I spent this
past weekend wearing out the soles of my newly-purchased shoes walking up and down
the length of Yonge Street in Toronto and padding around the Toronto Reference
Library just north of Bloor. The library has been playing host to the Toronto
Comic Arts Festival since 2009, also the first year I attended. I’ve gone every
May since then, adding more and more people to my little comic adoring posse
and meeting several print and web artists I’m a big fan of, including comics
theorist Scott McCloud, Ultimate
Spider-Man penciller Stuart Immonen, Queen of the Webcomics Kate Beaton and
my latest favourite writer, Jeff Lemire.
Pictured L-R: Myself, Chris Mantil, Sam, Anjuli
So after
spending a couple hours in a downtown diner, we walked over to the library and
got our comics appreciation weekend underway.
