The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship to The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds.

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– Parrish

Just when the book seemed beyond all hope, comic artists have arrived to save the day! Our heroes Kate Beaton, Willow Dawson, Evan Munday, Claire Nobbs, Mariko Tamaki and Angela Szczepaniak swallow their proton pills and attempt to revive, rescue, revisit, and reinterpret the literary industry. Accompanying them will be host Elvira Kurt and projections (but not readings) of comics from a team of mighty artists, including Hope Larson, Steve Rolston, stef lenk, and Doug Wright Award recipients Dave Lapp, Jeff Lemire, Jillian Tamaki and Matt Forsythe.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street (1 block east of Yonge Street)
July 9th 7:00PM

Find out more at The Scream Literary Festival’s Website

Master illustrator David Mazzucchelli returns after a decade with his first full length original graphic novel.

Asterios Polyp is the story of a middle-aged, architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life comes fully undone when his home is burned to the ground by a bolt of lightning.

Mazzuccelli moves us forward and backward in time using a variety of color pallets and line styles not only to illuminate Polyp’s journey but also to explore design theory, philosophy, and classical mythology.

Asterios Polyp is in stock now and I highly recommend that you check it out.

– Parrish

A while back Diamond canceled distribution mid-series on a large number of Yen Press’ manga/manhwa books. Followers of these books were understandably pretty broken up about this so we are specially pleased to announce that we have the new volumes of many of these series and several other Yen books and one shots in store this week.

Angel Diary vol 09
Antique Gift vol 08
Croquis Pop vol 05
Dystopia
Kieli Vol 01
Legend Vol 05
Mr Flower Groom
Sarash Vol 01
Spiral Vol 08
Toxic Planet
Very Sweet vol 04
You’re Cool Vol 04

– Parrish

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship to The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds.
Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price.

Click here for the complete list: /090708shipping.txt

– Parrish

What hijinks will The Beguiling staff get up to while Mr. Butcher is out of the country? How about a Queen Street Location! That’s right, starting this Friday night we will be taking over the gallery book store at MOCCA. Independent comic’s readers are likely familiar with another MOCCA but in this case I’m talking about the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art at 952 Queen Street West (near Queen and Shaw).

Tonight (Friday June 26) from 7pm to 11pm is the grand opening of MOCCA’s new show Pulp Fiction featuring Marc Bell and Peter Thompson, who Beguiling customers will know from their books in the Petit Livre series from Drawn and Quarterly, as well as many other talented Canadian artists for you to discover. The show runs through August 23rd and we will be there every hour the museum is open offering an interesting subset of the fine books from our Markham Street store.

You can find out more about the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art at www.mocca.ca and read about the Pulp Fiction show HERE.

Admission is Pay What You Can

The Museum’s hours are:
Tuesday – Thursday 11am – 6pm
Friday 11am – 9pm
Saturday – Sunday 11am – 6pm
Closed on Mondays

Hope to see you there!

Throughout June the CBC’s The Book Club has been focusing on graphic novels. This week they talked to The Beguiling owner Peter Birkemoe about his
top ten graphic novels.

Unsurprisingly local author Seth was on that list and the article also includes a short video showing some highlights of his latest book George Sprott.

I guess they must have been impressed because The Book Club will also be hosting a live moderated chat with Seth on their site tomorrow at 2 pm Eastern Time. So you should totally check that out and maybe even ask him some questions.

More exciting news about comics in Toronto is coming very soon. Plus: The smooth satisfying flavor of Beguiling Books available at a second location? Maybe so, my friends. Maybe so.

As many regular visitors are no doubt already aware store manager and regular web page updater Chris Butcher is away for the next few weeks exploring the mysterious east or, since it’s a shorter flight across the Pacific from here, the mysterious west if you prefer. I look forward to bringing you mad, pirate radio style, replacement coverage* in the interim. That’s right, you’d best put a seat belt on your screen because it’s about to go for the ride of its life.

– Parrish

*user experience of actual madness and/or piracy may very.

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price.