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...early stable of artists included Canadians Chester Brown and the one-named Seth, who have since become two of North America's top cartoonist talents. Last year Brown scored a surprise hit with his biography of Canadian mystical rabble-rouser Louis Riel (see below). D&Q hopes for similar success with Seth's just-released Clyde Fans Book One. The first of a planned two-part series, Clyde Fans tells the wistful history of two brothers and their family electrical-fan business. Seth, n? Gregory Gallant, 41, got the idea for the book from an old storefront office...
...editor, Oliveros is hands-off. "You can't really say to a cartoonist, 'This drawing on page 3, panel 4 is a bit weak,'" he says. And the talent appreciates that. "It's a pretty simple arrangement," says Brown. "I do the work and send it to them, and they publish it." Given Oliveros' demanding taste, the D&Q roster is small and top-notch. "I have always believed that there is just not that much good work out there," says Oliveros. For that reason he expects D&Q to grow, but not much. "That," he says, "would go against...
...book itself stays true to Ware's high standards, being printed on heavy paper stock and in full color for at least half of the works. The contributors are a jaw-dropping list: every single major North American cartoonist of the last two decades, plus several key historical artists, some newcomers and even a few prose pieces by the likes of John Updike, Chip Kidd ("Peanuts: the Art of Charles M. Schulz") and Glen David Gold ("Carter Beats the Devil"). The works have been loosely organized by genre. Early in the book appears what may be considered the world...
...John wrote wonderful prose, wonderful poetry, and he also was a wonderful cartoonist,” he says. “He did them all with equal facility...
DIED. SYD HOFF, 91, cartoonist and author of such children's books as Danny and the Dinosaur; in Miami Beach, Fla. Hoff originally wanted to be a painter, but his art-school teachers told him to "try something else." He did--and went on to contribute 571 cartoons to the New Yorker...