For some the city is their birthplace and home, but for most of us, it is somewhere arrived at after years of hard work and perseverance and it becomes our home, gradually, in the place of far calmer, more serene and frankly altogether less entertaining origins.
Jon McNaught is a comic book artist, printmaker, and freelance illustrator. He lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.
I have rarely come across a new cartoonist who so quickly leapt to
the top of my favorites list as did the work of Jon McNaught.
Quiet, subtle, deeply felt. Gorgeously designed. Quintessentially
British. A rare joy. Simply put - Jon McNaught is sublime.
--Seth, Author of George Sprott 1894-1975 and It's A Good Life If
You Don't Weaken McNaught's work [...] is its own aesthetic
experience: Minimal, gentle, tranquil, but also evocative and
complex.
--Biblioklept It is a quiet work filled with noises, a Mona Lisa on
a postage stamp, an epic in sonnet form, and a study in time
captured in minutes and seconds. [...] Have you ever observed with
inner stillness the progress a hot-air balloon across the sky,
flocks of birds in flight gathering new members as it passes
neighborhood yards, or the slow movement of shadow across the grass
as the sun went down? All of these seemingly mundane events are
made sublime in their depiction in Birchfield Close. [...]
Birchfield Close is about paying attention to the world around us
by looking and listening. It's a compelling book.
--Fantasy Literature
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