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Ice Haven
by Daniel Clowes


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Ghost World

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The author of "Ghost World" returns with a new graphic novel set in the suburban Midwest, with a story loosely based on the infamous Leopold and Loeb case.

Pantheon, 88 pages
06/07/2005
$18.95

ISBN: 037542332X

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Comics & Graphic Novels

All reviews are classified as one of five grades: Outstanding (4 points), Favorable (3), Mixed (2), Unfavorable (1) and Terrible (0). To calculate the Metascore, we divide total points achieved by the total points possible (i.e., 4 x the number of reviews), with the resulting percentage (multiplied by 100) being the Metascore. Learn more...

Daily Telegraph Sam Leith

This is, I think, a very considerable piece of work indeed.

Entertainment Weekly Whitney Pastorek

[Clowes] has done his usual meticulous job of nailing character, tone, and inner monologue.

Publishers Weekly

Masterfully blending fact and fiction, this is a funny, sad, chilling and absurd work. [20 Jun 2005, p.60]

Washington Post Joey Anuff

Don't be surprised if Ice Haven becomes your favorite comic long before you've solved its many mysteries.

PopMatters Mike Lukich

Ice Haven is one of Clowes' best and perhaps his most accessible story to date.

The Observer David Thompson

For those who still think of comics as a juvenile genre or modish diversion, Ice Haven should confound expectations and reveal a medium rich in possibilities.

Village Voice R.C. Baker

Clowes's spare drawing complements deft storytelling.

Flak James Norton

"Ice Haven"... [has] enough smart writing, memorable characters and irresistable hooks to be well worth the effort.

Los Angeles Times Laurel Maury

With Clowes, you don't read about people's emotional states, you gather them, as in life. [26 Jun 2005, p.R9]

Boston Globe Carlo Wolff

Image and word coexist in an unusually creative and disturbing way in this portrait of a place where deviance bubbles just below the placid surface.

The average user rating for this book is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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jason j gave it a10:
This is a great graphic novel. Up there with Ghost World.

keith t gave it a9:
Surprisingly effective, but disturbingly disassociative, as is most of Clowes work. Have to read carefully to solve the central mystery.

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Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes

Ice Haven
by Daniel Clowes