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rgbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – Jamie McKelvie, Ray Fawkes & Alec Longstreth

January 21, 2010May 7, 2010 drsquid Comics, event, Image, Jamie McKelvie, ka-blam, lulu, Oni Press, Phonogram, Ray Fawkes & Alec Longstreth, TCAF, tcaf 20093 Comments

Last May we attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and got a chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show. We posted 2 videos back in May, but a lot of the other interviews were put on the backburner, so, after a long delay, we will finally be posting the remaining videos, just in time to coincide with the announcement of TCAF 2010 guest list. In this video we talk to Jamie McKelvie, the artist, with writer Kieron Gillen, of Phonogram, Ray Fawkes, one half of…

Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2010: Headlining guest is Dan Clowes

January 17, 2010January 17, 2010 drsquid Comics, Dan Clowes, tcaf 2009, TCAF 2010, Toronto1 Comment

Unlike previous TCAFs, which were held bi-annually, TCAF 2009 is being followed by another festival this year. Like last year, it is being held at the Toronto Reference Library, and is on May 8th and 9th. The TCAF 2010 website will being going live on January 19th with the full guest list, but it was announced on Friday that the headlining guest will be Dan Clowes, an artist who rarely makes convention appearances. He also created the TCAF 2010 poster above. Clowes is well know for being the author, and…

rgbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – Cecil Castellucci & Miriam Libicki

July 16, 2009May 7, 2010 Doug Groves Comics, convention, event, interview, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto1 Comment

We were at the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, held on May 9th and 10th. We got the chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show. This is the second video we’ve put out, and we’ll have more over the next few weeks. This episode is with Cecil Castellucci, writer of the graphic novels The Plain Janes and Janes in Love illustrated by Jim Rugg, which was the launch title for DC Comics Minx line of graphic novels for young adults. We also talk to Vancouver…

rgbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – interviews with Sketchkrieg! & Tom Scioli

June 3, 2009May 7, 2010 drsquid Comics, convention, interview, Jack Kirby, Sketchkrieg!, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto1 Comment

We attended the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, held on May 9th & 10th, and we got a chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show – we will be posting more videos over the next few weeks. This episode is with the members of Sketchkrieg!, a band of comic artists based in Toronto, and Tom Scioli (a huge Jack Kirby fan), co-creator of the Image comic series Godland with writer Joe Casey, artist of the Freedom Force comic (based on the classic PC game by…

Episode 016 – Movie Madness

June 1, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves star trek, tcaf 2009, terminator, Xbox Live, Zombies7 Comments

It’s a big show this time around as we review Terminator Salvation, Star Trek and Wolverine as well as talk about some of the other upcoming summer releases. In gaming, we look at Plants vs Zombies and 1 vs 100 on Xbox, and discuss the preview of Bioshock 2. There’s also a lot of comic news, including TCAF 2009 (the Toronto Comic Arts Festival), and a rundown of some great new web comics by Paul, via Warren Ellis’ call out for submissions to the White Chapel forums.

TCAF 2009 Day Two Pictures

May 12, 2009May 7, 2010 drsquid canada, Comics, festival, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto0 comment

A few more pictures from TCAF – what a great festival. On the second day we did more video and we will be posting over the next few weeks some very interesting interviews with some of the guests, and a great panel discussion on newspaper and web comics and their future, so stay tuned – same bat-time, same bat-channel!

TCAF 2009 Day One Pictures

May 10, 2009May 7, 2010 drsquid canada, Comics, pictures, TCAF, tcaf 2009, Toronto1 Comment

Saturday was a day of checking out all the tables and some of the signings. We filmed one of the panels, and those videos will be up soon! For now enjoy these pictures…

TCAF – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 9-10, 2009

May 6, 2009May 19, 2009 drsquid tcaf 20091 Comment

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…