It's Graphic Time! Ice Cream Man Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles by W. Maxwell Prince

Title: Ice Cream Man Vol 1: Rainbow Sprinkles

Author:  W. Maxwell Price
Publisher: Image Comics
Publishing Date:  June 26th, 2018

Pages: 144
Genre: Horror Graphic Novel  Anthology

Series:  Ice Cream Man #1 (issues 1-4)

 

Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musical fantasy...there’s a flavor for everyone’s misery.

ICE CREAM MAN is a genre-defying comic book series, featuring disparate “one-shot” tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features 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.

I was very excited for this graphic novel. I mean look at that cover. So appealing. So beautiful. I love the artwork. I enjoyed the stories. It was different than what I have read in the past but I liked it. 

The Ice Cream Man graphic novel is a book of short stories with the Ice Cream Man in the center righting wrongs in a sense. The stories are of evil does and unfortunate events and he is there to change the stories. 

So the artwork in this graphic novel are so beautiful. I love the artwork. It was drew me to the books and it is a very important part of graphic novels. The colors are soft but vibrant, the entire scene has a very vintage nostalgic feel to it, and it's also a little creepy... which tells the story oh so well. I just love the art. 

Each story in the book is a little different but they were all pretty interesting. I found there were two that I really enjoyed..  One was about a boy and his poisonous spider and a monster. It was kind of strange but I liked it. The other one was one with drug addicts and criminals that I thought was good too. All of them are a little strange and the Ice Cream Man tries his best to have the strange and disturbing stories have a somewhat good but maybe earned ending. 

Each story was short, fast paced, and kept my interest. I didn't think that this graphic novel would be as strange as it was, so I was a little surprised and I think that effected my rating a bit. But I will continue with the story. I am excited to see where it goes. 

Beautiful artwork, strange and creepy stories, very interesting. I liked it.

 
Author: W. Maxwell Prince writes in Brooklyn and lives with his wife, daughter, and two cats called Mischief and Mayhem. He is the author of ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY (Image), The Electric Sublime (IDW), and Judas: The Last Days (ibid). When not writing, he tries to render all of human experience in chart form.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Illustrator: Argentinian artist Martín Morazzo made his major American comics debut with the 2012 environmental sci-fi saga, Great Pacific, the first Image Comics series he co-created with Joe Harris.
Martín has since co-created Snowfall, a sci-fi epic, again with Joe Harris and Image Comics, and the stylish crime adventure series, The Electric Sublime, with writer W. Maxwell Prince at IDW Publishing. A talent on the rise, his art has recently appeared in Marvel Comics’ Nighthawk, Elektra and Occupy Avengers along with Vertigo’s Cyan anthology.
Ice Cream Man, a new collaboration with W. Maxwell Prince, is being published by Image Comics.
She Could Fly, a miniseries with writer Christopher Cantwell –co-creator and showrunner of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire– and editor Karen Berger, is also being published by Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics.
Martín lives in Buenos Aires. When he isn’t absolutely consumed with drawing and comics deadlines, he likes to spend time with his lovely wife, Victoria, and his daughters, Nina and Lupe.