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Hello All !

This is just a little update to announce that we have been quite the early birds this year with planning the Woweezonk Room for TCAF 2018. In years past we waited until the February before TCAF to curate the space but this year we wanted to plan early while the applications to the festival were still open. That date is coming up super fast unfortunately! The deadline for applications is Halloween night (Oct 31st)! 

http://www.torontocomics.com/2017/08/14/apply-now-for-tcaf-2018/

As of Saturday Oct 28th (how is it this feels early and late at the same time?), we have been in contact with all the people tabling in the Woweezonk Room for next year’s TCAF (2018). 

We know this might come as a surprise for a lot of folks who usually expect an invite in early spring!  We love and want to keep supporting everyone who’s tabled in the Woweezonk room throughout the years ~ (2010-2017) ~ and we hope to have you all back : ) 

We’ve been curating this space for seven years and even though our familiar roster of artists and small press publishers has grown we always aim to invite new creators. Even so, we’ve slowly been trying to incorporate the idea of having people table every other year. This is honestly hard to enforce when everyone is always so productive at creating new comics and other art/works all the time!

Frankly we believe that this year is our best attempt at enforcing this balance. Here's how it breaks down at the moment, though some numbers may change before Festival time. Counting the three curators (Myself - Ginette Lapalme, Patrick Kyle and Chris Kuzma) as well as an OCADu student comics table; 15 individuals, collectives and publishers will be returning from last year’s festival (2017). Eight creators who have previously tabled 2 or more years ago will be returning in 2018. And of those who have never tabled in our space before (for some it will be their first time at TCAF); we are welcoming 16 creators/collectives/small press groups! 

We’re very excited to eventually announce our guests!!! …. At the start of next year when it will feel just a little more concrete. 

: o P 

We hope that even though we haven’t reached out for you to table in the Woweezonk room this coming year, that you will consider applying to TCAF 2018. Otherwise we will be in contact in future years of the festival so long as we still have access to this great opportunity provided to us by TCAF itself!!! <3 >>>http://www.torontocomics.com/2017/08/14/apply-now-for-tcaf-2018/ <<< (To reiterate the deadline is fast approaching! You only have 2 more days to apply so please consider it) Yipes! Sorry!

On that note, although we three as individuals are often approached in person with requests to table in ~ the zone ~ we’ve recently created the email address woweezonkTCAF@gmail.com to refer to with any inquiries. This email will be super helpful for us because we need to consider every request as a group rather than as individuals. We are also pretty forgetful to be honest! We’ve sometimes said yes to someone a year in advance and then have had to scramble when we’ve forgotten who we’ve said yes to. Which is the worst. >__< !

With all that said, thank you for understanding and for reading all of this! ~It’s so long and I feel I’m rambling~ but we hope everyone will be as excited about TCAF 2018 as we are! 

-Ginette (on behalf of Patrick & Chris) 

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Announcing the Wowee Zonk Small Press Showcase for TCAF 2017!

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival and Wowee Zonk proudly present the Wowee Zonk Small Press Showcase for 2017. Curated by Toronto Artists Chris Kuzma, Ginette Lapalme and Patrick Kyle, the Wowee Zonk Small Press Showcase highlights some of the best and most exciting work being made in comics, zines, and independent publishing.

See below for the entire list of artists! You’ll be able to find all these fantastic folks in the Browsery at the Toronto Reference Library.

For more info on these and all TCAF exhibitors on a Creators page: Link.

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woweezonk

I gotta say I made a typo here! it’s Jamie Q! as seen on their weblink jamieq.net 

Pardons plz : S

But Woohoo~~ ! Yes it’s happening this weekend! Come visit us! 

-ginette

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p-kyle

Here’s the scoop for this weekend regarding me and what you can do to interact with me 

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etteette

My Tokyo travel comic created for The Comic Journal in full ~~~ originally posted on TCJ.com one day at a time / end of March 2016

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torontocomics

TCAF Announces the 2016 Wowee Zonk Small Press Showcase

We are SO EXCITED to once again partner with Toronto collective Wowee Zonk in presenting our Small Press Area for the festival. Curated by Patrick Kyle, Ginette Lapalme, and Chris Kuzma, the Wowee Zonk Small Press Showcase highlights some of the best and most exciting work being made in comics, zines, and independent publishing. Check ‘em all out!

Alabaster - http://www.alabasterpizzo.com/ Alicia Nauta - http://klassickoolshoppe.blogspot.ca/ Andy Burkholder - http://oireau.tumblr.com/ Billy Starchild - http://femme-crimes.tumblr.com/ Breakdown Press - http://www.breakdownpress.com/ Brie Moreno - http://boogerbrie.tumblr.com/ Chris Kuzma - http://www.chriskuzma.com/ Chu Zznap - http://hellomorico.com/ Colour Code - http://www.colourcodeprinting.com Edwin Sandoval Eli Howey - http://www.ehowey.com/ Ethan Rilly - http://www.popehats.ca/ Forge Art Magazine - http://forgeartmag.com/ Gatosaurio - http://www.gatosaurio.com/ Ginette Lapalme - http://etteette.tumblr.com/ Heidi Berton - http://www.heidiberton.com/ Inés Estrada - http://inechi.com/ Issue Press - http://issue.press/ Juli Majer - http://wimpi.tumblr.com/ Justin Gordon - http://justingordonillustrations.tumblr.com/ Kendra Yee - http://unadoptable.tumblr.com/ Laurence Philomene - http://www.laurencephilomene.com/ Lis Shu - http://lisshu.com/ Marley Allen-Ash - http://www.marleyallenash.com/ Marne Grahlman - http://www.marnegrahlman.com/ Michael Comeau - http://slomeau.tumblr.com/ Morgan Criger - http://morgancriger.tumblr.com/ Nosebleed Comics - http://nosebleedcomics.tumblr.com/ Ocad Student Table Patrick Kyle - http://www.patrickkyle.com/ Perish Publishing - http://www.perishpublishing.ca/ Phil Woolam - http://philwoollam.tumblr.com/ Rosena Fung - http://www.rosenafung.com/ Ryan Dodgson - http://rjdodgson.tumblr.com/ Sab Meynert - http://sabmeynert.com/ Space Face Books - http://spacefacebooks.com/ Ted Gudlat - http://www.tedgudlat.com/

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At it again

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Debuting at TCAF 2016 - Secretimes by Keith Jones

Publisher: Drawn + Quarterly Specs: PAPERBACK, 6.5 X 8.5, 88 PGS, 4-COL ISBN: 9781770462380 CDN Price: $21.95

When two simple hobos – a pigeon and his elephant buddy – are wrongfully accused of murdering Mr. Mouse Mouser, the consequences are dire. Secretimes delineates an alternate universe—a world that favours the rich and grinds the poor and unfortunate into paste. Each page is a brightly coloured nightmare populated with vapid celebrities and lazily scheming businessmen. Keith Jones creates a pop parable that is stunning and alluring to look at and hellish to live in. Graffiti-covered walls, melting neon figures, idiosyncratic sound effects, and anthropomorphized bros meld together in this satire of modern life and modern values. His sense of humour is manic, snickering, and surreal, each line imbued with a rich sense of irony. Jones’s pacing gives each page a frenzied paranoia that belies his characters’ fantasies of utter control. Secretimes is darkly funny in Jones’s irresistibly off-kilter signature style. 

For more info on all books debuting at TCAF 2016, please visit our Debuting Books page: torontocomics.com/books

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Ever wake up and think that it’s Halloween?

NEW MAGAZINE: Monthly Halloween

**and** NEW TSHIRTS “Every Direction is Right in the Dark”

Exclusive this Saturday at Comics Arts Brooklyn TABLE D21 IN THE BASEMENT

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koyamapress

Count ‘em! Eight titles! Fall 2015 is our biggest season yet! All the deets right here!

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