Here are two exquisite stories set at different times in the author's life. In Ignatz Award nominated "Hawaii 1997," few words are spoken, but Sam Alden's imagery evokes the magic of a nighttime encounter at a Hawaiian resort. In Anime” he explores the complicated dynamics of pop culture obsession. Alden is one of the brightest young talents working today.
Sam Alden was born in 1988 in Portland, Oregon. In 2013 he was an official guest at the BilBOLbul festival in Bologna, Italy, his comic Haunter was excerpted in Best American Comics 2013, and he is the recipient of the Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent. He now lives and works as an illustrator and cartoonist in Montreal.

It Never Happened Again: Two Stories

Comics & Graphic Novels

Alden, Sam

Graphic Novels

Uncivilized Books

An insular island community pulls an egg from a tidepool, from which hatches the apocalypse in the form of a vast, cruel chicken. Wicked Chicken Queen follows the violent societal collapse of the island under the reign of the chicken queen.

Wicked Chicken Queen

Retrofit Comics LLC

L.A. Times Book Prizes Finalist (Graphic Novel/Comics) 2016
A collection of two new stories from cartoonist and Adventure Time contributor Sam Alden. In "Household," a brother and sister deal with divergent memories of their father and grow closer than ever. In "Backyard," vegans and anarchists share a house, small dramas and bizarre transformations (featuring a new, never before published ending). Designed as a companion volume for the critically acclaimed It Never Happened Again, New Construction cements Sam Alden's reputation as one of the best cartoonists of his generation.
Sam Alden Sam Alden is the author of It Never Happened Again, Wicked Chicken Queen, and Lydian, among others. He is a two-time Ignatz winner and four-time nominee, and works full-time as a writer and storyboarder on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time.
Praise for Sam Alden's It Never Happened Again:
"Alden's natural sense of framing and pace, his willingness to use silent panels to tell stories, and his beautiful (yes, beautiful) pencil images combined to open my eyes to a new idea of what a great comic can be. It helps that he's also an excellent writer—both stories sketch out lonely, lost characters efficiently, and put them each through very different quests for meaning."—Dan Kois, Slate
"Two thematically divergent, but devastatingly human portraits from an emerging cartoonist displaying the sort of storytelling and artistic restraint that often only comes after years of toiling away at the drawing board. Alden is a talent to watch."—Publishers Weekly

New Construction: Two More Stories

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It Never Happened Again: Two Stories

Wicked Chicken Queen

New Construction: Two More Stories