“ Listening to other people's stories and sharing my own has saved my life and brought me more joy and inspiration than I ever could have imagined.”
Jon Claytor is a graphic novelist, painter, and writer based in Sackville, New Brunswick.
After establishing himself as an oil painter, Jon fell in love with graphic storytelling. His new graphic novel, Nowhere (Goose Lane, 2026), is a fictional graphic novel about growing up among monsters in a small maritime town. Take The Long Way Home, his memoir, was published by Conundrum Press in 2022. In addition to writing graphic novels, Jon has written many illustrated interviews for the CBC and for the new online resource hub, www.ruralharmreduction.com. Jon enjoys teaching creative workshops for a variety of audiences focusing on storytelling and comic memoirs.
Jon was born in San Francisco and has lived and worked in Moncton, Sackville, Halifax, Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. He co-founded SappyFest independent music and arts festival in 2006 and opened Thunder & Lightning in 2013. Jon holds an MFA from York University (2012), attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (1991), and holds a BFA Mount Allison University (1998). He was nominated for a Juno Award for the cover of Gord Downie's “Battle Of The Nudes” in 2004.
jonclaytor@gmail.com