Hello from TCAF and welcome to the TCAF 2025 Exhibitor Newsletter #4!
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Missed any of our previous issues? Never fear! Catch up on all past exhibitor newsletter issues and all relevant exhibitor information on the TCAF Exhibitor Portal (pW = TCAF2025Toronto)
This week’s exhibitor highlights and news:
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Hotel Block: Has been extended a few days! Please book by Friday May 9th!
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Cross Border Travel: Have questions? TCAF is sponsoring a digital session for exhibitors Wed May 7th at 7pm ET with US Immigration lawyer, Catherine Glazer
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Exhibitor List is LIVE! Please review the list on our website. Need changes, edits, and updates? Please email TCAF’s Digital Experience Manager, Aaron KIng, directly at aaron@torontocomics.com
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Other Exhibitor news, updates and questions:
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Shipping - have questions? Please check the Exhibitor Portal
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Table Payment - have questions? Please check the Exhibitor Portal
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Table Placements Request Deadline
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Support TCAF update + Poster Artist News: Are you receiving our Public Newsletter? We shared some great updates this week including announcing our amazing TCAF 2025 Poster Artist, Faith Erin Hicks, plus an update on the awesome support we have already received for our Support TCAF campaign!
TCAF Hotel Block - please book by Friday May 9th!
We know that travel plans are very unsteady right now and our amazing hotel partners at the Courtyard Downtown Toronto (huge thank you to our hotel partners, Joyner Rodrigues and Patricia Chiu!) have allowed us to extend our hotel deadline a few extra days - please book by Friday May 9th!
Why book in the TCAF hotel block?
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Stay with comic super friends right in the heart of downtown Toronto
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All TCAF programming is happening at the Mattamy (a 3-5 min walk) or the Courtyard Marriott - which is our hotel! Staying in our hotel block is win-win for festival ease - plus lunchtime naps
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Hotels in downtown Toronto in June are expensive - our hotel block is a good rate for downtown Toronto and very well situated - close to grocery stores, amenities, and the subway (*American friends reminder that with the exchange rate our hotel block works out to be ~$225 USD/night)
How do I book? You can book by clicking this link
Questions about cross border travel and exhibiting?
TCAF is very happy to host US Immigration lawyer, Catherine Glazer, for a short information session on Wed May 7th from 7-8pm ET to discuss cross border travel and exhibiting. This talk will occur over zoom and the link will be distributed next week and shared via our exhibitor portal.
Lastly, BIG reminder - if you are coming to TCAF from outside of Canada, whether you are flying or traveling by car, train, or bus, remember that you need a valid passport. Make sure you have your passport, as well as a digital / paper copy (just in case!) and that your passport is up-to-date. If your current passport expires anytime between July-December 2025, we strongly encourage you to renew it before traveling to TCAF.
Exhibitor List is LIVE!
https://www.torontocomics.com/exhibitors
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Artists & Guests - is your information on the Exhibitor List accurate / up-to-date (name, url)? Is your name missing? Please email TCAF’s Digital Experience Manager, Aaron KIng, directly at aaron@torontocomics.com with any needed edits or changes.
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Publishers - please confirm that all artists who will be signing at your table, or participating in the festival are enlisted here. If names / urls are missing, please email TCAF’s Digital Experience Manager, Aaron KIng, directly at aaron@torontocomics.com with any needed edits or changes.
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Community & Industry Exhibitors - is your information (name / url) accurate and up-to-date on the exhibitor list? Please email TCAF’s Digital Experience Manager, Aaron KIng, directly at aaron@torontocomics.com with any needed edits or changes.
Other news, updates and questions:
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Shipping - have questions? Please check the Exhibitor Portal for the most up to date information on Shipping from within Canada, Shipping from the United States, and Shipping from Elsewhere (not the US or Canada)
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Table Payment - have questions? Please check the Exhibitor Portal for methods of payment. Worried about the table payment deadline? Never fear - though our initial table payment deadline was Friday April 4, 2025, we know that things are A LOT right now. If you are delayed for any reason, please do NOT worry. All that we ask is that you contact us to let us know that there will be a delay. If you have just come off the waitlist, please aim to pay your table fees by April 30, 2025. Reminder - methods for payment are: (1) paypal (2) credit card (3) cheque. Please note that we are not accepting e-transfers for table payments this year.
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Table Placements Request Deadline: we are hard at work on the TCAF 2025 table placement map - our first new map and location in 15 years! If you have a table placement request please email us at contact@torontocomics.com by Friday May 2nd with your requests.
Support TCAF update + Poster Artist News
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Are you receiving our Public Newsletter? If not, please sign up today!​
We shared some great updates this week including announcing our amazing TCAF 2025 Poster Artist, Faith Erin Hicks, plus an update on the awesome support we have already received for our Support TCAF campaign!
To the 325+ lovely people who've supported TCAF with a donation to our "Keep TCAF Free for All Campaign," thank you!
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Your gift helps us support artists from around the world, bring in thoughtful programming, champion our city's unique comics culture, and keep our scrappy little festival free for all. We’re so grateful to have you in our corner.
Want to join them? Make a gift of $5 or more, and you'll be added to our Wall of Supporters
Meet Our TCAF 2025 Poster Artist!
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TCAF has a long tradition of working with iconic Canadian cartoonists and graphic novelists on our annual posters, and for 2025, we're thrilled to announce our poster artist will be none other than award-winning Canadian artist Faith Erin Hicks!
Faith is a writer and artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her published works include The Adventures of Superhero Girl, Friends with Boys, The Nameless City trilogy, Pumpkinheads (with Rainbow Rowell), One Year at Ellsmere, Ride On, Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy and the young adult novel Comics Will Break Your Heart. She has won two Eisner Awards, and Pumpkinheads was a New York Times bestseller.
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