Just as a little follow-up to yesterday's post, here's a look at the Christmas Joy to be found inside the doors at the Takeshimaya Times ...

It's no secret that I go shopping in Japan, almost all of my travelogues have been retail oriented. But one of my favourite stores is ...

I can't recall if this was a secret-secret, or a known-secret, but Jeff Smith and Cartoon Books just announced that they'll be doing a One ...

This weekend we finally got through the 300+ applications for next year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and picked our 2011 exhibitors. This evening, I started sending ...

UDON is not hiring. Not just because the portfolios sent to us aren’t very good, though the majority are very weak, but also because we're ...

The folks at Threadless, the indy-American-Idol style T-Shirt company are blowing out their entire stock at $9 a shirt, for one day only. That is ...

Just a quick note that I have an utterly not-comics-related blog at http://christopherbutcher.com and I've been talking about Christmas Music, which I love, over the ...

Yes, the Japanese have a supermarket called FOO:Dmagazine (Foodie Magazine), an upscale grocery store in the massive SEIYU chain. I'm not going to lie to ...

It occurs to me, this being a comic-book website, that not all of my readers may be familiar with club flyers, and may think them ...

In observance of World AIDS day December 1st, I thought it might be appropriate (and fun!) to dig out some of the "souvenirs" of my ...

Night of the Krampus! The night when the Krampus comes door to door, beating the bad children with a switch... and abducting the particularly bad ...

Hey folks! Just a quick note that The Beguiling will be hosting an awesome event tomorrow, Robin McConnell of the Inkstuds podcast and the eponymous ...

Congrats to my buddy Zach Worton! He's been working on his first big graphic novel, The Klondike, for years now, and the official solicit just ...

Venture Krampus! Available as a bonus feature on the first box set. - Chris

Now, I know the above doesn't mean much to my American friends, and even if you've got highschool french it basically means "Milk of Hens", ...

Krampus! - Chris

This simple, beautiful strip by Doug Wright was scanned and posted as part of a larger appreciation of Drawn & Quarterly's two Doug Wright books ...

Just one last bit about Gamercamp this weekend. They designed a truly amazing map to go into the attendee bags/speaker packages, to help folks get ...

I'm happy to say I'll be participating in Gamercamp this weekend, November 13-14. Gamercamp is "a celebration of the art, creativity and fun of video ...

I'm pretty stoked about the line-up for this year's Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, going down in Waterloo, Ontario November 18th-21st. Previously they'd had Canadian ...

Good news everyone! Graphic novelists Jeff Lemire for Essex County and Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki for Skim have made it to the Top 40 ...

I'm still in Japan, and I've got a whole bunch of little posts on the fantastic beverages I've been consuming, but this one took the ...

- Chris

For my October 2010 trip to Japan, I wanted to go to places I'd never been before, but also explore places I'd been more thoroughly. ...

So, surprising no one (I guess) I am heading back to Tokyo today for a business trip with as much 'pleasure' as I can cram ...