TCAF Asks You To Save The Date



During July's Comic-Con International just past Peter Birkemoe and Chris Butcher from the every-other-year Toronto Comic Arts Festival were passing out save-the-date cards for their convention's 2009 show. The dates to save? May 9th and 10th, which puts them in what I think is a pretty empty May and sounds to me at least like a pretty good weekend to spend in Toronto. The Festival announced as early as possible and has since re-emphasized the dates in the hopes of attracting United States cartoonists who 1) aren't used to traveling to Canada and may find that more formidable than going to a US convention, and 2) want to plan as far ahead as possible for the oncoming shortages in flights and discounted air travel with which the airlines are going to gift us when this final burst of summer travel slots is expected to shrink drastically this Fall and beyond, in part as a reaction to increased fuel costs.

TCAF joins Heroes Con and the Stumptown Comics Fest as a part of a growing wave of independently-run regional conventions to crop up in the last decade or so that are now pretty much as a group entering that phase when they either begin to gain traction or kind fall to the wayside. Bookmark that original link for talent announcements and the like.
 
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