Every year the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 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. The 2018 programme builds on our previous successes, with a continued commitment to offer more inclusive and engaging programming, in multiple formats, focusing on compelling and challenging work being made across the world and right here in Canada! We’re proud to spotlight a wide variety of incredible Canadian cartoonists with exciting new projects debuting at TCAF.
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is very excited to announce the initial Northan American Featured Guests and Events for TCAF 2018! With over 350 cartoonists from more than 15 countries on their way to Toronto this May, we’re set to celebrate the very best in comics, graphic novels, bandes dessinées, and manga! Get ready for a week of readings, launches, and art events culminating in a massive, FREE two-day exhibition at Toronto Reference Library, May 12th and 13th, 2018! Tell your friends!
Featured Guests for TCAF 2018 Include:
Brooklyn Allen (Lumberjanes)
Ho Che Anderson (KING, Godhead)
Inio Asano (Solanin, Dead Dead Demons DeDeDeDe Destruction)
Vera Brosgol (Be Prepared, Anya’s Ghost)
Eddie Campbell (From Hell, Bizarre Romance)
Emily Carroll (Through the Woods, Speak)
Cecil Castellucci (Shade: The Changing Girl, Hockey Noir)
Michael Comeau (Hellberta, Winter’s Cosmos)
Michael DeForge (LOSE, A Western World)
Gale Galligan (Babysitter’s Club)
Melanie Gillman (As the Crow Flies)
Ananth Hirsh (Barbarous, Johnny Wander)
Hope Larson (Wrinkle in Time, All Summer Long)
Hartley Lin (aka Ethan Rilly, Young Frances)
Liniers (Macanudo!)
Audrey Niffenegger (The Traveller’s Wife, Bizarre Romance)
Katie O’Neill (Tea Dragon’s Society, Princess Princess)
Molly Ostertag (Witch Boy)
Yuko Ota (Offhand, Barbarous, Johnny Wander)
Fiona Smyth (Sex Is A Funny Word, Somnambulance)
Jillian Tamaki (Skim, This One Summer, They Say Blue)
Mariko Tamaki (Skim, This One Summer, Lumberjanes)
Jen Wang (Prince and the Dressmaker)
Ronald Wimberly (Prince of Cats, LAAB)
TCAF 2018 – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival
@ Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Professional Development: Friday, May 11, 8:30am-5pm
Saturday, May 12, 9am-5pm
Sunday, May 13, 10am-5pm
Free to attend
