"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 beautiful.
Masterful stuff for someone so young."--Seth, author of
"Wimbledon Green" and "George Sprott: 1[zasłonięte]894-19" in
"Time""Dockwood" is a small town in the Southeast of
England, seven miles east of Brampton Moor. It has a
population 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 dutifully 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 meaningful 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 Press, as was his
second, "Pebble Island." |
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