Here is my schedule for the upcoming Toronto Comics Art Festival (http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf/) this weekend:
Saturday
May 9th:
7:00pm-9:00pm: Event: Comic Books Are Totally Gay!
What’s gay about comic books? Everything! From Batman and Robin
right up to 300 Spartans and Dykes To Watch Out For. Meet queer comics creators
J. Bone (Jett Vector), Tim Fish (Cavalcade of Boys), Justin Hall (Hard To
Swallow), Steve MacIsaac (Shirtlifter), and Erika Moen (Dar: A Girly Comic), as
they read from their newest works. Then Alan Moore collaborator Jose
Villarrubia will lead all of the creators in a spirited conversation about
what’s queer in comics, both on the page and behind the scenes.
This event takes place off-site at Fire On The East Side Bar &
Restaurant, 6 Gloucester Street, 4 blocks south of Toronto Reference Library.
Sunday May 10th:
11:30am-1:00pm: All About Eurocomics!
Join professor Bart Beaty, author of the book Unpopular Culture:
Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s in this introduction to, and
exploration of, the world of Bande Desinee and European Comic Books. Joining
him are all of TCAF’s wonderful European cartoonists, including Florent Ruppert
(Panier de Singe), Francois Ayroles (Les Amis), Anke Feuchtenberger (W The
Whore), Emmanuel Guibert (The Photographer), Antoine Dode (Armele), and Jose
Villarrubia (The Mirror of Love).
Learning Centre 1
1:30pm-2:30pm: Signing: Feuchtenberger, Guibert, Ruppert,
Ayroles and Villarrubia