Notes Over Yonder

by Scott Morse

The busy hum of the big city envelopes a lonely jazz musician as he deals with loss on the night of a big gig… and a world away, a desolate beach bum pines for his lost lover as a call from beyond washes up at his feet. A mischievous cat and a haunted ukulele tie their worlds together as NOTES OVER YONDER presents a surreal, magical, visual sort of music. Award-winning author Scott Morse combines these two quiet short stories into a uniquely woven tapestry of painted sequential images.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

64 pages, Hardcover

First published November 12, 2008

About the author

Scott Morse (sometimes known as C. Scott Morse or C. S. Morse) is an American animator, filmmaker, and comic book artist/writer.

Much of Morse's published work consists of stand-alone graphic novels, although he is perhaps best known for his epic series Soulwind, a story serialised in a sequence of graphic novels, which was nominated for both the Eisner and Ignatz awards.

Reviews

[Logan Polk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Haunting and beautiful, somehow a silent film about loss in the world of comics.

[Norman Weatherly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ll start by saying that I love listening to music and reading. This book meets both criteria. A nicely illustrated graphic novel that provided a quick first glacé but was deserving more. The second reading was sweet and I look forward to a third or more.

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful love poem told as a series of single-panel painted pages. Like the jazz he references, Morse riffs on mood and pure emotion using color and abstraction, and it's just gorgeous.

[furious · Rating 4 out of 5]

a poem without words.