Swan Songs

W. MAXWELL PRINCE (ICE CREAM MAN) continues to push the comics envelope with SWAN SONGS—a moving, multi-artist anthology that explores the way things END…and also how they never really do.The End of the World. The End of a Marriage. The End of Eden. The End of a Sentence. The End of Anhedonia. …even The End of the Sidewalk! And along for the terminal ride are some of the industry’s best, brightest artists! Martin Simmonds (DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH), Caspar Wijngaard (HOMESICK PILOTS), Filipe Andrade (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr), Caitlin Yarsky (Black Hammer), Alex Eckman-Lawn (renowned collage master), and Martín Morazzo (ICE CREAM MAN) each contribute a chapter in their respective (and beloved) styles, resulting in a stunning melange of powerful stories that weave their way through death, love, divorce, crime, therapy, and language itself. All things come to a close; these are the SWAN SONGS. Collects SWAN SONGS #1-6

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"It’s a panoramic showcase of contemporary comics art and proof of the flexibility of the form."

About the 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.Martin Simmonds is a comic artist, and co-creator of Dying is Easy (with Joe Hill) for IDW, Punks Not Dead (with David Barnett) for Black Crown, and Friendo (with Alex Paknadel) for Vault Comics.He is also a contributing artist to Marvel’s The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett, and series cover artist for Marvel’s Quicksilver: No Surrender, and Jessica Jones.Martin currently lives in Surrey, UK with his partner and their two year old son.Caspar Wijngaard is an award winning comic artist from the U.K. He is Co-Creator of the IMAGE series HOME SICK PILOTS, ALL AGAINST ALL, LIMBO and ANGELIC and has worked on titles such as Marvel Star Wars, Batman Detective Comics and DC's Knight.

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