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Island #15
Island #15
The award-winning comics magazine curated by BRANDON GRAHAM (KING CITY, PROPHET) and EMMA RÍOS (Dr. Strange, PRETTY DEADLY, MIRROR) continues. Featuring new work from some of the world's best, newest, and most innovative cartoonists. This issue spotlights the work of DILRAJ MANN and GRIM WILKINS.
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98 pages, Paperback
First published March 15, 2017
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About the author
Brandon Graham
197 books198 followersBrandon 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.
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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.
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January 15, 2025
In the final issue of Island, we get 4 stories to close out the series.
First we get Grim Wilkin's Mirenda, which has been a highlight of the series at the end. In this chapter, we start in civilization and follow a character as he recounts tales of Mirenda. It seems that her spirit has inspired him - but we come to find that she is not dead, she still lives in the forest with another lady... again, no words so, kinda hard to know the plot succinctly. However the art is gorgeous and I really enjoyed this story.
The "pop gun war' comes to an end in this issue, with Farel Dalrymple throwing all the story elements that have come up so far in the story, at us all at once. The story is disjointed, confusing, and yet interesting and kind of heart warming. Couple this with the great art, and you have an enjoyable tale.
Next is an interview with a celebrity (which is where the cover is from and what a cover it is!) and this was... interesting. There was a subtext of celebrity vs real person in the story that was subtle yet impactful. I think this was one of the better storytelling type entries in Island, and it worked really well.
Lastly, we have Brandon Graham's Multiple Warheads to close the book, and this was... confusing. But cool. Graham has a way of sucking you into the weirdness only to have you marvel at the strange and lovely things you are seeing.
Overall, I think Island had a great premise, but unfortunately never really lives up to that premise. There are too many "meh" stories for it to ever really gain any traction, and the stories that are genuinely good, end abruptly or are replaced by something else. I think this was a great idea for a comic book, and maybe one day, someone else will do it again.
First we get Grim Wilkin's Mirenda, which has been a highlight of the series at the end. In this chapter, we start in civilization and follow a character as he recounts tales of Mirenda. It seems that her spirit has inspired him - but we come to find that she is not dead, she still lives in the forest with another lady... again, no words so, kinda hard to know the plot succinctly. However the art is gorgeous and I really enjoyed this story.
The "pop gun war' comes to an end in this issue, with Farel Dalrymple throwing all the story elements that have come up so far in the story, at us all at once. The story is disjointed, confusing, and yet interesting and kind of heart warming. Couple this with the great art, and you have an enjoyable tale.
Next is an interview with a celebrity (which is where the cover is from and what a cover it is!) and this was... interesting. There was a subtext of celebrity vs real person in the story that was subtle yet impactful. I think this was one of the better storytelling type entries in Island, and it worked really well.
Lastly, we have Brandon Graham's Multiple Warheads to close the book, and this was... confusing. But cool. Graham has a way of sucking you into the weirdness only to have you marvel at the strange and lovely things you are seeing.
Overall, I think Island had a great premise, but unfortunately never really lives up to that premise. There are too many "meh" stories for it to ever really gain any traction, and the stories that are genuinely good, end abruptly or are replaced by something else. I think this was a great idea for a comic book, and maybe one day, someone else will do it again.
October 1, 2017
This is reviewing Issues of Island #1-15.
ANTHOLOGIES NEVER SELL! Is kind of a epithet in the comic industry. And while there are some exceptions such as 2000AD & Dark Horse Presents (which has been rebooted and retooled a few times)--Annuals are often solo passion projects of a solo artist like Peter Bagge's Hate or DeForge's Lose. Or they serve as ultimatley interesting failures to end all to soon, such as Flinch, Star*Reach, CLiNT, Raw, PopGun and Robert Crumb's ilk.
So here is Brandon Graham and gang's effort. It's more an indie version of Heavy Metal. Where there's probably one good story per issue--but the rest kind of feels...uneven.
There's alot of great art in this series--but not a lot of great writing. And sadly the true barometer is---other than Multiple Warheads, there wasn't a story in here I wished I could read more of or lamented the magazine's passing (#15 being the final/cancelled issue). Or to use a bad pun, no islands worth "revisiting"
But I'm glad it exists because the physical object of each issue is a thing of beauty, even when they lost the square binding.
ANTHOLOGIES NEVER SELL! Is kind of a epithet in the comic industry. And while there are some exceptions such as 2000AD & Dark Horse Presents (which has been rebooted and retooled a few times)--Annuals are often solo passion projects of a solo artist like Peter Bagge's Hate or DeForge's Lose. Or they serve as ultimatley interesting failures to end all to soon, such as Flinch, Star*Reach, CLiNT, Raw, PopGun and Robert Crumb's ilk.
So here is Brandon Graham and gang's effort. It's more an indie version of Heavy Metal. Where there's probably one good story per issue--but the rest kind of feels...uneven.
There's alot of great art in this series--but not a lot of great writing. And sadly the true barometer is---other than Multiple Warheads, there wasn't a story in here I wished I could read more of or lamented the magazine's passing (#15 being the final/cancelled issue). Or to use a bad pun, no islands worth "revisiting"
But I'm glad it exists because the physical object of each issue is a thing of beauty, even when they lost the square binding.
December 18, 2020
What began as a cool concept in dispersed, episodic and experimental storytelling starts to collapse under the weight of itself by issue #5 and it never really recovers. Stories still halt without warning, which is super annoying, and a lot of the stories themselves never quite pay off.
September 10, 2017
I mainly bought this for the cover and January.
March 27, 2017
Sorry to see this series end. I didn't always like the material (cf. the cover of this issue, some of the furry melodrama, and Fil Barlow's stuff) but i appreciate that it gave exposure to lots of interesting things. Grim Wilkin's Mirenda is amazing. Here's hoping these creators continue to create and that new ones get the exposure they deserve.
April 6, 2017
It's really a shame that Island only lasted for 15 issues.
The highlight of this issue was a new chapter of Brandon Graham's Multiple Warheads. I never really got into Farel Dalrymple's Pop Gun War, but this finale was fine. The same's true of Grimm Wilkins's Mirenda. I didn't dig Dilraj Mann's piece.
The highlight of this issue was a new chapter of Brandon Graham's Multiple Warheads. I never really got into Farel Dalrymple's Pop Gun War, but this finale was fine. The same's true of Grimm Wilkins's Mirenda. I didn't dig Dilraj Mann's piece.
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