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Holiday Charity Art Show and Sale

Wednesday December 6th, 2023 @ 6:01PM – 7:01 PM

As many of you have heard, John Biernat, former owner of The Dragon Lady comic shop and a key figure in the Toronto comic book community passed away in September. Observant customers will also have noticed that there has been a large influx of comic book and comic strip reprint collections coming into the shop as we have purchased portions of John’s personal library.

John’s estate has made a generous donation of some of his comic art collection to form the core of a holiday charity art sale. This includes cover recreations by C.C.Beck and Martin Nodell and prints by Bob Kane and Dick Sprang. We’ve expanded the offerings by asking artist friends of the store to contribute drawings along the golden age super-hero theme. 100% of all sales will go to benefit Maggie’s, one of the country’s oldest sex-worker justice organizations, who recently lost their offices in a fire.

We are listing the pieces as they arrive in our artstore so that you can see what sort of pieces are coming.

Holiday Charity Art Sale at the Beguiling Art Store

The sale will be in a silent auction format, wrapping up at 7PM.  We have received and are welcoming more advance bids if there is a piece here that catches your eye and you can’t make it on Wednesday, you can email mail@beguiling.ca. We are only able to receive exact bids and not proxy bids. Any items not sold on the 6th will be available at a set price for the next two weeks.

There are many great potential gifts for the holidays here as all of the art from John’s collection is elaborately professionally framed.

Some highlights from the collection include:

Secrets of the Bat Cave by Dick Sprang 33″ x 23″ (estimate $700-1000 CAD)

Master Comics #21 cover recreation painting by C.C.Beck  11″ x 15″ (estimate $2400-3500 CAD)

All Star Comics #33 cover recreation painting by Irwin Hasen 16′ x 23′ (estimate $1000-$1500 CAD)

We have received donations from many cartoonists in support of this fundraiser, including Rick Taylor, Chester Brown, Jeff Lemire, Fiona Smythe and Maurice Vellekoop. Please check out the artstore and our social media chanels to see new additions as they come in.

NEW IN THE ART STORE: AARON COSTAIN & ZACH WORTON!

It’s a literal A-to-Z of comics art new in our web store!

Aaron Costain‘s debut graphic novel ENTROPY came out from Secret Acres earlier this year & now we have a selection of original art from it for you to take home, put in a frame and look at lovingly!

Zach Worton recently released both THE WEIRD WORLD OF LAGOOLA GARDNER and THE CURSE OF CHARLEY BUTTERS and we have a selection of art from both of them and it is BEAUTIFUL!

Head over now to our art store and seize your chance to get some great art!

 

NEW IN THE ART STORE: TOMMI PARRISH & SHINTARO KAGO!

We’ve added a bunch of new original art to our art store from two amazing & very disparate artists!

First, we have a selection of pages from three of Tommi Parrish’s newest releases, allowing the incredible range of their work to be on full display! This includes many pages from  from their debut book for Fantagraphics, The Lie and How We Told It!

Next, we have  a selection of affordably-priced works by renowned ero guro artist Shintaro Kago! Kago’s gorgeously realized horror artwork is not for the faint of heart but his surprisingly lighthearted (and off-kilter) sense of humour shines throughout this selection of pieces.

Head over to our art store to check out both of these artists and take some of their work home!

NEW IN THE ART STORE: TOMMI PARRISH & SHINTARO KAGO

We’ve added a bunch of new original art to our art store from two amazing & very disparate artists!

First, we have a selection of pages from three of Tommi Parrish’s newest releases, allowing the incredible range of their work to be on full display! This includes many pages from  from their debut book for Fantagraphics, The Lie and How We Told It!

Next, we have  a selection of affordably-priced works by renowned ero guro artist Shintaro Kago! Kago’s gorgeously realized horror artwork is not for the faint of heart but his surprisingly lighthearted (and off-kilter) sense of humour shines throughout this selection of pieces.

Head over to our art store to check out both of these artists and take some of their work home!

NEW IN THE ART STORE: MAHENDRA SINGH

The Human, Lich and the Lord of Evil

We’ve just added this absolutely breathtaking piece by Mahendra Singh to the art store! This is the original art for an Adventure Time licensed poster issued by the now-defunct Cartoon Network Collective, a parody of Albrecht Dürer’s “The Knight, Death and the Devil”. .One of the last pieces of Adventure Time original art that will ever be available, and absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Follow the link up top to our art store for more information!

NEW IN THE ART STORE: DASH SHAW & JASON LITTLE

We’re thrilled to now be offering new art in our online store from Dash Shaw and Jason Little!

Dash Shaw has supplied us with some gorgeous original background paintings from his animated film My Entire High School
Sinking into the Sea, and has combined them with acetate overlays reproducing the line art which he then been panted in gouache
paint! (Dash explains his process in a video you can view HERE)

The Beguiling is the only place to find original art from My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, and we couldn’t be happier about that!

Jason Little has also added a number of originals from artist Jason Little to the store from his 2015 comic Borb! These pieces include pages from the books, covers to foreign editions, t-shirt designs and lots more! Jason’s detailed, intricate art manages to contain both heartbreak and humour in equal, black-hearted doses.

Go feast your eyes on these pieces and lots more over at our art site: store.beguilingoriginalart.com