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Tag: TCAF

  • Five Recommendations for TCAF 2018

    Five Recommendations for TCAF 2018

    Hi everyone! The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is this Mother’s Day weekend, and is one of the headlining comics shows of the spring season. I’m a little down on comics shows right now, but there are great comics debuting at the festival by some of my favorite cartoonists. But one of the joys of…

  • Sequential Statement #10 – Back in Orbit

    Sequential Statement #10 – Back in Orbit

    Episode #10: Back in Orbit Alex and Nick talk about Alex’s recent trip to the Toronto Comics Arts Festival in Toronto, ON. We chat about the last month’s lost episode, Captain America: Civil War, and the recent Captain America/Hydra comic and the resulting fallout. Reviews of: Dimension W #1 by Yuji Iwahara Hilda and the…

  • Some Quick Thoughts on TCAF 2016

    I’m back from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I got into Toronto on Friday and left early morning on Sunday. This is becoming something close to an annual pilgrimage. I’m pretty enamored with TCAF as an idea, and Toronto, as gigantic metropolitan areas go, could be a lot lot worse. I ate and drank very…

  • Interview: Andy Barron

    Andy Barron is a cartoonist and illustrator based in London. Barron will be attending TCAF this year with a collection of his self-published, small run series of Om comics called Mantra. The series features a doughy main character Om in a surreal world full of dangerous creatures ready to eat him for dinner. I sat…

  • TCAF (The Toronto Comics Arts Festival) torontocomics is less than 3 days away, which means yet again I’m looking at books that are set to debut at the show. This year’s a little different than last – I’ve been prepping a bit more than last year, but that means more books I’m interested in. I…

  • Transmissions from: TCAF 2014

    This was my first TCAF. It was the big promise I made to myself earlier this year when the indie comics crowd started rumbling. I was hooked when I read con reports of TCAF 2013, but hadn’t admitted it to myself. I drove in from Cleveland. It was about 4.5 hours + 2 hours sitting…

  • My 2014 Comics Journey (so far)

    Subtitle: How I started reading Asterios Polyp at the same time as Hawkeye: Little Hits and Tezuka’s Message to Adolf. (I’m heading to TCAF today, so instead of a review or booklist, I’m putting up a more personal piece. Hope to see you in Toronto!) Today, in the mail, I got a copy of The…

  • TCAF is rapidly approaching, which means a first look at books that are making their debut at the show. Here are a few that I’m very interested in getting my hands on: 1. This One Summer, by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki – a slice-of-life story about two friends on summer vacation; Jillians’ beautiful artwork combined with smart…