Toronto. Italian comic book artists fly to Canada. The Italian Institute of Culture of Toronto has announced that Bianca Bagnarelli and Cristina Portolano will take part in the TCAF, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. TCAF is a comic book festival that ends with a two-day exhibition (May 12-13) and a fair with hundreds of graphic designers from all over the world. Other events included in the Festival are readings, interviews, panels, workshops, exhibitions, art installations, and much more. Bagnarelli, also known as “Delebile”, has published for major international journals on comics in recent years. Portolano draws comic stories and is a graduate of the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna and the Ecole nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD) of Paris. (9colonne) He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and the École nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratif (Ensad) in Paris. (9colonne)
