We are out of Batman's Dick: The Comic. Thank you for your interest in Batman's Dick: The Comic. Due to your interest in Batman's Dick: The Comic we think you might like: Tom of Finland XXL
As a result, the staff of The Beguiling, Little Island and Page & Panel have started a gofundme to hopefully help us all weather the storm until we can return at full force! If you’re able to donate, we would all greatly appreciate it!!
Hard not to take it personally when the renovictors of our old location try to enlist comics artists to gloss over their giant hole in the ground/future condos.
FYI: They have a long history of renovicting arts spaces on the west coast as well! Real surprising, huh?
Every day there's people walking around thinking they're good but they have months of comics sitting in their pull files at their local comic shop.
Pick up your pull file.
JUST ANNOUNCED! Artist
@maruti_bitamin
joins us in store from 3-7PM to launch their new collection grow: The Art of Koyamori! She will be doing live-drawing in our gallery space & signing books! RSVP & feel good about yourself:
HUGE NEWS! MAGICIAN A by Natsuko Ishitsuyo is the first title from Beguiling owner Peter Birkemoe's new publishing imprint BDP! Spearheaded and translated by Eisner Award-winning translator Jocelyne Allen!
The Kickstarter is live NOW!!!
BIG NEWS! We're thrilled to officially announce the GRAND RE-OPENING of LITTLE ISLAND COMICS!!! This has been a long time in the making & we're happy to finally share it with all of you!
Just gonna share this delightful excerpt from Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, one of our top recommendations for Books to Read So You Can Chill Out for a Bit Right Now
JUST ANNOUNCED! On April 25 we welcome EMILY CARROLL back to the store to help celebrate the launch of WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE from Koyama Press!
RSVP and feel great about your life choices!:
For every publisher or creator tweet today telling people to take advantage of Prime Day sales I’m adding a day to my ‘don’t recommend a customer any books from that publisher or artist’ counter.
Watching
#UmbrellaAcademy
has multiple pleasures. The work of Gerard Way with Gabriel Bá, friend of the Beguiling/TCAF, plus seeing the talents of many local film-folk, and recognizing locations from around Toronto—like the Merril Collection
Today from 3-7PM!
@maruti_bitamin
is in-store live drawing and signing copies of grow: The Art of Koyamori! We have our copies and they look BEAUTIFUL so come see for yourself and take one home!
It’s disappointing it’s come to this but here we are: please don’t vape in the back issue basement. Thanks in advance, although if this tweet is really all that stopped you that’s a whole other problem.
The Beguiling stands behind and with the
#defendthe11
group! Starting today through the end of October, we will be accepting donations to their legal defense in-store & matching all $ raised! We'll have a second fundraiser announced soon too! Stand up for your community!
.
@MinovskyArticle
showing off his old-school copy of UZUMAKI, and who is the pullquote on the back? Oh, just someone named CHRIS BUTCHER! From There to Here: TCAF 2019.
Place those orders! Give us a call or an email and we’ll get you your comics! Have em delivered or pick ‘em up curbside in your car! I am using a lot of exclamation marks to drive home how much we need your support right now!
Happy to say that we are now carrying danmei novels from
@ViaLactea_Ltd
. Each set comes with special bonuses, some including beautiful author signed postcards.
Check them out in our new & growing danmei section, alongside other books about gay Chinese romance and intrigue!
Lucy opened her psychiatric booth 62 yrs ago today in a Peanuts strip published on 3/27/1959! Lucy’s psychiatric services are sought by many in the Peanuts Gang for a mere 5 cents. See the original comic strip up close in our exhibition, Girl Power in Peanuts, through 11/8/2021!
A great start to
#TCAF
weekend in being able to show
@torikaiakane
the English editions of SENSEI'S PIOUS LIE for the first time. (Volume 2 hot off the presses)
Weird how much I missed new comics shipment days while at the same time not sorting 900 different variant covers on a single issue of Vampirella was seriously improving my life. I guess what I’m saying is I contain multitudes, and they apparently all have to do with Vampirella.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9TH The Beguiling &
@LittleIslandCmx
welcome illustrator Anoosha Syed for a kid-friendly event celebrating her new book I AM PERFECTLY DESIGNED, written by QUEER EYE star Karamo Brown & his son Jeremy!
RSVP and more info here!
another long day at the comic book mill but you can't help but smile when you know you're enriching someone's day by shipping them a copy of Gimme That Semen
So sad to hear that Howard Cruse has passed away. Our thoughts are with his partner Eddie and his friends and family. His work on GAY COMIX, WENDELL, and of course STUCK RUBBER BABY meant so much to so many of us. RIP.
BID ON THE WONDER WOMAN PAGE BY JOHN BYRNE HERE:
bidding closes 6PM Sunday, all money goes to Black Lives Matter Toronto
#ComicWritersChallenge
(sort of)
either our tweets got reported because i posted the cover of The Perineum Technique or this account got really boring really fast. Either way, like this so we know we exist on twitter!
IMPORTANT NEWS:
We'll be closing indefinitely for regular in-store shopping end of business day today, 03/16. This Wednesday, we'll open in a limited capacity for customers to pick up their comics. Shipping and curb-side pick-up are still available!
Thank you so much everyone ❤️
First it was vaping- yesterday, a couple decided old comics were the perfect aphrodisiac. With that in mind, we'd like to get in front of a few other things you shouldn't use our back issue basement for:
-Dog fighting
-Making a stew
-Cryptic ceremonies
more to come, I'm sure.
As a result, the staff of The Beguiling, Little Island and Page & Panel have started a gofundme to hopefully help us all weather the storm until we can return at full force! If you’re able to donate, we would all greatly appreciate it!!
We got an email yesterday from pullfile customer thanking the staff for all our service and work we do & it literally moved me to tears (then I had to go quickly wash my hands to brush them away before anyone else saw), THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING US WE LOVE YOU ❤️
TCAF news truly feels like kicking you when you’re down so wanted to take a moment to just say much we love the amazing
@Comics212
& everyone else who work so hard on
@TorontoComics
year-round, and how much we appreciate all they did & all they are doing. ❤️
A very important way you can support small business right now is being understanding! We’re not Amaz*n (THANK GOD), one human being is doing every stage of your orders! Patience is a virtue, and it immediately makes us like you to boot.
To celebrate
#TIFF19
, we've asked friends and customers who work in film and television to recommend a comic. Over the festival we'll be featuring them here and in the shop. If you are visiting the city, drop by!
Peter is quoted in this CTV article as to why we're gonna keep going with mailouts and curbside pickup for the time being. We miss seeing everyone come through the door, but we want to keep serving people as best we can until we feel it's safe to do so.
HUGE thanks to
@DCComics
for recognizing comic shops everywhere were having a super easy time at the moment and could really use a little variety to spice things up
Some news! Our wicket continues to be staffed 11am-6pm daily but we’re now *also* open again on select days for in-store browsing — Wednesdays and weekends only, during those hours. Masks remain mandatory.
JUST ANNOUNCED! On Thursday, June 6th we welcome creators BEN O'NEIL and JESSICA BROMLEY BARTRAM to celebrate the launch of their books APOLOGETICA & GHOST WATER KISS from Popnoir Editions!
RSVP over here & feel good all day:
We’re here, we’re open regular hours & we have a lot of good comics 📚 We’re taking things very seriously but we’re not panicking! We also naturally stand 3 feet away from customers to come off as aloof & cool 😎
Our back issue basement is officially OPEN! Come on in and shop our huge selection of silver, bronze and current age stock as well as our newly-expanded higher-end comics section! Not timed to line up with a bunch of comics guests from out of town being here or anything!
Looking for the perfect stocking stuffer for Spider-Fans new or old? It's SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN 310 by Toronto's own
@zdarsky
!! Ranked 3rd on Vulture's Best Superhero Stories of 2018 (1st in comics) & the coveted "Peter read a superhero comic & liked it this decade" award!!
JLA/Avengers -- We are receiving far fewer copies of this book than the vast number of customer inquiries. In order to give everyone interested a chance to obtain a copy of this book we will be raffling them off. 100% of the proceeds of this raffle will go to the Hero Initiative.
It’s Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! We’re celebrating it by being an independent bookstore that’s open regular hours!
...look, it’s free comic book day next Saturday, it’s TCAF the weekend after, we can only do so much.
In closing I have a request of you —shop ! Come by the curbside window! Support this store, which I love so much! And if my good friend is there, say hi for me
-Jarrett
What I wouldn’t give to be bleary-eyed and stumbling around TCAF right now instead of drinking coffee quietly at home because on top of everything else NOW when I forget to phone my mother later today I won’t have a good excuse.