Prison Island by Colleen Frakes

As difficult as being a teenager can be, Colleen Frakes ’07 spent hers moving every few years as her parents were promoted as guards and staff at various prisons. Moving and having prison guard parents can be tough enough, but then they ended up at McNeil Island in Washington state, the last prison accessible only by air and sea in the U.S. In Prison Island, Colleen Frakes reminisces about a home she can no longer return to because the prison has been shut down due to budget cuts.

Preview a chapter of Prison Island by Colleen Frakes at the Schulz Library.

Prison Island is coming out September 2015. As a winner of the 2007 Xeric Grant for Tragic Relief and the 2009 Promising New Talent award form Ignatz for Woman King, we can except another great work from the Seattle-based cartoonist.

The first page in the preview of Prison Island gets you up to speed on what you are looking at.

You can pre-order the book from the publisher, Zest Books.