Cloudscape wants YOU for All-Canadian Comics, an anthology of Canadian-focused heroism inspired by classic Canadian comics from the Golden Age of Comic Books. Many of the characters in this anthology will be superheroes, those with special powers or skills skills who have adopted larger-than-life personas to confront injustice and evil. […]
There is much more to the Cloudscape website than the blog and as I have just expanded various sections, it’s a good time to remind the visitor of the various places they can visit. One of the big changes I’ve done recently is to upload numerous videos about Cloudscape and […]
After completing its ghost story collection, Gurukitty Studios is putting together a new anthology. This one, entitled “Once Upon a Time,” will have folk and fairy tales as its central theme: “We are all familiar with the mainstream typical stories such as Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the […]
Paper Wings is a podcast filled with advice on how to make and sell various forms of creator-owned visual storytelling, including comics, picture books, and animation. Led by Disney character designer Chris Oatley and IDW comics creator Lora Innes, Paper Wings investigates such topics as: -How to craft beautiful […]
COME MAKE ZINES: FREE DROP-IN ZINE WORKSHOP! Pinch Drawing, collage and writing with experienced zine-maker Anne Emberline of Pinch as part of a workshop at Project Space as part of Culture Days. Participants can create their own zine and/or create layouts for a collaborative zine that will be distributed at […]
Sunday at Word on the Street, comic creator David Lester will be giving a presentation, with slides and music, of his graphic novel The Listener, as well as autographing copies. Here’s my impression of the book: ___________ Maus, Persepolis, Louis Riel, the journalism of Joe Sacco… many of the best […]
The Golden Age of superhero comics existed from the end of the 1930s to the beginning of the 1950s, with the bulk of it revolving around World War II. Superheroes have never been as popular since. There was something about the second War to End All Wars that made the […]
The Cloudscape website already includes, in the “Comics 101” section, a list of various comic book companies who accept unsolicited submissions, but there are also various websites that include classifieds for people to post comic book-related jobs, recruit writers, artists, or other individuals for collaborative projects, or post their own […]
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: “He’s a […]
