{"product_id":"9781683969938","title":"Jessica Farm","description":"\u003cp\u003eA career-spanning comics project 24 years in the making, Josh Simmons creates a deeply personal fantasy drama infused with psychological horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: [Simmons's work is] idiosyncratic, grotesque, and adept at wince-level physical violence and comedy -- all in service of a worldview so brutally cold that aimed in the right direction it could shut down the sun. Simmons is the reassuring hand in the dark that took yours into his and then shoved it into something sharp and wet.-- \"Comics Reporter\" Review Quotes : The sort of book you read very fast for the story, then again right away to slow down and savor the images. As ever, the interiors in particular are captivating, darkly hatched and full of mysterious shadows.-- \"Quietus\" Review Quotes : An exhilaratingly horrific tour de force. There may not be another creator of horror stories working in comics, film, or prose today who comes even close to rivaling Simmons's ability to evoke an atmosphere of menace and dread.-- \"Library Journal\" Review Quotes : Indie comics fans will relish this enigmatic mash-up of Lewis Carroll and Jim Woodring.-- \"Publishers Weekly\" Review Quotes : Jessica Farm is, by turns, ramshackle, juvenile, meandering, gruesome, and incredibly horny. I say these things with earnest and delighted affection.--Colin Moon \"AIPT Comics\" Brief Description : \"Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland, Jessica Farm opens with an exterior of what could be any Midwestern farmhouse. Once inside, we track our titular heroine (she is a person, not a place) as she bounds out of bed on Christmas morning and goes about her routine, eventually breakfasting with her grandparents. The banality of the situation is subverted by a ratcheting sense of dread as we discover that Jessica's increasingly nightmarish house -- where the inside seems bigger than the outside, like Snoopy's doghouse -- is filled with creatures around every corner: some whimsical, some sexual, some despairing, and some malevolent. Most terrifying of all is Jessica's father. Will she even get to open the presents under the Christmas tree? Taking place over a single Christmas Day, Jessica Farm is a career-spanning comics project in which Simmons has been drawing one page every month for the past 24 years, starting in January 2000. This is a horror-fantasy-psychodrama that will appeal to fans of Charles Burns, David Cronenberg, and Dario Argento.\"-- Review Quotes : Simmons's cartooning is frantic, dark and often furious and there's the obvious interest in seeing how it evolves given that every few pages represent months of work. Obviously Jessica Farm needs a different application of criteria to judge it critically because this is perhaps the ultimate experiment in comics construction. To a large degree the how, the who and the what of Jessica Farm is unimportant. But the experience... well the experience of reading it is everything.-- \"Broken Frontier\" Publisher Marketing : Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland , Jessica Farm opens with an exterior of what could be any Midwestern farmhouse. Once inside, we track our titular heroine (she is a person, not a place) as she bounds out of bed on Christmas morning and goes about her routine, eventually breakfasting with her grandparents. The banality of the situation is subverted by a ratcheting sense of dread as we discover that Jessica's increasingly nightmarish house -- where the inside seems bigger than the outside, like Snoopy's doghouse -- is filled with creatures around every corner: some whimsical, some sexual, some despairing, and some malevolent. Most terrifying of all is Jessica's father. Will she even get to open the presents under the Christmas tree?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024-10-29\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489681625219,"sku":"9781683969938","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9781683969938.jpg?v=1770343415","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9781683969938","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}