meglemke:”Community is a huge part of it. For Emma and me,...

meglemke:

”Community is a huge part of it. For Emma and me, it’s about finding creators we really trust as people, and then letting them do absolutely whatever they want. They come to us because they know we won’t give them any restrictions. We’re making the kind of work we want to do and hoping that the market supports it, rather than trying to think of something the market wants.There’s a weird responsibility in putting someone on this stage. Many of the underground cartoonists of the sixties were guys who were part of the drug culture, who said, Let’s just put as much sexual, racist, whatever images down on paper. They weren’t afraid, but they were also kind of gross and worked without any responsibility. It’s exciting to me to publish cartoonists who are trying to be adults, people I am proud to be published alongside. At the same time, if you do something objectionable, you’re not dead to us. Art can be about failure.Island is a place where we can try out things and fuck up and say, Let’s try better next time. Let’s fail better.” 

I got to interview Brandon Graham & Emma Rios about ISLAND for the Paris Review (!!!)

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