London, May 6th 2015
SEQUENTIAL and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival are pleased to announce that the TCAF 2015 Digital Comics Anthology will be created and distributed for free exclusively by the acclaimed graphic novel and comics app for iPad.
The Anthology is out now and features brand new, specially-commissioned work from a range of comic artists including Hunt Emerson, Barbara Stok, Noah Van Sciver, Margreet De Heer, and Joe Decie. All the comics are themed around TCAF and Toronto, and all the artists will be appearing or exhibiting at this year’s TCAF. The Anthology, which runs to over 50 pages, will be completely free for a limited time, available only via the iPad app which is itself free to download from the App Store.
2015 marks the tenth TCAF festival, which was founded as a biannual event in 2003, and since 2009 has been held annually at the Toronto Public Library’s Toronto Reference Library branch. In 2014, more than 22,000 people attended TCAF events, with over 400 comics creators from 15 different countries as well as a range of exhibitions and programmes. This year is the first in which a digital anthology is part of the Festival package.
The SEQUENTIAL app is available for iPad and features a huge range of graphic novels from some of the world’s best-regarded publishers and artists as well as small press stars. Their acclaimed Browse, Buy and Read system has been called the “gold standard” of comics software, and they share TCAF’s commitment to making quality comics available to everyone. They have produced digital comic collections for the British Library and the London Book Fair amongst others.
Christopher Butcher, the Director of TCAF, commented, “We’ve been running a free festival for over a decade now, actively promoting great comics and their creators. A digital comics Anthology, especially with such an amazing line up of creators, is a natural fit for TCAF. The potential reach for this Digital Anthology is incredible, and it will shine a spotlight on some brilliant Canadian and international cartoonists, and get a little piece of TCAF into the hands who can’t make it to the festival proper.”
Russell Willis, the founder of SEQUENTIAL, said, “We’re thrilled to be partnering with TCAF on such an exciting comics project. We’ve assembled a crack team of some of the best comics artists in the business, and we’re proud to providing the Official Anthology for one of the most exciting, innovative comics festivals in the world. By making the TCAF Anthology available for everyone, absolutely free, we can give people a slice of the amazing comics talent TCAF offers, whether they can make it to Toronto or not.”
The 2015 TCAF Digital Comics Anthology is out now on SEQUENTIAL and will be available as a completely free download until May 11th.
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