Special Events + Off-site Programming
There's more to TCAF than just the main event at The Mattamy Athletic Centre on June 7 & 8 - TCAF organizes and plays host to many other incredible comics-related events in surrounding neighbourhood in the days leading up to the festival.
Tuesday, June 3 6PM EST
Paying for It: Special TIFF x TCAF Screening with Sook-Yin Lee & Chester Brown
TIFF Lightbox ⋅ Cinema 2
350 King St W
Join TIFF for a special screening of Paying for It (TIFF ’24 and a 2024 Canada’s Top Ten selection) and Q&A with director and writer Sook-Yin Lee, cartoonist Chester Brown, and moderator Ho Che Anderson, General Programming Artistic Curator of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. This event will be followed by a book sale and signing of Chester Brown’s graphic novel, Paying For It: The Film Edition. ​
TCAF is extremely honoured to be partnering with Drawn & Quarterly and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) to host a special TCAF kick off event to mark the paperback launch of Kate Beaton’s award-winning Canadian nonfiction graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.
Beaton’s special evening event will feature a live musical performance by Peter MacInnis and interview by Mark Medley, deputy opinion editor at the Globe & Mail. Join us for singing, slideshow, and conversation illuminating the rich tapestry of Ducks from Beaton’s childhood and education in the Maritimes to her move out West for economic opportunity amid crushing student loan debt.
The evening will conclude with book sales and signing organized by TCAF sponsor, The Beguiling.
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Toronto Metropolitan University ⋅ Library Lecture Hall (LIB72), 350 Victoria St
Thursday, June 5 7PM EST
Kate Beaton launches DUCKS
With musical guest Peter MacInnis and interviewer Mark Medley.
Co-presented by TCAF, D&Q, and TMU
Friday, June 6 6PM EST
Canadian Comics Now: Cartooning In a Dangerous Time
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Panelists: Sonya Anwar, Guy Delisle, Faith Erin Hicks & Cole Pauls
Moderator: Amie Wright, TCAF Executive Director
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What does it mean to make art and build comics community in the midst of a constant barrage of unprecedented historical moments? Book bans and challenges based on bigotry and oppression, a precarious international market, fears around travelling, disruptive and unethical tech companies — there seems to be no end to the challenges facing artists today, and yet we continue to create. Join four high-profile comics artists, illustrators, and featured guests with TCAF’s Executive Director in conversation as they explore being an artist in our current moment and the joy of creating and sharing art against the backdrop of these strange times of ours.
In the immortal words of cartoonist KC Green: “This is fine.”
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Mattamy Athletic Centre ⋅ Jet Ice Lounge
50 Carlton Street