Fiona Smyth

Toronto feminist painter, illustrator, cartoonist, and comics educator Fiona Smyth (she/her) collaborated with sex educator Cory Silverberg on the award-winning kids’ books What Makes A Baby, Sex Is A Funny Word, and You Know, Sex (Seven Stories Press) released in 2022. Somnambulance, a thirty-year collection of her comics, was published by Koyama Press in 2018. Smyth was inducted into the Doug Wright Awards’ Giants of The North Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame in 2019. She was the General Programming Artistic Curator for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in 2023 and will continue in the role for one more year in 2024. She teaches cartooning at OCAD University.

Session:

• Panel B: power (Saturday, April 13 - 10:00 a.m.)