W. Maxwell Prince on Ice Cream Man | Creannotators #1

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On the “best of 2020 so far” podcast I released recently I called Ice Cream Man my favorite ongoing comic book, and I’m extremely excited today to welcome the book’s writer, W. Maxwell Prince.

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The Ice Cream Man creative team is:

Writing: W. Maxwell Prince
Art: Martin Morazzo
Colors: Chris O’Halloran
Letters: Good Old Neon
Designs: Ashley Walker
Publisher: Image Comics

I've been raving about the Image Comics horror anthology since it debuted in 2018, and as of the CBH best of 2020 so far list, I'd consider Ice Cream Man the best ongoing comic book of the year.

What absolutely sold me on Ice Cream Man, and has become exceedingly apparent throughout 2020, is that no comic matches the book's structural ambition on a month to month cadence. At this point, the absolute open-ended structure of the book is the most exciting aspect to me. There's a genuine thrill month in and month out about what each new episode might bring. In the span of the last 5 issues we've seen everything from a palindrome comic to a crossword puzzle comic to a satire of Morrison and Quitely's All Star Superman.

I ask Prince about these structural decisions, the book's genesis, why an Ice Cream Man, and a whole lot more in our nearly hour long conversation. Check it all out here!

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