Fri, Jun 05
|Mattamy Athletic Centre ⋅ Jet Ice Lounge
TCAF 2026 Kick-Off Panel: 20 Years of TCAF
Come and celebrate this kick-off of the 20th in-person incarnation of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, with a selection of our incredible poster artists as they explore the importance of comics communities in these strange and scary times of ours.
Time & Location
Jun 05, 2026, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Mattamy Athletic Centre ⋅ Jet Ice Lounge, 50 Carlton St., Toronto, ON M5B 1J2, Canada
About the event
Panelists: Battan (2026 Main Poster, with Jocelyne Allen translating), Chris. W. Kim (2026 Toronto Variant Poster), Maurice Vellekoop (2013 Poster), Jenn Woodall (2022 Poster)
Moderator: Amie Wright, TCAF Executive Director
Streetcars and city skylines; strange worlds and stranger characters; speech bubbles and pages and panels and gutters. Every TCAF poster is a lodestar to the imaginative worlds of zines, comics, graphic novels, and the minds of the iconic artists who create them. Come and celebrate this kick-off of the 20th in-person incarnation of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, with a selection of our incredible poster artists as they explore the importance of comics communities in these strange and scary times of ours. And don’t forget to grab a poster!
Registration
General Admission
Like all of TCAF, the kick-off panel is free to attend! If you are able to provide a donation of any amount, your support allows us to continue to offer outstanding free programming like this. Thank you!
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