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Marissa Meyer in Toronto
by Dan
Events + Kids + YA Fiction / February 19, 2013
New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer is coming to Toronto!
Marissa will be signing Scarlet, the sequel to last year's break out hit Cinder, at the Yorkdale Indigo at 12pm on Saturday March 9, 2013.
Follow @indigogreenroom and @raincoastbooks for more details.
Marissa Meyer Book Signing + Q&A
12:00pm, March 9, 2013
Yorkdale Indigo
3401 Dufferin Street Unit #29
Toronto, ON M6A 2T9
416-781-6660
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Divine Vintage Toronto Launch
by Dan
Events + Food & Drink + History / November 14, 2012
DIVINE VINTAGE Book Launch
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Toronto School of Theology
47 Queen's Park Crescent East Time: 4:30 p.m.
Board Room 1
Toronto, Ontario
With thanks to IWEG (Independent Wine Education Guild)
Download invitation (PDF)
RSVP
Hark! A Vagrant wins Doug Wright Award
by Dan
Graphica / May 07, 2012
It was the Toronto Comics Art Festival at the weekend, and the brilliant Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton won the award for Best Book at the 8th Doug Wright Awards, hosted by Geoff Pevere, which took place on Saturday night at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Founded in 2004, the annual Doug Wright Awards recognize the best and brightest in English-language comics and graphic novels published in the previous year in Canada.
This years winners were decided by a jury comprised of visual artist Shary Boyle, cartoonist John Martz and book artist and professor George Walker.
Speaking on behalf of the jury, Shary Boyle praised Kate’s book. “The world of comics can be a sequestered and dusty place,” she said. “As the comic community bemoans its shrinking readership and dying forms, Beaton rises up and throws open the doors to a whole new audience—welcoming one and all with her generous vision and sense of sophisticated, inclusive playfulness.”
Amen to that!
Other winners included Ethan Rilly for Pope Hats #2 (Doug Wright Spotlight Award aka "The Nipper") Michael Comeau for Hellberta (Pigskin Peters Award for experimental or avant-garde comics).
Congratulations all.
Wayne Arthurson Book Launch, Edmonton
by Dan
Events + Fiction + Mysteries and Thrillers / April 13, 2012
Canadian journalist, author and musician Wayne Arthurson will be launching his new novel A Killing Winterat The Artery in Edmonton on Wednesday April 18th. The event starts at 7:00pm.
Wayne's previous crime thriller, the critically acclaimed Fall From Grace, is a finalist for the 2012 Alberta Reader's Choice Award.
A Killing Winter Launch Party Featuring Wayne Arthurson
April 18th 2012
7:00pm
The Artery
9535 Jasper Ave Edmonton, AB T5H 3V2
Phone: 780-441-6966
See you there!
Alyx Dellamonica Blue Magic Launch at UBC, April 19th
by Dan
Events + Fiction + Science Fiction and Fantasy / March 29, 2012
Vancouver-based author Alyx Dellamonica will reading from her new novel Blue Magic at the UBC Bookstore on April 19th, 7:30pm.
The sequel to her award-winning eco-fantasy Indigo Springs, Blue Magic continues the story of the three friends who unwittingly caused the escape of magic into North America through a crack between worlds.
A powerful story of private lives changed by earthshaking events Blue Magic is a poignant tale of a world touched by magic and plagued by its consequences.
Alyx Dellamonica
Blue Magic Book Launch
7:30pm, April 19th 2012
UBC Bookstore
800 Robson Street, Vancouver
Tel: 1-800-661-3889 / (604) 822-2665
Meet the author: Claire Dederer
by Natalia
Biography & Memoir + Events + Vancouver / March 01, 2012
Claire Dederer will be at Banyen Books next Tuesday (March 6th) to discuss her new book Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses. The event starts at 6:30pm (full details are below).
Claire Dederer
Tuesday, March 6th: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Banyen Books
3608 West 4th Avenue in Vancouver
Free admision
“Poser is a powerful, honest, ruefully funny memoir about one woman's openhearted reckoning with her demons . . . In the hands of a gifted writer, the universal is embedded within the personal. —The New York Times Book Review
“One part memoir, one part social critique, one part yoga history, Claire Dederer’s Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses asks what contemporary motherhood ought to look like … Poser is superb.” —The Globe and Mail
“This memoir about her decade doing downward dog while raising two kids and trying to keep her marriage alive reads like Eat, Pray, Love for hip but harried moms . . . funny, well-observed, and ultimately inspiring.” —People four stars
Check out Claire's latest interview on NPR!
Hilary Davidson at Hamilton Public Library
by Dan
Events + Fiction + Mysteries and Thrillers / February 29, 2012
Hilary Davidson, Canadian travel journalist and author of the awarding-winning mystery The Damage Done, will be at the Ancaster Branch of Hamilton Public Library next Wednesday (March 7th 2012) to launch her new novel The Next One To Fall. The event starts at 7pm and books will be available from Bryan Prince Books (full details below).
Hilary Davidson
Wednesday, March 7th: 7:00pm
Hamilton Public Library (Ancaster Branch)
300 Wilson Street East, at Sulphur Springs Road (Ancaster)
Free Admision. Please RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Kate Beaton Bonanza
by Dan
Graphica / November 01, 2011
Well, after much excitement IFOA 2011 came to close this weekend in Toronto. As a parent to a pair of little monkeys I didn't make it to a lot of events this year sadly, but I was fortunate enough to meet the brilliant Seth and Dan Clowes and then tag along with superstar cartoonist and all-around charmer Kate Beaton who was speaking at the festival this past weekend.
Having already established a dedicated audience for her comics online and with the beautiful new hardcover book Hark! A Vagrant sitting pretty on the New York Times bestseller list for Graphic Books, Kate was very much in demand.
Not only did The National Post and NOW magazine review the book, Kate also stopped by the CBC to chat with Jian Ghomeshi and the folks from The Hour. As you can see from the photos, we had a lot of fun — even if Kate was a little disappointed not to meet Canada's Official Boyfriend in person!
It was all a bit of a whirlwind (especially as Kate was feeling a little under the weather on Saturday), but before she jetted off, Kate managed to fit in candid interview with the Toronto Star:
“I think that anybody who inadvertently starts a blog or a comic online will give a piece of themselves because they can’t believe someone’s reading it. There’s no institution, you are just yourself. You can’t help but be a personality. I had to learn over time how much of myself I wanted to give over and how much I wanted to hold onto. Like when I changed the name of the site from my name too Hark A Vagrant. It used to be katebeaton.com but I got rid of that because I didn’t want to be the focus of the comic. I wanted the comic to be.”
And Kate is still on the road for a few more days. Tonight, she is in Montreal at Librairie D+Q (the event starts at 7pm), and tomorrow, Kate will be at Strange Adventures in Halifax (also starting from 7pm). Catch her while you can!
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Rebecca Dart at Lucky’s on Friday
by Dan
Events + Graphica + Kids / October 19, 2011
Local cartoonist Rebecca Dart will be signing copies of the wonderful Nursery Rhyme Comics anthology at Lucky's Comics in Vancouver on Friday evening!
Nursery Rhyme Comics features 50 classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by 50 of today’s leading cartoonists and illustrators. Chock full of beautiful full-colour art and favourite characters (Jack and Jill! Old Mother Hubbard! The Owl and the Pussycat!), it's a great anthology for kids AND grown-ups!
Rebecca Dart
Nursery Rhyme Comics Launch
October 21st, 7pm - 9pm
Lucky's Comics
3972 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
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Dan Clowes and Seth on WNYC
by Dan
Graphica / October 19, 2011
Cartoonists Daniel Clowes and Seth talked to Leonard Lopate about comics and their new books, The Death-Ray and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, on WNYC yesterday:
If you are in Toronto this week, Seth and Dan are in conversation at the Harbourfront Centre on Friday as part of the International Festival of Authors:
Daniel Clowes in conversation with Seth
Friday, October 21, 8:00pm, 2011
Brigantine Room, The Harbourfront Centre
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