Drawing animals is hard! In this week’s Cloud Shop, let Alina Pete teach you how to better draw horses, dogs, cats, tigers, bears, and any other four-legged friends. Stop by at Cloudscape HQ on Thursday, 7:30-8:30. To register for this free workshop, visit Drawing Four-Legged Animals. For more details on future […]
Look Straight Ahead is a powerful graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Elaine M. Will, exploring the mental breakdown of 17-year-old Jeremy Knowles. School pressure and extreme bullying cause Jeremy to suffer a break from reality, and he must find a way to heal himself as everything feels like it’s crumbling around […]
Though we at Cloudscape are best known for our quality comic anthologies, we also publish the graphic novels of individual members, such as Kathleen Gros’ Last Night at Wyrmwood High, Steve LeCouilliard’s Una the Blade, Sean Karemaker’s Feast of Fields, and Jason Turner’s Fir Valley, as well as Bevan Thomas’ Gene Day Award-winning duo of Epic Canadiana collections. […]
This was our wall of comic art at the Field Guides show at the Round House, with some of our students standing in front of it. Thanks for everyone who participated in it!
At this week’s Cloud Shop, learn composition with Vanessa Kelly. Study how to better compose panels, choose moments, manage transitions, and arrange your pages. This is the fundamental anatomy of the comics medium. This free workshop is Thursday 7:30-8:30 at Cloudscape HQ. To register, visit Composition with Vanessa Kelly.
It’s Western Canada’s largest celebration of literacy and reading, and on Sunday there will be numerous comic-related events in the Alma VanDusen Room of the Vancouver Public Library, including: Vancouver Comics History (2:40 PM): Cloudscape contributors Bevan Thomas, Colin Upton, and Jonathon Dalton will discuss the history of comics art in Vancouver, starting from local […]
This Thursday, stop by Cloudscape HQ, 7:30-8:30, to tighten up your storytelling chops with veteran comicker and animation storyboarder Steve LeCouilliard. To register for this free class, go to Storytelling for Comics. For more details on future Comic Shop talks, visit Cloudscape Cloud Shops.
Cayrels Ring is a new science fiction comic by Shannon Lentz and with art by a wide variety of local comic creators. It follows many narratives, including that of Jamitch, a scientist trapped on a planet-sized supercomputer gone suicidal. Jamitch manages to escape the computer and goes searching for his unknown grandchild. […]
An article on Comics in Transit, our big public art project, is featured on IVOH, and includes an interview with Comics in Transit creator and Cloudscape executive director Oliver McTavish-Wisden: Founded in 2015, Comics in Transit creates original, poster-sized comics for display in bus shelters and transit stops around Vancouver and […]
For the only proper response to the refugee crisis now facing Europe (and the rest of the world) is action. In her latest graphic novel, Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, British-based cartoonist, artist, activist, and author Kate Evans faces the refugee crisis head on; reporting accounts of those marginalized and unwelcome in today’s […]
