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Hey there guys, I’m ridiculously busy at the moment but I wanted to take a second and recognize all the great media that TCAF got this year. Thanks espescially go to Nathalie for setting a lot of it up. 🙂

There’s a massive, awesome preview of the entire Festival over at Torontoist, http://torontoist.com/2007/08/get_tcaffeinate.php. It features profiles of all kinds of great stuff about the festival, and is remarkably in depth (and long!). More coverage promise to appear over the weekend.

Meanwhile, BlogTo.com printed a really nice little article on TCAF as well. You can click here to read it. (I’ll try and include full-links when I can, but sometimes they’re too long and break the tables.)

Toronto scene-mag MONDO also did a huge overview of the festival, which includes interviews with Joey Comeau, Danielle Corsetto, Jeff Lemire, Jim Zubkavich, and many more. You can find their profile at http://mondomagazine.net/comics-arc-tcaf.html.

They also did a comics-format interview with Bryan Lee O’Malley, which is to say the interview is, itself, a comic. You can see that at http://mondomagazine.net/comics-c-i-mal.html.

Queer freebie magazine XTRA also did a huge feature article on TCAF, and me, and cartoonists Jose Villarrubia and Steve MacIsaac. I say lots of inflamitory things in it, which might even be good for web-fodder. You can check it out at http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=3&STORY_ID=3451&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=3.

Speaking of me, Tom Spurgeon interviewed me over at The Comics Reporter this week. I think it turned out pretty well? Although I’ve received litterally no e-mail on it. Maybe I edited out all the good parts after all? Anyway, if you like, you can read it here. (Sorry, it’s a really long link).

Elsewhere in Toronto, Toronto Life magazine included TCAF in it’s city guide for events this weekend at http://www.torontolife.com/guide/arts-and-entertainment/diversions/toronto-comic-arts-festival/, and The Globe and Mail mentioned it in their Toronto “7” feature today, and you can click here to read it. (Another long link.)

In addition there’s been website links, blurbs, and advertisements across countless news websites and personal creator sites. Thanks to everyone there who said nice things or sent people our way.

So…! Coverage in three of the four dailies, all of the free weeklies, across the net and lots of targeted stuff. I think we’ve done everything we can to get people out to the event this weekend short of physically dragging them. I’m not ruling out physically dragging people to the event.

Hope we can see you there!

– Christopher

What’s going on today? Paul Pope (vis a vis his appearance at this weekend’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival) is on the cover of Toronto’s Eye Weekly this week, generating some lovely coverage for the event. In a the feature interview by Chris Randle, Pope starts off with “A brush is like a guitar,” so you know what you’re getting.

This week’s Eye also features an interview with Jim Munroe, author of the hot-off-the-presses new graphic novel THEREFORE, REPENT!, a lovely little story about what happens to the rest of us, after “The Rapture.” Jim dropped by the store last night to give me one of the very first copies, and when I finally got home at around 2 I read it cover to cover, really enjoying his and artist Salgood Sam’s venture into the post-apocaylpse. The Book Launch for THEREFORE, REPENT is tonight, sharing the spotlight with Toronto illustrator Claudia Davila’s launch for her new comic spOILed. Despite everything I’m probably gonna be there, and you should too.

Oh, and finally, if you head over to http://www.eyeweekly.com/contests/comicarts/index.php you can still enter to win a TCAF prize pack that includes signed posters by Darwyn Cooke, Marc Bell, and James Jean, and the 10 different comics and graphic novels nominated for Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning this year. In fact, you can enter until Monday at 9am, even after TCAF is over…!

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Meanwhile, over at The Competition (or Now Magazine as it is known around town), Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North is interviewed about his personal style and the T-Shirts he produces based on his comic. A little mention for TCAF but no link to the website, sadly.

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Finally, I’m interviewed over at The Toronto Star in a nice little write-up on TCAF and author Darwyn Cooke. Darwyn Cooke is Darwyn Cooke 24 hours a day, never forget that.

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I’m going to talk about some of the great online coverage we’ve been getting in my next post…

– Christopher

Hey there. A fun little interview I did with Toronto Foodie Blog TasteTO just went online at http://www.tasteto.com/ (scroll down). They were nice enough to let me plug TCAF and all of my favourite neighborhood haunts:

[What’s] your favourite place to grab a couple of drinks and hang out where everybody knows your name?

Aw, man. I was on a first-name basis with the staff of both The Victory Cafe (595 Markham Street) and Clinton’s Tavern (693 Bloor St. West), but the summer-crunch (I’m one of the people running The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, August 18-19 2007) means that I’m barely there anymore, and have probably lost any status I once enjoyed. I’ll have to build that back up in September… with drinking.

Lots of TCAF press in the next little while, actually. Thanks to everyone who’s helped out by linking or running a press release, and to Sheryl at Taste T.O. for the interview!

– Christopher