This week we are learning how to letter with Kathleen Jacques, cartoonist of prominent webcomic Band vs Band. No comic is complete without lettering. Learn how to make your text pop, your sound-effects carry weight, and your pages sparkle. The event is at Cloudscape HQ (Memorial South Park, 5955 Ross […]
As many of you know, Jewish-Canadian cartoonist Miriam Libicki is the Vancouver Public Library’s first cartoonist-in-residence. This Thursday from 7:00-8:30m, Miriam will be at the library’s central branch with a slideshow and interactive drawing night to launch her new residency. She’ll be talking about her career, her current project, and why […]
As most of you know, Cloudscape HQ is provided by the Vancouver Parks Board’s Fieldhouse Studio program. Every year the Parks Board does a big event to draw everyone’s attention to all the great work that the fieldhouses are doing, and this year it’s Field Guides 2017. Field Guides 2017 […]
Cloud Shop, Cloudscape’s series of free comic workshops, continues next week with two classes! Excel for Cartoonists On Wednesday, bookkeeper (and Cloudscape treasurer) Anat Rabkin will teach you how to use Microsoft Excel to manage your art career and keep track of your self-employment income. Time: September 6 (Wednesday), 7:30-8:30 Place: Cloudscape HQ. […]
Today is Miriam Libicki’s first day on the job as the Vancouver Public Library’s comic-focused writer-in-residence. She was interviewed by CBC’s On the Coast and featured in an online article where she describes her comics and what she wants to do as writer-in-residence. “Comics are a very accessible form of literature,” Miriam […]
Graphic novelist and Cloudscape contributor Miriam Libicki has been named the Vancouver Public Library’s 2017 writer in residence. Miriam is the creator of jobnik!, an autobiographical comic series that recounts her service in the Israeli army and Toward a Hot Jew – her collection of graphic essays exploring what it means […]
You may have noticed that the Cloudscape website has an artist section that features the profiles of various Cloudscape members, as well one features links to their webcomics. If you are an artist who has attended Cloudscape meetings and/or contributed to our anthologies, then we would love to include you. […]
Cloud Shop, Cloudscape’s series of free comic workshops, continues next Thursday. In this Cloud Shop, Jade McGilvrary shows you how to create sculptures for art references, wargaming, or just for fun! Time: August 24 (Thursday), 7:30-8:30 Place: Cloudscape HQ. 5955 Ross Street, Vancouver. To register, go to City of Vancouver: Sculpture and then check […]
Cloud Shop, Cloudscape’s new series of free comic workshops, starts this week. The first one is taught by Cloudscape founder Jeff Ellis. He’ll teach you some tools and tricks for making comics using Manga Studio (aka Clip Studio), from thumbnailing to penciling, inking, colouring, and lettering. Time: August 24 (Thursday), 7:30-8:30 […]
Iron Circus, creator of such classic comic anthologies as Sleep of Reason , New World, and Tim’rous Beastie, has just announced a call for submissions for a new anthology: FTL, Y’all: Tales From the Age of the $200 Warp Drive. This book will feature stories that are “individual, creative interpretations of a universe where humanity […]
