Tag Archive | "Toronto"

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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The joy of books

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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This is a wonderful short stop-motion animated film created by Toronto’s Type Books; as the lights are turned off and the bookstore closes for the night, the books come to life and begin to move around (as a bookseller I am quite sure some of them do just that when we’re not looking). I especially [...]

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Seth wins the Harbourfront Prize

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Top Canadian comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly drop us a line to let us know that the artist Seth has scored a major literary award in Canada, the Harbourfront Prize (part of Toronto’s International Festival of Authors) which was established in the mid 1980s to reward “individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the [...]

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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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Snow

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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(a page from Snow by and (c) Benjamin Rivers) Benjamin Rivers has posted up a video promoting his new graphic novel Snow, which I have to say from the premise and the taster of it you can check out looks very interesting, dealing with something most of us are likely to experience in our lives, [...]

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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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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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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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Blood Blokes

Friday, May 7, 2010

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Now that he is winding up his The Everyday series Adam Cadwell has been revealing some details of his next work, a project he’s had in mind for some time apparently, a ‘slacker vampire comic’ called Blood Blokes. From Adam’s description: “Blood Blokes is a six issue series about Vince, a 20 something slacker who [...]

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Yoshihiro Tatsumi interviewed

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Chris Randle managed to get time to chat with Yoshihiro Tatsumi, creator of the acclaimed D&Q titles Push Man, Good-bye, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and the recent A Drifting Life, at this year’s TCAF (via Chris at Comics 212): “CR: You mentioned Tezuka, and there’s a few times in the book where he’s depicted [...]

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