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 […]
As some of you already know, Langara College currently offers a program on creating comics as part of its Continuing Studies. These courses are taught by numerous local comic creators (many of them from Cloudscape), and provide workshops on writing, drawing, inking, and all the other aspects necessary to create […]
by Bevan Thomas “Where do you get your ideas?” is a question so common that it has become a cliche, the thing the creators supposedly least like to be asked. All works of art, indeed all human creations, develop from ideas, but each person finds ideas in their own separate […]
The Strength of the Comic Medium By Bevan Thomas In his screenwriting guidebook Story, award-winning screenwriter Robert McKee discusses the relative strengths of various storytelling mediums, and deduces that live theatre is the medium best-suited for detailed dialogue, novels and short stories for character introspection, and movies for visual subtext […]
Writing, especially writing stories, is a difficult process, and it often helps when a sympathetic eye is there to give assistance, bringing the storyteller’s attention to what sections work and what sections need more development. If anyone is intending to submit something for the next Cloudscape comic anthology, and wishes […]
