Adorning the cover of the first-ever print edition of the new
Islandia Journal quarterly magazine is the image of an Everglades Griffin. Part lion, part alligator (because Florida), and part bird, this mythical creature is both fantastical and practical all at once.
Islandia pronounced with or without a Spanish accent is all about the fantastic. As the tiny print on the third page puts it, “
Islandia Journal is a (sub)tropical periodical of prose, poetry, and visual art.” To put it another way,
Islandia is a collection of pictures and stories about Florida and the Caribbean told through myth, folklore, history, the paranormal, and the environment.
Photo by Jessica Lipscomb Adorning the cover of the first-ever print edition of the new
Islandia Journalquarterly magazine is the image of an Everglades Griffin. Part lion, part alligator (because Florida), and part bird, this mythical creature is both fantastical and practical all at once.
Islandia pronounced with or without a Spanish accent is all about the fantastic. As the tiny print on the third page puts it, “
Islandia Journal is a (sub)tropical periodical of prose, poetry, and visual art.” To put it another way,
Islandia is a collection of pictures and stories about Florida and the Caribbean told through myth, folklore, history, the paranormal, and the environment.
Katz has been slowly brewing the idea of starting a local zine for a handful of years. The high-school English teacher says the confinement of the pandemic was a pivotal moment.
“During the pandemic, I kind of felt this hole in my life where physical interaction with my artistic community, my writing community, used to exist,” he tells
New Times. “It felt like the right time to launch a print magazine that could bring people together while not having to do it in person quite yet.”
Katz has fond memories of reading magazines as a kid and being entertained by the stories he read or the pictures he saw. His favorite element of a printed edition was the recurring features that he could look forward to in each issue.