Ice Haven - Softcover

Clowes, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375714693 ISBN 13: 9780375714696

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 2000

Synopsis

At long last, the paperback version of Daniel Clowes's bril-liant graphic novel, hailed by Time as "another of his hilari-ously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live."

Welcome to Ice Haven! "It's not as cold here as it sounds," declares Random Wilder, our reluctant guide to this sleepy Midwestern town. He's also its would-be poet laureate. Would-be, that is, were it not for the "florid banalities" of his archrival, Ida Wentz, pub-lished ad nauseam in the Ice Haven Daily Progress. Among Wilder's other fellow Ice Havians are the love-lorn Violet Vanderplazt and Vida Wentz; the adorable interracial moppets Carmichael and Paula; the Blue Bunny, newly sprung from prison and the bitterest rabbit in town; and poor little David Goldberg, miss-ing for more than a week now. . . .

The lives of the men and women of Ice Haven are woven into a multilayered tale that, while it owes a debt to Our Town, is ultimately based on and inspired by . . . Leopold and Loeb. No kidding.

Only Daniel Clowes could do it and, luckily for us, he has.

About this title

Review:

"Don't be surprised if Ice Haven becomes your favorite comic long before you've solved its many mysteries."
--The Washington Post

Book Description:

A ground-breaking story that takes the form where it's never gone before.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375714693
• ISBN 13: 9780375714696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 89