The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) runs Saturday, April 29th to Sunday April 30th.

A fleet of D+Q authors will be there including Rina Ayuyang (The Man in the McIntosh Suit, Blame This on the Boogie), Kate Beaton (Ducks) virtually, Barbara Brandon-Croft (Where I'm Coming From), Chester Brown (Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus), Julie Delporte (This Woman's Work), Nick Maandag (Harvey Knight's Odyssey), Joe Ollmann (Fictional Father), R. Sikoryak (Constitution Illustrated), Seth (Clyde Fans), & D+Q Publisher Peggy Burns.

Programming Schedule

Monday April 24:

7:30pm Kate Beaton speaks on virtual talk "Leaving Home" with Canada Reads champion Mattea Roach. Watch here!

Friday April 28:

4pm Peggy Burns speaks on "Business Stream - State of the Industry Redux: Indie Publishers Round-table" in the Novella Room

Saturday April 29:

TCAF Begins!

10am Peggy Burns speaks on "Author Rights" in the Hinton Room

11am Julie Delporte speaks on "Greetings from Montréal: BD and Comics from Québec," moderated by François Vigneault in the Hinton Room

12pm Seth speaks on "Projecting Thought– The Experimental Comics Of Martin Vaughn-James" with Sean Rogers in the Novella Room

1pm Barbara Brandon-Croft speaks on "Cartoonists in Conversation: Where I'm Coming From" with Ho Che Anderson in the Hinton Room

1pm Joe Ollmann speaks on "Cartoonists in Conversation- Faulted Heroes" with Noah Van Sciver in the Novella Room

1pm R. Sikoryak hosts a Workshop/Presentation called "Remixing the Past, Present, and Future of Comics with R. Sikoryak" in the Discussion Room

3pm Rina Ayuyang speaks on the "Workshop/Presentation: The Man in the McIntosh Suit" with Althea Balmes in the Discussion Room

Sunday April 30:

11am Rina Ayuyang & Nick Maandag speak on "Binky Brown Meets The World-The Legacy of Autobiographic Cartoonists- Part Two," moderated by Shira Spector in the Hinton Room

1pm Chester Brown speaks on "Cartoonists in Conversation-The Alchemy of Drawing-Philosophy and Practice" with Nina Bunjevac in the Hinton Room

Signing Schedule

Saturday 28th

9 am-5 pm Nick Maandag - Table 116

11 am-12 pm Chester Brown - Beguiling Signing Area

12-1 pm Rina Ayuyang & Julie Delporte - Beguiling Signing Area

1-2 pm Seth - Beguiling Signing Area

2-3 pm Barbara Brandon-Croft, R Sikoryak, Joe Ollmann - Beguiling Signing Area

4-5 pm Rina Ayuyang - Beguiling Signing Area

Sunday, April 30th

10-11 am Nick Maandag - Table 116

12-1 pm Barbara Brandon-Croft & Rina Ayuyang - Beguiling Signing Area

12-5 pm Nick Maandag - Table 116

2:30-3:30 pm Chester Brown - 3rd floor, Reference Library

TCAF takes place at Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, M4W 2G8.