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...Drawing in smooth, almost aerodynamic lines, Seth evokes the style of the 1930's "New Yorker" cartoonists. Combined with its palette of black, gray and pale blue, the very look of "Clyde Fans" exudes a melancholy nostalgia. A major part of Seth's attempt at moving away from traditional comicbook storytelling includes, as he says, "giving a story as much length and breathing space as it needs to be told, which usually means slowing down the narrative, [including] a lot of silent space - panels that aren't necessary to move the story along but are necessary just to create...
...Anyone turned off by the screaming, exploding in-your-face graphics of mainstream comicbook fare should seek the solace of Seth's "Clyde Fans Book One." Pull your rocker onto the back porch, or spread your blanket on the roof, turn on the fan and enjoy the quiet...
...Yourself movement created its own aesthetic. The form lent itself to deeply personal, even solipsistic, stories and a punk-rock aversion to "craft" in favor of raw, expressionist artwork. Over time that outsider style has been adopted (co-opted?) by traditional, established publishers. Three recent works, available in regular comicbook shops, typify this style with their autobiographical stories rendered in immediate, rough graphics: Allison Cole's "Never Ending Summer," James Kochalka's "Sketchbook Diaries Vol. 4" and Jeff Brown's "Unlikely...
...style. While "Super Unleaded" gets rendered with a cinematic look that underscores its naturalism, "Oliver Pikk" has a zany, Saturday morning cartoonishness. "Same Difference" deftly combines these two styles, blending a realistic approach with some silly caricature. For a debut, "Same Difference" shows a remarkable level of accomplishment at comicbook craft. Although many web comics transfer badly to the printed page, only a few minor pieces in the book suffer, mostly due to blurry typeface...
...Should Superman, manga and "Maus," sit side by side? Chip Kidd, among many others, can't stand this. "I truly believe that Spiegelman's 'Maus' should be shelved next to Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, not next to the X-Men. Maus is a Holocaust memoir first and a comicbook second." Micha Hershman, the graphic novel buyer for the Borders bookstore chain has no such doubts. "The graphic novel is a format," he says. "We would not segment the category by splitting up the graphic novel section." According to Hershman, Borders' research shows the "demographics for 'Maus' overlap with...