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I've been invited back to the Toronto Comics Art Festival, and as I told the National Post, I couldn't be happier because (a) any excuse to visit Toronto is a good one, (b) a Festival of Comics is a better excuse than most, and (c) a Festival of Comics held in a Toronto Library is almost heaven.

I'll be there selling books, giving away posters and Quantum Zombies business cards, and I'm also scheduled for a panel on research in comics. I hope to see you there...I can't wait.

A reminder that I'll have the honor of being a guest at this year's TCAF, to be held May 9-10, 2009, at Toronto's Reference Library. Yeah, a comics show at a library. Whatever the world's coming to, in this regard I like it.

I have one event scheduled so far...I'll be on the panel "Will Libraries Save Graphic Novels?" on Sunday May 10th, 11:30am -12:30pm, held in Learning Centre I. If you don't want to go, here's the short version of my response: Yes. But I hope you join us, because I'm sure the other panelists will have interesting things to say.

If you want answers to questions that won't get asked of me at the panel, you can read this interview, courtesy of the National Post's Mark Medley. I've never been asked about the Wu-Tang Clan before, so you may find it worth reading just for that!

Kat and I attended TCAF in 2007, and had a splendid time. It wasn't at the library, but nonetheless the venue was wonderful, as were all the other guests, the city, the weather, the food...you name it, it was great. Best of all, there's no cost if you're attending as a member of the general public. Just as an event at a library should be.

I'm not kidding about Mars. You can go there too!

I'm also not kidding about the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The guest list is spectacular -- I'll have a hard time staying behind my table when faced with the opportunity to talk with folks like Emmanuel Guibert, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hope Larson, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Kate Beaton, Stuart and Kathryn Immonen, Michael Cho, and so many others that on second thought I need to hire an intern or someone willing to pretend to be me so I can see all those people! 

Either way, I can't wait. This year's Festival is in the Toronto Reference Library. Yes, it's held in a library this year...proof that we do live in that shiny future we were promised back when we were kids. I hope to see you there.