We love Word on the Street but we always find there's way too much to do. So we've scoured the WOTS program and picked out the three things that you should try to hit up this Sunday at Queen's Park. Best of all, the whole event is free. 1) Margaret Atwood and the Long Pen (The Long Pen Tent, reading at 11am, signing all-day) Hear the grand dame of CanLit read from her new book.......

The last 10 days have been a great time to be a film nut, but now Christmas comes early for book nerds as over the next few weeks two of the biggest events of the year take place, starting with next Sunday’s Word on the Street, which will be followed by the start of the International Festival of Authors in mid-October. A few events taking place today. Poet Lorette C. Luzajic launches her first book,......

The Gladstone Hotel hosts the second annual Doug Wright Awards this evening, honouring achievement in Canadian cartooning. The nominees for Best Book are: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly Books) Wimbledon Green by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly Books) Dragonslippers: This Is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like by Rosalind B. Penfold (Penguin Canada) Paul Moves Out by Michel Rabagliati (Drawn & Quarterly Books) Scott Pilgrim Volume 2 by Bryan......

Local comic hero Chester Brown reimagines Wonder Woman, one of the most iconic characters in comic books. The one-of-a kind original pieces (not prints) will be going up for auction with all proceeds going to the Douglas Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning which will be held later this year. The award organizers have previously auctioned off Seth's playful reimagining of the original X-Men. Chester Brown's Wonder Woman print will be auctioned off on eBay......

This weekend the Toronto Reference Library opens a graphic novel show with works by "leading graphic novelists such as Seth, Chester Brown, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Julie Doucet, Marjane Satrapi, R. Crumb and many more." It'll be up at the TD Gallery Space until March 20, but there will be intermittent gallery talks as well, including a free one in February with Chester Brown, creator of the brilliant (and brilliantly stolen from TOist by an......