*2022 Eisner Award Winner - Best Digital Comic* Two of the most acclaimed comics creators of their generation--writer Jeff Lemire and artist Jock--together for the first time in this 10-part science fiction saga set in a brutal world like no other!
Milliken and Mae have never left
The Trench--it's all they've ever known. They were born in The Trench, and they'll die there, just like all their people do. The two girls, eight and eleven, are a part of
The Trenchfolk, a sprawling settlement of people living inside the massive ice walls of a vast, seemingly endless frozen trench carved into the surface of an otherwise icy wasteland. The Trenchfolk survive in this hostile world by following
The Three Testaments of The Trench--golden rules repeated like a mantra from birth to death...
1. YOU MUST NEVER LEAVE THE TRENCH.2. THE TRENCH PROVIDES.3. THE TRENCH IS ENDLESS. Milli and Mae don't really know how their people came to live here. No one does, not even their wise and gentle Father. On Milliken's twelfth birthday, their father takes the two girls on an overnight skate down the trench--a coming-of-age ritual to teach them how to fish the frozen river, how to hunt the wild Trenchdogs that wander its frigid banks, and how to give proper thanks to their frozen Gods--
The Colden Ones. It's the trip of a lifetime until the girls push beyond the borders of their humble land and awaken the Trench's deadly defender...The Snowman! What follows next is an action-packed story of survival, loss and redemption.
Collects issues #1-#4 of
Snow Angels from the ComiXology original digital series in print for the first time.
Author: Jeff Lemire
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 10.08h x 6.46w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9781506726489
Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 01/10/2022
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 36
Library Journal 04/02/2022 pg. 1
About the AuthorNew York Times bestselling author, Jeff Lemire, is the creator of the acclaimed graphic novels
Sweet Tooth,
Essex County,
The Underwater Welder and
Trillium. His upcoming projects include the original graphic novel
Roughneck from Simon and Schuster, as well as the sci-fi series
Descender for Image Comics (with Dustin Nguyen) and
Black Hammer for Dark Horse Comics (with Dean Ormston). Jeff has also written
Green Arrow,
Justice League and
Animal Man for DC Comics and
Hawkeye for Marvel Comics. In 2008 and in 2013 Jeff won the Schuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist. He has also received The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent and the American Library Association's prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. He has also been nominated for 8 Eisner awards, 7 Harvey Awards and 8 Shuster Awards. In 2010
Essex County was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. He currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.