Review by Matthew Nielsen Scott McCloud’s trilogy of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics are all excellent works. They are a great collection of essays entirely in the comics format, entirely about comics. The first book, Understanding Comics, published in 1994, focuses on the history, perception, and communication of […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds is a story centred around a writer’s retreat in the English countryside. It starts off from the point of view of university professor Glen, and then moves on to the retreat’s de facto manager Beth. We also see things from other […]
This Wednesday, December the 21st, is pretty close to Christmas, and it’s a good bet a lot of you will be very busy getting ready for the celebration (certainly, many of the board will be!). That being the case, there will not be a Cloudscape meeting this week. The next […]
Seasons Greetings! The Cloudscape Comics Board has decided to give everyone an early Christmas present, and extend the Swan Song deadline until February 1st, 2017! Realizing that we may not have time during the holiday season to go over all of the Swan Song submissions, and instead will be taking […]
Cloudscape’s final Comics in the Clouds class will be starting in January. Register at City of Vancouver – Comics in the Clouds.
For more of Micah Iwaasa’s webcomic on creating comics, visit the Comic Chunk Archives.
Here’s a heart-warming BC comics-related story: Dave’s Pop Culture is a comic and game shop in Ladner, BC, that is a community hub of pop culture in that city with a very devoted customer base. When many of the regulars discovered that Dave Strutt — the store’s owner and only […]
Iron Circus (publishers of Sleep of Reason and New World) is now officially taking submissions for Tim’rous Beastie. “A black-and-white comic anthology about small lives in a big, big world. This is an anthology by and for those of us who grew up inspired by Redwall, The Deptford Mice, Rats […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen The Quest for the Big Woof, written by Lenny Henry and illustrated by Steve Parkhouse, is a British comedic graphic novel from 1991 about the life and mind of Lenny Henry. The story is pretty straightforward: Henry is in the process of writing gags for his […]
Hope Nicholson, comic historian and publisher of Bedside Press, has announced a call for submissions for Gothic Tales of Haunted Love, an anthology of new gothic romance comic stories: “Stories should take into account the style and feel of the 1970s gothic romance comic genre. This is a genre where […]
