Crawl Space

Crawl Space

<div><p>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?</p><p><B>Jesse Jacobs </B> was born in Moncton, NB, and now draws comics and things from his home in Hamilton, ON. In 2009, his books <I>Small Victories</I> and <I>Blue Winter</I> 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. <I>Even the Giants</I> (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 <I>The Best American Comics</I> edited by Françoise Mouly and published Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He made his debut with Koyama Press in 2012 with the psychedelic creation myth <I>By This Shall You Know Him</I>, which was followed by the trippy take on nature versus nurture, <I>Safari Honeymoon</I> in 2014.</p></div>