If you create your own comics and intend to sell them at conventions, there are a couple of Canadian comic conventions you may be interested in: Toronto Comics Art Festival. TCAF is the biggest indie comics convention in Canada. It is celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, which […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen Hipira, written by Katsuhiro Otomo and illustrated by Shinji Kimura, is a charming children’s book about the adventures of a young vampire. Kimura’s artwork is vividly colourful, rich and finely painted. It is also stylised in a fantastic, crooked sort of way, somewhat reminiscent of The Nightmare […]
Join comic creator Tony Cliff to celebrate the release of his latest graphic novel, Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules. Come for the signed, sketched-in books, stay for the company. Time: August 10th, 7:00-10:00 PM Place: Pulp Fiction Books at Main and Broadway, Vancouver Delilah Dirk and the Pillars of Hercules is a bonafide […]
We at Cloudscape are having a summer sale at the Cloudscape store! For all of August, our anthologies and graphic novels are being sold at $5 less than their cover price! Now will be a perfect time to complete your Cloudsape collection and have some new summer reading, so stop […]
Jean Matthew reviews Sean Karemaker’s Feast of Fields in Broken Pencil #80: “Autobiographical comics have never looked quite like Sean Karemaker’s Feast of Fields. The comic features wide, hand-drawn and intensely detailed black-and-white illustrations. Karemaker shares stories from his childhood, his time at school, and his evolving relationship with his mother…. The […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen The Last Look Trilogy (X’ed Out, The Hive and Sugar Skull) by Charles Burns follows a series of events and thoughts in the life of a young and somewhat unconventional artist named Doug, including his memories, fears, and ambitions. It is a surreal story in which […]
Jeff Ellis is not only Cloudscape founder but also one of the main teachers at Langara College’s Graphic Novel program. This week he was profiled on the Langara College’s website: “Jeff has been drawing comics for as long as he can remember, but his interest intensified in high school, when […]
Cloudscape does regular life drawing down at our HQ, bringing in a wide variety of models for both draped and undraped poses. For our next session, on August 19, we will feature a model in full armour! Hope to see you there.
Ashley Park on the Arts Report (on CiTR-FM, UBC’s radio station) talks about Swan Song, Cloudscape’s music-themed anthology. She discusses the anthology’s variety of topics, which stories stood out for her in particular, and each story approaches the themes differently. In particular, she enjoyed how each story was linked to a particular […]
Review by Matthew Nielsen Hostage by Guy Delisle is a graphic novel telling the story of Christophe André’s kidnapping and time spent as a hostage in Chechnya. A young Frenchman working for Doctors Without Borders, André was taken from his office and driven away to remote unknown locations. Delisle provides a […]
