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. In a city of endless comicons, the behemoths battled it out while the little guy emerged a winner. This......

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. The biggest spectacle, though, is apparently yet to come. According to a typo-heavy post on Comic Book Resources, Yonge......

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. Three couples tried to break the world record for longest kiss last weekend at Mexx. If the photo above is any indication, it was precisely as awkward as kissing competitions tend to be! More photos are in......

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......

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. Check out over twenty photos of your favourite writers and illustrators at TCAF behind the cut.......

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. The festival, called "TCAF" to be concise, will......

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......

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. As part of the festivities, The Beguiling will be giving......

[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. For one night only, local comic artists will be taking over the second floor of everyone's favourite arts-promoting hotel (you heard us, Drake) to show off their skills. Toronto has one of the biggest and best indie comics scenes in North America, so it should be quite the party.......

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. From Saturday, March 10 to Sunday, March 18, Max the Mutt will be open to the public. If you’ve been considering animation as a career, or if you’re just curious about how all those neat-o pictures come to life, this is your chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at the animation......

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 It’s Almost Time by Lily Yung (above, left) or 4-D Comic by Donald Brackett (above, right). As a fundraiser for the Artists’ Health Centre Foundation, this first annual silent auction,......

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......

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. If you fall into one of these categories (and I fall into at least four......

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. from the website: Comic books are an original American art form, created in the early days of the twentieth century. They are fun to read,......

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. Sammy Harkham (Drawn and Quarterly), Kevin Huizenga (Drawn and Quarterly), and Anders Nilsen (Fantagraphics) are current favourites for the comic gurus over at the......

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. An artist embarking on a larger comics career, Carriere had 2 books to his credit and a third in the......

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......

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......