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Whirring Blender Design Challenge

Check out Carly Monardo’s Whirring Blender Design Challenge, where she chooses a subject matter and an illustrator whose style she admires, and puts the two in a blender with magic and unicorns. The end result is a beautiful and creative milkshake of rainbows and good illustration. (The pic shown is […]


Picture Book Report 1

Here’s an absolutely fantastic project for anyone who likes books or pictures, or books with pictures, or pictures about books, or any permutation thus! Picture Book Report is a project where 15 wonderful illustrators choose and illustrate 15 books. The best books. Awesome books.  There are posting schedules and everything, […]


Daymare Town

I’m posting this not only because the key to my heart is hidden inside the vault, which is behind the painting which has to be moved with the screwdriver hidden underneath the box in the frame bed that has to be opened with a secret code, but also because this […]


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 […]


Reader Controlled Art 1

The Strength of the Comic Medium By Bevan Thomas In his screenwriting guidebook Story, award-winning screenwriter Robert McKee discusses the relative strengths of various storytelling mediums, and deduces that live theatre is the medium best-suited for detailed dialogue, novels and short stories for character introspection, and movies for visual subtext […]


Writing Critique available for Anthology Submissions

Writing, especially writing stories, is a difficult process, and it often helps when a sympathetic eye is there to give assistance, bringing the storyteller’s attention to what sections work and what sections need more development. If anyone is intending to submit something for the next Cloudscape comic anthology, and wishes […]


Call for Submissions: Journeys Anthology

CALL FOR COMIC SUBMISSIONS Short Story Comics Wanted for Cloudscape’s Fifth Annual Anthology Cloudscape Comics is currently taking submissions for our fifth annual anthology from dedicated local comic artists. We are looking for 15-20 exceptional artists to showcase in our new book based on Journeys. We are looking for dynamic […]


Cloudscape Members win Xeric Grants! 1

Wei Li and Anise Shaw, who are core members of Cloudscape Comics, just won a Xeric Grant to publish their graphic novel Lotus Root Children, expected to be released in the fall from Epidigm Studios Founding member Jonathon Dalton also won, and will be printing his Mayan epic Lords of […]