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Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund reforms to help U.S. man charged with child...
Here’s some friendly advice for Canadians returning from the U.S. after the July 4th festivities: be careful what reading material you bring back across the border. Last year, a U.S. man was charged...
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Bechdel and Delisle to headline Toronto Comic Arts Festival
TCAF 2011 The Toronto Comic Arts Festival has released a partial guest list for this year’s event, which takes place May 5–6 at the Toronto Reference Library. According to The Comics Reporter,...
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Criminal charges dropped in Canada Customs manga case
After two years and $75,000 in legal fees, charges have been dropped against Ryan Matheson, a U.S. citizen accused of bringing child pornography into Canada after border officials discovered manga art...
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Killer comics, part one: Koyama Publishing and Conundrum Press
In less than a decade, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 5–6) has grown from a niche event into an annual gathering that attracts upward of 15,000 attendees. In the May 2012 issue, Q&Q takes a...
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Guy Delisle’s dispatches from a divided city
Guy Delisle accepting the Fauve d’Or at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (photo: Jorge Fidel Alvarez/9e Art+) The first time Guy Delisle glimpsed Israel’s West Bank barrier during his...
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Killer comics, part two: Editions Tchai, Top Shelf, and Jeff Lemire
In less than a decade, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 5–6) has grown from a niche event into an annual gathering that attracts upward of 15,000 attendees. In the May 2012 issue, Q&Q takes a...
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival celebrates 10 years
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with what it describes in a press release as “the largest and most international array of comics, authors, and artists in the history...
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Ten years of TCAF
TCAF 2012 (photo: TCAF) If you’ve attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in recent years, you may find it hard to believe that this thriving event began a decade ago in a modest church space, with...
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Event photos: highlights from spring launches, awards, and parties
As the spring season winds down, here are just a few highlights from the past month’s many award ceremonies, receptions, parties, and launches. Click on the thumbnails to browse the slideshow.
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Killer comics, part two: Editions Tchai, Top Shelf, and Jeff Lemire
In less than a decade, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 5“6) has grown from a niche event into an annual gathering that attracts upward of 15,000 attendees. In the May 2012 issue, Q&Q takes a...
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival celebrates 10 years
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with what it describes in a press release as the largest and most international array of comics, authors, and artists in the history...
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Ten years of TCAF
TCAF 2012 (photo: TCAF) If you’ve attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in recent years, you may find it hard to believe that this thriving event began a decade ago in a modest church space, with...
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Event photos: highlights from spring launches, awards, and parties
As the spring season winds down, here are just a few highlights from the past month’s many award ceremonies, receptions, parties, and launches. Click on the thumbnails to browse the slideshow. Show...
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Michael DeForge and his wickedly weird comics
Michael DeForge (photo: Andrew B. Myers) When I meet Michael DeForge at a Toronto diner during a mid-March snowstorm, he is tired and a bit anxious. His publisher, Koyama Press, is expecting the sixth...
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Graphica’s next wave: Julie Delporte
Julie Delporte In a culture that often seems to favour hyper-clever, narcissistic realism, it is surprising to encounter an artist as straightforwardly sincere and genuinely unaffected as Julie...
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Graphica’s next wave: Nina Bunjevac
Nina Bunjevac The comics of Nina Bunjevac don’t always look like conventional comics – in a good way. The Serbian-raised, Toronto-based artist came up through the fine art world, studying painting at...
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Graphica’s next wave: Walter Scott
After graduating from Concordia University in 2009 with a bachelor of fine arts, Walter Scott spent a lot of time loafing around Montreal, underemployed, frequenting punk shows in dingy lofts, and...
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Graphica’s next wave: Patrick Kyle
When Patrick Kyle was attending high school in his hometown of Whitby, Ontario, he says comics were his “main interest.” But it wasn’t until he began studying illustration at Toronto’s OCAD University...
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival opens pop-up shop in Toronto Reference Library
(illustration: Michael DeForge) This week, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival is moving into the Toronto Reference Library’s new street-level store space as its first-ever retailer. Adjacent to Balzac’s...
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival Shop becomes a permanent fixture
(photo courtesy of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival) The Toronto Comic Arts Festival has announced that its pop-up festival shop will remain in the Toronto Reference Library for the foreseeable future....
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