Over at Daily XY today, Beguiling and Little Island Comics staffer John Anderson suggested his favourite Tintin graphic novels and related books for the ever-growing-legion of Tintin devotees. If you’re new to Tintin, make sure to check out his recommendations and then swing by The Beguiling or Little Island Comics to pick them up!
Link: http://www.dailyxy.com/article/best-books-tintin-and-beyond/
Running a little tight on time for Holiday Gift-Giving? In addition to a ton of great comics and graphic novels, including awesome signed work, The Beguiling also has a poster rack full of posters and prints to fit every taste and budget. Nothing says “this is an amazing gift” like a piece of very limited artwork…!
Shown (L to R): Brian Ralph Silkscreen print, Junko Mizuno Silkscreen Print, Jason Lutes Poster, Tank Tankuro Poster by Gajo Sakamoto, Axe Cop Poster by Ethan Nicolle.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books and Art on Wednesday December 21st, 2011. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate, but in any dispute between web price and in-store price we will defer to in-store price.
Click here for the complete list: http://beguiling.com/111221shipping.txt
– Chris @ The Beguiling
The Dinosaur Comics Book Launch & Holiday Party!
“Everybody Knows Failure is Just Success Rounded Down.”
TONIGHT! Monday, December 19st, 2010
7:30-10pm, doors at 7pm
@ Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor St. W., 2nd Floor
FREE TO ATTEND
http://www.facebook.com/events/142914792480565/
Oh my gosh you guys! Just in time for Christmas, it’s the release of the long-awaited new collection of DINOSAUR COMICS, the awesome webcomic by Toronto’s own Ryan North! It’s called “Dinosaur Comics: Everybody Knows Failure is Just Success Rounded Down”, and collects all of the strips originally appearing in 2007! Author Ryan North will be on hand signing books and meeting and greeting with fans! Copies of the new book will be on sale at the event, as will past books, shirts, and prints! Can you think of anything more awesome to do…ON A MONDAY?
We’re launching the book just a few days before a big holiday, and we figured “We can totally make this a party that EVERYONE can enjoy!!!” It’s also THE OFFICIAL DINOSAUR COMICS HOLIDAY PARTY! (woooo!) Food, drinks, and merriment! Wear your Santa hats! Bring a Secret Santa gift and you’ll receive one (details below)! Even more: December 19th is “Feel Free To Say Hi If I’m Wearing A Dinosaur Comics Shirt Day, Woooooo!” So wear your Dinosaur Comics shirt to spark a conversation! Or spot somebody wearing one and ask thon about it. Or feel free to observe the day silently — the holidays are for everyone!
But Wait There’s More! Ryan North is going to be writing Adventure Time comics this February! Boom Studios, the publisher, sent us a ton of postcards to give away featuring the cover of Adventure Time #1! Hoo-ray! Free postcards for everyone!
All of this is happening TONIGHT Monday, December 19th, 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:
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.
– Participation is by no means mandatory, but we thought it might be fun!
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See you tonight!
– Chris @ The Beguiling
Seeing as the North Korean people got an early X-Mas present, we here at The Beguiling felt that we should contribute a little something to the occasion as well. Being the best bits of graphic novel reportage in the store, Guy Delisle’s PYONGYANG is a look behind the Iron Curtain into the last truly communist nation on earth. It explores and explains life there, including the “Dear [Departed] Leader” and is told very matter-of-factly, from Delisle’s everyman perspective.
We’re happily offering 20% off the cover price to folks who mention that they saw this blog post. Available in soft cover for $16.95, or hard cover for $24.95, first floor.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
We’ve found a great selection of recent graphic novels signed by fantastic authors who’ve visited our shop in 2011! Great gifts, great gift ideas for others to get you!
If ‘N’ Oof, by Brian Chippendale: We had an amazing event for Brian Chippendale and C.F. this year, and Brian left us a healthy (large) stack of his very healthy (very large) new graphic novel If ‘N’ Oof. That supply has dwindled to almost nothing, but we did find 5 copies that we have just put out. I’s a great book!
Lychee Light Club, by Usamaru Furuya: Out of the greatest tradition of the Grand Guigenol comes this book, a fairly depraved work that exists in its own world–where the uncontrolled id of children runs wild, violence and sadism are praised, and nothing is worse that growing old. It is not for everyone. But if you need a direct comparisson, in Japan, ero-grotesque author Suehiro Maruo did a tribute-piece for the Lychee Light Club series in Japan. Get it? Get it! Signed by Usamaru Furuya.
Christmas Days, by Derek McCormack with Illustrations by Seth: I’m not quite sure how this fantastic collection of Christmas traditions–Canadian and otherwise–hasn’t become an instant holiday classic alongside other contemporary bits of excellent like Sedaris’ Holidays On Ice, but let me help to rectify that: It’s lovely. Poking fun at both the cheap and the extravagant traditions, the dark, delerious, and even drunken origins of our holidays. Lavishly illustrated by Seth, and signed by both Seth and author Derek McCormack.
Infinite Kung Fu, by Kagan McLeod: The culmination of nearly a decade of Kung-Fu excellence from Kagan McLeod! Collecting the entire in-print saga and hundreds more pages, including tons of redrawn material. Weighing in at over 400 pages it is assuredly the perfect gift for someone on your list. Signed by Kagan McLeod.
Scott Pilgrim v6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, by Bryan Lee O’Malley: What else is there to be said about Scott Pilgrim? It’s awesome. We know it, you know it, and maybe through a combination of loaned copies, reading copies, library visits, and downloads (legal and otherwise), you never got the series’ titanic conclusion? Or maybe you want a signed one instead? Or maybe someone else does? Either way, we’ve got signed copies, 1st printing!
Not Simple, House of Five Leaves v1, by Natsume Ono: We do love us some Natsume Ono here at The Beguiling, and when Ono-sensei was here in Toronto for TCAF, she was very kind and signed a number of copies of her work for us! NOT SIMPLE is her debut graphic novel, a stand-alone work about the unluckiest boy on earth and it is heartbreaking and sad and really pretty. HOUSE OF FIVE LEAVES is about a wandering Samurai who’s terrible at being Samurai, who is taken on as hired muscle by a gang of thieves… drama ensues. It’s great, trust me. Signed by Natsume Ono.
Hey folks! Just a few quick notes about Sam Humphries’ and Dalton Rose’s SACRIFICE, a new six issue comic series that is not being solicited through Diamond Comic Distributors:
1) It’s a full-colour, self-published mini-series from the writer of OUR LOVE IS REAL, which was a lot of fun. We’re expecting this to be great too.
2) We will be on of the few stores carrying this book!
3) We had a choice between getting the issues quick, and paying more for shipping than it would cost to buy the books, or getting the book slow, and being able to sell the issues for cover price. We chose “slow” and “cheap”, so it may be up to 3 weeks after the book is ‘officially’ released before we get our copies. Sorry!
Regardless, we’re quite happy to support this effort and we think it’s going to mean some good comics. Find out more about the series at http://samhumphries.com/sacrifice-comic-book/.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
Breaking with our tradition of ‘not carrying stuff like this,’ we’ve opened our arms and hearts to embrace a select assortment of merchandise tying into Doctor Who (and one Firefly item). Why? Possibly our hearts grew three sizes a little while back, possibly we were informed that no one in the city was really carrying them. Who can say? But yeah, just in time for Christmas, in fairly limited quantities.
Doctor Who:
10th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver (David Tennant), $29.99
11th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver (Matt Smith), $29.99
Future Sonic Screwdriver (Alex Kingston), $29.99
Adipose Stress Toy, $24.99
Tardis 4-port USB Hub, with ‘Flashing Lantern & Tardis Sounds’, $39.99
Firefly Builder Plaque Stickers, $10.00
– Christopher
Edit: Sold out of Tom Baker! Sorry!
The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books and Art on Wednesday December 14th, 2011. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate, but in any dispute between web price and in-store price we will defer to in-store price.
The accolades continue to pour in for Maurice Vellekoop and his brand new comics project The World of Gloria Badcock #1! Most recently Maurice and Gloria were featured in a sprawling article in The Advocate, the top gay culture magazine in North America. You can see the whole profile and samples from the book here.
The World of Gloria Badcock #1 is not currently available for sale online, and it is cost-prohibitive for us to ship them from our website (shipping would cost more than the comic…), so we want to help our online friends out. From now through the end of February, anyone ordering either Vellekoop’s A NUT AT THE OPERA (D&Q) or PIN-UPS (Green Candy) will get a copy of The World of Gloria Badcock #1 included with their order for free! Just order one of the two convenient bundles from our online store:
Pin-Ups + Gloria Badcock
A Nut At The Opera + Gloria Badcock
If you’re in-store, we’ll honour this deal as well… even though it won’t be marked! So you’ll have to mention it at the counter when you’re signing out. Think of it as a ‘secret sale’.
Best,
– Christopher
