Category: comics

  • Edie Fake Celebrates the Release of Gaylord Phoenix

    Eight years in the making ,  Gaylord Phoenix collects  all of Edie Fake’s  raunchy queer comics serial in one volume. Perverse and surreal , Gaylord Phoenix follows  the  danger-fraught journeys of the Gaylord Phoenix, a creature willing to sacrifice anything for lost love and hidden memories. In an ever-shifting landscape full of ever-shifting genders,  Gaylord Phoenix plunges head-first into a realm full of murderous psychedelic smut and  intense magical beauty.

    Shenanigans are planned for one fun and epic release night at Quimby’s. Fake will be on hand to crack bad jokes and sign books, along with homemade penis-shaped cookies and special limited-edition mix tapes and objets-de-arte available for free with each Gaylord book and comic purchase.

    Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 2002 and has since clocked time in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Baltimore. He’s received a Critical Fierceness Grant for queer art and was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists. His drawings have been included in Hot and Cold, Creative Time Comics, and LTTR.  Gaylord is his first full-length book. Currently, he lives in Chicago where he works as a minicomics sommelier for Quimby’s Books.

    For more info: www.ediefake.com

    Thurs, December 9th, 2010    7pm

  • Gay Genius!


    Hungry for more awesome queer comics in the world?
    Yeah, me too- and it just so happens that Sparkplug Comics and Annie Murphy are putting together a thrizzling new anthology called Gay Genius. Featuring work by known homosexuals like Silky Shoemaker, Kubby Bear, Ellery Russian, Mat Defiler, Elisha Lim, Sailor Holladay, Annie Murphy, Clio Reese Sady, Sarah Sass Biscarra, Adee Roberson, Matt Runkle, Lee Relvas, Royal Newbold, Jackie Davis, and, uh, me. It’s going to be luscious – full color, over 120 pages, jam-packed, and hella, hella GAY, girl. To help birth it, it’s up on Kickstarter. They’ve got 25 days to raise a little over $1000 so I’m sure you know what to do now: help a homo out!

  • 2011: The Revenge of Print

    Revenge of PrintWe’re tired of all the END OF PAPER, the END OF PUBLISHING AS WE KNOW IT stories. We’ve been hearing and reading about it ever since we’ve been open (which is going on almost 20 years now).

    So for 2011, we’re throwing a challenge out there. If you’ve ever made a zine or mini comic MAKE ONE MORE ISSUE. Come on, you’ve got one more in you! Maybe you were thinking in the back of your head you’d do another issue one day. Now is the time.

    Join the group for discussion and more plans. This is just the beginning.

    Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to help sponsor this challenge with our friends at Atomic Books in Baltimore, Xerography Debt and Zine World.

  • THE EXQUISITE BOOK Authors and Contributors at Quimby's on 11/5!

    EXQUISITE CORPSE [also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse] is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds a composition in sequence…

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    THE EXQUISITE BOOK

    100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game

    By Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe

    THE EXQUISITE BOOK reinvents the classic surrealist drawing game The Exquisite Corpse for a new artistic generation. In these pages, one-hundred of today’s hottest indie artists each adorn a single page with brand new work, having only seen the page of the artist immediately prior. Each of the book’s ten chapters resides on a ten-page according fold-out that lets you enjoy the artwork in an interconnected stream, as it was originally created by the artists themselves. It includes work from contemporary illustrators, indie artists, and cutting-edge creates such as David Shrigley, Jill Bliss, Jordan Crane and more.

    About the Authors: Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe are partners in Also Design, a design firm based out of Chicago and New York that has won several awards, including the ADC Young Guns award. Julia is author of the popular blog BookByItsCover.com, which showcases the design and layout of obscure books.

    So far the artists who will be in attendance at this event will be the authors, Anders Nilsen, Lillie Carre, Paul Hornschemeier, Isaac Tobin, Lauren Nassef and Susie Ghahremani.

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  • Charles Burns Discusses X'ed Out At Quimby's on 11/3!

    From Charles Burns, the creator of Black Hole, comes X’ED OUT, the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.

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    Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky. Who died years ago. But who’s nonetheless slinking out through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow. What’s going on? To say any more would spoil the freaky, Burnsian fun, especially because X’ED OUT, unlike Black Hole, has not been previously serialized, and every unnervingly meticulous panel will be more tantalizing than the last. Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Hergé and William Burroughs, Charles Burns has given us a dazzling spectral fever-dream—and a comic-book masterpiece.

    Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, with an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992, he designed the set for Mark Morris’s delightful restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at BAM. He has illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003.

    “A haunting first chapter in what promises to be a spellbinder…Masterful…it will leave you begging for the rest of the story.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

    “Like an apocalyptic hallucination…the visionary artistry of Burns exists beyond the bounds of time and constraints of conventional narrative.” –Kirkus starred review

    “Long awaited first chapter in what promises to be a trippy, wildly experimental and typically disquieting epic.” –NPR.org

    “Anything by comics master Burns is a big event and this is no exception.”—Comics Beat

    For more info: www.pantheonbooks.com

  • Work In Progress October Meeting

    Work In Progress is our social gathering on the last Wednesday of every month. Bring what you’re working on to fiddle around with, and if you need help from somebody, give a holler and maybe somebody’s got some helpful info. Or maybe you can help somebody else with imput if you’ve got it. Or just come and hang out and meet folks. Past folks have been comics artists, zinesters, poets and screenplay writers. Or maybe you want to meet somebody who can skill share with you. Or maybe you’re good at giving advice. We’ll provide the snacks.

  • Quimby's Makes the Top 10 Stores on Flavorwire!

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    Props to Flavorwire.com readers and staff for mentioning Quimby’s as one of their favorite indie shops around the country! And we didn’t even know they were taking this picture. Read about it here!

  • Local Comics Ladies Nominated For 2010 Ignatz Awards!

    2010 Ignatz Award Nominees were announced, and three of them are wonderful local lady artists here in Chicago!

    The Ignatz recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression. It’s a festival prize that gets awarded at SPX, the Small Press Expo (SPX), in Maryland in mid-September.

    The Chicago local ladies nominated for awards are:

    Laura Park, nominated for Outstanding Story for her untitled piece in Mome vol 16 (Fantagraphics).

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    Lilli Carre is nominated for Outstanding Mini-Comic for Don’t Drink From the Sea.

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    Sarah Becan is nominated for Outstanding Online Comic for I Think You’re Sauceome.
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    Congratulations, artists!

    Click here for a full list of 2010 Ignatz Award Nominees.

  • Aaron Renier Signs THE UNSINKABLE WALKER BEAN

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    Adventure on the high seas!  A cursed skull!  Fearsome pirates!  Wicked sea-witches!  And almost certain peril!    Boy inventor Walker Bean and his scruffy new friends must summon their courage to face the direst scourges of the sea in this all-new graphic novel by Aaron Renier.  For this signing, Quimby’s presents a unique event with Aaron, with a signing followed by piratical interactive drawing activities.

    “So beautiful are the drawings that I can smell the sea salt and feel the spray as giant creatures of the deep draw near the ocean’s surface.  Outrageous and wonderful!” – Jeff Smith, creator of Bone

    “Aaron’s work makes me feel ten years old again.  He makes me want to whip up a root beer float, climb into a pirate-ship-playhouse, slap on a record of sea chanteys and read Walker Bean over and over.  The guys’a bit of a mad genius.” – Lane Smith, illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man

    “The Unsinkable Walker Bean is gorgeous.  Jump feet first into this rip-roaring, wild-eyed, high-sea adventure story.  Join up with a young, pudgy, bespectacled hero, a brave powder monkey, a terrifying girl with the best red pigtails since Pippi Longstocking, and two seriously revolting sea witches.  Be prepared.  You’re going to love it.”  — Brian Selznick, creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret

    For more info: http://aaronrenier.com/

  • Edie's The Best!

    gaylord3We’re super proud of Quimby’s employee, Edie Fake for winning the heavily competitive title of Best Alternative Comics Artist Behind the Counter at an Alternative Comics Mecca in the Chicago Reader’s Best of 2010 issue (out today)!

    We’d also like to award him with The Best Alternative Comics Mecca Employee Behind An Alternative Comic title.  The same fantastic craftsmanship, design sense and creativity that go into such comics as Gaylord Phoenix and Rico Mc Taco are applied on a daily basis to the store

    Way to go Edie!