TCAF Guest List Includes Brunetti, Feuchtenberger, Guibert, Tatsumi

The biennial Toronto Comic Arts Festival has announced its first round of Honored Guests for the 2009 show, including Ivan Brunetti, Anke Feuchtenberger, Emmanuel Guibert, Seth, Adrian Tomine, and Yoshiharo Tatsumi. Tatsumi’s autobiographical graphic novel A Drifting Life will debut at the Festival. Other guest and exhibiting artists will include Shary Boyle, Chester Brown, Jordan Crane, Tom Kaczynski, Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw, Jillian Tamaki, and Mariko Tamaki. The event will take place May 9 and 10 at the Toronto Reference Library.

FIBD TV

The website for the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, France has posted several online videos previewing the upcoming event, and elsewhere promises updates during the event itself covering “exhibitions, broadcast of shows, exclusive interviews, encounters with major authors, special broadcasts, and a daily news program.”

Videos already posted include short interviews with 2009 Festival Presidents Dupuy & Berberian, Emile Bravo, Xavier Dorison & Mathieu Lauffray, Lucie Durbiano, Frank Margerin, Mezzo and Pirus, Hugues Micol, Anne Rouquette, and Winschluss.

The Festival takes place January 29 through February 1, 2009.

Blutch Video Interview Online

Liberation runs a fifteen minute video interview with Blutch, the first installment in a weekly “Janvier en BD” interview series leading up to the annual Festival International de la Bande Dessinée (FIBD) in Angoulême, France. The FIBD takes place January 29 through February 12, 2009. Subsequent video interviews will feature Lisa Mandel & Tanxxx, Pieter de Poortere, and Daniel Clowes.

Angoulême Announces International Guests

The Festival International de la Bande Dessinée has announced a slate of international guests for 2009. This coming year’s American guests will include: Daniel Clowes, James Kochalka, Adrian Tomine, and Chris Ware. Shaun Tan, winner of last year’s festival award for best graphic album, will visit from Australia. Melinda Gebbie and Posy Simmonds will appear from the UK. Conrad Botes, Joe Daly, Joe Dog and Karlien de Villiers, South African cartoonists associated with the Bittercomix anthology, will also appear as festival guests.

These artists will take part in the Festival’s annual “Rencontres internationales” public interview series. The FIBD will take place January 29 through February 1 in Angoulême, France.