The Islander

Jersey Pictorial Press, Airway House, Mulcaster Street, St Helier, Jersey

The Islander was a short-lived monthly magazine published in Jersey between February 1939 and March 1941, some 9 months into the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. I have only seen a few issue of this title as it is uncommon. I suspect that quite a lot may have been used as kindling when the gas supply ran out towards the end of the Occupation and people had to cook on an open fire using wet wood. The same title was used for a magazine published in Jersey in the early 1980s, so they can be confused.

Published: 24 issues? February 1939 to December 1940; March 1941

Price: 1 shilling

Numbering: 12 issues per volume

Pages: 64 in 1939

Dimensions: 310 x 224 mm

Editor: W.L. Gerrard

Printer: Commercial Art Co., Ltd, Jersey.

Blampied issues: 5

Type: MO = monochrome drawing; CO = colour drawing; the number indicates the number of drawings or pages.

The cover of an issue of the magazine

Click on any thumbnail image to see a larger image; press the Back button on your browser to return to this page; click on the links at the top to return to other pages.

— 1939 —

Issue: May-1939, vol.1, no.4, page 5. Price: 1/-. Type: SP3. Title: Reproductions in sepia. From the work of Edmund Blampied, R.B.A. Jean et Francoise, Man with a scythe, Sea wrack.

[Note: I have the original watercolour of Sea wrack.]

Issue: Jul-1939, vol.1, no.6, page 5. Price: 1/-. Type: MO7. Title: Set of six oil-colour paintings depicting country life in Jersey by Edmund Blampied, R.B.A. Presented by the Islanders to the Battleship on the occasion of her first visit, July 10th, 1939.

[These oil paintings were presented to H.M.S. Jersey, which sank outside Valletta harbour in Malta, when she hit a mine on 2nd May 1941. Thirty-five crew members died. The issue of the magazine has a feature on the visit of the ship with photographs.]

Issue: Sep-1939, vol.1, no.8, page 31. Price: 1/-. Type: BW1. Title: Man with a scythe.

Issue: Oct-1939, vol.1, no.9, page 5. Price: 1/-. Type: BW1. Title: John St Helier Lander, painter of royal portraits. Author: By Himself

[This is a full page cartoon of Lander in a kilt by Blampied, initialed EB. It was printed as a card and is reproduced here]

Issue: Dec-1939, vol.1, no.11, pages 16-17. Price: 1/-. Type: BW2. Title: Character sketches of well-known people - No. 2. Edmund Blampied, R.E., R.B.A.. Author: Robert K. Howe

[The second cartoon, or a version of it, was published in 1940 in The Tatler.]

This has an impression of Blampied's hand and two cartoons: That there Dolphus Hitler is worse than two Coloroado beetles in the Constables's pyjamas - that's what I say. and But yes, I know my cow is cross-eyed, but then it don't show in the milk.