Escalator

by Brandon Graham

It started here and continued to gain momentum. Escalator: a collection of Brandon Graham's short comics with a cast of sumo heroes, Graffiti writers, truck drivers from the future, and alien pornographers as they try to get through their lives with all the demonic possessions and cannibal school girls that get in the way.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

Brandon Graham (born 1976) is an American comic book creator.

Born in Oregon, Graham grew up in Seattle, Washington, where he was a graffiti artist. He wrote and illustrated comic books for Antarctic Press and Radio Comix, but got his start drawing pornographic comics like Pillow Fight and Multiple Warheads (Warheads would go on to become its own comic published by Oni Press in 2007). In 1997, he moved to New York City where he found work with NBM Publishing and became a founding member of comics collective Meathaus. His book Escalator was published by Alternative Comics in January 2005, when he returned to Seattle. His book King City was published by Tokyopop in 2007 and was nominated for an Eisner Award. In May 2009 Graham announced that King City would continue publication at Image Comics and his Oni Press title Multiple Warheads would resume publication after a delay, this time in color. Also at Image he is the writer on Prophet, the return of a 1990s series, with the rotating roster of artists Giannis Milonogiannis, Farel Dalrymple, Simon Roy, and himself.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Eric Mesa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Escalator is a series of short comics, all by Brandon Graham. Although I routinely read short science fiction stories and anthologies, it's much rarer for me to come across comics anthologies. This collection contains some of Brandon's oldest non-porn comics. I think it's an interesting insight into his mind as well as look into how his work differed in the 1990s. A lot of is it autobiographical or semi-autobiographical and that adds a little something special to the stories as well.

One of my favorite aspects of this anthology is that after every few stories he has a page where he explains the story behind the comics. It's the same insight I love when looking at works of art and since some of these stories are a little esoteric (at least in their endings or lack-thereof), it's nice to have the explanations.

[Melissa Dominic · Rating 5 out of 5]

a smattering of short comics that left me really desiring more. escalator has the signature interesting settings and fun characters that i've come to expect of brandon graham. the book is cool. he's cool. there's nothing bad to be said. so read it. like. now.

[Book Tea 🫖 with Jai · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read Escalator and to be honest half the time I couldn't understand the writing or understand the comic. But I love the art work and the last comic story.

[Jamil · Rating 3 out of 5]

"I realized adventure isn’t just fists and gold”