Sound of Snow Falling

By Maggie Umber. Published by 2dcloud. 

Softcover, 

104 pp
6.8 × 8.5"
CMYK offset
flexibound
printed by TWP in S. Korea

"Mesmerizing... As in nature, the more you look, the more you see." —Julie Zickefoose, author & illustrator of Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, and Letters from Eden: A Year at Home, In the Woods

"Umber beautifully uses comic form to take the reader through intimate movements in nature." —Aidan Koch, author of After Nothing Comes

"Umber has captured a small reflection of the natural divine." —Tiny Pages Made of Ashes

"Umber's thrillingly inventive approach to cartooning constitutes an act of real empathy with the earth, an attempt to embrace the alterity and sovereignty of the sentient life that surrounds us." —The Globe and Mail

"Est-ce que tu as cherché à figurer la vision animale?" —Les cahiers du bruit

A paint and paper documentary, observing great horned owls in their natural habitat.

Sound of Snow Falling is a graphic novel done in a poetic documentary mode. In this unique work, the reader becomes a voyeur of the natural world, following a great horned owl family through the dead of winter. Extensively researched and expressively painted, Sound of Snow Falling is a triumph of the comics form.

It is a BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2018 Notable title, selected by Bill Kartalopoulos.

Maggie Umber is a cartoonist and a co-founder of 2dcloud. Sound of Snow Falling is her second graphic novel.