Sparks artist Nina Matsumoto joins our panelists to talk about The Batman Adventures: Mad Love by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. This was the first appearance of Harley Quinn in a comic and the origin story of one of DC’s most iconic characters today. We talk about the behind the […]
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In addition to Fantastic Frights winning the Sequential Magazine Award for Best Anthology. The Last Tide took third place for best graphic novel! This is well deserved, if you haven’t already, please check it out.. Thanks to all those who voted and a huge congratulations to all the contributing artists! […]
We’re thrilled to announce that Fantastic Frights has won the Sequential Magazine Award for Best Anthology! This award reflects all the hard work our wonderful artists put into making this beautiful book and we’re so excited to see them getting the recognition that they absolutely deserve. Thanks to all those […]
Are you ready for a tale of tragedy and unrequited love (probably)? Come, sit down, and gather round as we read Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota. This series is “manga on hard-mode,” and is our first introduction to the Japanese art of rakugo, or “falling stories.” Join us as we […]
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Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back.
Now out from Beacon Press is Under the Banner of King Death by David Lester, Marcus Rediker, and Paul Buhle. Based on Villains of All Nations by award-winning historian Marcus Rediker, this arresting graphic exploration of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution offers a window into the uniquely egalitarian world […]
The new year is already proving to be a good one for Cloudscape books, as we’ve been nominated for not one, but two Sequential Magazine awards! Hosted by Sequential Magazine, the Sequential Magazine Awards are designed to help promote Canadian comics artists and creators, and to acknowledge achievements of quality […]
This week we read Space Boy by Stephen McCranie. Discussion (and spoilers) for the episode will cover either volumes 1 and 2 of the tankobon-sized graphic novels, or up to episode 32 of the Webtoon. We’ll spend half of the episode talking about the Webtoon format, and then get into […]
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This week we read The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine, diving deep into the most negative parts of one cartoonist’s psyche. We talk about the important place of “sad old man” comics in comics history, mumblecore, lonely book signings, and how cilantro salad is cringe (but only […]
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Jam, Jeff, and JD return to Alberta for the rest of Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. We still have lots to talk about as Kate survives her own journey of being metaphorically trapped in a tailings pond. We’ll talk about resource extraction, Canadian history, late capitalism, […]
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