Thursday, October 18 we’re excited to welcome Koyamori to the store to celebrate the launch of their first collection, grow: The Art of Koyamori!

This event will be a bit of a different setup– Koyamori will be in-store starting at 3PM doing a live-drawing event in our gallery space! We’ll be projecting the artwork onto a screen so you can hang out and watch to your heart’s content before grabbing your very own signed copy of grow!

SEE YOU THEN! This is going to be amazing!

“This is the first art collection by the young Canadian artist/illustrator Koyamori (also known as Maruti_Bitamin). Over the past five years, she has gained attention through regularly sharing her fascinating illustrations on her Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter accounts. This work has been collected in grow and accompanied by a selection of specially created new illustrations.

Using mostly watercolor ink, Koyamori’s highly imaginative but intimate illustrations incorporate colorful natural elements such as plants, creatures, water and stars, and also feature super-cute manga-inspired characters. A reversible dust jacket includes the cover from the Japanese edition on the reverse side. Both covers are new illustrations exclusively drawn for this long-awaited book.”

If you shop at our store you know that this one is kind of a no-brainer for us to be hosting: two of our favourite people in comics releasing their new books from more of our favourite people in comics, and they all happen to be the best in the biz too! How’s that for luck?

Thursday, October 11^th  we’re thrilled to have MICHAEL DEFORGE & PATRICK KYLE here to help launch their new books from KOYAMA PRESS, BRAT and ROAMING FOLIAGE! Patrick & Michael will be here! We’ll be here! Koyama will be here! A screen will be pulled down, and images will be projected upon it! It’ll be glorious!

Things will kick off at 7PM! We’ll see you there!

On Wednesday, October 10th,  The Beguiling is honoured to welcome GORD HILL, creator of THE 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK and THE ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK to the store to celebrate the launch of THE ANTIFA COMIC BOOK from Arsenal Pulp Press!

Things will kick off at 7PM! More exact details are coming soon but there will definitely be a chance to meet Gord Hill, get your book signed and plenty more! This is going to be an AMAZING event!

Our thanks to Arsenal Pulp for making this possible!

The fourth and final volume of the Almost Summer series will be available in bookstores on September 13th and Pow Pow Press will be celebrating its release with a book launch in Toronto! Join us at The Beguiling on September 22nd for an evening with the Pow Pow crew. Sophie Bédard will be there, alongside Michel Hellman (Nunavik), Cathon (Vampire Cousins) and publisher Luc Bossé!

“Almost Summer strikes a perfect balance between drama and comedy, chronicling the daily life of a group of teenagers. In this final chapter, Anthony is looking for an apartment while Michelle is looking for a prom dress. Matthew is trying to make sense of his own feelings while Emily is trying to assert herself. High school is almost over. But you know what they say: it’s not over till it’s over. And even then, it’s not really the end.”

This event will kick off at 7PM! There’ll be a presentation and talk along with a Q&A and a chance to get your books signed! See you there!