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Pages: 128 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0224079190
Pub: Jonathan Cape
Pub date: 2006-10-26
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 317735
Reader Reviews:
Beautiful Book - Charmingly Engaging Story (0/0 people found this helpful)
The introduction to Wimbledon Green explains how it was a quickly made work from Seth's sketchbooks. Apart from a few pieces in comics compilations, this is the first thing I've read by Seth and if this is what he can produce quickly, I'm expecting BIG things from his other work and at the same time I get the feeling that a lot of the fun in Wimbledon Green is found in that freedom of creation.
The entire world of the story is so textured by the colours and artwork to evoke the time period reflected (yet even the most modern scenes feel like they're set some time ago) and the deceptively simple characters network into a a mystery that unravels perfectly but that leaves so many clues and set ups that the minute you've finished reading the book, it's absolutely no chore to start again to find those breadcrumbs again.
The matter of fact reportage of the characters sells a world where old comic books sell for the kind of sums that sought after paintings do flawlessly which as a comics fan you can't help but warm to the notion of.
As an object the gilt embossed, linen-covered volume is just beautiful but that's not misdirection in any way, the real treat of owning Wimbledon Green is to spend some time relaxing into the kind of world that only cartoons can take you too while you get to vicariously view the world through the eyes of a variety of characters, all of whom share the same insatiable obsession.
Buy this for anyone who collects anything and they'll love it forever.
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