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ANNOUNCING: MARCH 4: DESCENDER #1 / ALL-NEW HAWKEYE #1 SIGNING! WITH JEFF LEMIRE & RAMON PEREZ

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Descender #1 & All-New Hawkeye #1 Signing Event
With Jeff Lemire & Ramon Perez
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015, 5pm-7pm
@ The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street
Free to attend!

Wednesday, March 4th, is the release date for TWO NEW comics from our good friend Jeff Lemire, and he’s going to drop by The Beguiling with pal Ramon Perez for a signing!

The first release is DESCENDER #1, from Lemire and artist Dustin Nguyen, published by Image Comics. An epic cosmic odyssey, for folks who loved his series TRILLIUM… or folks that just love awesome new Image Comics #1s. 🙂

All-New_Hawkeye_Vol_1_1_TextlessBut, also? ALL-NEW HAWKEYE #1! The Toronto team of Lemire and Ramon Perez are relaunching Hawkeye, following the awesome run by Matt Fraction and co. Ramon Perez will join Lemire to do a signing here in store!

So we hope to see you here at the shop on Wednesday May 4th, between 5pm and 7pm, for the big event! Thanks to Jeff and Ramon for coming out!

– Chris @ The Beguiling

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Junko Mizuno in Toronto this week!

Hey folks! One of our favourite manga-ka and visual artists, Junko Mizuno, is in Toronto this week for a big show at Narwhal Gallery, and there’s a burlesque after party too! We’re huge fans of Junko from way back, and while this isn’t our event we wanted to make absolutely sure you knew about it! See you there!

– Chris @ The Beguiling

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Ambrosial Affair – Gallery & Reception
With Junko Mizuno
Saturday, February 21st, 3pm-6pm
@ Narwhal Gallery, 2104 Dundas St. West
(Show runs Feb 21 to March 15)
http://narwhalcontemporary.com/exhibitions/current-exhibition/junko-mizuno/

Narwhal welcomes Japanese artist Junko Mizuno for Ambrosial Affair, her third Canadian exhibition. As the second body of work in her Food Obsession series, Mizuno takes us on an erotic, psychedelic journey through her world of delightfully dark food fetishes. The exhibition features 20 new pieces of work featuring Mizuno’s voluptuous females appeasing their appetite for all things edible.

JUNKO MIZUNO BURLESQUE AFTERPARTY:
The opening will be followed by a Junko Mizuno inspired Burlesque AfterParty hosted by Red Herring at the Revue Cinema. More information and RSVP. TICKETS: $15 in Advance (and VIP) or $20 at the door. Purchase here

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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Bart Beaty in Toronto for 12 CENT ARCHIE, Feb 13

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Twelve-Cent Archie 
Book Talk by author Bart Beaty
Friday, February 13, 2015
Doors @ 6pm, Talk @ 6:30pm
@ The Central, 603 Markham St.
Free to attend

Have you heard about the new book Twelve-Cent Archie? Sure you have, it’s been featured on Canada AM, in The Toronto Star, and many more places besides! Well the book is out and in-store now, and author Bart Beaty is making a special trip to Toronto to celebrate the release! Bart will be giving a special talk (different than the one at Ryerson from a month or two back) about the book and the Golden Age of Archie Comics in the 1960s, and it’s sure to be a lot of fun for comics fans of all kinds.

Bart will be on hand from 6pm to sign books and chat with the audience, before giving his talk at 6:30pm. Twelve-Cent Archie by Bart Beaty is available now at The Beguiling, and will also be available at the event.

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EVENT: Richard McGuire, author of HERE, in Toronto FEB 12

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We’re quite happy to announce that Richard McGuire, graphic novelist and creator of one of 2014’s greatest books, “HERE”, will be in Toronto on Thursday, February 12th, as part of the Daniels Fora, in a program called @home: Architecture Inside Out, in an event by The University of Toronto and Random House Canada.

Tickets to the event are free, and must be acquired via Eventbrite in order to attend. You can get’em here: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/home-architecture-inside-out-tickets-15403644716

Daniels Fora – @home: Architecture Inside Out
Thursday, February 12, 2015 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West
Free (Tickets Required)

On Thursday, February 12th graphic novelist Richard McGuire, author of the acclaimed book HERE will join Danielle Aubert, co-creator of the book: Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette, Detroit, to discuss the architecture of domesticity, depictions of the home, and how they frame our understanding of the changing ways that our private and public lives play out in the space of the city. Part of the Daniels Fora series, the event — @home: Architecture Inside Out — will explore how the architecture and urbanism that we inhabit is not just the setting for but the narrative subject of human life.

Richard Sommer, Dean and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, and Associate Professor Robert Levit, director of the Daniels Faculty’s Master of Architecture program will moderate.

While conceptions of domestic life and our everyday experiences have been an established focus of modern literature, modern architecture and urbanism have, with few exceptions, remained steadfastly committed to an abstract and conceptual aesthetic. Nevertheless, the sometimes-idiosyncratic way that we occupy our homes and other domesticated spaces can not only inform representations of the built environment, but also influence the way in which we design buildings and cities.

Architects are just beginning to imagine buildings and cities by populating them with people, ephemera, and stories that were deliberately absent a generation ago. Drawing directly on modes of visual description associated with photography, comics, graphic novels, film, painting and historical modes of architecture, the most pioneering work in this area can be found at the boundaries of conventional architectural drawings, narrative description, storytelling, and an expanding repertoire of other media (including digital models, computational language, net-based sound and image archives).

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JAN 10: LUMBERJANES WRITER GRACE ELLIS SIGNING!

The Beguiling & Little Island Comics proudly present

A signing with LUMBERJANES writer Grace Ellis!
Saturday, January 10th, 2015, 2pm-4pm
@ Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst Street
Free to attend

The Beguiling and Little Island Comics cordially invite you to meet Grace Ellis, writer and co-creator of The Lumberjanes, one of our bestselling titles and one of the greatest new series of 2014! Ellis will be on hand to sign copies of The Lumberjanes at Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst, on Saturday, January 10th, at 2pm. Copies of The Lumberjanes are currently available for sale at Little Island Comics.

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What’s The Lumberjanes all about?

Five best friends spending the summer at Lumberjane scout camp…defeating yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons! Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together…and they’re not gonna let any insane quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way!

It’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Gravity Falls and features five butt-kicking, rad teenage girls wailing on monsters and solving a mystery with the whole world at stake.

We sincerely love this series, and we’re thrilled to welcome Grace Ellis to Toronto! Hooray!

– Chris

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JAN 10: LUMBERJANES WRITER GRACE ELLIS IN-STORE!

The Beguiling & Little Island Comics proudly present

A signing with LUMBERJANES writer Grace Ellis!
Saturday, January 10th, 2015, 2pm-4pm
@ Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst Street
Free to attend

The Beguiling and Little Island Comics cordially invite you to meet Grace Ellis, writer and co-creator of The Lumberjanes, one of our bestselling titles and one of the greatest new series of 2014! Ellis will be on hand to sign copies of The Lumberjanes at Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst, on Saturday, January 10th, at 2pm. Copies of The Lumberjanes are currently available for sale at Little Island Comics.

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What’s The Lumberjanes all about?

Five best friends spending the summer at Lumberjane scout camp…defeating yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons! Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together…and they’re not gonna let any insane quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way!

It’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Gravity Falls and features five butt-kicking, rad teenage girls wailing on monsters and solving a mystery with the whole world at stake.

We sincerely love this series, and we’re thrilled to welcome Grace Ellis to Toronto! Hooray!

– Chris

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Lecture: Twelve-Cent Archie: America’s Most Iconic Teenagers in Comics, with Bart Beaty! DEC 8

Twelve-Cent Archie: America’s Most Iconic Teenagers in Comics
Lecture with Bart Beaty
Monday, December 8, 5pm-7pm
@ MLC Gallery, 111 Gerrard Street East, Ground Floor
Free, RSVP Required

12centarchie_tinyComics academic Bart Beaty will speak about his discoveries on comics figure Archie at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Monday, December 8, 5-7 PM. The event is free of charge and open to the general public. Refreshments will be served.

Location: MLC Gallery, 111 Gerrard Street East, Ground Floor.

For more information about the event, contact bpostema@ryerson.ca
To RSVP, contact: admin@mlc.ryerson.ca | 416-979-5000 ext. 7668

Beaty’s book Twelve-Cent Archie will be published early next year by Rutger’s University Press. Bart Beaty is a professor at the University of Calgary, in the Department of English. A renowned comics scholar, he has written several books, including Fredric Wertham and Critique of Mass Culture, Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s, and Comics Versus Art.

This event is hosted by the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre and sponsored by the English Department and the Faculty of Arts through a Special Events Grant.

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DEC 3: Just The Tips: Book Launch with Chip Zdarsky – NOW AT TCAF SHOP!

Just The Tips: A Sexual Guide from the Creators of Sex Criminals
Book Launch Event, with Chip Zdarsky
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014, 6pm-8pm
EVENT MOVED! NOW @ The TCAF Pop-Up Shop,
Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St.
FREE
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Just in time for the holidays, Chip Zdarsky and The Beguiling Proudly/Ashamedly team to bring you a book launch for the item that will be on all sexy peoples’ wish lists: Just The Tips: A sexual guide by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, authors of Sex Criminals.

What is ‘brimping’? Or ‘Dutch microwaving’? And what is sexy (hint: butt stuff)? All of these questions and many more will be answered in a beautiful little hardcover book for just $12.99. Probably a bunch of questions in there you never thought of, and answers you could’ve done without knowing. Look, it’s a mixed bag, but so’s sex, right? Or is that just for me….?

So, seriously, block out your evening, Wednesday, December 3rd, and come see Chip and get this excellent little slice of heaven, which he will mark-up for you in ways you probably weren’t prepared for. Christmas!

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