This year we’ve got an amazing, international crew headed to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, including THREE Featured Guests and creators from Quebec, New Zealand, and Portugal! Wow!
- Featured Guest Ned Wenlock (Tsunami)
- Featured Guest Thom (Botanica Drama)
- Featured Guest and 2x Doug Wright Award Nominee Boum (The Jellyfish)
- Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau (Vampire Cousins)
- Luc Bossé (Gary: King of the Pickup Artists)
- Joana Mosi (La mangouste, French only)
- François Vigneault (TITAN, French only)
That’s right, Boum is nominated not once but TWICE for this year’s Doug Wright Awards… Make sure to come cheer her on Saturday night! And many of our creators will be participating in a range of programming throughout the weekend, keep an eye on this space for more info soon!
We’re excited to see what the newest chapter of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival has in store for us as the event heads to a brand new, bigger venue! Mark your calendars, you don’t wanna miss this one!
EVENT & SIGNING SCHEDULE
- Ned Wenlock
- FRIDAY (Librarian & Educator Day)
PANEL Comics for the Classroom: New & Notable Titles (3:00-4:00)
Main Room • TMU Special Collections & Archives - SATURDAY
SIGNING (11:30-1:30, 3:30-5:30) - SUNDAY
PANEL Solitude and Community in Comics Fiction (11:30-12:30)
University Room ⋅ Courtyard Downtown Marriott - SIGNING (12:30-2:30, 4:00-5:00)
- FRIDAY (Librarian & Educator Day)
- Boum
- SATURDAY
SIGNING (10:30-12:30, 2:30-4:30) - SUNDAY
PANEL Graphic Medicine: New & Notable Titles (10:30-11:30)
The Lookout ⋅ Mattamy Athletic Centre
SIGNING (1:00-2:00) Graphic Medicine Collective Table 142
SIGNING (3:00-5:00)
- SATURDAY
- Thom
- SATURDAY
SIGNING (12:30-2:30, 4:30-6:30) - SUNDAY
SIGNING (10:30-12:00, 2:30-4:00)
PANEL The Horror: Politics and the Personal Represented Through Scary Comics (1:30-1:30)
College Room ⋅ Courtyard Downtown Marriott
- SATURDAY
- Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau
- SATURDAY
- SIGNING (10:30-11:30, 5:30-6:30)
- SUNDAY
SIGNING (10:30-11:30, 2:00-3:00)
- Joana Mosi
- SATURDAY
- SIGNING (1:30-3:00h)
- SUNDAY
SIGNING (12:00-2:30)
- François Vigneault
- FRIDAY (Word Balloon Academy)
PANEL State of the Industry IV: The Indie Publishers Round-table Rides Again (4:00-5:00)
University Room • Courtyard Marriott Toronto - SUNDAY
PORTFOLIO REVIEWS (2:00-3:00)
- FRIDAY (Word Balloon Academy)
- Luc Bossé
- SATURDAY
PORTFOLIO REVIEWS (2:00-3:00)
- SATURDAY
June 7-8, 2025
Tables 149-151 (🏒 Center Ice!)
Metropolitan University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre
50 Carlton Street, Toronto
FREE!