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 ...

Mom: "Do you think this Starfire is a good hero?" 7 Year Old Girl: "Not really." "Do you think the Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoon is ...

Japan: Tradition. Innovation. May-October 2011. Opens May 20th, 2011. Canadian Museum of Civilization 100 Laurier Street Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0M8 (Just on the other side of the river from Ottawa) http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/whats-on/event-detail&EventId=302 So, ...

Please feel free to republish this announcement. Thanks! - Chris -- ARTISTS HELP JAPAN: TORONTO RAISES $20,000 Toronto comic artists and DJs band together for Japanese Quake & ...

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 ...

My friend Chris Magee of J-Film Pow-Wow just sent me this note about a benefit film screening that he's running on Tuesday, April 5th. The ...

I'm having a tough time with what's going on in Japan right now. I never visited Sendai but we did travel through/nearby in 2009, on ...

"One of the things I most hate to see on manga-related forums are comments like, “I’m interested in this series, but I don’t know if ...

Censoring Manga for Fun and Profit Featuring Christopher Butcher from The Beguiling Wed Feb 23, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. @ Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College ...

Hi there! My name is Christopher Butcher and in addition to running this fine blog, I'm also the Director of the 2011 Toronto Comic Arts ...

"We have a difficult time talking about things in comics. This is weird in that any reasonably large Twitter feed will tell you that people ...

The big news of the week appears to be DC Comics dropping their participation in The Comics Code Authority, after nearly 60 years.  Good fucking ...

There will always be "news", which is to say information that, by virtue of it's newness and importance, can be stated directly with a only ...

I have strong feelings on Comics Journalism. Those strong feelings are part of the reason why I rarely participate in comics journalism or the discussion thereof ...

I came across Spurge's thoughts on NYCC last night, and the thing that stuck out at me was that he thought despite giving out 2900 ...

One of the things I wanted to do this year was bring all of the disparate events and speaking enagements and travels that I participate ...

[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 ...

Timeline: May 24th: Zan Christiensen posts a great article about possible censorship concerns against gay-centric graphic novels at Apple's App Store, for the iPad and iPhone. http://prismcomics.org/display.php?id=1858 June ...

[caption id="attachment_5632" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Matthew Seiden manning The Buenaventura Press table at TCAF 2009. Photo by Deb Aoki, manga.about.com. "][/caption] Sad news today, as Alvin Buenaventura ...

An international coalition of Japanese and American-based manga publishers have joined together to combat what they call the “rampant and growing problem” of scanlations, the ...

(via) So, here's the deal: CMX wasn't, at its inception, a particularly well-run company. There are a lot of excuses out there, but bluntly DC didn't know ...

Oh Nick Simmons. I kind of wanted to post a spirited defense of you using scans of Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, but I ...

From here: "I worked for them as a letterer at an embarrassingly low page rate. I took it to get some more superhero style stuff under ...

In reference to Specifically It would be nice if someone sent a copy of so he could stop giving that quote in interviews, cuz that shit ain't true. & ...

Three things in this post: An overview of my thoughts on digital printing/print-on-demand, a look at Dave Sim's move to ComiXpress for some of his ...