COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL: FREE SCREENING!
Featuring an appearance and introduction by director Ron Mann
Saturday, May 2nd, 11:59pm
@ Innis College Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue
One block south of Bloor and St. George
ADMISSION IS FREE

Toronto filmmaker Ron Mann’s Comic Book Confidential provides a jazzy history of comic books, from their pulpy beginnings in the ’30s, through the heyday of superheroes and undergrounds in the ’60s, to the not-just-for-kids-anymore renaissance of the ’80s.

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, The Beguiling, and Hot Docs are pleased to present a free screening of Comic Book Confidential, both to cap off May 2nd’s Free Comic Book Day festivities, and to complement the Hot Docs film festival’s Focus On Ron Mann program. The film features Mann’s signature animation interludes and zany historical footage, but also includes interviews with twenty-two significant comics creators, who often perform readings of their own work. Whether you’re watching the movie to hear and see EC icons like Harvey Kurtzman, superhero greats like Jack Kirby, underground mavericks like R. Crumb, or RAW avant-gardists like Art Spiegelman, Comic Book Confidential provides a broad and knowledgeable overview of a vital art form.