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Seth (1) (1962–)

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Foto taget av: Cartoonist Seth at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84606191

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Verk av Seth

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (1996) — Författare — 695 exemplar
Wimbledon Green (2005) 298 exemplar
Clyde Fans: Book 1 (2004) 199 exemplar
George Sprott: (1894-1975) (2010) 184 exemplar
Clyde Fans (2019) 136 exemplar
Palookaville #20 (1818) 57 exemplar
Mr. X: The Definitive Collection, Vol. 1 (2004) — Illustratör — 41 exemplar
Vernacular Drawings (2001) 36 exemplar
Palookaville #21 (2012) 33 exemplar
Palookaville #22 (1707) 27 exemplar
Mr. X Volume 2 (Mister X) (2005) — Illustratör — 24 exemplar
Palookaville #23 (2017) 20 exemplar
Palookaville #24 (2023) 14 exemplar
Seth's Dominion (2016) 13 exemplar
Palooka-ville #5 (1994) 8 exemplar
Palooka ville (2002) 7 exemplar
Palookaville #13 (1999) 6 exemplar
Palooka-ville #2 (1991) 6 exemplar
Palookaville #10 (1997) 6 exemplar
Palookaville #9 (1996) 6 exemplar
Clyde Fans: Part One (2000) — Författare — 6 exemplar
Palooka-Ville #3 (1993) 6 exemplar
Palooka-Ville #06 (1994) 5 exemplar
Palookaville #4 (1993) 5 exemplar
Palookaville #19 (2008) 5 exemplar
Palookaville #16 (2003) 5 exemplar
Palookaville #12 (1998) 5 exemplar
Palookaville #14 (2000) 5 exemplar
Palooka-ville #7 (1995) 5 exemplar
Palookaville # 15 (2001) 4 exemplar
Palookaville #17 (2004) 4 exemplar
Palookaville, No. 11 (1997) 4 exemplar
Seth : conversations (2015) 3 exemplar
Palookaville # 18 (2005) 3 exemplar
Palooka-Ville #08 2 exemplar
Mister X #6 (v1) (1985) — Illustratör — 2 exemplar
Stigma #1 1 exemplar
Seth: Face aux murs (2022) 1 exemplar
Still Life #2 1 exemplar
Clyde Fans: Part Two (2002) — Författare — 1 exemplar
Palookaville 3-19 1 exemplar

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"When Did You See Her Last?" (All the Wrong Questions) (2013) — Illustratör — 945 exemplar
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Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions) (2014) — Illustratör — 653 exemplar
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014) — Illustratör — 404 exemplar
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 362 exemplar
The Best American Comics 2008 (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 296 exemplar
The Old Nurse's Story (Penguin Little Black Classics) (1852) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor206 exemplar
The Signalman: A Ghost Story (1866) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor194 exemplar
Gentleman Jim (1980) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor181 exemplar
In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 146 exemplar
Afterward [short fiction] (1910) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor92 exemplar
The Empty House (1906) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor85 exemplar
Drawn and Quarterly, Volume 3 (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 84 exemplar
The Cage (1975) — Förord, vissa utgåvor78 exemplar
SPX: EXPO 2000 (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 70 exemplar
The new world : comics from Mauretania (2018) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor40 exemplar
The Open Door [short story] (1882) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor39 exemplar
The Crown Derby Plate (2008) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor37 exemplar
The Apple Tree [short story] (1952) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor33 exemplar
How Fear Departed the Long Gallery [short story] (2017) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor31 exemplar
One Who Saw: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) (2016) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor31 exemplar
The Diary of Mr. Poynter [short story] (1919) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor30 exemplar
A Visit (2022) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor30 exemplar
The Red Lodge (2011) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor30 exemplar
The Toll House [Short Story] (2017) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor27 exemplar
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance [short fiction] (2013) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor27 exemplar
The Green Room: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) (1925) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor25 exemplar
About Love: 3 Stories by Chekhov (2012) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor24 exemplar
Mr Jones (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) (2021) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor22 exemplar
Christmas Days (1592) — Illustratör — 19 exemplar
An Eddy On The Floor (2021) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor18 exemplar
The Morgan Trust: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) (2020) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor17 exemplar
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents Reports 7-13 (2014) — Illustratör — 17 exemplar
The Sundial (2019) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor17 exemplar
The Doll's Ghost (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) (2021) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor17 exemplar
The Corner Shop [short story] (2022) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor16 exemplar
Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk (1889) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor15 exemplar
The Dead and the Countess (2022) — Illustratör, vissa utgåvor14 exemplar

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I feel slightly weird giving this book such a low rating when the artwork was really lovely, and parts of the story (much of the ending/revelation of the Kalo plot) were really clever and cool, but literally every single thing the author/protagonist did or said made me hate him more and more.* I genuinely can't tell if the author was self-aware of his own foibles and mocking them in this book, because it seems impossible that a person could actually be like that. At one point, he makes a derisive reference to Holden Caulfield as whiny and self-absorbed (and contemplates the possibility that he is Holden-ish), and I laughed out loud because Holden Caulfield is, for a variety of reasons, about a thousand times more sympathetic and interesting than the author/protag.
Anyway, don't read this book, go read a comic by a woman and call your mom or something.

*Spoiler: there is a single exception, which is the note he left for Annie, which I thought was quite sweet.
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localgayangel | 23 andra recensioner | Mar 5, 2024 |
This delivers a fairly amazing sense of place and time
 
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danielskatz | 8 andra recensioner | Dec 26, 2023 |
Un libro compilato in 20 anni di lavoro, un'opera enorme che parla di famiglia, di lavoro e del passaggio del tempo. I due fratelli protagonisti descrivono due mondi che si incontrano e scontrano, due punti di vista complementari che rendono chiaro, casomai ce ne fosse bisogno, che la realtà non è mai una sola. Bellissimo, un nuovo esempio di come in questi anni il fumetto stia raggiungendo vette narrative davvero alte (Chris Ware, Nick Drnaso, Emil Ferris, Adrian Tomine, Dash Shaw, la lista è destinata ad allungarsi).… (mer)
 
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d.v. | 2 andra recensioner | May 16, 2023 |
Seth needed 20 years to complete his longest work. Not that he spent all his time working on it - he published other things in the meantime but for 14 issues of his comic book Palookaville (which took the 20 years between 1998 and 2017), the main story in each issue was Clyde Fans.

The 5 parts of the story span 40 years although some of the flashbacks go even further in time - from the founding of the business by the father to its final collapse. The story opens at the end and then goes back to fill in the gaps - not linearly but jumping in time.

At the opening, it is 1997 (contemporary to when this part was written) and Abe Matchcard is an old man, living in what used to be the Clyde Fans building and telling the reader about the company his father founded (and then absconded from it and the family) and its history since that day. Once upon a time, it was a thriving business - Electric Fans were in vogue and sold well and "Clyde Fans" had the best products out there. Abe's brother, Simon, was supposed to take care of the business but for reasons which were not yet revealed, he ended up a recluse instead. So Abe stepped up, grew the business - and then watched it collapse when he ignored the rise of air conditioning.

For all intents and purposes, the book could have stopped here - we know the story now, right? But that's where the details come into play - the next 4 parts fill in the things that were just hinted at (or not even hinted at in some places) - from 1957 when we finally learn what happened to Simon (parts 2 and 5) through 1966 in part 3 where the business starts falling and the boys' mother needs to be put into a nursing home to 1975 in part 4 where Abe needs to admit defeat and close the factory. And in between all of that life are the musings of Abe (and Simon in his parts of the novel) about business and people and age. The circling back at the end, filling the last of the puzzle pieces in the very last pages of the novel works unexpectedly well - even though you know what must happen, seeing it happening is emotional.

What emerges is not just a history of a family and a business but the history of small businesses - what happens when new technology comes? What happens when the big stores and companies take over? Nothing good - unless you are willing to change and even if you used to be a risk-taker, remaining one, always being ready to change gets progressively harder. Business and family are weaved together inseparably - and despite the novel being about the business, it is also a family saga. And almost anyone can recognize parts of their own in it.

If you look at the first and last pages of the novel, you will see a change in the style - the art gets more confident as time passes, more mature. But you won't see that change as the novel progresses - it happens gradually, without abrupt changes. Not that the first pages are bad but there is a hesitancy there - more than in the later parts of the novel anyway.

Possibly because of its publication history and probably partly because it was moving so slow, the comics and graphic work awards never gave it even a nod. But the mainstream noticed it when it finally emerged completed - the Giller prize jury longlisted it in 2020 - the first (and only one so far I think) graphic novel to be even considered for the award - a novel is a novel, regardless of its form.

Even if you had never read a graphic novel before, try this one. A story is a story regardless of how you tell it and Seth knows how to tell a story.
… (mer)
 
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AnnieMod | 8 andra recensioner | Apr 6, 2023 |

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Verk
48
Även av
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Medlemmar
2,088
Popularitet
#12,317
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
66
ISBN
119
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