MONDAY May 10 / 5 PM (EST) Body Image in Comics
It’s not easy to feel comfortable in one’s own body, but redrawing the body intocomics is another challenge entirely. How do you draw a body you’re notespecially comfortable in, or others don’t understand? Marie-Noëlle Hébert (My Body in Pieces) considers how to navigate a body that doesn’t fit society’sstandards and the psychic pain of living in such a body. Kimiko Tobimatsuand Keet Geniza (Kimiko Does Cancer) explore how queer and mixed-racedindividuals negotiate changing bodies through illness and what it means toplay with gender-queerness when facing breast cancer. Héloïse Chochois (The Body Factory) looks at the sudden changes traumatic accidents can have onthe body and the psyche, and how we come to terms with these suddenchanges through fantasy and the imagination.
Register HERE. Discover The Body Factory by Heloïse Chochois
TUESDAY May 11 / 5 PM (EST) Spotlight Boulet
Online comics superstar Boulet returns to TCAF! Best known for his diary webcomic, bouletcorp.com, Boulet is the French author of over 20 books, including (available in English) Notes and Augie and the Green Knight. He is also a contributor to the Dungeon series with Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar. Join Boulet and interviewer Peter Birkemoe in this feature spotlight!
Captions available. Register HERE. Discover Boulet’s books
WEDNESDAY May 12 / 3 PM (EST) The Secrets of Chocolate with Franckie Alarcon (French Language)
Join Peter Birkemoe inconversation with French artist Franckie Alarcon. Do you want to know aboutThe Secrets of Chocolate, or perhaps The Art of Sushi? Alarcon discusses the processbehind creating these works. Alarcon’s The Secrets of Chocolate (June 2021) follows one of the most renowned chefs within the world of Chocolate, Jacques Genin, to create this docu-comic series. Bring your own chocolate to enjoy this panel in 4D!
Captions included. Premiering on Youtube. Discover The Secrets of Chocolate by Franckie Alarcon
Don’t forget to take a look at our France-Canada comics BLIND-DATE !
Each TCAF Blind Date pairs two artists who have never met to create a collaborative comic based on a theme. This year’s theme was “conversation” for both France-Canada and Colombia-Canada Blind Dates, and the results couldn’t be more different!
As they missed bars (who doesn’t ?), Kathleen Gros (CA) and Émilie Clarke (FR) have decided to create one together : discover here the result of their artistic Blind Date!
