Sound of Snow Falling

About this book

A paint and paper documentary observing great horned owls in their natural habitat. Mesmerizing is the only word that works to describe Maggie Umbers new graphic novel Sound of Snow Falling. Well enchanting works too. As in nature the more you look the more you see. A third viewing reveals story lines Id missed in the first two. Umbers minimalist paintings manage to convey in three colors the beauty ferocity devotion and sheer heart of a pair of great horned owls bringing three chicks into the world. Im taken by the economy of line and rightness of gesture in these deceptively simple paintings." 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 Maggie Umbers work is simultaneously a breathless quiet stretch and an enormous orchestral voice. I dont know anyone else who can create such volume through silence." Sarah Ferrick author of Yours 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. Maggie Umber is a cartoonist and associate publisher at 2dcloud. Sound of Snow Falling is her second graphic novella.