Posted: Apr 23, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 23
(Jon Claytor for CBC)
Corner stores can be cornerstones of a community or street. They re the cream for your coffee, Popsicles on a hot day and movie rental memories. And, of course, there are the familiar faces behind the cash.
Artist Jon Claytor visited a few corner stores in Halifax, and created an illustrated series inspired by these conversations.
Posted: Apr 15, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 15
(Jon Claytor for CBC)
Corner stores can be cornerstones of a community or street. They re the cream for your coffee, Popsicles on a hot day and movie rental memories. And, of course, there are the familiar faces behind the cash.
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Halifax-based artist Jon Claytor had been an oil painter his whole adult life before he traded the paint brush for an iPad stylus and became a digital comic-writer. His shift began with a cross-country drive and his struggle to get sober after years of alcohol addiction. Now he has a graphic novel coming out next year about both journeys, has written comics for the CBC about student life during the pandemic and is working on graphic novels about the Sixties Scoop.