by Josh Simmons In the thick of a dense wood, a young man comes upon a decrepit house and two teen-aged girls. Deciding to explore the abandoned house together, Simmons captures the aloof ennui and deep curiosity of being a teenager. The trio quickly become entangled in a love triangle that is as tense and ominous as the house itself. This adventurous, silent graphic novel demonstrates the solid strength of this young cartoonist and his storytelling ability. House is Josh Simmons' first full-length graphic novel after years of honing his craft on the humorous, underground mini-comic series Happy, and it is a visual and formal tour de force that proclaims Simmons a major cartooning talent of the new century!

House

Simmons, Josh

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantagraphics Books

by Josh Simmons Hot on the heels of his first graphic novel, House, Simmon's Jessica Farm fuses serialized adventure, fantasy, and psychological horror and stamps it with his signature macabre sensibility in his atmospheric new graphic novel. 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 the titular heroine 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 is filled with creatures around every corner - some whimsical, some sexual, some despairing, and some malevolent.

Jessica Farm

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

The Furry Trap contains 11 short stories, varying in length from one to 30 pages. From the title creatures in “Night of the Jibblers,” to the witches and ogres of “Cockbone,” to the Godzilla-sized, centaur-bodied depiction of the title character in “Jesus Christ,” to the disarmingly cute-yet-terrifying demons of “Demonwood,” to the depraved, caped crusading antihero in “Mark of the Bat,” Simmons is a master of creating terrifying beasties that inspire and inflict nightmarish horrors, usually taken to unforgettable extremes. The individual stories in The Furry Trap stand on their own as mini-masterpieces of skin-crawling terror, but collectively complement each other in a way that only heightens the anxiety and dread pouring from page to page. Just remember: You’ve been warned.

The Furry Trap

Josh Simmons returns with his first full-length graphic novel since 2007’s acclaimed House. A group of women, one man, and two dogs are making their way through a post-apocalyptic world in search of a city that supposedly still has electricity and some sort of civilization. Along the way, they go to a comedy club, take a drug called Gumdrop, and encounter gangs of men who are either fools, lunatics, or murderous sadists. In other words, all manner of terrors. Josh Simmons is one of the field’s most distinctive voices in the horror genre (The Furry Trap, House), and this full-length graphic novel is his best work yet, echoing director John Carpenter’s perfect tick-tock pacing, as well as Shirley Jackson’s ability to transcend genre and turn it into literature.

Black River

Jessica Farm fuses serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror and stamps it with Josh Simmon’s signature macabre sensibility. 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 as she bounds out of bed on Christmas and goes about her morning 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 is filled with creatures around every corner: some whimsical, some sexual, some despairing and some malevolent. Most terrifying of all is Jessica’s father, whose promise of presents under the tree is loaded with the threat of violence.

Jessica Farm Book 1 (JESSICA FARM GN)

Jessica Farm fuses serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror and stamps it with Josh Simmon’s signature macabre sensibility. In Book 2, our heroes come upon the Groovy Room, where the atmosphere is different and if you configure your mind just right, you can hover in the air. Jessica Farm is an ambitious experiment in worldbuilding as conceived by Simmons. This book is the first volume of a life-spanning comics project in which he drew one page every month for the past 16 years, starting in January 2000―and will continue this project for 50 years in total, releasing 96-page increments every 8 years until he amasses a 600-page body of work.

Jessica Farm Book 2 (JESSICA FARM GN)

Flayed Corpse and Other Stories contains more than two dozen of examples of Simmons’s deft voice and vision. The individual stories in Flayed Corpse stand on their own as minimasterpieces of skin-crawling terror, but collectively complement each other in a way that only heightens the anxiety and dread pouring from page to page. Flayed Corpse also collects several collaborations between Simmons and other cartoonists, including James Romberger, Anders Nilsen, Tara Booth, Eroyn Franklin, Tom Van Deusen, and Eric Reynolds, amongst others.

Flayed Corpse And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 22)

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.

Fantagraphics

Optic City, the 1980s. A frightened orphan, a city on fire, and a glimmer of light spraying from the switchblade of a golden warrior emerging from a legion of scum. Time and space itself will melt around you as you ingest the superhero crossover event of the century in Season 2 of Samuel and Josh Bayer’s All Time Comics universe: ZEROSIS DEATHSCAPE.
The heroes: Justice, Crime Destroyer, Bullwhip, Atlas!
The villains: DLST Killer, Rain God, Beggar, Zerosis!
And who are Red Maniac and Time Vampire Scientist? Where do their loyalties lie? Who is this strange alien on a faraway planet a trillion dimensions, light years and time zones removed from our own? What is this power cube of mysterious origin, containing power of infinite magnitude? What is Atlas’s friend Toby Whey doing, exactly?
Cartoonists Josh Bayer (Theth, Suspect Device) and Josh Simmons (Black River, Flayed Corpse) team up with bronze age legend Trevor Von Eeden (co-creator of Black Lightning!). Includes contributions from Gabrielle Bell, Ken Landgraf, Julia Gfrorer, Benjamin Marra and Thomas Toye, and brain-scalding colors by Dan Lee.

All Time Comics Zerosis Deathscape

Bayer, Josh

Floating World Comics

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House

Jessica Farm

The Furry Trap

Black River

Jessica Farm Book 1 (JESSICA FARM GN)

Jessica Farm Book 2 (JESSICA FARM GN)

Flayed Corpse And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 22)

Jessica Farm

All Time Comics Zerosis Deathscape