🍦 GET A TASTE OF THE FLAVORS IN THE ALL-STAR ICE CREAM MAN #43 🍦

This January, the iconic Ice Cream Man creators W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran will be joined by an all-star lineup of creators contributing their own flavors to the cheeky critically-acclaimed anthology horror series for the all-star Ice Cream Man #43, composed of one-page tales of terror. Some of the biggest names in comics, including Grant Morrison, Patton Oswalt, Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Jeff Lemire, Geoff Johns, Deniz Camp, and Frank Barbiere have crafted their own original stories for the jam-packed edition full of goodies. Ice Cream Man #43 will also feature Zoe Thorogood’s short story “For James,” and the issue is dedicated to her brother, with partial proceeds from sales of the issue going to charity on his behalf. And now fans can get an early taste of the comic with a look at the table of contents—with the terrifying titles revealed—as well as the full “Baby Grand Piano” story written by Prince, and panels from Grant Morrison’s “Hell Freezes” and Matt Fraction’s “Life by Misadventure” stories, all featuring at by Morazzo and O’Halloran.

“Ice Cream Man #43 came out cooler than I could have ever imagined. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a collection of creators of this caliber in one place before—some of the best of all time!” said Prince. “We’ve got TWO Grant Morrison stories, and ones from Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Geoff Johns, Jeff Lemire, Zoe Thorogood, Deniz Camp, Frank Barbiere, and many more. And we’ll even have a horror story from one of the funniest people on Earth: Patton Oswalt. Though don’t be fooled—his one-pager is terrifying. Your Ice Cream Man truck drivers, artists Martín Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran, and myself, are so stoked that these legends said ‘yes’ to playing in our ice cream world. The result is, I think, one of the most special issues of comics I’ve ever beheld.”

The Ice Cream Man anthology series, led by mysterious horror host Rick, is a genre-defying comic book series featuring short tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption, with each installment featuring 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. Ice Cream Man has rippled through the comic book scene since its debut in 2018 and recently was scooped up for the big screen by veteran writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Wednesday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice).

Ice Cream Man #43 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 29 (FOC January 6):

Cover A by Martín Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran (Lunar code 1124IM255)
Cover B by Maria Llovet (Lunar code 1124IM256)

Ice Cream Man #43 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

The most recent collected edition of the series, Ice Cream Man Vol. 10, now available in trade paperback format, takes some daffy deviations in storytelling: an Apocalypse Now full of Figglybumps; a whole town of Gary; and a 2-part decompression about decompression and compression and certain impressions those things tend to make. That familiar music is coming from around the corner…get your wallet ready! Featuring a cover by Morazzo and Prince, this volume (ISBN: 9781534397286, Lunar Code 0524IM265) is available at local comic book shops, as well as independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones, and digitally.

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