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  Genre Comics
  Status Active
  Location Toronto
  Country Canada
  Years 2003 to Present
  Organizer Paradise Conventions
  Filing For Profit Company
  Website http://wwwtorontocomiconcom


The Paradise Comicon also known as the '''Toronto Comicon''' and the '''Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon''' is an annual Comic Book convention held in the spring in Toronto, Canada .

Note: Comicon is a slang way of saying comic book convention.

The subtitle to the event is "A Celebration of and its creators, and a workshop room for instruction in related fields.

The event is run by Paradise Conventions a division of Toronto Comic Book store Paradise Comics . Paradise Comics has been putting on one-day Comic Book conventions in Toronto since the early 1990s. In March 2003 they held the last one day Toronto Comicon and relaunched in November 2003 as a 3 day event. In 2004 it was held in mid-June. In 2005 and 2006 it was held in late April. In 2007 it will be held on June 8-10.

In August 2006 Paradise held its first one-day show in over three years, the Toronto Comic Book Fan Super Show at the Toronto Hilton Hotel.

The Convention is held at the National Trade Centre , located at Exhibition Place (home of the historic Canadian National Exhibition )

It is also the current home for the Annual Joe Shuster Awards for Canadian Comic Book Creators, established in 2005, and Comics For Kids - an initiative to interest children in comics as a tool for reading and creativity - established in 2006.


DATES AND LOCATIONS

  • 2003: March 23

  • 2003: November 7-9

  • 2004: June 18-20

  • 2005: April 29-30, May 1

  • 2006: April 28-30

  • 2007: June 8-10

  • 2008: June 6-8



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