Girls With Slingshots & Tank Girl Signed Copies In Store

Hey thanks to everyone who came out to meet Danielle Corsetto, author of the web (and print!) comic GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS last Friday night. GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS is generally only available directly from Danielle, but she was nice enough to sell us a bunch of copies for here in-store. If you weren’t able to make it out to the event, signed copies of GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS volume 1 + 2 are now available for $20 each (both floors).

Speaking of which, we also got a bunch of Rufus Dayglo’s two TANK GIRL collections, TANK GIRL: THE GIFTING and TANK GIRL: VISIONS OF BOOGA signed AND sketched in by the man himself at his recent signing. They’re available for their standard price (about $21) on the second floor.

– Chris @ The Beguiling

Shipping August 19th, 2009

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price.

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– Chris @ The Beguiling

NEW IN THE ARTSTORE: BA, O’MALLEY, MOON

Hey Original Art lovers! We’re pleased to announce that following a fruitful convention season, we’ve got a bunch of brand new art in The Beguiling Art Store from some of our favourite creators!

For all of you fans of THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, Gabriel Ba has provided us with a plethora of pages from THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY and THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: DALLAS. These two series are written by “My Chemical Romance” frontman Gerard Way, and both will be available in trade paperback soon.

SUGARSHOCK is Fabio Moon‘s collaboration with Buffy creator Joss Whedon, and in addition to its appearances in MySpace Dark Horse Presents, SUGARSHOCK is getting it’s own one-shot this fall! Fabio has provided us with several new pages from the series, as well as the cover art for the one-shot!

And it’s been a long-time coming, but Bryan Lee O’Malley has given us a bunch of pages from his smash-hit series SCOTT PILGRIM, including two of the double-page spreads set at Toronto Reference Library! Plus, a very rare piece of art from the launch party for Scott Pilgrim V1.

We’re also working with a number of other artists including Jeffrey Brown, Sammy Harkham, and Ron Rege Jr. to offer brand new art by them as well. Keep an eye on the blog (and on their artstore pages) for updates!

Thanks,

– Chris @ The Beguiling

Sci-Fi/Anime Flea Market @ Friends of The Merril

Science Fiction / Anime Flea Market
Presented by The Friends of The Merril Collection

Saturday, September 12th, 10:00 AM to 4 PM in the Beeton Auditorium
at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St.

FREE

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Are your shelves being weighed down by old paperbacks and DVDs? Are you hunting for the R2-D2 Pez dispensor or Cutey Honey action figure you need to fill out your collection? Do you have convention program books that need a good home? Then worry no more, as The Friends of the Merril Collection present a science fiction/anime flea market, one-stop shopping for your genre bric-a-brac needs.

The Flea Market will be held on Saturday, September 12th, from 10 AM to 4 PM in the Beeton Auditorium at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street.

Admission is FREE!!

Posted for our friends at Friends of The Merril

TUESDAY NIGHT: Marvel 70th Anniversary Party & Sale

The Marvel 70th Anniversary Party and Sale
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009, From 9pm-11pm
@ The Beguiling Books & Art, 601 Markham Street, Toronto, Canada
Just around the corner from Honest Eds, at Bathurst Subway Station
FREE TO ATTEND

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The Beguiling would like to wish Marvel Comics a Happy 70th Birthday, and so we’re participating in this great big international party that they’re throwing. But we’ve decided we’re going to go all out, create a giant, ridiculous event that everyone will enjoy. So, here’s hoping you enjoy it!

The Beguling will close at it’s normal time of 7PM on Tuesday, August 11th, only to reopen 2 hours later for the 70th Anniversary party! That’s right, swing by the store starting at 9PM to join us for the party.

DETAILS:

– Be the first to own “The Marvels Project #1” by the Captain America team of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, which will be on sale starting at 9pm. And hey, everyone loves Ed Brubaker, right?

– Have access to ALL of the insane variant covers for The Marvels Project #1, including the 70th Anniversary Variant, the Blank Cover Variant, the 70th Anniversary Edition Party Variant, the Steve McNiven Variant, Gerald Parel Variant, and Steve McNiven Sketch Variant. Prices TBD.

AND EXCLUSIVE TO THE BEGUILING:

– SALE: 20% off U.S. Cover Price on all normally-priced Marvel trade paperbacks

– SALE: Secret in-store sales on select additional Marvel stuff!

– SALE: Massive Variant Sale! Up to 90% off select variant comics.

– Get a free Marvel 70th Anniversary Poster with any purchase over $100 (limited to the first 5 people).

– MARVEL COMICS TRIVIA CONTEST. PRIZES!

– Punch and Pie!

Be there or be square!

– Chris @ The Beguiling

TONIGHT: New TANK GIRL artist Rufus Dayglo @ The Beguiling!

TANK GIRL CANADIAN CAMO TOUR
Featuring New Tank Girl Artist Rufus Dayglo
Friday, August 7th, 2009, 6pm-8pm
@ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, Toronto
FREE

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Join The Beguiling in welcoming RUFUS DAYGLO, the brand new artist of TANK GIRL. Handpicked by co-creator and writer Alan C. Martin and co-creator Jamie Hewlett, DAYGLO has been drawing the adventures of Tank, Jet, Booga and company in Britain’s weekly 2000AD anthology for a few months now, and also provided artistic duties alongside Ashley Wood on the recent IDW Tank Girl series’!

Books that Rufus Dayglo have contributed to include:
Tank Girl: The Gifting (IDW)
Tank Girl: Visions of Booga (IDW)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (IDW)
SNAKED (IDW)
2000AD

Rufus Dayglo will be signing and sketching for fans at The Beguiling on Friday, August 7th from 6pm-8pm. The first 20 attendees will get a free copy of 2000AD with an Alan Martin/Rufus Dayglo TANK GIRL story in it!

This event is free to attend!

Shipping August 5th, 2009

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price.

Click here for the complete list: /090805shipping.txt

Also of note:
– We’re finally getting our reorder of DC Comics’ surprise-hit series Wednesday Comics, which means it will be available for your purchasing pleasure. We’re still going to limit purchases to one per person, as we want to make sure that all of our customers get a crack at them.
– To make sure that we have the books early enough for the Big Marvel 70th Anniversary Party next Tuesday, Marvel and Diamond shipped us “The Marvel Project #1” a week early. It was shipped with explicit instructions to all stores not to sell it before Tuesday, August 11th at 9pm. Since that’s what we were told, and since if we don’t we won’t be able to participate in future events like this, we’re following this rule to the letter. That’s why you’re going to see this book listed on certain shipping lists, and why we’re not selling it until we’re supposed to.
Alright, see ya Wednesday.
– Chris

ANNOUNCE: KING-CAT Author John Porcellino in Toronto

KING CAT: John Porcellino In Toronto
Autobio comics legend at The Beguiling!
Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 7pm-10pm

@ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, Toronto, Canada
FREE

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Join us in welcoming autobio comix legend John Porcellino, author of the KING-CAT series of comics, to his first Toronto visit that we can remember! Porcellino will be celebrating his 20th anniversary of making comics, and touring his new graphic novel MAP OF MY HEART, coming this fall from Drawn & Quarterly.

John Porcellino will be doing an all-new audio/visual presentation of his work, and signing and sketching for fans.

The event is currently scheduled to take place at both The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street, and The Central, 603 Markham Street, Next Door.

About:

JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, a collection of King-Cat stories about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in 2005, and Perfect Example, first published in 2000, chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix, published in 2007, is a comprehensive overview of the zine’s first fifty issues, and Thoreau at Walden is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals. According to cartoonist Chris Ware, “John Porcellino’s comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive.”

Porcellino’s work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Italian. He currently lives in Denver with his wife Misun, and two Skweezil-Cats named Liz and Charlie.

More info: www.king-cat.net.

Map of My Heart celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino’s seminal and influential comics zine, King-Cat Comics, which he began self-publishing in 1989. In this collection, Porcellino, while living in isolation and experiencing the pain of divorce, crafts a melancholic, tender graphic-ballad of heartbreak and reflection.

Known for his sad, quiet honesty, rendered in his signature deceptively minimalist style, Porcellino has a command of graphic storytelling as sophisticated as the medium’s more visually intricate masters. Few other artists are able to so expertly contemplate the sadness, beauty, and wonder of life in so few lines.

Map of My Heart release date: September 29, 2009, from Drawn & Quarterly Books, Montreal. www.drawnandquarterly.com

– Chris @ The Beguiling