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NOW IN STOCK: Christmas Cards!

Ho ho ho! The big day’s getting close and you need a little something-something to jazz up your purchases? Why not get greeting cards from great comics and fine artists! We’ve got a great selection of cool Christmas cards you won’t find at the Hallmark, including cards by webcomics favs Ryan North, Kate Beaton (above), Jeff Rowland, and David Malki !, and Bettie Page dressed up in a Santa-hat and not much else, and cool art-cards from Mark Ryden, Tim Biskup, and Dame Darcy. Or maybe just the bizarre and haunting illustrations of Marcel Dzama? Neil Gaiman has a morose Santa Claus card too. It’s brutal. Perfect for Christmas! All cards are $3.99 and come with envelopes! First floor, cash register.
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Not Entirely In Stock: THE BOX MAN, by Imiri Sakabashira

D&Q’s next Gekiga release is THE BOX MAN, an utterly strange and fantastic new book by mangaka Imiri Sakabashira. We have received a very few advance orders of the book and it’s in stock now, but who can say for how long…? If you’ve been DYING for this book to come out for the past few months, RUN, don’t walk to the store, as we’ll probably end up out of stock until after New Year’s.

– Chris @ The Beguiling
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NOW IN STOCK: Blackest Night Rings, Blackest Night #1 for $1.

Are you a fan of Green Lantern? Are you a fan of the mega-popular BLACKEST NIGHT crossover? Are you at least a little bit curious about the whole kerfuffle? We’ve got a few deals for you!

LANTERN RINGS NOW FOR SALE: We are now selling individual Lantern rings from the various Lantern corps. The Green Lantern and Black Lantern rings are $2 each, and the Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Indigo, and Violet Lantern rings are $1 each. Or, you can buy the complete set of 8 rings for $8, in a handy little package we made up (see above!) suitable for gift-giving.

BLACKEST NIGHT #1, JUST A BUCK: Hey, do you want to know what this Blackest Night thing is all about? Well we’ll make it easy. We’re now selling Blackest Night number 1 for just $1 (plus tax). No strings. Buy it for a dollar. We figure if you like it, you’ll come back and buy the rest. (Normal price: US$3.99)

(Please note: The promotion where you could buy certain crossover books to get a ring is now over.)

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NOW IN STOCK: Kazu Kibuishi’s COPPER and Jake Parker’s MISSILE MOUSE

Just in time for Christmas! If you were looking for books for the kid on your list that’s all-done with the BONE series and is looking for the next great book to read, check out these fantastic new graphic novels from Scholastic’s GRAPHIX line!

AMULET creator Kazu Kibuishi presents COPPER, a fun and funny action adventure story with shorts that have previously appeared in Flight and Flight: Explorer. COPPER is a collection of short stories and strips that build a larger portrait of the world, and while it’s totally great for younger readers older readers will appreciate the layered humour and complex range of emotions in the cast. Available in HC for $27.99 and in SC for $16.99.
Meanwhile, you may recognize Jake Parker’s MISSILE MOUSE from the cover of Flight: Explorer a few years back! Well he’s blasting off in his first solo adventure, MISSILE MOUSE: THE STAR CRUSHER. This story is a slam-bang action tale and the best part is it’s done-in-one, with a complete beginning, middle, and end… but with lots of room for future adventures! MISSILE MOUSE is available in HC for $27.99 and SC for $13.99.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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NOW IN STOCK: A Softer World Volume 2

NOW IN STOCK! A Softer World Volume 2: Second Best Isn’t So Bad, by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau: The popular Torontonian webcomics duo have released their second collection of material! These are much-lauded and disturbing pieces of short fiction written by Comeau and illustrated with the haunting photography of Horne. $20, both floors.

We’ve also restocked Volume 1, and Joey Comeau’s other novels (including Overqualified, pictured).
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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Oh Noes! COMIC AG to end soon!

This is the ad we’re running in the last 3 issues of the fondly-remembered twice-monthly hentai magazine COMIC AG. Unfortunately the series is scheduled to come to a close with issue #110 in the next month or so. Just like the ad says though, we’ve got all kinds of smut still in stock at the store, including tons of back-issues of this series and Icarus hentai manga.

For more on COMIC AG and other Icarus Publishing comics and graphic novels, be sure to check out their website and blog at http://www.icaruscomics.com/wp_web/. You probably don’t need to be told, but that link is Very NSFW (not safe for work). Well, it’s safe for my work, but I work at The Beguiling. 🙂

– Chris @ The Beguiling

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NOW IN STOCK: The Rabble of Downtown Toronto, by Jason Kieffer

Now in stock, the new (and first professionally printed) work by Doug Wright Award-Nominated cartoonist Jason Kieffer, The Rabble of Downtown Toronto. This is an interesting book project, as Kieffer chronicles various notable street people in Toronto, himself included. Possibly the most Torontonian book we sell.
This book is currently exclusive to The Beguiling, and is $10. Available on both floors.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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Now In Stock: DOUJINSHI! Fan-comics from Japan!

Hey manga and yaoi fans! From Japan, we got some doujinshi! We got Naruto Doujinshi! We got Bleach Doujinshi! We got Evangelion Doujinshi! We got Final Fantasy 7 Doujinshi! Lovey-dovey to hardcore! Doujin! Unlicensed adventures featuring your favourite anime, manga, and video game characters! We even got some CRAZY RARE Fumi Yoshinaga doujin! From $5 and up!

Yaoi doujinshi! If you don’t know what it is you probably don’t want it! But if you do know what it is then today is the best day!
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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NOW IN STOCK: Electric Ant Zine #2

Zinesters rejoice! Fresh from California comes the second fantastic issue of ELECTRIC ANT, the new zine edited by Ryan Sands. The first issue was the one with the hot pink QR code on it… you remember right? Well this issue features a “hot” cover as well by Jin & Jam creator Helen Jo, and is subtitled “Exquisite Corpses”.

Other features this ish include a behind-the-scenes look at the Takarazuka Revue (neat!), original fiction, comics, illustrations, and more. Oh, and many of the contributors will be at TCAF 2010, so pick it up now so you’re ready when #3 debuts!
ELECTRIC ANT #2: EXQUISITE CORPSES retails for $13, and is available now.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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NOW IN STOCK: Clamp No Kiseki Volume 1-12 Set

Looking for the best gift EVER for the shoujo manga fan on your list? Or just want to grab a very difficult-to-collect series all at once? We’ve managed to assemble a complete set of the English edition of the CLAMP magazine series CLAMP NO KISEKI, and we’re selling it for just $200 (U.S. Retail: $299.88, CDN Retail: $400+)!
CLAMP NO KISEKI is a 12 volume magazine series published in English by Tokyopop, with each book focusing on a different manga series by the popular all-woman manga collective CLAMP. Each magazine is 32 pages, full colour, and includes rare manga, art and more. As a bonus, each magazine included 3 CLAMP Chess Pieces featuring characters from their books!
All 12 volumes are unopened, although the packaging (not the magazines) is occasionally banged up a little bit.
We’ve also got tons of other great CLAMP stuff, including English-language and Japanese-language artbooks, manga, character-guides, DVD, and the just-released TSUBASA VOLUME 24 and TSUBASA ORIGINAL ART COLLECTION.
Available in-store. For mail-order pricing please contact us directly.
Please note: We are only selling Clamp No Kiseki V1-12 as a set.
– Chris @ The Beguiling