April 26, 2018

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At the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) this May 12-13, Melanie Gillman ′12 and former CCS fellow Liniers are both feature guests along with Inio Asano (Goodnight Punpun, VIZ Media, 2016), Vera Brosgol (Leave Me Alone, Roaring Book Press, 2016), Emily Carroll (Through the Woods, Margaret K McElderry Books, 2014), Michael DeForge (Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, Drawn and Quarterly, 2017), Hope Larson (Mercury, Atheneum Books, 2010), Jillian Tamaki (Super Mutant Magic Academy, Drawn and Quarterly, 2015), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer [writer], First Second, 2010), and Jen Wang (The Prince and the Dressmaker, First Second, 2018).

Melanie is the creator of As The Crow Flies, a web comic about a black, queer 13-year-old girl who finds herself spending a week with an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp. It has been nominated for the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize (2013), an Eisner Award (2014), and an Ignatz (2016), and won a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators (2016). The first volume was published by Iron Circus in 2017.

Liniers as an Argentine cartoonist and was last year’s fellow at CCS. His newspaper comic, Macanudo, has been published in 10 Spanish volumes, the first three translated to English as well. He has also published three dual language children’s books through TOON Books: The Big, Wet Balloon (2013), Written and Drawn by Henrietta (2015), and Good Night, Planet (2017).

TCAF is held at the Toronto Reference Library, spanning three floors or more and including hundreds of creators from all over the world.