It will not be held at the Grind but at Jeff’s house (33 N Templeton dr.) so be aware of the change of venue. ]]> Reminder to members, Cloudscape will be holding their annual general meeting tomorrow at 7:30 pm

It will not be held at the Grind but at Jeff’s house (33 N Templeton dr.) so be aware of the change of venue.

Come visit us at Table 56/57!

Or if you don’t want to cross a border, . . . → Read More: Jet City Comicon and Word Under the Street]]> If you aren’t going to Big Pete’s in North Vancouver this Saturday, there are two other opportunities for you to meet up with some Cloudscape artists and check out 21 Journeys. We’ll be a Jet City Comicon in Seattle:

Come visit us at Table 56/57!

Or if you don’t want to cross a border, come visit us at the Vancouver downtown library on Sunday at Word Under the Street.

“The Terrible Death of Finnegan Strappe is the macabre story of one man’s . . . → Read More: The Terrible Death of Finnegan Strappe]]> Jordyn Bochon, former Vancouverite and occasional Cloudscape contributor, has launched a fundraiser for her new project. The Terrible Death of Finnegan Strappe will be an ongoing comics series and Jordyn is raising the funds to print the first three issues. She says:

“The Terrible Death of Finnegan Strappe is the macabre story of one man’s self destructive, occult journey to utter ruin told through a veil of humor, gore, and glamour. This project is a labor of love, spanning several years. With this fundraiser I hope to self-publish the first three issues and get my work out to a larger audience. I’ve been publishing my own comics for years because I am passionate about what I do and can’t imagine doing it any other way.”

You can read it as a webcomic here, (caution: not always safe for work) and contribute to the fundraiser on Indiegogo.

My latest blog post discusses someone I’m sure all of you are familiar with, that master of minicomics, that adept of autobiography, that emir of the underground… the one, the only Colin Upton:

Colin Upton's "Utterly True History of . . . → Read More: Colin Upton at Broken Frontier]]> Broken Frontier is a comics news website that I frequently blog for on various topics.

My latest blog post discusses someone I’m sure all of you are familiar with, that master of minicomics, that adept of autobiography, that emir of the underground… the one, the only Colin Upton:

Colin Upton's "Utterly True History of Mini-Comics"

“He’s a fascinating guy. A generation older than the rest of the Cloudscape team, he started making comics in the 1980s and became an important part of Canada’s developing independent comics scene. He was prominently featured in John Bell’s Invaders from the North, a book that analyzes the development of the Canadian comic book, and in Bryan Talbot’s The Naked Artist, a collection of weird and wonderful stories….”

For more, read my article at Broken Frontier.

From Maus to Persepolis to Blankets, memoirs in graphic novel form are among the most powerful stories being told today. This course offers practical and wide-ranging techniques for translating your life experiences into sequential art. Classroom writing and drawing . . . → Read More: Intro to Graphic Memoir, Tuesday nights this fall!]]> Miriam Libicki is running a comics course this fall! You should all consider taking it.

From Maus to Persepolis to Blankets, memoirs in graphic novel form are among the most powerful stories being told today. This course offers practical and wide-ranging techniques for translating your life experiences into sequential art. Classroom writing and drawing exercises, as well as take-home assignments, help you develop a creative process from brainstorm to script to layouts and inking. These projects, along with group and individual critiques, will guide you towards effective storytelling in creating an original graphic memoir.

Based on Libicki’s own techniques, as well as strategies from Lynda Barry, Eddie Campbell, Scott McCloud, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, this intensive yet laid-back course is open to students of all skill and knowledge levels. The underground-comix veteran and the person who hasn’t read books with pictures since childhood, the writer who likes to doodle and the visual artist who writes bits of text in the margins of her drawings, will all find something new and inspiring here, as well as a supportive and diverse critique group that has a habit of lasting longer than the six-week course.

for more information, go here or email mlibicki@ecuad.ca