Results tagged “comic”

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 sunset.

If you've been around U of T for the past month, there's almost no way you've missed the filming for The Incredible Hulk. From having tanks and soldiers marching along College Street to invade the Koffler Centre to shoots––like yesterday's––that saw soldiers firing live ammunition inside Knox College's courtyard, it's been pretty difficult to ignore.

A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will now appear every Saturday.

This weekend’s TCAF was a lesson in facial hair and anxious hovering (refer to Karen Whaley's photo recap). Most comic artists are known for their self-loathing and surrealism (what artists aren’t?), but never have so many accomplished beards gathered in one place. Knowing that comics have traditionally been a boy’s club, it was especially great to see so many women artists come out and make it a more gender-even atmosphere. However, the female presence did make the nervous, skinny boys floating about the tables even more so. The tension! Oh yes, the tension!

Torontoist attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival last weekend and was astounded by how much talent could be crammed into one building. Despite wanting to obtain nearly every giclée print and minicomic we saw, it was more economical to take photographs instead.

This Saturday and Sunday is the third Toronto Comic Arts Festival, the city's only comics convention where you're unlikely to find cosplayers. Instead, fans call comic books "graphic novels" and story protagonists are often neurotic everymen rather than superheroes. This free event is organized to showcase the talent of Canada's cartoonists, both up-and-coming and well-established, while also welcoming international comics creators to the Great White North.

Roxanne Bielskis will be appearing at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this Saturday! Check out the full schedule online, and be sure to check back later today for Torontoist's preview of the event.

Michael Moore’s much anticipated Sicko hits, and having seen it, we can say it’s not particularly essential for Canadian viewers to watch, unless you want to feel smug about our lovely health care system, or slightly surprised that it only takes an hour or so in London (Ontario) to be seen in an emergency room. Yes, the film is chock-a-block with anecdotal evidence, and it’s probably to the film’s fault that, as usual, Moore is selective with his anecdotes to only show free universal health care in a positively glowing light.

The best things in life are free: long walks on the beach, make-outs in the dark and, for one day a year, comic books. Comics nerds around the globe will unite in spirit this Saturday to celebrate Free Comic Book Day, which means a trip to your local comic book store will result in a handful of free stuff and a general sense of well-being.

[Roxanne will be appearing at The Beguiling for Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 5, 12-3 p.m. Torontoist will also have some coverage of the event closer to the day.—Ed.]

[Roxanne will be appearing at The Beguiling for Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 5, 12-3 p.m. Be sure to check her out!—Ed.]

If you're the creative type who's looking for a night out on the town, head over to the Gladstone tomorrow for the SpeakEasy Comic Book Show.

Listen up doodlers, animaniacs, and true believers. This month, Max the Mutt Animation School wants to give you super powers! Well, super-artistic powers, anyway.

Sometimes it feels like time is slipping away faster than ticket sales for tonight’s Al Gore talk at Con Hall. Catch time while you can! Hurry over to *new* gallery to bid on a selection of tick-tockalicious clocks created by 50 artists, such as by Donald Brackett (above, right).

Torontonians are, to say the least, an opinionated bunch. So instead of a simple "Best Of" list to cap 2006 off, the Torontoist staffers have racked their brains about everything (books, songs, restaurants, people, places, stores, newspapers, politicians, musicians, and a lot more) to bring you their choices for the very best and the very worst of our city this past year. It's Torontoist Love/Hate 2006, and you can find a new one every day at noon from December 26th until January 1st.

This weekend heralds the annual Fan Expo - the combination of the Canadian National Comic Book Expo, the Science Fiction Expo, the Festival of Fear, the Anime Expo and the Gaming Expo. It routinely drags in thousands upon thousands of nerds, geeks, fanboys, fangirls, people dressed up in Sailor Moon costumes, wannabe professionals, enthusiastic amateurs, real professionals, and bargain hunters.

Tomorrow, May 6th, 2006, is worldwide Free Comic Book Day! That means pretty much what you think it means: fine comic book shops across the globe are dispensing comics to those who wander through their doors. The event, designed to celebrate indie comic stores, is now in it's fifth year.

Torontoist remembers that wonderful summer afternoon spent in the alley behind Honest Ed's at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. There were just far too many talented artists and graphic novel goodness for us to take it all in. So sadly we missed meeting the three artists appearing at the Revival tonight.

Comic artist and mail carrier Ryan Richard Carriere was killed Monday night while cycling home from work to take his two young daughters out Trick-Or-Treating. Carriere was struck by a truck at the intersection of Queen & Gladstone, where 24 hours earlier he had happily been exhibiting his wares at CANZINE in the Gladstone Hotel.

The Toronto Comic Arts Fest is finally upon us, and the ensuing days will be chock full of readings, gatherings and Koalas of the Kid variety. Tonight is no exception. Local illustrator and multitasker Marc Ngui sees his book, Lordie Jones, shot into the stratosphere by way of a book launch and storytelling session. And local illustrator Gari Taxali sees the first character in his Chump Toy line get its unveiling at Magic Pony tonight. It is a cute and monkeyish little thing. Which reminds us that there's also a nice photo essay of these high-priced plastic goodies over at CBC Arts.

Joe Shuster was one of Canada's greatest graphic storytellers, and a co-creator of Superman. What's more, in his youth, he was a paperboy for the Toronto Daily Star, and as a result, dorky Clark Kent's day job at the Daily Star was a nod to that paper and those times. All of this to say, then, that it's fitting for Canada's newest award ceremony, honouring comic books and the people who make them, is to be called the Shuster Award. The inaugural gala will be held in April, and, in the spirit of democracy, this year anyway, the first set of awards will be chosen by a public vote. Categories include Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist, Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Publisher, Canadian Comic Book Retailer Recognition Award, and the Most Effective Use of the Words Kerblooey! and Kapow! Award. Okay, we made that last one up.