Québec Comics at TCAF 2015
A New Poster by PASCAL BLANCHET!
Announcing the Official Welcome Party with Pow Pow Press! Québec Comics are making a big splash at TCAF 2015!
Did you know that this year, TCAF is playing host to over 400 cartoonists from 18 countries around the world? Thatâs crazy! Weâre so international!
As much as we love comics from across this big blue marble we call earth, we are equally in love with comics being made within Canada! Part of the fun of getting so much global attention is the chance for us to present the great comics being made within our very own country. This year, for the 2015 festival, TCAF is helping to showcase some of the amazing comics and cartooning coming out of QuĂ©bec! Read on for information on artists, books, publisher and programs at TCAF 2015 with a distinctly franco-focusâŠ
New Festival Poster by Pascal Blanchet
Pascal Blanchet is a singular cartoonist and illustrator, whose books include White Rapids, Baloney, La Fugue, and Nocturne. They have been published in multiple languages by esteemed publishers Les Ăditions de la PastĂšque (French), Drawn & Quarterly (English), and Barbara Fiore (Spanish). In coming up with our shortlist of folks who we wanted to approach in QuĂ©bec for designing a festival poster, Blanchetâs name was at the top of the list.
AND HE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!
Announcing the Official Welcome Party with Pow Pow Press
On Friday May 8th at 8pm, come on out to The Pilot (22 Cumberland St.) to celebrate the start of TCAF, and the launch of 4 newly translated books from Pow Pow Press!
Pow Pow Press are a Montreal-based publisher, who up until now have primarily put out French books. However, following a successful Kickstarter campaign in the Fall, they are debuting the English translations of four fantastic titles:
Vile and Miserable by Samuel Cantin,
Vampire Cousins by Cathon & Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau,
Mile End by Michel Hellman, and
For As Long As It Rains by Zviane!
Also on hand will be Pascal Girard, promoting his sketchbook from Pow Pow, called Dessins. We are so honoured that Pow Pow chose to debut these works at TCAF. We recently met up with them at the Festival de la Bande DesinĂ©e Francophone du QuĂ©bec in QuĂ©bec City, and just seeing their amazing catalogue of French-language books made our mouths waterâŠeyes water?âŠWe really want to read them!
Exhibitors! This event is great if youâre waiting to set up on Friday night. Drop your stuff off at The Reference Library, and then come on over to the Pilot and hang with your fellow cartoonists!
The Official Welcome Party with Pow Pow Press is sponsored by the Bureau du Québec à Toronto.
For more information on this and all TCAF 2015 events, please visit our Events Page.
Québec Comics @ TCAF 2015
TCAF has a long history of excellent debuts from QuĂ©becois cartoonists and publishers, and 2015 is no different. Publishing powerhouse La PastĂšque are returning, and debuting the French edition of Box Brownâs Andre the Giant (itself at TCAF 2014 Debut!). With a handsome looking new cover, AndrĂ© Le GĂ©ant will be available at La PastĂšqueâs table, where Box Brown himself will be signing!
Ăditions Trip, another TCAF mainstay are returning to the fold, debuting Agalma from Stanley Wany. It. Looks. Crazy.
This year weâre happy to welcome Studio Lounak to their first ever TCAF! They are debuting the English version of Far Out by Gautier Langevin and Olivier Carpentier, a pulpy western featuring a dashing robot as the lead character! Sitting with Studio Lounak will be Gautier Langevin, Olivier Carpentier, Andy Belanger (Southern Cross), and Karl Kerschl (The Abominable Christopher Charles).
Other QuĂ©becois cartoonists to keep an eye out for include folks like Simon BossĂ©, Boum, Antonin Buisson, Nicole Chartrand, Patrick HĂ©naff, Meghan Lands, Kate Lavut, and Isabelle Melançon. There are even plenty of Montreal-based Anglos at the festival who will be repping great books, like Wai Au, Wes Craig, Meags Fitzgerald, Brenden Fletcher, Kim Hoang, and Gabrielle Mulholland & sucker press. Keep your eyes peeled and your wallets flush â youâre gonna wanna buy some stuff!
For more information on all of these exhibitors, please visit our Full Exhibitor List.
Québec Panels & Programming
Stay tuned to this website (or to our Twitter and Facebook) for when we announce the programming for the festival. There will be a number of panels and presentations featuring many of these great artists and publishers. There are also some French and bilingual panels as part of the CSSC Conference, whose programming is online now!
Please consider downloading the TCAF 2015 Guidebook to help keep track of all of these creators and events.
