i\u003eappeared on twenty best of the year lists, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Guardian,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Washington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e The first graphic novel nominated for the Giller, Canada’s prestigious national fiction prize, it was also nominated for the Eisner and Trillium Awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClyde Fans\u003c\/i\u003e peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism, showing the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a vanished middle-class—garrulous men in wool suits extolling their wares to taciturn shopkeepers. Like the myth of an ever-growing economy, the Clyde Fans family business is a fraud. The patriarch has abandoned it to mismatched sons, one who strives to keep the company afloat and the other who retreats into his memories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbe and Simon Matchcard are brothers, struggling to save their archaic family business selling oscillating fans in a world switching to air conditioning. Simon flirts with becoming a salesman as a last-ditch effort to leave the protective walls of the family home, but is ultimately unable to escape Abe’s critical voice in his head. As Clyde Fans Co. crumbles, so does the relationship between the two men, who choose very different life paths but both end up utterly unhappy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeth’s intimate storytelling and gorgeous art allow cityscapes and detailed period objects to tell their own stories as the brothers struggle to find themselves suffocating in an airless home.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303865856373,"sku":"9781770464865","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770464865.jpg?v=1786024205"},{"product_id":"9781770462816","title":"Palookaville #23","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe conclusion of Clyde Fans, the iconic cartoonist’s most famous storyline\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most anticipated issue to date of Seth’s iconic comics digest, \u003ci\u003ePalookaville 23\u003c\/i\u003e marks the culmination of twenty years of serialization: here, Clyde Fans comes to a conclusion. In this final chapter, we return to Simon Matchcard and the year 1957—exactly where we left off at the end of the first Clyde Fans volume. After his disastrous attempt at sales in the city of Dominion, we witness the out of body experience and ecstatic “vision” that sets Simon on his path of lonely isolation in the years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut of course that’s not all—an issue of Palookaville always feels a bit like coming home—a comforting structure that promises new surprises and updates on old favorites. The next installment in Seth’s memoir, \u003ci\u003eNothing Lasts\u003c\/i\u003e, follows him from late childhood to his high school years, from  innocent crushes to adolescent brooding, all told with what has become Seth’s signature anecdotal approach to autobiography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders will also be privy to highlights of Seth’s exquisite fine-art practice—paintings and drawings from two recent gallery exhibitions which transport us back to an era where style was snappier, moldings more orate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs always, the three-part digest is carefully designed by Seth in a callback to  classic 1940s textural book design. From one of Canada’s greatest artists, \u003ci\u003ePalookaville 23\u003c\/i\u003e offers closure, while evoking excitement about what’s to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304304226677,"sku":"9781770462816","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770462816_899f2d02-f201-44d7-a6cd-4bf1f395f251.jpg?v=1786024137"},{"product_id":"9780228103349","title":"Graphic Witness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"If you care about graphic novels, you need this book.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  -- New York Times \u003ci\u003ebestselling author Neil Gaiman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraphic Witness\u003c\/i\u003e features rare wordless novels by five great twentieth century woodcut artists from Europe and North America. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues of their times as well as the broader issues that are still relevant today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrans Masereel (1899-1972) was born in Belgium and is considered the father of the wordless graphic novel. \u003ci\u003eGraphic Witness\u003c\/i\u003e includes the first reprint of his classic work \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of a Man\u003c\/i\u003e since its 1918 publication in Munich. American Lynd Ward (1905-85), author of the provocative \u003ci\u003eWild Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered among the most important of wordless novelists. Giacomo Patri (1898-1978) was born in Italy and lived in the United States. His \u003ci\u003eWhite Collar\u003c\/i\u003e featured an introduction by Rockwell Kent and was used a promotional piece by the labor movement. Erich Glas's (1897-1973) haunting wordless novel \u003ci\u003eLeilot\u003c\/i\u003e, created in 1942, foreshadows the Holocaust, which was not widely known about at the time. \u003ci\u003eSouthern Cross\u003c\/i\u003e by Canadian Laurence Hyde (1914-87) was controversial for its criticism of U.S. H-bomb testing in the South Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor George A. Walker draws on his expertise as a woodcut artist to provide insight into the tools and techniques used to create these works of art. As well, he examines the importance of the role of artists as witnesses and critics of their times, and the influence of the genre on the emergence of comics and the modern graphic novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis newly expanded edition of Graphic Witness, which features an afterword by cartoonist Seth, will appeal to readers interested in social issues, printmaking, art history and contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311632789877,"sku":"9780228103349","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780228103349_fcaedd96-1171-4446-96f1-8a2ce92bb7a3.jpg?v=1786012166"},{"product_id":"palookaville-25","title":"Palookaville #25","description":"The semi-periodical look into the expansive art practice of an acclaimed cartoonist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePalookaville 25 houses three benchmark projects from the artistic practice of cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist Seth (Clyde Fans). His highly-acclaimed memoir “Nothing Lasts” returns. A wave farewell to his youth and a love letter to Toronto in the 1980s, this installment of his memoir caps off his teenage years and the budding romance at the Cove Inn, and sees Seth setting off for the big city where he moves to attend art school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShowcasing Seth’s fine-art practice, Palookaville 25 also includes a photo essay about the creation of  \"Living Room Suite,\" his bronze sculpture installation in Guelph. Through text and photographs, Seth documents early pieces in the same series, followed by maquettes of the sculpture, photos showing the fabrication process, and then, finally, a series of photos showing the completed installation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLastly, the life and death of post-humorously renowned Dominion painter Owen Moore is told through comics in ten episodes. Originally serialized in The Walrus, this is the first time the story has been collected. 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Seth continues the serialization of his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eClyde Fans \u003c\/i\u003estory line, about which \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eaptly noted, \"Seth truly believes in his wares—the little meanings of regular lives.\" This is, perhaps, nowhere more apparent than in the cartoonist's ongoing three-dimensional rendering of his fictional Dominion City, most recently featured in his book \u003ci\u003eGeorge Sprott\u003c\/i\u003e. Using sketches, photographs, and an essay, the cartoonist explains why the need to conceptualize the fictional city in sculptures was a natural extension from comics storytelling, and how if he had his way, it would have stayed in his basement forever.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680245588341,"sku":"9781770460188","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770460188.jpg?v=1792423547"},{"product_id":"palookaville-22","title":"Palookaville #22","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of wry, meditative comics from the cartoonist and Lemony Snicket illustrator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn what has become his calling card, the cartoonist Seth lovingly and exquisitely designs \u003ci\u003ePalookaville #22\u003c\/i\u003e, adorning the cover with green foil, and the interior with gatefolds and ornate endpapers. On sumptuous display is Seth's continual exploration of the past and the search for resonance in the dusty corners of his consciousness. In three separate sections, this bittersweet reconciliation with the past and bygone eras manifests both in his comics and his non-comics art.\u003cbr\u003eReaders will return to the world of Dominion, where Abe and Simon Matchcard of \u003ci\u003eClyde Fans\u003c\/i\u003e are engaged in a war of the words over the slow, painful disintegration of their family business. Their disagreement leads Abe to visit an old flame and further ensue in a battle of memories, in the conclusion of part four of Seth's long running and acclaimed narrative.\u003cbr\u003eIn chapter two of his autobiographical serial \"Nothing Lasts\", Seth revisits his small town Ontario childhood. 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