Comic Chunk #92: Comicker’s Curse 2/3
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Customers of Ladner comic shop run it while owner is in the hospital
Here’s a heart-warming BC comics-related story: Dave’s Pop Culture is a comic and game shop in Ladner, BC, that is a community hub of pop culture in that city with a very devoted customer base. When many of the regulars discovered that Dave Strutt — the store’s owner and only […]
“Tim’rous Beastie” now open for submissions!
Iron Circus (publishers of Sleep of Reason and New World) is now officially taking submissions for Tim’rous Beastie. “A black-and-white comic anthology about small lives in a big, big world. This is an anthology by and for those of us who grew up inspired by Redwall, The Deptford Mice, Rats […]
The Quest for the Big Woof
Review by Matthew Nielsen The Quest for the Big Woof, written by Lenny Henry and illustrated by Steve Parkhouse, is a British comedic graphic novel from 1991 about the life and mind of Lenny Henry. The story is pretty straightforward: Henry is in the process of writing gags for his […]
The TradeWaiters 26: “Americus” by M.K. Reed and Jonathan Hill
Special guest Jess Pollard returns to the TradeWaiters studio for Americus by M.K. Reed and Jonathan Hill. She proceeds to get Socratic on the group as we discuss censorship, culture wars, and comics. Meanwhile, we confirm the existence of actual IRL TradeWaiters listeners, and everyone’s got an opinion on a […]
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Gothic Romance Anthology Seeking Stories of Love & Horror
Hope Nicholson, comic historian and publisher of Bedside Press, has announced a call for submissions for Gothic Tales of Haunted Love, an anthology of new gothic romance comic stories: “Stories should take into account the style and feel of the 1970s gothic romance comic genre. This is a genre where […]
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Review by Matthew Nielsen How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less is an autobiographical graphic novel by Sarah Glidden that explores how she, an American with Jewish heritage, went on a birthright trip to Israel in March, 2007. The birthright trip is a charity-funded service that allows any […]
Cloudscape still looking for refugee stories
Cloudscape is still looking for two refugee stories that could serve as comics in our upcoming Comics in Transit series. We wish to interview people who have left their home countries to seek a new life in Canada and adapt their stories into comics that will appear on various transit […]
Pulp Literature Kickstarter
Over the past three years, the fiction magazine Pulp Literature has published a dozen issues packed full of genre-busting short stories, comics, poetry, novellas, and novel excerpts. Their comics have included the works of such Cloudscape members as Bevan Thomas, Kris Sayer, and Eric Johnson. Now their company is branching […]
Only a couple of weeks left to submit a script for Cloudscape Comics’ latest anthology!
The deadline to submit a script for Swan Song, Cloudscape’s music-themed anthology, is November 30th, which is just a couple weeks away! If you want to be a part of this book, make sure you have your story written by then. For more information, check out our Swan Song call […]