This weekend is the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and I hope many of you will be able to attend. Sadly, we had to scrap our plans to officially exhibit due to a heavier than usual spring and summer publishing schedule for us and already-busy con season from May through July. Given the sluggish economy, we decided maybe this wasn't the best year for us to make our international convention debut. But if you're a comic fan, you don't want to miss it, and the show actually has a fairly stellar line-up of artists with ties to Fantagraphics, including:
- Dash Shaw
- Ho Che Anderson
- T. Edward Bak
- Gabrielle Bell
- Ray Fenwick
- Tom Kacynski
- Joe Lambert
- Miss Lasko-Gross
- Seth
- Craig Yoe
- Dan Nadel
- Frank Santoro
And that's just the tip, the show has a pretty stunning lineup overall — our pals at Drawn & Quarterly have a bonafide D&Q Hall-of-Fame lineup,for example, with names like Brown, Tatsumi, Tomine, and the aforementioned Seth. Programming schedule here. This is clearly one of the best shows of the year and I am bummed we couldn't do it this year but I'm already looking forward to the 2010 show.