Here Are TCAF s Can t-Miss Events of 2021
This year s festivities featuring guest artists, panels, competitions and more will run from May 8 to 15
Photo: Cole Pauls
Published Apr 30, 2021Toronto Comic Arts Festival is going virtual this year, and the week-long online event features some impressive programming in addition to its vendor marketplace. From workshops to panels to multiple special guests, this year s festival features more comics-based activities than ever before.
While vendors, artists and exhibitors hold down their virtual shops from May 8 to 15, the festival will play host to discussions, competitions and keynote speakers throughout the month of May. As always, 2021 s festivities will be free of admission.
When the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum receives original work from a cartoonist, sometimes the collection is less than comprehensive.
“Sometimes we’ll get collections that are just the original art, or a sampling of the original art, but no papers,” said Caitlin McGurk, the associate curator for outreach at the institution on the campus of Ohio State University. “Or we’ll get just the papers and not the artwork.”
With a recent acquisition, however, the Billy Ireland received everything but the kitchen sink.
In mid-February, the library received a plethora of original materials from, and relating to, cartoonist Ho Che Anderson’s three-part graphic novel “King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.”
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