Things Just Get Away from You

By Walt Holcombe and Aamna Qureshi

by Walt Holcombe Blessed with a lovely bouncy, rubbery SpongeBob SquarePants-y style, cartoonist and animator Walt Holcombe tells wildly imaginative stories of love gained and (often) lost. Things Just Get Away From You collects all of Holcombe's late-1990s comics work, with a bonus new story, "Hails at Sea," thrown in for good measure. It leads off with "King of Persia," a 1001 Nights/Yiddish vaudeville-inspired graphic novella in which king Faisal Al-Ghazali must win the affection of the woman he loves by traveling to an enchanted land in search of a giant emerald, while accompanied by his faithful companion, the talking camel, Jamila.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560978430
• ISBN13: 9781560978435
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 9.6"