New and wild from Image comes Royal Boiler, Brandon Graham’s “Drawn Out Collection”.

At 252 pages, it is quite a collection to be sure! Brandon walks us through his incredibly imaginative artistic journey, starting with a little bit about his beginnings as an artist. As he explains, the term Royal Boiler started in 1999, with a comic he made. The Royal Boiler was a type of robot brain. Unlike the Royal Boiler, however, Brandon is clearly human and clearly gifted.

As we look from page to page through Royal Boiler and see how Brandon Graham’s fertile imagination plays itself out on paper, it’s easy to think that this work is the product of a team of creatives. But no, it’s one guy with a Rapidograph and bottle of ink. Astonishing. Think of Moebius if he was born later, and lived in North America.

There are sections on various comic titles such as King City, Multiple Warheads, there are sketches for toy companies, early comic work, and covers for the work of other creators too. There are loads of pinups, one-offs, filler pages, and so on. There are photos of wall murals, an art tour, posters, and his projects with porn companies: highly amped up porn, with page after page of writhing figures and uh… toys.

It’s all there for you to see and be astonished by, in Royal Boiler, from the deeply talented and versatile Brandon Graham!

Image Royal Boiler, $24.99 for 252 pages, Rated Mature

By Alan Spinney

After a career of graphic design, art direction and copywriting, I still have a passion for words and pictures. I love it when a comic book comes together; the story is tight, and the drawings lead me forward. Art with words... the toughest storytelling technique to get right. Was this comic book worth your money? Let's see!!