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Join us October 12 at 3pm for one last hurrah for summer to celebrate the launch of the new graphic novel, Boy vs. Shark (Tundra) with a screening of everyone’s favourite man-eating shark!

Toronto cartoonist Paul Gilligan (Pooch Café) will be at the Fox Theatre to discuss his hilarious graphic memoir for young readers, about his boyhood and troubled relationship with a shark (film) named Jaws. You’ll also have a chance to purchase your own copy from Ella Minnow Children’s Bookstore! The event will be hosted by Anne T. Donahue. Don’t miss the chance to be too terrified to ever go back into the water again!

Registration for this event is required! Please get your tickets here.

Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the Toronto International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Arts Council, to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. Between April 2016 and March 2024, Toronto Lit Up has presented over 200 events featuring over 250 Toronto authors and illustrators. Toronto Lit Up book launches take place throughout the year at venues across the city. They are open to the public and free to attend. Click here for more information.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Boy vs. Shark

A hilarious middle-grade graphic memoir about boyhood, toxic masculinity and a shark named Jaws. For fans of Guts and New Kid.In the summer of 1975, 10-year-old Paul Gilligan doesn’t have a whole lot to worry about other than keeping his comic books untarnished, getting tennis balls off roofs and keeping up with the ... Read more

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Paul Gilligan

Paul Gilligan writes and draws the syndicated comic strip Pooch Cafe with Andrews McMeel, which runs in over 250 newspapers around the world and has been twice nominated by the National Cartoonist Society for best strip. He is the author-illustrator of the Pluto Rocket series, King of the Mole People and its sequel, Rise of the Slugs.

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