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Ollmann has been called the best writer of short story comics. Featuring a lengthy introduction, this is the definative collection of those stories. . This omnibus makes obvious that there is a need for a term to describe the short story version of the graphic novel. In the same way the short story has recently had a resurgence, winning many literary awards, so too the graphic version. Ollmann won the Doug Wright Award in 2007 for This Will All End in Tears, most of which is contained in this omnibus. The best stories from Chewing on Tinfoil are included, as well as two new stories.

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Joe Ollmann is criminally under-appreciated. He's one of our mediums' great writers. A man with an understanding of heartbreak and a talent for comic timing. The work is deceptive--reading as smoothly as a page-turner but remaining in the mind and soul long after the covers are closed. -- Seth (Author of Palookaville.) Joe Ollmann is to graphic novels what Alice Munro is to fiction: a master of the short story form. -- CBC

Joe Ollmann is criminally under-appreciated. He's one of our mediums' great writers. A man with an understanding of heartbreak and a talent for comic timing. The work is deceptive--reading as smoothly as a page-turner but remaining in the mind and soul long after the covers are closed. -- Seth (Author of Palookaville.)

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