In Pictures: TCAF 2026

 

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) returned to the Mattamy Athletic Centre on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus this past weekend. A free festival, programming tends to revolve around indie comics and featured everything from work geared for kids to the abstract. The Athletic Centre was once a venue for hockey games, so it’s a large ice rink with seats all around the central space. There are two levels. The following are photos I took on Saturday.

A table on the second floor provided a space to draw, evoking the more communal feel of the festival:

 

 

Some photos from the floor of the show:

 

 

Cartoonist Robert Sikoryak chats with Ian Drummond:

 

 

Cartoonist Chris Kim talking to Jennifer Liao with Conundrum Press publisher Andy Brown in the background:

 

 

Tillie Walden and Arizona O’Neill signing:

 

 

Here’s Seth and Sikoryak also signing:

 

 

Festival organizer Ho Che Anderson:

 

 

Manga publisher (Leed Publishing Co.) Kirin Inoue:

 

 

Indian cartoonist Sumit Kumar discusses his career going against the status quo andethos in India:

 

 

This photo comes from a panel discussion on urban representations of city life and identity in comics featuring Chris Kim, Seth, Sikoryak, and Joe Ollmann — one of the most insightful discussions on comics I’ve ever attended (Mark Askwith was the moderator):

 

Anderson moderated a panel called “Dangerous Cartooning” featuring a Japanese translator and Japanese cartoonist Tokushige Kawakatsu, Chad Anderson, Nick Maandag, and Megan Kearney:

 

 

And now, some final photos from the floor: