The D&Q all-stars descend upon Toronto's TMU Mattamy Athletic Centre (né Maple Leaf Gardens) for the 20th anniversary of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF)! From June 6 to 7, you'll find featured guests Tillie Walden, Lee Lai, Arizona O'Neill, and Michael DeForge alongside Chester Brown, Jessica Campbell, Nick Maandag, Joe Ollmann, Seth, and R. Sikoryak signing at the D&Q booth: Tables 249-252 at the 3rd floor hockey rink.

Keep scrolling to see our full signing and programming schedule below!

Friday, June 5: LIBRARIES & EDUCATION DAY
11:00 am-12:00 pm: The Graphic Medicine Without Borders panel featuring Arizona O'Neill, with Joana Mosi, Maureen Burdock, Veronica Post, Moka Onmae, and Tsubasa Kosaka, moderated by Shelley Wall at the Main Room of the TMU Special Collections & Archives
4:00-5:00 pm: Teaching with Comics panel featuring R. Sikoryak, with Billy Tringali, Kriota Willberg, and Catherine Jenkins, moderated by Erika Chung at the Reading Room of the TMU Special Collections & Archives

8:00 pm: Carousel @ the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2026 Kick-Off at theJet Ice Lounge on the 4th Floor of the TMU Mattamy Athletic Center

Saturday, June 6
10:00–11:00 AM: Arizona O'Neill, Tillie Walden signing at D&Q booth
10:30–11:30 AM: Lee Lai signing at D&Q booth
10:30–11:30 AM: Joe Ollmann, Seth, R. Sikoryak on Concrete & Ink: Mythologizing the City: moderated by Mark Askwith at The Bunker, 3rd Floor
11:15–12:05 PM: Spotlight on Arizona O'Neill & Joana Mosi, moderated by Mathew Noe at the Jet Ice Lounge, 4th Floor
11:30 AM–12:30 PM: Joe Ollmann, Seth, R. Sikoryak signing at D&Q booth
12:30–1:30 PM: Nick Maandag on Dangerous Cartooning: Politics & the Personal in a Perilous Age : moderated by Ho Che Anderson at The Bunker, 3rd Floor
12:30–1:30 PM : Jessica Campbell, Arizona O'Neill, Michael DeForge signing at D&Q booth
12:30–1:20 PM : Spotlight on Lee Lai & Tillie Walden moderated by Hazel Newlevant at the Jet Ice Lounge, 4th Floor
1:30–2:30 PM : Lee Lai, Nick Maandag, Tillie Walden signing at D&Q booth
2:30–3:30 PM : Lee Lai on Four Colour Magic: Design & Process in the Age of AI, moderated by Megan Halsband at The Bunker, 3rd Floor
2:30–3:30 PM : Michael DeForge, Joe Ollmann, Seth signing at D&Q booth
2:30–4:00 PM : Chester Brown signing at D&Q booth


Sunday, June 7
11:00–11:50 AM : Tillie Walden on Queer Romance, moderated by MJ Lyons at the Jet Ice Lounge, 4th Floor
11:00 AM–12:00 PM : Jessica Campbell, Michael DeForge, Lee Lai signing at D&Q booth
12:00–1:00 PM : Arizona O'Neill, R. Sikoryak, Tillie Walden signing at D&Q booth
1:00–2:00 PM : Nick Maandag, Joe Ollmann signing at D&Q booth
1:00–2:30 PM : Seth signing at D&Q booth
1:30–2:30 PM : Arizona O’Neill on Biopics in Ink: The World of Biographical & Autobiographical Comics, moderated by Megan Halsband at The Bunker, 3rd Floor
2:00–3:00 PM : Michael DeForge, Tillie Walden signing at D&Q booth
2:30–4:00 PM : Chester Brown signing at D&Q booth
3:00–4:00 PM : Lee Lai, Nick Maandag signing at D&Q booth
3:50–4:50 PM: Michael DeForge on Using Color to Tell a Story, moderated by Paterson Hodgson


The Toronto Comics Arts festival (TCAF) takes place at the TMU Mattamy Athletic Center, located at 50 Carlton Street in Toronto, Ontario. Admission is FREE!