Name: Maggie Gordon's review of Crawl Space by Jesse Jacobs
Item: Crawl Space
Rating: 4
Author: Maggie Gordon

Jesse Jacobs

In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of the surreal? Jesse Jacobs was born in Moncton, NB, and now draws comics and things from his home in Hamilton, ON. In 2009, his books Small Victories and Blue Winter were short listed at the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning. He received the Gene Day Award for Canadian Comic Book Self-Publisher of 2008. Even the Giants (AdHouse, 2011) marked his major publishing debut after several award-winning, self-published titles, and his work has appeared in the acclaimed Latvian comics anthology š!, as well as the 2012 edition The Best American Comics edited by Fran�oise Mouly and published Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He made his debut with Koyama Press in 2012 with the psychedelic creation myth By This Shall You Know Him, which was followed by the trippy take on nature versus nurture, Safari Honeymoon in 2014.

Crawl Space

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Maggie Gordon

The rainbow cover of Crawl Space attracted me at TCAF so I asked the dude manning the table to pitch it to me. He said it was kinda like a Narnia story where you go through a laundry machine instead of a wardrobe, and you end up in a bit of an acid trip alternative world with a lot of rainbows. Sold. What is Crawl Space about? Basically that pitch. A teenage girl finds this strange new world, she invites some friends, that doesn't go well, but she seems to reach some new form of enlightenment. The artwork is is a vibrant, twisting explosion of weird, and the book is worth buying for the visuals alone. Seriously, just find a copy and read it and enjoy the sensory overload!

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