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TCAF is comprised of a number of events held around the city of Toronto, with the centrepiece of the event being a two-day exhibition and artist showcase. Here, hundreds of artists from Canada and around the world exhibit their comics and art and meet with fans and readers face-to-face. In addition to our two-day exhibition, there are numerous art gallery showings of work, book launches and premieres, and symposiums and speaking engagements, all held around the city in the week leading up to the event. In August of 2007 we held our third festival. It was extremely successful, with more than 250 graphic novel authors and artists from across North America and Europe and more than 6,500 attendees over two days on the University of Toronto campus at Victoria College. Our fourth Festival will be held May 9-10, 2009 at the Toronto Reference Library, part of the Toronto Public Library System. TCAF exists to promote the breadth and diversity of comics and graphic novels as a 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. Best of all, The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is an event that is completely free to attend! We interact with a wide range of the community and are successful at growing the audiences and appreciation for all participating authors because of this... It is one of the hallmarks of our Festival.
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More biographical information, including website info and artwork, is available at the main Toronto Comic Arts Festival website: http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf
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 The Toronto Reference Library: Our Venue for the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Photo by flickr user ScienceDuck. ©2007. The 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival will be held Saturday May 9th and Sunday May 10th, 2009. The two day exhibition will be the culmination of a larger arts festival that will incorporate film screenings, art gallery presentations, book launches, and panel discussions, that will run from the end of April through to the end of May. Looking for the 2007 TCAF Site? Exhibiting at TCAF If you have not previously exhibited at TCAF and would like to do so, there is a waiting list for tables. Potential exhibitors will be judged on the quality of their work, on the diversity of their material, the frequency of their exhibition in the Greater Toronto Area, and how their exhibition would add to the Festival experience for all attendees. To be considered for exhibition space at TCAF, please send a note to 2009@torontocomics.com, with links to samples of your work. Please don't send attachments. Venue and Attendance In addition, we will be making use of surrounding structures of note including theatre spaces and galleries for various aspects of festival programming. TCAF Posters and Artwork Below is a gallery of artwork that has been created for the festival.
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Edmond Baudoin (France)
Chester Brown (Canada)
Darwyn Cooke (Canada)
Evan Dorkin (USA)
Eiland (Holland)
Phoebe Gloeckner (USA)
Paul Gravett (England)
James Jean (USA)
Kid Koala (Canada)
Jason Lutes (USA)
David Mack (USA)
Joe Matt (USA)
Tony Millionaire (USA)
Gary Panter (USA)
Paul Pope (USA)
Michel Rabagliati (Canada)
Seth (Canada)
Jeff Smith (USA)
2003 TCAF Poster by Seth (Canada) 
2005 TCAF Poster 1 by Darwyn Cooke (Canada) 
2005 TCAF Poster 2 by James Jean (USA) 
2005 TCAF Poster 3 by Marc Bell (Canada) 
2007 TCAF Poster by Darwyn Cooke 
2007 TCAF Postcard Art by Evan Dorkin (USA)
2007 TCAF Promotional Comic Cover Art by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Canada) 
In addition to our TCAF art, the 20th anniversary of TCAF sponsor retailer The Beguiling fell during the period of the 2007 Festival, and so we comissioned James Jean to create a limited edition art print commemorating the event.