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On a Queen West location shoot for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World yesterday, this is Dave vs. Bill Taylor. Dave (no last name) doesn't think "blocker" is his official title but it's his job description. He's there, with a large black umbrella, to stop anyone taking photographs of the movie shoot that has traffic crawling along Queen Street between Spadina Avenue and Portland Street and is blocking a lane of Richmond Street with its trucks.

This weekend, the Toronto Reference Library’s bespectacled old ladies of Saturday morning cartoon fame were replaced with another near-sighted crowd. Trading cat’s eye glasses for black horn rims, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival crowd, several thousand strong, dominated at least the first two floors of the behemoth library.

The Watchmen movie has been released to moderate success and every other person on the street has a copy of the graphic novel in their low-slung messenger bag. Michael Cera, the quirky playboy of lady hipster hearts, is in town filming the Scott Pilgrim movie. Now is a better time than ever to come out and let your comic flag fly. Side-by-side with a documentary festival, book festival, and photography festival, the fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival (or TCAF) animates the city this week.

In a change that just might be the culprit for all the Wayfarers, Toronto's film industry is shining brighter than it has in a while. As recently reported by the Star, Filmport, the almost one-year-old megastudio—still only in its first phase of development—is all but completely booked for production on various series, pilots, and feature films, most of them funded by major American studios. Despite in-fighting between the city and its various other studio owners over municipal funding for Filmport, this work is undoubtedly welcomed by the twenty-five thousand professional crew members and ten thousand unionized actors in Toronto.

As has been discussed before, the Bloor has become a relevant location for the local community of film buffs, but to Torontoist it feels like it's never been as obvious as during the Edgar Wright–curated film season The Wright Stuff.

The news that they're filming the Scott Pilgrim film in Toronto now has more immediate relevance than simple pride that a locally shot film will actually be set here, with the casting call for extras now open. If you've ever wanted to be brutally judged against the hipster ideal, now is your chance, with the Craigslist listing asking for performers "18 to 27 years old (up to 29 years if you have a youthful look)" that can "pull of [sic] an INDIE ROCK LOOK!" and have "slim, skinny builds with interesting faces and looks." Positively, they do note "hundreds of people are needed," though we're sure competition will be tough enough that it will be difficult to even reach the go-see stage. Still interested? Check the listing for full instructions, and if you already think you're out of luck, remember you can pick up the latest volume of the comic—Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe—at all good comic shops starting tomorrow. (via radiomaru.)

Last month, we reported that Michael Cera was signed to play the titular character in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but wondered who would be cast as Ramona Flowers, the girl of his dreams.

It was announced earlier today that Michael Cera is in final negotiations to play Scott Pilgrim in the film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, the hit comic by ex-Torontonian Bryan Lee O'Malley. Not that anyone should be particularly surprised by the casting choice: Cera is pretty much Hollywood's go-to guy for likable underdog characters nowadays.

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, the fourth volume in the popular comic book series by Brian Lee O'Malley, hits stores across the city today.

The Baldwin Steps, the set of stairs at Davenport and Spadina Roads that leads up to Casa Loma, are so recognizable that they've warranted their own Wikipedia article and feature as a battle backdrop in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Depending on the time of day and season, the Baldwin Steps––also called the Casa Loma Steps, or The Death Climb At The End of Spadina––can be romantic, creepy, trying, or picturesque. Now a group of visual artists have put together Toronto Upstairs, a group show at the Sideshow Gallery with artworks that "explore the staircases leading up from Davenport Road as transitional space, and contemplate and express the upness of here."

Competition was fiercer than the Daytime Emmys on Thursday at the 2nd Annual Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning, but Michel Rabagliati took the prize for Best Book with Paul Moves Out.

The Gladstone Hotel hosts the second annual Doug Wright Awards this evening, honouring achievement in Canadian cartooning.

So now that you know everything you need to know about Scott Pilgrim creator, Brian Lee O'Malley, you feel like you're best friends, right? So you're already reading his livejournal, right? So you don't need us to tell you that he's posted the first in a series of "Annotated Scott Pilgrim" installments, in which he compares real life Toronto to the cartoon version he's created. (In that panel above, she's walking down the hill to Christie Pits...of course!!).

Who is Bryan Lee O’Malley? With the strength of character displayed by Scott Pilgrim, the protagonist of O’Malley’s breakthrough comics series, it’s easy to imagine that he is Scott Pilgrim - the unskilled bass player for a go nowhere band in Toronto, dating an American girl, sleeping in the same bed as a gay dude and getting into all kinds of crazy adventures. The kind of guy you could imagine punching a guy “so hard he went round the entire world”.

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.

If Fight Club isn't your thing, head on over to the Beguiling at noon today, where Bryan Lee O'Malley will be signing copies of his comic book Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2 between 12 and 1 today. Ah, but who is Scott Pilgrim, you ask? "I am the Hero of a Book! A Series of books, in fact. I'm 23 years old, I'm in a band (we're not very good though), I'm "between jobs", and I've been having girl troubles lately! See, I have this unfortunate tendency to get into fights. Not like the kind where you yell and scream and throw dishes or whatever. More like Street Fighter, I guess," says the character himself.