[caption id="attachment_2446" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="KTR: Graphically Speaking. (L to R) Christopher Butcher, Kate Beaton, Willow Dawson, Emily Horne, Ryan North, and Brian McLachlan"]   [/caption]   Last night was ...

(Just posted this on The Beguiling's store blog, and I figured it earned a spot here too. Come hang out with webcomics people! It'll be ...

  [caption id="attachment_2431" align="aligncenter" width="570" caption="Why, what's this event at the refence library?"][/caption]  That was a lovely little surprise today. :) - Chris

That's right! It's the official line-up for COMICS FESTIVAL 2009! Featuring a ton of great Canadian cartoonists doing all kinds of great kid-oriented new stories! ...

TCAF 2009 Poster Image by Bryan Lee O'Malley Design by Chip Zdarsky   Final full-size poster (with less text) available April, 2009   (Just realized I never posted this here, ...

Hey! TCAF is going to be awesome! I just added 30+ new guests and a bunch of new publishers to the website. Here's the bulk ...

It's time once again for The Doug Wright Awards for excellence in (English language) Canadian cartooning! "Founded in 2004 to recognize the best English-language graphic ...

A Drifting Life By Yoshihiro Tatsumi 856 Pages, Softcover, $29.99/$39.99 Published by Drawn & Quarterly I have no doubt that much will be written about this book when it ...

Hey there, I didn't post the press release for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, because I didn't want to step on the toes of my comics ...

Yikes! I woke up this morning and was informed that the January 2009 Previews Catalogue is due... Which means that retailers have gotta place their ...

Mal and I at the Toronto Reference Library yesterday. Photo courtesy of the indomitable Eric Kim. TCAF announcement next week, it looks like. :) - Christopher

We're confirmed: The 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival will be held Saturday May 9th and Sunday May 10th, in Toronto, Canada. Our new digs? The ...

Hey everybody! I just posted The Beguiling's Free Comic Book Day wrap-up at: http://www.beguiling.com/2008/05/free-comic-book-day-2008-wrap-up.html. We had a good year this year despite some pretty awful weather, ...

Are you in Toronto? Know people who are? The Beguiling/TCAF have put together two pretty-amazing Free Comic Book Day events. For one we partnered with ...

"As Josh notes, there are smaller cons that cater to indie comics - SPX, APE, MoCCa, etc. -- cons largely by and for activists, who've ...

Was working through my computer today and tripped over this... An awesome illustration by Jim Mahfood to promote the 2005 TCAF kick-off event featuring musician/turntablist/graphic ...

What's comics about this picture? Give up? It's James Jean, his illustrations bedecking the fabulous organza silk tunic and pant combo, inspiring the colours of ...

Hey there. I started typing this a couple of times, but despite how wretched the behaviour has been by a couple of retailers (and the ...

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 ...

Hello everyone! I’m Christopher Butcher, one of the co-founders and organizers of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I and my co-organizers, Peter Birkemoe and Matthew Seiden, ...

[Edited: Lots Added] Hey there. Thanks to everyone for the kind words in the comments sections and the emails, we're really happy over here that ...

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 ...

All I've been working on is TCAF stuff so I don't have a whole-lot to talk about... But I have three images that you might ...

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. ...