Schedule

Featured guest, award-winning graphic novelist and multidisciplinary artist Freddy Carrasco in conversation with TCAF programmer and celebrated cartoonist Ho Che Anderson.

Featured guest, award-winning legendary cartoonist and writer Gene Luen Yang in conversation with writer, producer and interviewer Mark Askwith about Gene’s many projects, adapted works, reading advocacy and what’s next.

Cartoonist and curator Joe Ollmann moderates a panel with the folks behind the newest collection of famed Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright’s comics with Seth, Brad MacKay, Chris Oliveros, and Doug’s sons Jim and Ken Wright.

Featured guest, super star illustrator, and cartoonist Maurice Vellekoop talks about his highly anticipated graphic memoir with his editor, influential book designer and TCAF featured guest Chip Kidd.

Jeet Heer moderates a celebration of Joe’s cartooning legacy. Friends Seth, Chester Brown, Chris Oliveros, and Adrian Tomine discuss Joe’s mighty prowess with the comics medium.

Featured guest and cartoonist Lucy Sullivan (Barking) moderates a panel about today’s exciting UK cartoonists and comics scene with Martin Simpson (NORD), Clio Isadora (Sour Pickles) and B Mure (Disciples Of The Soil).

First conceived as a live action+animated film, Clive Smith and collaborators Millena Shang, Fred Kennedy, Jen Lum, J. Torres, and others discuss how they turned this dynamic universe into a comic. Find out more about The Rather Unusual Adventures of Ice Cream Girl and Mr. Licorice! Moderated by comics journalist Irene Velentzas.

Multi-award winning manga artist and illustrator Kamome Shirahama is renowned worldwide for Witch Hat Atelier and her work on Marvel Comics, DC, and Star Wars projects, among others. Come experience Shirahama’s process in a live drawing session!

Comics and TCAF-aficionado Andrew Townsend speaks about the power of autobiography when family stories are involved with featured guests Tessa Hulls (Feeding Ghosts), Rosena Fung (Age 16), FluX and David Good (Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back)

Prolific and celebrated cartoonist Peter Kuper shares his illustrious career. He has worked for The New Yorker, The Nation, Charlie Hebdo and MAD magazine where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997.

The country's coasts are teeming with talent! Join West Coasters Ivana Filipovich, Colin Upton, and Adam de Souza, East Coasters Veronica Post, Troy Little, Brenda Hickey, Tyler Landry, and North Coasters Cole Pauls and Alison McCreesh as they discuss the charm and challenges of creating and promoting their work far from the centre of the Canadian comics world. Moderated by East Coaster Sal Sawler. 

 Featured guest Raeghan Buchanan in conversation with TCAF Creative Lead Faduma Gure (The Black Nerds) about comics, identity and kicking ass!

TCAF programmer and celebrated cartoonist Ho Che Anderson asks how storytelling affects the work muralists do? How do they best achieve creating a mural as opposed to conveying the same set of ideas in a book, comic book, or in a gallery? With Curtia Wright, Elicser, Ness Lee, and Milkbox 

Hear from real-life comics librarians from Canada and the US on what comics librarianship looks like and how it can help bolster comics sales and growth. Plus, what titles comics librarians are reading and recommending - and whether they really shush people. With Lindsay Gibb (University of Toronto), Tina Coleman (American Library Association), Lucia Cedeira-Serantes (Western University), Natalie DeJonghe (American Library Association Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table), Fatma Faraj (Branksome Hall) and Scott Robins (Toronto Public Library). Moderated by Amie Wright (Carleton University)

 Join 5 cartoonists who have based their major works in Toronto and listen as they discuss how the city inspired their work: with Jason Loo (Pitiful Human Lizard), Jey Pawlik (Dead City), and featured guests Stephanie Cooke (Racc Pack), Nick Marinkovich (Kenk), and Rosena Fung(Age 16). Moderated by  cartoonist Brian McLachlan.

Featured guests cartoonists Ivana Filipovich (What’s Fear Got to Do With It?) and Nina Bunjevac (The Alchemical Journey Through the Major Arcana of The Tarot) introduces us to the richness of the ex-YU comic arts, with a focus on Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia. 

Cartoonist and moderator James Turner (Dragon Garage) discusses scaring readers and why they come back for more with Genevieve Bigue (When The Lake Burns), Jenna Cha and Lonnie Nadler (The Sickness 01), Beth Hetland (Tender), Zach Worton (The Weird World Of Lagoola Gardner) and featured guest Christopher Twin (Bad Medicine).

Cartoonist and physiotherapist Kriota Willberg on the growing field of Graphic Medicine. There are now hundreds of books and numerous conferences. Where is this movement headed? With Lara Antal (Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars), Dr. Shelley Wall, Morgan Sea (Abominatrix Comics) and Eloïse Marseille (Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman), Jane Zhao (Mixed-Media and Medicine, Graphic Medicine Reading Workshop).

Featured guest Rosena Fung talks about the creation of her triple-timelined story of generational connectedness with comics editor and author Serah-Marie McMahon. 

Cartoonist and magazine editor Olea Kim (Broken Pencil, The Grind, Bug Milk Variety Show) speaks about all things lovely and messy when it comes to connection and being one’s true self with Cam Marshall (Matchmaker) and featured guests Julie Delporte (Portrait Of A Body), Eunnie (If You’ll Have Me), Rosemary Valero O’Connell (Golden Record), and Mel Valentine Vargas (Pillow Talk).

Featured guest Dave Lapp in conversation with cartoonist/curator Joe Ollmann and legendary graphic novelist Chester Brown about Lapp's new graphic novel The Field.

Proulx and Fleck will be exploring issues of making art when nobody seems to care, building community, and the trials and pitfalls of being an independent creator. WITH THEIR POWERS COMBINED MAYBE THEY JUST MIGHT FIND THE ZEN OF COMIC CREATION. 

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This workshop is for anyone who is sad, tired, and thinking about giving up on making comics. Anyone who doesn’t feel good enough and like nobody's listening anyway. If you’ve complained about “the algorithm” in the last 24 hours, your attendance is mandatory. 

Featured guest and comics creator Raeghan Buchanan talks about her experience creating non-fiction stories dealing with historically underrepresented subject matter. Focusing on discovery of material, distillation of information, and final presentation, using her comic The Secret History of Black Punk as a guide.

Featured guests Breena Nuñez  and Lawrence Lindell talk about their publishing venture Laneha House- how to start up and maintain a small press, as well as keep their own individual cartoonist practices and family life going.

Presentation about transmasculine comics and how these creators explore identity, sexuality, and culture in their work. Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer in Minneapolis, MN. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew the science fiction webcomic O Human Star. Blue is also the creator of graphic novels and novellas like Meal (with Soleil Ho), Across a Field of Starlight, and Adversary. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Want to be an artist, but afraid of exposing yourself to criticism, critique, or just plain scared that people won't like you? In this workshop with author and artist Veronica Post, we will explore strategies to build resilience, self-compassion and strength so that we can be the authentic artists that we really want to be!

Featured Guests Lonnie Mann (Gaytheist: Coming Out Of My Orthodox Childhood) and Özge Samancı (Evil Eyes Sea) discuss their creative processes, the challenges of cartooning and getting published.