BY RYAN PORTER
There was little more than a hand-lettered sign on an abandoned ofice space when cartoonist Seth irst spotted Clyde Fans in downtown Toronto. Inside what remained of the mid-20th-century business hung two portraits that would inspire swaggering salesman Abe and his shrinking brother Simon, who became the protagonists of the illustrator’s long-running comic Clyde Fans. Both uneasily navigate the world against the backdrop of their failing family business.