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!
Battan will be doing a limited signing after the panel. To ensure an equitable distribution of spots, and to avoid overnight lines or a resale market, we will be running a lottery of attendees wanting a signature.
PLEASE NOTE: Battan prefers not to appear in photography; please do not take pictures at the panel or signing.