“All of this stuff is such rich ground for new work and when I was coming up with this story I couldn’t find much like it in comics. I need stories like these because I’m afraid and I know a lot of my friends are too, and we deserve to explore these fears in fiction.”
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Meredith Park on Diary Comics, Faith & Family
“To finish a comic and post it to the internet felt like cutting the tether to whatever difficult thoughts I’d been processing.”
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Jenny Ziomek on Intimacy, Watercolor & How Travel Leads to Discovery
“I don’t like doing what I’m expected to do and I disagree with the notion that big always equals powerful, and small always equals weak. I think small things can be quite powerful.”
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Kat Verhoeven on her long-running webseries Meat & Bone
“I’m really proud of Meat & Bone, and it’s very surreal to hold it and look at it. I’ve already read this book over hundreds of times, but it feels different to see it physically. Maybe I’m not exhausted, maybe I’m elated”
The TCAF 2019 Interviews: Caitlin Cass on The Great Moments of Western Civilization & The Suffrage Movement
“I hope readers are left thinking. I don’t really care so much what they think about as long as it sends them into some kind of inner dialogue.”
The TCAF Interviews – Meags Fitzgerald on Ambidextry, Layout & Translation
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics”. In the spirit of this mission, the Comics Beat has conducted a […]
The TCAF Interviews – An Nguyen on So Pretty/ Very Rotten
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics”. In the spirit of this mission, the Comics Beat has conducted a […]
The TCAF Interviews – Michel Hellman on the Challenge of the Canadian North
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics”. In the spirit of this mission, the Comics Beat has conducted a […]
The TCAF Interviews – Shee Phon on Colours, Competition & Autobiography
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics”. In the spirit of this mission, the Comics Beat has conducted a […]
The TCAF Interviews – Alexandre Simard on Miscommunication, Translation & Collaboration
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics”. In the spirit of this mission, the Comics Beat has conducted a […]