TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL AUG 18-19 ANNOUNCES 2007 GUESTS

[Kevin Boyd]

TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL AUG 18-19 ANNOUNCES 2007 GUESTS

 

http://torontocomics.com/tcaf/guests.html

 

"The Toronto Comic Arts Festival exists to promote the breadth and diversity of comics, and what is considered comics, as legitimate medium of literary and artistic worth. We seek to promote the creators of these works in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics and to reach as wide an audience as possible for them."

 

The third Toronto Comic Arts Festival will occur on Saturday August 18th and Sunday August 19th, 2007. It will be held in the Old Victoria College building and the Burwash Quad on the University of Toronto Campus.

 

For the purposes of hotel searches and/or directions to TCAF events, the address of the Festival is:

 

Old Victoria College

93 Charles St. West

Toronto, ON, Canada

M5S 2C7

 

Complete Alphabetical Guest Listing

 

Atilla Adorjany - Kalman Andrasofszky - Neelam Arora - Adam Aylard - T. Edward Bak - Andy Belanger - Joe Bluhm - J Bone - Chester Brown - Jeffrey Brown - Sam Brown - Brendan Buford - C.B. Cebulski - Scott Chantler - Shawn Cheng - Svetlana Chmakova - Michael Cho - Jeff Clayton - Becky Cloonan - Joey Comeau - Michael Comeau - Darwyn Cooke - Nick Craine - James Davidge - Eleanor Davis - Willow Dawson - Arthur Dela Cruz - Evan Dorkin - Sarah Dyer - Sara Edward-Corbett - Ray Fawkes - Tim Fish - Brendan Fletcher - Matthew Forsythe - Shannon Gerard - Marcel Guldemond - Cheese Hasselberger - Scott Hepburn - Sam Hiti - Kathryn Immonen - Stuart Immonen - Damien Jay - James Jean - Tom K. - Karl Kerschl - Eric Kim - Blair Kitchen - Mike Kitchen - Chris Kuzma - Hope Larson - Jeff Lemire - Stef Lenk - Jon Lewis - Melanie Lewis - Jason Loo - Kathleen MacCarthy - Steve MacIsaac - Jim Mahfood - John Malloy - Steve Manale - Jason Marcy - John Martz - Joe Matt - Billy Mavreas - Sean McCarthy - Tyrone McCarthy - Brian McLachlan Carla Speed McNeil - John Mejias - Rosemary Mosco - Evan Munday - Michael Noonan - Bryan O'Malley - Ramon Perez - Rena Piccolo - Paul Pope - Zen Rankin - MK Reed - Dave Roman - Jim Rugg - Andy Runton - Lianne Sentar - Seth - Ben Shannon - Dave Sim - Josh Simmons - Karen Sneider - Kean Soo - Richard Stevens - Cameron Stewart - Craig Taillefer - Diana Tamblyn - Raina Telgemeier - J Torres - Gia-Bao Tran - James Turner - Jose Villarubia - Drew Weing - Lauren Weinstein - Joey Weiser - Matt Wiegle - Zach Worton - David Yoder - Ryan Yount - Chip Zdarsky - Jim Zubkavich

 

Honoured Guests:

 

Chester Brown

 

Writer and artist, and the renowned creator of books such as THE PLAYBOY and I NEVER LIKED YOU, and the ongoing series' UNDERWATER and YUMMY FUR. His graphic novel ED THE HAPPY CLOWN (which just finished a new and improved serialization) earned him the accolades of Rolling Stone magazine, naming him one of their IT Comics Creators. Chester drew the eyes of historians, press publications and all those appreciative of comic art with the collection of his series detailing the life of Canadian rebel LOUIS RIEL from Drawn & Quarterly. Chester is currently working on a new autobiographical graphic novel, due in 2008 or 2009 from Drawn & Quarterly.

 

Chester Brown will be participating in Friday-evening programming featuring the on-stage reunion of Joe Matt with Chester and Seth. Please see the events page for more information.

 

Darwyn Cooke

 

A storyboard artist for Batman/Superman Adventures animated series and creator of the main title design for Batman Beyond, Darwyn has since moved from animation to become a widely recognized name in comics. His most notable early work was a one shot entitled BATMAN: EGO, and while his work has spread to such titles as X-STATIX and TANGLED WEB it all comes back to the bat mythos. From redesigning CATWOMAN into a sleek retro style which lead to writing and drawing the intricately designed original hardcover SELINA'S BIG SCORE which no doubt paved the way for Darwyn's most recent mini-series set in the DC Comics Silver Age: THE NEW FRONTIER.

 

Evan Dorkin

 

The notorious creator of MILK & CHEESE and DORK will be joining the Toronto Comic Arts Festival for his first-ever comics event in Toronto! After starting at Marvel Comics, Dorkin made his name on hip, contemporary looks at youth in popular culture through his series HECTIC PLANET and his short humour strips in anthologies including INSTANT PIANO. Currently, Dorkin's work can be seen in annual issues of DORK and in Nickelodeon Magazine, MAD Magazine, and on the cover of the new Larry Doyle novel I Love You Beth Cooper.

 

Also this summer, Slave Labor Graphics will release vinyl toy figures of MILK & CHEESE, and we've all got our fingers crossed that they'll show up in time for TCAF...

 

James Jean

 

From his early work in the pages of MEATHAUS to his stylish paintings gracing the covers of FABLES, we've watched this School Of Visual Arts graduate receive awards from The Eisners, the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators of LA, American Illustration, and appear in The New York Times, SPIN and Playboy magazine. James was born in Taiwan, raised in New Jersey, and educated in New York, where his love of comics inspired a career in illustration and dreams of painting.

James' new art book, PROCESS RECESS 2, may be debuting in time for TCAF. James Jean is also the artist for The Beguiling's 20th Anniversary Poster.

 

Joe Matt

 

For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly unabashed and completely self-absorbed, he writes with an exhibitionist’s enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself.

 

Matt was born in Philadelphia in 1963. By his own account (collected in the graphic novel Fair Weather in 2002) he was a spoiled, selfish, and unpleasant child with a bedwetting problem, who also happened to be obsessed with collecting comics.

 

In the early 80s, Joe Matt studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and worked in a broom factory. In 1987, he started drawing the dense single-page confessional strips that made him a comics hero when they were collected in 1992 by Kitchen Sink Press and published as Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt. He began his ongoing comic book series Peepshow that same year with Drawn & Quarterly, the first six issues of which were collected as The Poor *spoon* in 1997.

 

His most recent story arc, although only four issues long, took over 8 years to complete. The rest of his time was quite likely spent meticulously editing porn videos, collecting and archiving classic comic strips, wallowing in self-pity, and otherwise "procrasturbating," overwhelmed by the laziness that motivates him to urinate in a bottle in his bedroom rather than walk to the bathroom.

 

Joe Matt will be participating in Friday-evening programming featuring the on-stage reunion of Joe and his long-time friends Chester Brown and Seth. Please see the events page for more information.

 

Paul Pope

 

In America, he's been called the "comics destroyer;" in France, he's been called the "Jim Morrison of comics" and "comics' Petit Prince." New York’s Paul Pope creates comics that defy genre and period, straddling the line between artistic capriciousness and commercial appeal. One of a handful of young cartoonists consistently gaining critical praise and media attention, Pope has been featured in Canada on MuchMusic and Space channel, among others, and his work has appeared in print outlets like Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Jalouse, V Magazine and The Village Voice. He is also the only American cartoonist to have worked for Japan's largest manga publisher (Kodansha), for more than five years now. Pope’s recent work includes the near-future sci-fi romance 100%, the career spanning THB, as well as recent stints on iconic comic character series like Batman and Spider-Man.

 

Just in time for TCAF, Adhouse Books will release PULPHOPE: THE ART OF PAUL POPE. It's going to be great.

 

Seth

 

Canada's Seth is perhaps the best-know Canadian graphic novelist in the world. Drawing deeply from a disparate group of inspirations Seth has distilled one of the most distinctive and recognizable cartooning styles of the past decade and his sophisticated style has been sought by "The Washington Post," "Details," "National Post," "Spin," "The New York Times," "Saturday Night," and the "New Yorker."

 

Seth's comics work includes his series PALOOKA-VILLE, which is released "as frequently as his busy schedule will allow". Graphic novel collections of his work include IT'S A GOOD LIFE, IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN, CLYDE FANS BOOK ONE, and WIMBLEDON GREEN. In 2004, Seth teamed with his father John Gallant, to produce his father's memoir of the Great Depression, BANNOCK, BEANS, & BLACK TEA. Seth is also the designer of Stuart McLean's "Vinyl Café Diaries" books, stage shows and CDs, and the designer of Fantagraphics' 25 book COMPLETE PEANUTS series.

 

Seth's illustration has recently graced the cover of "The New Yorker", and in early 2007 his new graphic novel, GEORGE SPROTT (1894-1975) was serialised in The New York Times.

 

Seth will be participating in Friday-evening programming featuring the on-stage reunion of Joe Matt with Chester and Seth. Please see the events page for more information.

 

http://torontocomics.com/tcaf/about.html

[Jason Truong]

Updated June 28th:

 

June 28th : The guests just keep coming! TCAF is pleased to announce the addition of the following guests to those already attending this year: Adrian Alphona, John Green, Vanessa Satone, Jason Thompson, Noel Tuazon, Marion Vitus, and George A. Walker. Unfortunately, due to respective prior commitments Jim Mahfood and Gabrielle Bell, both previously confirmed guests, will be unable to attend this year.

 

June 15th: The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is pleased to announce the addition of the following guests to those attending this year: Kei Acedera, Roxanne Bielskis, Bobby Chiu, Tom Humberstone, Tom Neely, James Sturm, Tara Tallan, Maurice Vellekoop, Rob Walton, and Dylan Williams. We're also happy to announce that Dan Nadel and PictureBox will be attending this year, as will Canadian studio Imaginism, both for the first time.

 

Complete Alphabetical Guest Listing

Kei Acedera - Atilla Adorjany - Adrian Alphona - Kalman Andrasofszky - Neelam Arora - Adam Aylard - T. Edward Bak - Andy Belanger - Roxanne Bielskis - Caitlin Black - Joe Bluhm - J Bone - Chester Brown - Jeffrey Brown - Sam Brown - Brendan Buford - C.B. Cebulski - Scott Chantler - Shawn Cheng - Bobby Chiu - Svetlana Chmakova - Michael Cho - Jeff Clayton - Becky Cloonan - Joey Comeau - Michael Comeau - Darwyn Cooke - Nick Craine - James Davidge - Eleanor Davis - Willow Dawson - Arthur Dela Cruz - Evan Dorkin - Sarah Dyer - Sara Edward-Corbett - Ray Fawkes - Tim Fish - Brendan Fletcher - Matthew Forsythe - Shannon Gerard - John Green - Marcel Guldemond - Cheese Hasselberger - Scott Hepburn - Sam Hiti - Tom Humberstone - Kathryn Immonen - Stuart Immonen - Damien Jay - James Jean - Tom K. - Karl Kerschl - Eric Kim - Blair Kitchen - Mike Kitchen - Chris Kuzma - Hope Larson - Jeff Lemire - Stef Lenk - Jon Lewis - Melanie Lewis - Jason Loo - Steve MacIsaac - John Malloy - Steve Manale - Jason Marcy - John Martz - Joe Matt - Billy Mavreas - Sean McCarthy - Tyrone McCarthy - Brian McLachlan Carla Speed McNeil - John Mejias - Rosemary Mosco - Evan Munday - Dan Nadel - Tom Neely - Michael Noonan - Bryan O'Malley - Ramon Perez - Rena Piccolo - Paul Pope - Zen Rankin - MK Reed - Dave Roman - Jim Rugg - Andy Runton - Vanessa Satone - Lianne Sentar - Seth - Ben Shannon - Dave Sim - Josh Simmons - Karen Sneider - Kean Soo - Richard Stevens - Cameron Stewart - James Sturm - Craig Taillefer - Tara Tallan - Diana Tamblyn - Raina Telgemeier - Jason Thompson - J Torres - Gia-Bao Tran - Noel Tuazon - James Turner - Maurice Vellekoop - Jose Villarubia - Marion Vitus - George A. Walker - Rob Walton - Drew Weing - Lauren Weinstein - Joey Weiser - Matt Wiegle - Dylan Williams - Zach Worton - David Yoder - Ryan Yount - Chip Zdarsky - Jim Zubkavich

 

For bios and details of each guest, check out http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf/guests.html

[SignatureSelect]

Evan Dorkin and James Jean. That is great. I need comics signed by both of them. I will be giving you some books to get signed Kevin if that is OK.

[Kevin Boyd]

I will be accepting submissions for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), so if anyone wants anything signed by any of these guests, please feel free to contact me to make arrangements about sending the books up, or you can give me your books at the following conventions:

 

SAN DIEGO COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL

PARADISE COTTAGE COMICON

WIZARD WORLD CHICAGO

 

 

For example:

Adrian Alphona (Runaways)

Kalman Andrasofszky (Legion of Monsters: Satana)

J Bone (The Spirit)

C. B. Cebulski (Loners)

Scott Chantler (Tek Jensen)

Becky Cloonan (American Virgin)

Darwyn Cooke (The Spirit)

Evan Dorkin - Sarah Dyer

Stuart Immonen (Ultimate Spider-Man)

James Jean (Fables)

Karl Kerschl (All-Flash Special)

Joe Matt (Peepshow)

Paul Pope (Batman: Year 100)

Dave Sim (Cerebus)

Cameron Stewart (The Other Side, Apocalipstix)

J Torres (Teen Titans Go!, Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Super-Heroes)