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Extra, Extra: Our Comic Artists Among the Best and Our Commutes Aren’t So Bad?
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- Each year, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival reminds us that Toronto has a whole lot of talented cartoonists working in all sorts of media and distributing their work online and off. Two of Toronto’s top talents—Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics) and Emily Horne (A Softer World)—appear with dozens of others in Stripped, a feature-length documentary about the quickly evolving comic arts world. The doc’s creators have reached their initial fundraising goal using Kickstarter but are still accepting pledges to put towards things like closed captioning.
- According to IBM’s Commuter Pain Index, Toronto’s commute is pretty painless (in terms of hours spent in traffic, high price of gas, high stress), which is news to us, since just weeks ago Stats Canada said Toronto has the worst commutes in the country. Our commutes are more painful than those in New York City, but less painful than Stockholm’s. The index places Montreal as the least painful commute, and the worst? Mexico City, followed by two cities in China (Shenzen and Beijing). [via Ed Lee]
- Toronto’s vibrant arts community is also a very vocal and, when called upon, a fiercely protective one. And though arts funding wasn’t at the top of Joseph Pennachetti’s list of recommended cuts, that community is nervous about what cuts await them. Hence, the Petition to Protect Arts Funding to Keep Toronto Vibrant from Friends of the Arts, a group of Toronto arts advocates “working together to give voice to Toronto residents and businesses who care about the role that the arts play in the city, and to make sure that City Council takes their perspectives into account when making difficult financial decisions.”
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