Cloudscape Comics

About Cloudscape

The Cloudscape Comics Society is a community of comic creators in Vancouver, BC who together publish and distribute quality graphic novel anthologies, as well as host comic workshops and other related events. Here enterprising comic artists come together to network, develop their ideas, and help each other perfect their craft. Everyone is welcome to the weekly evening meet-ups on Wednesdays, starting at 7:30 PM in the back room of the Grind and Gallery Coffee Bar.

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Artist and Writer Calls

The Best New Comics for Kids Come to Vancouver

Lucky’s Comics on Main Street is hosting a book signing this Friday, Feb. 25th from 8 to 10 for Raina Telgemeier, Aaron Renier, Jason Shiga, Matt Holm, Dave Roman, and Gene Yang. If you’re not familiar with their work, you should be! Raina’s graphic novel Smile began life as an auto-bio webcomic back in the . . . → Read More: The Best New Comics for Kids Come to Vancouver

Futures of the Past Video

So me, Michael Park, and Ray Hsu walked into a bar… and we decided to make a graphic novel motion video collaboration!

This comic is also available in the next 21 Journeys book, a experiment in storytelling and exploration in visual language, tone, mood, and the idea of a journey.

Check it out and let . . . → Read More: Futures of the Past Video

Houdini and Holmes

The fantastic Polly Guo is selling self-published Sherlock Holmes comics! She’s only doing 50 copies, so hurry!

Damn it looks fine.

Parka Blogs Artbook Reviews

I’m not sure if everyone’s already aware or not, but Parka Blogs is a fantastic resource for those of you who like to collect artbooks. If you’ve wondered if you should buy an artbook, but have been deceived by nice covers in the past, see if it’s been reviewed on Parka. He does a . . . → Read More: Parka Blogs Artbook Reviews

So you think you can draw Umbrella Girl!

As you may or may not know, our official mascot is Umbrella Girl who graced the cover of our very first publication, Robots, Pine Trees & Broken Hearts, and she has made an appearance in every Cloudscape book since. So for a bit of fun, we’ve put the challenge out for artists to show us . . . → Read More: So you think you can draw Umbrella Girl!

Exploded View

Cloudscape is Pleased to announce their fourth book, launching this March; Exploded View.

A Science-Fiction anthology, featuring the talents of Camilla d’Errico, John Christmas, Colin Upton, Eric Zawadzki, Edison Yan, Jonathon Dalton, Angela Melick, Toren Atkinson, Steve LeCouilliard, and many more! Look for it this March! A special Advanced Release will be . . . → Read More: Exploded View