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Like a tender horror movie of small-town childhood and its everyday apocalypse — Nowhere is part Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, part Gary Larson’s The Far Side. Claytor tells a story that’s gruesome and tender, shining with heart, humour, and the hard glint of memory. -- Sean Michaels, author of <i>Do You Remember Being Born?</i> Nowhere is a deeply profound, poetic, and unforgettable work, which captures the existential dread of growing up in an unstable environment, with a vocabulary that is utterly original. Claytor’s world, while populated with zombies, glow in the dark deer, and pencil-pushing aliens, touches on what it is to be human and our need for stability and connection. -- Heather O&#8217Neill, author of <i>The Capital of Dreams</i> What’s scarier than monsters, aliens, and clowns? Moving to a small town. Nowhere reads like renting a stack of classic horror and watching it with your BFF all night. -- Cole Pauls, author of <i>We see stars only at night</i> Nowhere is a coming-of-age story that is at once surreal and entirely relatable. Poignant, haunting — in a fun way! — and delightfully unhinged, this is a book for anyone who wonders how much more of this strange life we’re supposed to take. -- Teresa Wong, author of <i>All Our Ordinary Stories</i>

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Jon Claytor is a graphic novelist, painter, and writer. Born in San Francisco, he lived and worked in several Canadian cities, including Halifax, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto, before settling in Sackville, New Brunswick. Claytor’s work ranges from oil painting and watercolour to comics. He has had solo exhibitions at galleries in Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, and throughout the Maritimes. He has also written and illustrated stories for CBC Radio, the Frye Festival, and the website ruralharmreduction.com. Claytor co-founded SappyFest independent music and arts festival in 2006 and opened Thunder & Lightning Ideas Ltd. in 2013. He holds an MFA from York University and a BFA from Mount Allison University. He was nominated for a Juno Award for the cover of Gord Downie’s Battle of the Nudes in 2004. His graphic memoir, Take the Long Way Home, was published by Conundrum in 2022. Nowhere, a fictional graphic novel about growing up among monsters in a small maritime town is his first graphic novel.

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