He is wrong, this is not poorly done, it is greatness, in a small and understated package, about a guy most people might not cross the street to address, but this is his point, he is every man, not Superman. It's a kind of screwball comedy send-up and homage to the work of comic book collecting and making, too, very odd and quirky and funny and who would care about some obscure Canadian small town nerd comics guy, but he makes us care, and helps us see how important comics were to him and so many of us.

He dedicates the book to Ware and tells us to read Rusty Brown and not read his own inferior-in-comparison work. This is honest of him, and like Chris Ware, his friend, typically self-deprecating. Seth writes in his introduction that this is not a good book it's poorly drawn, the lettering is sloppy, the pages are done poorly, the narrative is badly done, and so on. Part riotous chase, part whimsical character sketch, Wimbledon Green looks at the need to collect and the need to reinvent oneself. Are Green's intentions honorable? Does he truly love comics or is he driven by the need to conquer? Lastly, is he really even Wimbledon Green?Ī charming and amusing caper where comic-book collecting is a world of intrigue and high finance.

Comic-book retailers, auctioneers, and conventioneers from around North America, as well as Green's collecting rivals, weigh in on the man and his vast collection of comic books. Meet Wimbledon Green, the self-proclaimed world's greatest comic-book collector who brokered the world's best comic-book deal in the history of collecting. Taking a break from the serialization of his saga Clyde Fans and the design of The Complete Peanuts, critically acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Seth creates a farcical world of the people whose passion lies in the need to own comic books and only in pristine, mint condition. From the critically acclaimed cartoonist of Clyde Fans and It's A Good Life comes a humorous graphic novel on the obsession of comic-book collecting.

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