Archives for 2007

Tetsuwan Atom and I would like to wish you a Happy 2008, and thank you for all for reading here throughout 2007. I had a ...


I just wanted to send a quick thanks to Karen Whaley and the Staff of Torontoist.com for naming The Toronto Comic Arts Festival one of ...


Thanks to everyone for the compliments on this photo-journal. The response has been pretty phenomenal, and I hope the Japanese government sees fit to throw ...


I really like the art of Tomer Hanuka, probably best-known to comics fans for his comic series Bi-Polar and his graphic novel Placebo Man, both ...


So due to the Christmas rush, I never really got to report back from The Beguiling's signing with Svetlana Chmakova, creator of Dramacon, and Faith ...


I decided I wanted to linkblog to the last three weeks of interesting posts I pulled out of my feed reader... You know, just cuz. ...


See ya there...! - Christopher


Thanks for continuing to read my Japan Photo Recap. I haven't mentioned it in a while, but these photos were taken between September 3rd and ...


I was in the malls on the first day of December. I knew what to expect so I’m not going to pretend to be surprised ...


Kagan McLeod, author of the comic series Infinite Kung-Fu (coming from Top Shelf in collected form in 2008) put together this sweet little print just ...


Here's the list of comics scheduled to ship to The Beguiling in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday December 19th, 2007. Please note that not all books ...


If you head over to Xtra.ca, the website of Canada's twice-monthly free gay newspaper, you can see my second article for the paper, a primer ...


Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind classic animated films including Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, has been amongst the ...


Local #11: Toronto By Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly Oni Press 2008 - Chris


When last we left Harajuku, we were standing outside of the Peanuts theme store with our Gothloli friend: The Peanuts store is pretty damned awesome, what ...


I'm sure no one is coming here for my opinion on the Video Games Industry, but there's a little bit of a hubub that went ...


Welcome back to the guided tour of my trip to Japan! For those of you just joining me, my husband and I took our first ...


Please Include In Your Listings DRAMACON 3 / ZOMBIES CALLING SIGNING Featuring Svetlana Chmakova and Faith Erin Hicks Wednesday, December 19th, 4pm-6pm The Beguiling, 601 Markham ...


Next: Harajuku. - Chris


Due to unforgivable oversight, I hadn't linked Christopher Bird's website MightyGodKing in the side-bar here... Mr. Bird just showed up in the store here (he's ...


Dude, listen. I'm not a prude, alright? I'm about the most liberal guy you're going to meet. And in case you didn't notice? I'm actually ...


Happy Turkey Day, AMERICANS. Thanks to your little holiday, it seems as though we got The Beguiling's shipping list a day early. Since everyone has ...


Hey everybody! I just got back from the reason for my little sojourn to New York, a rare in-store appearance of manga-ka Takehiko Inoue, author ...


It's wonderful. I'm at a conference for teachers and librarians that I sort of crashed... Why is every singly conference I go to nicer and ...


The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship to The Beguiling Books & Art in Toronto, Canada this week. Not all books make ...