TCAF – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9-10, 2009
The fourth Toronto Comic Arts Festival returns this year, to a new location, the Toronto Reference Library, on 789 Yonge St, Toronto. TCAF is the response to the standard overblown comic convention – it is a 2 day event that encompasses a little more that just getting your issue #1 signed by the artist. To quote the organizers –
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is a unique comics event, patterned after comics festivals like Angouleme, Harlem, and the Small Press Expo. It is two full days of comics-related events, including readings, presentations, panel discussions, gallery shows, and a large exhibition area featuring publishers and comic authors and artists.
rgbFilter will be out in full force to cover the festival, and we will bring you full coverage, both in print and video, with guest interviews and videos of key panels – if you are there make sure to come say hello to us !
For some more information about some of the guests attending that we are excited about read on…
…oh and one more thing, unlike most other conventions it’s FREE to attend !
Since TCAF focuses more on small press and international comic artists, you won’t find too many of your well know ‘mainstream’ authors and artists here – TCAF is the perfect place to start if you want to broaden your comic reading horizon’s beyond the latest Marvel or DC Superhero funny book.
This year some of the guests include :
Kid Koala, Montreal based DJ, turntabalist, illustrator and an comic artist
Scott McCloud, comic theorist, author of Understanding Comics
Bryan Lee O’Malley, author of Scott Pilgrim, soon to be a movie directed by Shaun of the Dead director, Edgar Wright
Paul Pope, one of the only western artists to work for Kodansha, Japan’s best-known manga publisher – he’s been called the “Jim Morrison of comics”
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, an incredibly influential Japanese comics artist widely credited with starting the “Gekiga” style of comics in Japan in the late 1950s, expanding the audience for manga to include more than just children
Adrian Tomine, creator of one of the most popular alternative comic book series of all time, Optic Nerve
For more info on these guests, and too see a complete list visit the TCAF guests page
See you this weekend !
Way looking forward to this!!