“If I wasn’t a cartoonist, I’d probably be a farmer,” Jesse Jacobs, a thirty-two-year-old cartoonist who works on the animated series ‘Adventure Time’ and who lives near Toronto, Canada, says. Jacobs’s new book of comics, ‘Safari Honeymoon,’ has recently been published by Koyama Press:

Join a pair of young newlyweds as they descend deep into a mysterious forest, encountering unknown creatures and unimaginable landscapes. Amongst the unusual flora and fauna, they discover within themselves something more strange and terrible than any sight their safari has to offer. Safari Honeymoon is a tale of jungle love and jungle madness.

‘Safari Honeymoon’ by Jesse Jacobs, is a ‘psychedelic sojourn’ and truly odd. The book takes above-ground realities and underwater worlds and combines them into a mind-boggling unit in which we loosely follow two lovers through their encounters with weird creatures and their own perception of reality.

Jesse Jacobs: “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.”