TCAF 2019 – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival @ Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Professional Development: Friday, May 10
Public Exhibition: Saturday May 11, 9am-5pm & Sunday May 12, 10am-5pm
Free to attend
www.torontocomics.com
TORONTO, CANADA: The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is excited to announce its initial round of Featured Guests of the 2019 Festival! Drawing from across North America and highlighting some of the very best adult graphic novels being published today, these authors will join the more than 350 cartoonists from 20+ countries participating in the FREE, two-day exhibition on May 11 and 12 at Toronto Reference Library!
Each year TCAF showcases Canada’s most incredible comics talent on a world stage by promoting top-tier creators and publishers, and inviting the attention of the global cartooning community. TCAF 2019 will see more than 40 Featured Guests in total, from North America and abroad, and for readers of all ages. In addition to the two-day exhibition, the Festival will include a full week of comics-related performances, readings, workshops, gallery exhibitions, parties, and so much more!
Keep reading to see the first official TCAF poster, an amazing variety of Featured Guests, and announcements about two special TCAF anniversaries!
Professional Development: Friday, May 10
Public Exhibition: Saturday May 11, 9am-5pm & Sunday May 12, 10am-5pm
Free to attend
www.torontocomics.com
TORONTO, CANADA: The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is excited to announce its initial round of Featured Guests of the 2019 Festival! Drawing from across North America and highlighting some of the very best adult graphic novels being published today, these authors will join the more than 350 cartoonists from 20+ countries participating in the FREE, two-day exhibition on May 11 and 12 at Toronto Reference Library!
Each year TCAF showcases Canada’s most incredible comics talent on a world stage by promoting top-tier creators and publishers, and inviting the attention of the global cartooning community. TCAF 2019 will see more than 40 Featured Guests in total, from North America and abroad, and for readers of all ages. In addition to the two-day exhibition, the Festival will include a full week of comics-related performances, readings, workshops, gallery exhibitions, parties, and so much more!
Keep reading to see the first official TCAF poster, an amazing variety of Featured Guests, and announcements about two special TCAF anniversaries!
TCAF 2019 Festival Poster by Junji Ito Already announced, TCAF will welcome Japanese manga-ka Junji Ito to the Festival this year! The master of Japanese horror comics will visit North America for the first time to debut his new short story collection Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection, published by VIZ Media. To celebrate his appearance, Ito-sensei has created this beguiling original poster artwork for TCAF 2019! This is one of three official posters for this year, and all posters will be printed and available for purchase at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
Featured North American Guests of TCAF 2019 include:Emily Carroll: Canadian writer and artist of numerous award-winning comics, including the horror collection Through the Woods, which won both an Eisner and the British Fantasy Award, and the graphic adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak. Carroll attends TCAF in support of her new work When I Arrived at the Castle, published by Koyama Press.
Featured North American Guests of TCAF 2019 include:Emily Carroll: Canadian writer and artist of numerous award-winning comics, including the horror collection Through the Woods, which won both an Eisner and the British Fantasy Award, and the graphic adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak. Carroll attends TCAF in support of her new work When I Arrived at the Castle, published by Koyama Press.
Ezra Claytan Daniels & Ben Passmore: Americans Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore are based in Los Angeles and Chicago respectively, and have teamed together to create the new original graphic novel BTTM FDRS, a brutal Afrofuturist satire about gentrification and cultural appropriation, published by Fantagraphics.
Inés Estrada: From Mexico City, Estrada likes drawing animals and writing about intense things that some people find very relatable and others straight-up disgusting. Her newest work is Alienation, published by Fantagraphics and debuting at TCAF 2019! Inés Estrada attends TCAF this year as a Featured Guest of the Wowee Zonk Pavilion, celebrating 10th Anniversary of Wowee Zonk at TCAF!
Bill Griffith: Creator of the syndicated daily comic strip Zippy The Pinhead, Griffith’s prolific output has been included in such publications as the Village Voice, National Lampoon, and the New Yorker. According to Bartlett, Griffith coined the popular phrase “Are we having fun yet?” He lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut. Bill Griffith attends TCAF in support of his new graphic novel, Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie The Pinhead, published by Abrams ComicArts.
Bill Griffith: Creator of the syndicated daily comic strip Zippy The Pinhead, Griffith’s prolific output has been included in such publications as the Village Voice, National Lampoon, and the New Yorker. According to Bartlett, Griffith coined the popular phrase “Are we having fun yet?” He lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut. Bill Griffith attends TCAF in support of his new graphic novel, Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie The Pinhead, published by Abrams ComicArts.
Gord Hill: The author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book, and The Antifa Comic Book. He is a member of theKwakwaka’wakw nation whose territory is located on northern Vancouver Island and adjacent mainland in the province of “British Columbia.” He has been involved in Indigenous people’s and anti-globalization movements since 1990. Gord Hill attends TCAF in support of The Antifa Comic Book, published by Arsenal Pulp Press.
Lucy Knisley: The author and illustrator of beloved graphic novels about memory, identity, food, and family, Knisley is the New York Times bestselling author of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen and Something New. She lives and works in Chicago, with her husband and child. Knisley is attending TCAF in support of her debuting graphic novel Kid Gloves from First Second.
Anders Nilsen: The author of eight books including the phenomenal Big Questions, Nilsen’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Kramer’s Ergot, and Pitchfork, among many others. Nilsen makes his home in Portland, Oregon, and will attend TCAF in support of his ongoing self-published comic book series Tongues.
Brian Selznik: The New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, among many other beloved books for children. Selznik attends TCAF in support of his first book for adults, the TCAF-debuting “provocative visual narrative” Live Oak, With Moss, published by Abrams ComicArts. Based on the original poetry by Walt Whitman and reconstructed by Karen Karbiener.
Lucy Knisley: The author and illustrator of beloved graphic novels about memory, identity, food, and family, Knisley is the New York Times bestselling author of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen and Something New. She lives and works in Chicago, with her husband and child. Knisley is attending TCAF in support of her debuting graphic novel Kid Gloves from First Second.
Anders Nilsen: The author of eight books including the phenomenal Big Questions, Nilsen’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Kramer’s Ergot, and Pitchfork, among many others. Nilsen makes his home in Portland, Oregon, and will attend TCAF in support of his ongoing self-published comic book series Tongues.
Brian Selznik: The New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, among many other beloved books for children. Selznik attends TCAF in support of his first book for adults, the TCAF-debuting “provocative visual narrative” Live Oak, With Moss, published by Abrams ComicArts. Based on the original poetry by Walt Whitman and reconstructed by Karen Karbiener.
Seth: Seth is the cartoonist behind the comic book series Palookaville, which continues to this day as a semi-annual hardcover from publisher Drawn & Quarterly. His comics and illustrations have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Best American Comics, New Yorker, the Walrus, and Seth also illustrated TCAF’s very first Festival poster in 2003. Seth will attend TCAF in support of Clyde Fans, his epic graphic novel over a decade in the making.
Vivek Shraya & Ness Lee: Vivek Shraya is the multi-award-winning author of works including God Loves Hair, even this page is white, I’m Afraid of Men, and What I Love About Being QUEER. Shraya has teamed with prestigious Toronto illustrator/artist Ness Lee to release the disturbing Death Threat, an unflinching portrayal of violent harassment and the dangers of online hate, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Shraya and Lee will attend TCAF in support of Death Threat’sspring 2019 debut.
Mark Alan Stamaty: Acclaimed American cartoonist and illustrator, Stamaty has produced numerous children’s books but is best known for his syndicated comic strip MacDoodle St. Stamaty attends TCAF in support of a remastered collection of MacDoodle St. published by New York Review Comics. Mark Stamaty will only be present at TCAF on Saturday, May 11.
More guests are soon to be announced, including International Guests, Young Adult Guests, and Kids Guests. Stay tuned!
Celebrating 10 years of Wowee Zonk, and 5 years of Word Balloon AcademyTCAF 2019 will see the celebration of two important anniversaries for the Festival; the 10th Anniversary of our Wowee Zonk Pavilion of Small Press and indie artists, and the 5th Anniversary of our Word Balloon Academy Professional Development programming for creators!
The Wowee Zonk Pavilion began in 2010 and has been curated since that time by Toronto artists Christopher Kuzma, Patrick Kyle, and Ginette LaPalme. Its goal is to continuously shine a light on some of the very best and most exciting work being made internationally in comics, zines, and small press publishing. Occupying the ‘Browsery’ space of Toronto Reference Library, Wowee Zonk is frequently cited as an exciting and dynamic space at TCAF, and the Festival will be doing a number of special events around Wowee Zonk this year, including welcoming Wowee Zonk exhibitor Inés Estrada as our Featured Guest! Look for more Wowee Zonk info soon.
Word Balloon Academy began in 2015, as TCAF’s free, annual professional development program for comics creators local to Toronto and those in town to participate in the Festival. Headed by Georgia Webber and Kim Hoang in the first year, and continuing with Kim as programming coordinator since 2016, Word Balloon Academy has offered presentations on everything from writing grant applications to running a successful crowdfunding campaign, to dealing with depression and maintaining physical health, to how to ink a really great looking comics page! Word Balloon Academy will offer its broadest suite of programming ever in 2019, with more info to be announced soon. Word Balloon Academy logo by Dustin Harbin.
And so much more…!This will be a huge year for TCAF, and in addition to more guest announcements, you can look forward to announcements of our 2019 gallery presentations, the return of Zineland Terrace, new venues, and so much more!
Head over to torontocomics.com to see the more than 350 cartoonists and publishers already announced for 2019!
And keep watching our newsletter and social media for up-to-the-minute announcements!
Website: www.torontocomics.com
Twitter: @TorontoComics
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TorontoComics
Tumblr: torontocomics.tumblr.com
ABOUT TCAFThe Toronto Comic Arts Festival would not be possible without the assistance of our sponsors and partners, including presenting sponsor Toronto Public Library and primary sponsor The Beguiling Books & Art.
TCAF is produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
We would also like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. / Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.
Seneca College is a proud Sponsor of TCAF 2019.
TCAF would like to thank Abrams ComicArts, Arsenal Pulp Press, Fantagraphics Books, First Second, Koyama Press, New York Review Comics, and VIZ Media and Shogakukan Inc. for their help in arranging the participation of the guests mentioned in this release.
Sponsorship opportunities for TCAF 2019 are still available, please email us at: [email protected] for more info.
Vivek Shraya & Ness Lee: Vivek Shraya is the multi-award-winning author of works including God Loves Hair, even this page is white, I’m Afraid of Men, and What I Love About Being QUEER. Shraya has teamed with prestigious Toronto illustrator/artist Ness Lee to release the disturbing Death Threat, an unflinching portrayal of violent harassment and the dangers of online hate, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Shraya and Lee will attend TCAF in support of Death Threat’sspring 2019 debut.
Mark Alan Stamaty: Acclaimed American cartoonist and illustrator, Stamaty has produced numerous children’s books but is best known for his syndicated comic strip MacDoodle St. Stamaty attends TCAF in support of a remastered collection of MacDoodle St. published by New York Review Comics. Mark Stamaty will only be present at TCAF on Saturday, May 11.
More guests are soon to be announced, including International Guests, Young Adult Guests, and Kids Guests. Stay tuned!
Celebrating 10 years of Wowee Zonk, and 5 years of Word Balloon AcademyTCAF 2019 will see the celebration of two important anniversaries for the Festival; the 10th Anniversary of our Wowee Zonk Pavilion of Small Press and indie artists, and the 5th Anniversary of our Word Balloon Academy Professional Development programming for creators!
The Wowee Zonk Pavilion began in 2010 and has been curated since that time by Toronto artists Christopher Kuzma, Patrick Kyle, and Ginette LaPalme. Its goal is to continuously shine a light on some of the very best and most exciting work being made internationally in comics, zines, and small press publishing. Occupying the ‘Browsery’ space of Toronto Reference Library, Wowee Zonk is frequently cited as an exciting and dynamic space at TCAF, and the Festival will be doing a number of special events around Wowee Zonk this year, including welcoming Wowee Zonk exhibitor Inés Estrada as our Featured Guest! Look for more Wowee Zonk info soon.
Word Balloon Academy began in 2015, as TCAF’s free, annual professional development program for comics creators local to Toronto and those in town to participate in the Festival. Headed by Georgia Webber and Kim Hoang in the first year, and continuing with Kim as programming coordinator since 2016, Word Balloon Academy has offered presentations on everything from writing grant applications to running a successful crowdfunding campaign, to dealing with depression and maintaining physical health, to how to ink a really great looking comics page! Word Balloon Academy will offer its broadest suite of programming ever in 2019, with more info to be announced soon. Word Balloon Academy logo by Dustin Harbin.
And so much more…!This will be a huge year for TCAF, and in addition to more guest announcements, you can look forward to announcements of our 2019 gallery presentations, the return of Zineland Terrace, new venues, and so much more!
Head over to torontocomics.com to see the more than 350 cartoonists and publishers already announced for 2019!
And keep watching our newsletter and social media for up-to-the-minute announcements!
Website: www.torontocomics.com
Twitter: @TorontoComics
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TorontoComics
Tumblr: torontocomics.tumblr.com
ABOUT TCAFThe Toronto Comic Arts Festival would not be possible without the assistance of our sponsors and partners, including presenting sponsor Toronto Public Library and primary sponsor The Beguiling Books & Art.
TCAF is produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
We would also like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. / Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.
Seneca College is a proud Sponsor of TCAF 2019.
TCAF would like to thank Abrams ComicArts, Arsenal Pulp Press, Fantagraphics Books, First Second, Koyama Press, New York Review Comics, and VIZ Media and Shogakukan Inc. for their help in arranging the participation of the guests mentioned in this release.
Sponsorship opportunities for TCAF 2019 are still available, please email us at: [email protected] for more info.
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