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Jon McNaught’s graphic novel Kingdom reviewed

My review of Jon McNaught’s newest book Kingdom is live now at The Comics Journal.

First two paragraphs:

Not much happens in Jon McNaught’s latest graphic novel Kingdom. A mother takes her son and daughter to Kingdom Fields Holiday Park, a vacation lodge on the British coast. There, they watch television, go to a run-down museum, play on the beach, walk the hills, and visit an old aunt. Then…

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McNaught is an artist that was recommended for me to look at by illustrator Adam Avery and WOW, am I gushing over his work. As a huge fan of comics and visual storytelling, I just love his approach to sequential narrative and his use of colour. In particular, I really admire the lack of detail of the characters and the focus instead shifting to the surroundings. 

In an interview with Paul Gravett, he was asked why he moved from print-making to producing comics. McNaught states: “When I started working with comics it felt like a natural development of this, - the places I was interested in depicting always had so much more going on than the visuals, for example; the sounds, the bustle, the movement etc. It was hard to ignore the radio playing in the background or noise of cars in the distance when it is such an essential part of the place I was trying to depict. Working in a comic form gave me a chance to combine some of these elements that I found made a place interesting, and hopefully create something that felt a bit more real.”