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WAYWARD #1 – Launch Party
Featuring author Jim Zub, and cover artists Kalman Androsofzky, Alina Urusov, Adam Warren, & Chip Zdarsky
Wednesday, August 27th, 6pm-8pm (Presentation at 7pm)
@Guu Sakabar, 559 Bloor Street W, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6
Free to attend (but you are encourage to buy a drink or some food)
Bring Cash to buy stuff, rather than cards, please!

Presented by The Beguiling

WAYWARD is the new series from Image Comics, Toronto’s-own Jim Zub, and Yokohama-based artist Steven Cummings! Set in Tokyo, Japan, the series focuses on a young woman new to Tokyo, trying to reconnect with her mother and, you know, fighting traditional Japanese monsters and demons and stuff.

The Beguiling is throwing a big ‘ole party to celebrate, at Toronto’s GUU (our favourite Japanese pub–or Izakaya), and we’d love for you to come out! Copies of the book will be available for sale (including a bunch of variants), and the artists will be on hand too!

Look for even more info soon!

Kazu Kibuishi in-store event for Amulet v6 Launch
At Little Island Comics
742 Bathurst Street, around the corner from The Beguiling
5pm-ish
Free to attend.

The long-awaited Amulet v6 is coming… Kazu Kibuishi will be in store to sign copies and celebrate! Don’t miss out.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

THROUGH THE WOODS Book Launch Event
Featuring author Emily Carroll. Hosted by Sam Maggs.
Tuesday, July 15th, 7pm-9pm
@ The Lillian H. Smith Library Auditorium,  239 College St, Toronto
FREE

https://www.facebook.com/events/721116617949145/

The Beguiling & Simon & Schuster Canada will welcome Emily Carroll to Toronto on Tuesday, July 15th, to celebrate the release of her new comics collection Through The Woods.

In this special event, Emily Carroll will present from Through The Woods to the assembled audience. A spirited interview with journalist and writer Sam Maggs (The Mary Sue, The National Post) will follow. The event will take place at The Lillian H. Smith Library, home of The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy, in their large auditorium. Through The Woods will be released for sale on Tuesday, July 15th, and be available for purchase at the event.

ABOUT THROUGH THE WOODS & EMILY CARROLL

Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation “His Face All Red,” in print for the first time.

Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our Neighbor’s House”—though coming back might be a problem. Or find yourself a young bride in a house that holds a terrible secret in “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold.” You might try to figure out what is haunting “My Friend Janna,” or discover that your brother’s fiancée may not be what she seems in “The Nesting Place.” And of course you must revisit the horror of “His Face All Red,” the breakout webcomic hit that has been gorgeously translated to the printed page.

Already revered for her work online, award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll’s stunning visual style and impeccable pacing is on grand display in this entrancing anthology, her print debut. 

More info on Emily Carroll and her work can be found at http://www.emcarroll.com/

ABOUT SAM MAGGS

Voted “Awesome Geek Feminist of 2013,” Sam is (among other things) a writer and editor for geek girl culture website The Mary Sue, and a games journalist for the National Post. Sometimes you can catch her on MTV Canada, or on her two-lady Let’s Play YouTube channel, “the c_ntrollers.” Sam mostly loves Stargate, Victorian fiction, Pacific Rim, BioWare games, Carol Danvers, and Jeff Goldblum. 

The Beguiling Welcomes
KAARE ANDREWS IN-STORE
Wednesday, May 28, 6pm-7pm
@ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, Toronto
Free To Attend

Special last-minute announcement! Renowned superhero artist and author Kaare Andrews will be making a last-minute stop at The Beguiling to sign books and meet fans on Wednesday, May 28th, from 6pm-7pm. Kaare Andrews is the artist of series including Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes and Xenogenesis, Spider-Man: Reign, and Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One among other series.

Kaare is in town to promote his new film “Cabin Fever: Patient Zero” which is screening across Canada on Thursday, May 29th, at 7:30pm. Tickets are available at cineplex.com/events, and the full press release is under the cut.

Sorry for the last-minute notice, but we hope to see you there!

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CHEATIN’ (Film Screening)
Directed by Bill Plympton
Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 6:45pm
@ George Brown College Waterfront Campus, 51 Dockside Drive, Queen’s Quay & Lower Sherbourne
Tickets at http://taafi.com/festival/events/?id=138

TCAF is proud to partner with TAAFI, The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, to present a screening of CHEATIN’, Directed by legendary animator Bill Plympton. The Screening will take place Saturday, June 14th, at 6:45pm. Tickets are available at http://taafi.com/festival/events/?id=138. TAAFI 2014 takes place June 13-16, on Toronto’s Waterfront at Corus Quay & George Brown – Waterfront Campus. For more information on TAAFI, visit http://taafi.com/.

ABOUT CHEATIN’

In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden “soul machine”, Ella takes the form of Jake’s numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.

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(Hey Beguilingers! This isn’t ‘our’ event, but we strongly recommend it, the book 100 Crushes, and publisher Koyama Press, as being worth your time & money, go check it out!)

100 Crushes Book Launch in Conjunction with Generations of Queer Exhibit

Koyama Press is pleased to announce that on 15 June 2014 from 2 to 5PM Elisha Lim will be launching their debut graphic memoir 100 Crushes at Onsite [at] OCAD U in conjunction with their exhibition Generations of Queer.

Toronto-based artist Lim’s work celebrates the dignity and power of being neither straight, nor white, nor cis-gendered. In 2011 they also successfully advocated for Canadian gay media to adopt the gender neutral pronoun “they.” 100 Crushes compiles five years of queer comics by Lim, including excerpts from Sissy, The Illustrated Gentleman, Queer Child in the Eighties, and their cult series 100 Butches, as well as new work. It’s an absorbing documentary that travels through Toronto, Berlin, Singapore, and beyond in the form of interviews, memoirs, and gossip from an international queer vanguard.

Lim’s work is included in OCAD U’s Generations of Queer exhibition which presents vital and compelling narratives through the works of four Toronto-based artists. Influenced by age, background, current context and health, each of these artists has different stories to tell.

Join us for an afternoon of art, readings and community as we celebrate the launch of this groundbreaking book.

100 Crushes Book Launch in Conjunction with Generations of Queer Exhibit
15 June 2014 | 2-5PM | FREE
Onsite [at] OCAD U 230 Richmond St. W Toronto, ON
Visit the Onsite [at] OCAD U gallery site for more details: www.ocadu.ca/onsite