TCAF Festival Report -Day 1 Part 2

(Poster by Eric Kostiuk Williams)

I remember Peggy Burns, the publisher who doesn't mind being the Ducks (2022) publisher for the rest of her life. Whatever direction D&Q goes, that wasn't asked. She said to the three other people on stage, after a compliment that is was "Very sweet of you guys" for them just saying that. 

I say this to counteract any legends that pop-up about what could happen if an Anarchist was there. No one got angry with anyone else; there was an appropriate time for mocking authors who are a handful (all of them) not doing things in a professional manner. 

Also Silver Sprocket is run by decent people and doesn't have shareholders who instruct them to pay monsters who make profits.

The Land Acknowledgements also had more heft than they usually do here in Canada, with entreatment to find which treaty makes you treaty people. As I know that the Reference Library and my house are here because of the Upper Canada Treaties, made up of William's Treaty and Treaty 13, together over a hundred years apart from each other (1923, 1805).

TCAF Festival Report 2023 -Day 1 Part 1

Yes, yes, I can imagine your questions.

Why, what's stopping me from having a good old single person convention report? I couldn't tell you the last time someone did this, but I want to do this.

What else am I going to do with all my memories? This could go uncredited in a paper someday! We are leaving a world levelling event behind us without even thinking of what TCAF was like before.

______ Friday, April 28

Balloon Academy was easy to get into, a sign up on Eventbrite.

At Ben Rivers' talk, I was happy to hear him present good professional advice that I hadn't heard before. Having the goal to publish about twenty comic pages sounds like a professional way of doing comics that can lead to classic graphic novels.

Speaking of my sources, they said I could look at people setting up their tables, I knew that was unlikely but I did hear one of the posters was dropped, causing a bit of chaos.

Also at the one day academy, Indie Publishers and the weirdness they deal with.

A lot was packed into the Publisher's round table, but things were casual and there was no wall between the publishers and us. We wanted to hear how to do things from those below the radar of Graphic Novel TK.

 I didn't want to take a picture of a room full of people without their knowledge.

The Novella Room was cozy and full of people who needed to be there, casually talking to each other in this bad, bad time for the industry.

I have more to say next week.