For this episode on As the Crow Flies, by Mel Gillman, Jam, Jeff, and JD are joined by Ryan Estrada. We talk about one of Ryan’s favourite banned books. Is this a thoughtful story of alienation, doubt, microaggressions, and faith? Or is it, as one book banner summed it up, […]
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This week we return to Thunderbolts Volume 1: Justice, Like Lightning, by Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley, Sal Buscema, Peter David, Mike Deodato Jr., Steve Epting, and others. We look deeper into the main cast of the series, and propose a wish list of changes (thirty years too late). We’ll see […]
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This is an important announcement. As you are probably aware Cloudscape will be leaving our studio at 5955 Ross in December so to that end we are looking to transition over ahead of time. To that end Cloudscape is going to begin meetings at the Roundhouse Community Centre starting in […]
This is the first part of a two-parter on Thunderbolts Volume 1: Justice, Like Lightning, by such people as Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley, Sal Buscema, Peter David, Mike Deodato Jr., and Steve Epting. We brave the Marvel Universe in the mid 90s to ask important questions like, what happens when […]
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This week Jam, Jeff, and JD read The Jellyfish by Boum. This BD fresh out of Montreal publisher Pow Pow follows Odette, a character whose vision is being increasingly obscured by a swarm of jellyfish. It’s a story with a lot of depth and heart, and some great cartooning. We’ll […]
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What a busy two months it has been for Cloudscape! Between running #summerofcomics, hosting garage sales, and running our regular meetings, we’ve been having a blast. Now, #summerofcomics ends on September 3rd at 11:59PM PST, so this is your reminder to read more comics and fill in your bingo sheets […]
We are having a second yard sale! Cloudscape will be having a garage sale on Aug 31st at 5955 Ross Street! Our time at the fieldhouse is drawing to a close, and we have plenty of furniture and art supplies that need new homes. The garage sale runs from 11am […]
For this week’s episode we read My Aunt Is a Monster by Reimena Yee, whose unique and thoughtful approach to cartooning gave us lots to talk about, from panel transitions to world-building to colouring. This is a unique book and a welcome addition to the YA graphic novel canon. Also […]
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Cloudscape’s time at the fieldhouse is drawing to a close, and we have accumulated plenty of art supplies (and some furniture!) that we need to pass on to a new home before we move locations. Come out on Saturday, July 13th, to 5955 Ross Street in Vancouver from 11am to […]
Join Jam, Jeff, and JD for another episode of the TradeWaiters. This time we read Roaming by Canadian paragons of cartooning Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. It’s a story of three young women visiting New York and discovering themselves, and in true Tamaki fashion, pushes the medium of comics to […]
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