All educational material on comics and general art.
Students will draw and produce their own mini-comics, as well as create one-page comic art that will be displayed at a final gallery exhibition hosted in partnership with Artquake. Date: Monday evenings (April 4 – June 13, but no class May 23) Time: 4 pm – 7 pm Place: Cloudscape HQ, Memorial South […]
As we mentioned before, acclaimed comic artist Steve Rolston is teaching “The Art of Drawing Comics” at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. Though originally the start date was listed as January 25, it has now been pushed back to February 15. There is still time to sign-up for it!
For more of Micah Iwaasa’s webcomic on creating comics, visit the Comic Chunk Archives.
With the Kickstarter well under way for Kathleen Gros’ new book, she posted a comic today about some of the work Last Night at Wyrmwood High has gone through in going from web to print. The topic is lettering, so if you letter, take a look at Kathleen’s advice on […]
by Jeff Ellis Here is a breakdown of my process for creating a page for my webcomic. I am also using Adobe Contribute to make this post, so I can hopefully learn something at the same time you do. Teach English In Japan is a collaborative effort between myself and […]
For the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Family Fuse, Mara Coman and Chris Eberle developed a series of booklets that guide the fledgling cartoonist the four steps of comic creation using numerous examples from the works of various Cloudscape creators. The booklets proved incredibly popular and so we have placed them here […]
by Aliena Shoemaker July 20th, 2010 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 […]
by Bevan Thomas June 19th, 2011 The comic series The Boys, by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, brings us numerous superhero teams with strangely familiar names: Fantastico, G-Men, Payback, and above them all is the Seven orbiting in their satellite headquarters: Homelander, world’s greatest hero, Queen Maeve, mightiest of heroines, […]
by Bevan Thomas September 24th, 2011 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 […]
