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DEC 21: The Dinosaur Comics / Beguiling Holiday Extravaganza 2016

It’s The Dinosaur Comics & The Beguiling Holiday Party 2016!

It’s the Dinosaur Comics, Beguiling, Starlord, Pitiful Human-Lizard, Power Man & Iron Fist, WIcked & Divine Holiday Extravaganza 2016!
Featuring Ryan North, Chip Zdarsky, Jason Loo, Scott Hepburn, and special guest Jamie McKelvie!

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016, 7pm-11pm
@ Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor Street West, Toronto
FREE TO ATTEND

star-lord_1_coverThe Beguiling is proud to once again welcome one and all to our annual Dinosaur Comics Holiday Party! Things might be tough right now, but that makes getting together with friends, comics, and some secret Santa-ing even more important. This year Ryan North, creator of Dinosaur Comics and writer of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl will be joined by a bunch of pals with brand new books, out today!

  • Chip Zdarsky will be there, and today is the day of release for his new comic book Star-Lord #1 from Marvel Comics!
  • Jason Loo will be there, and he’ll have a brand new issue of Toronto’s own superhero The Pitiful Human-Lizard!
  • Scott Hepburn will be there, and he’s the artist of the Power Man & Iron Fist: Sweet Christmas Annual #1, brand new today!
  • AND ALL THE WAY FROM ENGLAND, Mr. Jamie McKelvie will be in attendance, and he’s the co-creator of The Wicked and The Divine.

If you’ve never been before, Ryan, Chip, and pals will be getting together and signing/mingling with folks, we’ll ask them some fun questions in front of an audience, and there’ll be books there for you to buy and get signed too (courtesy of The Beguiling). Plus, returning for another year is the popular SECRET SANTA trade at the event! Read on for details!

HEY EVERYONE! WHY NOT JOIN IN FOR OUR SECRET SANTA?

We’re holding a SECRET SANTA at this event! Everyone is welcome to participate, but no one has to if they don’t want to because choice is important!

If you would like to participate:

  • Please bring a wrapped gift with a monetary value of about $5-$10. Don’t go nuts, but find something cool.
  • 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.

Thanks to Ryan, Chip, and Pauper’s for helping us throw this again this year!

#ZDARSCON is coming September 3rd! GET READY FOR IT!

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#ZDARSCON 2016!
Featuring Bryan Lee O’Malley, Ryan North, and Surprise Guests!
and also Chip Zdarsky
Saturday, September 3rd, 11am-6pm

@ Secret Location To Be Revealed
Follow @zdarsky @thebeguiling & #zdarscon on Twitter for deets
Free to attend

It’s happening again! #ZDARSCON is the official comic book event of Chip Zdarsky, but this time he’s bringing some special pals to the event! You have no idea what to expect, even if you went last time, because this is nothing like last time or any time for that matter.

Saturday morning, September 3rd, be ready.

  • Chris @ The Beguiling

DEC 17: It’s The Beguiling & Dinosaur Comics Holiday Party!

The Fifth-Ever Beguiling, Dinosaur Comics, Squirrel Girl, Jughead, Kaptara, A Softer World Holiday Party 2015!
Featuring Erica Henderson, Emily Horne, Kagan McLeod, Ryan North, Chip Zdarsky, & Special Guests!
Thursday, December 17th, 2015, 7:30pm-10pm (Doors at 7pm)
@ Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor St. W., 2nd Floor
FREE TO ATTEND

A holiday tradition returns, as The Beguiling is once again thrilled to welcome one and all to our almost-annual Dinosaur Comics Holiday Party & Book Launch, featuring our good friend Ryan North! This year Ryan will be joined by a star-studded list of good pals and collaborators on his projects, including Erica Henderson (artist on Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead), Chip Zdarsky (writer on Jughead and Kaptara), Kagan McLeod (aritst on Kaptara), and Emily Horne, of the recently-completed comic strip A Softer World! Plus, who knows, a few special guests and a few special books might make an appearance as well!

All of our guests will be getting together for some holiday cheer, with a fun on-stage interview, and a book signing too! Get your comics signed, or buy comics there (courtesy of The Beguiling) to get signed for yourself or for gifts! There’s nothing better than signed comics for Christmas gifts!

Plus, returning for another year is the popular SECRET SANTA event! Read on for details!

All of this is happening Thursday, December 17th, 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:

We’re holding a SECRET SANTA at this event! Everyone is welcome to participate, but no one has to if they don’t want to because choice is important!

If you would like to participate:
– Please bring a wrapped gift with a monetary value of about $5-$10.
– 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.

EVENT: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl v1 Launch! Featuring Ryan North!

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Volume 1: Squirrel Power
Book Launch & Party with Ryan North
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015, 6pm-8pm
@ Page & Panel: The TCAF Shop, 789 Yonge Street
Free to attend

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The unlikely, unusual, unbeatable Squirrel Girl has been rocking comic book shops since its first issue premiered earlier this year, and now a great big book of her amazing adventures will make its debut on Wednesday, August 19th! To celebrate, we’re inviting series writer Ryan North to swing by Page & Panel: The TCAF Shop that day for a party, and you’re invited!

  • Squirrel Girl Volume 1 will be available that day, featuring issues #1-4 plus the first-ever appearance of Squirrel Girl!
  • Issues 5, 6, 7, and 8 will also be available!
  • Light refreshments!
  • Party Atmosphere!
  • Surprises?

We’ll see you on Wednesday, August 19th in store at Page & Panel!

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SIGNED IN-STOCK: To Be or Not To Be & The Midas Flesh!

RyanNorthSignedFresh off of one of the hottest holiday parties this festive season, hometown hero and author extrordinaire Ryan North came by the store to sign a whole bunch of copies of To Be or Not To Be and The Midas Flesh #1.

Are you looking for some great gift ideas for the readers in your life? A signed book is a fun flourish on an old classic! It’s the the thing that everybody loves (a book) plus a little something special to make it unique (a signature). And where else can you get it but at The Beguiling?

Do Hamlet the way you want to do Hamlet! Find out the awesome possibilities of dinosaurs in space! Have all these things with Ryan North’s official seal of approval! This really is a magical time of year.

To Be or Not To Be and The Midas Flesh are available on the both floors of The Beguiling.

 

 

Review: This Is How You Die

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REVIEW: This Is How You Die 
Edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki !
Published by Grand Central Publishing
Currently in-stock at The Beguiling

Review by John Anderson

The Machine of Death started as an idea in Dinosaur Comics. Imagine a machine that tells you how you’re going to die. Its predictions are never wrong, but they are also never straightforward. So a prediction of MODERN MEDICINE means a drug overdose. PUMP MALFUNCTION? Heart attack. You can spend your whole life trying to avoid your death, but the machine’s prediction is always right in the end.

This is How You Die is the second collection of short stories based on this premise, and it’s brilliant, scary, hilarious, and a lot of fun to read. Each story takes the idea of a machine that predicts your death, and runs with it in a different direction.

Continue reading Review: This Is How You Die

Choose Your Own Book Launch Photos!

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Thanks to everyone who came out to Choose Your Own Book Launch! To Be or Not to Be Vs This is How You Die! I think it’s safe to say that may have been the best book launch  we’ve ever held, or at least top five.

The amazing Paul Hillier took a ton of photos that we’ve posted on the Beguiling Events Group on Facebook — so you should totally check those out and then join the Beguiling Events Group!

Special thanks to our authors Ryan North and David Malki !, and artists Gillian Georz, Dara Gold, Chris Jones, John Martz, Kean Soo, Jim Zubkavich, and Matt Yantha.

Additional thanks to the Classical Theatre Project, Malabar, and our wonderful venues, Butler’s Pantry and Southern Accent.

And stay tuned for more event announcements — we’ve got some really exciting things planned for the Fall.