Art is anything you can get away with destroy it all. Welcome to THE ELECTRIC SUBLIME - where art history, madness, and expression meet in a Pollock-splatter of thrilling crime adventure! When a mysterious change in the composition of a famous painting begins poisoning the minds of its spectators, Margot Breslin-director of the Bureau of Artistic Integrity-must pull famed art detective Arthur Brut out of a mental institution and back into the insanity that sent him there in the first place.
Ice Cream Man writer W. Maxwell Prince brings his signature style of oneshot storytelling to the world of clowns-and he's invited some of the best artists in comics to join him for the ride.HAHA is a genre-jumping, throat-lumping look at the sad, scary, hilarious life of those who get paid to play the fool-but these ain't your typical jokers. With chapters drawn by Vanesa Del Rey (Redlands), Gabriel Walta (Vision), Roger Langridge (Thor), and more, Haha peeks under the big top, over the rainbow, and even inside a balloon to tell a wide-ranging slew of stories about "funny" men and women, proving that some things are so sad you just have to laugh. Collects Haha #1-6.
The Morphometasis. This is like that famous story, but the other way around.
THE BOOK OF NECESSARY MONSTERS Herewith a bestiary of creatures unavoidable, ineluctable, and everlasting.
Flight of the Figglybumps (Death of a Cartoonist) They're cute, they're cuddly, and they're caught up in a conflagration of candy cannons and cartoony combat! But who are the Figglybumps? And what happened to their creator? The hit horror-adjacent anthology is back-and sadder than ever.
Celebrating our 25th "anniversary" issue with a special bonus story. It's the perfect jumping-on point to the book CBR called "Image's most unpredictable horror series." Good afternoon, folks. This is your captain speaking. I'd like to welcome everyone aboard ICM Flight 25. We're currently cruising at an altitude of 33,000 feet, at an airspeed of about 400 miles per hour. The time is 1:25 p.m. The weather looks pretty good, and with the tailwind on our side, we're expecting to violently nosedive into the ground approximately 15 minutes ahead of schedule.
The Etymologist Rises. The term comic book is an etymologically confusing one, as they (the comics) are most often not humorous, nor are they in the traditional sense books.
THE KIND OF STORY I WANT TO WRITE There's the kind of story I want to write-and then there's this story.
ESCAPE FROM GARYLAND There seems to be something wrong with Gary No. 38
RECOVERY Doug's gonna try real hard to get and stay sober.
TWO TRAMPS These two men ride the rails, sleep under bridges, scavenge for scraps, and love each other deeply.
Celebrating our 25th anniversary issue with a special bonus story. It's the perfect jumping-on point to the book CBR called Image's most unpredictable horror series. Good afternoon, folks. This is your captain speaking. I'd like to welcome everyone aboard ICM Flight 25. We're currently cruising at an altitude of 33,000 feet, at an airspeed of about 400 miles per hour. The time is 1:25 p.m. The weather looks pretty good, and with the tailwind on our side, we're expecting to violently nosedive into the ground approximately 15 minutes ahead of schedule.
The most critically acclaimed comic of the last five years introduces its second helping of deluxed-ness: THE SUNDAE EDITION, VOL. 2! Collecting another 12 issues (plus some more) of the bestselling anthology comic ICE CREAM MAN, this oversized hardcover features standalone stories that manage to push the boundaries of the comics medium while also telling emotionally compelling yarns. From a comic that's a perfect palindrome (it can be read first-to-last panel, or last-to-first), to an experiment with crossword puzzles, to an instruction manual for how to be a ghost, to a live telethon for a VERY sick Jerry-there's still something here for readers of every stripe. The Ice Cream Man is back in towncare for a treat? Collects ICE CREAM MAN #13-24, HAHA #6, and ICE CREAM MAN QUARANTINE COMIX SPECIAL
Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musical fantasythere's a flavor for everyone's misery. Ice Cream Man is a genre-defying comic book series, featuring disparate one-shot tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly music of his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man-a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who, with a snap of his fingers-lickety split!-can change the course of your life forever. Written by W. Maxwell Prince (One Week In The Library), with art by Martín Morazzo (Snowfall, Great Pacific). Collects Ice Cream Man #1-4.
The critically acclaimed series of not-so-sweet singular stories continues with four more tales of woe and wonder. Here: the ballad of a falling man; a three-flavored silent meditation; a young girl's quest with her dead best friend; a potpourri of suburban emergencies. Plus: more is revealed about the mischievous Ice Cream Man and his history with the dark cowboy, Caleb. Collects Ice Cream Man #5-8.
Ice Cream Man continues with four more strange, sad stories. Plus: more is revealed about the mischievous Ice Cream Man and his history with the dark cowboy, Caleb. Collects Ice Cream Man #9-12.
The critically acclaimed horror anthology drives back into town, offering four new stories that zoom in on folks who are just barely scraping by-and willing to do anything to change that. Collects Ice Cream Man #13-16.
Here comes the Ice Cream Man for another helping of bitter sweets: four more cavity-inducing stories of suffering and surviving-with unlimited sundae toppings. Just try not to rot your teeth on these sickly sequential morsels, which, if you're not careful, could lodge themselves under the gums, deep into the roots, far beyond the reach of even the best dentist. Now, open wide Collects Ice Cream Man #21-24.
ICE CREAM MAN-the critically acclaimed, bestselling anthological comic book series-continues here with four more unfortunate, enervating episodes of descent: a plane falls from the sky; a man climbs to the bottom of his family tree; Oscar's blood pressure dips below 90/60! It's a compendium of comedowns carefully calibrated for curious and crestfallen content consumersàso come join us below. Collects ICE CREAM MAN #25-28
Open wide for four more scoops of the bestselling, critically acclaimed psycho-horror comic ICE CREAM MAN. Here, bound with medium-grade paper glue, are four tales of objective subjectivity: a man's last wishes are carried out; a controlled experiment loses all control; a cosmic scale is balanced (in verse!); Doug tries his darndest to get clean. It's another assemblage of anguish and ennui for the anthologically inclined art appreciator. Lickety split, y'all! Collects ICE CREAM MAN #29-32.
Two thousand years after he betrayed Messiah, Judas Iscariot is still alive, wandering a world he doesn't recognize. A world where the strangest of fictions have come true: monsters, immortals, gnome-librarians who monitor human history-they're all real. And all Judas wants to do is kill himself. So why can't he? The most transcendent story of the year begins in this all-new original graphic novel chronicling history's preeminent backstabber and his quest for suicide.
Welcome to the Library. It's here that every story ever written is catalogued and monitored by a single man, who's begun to notice something strange: the books are rebelling. ? Image Comics proudly presents this experimental graphic novella from writer W. MAXWELL PRINCE and artist JOHN AMOR, which recounts a troublesome week in the Library via seven short stories-one for each day-that use comics, infographics, prose, and poetry to play with the graphic medium and explore the multivalent world of living narrative.
THE END OF ANHEDONIA Via therapeutic hypnosis, a man travels through his subconscious to try to find his inner child-and a way to be happy again. A comic that doesn't look like any other comic ever made, this issue is done in full collage art by the spectacular ALEX ECKMAN-LAWN-a veritable dream in four colors. The end is almost here; this is just one of many SWAN SONGS.
MINISERIES FINALE THE END OF THE SIDEWALK. The end of the end of the series about endings. Here, the team behind ICE CREAM MAN creates something only they could-a dark, morose take on a beloved book of children's poems. It's an ICE CREAM MAN CROSSOVER; a parodic play with near-perfect rhyme scheme; the terminal issue of a bunch ofterminal issues. The end is here; we hope you enjoy our swan song.
THE END OF A SENTENCE. A man obsessed with Sad Libs gets out of prison, only to find himself totally lost in a world of crime and fill-in vocabulary. W. MAXWELL PRINCE's obsession with cessation continues, featuring this issue's superstar artist: CAITLIN YARSKY (Black Hammer)! The end is the beginning is the end; these are the SWAN SONGS.
