The cover of Benjamin Rivers’ Snow. In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf describes a woman’s entire life through the course of events that occur in a single day. In a similar way, Benjamin Rivers’ comicSnow captures a sense of Toronto focusing only on a single street: Queen Street West. Snow follows Dana, a young woman who [...]

The worst part of the Toronto Comics and Arts Festival (TCAF)—if you can call it that—wasn’t keeping the impulse purchases in check (tough). Nor was it reconciling the sinking realization that we, unlike all the exhibitors within the Toronto Reference Library, lacked any artistic talent whatsoever. No, the real trouble was that, in what’s become [...]

You’ll find this Elf ready to share his staff in Maurice Vellekoop’s Pin-Ups. Maurice Vellekoop admits to being a little embarrassed that he won’t be bringing much new to this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival. “I’ll be selling the same old books that I’ve been selling the last couple of years,” he laughs, in a [...]

Arcade machines—shopping mall and variety store staples in the 1980s and 1990s—are now a rare breed, supplanted by the portability and comfort of home consoles, computers, and, more recently, smartphones. It’s a shame; for anyone who saw an arcade as a second home there was joy in the darkness pierced by colourful screens, the cacophony [...]

From The Raven by Lorenzo Mattotti, courtesy of Galerie Martel. Italian cartoonist and multidisciplinary artist Lorenzo Mattotti has enjoyed a long and successful career, winning several awards for his graphic novels and has illustrated covers for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. And fortunately for local fans, he will be attending this year’s Toronto Comic [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo by Marrianne Newman from Pregnant Portraiture, courtesy of pdaPR. ART: Tonight is the official opening reception for photographer Marrianne [...]

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we’ve either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and [...]