I could write a piece three times as long as this and still have to leave out several favourites. That said, even without them it would have been an exceptional 12 months. Both are utterly amazing both push the form in new directions. Seth’s book is a history of mid-century capitalism disguised as the story of two elderly brothers Ware’s uses a single day in a Nebraska high school in the 1970s to tell, in characteristically frown-inducing manner, a host of very human stories. T his would have been an extraordinary year for graphic novels even had no other comics save for Seth’s Clyde Fans (Drawn & Quarterly) and Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown (Jonathan Cape) been published.
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