Meet the Last Round of Our Featured Guests!

It’s our final round of Featured Guests for TCAF 2026, happening this weekend at the Mattamy Athletic Centre!

Jeff Lemire is a Canadian cartoonist and writer. His works include the Essex County trilogy and Sweet Tooth, which earned him multiple Eisner, Harvey, and Joe Shuster Awards. He’s also written major titles for Dark Horse, DC, Marvel, and Image Comics, and was the 2017 TCAF poster artist!

Mohammed Sabaaneh is a Palestinian artist living in Ramallah in the West Bank. He’s the political cartoonist for the Palestinian Authority’s daily paper, and has published in newspapers around the Arab World. Welcome to Hell: From the West Bank to Gaza is his graphic memoir about life under occupation, soon to be released by Street Noise Books.

Vancouver-based comic artist Faith Erin Hicks’ works include The Adventures of Superhero Girl, Friends with Boys, The Nameless City trilogy, Pumpkinheads, One Year at Ellsmere and the YA novel Comics Will Break Your Heart. She has won two Eisner Awards, and Pumpkinheads was a New York Times bestseller. Her new graphic novel Inbetweens is out now from First Second. She was the TCAF poster artist for 2025!

Mari Costa is a luso-brazilian cartoonist and 2D animator. Her works include comics such as Peritale, Life of Melody and The Well by the House on the Hill. She specializes in lighthearted fantasy stories with LGBTQ+ themes, and is published by First Second.

Jamie Michaels is a writer, educator, and filmmaker from Winnipeg whose acclaimed graphic novel Christie Pits covered the riots in 1930s Toronto where young Jewish and Italian immigrants squared off against Nazi-inspired thugs. His new documentary “I Draw Them The Best I Can” shows how Holocaust survivor Adam Policzer used comics to find healing.

Liam Karp is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg’s film program. He writes, produces, directs, scores, and edits his films, including co-directing “I Draw Them The Best I Can” with Jamie Michaels. He’s won the Directors Guild of Canada Team Award and been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award.

Maureen Burdock is a graphic novelist, illustrator, and comics scholar whose work explores resilience, justice, and displacement. She’s the author of three acclaimed graphic novels: Five Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century, Queen of Snails, and Sleepless Planet, all published by Graphic Mundi.