Tag Archive | "TCAF"

TCAF 2012 – Sean’s view

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Writer, artist, good chum of the blog and seasoned comic con goer Sean Azzopardi returned to Canada recently to be a part of the parcel of comics delights that is TCAF; he even managed to fit in some more days off in Toronto and took in some related comics culture events taking part in the [...]

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TCAF video tour

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Ryan Couldrey posts up a short but sweet video tour around the delights of this year’s Toronto Comics Arts Festival:

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Jason sketching at TCAF

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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The always excellent Jason sketches inside a book for a reader at the recent TCAF: Jason in action from Ila Solomon on Vimeo.

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Comic Cons – in pictures!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]

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TCAF 2011 – Canada’s finest….

Monday, May 23, 2011

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The Toronto Comic And Arts Festival 2011 happened a couple of weeks ago, and it’s position as one of the premier comic events in the world seems fairly established by now. Tom at The Comics reporter has a massive collective memory post here. But TCAF has been attracting a number of British publishers and comic [...]

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Comics News Insider reports from TCAF

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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Jimmy Aquino and Joe Gonzalez’s Comics News Insider podcast reports from last weekend’s Toronto Comic Art Festival and the guests include some familiar names to the blog’s readers, including Adam Caldwell, Kayla Marie Hillier, Philippa Rice and more, check it out.

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TCAF – the Spurge reports

Monday, May 9, 2011

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The redoubtable Tom Spurgeon reports from the weekend’s Toronto Comic Art Festival; as you’d expect from Comic Reporter it’s a great round-up of a fab-sounding con, from the dealer’s tables to the publishers and artists and the panels and touching a bit on the actual travel aspect too and the joy of the city, plus [...]

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TCAF this weekend in Toronto!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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This Saturday and Sunday is the annual TCAF, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in the Toronto Reference Library, a bash that everyone we know who has been before has absolutely loved, so we are jealous of anyone who is heading there over this weekend, of course. And among the people who will be juggling selling [...]

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Doug Wright Awards shortlist

Friday, March 18, 2011

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I missed spotting this but luckily the excellent Tom Spurgeon had them up – the shortlist of nominees for the Doug Wright Awards for (English language) Canadian comics work is up: Best Book Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly) Chimo by David Collier (Conundrum Press) Lose #2 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) Moving Pictures [...]

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Evan Dorkin video interview

Monday, June 14, 2010

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RGB Filter has a long – and expletive and often delightfully sarcasm filled -  interview with the excellent Evan Dorkin recorded at TCAF (thanks to Tom at Comics Reporter for the link):

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Whazamo! State of the art: Web comics and Self Publishing

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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OpenBookToronto has two interesting videos up on Youtube, recorded at the recent TCAF gig, talking to comics creators about how and why they choose to create and disseminate their comics work, with one focusing on web comics and the other on self publishing, both well worth checking out (tip of the hat to Tom at [...]

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“We’re pro-Toronto, pro-Canadian, and pro-Canadian cartoonists”: Chris Butcher talks to Tom Spurgeon

Sunday, June 6, 2010

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“Up front, this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival was our best ever by pretty-much every metric we can measure. In terms of attendance — we get audited attendance figures from our venue Toronto Public Library because they have turnstiles set up — we were up to about 12,000 attendees over the two days this year, [...]

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TCAF on video

Friday, May 21, 2010

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Tdot Comics has posted up their first video interview from the recent TCAF (since they’ve numbered it #1 I’m guessing this means we should keep an eye out for further uploads): TCAF Interview #1 – Vicky Nerino from TdotComics on Vimeo.

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Madéleine Flores day out at TCAF

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Madéleine Flores is a young artist making her first steps into the world of comics; she’s previously appeared in ‘Short Stack’ from Angry Gnome and had her own webstrips including The City online. This August she will have her first full length book coming from Blank Slate Books – Kenny informs me it will be [...]

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Jane Austen – Kate Beaton style

Saturday, May 8, 2010

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On Hark! A vagrant the excellent Kate Beaton posts up some more fab comics work ahead of hitting this weekend’s TCAF in Toronto (big shout out to any of our chums who are going to be there! do give us a shout when you post up your pics and reports), this time turning her literary [...]

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