Ice Haven

Author: Daniel Clowes

Welcome to Ice Haven! ‘It’s not as cold here as it sounds.’ So declares Random Wilder, the town’s would-be poet laureate. Would be, that is, were it not for the ‘florid banalities’ of arch-rival poet Ida Wentz, whom the Ice Haven Daily Progress continues to publish ‘ad nauseam’. Random is our ersatz guide to the sleepy midwestern hamlet, and just one of many characters we….Read More

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