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...quixotic act of counter programming, Canadian comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly released Seth's defiantly low-key "Clyde Fans Book One," ($19.95; 156 pp.) Wednesday against the roaring hype of Sony Pictures' movie adaptation "Spider-Man 2." It was a marketing non-starter of epic proportions with "Spider-Man 2" setting an opening day record of over $40M, according to hollywoodreporter.com. Opening day sales figures for "Clyde Fans" were unavailable at press time, but it's safe to say it made less than $1M. Of course if success is measured in terms of humbleness, dignity and art, "Clyde Fans" trounces...
...While comics have a reputation for being high-impact, garish entertainments epitomized by such superhero antics as Marvel's Spider-Man, they have just as much ability to be quiet and contemplative. It is this aspect that the singularly named Seth, nee Gregory Gallant, 41, has come to make his metier. "I think what most interested us when we were in our twenties and talking about cartooning a lot was not so much the content of the stories but breaking away from the traditional approach to how cartoon stories are told," Seth told TIME.comix. "Certainly for the history of comics...
...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...
...move some boxes around, all while delivering a monologue about his days as a salesman. The second half follows brother Simon, 40 years earlier, on an unsuccessful attempt at opening new sales territory. Using nearly as many silent, atmospheric panels as there are panels of people talking, Seth creates a quiet, elegiac atmosphere. Deliberately pitching itself against the garish, high-impact antics of other comics, Seth's graphic novel fits perfectly into the D&Q aesthetic...
...American Dad," an animated sitcom from "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, about a typical suburban dad who secretly works for the CIA. It's like "Alias," but with less moony-faced romance and spies dressed up like hookers, and more talking goldfish...