Back in the hazy days of summer (well a month ago) a mysterious ice cream themed Grant Morrison image was floating around, and it turns out speculation about its arcane meaning was correct: He is coming to the pages of Ice Cream Man.
And they’ve brought friends. Morrison joins Ice Cream Man creators W. Maxwell Prince (Art Brut, Swan Songs, Haha), and artists Martín Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran along with Patton Oswalt, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, Jeff Lemire, Geoff Johns, Zoe Thorogood, Deniz Camp, and Frank Barbiere. These worthies will contribute one-page horror stories with art by Morazzo and O’Halloran.
The special anthology issue #43 hits stores in January 2025.
In the Ice Cream Man anthology series, mysterious horror host, Rick, delivers morsels of delicious terror in every flavor. The genre-defying comic book series features 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.
“How lucky are we? That some of comics’ most beloved writers agreed (or one may say were tricked) into contributing to our issue of one-page horror stories,” said Prince. “Our MO has always been compression—getting a full story to fit one floppy. But this is a whole new level, and a whole new challenge. We hope that you like our little stories, and hope even more that you appreciate our guests and their amazing brains.”
The eerie confection known as Ice Cream Man has become a cult fave among readers and screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Wednesday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) are currently working on a film adaptation. And if you like your ice cream in a larger size, the Volume 10 collection comes out in November, including: 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.
Ice Cream Man #43 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 15:
- Cover A by Martín Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran
