The Ideal Copy (Double+) - Softcover

Ben Sears is a Louisville, KY based cartoonist, illustrator and musician. His Double+ character has appeared in a number of zines, online anthologies and in the all-ages adventure comics Night Air and Volcano Trash where he has been perpetually in over his head.

"Reading Ben's work is so much fun. I love his use of color and his characters. It reads like he had a blast making it." ― Brandon Graham, King City, Multiple Warheads, Prophet, ISLAND Magazine
"[I]magine Indiana Jones as told by Hayao Miyazaki." ― Zainab Akhtar, The Guardian
"In terms of non-licensed, oddball series with massive elements of kids comics in play, I prefer Ben Sears to most of the artists working this corner of the funnybook playground." ― Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter
“[The Ideal Copy] revels in the pure silliness of its situations and characters, putting me in mind of Wallace and Gromit.“ ― Tom Baker, Broken Frontier
“The [Double+] books are all-ages fun―bits of science fiction, action, and comedy tossed together to impress.” ― Ross Johnson, Barnes & Noble
“Sears is the ultimate gamer in his very own Minecraft-of-the-mind, and I really have a ball touring it.” ― Caleb Orecchio, The Comics Workbook
“The Ideal Copy proved to me that the scuttlebutt I’ve been hearing the last few years is absolutely true ― Ben Sears is a cartoonist who intrinsically understands what younger readers want in a story, but the tent he’s hosting his party in a big one, and there’s plenty of room in it for us old-timers, too.” ― Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse
“Sears [is] an extremely careful and deliberate cartoonist whose serious approach doesn’t detract from the liveliness of his line and the small joys of his characterizations.” ― Rob Clough, High-Low
“This third book [in the Double+ series] is the best of the bunch, in my opinion, and I am thrilled for more.” ― Stergios Botzakis, Graphic Novel Resources

“Grand adventure in the tradition of Tintin and the like, all told with aesthetic somewhere between Maurice Sendak and Wallace and Gromit.” ― Gosh! Comics