Ice Cream Man, Image Comics‘ deliciously dark anthology series, is coming back for four new issues starting this summer — as well as a collected trade paperback edition later this year. And you can get your first look at the diabolical covers, below.
“Golly. I can’t believe we’ve been putting this book out for 7.5 years,” said writer W. Maxwell Prince via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “In comic time, I think that makes us officially geriatric. And so, speaking as a veritable sequential grandpa, I’ll tell you this: I still don’t quite understand how and why we have made it this far. I mean, I am so proud of the corpus of tales we’ve assembled; Ice Cream Man is the defining artistic project of my life. (And I think I can probably say the same for my co-creators).”
In July, you can snag Ice Cream Man #44, which “will center around a job performance review gone wrong.” Then coming up in issues #45, #46, and #47, you can look forward to — or rather, dread — a Rear Window homage, a tale of anti-aging chambers, and “a series of vintage medical ads that downplay some pretty shocking side effects.” In addition, the Ice Cream Man Volume 11 trade paperback will hit stores in September.
The book is written by Prince, alongside collaborators artist Martín Morazzo, colorist Chris O’Halloran, and letterer Good Old Neon. The book sort of follows the titular ice cream man, Rick, through a series of lightly connected dark stories reflecting the world outside our window. Ice Cream Man #39, “Decompression in a Wreck, Part One,” has been nominated for Best Single Issue/One-Shot for the 2025 Eisner Awards, which is pretty funny because it’s basically the only two-part story the series has ever done.
“It’s an absolute privilege to spin yarns about Rick the Ice Cream Man, his jingly-jangly truck, and, most importantly, everyday people fighting their way through the morass of adult life: grief, regret, addiction, divorce, overdue bills, sick family, sick self, the fall of democracy…it’s never-ending, that list,” Prince continued. “But I can still see that sliver of light breaking through…We somehow managed to make a ‘horror’ book that is, in fact, about human suffering, with slivers of light and hope streaked through the center of everything. Plus, we’ve gotten to perform some very wild comic-specific formal experiments: a silent, three-reality, and three-color issue; a story that’s an actual palindrome; a crossword puzzle; an instruction manual; a dark recreation of beloved children’s books; an advent calendar; a telethon; an issue that is one continuous image when read in landscape orientation.”
Added O’Halloran, “Ice Cream Man is the fulfilling, creative, challenging, cool, and ultimately fun series one can only dream of being a part of when having a comics career. Having a front row seat to the inventiveness of my collaborators’ hard work for almost 50 issues manages to keep me motivated and inspired with this art form, and just feel very lucky to have my name on this book and be its colorist.”
“Not sure what I can add to what Will and Chris already said, ’cause I feel exactly the same way they do, but I wanted to thank our readers, our fans!” said Morazzo. “It wouldn’t have been possible without you guys, and I’m sure I can speak for the rest of the team now, we’re forever grateful!”
“THANK YOU to everyone who has stuck with us for so long,” concluded Prince. “We’ve still got a lot of surprises in store for issues #44 and beyond, including the Ice Cream Man, Vol. 11 trade paperback! Eleven volumes to sadden your shelves, stack high as a doorstop, or if you’re in the mood, read entirely in one sitting. And this is to say nothing of our Ice Cream Man movie in development over at horror central, Sony Screen Gems, headed by Wednesday and Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, alongside our amazing producer Aaron Schmidt. Feel free to start your dreamcasting for Ice Cream Man RIGHT NOW.”
Check out the covers for Ice Cream Man, Volume 11, and Ice Cream Man #44-#47 below, and click for larger versions. Solicit text including release dates, via Image Comics, also pasted below.









Ice Cream Man #44 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 23 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is June 30):
- Cover A by Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran – Lunar Code 1224IM303
- Cover B by Declan Shalvey – Lunar Code 1224IM304
Ice Cream Man #45 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 10 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is August 18):
- Cover A by Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran – Lunar Code 0325IM323
- Cover B by Alison Sampson – Lunar Code 0325IM324
Ice Cream Man #46 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 8 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is September 15):
- Cover A by Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran – Lunar Code 0525IM391
- Cover B by Juni Ba (to be revealed) – Lunar Code 0525IM392
Ice Cream Man is also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
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