Just a reminder to everyone that Cloudscape’s free comics class, Comics in the Clouds, is starting January 13. You can sign-up for it at City of Vancouver – Comics in the Clouds. Spread the word to anyone you think would be interested.
Review by Matthew Nielsen Black Hole by Charles Burns is a story of teenagers, drugs, and an STD called the “Bug,” which gives whoever has it a random physical mutation, anything from small growths on the back to antennae coming out of the forehead. Not your X-Men sort of deal; […]
For more of Micah Iwaasa’s webcomic on creating comics, visit the Comic Chunk Archives.
As some of you already know, Langara College currently offers a program on creating comics as part of its Continuing Studies. These courses are taught by numerous local comic creators (many of them from Cloudscape), and provide workshops on writing, drawing, inking, and all the other aspects necessary to create […]
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 […]
On today’s Tradewaiters we read Aya written by Marguerite Abouet and drawn by Clément Oubrerie. Special guest Jess Pollard joins us again while Angela is away. Our first formal foray into bande dessinée, Aya follows the chaotic love lives of three young women in 1970s Ivory Coast. This book was […]
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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.
