Meet Our Sixth Round of Featured Guests!
- TCAF
- 4 days ago
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We are excited to announce the next round of featured guests for the 2025 festival! Meet these incredible comics creators, along with the first, second, third, fourth and fifth rounds of featured guests announced already, and the rest of our extraordinary exhibitors, at the Mattamy Athletic Centre on Saturday, June 7 from 10AM - 7PM EST and Sunday, June 8 from 10AM - 5PM EST.
We're thrilled to welcome back Toronto's own Ryan North, the NYT-bestselling author whose works include How To Take Over The World, How To Invent Everything, a graphic adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and of course, Dinosaur Comics!
Katarina Thorsen is a visual artist from Sweden, now based in BC. Her debut with Conundrum Press, Salt Green Death, is a work of historical graphic medicine informed by her work with youth and adults who experience significant mental health challenges and trauma.
Hugh D’Andrade is an award-winning illustrator, creative director, and instructor in Oakland, California. His work has appeared on YA book jackets, rock posters, magazines, t-shirts, skateboards, and on the occasional gallery wall. The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir is his debut graphic novel.
Ramón Pérez is a Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and writer whose career spans 20+ years. His adaptation of Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand won Eisner and Harveys, he's illustrated Marvel titles like The Amazing Spider-Man and Nova, and he founded the Royal Academy of Illustration & Design (RAID)
Makee is a China-born cartoonist and designer based in New York. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2019. Makee currently works as a designer during the day and draws at night. She enjoys eating, reading, and a clean desktop.
The Bay Area's Mary Shyne spent a decade in publishing before getting her MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Now, she works on all things Snoopy at the Schulz Studio. Her debut You and Me on Repeat is a rollicking rom-com about two former friends trapped in a time loop.