Adventure on the high seas with this exclusive first look at Island Book
Cartoonist Evan Dahm has been creating long-form fantasy adventure webcomics and publishing them on his own for the past decade, but he’ll be getting a big boost in distribution with a new graphic novel from First Second: Island Book. Following a cursed young girl, Sola, who leaves her island home to find the monster that damned her, Island Book has Dahm venturing outside of the shared universe he’s been working in for his webcomics, and this change in environment is pushing him to explore new aspects of his craft. “After doing self-published work set in the same invented world for years, it’s exciting to start building a new story and a new world from the ground up, and make something that’s hopefully immersive and weird and fun,” says Dahm. “I want to work with ideas of mythology and the unknown in ways I haven’t before, and I’ve been wanting to make a story about a voyage on the high seas for a long time.”