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.
Cloudscape Article in the Fabler
Cloudscape has been featured in an article this week on the comics blog at the Fabler. In this article, Cloudscape President Jeff Ellis discusses the creation of our collective, some of our early experiences and tips for starting a comics group. Feel free to check out the article here. The […]
Comic Battle Round 8: Voting 1
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 […]
Sunday Comic Workshop at the Wallflower
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
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 […]
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 […]
Comic Battle: Round 7 Voting 4
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 […]
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 […]