+ Let's see what joys the internet can provide for us today, shall we? "Fan Fiction is an Internet site where fans can speculate, converse and ...

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust." - BAUDELAIRE "If one ...

I've been invited to dismiss, point by point, the... let's be kind and say "unsupported" notions in Heidi MacDonald's essay yesterday. It's quite tempting to do so, ...

Hey there. I wrote a review of the Chris Ware-edited Best American Comics 2007 book this week, and I think it came out pretty well. ...

Hey there! Welcome back to my little travelogue of Japan. If you've missed the previous entries, they're now all indexed under the Japan 2007 tag. ...

Though the official release date isn't until today, The Best American Comics 2007 can already be found on store shelves everywhere, be they 'comic', 'book', ...

Just as a bit of ancillary info following the post I wrote this weekend about comics journalism, Newsarama.com announced today that it has been acquired ...

Over at Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh reminds me that I'd been meaning to post a little something about Perry Moore's new superhero-populated Young Adult novel ...

DC's online comics initiative, Zuda, have posted their creator contracts online. Following along with Joey Manley, I will at least congratulate them for being transparent, ...

From Dirk Deppey at Journalista: [Commentary] Christopher Butcher declares that scanlations are wrong and even the mildest of snark is unacceptable in a Comics Journal blog. ...

The Word On The Street is a FREE literary festival held on September 30th from 11am-6pm in five cities across Canada*. I'm really happy to ...

I’m actually typing up this entry on the plane ride home from Japan. I have mixed feelings about leaving… I’ve never really been convinced I ...

My anger is so fucking righteous. Seriously though, I'm in Japan, everything's goddamned awesome. I don't even have an angry bone in my body at this ...

When last we talked, we had just left the Tokyu Hands store in Ikebukuro. A short walk away from there is the Sunshine 60 mall, ...

For Day 2 in Japan, we decided to take it easy--only a few train stops away from our home of Saitama (seen above, in the ...

Did you know there's a typhoon coming? And that a typhoon is actually a hurricane? And that on our way home from Ikebukuro, the trains ...

So I was reading Journalista yesterday and Dirk made a comment that kind of set me off about manga... Not because anything he said was ...

Hey there guys, I'm ridiculously busy at the moment but I wanted to take a second and recognize all the great media that TCAF got ...

What's going on today? Paul Pope (vis a vis his appearance at this weekend's Toronto Comic Arts Festival) is on the cover of Toronto's Eye ...

PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR LISTINGS TCAF PARTY: SONGS & PICTURES Featuring Kupek, Little Brown Bat, and Ragni Saturday, August 18th, Doors Open at 9PM Sneaky Dees, 431 College St. ...

Hey there. A fun little interview I did with Toronto Foodie Blog TasteTO just went online at http://www.tasteto.com/ (scroll down). They were nice enough to ...

Who doesn't love a contest? As part of a promotion I set up with Toronto's EYE WEEKLY Magazine, who is sponsoring The Toronto Comic Arts Festival ...

It's... so... bright! San Diego is brighter than Toronto... I don't know what these people do with all of this sun. Anyway, my schedule at ...

HEY THERE, CITIZEN! It's time for you to once again for you to participate in the democratic process: Which Of Wizard's Advertisers do YOU like ...

My friends got a great publishing contract that lets them have their cake and eat it too. Have you heard about the forthcoming graphic novel THEREFORE, ...