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.