We’re thrilled to announce that Fantastic Frights has won the Sequential Magazine Award for Best Anthology! This award reflects all the hard work our wonderful artists put into making this beautiful book and we’re so excited to see them getting the recognition that they absolutely deserve. Thanks to all those […]
Are you ready for a tale of tragedy and unrequited love (probably)? Come, sit down, and gather round as we read Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota. This series is “manga on hard-mode,” and is our first introduction to the Japanese art of rakugo, or “falling stories.” Join us as we […]
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Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back.
Now out from Beacon Press is Under the Banner of King Death by David Lester, Marcus Rediker, and Paul Buhle. Based on Villains of All Nations by award-winning historian Marcus Rediker, this arresting graphic exploration of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution offers a window into the uniquely egalitarian world […]
The new year is already proving to be a good one for Cloudscape books, as we’ve been nominated for not one, but two Sequential Magazine awards! Hosted by Sequential Magazine, the Sequential Magazine Awards are designed to help promote Canadian comics artists and creators, and to acknowledge achievements of quality […]
This week we read Space Boy by Stephen McCranie. Discussion (and spoilers) for the episode will cover either volumes 1 and 2 of the tankobon-sized graphic novels, or up to episode 32 of the Webtoon. We’ll spend half of the episode talking about the Webtoon format, and then get into […]
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This week we read The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine, diving deep into the most negative parts of one cartoonist’s psyche. We talk about the important place of “sad old man” comics in comics history, mumblecore, lonely book signings, and how cilantro salad is cringe (but only […]
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Jam, Jeff, and JD return to Alberta for the rest of Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. We still have lots to talk about as Kate survives her own journey of being metaphorically trapped in a tailings pond. We’ll talk about resource extraction, Canadian history, late capitalism, […]
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Cloudscape will be at the Coquitlam Christmas Night Market on Friday December 2 (5-9pm) and Saturday December 3 (4-9pm)! Find our table at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. Admission is $2 for adults. This is the night market’s second year, and there will be over 40 vendors offering gifts, jewelry, clothing […]
The Cloudy Days event on November 26th was a success! The rain didn’t stop people from coming to check out our used book sale. We even had a sale on Cloudscape published books! For those who desired a cozier atmosphere, there was an indoor drawing space where people hung out […]
