Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a new graphic novel, the first since his perennial classic, 1998's Hicksville (Drawn & Quarterly). 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 an 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 fantastic journey through imaginary worlds, in his quest for the Magic Pen..