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Chrysanthemum Under the Waves is a deeply personal, brooding work by Sound of Snow Falling author, Maggie Umber. The book is structured as a series of blown-out, black and white silent films from the 1940’s; intimate, haunting and experimental. Umber generated these stories while dealing with divorce, relational addiction, serious illness and hospitalization. There is so much blood in this book. Like modern music samples and beats, Umber incorporates themes from folklore and ballads, drawing on the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Shirley Jackson, Goya and Sylvia Plath to create new songs. Chrysanthemum Under the Waves is a hypnagogic and visionary work, with its dark layered musical stylings. Maggie Umber pulls you in and holds you under.

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It takes a lot of work to achieve that realism on the page while still evoking the grace of these creatures, and Sound Of Snow Falling shows how the comic-book medium can reveal the finer details of the natural world. - Oliver Sava, The A.V. Club There's no need for unnecessary exposition here as Umber's subtle but expressive visuals tell us all we need to know. This silence emphasizes the reader's role as observer, always that one step back from a world we can never truly be a participant in. - Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier Mesmerizing is the only word that works to describe Maggie Umber's 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 I'd missed in the first two. Umber's 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. I'm 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 Umber's work is simultaneously a breathless, quiet stretch and an enormous, orchestral voice. I don't know anyone else who can create such volume through silence.-- Sarah Ferrick, author of Yours [A] tour-de-force silent interpretation. --Floating World Comics Elusive but memorable, creepy but restrained. --The Comics Journal [A] haunting snapshot of a relationship that juxtaposes moody reality with a merging, melting otherness as the former begins to merge into the latter. --Broken Frontier Show-stopper. --High-Low [C]hallenging our idea of what is story in comics [...] maybe it's a more a process of visual association, visual themes, visual latent motifs. --Comics Alternative

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Maggie Umber is a cartoonist, painter and printmaker based in Chicago. She has published three graphic novels with 2dcloud: Time Capsule (2015), Sound of Snow Falling (2017), and 270° (2018). Her work has appeared in two anthologies, Warmer: A Collection of Comics About Climate Change for the Fearful & Hopeful, edited by Andrew White and Madeleine Witt (2017) and The Shirley Jackson Project, edited by Rob Kirby and published by Ninth Art Press (2016).

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