num_pages: 228
description: Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a long-awaited new graphic novel the first since his perennial classic 1998 s Hicksville. Cartoonist Sam Zabel hasn t drawn a comic in years. Stuck in a nightmare of creative block and despair Sam spends his days writing superhero stories for a large American comics publisher and staring at a blank piece of paper unable to draw a single line. Then one day he finds a mysterious old comic book set on Mars and is suddenly thrown headlong into a wild fantastic journey through centuries of comics stories and imaginary worlds. Accompanied by a young webcomic creator named Alice and an enigmatic schoolgirl with rocket boots and a bag full of comics Sam goes in search of the Magic Pen encountering sex-crazed aliens medieval monks pirates pixies and of course cartoonists. Funny erotic and thoughtful Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen explores the pleasures dangers and moral consequences of fantasy.
language: English
title: Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen
publisher: Fantagraphics