TCAF: Sturm at the JCC; Clowes Ticket News; New Books; Doug Wright Awards; All Things D+Q

Why yes, this blog post is the last thing I have to do before I can go to the best comics convention in the world, TCAF. Let's get started.

a few evening highlights

Thursday night, May 6th, James Sturm will be presenting MARKET DAY at the Miles Nadal JCC (Spadina & Bloor). The event starts at 7PM and will be the only point this week that James will present a slide show on the book. Miriam Libicki will also be there, and the event will be moderated by Peter Birkemoe of the Beguiling. Check out this interview with Torontoist and James.


Friday night, May 7th, is the much anticipated headlining event with Dan Clowes at the TPL, The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Event Hall. Dan will be live on the CBC Q with Jian Gomeshi on Thursday morning May 6th, 10 AM. Tune in! Tickets for this event are much sought after, and TCAF has announced how to get them. A VERY LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS will be released online the morning of Friday May 7th as well you can line up VERY EARLY Friday morning at the Beguiling to get them in person. More information here.


Saturday night, May 8th are the Doug Wright Awards at the TPL, The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Event Hall. Tickets are free but limited. Info here. Director Brad Mackay does an amazing, top notch job with these awards and DWA nominees Marc Bell, Pascal Girard, Amy Lockhart, and Seth will be on hand.

What is happening at the actual show, you ask? D+Q will be HQed at tables 103-106 and TCAF has cooked up a full slate of programming, and you'll want to get there early on Saturday for the landmark panel with James Sturm, Daniel Clowes, Jim Woodring, Chester Brown and Seth, moderated by the Comics Reporter himself. (who is going to TCAF, can you believe it?)

Here's a schedule of our signings and programming:

Saturday, May 8th 2010

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Feature: Daniel Clowes, James Sturm, Seth, Chester Brown, and Jim Woodring moderated by Tom Spurgeon

12:30 PM -2:30 PM Signing with Daniel Clowes, James Sturm, Seth, Chester Brown, and Jim Woodring to Follow in Beguiling VIP area

1:00 PM -3:00 PM Matt Forsythe and Pascal Girard sign DQ table

3:00 PM -5:00 PM Seth Scriver and Keith Jones sign DQ table

3:30 PM- 4:30 PM Sonja Ahlers on "Tracers, Photoshoppers, Cut & Pasters: Cheaters or Revolutionaries" Novella Room

4:00 PM-5:00 PM "Canadian Drawing and Cartoon Art in Galleries” featuring Seth, Marc Bell, Amy Lockhart, Peter Thompson, Scott Campbell, and Sonja Ahlers.

Sunday May 9th 2010

11:00 AM-12:00 PM James Sturm on the Comics and Social Media Panel at the “Pilot” across the street from the TPL, 22 Cumberland St

11:15 AM-12:15 PM “Giants of the North: Spotlight on Martin Vaughn James” at Learning Centre 1 with Seth Located at Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street
1st floor, in the main atrium space

1:00 PM-2:00 PM- “Re-making History: Curating and Packaging Reprints” With Seth, Jeet Heer and Evan Dorkin. Moderated by Dan Nadel at The Pilot

1:00 PM-2:00 PM James Sturm signing at DQ table

1:00 PM-3:00 PM Dan Clowes signing at DQ table

2:00 PM-3:00 PM “A Day in the Life of a Cartoonist” with Chester Brown + others THE PILOT across the street from TPL on Cumberland

3:00 PM-5:00 PM – Chester Brown and Seth signing at DQ booth

3:30 PM- 4:30 PM - Matt Forsythe moderates "Indie Comics and Indie Animation" Learning Center 1

Brand new books from D+Q include:


Catland Empire by Keith Jones (signing)


The Selves by Sonja Ahlers (signing)


Big Questions 14 by Anders Nilsen

Lastly, on staff from D+Q will be myself, lovely studio coordinator Claire Bennett, stately D+Q creative director Tom Devlin and the one and only Chris Oliveros, aka "the chief."

See you in the T-dot!

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