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Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Dr. Seuss Parody Edition

Phil Hester author W Maxwell Prince author Joshua Hale Fialkov author Phil Smith editor Filip Sablik editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Image Comics

Published:8th Mar '22

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Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Dr. Seuss Parody Edition cover

Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musicalfantasy...there’s a flavor for everyone’s misery.

ICE CREAMMAN is a genre-defying comic book series, featuring disparate“one-shot” tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installmentfeatures its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own specialsundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly musicof his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man—a weaver of stories, apurveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who with a snap ofhis fingers—lickety split!—can change the course of your lifeforever.

Written by W. MAXWELL PRINCE (ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY), with artby MARTíN MORAZZO (SNOWFALL, GREAT PACIFIC).

Collects issues1-4.

"This series is an achievement in design and imagination, and it isincredibly good." -The Oregonian

"This series is an achievement in design and imagination, and it isincredibly good." -The Oregonian

"Prince is a master at clean, sharp dialogue, filled with dry humor and aheavy dose of existential dread." -Rogues Portal

"Prince is a master at clean, sharp dialogue, filled with dry humor and aheavy dose of existential dread." -Rogues Portal

"ICE CREAM MAN is an ever-smiling, ghoulishly jolly thing."-DoomRocket

"ICE CREAM MAN is an ever-smiling, ghoulishly jolly thing."-DoomRocket

"Prince's work ups the ante with a precisely-crafted page-turner, sportingcrisp line work by Morazzo and the dreamlike colors of O'Halloran."-PublishersWeekly

"Prince's work ups the ante with a precisely-crafted page-turner, sportingcrisp line work by Morazzo and the dreamlike colors of O'Halloran."-PublishersWeekly

"Penciler Martin Morazzo has an evocatively brittle approach to line workand a talent for upsetting facial expressions, and colorist Chris O'Halloraninfuses everything with block colors that, like the ice cream, seems simple butcontains much sinister import."-Vulture

"Penciler Martin Morazzo has an evocatively brittle approach to line workand a talent for upsetting facial expressions, and colorist Chris O'Halloraninfuses everything with block colors that, like the ice cream, seems simple butcontains much sinister import."-Vulture

ISBN: 9781534322745

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 286g

144 pages