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Category: books
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Jim Terry Reads From COME HOME, INDIO with Anne Elliott, a Quimby's YouTube VIRTUAL EVENT, 11/13
In Jim Terry’s book Come Home Indio (Street Noise Press), a graphic memoir, he talks about growing up between two cultures. Born Irish and Native American, he juxtaposes growing up in the mostly white suburban world with the tug of his Native roots in Wisconsin. Along the bumpy road he fumbles with loneliness, cultural confusion and a healthy dose of alcoholism until he ends up at the Standing Rock Conflict in North Dakota, where he begins to see things anew.
Join Tim Terry in conversation with Anne Elliott on the Quimby’s YouTube channel on Friday, November 13th, 7:30pm Central Time as they talk about this dynamic new graphic novel. YouTube.com/QuimbysBookstore
To celebrate the release of this book, buy the book from Quimby’s now and get a drawn and signed bookplate by the author (while supplies last). Buy it in the brick-and-mortar store or at quimbys.com here.
“Both uplifting and gut-wrenching, beautiful and terrifying. Terry’s account of losing himself between worlds, and finding home in the balance between them, deserves a place among the all-time great graphic memoirs.” -EZRA CLAYTON DANIELS, author of Upgrade Soul and BTTM FDRS
“Illuminated by bursts of both joy and sorrow. With humbling sensitivity and candor, Jim shares with us his personal journey down emotionally complex paths towards home.” -TIMOTHY TRUMAN, author of Scout
“As raw, honest and human. The kind of work that can only be done in the form of comics, intimately revealing the black and white lines of a worldview shaped by a life.” -TIM SEELEY, author of Hack/Slash and Revival
The work of Jim Terry has been featured in such places as: Sundowners, Vampirella, Heavy Metal, Alice Cooper Vs Chaos, Creepshow and more. This is his first work as writer and illustrator.
For more info, see woundedbutdangerous.com
Jim will be in conversation with Anne Elliott, the co-owner of Chicago’s own Sideshow Gallery. She is an artist, teacher, tarot reader and lover of all things strange and exotic. For more info, see sideshowgallerychicago.com as well as on IG @sideshowgallerychicago & Twitter @sideshowgallery.
Here’s the Facebook Event invite for this event.
Watch Jim tell a quick synopsis of the book in advance!
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Tea Krulos Talks American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness VIRTUAL EVENT 10/20
Q-Anon. Fake News. Bohemian Grove. False flag attacks. Deep state. Crisis actors. Whatever Gate. Is any conspiracy worth the life of a believer?
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media while conspiracy advocates, malicious political movements, and even foreign governments have long understood how to harness the power of fear and the fear of power into lucrative outlets for outrage and money. But what happens when the harbingers of “inside knowledge” go too far?
In American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness (Feral House), author Tea Krulos tells the story of one man, Richard McCaslin, who’s fractured thinking made him the ideal consumer of even the most arcane of conspiracy theories. Acting on the daily rants of Alex Jones and his ilk, McCaslin takes matters into his own hands to stop the unseen powers behind the world’s disasters who congregate at conspiracy world’s Mecca- The Bohemian Grove. It all goes wrong with terrible consequences for the man who styled himself-The Phantom Patriot.
McCaslin is not alone, as conspiracy-driven political action has bubbled its way up from the margins of society to the White House. It’s no longer a lone deranged kook convinced of getting secret messages from a cereal box, now its slick videos and well-funded outrage campaigns ready to peddle the latest innuendos and lies in hopes of harnessing the chaos for political gain. What is the long term effect on people who believe these barely believable stories? Who benefits, and who pays the price?
Krulos investigates and explains the power of conspiracy and the resulting shared madness on the American psyche.
Tea Krulos is a Milwaukee-based writer who documents the underground world of fringe sub-cultures. His previous books, Apocalypse Any Day Now-Deep Underground with America’s Doomsday Preppers and Heroes in the Night-Inside the Real Life Super Hero Movement explored the driving beliefs and lives of the people who choose to reject accepted reality and substitute their own.
Join Tea Krulos on Quimby’s Bookstore’s You Tube Channel for an evening of discussion about this book, trivia, weird swag and more!
NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME: FOLKS WHO BUY THE BOOK WILL GET A LIMITED EDITION SUPPLEMENTAL ZINE AND SIGNED AUTHOR BOOKPLATE. WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. GET YOUR COPY HERE.
Watch this preview we did with Tea on Youtube!:
More info:Facebook Event Post if you get into that kind of thing.
Tea Krulos Talks American Madness
Tues, October 20th, 7:30PM CST
Youtube.com/QuimbysBookstore
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Busy Beaver Founder Christen Carter & Co-Author Ted Hake Celebrate BUTTON POWER: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons ONLINE 10/2
“Social media is today’s most popular platform for self- expression, but the button preceded it as a way to tell others what was on your mind and as a tool to help spread an idea. No other form of wearable expression has yet to replace the humble button – and unlike social media, a button is something you can literally stand behind.” – excerpted from BUTTON POWER: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons by Christen Carter and Ted HakePunch line. Political Statement. Conversation piece. Souvenir. From the campaign trail to the rock tour, BUTTON POWER (Princeton Architectural Press) collects a people’s history of American culture told through the pin-back button. Lively commentary from two of America’s foremost button experts shows how the small but powerful button reveals the events and movements that outraged, amused, and inspired us over time, from the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh to the Black Power movement. In this chaotic time of protests and presidential elections, this book offers a glimpse into the cultural movements that make up our rich history. Artists, athletes, actors, politicians, punk and pop musicians, and mascots of the past 125 years make cameos, including Rube Goldberg, Muhammad Ali, the Ramones, Shirley Chisholm, and Bette Midler. The first book of its kind, BUTTON POWER is a rich visual feast. Each colorful spread chronicles defining moments in history through colorful photographs and artifacts. This collection will be an essential pick for fans of pop culture, visual culture, and design.
Don’t miss this virtual event celebrating BUTTON POWER: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons by authors Christen Carter and Ted Hake!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Christen Carter is the founder of Chicago-based Busy Beaver Button Company and has produced more than 50 million buttons for bands, artists, political campaigns, non-profits and more. In 2010, she started the Button Museum, dedicated to telling American history through pin-back buttons.Ted Hake is the founder of Hake’s Auctions, America’s first auction house to specialize in popular culture artifacts. He has written seventeen collectors’ guides that span presidential campaign items, vintage Disneyana, and comic character toys. Ted has received the American Political Items Collectors Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board.
Fri, October 2nd, 7:30PM CST.
This virtual event will be on the Quimby’s Bookstore’s You Tube Channel: youtube.com/QuimbysBookstore
Stay tuned to quimbys.com/store for book ordering & swag to accompany your book (!!!) while supplies last.
NO RSVP necessary.
Here’s the Facebook Event invite for this event.
In advance, Christen Carter gave a us a preview of what’s going to happen at the event!:
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New Stuff This Week
Mutations #2 by Corinne Halbert $10
Papercore DIY Punk Zine #03 by Giz $3
Punks Around #11 POC Punks by Alex Herbert & friends $3
No Scene Zine #3 Wet Hot American Camper & #2 Special Report Showbiz Pizza Palace $4 each
Cat Party #6 At Home With Our Cats Cats by Katie Haegele $4.95
Xerography Debt #48 $4.95
How to Organize Inclusive Events by Alexandra Ketchum $5.95
American Association of Patriots Presents: How to Talk to Your Cat About Evolution $4
There’s Something About a Train #4 $9.95
State Flags #1 Alabama thru Georgia by Billy McCall $2
DC Books to Prisons: 20+ Years of Answering Letters $5
Issues of Underexposed, various prices
a whole bunch of comics by Harry Onickel, mostly $1 each
Found on the Ground #1 by Sidney Berthrong $4
Unseen Saga of Kid Infinity vs the Stardunt Beast by Peter Kotas $10
I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt (D&Q) $21.95
Dope Dealer by MS Harkness $13
The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists Of The Jazz Age by Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Ghost Writer by Rayco Pulido (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Spellbound: A Graphic Novel by Bishakh Som (Street Noise Books) $18.99
A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier (Haymarket) $20
Modern Machines: Punk Interviews From the Void by David A. Ensminger (Left of the Dial Books) $12
Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade by Niko Vorobyov $29.99
Bust #122 $7.99
Monocle #135 july august $17
Wire #438 $12.50
Harpers Magazine september $7.99
Jacobin #38 summer $12.95
In These Times september $4.95
The Progressive august september $5.95
Cabinet #66 Land of Sunshine $12
Dovetail Magazine #1 summer $18
books by SB Gamble: Cruel Nature
2021 Nikki Mcclure Calendar Expand How We Intersect Is Community $19.99
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New Stuff This Week
Homicide Bucktown: Police Reports and Photographs by Sam Logan $15
Cul de Sac #8 Past Lives by Liz Mason and Julie Halpern $4
Happy Tapir #6 On the Make at the Drake by Johnny Masiulewicz $3
Lockdown With You by James Baroz $20
Library Excavations #12 Montana Prison News by Marc Fischer $6
It’s Ok To Be Sad july by Kevin Budnik $6
Various new comics from Nate Mcdonough
Not Today Satan #1 by Tom Ryan $8
Venus In the Blind Spot by Junji Ito $22.99
All Together Now by Hope Larson $12.99
It’s the World’s Birthday Today by Christian “Flake” “The keyboardist for Rammstein” Lorenz $26
American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness by Tea Krulos $22.95
Catland: The Soft Power of Cat Culture In Japan by Sarah Archer $19.95
We Do What We Want WDW3 #1 summer by Holy Mountain Printing $18
Hecho En vol 2 $20
Taproot #40 $12
Cinema Scope #83 summer $5.95
Mother Jones vol 45 #5 $8.99
Cinema Retro vol 16 #47 $11.99
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New Stuff This Week
Used Records and Tapes #1 by Chris Auman & Mike Dixon $7
Dykes and Queers In Different Dimensions #2 by Ana Norell $15
Library Excavations #11 Defense Drama by Marc Fischer $6
Plant Petter by Jaclyn Wright $16
If You Feel Sad Feel the Sad by Elwing Suong Gonzalez $8
KerBloom #144 May & Jun 20 $2
Bubbles #7 an Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8
Looking Inward: A Guide to Introversion by Erika Sjule $5
Standstill by Olivia Fredricks $15
Magical Character Rabbit by Kinoko Evans (Study Group) $5.95
I Know What I Look Like by Veronica Timble $5
Hollow Press Stuff: Tribae the Cascade by Luca Brandi $16 – Hospital Train by Daisuke Ichiba $16 – Industrial Revolution and World War by Shintaro Kago $22 – Linchetto by Mat Brinkman $26 – Drippin by Laurence Engraver $13 – Chain by Paolo Massagli $7 – Plutonium by Gabriel Delmas $7 – Day of the Flying Head issues #2 & #4 by Shintaro Kago $12 – Four Comic by Paolo Massagli $13 – Baby In the Boneyard by Jesse Jacobs $16 – Outeroticspace by David Genchi & Miguel Angel Martin $13 – Xuwwuu: A Furvert Fairytale by Gabriel Delmas $12
Pre-Order! Seeds and Stems by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Comes with Signed Bookplate (while supplies last), To Celebrate Simon Hanselmann virtual event Thurs, 8/13!
Constitution Illustrated by Robert Sikoryak (D&Q) $14.95
Prison Pit: The Complete Collection by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Sky Is Blue With a Single Cloud by Kuniko Tsurita (D&Q) $29.95
Toybox Americana: Characters Met Along the Way by Tim Lane (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Nymph by Leila Marzocchi (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Peter Kuper $15.95
Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca (Fantagraphics) $21.99
Now vol 9 Fantagraphics Comics Anthology (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Tender Is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica $16
The Internationalist #60 winter $1
Longest Day of the Year by Michael Tuberdyke $4
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Postponing Event Until a Undeclared later date: Let’s Keep Selling Nostalgia!(!!) Pop Culture Historian Mathew Klickstein at Quimby’s
Mathew Klickstein has spent the past two decades chronicling and (for good or ill?) helping to kick-start the 80s/90s Nostalgia Industry via his prolific spate of books, documentaries, articles, podcasts, and live events across the country. SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age (Penguin Random House) presented the first exhaustive history of the “First Kids Network,” has become the ultimate resource for those following in Klickstein’s footsteps, and was re-released as an updated “Fifth Anniversary Edition” for Nick’s recent 40th anniversary. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons (w/ series writer Mike Reiss; Harper Collins) remains the only long-form “insider” story of the most beloved (and beforehand guarded) cartoon series of all time. Selling Nostalgia: A Neurotic Novel (Simon & Schuster) is an absurdist Fear & Loathing-esque coda to the now-waning “Nerd/Geek Culture” to which Klickstein has been a primary contributor. And the 80s sci-fi/horror inspired comic book series You Are Obsolete (AfterShock Comics) will be released in OGN/paperback edition April 21, exploring our current generational shift in a frightening, hopefully not too prescient way that left critics and fans alike glued to their pages and e-readers during the series’ initial five-issue Sept 2019-Jan 2020 run.
“Mathew Klickstein might be the geek guru of the 21st century.”
– Mark Mothersbaugh
The work of Mathew Klickstein has appeared in such outlets as: Wired, NY Daily News, Vulture, The New Yorker and countless regional and online publications worldwide. His two decades-plus of multi-platform storytelling has also led to: an impressive glut of non-fiction and fiction books authored for both major and independent publishers, podcasting (including his own series running for the past five years), guest lectures at various universities and arts/culture centers, as well as television and film work in partnership with such high-profile entities as: Sony Pictures, Food Network, National Lampoon, and Alamo Drafthouse.
For more info: www.MathewKlickstein.com
Saturday, April 25th, 7pm – Free Event
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Postponed: CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) 2020
Quimby’s is proud to be a sponsor of the 2020 Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE], a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. CAKE features comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers. More info at cakechicago.com.CAKE 2020 will be held 6/13-6/14 11am-6pm at Broadway Armory (5917 N Broadway) in Edgewater.More info TBA.Follow CAKE:
IG: @CAKEChicago
Twitter: @CAKEChicago
Art by David Alvarado. @tuffasaurus
