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Photo reblogged from 2013 Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Couldn’t make it to TCAF 2013? Well 9 of the panel presentations have shown up online, thanks to Jamie Coville and Bleeding Cool:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05/14/nine-panels-at-toronto-comic-art-festival-in-audio-and-the-doug-wright-awards/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Includes programs from Library & Educator Day, TCAF proper, and The 2013 Doug Wright Awards. Check’em out!
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Link reblogged from 2013 Toronto Comic Arts FestivalThe Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) takes place this Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12 at the Toronto Reference Library. Comics fans are invited to this free event and to join over 400 cartoonists from 18 countries to celebrate the best of comics, graphic novels and manga. This year’s…
Check out some tips from the TCAF staff on having a good show!
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![and, in case you guys are wondering, here’s a picture of all the books i bought/traded for (and the Free Comic Book Day stuff i got) while i was in Toronto for TCAF.
there’s a full list under the cut:
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-The Letter Q, Queer Writers’ Notes to their Younger Selves -Little Heart: a Comic Anthology for Marriage Equality -Hive Stories #1 by Milk Money Comics -Life on the Hill, Love Love Hill’s Comical Life mini -“Trigger” mini -The Believer’s Guide to Saints and Dinosaurs, books one and two by A. Bratton -Thom Ferrier is a Lover of the Great Outdoors by Thom Ferrier -Buzz #3 by Corinne Mucha -The Escapologist #1 and Smoo #5 by Simon Moreton -Curveball #1 by Jeremy Sorese -Tiny Kitten Teeth Chapter None by Becky Dreistadt and Frank Gibson -Baba Yaga and the Wolf by Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk -Sacred Heart mini by Liz Suburbia -Johnny Wander books one and two by Yuko Ota and Ananth Panagariya -some wicked Boumeries buttons from the ever awesome Boum -an Em Carrol button (she sold out of comics before I was able to but one) -King-Cat button from John P -The Complete Oujia Interviews and Shuteye by Sarah Becan -Rice Boy by Evan Dahm -Radiator Days by Lucy Knisley -Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel -The Abominable Charles Christopher by Karl Kerschl-#4 & 5 of Jason Bradshaw’s Boredom Pays -#72 of John P’s King-Cat -Verabee print -FCBD: Serenity/Star Wars, Atomic Robo, Moomin, Archaia HC](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4oskeLzdl1qigv9ko1_500.jpg)
and, in case you guys are wondering, here’s a picture of all the books i bought/traded for (and the Free Comic Book Day stuff i got) while i was in Toronto for TCAF.
there’s a full list under the cut:
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the completely wonderful Karl Kerschl (http://karlkerschl.com/ and http://www.abominable.cc/) signing and drawing a little sketch of everyone’s favourite arctic fox, Townsen, in my copy of his Abominable Charles Christopher book at TCAF a couple weeks ago.
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TCAF opening night panel with Jeff Smith (http://www.boneville.com/), Fabio Moon, and Gabriel Ba (http://fabioandgabriel.blogspot.com/).
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and here’s a pretty poor picture of me and Bryan Lee O’Malley (whose tumblr you can follow at http://radiomaru.tumblr.com/) in the Toronto Reference Library.
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meeting Alison Bechdel (http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/), after her reading from her new book, Are You My Mother.
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here’s a somewhat bad picture of the New, Exciting, and Queer panel at TCAF, featuring Maurice Vellekoop, Jeremy Sorese, Emily Carroll, Lucy Knisley, Ed Choy, and Raighne Hogan.
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me with Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon (whose blog you can read at http://fabioandgabriel.blogspot.com/), who’ve worked on such great things as Daytripper, Casanova, The Umbrella Academy, BPRD 1947, and more.
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this is Chris Butcher, the super awesome co-founder and director of TCAF
