The Official First Day Cover features a stamp celebrating the award-winning graphic novel Clyde Fans, by Seth.

One of four stamps in the Graphic Novelists 2024 set, the stamp is cancelled in Clinton, Ontario – Seth’s birthplace.

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The Graphic Novelists issue celebrates the work of some of Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists:

Chester Brown: Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
Michel Rabagliati: Paul à Québec
Seth: Clyde Fans
Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki: This One Summer

The four stamps highlight acclaimed novels by each author, who created original illustrations for their stamp designs that show the main characters engrossed in their own stories.

About the Graphic Novelists issue

Among Canada’s most talented and influential graphic novelists, Chester Brown, Michel Rabagliati, Seth, and Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki deftly interweave words and illustrations in their award-winning works.

These stamps – featuring an acclaimed novel by each author – show the main characters engrossed in their own stories through original illustrations created by the novelists themselves.

About Seth

An influential leader in the underground comic book movement, Seth (the pen name of Gregory Gallant, b. 1962 in Clinton, Ontario) spent much of his youth drawing comics and creating an inner fantasy world “where things were much more pleasant.” He attended the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) and worked as a commercial artist before launching his Palookaville comics in 1991. Over the last 20 years of its run, the series told the story of two brothers struggling with the gradual demise of their family’s electric-fan business. Introspective and tinged with yearning for an earlier time, it was published as the award-winning graphic novel Clyde Fans in 2019.

About the design

The front of the Official First Day Cover features a photograph of the cover of Clyde Fans, which shows the storefront of the fan shop around which the story is centred. The background of the envelope is reminiscent of grey concrete.

The front also includes the text “Graphic Novelists” and the Seth stamp, cancelled in Clinton, Ontario – Seth’s birthplace.

The stamp is an original drawing by Seth of Simon Matchcard – one of the two lead characters in the novel – reading his own story. The cancel image is of an open graphic novel.

The back features a photograph of a page from the novel, along with a short text on Seth and Clyde Fans. The stamp was cancelled on May 10, in advance of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 11-12).

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Graphic Novelists – Seth: Official First Day Cover