Meet the Fourth Round of TCAF's Featured Guests!

Michael DeForge is an artist in Toronto. He worked on Adventure Time and his illustrations have appeared in Jacobin, The New York Times, The Believer, and more. His 10th book with Drawn + Quarterly is All the Cameras in My Room.

Rachel Smith is an award-winning comic creator in Manchester. She’s known for making comics that deal with mental health issues with warm, relatable humour, such as Wired Up Wrong, Quarantine Comix, and Isabella & Blodwen. Her latest is Who Killed Nessie, with Avery Hill Publishing.

Ryan North is a Hugo and Eisner-award winning, NYT-bestselling author. Recent works include How To Take Over The World and How To Invent Everything, Dinosaur Comics, Squirrel Girl, and Fantastic Four. He lives in Toronto, where he once messed up walking his dog so badly it made the news.

Cathon came to prominence in 2013 with La liste des choses qui existent (The List of Things That Exist), a collaboration with Iris that’s been adapted by the NFB and Télé-Québec into a web series. Her work, characterised by its offbeat humour, is often inspired by genre fiction and popular culture. Mimose & Sam is out with Pow Pow Press.

Cole Degenstein is an illustrator in Montreal, hailing from Saskatchewan. Cole’s interested in comics, bookmaking, and eating well. Dear Kenneth, with Conundrum Press, is a sensitive work of comic auto-fiction that touches on themes of projection and selfishness amid a trip to Japan.

Hanna Schroy is a cartoonist and illustrator in Austin. She has participated in a multitude of self-published anthologies including Girls! Girls! Girls! curated by Alex Perkins and Thicker Than Blood curated by Mengmeng Liu. She is a long-time dance enthusiast and recent amateur gardener.