Daniel Clowes' middle name is Gillespie; the potential connection he – or, more likely, it would seem, his parents – have to jazz and the great trumpeter and bandleader may be the only part of Clowes' life that he has not sought, with an often courageous and selfless ugliness, to explo

Redfield is inspired by the natural world at its quirkiest, and flirts with magical realism. Moving back to America and settling in the Hudson valley after twenty years in Europe she has turned her creativity back to painting and Illustrating after a prolonged hiatus in which she worked overseas i