Event: Bit Bazaar Spring 2015
The video game marketplace and food fest returns to Toronto with a full lineup of talented local developers.
TCAF
Event: Bit Bazaar Winter Market
The semi-annual independent gaming marketplace returns to Toronto on Saturday.
This Week at The Bloor: 5/9/14
This week at the Bloor, a look at an inspirational pianist that picked up an Academy Award this year and a not so inspiration, but comprehensive and artistically enlightened look at the history of teenagers.
6 Things Not to Miss at Bit Bazaar
We asked Bit Bazaar coordinator Jennie Faber to tell us what ranks as a do-not-miss at this weekend's arcade-meets-zine-fair spring market.
TCAF Director Chris Butcher talks Comics vs. Games 3D
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival's co-founder talks about once again taking over the Toronto Reference Library this weekend, and its collaborative work with video games, Comics vs. Games, now entering its third year - and the third dimension.
Interview: The Yawhg’s Damian Sommer
The Toronto developer (and IGF Nominee) comments on the unexpected two-year journey that took him from TCAF to GDC.
Weekend Gamer: Bit Bazaar and Archive, Memoria Technica
Archive, Memoria Technica is one of the dozens of video games appearing at this weekend's Bit Bazaar Winter Market.
Fave Finds: TCAF 2013
Sam Maggs shares her haul – and, of course, the wicked work of some incredibly talented folks – in her fave TCAF finds of 2013!
TCAF 2013 Recap
This past weekend marked the 10th anniversary of TCAF, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We take a look at some hits from the show.
Meet Bit Bazaar, TCAF’s Physical Digital Games Marketplace
Last year, the organizers of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) began carving out a space for video games with the inaugural Comics vs. Games display. It went so well that they’re continuing the trend in 2013, filling out Comics vs. Games 2 with new panels, new collaborations, and – perhaps most importantly – a new location for the inaugural Bit Bazaar.
FCBD Wrap Up: Welcome to Paradise
Free Comic Book Day unites lit and art lovers, creative types, and penny-pinchers looking for some free swag. Our own Mike Pignataro travelled to Paradise Comics on FCBD to see what all the fuss was about.
Thought Bubble: A Weekend to Remember
Eric Weiss reflects on a seriously dorky weekend in Toronto, one that amazingly didn't include watching The Avengers.
Free Comic Book Day:
A Survival Guide
Free Comic Book Day is upon us! Lucky for you, we're here to help make it all worth it by pointing you spendthrift nerds in the right direction. Like your personal Comic Book saviours we'll guide you through the weekend with a complete list of Toronto's best comic-related hot spots and ‘must see’ events.
TCAF Preview:
Guy Delisle
With Wizard World Toronto Comic Con out of the way and four long months until Toronto's FanExpo, all roads lead to TCAF (The Toronto Comic Arts Festival). One of the major releases at this year’s festival is iconic artist Guy Delisle's newest work, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City. Unfamiliar with Delisle? Let me fill you in.
Snaps Review
Snaps's inspiration was a box of old photos that author and artist Rebecca Kraatz found at a flea market, apparently taken during the 1940s. "I studied the unknown people in the pictures," she explains in her introduction, "often with a magnifying glass, trying to decipher their relationships with one another."
