Author: Kevin A. Boyd

Director of the Joe Shuster Awards. Comic Relations Director for Fan Expo HQ. Collector, Fan, Historian.

The Sean Ward Christmas Special – Saturday December 7th starting at 1pm

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GREAT NEWS, everyone! SEAN WARD has been working on a secret Christmas comic book and it’s finished!! He’ll have copies available at his Christmas special this Saturday at TCBLG! This is not going to be for sale on his website or anywhere else – only for VIPs and guests!! Come get yourself a copy, and get Sean to draw you some art to give someone for Christmas!!!

 

Seriously, what would someone like for Christmas more than an original piece of art? What would they appreciate more than having their likeness rendered as a Custom Cartoon Portrait™?

GIVE THE GIFT OF SEAN WARD THIS CHRISTMAS!

And what could be more fun at this special time of year than wearing your Christmas finery and enjoying a bona fide new school old timey Christmas show?

One day only – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 – come join the Christmas Happening at the Lounge!

We will have egg nog, Christmas music, candy canes, and even a special guest or two.

Original Art Services (for really impressive gift giving):
– trading cards
– greeting cards
– 8.5×11 custom sketches & portraits
– full color framed Custom Cartoon Portraits™ (limited available!)

COMICS AND COLLECTIBLES FOR SALE:
– Captain America VS Thor comic book
– Tomorrow Never Knows: A Comics History of the Psychedelic Beatles
– Art Prints
– T-Shirts

AND MUCH MORE!

Also That Joker Guy will be taking over Temple of Toys i the same space

Shrub Monkeys: Shanahanigans Vol.1 Book Launch – Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7-11

shrSHRUB MONKEYS: Shanahanigans Vol. 1 is OFFICIALLY available (for pre-order), and what better way to celebrate but a COSTUME Book Launch Party at The Comic Book Lounge in Toronto.

That’s right, it’s the night before Halloween, so why not dress up? (we will).

Join KT, Shaggy, & HES for food, drinks, prizes, AND a special EXTRA live episode of Shanahanigans Live, co-hosted by the Guys with Pencils, Adam and Andrew.

Join us, won’tchya?

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Wed, Oct. 30th * Doors at 7:00pm * Live show at 8:00pm
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BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT EVENT

Shrub Monkeys Pre-order:
http://shanahanigans.bigcartel.com/

Comic Book Lounge:
https://comicbooklounge.com/

Guys with Pencils
http://guyswithpencils.tumblr.com/

Reel Asian Film Festival Community Partner Screening – Evangelion:3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 11/8/2013 at the Royal

EvThe Comic Book Lounge + Gallery is once again a proud community partner for the Reel Asian Film Festival.

We are a Community Partner and one of the sponsors of the screening of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not Redo) that will be held on Friday, November 8th at 8pm at the Royal Theatre (608 College Street).

For the full schedule of the festival, please visit: reelasian.com.

Halloween ComicsFest 2013 – Sat Oct 26 and Sun Oct 27

hcfprThe Comic Book Lounge will once again be participating in HALLOWEEN COMICSFEST. However, instead of holding the event on Halloween we will be giving out the free Halloween Comics on Saturday October 26th and whatever is left on Sunday, October 27th.

UPDATE: OCTOBER 22nd!

We are adding THOUSANDS OF BACK ISSUES to the inventory this weekend just in time for the sale! Lots of great books from the 80’s and 90’s as well as a longbox of new vintage books for the wall that will be available for the first time including issues of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, MARVEL TEAM-UP, X-MEN, TOMB OF DRACULA, THE SPECTRE and more! PLUS! A fine selection of Marvel magazines, graphic novels and TREASURY EDITION COMICS from the 1970’s! sm

No artist alley this year, sorry.

HALLOWEEN COMICSFEST SALE — ALL WEEKEND LONG

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So here’s how it works:

If you buy two items you get a third item for free. The lowest priced item will always be the free item. There is no limit involved, for every two items you get a third for free. So you can buy six items and get three free, or buy 10 items and get five free. This applies to the following in store items: comic books, graphic novels, sale graphic novels, back issue comics, statues, action figures, POP figures… the only items omitted are (1) indie comics that are at the store on commission sale — please ask (2) select commission based toys (like the Lego sets) (3) any original art and (4) Preordered items (in pull files).

Sex Criminals #1 signing with Chip Zdarsky – Sunday, Sept. 29th! 3-5pm

3330358-sex+criminalsCome by between 3pm and 5pm this Sunday, September 29th for a special signing with SEX CRIMINALS artist and co-creator Chip Zdarsky! Chip will be signing and sketching for fans.Untitled-11

 

Ladies Night IV is this Saturday night – September 28th

ln4This Saturday night at the Lounge (September 28), the store is hosting our next private Ladies Night event —- basically the guys stay home and the store hosts a social for female fans and professionals to relax and network.

Our last three evenings had been a lot of fun (or at least I’ve been told that as I can’t be there!) and the hosts tell me this should be no different.

The event will run from about 7pm until Midnight. Some refreshments provided by Visions of Utopia, the store, and the evening’s co-hosts.

We wanted to give everyone going the heads up that Dorval Films will be coming in between 7 and 8 to do some coverage of the event to run on their web series COMIC BOOK CULTURE. The reason for the heads up is that the two people covering the event for Dorval Films are guys, and they’ve previously covered the LOW SOCIETY and CYBORG 009 book launches/art shows at the Comic Book Lounge. They promise to be out by 8 after conducting interviews with only those people willing to be interviewed / consent to be on camera. This will be a great chance to promote the positive aspects of this community event to a larger audience.

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Also, makeup artist and co-host Jennifer Maciel Bolton tells me she will be bringing her makeup kit.

Speaking of art shows, Marcus To’s Cyborg 009 artwork is still on display at the Lounge and will be up on Ladies Night this Saturday night.

Reminder: CYBORG 009 Art Show and Signing with Marcus To and Ian Herring TONIGHT 9/20 – 7-11pm

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Tonight at the Comic Book Lounge we will be hosting an art show and signing with MARCUS TO and IAN HERRING to celebrate the recent release of their new graphic novel CYBORG 009 from Archaia Entertainment. Beverages will be available for purchase at the event.

SYNOPSIS
Archaia Entertainment is excited to announce a partnership with Ishimori Production Inc. of Japan to produce Cyborg 009, a modern adaptation of the classic manga series created by the legendary Shotaro Ishinomori, author of other such notable works as Kamen Rider, Goranger, Kikaider and Skullman. This deluxe hardcover graphic novel will feature the classic characters and origin story from the original series re-imagined for a new worldwide audience. The new edition will be written by F.J. DeSanto (The Spirit, Immortals: Gods and Heroes) and Bradley Cramp (Gattaca and the forthcoming film Invertigo), and illustrated by artist Marcus To (Red Robin, The Huntress) and colorist Ian Herring (Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand).

The story follows nine normal humans kidnapped from around the world to become unwilling test subjects by The Black Ghost Organization, a secret society that provides weapons of mass destruction to the highest bidder. The nine victims are put through a series of extreme experiments that transform each one into a unique super-powered weapon. With the help of a compassionate project scientist, these living weapons rebel from their captors and set off on a mission to stop Black Ghost from plunging the world into a perpetual state of war.

Created in 1964, Cyborg 009 was Japan’s first and most-popular super-team, quickly becoming one of the most influential manga series of all time. The original manga has been published in over 250,000,000 copies of weekly comics and comic books worldwide.

A new 3D CGI animated theatrical feature film, 009 RE:CYBORG, produced by Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Kill Bill Vol.1), was released in Japan in October 2012. DeSanto is currently attached to produce a live-action feature film version of the property.

Reminder: Sat. Sept. 7th – Cerebus LOW SOCIETY Launch Party with Gerhard

low_society_bwCerebus built a reputation for parody by liberally borrowing from popular and established comic characters. With Low Society, Multiple Eisner and Joe Shuster award-nominated editor Rob Walton (Ragmop) and the Comic Lab bullpen take you on all-new adventures in aardvarkian insanity featuring appearances from Red Sophia, Moon Roach, Elrod, and more. Featuring an all new cover inked by Dave Sim with backgrounds by Gerhard. Plus a host of pin-ups, laughs and surprises.

Gerhard will be making a rare special appearance at the event with new prints for sale!
Cerebus’ Gerhard will be making a rare special appearance at the event with new prints for sale!

The launch party/signing at the Comic Book Lounge in Toronto features a rare appearance by special guest GERHARD (who worked with Sim on Cerebus from issues 65 to 300), editor Rob Walton and the Comic Lab Bullpen. There will be an accompanying art show of the original art from the published issue.

The book will be distributed to comic book shops later this month, but advance copies will be available EXCLUSIVELY at the Comic Book Lounge (587A College Street, Toronto) for this event!

Please note, that while he gave permission to use Cerebus in this project (and his position on how others can use the character is detailed in the preface of LOW SOCIETY) — Cerebus creator Dave Sim will NOT be at the event.

Refreshments will be available for purchase at this event.

Fan Expo and JSA wrap up, what’s happening in September

What happened to the summer?On August 21 we held the launch party for Reform School Ninja Girls which was a huge success — the original art is still up on display in the gallery until September 5th.

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Last weekend we wrapped up Fan Expo Canada for another successful year, and buzz around town is that they had well over 110,000 attendees over four days. It was an exciting weekend for the Lounge, what with our booth at the show, Kevin participating in the Canadian Superhero Renaissance Panel on Friday, JSA_poster_2013_LGRachel participating in the Golden Age of Canadian Comics panel on Sunday and the 9th Annual Joe Shuster Awards being presented on the Saturday night at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Joe Shuster Award Winners:
Artist – Isabelle Arsenault  for Jane, le renard & moi
Writer – Fanny Britt for Jane, le renard & moi
Cartoonist – Jeff Lemire for Sweet Tooth and the Underwater Welder
Cover Artist – Mike Del Mundo for some amazing covers for Marvel Comics
Gene Day – The Pig Sleep by Cory McCallum and Matt Daley
Dragon Award – Cat’s Cradle Vol. 1  by Jo Rioux
Webcomics – Ant Comic by Michael DeForge
Harry Kremer Retailer – Heroes (London, ON)
Hall of Fame: Vernon Miller, Murray Karn, Arn Saba (Katherine Collins)

On Monday we had an impromptu visit/signing with the fine folks from UK publisher Neil Gibson Comics, including creator Neil Gibson himself. They’ve left some copies of TWISTED LIGHT at the store for sale along with a special offer to those that buy it to get a copy of TWISTED DARK for free either digitally or in print!

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Rachel will be enjoying a restful vacation from September 3rd to 19th and we hope she has a great time. Mike Bothelho and Kellam Templeton-Smith will be filling in for her while she is away.

Our next evening event in September is the CEREBUS: LOW SOCIETY book launch on Saturday, September 7th with special guests Rob Walton (editor), Gerhard and the many talented participants in the Comics Lab Project. We’ll have copies of the book well in advance of the distributed copies, courtesy of Aardvark-Vanaheim.

On September 13-15 we’ll be exhibiting at the MONTREAL COMIC CON (look for us at booth 429) and Kevin will be accepting CGC Signature Series requests for the event. If there is something you would like us to bring to the event for you please let us know in advance.

On September 20-22 it looks like Kevin will be driving down to Columbus, OH for Wizard World Ohio to complete the Stan Lee signing that was originally schedule for Fan Expo (unfortunately Stan was not feeling well and had to leave early) and as a result he will be accepting some CGC Signature Series requests for that event as well.

On Saturday, September 28th we have LADIES NIGHT IV, one of our most popular reoccurring events.