Gabriella Giandelli was born in Milan in 1963. She published her first comics in 1984 and soon established herself as one of the most important comic book artists in Europe. Her children’s serial character “Milo”, featured in numerous volumes published in Italy by Mondadori, has recently been adapted for television in Italy …read more
Gabriel Bá is an Eisner Award winning artist on such books as De:Tales, 5, Daytripper, The Umbrella Academy, Casanova, Pixu, and B.P.R.D.: 1947. He lives and works in Brazil with his brother, Fábio Moon.
Alison Bechdel began keeping a journal at the age of ten, and has been assiduously archiving her own life and times with words and pictures ever since. For twenty-five years she wrote and drew the comic stripDykes to Watch Out For, a generational chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres …read more
Aislin is the name of Terry Mosher’s eldest daughter and the nom de plume used by Mosher as a Canadian political cartoonist for The Gazette, Montreal’s English-language daily newspaper. Born November 11, 1942 in Ottawa, Ontario, Mosher attended fourteen different schools in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City, graduating from the …read more
Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Halifax, and now New York. Maybe the moon next time, who knows.
Arne Bellstorf was born in Dannenberg, Germany in 1979. Since 2006 he has been writing and illustrating a monthly comic page for a German newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel. Besides working as an illustrator and comic artist, he also co-edits the annual Orang comic magazine with Sascha Hommer. Together, they founded Kiki …read more
Since 2002, Colosse has published lovingly crafted, ephemeral small print run of more or less experimental comics, essays or sketchbooks from (mostly) Québécois authors. Only available at festivals we attend or by mail order, the Colosse collection is a haven for projects too risky, personal or radical for the bloody …read more
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.
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 …read more
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 …read more
“What if compact discs came from ancient Jerusalem? What if the King of Rock n’ Roll wasn’t born in Memphis, but in Nazareth? That’s the world of Rock Testament, a smart tale of how human nature never changes, and ambition can get the better of all of us.
[close]In their hotly anticipated follow-up to 2008’s comics textbook Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, School of Visual Arts cartooning professors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel bring their expertise to bear on the “second semester” of a course of study for the budding cartoonist. Covering advanced topics such as story composition, coloring, and …read more
[close]A Softer World book three is here, and it is chock full of secret alt texts and harsh truths about your love life. Put this book in the bathroom, next to the razor blades and old Rolling Stones magazines that remind you when you thought you could do anything!
[close]Traumstadtdenken (a German neologism of Rupert Bottenberg’s own concoction, meaning “Dream-City-Thinking,” a nod to a painting by Paul Klee, “Traumstadt”, that had tremendous personal impact on the cartoonist) is a collection of various comix, drawings and other odds ’n’ ends from the last 10 years, supplemented by recent work that …read more
[close]Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader (London Review of Books to Star Magazine); music lover (opera to death metal); passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood …read more
[close]Three Word Phrase is a book full of comics that Ryan Pequin drew. Some of them he drew with a pencil but most of them he drew on the computer. If you enjoy jokes about birds that are the president, bears who have extremely low self esteem, or how nobody …read more
[close]“Homestuck: Book 2″ contains the complete second act of Homestuck, the hugely popular and also hugely huge web series, made FOR the web, OF the web, and totally inextricable FROM the web — now in book form!!! It is about some kids who use the internet a lot and play …read more
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