Ice Haven

Thu, Jul 28, 2005

Comics and cartoons

Since the Most Excellent Dan Clowes, creator of (among others) Ghost World is being featured in today’s Guardian newspaper (which reports he is working on a movie adaptation of Art School Confidential) this would seem to be an opportune moment to let you all know that his latest collection is now in stock.

Ice Haven is a little microcosm, full of different characters in the unfortunately named town (meant, we are told by one character, a would-be poet, to make us think of winter wonderlands but instead it drives people off by suggesting barren, freezing conditions), ranging from kids, through love-struck teens to dysfunctional adults – and not forgetting a blue rabbit, fresh from a stay in the grey-bar hotel.

As ever with Clowes’ material there is a satisfying mixture of the ordinary, everyday thoughts and feelings anyone can identify with alongside the somewhat odder (which somehow many of us can still identify with!). It’s a very neat, little hardback edition from Cape and you really do need to take a look.

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