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Colin Upton, Local Comic Star

By Jonathon, on January 6th, 2011%

Colin Upton has been making comics in Vancouver since before some members of Cloudscape were even born. Scary, I know. This recent interview with him is very well done.

You can find parts two and three on Youtube. . . . → Read More: Colin Upton, Local Comic Star

So I’ve been re-reading John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, a jolly young adult novel about religious fanaticism, ethnic cleansing, and race war in a post-apocalyptic, and remembering how compelling and yet how disturbing the book is. And then I was reminded that its topics of mutants and species war and the idea that according to nature, . . . → Read More: What Superpeople Read

Observations on the American Manga Market

By Nuu, on July 20th, 2010%

by Aliena Shoemaker

There was a time when the local Borders was the only store in my city that carried manga (Japanese comics) in the trade paper back format. The titles the store carried were limited to a grand total of about five. The titles included had either been readily available to the North American . . . → Read More: Observations on the American Manga Market

Reader Controlled Art

By bevan, on July 16th, 2010%

The Strength of the Comic Medium

By Bevan Thomas

In his screenwriting guidebook Story, award-winning screenwriter Robert McKee discusses the relative strengths of various storytelling mediums, and deduces that live theatre is the medium best-suited for detailed dialogue, novels and short stories for character introspection, and movies for visual subtext observed by witnessing characters’ behaviour . . . → Read More: Reader Controlled Art

Capering in Costumes

By anise, on June 10th, 2010%

The Suitability of Various Artistic Media for the Superhero Genre By Bevan Thomas

Not all superheroes are in comic books, and certainly not all comic books are about superheroes, but somehow the two fit together. Superheroism as a genre is defined by its visual spectacle and kinetic energy: larger-than-life characters in bright costumes using . . . → Read More: Capering in Costumes

Cloudscape’s Top Ten Comics of the Decade

By Jonathon, on December 31st, 2009%

In true collective fashion, we over at Cloudscape headquarters (a.k.a. The Grind on Main Street) put our heads together this week to come up with a master list of what we consider to be the top ten comics produced in the 2000s. Five of us each came up with our own independent lists (which can . . . → Read More: Cloudscape’s Top Ten Comics of the Decade

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Cloudscape’s Top Ten Comics of the Decade