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Ron Vark: A Comics Legend

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A mockumentary about Ron Vark, one of Canada’s most influential, most controversial, and most insane comic artists. Written by and starring members of Cloudscape. Warning: contains swearing

Cloudscape Televised 24-Hour Fundraising Comic Jam

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As the ultimate expression of our fundraiser for Giants of Main Street, we’re going to have a 24-hour comic jam at the home of our esteemed founder Jeff Ellis. The jam starts at 8:00 tonight and continues until 8:00 tomorrow. Watch the cream of Vancouver comic artists draw, create, discuss, […]

More Canadian heroes

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Here’s some Canadian heroes by the multi-talented Colin Upton: The Loon, scourge of the 1940s Montreal underworld and a fanatical Nazi-hunter. Canada’s most ruthless, most eccentric, and certainly most debonair crime-fighter. Here he is with his customized tank and two of his duck sidekicks. [nggallery id=74]  

All-Canadian Heroes 2

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So I’m currently putting together the roster for the graphic novel anthology All-Canadian Comics, and have been sent a wide variety of heroes, all compelling and all very Canadian. Here’s a sample of the ones we have so far: [nggallery id=73] Johnny Canuck (by Bevan Thomas and Jeff Ellis): Canada’s […]

Giants of Main Street

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In answer to our request, many talented artists have together shown us many of the giants that wander Main Street. [nggallery id=72] Respectively, the artists are: Cole Penton Reetta Linjama Christine Eberle Mara-Dor Coman Jeff Ellis Oliver McTavish-Wisden Thanks, guys! Anyone who missed submitting this time around, we are calling […]

Draw a Giant for Giants! 2

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Greetings Cloudscape and other giants! As part of this month’s mission in drawing attention to our upcoming Giants of Main Street anthology, we are initiating “Draw a Giant” week. Draw a picture of a giant, any giant, and send it to me, the Cloudscape webmaster, at webmaster@cloudscapecomics.com. In keeping with […]

Fundraising for Giants

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Giants of Main Street, Cloudscape’s sixth anthology, is almost ready to go to press, and so we are currently raising funds to pay for the book’s printing.  If you wish to help support our latest anthology, then you can do so by either by donating money directly to Cloudscape (handing […]

Calling All Canadian Heroes!

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Cloudscape wants YOU for All-Canadian Comics, an anthology of Canadian-focused heroism, many inspired by classic Canadian comics from the Golden Age of Comic Books. Many of the characters in this anthology will be superheroes, those with special powers or skills who have adopted larger-than-life personas to confront injustice and evil. […]

Article on Cloudscape in SFU Newspaper

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The Peak, SFU’s newspaper, just published an article by Will Ross on the development of Cloudscape Comics and 21 Journeys: It began as a series of informal weekly meetings among comic enthusiasts, but when the turnout exceeded expectations, the concept of Cloudscape Comics turned into a reality. “I thought, ‘We’ve […]

Interview with Jeff Ellis

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by Bevan Thomas At one of Cloudscape Comics’ Wednesday meetings, I sat down to chat with Jeff Ellis, the organization’s founder, as around us numerous fellow cartoonists worked on their own projects. Jeff Ellis In many ways, Jeff’s appearance captures the archetype of the “geek” in the best possible way; […]