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s u g g e s t e d f o r ma t u r e r e a d e r s
In his New York Times bestselling novel NOS4A2,
Eisner-Award winning author Joe Hill unveiled the
terrifying fun house world of Christmasland and the
ageless mad man who rules there: Charlie Manx. Now,
Hill and artist Charlie Talent Wilson III explore
Manx's twisted beginnings, introduce a new and
depraved cast of characters to Christmasland, and take
readers for a 100 MPH ride down a nightmare road
in a car with no brakes...
After many years I became old and white; I heard a great deal, many lies and
falsehoods, but the longer I lived, the more I understood that there were really
no lies. Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to
one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence
if not next year. What difference can it make? Often I heard tales of which I
said, Now this is a thing that cannot happen. But before a year had elapsed
I heard that it actually had come to pass somewhere.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool
(translated by Saul Bellow)
WRAITH. JULY 2014. FIRST PRINTING. 2014 Joe Hill. Art 2014 Idea and Design Works, LLC. All Rights Reserved. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe Street,
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the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea.
Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Saul Bellow, copyright 1953 by Partisan Review. Copyright renewed (c) 1981 by Isaac Bashevis Singer, from A TREASURY OF YIDDISH STORIES, REVISED AND
UPDATED EDITION, edited by Irving Howe & Eliezer Greenberg. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
Originally published as WRAITH issues #17.
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Special thanks to Mickey Choate.
To Jim, Stephanie, Jon, and Justin Leonard.
Joe Hill
To Stephanie. Thanks for putting up with me while I drew this.
Charles Paul Wilson III
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