Crawl Space

Some actual pages thanks to Koyama Press: http://koyamapress.com/projects/crawl... I have loved everything I have read by the obsessively meticulous Jacobs (By This You Shall Know Him, Safari Honeymoon), books dealing with forces--natural, spiritual--that are larger than us, but this might be the most Leggi tutto

4.5 stars. Experimental yet strangely touching graphic novel about... uh... the more mind-bending explorations of youth. By Jesse Jacobs, one of the most exciting alternative cartoonists working today.

Is it possible to give this a 10/5?

Writing this after blazing through in maybe a half an hour at most -- a first of many reads most likely. Psychedelicized high-school experience, complete with the rager that wrecks it all, but abstracted to a realm of pure shapes and colors (the ideal essence of visual art). As much "The Lion, The W Leggi tutto

fk u jeanne-claude worst friend e v e r u were a horrible fake friend lil binch to daisy the entire time i loved this this made me think and feel the same way i already think and feel but when i read someone else talking about it i’m like “he’ll yea brother” and transcend a physical form

In relation to many of the arts, not least comics, words like "trippy" and "psychedelic" get thrown around a lot – including by me. They're generally used to indicate surrealism, abstraction or just plain strangeness, or as a shorthand for a particular kind of aesthetic. As such, if I say that Crawl Leggi tutto