Shipping March 23rd, 2011

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books and Art on Wednesday March 23rd, 2011. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price.

Click here for complete list: http://www.beguiling.com/110323shipping.txt

The Beguiling Recommends:

DEC100961 21 Story Of Roberto Clemente HC  22.99
SEP100819 Alan Moore Neonomicon #4 (of 4) 3.99
DEC101027 Cardboard Valise GN  25.95
DEC100292 Demo TP Vol 02  17.99
JAN110748 Ff #1 3.99
NOV100042 Finder Library TP Vol 01  24.99
JAN111311 Heavy Hand GN  14.00
FEB111273 Ivan Brunetti Cartooning SC  13.00
OCT101057 Krampus The Devil Of Christmas HC  18.95
DEC101098 Modern Masters SC Vol 25 Jeff Smith  15.95
JAN111312 Neptune GN 14.00
DEC101051 Owly & Wormy HC Friends All Aflutter  15.99
DEC100420 Starstruck HC Dlx Ed 49.99
DEC101021 Stumptown HC Vol 01  29.99
DEC100305 Unwritten TP Vol 03 Dead Mans Knock  14.99
JAN111313 Whirlwind Wonderland GN  15.00

Literally something for everyone this week…!

– Chris

UPDATE: Pascal Girard, Joe Ollman, and Zach Worton Triple Book Launch! April 14th



It’s a D+Q Triple Threat!
Zach Worton, Pascal Girard, and Joe Ollman launch their new D+Q books!

Thursday, April 14th, 2011
@ CLINTON’S TAVERN (VENUE CHANGE)
693 Bloor Street West, at Clinton (Christie TTC Station)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Free To Attend

The Beguiling is proud to welcome a rare Triple Threat! D&Q Cartoonists Zach Worton, Pascal Girard, and Joe Ollman will launch their new graphic novels in Toronto on the evening of April 14th! UPDATE: This event will now be held in the front room of Clinton’s Tavern, same date, same time. Clinton’s is a large pub 3 blocks west of The Beguiling, and we’ve reserved the whole front room. All three cartoonists will be doing short presentations from their work, and a Q&A and signing session with the creators will follow. 

So for now, treat this as a “save the date”. But let’s tell you about all three great books!

Pascal Girard’s REUNION: Reunion is a semi-autobiographical book that recounts the events of the summer of 2009, when Pascal Girard received an invitation to attend his ten-year high school reunion. Initially dismissing the idea of attending, he quickly changes his mind when he receives an email from Lucie Coté, the girl he had a huge crush on in high school. She tells Pascal that she will be at the reunion and wonders if he would like to accompany her. Pascal becomes flustered with joy, except two problems remain: he must keep his almost uncontrollable infatuation a secret from his girlfriend, Julie, and he must do something about his weight. At 252 pounds, he frets that his weight will put him in the “loser” category among his former classmates, but most of all, he must do something to impress Lucie. He decides on a drastic plan of action: he takes up jogging every day until he reaches his goal of shedding fifty pounds. Three months pass as Pascal dutifully jogs and fantasizes about meeting Lucie, until finally he reaches his weight goal on the eve of the reunion. The now-slender Pascal arrives at the big event, full of fervent anticipation. However, one by one, his fantasies of moving into the “winner” category become cruelly deflated with each conversation he has with his former classmates.

Girard has quickly emerged as one of the best under-thirty cartoonists in North America. Having only started drawing comics 5 years ago (he worked in construction until recently), Girard’s talent as both a writer and an artist has taken enormous strides with each new book he has created. Reunion is laugh-out-loud funny with wry self-deprecating humor, and Girard’s cartooning is effortless in its fluidity.

Joe Ollman’s MID-LIFE: Mid-Life is the story of a 40-year-old man, John, who becomes a father again with his much-younger second wife which results in a slow, painful attack by flowered baby bags and front facing baby carriers on his former virility and self identity. John always believed that age is a state of mind, however, his adult daughters, baby son, energetic wife, stressful job, house full of cats, and flabby body complete with bloated stomach and sagging bosom all lead John reluctantly to admit that he is having a midlife crisis. The crisis drives John to yell at his wife, pick fights with his daughters and miss deadlines at work that put his job on the line. John takes solace from the stress of everyday life with a seemingly harmless infatuation with the pretty children’s performer Sherry Smalls who sings adoringly to him directly from his son’s DVD.

Zach Worton’s THE KLONDIKE: The Klondike gold rush shook the Yukon on the eve of the twentieth century and stands today as the defining era in the taming of North America and especially Canada’s Great North. The history of how a handful of colorful characters sparked the largest mobilization of gold seekers in history is brought vividly to life in this debut graphic novel by cartoonist Zach Worton. His stunning depictions of the Canadian wilderness are as much a part of the action as the key players: the prospector George Carmack; racist prospector Robert Henderson; “Skookum Jim Mason,” a Native American posthumously credited with discovering gold; “Soapy Smith,” a noted con artist; and Belinda Mulrooney, perhaps the first female involved in the gold rush to become rich; and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Worton draws the reader into an absorbing historical tale of political intrigue and personal adventure, played out amid the free-for-all atmosphere of the Wild West.

Drawn in an inviting, engagingly detailed style, The Klondike also features notes and introductory texts accompanying each chapter, and a thorough, illustrated index of all the key players in the gold rush, as well as a glossary featuring notes about “How to Pan for Gold” and tips on how to spot the differences between “fool’s gold” and the real thing.

– Chris @ The Beguiling

Chantler, Worton, and Zdarsky help Keep Toronto Reading April 16th

The Beguiling is proud to be teaming once again with Toronto Public Library on their KEEP TORONTO READING campaign throughout the month of April. We’ve developed 2 programs this year, one for kids and one for adults, and our friends at Anime North have also developed a neat program! It’s all happening on Saturday, April 16th at North York Central Library. Here are the details:

KTR: Graphically Speaking: Biographical and Historical Comics
North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge Street
Saturday, April 16, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Scott Chantler (Two Generals), Zach Worton (The Klondike) and Chip Zdarsky (The National Post) on documenting history and autobiography through graphic novels. Each creator will present from their new work, and then join The Beguiling’s Christopher Butcher in a lively discussion about history, biography, and autobiography in comics. Presented in association with The Beguiling and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

KTR: Graphically Speaking for Kids
North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge Street
Saturday, April 16, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Make manga with the pros, Eric Kim and Tory Woollcott. This art workshop is for kids ages 9 to 12. Call 416-395-5630 to register. Space is limited. Presented with Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

Anime North @ The Library!
North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge Street
Saturday, April 16, 2011, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Anime cosplay… at the library! Hear an award-winning cosplayer give tips on how-to-do awesome makeup. Then enjoy a screening of the sci-fi romance anime Summer Wars. Come in costume and be eligible to win passes to Anime North. Presented with Anime North.

It’s going to be a fun day at TPL…!

– Chris @ The Beguiling

Ariel Schrag in Toronto March 27th

Comics author Ariel Schrag will be in Toronto on March 27th, 2011 as part of the Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel. The Beguiling will be on site to provide book-sales for the event. Here are the details:

Animated with Ariel Schrag
Sunday, March 27, 2011
@ The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W
Doors, 1:30 PM, Performance 2 PM | FREE

Presented in association with the exhibition Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women at the Gladstone Hotel, come early to see the exhibition!

Graphic Details artist Ariel Schrag presents a multi-media reading of her comics. Like a live animated movie, the performance includes projected slides from Schrag’s comics, a musical soundtrack, and Schrag reading all the voices. She will perform work about being Jewish, being queer, and being in high school.

Schrag is a New York-based author, artist and writer for the HBO series How To Make It In America. She also wrote for the hit Showtime series The L Word. For her High School Comic Chronicles (Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise), Schrag wrote each of her four autobiographical graphic novels the summer after each year of high school. The books cover crushes, band obsessions, new friendships, coming out as bi, coming out as gay, falling in love, her parents’ divorce, and the personal and social complications of writing about life while living it. Potential is currently being developed into a feature film.

Creating Comics Step-by-Step with Ariel Schrag
Sunday, March 27, 2011
@ The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W
4:30 – 5:30 PM | $15 in advance, $25 at the door

Ariel Schrag’s hour-long masterclass begins with a lecture on the elements of comics storytelling including outlines, rough drafts, style, inking, background imagery and comics’ symbolic vocabulary. The class then leads into a workshop with students collaborating on jam comics and brainstorming their own individual projects.

Space is limited, advanced registration recommended.

Further details including registration info at http://www.kofflerarts.org/Whats-On/Event-Detail/?recordid=146

ANNOUNCE: Chester Brown’s PAYING FOR IT – Book Launch & Party

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival presents:
Chester Brown’s PAYING FOR IT – Book Launch & Party
Hosted by NOW Magazine’s Sasha Von Bon Bon
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
7:30PM-10PM – Doors at 7
@ Goodhandy’s, 120 Church Street, 2nd Floor
(Just south of Richmond, above Spring Rolls)
Sponsored by The Beguiling, Goodhandy’s Nightclub, Drawn & Quarterly, and The Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Come one come all, to the book launch for the most eagerly-anticipated piece of Canadian literature in 2011–possibly the decade! Chester Brown’s PAYING FOR IT is Brown’s first entirely new graphic novel in nearly 10 years, an autobiographical account of his exploration of and participation in Toronto’s sex-work industry. This candid and intelligent memoir casts an illuminating light on the modern iterations of the world’s oldest profession, and is a perfectly-timed treatise in light of Canada’s own landmark court cases surrounding prostitution.

PAYING FOR IT will make its international debut at a book launch on Sunday, May 1st, the weekend before TCAF! This fun and unique evening will be hosted by NOW Magazine advice columnist and sex-worker advocate Sasha Von Bon Bon, and feature a reading/presentation of PAYING FOR IT by Chester along with an interview between Chester and Sasha, and a moderated Q&A. A signing will follow.

The event will take place at Goodhandy’s nightclub. Billed as “Toronto’s Pansexual Playground,” Goodhandy’s is the culmination of years of collaboration between Mandy Goodhandy (aka Amanda Taylor) and Todd Klinck, two Toronto club promoters and adult video producers.

PAYING FOR IT and a selection of Chester Brown’s previous graphic novels will be available for sale at the event.

“Chester Brown is perhaps the most transparent, honest and relevant voice remaining in contemporary comics, and this is, to my mind, his most powerful and affecting work to date. PAYING FOR IT explores life in the world’s oldest customer-base, and does so with heart, intelligence, and a complete lack of sentiment or self-justification. Rewarding repeated readings, this book will love you long time.” –ALAN MOORE

Sacco Winners!

Try not to be too jealous, but the following folks have each won a ticket to see Joe Sacco in Toronto next Thursday, March 17th:

Henry, Chris, Dave, Brett, Aidan

Congrats to our winners and thanks to everyone who entered!

…and if you didn’t win, here’s how you can get tickets:

Joe Sacco
Part of the UofT Arts Council 2011 Speakers Series
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 @ 8PM
Innis Town Hall, St. George Street at Sussex Ave
Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students & seniors
On sale at: http://www.uofttix.ca/view.php?id=746 and in-store at The Beguiling

– Chris

Shaun Tan’s Lost & Found


“A girl finds a bright spot in a dark world.

A boy leads a strange, lost creature home.

And a group of peaceful creatures loses their home to cruel invaders.”

Lost & Found is beautiful hard cover containing three long unavailable stories (The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, and The Rabbits) by award-winning Australian graphic novelist and illustrator Shaun Tan, now finally back in print.

Tan’s rare skill in crafting tales with interest and appeal for all ages have made his other books, Outer Suburbia and The Arrival, favorites of both staff and customers here at the store.

As you may have heard, the animated adaptation of one of the stories in this book–The Lost Thing–took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film a few weeks back, which has made Tan’s work even more in-demand. We’re quite happy to see this book back in print, and it is in stock on both floors of The Beguiling.

– Parrish

Win a ticket to see Joe Sacco in Toronto March 17th!

Joe Sacco
Part of the UofT Arts Council 2011 Speakers Series
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 @ 8PM
Innis Town Hall, St. George Street at Sussex Ave
Tickets $10 for adults, $5 for students & seniors
On sale at: http://www.uofttix.ca/view.php?id=746 and in-store at The Beguiling

Joe Sacco is one of the world’s premier comic book artists and is widely recognized as a central figure in bringing graphic novels and sequential art into the cultural mainstream. He will be speaking on a variety of subjects including his newest work, Footnotes in Gaza, his return to the Gaza strip and his attempt to get to the heart of a brutal incident from the region’s past!

If you want to win 1 of 5 tickets to see Joe Sacco at U of T on Thursday, March 17th, here’s what you need to do:

For a chance to win, send an e-mail with your name, daytime telephone number, and “SACCO TDOT” in the subject line to beguilingcontests@gmail.com before Wednesday, March 9th at 12pm (noon). Winner will be drawn and contacted on Wednesday the 9th. Their first name will be announced on the website.

RULES & REGULATIONS:
1. Subject line MUST contain entrant’s name, phone number, and “SACCO TDOT”, 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 on the front page of http://beguiling.com.
3. Entries must be received before Wednesday, March 9th at 12pm (noon).
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, etc.

Thanks to the U of T Speakers Series for donating the tickets!

– Chris @ The Beguiling