Nobrow Press | ISBN:1907704264 | File Type: PDF, 64 pages | File size: 57.Mb | Nov. 13th, 2012
Illustration Design: McNaught s comics are slow quiet and very sensitive to place and time The work is certainly poetic but not precious or twee And the drawings are beautif Masterf stuff for someone so young Seth author of Wimbledon Green and George Sprott 1894 1975 in Time Dockwood is a small town in the Southeast of England seven miles east of Brampton Moor It has a popation of 26 000 and is home to a bowling alley a boating lake and Willowbrook Outlet Village It s a cloudy Tuesday in October and the residents of the town are going about their business as usual In Elmsview Nursing Home a kitchen porter dutifly prepares lunch for residents Elsewhere a council worker sweeps the fallen leaves from the pavements Along Nettlefield Road a paperboy is delivering his daily round And in the trees swallows gather noisily in preparation for their annual migration In this new work Jon McNaught weaves together the everyday lives of three locals against an evocative backdrop of autumnal transitions Bittersweet and contemplative Dockwood is for anyone who believes the stories that take place within life s small moments can often be the most meaningf of all Jon McNaught is a printmaker and cartoonist living in Bristol He also works as a printmaking instructor at the University of the West of England He has produced comic strips for Nobrow Art Review and Stripburger among others His first book Birchfield Close was published in 2010 by Nobrow ress as was his second ebble Island
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