Jessica Farm Book

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.

Graphic Novel. Recommended reading ages 16+. Published by Fantagraphics.