Amie Wright talks about TCAF 2025

Here’s my chat with executive director Amie Wright about the 2025 Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

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Amie Wright is a comics librarian and public historian based in Ontario who has been organizing comics programming in Canada and the United States since 2013. Amie has created in-person and virtual programming for New York Comic Con, San Diego Comic Con, the American and Ontario Library Associations, and TCAF.  Amie is the former Manager of School Outreach / MyLibraryNYC at the New York Public Library (NYPL) and the former inaugural President of the Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table (GNCRT) of the American Library Association (ALA). A current Public History PhD Candidate at Carleton University (Ottawa) researching the history of comics censorship in Canada, Amie also teaches a comics course in the Department of History at Carleton. Amie is the executive director of the 2025 Toronto Comic Arts Festival (also known as TCAF).

Considered to be amongst the premier comic arts festivals in the world, TCAF is an annual two day festival in downtown Toronto. Held since 2003, TCAF is unique for its scale and scope welcoming 28,000+ local and international visitors and over 315+ artists, and its continued focus on independent arts culture and accessibility remaining a free public and non-commercial arts and cultural festival. TCAF 2025 is being will be held from June 7 to 8 at the new location Toronto Metropolitan University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre, with additional programming in the surrounding neighbourhood. Libraries and Education Day and Word Balloon Academy are scheduled for Friday June 6. 

Discover more about the Toronto Comic Arts at @torontocomics on all social media channels or at www.torontocomics.com 

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