Category: community organizing

  • 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.

  • Chicago AD (After Daley) Group Formed at Quimby's

    William Upski Wimsatt (Bomb the Suburbs, No More Prisons), was here at Quimby’s the other night discussing his new book Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Supermovement. His timing could not have been more appropriate to be back in Chicago. Everyone’s buzzing about the news that Mayor Richard Daley will be retiring, and wondering what happens next. Over 50 people came together here at Quimby’s to start creating a vision for the city’s future. To keep up with/join their continuing conversation, join the new Chicago A. D. (After Daley) Facebook page.

    PleaseDontBomb

    For more info: billywimsatt.wordpress.com