Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for beautiful, awful and ordinary days

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Powerful visual poetry exploring the reality of what it means to be human - from Instagram phenomenon, artist Jordan Bolton. There is poetry in every day Most of life is made up of mundane moments on ordinary days. But every moment, every good day, bad day, and average day, had to happen exactly the way that it did for you to exist. Everything that made you, connects us all in small, invisible, and beautiful ways. This first comic collection from artist Jordan Bolton explores the fleeting details that unite us. Jordan brings together the visual language of comics with the heartfelt language of poetry, to express moments of love and heartbreak, embarrassment and shame, hope and disappointment, grief and happiness. Split into sections that reflect where we spend the majority of our time - In Public, In Transit, and At Home - Bolton shines spotlights on the lives and stories unfolding around us every day that we might otherwise ignore. With the addition of new and unseen comics, Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car is a gentle reminder that everything is ordinary, everything is extraordinary, and everything is connected. Most-loved stories include- - Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car - Range Life - Day Off With new exclusive ones including- - Public Park - The Driver - Ghosts

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Jordan Bolton is an artist from Manchester, UK. He started out creating posters for local poetry and music events before turning professional as a graphic designer, progressing to film posters and book covers with clients including Netflix, Expedia, and Rizzoli. His work has been featured in Wired, Vice, The Guardian, and Buzzfeed among others, and it has been exhibited across the world including a 2018 solo exhibition at London's Royal Albert Hall. Jordan began his 'Scenes from Imagined Films' Instagram posts in 2021 as a personal creative challenge - to create just a small fragment of an imagined larger story. Following the overwhelming response he received after posting these online, Jordan has been exclusively working on creating more of these story fragments, which have resonated with people from all corners of the globe.