This week: Toronto SpeakEasy Comic Book Show

Toronto SpeakEasy, a monthly gathering of the city’s creative community, hosts its annual Comic Book Show this coming Thursday, Nov 5,  8pm-midnight at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West, second floor lobby).
The main event is in the evening, but I think you might be able to pop in any time during the day to check [...]

Comics at the Festival of Authors

A few years ago, I interviewed Seth and Tony Millionaire at one of Toronto’s first International Festival of Authors to feature comic creators. There is one week left in the 2009 edition and courtesy of The Beguiling, here is the comics and graphic novels lineup for the remainder of the festival:
Lynn Johnston reads Farley Follows [...]

Word!

This is the big Word weekend across Canada. The Word on the Street book and magazine festival will be celebrated Sunday, Sept 27 in Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, and Kitchener.  Comics blog Sequential has done a good job highlighting comic related WoTS events. Check it out.

Ontario Graphic Novel Month?

It turns out May was Ontario Graphic Novel Month. This is about the strangest concept/event I’ve ever heard in relations to comics. I really like the idea, it just sounds odd. Even so, I missed it entirely – probably because I wasn’t able to attend TCAF earlier this year. It seems to be aligned with [...]

Toronto “bike wars” debate rages

The latest dispatch from the battle on Toronto’s streets between cyclists and cars comes to us courtesy of Lisa Rochon in the Saturday edition of The Globe and Mail. This ongoing tension has been alternately referred to as “bike wars” and “war on the car” – depending on your perspective on the issue, I [...]

Toronto’s nude bike ride

NOW Magazine gets its jollies posting a video from World Naked Bike Ride day in Toronto this past weekend. A fairly boring clip featuring lots of bare male bums.
Meanwhile over at Spacing Montreal, more Bixi coverage. A controversy is brewing over the iPhone app for the public bike sharing enterprise.

Bike to work in the nude?

It being only midway through Toronto Bike Month (which oddly starts in the middle of May), there are still a few organized cycling events around the city. Check out this handy cycling events calendar on the City of Toronto website.
I think it’s still officially  “bike to work” month, but you might want to save this [...]

Cold water on crosstown bike lane

Plans for a crosstown Bloor-Danforth bike lane have switched gears from full steam ahead to “consult and review.”
Not surprising, really. I follows the news and last week’s statement from city councillor Adrian Heaps, who chairs the cycling committee, seemed premature considering everything I’ve read about approving Toronto city projects, especially something that impacts businesses. (The [...]