Considered to be amongst the premier comic arts festivals in the world, TCAF is an annual two day festival in downtown Toronto. Held since 2003, TCAF is unique for its scale and scope welcoming 28,000+ local and international visitors and over 315+ artists, and its continued focus on independent arts culture and accessibility remaining a free public and non-commercial arts and cultural festival.
TCAF 2025 will be held from June 7-8, 2025 at our new location Toronto Metropolitan University's Mattamy Athletic Centre, with additional programming in the surrounding neighbourhood. Libraries and Education Day and Word Balloon Academy are scheduled for Friday June 6.
See this year's list of exhibitors. Programming will be announced in May.
About TCAF
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Never visited TCAF before and wondering what it's like? Please visit one of our favourite videos from TCAF 2018 (video courtesy of Innerspace, 2018).
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TCAF Executive Director (and former librarian) Amie Wright, wrote, "Comics, Education, and Libraries Exploring the Northern Frontier at Toronto Comic Arts Festival," for American Libraries after her first TCAF in May 2017 on the value of attending TCAF Libraries & Education Day for professional development.
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Acknowledgement
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat and that Indigenous peoples have lived on and cared for this land for more than 15,000 years. This territory is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Treaty. Today, Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island. We acknowledge that settlers on the land benefit from colonization.