My haul from this year's TCAF
I know this is really late. I had totally planned to write this post immediately after TCAF. That didn’t happen. Anyhoo I found out about the Toronto Comic Arts Festival last year and knew I would love it. TCAF is unlike any comic convention I have ever been to. They don’t even call it a convention. They refer to it as a festival which actually sounds like a lot more fun than a convention… and it is!
Comic conventions have never really been what I’ve wanted them to be. Movies,videogames, and wrestlers can overshadow the actual art of comics and the comics that are there are generally focused solely on the super hero genre. The majority of the floor is filled with comic book store retailers with a bunch of white boxes filled with thousands of back issues that I won’t understand because I haven’t been reading the series from which they come from the time I was a fetus. While there are always lots of big name artists at these shows most of them work for Marvel or DC rather than create original properties which are what I’m most interested in.
