Exhibitor List
Info At A Glance
TCAF 2012
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Saturday May 5th, 9am-5pm
Sunday May 6th, 11am-5pm
@ Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge St., Toronto, Canada
416-533-9168
Admission to TCAF is Free.
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Publishers
AdHouse Books has been a boutique publishing juggernaut since the year of 2002. Over the years, they have won and been nominated for awards within the comic profession (Ignatz, Harvey, Eisner) and the design world (AIGA, Communication Arts, Domtar Paper). Their library of publications is an eclectic mix of sequential …»
Blank Slate is a UK-based publisher specialising in new British comic talent and translations of acclaimed work from wider Europe. Established in 2008, they’ve gone on to be the home of books from artists such as Nick Abaszis, Oliver East, Nick Edwards, Peggy Adam and many more.
Conundrum press was founded by Andy Brown who has been publishing comics and art books for over a decade. Formerly of Montreal and now based in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Conundrum has been nominated twice for the Shuster Award for best Canadian Comics Publisher. Conundrum has recently formed the BDANG imprint …»
Grimalkin Press is Jordan Shiveley and occasional cohorts. They are interested in DIY printmaking and publishing small press comics that might otherwise stay inside of sketchbooks. Do you have an idea for a book printed solely on the fall foliage of a solitary tree from your childhood? They might be …»
Koyama Press was founded in 2007 to sponsor projects with emerging artists. The rationale behind the enterprise is to fund projects with the intention to promote emerging artists. Ideally there will be a product to sell to create revenue. In addition to publishing books, the company has financed such diverse projects …»
Pop Sandbox is an award-winning multimedia production & publishing company with a focus on original projects rooted in graphic novel and film. It is a small boutique operation centered on innovative and meaningful storytelling across platforms. Pop Sandbox’s inaugural release was the groundbreaking 300-page journalistic comic book, KENK: A Graphic …»
Top Shelf Productions publishes contemporary graphic novels and comics by artists of singular vision. Dedicated to championing veteran creators as well as finding and developing emerging talent, the Top Shelf library is anchored by such masters of the craft as Alan Moore (From Hell, with Eddie Campbell; Lost Girls, with Melinda …»
Tugboat Press is a small comic book publisher from Portland, Oregon. We are best known for our long running anthology series Papercutter. They will be represented at TCAF by publisher Greg Means.
Bento Comics is the premier website for custom print-on-demand comics anthologies. At BentoComics.com you can browse a growing archive of short stories and series, pick your favourites and order a one-of-a-kind printed collection for your shelf! Bento Comics is proud to showcase work by many talented authors such as Queenie …»
2D CLOUD is a micro-press comics publisher based in NE MPLS. We publish paper-craft art books, mini comics, and graphic novels by an assortment of creatives, such as Nic Breutzman, Meghan & Raighne Hogan, John & Luke Holden, Noah Van Sciver, Justin Skarhus, Vincent Stall (King Mini), Toby Jones & …»
With cartoonists that have been instrumental in defining the literary comics medium for the past twenty years and a willingness to experiment with formats and concepts, Drawn & Quarterly has become one of the most influential art and literary comics publishers in North America, if not the whole world. Back …»
Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium …»
Nobrow Press was set up in London, England by Sam Arthur & Alex Spiro in the winter of 2008 to provide an independent publishing platform for comics, illustration and the graphic arts. We aim to showcase some of the best talent out there today, whether fresh out of college or …»
Sparkplug Comic Books is committed to providing artists whose talents deserve a larger audience with the starting place to find it. We consider being a small publisher a privilege and we intend to stay small. We publish and distribute the works of the brightest and best cartoonists working in comics …»
TopatoCo is the brain-child of Jeffrey Rowland, a webcartoonist and the creator of WIGU and OVERCOMPENSATING. It is a manufacturer of comics-related goods as well as the publisher and distributor of numerous comics publications, primarily collections of material which originated online. Notable works from TopatoCo include print collections of Kate …»
Vertical is one of North America’s premier publishers of Japanese content. Founded as a publisher of Japanese genre fiction, Vertical has evolved to become a multiple award-winning graphic novel publisher known globally as the standard in manga design, production and translation. 2012 is the second year that Vertical Inc. will …»