Clyde Fans: A Picture Novel in Five Parts

From 2019 onward, Drawn & Quarterly has published Clyde Fans: A Picture Novel in Five Parts, a single-volume graphic novel by cartoonist Seth. This quietly devastating work collects a story two decades in the making, following the decline of a family-owned fan company and the two brothers who ran it. Seth’s signature melancholic line and period-perfect design evoke a vanished North American small-business world, making the book a poignant meditation on failure, memory, and the ghosts of commerce. It stands as a landmark of literary cartooning, distilling Seth’s long-running serial into a cohesive, atmospheric whole.