THE DEFINITIVE LIST OF CANADIAN COMIC BOOK CONVENTIONS FOR 2025

For a number of years, Jason Thibault did the comics community a great service by curating and annually updating a list of comic book publishers’ submission guidelines. I know that I used it myself when I was still primarily shopping new ideas to different companies rather than being dedicated to self-publishing.

But the thing about self-publishing is that you have to dedicate yourself to growing your audience and to going out and meeting people face-to-face and selling your books to them, one new reader at a time. My favourite way to do that is in the Artist Alleys of various comic conventions. As I have been planning my own 2025 schedule, I started asking friends if they knew of any 2-day or 3-day conventions that weren’t already on my radar. When those answers started coming in (and with Jason Thibault’s publishers list in mind) I decided to cobble together this list of 2-, 3- and 4-day Canadian comic book conventions.

Notes:

Single day events are not listed. I run a one-day comic book show in Toronto, myself, called Artsy Fartsy Comic Con but there are just too many single day shows spread across the country to properly keep track of.
Events like Sci-Fi On The Rock or Anime North or Word On The Street are not listed. They are not unfriendly to comic book or graphic novel creators but they are not primarily comic conventions.
I have only included events that have their own dedicated website. A Facebook event page or a url that points to a Facebook community page is not the same as having your own website.