En attendant le début de la série conceptuelle 8House qui succédera à Prophet dans l’emploi du temps de Brandon Graham, l’artiste chapeaute le « magazine comic sur les comics » Island, un collectif qu’il présente comme le pendant des indétrônables Métal Hurlants et Raw.
Pour ce faire, Graham rassemble une palette d’artistes et amis de « l’école underground » tels que Emma Rios, Farel Dalrymple, Michael DeForge, Ludroe, Simon Roy, E.K. Weaver, Johnnie Christmas ou encore Fil Barlow.
[quote=« Graham »]It’s an analogy. What comics would you take to an island? You’d want to have a diverse group of work. You wouldn’t just want to have one comic or type of comic there. There’s a lot of creators I could’ve gotten on the book that might’ve sold the book better, but it was important for me to get people I was really excited about. There’s nothing in there I wouldn’t buy myself.
Something I don’t think I mentioned on stage is that the vast majority of the work in there is single-creator work. So if a writer comes in, they’ll be writing prose, which I think will be interesting. I think Kelly Sue DeConnick is going to do something. We have about thirty people, so there’s a lot to rotate.
Another thing we’re doing is just illustrated pieces. Every issue begins with 4-6 page series of illustrations. It’s like the comic book equivalent of what magazines do with a fashion spread, we’re telling illustrators that they don’t have to do a story with it. They can just design robots or whatever and play around. We can do whatever we want. [/quote]
[quote]Island #1
Story by Brandon Graham, Emma Rios, Ludroe
Art by Brandon Graham, Emma Rios, Ludroe
Cover by Brandon Graham
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $7.99
Release Date Jul 15th, 2015
PRETTY DEADLY artist EMMA RIOS and KING CITY, PROPHET & MULTIPLE WARHEADS writer/artist BRANDON GRAHAM bring you a new ONGOING & OVERSIZED COMICS MAGAZINE. Each issue holds three 20- to 30-page, ad-free, issue-length chapters of new work from around the globe. #1 features a text piece by KELLY SUE DeCONNICK, writer of BITCH PLANET and PRETTY DEADLY.[/quote]
[quote]Island #3
Story by Emma Rios, Brandon Graham, Matt Sheean, Amy Clare , Malachi Ward
Art by Emma Rios, Brandon Graham, Matt Sheean, Amy Clare , Malachi Ward , Jose Domingo , Tessa Black , Kate Craig
Cover by Farel Dalrymple
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $7.99
Release Date Sep 16th, 2015
THIRD ISSUE OF THE OVERSIZED COMICS MAGAZINE! This issue introduces MATT SHEEAN & MALACHI WARD’s sci-fi series ANCESTOR![/quote]
STORY BY Brandon Graham, Farel Dalrymple, Gael Bertrand
COVER BY Gael Bertrand
PUBLISHER Image Comics
COVER PRICE: $7.99
RELEASE DATE Oct 28th, 2015
Fourth issue of the OVERSIZED COMICS MAGAZINE. This issue introduces new work by GAEL BERTRAND and a new chapter of FAREL DALRYMPLE’s Pop Gun War.[/quote]
Story by
Brandon Graham, Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward, Simon Roy , Johnnie Christmas [hide…]
Art by
Brandon Graham, Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward, Simon Roy , Johnnie Christmas
Cover by
Amy Clare
Publisher
Image Comics
Cover Price:
$7.99
Release Date
Dec 23rd, 2015
Stories of space cannibalism, future tech dependency, and volcano gods along with articles and illustration in this monthly oversized comics magazine.[/quote]
Story by
Onta, Fil Barlow, Gael Bertrand, Brandon Graham
Art by
Onta, Fil Barlow, Gael Bertrand, Brandon Garham
Cover by
Onta
Publisher
Image Comics
Cover Price:
$7.99
Release Date
Jan 27th, 2016
Onta shows how two very different guys spend a day at the gay pride parade. Plus the recolored return of Fil Barlow’s Fun bizarre, Plastoid conspiracy science fiction: ZOONIVERSE! and more.[/quote]
Story by
Tamra Bonvillain, Johnnie Christmas, Malachi Ward, Brandon Graham [hide…]
Art by
Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward, Brandon Graham
Publisher
Image Comics
Story by
Johnnie Christmas, Simon Roy, Brandon Graham
Art by
Johnnie Christmas, Simon Roy, Brandon Graham
Cover by
Simon Roy
Publisher
Image Comics
Cover Price:
$7.99
Release Date
Jun 8th, 2016
JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS (SHELTERED) makes his début, writing for his own art in “FIREBUG.” SIMON ROY returns with tribal conflicts within an O’Neill cylinder in “HABITAT.”
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Story by
Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward, Lin Visel, Brandon Graham , Fil Barlow
Art by
Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward, Lin Visel, Brandon Graham , Fil Barlow
Cover by
Lin Visel,
Publisher
Image Comics
Cover Price:
$7.99
Release Date
Jul 20th, 2016
The award-winning, oversized comics magazine continues! This issue marks the conclusion of MATT SHEEAN and MALACHI WARD’s « ANCESTOR » as well as the introduction of LIN VISEL’s striking work.
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Description: This issue includes Matt Sheean and Malachi Ward finishing the four-part series of « What a difference a day makes? » Grim Wilkins introduces « Miranda » and Robin Bougie comes with « The Incident ».