Aliena Shoemaker


Weekly Comic Round-Up

Here’s the latest thing that happened last week in Cloudscape webcomics: 1. A Mad-Tea Party by Jonathon Dalton. The New Youth decide their policy on nonhuman prisoners. 2. Teach English in Japan by Jeff Ellis and Jonathon Dalton. James starts teaching sooner than he expected.. 3. Wasted Talent by Angela […]


Cloudscape Weekly Webcomic Round-Up 1

Not surprisingly, many of the artists who have contributed to Cloudscape anthologies also have regular webcomics of their own. Many of these webcomics are linked to on the Cloudscape twitter box, but sometimes that’s easy to miss, so I’ve decided to include a weekly round-up, every Sunday or Monday, of […]


Observations on the American Manga Market 1

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 […]