Just a bit of shilling for my erstwhile employer. Content later this afternoon.
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE Cartoonist JASON
Launches his new graphic novel POCKET FULL OF RAIN
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 @ 8PM
THE CENTRAL, 603 Markham Street, Toronto
FREE
Acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist JASON—currently serializing his newest work in The New York Times Magazine—will be in Toronto to launch his new work POCKET FULL OF RAIN. RAIN is a collection of early works by Jason, defying genre and style and showing his development into the internationally acclaimed author he is today. Jason will be interviewed on his life and career in an audio/visual presentation by The Beguiling’s Peter Birkemoe at The Central, located directly adjacent to The Beguiling, on Tuesday June 10th at 8PM.
THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO
Book launch with Toronto author BLAKE BELL
Wednesday, June 18th 7PM-9PM
Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College St., Toronto
FREE Â
The Beguiling, in cooperation with The Toronto Public Library and The Merril Collection, officially launches STRANGE AND STRANGER: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO, the first ever biography of the reclusive co-creator of SPIDER-MAN! Toronto author and comics historian Blake Bell has exhaustively researched the life and career of Ditko, and it’s on every page of this lavishly illustrated book. Bell will be on hand to launch the book with an audio/visual presentation of Ditko’s artistic career on Wednesday, June 18th at 7PM at the Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College St. (at Spadina).
In addition to the book launch and presentation, we are proud to announce that U.K. television and radio personality Jonathan Ross, who debuted his hour-long “IN SEARCH OF STEVE DITKO†documentary on the BBC last September, has granted us the rights to show the documentary at the Toronto event! This will be the first official screening in Canada, and attendees will get to view it for free!
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– Christopher