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Complete list behind the cut:

The following items are scheduled to ship to The Beguiling from Diamond Comics Distributors on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013. All prices
should be accurate, but in the case of a dispute between a listed price here and in store, we always defer to the in-store price.

NEW COMICS

MAR130635 A Plus X #8 Now 3.99
MAR130908 Accelerators #1 (of 6) 3.99
DEC120546 Activity #13 3.5
MAR130944 Adventure Time #16 15 Copy Incv Goldstein 15
MAR130945 Adventure Time #16 20 Copy Incv Mcclaren 20
MAR130943 Adventure Time #16 Main Cvrs 3.99
MAR130954 Adventure Time Fionna & Cake #5 (of 6) 15 Copy Incv Gigi 15
MAR130955 Adventure Time Fionna & Cake #5 (of 6) 25 Incv Garland 25
MAR130953 Adventure Time Fionna & Cake #5 (of 6) Main Cvrs 3.99
FEB138600 Age Of Ultron #4 (of 10) 2nd Ptg Hitch Var 3.99
MAR130028 Akaneiro #1 (of 3) 3.99
FEB138601 All New X-men #10 2nd Ptg Immonen Var Now 3.99
MAR130246 All Star Western #20 3.99
FEB138444 Amazing Spider-man #700 4th Ptg Stegman Var 7.99
MAR130177 Aquaman #20 2.99
MAR130178 Aquaman #20 Var Ed 15
MAR130256 Arrow #7 3.99
MAR130612 Avengers #12 Now 3.99
MAR130910 Bart Simpson Comics #83 2.99
MAR130258 Batman Beyond Unlimited #16 3.99
MAR130196 Batman Incorporated #11 2.99
MAR130198 Batman Incorporated #11 Black & White Var Ed 70
MAR130199 Batman Incorporated #11 Combo Pack 3.99
MAR130197 Batman Incorporated #11 Var Ed 2.99
MAR130287 Batman Lil Gotham #2 2.99
MAR130207 Batman The Dark Knight #20 2.99
MAR130208 Batman The Dark Knight #20 Var Ed 15
MAR130444 Bounce #1 2.99
JAN130974 Bravest Warriors #1 Long Beach Comic Con Var 9.99
MAR130773 Cavewoman Uncovered Pinup Book 3.99
FEB130777 Crossed Badlands #28 3.99
FEB130779 Crossed Badlands #28 Torture Cvr 3.99
FEB130778 Crossed Badlands #28 Wrap Cvr 3.99
JAN131060 Damsels #7 3.99
MAR130689 Daredevil #26 3.99
MAR130690 Daredevil #26 Rivera Var 3.99
MAR130012 Dark Horse Presents #24 7.99
MAR131086 Dark Shadows Year One #2 3.99
MAR130644 Deadpool #10 Now2 2.99
MAR130013 Deep Sea One Shot 2.99
MAR130564 Dia De Los Muertos #3 (of 3) 4.99
FEB131136 Dmc Devil May Cry Vergil Chronicles #1 (of 2) 3.99
MAR130396 Doctor Who Vol 3 #9 3.99
MAR130655 Fantastic Four #8 Now2 2.99
MAR130606 Fearless Defenders #4au Now 3.99
MAR130568 Five Ghosts Haunting Of Fabian Gray #3 (of 5) 2.99
MAR130179 Flash #20 2.99
MAR130180 Flash #20 Var Ed 15
MAR130183 Fury Of Firestorm The Nuclear Man #20 2.99
MAR131399 Gft Hunters Shadowlands #1 (of 5) A Cvr Spay 2.99
MAR131400 Gft Hunters Shadowlands #1 (of 5) B Cvr Siqueira 2.99
MAR131397 Gft Werewolves Hunger #1 (of 3) A Cvr Spay 3.99
MAR131398 Gft Werewolves Hunger #1 (of 3) B Cvr Krome 3.99
MAR130349 Ghostbusters #4 3.99
MAR130391 GI Joe Cobra Files #2 3.99
MAR130392 GI Joe Cobra Files #2 Free 10 Copy Incv 6
FEB130688 Gold Digger #200 Series Special 3.99
MAR130224 Green Lantern #20 (wrath) (note Price) 7.99
MAR130226 Green Lantern #20 Combo Pack (wrath) (note Price) 8.99
MAR130225 Green Lantern #20 Var Ed (wrath) (note Price) 30
MAR130229 Green Lantern New Guardians #20 (wrath) 2.99
MAR130159 Green Team #1 2.99
MAR130160 Green Team #1 Var Ed 15
MAR130351 Half Past Danger #1 (of 6) 3.99
MAR130352 Half Past Danger #1 (of 6) Subscription Var 3.99
MAR130923 Hellraiser Dark Watch #4 Main Cvrs 3.99
MAR130051 House Of Gold & Bones #2 (of 4) Alexander Cvr 3.99
MAR130676 Iron Man #258.3 3.99
MAR130840 Jirni #2 (of 5) Aspen Reserved Cvr 3.99
MAR130839 Jirni #2 (of 5) Direct Market Cvr 3.99
MAR130656 Journey Into Mystery #652 Now 2.99
MAR130342 Judge Dredd #7 3.99
MAR130173 Justice League #20 3.99
MAR130175 Justice League #20 Black & White Var Ed 70
MAR130176 Justice League #20 Combo Pack 4.99
MAR130174 Justice League #20 Var Ed 3.99
MAR130237 Justice League Dark #20 2.99
MAR130416 Kiss Solo #3 (of 4) The Celestial 3.99
MAR130050 Lobster Johnson Satan Smells A Rat One Shot 3.5
MAR130700 Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-man #14 2.99
MAR131049 Masks #7 3.99
MAR130016 Massive #12 3.5
MAR130017 Mind Mgmt #11 3.99
MAR130584 Miniature Jesus #2 (of 5) 3.99
FEB130457 Nowhere Men #5 2.99
MAR130907 Occupy Comics #1 3.5
MAR130711 Powers Bureau #4 3.95
MAR130231 Red Lanterns #20 (wrath) 2.99
MAR130232 Red Lanterns #20 Var Ed (wrath) 15
OCT121022 Red Sonja #75 Geovani Cvr 3.99
OCT121021 Red Sonja #75 Jones Cvr 3.99
OCT121020 Red Sonja #75 Rubi Cvr 3.99
FEB130829 Regular Show #1 Complete Cvr Box Set 24.99
MAR130587 Revival #10 2.99
MAR130184 Savage Hawkman #20 2.99
MAR130667 Scarlet Spider #17 2.99
MAR130668 Scarlet Spider #17 Dellotto Var 10
MAR130589 Sex #3 2.99
MAR131253 Sixth Gun #31 3.99
FEB131138 Solid State Tank Girl #1 (of 4) 3.99
MAR130068 Star Wars Dawn o/t Jedi Prisoner Of Bogan #5 (of 5) 2.99
MAR130058 Star Wars Legacy #3 2.99
FEB130867 Steed And Mrs Peel Ongoing #8 3.99
MAR130617 Superior Spider-man #10 Now 3.99
MAR130192 Superman #20 2.99
MAR130193 Superman #20 Var Ed 15
MAR130205 Talon #8 2.99
MAR130206 Talon #8 Var Ed 15
MAR130248 Teen Titans #20 2.99
MAR130249 Teen Titans #20 Var Ed 15
MAR130329 TMNT Villain Microseries #2 Baxter Stockman 3.99
MAR130330 TMNT Villain Microseries #2 Free 10 Copy Incv 6
MAR130371 Transformers Robots In Disguise #17 3.99
MAR130372 Transformers Robots In Disguise #17 Free 10 Copy Incv 6
MAR130413 True Blood Ongoing #13 3.99
MAR130681 Ultimate Comics Wolverine #4 (of 4) 3.99
MAR130608 Uncanny Avengers #8au Now2 3.99
MAR130638 Uncanny X-men #6 Now 3.99
MAR130306 Unwritten #49 2.99
FEB131091 Wasteland #45 3.99
MAR130642 X-men Legacy #11 Now2 2.99
MAR130630 Young Avengers #5 Cheung Var Now 30
MAR130629 Young Avengers #5 Now 2.99

MAGAZINES

MAR130698 Cars Magazine #14 4.99
NEW BOOKS, TRADE PAPERBACKS, AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

FEB130628 A Plus X TP Vol 01 Equals Awesome 17.99
AUG121385 Alluring Art Of Margaret Brundage HC 39.95
SEP121230 Alluring Art Of Margaret Brundage SC 24.95
MAR130813 Archies 1000 Pg Comics Digest TP 14.99
MAR130487 Artifacts TP Vol 05 16.99
MAR130424 Borderlands Origins TP 17.99
FEB130629 Captain Marvel TP Vol 02 Down 14.99
NOV121173 Cat On A Hot Thin Groove TP 35
MAR130430 Chasing The Dead TP 17.99
FEB130208 Demon Knights TP Vol 02 The Avalon Trap (n52) 14.99
FEB130635 Ff By Jonathan Hickman TP Vol 04 19.99
AUG121030 Flash Gordon TP Vol 01 Zeitgeist 29.99
FEB130316 Godzilla Half Century War TP 19.99
FEB130209 Grifter TP Vol 02 New Found Power (n52) 16.99
APR130986 In Kitchen With Alain Passard Inside World Of Master Chef 16.95
NOV121346 Jeffrey Jones Definitive Reference SC 24.95
FEB130626 Jim Featuring Sif TP Vol 01 Stronger Than Monsters Now 15.99
JAN130812 Lio TP Vol 02 Making Friends 9.99
MAR130992 My Dirty Dumb Eyes GN 22.95
MAR131239 Ninjago GN Vol 07 Stone Cold 6.99
MAR131240 Ninjago HC Vol 07 Stone Cold 10.99
FEB130982 Property HC 24.95
FEB130731 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Magic Within TP Vol 02 10.99
JAN131224 Scott Pilgrim Color HC Vol 03 (of 6) 24.99
MAR130827 Sonic Universe TP Vol 05 Tails Adventure 11.99
FEB130627 Thunderbolts TP Vol 01 No Quarter Now 15.99
FEB130338 TMNT Works HC Vol 01 49.99
MAR131187 Tommysaurus Rex GN Vol 01 10.99
MAR131188 Tommysaurus Rex HC Vol 01 19.99
MAR130425 Torpedo TP Vol 03 17.99
MAR131062 Vampirella Archives HC Vol 07 49.99
OCT121246 Wally Wood Eerie Tales Of Crime & Horror HC 39.95
NOV121348 Wally Wood Eerie Tales Of Crime & Horror SC 24.95
MAR130770 Zombies Calling GN 9.95

NEW MANGA

FEB131125 Alice I/t Country Of Joker Circus & Liars Game Vol 02 12.99
MAR131384 Are You Alice GN Vol 01 11.99
MAR131385 Black God TP Vol 19 12.99
MAR131386 Blood Lad Omnibus GN Vol 03 18.99
MAR131387 Btooom GN Vol 02 11.99
MAR131388 Disappearance Of Nagato Yuki Chan GN Vol 04 12.99
MAR131389 Durarara Saika TP Vol 02 11.99
JAN131199 Genshiken Second Season GN Vol 02 10.99
FEB131190 Noble V Greylancer Novel 14.99
MAR131390 Omamori Himari GN Vol 10 11.99
FEB131174 Saturn Apartments TP Vol 07 12.99
MAR131392 Soul Eater TP Vol 14 11.99
MAR131353 Sunny HC Vol 01 22.99
APR131223 Tales o/t Buddha Before He Was Enlightened TP 14.99
MAR131393 Thermae Romae HC Vol 02 34.99
MAR131394 Umineko When They Cry GN Vol 03 Turn Golden Witch Pt 1 20.99

NEW MISC.

JAN132046 Maria Watches Over Us DVD Sea 04 23
JAN132047 One Piece DVD Sea 04 Voyage Four 23
JAN132048 Qwaser Of Stigmata DVD Coll 2 31

The full range of items is now available, and we’ll even ship some of the items to you out there in the world! Here’s a quick run-down:

The Beguiling 25th Anniversary Tote Bag – $10
This sturdy tote is emblazoned with The Beguiling’s 25th Anniversary logo in front, and TCAF logo on the back. It measures 12″ tall x 14″x wide x 6″ deep, is water resistant, features two interior pockets, and is basically the best tote you will ever own. Also available in TCAF 2011 Yellow, and TCAF 2012 Black.

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TCAF 2013 T-Shirt – $20
We have a very limited number of these shirts left, sported by TCAF 2013′s amazing volunteers. American Apparel T, neon green lettering. Available in a variety of Men’s and Womens’ sizes.

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TCAF 10th Anniversary Poster by Maurice Vellekoop – $10
TCAF 2013 Poster by Taiyo Matsumoto – $10
Want to own a little piece of history and keep TCAF going strong? Check out our amazing new posters for 2013! The stunning, detailed 10th Anniversary Poster by Toronto’s own Maurice Vellekoop, and our lovel 2013 poster by Tokyo’s Taiyo Matsumoto. Both posters measure approximately 16″ x 26″, printed on a thick, bright white matte stock. Available in-store and online at http://www.beguiling.com/artproductlist.asp?ID=59

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Gengoroh Tagame – “TORNADO” Risograph Print – $10
TCAF 2013 Featured Guest Gengoroh Tagame created this outstanding original image for us at TCAF, and we’ve turned it into a very limited edition risograph print (11″x17″) with the help of Color Code Printing. Less than 50 of these are left! (Please note, the image shown is a photograph of a framed print, and there are some reflections in the glass.) Available in-store and on-line at http://www.beguiling.com/artproductlist.asp?ID=59.

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TCAF 10th Anniversary Dojinshi Booklet – $10
Produced for TCAF’s exhibition at Kaigai Manga Festa in Japan, the 10th Anniversary book is a wonderful souvenir of the festival! It includes all of the poster-art for TCAF 2003-2012, but it also includes rare and otherwise-unavailable images from Evan Dorkin, Usamaru Furuya, Konami Kanata, Jim Mahfood, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Natsume Ono, Peter Thompson, Noel Tuazon, and Maurice Vellekoop! English/Japanese text.

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If you’re a diehard TCAF fan and need us to ship something to you, e-mail mail@beguiling.com and we’ll see what we can do!

- Chris

Thanks to: Model Andrew Townsend (photos 1 & 2), Dustin Harbin for The Beguiling 25th Anniversary Logo Design, Poster/Print artists Matsumoto, Tagame, and Vellekoop, KT for bag & shirt design.

In stock from TCAF — Genorogh Tagame t-shirts!

Like many things at the Beguiling, they ride that fine line between classy and dirty and we wouldn’t have it any other way. This image can be found on the inside cover of The Passion of Gengorogh Tagame, which is also still in stock.  And if you can’t get enough of it, this and five other illustrations can be found in the set of limted edition giclée prints we did of his work for the LEGENDS art show — there’s only a few of those left so act quickly if you ensare one of those. There’s also a TCAF exclusive, limited edition risograph print availiable at the store for $10.00 plus tax. Basically, it’s time to stock up for all your Bara needs at the Beguiling.

For perhaps obvious reasons, these shirts are only availiable in L, XL, and XXL. You’ll find them on the second floor for $20.00 plus tax.

Made for Free Comics Book Day by Neil Brideau, Ben Bertin, Carter Lodwick, and Sam Sharpe, this anthology is a fun look into the Chicago comics scene. Thanks to the creators for the books! They are available on the main floor.

And thanks to everyone who came out for Free Comic Book Day this year. It was the busiest FCDB we’ve had in ages, and we gave out almost all of the comics. That’s amazing!

Free Comic Book Day 

Facebook Event

The Beguiling and Little Island Comics are happily participating in industry-wide celebration FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. Drop by The Beguiling for all your teen-to-grown-up-to-arrested-development needs, and Little Island Comics for age-appropriate freebies for the little ones.

To see some of the free comic books that will be on hand, visit http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

- Chris @ The Beguiling

https://www.facebook.com/events/274830185987398/

Beginning almost 20 years ago in the Globe & Mail, Fisher is the ongoing adventures of the bumbling Tom Fisher and the winsome/strong-willed Allison. Are they roommates? Are they…more than roommates? When Tom Met Alison collects the first 10 years of the strip, and can be yours for only $19.95.

A Fine Line brings together over 100 of Globe and Mail artist Anthony Jenkins’ portraits of famous faces throughout the ages. It’s got Joni Mitchell, Glenn Gould, David Suzuki, and our own neighbour, “Honest Ed” Mirvish! And lots of non-Canadians too! This book is also just $19.95, and can be found on the main floor.

130501shipping <- Check out the text file of it here!

NEW COMICS
FEB131026 3 New Stories One Shot 3.99
MAR130019 47 Ronin #4 (of 5) 3.99
MAR130555 68 Jungle Jim #2 (of 4) Cvr A Zornow & Fotos 3.99
MAR130556 68 Jungle Jim #2 (of 4) Cvr B Dyke & Fotos 3.99
MAR130049 Abe Sapien Dark & Terrible #2 3.50
MAR130189 Action Comics #20 3.99
MAR130191 Action Comics #20 Combo Pack 4.99
MAR130190 Action Comics #20 Var Ed 15.00
OCT120511 Activity #12 3.50
FEB138446 Age Of Ultron #2 (of 10) 2nd Ptg Hitch Var 3.99
MAR130600 Age Of Ultron #7 (of 10) 3.99
MAR130602 Age Of Ultron #7 (of 10) Rock He Kim Ultron Var 15.00
MAR130601 Age Of Ultron #7 (of 10) Yu Var 30.00
MAR130614 All New X-men #11 Now 3.99
FEB138445 All New X-men #9 2nd Ptg Immonen Var Now 3.99
MAR130255 Ame Comi Girls #3 3.99
MAR130238 Animal Man #20 2.99
FEB130125 Aquaman #19 2.99
FEB130126 Aquaman #19 Mad Var Ed 6.00
MAR131337 Archer & Armstrong (vu) #1 One Dollar Debut Ed 1.00
FEB130721 Archie #643 Archie Meets Glee Pt 3 2.99
FEB130971 Army Of Darkness Ongoing #13 3.99
JAN130572 Artifacts #27 Cvr A Sejic 3.99
JAN130573 Artifacts #27 Cvr B Turini 3.99
MAR130221 Batwing #20 2.99
DEC121037 Bionic Man #19 3.99
MAR131005 Black Bat #1 10 Copy Eliopoulos Incv 6.00
MAR131000 Black Bat #1 Cvr A Campbell 3.99
MAR131001 Black Bat #1 Cvr B Benitez 3.99
MAR131002 Black Bat #1 Cvr C Syaf 3.99
MAR131003 Black Bat #1 Cvr D Tan 3.99
MAR131004 Black Bat #1 Martin Subscription Var 3.99
MAR130468 Blackacre #6 2.99
MAR131336 Bloodshot (vu) #1 One Dollar Debut Ed 1.00
MAR130833 Charismagic Vol 2 #1 (of 6) Aspen Reserved Cvr 1.00
MAR130832 Charismagic Vol 2 #1 (of 6) Direct Market Cvr 1.00
MAR130400 Colonized #2 (of 4) 3.99
MAR130401 Colonized #2 (of 4) Subscription Var 3.99
FEB130713 Cyborg 009 Chapter 000 One Shot 1.00
MAR130887 Dan The Unharmable #12 3.99
MAR130888 Dan The Unharmable #12 Wrap Cvr 3.99
MAR130210 Detective Comics #20 3.99
MAR130213 Detective Comics #20 Combo Pack 4.99
MAR130211 Detective Comics #20 Var Ed 15.00
MAR130212 Detective Comics #20 We Can Be Heroes Blank Var Ed 3.99
MAR130240 Dial H #12 2.99
MAR130354 Dungeons & Dragons Cutter #2 (of 5) 3.99
MAR130185 Earth 2 #12 2.99
MAR130186 Earth 2 #12 Var Ed 15.00
FEB130442 Epic Kill #10 2.99
MAR130301 Fairest #15 2.99
MAR130876 Fashion Beast #9 3.99
MAR130877 Fashion Beast #9 Wrap Cvr 3.99
NOV121111 Game Of Thrones #14 3.99
MAR130957 Garfield #13 3.99
FEB131222 Gft Jungle Book Last o/t Species #3 (of 5) A Cvr Nunes 3.99
FEB131223 Gft Jungle Book Last o/t Species #3 (of 5) B Cvr Salgado 3.99
FEB138000 Ghostbusters #1 2nd Ptg (pp #1067) 3.99
MAR130167 Green Arrow #20 2.99
MAR130168 Green Arrow #20 Var Ed 15.00
MAR131335 Harbinger (vu) #1 One Dollar Debut Ed 1.00
MAR131317 Harbinger Wars (vu) #2 (of 4) Pullbox Larosa 3.99
MAR131316 Harbinger Wars (vu) #2 (of 4) Reg Henry 3.99
FEB130568 Hawkeye #10 2.99
FEB130569 Hawkeye #10 Iron Man Many Armors Rivera Var 12.00
FEB138447 Hawkeye #8 2nd Ptg Aja Var 2.99
MAR130937 Hypernaturals #11 3.99
MAR130651 Indestructible Hulk #7 Now 3.99
MAR130573 Invincible Universe #2 2.99
MAR130673 Iron Man #258.1 3.99
MAR130674 Iron Man #258.1 Layton Var 12.00
MAR130625 Iron Man #9 Deadpool Land Var Now2 3.99
MAR130626 Iron Man #9 Movie Var Now2 15.00
MAR130624 Iron Man #9 Now2 3.99
MAR130678 Iron Man Coming Of Melter #1 3.99
MAR130679 Iron Man Coming Of Melter #1 Kane Var 3.99
MAR130409 Joe Palooka #6 (of 6) 3.99
FEB138001 Judge Dredd #1 2nd Ptg 3.99
MAR130259 Legends o/t Dark Knight #8 3.99
MAR130418 Mars Attacks #10 3.99
MAR130419 Mars Attacks #10 Free 10 Copy Incv 6.00
MAR130580 Mice Templar IV Legend #2 Cvr A Santos 2.99
MAR130581 Mice Templar IV Legend #2 Cvr B Oeming 2.99
MAR130010 Michael Avon Oemings Victories #1 (of 5) Transhuman 3.99
MAR131027 Miss Fury #2 10 Copy Garza Risque Incv 6.00
MAR131023 Miss Fury #2 Cvr A Benitez 3.99
MAR131024 Miss Fury #2 Cvr B Renaud 3.99
MAR131025 Miss Fury #2 Cvr C Tan 3.99
MAR131026 Miss Fury #2 Cvr D Reis 3.99
MAR130015 Mister X Eviction #1 (of 3) 3.99
MAR130161 Movement #1 2.99
MAR130162 Movement #1 Var Ed 15.00
FEB138448 New Avengers #4 2nd Ptg Jock Var Now 3.99
MAR130235 Phantom Stranger #8 2.99
MAR130939 Planet o/t Apes Cataclysm #9 3.99
FEB130981 Plume #4 (of 5) 3.99
FEB138546 Polarity #1 (of 4) (2nd Ptg) 3.99
MAR130916 Polarity #2 (of 4) 3.99
MAR130657 Red She-hulk #65 Now2 2.99
FEB130955 Red Sonja Unchained #2 (of 4) 3.99
FEB130956 Red Sonja Unchained #2 (of 4) Geovani Subscription Var 3.99
NOV121352 Satanika Anniversary Special 4.95
FEB130462 Savage Dragon #187 3.99
MAR130289 Scooby Doo Where Are You #33 2.99
FEB130702 Sesame Street #1 Imagination Cvr A 3.99
FEB130703 Sesame Street #1 Imagination Cvr B 3.99
FEB130704 Sesame Street #1 Imagination Cvr C 3.99
FEB130705 Sesame Street #1 Imagination Cvr D 3.99
FEB130706 Sesame Street #1 Imagination Cvr E 3.99
FEB138534 Sex #1 3rd Ptg 2.99
MAR131329 Shadowman (vu) #0 20 Copy Incv Larosa 12.00
MAR131328 Shadowman (vu) #0 Pullbox Evans 3.99
MAR131327 Shadowman (vu) #0 Reg Johnson 3.99
MAR131338 Shadowman (vu) #1 One Dollar Debut Ed 1.00
JAN131085 Sherlock Holmes Liverpool Demon #4 (of 5) 3.99
FEB130823 Simpsons Illustrated #6 3.99
MAR130590 Snapshot #4 (of 4) 2.99
MAR130591 Son Of Merlin #4 2.99
FEB130737 Sonic The Hedgehog #248 Reg Cvr 2.99
FEB130738 Sonic The Hedgehog #248 Var Cvr 2.99
MAR130592 Spawn #231 2.99
FEB138002 Star Trek Countdown To Darkness #1 3rd Ptg 3.99
MAR130071 Star Wars Dark Times Fire Carrier #4 2.99
MAR130245 Stormwatch #20 2.99
MAR130918 Suicide Risk #1 3.99
MAR130919 Suicide Risk #1 20 Copy Incv Hans 12.00
JAN130612 Super Dinosaur #19 2.99
FEB138450 Superior Spider-man #6 2nd Ptg Ramos Var Now 3.99
MAR130615 Superior Spider-man #9 Now 3.99
MAR130616 Superior Spider-man #9 Stegman Var Now 30.00
MAR130239 Swamp Thing #20 2.99
MAR130432 Ten Grand #1 Cvr A Templesmith 2.99
MAR130433 Ten Grand #1 Cvr B Sienkiewicz 2.99
MAR130637 Thanos Rising #2 (of 5) Mcguinness Var Now 30.00
MAR130636 Thanos Rising #2 (of 5) Now 3.99
FEB130940 The Spider #11 3.99
MAR130328 TMNT Color Classics #10 3.99
FEB138003 TMNT Ongoing #18 2nd Ptg 3.99
FEB138004 TMNT Ongoing #19 2nd Ptg 3.99
FEB130343 TMNT Ongoing #21 Subscription Var 3.99
FEB138005 TMNT Secret Foot Clan #2 (of 4) 2nd Ptg 3.99
MAR130369 Transformers Spotlight Hoist #1 3.99
MAR130370 Transformers Spotlight Hoist #1 Free 10 Copy Incv 6.00
MAR130682 Ultimate Comics X-men #26 3.99
MAR131339 Valiant One Dollar Debut Bundle (vu) Wave 1 4.95
MAR131060 Vampirella Strikes #5 10 Copy Johnny D Red Incv 6.00
MAR131057 Vampirella Strikes #5 Cvr A Johnny D 3.99
MAR131058 Vampirella Strikes #5 Cvr B Neves 3.99
MAR131059 Vampirella Strikes #5 Subscription Var 3.99
JAN131227 Wasteland #44 3.99
MAR130691 Winter Soldier #18 2.99
MAR130188 Worlds Finest #12 2.99
MAR130706 X-factor #255 2.99
MAR130641 X-men Legacy #10 Now2 2.99
MAR131334 X-o Manowar (vu) #1 One Dollar Debut Ed 1.00

NEW BOOKS, TRADE PAPERBACKS, NOVELS
MAR130464 Bedlam TP Vol 01 9.99
MAR130469 Blackacre TP Vol 01 9.99
FEB130625 Cable And X-force TP Vol 01 Wanted Now 17.99
DEC120791 Croods Prequel Digest GN 6.99
JAN131260 Don Quixote Comp GN 27.50
MAR130355 Dungeons & Dragons Drizzt TP Vol 01 Neverwinter 19.99
FEB130673 Fubar SC Vol 03 American History Z 16.95
FEB130673 Fubar SC Vol 03 American History Z 16.95
JAN131377 Gary Baseman Door Is Always Open HC 45.00
FEB130242 Get Jiro TP 14.99
JAN130329 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo HC Vol 02 19.99
MAR130484 G-man TP Vol 03 Coming Home 9.99
FEB130660 Good Riddance Graphic Memoir Of Divorce GN 17.95
MAR130502 Graveyard Of Empires TP 14.99
MAR130504 Great Pacific TP Vol 01 Trashed 9.99
FEB130609 Iron Man War Machine TP Hands Of Mandarin 24.99
DEC120481 Jack Davis EC Stories Artist Ed HC 150.00
DEC120331 Jack Kirby Omnibus HC Vol 02 39.99
FEB130604 Kick-ass HC Vol 01 39.99
JAN130122 Korak Son Of Tarzan Archives HC Vol 01 49.99
FEB130661 Legends o/t Blues HC 19.95
MAR131194 Little Prince GN 12.99
MAR131215 Little Prince GN Vol 07 Planet Of Overhearers 7.95
MAR131216 Little Prince GN Vol 08 Planet Of Tortoise Driver 7.95
MAR130356 Magic The Gathering TP Vol 03 Path Of Vengeance 17.99
MAR131429 Mark Ryden Pinxit HC 69.99
MAR130426 Michael Kaluta Sketchbook Series SC Vol 04 9.99
FEB130642 Mu Avengers Earths Heroes Digest TP Vol 03 9.99
FEB131052 Pietrolino HC 29.95
FEB130662 Raven Girl GN 19.95
FEB131124 Sandcastle GN 19.95
FEB131117 Slaine Grail War GN 29.99
JAN130300 Superman Action Comics HC Vol 02 Bulletproof (n52) 24.99
FEB130215 Superman Action TP Vol 01 Superman Men Of Steel (n52) 16.99
FEB130226 Superman Earth One TP Vol 01 12.99
MAR130332 TMNT Ongoing TP Vol 05 17.99
MAR130382 Transformers Regeneration One TP Vol 02 19.99
MAR131167 Walt Disney Donald Duck HC Vol 03 Castles Secret 28.99
MAR131300 Westward TP Vol 01 15.99
FEB131053 What Lies Beneath HC 79.95
MAR130778 Will And Whit GN 12.95
FEB130615 Wolverine Best There Is TP Complete Series 29.99
DEC120356 World Of Warcraft Dark Riders HC 24.99
NEW MAGAZINE
DEC121348 Back Issue #63 8.95
JAN131396 Back Issue #64 8.95
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JAN130738 Phineas And Ferb Magazine #17 4.99
MAR130001 Previews #296 May 2013 2.70

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DEC120068 Angel & Faith TP Vol 03 Family Reunion 17.99
FEB131151 Atelier Artworks Of Arland SC 44.99
JAN130308 Batman Illustrated By Neal Adams TP Vol 02 24.99
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MAR130989 Library Chihoi HC 20.00
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MAR130905 Snake Pit Gets Old GN 16.95
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FEB131080 Thea Stilton HC Vol 01 Secret Whale Island 9.99
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JAN130755 Uncanny Avengers Prem HC Vol 01 Red Shadow Now 24.99
FEB130808 Who Is AC GN 14.99
FEB130809 Who Is AC HC GN 21.99
FEB130648 X-men Fall Of Mutants TP Vol 02 34.99
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MAR130893 Zebrafish TP 7.99

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FEB131196 Alice I/t Country Of Hearts My Fanatic Rabbit GN Vol 02 11.99
FEB131057 Animal Land GN Vol 07 10.99
FEB131058 Arisa GN Vol 10 10.99
FEB131197 Black Butler TP Vol 13 11.99
DEC120100 Bride o/t Water God TP Vol 13 9.99
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FEB131199 Doubt Omnibus GN Vol 01 18.99
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MAR131355 Gogo Monster GN 27.99
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FEB131201 Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya GN Vol 15 11.99
FEB131202 Pandora Hearts GN Vol 15 11.99
FEB131204 Spice And Wolf Novel Vol 08 Town Of Strife I 11.99
FEB131203 Twilight Saga New Moon HC Vol 01 19.99

We just got in the biggest little collection of assorted Big Little Books — and it couldn’t be more quaint.

Dick Tracy, Green Hornet, The Lone Ranger, Red Rider, Charlie Chan, Little Orphan Annie, Tarzan, and so much more!

Each Little Big Book is individually priced, but the median is around $10.  You can find the complete collection on the main floor.

KEEP TORONTO READING: GRAPHICALLY SPEAKING – DIRTY COMICS

Once again, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival is proud to partner with the Toronto Public Library on Keep Toronto Reading to present lively and informative graphic novel programming.

This year’s program will feature Charles Brownstein, head of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, to discusses censorship in comics. His presentation will be Followed by a Q&A moderated by Christopher Butcher; manager, The Beguiling, and festival director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

Charles Brownstein has served as the executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund since 2002.  During his years at the helm of the organization, the CBLDF has successfully managed several First Amendment cases, including a notable win in Georgia v. Gordon Lee. Brownstein has also written extensively about comics for more than fifteen years for a variety of publications including The Comics Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, and Wizard. His books Eisner/Miller and The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen are award-winning and award-nominated, respectively. Brownstein also serves on the Board of Directors of the Media Coalition and the Stumptown Comics Foundation, and on the Steering Committee of SPX, the Small Press Expo.

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JAN130786 Age Of Apocalypse TP Vol 02 Weapon Omega 16.99
DEC120054 Aliens HC Inhuman Condition 10.99
DEC120068 Angel & Faith TP Vol 03 Family Reunion 17.99
JAN130757 Avengers Prem HC Vol 01 Avengers World 24.99
JAN130773 Avengers Vs X-men TP X-men Legacy 29.99
FEB130819 Bart Simpson Big Shot TP 15.99
JAN130309 Batman Year One Hundred TP New Ptg 19.99
JAN130297 Birds Of Prey TP Vol 02 Your Kiss Might Kill (n52) 14.99
FEB131019 Captain Pugwash Comic Book Coll 14.99
DEC120083 Criminal Macabre Cal Mcdonald Casebook HC Vol 01 34.99
JAN130295 Dial H TP Vol 01 Into You (n52) 14.99
DEC120055 Dragon Age World Of Thedas HC Vol 01 39.99
JAN130298 Frankenstein Agent Of Shade TP Vol 02 Secrets Dead (n52) 16.99
FEB130415 Hack Slash TP Vol 12 18.99
FEB130420 Happy TP 12.99
FEB130421 Harvest HC 19.99
FEB130248 House Of Secrets Omnibus HC 75.00
JAN131261 Hp Lovecraft Case Of Charles Dexter Ward GN 19.95
FEB131116 Indigo Prime Anthropocalypse GN 24.99
JAN130762 Iron Man 2020 TP 34.99
FEB131018 Jerusalem Story Of City GN 24.99
FEB131275 Joe Golem & Drowning City Ill Novel SC 17.99
JAN131251 Judge Dredd Digest TP Judge Child 11.00
JAN130854 Knuckles The Echidna Archives TP Vol 04 9.99
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FEB130327 Mars Attacks IDW TP 19.99
DEC120334 Marshal Law The Deluxe Edition HC 49.99
JAN131255 Mean Team GN 22.99
DEC121234 Modesty Blaise TP Vol 23 Girl In Iron Mask 19.95
JAN130807 Muzz GN 14.95
JAN130808 Paris Collection TP 10.95
DEC120394 Popeye Classics HC Vol 01 29.99
DEC120747 Scarlet Spider TP Vol 02 Lone Star 19.99
JAN130314 Smallville Season 11 TP Vol 01 The Guardian 14.99
NOV120014 Star Wars Darth Vader & Ghost Prison HC 24.99
FEB130351 Transformers Robots In Disguise TP Vol 03 17.99
FEB130308 Transfusion TP 17.99
JAN130787 Uncanny X-men Complete Coll By Fraction TP Vol 02 29.99
FEB131315 Vaders Little Princess HC 14.95
JAN130781 Venom Devils Pack TP 16.99
JAN130760 X-men Legacy TP Vol 01 Prodigal 15.99

NEW MAGAZINES
FEB130584 Disney Junior Magazine #13 4.99

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JAN131337 Dorohedoro GN Vol 09 12.99
JAN131265 Kanokon GN Coll Ed Vol 01 18.99
JAN131335 Pepita Inoue Meets Guadi SC Vol 01 24.99
DEC121296 X 3-in-1 Ed TP Vol 05 19.99

While posts about film adaptations of comics or ticket giveaways may crop up here occasionally, this time I am going to give a straight ahead recommendation to a film opening at the TIFF this week. I have long recommended Shane Carruth’s first film “Primer” (2003). If one wants to classify it as science fiction then it is certainly among my few favourite films of the genre. “Upstream Color” now joins that list.

His films are mercifully free of the heavy handed exposition that tends to accompany any science in contemporary entertainment and “Primer” is one of the only films I can recall where engineers talking amongst themselves actually speak like engineers talking amongst themselves.

I had the pleasure of seeing his latest film “Upstream Color” last week and, like “Primer”, I will be thinking about this one for a long time to come. It has already been widely reviewed and summarized (New York Times and Film School Rejects) and there are much better edited interviews (Film School Rejects and Christianity Today) than anything I can offer. (I promise you, this will be the only time this website will ever out-link to christiantytoday.com)

In part because his films are difficult to talk about succinctly, the story of their production end up being discussed as much as the films themselves. Notably, he has assumed the roles of producer / writer / director / lead actor / composer / editor / cinematographer in the past — and on his new film, taking on distribution and publicity.

Comics and cinema were equal interests/loves of mine for a long time and my tastes in both run down similar paths: the extent to which I find a work interesting is directly proportional to how much a single artistic personality shows through in the work. This is often much easier to find in contemporary comics than it is in film, and I get to deal with cartoonists making and selling their own work every day. There are, of course, collaborations in comics that I love and find fascinating (Sim & Gerhard, Dupuy & Berberian, Ruppert & Mulot) but it is no secret how often I first turn to the works of Seth, Chester Brown, Chris Ware, etc. when recommending comics.

In getting the chance to talk with Carruth, I wanted to ask him about him about some of the elements in his films that interest me most. He gave long, thoughtful answers and I wanted to present many of them in full. Please note SPOILERS FOLLOW the trailer below.

Much has been made of the extent to which you are filling as many of the roles in making this film as possible. How much of this has been by necessity and how much by design?

I wish I knew that. No matter what, the answer is going to be nuanced. When I’m writing I have something in my head and I’m not necessarily confident that we will execute it until I do a few things. I write the music that I feel is a close approximation of what I need for that, I will typically go out and do some camera tests, make sure that the shot that I need can be executed in the way I think it needs to be — and a few other things. Those give me a level of confidence that “OK, great, we can get to this moment and I can build on this” and that is a known quantity and then before long I have something that I feel is the full score for the film. It becomes difficult to invite somebody else in to be a composer so that they can be frustrated with my preconceptions of what it should be.

When it comes to cinematography, it is the same thing. When I know the lighting schematic, when I know how we are going to use light as a sub-textual presence, it becomes more and more difficult to hand that off to somebody else. It starts of as necessity, or confidence building excercises and before long I can’t step away from it. I was entertaining the idea of doing just that and just focusing on writing and directing and trying to get wonderful, competent people but at this point I’m just sort of going to embrace the things that I am passionate about even if I’m not the best person that should be doing them. I’m hopeful that there is something that arises from having my hands in different departments that you can make sure that they are all unified and working together.

That doesn’t mean that it isn’t collaborative, David Lowery is the co-editor and that was a truly collaborative experience. Tom Walker, production designer — a truly, truly collaborative experience. Amy, as an actress, that was incredible collaborative so, I’m learning about where I’m going to be a control freak and where I’m going to let it go a bit. But what I think it comes down to is that these are three people that are willing to spend the time and energy invested in internalizing the story and intent of the film — and that is mandatory. I don’t know that that is always the case.

Do you have role models in the world of film in terms of this complete approach?

Yes, absolutely. Same ones that everyone would know.

Sodebergh, is all over his films in terms of editing and cinematography as well as writing and directing. He is a real, I hate the words “art” and “artist”. You know when you watch his films that you are only seeing things that have been filtered through or have been created by his singular sense of it. Everyone says Kubrick, but that is not wrong, Kubrick is amazing. I lately have been more and more inspired by Godard and Truffaut, not necessarily because of a controlling nature but the sense that shooting on the sorts of cameras that they were and the film stock they were shooting on really did say “look, the tools are not the thing, the tools are not the story, the story is the story and we are going to use whatever is appropriate”. At least that is what is being communicated to me. I’m never looking to ape anybody or copy somebody but these people give you permission to think in a certain way. In a way that would be difficult to set out on your own and just decide — there are precedents set and you have permission to try that yourself.

We talked a little bit about comics, which he used to read but not currently and didn’t get into any specifics other than being of the age to remember the release of the original Miller Dark Knight. He said found the “inherent strength of comics is in composition” and how provocative one wonderfully distilled image can be. We also spoke about storyboarding and it comes as no surprise that he does his own. Given that he is also the one reading them it isn’t so much a problems that “they are not good, they are chicken scratch little things you can barely tell, that ‘oh that is supposed to be a head, a building or a corridor’”.

SPOILERS FOLLOW

Now a question about your storytelling — you are on record as having a dislike of unnecessary exposition. North American cinema tends not to have excessive exposition but closure is often overplayed as well. The last scene in “Primer” manages to be very satisfying without providing closure or tying up a significant number of threads. “Upstream Color” provides a little more closure not just for central characters, but also for some characters we meet only at the film’s end. Do you have any particular thoughts about closure as it exists in North American cinema?

I’ve never had to verbalize this, but yes. I think narrative works best when it is not a morality tale and it is not trying to preach a truth of some kind and it is not trying to have a happy ending for the sake of it, or a sad ending for the sake of it. Narrative works when the exploration is doing a really good job of defining the edges of a question or a condition that is universal or nuanced, something really difficult to sum up in paragraph. That’s what I think narrative is best at — well, that is half of it, the other half is, we’ve got to tell a story, to compel an audience or reader to stick around, minute by minute, and want to stick around for that next minute. Those are the two halves as I see them. If we only talk about the exploration half, or the sub-textual half, if I have an ending, [as] in this movie, if [instead] Kris were able to find that guy, the thief, that did that to her from the beginning, and she did him in and found justice and then resolved her situation and we played it out the way we did, unfortunately I believe that that is saying that if you can face down the fog of your own narrative and pierce through it, that you will eventually solve it and I don’t know if that is a true thing. Even if I thought it was I wouldn’t be preaching it because I’m not here to deliver a true statement, I’m here to deliver what I think is a true question.

An ending for me is like “Yeah, we’ve got to stop telling the story at some point.” The best I can do is a version of encapsulating what we’ve been exploring so far and that is what I’m trying to do with Upstream. There are two things that happen in the last fifth of the film. One is that Kris goes and gets the guy that she finds culpable for her state and this is a guy that we never saw him do anything harmful. He has only ever been an observer, but she’s got it fixed in her head that he’s the guy — and she does him in and that breaks the cycle and she does find a resolution — but it is more or less that she is replacing one false narrative with another. She’ll never know that, only we will know that from seeing the film. The very ending where the cinematography, music and Amy’s performance, everything about that last scene is telegraphing something of peacefulness, resolution and positiveness. I think really the text of it is not that, the text of it pretty melancholy — here is a woman that we know will never have children, that the best she can do is have some weird connection to livestock that are never going to properly return it, I imagine, and so that is the best I can do. She is having a subjectively positive moment but the text of the story is not positive. It is like we are still playing with false narratives all the way to the credits.

Upstream Color opens at Tiff Bell Lightbox April 12th

BRIAN WOOD @ THE BEGUILING

https://www.facebook.com/events/ 323536931083133/

Brian Wood is the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of literally dozens of your favourite series, and he will be doing a very special signing at The Beguiling on Saturday, April 13th, at 3pm. Bring your comics along to get signed and meet Brian, and check out some of the very cool/rare comics we’ll have available for sale at the event.

BONUS: All attendees at the signing who make any purchase will receive one of two limited edition prints from THE MASSIVE absolutely free:

Brian Wood is the writer of:
STAR WARS – THE MASSIVE – MARA – CONAN THE BARBARIAN – THE X-MEN – NORTHLANDERS – DMZ – CHANNEL ZERO – DEMO – ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN – COURIERS – FIGHT FOR TOMORROW – POUNDED – LOCAL – NEW YORK FOUR – NEW YORK FIVE – SUPERMARKET – TOURIST – WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN ALPHA & OMEGA – LORD OF THE RINGS: WAR OF THE NORTH

See you on the 13th!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

130410shipping - Click here to see it!

Here’s five things we’re excited about:

The following items are scheduled to ship to The Beguiling from Diamond Comics Distributors on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013. All prices should be accurate, but in the case of a dispute between a listed price here and in store, we always defer to the in-store price.
NEW COMICS

FEB130027 1 For $1 Mind Mgmt #1 1.00
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Matt Kindt’s awesome new ongoing series gets a first-issue reprint for a buck! Try it out! Or if you’ve been waiting for the collection, a smart, inexpensive HC collecting the first six issues also arrives this week!

FEB131017 Relish My Life In Kitchen GN 17.99

Lucy Knisley’s sophmore effort is a wonderful, gorgeous examination of food and culture and how they’ve changed and shaped her life. A must read!

FEB131173 Tiger & Bunny GN Vol 01 9.99

Tiger & Bunny sounds ridiculous, but it’s the bestselling manga series about superheroes that you will almost certainly fall in love with.

JAN131096 Unico GN 34.95

A classic from Osamu Tezuka brought back into print! UNICO is a beautiful children’s story, filled with gorgeous full colour artwork throughout. Fingers crossed that the print quality holds up…!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

The following items are scheduled to ship to The Beguiling from Diamond Comics Distributors on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013. All prices should be accurate, but in the case of a dispute between a listed price here and in store, we always defer to the in-store price.
NEW COMICS

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FEB130597 X-treme X-men #13 Xt 2.99

NEW BOOKS, GRAPHIC NOVELS, TRADE PAPERBACKS

DEC120363 100 Bullets HC Book 04 49.99
NOV121478 Andrew Loomis Fun With A Pencil HC 39.95
DEC120324 Batman Detective Comics HC Vol 02 Scare Tactics (n52) 29.99
OCT120439 Bringing Up Father HC Vol 02 Cabbages & Kings 49.99
JAN130778 Captain America By Ed Brubaker TP Vol 03 19.99
JAN130765 Essential Iron Man TP Vol 05 19.99
JAN130310 Flash Chronicles TP Vol 04 14.99
FEB130361 Judge Dredd (idw) TP Vol 01 19.99
DEC120430 Judge Dredd Complete Carlos Ezquerra HC Vol 01 49.99
JAN130764 Marvel Universe Iron Man Digest TP 9.99
DEC120059 Mind Mgmt HC Vol 01 19.99
DEC121356 Of Comics & Men Cultural Hist American Comic Books SC 35.00
JAN130770 Oz Road To Oz Hc 24.99
DEC121255 Plugged In Comics I/t Video Game Industry SC 16.95
FEB130432 Point Of Impact TP 14.99
JAN130780 Punisher Nightmare TP 14.99
FEB131017 Relish My Life In Kitchen GN 17.99
JAN130790 Rocket Raccoon And Groot Complete Collection TP 29.99
FEB131105 So Long Silver Screen HC 22.95
FEB130270 Star Trek Countdown To Darkness TP 17.99
DEC120503 Steve Canyon HC Vol 03 1951-1952 49.99
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DEC120778 The Lodger GN 19.95
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JAN130783 X-men Reckless Abandonment TP 19.99

NEW MANGA

JAN131340 Case Closed GN Vol 46 9.99
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NEW MAGAZINES

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“The Speculative Whimsy of Seth’s DOMINION CITY”
Wimbledon Green, George Sprott, and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
By Seth. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Various prices.

Review by Jason Azzopardi

Welcome to Dominion, Ontario, where the buildings and citizens are double-bricked with good ol’ fashioned Canadian humility.

Dominionites are a practical bunch.  They belong to cultural societies and they play bridge.  They eat boiled cabbage and cottage roll during the week but also allow themselves the luxury of a pot roast on Sundays.  They listen to radio broadcasts in the evening, flood their yards for ice skating in the winter, and go to mass without fail.

Once prosperous but now, like so many other industrial towns surrounded by farmland, close to extinction, Dominion is a place to be filed away.

But not forgotten about.

While its pace of living might be described as slow by some or “old-fashioned” by others, in Dominion you are you are also just as likely to have to dodge a hail of bullets from a mad helicopter chase between comic book collectors as you are finding a deal on a good cut of meat. 

Dominion City and its citizens exist only in the paper worlds imagined by Canadian cartoonist, Seth, as heavily-weighted, long-in-the-toothed sketchbooks and painted and glued cardboard models.  And with its delicate balance of whimsy, nostalgia and pathos, Seth’s community is well worth its metaphoric hour drive outside of Toronto because Dominion’s empty greasy spoons and dusty department stores seem to cultivate a fascinating spate of petty jealousies, betrayals, and familial abandonments amongst the larger than life personalities that populate its boundaries. 

Prominent and respected collector of comic books (oh, if only such a thing were possible), Wimbledon Green, was the first to merit his own history, told through a patch-work quilt of voices and remembrances from those who knew him (including, I might add, owner of North America’s finest purveyor of funny books, one Master Peter Birkemoe).  It’s a spritely universe Wimbledon lives in, in which comic books are revered and collected not only through shops and conventions, but also through the nefarious techniques and double-dealings usually found in a spy film. 

The life and death of local celebrity and cultural archivist (complete with his own decades-old heritage radio/television show), George Sprott, is documented next in a massive coffee table sketchbook following a similar “oral history” format of personal interviews and archival footage.

Like everything else in Dominion, neither of these gentlemen are what they seem.   Accounts of these two oddities frequently contradict each other, sometimes filled with deep admiration, sometimes heartbroken regret and, too often, rancid bitterness.  The portrait that is slowly built of each is not of the eccentric philanthropists/cartoony buffoons as originally presented, but of depressed, lonely individuals that tend to destroy the lives of those closest to them with their self-delusion and narcissism.

Seth is clearly also a fan of comic books and, like many older generation fans, is probably slightly embarrassed by that on some deeper level.  This isn’t a personality or confidence thing, it’s just something that goes along with being a fan (like myself) from way back when it wasn’t particularly cool to like comic books, even if you made your living from them.  Seth recognizes this, and he explores that odd balance of embarrassment and passion that make up reading silly adventure stories with his own silly adventure stories in the most recent Dominion book, The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.

But The G.N.B Double C is not a book so much as a guided tour through one of Dominion’s most prestigious buildings – a museum/social club of Canadian Cartoonists – led by the author himself.  Some of the cartoonists documented are real.  Most are imagined.  Most also died under tragic circumstances, often taking their own life.  It’s a melancholic, autumnal, very Canadian take on devoting one’s life to something that isn’t always appreciated or rewarded.  But it is also a lovely journey through the various legacies of Canadian cartooning, and the hackwork stories that these fictional cartoonists were occasionally able to forge one or two inspired pure works of art from. 

It’s a cinch that Seth will never win a Hugo or Nebula (or even a stinkin’ Aurora) because, even though there are spaceships in G.N.B. DOUBLE C, there aren’t enough spaceships to merit an award in the speculative literary arts.  This is somewhat of a disgrace, because with the Dominion books, Seth is subtly establishing himself as a world fantasist (alternate universist…?) of the highest regard.  These books are good, goofy stories, first and foremost, told with a sly smile and a gentle nudge and wink, but their worlds are also saturated with life.  However, a slow undercurrent of tragedy permeates each of the Dominion stories, and when it finally hits home, something amazing happens to the reader; the books become fuller…older…more real.   Dominion and its citizens are familiar enough that we recognize ourselves in their conflicts and characters, and like the very best fantasies, they make an even deeper part of ourselves wish that we could live in those worlds and meet those people, and especially read those fake comic books for real.

But that is the beauty of the Dominion books.  While you’re reading them, they are warm and tangy macaroni and cheese.  They make you excited to settle in and immerse yourself in the rich comfort of their narrative.  It’s not until you’re finished and left with that delicate aftertaste of whimsy that you realize you’ve just eaten fillet mignon.

Seth:  Creator of universes!   Archivist of dreams that never were!

Click here for the list: 130403shipping

NEW COMICS
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FEB130199 Ame Comi Girls #2 3.99
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Title: Armies
Words: Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Picaret
Art: Jean-Claude Gal
Publisher: Humanoids

Review by John Anderson

This is classic heavy metal. These stories about medieval armies, bloody battles, sprawling empires and ancient ruins originally appeared in Métal Hurlant, starting with the first issue in 1974. Most of them are written by Dionnet, one of the founders of that magazine, and beautifully illustrated by the visionary artist Gal.

There are two parts to this book. The first, Conquering Armies, is a series of short stories ostensibly about a mighty unstoppable army. But the stories focus on the common soldiers furing the times in the army is stalled between battles. My favourite story is just four pages long and concerns a soldier who has been ordered to guard the army’s back. But this is just a tactic to winnow the ranks: the army can’t support all its soldiers, so some expendable soldiers are ordered to become sentries and then left to die. I also love the last story, about a soldier who sells his compatriot into slavery and which has an entertaining surprise ending.

The second part of this book is an epic about Arn, a boy who is imprisoned by the powerful empire of Atalis, and who escapes to seek revenge. I admit that I had to read this more than once in order to follow it completely; there is a lot that is not made explicit. But that might be the point. Arn raises an army and invades a city, but (as Pat Mills writes in his afterword) he achieves nothing. In the end, the empires have crumbled to dust and nothing is remembered of them. So do the details really matter?

These stories were originally in black and white, and now they’re in colour – which might annoy some purists. But on the other hand, these coloured versions look great. The colours are muted and don’t seem to obscure the original lines. Gal’s art is incredible. In the introduction, Dionnet talks about Gal’s interest in Native American culture, and how he spent time with the Navajo and Hopi. This influence comes across in the desert setting, the tents of the soldiers and the design of the ruins. Gal has built a whole world, and he’s thought about every intricate detail, down to every helmet, every weapon, every stone in each crumbling ruin.

Even more impressive than the detail is the layout. Gal loves full-page spreads, crooked panels, and embedded panels, all of which he uses to great effect. There are some gorgeous two-page spreads with a few small panels showing some of the details of the big picture. One of my favourite full-page panels looks down at Arn as he climbs a high scaffold. Arn is in the foreground, while far below him are the multiple levels of the slave compound and the many slaves and workers moving about like ants. There are four pages of an army being destroyed by fire. There is a two-page spread of a cavernous underground tomb that should be the definition of fantasy comics. I was hugely impressed with Gal’s detailed world building and vision in Diosamante, and Armies is better.

Best of all, this book is an oversized hardcover. It’s great to see this seminal fantasy comic in English again and in a format worthy of its beauty.

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An impressive debut by new publisher Rebus Books, Barrel of Monkeys is also Beguiling-Approved because the principle translator is none other than our very own Peter Birkemoe! With a Toronto connection like that, how can you not come and check this book out!

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Cometbus #55, the newest issue in the long-running punk zine, features nearly 70 pages of writing from Cometbus on a variety of topics  This issue of Cometbus also features a wonderful cover by Jordon Crane.

Radon, features two essays about influential punk band of the same name (Travis Fristoe writes the second essay). They go great as a pair, since they were written around the same time and feature similarities that play off each other well. If you have a passing interest in the California punk scene there are complete no-brainers at $3 and $4, respectively.

And last but not least, we have Psycho Shit Fuck by Jose G. Angeles. No, you didn’t misread that. If you have a dark sense of humour, Psycho Shit Fuck might be the book you’ve been waiting for your whole life. It collects three of Angeles other books and includes a ton of extra or previously-unseen material. It’s 250 pages soaked in every bodily fluid scientists have been able to catalouge, and maybe a few they haven’t or will never discover. It’s availialbe on either floor for $20.

The Secret Science Alliance and The Copycat Crook
“Thesis. Antithesis.  Synthesis.”
By Eleanor Davis
Published by Bloomsbury USA

Reviewed by Jason Azzopardi 

Try telling someone the best thing you read all year was a children’s comic book called The Secret Science Alliance and The Copycat Crook and watch how quickly you become telepathic.  In the twenty or so times I’ve mentioned this to people since 2009, I swear, I can actually hear, “who’s this ding-a-ling” pulsating out of their brain.  Four years later, I’m still that same dame-a-ling, but I’m also still that impressed with Eleanor Davis’ astonishing kid’s adventure comic that, apparently, everyone except the good people of the Illinois State Media Library (who gave it their Bluestem Award) dismissed simply because it was a kid’s comic.

Doesn’t matter.  I still maintain that it was not only the best comic of 2009, it was one of the best of the entire decade.  A small but dense story involving three middle-school braniacs, Julian, Greta and Ben, who form a club dedicated to using science to better the world (combating evil turns out to be a by-product of their genius), Secret Science Alliance falls more into the lower-key type of adventure stories  that I remember so fondly from when I was a middle-schooler.   This is, pure and simple, a neighbourhood mystery that takes place in a world that you pretty much recognize as your own, populated by people that you, for sure, have met before.   Nobody is just good or bad, they’re both, and even the vilest of them is just a little sad, a little envious and a lot lonely.   More Encyclopedia Brown or This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall! than Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, more Degrassi Junior High than Degrassi: The Next Generation.  Admittedly, Secret Science Alliance skews slightly younger, but in terms of tone, it doesn’t really have a mean bone in its body precisely because Eleanor Davis knows that not everything has to be “edgy” or “high-concept”, and that sometimes it’s okay to tell a gentle story for kids.

A few years ago, I fell head-over-heels in love with Eleanor Davis’ comics.  With an artistic voice distinctly her own, she wove her own modern folk tales into a series of beautiful mini-comics and shorts, each more compelling and ambitious than the last.  Filled, oddly enough, with a whimsical sense of foreboding, these dark little gems dodged and weaved around your brain like spritely will o’ the wisps.  And, although always delicate and graceful, you somehow always came away from them deliciously troubled.  But not one of them prepared me for the tiny epic of The Secret Science Alliance.

There are pretty much two ways to tell stories in comics.  The first uses the panels like a movie camera, where the world is seen through dynamic long, medium and close-up angles.  It is a perfectly straightforward, more narrative-centric method of telling a story, mostly utilized in genre-driven works for maximum impact in the reading experience.  It’s more like present tense.

The second, more daring “past-tense” technique, embraces the language of comics, and engages the uniqueness of the medium.  It’s not afraid to break the narrative from time to time in order to explore different methods of storytelling and craft.  

Thought balloons (oh, how I miss you), establishing captions, creative page design, complex panel layouts that don’t just seem like a more polished storyboard and varied representations of time and space; Secret Science Alliance employs them all.  It lives and breathes comics and, best of all, it absorbs and repurposes its very topic into its storytelling.  Like a Chris Ware comic for kids, Eleanor Davis throws everything “science” and the kitchen sink into her book; dissections, cross-sections, maps, flowcharts, instructions and blueprints.  None of it feels out of place or show-offy, and it’s always in service to the internal logic and thematic parameters of the story. 

In her shorts, Eleanor Davis’ lines are jagged and calligraphic in nature.  Her colours, are delicately blotchy.  In Secret Science Alliance, her linework is exquisitely controlled and rounded, and the colours are almost pregnant with weight.  You can read the book at a normal pace, or you can take the time to explore, because each page is crammed with information that doesn’t just propel the story, but fills it in around the edges, too.  With twenty jokes to a page, and sometimes a hundred in a single panel, the pleasure of the comic, then, evolves beyond the story and characters and expands into the discovery of little details.  It’s like reading a really precisely drawn Sergio Aragonés comic.

And you just love spending time with Julian, Greta and Ben. You’re right there with them as they confront some false preconceived notions they may have about themselves, learn a bit of humility, a bit more self-confidence, and most of all, discover how to get their heads out of books and be real friends with each other.  They’re sweethearts, and you wish you could hang out in their club and share their secrets, and you also kind-of wish you had half the brains that they do.

Secret Science Alliance has everything you ever wanted in a teacher but so rarely got; exuberance, stimulation and the love of possibility.  It treasures the romance of learning, and is the absolute antithesis of a dry classroom. 

Whoa, mama, do I love this book!  How can you not when the answer to the age old question of how many scientists it takes to change a light bulb is right there on page 67?!!!

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ZOT!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991
Story and art: Scott McCloud
Publisher: It Books

Reviewed by Chris Eng

Scott McCloud (rightly) gets acknowledgement for the work he’s done in exploring, explaining and defining comics as a medium, but is so infrequently credited for creating one of the best collections of YA short fiction in the past several decades.

Originally starting as a straightforward and upbeat alternative to the brooding and grim superhero comics of the day, ZOT! began a slow transformation into something much more. At its core, it followed the tale of Zachary Paleozogt, a teenaged superhero named Zot with a permanently peppy outlook who had the ability to travel back and forth between his Earth (where it was always the 1965 of the far-flung future, complete with jet-pack villains and flying cars) and our Earth (which was depressingly unremarkable). In our world Zot met Jenny Weaver, a girl who was looking for any escape from her humdrum life. They went on adventures together and it was all very charming.

After issue 10, though, it shifted from colour to black and white and the series really began to come into its own. McCloud found himself able to experiment more with tone, contrast, and artistic style, and the stories began to reflect that. Death and its very real, very tragic consequences featured prominently. Dekko, a villain who could have easily remained a run-of-the-mill insane art deco cyborg, was given a heartwrenching origin story. By the time McCloud had put a couple of dozen issues under his belt, ZOT! had lost its peppiness but had gained a depth of field that was surprising.

Then, in the last eight issues of its 36-issue run, something remarkable happened: the series tackled a multitude of problematic topics which most young adult authors would struggle to condense into an entire novel, let alone 22 pages. Zot lost the ability to go home and was trapped in our superhero- and villain-less world. Without alternatives, he began to go to high school with Jenny where the supporting cast members of her friends (i.e. the freaks, dweebs, and weirdos who were all looking for acceptance and to find their place in the world) took centre stage. Zot became the foil against which the teenagers were able to explore themselves, and their stories ran the gamut of the heartbreaking and poignant, covering topics like emotional insecurity, the trade-off between dreams and ambition, sex (in a story that won McCloud an Eisner nomination), and coming to grips with your own sexuality (handled in a very straightforward manner at a time when the only comics that addressed gay issues were “gay comics”).

The entirety of ZOT! is an entertaining read (including the 10 issues not included in the Black and White Collection), but the last 26 are something something special, and of those the final eight are astounding in their effortless empathy. It’s difficult growing up as an outsider, but the comics in this dense and beautiful volume are an eloquent reinforcement that not only are none of us alone, none of us should have to try to make it through this world alone.

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Orc Stain: Volume 1
By  James Stokoe
Published by Image Comics

Reviewed by Chris Eng

Perspective. It’s the thing missing from 99% of fantasy stories out there.

Blah blah blah, quest. Blah blah blah, magic item. Blah blah blah, kill some orcs. Why? Because the quest is sacred, the items are magic and the orcs are evil. ‘Nuff said. Except it’s not enough. Not really.

For starters, what specifically is so evil about the orcs? They’re an advanced civilization with their own politics and art forms. They have their own culture. So why is it never shown?

James Stokoe, to his credit, has answered those questions in Orc Stain. As the story of One Eye, an orc thief of no small skill, Orc Stain covers a remarkable amount of ground not so much in its story, but in its attention to detail in world-building. The orcs we are introduced to are in line with our general expectations (they’re murderous, unsavory creatures bound to clan life), but the breadth of detail is something wholly unique. One Eye is a safe-cracker, but the safes he cracks aren’t just safes, they’re living creatures that people store things inside (and maul people if they set off the alarm). Weapons aren’t necessarily objects; they can be animals (disgruntled animals complaining about their lives, wryly evoking The Flintstones).

But while the setting is essential to conveying orc society, it is Stokoe’s art that binds the package into a cohesive unit. The biological components of orcish culture feel like they’d be at home in a Johji Manabe series, and the artistic tone carries the same heightened surreality as the better fantasy stories from the early days of Heavy Metal. It’s the colouring that allows the book to shine, however. Beyond bright, Orc Stain is out-and-out garish, using a pallette which suggests nothing so much as bruising and unhealthy bodily fluids. It’s a comic which refuses to let itself fade into the background. It demands your constant attention and once it has it, it cements its hold over you with Stokoe’s Geoff Darrow-esque devotion to minutia. Never content to render backgrounds with a few airy lines, Stokoe continually bombards the reader with hyper-realized deep focus pieces, many of them double-page spreads.

And while I haven’t put much weight on it thus far, Orc Stain‘s story is simple but flows well. It would be more enjoyable for you to discover on your own than it would be for me to describe it, but here’s some hints: BETRAYALS! VENDETTAS! CONQUEST! WITCHES! and PROPHECIES! The action scenes are fast-paced and compelling, the talky scenes are informative, and as a whole it’s cleverly executed.

Through the combination of its writing, the originality of the world, and the uniqueness of Stokoe’s art, Orc Stain has established itself as essential reading for fantasy fans and put paid to the idea that orcs as a cohesive race are nothing more than arrow and axe fodder for elves and dwarves. It will also fill you in on everything you ever wanted to know about orc gronches but were afraid to ask. Yes, they’re exactly what you think they are.

–

Read the first chapter of ORC STAIN free online at: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/08/orc-stain-preview/

Oni Press has a new, full-colour, ongoing series launching this week, and we think that our weekly comics customers are going to dig it. It’s called HELHEIM and it’s by Cullen Bunn (Deadpool, Sixth Gun) and Joelle Jones (Fables, Dr. Horrible). It’s about a group of brave warriors in ancient times defending themselves against unspeakable horrors. We think you’ll dig this (we also think you’d really dig SIXTH GUN too).

PULLFILE CUSTOMERS: If you have a pull-file at The Beguiling, and you add HELHEIM to your pullfile, we’ll sell you the first issue for just a dollar. That’s 75% off cover price! The only rules are that you have to pick up (or have delivered) the first issue by the end of March, and you have to at least try the second issue.

It’s not easy to launch an ongoing comic series as an indy publisher, and Cullen and Joelle are two very talented creators that we’re happy to support, so why not give this one a shot? Hey, it’s only a buck.

You can add HELHEIM to your pullfile next time you’re in, or by e-mailing chris@beguiling.com.

If you’re not a pullfile customer, you should try the book anyway.

- Chris

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Muse
Words: Denis-Pierre Filippi
Art: Terry Dodson
Publisher: Humanoids
In Store Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

Review by John Anderson

Muse chronicles the sexy reveries of Coraline, who is the new nanny for an insufferable rich kid who is obsessed with inventing elaborate steampunk contraptions. Coraline’s exact job is never defined, but it might have something to do with lying around in revealing attire for the benefit of the peeping tom groundskeeper. To make things more interesting, every night Coraline has titillating dreams where she finds herself on a pirate ship, a desert island, or in a fairy tale – and she wakes up missing her underwear.

I’m reminded of Little Ego, Vittorio Gardino’s erotic parody of Little Nemo. Like the character in Little Ego, Coraline has erotic dreams in exotic locales, although Coraline doesn’t attempt any psychoanalysis. Also like Little Ego, the plot of Muse is very light, and at times this book seems like nothing more than an excuse for illustrations of exotic set pieces featuring well-endowed ladies in a selection of ripped dresses. And there’s nothing wrong with that, if that’s what you’re looking for – especially when the illustrations are done by U.S. comics superstar Terry Dodson. His jaw-droppingly beautiful artwork is what makes this book worth reading.

In fact, Filippo’s story and Dodson’s art were made for each other. The story is light and leisurely, giving the art time to fill in the spaces with lots of detail. The detail is more than just titillation, although there is some nudity and plenty of scanty clothing. I love how a lot of the texture is defined by colour rather than lines, and I love the use of shadows. Every panel contains a beautiful interplay of light and shadow, which combined with the slow-moving story gives the book a lazy, summery feeling. It’s slick and stylish without looking computer coloured. Dodson’s superhero work is great, but none of it looks as beautiful as Muse. And this edition shows off the art in the same size as the original French edition (9.5 x 12.5 inches).

Don’t expect an intricate plot or detailed characterization with Muse, but do expect a lazy, dreamy adventure, and some of the most gorgeous art you’ll ever see in comics.

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Some Books We’re Interested In This Week:

Adventure Time TP Vol 02 14.99

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo Heart Of Ice HC 14.95

Unearthing (Alan Moore) 29.95

Amalas Blade #0 2.99

Batman Incorporated #8 2.99

Hawkeye #8 2.99

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Uncanny Skullkickers #1 Cvr A Huang & Coats 3.50

Young Avengers #2 $3.99

As a note, we have confined this list to books released in calendar-year 2012, as there are a number of perennials that would skew the top ten listing considerably.

10. Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes, by Michael Cho. Published by Drawn & Quarterly.

9. New York Drawings, by Adrian Tomine. Published by Drawn & Quarterly.

8. Loeg III Century #3 2009, by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill. Published by Top Shelf Productions.

7. Saga Volume 01, by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples. Published by Image Comics.

6. Jerusalem, by Guy Delisle. Published by Drawn & Quarterly.

5. King City, by Brandon Graham. Published by Image Comics.

4. Are You My Mother, by Alison Bechdel. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

3. Underwater Welder, by Jeff Lemire. Published by Top Shelf Productions.

2. The Hive, by Charles Burns. Published by Pantheon Books.

1. Building Stories, by Chris Ware. Published by Pantheon Books.

Honorable Mentions:
11. (TIE) Jinchalo, by Matt Forsythe. Published by Drawn & Quarterly.
11. (TIE) Walking Dead Volume 16: A Larger World. Published by Image Comics.

Quite a different list than perhaps might be reported elsewhere, but one we weren’t terribly surprised by. We thank all of the wonderful creators and publishers whose work is represented on this list, as well as the hundreds more making great books, for keeping us in business.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

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THE EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO LITTLE ISLAND COMICS (742 Bathurst). See you at 7pm!

SUSCEPTIBLE Book Launch & Talk
with author Geneviève Castrée
Monday, February 18th, 2013
7:00pm @ LITTLE ISLAND COMICS, 742 Bathurst
Free to attend

http://www.facebook.com/events/446235965441778/

The Beguiling is proud to present Susceptible, the important new graphic novel from Geneviève Castrée.

Susceptible is the story of Goglu, a daydreamer growing up in Quebec in the ’80s and ’90s with a single mother. From a skillful artist comes a moving, beautiful story about families, loss, and growing up. Whether she’s discussing nature versus nurture or the story of her birth, Castrée imbues her storytelling with a quiet power and a confidence in the strength of imagery.

We think this is one of the most important graphic novel releases of the season, from an enormously talented young Canadian cartoonist. Best of all, we’ve been told her presentation from the book is excellent, so we hope you’ll be able to make it out for this.

For more information on exactly what this graphic novel is all about, please visit  the Drawn & Quarterly blog.

Praise for Geneviève Castrée

“With mesmerizing honesty Castrée resurrects the obscenely disorienting turning points of a childhood, the ones that haunt a person for a lifetime. After reading the last page I closed the book and wept a little bit about its simple, perfect ending.” –Miranda July, authorofitchoosesyouand noonebelongsheremorethanyou

“[Castrée] offers three connected minimalist fables dreamily portraying a young woman’s reactions to depression, domesticity, and mother hood in delicate watercolors that, thanks largely to her keen graphic skills, made them whimsical without being cloying.” –Booklist

“[Castrée’s work], illustrated in a delicately watercolored style that suggests Richard Scarry in the throes of an Edward Gorey obsession, is an episodic meditation on love, belonging, and personal identity. The visual metaphors for depression and home will break your heart; the care taken with their rendering will join the broken pieces back together on every page.” —The Austin Chronicle

About the Author

Geneviève Castrée was born in Québec in 1981. Sometimes interdisciplinary, she is mostly known for her work as an illustrator and cartoonist. Impatient and lazy, Geneviève never officially studied “art”. She has made a few books and has had a few exhibitions in places such as Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Geneviève Castrée lives and works in the Pacific Northwest. She also has a music project called “Ô PAON”

Title: Weapons of the Metabaron
Words: Alexandro Jodorowsky
Art: Travis Charest, Zoran Janjetov
Publisher: Humanoids

Review by John Anderson

At the beginning of Weapons of the Metabaron, the Metabaron has lost his memory. He meets eight ancient wise men who help him remember a vivid, heroic episode of his life, which is beautifully painted by the popular superhero comic book artist Charest. This episode was thought lost, but the Metabaron experiences it as part of a framing story illustrated by Janjetov. So the structure of the story is a metaphor for the history of the project itself.

This project was first announced ten years ago, as Dreamshifters. But Charest’s work took much longer than expected, and we had to wait until 2008′s Les Armes du Méta-Baron to see the 29 pages that Charest had completed. To speed the completion of the book, the remaining 26 pages were illustrated by Janjetov (the artist of Before the Incal and The Technopriests). It came out in English as Weapons of the Metabaron in 2011; this week’s release is a new edition with thicker paper stock.

For the most part, Charest’s hyperrealistic and beautifully coloured paintings are fantastic. They shine in depicting the sci-fi sword and sorcery battles of the Metabaron against huge demons and hordes of lizard men. The dynamic panels and two-page spreads allow the action to be told with few words. Part of the story is an exciting and moving retelling of the final battle between the last Metabaron and his father-mother, Aghora, and I like how Charest uses a collage of action shots to illustrate it. However, there are some places where it looks like Charest left out the backgrounds. The lack of detail in a few panels is jarring compared with the incredible detail in the rest of his art.

Unfortunately, Janjetov’s art seems pedestrian compared to Charest’s. There are no pages where the panels are divided by lightning, no two-page collages of terrific battles. However, as I’ve mentioned, Janjetov’s art serves as a framing story for the segment drawn by Charest. This is a clever idea and helps make the change in art less disrupting.

The story is one of the most mystical that Jodorowsky has written. The Metabaron is sent on a number of dream-quests to find the most powerful weapons in the universe. But although he is dreaming, the weapons he finds in his dreams become real. It reminds me of some of Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion stories, where the hero is sent on quests, often for a reason he doesn’t quite understand. He’s simply an agent of a higher power.

My biggest complaint with Weapons of the Metabaron is that it ends much too suddenly. Now that the Metabaron has been transformed into a living weapon, what will he do? This feels like a prelude to a much bigger adventure. I wonder if the original project had been intended to be something bigger, but circumstances forced the creators’ hands.

But the book we ended up with is a worthy addition to the Metabarons story. Charest’s dynamic and vibrant images paired with Jodorowsky’s mystical storytelling is something very special.

Oni Press has a new, full-colour, ongoing series launching in early March, and we think that our regular comics customers are going to dig it. It’s called HELHEIM and it’s by Cullen Bunn (Deadpool, Sixth Gun) and Joelle Jones (Fables, Dr. Horrible). It’s about a group of brave warriors in ancient times defending themselves against unspeakable horrors. That’s the book trailer for it above…!

We think you’ll dig this (we also think you’d really dig SIXTH GUN too).

So here’s the deal: If you have a pull-file at The Beguiling, and you add HELHEIM to your pullfile, we’ll sell you the first issue for just a dollar. That’s 75% off cover price! The only rules are that you have to pick up (or have delivered) the first issue by the end of March, and you have to at least try the second issue.

It’s not easy to launch an ongoing comic series as an indy publisher, and Cullen and Joelle are two very talented creators that we’re happy to support, so why not give this one a shot? Hey, it’s only a buck.

You can add HELHEIM to your pullfile next time you’re in, or by e-mailing chris@beguiling.com.

- Chris

Following up her dreamy books The Whale and The Blonde Woman, Koch presents Field Studies, a collection of 90 drawings done between January and November of 2012. “Taken as a whole they form an illustrated essay – a year in the life of an artist on the road,” says the publisher. Copies are $13.00, and you might have to fight me for one.

Next up is D.I.Y. Magic, a book about magic as, “a state where the mind lets go of the normal way of being and is opened up to an experience of existence as a whole that is bigger and without time.” Holy cow! If that doesn’t sound awesome enough, this book also features plenty of interior illustrations by the likes of Ron Rege Jr., Malachi Ward, Aidan Koch, Inés Estrada, Farel Dalrymple, Lala Albert, and many more. $13.95. Come get it.

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Title: District 14
Words: Pierre Gabus
Art: Romuald Reutimann
Publisher: Humanoids

Review by John Anderson

District 14 is a tale of gangsters, newshounds, and costumed vigilantes in a dreamlike early twentieth century New York inhabited by humans, animals, and extraterrestrials.

The protagonist is an elephant whom we meet as he is going through immigration. He is given the name “Michael” because the official can’t pronounce his real name. After meeting Hector, a beaver who works as a journalist for a big newspaper, they start working together to uncover some of the city’s biggest stories, including the attempted kidnapping of a politician and the history of the popular caped crime fighter Tigerman. But it soon becomes clear that Michael is hiding more than one secret. In fact, every character is hiding something.

Right from the beginning, when Michael suddenly switches to English and punches an immigration officer, revealing that he is not the new immigrant he appeared to be, I knew I was in for something special. When Hector helps Michael into his new apartment on the 116th floor of a skyscraper, there is a wonderful dreamlike sequence as they have to navigate a series of scaffolds and broken bridges on the outside of the building. Then once they reach the apartment, they are met by Buster, a horse in a checkered suit who encourages them to “memberize” and pay “the acclimation fees” in “da brudderhood of the friends of the upper tower”, so that all members can “prosperate”. And Michael’s new neighbour is a little alien from the planet Braxzzl who is really good at dice. Gangster noir, dreamlike weirdness and colourful characters combine to make this a very entertaining book.

The black and white style of District 14 makes it reminiscent of 30s and 40s comics like Little Orphan Annie. The feeling put into the characters made me forget I was looking at animals and I soon thought of them as people. I was especially touched by Hector’s anguish over his dead wife. I also love the little gangster tadpoles.

I was not previously familiar with Gabus and Reutimann’s work, but I’m very happy that Humanoids is publishing this celebrated and award-winning series in English. It makes a nice change from the mystical science fiction of some of their other recent titles, and it shows just how varied European comics can be. This book is billed as “Season 1”, and there are loose ends still to be tied up, and lots of room for more stories. Season 2 has been published in French, and I hope Humanoids releases it in English soon.

In 1979 Kirby, was approached to create concept artwork for the adaptation of the 1967 novel Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. The massive sets required to make the film would then be turned into a theme park in  Aurora, Colorado.

While Lord of Light was never made into a movie, you can learn more about the fate of this film in Ben Affleck’s Argo.

Lord of Light and the Permanent Structures of Science Fiction Land is available on the second floor for $15.

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Wow, are you guys in for a treat or what!? We just unearthed some very rare Junko Mizuno silkscreen posters in the warehouse! These are large posters, screened with up to 6 colours, produced by Junko Mizuno and Vacuum Records. We thought they sold out years ago, but we found some and if you’ve been looking for that rare Mizuno print/poster to own, this is it!

We’ll be putting these in the online art-store on Monday, so if you can make it into The Beguiling this weekend you’ll have first-crack at them.

They are currently selling for $200 each.

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The Beguiling is proud to present Susceptible, the important new graphic novel from Geneviève Castrée.

Susceptible is the story of Goglu, a daydreamer growing up in Quebec in the ’80s and ’90s with a single mother. From a skillful artist comes a moving, beautiful story about families, loss, and growing up. Whether she’s discussing nature versus nurture or the story of her birth, Castrée imbues her storytelling with a quiet power and a confidence in the strength of imagery.

As you may remember, this book launch was originally scheduled for November, but we’re happy to be say it’s been rescheduled and Genevieve will be coming to town to celebrate its release and discuss this new work.

We think this is one of the most important graphic novel releases of the season, from an enormously talented young Canadian cartoonist. Best of all, we’ve been told her presentation from the book is excellent, so we hope you’ll be able to make it out for this.

For more information on exactly what this graphic novel is all about, please visit  the Drawn & Quarterly blog.

In the span of a single day, Amal calls off his arranged marriage, comes out to his conservative parents, promptly gets disowned, goes on a bender… and wakes up the next morning to find TJ, a lanky, dreadlocked vagrant, frying eggs and singing Paul Simon in his kitchen. TJ claims that the two have made a drunken pact to drive all the way from Berkeley to Providence. As it happens, Amal promised his sister he’d be there for her graduation from Brown University. And TJ, well… TJ has his own reasons. The agreement is simple: Amal does the driving; TJ pays the way – but a 3500 mile journey leaves plenty of time for things to get complicated.

Intended for print, volumes 1 and 2 (Poor Boys and Pilgrims and Wanderlust Kings) represents the first 2/3 of the story, and are $15 each. Plenty of time to get caught up before volume 3 comes out in 2014!

The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entries–each representing an episode in the life of Freddie–bring to life adolescence, pimples and all. No matter what happens, it all seems to go wrong for Freddie–he’s set up as an arsonist, mercilessly teased in school, and bossed around by classmates. With consummate skill, Lynda Barry writes about the cruelty of children at this most vulnerable age when the friends they make and the paths they choose can forever change their lives. In The Freddie Stories every word of dialogue, every piece of narration, and every dark line evokes adolescent angst. 

These short, moving stories are collected from Barry’s beloved Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which was serialized across North America for two decades. Re-packaged here with a brand-new introduction from Lynda Barry, The Freddie Stories is an adult tale about just how hard it is to be a teenager–a classic Barry work alongside her cult masterpiece novel Cruddy–poignant, insightful, and true.

Wow! How can you say ‘No’ to any of that?! The Freddie Stories is $19.95, and we’d love for you to come get one!

Daisy Kutter is a retired bank robber and legendary gunfighter who has decided to open a dry goods store in the small town of Middleton. The sheriff, her ex-boyfriend Tom McKay, tries to recruit her to join him on the other side of the law, but she isn’t quite ready to move on.

When Daisy loses everything she owns in a high-stakes poker tournament, she is offered a job from the stranger who cleans her out at the table.  He wants to hire her to rob his train.  What’s the catch?  He believes his vaunted robotic security system will stop Daisy in her tracks, and he wants to prove it. If she succeeds in robbing the train, she can keep the gold and have her life back…

This new printing is: 6″ x 9″, 192 pages, softcover w/ matte finish, 4-color printing throughout (even though the story is in black and white), full color extra materials, including the full color short story “Phantoms” and the original mini-series covers.  This will be the nicest version of Daisy Kutter on the shelf. Perfect for teens!

From the Amazon product description:

Long past their former glory, the minor league Sluggers get an invitation to play a baseball game in a cursed small town. After the 7th inning stretch, the sun goes down, and the dysfunctional teammates find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of flesh-eating monsters! Now, it’s up to coach Casey Sullivan to put down the booze, step up to the proverbial plate, and help his team escape from being the next dish in the town’s terrifying feeding frenzy!

This 200 page, hardcover graphic novel comes with a set of trading cards and a print by Stokoe, all packaged inside a very handsome slipcase – well worth $50!

The Bird King: an artist’s notebook 

128 pages long, $19.99, and in a format that emulates his actual sketchbooks, The Bird King includes annotations on the practice of drawing and explanatory notes for each image.

1. Selected boxes of comics will be put on a special sale for one week at a time.
2. These books will be discounted at 50% off of cover price to start with.
3. On the first day of the sale (Monday), if you purchase 20 or more different issues from the sale box, all of the issues you buy become $1 each!
4. Each day that the sale continues, the number of issues needed to get to the $1 level decreases. Tuesday & Wednesday: Buy 15 or more different issues and they’re a dollar each. Thursday and Friday, buy 10. Saturday and Sunday, buy 5.
5. The whole thing starts over again on Monday with all new titles and publishers.

WEEK ONE: January 28th to February 3rd – MARVEL
WEEK TWO: February 4th to February 10th – IMAGE, DARK HORSE, MISC
WEEK THREE: February 11th to February 17th – DC

* Just to clarify, you need to purchase 20 different issues on that first day, and 20 copies of Dweezleman #1 doesn’t count. 1 copy each of Dweezleman #1 to 20 would count, and then you can buy as many of the number 1st as you want to at that point. If this is unclear we’ll explain it again in store.

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Title: Jihad
Words and art: Igor Baranko
Publisher: Humanoids
Released January 30th, 2013

Review by John Anderson

The year is 2040. Russia has a new dictator: former science fiction author Ivan Apelsinov, who has a plan to resurrect the spirit of Genghis Khan and create a new Mongol empire stretching across Europe and Asia. All the Chechen people have been eradicated except one: a dangerous mystical Muslim terrorist on a mission from god. All drugs are legal and sometimes mandatory, and the Ukraine is the only independent state in Europe. Meanwhile, Lenin’s corpse has been abducted by aliens. And finally a Buddhist monk meditating in Tuva is following the whole story in her visions. Oh – and there’s a clone of Isaac Newton.

Jihad is the first work I’ve read by Ukrainian creator Igor Baranko (besides The Invasion, the short piece he did with Jodorowsky), and I’m very impressed. I can see why this book obtained a cult following the first time it was published in English (under the title The Horde.) Baranko throws everything into this story – Buddhism, Sufism, the death of Genghis Khan, UFO abduction, Chernobyl conspiracies, and a secret history of Russia involving Buddhist monks conducting mystical experiments for the communists.

But what is most impressive is how Baranko draws all these disparate elements together. By the end of the story, all these seemingly unrelated weird elements and events have come together to create a satisfying conclusion.

Something else that makes this book a delight to read is the varied and darkly humorous characterization. Apelsinov is insane and talks to himself (“I hate it when you argue with me!” he complains to himself). Joe the last Chechen’s mystical practice has made him single-minded and dangerous: “I feel so happy now… the delight of my spirit has defeated my desire to live!” A 150-year old veteran lives with his headless grandson. The clone of Isaac Newton is insane and has some disturbing new scientific theories. At the end, the Buddhist monk asks her disciple, “What was the story all about?” The disciple suggests a moral for the story and is told, “Think harder.” The humour is slightly absurd in a way I really enjoy.

I really like Baranko’s art; it is full of little touches and details, like the reflections in Apelsinov’s sunglasses, or the monk meditating beside the narcotic store (although it would have been nice if all of the non-English signs had been subtitled). But the art really shines in portraying the mystical visions, dreams, and psychedelic trips. Green lines spiral from people’s heads, grotesque demons and gods manifest, and there are weirdly detailed nightmarish visions. In some ways I would have liked to have seen more of this; it would be interesting to see Baranko let loose on a story full of even more mystic visions and psychedelia.

Jihad is fantastic in every sense of the word, beautifully plotted and full of sorcery, mysticism, conspiracy theories, and some really intriguing and weird characters. It’s definitely worth reading.

Kaitlyn has been choosing her books to be reviewed from amongst the offerings at The Beguiling as well, and we’re proud to be a part of it. So if you’ve ever wondered what sort of books might be hanging out in the smuttier sections of the store, we heartily encourage you to check out Kaitlyn’s reviews at XOXOAmore to see if any those titles might be for you.

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- Chris @ The Beguiling

Our Tattoo section has just been newly restocked and greatly expanded! Arrivals include impressive new books by the likes of Ed Hardy,Yushi Takei, and Dave Fox and two  limited edition Bloodwork slipcase volumes, collecting beautiful archival photos of works by top tattoo artists from all over the world.

Also, make sure to check out the Mingins Photo Collection, newly back in stock, documenting vintage western tattoos, and the new works showcasing the Dutch tattoo scene.

You can find them all in our new tattoo display near the front counter on the main floor of The Beguiling.

I’m very sorry to say that we won’t be getting any of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s variant cover for Young Avengers #1. The ordering incentive required to get this cover was changed 2 or 3 times, and I didn’t keep up with the changes.  It’s a really great cover, and a bummer that we won’t have it. If you see it in your travels, please pick it up. If you want a postcard featuring this art, we’ve got some left on the second floor.

I do want to say that Young Avengers #1 is still looking like a really great book, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are a great team and what I’ve read of the first issue is a lot of fun. I hope you’ll give it a shot.

Sincerely,

Chris @ The Beguiling

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Review: Hicksville
By Dylan Horrocks
Published by Drawn & Quarterly
$19.95

Review by Jason Azzopardi

Is it cliché, a decade and a half after its original publication, to say that Dylan Horrocks’ tender love letter to comics is one of the most important books in the medium, even after many, many people have already said it before?  It might be.  It doesn’t make that statement any less true.  Amongst certain comics circles – the cords-cons-sweater-wearing types – Hicksville is the Rosetta Stone of sequential storytelling, and the inspiration for an entire generation of cartoonist.

There have been numerous articles written about the beauty of the book and its gentle affection for the past, and I’m not sure I can contribute much more to that.  It is everything they say it is; a fable set in a secluded coastal village in New Zealand that seems to exist solely for the purpose of celebrating the comic book; a romance of lost souls trying to find love and contentment; a sly mystery that digs deep into the buried wrongs of an unrepentant medium.  And while I have always loved the relationship bits, it’s that last one that mostly gets me now.

Re-reading Drawn & Quarterly’s beautiful new edition, I was particularly struck this time by Hicksville’s simmering fury.  Perhaps it’s an age thing, but much of that missed me the first time around.  I’m almost two decades older now, and have a much deeper understanding and appreciation for the history of comics.

Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Joe Simon, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Carl Barks, and in more modern terms, Alan Moore; one can’t help but be in awe at the pure craftsmanship and professionalism with which these creators fashioned the bedrock that most modern corporate comic empires are built upon. Their imagination wells ran deep, and publishers and their parent corporations have drawn water from them over and over and, just when you think the bucket might come up empty, over again, mostly without proper compensation or, in many cases, due credit.  And yet, for some strange reason, these corrupt business practices are not only justified, but heralded by many comic fans, because morality and ethics does not seem to enter the picture for obsessive collectors or corporate lawyers.  Only the letter of the law counts, not what is right.  Work-for-hire is work-for-hire and, in their eyes, nobody forced these men to sign these contracts.  It doesn’t matter that they essentially had to sign these “standard” agreements, exploitative even six decades ago, at a time when ownership of their own creations was unthinkable, and no one could have dreamed that other entertainment platforms and product licensing could crossover and desiccate their innovations until every last drop of blood has been squeezed out of them.  They, like most unprotected workers at the time, just wanted to provide for their families and tell good stories through a medium they loved.  Decades later, they live and die in poverty, without proper healthcare or life insurance, while their former employers reap billions off their creations.

I know it seems like I am veering off topic, but please let me stress that not only is this my topic, I believe it is Hicksville‘s as well.  Dylan Horrocks is a gentle soul, and his comic is correspondingly gentle, but bubbling under its quiet utopic surface is a soft ferocity.

It has always been the nature of the mainstream comic book industry to eat its own tail.  Every now and then, someone with true imagination comes along and changes the way in which stories are told.  That, then, is exploited over and over and over again until all that remains are soulless regurgitations of “universe-changing” events and, sadly, yet another to-be-continued.

Personal stories are unwelcome.

Hicksville is a personal story – maybe one of the medium’s most personal – and I haven’t said too much about its plot or characters because to do so would be to spoil its many pleasures.  But more than anything else, Hicksville is a ghost story about broken people reconciling their mistakes, and trying to heal just enough to forgive and be happy.

And in its quietly poetic way, Hicksville demands that the massive conglomerates currently running the industry as personal movie pitch farms acknowledge these mistakes and practice a more ethically sound means of excavation.  The book doesn’t really believe that any of the creative or financial reparations owed to the original creators will be voluntarily paid out, but it believes with all its heart that they should.  And “shoulds” make the world a better place.  Shoulds ignore letter-of-the-law things like “bare minimum” and “not required”, and simply do what is decent.

Hicksville is a should.

Its pages exhale a sense of hope that every cords-cons-sweater-wearing fibre in my being savors.  It is a very personal story about a very big mistake, and should be required reading for every superhero fan because it is one of the only comic books with a true conscience about where the medium came from and where it, unfortunately, is going.

Hicksville examines how we live and love and work, and most importantly, how to say sorry when we do those things poorly.

Good news, everyone! The critically acclaimed film TATSUMI is returning to Toronto, in a  screenings at TIFF Bell Lightbox running from Friday January 25th through Thursday January 31st. Details on the film and tickets are now available at http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2013/2330006101.

Directed by Eric Khoo, TATSUMI is the innovative exploration of the life of comic author Yoshihiro Tatsumi, creator of Gekiga (“serious pictures” as opposed to Manga, which means “funny pictures”). Adapting his most renown period short stories, set in the time period following World War II, and incorporating elements of Tatsumi’s own life from the memoir A Drifting Life, TATSUMI is a fascinating, uniquely animated and performed film that has drawn ravesat Cannes, Dubai, Rotterdam, and around the world.

As you may remember, The Beguiling and TCAF partnered with Reel Asian Film Festival in November for a screening of this film, and I was a little disappointed to have missed it (I was in Japan for Kaigai Manga Festa at the time). I’m personally really stoked that this film is back and at TIFF, and I hope everyone who missed its previous screening will get a chance to come out for this one.

Oh, and of course, all of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s graphic novels adapted into this film are currently available for sale at The Beguiling, including The Push Man, Abandon The Old In Tokyo, Good-Bye, A Drifting Life, and Black Blizzard. We also have his post-A Drifting Life book, Fallen Words!

Check out the trailer for TATSUMI below, and just past that look for a special contest!

CONTEST: WIN TICKETS TO SEE TATSUMI AT TIFF!

The Beguiling and TIFF Bell Lightbox are teaming up to give three lucky people run-of-engagement passes for two to see TATSUMI between January 25th and 31st.

Want to win? Here’s what you need to do:

For a chance to win, make sure you’re subscribed to The Beguiling Mailing List and send an e-mail with your name, daytime telephone number, and “BLACK BLIZZARD” in the subject line to beguilingcontests@gmail.com before Friday, January 25th at 11am. 3 winners will be drawn and contacted from all valid entries at that time. Their first name may be announced on the website.

RULES & REGULATIONS:

1. Subject line MUST contain entrant’s name, phone number, and “BLACK BLIZZARD” and must be sent to beguilingcontests@gmail.com.
2. Entries must be made from an e-mail address subscribed to The Beguiling’s mailing list. Signup in the upper-right-corner of this on the front page of beguiling dot com. (Seriously, we check and we disqualify people not subscribed to the mailing list.)
3. Entries must be received before Friday, January 25th, at 11am.
4. Employees and family members of The Beguiling are not eligible to win.
5. One entry per household/phone number.
6. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited, no cash value, odds of winning depend on total number of entries received, etc.

Good luck!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

Lemony Snicket and Seth

Bestselling author Lemony Snicket invites the general public to a top secret meeting, which includes the reading of a private note, the presentation of a coded song, and the unveiling of various alarming evidence that there’s more going on than you think.

Snicket will be joined by renowned cartoonist Seth, illustrator of Snicket’s latest book, “Who Could That Be at This Hour?”, for a signing following the event.

Interested participants can book two free tickets at the TPL website beginning 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2013.

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Doors open at 6 p.m.

Tickets are required for admission to all Appel Salon events. Tickets are free and are available starting four weeks before the event. As most Appel Salon events are free of charge, it is our policy to overbook. In the case of a full program, your free reservation may not guarantee admission. Unclaimed reservations will be released to standby customers ten minutes prior to the start of the program. We recommend that you arrive early.

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DISTANCE MOVER #7: “If you missed issues #1-6, #7 is the best place to start,” says creator Patrick Kyle, “In this new story arc Mr. Earth and Mendel set off to explore new civilizations, but are quickly thrust into a new adventure when the Distance Mover plans its own course.” For those of you who miss out on the fantastic subscription deal, don’t worry – Copies are available at The Beguiling for $5.

HOT DOG BEACH #2:  ”Mop and Fuzz are on the job, half drunk and hungover, everyone’s trying to get to Hot Dog Beach but nobody knows what’ll happen when they get there, they just wish they’d get paid soon, or at least get something to eat…” Holy cow! This book is rad! The second issue of Lale Westvind’s Ignatz Award Winning series can be yours for only $6.

CHROMAZOID #1 & 2: Speaking of Lale Westvind, her Kickstarted anthology Chromazoid #1, as well as the follow-up issue, are choc-a-bloc full of comics from exciting artists like Lyra Hill, Robert Calzone, Austin English , Sakura Maku , Otto Splotch , Jazmyne Araya, and many more. Both issues come with a mixtape and mix-CD (respectively) full of original songs connected to the comics! Chromazoid #1 is $20! Chromazoid #2 is $20!

These are the hippest things right now on the market/in the store. Get them now so that later you can tell your friends “Pff, yeah. I read those months ago. Where have you been?”

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Review: Chance in Hell, The Troublemakers, Speak of the Devil, by Gilbert Hernandez
By Gilbert Hernandez
Published by Fantagraphics Books, Dark Horse Comics

Review by Jason Azzopardi

“Pure Imagination: The Fritz B-Movies by Gilbert Hernandez”

One of the most exquisite things in the world, at least for me, is listening to a young person tell a story.  They have so little sense of the world that they have to mash in the few fantastical elements they are familiar with just so something recognizable is in the narrative stew.  Princesses. Unicorns.  Pirates.  Aliens.  Sharks.  It’s all done with unbridled enthusiasm and a pinch of doubt, as if they’re daring you to call them on their fabrications.  Anyone who would clearly has no soul because a child’s imagination is something to be embraced and savored before it gets trampled out them by the educational system, by parents, by religion, by biology, by marketing demographics, by the media.  But those first few years of being a kid are just magic because that’s when your imagination exists in its purest form.

Over the last thirty years, Jamie and Gilbert Hernandez have created one of the medium’s true masterworks with their expansive (and ever-expanding) series, Love and Rockets. The astonishing thing about the Hernandez Bros. isn’t that they have a defining book or two to point to as an example of good comics, but that their good comic is, simply, Love and Rockets itself; one massive tapestry made up of all the shorter works.  And, much like its creators, it gloriously keeps growing and growing and growing.

The “Palomar stories” are Gilbert’s legacy, and their well-endowed, tragic and formidable lead character, Luba, is its heart.  Luba has two half-sisters (flowing quite naturally out of Gilbert’s exuberant pornographic lark, Birdland), Petra and Fritz.  A successful therapist in the Love and Rockets universe, Fritz has also become something of a B-Movie starlet, and Gilbert has chosen to explore each of her cult films as stand-alone graphic novels.

I don’t want to spoil their plots because half the joy in reading them comes from wading through their sleaze.  Just know that each volume is an archetypal representation of a particular genre, peppered with extreme levels of sex and violence.  Chance in Hell and The Troublemakers, both published by Fantagraphics, are, respectively, post-apocalyptic horror and greasy, pulpy crime.  Speak of the Devil, published by Dark Horse, wanders into the same territory that infatuated Alfred J. Hitchcock for four decades: voyeurism, sexual obsession and madness.  In the last two volumes of the new bookshelf format L&R series, Gilbert has given us Hypnotwist, a surreal Bunuelian/Lynchian/Jodorowsk(ian?) dreamscape, and the vicious little sci-fi culture clash/white-man-saves-the-savages satire, Scarlett By Starlight.  Most recently, he has delivered his surprisingly poignant take on Fritz’s celebrity and aging, Love from the Shadows.  Each can be enjoyed on its own, or taken as a new generational patch on his Love and Rockets quilt, with almost twenty more “exploitation flicks” to follow, as time allows

I won’t assign motive to these books but, as a long-time enthusiast of Love & Rockets, I will say that they seem to be hatching from a different part of Gilbert’s brain, more akin to his astonishing 2003 short story “30,000 Hours To Kill” than to the residents of his little Latin-American community.  The Fritz B-Movies feel alive and utterly spontaneous, with a naughty joy infecting their over-the-top genre conventions.  And despite their immaculate craft, they also remind me, perhaps more than any other comic, of the pure imagination of childhood.  They make perfect, insane sense in their anything-goes worlds.  They revel in the self-discovery of their own stories, and they just dare you doubt them for even a second.

Don’t.  Just devour.  These books are delicious.

We’re quite pleased to announce that Chris Ware’s Building Stories is now back in stock. Topping many best-of-the-year lists, this is one not to be missed by comics fans. Available on the main floor.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

The Alliance of the Curious
Story and art: Philippe Riche
Publisher: Humanoids
Price: $29.95

Review by John Anderson

The Alliance of the Curious is the story of three Parisian antique dealers who band together to solve an unusual mystery. They have found a reliquary containing a 25 000 year old Neanderthal skull, and a strand of hair that is also Neanderthal but dates from the present day. Meanwhile, a homeless man is having visions of the past, each successive vision being from an earlier point in history. Could a real Neanderthal be living in modern day Paris?

The blurb on the back cover describes this book as “‘The Da Vinci Code’ on acid.”  I wouldn’t go that far, but it is a cool mystery involving an ancient conspiracy around the history of Paris and the fortune of the kings of France. There is plenty of action including an amusing car chase and the climax in the catacombs beneath Paris. Each memory that the nameless homeless man has reveals something else about the history of Paris, and in the end he is led to fulfill a prophecy dating from the dawn of humanity.

My favourite characters are the “cocaine sisters”, three trash-talking bored rich girls who love violence, but don’t know how to use their weapons, which makes them even more dangerous. They shoot Kalashnikovs because “it saves time and effort”, but they can’t aim and are liable to kill the wrong person by mistake. They are a lot of fun and I was sorry to see them meet their well-deserved fate. I was also intrigued by Charles, the homeless man who makes money by selling memories that he writes down on scraps of paper. There’s a nice contrast between him and the nameless homeless man, who is trying to regain his memories.

The three protagonists are less memorable, although there is some nice interaction in the second half, as one of them is having trouble following the plot and just wants to eat. I think the ill-defined protagonists are the biggest problem with this book. In fact, I know the names of only two of the three protagonists – if the third was named, I don’t remember it. I would have liked to be engaged in these three people’s lives so I had a stake in their survival. Should I be rooting for the villains at the expense of the heroes?

Another problem is the infodump sequence in the second half of the book, where two characters on television reveal parts of the plot to each other. On the other hand, it is important information and I’m glad it was placed toward the end of the story rather than the beginning, where it would drag things down.

What I love most about Riche’s art is the colour; every scene has a dominant colour, with lots of interplay of light and shadow. The memory sequences are beautifully done with only two colours, which gives them extra weight and significance.

The story is not complicated, but it is very well told. I like the placement of the memories and how they break up the story. On rereading, these scenes, including the flood of 1910 and an attack from Normans in 885, take on a more significant role in the story. The ending is very strong, with some surprising revelations in the catacombs and an open-ended resolution.

The Alliance of the Curious is an entertaining, intriguing mystery. I think this is Riche’s first work to be published in English, and I look forward to reading more.

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NOV120699 Thor God Of Thunder #4 Coipel Var Now 30.00
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NOV120696 Thunderbolts #3 Now 2.99
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NOV120177 Worlds Finest #8 Var Ed 15.00
NOV120693 X-men Legacy #4 Ferry Var Now 2.99
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NEW MAGAZINES

SEP121325 Alter Ego #114 8.95
OCT120654 Cars Magazine #11 4.99
NOV121495 Doc Savage Double Novel Vol 64 14.95
OCT121347 Dr Who Magazine #455 10.99
OCT120656 Fairies Magazine #11 4.99
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OCT120653 Marvel Super Heroes #6 4.99
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NEW OTHER STUFF

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NEW TRADE PAPERBACKS, GRAPHIC NOVELS, AND BOOKS

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AUG120259 Adventures Of Superman Gil Kane HC 39.99
SEP121145 Airboy & Airfighters TP Dangerous Liaisons 19.95
SEP121126 Alex Toth Zorro Comp Dell Comics Adventures HC 49.99
SEP121301 Alice In Wonderland TP 15.99
OCT120251 Animal Man TP Vol 02 Animal Vs Man (n52) 16.99
SEP120235 Batman Chronicles TP Vol 11 14.99
OCT120262 Batman Through The Looking Glass TP 14.99
SEP120231 Batwoman HC Vol 02 To Drown The World (n52) 22.99
AUG121215 Best o/t Three Stooges HC Vol 02 19.99
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OCT120768 Betty & Veronica Prom Princessess TP 9.99
OCT121119 Black Incal Dlx HC Vol 01 79.95
OCT120703 Captain America Land Of Free TP 19.99
OCT120706 Captain Marvel TP Death Of Captain Marvel New Ptg 19.99
OCT120695 Carnage Minimum Carnage TP 24.99
OCT121122 Charlaine Harris Harper Connelly GN Vol 01 Grave Sight 25.95
JUN120048 Cherubs HC 19.99
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AUG121248 Complete Persepolis Satrapi Sgn Bookplate Ed TP 24.95
SEP120047 Conan HC Vol 13 Queen o/t Black Coast 24.99
SEP120044 Creepy Comics At Deaths Door TP 19.99
NOV121196 Curses Foiled Again GN 15.99
OCT120691 Defenders By Matt Fraction TP Vol 02 19.99
SEP121028 Dejah Thoris & The White Apes Of Mars TP 16.99
OCT120709 Essential X-men TP Vol 11 19.99
SEP121038 Eternity Kill TP 12.99
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OCT120696 Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman TP Vol 05 24.99
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AUG120277 Gears Of War HC Book 03 24.99
AUG120380 Gil Kane Amazing Spider Man Artist Ed HC 125.00
OCT120278 Green Lantern The Animated Series TP 12.99
OCT120708 Guardians Of Galaxy TP Vol 01 Tomorrows Avengers 39.99
NOV121285 Halliday & Hoppe Peanut GN 15.99
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SEP120779 Intrinsic GN 14.95
APR121096 Jack Jackson American History Tejanos Cause HC 35.00
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AUG120695 MMW Ka-zar HC Vol 01 69.99
OCT120697 Mu Avengers Earths Heroes Digest TP Vol 02 9.99
SEP120265 Northlanders TP Vol 07 The Icelandic Trilogy 16.99
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OCT120699 Oz Dorothy And Wizard In Oz GN TP 19.99
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OCT120678 Powers Prem HC Vol 07 Forever 24.99
SEP120062 Reset HC 15.99
SEP120050 Robert E Howards Savage Sword TP Vol 01 17.99
AUG121263 Roy Thomas Presents The Heap HC Vol 01 (of 3) 47.99
OCT120301 Saga o/t Swamp Thing TP Book 03 19.99
OCT121186 Shako GN 17.99
SEP120239 Showcase P Weird War Tales TP Vol 01 19.99
AUG120886 Silver Darlings GN 14.99
AUG121062 Silver Scorpion TP 19.99
SEP121129 Space Hustlers GN 9.95
OCT120694 Spider-man Ends Of Earth TP 24.99
OCT120270 Superman Last Son Of Krypton TP 19.99
NOV120364 TMNT Adventures TP Vol 03 19.99
AUG120701 Ult Comics Spider-man By Bendis Prem HC Vol 03 24.99
JUL121373 Walt Disney Animation Studios Archives Bk 05 9 Old Men Flip 60.00
OCT120265 War o/t Green Lanterns Aftermath TP 16.99
OCT121344 Warren Ellis Gun Machine HC 25.99
OCT120702 Wolverine Not Dead Yet TP New Ptg 14.99
SEP120234 Wonder Woman HC Vol 02 Guts (n52) 22.99
OCT120256 Wonder Woman TP Vol 01 Blood (n52) 14.99
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NEW MANGA

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OCT121255 Case Closed GN Vol 45 9.99
OCT121200 Girl Friends Complete Coll TP Vol 02 (of 2) 17.99
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OCT121203 Jack The Ripper Hell Blade GN Vol 03 11.99
OCT121252 Loveless 2-in-1 Ed TP Vol 02 14.99
OCT121251 Loveless GN Vol 10 9.99
AUG121377 Virus Day Of Resurrection Novel HC 25.99

Mono Kultur, the well-designed interview magazine from Berlin, focused its entire Winter 2012 issue on Ware with an informative 23-page interview. This beautiful chapbook features two different fold outs, including one of rarely-seen Ware process material. The intimate interview looks at every aspect Ware’s illustrious career and includes great insight to his work — a must-have for any Ware fan!

You can find Mono Kultur #30 on the main floor and second floors next to the cash registers for $10.00.

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NOV120958 Adventure Time Fionna & Cake #1 (of 6) 15 Copy Incv Brosgol 15.00
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OCT120292 American Vampire #34 2.99
JUL121242 Anti #3 (of 4) 3.99
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OCT120244 Batman Beyond Unlimited #11 3.99
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OCT120190 Batman The Dark Knight #15 2.99
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SEP120315 Danger Girl GI Joe #5 (of 5) 3.99
SEP120316 Danger Girl GI Joe #5 (of 5) 10 Copy Incv 6.00
NOV120730 Daredevil End Of Days #4 (of 8) 3.99
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OCT120159 Flash #15 Var Ed 15.00
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SEP121294 Grimm Universe #2 Red Riding Hood 3.99
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OCT120220 I Vampire #15 2.99
OCT120528 Invincible #99 2.99
NOV120687 Iron Man #5 Cheung Var Now 30.00
NOV120685 Iron Man #5 Now 3.99
NOV120686 Iron Man #5 Pagulayan Design Var Now 15.00
OCT120242 Joe Kubert Presents #3 (of 6) 4.99
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NOV120735 Monsters Inc #2 (of 2) 2.99
NOV120654 Morbius Living Vampire #1 Mcguinness Var Now 30.00
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SEP120301 My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic #1 10 Copy Incv 6.00
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NOV120630 New Avengers #1 Blank Var Now 3.99
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OCT120850 Night o/t Living Dead Aftermath #3 3.99
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OCT120540 Prophet #32 3.99
NOV120720 Punisher Nightmare #1 (of 5) 3.99
OCT120300 Punk Rock Jesus #6 (of 6) 2.99
MAY121090 Queen Sonja #33 3.99
OCT120208 Red Lanterns #15 (rise) 2.99
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NOV120703 Red She-hulk #61 Now 2.99
NOV120745 Road To Oz #4 (of 6) 3.99
OCT120160 Savage Hawkman #15 2.99
OCT120870 Simpsons Super Spectacular #16 2.99
OCT120341 Star Trek Ongoing #16 3.99
NOV120015 Star Wars Purge Tyrants Fist #2 (of 2) 3.50
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OCT120282 Superman Family Adventures #8 2.99
OCT120176 Talon #3 2.99
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OCT120229 Teen Titans #15 (dotf) 2.99
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OCT121026 Thunda #5 3.99
OCT120399 Transformers Prime Rage o/t Dinobots #2 (of 4) 3.99
NOV120711 Ultimate Comics Spider-man #19 3.99
NOV121055 Vampirella Strikes #1 10 Copy Eliopoulos Incv 6.00
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MAR128296 Adventure Time 5-in Ice King Af 15.99
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SEP120475 Super Dinosaur Dynamo T/s Youth Lg 19.99
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SEP121186 Adv o/t Princess & Mr Whiffle SC 14.99
AUG121330 Art Of Darksiders SC Vol 01 39.99
SEP120705 Avengers Mythos TP 19.99
OCT120258 Batman Incorporated TP 19.99
SEP120957 Blake & Mortimer GN Vol 06 Sos Meteors 15.95
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SEP120697 Captain Marvel TP Vol 01 In Pursuit Of Flight 14.99
AUG121139 Castle Waiting GN Vol 01 24.99
NOV121229 Christ TP Vol 01 16.99
JUN121290 Comp Flash Gordon Library HC Vol 02 Tyrant Of Mongo 39.95
SEP120385 Complete Chester Goulds Dick Tracy HC Vol 14 39.99
NOV121314 Connie TP Menace Of Mo Tung 14.95
NOV121315 Connie TP Unseen Avenger 14.95
NOV121272 Dalen & Gole Scandal In Port Angus GN 9.95
OCT120689 Dark Tower Gunslinger Prem HC Man In Black 24.99
OCT120474 Fatale TP Vol 02 Devils Business 14.99
SEP120929 Garfield TP Vol 01 13.99
SEP121167 Glitter Kiss GN 15.99
SEP120232 Green Lantern HC Vol 02 Revenge o/t Black Hand 24.99
OCT120257 Green Lantern TP Vol 01 Sinestro (n52) 14.99
OCT120488 Hack Slash TP Vol 11 Marry F*ck Kill 16.99
OCT120266 Hard Time TP Vol 02 Sixteen 14.99
SEP121095 Heart Of Thomas HC 39.99
OCT121248 Heroman GN Vol 02 10.95
OCT120255 Justice League International TP Vol 02 Breakdown 16.99
OCT120705 Nova Classic TP Vol 01 29.99
SEP120961 Orbital GN Vol 01 Scars 11.95
AUG121141 Problematic HC Woodring Sketchbook 28.99
OCT120734 Punk Rock & Trailer Parks GN 15.95
OCT121223 Read Or Die Rod Off Archive SC 39.99
JUL121251 Shining Hearts Coll Visual Materials SC 39.99
OCT120967 Spooks GN Vol 01 Fall Of Babylon 13.95
OCT120693 Stand TP Vol 05 No Mans Land 19.99
OCT121147 Sybil The Backpack Fairy HC Vol 03 Aithor 10.99
SEP121235 Tezuka Message To Adolf GN Vol 02 (of 2) 26.95
OCT120402 Transformers Prime Season 2 TP Vol 01 7.99
OCT120395 Transformers Robots In Disguise Ongoing TP Vol 02 17.99
JUL120375 Woodwork Wallace Wood 1927-1981 HC 59.99
SEP121257 Arata The Legend TP Vol 12 9.99
OCT121253 Bleach TP Vol 54 9.99
JUL121127 Cage Of Eden GN Vol 08 10.99
SEP121045 Caramel GN 12.95
OCT121258 Dengeki Daisy GN Vol 11 9.99
AUG121355 Dogs TP Vol 07 12.99
SEP121252 Earl And Fairy GN Vol 04 9.99
OCT121264 Hunter X Hunter TP Vol 29 9.99
SEP121046 Ive Seen It All GN Vol 02 (of 2) 12.95
OCT121257 Jiu Jiu GN Vol 03 9.99
SEP121047 Love Makes Everything Right GN 12.95
JUL121304 Maximum Ride TP Vol 06 12.99
AUG121353 Naoki Urasawa 21st Century Boys GN Vol 01 12.99
SEP121262 Natsumes Book Of Friends TP Vol 13 9.99
SEP121048 Ninth Life Love GN 12.95
SEP121254 Nura Rise o/t Yokai Clan GN Vol 12 9.99
OCT121266 Oresama Teacher GN Vol 12 9.99
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OCT121254 Psyren GN Vol 08 9.99
OCT121256 Strobe Edge GN Vol 02 9.99
NOV121357 Tezuka Book Of Human Insects TP 16.95
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OCT121263 Winx Club GN Vol 05 6.99

It is the sale that you may have been waiting ALL YEAR FOR, the great big back-issue sale! If you like old comics, we’ve got deals for you! We’ve also changed stuff up this year, so please read the below carefully!

GROUND RULES

• Bring your own bags! Save the environment! We’re happy to sell you 5c bags, but we’ve only got small ones left.
• We reserve the right to refuse sale of any item to any customer for any reason.  We probably won’t do this, but this is a straightforward disclaimer in case there’s any dispute about what is or isn’t on sale.
• Anything put on hold prior to Boxing Day is entirely exempt to sale pricing.
• Sales cannot be combined with other specials or sales.
• “Regular Price” is determined as ‘Whatever the book would sell for not onBoxing Day,’ whether that’s U.S. Cover Price, Converted Canadian Cover price, Canadian Cover Price, or Sticker Price.
• Items released in December 2012 or later are not eligible for sale. Determination for eligibility will be made at the cash register, at our sole discretion.

SALE PRICING EXPLANATION

If you’ve been by the store this year, you’ll know that this has been a banner year for us in picking up great collections, including a ton of strong silver age books. Sales on our older comics are bizarrely stronger than ever before. Also, following last year’s BoxingDay Sale, we did an overhaul of all of our behind-the-counter books and marked down everything that remained by 20 to 50%, so prices are already lower than last year’sBoxing Day. With that in mind, here’s how the sale is breaking down:

BEHIND-THE-COUNTER BOOKS (WALL BOOKS)

This year we’ll be breaking down the discount based on the original printed cover price. We’re doing it this way because there is so much fresh material in the bins—some has been there for less than a month.

Cover Price: Discount
10 cent comics: 10% off sticker price
12 & 15 cent comics: 20% off sticker price
20 cent comics and up: 30% off sticker price

In addition, all Dell/Gold Key behind the counter will be 30% off regardless of cover price, and all Will Eisner’s The Spirit newspaper sections will be 30% off as well.

BACK ISSUE BINS & MAGAZINE BINS

50% off Comics & Magazines $15 and under.
30% off Comics & Magazines $15.01 and over.

Most back issues in the back issue bins ($15 and under) will be 50% off their stickered price, but there are a few bin-books that will be only 30% off. This discount also applies to magazine overstock bins, and recent and older Twomorrows Magazines.

SMUT:

50% off printed English-language smut in the back issue bins.
That’s right, all of our comics smut from the fine folks at Comic AG, Eros, Radio Comix, Class Comics, Etc.? All of it is 50% off the sticker price! Must be 18 or older to purchase.

UNDERGROUNDS:

25% off sticker price.
The only real exemption in the back-issue bins are Undergrounds, and they’ll be going for 25% off, which is still a great deal…!

“VARIANT COVERS:”

- All Variants stickered at $39.99 or lower are now $5.00
- All Variants stickered at $40 or more are now 30% off

No variants released in December 2011 or later will be eligible.

TREASURY BOOKS

- 25% off of the already intensely marked-down sticker price!

50 CENT BIN SALE:

“50 Cent Bin Comics” are now 25 cents each, with the purchase of 50 comics or more. That’s 50 comics for $12.50, a great deal! In addition, we’ll be cycling the 50 cent been stock several times throughout the sale.

SETS SALE:

Comic Sets are now 20% off the sticker price.

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See you Thursday!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

As is traditional, we’re doing different sales on different weeks, so please read the below carefully. Oh, and we encourage you to take notes on what the sale items will be from this mailing, so you can remember exactly what you wanted from the shop!

NEW COMIC DAY: Wednesday December 26th
Lots of new comics! Includes: Amazing Spider-Man #700, Aquaman #15, Avenging Spider-Man #15.1, Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4, Crossed: Badlands #20, Deathmatch #1, Eerie Presents: El Cid HC, Hip Flask: Ourborous, Justice League #15, Mara #1, Star Wars Omnibus: Clone Wars V3 TP: The Republic Falls, The Shadow Special #1.

Phase 01: Weds December 26, 9am-6pm until Monday December 31^st, 11am-5pm
General sale, 20% off mostly everything. Tons of deep-discount door crasher specials. No discount on back issues, “Wall Books,” or variant covers.

January 1^st: Closed

January 2^nd: New Comics Day (no sales on this day).

Phase 02: Thursday January 3^nd until Tuesday January 8^th.
Back issues on sale! Wall books on sale! Variants on sale! More blanket sales! A more detailed e-mail covering these sales will come next week!

New Comics Day January 9^th, no sales on this day.

PHASE 03: January 10th to January 28th
Single issue over stock blow-outs! New comics every week! Different publishers every week! Plus other stuff! More detailed e-mails covering these sales will arrive in your inbox in the coming weeks.

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BOXING DAY SALE PHASE 01

Wednesday December 26, 9am-6pm until Monday December 31st, 11am-5pm
(Back issue bins, wall books, variants completely unavailable during this time.)

GROUND RULES

• Bring your own bags! Save the environment! We’re happy to sell you 5c bags, but we’ve only got small ones left.
• We reserve the right to refuse sale of any item to any customer for any reason.  We probably won’t do this, but this is a straightforward disclaimer in case there’s any dispute about what is or isn’t on sale.
• Out-of-print items (books/comics/etc.) are exempt from sale pricing. Determination of ‘out of print’ is at The Beguiling’s sole discretion. Ask at the counter if you’re unsure.
• Anything put on hold prior to Boxing Day is entirely exempt to sale pricing.
• Sales cannot be combined with other specials or sales.
• “Regular Price” is determined as ‘Whatever the book would sell for not on Boxing Day,’ whether that’s U.S. Cover Price, Converted Canadian Cover price, Canadian Cover Price, or Sticker Price.
• Items released in December 2012 or later are not eligible for sale. Determination for eligibility will be made at the cash register, at our sole discretion.

BACK ISSUE BINS and WALL BOOKS and VARIANTS will not be accessible until Thursday, January 3rd. They are not on sale, they aren’t even really FOR sale. We are sorry, but we’re focusing on other product during this part of the sale, and we need the space and attention for other things. Thanks!

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THE BIG SALE:

The Beguiling & Little Island Comics: 20% Off Almost Everything
The Beguiling & Little Island Comics will be offering a straight 20% off of almost everything* in both stores. This includes comics, graphic novels, manga, art books, doujinshi, toys, shirts, DVDs, comics sets, 50 cent bin, postcards and greeting cards, etc.

*Exceptions: Back Issue Bins, Wall Books, Variants (as mentioned, these will be on sale later), Original Art, and all items released in December 2012 or later are exempt from sale pricing.

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Door Crashers @ Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst Street
ONE COPY PER BOOK, PER CUSTOMER

Hope Larson’s A Wrinkle in Time: was $21.95, now $15
David Nytra’s The Secret of the Stone Frog: was $17.00, now $10
Dave Roman’s Astronaut Academy: was $10.95, now $5
All Babymouse and Squish books: 40% off

PLUS: There will be bins of specially marked $1, $2, and $5 books for sale! The deepest discounts in the store will be there!

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Door Crashers @ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street
ONE COPY PER BOOK, PER CUSTOMER

MARVEL NOW! ISSUE #1 STARTER SET – $10 (reg $42)
Get the first 12 new MARVEL NOW #1s for less than a buck each! Jump on board Marvel’s relaunch! Includes A Plus X #1, All New X-men #1, Avengers #1, Captain America #1, Deadpool #1, Fantastic Four #1, Ff #1, Indestructible Hulk #1, Iron Man #1, Thor God Of Thunder #1, Uncanny Avengers #1, X-men Legacy #1.

OMNIBUS EDITIONS!
New X-Men Omnibus: was $125, now $75
The Hole of Tank Girl: was $114, now $75
X-Statix Omnibus Vol 1: was $125, now $75

ART COMIX!
Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings: was $18.95, now $10
Chester Brown’s Ed The Happy Clown, was $24.95, now $15
Eddie Campbell’s The Lovely Horrible Stuff: was $14.95, now $10
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland: was $21.99, now $10

WEBCOMICS!
Adventures of Dr. McNinja Night Powers Volume 1: NOW $10
Anime Club (Gunshow): NOW $10
Achewood: Worst Song Played on Ugliest Guitar: NOW $10
Penny Arcade v3 (Warsun Prophecies): NOW $2
Questionable Content Vol 1: NOW $10

CLASSIC REPRINTS!
Marvel Masterworks Golden Age Captain America vol 1: was $29.99, now $5
Simon & Kirby Superheroes: was $62, now $30.

MANGA!
Nausicaa Volume 1: was $12.99, now $5
Slam Dunk Volume 1: Was $8, now $1
Until Death Do Us Part Manga 1, was $18.99, now $10

VERTIGO GRAPHIC NOVELS!
Aaron and Ahmed: was $24.99, now $5
Fables 1001 Nights of Snowfall HC: was $19.99, now $5
Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend: NOW $3
David Lloyd’s Kickback: was $12.99, now $5
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Vol 1 HC, was $19.99 now $5

GENRE COMICS!
Amazing Screw On Head (Mignola): was $17.99, now $5
Criminal Macabre: The Iron Spirit: was $19.99, now $5
Holy Terror: was $30, now $10 - Watch a popular comic creator’s descent into madness for a price you can’t beat!
Modern Warfare: Ghost: was $17.99, now $5
RASL VOL 1-4: was $63, now $40! - Save nearly 40% on the complete, awesome, oversized edition of RASL. Why wait for the pocket edition when you can get the oversized edition for the same price?
Stephen King’s “N” was $19.99, now $5
True Blood HC Volumes 1-3: was $24.99 each, now $10 each!

MARVEL SUPERHEROES!
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box: was $29.99, now $5 - A very expensive Astonishing X-Men collection from Warren Ellis, now at a crazy-great price.
Chaos War X-Men: was $16.99, now $2
Chaos War: was $19.99, now $8
DESTROYER (Robert Kirkman): was $19.99: now $5
Girl Comics: was $19.99, now $5
Marvel 5 Ronin: was $16.99, now now $3
Marvel Zombies 5: was $19.99, now $5

DC SUPERHEROES!
Batman: Imposters: was $14.99, now $3
Green Lantern: In Brightest Day: was $19.99, now $3
Superman vs. Aliens: NOW $1
Superman/Batman: Selected volumes NOW $5 each

All this, plus even more can’t-miss specials in store!!

See you at 9am on the 26^th!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

BOXING DAY 2012 @ THE BEGUILINGPhase 01: Weds December 26, 9am-6pm until Monday January 31st, 11am-5pm Hello readers of The Beguiling newsletter—you’re the first to find out what we’re doing for our annual Boxing Day Sale! Again this year we’re expanding it to both The Beguiling and Little Island Comics, and starting the festivities at 9am!  We’re open crazy-early! As is traditional, we’re doing different sales on different weeks, so please read the below carefully. Oh, and we encourage you to take notes on what the sale items will be from this mailing, so you can remember exactly what you wanted from the shop! NEW COMIC DAY: Wednesday December 26thLots of new comics! Includes: Amazing Spider-Man #700, Aquaman #15, Avenging Spider-Man #15.1, Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4, Crossed: Badlands #20, Deathmatch #1, Eerie Presents: El Cid HC, Hip Flask: Ourborous, Justice League #15, Mara #1, Star Wars Omnibus: Clone Wars V3 TP: The Republic Falls, The Shadow Special #1. Phase 01: Weds December 26, 9am-6pm until Monday December 31st, 11am-5pmGeneral sale, 20% off mostly everything. Tons of deep-discount door crasher specials. No discount on back issues, “Wall Books,” or variant covers. January 1st: Closed January 2nd: New Comics Day (no sales on this day). Phase 02: Thursday January 3nd until Tuesday January 8th.Back issues on sale! Wall books on sale! Variants on sale! More blanket sales! A more detailed e-mail covering these sales will come next week! New Comics Day January 9th, no sales on this day. PHASE 03: January 10th to January 28thSingle issue over stock blow-outs! New comics every week! Different publishers every week! Plus other stuff! More detailed e-mails covering these sales will arrive in your inbox in the coming weeks. – BOXING DAY SALE  PHASE 01Wednesday December 26, 9am-6pm until Monday December 31st, 11am-5pm(Back issue bins, wall books, variants completely unavailable during this time.) GROUND RULESBring your own bags! Save the environment! We’re happy to sell you 5c bags, but we’ve only got small ones left.We reserve the right to refuse sale of any item to any customer for any reason.  We probably won’t do this, but this is a straightforward disclaimer in case there’s any dispute about what is or isn’t on sale.Out-of-print items (books/comics/etc.) are exempt from sale pricing. Determination of ‘out of print’ is at The Beguiling’s sole discretion. Ask at the counter if you’re unsure.Anything put on hold prior to Boxing Day is entirely exempt to sale pricing.Sales cannot be combined with other specials or sales.”Regular Price” is determined as ‘Whatever the book would sell for not on Boxing Day,’ whether that’s U.S. Cover Price, Converted Canadian Cover price, Canadian Cover Price, or Sticker Price.Items released in December 2011 or later are not eligible for sale. Determination for eligibility will be made at the cash register, at our sole discretion. BACK ISSUE BINS and WALL BOOKS and VARIANTS will not be accessible until Thursday, January 3rd. They are not on sale, they aren’t even really FOR sale. We are sorry, but we’re focusing on other product during this part of the sale, and we need the space and attention for other things. Thanks! – THE BIG SALE:The Beguiling & Little Island Comics: 20% Off Almost EverythingThe Beguiling & Little Island Comics will be offering a straight 20% off of almost everything* in both stores. This includes comics, graphic novels, manga, art books, doujinshi, toys, shirts, DVDs, comics sets, 50 cent bin, postcards and greeting cards, etc. *Exceptions: Back Issue Bins, Wall Books, Variants (as mentioned, these will be on sale later), Original Art, and all items released in December 2012 or later are exempt from sale pricing. – Door Crashers @ Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst StreetONE COPY PER BOOK, PER CUSTOMER Hope Larson’s A Wrinkle in Time: was $21.95, now $15David Nytra’s The Secret of the Stone Frog: was $17.00, now $10Dave Roman’s Astronaut Academy: was $10.95, now $5All Babymouse and Squish books: 40% off PLUS: There will be bins of specially marked $1, $2, and $5 books for sale! The deepest discounts in the store will be there! – Door Crashers @ The Beguiling, 601 Markham StreetONE COPY PER BOOK, PER CUSTOMER MARVEL NOW! ISSUE #1 STARTER SET – $10Get the first 12 new MARVEL NOW #1s for less than a buck each! Jump on board Marvel’s relaunch! Includes A Plus X #1, All New X-men #1, Avengers #1, Captain America #1, Deadpool #1, Fantastic Four #1, Ff #1, Indestructible Hulk #1, Iron Man #1, Thor God Of Thunder #1, Uncanny Avengers #1, X-men Legacy #1. OMNIBUS EDITIONS!New X-Men Omnibus: was $125, now $75The Hole of Tank Girl: was $114, now $75X-Statix Omnibus Vol 1: was $125, now $75 ART COMIX!Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings: was $18.95, now $10Chester Brown’s Ed The Happy Clown, was $24.95, now $15Eddie Campbell’s The Lovely Horrible Stuff: was $14.95, now $10Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland: was $21.99, now $10 WEBCOMICS!Adventures of Dr. McNinja Night Powers Volume 1: NOW $10Anime Club (Gunshow): NOW $10Achewood: Worst Song Played on Ugliest Guitar: NOW $10Penny Arcade v3 (Warsun Prophecies): NOW $2Questionable Content Vol 1: NOW $10 CLASSIC REPRINTS!Marvel Masterworks Golden Age Captain America vol 1: was $29.99, now $5Simon & Kirby Superheroes: was $62, now $30. MANGA!Nausicaa Volume 1: was $12.99, now $5Slam Dunk Volume 1: Was $8, now $1Until Death Do Us Part Manga 1, was $18.99, now $10 VERTIGO GRAPHIC NOVELS!Aaron and Ahmed: was $24.99, now $5Fables 1001 Nights of Snowfall HC: was $19.99, now $5Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend: NOW $3David Lloyd’s Kickback: was $12.99, now $5The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Vol 1 HC, was $19.99 now $5 GENRE COMICS!Amazing Screw On Head (Mignola): was $17.99, now $5Criminal Macabre: The Iron Spirit: was $19.99, now $5Holy Terror: was $30, now $10 – Watch a popular comic creator’s descent into madness for a price you can’t beat!Modern Warfare: Ghost: was $17.99, now $5RASL VOL 1-4: was $63, now $40! – Save nearly 40% on the complete, awesome, oversized edition of RASL. Why wait for the pocket edition when you can get the oversized edition for the same price?Stephen King’s “N” was $19.99, now $5True Blood HC Volumes 1-3: was $24.99 each, now $10 each! MARVEL SUPERHEROES!Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box: was $29.99, now $5 – A very expensive Astonishing X-Men collection from Warren Ellis, now at a crazy-great price.Chaos War X-Men: was $16.99, now $2Chaos War: was $19.99, now $8DESTROYER (Robert Kirkman): was $19.99: now $5Girl Comics: was $19.99, now $5Marvel 5 Ronin: was $16.99, now now $3Marvel Zombies 5: was $19.99, now $5 DC SUPERHEROES!Batman: Imposters: was $14.99, now $3Green Lantern: In Brightest Day: was $19.99, now $3Superman vs. Aliens: NOW $1Superman/Batman: Selected volumes NOW $5 each  All this, plus even more can’t-miss specials in store!! See you at 9am on the 26th! - Chris @ The Beguiling

Taken from “Krampus Greeting Cards” by Monte Beauchamp. Available as a package or singly on the first floor.

- The Beguiling

Would you believe that these insanely gruesome illustrations of Samurai were originally created in 1870? If you want a whole book that is this intense… or moreso… then by all means come pick up THE EYE OF ATROCITY: SUPERVIOLENT ART BY YOSHITOSHI, the Ukiyo-E Master Series Volume Two. It’s pretty incredible stuff, must be seen to be believed. Located on the second floor.

We also got a restock on the first in the series, SAMURAI GHOST AND MONSTER WARS.

The interiors are even more gruesome than the cover, so if you want a preview keep reading past the cut…!

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Here’s three interior spreads from EYE OF ATROCITY:

… and an interior spread from SAMURAI GHOST AND MONSTER WARS:

One of our favourite Japanese creators is Shintaro Kago. He’s almost completely unpublished in North America (except for, oddly, VICE Magazine) and he’s an amazing formalist, experimental author AND a purveyor of hiariously satiric filth. We’ve carried some of his self-published books in the past, and on our last trip to Japan we picked up the two newest! “Zombie Play” (written ‘Return of the Living Dead’ on the cover) is a collection of hilarious, billingual Japanese/English zombie gags that are only for the most hardcore fans. We’ve also got his newest, ‘Patent Play’, which is a Japanese-language collection of ‘weird’ inventions turned inside out, often literally. Even in Japanese the illustrations are very… evocative.

Both of these fine books are available on the main floor for the bargain price of $7.

If you want to click “continue reading” down there you can see a couple of samples of some interior pages…!

Interior page to “Zombie Play”

Interior page to “Patent Play”

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Now in stock, these very handsome DRAW! silkscreen prints, by Ms. Kate Beaton. 2 colour hand-pulled silkscreen, measuring 18 inches x 25 inches, on some really surprisingly lovely paper. Previously only available at the ThoughtBubble show in England. $30, located in the poster rack on the first floor.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

What follows is a list of our special events held throughout 2012. There are 50 of them, which is a big number, but frankly it felt a lot busier than that when I think back on it. (Also, if you want to get invited to or otherwise be made aware of these events, make sure to sign up for our mailing list! Sign up is in the upper-right corner of this page.)

Of course there’s always stuff going on at The Beguiling and Little Island that wouldn’t be listed here–great creators like Jeff Lemire, Jim Zub, Matt Fraction, Kelly-Sue Deconnick, Mo Willems, Seth, Chester Brown, Dave Lapp, and dozens more fine folks stopped by the stores to sign their books this year without an ‘official’ event. Little Island also runs comics making classes and crafts every Saturday, and none of those are included either.  But this is the stuff that we made a big deal of, and that our customers seemed to make a big deal out of too…!

January and February

January started out with a month long rotating series of Boxing Day sales at The Beguiling and Little Island… We only do one real sale a year, so we try to make it a doozy. We found our feet and started doing events in February, and our February 11th event for Adventure Time ended up being one of the biggest of the year! We also made the initial announcements for TCAF 2012…

Jan 30  - Welcomed Marco Rudy to the Beguiling Art Store
Feb 11 – Adventure Time #1 Signing with Ryan North & Steve Wolfhard
Feb 19 – Jinchalo, Comics Class, My Name Is Elizabeth Launch with Matt Forsythe
Feb 29 – Bill Everett Archives v1 launch with Blake Bell

March

The amazing Studio Ghibli film retrospective ran this month at TIFF, and we had our biggest mailing list contest of all time, giving away passes to The Hunger Games movie premiere.

This month also marked the passing of a legend in the comics industry, Jean Giraud (Moebius).

Mar 14 – Crossed Day
Mar 14 – Conan signing with Becky Cloonan
Mar 31 – Mal & Lot Comics Making Party, with Chris Leung and Sondang Sianipar

April

TCAF production was in full swing in April, with a flurry of event announcements made. The first TCAF tie-in event featured Ben Rivers at Toronto Public Library, in a preview of our interactive Comics vs. Video Games events.

Apr 03 – Avengers vs. X-Men Party
Apr 14 – Pirate Girl’s Treasure Comics Making Day – with Peyton leung and Hilary Leung
Apr 17 – Graphically Speaking: Comics vs. Video Games with Ben Rivers, TPL

May

TCAF TCAF TCAF! Easily our biggest and most elaborate Festival yet, TCAF encompasses more than a dozen events on its own, interacted with more than 20,000 people, and welcomed 350+ artists from more than 17 countries around the world.

May 03 – Comics vs. Games Showcase at Magic Pony
May 03 – An Evening with Guy Delisle
May 04 – A Parent’s Guide to the Best Kids Comics Launch, with Scott Robins
May 04 – Kid Koala Space Cadet Headphone Concert
May 04 – TCAF Kick-Off Event, with Jeff Smith, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon
May 04 – Gabriella Giandelli: A Toronto Retrospective
May 05 – FCBD at Little Island, with Andy Runton and Fabio Moon
May 05 – Dr. Sketchy’s Toronto: Draw Kiki
May 05 – Konami Kanata in Conversation @ The Japan Foundation
May 05 – 2012 Doug Wright Awards
May 05 – TCAF Queer Mixer, Featuring Alison Bechdel
May 05 – TCAF Day 1
May 06 – TCAF Day 2
May 07 – Gabriella Giandelli and Marco Cappelli in Conversation at The Italian Cultural Institute
May 27-29 – The Beguiling @ Anime North, Featuring Svetlana Chmakova (Nightschool) and Rem (Soulless).

June and July

Although it looks like things wrapped up May 7th, May stayed busy all the way to the end with a buying trip to Japan, and a massive exhibition at Anime North, and 2 months of focusing on the store. We got back into the swing of events in July by sponsoring some great events, doing some fun in-store promos, and throwing a grand book launch for Jeff Lemire’s The Underwater Welder, one of our favourite books of 2012. All that plus a week long trip to San Diego Comic Con, and we were looking forward to a vacation.

July – Comix Class with Britt Wilson @ Little Island
Jul 15 – Beyond Anime @ 2012 Shinsedai Cinema Festival
Jul 19 – Dark Knight Rises Day
Jul 23 – Comics and Medicine Conference & Panel Discussion
Jul 25 – Adventure Time: Marceline signing with Meredith Gran, Ryan North, and Michael DeForge
Jul 28 – The Underwater Welder – Book Launch with Jeff Lemire

August

August was a bit slow, but that’s just because we were getting ready for an incredibly busy fall. Probably the best thing that happened? Some amazing posters were created for Little Island Comics (one of which is shown below).

Aug 22 – Real Life Superhero (Play) – Sponsorship
Aug 26 – Bigfoot Boy Launch, with J. Torres and Faith Erin Hicks

See more at http://www.littleislandcomics.com/2012/thankyoutaxi/.

September

Little Island was on a roll this month, with 5 book launches, plus weekly comics creation classes and more! Meanwhile over at The Beguiling we were sponsoring and championing events left right and center, but since they weren’t ‘officially’ ours we haven’t included them here.

Sep 02 – Luz Makes A Splash! Book Launch, with Claudia DaVila
Sep 08 – Tomi Ungerer – Special Appearance at Little Island Comics
Sep 09 – Three Thieves Book 3: The Captive Prince Book Launch, with Scott Chantler
Sep 20 – Pope Hats #3 Launch
Sep 23 – Binky Takes Charge Book Party!
Sep 26 – Comics Versus Art Book Launch, with Bart Beaty

October

October was a great month for the small press as Canzine was jam-packed this year, and we threw a launch for the new works by DeForge, Kyle, and Worton. We had our first-ever instore live webcast, which was neat. We’d try it again for the right folks.

Oct 19 – ShiftyLook Live Webcast from The Beguiling, with Omar Dogan, Stacy King, Erik Ko, Shane Law, Matt Moylan, Robe Pereyda, Jim Zub
Oct 21 – Canzine (Vendor, Sponsor)
Oct 21 – The Rabbi’s Cat Film Screening at TJFF
Oct 21 – Triple Threat Book Launch, with Michael DeForge, Patrick Kyle, and Zach Worton

November

Frankly, I don’t really remember November. There’s no way we jammed as much cool stuff into it as we did, particularly not after we took a week or two in the middle to head to Japan for Kaigai Manga Festa. But, apparently, we did it all…! Thanks to everyone who came out to our 25th Anniversary event especially, that was a pretty darned cool conversation.

Nov 09 – TATSUMI Film Screening at Reel Asian Film Festival (Sponsor)
Nov 12 – Beguiling 25th Anniversary Event with Charles Burns, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, and Seth
Nov 13 – Anouk Ricard signs Anna & Froga
Nov 18 – Kaigai Manga Festa (Tokyo, Japan)
Nov 24 – Justin Time: Pancake Express – Book Launch with Brandon James Scott

December

Hard to believe, but the year is almost over. We managed to squeeze in 2 book launches, a feature presentation, and a great big holiday party though. And we’re already making plans for next year. But maybe we’ll take January off again…

Dec 01 – A Trip To The Bottom Of The World – Book Launch with Frank Viva
Dec 02 – Checkers and Dot Book Launch, with Jennifer Lum and J. Torres
Dec 02 – Alison Bechdel Presentation and Signing
Dec 05 – Cary Nord signs X-O Manowar at The Beguiling
Dec 17 – Dinosaur Comics Holiday Party, with Kate Beaton, Joey Comeau, Emily Horne, and Ryan North

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Thanks to all of our customers and all of the folks around the world who come to Toronto to experience comics in a new way. Thanks to all of the artists and authors who take time away from creating books to work with us to promote them. We’ll see you with more next year!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

New Comics on sale Wednesday, December 26th:

Avatar
Crossed: Badlands #20

Dark Horse
Eerie Presents: El Cid HC
Star Wars Omnibus: Clone Wars V3 TP: The Republic Falls

BOOM! Studios
Deathmatch #1

DC
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Justice League #15
Aquaman #15

Dynamite
The Shadow Special #1

Image
Mara #1
Hip Flask: Ourborous

Marvel
Avenging Spider-Man #15.1
Amazing Spider-Man #700

(The previously scheduled “TMNT: History of the Foot Clan” from IDW won’t be arriving because of shipping delays.)

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As for our Boxing Day sale… well, as always we announce the sale information first to our mailing list. If you want to find out the deal (or the deals), make sure you subscribe! Subscription box up in the top right corner of this website.

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Merry Christmas!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

Just in time for the holidays, we’re quite happy to let you know that The Beguiling is stocking copies of Karl Kerschl’s hit comic The Abominable Charles Christopher! Volume 1 (shown left) is available in softcover, and the just-released volume 2 (shown right) is available as a limited edition HC, wrapped in an embossed, faux suede treatment. The HC collects all of the comics from years three and four of the series, along with additional chapter illustrations and a bonus collection of character sketches and biographies at the end of the book.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

Thanks to everyone who came out for The Dinosaur Comics & Friends Holiday Party, a hoot was officially had.

Thanks also to our mighty assemblage of authors, Kate Beaton, Joey Comeau, Emily Horne, and Ryan North, for being fun peeps and sharing their secrets with the world.

You can see a full gallery of photos from the event over at our Facebook page.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

Click here for complete list: http://beguiling.com/121219shipping.txt

Diosamante
Story: Alexandro Jodorowsky
Art: Jean-Claude Gal
Publisher: Humanoids

Reviewed by John Anderson

Diosamante is the story of Queen Diosamante, the most beautiful woman in the world, and her spiritual journey to become worthy of the magical king Urbal. Her journey takes her to the depths of degradation and to the heights of enlightenment.

Jean-Claude Gal was an alumnus of Métal Hurlant; with Jean-Pierre Dionnet he created the sword-and-sorcery epics Conquering Armies and Arn. His art was incredibly detailed and realistic, depicting decaying ruins, beautiful cities, hordes of warriors. Diosamante was his first work in colour.

Sadly, it was never completed. Only the first volume was published before Gal passed away. This new collection is the first time the story has been published in English, and comprises about a volume and a third’s worth of what was intended to be a four-volume story. It includes all of Gal’s colour art, plus some black and white pencils and breakdowns. It begins with a short preface by Jodorowsky about how the project came to be.

Even though it’s incomplete, it’s still worth reading. This book shows off one of the reasons I love comics: the beautiful, realistic, detailed depiction of utter fantasy. Gal’s glittering cities and sprawling ruins, with his incorporation of designs from Chinese bronzes, are wonderfully intricate and evocative. In the second volume, Gal goes all out in his depiction of the huge city of Daibath and the incredible ship that carries Diosamante to safety. This ship is as big as a city and is the most wonderfully elaborate sailing ship ever drawn. I have no idea if it would actually sail, but who cares, it’s fantastic.

The panel layouts are intricate as well. During the earthquakes and fights the panels are jagged, and during Diosamante’s spiritual elevation the panel layout is symmetrical. There is an amazing two-page spread of the women and children of Daibath walking into the ship, juxtaposed with individual women’s goodbyes to the city and families.

The story itself is arranged into chapters, and each chapter begins with a text introduction that covers a lot of ground; in other words, large parts of the story are told in these short introductions. It’s a technique that makes the adventure much bigger than what we see in the panels. And even though this is a small part of what was intended to be a longer story, Jodorowsky still manages to take the plot in all sorts of directions I did not expect. He makes great use of his “life is a wheel” theme: in order to achieve enlightenment, Diosamante must plunge into the darkness and suffer utter humiliation before attaining her heart’s desire. But when her life is at its most blissful, something horrible is just around the corner.

The book ends with a short description of what was to happen in future volumes. This hint at future mad plot twists, plus Gal’s sketches of the unfinished second volume, suggest that the story has barely begun. How I so wish that it had been finished. But as it is, this book stands as a wonderful tribute to two of comics’ most creative minds.

In the interests of getting with the times, at least a little bit, we’re in the process of upgrading our web presence.

The first step is we’re now running WordPress, which means the site looks about 20 times prettier than yesterday, and is going to be far more useful to you (and to us!). Because the information here can be better organized, better displayed, and more easily searched, we’re going to be updating more frequently with book reviews, new product announcements, and other cool content. You can see the beginnings of how we want it to work in the sidebar.

The site will be further customized, with upgrades to our online store likely to go live early in the new year (we’re beta-testing that now).

So, thanks for your continued patronage, and we hope to be able to bring you even more bang for your buck going forward.

Cheers,

- Chris @ The Beguiling

They go by different names — Subscriptions, Pull Files, Hold Boxes, Pulls etc — mostly names about pulling things, like comics.While we haven’t advertised the fact, we at The Beguiling run a fantastic subscription/pull file service for comics customers. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea, here’s how it works:

1. Provide us with a list of the comics you’d like to buy (usually two months in advance)
2. We make sure those comics are ready for you when they come into the store!

You just come to the counter, say your name, and we produce your comics. It’s like being in a magical secret club! If you’re addicted to the thrill of weekly comic purchases, the best way to get your fix is with a pull file at The Beguiling.

Many of our new pullfile customers have set up pullfiles because it’s getting harder and harder to find the comics that they want on the racks. While we’re committed to ordering wide and stocking deep on all of the different types of comics in the industry, a pullfile is a great way to guarantee you’re getting the comics that you want.

Sound like something you’re interested in? Keep reading:

The Beguiling prides itself on carrying a lot of material that you simply cannot find in other stores! Just this week we put out Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose’s SACRIFICE #1 for sale, for example! DC, Image, IDW, Dark Horse, Marvel, as well as all of the “indy” publishers. We also work with different distributors and even direct with publishers! Basically, if it’s coming out in North America, we can probably get it in for you.

As a store, knowing what you want in advance is valuable information. So valuable to us, in fact, that we offer 20% discount off cover price for comics that you purchase through your pull list. For material published in the United States, that’s 20% off the American cover. For material published in Canada, it’s 20% off Canadian cover. That’s a fantastic deal! The only rub is that since we order your comics in advance, so we need two-month’s notice if you’d like to cancel a title on your list or your pull file.

Also: We can set up a pull list for you right away. While we do require 2 months notice, we realize you might not always have that luxury! We can start a pull file for you right away, with discounts, but we can’t guarantee you’ll get everything you want on the week it comes out unless you’re pre-ordering 2 months in advance. We can generally reorder all comics though, so please set up your file with us with confidence: We can get you the comics you want! It might just take a little bit longer until your pre-orders catch up.

How To Get Started

If you’re interested in starting a pull file with The Beguiling, we need a few things from you:

• A list of the comics you want to get every month. This can be:
  • Subscription List: This can either be a general list of titles (Batman, Detective Comics…) or groups of titles (“Anything with Batman in it!”).
  • Previews Order: You can also provide a complete breakdown of what you want from the Previews catalogue every month. (We prefer this.)
• You need to have at least 5 regular comic books on your pull list.
• We need your name, e-mail address, and telephone number. For pull files being started with over $50/month of material, we will also require a valid credit card number to be kept on file.
• You must come in a minimum of once every two weeks to pick up your new comics, and you must purchase all items that have been pulled for you, for the first two months. Afterwards these terms are negotiable.
• Any items not normally ordered by The Beguiling (toys, shirts, merch, etc.) may require pre-payment in part or in full.

• We’ll pull and hold your comics for you!
• Access to rare, difficult to find, and exclusive comics.
• You will get a 20% discount on all comics that you pre-order from us.
• The ability to pre-order variant covers, a perk we only offer to pull file customers.
• We can mail your pulls to you! We ship comics to customers as close as Mississauga and as far away as the Northwest Territories! We’ll happily ship to you as well!
• The peace of mind in knowing that you’re going to get the comics you want without having to drive all over Toronto to find them.
• Our assurance that, while mistakes may eventually happen and comics may get missed from your file, we’ll do everything in our power to track down any missing comics and provide them to you.

If you want to get started, contact mail@beguiling.com or come into the store, and we’ll set-up your pullfile right away!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

Our thanks to the staff of Torontoist for nominating The Beguiling (and Little Island Comics and TCAF, by extension) for a 2012 Hero award. The nomination comes for “Supporting Independent Graphic Arts for 25 Years” which is a pretty accurate description of our jobs, most days.

Click over to see the full write-up by Chris Riddell and illustration by Brian McLachlan.

You can also vote for us to win the category, should you feel inclined to do so. That would be swell, but honestly Supporting Independent Graphic Arts for 25 Years is, more often than not, its own reward.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

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We received a slightly panicked phone call this morning just before opening, asking if we still had copies of Chris Ware’s Building Stories in stock. We weren’t terribly surprised; Building Stories is topping many critics’ best-comics-of-the-year lists, and more than a couple best-books-of-the-year lists too. But the actual reason was a little bit more surprising–many online retailers, not to mention the publisher themselves, are temporarily out of stock right now.

It’s tough, as an independent book store, to take a strong inventory position on a book on the pricier side… but when it’s Chris Ware, you just have to do it.

So yes, Virginia, The Beguiling does have copies of Building Stories in stock.

We’ve also got the phenomenal and very rare Multi-Story Building Portfolio, a collection of prints that can be collected as is, or cut-out and assembled to create the building featured in Building Stories.

Note to our mailorder friends: There is no way we can get this to you before Christmas, probably not until late January given our current shipping schedule, so please consider that before asking for a copy to be shipped to you. We recommend that you check comic and independent book stores in your area first.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

THE (third annual) BEGUILING, DINOSAUR COMICS, ADVENTURE TIME, HARK, A VAGRANT!, BRAVEST WARRIORS, A SOFTER WORLD, HOLIDAY PARTY!
Featuring Ryan North, Kate Beaton, Joey Comeau, and friends!
Monday, December 17th, 2012
7:30-10pm, doors at 7pm
@ Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor St. W., 2nd Floor
FREE TO ATTEND
Facebook Event Page

Woo-hoo! Come one, come all, to the 3rd annual Dinosaur Comics & The Beguiling holiday party and book launch, featuring Ryan North! This year we’ll be welcoming some new friends into the holiday fold, including Joey Comeau (Bravest Warriors, A Softer World), and Kate Beaton (Hark, A Vagrant!), and celebrating Ryan’s stint on the New York Times Bestselling ADVENTURE TIME comic book series! There’s nothing better to do on a Monday night!

Ryan, Joey, Kate, and even more buddies to be announced will be getting together to hoist a mug of holiday cheer, interview each other in front of an audience, and maybe if everyone’s been nice instead of naughty, sign some books. We’ll also have a Secret Santa, and all of our creators’ work will be available for sale at the event including comics, books, calendars, shirts, and more!

All of this is happening Monday, December 17th, at Pauper’s Pub (539 Bloor St W, near Bathurst TTC), on the second floor. We hope we’ll see you there…!

SECRET SANTA RULES:
We’re holding a SECRET SANTA at this event! Everyone is welcome to participate, but no one has to if they don’t want to because choice is important!
If you would like to participate:
- Please bring a wrapped gift with a monetary value of no more than $5.
- Go to the book sales table and trade your gift for a numbered ticket.
- At 8:30pm, we’ll call out the numbers, and when your number is called you’ll have your choice of the available gifts!
- Please mark on the outside of the gift if your item contains food and especially if it contains common allergens including peanuts, gluten, etc., so that people with allergies will be able to make an informed Secret Santa Selection.

ABOUT
The Beguiling is Canada’s premier retailer of comics, graphic novels, manga and more, and has been for for 25 years! You are on their site right now!

Kate Beaton is the creator of the webcomic Hark, A Vagrant!, which has a book collection of the same name which spent a whole lot of time on the New York Times Bestseller List. Beaton has also done work for The Walrus, The New Yorker, and many other outlets. http://www.harkavagrant.com/ 

Joey Comeau is the author of many fine prose books including Lockpick Pornography and One Bloody Thing After Another. He is half of the team who creates the webcomic A Softer World, and is currently writing the comic book series Bravest Warriors, based on the cartoon by Pendleton Ward. http://www.asofterworld.com/

Ryan North is a cool dude. He creates the comic strip Dinosaur Comics, writes the comic Adventure Time based on the cartoon series by Pendleton Ward, runs the internet advertising company Project Wonderful, and is currently 1000% over budget on his Kickstarter for To Be Or Not To Be: The Is The Adventure, which is pretty keen. http://qwantz.com

Happy Holidays everyone! To make your comics-purchasing (whether for yourself or for gifts) a little easier, The Beguiling will be operating under extended hours this holiday season!

The Beguiling Holiday Hours
Mondays & Tuesdays: 11am-7pm
Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays: 11am-9pm
Saturdays (except the 22nd): 11am-7pm
Sundays: 12pm-7pm

In addition, here are the adjustments to specific dates:

Wednesday, December 19th: Comics as usual
Saturday, December 22nd: 11am to 9pm
Sunday, December 23rd: 11am to at least 7pm
Monday December 24th: Open from 11am, closing early (3-4pm, depending on demand)
Tuesday, December 25th: Closed
Wednesday, December 26th: Boxing Day, Open 9am-6pm. There will be a small number of new comics this day. See below for details.
Monday December 31st: Open from 11am, closing early (3-4pm depending on demand)
Tuesday January 1st: Closed
Wednesday January 2nd: New Comics Day! No delay! 11am-9pm

Finally, here is a list of ‘new’ comics being released on December 26th:

Dark Horse
Eerie Presents: El Cid HC
Star Wars Omnibus: Clone Wars V3 TP: The Republic Falls

DC
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Justice League #15
Aquaman #15

IDW
TMNT: Secret History of the Foot Clan

Image
Mara #1
Hip Flask: Ourborous

Marvel
Avenging Spider-Man #15.1
Amazing Spider-Man #700

Avatar
Crossed: Badlands #20

BOOM! Studios
Deathmatch #1

Dynamite
The Shadow Special #1

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Whew! Lots of info there! Thanks for reading!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

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OCT121241 X-o Manowar (ongoing) TP Vol 01 By The Sword  9.99

Just in time for our signing with Cary Nord, it’s the collection of X-O Manowar! Come grab your copy this week!

Cary Nord In-Store Signing!
The Artist of X-O Manowar and Conan!
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012, 6pm-8pm
@ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street
FREE

Please join The Beguiling in welcoming Cary Nord, artist of many volumes of Conan and the artists of the current ongoing X-O Manowar series from Valiant, at his first signing here.

Cary Nord will be at The Beguiling in celebration of X-O MANOWAR VOLUME 1: BY THE SWORD, which will be released on that day. In addition, The Beguiling will have lots of copies of his previous issues, his work on Conan, and much more available for sale at the signing.

Cary has just moved back to Toronto, so we hope Toronto fans will come out and give him a warm welcome.

- Chris @ The Beguiling

Earlier this week the medium lost a phenomenal cartooning talent, Spain Rodriguez. His achievements, including co-founding Zap Comix, and really helping to define the Underground Comix movement, are numerous and well-recounted in this excellent tribute at The Comics Journal.

We’re fortunate that we got to work with Luminato to bring Spain to Toronto in 2008, for the release of his graphic novel “Che: A Graphic Biography”. For many, it was their first chance to meet the man in the flesh, after inviting him into their homes so many evenings as he more-or-less starred in the documentary “Comic Book Confidential”, played often by CityTV. He was a good guy.

Our condolences to his friends and family.

- Peter, Chris, and the Staff of The Beguiling

Alison Bechdel Presentation and Signing!
Author of Fun Home and Are You My Mother?
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012, 5:30pm-7:30pm
@ The Centre for Social Innovation, Annex Building
720 Bathurst Street (Just south of The Beguiling)
FREE

Facebook Event: http://on.fb.me/V6O3mo

Exciting News: Alison Bechdel is coming back to Toronto! Not seen since debuting her fantastic memoir Are You My Mother? (the follow-up to the critically acclaimed/best-seller Fun Home) at TCAF this spring! Alison Bechdel is coming back to our fair city to be part of the inaugural Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Memorial Syposium on Childism. Luckily, she also has time in her schedule to swing by our shop for a quick presentation and signing!

On December 2nd, at 5:30pm, Alison Bechdel will be giving a presentation on her work, as well as hanging out for a bit after to sign some books and meet with fans. Seating will be limited. Bechdel’s TCAF event was delivered to a packed and delighted house, so next weekend is an evening to surely not be missed!

Originally announced as “At The Beguiling”, this event will be taking place one block south of The Beguiling, at 720 Bathurst Street. It is at The Centre for Social Innovation, in the ING Direct Presentation Space. This will give us much more room to welcome Toronto’s Bechdel fans!

About the Author: Alison Bechdel began keeping a journal at the age of ten, and has been assiduously archiving her own life and times with words and pictures ever since. For twenty-five years she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a generational chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.” (Ms.)

Fun Home is currently taught on several syllabi across North America, including several courses at The University of Toronto. Alison Bechdel’s other various accomplishments include comics drawn for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta, and she recently guest-edited McSweeney’s Best American Comics 2011.

Bechdel lives near Burlington, Vermont.

We’re delighted to announce the launch of a lovely new series of black-and-white board books created by comics veterans J. Torres and Jennifer Lum. The Checkers and Dot books present high-contrast patterns and rhyming text that’s perfect for little eyes and ears. Plus: the books are adorable! Please join us on Sunday, December 2nd as we celebrate these books and their wonderful creators. J and Jennifer will be on hand to meet their fans and sign copies of the books, and we’ll have some Checkers-and-Dot themed activities for the kids. See you then!

Start Your Holiday Shopping with
Checkers and Dot!

It’s getting to be that time of year, and we think the Checkers and Dot books are the perfect beginning to your holiday shopping. So, everyone who purchases one of these books during their in-store appearance will get 10% off their entire purchase! That’s right – buy Checkers and Dot and we’ll give you a deal on all of the comics in the shop! Bring your kids’ wish lists, and give the gift of comics!

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Photo of the 25th Anniversary crew. Back: Chris Ware, Seth, Chester Brown, Peter Birkemoe, Adrian Tomine. Front: Charles Burns, Anouk Ricard. Photo by Nathalie Atkinson.

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate The Beguiling’s 25th Anniversary event on Monday night. We greatly appreciate your patience throughout the technical hiccups, as well as having to wait out in the rain. Again, truly, thank you. 

Before we get started with this evening’s event and our esteemed authors I wanted to talk about how lucky I feel.

I am lucky to have a job that brings me into contact with so many of the creators I have admired most – many of whom have become great friends.

I’m lucky to have an independent book store that is still thriving against all odds 25 years after it opened in a little hole on Harbord Street. While the physical dimensions of the store haven’t expanded much since we moved to Markham Street, the scope of the store is now enormous. We’re carrying more diverse and excellent product than ever, with shelves going up to the ceiling, and reaching book lovers farther afield than we ever have before. We’re weathering the many storms of independent bookselling, and continuing to change and adapt.

A Beguiling anniversary event also never fails to remind me of how lucky I am to have met the woman I share my life with ten years ago when she covered the 15th anniversary also held here at The Bloor.

I want to also take a minute to say some thanks.

Thanks to the great publishers, large and small who help us fill our shelves, particularly Random House and Drawn and Quarterly who have graciously brought their authors here for tonight.

Thanks to my incredible staff past and present that has become a second family. It is their knowledge and hard work that keeps the store at the top of its game. I always start off by training them, but before too long all of them spend as much time training me.

Thanks to the artists – creative community that produce the wonders we sell, and have made us a hub for all things comics – known not just in Toronto or Canada, but internationally. Through TCAF we’ve been able to connect with more cartoonists, institutions, and great work the world over, and every time a tourist walks through the store from the U.S. or Europe and says that they just had to visit while in Toronto, it is wonderful validation.

Thanks to Steve Solomos and Sean Scoffield the store’s founders, who created for me, the perfect business model for The Beguiling: they looked at what other comic shops were doing and did the opposite. They also gave the store a real attitude and ‘reputation’, compared to which my own snobbery will always seem moderate.

Lastly, thanks go to you, our customers. It is with great pleasure that I see this many people out for this event, some I recognize who have been shopping here since it opened and others who have just come across us. We appreciate your patronage, loyalty and your forgiveness in shopping at a store that often has, as my father might say, 10 pounds of shit crammed into a 5-pound bag.

- Peter Birkemoe

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Anouk Ricard in Toronto
For the release of her new work “Anna & Froga”
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 @ 5:30pm-7pm
@ Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst
Free to attend

The Beguiling is proud to welcome the incredibly talented Anouk Ricard (Anna & Froga) to Toronto for the releases of her new graphic novel! 

Anouk Ricard’s Anna & Froga caused quite the splash as a Free Comic Book Day release from Drawn & Quarterly this year, as the amazing all-ages tale of a girl and her animal friends taking the mundane and making it extraordinary puzzled many adults but instantly delighted children.  The Beguiling is delighted to announce that this French cartoonist will be making her way to Canada for her first ever North American tour, where she will be presenting from her work and discussing its creation for with an adult audience. It is quite likely that a children’s event will be added to this date, to occur at Little Island, in the next week or so.

This amazing and singular cartooning talent should not be missed, so we hope you aren’t too tired after a night of comics on the 12th to come back the next evening for a fantastic event!

- Chris @ The Beguiling

FACT: All three of these books are on The New York Times Bestseller list for hardcover graphic novels: http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2012-11-04/hardcover-graphic-books/list.html. All three of these authors are going to be in Toronto at the same time. All three have drawn rave reviews.

Can you afford to miss this…?

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CHARLES BURNS – THE HIVE

• Charles Burns’  stunning follow-up to 2010’s bestselling X’ed Out is The Hive, which takes readers further into the recesses of the diseased world of X’ed Out, shattering the boundaries between comics and the people who read them.

• Adrian Tomine’s  New York Drawings collects over a decade of the comics, illustrations, and covers produced by the artist for publishing institution The New Yorker, alongside a number of other rare and uncollected pieces in a stunning oversized hard cover.

• Chris Ware’s  Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth has been hailed as a modern literary masterpiece, and his first graphic novel length follow-up is Building Stories. A literal box of variously formatted and sized comics, graphic novels, newspapers and pamphlets, Building Stories is a fascinating and compelling portrait of a seemingly ordinary one young woman, and the building she lives in, beautifully presented.

All three of these spectacular arguments for the necessary survival of the printed word will be on sale at The Beguiling in advance of this event, with New York Drawingsavailable now, Building Stories out October 2nd, and The Hive out October 9th. While admission to this event is $10, a free ticket can be procured by purchasing any of these books at The Beguiling.

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- Chris @ The Beguiling

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