Owlkids Day is a special one-day event that offers a non-stop selection of presentations by TCAF’s biggest kids guests, and creates a special location for families just 5 minutes walk from main TCAF site Toronto Reference Library. Presenters include cartoonists from Owlkids, Andy Runton (Owly), Jennifer Holm & Matt Holm (Babymouse, SQUISH), Jeff Smith (Bone), Kazu Kibuishi (Amulet), and Dave Roman & John Green (Teen Boat, Avatar: The Last Airbender).

As with most TCAF events, admission to all of these presentations is free, no tickets will be offered or are required, admission and seating is limited to the first 200 people in line for each event. Event queues start 30 minutes before each presentation.

Owlkids Day is just one of many kids activities happening at TCAF 2012, including The Owlkids Area at The Appel Salon on the second floor of Toronto Reference Library, Free Comic Book Day Giveaways, and dozens more wonderful cartoonists and graphic novel creators in attendance. For more information, please visit our website at http://TorontoComics.com/kids.

See you there!

Owlkids Day Schedule of Events: 

9:30am: Doors open at venue St. Paul’s, 227 Bloor Street East
10am: Meet Owly creator Andy Runton!
11am: Meet Jennifer Holm & Matt Holm, creators of Babymouse & Squish!
12pm: Owlkids Presents: How to Write and Draw Max Finder with Craig Battle and Ramon Perez!
1pm: Meet Jeff Smith, the author of Bone!
2:30pm: The world of Amulet, with creator Kazu Kibuishi!
3:45pm: It’s the “launch” of Teen Boat! With creators Dave Roman & John Green!

All creators will be signing and sketching for fans after their presentations!

ABOUT

Owlkids: Owlkids is the English youth division of Bayard Canada. Owlkids publishes entertaining, unique, high quality magazines and books that nurture the potential of children and instill in them a love of reading and learning — about themselves and the world around them.

As publisher of Chirp, chickaDEE, and OWL magazines, Owlkids reaches more than 200,000 subscriber families and more than one million readers each month. Its book publishing unit, Owlkids Books, has produced such bestsellers as Max Finder Mysteries, My Beastly Book of Monsters, and Why? For more information, please go to www.owlkids.com.

TCAF: The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is a week-long celebration of comics and graphic novels, culminating in a two-day exhibition at Toronto Reference Library on May 5rh and 6th, 2012. Featuring 300 cartoonists from more than 15 countries around the world, TCAF is Canada’s premiere celebration of comics and cartoonists. For more information please visit http://torontocomics.com.