“If I wasn’t a cartoonist, I’d probably be a farmer,” Jesse Jacobs, a thirty-two-year-old cartoonist who lives near Toronto, Canada, says. Jacobs’s new book of comics, “Safari Honeymoon,” is about to be published by Koyama Press.
“I have a day job; it’s part-time. I work at an organic food co-op. There’s a lot of driving on country roads, going to farms, and picking up things to bring them other places. When I come up with a basic idea—it usually starts with an image in my sketchbook—I’ll develop the story very loosely, to keep the freedom to include any sort of wild imagery I can muster up and draw. In the new book, two people are on a safari in a weird landscape, and anything can happen, and does. In comics, it can be daunting when you come up with ideas and then you have to draw them—so I try to keep the story loose and let it develop so it’s fun for me to draw, or else I’ll never finish a book.”
See below for a few pages from “Safari Honeymoon.” Click the red arrows to expand:
© 2014 Jesse Jacobs, used with permission by Koyama Press.
