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......

The always busy Jim Munroe has created a "Choose Your Own Podventure" a la those badly written but oh so addictive books (like this one). You can download them on No Media Kings. The podcast adventure features our very own Sean Lerner as the Man In Black 2, how mysterious!......

Does coke have hate-on for the GTA? First there was their secretive attempt to foist Blak on Yorkville and us. Now, is the soft drink giant also ripping off suburban DIY collective the Winking Circle? The Uxbridge collective celebrates eccentricity and creativity by building custom bikes, riding in critical masses, building skateboard parks in their sleepy town and more. They've also made a little video manifesto/documentary which may or may not have been ripped off......

Time to get out that cloning machine you've been keeping around. If the Halloween and IFOA festivities weren't enough to keep you swamped there's the Small Press Book Fair and if that's not enough for you there's Canzine at the Gladstone 1:00 pm, on Sunday. It's also the unofficial launch of the newly re-designed Broken Pencil. This year's theme, Burlesque. Indie Kids Gone Wild anyone? There'll be over 150 zines, readings, Darren O'Donnell and fifth......

Torontoist will take some time off from long-weekend drinking and head to church. Not to atone for his sins, of which there are plenty, but to check out what the independent literary artists of Toronto have been cooking up while squirelled away in their basement apartments, lofts and bedrooms over the winter at the Small Press Book Fair. Publishers such as Coach House, No Media Kings and Porcupine's Quill will be there and journals/zines and......