Congratulations to Kevin Forbes, our winner of the Cloudscape Comic Battle Round 7 ‘Brainstorm’! Here are our top three: 1st place – Kevin Forbes 2nd place – Michael J. Cohen 3rd place – Zach Allan See the full results here. Now let’s see who triumphs in round 9 ‘What Ever […]
Hey Gang; It’s almost that time again – we will be meeting this coming Sunday, August 1 at the Wallflower Cafe on Main st from 3-5 pm. Everyone is welcome! Bring your favorite mark-making tools and anything you’d like feedback on. Cheers, Syd
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Mike Cohen, our winner of the Cloudscape Comic Battle Round 6 ‘Too Hot’! Here are our top three: 1st place – Mike Cohen 2nd place – Jeff Ellis 3rd place – Vera Varlamova See the full results here. Now let’s see who triumphs in round 7 ‘Brainstorm’! [nggallery […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations Kevin Forbes our winner of the Cloudscape Comic Battle Round 5 ‘Wrong Tool for the Job’! Here are our top three: 1st place – Kevin Forbes 2nd place – Dave and Byron 3rd place – Jeff Ellis It’s so great to see some new blood in the ranking! See […]
