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.

One Week in the Library

Comics & Graphic Novels

Prince, W. Maxwell

Graphic Novels

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Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musical fantasy...there’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 issues 1-4.

Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles

Paste Magazine’s 25 Best Comic Books of 2018 This critically acclaimed series of not-so-sweet singular stories continues with four more tales of woe, redemption, and unlimited toppings. Collects ICE CREAM MAN #5-8

Ice Cream Man Volume 2: Strange Neapolitan

Ice Cream Man continues with four more strange and sad one-shot 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

Ice Cream Man Volume 3: Hopscotch Melange

Ice Cream Man Vol. 2: Strange Neopolitan

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<div>The critically acclaimed horror anthology drives backinto town, offering four new stories that zoom in on folks who are just barelyscraping by--and willing to do anything to change that. Collects ICE CREAM MAN#13-16 </div>

Ice Cream Man Volume 4: Tiny Lives (Ice Cream Man, 4)

Sample eight of the hottest new comic book series on the market with this shelf-busting sampler of #1 issues collected together for only $5.99! Lush fantasy worldbuilding, characters that leap from the page, and plot-twisting mysteries unfold in these first chapters to stories created by today’s top talent in comics. Included are: IMAGE FIRSTS: ICE CREAM MAN #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: CRIMINAL #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: COPRA #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: OBLIVION SONG BY KIRKMAN &amp; DE FELICI #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: GIDEON FALLS #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: ISOLA #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: TREES #1 IMAGE FIRSTS: UNNATURAL #1

Image Firsts Compendium Volume 3 (Image Firsts Compendium, 3)

Ellis, Warren

KIRKMAN, ROBERT

Lemire, Jeff

Brubaker, Ed

Fiffe, Michel

Fletcher, Brenden

Andolfo, Mirka

<div>See here four more strange and sad stories of thecritically lauded horror-adjacent anthology series, ICE CREAM MAN. Seehere a tetrad of atypical tales: a suppurating superhero satire; a lamentationof lost memory; a field guide for being a ghost; a rotten retelling of yourfavorite children's stories. See here some other confections, too. See here,see here! Collects ICE CREAM MAN#17-20 </div>

Ice Cream Man Volume 5: Other Confections

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...\nCollects ICE CREAM MAN #21-24

Ice Cream Man, Volume 6: Just Desserts (Ice Cream Man, 6)

Product Description \nICE CREAM MAN writer W. MAXWELL PRINCE brings his signature style of one-shot storytelling to the world of clowns―and he’s invited SOME OF COMIC’S BEST ARTISTS to join him for the ride.\nHAHA 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.\nWith 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.\nCollects HAHA #1-6\nReview 
"Full of pathos, pitch perfect art, and literary maturity, this story has the markings of a true classic."- 
Multiversity Comics\n"While 
HAHA treads deeply into clown-fueled misery... Cover-to-cover this is a comic of broken dreams with sinister undertones all behind a veneer of cheap make-up; that narrative spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down."- 
Comic Book Resources\n"While the initial premise might mirror iconic trajectories, readers will surely be won over by what looks to be a more nuanced and sophisticated exploration of Bartleby's desperation that won't have to rely on gimmicks or gags to delight its audience."- 
ComicBook.com\nReview \n“Full of pathos, pitch perfect art, and literary maturity, this story has the markings of a true classic.”-Multiversity Comics\n“While the initial premise might mirror iconic trajectories, readers will surely be won over by what looks to be a more nuanced and sophisticated exploration of Bartleby's desperation that won't have to rely on gimmicks or gags to delight its audience.”-ComicBook.com\n“While HAHA treads deeply into clown-fueled misery... Cover-to-cover this is a comic of broken dreams with sinister undertones all behind a veneer of cheap make-up; that narrative spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.”-Comic Book Resources

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