Palookaville (1991) comic books

Story and Art by Seth. 2001 marks the 10th anniversary of Seth's landmark comic book series. In this new issue, Seth concludes Part 2 of "Clyde Fans" in a small Ontario town circa 1958. Simon, the timid brother and would-be salesman, wraps up his final and ultimately disastrous journey as a traveling salesman. While staying at a hotel, Simon has a strange hallucination, which gives us a glimpse into his troubled personality. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.75.

Story and Art by Seth. Palookaville begins its second decade with this new issue! Seth continues with Part 3 of "Clyde Fans," his epic story covering a 40-year period in the lives of two brothers and their failed fan manufacturing company. The story here moves to the 1960's: Simon's disastrous career as a salesman is over and Abe struggles to maintain the business. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

Story and Art by Seth. Seth has been slowly building up the "Clyde Fans" storyline for several years into what promises to be one of the most ambitious graphic novels ever. In this new installment, it is 1966 and Seth peers further into the life of Simon Matchcard. Simon, by now a failed salesman, loses what was at best a tenuous grip on reality and begins a painful descent into paranoia and delusion. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

Story and Art by Seth. In this installment, Simon waits nervously while the fate of his aged mother is determined by Abraham and the doctor. In this long sequence, we enter Simon's mind and experience an interior monologue showing his rambling thought processes as he ponders his complicated relationship with time and identity. Did he lose some part of himself inside the wall last issue? As his mind wanders, we follow him into his interior landscape. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

Story and Art by Seth. Simon Matchcard haunts the upper stories of his family's failing business, caring for his mentally ailing mother and refining a "special brand of loneliness...something so long and so wide that it ceases to be defined as merely loneliness." His solitude and melancholia develop into hallucinations in which he inhabits a past constructed of his own memories and a desperate nostalgia for a time that never was, in which he imagines his mother as a vibrant young woman. Simon struggles to fabricate a fulfilling past for his mother to atone for being bullied by his overbearing brother into committing her to a rest home. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.