Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car

I loved Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car! It was an excellent read. I loved the quiet moments of life depicted.

A deceptively simple little graphic novel exploring subtle and mundane moments in someone’s life - waiting for a friend in the park, encounters with strangers, furniture shopping with a partner. Short stories or vignettes explore universal and profound feelings like sonder - the feeling and realization that everyone around you has as complex and vivid as life as you.

This was so beautiful and emotional. The stories or vignettes are rather short, some about two pages and some about ten pages. Each one is illustrated in a simple manner that allows the text to really shine. I found myself tearing up in one particular story about ghosts. This reminded me a bit of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too. Highly recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy for review.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

This is a beautifully poignant book of comics with simple premises that just hits to the heart of so many things. One of the comics is about <spoiler>someone being out with a loved one after experiencing loss</spoiler>, and it struck so personally at my own feelings on the issue that it got me crying (in a good way), and reflected how I've reacted many times. So many moments in this book are like that, and they're all wonderfully written. I know the idea is something about relatable moments, like George Carlin's skit about moments that we all have, but with a bit less humor and more heart. But it really did a good job of hitting the nail on the head, particularly with the train comic.

The art itself is lovely, and I love the "simplicity" of it, even if it's far from simple. This is a beautiful book, and was a pleasure to read.

This is a lovely book of pictures, but it isn’t really a picture book. It is, as the author intended, a story told in pictures that could have beena movie, but was too expensive to make it that way.


Itis almost poetry. But either way, it is a series of short short stories, told in pictures. From stories of thinking what a beautiful morning it is, with the birds singing, and wondering what it all means, to listening to an old man on the bus, tell of his life.


The stories are complete, but they are also vignettes, pictures into the soul of the speaker, and then they are gone again, as though you only saw them in passing.


Quick, but thoughtful read book.


Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. It is coming out the 12th of November 2024.

Five Stars. Blue Sky Through The Window of A Moving Car by Jordan Bolton is an absolute gem and I literally got up and ran to get my phone to follow him on Instagram. It’s a quick read, but it really hits hard. The way Bolton captures those everyday moments we all go through—love, heartbreak, hope, nostalgia, and everything in between—made me reflect on how connected we all are. Honestly, it made me cry (the NYE/ Fedex bit especially). I loved every bit of it.

Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car by Jordan Bolton is a beautifully illustrated collection of short, poetic comics that tap into universal human experiences. I realized I had seen some of Bolton’s work on Instagram before, and the book carries the same distinct, captivating style. I love the concept of capturing fleeting moments through comics, and the simplicity of these scenes really resonates. While I found myself craving a bit more depth at times, the book is still a heartfelt and poignant read that blends art and emotion in a unique way.

Wow! Let me start by saying that I don't typically reach for this style of book, but this was an incredible read. I loved every second of it. Although it only took me about 30 minutes to read, it was an excellent 30 minutes. I immediately pre-ordered it for my collection. My favorite three comics were "Firework," "Ghost," and "Range Life." All of the comics were great, however those three will be on my mind for a while. The description of this book could not have said it any better; it really was "heart-breaking and heart-warming." At times, I found myself teary-eyed and then, seconds later, smiling and blushing. I truly would recommend giving this book a try!

I love this book. Is so nice and good!!
It's a book you can read and it will bring you joy whenever. It just gives you happiness, because is so cozy for the soul.
I love the little stories that are everyday occurrences, or normal people life, or sometimes are just que cutest thing ever.
I really recommend it. I loved it.

This was extraordinary. The blending of the poetry and the graphic format made a surprisingly synergistic pairing. The poems themselves were quiet meditations on everyday life. They were short poems with sometimes deep insight. The quiet emotions of them touched me. It is a book I would read again and buy as a gift for my partner.

My thanks to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel for an advance copy of this book that is cartoon in appearance, but is more snippets of memory, of people we interact with, people we have lost and love, and those little moments that make life not only worth living, but worth striving for.

I work retail. That is a death sentence to many. The having to deal with people all day, everyday, and being a person who is introverted in nature, this can be difficult. For some reason I have a level of trust at my workplace where I work with the newer booksellers, not just in training, but in how to appreciate the job we have undertaken. Along with pharmacists, bartenders, maybe coroners, we can see people at their worst, and at their lowest. I can't believe you don't have this book that I've supposed to read all summer, and have to do a book report on tomorrow. This is why your industry is dying. Or a customer looking for a book to deal with life after loss, divorce, or addiction. Moms looking for books to explain their children's pets going to heaven. We also see people trying, looking at books on dating, happiness, or not giving a curse word. Trying new books, looking at poetry for the first time. Even finding a cool journal to start over with. Each person has a story, from the biggest annoyance, to the person no one pays attention to. This is the reason why I loved this book so much. It's made up of moments that fill a life, and if one doesn't pay attention to that, well is it a life worth living. Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days is a collection of cartoons by Jordan Bolton that captures not the big moments, but the moments that seem small, and yet teach us so much.

The book begins with a brief introduction of how the strips started. Bolton was a graphic designer with time on his hands and wanted to live his dream of making a movie. Movies though are hard, and expensive, and very time consuming. So why not take this movies he saw in his head and make cartoons out of them. And we are lucky that he did. These are cartoons that capture the things that run through our head, that we don't pay attention to. Time with loved ones, that become important later. Life lessons, and life changing occasions that burst into life much later. Love, loss, family, friends, and strangers on buses. My favorites, and really I loved them all, but the one dealing with a father and son on a drive really go to me. Or the father talking about giving up something he loved, for reasons he never went into. Also a story bout a woman doing a work meeting and watching her husband play with their child outside, to give her some piece. And a smell of candy illuminating a moment of sin between mothers and daughter. All are told in four panels a page, with words printed underneath, maybe a page or two, some for much longer.

Prepare for some emotions while reading this collection. Jordan Bolton is really good at putting himself in a person's head, and showing a life and character in just a few panels. This is one of the strongest collections I have read in quite a while. I mentioned a few, but there are a lot more shopping in an Ikea, a bus trip, and thoughts about beautiful days. The word use is perfect, not an extra word, nor a wasted panel. The art fits so well. The backgrounds are rendered perfectly, and fit exactly with the text. Or the text fits with the art. I do wonder if this is done Marvel style writing dialogue to fit the art, or art to fit the words.

A collection that I will by buying for gifts. This is one of those works that certain people will bond with immediately, and for people who need something, but don't realize it yet. I mentioned this before but I don't think I have felt this about a collection in quite a long time. I do know I will be following Jordan Bolton online, and buying his books whenever I see them. And recommending them to customers whenever I can.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book. I enjoyed the art style and this was beautiful and poignant amongst the seemingly mundane moments.

A very charming little book! I especially enjoyed the perspective the images were constructed in, that really worked well in placing the reader in a contemplative frame of mind.