Archives for “Canadian Cartooning”

This afternoon, the Kickstarter for Little Heart, the marriage equality-supporting comics anthology that I'm participating in hit its goal of $8500, and so it looks ...


I feel like I've been far too lax in getting the word out about Little Heart, a forthcoming comics anthology full of great comics work, ...


The contest is now open! Head to https://www.welovefine.com/contest.php?id_contest=10 for details. Original Post below... - Chris -- I was asked to be a judge for a t-shirt design contest that ...


Our Digital Comics Strategy is an Evolutionary Dead-end Why the current digital comics paradigm is no good for comics companies, retailers, or consumers. Hi, my name is ...


Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto now has the honour of being the longest-lived gay bookstore in the world, and there was news last year that ...


I was quite happy to see Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples' new comic SAGA on the cover of this month's PREVIEWS catalogue for a ...


As mentioned, I'm booth-managing Toronto's own UDON Entertainment, Booth #5037, at Comic-Con 2011 this year (in addition to a half-dozen other things). It's gonna be ...


dancedanceTO from dancedanceTO on Vimeo. A bunch of my friends made this video and they are also in this video! So Cool! Congrats guys! - Chris


Hey everyone, this is an event I'm helping to organize here in Toronto on April 17th. I would love it if you could attend, and ...


I forgot to note it on the "Where's Chris?" widget there, but this week I moderated a discussion for about 20 kids aged 8-14 on ...


If you're in or around Toronto tonight, we're throwing a launch party for my buddy Jim's new graphic novel SKULLKICKERS. It's from 5-7pm, and we'll ...


[caption id="attachment_7066" align="alignright" width="245" caption="The World Of Gloria Badcock, coming this summer from Koyama Press."][/caption] Fabulous news! The incredibly talented cartoonist and illustrator Maurice Vellekoop has ...


I just had curry for lunch so this seemed appropriate. This is the mozzarella cheese curry Andrew had in the curry-shop behind the comic book store (Nakano ...


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 ...


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 ...


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 ...


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 feel sliiiiightly guilty that I can only seem to find time to post here when it's something events/work-related, but that passes fairly quickly when ...


[caption id="attachment_5845" align="alignright" width="227" caption="Skullkickers #1 Cover A. "][/caption] My friend Jim Zubkavich is a good guy. He works primarily as the creative director at UDON ...


[caption id="attachment_5800" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="How I Spent My Monday Night: Chatting with hundreds of people at the Scott Pilgrim Costume Contest. Photo by Alex Davies ...


Item! My good friend Ben Spiegel came up with a very cool Google Map, mapping out where all of the locations from the Scott Pilgrim ...


[caption id="attachment_5689" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="Chris with Megaphone. Photo by Paul Hillier, http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadragebunny/"][/caption] I swear, I was much happier than this last night. Seriously, that was a pretty ...


The lovely Tom Spurgeon asked me for an interview, following the enormous success of TCAF 2010, and I decided "what the heck," and went along ...