Renowned horror cartoonist Junji Ito has a cat life now. His auto-bio graphic novel Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu is this episode’s book, and Jam, Jon, and Jeff are joined by Nina Matsumoto to talk about the book, the artist, and what it’s like to live with cats. […]
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Spirals: they make ya think! Nina Matsumoto joins Jam, Jeff, and Jon for a spiral into the mind of Junji Ito, reknowned horror cartoonist. His Uzumaki (Spiral into Horror) is an obsessive, surreal story about a town cursed by the spiral. We’ll dive right in, get tangled up, and hopefully […]
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Kickstarter has been a boon to Cloudscape’s publishing wing. Since 2014, Cloudscape has published eleven books in ten separate Kickstarter campaigns, raising a total of $154,441 Canadian* over those five years from generous supporters of our work. Three of those campaigns have been in the last year alone (raising $44,017), […]
We continue our journey through Jason Lutes’ Berlin: City of Smoke and Berlin: City of Light. Now that the series is complete, our panelists have read all the way to the bitter end. There is no other way for the Weimar Republic to end. Join us as we check in […]
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Looking for advice on how to survive 2019? Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes may or may not be of any help, but it is a standout work of comics-making brilliance. Jeff, Jam, and Jon travel back in time to Jason Lutes’ window on Weimar Germany in 1928 and […]
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NEW KICKSTARTER ALERT! Cloudscape is proud to present our newest Kickstarter: Life Finds A Way, a comics anthology about finding hope and renewal in a post-apocalyptic world. Edited by Dan Anctil and Alina Pete, Life Finds a Way contains 20 stories from cartoonists around the world, with apocalypses technological, supernatural, […]
It’s Twenty-Nine-Zine! The TradeWaiters went to a bunch of Canadian conventions this year and brought back their favourite indie gems to share. In this episode we talk about:Doors by the Donut CollectiveGiant’s Well by Scott A. FordWhen I Arrived at the Castle by Emily CarrollConseal Don’t Feel by CiilCounting Sheep […]
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There’s soil and gloom in the black death. Jess, Jon, Jeff, and Jam read Laid Waste by Julia Gfrorer, a tragedy set during the plague. We talk about the end of the world and what it’s like to live through it (or not). Also mentioned in this episode:Fire and Ice […]
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Join us on a road trip (through masculinity). Come Prima by Alfred is a story about two estranged brothers dealing with death, war, shame, and their own frailty. Jam, Jeff, and Jess finally get a chance to read some more bande dessinee, and it leads to a whole lot of […]
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There are, as of this writing, less than three days left for the Witching Hours Kickstarter. If you somehow missed the news about Cloudscape’s latest anthology project, there’s still time to get this book! But not a lot of time. The Witching Hours is an anthology of comics about magical […]
