Hunder and Sola, from Island Book, as they appear in the final comic.
I thought I had Hunder worked out when I drew this image for the announcement, but actually putting him in the comic helped me figure him out a little more. love my turtle boy
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Hey I just finished all the inks for Island Book, my upcoming seafaring-fantasy-adventure graphic novel with First Second Books.
I think it will be good!!! but I’m not used to drawing a whole big book without showing anybody! excited to get into the coloring phase.
The Ghost, from Island Book 2, coming 2021 from First Second Books.
ALEF. Island Book: the Infinite Land is out on May 18 and available for preorder now.
Streamed reading of the first book on May 23: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/evan-dahm-presents-island-book-infinite-land
BIG NEW THING
Two sequels to Island Book are in production with First Second Books. These sequels build a cohesive trilogy out of Island Book, and expand the fable storytelling of the first book into an enormous, harrowing adventure story with a focus on authoritarianism, looming apocalypse, and queer identity.
Island Book 2 comes out in 2021, and 3 in 2022. As with everything I work on, you can follow along with some of the process on my twitter, instagram, patreon…
I was recently interviewed in The Comics Journal about this and other upcoming projects!
The Swimmer.
Island Book in just four weeks.
We’re figuring out details lately for the official debut of the book at TCAF in Toronto, a few days before the actual official release– May 11 and 12. I’ll have the book and tons of original art and extra material, I’ll be doing a signing at the festival with First Second Books, I’ll be on a panel maybe too??? And then flying across the country to VanCAF the following weekend. Really looking forward.
I’m happy with this book and excited to finally finally have it out there!! It’s a different sort of story in some ways, and an intentional re-connection with some aspects of my experience working on Rice Boy in some others. Thank you so much to First Second Books for your support in making this thing happen. I hope you all like it!!! I’m excited about Future Projects!!!!
Please share & help me make noise about this thing!
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Finished coloring Island Book; it’ll be out in 2019 from First Second Books. I have worked very hard on it and I think it’s good, or at least it’s not like many other things.
In the near future I’m gonna do these things:
- not draw for 2 or 3 days
- Set up a page on rice-boy.com for this book! I know that site is mostly for Overside work and this isn’t that, but most important thing to me seems to be keeping things visible and centralized.
- Get two art books printed in advance of the book coming out: one of production art and commentary, and a second entitled “Vessels” with a series of still life illustrations of artifacts from the book.
- Get seriously back into Vattu; 2 or 3 pages a week. Closing in on the end of book 3, and I’ve hated having to take a break to meet this deadline. Thanks for your patience.
I am too close to this book to know if it’s good. It’ll be more immediately visible than anything I’ve made so far when it comes out, and it still kind of feels like I fooled my publisher; like I’m sneaking my weird little thing into mainstream book publishing. Don’t tell
thanks for reading
This is the first page of Island Book, coming in 2019 from First Second Books.
Finishing up coloring this week!!! working too much!!!!!!!
HUNDER. Island Book: the Infinite Land is out on May 18 and available for preorder now.
Streamed reading of the first book on May 23: https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/evan-dahm-presents-island-book-infinite-land
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Sola, Hunder, and Wick