Hello All !
This is just a little update to announce that we have been quite the early birds this year with planning the Woweezonk Room for TCAF 2018. In years past we waited until the February before TCAF to curate the space but this year we wanted to plan early while the applications to the festival were still open. That date is coming up super fast unfortunately! The deadline for applications is Halloween night (Oct 31st)!
http://www.torontocomics.com/2017/08/14/apply-now-for-tcaf-2018/
As of Saturday Oct 28th (how is it this feels early and late at the same time?), we have been in contact with all the people tabling in the Woweezonk Room for next year’s TCAF (2018).
We know this might come as a surprise for a lot of folks who usually expect an invite in early spring! We love and want to keep supporting everyone who’s tabled in the Woweezonk room throughout the years ~ (2010-2017) ~ and we hope to have you all back : )
We’ve been curating this space for seven years and even though our familiar roster of artists and small press publishers has grown we always aim to invite new creators. Even so, we’ve slowly been trying to incorporate the idea of having people table every other year. This is honestly hard to enforce when everyone is always so productive at creating new comics and other art/works all the time!
Frankly we believe that this year is our best attempt at enforcing this balance. Here's how it breaks down at the moment, though some numbers may change before Festival time. Counting the three curators (Myself - Ginette Lapalme, Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma) as well as an OCADu student comics table; 15 individuals, collectives and publishers will be returning from last year’s festival (2017). Eight creators who have previously tabled 2 or more years ago will be returning in 2018. And of those who have never tabled in our space before (for some it will be their first time at TCAF); we are welcoming 16 creators/collectives/small press groups!
We’re very excited to eventually announce our guests!!! …. At the start of next year when it will feel just a little more concrete.
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We hope that even though we haven’t reached out for you to table in the Woweezonk room this coming year, that you will consider applying to TCAF 2018. Otherwise we will be in contact in future years of the festival so long as we still have access to this great opportunity provided to us by TCAF itself!!! <3 >>>http://www.torontocomics.com/2017/08/14/apply-now-for-tcaf-2018/ <<< (To reiterate the deadline is fast approaching! You only have 2 more days to apply so please consider it) Yipes! Sorry!
On that note, although we three as individuals are often approached in person with requests to table in ~ the zone ~ we’ve recently created the email address [email protected] to refer to with any inquiries. This email will be super helpful for us because we need to consider every request as a group rather than as individuals. We are also pretty forgetful to be honest! We’ve sometimes said yes to someone a year in advance and then have had to scramble when we’ve forgotten who we’ve said yes to. Which is the worst. >__< !
With all that said, thank you for understanding and for reading all of this! ~It’s so long and I feel I’m rambling~ but we hope everyone will be as excited about TCAF 2018 as we are!
-Ginette (on behalf of Patrick & Chris)
