It’s episode 100! Special guest Kathleen Gros rejoins the TradeWaiters to help us celebrate our anniversary, and we read Scott McCloud’s Reinventing Comics. This book made bold predictions of what the future of comics could be. More than twenty years later, we revisit Scott’s ideas to see where they’ve been […]
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The days are getting cooler and Cloudscape is gearing up for several exciting events happening this month! Car Free Day – September 9th – Find us at Car Free Day on Commercial Drive! We will have books for sale and a station for doing Comic Jams. Stop by and say […]
For this episode our intrepid TradeWaiters read Dragman by Steven Appleby. This hefty graphic novel cloaks a story about gender identity, predatory capitalism, and being true to yourself in a brightly-coloured superhero costume and sends it out to patrol the streets of London. Join us and listen in as we […]
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Cloudscape is excited to announce our newest project: Phobos and Deimos! Maida Kilwa is a teenage refugee from Mars, who is faced with the difficult process of adapting to her new life on Earth. From high school life to a dystopian government, Maida is torn between the promise of safety […]
Cloudscape is thrilled to announce that we are reopening submissions! After a long time on hiatus we are hoping to begin taking in on new projects soon. We would love to take on some new works for our 2024 catalogue. Cloudscape primarily publishes using funds from grants, and as such […]
Today the Tradewaiters got lost in a fantasy manga with the first two volumes of Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama. We’ll break down what’s great about this comic, a few things that are maybe not as great, but mostly have a good time reading a book about kids who […]
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For this episode we read the first two volumes of Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa’s semi-autobiographical account of surviving the bombing of Hiroshima when he was six years old. Barefoot Gen is the best book about the worst thing. Be prepared for it to be super traumatic, but no other book […]
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On June 4th, 2008, Cloudscape launched Robots, Pine Trees, and Broken Hearts, the first of ten anthologies to be published in the next decade. Since that date we have had regular meetups every Wednesday and expanded our publishing beyond the initial group anthologies to include many diverse and varied collections, […]
Free Comic Book Day falls on May 6th, and Cloudscape has a fun time planned for all! Come to our field house from 11am to 1pm for drawing activities for all ages, open studio times for artists, and a giveaway of our library comic books by donation!
Cloudscape is pleased to announce the reprint campaign for Fantastic Frights on Crowdfundr! This all-ages horror anthology won the Sequential Magazine Awards for Best Anthology in 2023, and we want everyone to have the chance to read it. Our campaign is running RIGHT NOW, on the crowdfunding platform Crowdfundr. Click […]
