Welcome everyone! My name is Christopher Butcher, and I am the co-founder and Festival Director of The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF). Just last weekend, I ...

http://www.indiegogo.com/sparkplugbooks "Sparkplug Comics is ready to take on new publishing projects and we'd like to ask your help! This campaign is a fundraiser for three of Sparkplug ...

I had a really nice breakfast with a dude from Marvel Comics, and some other people. They were all great.. It was in the newspaper. The ...

I woke up on the morning of March 11th in my hotel room in Boston. I was working, running UDON's convention booth alongside a couple ...

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, ...

Hey folks. I was invited to write an introduction for a very special comics anthology, called Little Heart: A Comic For Marriage Equality. It's going ...

Hi everyone, As of December and in addition to my roles at The Beguiling and TCAF,  I officially became the Marketing Director for UDON Entertainment (http://www.udonentertainment.com). ...

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons signed a shitty publishing contract for a creator-owned book, and given the general states of those sorts of contracts at ...

Hey there! I totally wrote up The Beguiling's 2011 Year In Review and it was kind of nuts, we had our busiest year ever. If ...

Happy New Year! I had a pretty great year, all told, and I'm probably gonna go over that in it's own post in a day or ...

Season's Greetings from UDON ENTERTAINMENT! http://udonentertainment.com - Chris

Heidi MacDonald wrote a solid, incisive post about poor marketing practices when it comes to attracting a female audience, as evidenced by the array of ...

VIZ MEDIA TO RELEASE ART FOR HOPE DIGITAL ART ANTHOLOGY IN DECEMBER Innovative Art Book Created In Partnership With Autodesk To Benefit Japanese Disaster Recovery; Exhibit ...

The initial reports from all the sites linked-to above have settled in on cost-cutting measures rather than performance issues with those let go. This may ...

East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair December 10, 2011, 10am-4pm @ Berkeley City College PRESS RELEASE: Hello Bay Area! As a d.i.y. kick in the ass to the holiday shopping ...

[caption id="attachment_4740" align="alignright" width="250" caption="The first issue of Shonen Jump in North America."][/caption] I like Viz a lot and so this totally pains me to say, ...

Just want to give a quick shout-out to two excellent indy comics projects that got announced this weekend at NYCC, which may or may not ...

Dear Ontario, Today is voting day all across the Province, where we decide who will govern us for the next 4 years, give-or-take. Now, I know it's ...

I had music growing up. I say that because, particularly in geek circles, it's not always assumed that people had music as children. My first ...

I helped arrange a few creators at UDON to participate in this project--I think it's going to be very cool and worthwhile, raising still-badly-needed funds ...

So one of my more sensitive friends had a little mini-blow-up on Twitter the Friday or Saturday of Comic-con—he wasn't at the show but like ...

"Again, it makes me think of TCAF and the effect that the show actually has on the community of Toronto. It’s educational, it promotes literacy ...

Malinky Robot by Sonny Liew is a very cool indie read, about two kids getting into trouble in a nominally sci-fi, ultra dense and condensed ...

But Canada's current law goes beyond pornography that causes harm to children. It also makes some works of the imagination - stories and drawings - ...

[caption id="attachment_7226" align="alignright" width="250" caption="An drawing of a thing is not the thing itself."][/caption] According to a press release issued this morning and widely circulated across ...