of the comic art magazine Swallow .  The work there was astounding: otherwordly, dreamlike imagery seemingly more influenced by the European and Japanese comic traditions than any of his U.K. or U.S. peers. Those unseen thousands of pages of storyboard and concept art had clearly influenced Dillon's drawing radically. In the short accompanying text we learned he was now back in London, and enthused to get all manner of projects off the ground -- to start and edit a comics anthology; to produce toys, prints and t-shirts of his designs; that he was writing and drawing a children's book; that he had been selling original pieces through Santa's Ghetto, the pop-up art store Banksy opens in London's Oxford Street in the Christmas period. Not terribly long after that, Dillon joined Twitter as "NaoBrown." He was working on a graphic novel, re-using ideas from the work he was intending to produce for the now not-happening anthology One . Imagery, and eventually penciled panels of the book's pensive-looking lead character started to appear in his tweets and via the project's workblog. In early 2010, it was confirmed that U.K. publisher Self Made Hero would be releasing the book The Nao Of Brown . Every successive panel Dillon revealed on Twitter only increased the anticipation of the U.K. comic community for the book. It was clearly shaping up to be a major work. The book arrived in the U.K. in late September , and officially in the U.S. on Oct. 1 , and