While the Toronto Comic Arts Festival will feature some comics rockstars like Kate Beaton, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Jeff Smith, and Alison Bechdel, there are plenty of less famous artists worth checking out. Here are a few we’ve got our eye on. Emily Carroll Carroll made a name for herself with the 2010 Halloween folktale comic [...]

Every few weeks, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto.

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. “Frontenac on the Way to Cataraqui, 1763″ from C.W. Jefferys, Dramatic Episodes in Canada’s Story (Ryerson Press, 1930) In 1921, the Ontario Department of Education selected Charles William Jefferys to illustrate [...]

Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. With his intention to shove the Ontario PC party back to the right, newly hatched leader Tim Hudak demonstrated that he is the true heir to Mike Harris. But what kind of son will he be? Will he fit the mould of the creature in the Toho studio’s Son of Godzilla [...]