BC comic creator Nevin Arnold, who drew the cover for Cloudscape’s Epic Canadiana #2 (as well as co-authoring one of the short stories) is Kickstarting issue 2 of Monsterella, his action/adventure/horror/sci-fi anthology inspired by spooky and action-packed magazines of the 1970’s like Vampirella, 2000 AD, Creepy, and Eerie. This 40 page sinister second […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen Memories of Outer Space by French creator Enki Bilal is a series of short sci-fi themed stories. Each has its own sick little twist and turn which, coupled with Bilal’s detailed and brutal artwork, creates an often skin-twistingly strange feeling when read. Bilal’s approach at drawing […]
Eisner-award winning Simpsons artists and Cloudscape contributors Ian Boothby and Nina Matsumoto recently published Sparks! from Scholastic, a young readers graphic novel about August and Charlie, two cats who meet as fellow prisoners in a secret animal testing laboratory and then build a mechanical dog suit to perform acts of heroism. Sparks has gotten […]
Our latest Comics in Transit told the tales of many refugees in comic form, stories of their trials and tribulations coming to Canada. The comic pages were large, as each one was put in bus shelters for the public to read. Now the comic are available at our studio. To […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen Lucille and Renée by Ludovic Debeurme are two books are thick with pages and heavy with story. Debeurme’s artwork evolves from initially highly stylized and somewhat crude drawings to more uniformed and detailed illustrations as the story progresses. It’s a good reminder to always give a book […]
Kathleen Jacques is a frequent contributor to Cloudscape Comics as both a cartoonist and an editor, as well as the creator of Band vs Band, a long-running webcomic about two clashing musicians: wholesome do-gooder Honey Hart and bad-girl troublemaker Turpentine. The two musicians start as enemies and rivals but gradually fall in […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen Journalism by Joe Sacco is another intense and shocking book by journalist-cartoonist Joe Sacco. It is a collection of true stories from around the world, including former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Iraq, Malta, India and more. One or two stories are in colour but the rest is in […]
After much delay, we can finally bring you the first of our two episode series on Linda Medley’s Castle Waiting. The whole team reunites to do a close reading of this indy darling, which takes some familiar fairy tales in new directions. We’ll talk about story structure, sense of place, […]
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COFFEE O’CLOCK Sprak ONGOING A slice-of-life comic, based on the weekly misadventures of a coffee fiend.
