A Panel Shaped Screen is a monthly column where Giada Zavarise explores how comics and videogames inspire each other. This time, Giada talked to award-winning cartoonist Jesse Jacobs about Spinch, the colorful platformer he’s working on with Queen Bee Games.
Jesse Jacobs is famous, but you’ve may have never heard of him. That’s because he’s not a game developer, but an award-winner comics author known for his intricate, colourful art style. Go read his comics, if you want to dazzle your eyes. Read Safari Honeymoon, about two newlyweds exploring a dense jungle full of weird creatures. Or read Crawl Space, about a troubled teenager who discovers a portal to a new dimension hidden inside a washing machine. Jacobs’ pages are absolutely bursting with stuff, like a defanged, cuter version of the impossible geometric spaces described by Lovecraft in his works.
Now, though, Jesse Jacobs is working on a game: a psychedelic, hard-as-nails platformer called Spinch.