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Gothic Romance Anthology Seeking Stories of Love & Horror

Hope Nicholson, comic historian and publisher of Bedside Press, has announced a call for submissions for Gothic Tales of Haunted Love, an anthology of new gothic romance comic stories: “Stories should take into account the style and feel of the 1970s gothic romance comic genre. This is a genre where […]


How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

Review by Matthew Nielsen How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less is an autobiographical graphic novel by Sarah Glidden that explores how she, an American with Jewish heritage, went on a birthright trip to Israel in March, 2007. The birthright trip is a charity-funded service that allows any […]


Cloudscape still looking for refugee stories

Cloudscape is still looking for two refugee stories that could serve as comics in our upcoming Comics in Transit series. We wish to interview people who have left their home countries to seek a new life in Canada and adapt their stories into comics that will appear on various transit […]


Pulp Literature Kickstarter

Over the past three years, the fiction magazine Pulp Literature has published a dozen issues packed full of genre-busting short stories, comics, poetry, novellas, and novel excerpts. Their comics have included the works of such Cloudscape members as Bevan Thomas, Kris Sayer, and Eric Johnson. Now their company is branching […]


True Loves

Review by Matthew Nielsen True Loves by Jason Turner and Manien Batoma is a romance comic set in Vancouver, Canada, that tells the story of True, the owner of a used clothes store, and Zander, a grocery clerk with a positive attitude. The story starts with True in a relationship […]


The TradeWaiters 25: “Sacred Heart” by Liz Suburbia

Stuff is bad right now. Let’s read a book! In this episode Jon, Jeff, Angela, and kgros read Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia, about a group of punk teens surviving in a town that seems to have no adults. Spoiler alert: something mysterious is going on. Also in this episode […]


Cloudscape Halloween 2016

Cloudscape’s 2016 Halloween party was on Friday, October 28th, and it was a lot of fun. Here’s all the Cloudscapers in their costumes having a wonderful time:


“Epic Canadiana #2” Wins 2016 Gene Day Award!

Exciting news! Epic Canadiana #2, our second serving of exciting tales of Canadian superheroes, has won the Gene Day at the Joe Shuster Awards! The Joe Shusters honour excellence in Canadian comics throughout various genres, with the Gene Day specifically awarding a graphic novel that has been self-published outside of […]


Tomorrow, graphic novel book launch at Book Warehouse

November the 9th at 7 pm, Michael Kluckner will be launching his graphic novel 2050 at the Book Warehouse on 4118 Main Street. In Kluckner’s own words, 2050 is “inspired by a trip to Cuba a few years ago as well as by the daily diet of climatic and humanitarian […]