Picture a dream you’ve had that wasn’t a straight-up nightmare, but was terrifying. Now place that dream in the context of childhood’s special bewilderment– the type of uneasiness that hooks itself into our pre-adolescent lives like a parasite. I’m talking about weird foods and growling dogs, the uncertain authority of family friends and foreign cartoons swirling about in a sinister haze. Couple all that clammy awkwardness with the distinctly creepy fantasies of the Scandinavian sub-conscious, and you’ve got something close to what The Bun Field is.
Following a young girl through an interior world of rumbling chaos, Amanda Vahamaki’s concise comic book depicts the palpitating psyche of a worried child with breathtakingly naturalistic charm. For pondering all the pernicious phantasms that haunt our heroine’s world, we’re rewarded with flashes of tender humor, like a scene in which the young girl argues with a small bear about which of them is better qualified to operate a vehicle.
Check out a PDF preview of the book here. Oh, and Amazon is currently selling it for $1.94, so you would be foolish not to add a copy to your cart!
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