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Send Cloudscape your comic pitches!

Though we at Cloudscape are best known for our quality comic anthologies, in the last couple of years we have begun publishing the books of individual members, such as Kathleen Gros’ Last Night at Wyrmwood High, Steve LeCouilliard’s Una the Blade, and now Sean Karemaker’s Feast of Fields and Jason Turner’s Fur Valley. Now Cloudscape is […]


Monsterella Kickstarter

Nevin Arnold is a Vancouver Island-based comic creator who illustrated the cover and one of the stories for Cloudscape’s award-winning Epic Canadiana #2. He is currently kickstarting his latest comic: Monsterella.  Monsterella is an action/adventure/horror/sci-fi anthology inspired by spooky and action-packed magazines of the 1970’s like Vampirella, 2000 AD, Creepy, and […]


Maus

Review by Matthew Nielsen Maus by Art Spiegelman is among one of the most famous graphic novels of all time. Available in either two volumes (Maus I & Maus II) or as The Complete Maus, this book is truly something special. This autobiography has Art Spiegelman’s father, Vladek, recounting the hardships […]


Poetry Book Launch, April 11th

On April 11th at 8:00 PM, naturalist and poet Ian Thomas is having the launch of his second book of nature poetry and photography at Cloudscape HQ. While his first book, Twa Corbies, focused on poems and images of ravens & crows, this second book will have a wider range of […]


Remember: April 5th is Cloudscape’s SGM

Cloudscape Comics is calling an official Special General Meeting for all Cloudscape Comics members on Wednesday April 5th, 2017 at 7:30 pm to vote on whether Cloudscape should give itself charity status. This would allow us to seek new grants, and receive more donations from individuals and organizations. If you want to […]


Only a few days left of Field and Valley

Only a few days are left in Cloudscape’s latest Kickstarter: for Jason Turner’s Fir Valley and Sean Karemaker’s Feast of Fields. If you want to grab this surreal graphic novel explorations of the West Coast, then stop by the Field and Valley Kickstarter page.


Creative Ink this weekend

Remember, this weekend, Cloudscape will be at the Creative Ink Festival along with numerous other writers delivering a wide variety of workshops, panels, and talks on numerous aspects of the writing craft.  Cloudscape member Bevan Thomas will be participating in various panels as well as giving a workshop on writing […]


The TradeWaiters 30: “Paper Girls” vol. 1 & 2 by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang

The Tradewaiters are back! Jess Pollard joins Jon, Jeff, Jam, and kgros for a discussion on Paper Girls volumes 1 & 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. Join us as we talk about eighties nostalgia, book design, the pacing in floppies, “progressive edgy,” and Matt Wilson’s gorgeous colours. […]


Cloudscape SGM on April 5th

Cloudscape Comics is calling an official Special General Meeting for all Cloudscape Comics members on Wednesday April 5th, 2017 at 7:30 pm. Though we have recently had our Annual General Meeting, this Special General Meeting is necessary for voting on a special item: charity status. Cloudscape has been given the opportunity […]


99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercise in Style

Review by Matthew Nielsen 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style by Matt Madden is an exercise in taking a simple one-page comic and reinterpreting, reinventing, and even reincarnating it in many different ways. The template comic is 8 panels long. It depicts a man working at his […]