Misery Loves Company
MISERY LOVES COMPANY Hannah Myers ONGOING Follow Hannah as she searches desperately for love online, struggles through menial part time jobs, and navigates tricky friendships.
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Review by Matthew Nielsen Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman is a big book. It’s about 36x26cm (roughly 10×14 inches), so when you open it, it’s going to be twice the width. However, the book’s comics make full use of the pages. This book […]
Wednesday is final deadline for “Swan Song” submissions
Deadline for all Swan Song submissions is this Wednesday: February 1st! If you want to be part of our music-themed anthology, then have your script submitted by then. Check Swan Song Call for Submissions for more information.
Kalevala
KALEVALA Matthew Nielsen ONGOING Short stories from the Kalevala (the book of Finnish Mythology)
Desolation
DESOLATION Jade McGilvray COMPLETE The wild west coast holds a sinister secret that may… or may not… save the life of a girl with a terrible curse.
From Hell
Review by Matthew Nielsen From Hell, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Eddie Campbell, is one of the longest single-volume graphic novels I’ve read. With an average of 8-9 panels across 520 or so of those pages, the book features roughly 4400 illustrations, all meticulously researched with technical detail […]
Comic Chunk #94: Black n’ White Knockdown 1/5
For more of Micah Iwaasa’s webcomic on creating comics, visit the Comic Chunk Archives.
Writing for Comics classes at Langara
Only a couple of weeks until “Writing for Graphic Novels & Comix” starts at Langara, but there are still seats available. They are taught by Bevan Thomas, who has written and edited on numerous Cloudscape anthologies, most prominently the Gene Day-award-winning Epic Canadiana series. If you are interested in polishing off your […]
Cloudscape’s AGM this Wednesday!
Just reminding everyone that the Cloudscape annual general meeting is this Wednesday! If you want to vote on new board members, discuss 2017 comic projects, and play a part in shaping our organization over the next year, then make sure to stop by.
Mom’s Cancer
Review by Matthew Nielsen Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies is a very moving story of a mother in her sixties being diagnosed with cancer and how her three children do their best to help her. It is an autobiography told by Brian, the eldest of the mother’s children. Events start […]