The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is one of the largest independent comic arts festivals in the world.

Each year, TCAF welcomes 28,000+ visitors and 350+ artists from across Canada and around the world to our free, two-day celebration of the breadth and diversity of independent comics.

Over the years, TCAF has drawn prominent names such as Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Daniel Clowes, Junji Ito, Chris Ware, Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, Chester Brown, Seth, Kate Beaton, Adrian Tomine, Kamome Shirahama, and Bryan Lee O'Malley, and we seek to serve as a platform for international artists to showcase their work.

TCAF 2025 will be held from June 7-8, 2025 at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre. To kick off the festival, we’re also offering a full day of professional development programming for comics librarians and staff (Libraries and Education Day) and comics creators (Word Balloon Academy) on June 6.