"Well maybe this is telling, but I've always put my enjoyment of the festival second — or maybe third — to doing the work and ...

I think that in the last 10 years, the narrative that Marvel and DC have tried to sell, that "Women don't read comics" has shifted ...

"My schedule at TCAF is over. I met more people and had more conversations than I even thought possible (through an interpreter) these past two ...

What's everyone else been doing for the last 5 months? Hah. Seriously though. If you wanna listen to something cool, there's an MP3 of me interviewing ...

Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Pencil it In from Toronto Comic Arts Festival on Vimeo. Our sincere thanks to our good friend Chris Hutsul and the entire ...

Hello! I'm going to be in Boston this weekend (March 10th-13th) for PAXEast, the East-coast edition of the Penny Arcade Expo! I'll be working for ...

Forgot I had a website for the last week. Lots of comments on my Tokyopop article (which, given the timing of Lillian leaving the company ...

"As evidence of this, I might point out that we have the highest sales in individual distribution. I don't mean highest sales in comparison to ...

Torontoist.com, a very good Toronto-centric blogging site (part of the Gothamist network) has moved from a full RSS feed to a partial feed over the ...

[caption id="attachment_7098" align="alignright" width="314" caption="Skullkickers Volume 1: Coming in March to better comic book stores everywhere."][/caption] Unfortunately I ran out of time last month to talk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not every outing in Japan was life-changing, or amazing, or revelatory. In fact, some of them were just nice little walks to explore the neighbourhood ...

Congrats to Tom Spurgeon on finishing up 20 long-form interviews with a fascinating array of people in the comics industry. You can see the full ...

Hey y'all, I'm going to do a little "welcome to Evan Dorkin" post on Monday to explain about the Fun strips, where you can buy the ...

I spent upwards of $600 on different flavours of Kit Kat over the course of my two trips to Japan this year. That is more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Krampus! - Chris

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Edit: Tom Spurgeon weighs in with some of the strangeness surrounding the announcements and non-announcements this week. Go read. So there was a ton of big ...