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New Stuff This Week
Happy Saturday! Did you know that April 9 is National Unicorn Day? While we don’t have any mythical creatures in stock right now, we do have a TON of fun new stuff in the form of zines, comics, and books. Check out this fantastic list of fresh arrivals!
Zines
My Favorite Actor is a Dog by Aim Ren $2
Women in Print #8 $8
Razorblades and Aspirin #14 $8
Dealing with COVID: Hopefully Helpful Tips by Lost Fillings $1
Time’s Up: No More Rape Culture in Our Skate Culture by Smash the Skatriarchy $3.95
How It Felt to Me: The Further Writings of Annie Howard $11
Gothic Lyric Book by Karina Song and Blaketheman1000 $5
I Miss You by Karina $1
Cut Me Up #8: Guided by Instinct $18
Something Rather Than Nothing Zine #1 $4
Bad Year by Nick Greer $5
Comics & Minis
Ghouls by Jenn Woodall $12
Future #8 by Tommi Musturi $6
Teeni Bop #1 $4
Annual Eternia Bodybuilding Contest #1 $2
Forms Saint George and the Dragon by Ryan Shipman $5
Eschew #5 by Robert Sergel $8
Smear Girl of Clay #1 $2
Heavy Metal #315 $13.99
Reptile House #9 by Nick Bunch $5
Scoundrels Don’t Get Caught by Hannibal Gerald $6
Graphic Novels
Rave by Jessica Campbell $22.95
Hell Phone: Book One by Benji Nate $14.99
One Hundred Columns for Razorcake: The Complete Comics 2003-2020 by Ben Snakepit $11.99
Book Tour by Andi Watson $24.99
Mr. Lightbulb by Wojtek Wawszczyk $29.99
Squeak the Mouse by Massimo Mattioli $29.99
Fiction
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker Martin $17.99
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan $28
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer $18
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers $21
DIY Books
Creative Not Famous the Small Potato Manifesto by Ayun Halliday $14.95
Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture vol 6 by Alex Wrekk $15 – In fancy hardcover!
Everything Depends on Me: A Book About OCD by Alice DuBois $24
A Quick and Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez $7.99
Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting by Julia Illes $18.95
From Big Idea to Book: Create a Writing Practice That Brings You Joy by Jessie L Kwak $14.95
Music Books
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran $18.99
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland $30
Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury From Seattle by Keith Cameron $24.99
Essay & Culture & Memoir
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross $30
Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh $22
Mayhem & Outer Limits Books
Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley $15.95
Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy edited by Mike Ashley $15.95
Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink by John Miller $15.95
Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer by Christopher Berry Dee $16.95
Food & Drug Books
The Microdosing Guidebook: A Step-by-Step Manual by CJ Spotswood $19.95
Sexxy
Fantasy Lewds Erotic Anthology by Andy Hood $15
Experience Points: Illustrated Queer Smutty Stories by N.A. Melamed $12.95
Magazines
Little White Lies #92 $16.99
032c #40 $24.95
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Granta #158: In the Family $19.99
Kids Stuff
Illustoria #17 $16
Other Stuff
What A Time to Be Gay and Alive Bumper Sticker by Archie Bongiovanni $3
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Feels Good Man Sneak Preview Screening + Filmmaker Q&A, Aug 28th-29th
Join us for an online sneak preview screening + filmmaker Q&A of the 2020 Sundance-Award winning doc Feels Good Man on Aug 28-29 and select Quimby’s Bookstore to receive a portion of proceeds as well as make a donation, along with the opportunity to buy a signed copy of artist Matt Furie’s Mindviscosity. Only 250 tickets available per showtime at feelsgoodman.watch .
This weekend’s sneak preview showtimes will be the first and only way movie fans can watch this film before it opens in theaters and prior to its VOD (video on demand) release.
More info!:
@feelsgoodmanfilm for Instagram/Facebook
@feelsgoodmandoc for Twitter
P.S. Astute Quimby’s historians will remember beloved director Arthur Jones’ comics consigned here in 2002: 900 Lb Gorilla and Magic Pants when he was but a young comics-maker, as well as his book Post-it Note Diaries. Further, said astute Quimby’s historians will also recall artist Matt Furie’s comics and books sold at our fine establishment as well, featuring such titles as Boys Club, Dungeon Family and Night Riders. Quimby’s thanks Arthur, Matt and friends for including Quimby’s in this endeavor!
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Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: Screens Edition! on Zoom 5/26
7 p.m. Tuesday, May 26 Central Time.
Free! On Zoom!
Movies, television shows, YouTube videos, Instagram Live, and oh so many Zoom events … we all like to watch, and we’ve all been looking at screens a lot more than usual since the coronavirus crisis began. We miss seeing your faces and sharing the zines we love, so in May we’re taking Zine Club Chicago ONLINE!
This month, we’ll be discussing self-published works about the moving images that keep us riveted to big and small screens alike. Grab your favorite zines, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for a fun conversation!
Email at zineclubchicago@gmail.com about the Zoom link (which will be available soon).
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and hosted by Quimby’s Bookstore.
* Zoom link info * We want to make sure that our online Zine Club events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 26. We’ll email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.
Thank you to Zine Club member Anna Jo Beck for designing our flyer this month!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/949559022140588/
p.s. need a jpg because you’re posting this somewhere that only takes that format? Here ya go!
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Chris Robé Presents Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas 5/12
Don’t miss this event! Saturday, May 12th Chris Robé presents Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas with film clips and discussion at Quimby’s.
Breaking the Spell offers the first full-length study that charts the historical trajectory of anarchist-inflected video activism from the late 1960s to the present. Robé fills in historical gaps by bringing to light unexplored video activist groups like the Cascadia Forest Defenders, eco-video activists from Oregon; Mobile Voices, Latino day laborers; and Outta Your Backpack Media, indigenous youth from the Southwest. Chris’s groundbreaking discussion deepens our understanding of more well-researched video activist movements by situating them within a longer history and wider context of radical video activism. Chris will show archival film clips and discuss their historical significance. The book is published by PM Press
“Christopher Robé’s meticulously researched Breaking the Spell is an invaluable guide to the contemporary anarchist media landscape that will prove useful for activists as well as scholars.” —Richard Porton, author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination
“Breaking the Spell is a highly readable history of U.S. activism against neoliberal capitalism from the perspective of “Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas,” the subtitle of the book.
—Dorothy Kidd. Professor and Chair, Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco
Chris Robé is an associate professor in Film and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He has published essays on radical media in journals like Jump Cut, Rethinking Marxism, and Journal of Film and Video and written a monograph titled Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture. He is also a frequent contributor to the online journal PopMatters.
For more info:
Facebook Event Invite for this event.
on Chris Robe and the book: http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/ChrisRobe
Contact the author at crobe@fau.edu or Steven at PM Press steven@pmpress.org
Free event.
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“Godzilla” Director Ishiro Honda’s New Biography Presented by Author Ed Godziszewski at Quimby’s 10/13
Godzilla first laid waste to Tokyo more than 60 years ago in a symbolic reenactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. But even as the monster has become recognizable worldwide, the filmmaker who brought it to the screen has remained in Godzilla’s giant shadow.
Ed Godziszewski comes to Quimby’s Bookstore to present ISHIRO HONDA: A LIFE IN FILM, FROM GODZILLA TO KUROSAWA, the first major overview of the life and career of Ishiro Honda, the director behind the original GODZILLA and many of its beloved sequels and spin-offs of the 1950s and ‘60s. Godziszewski, a lifelong Chicagoan, is one of the leading scholars of Japanese science-fiction and fantasy cinema and publisher of JAPANESE GIANTS magazine. He co-wrote the book with Steve Ryfle, also a noted genre scholar. Nearly 10 years in the research and writing, the book is published by Wesleyan University Press.
Honda was the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unparalleled succession of genre movies that were commercial hits worldwide, including MOTHRA, RODAN, THE MYSTERIANS, and many others. Honda’s films reflected postwar Japan’s real-life anxieties and incorporated fantastical special effects, a formula that still appeals to audiences around the globe. The new book sheds light on this long-overlooked director’s work and the experiences that shaped it—including his days as a reluctant Japanese soldier, his witnessing of the aftermath of Hiroshima, and his lifelong friendship with Akira Kurosawa.
“This carefully researched and detailed book gives us a full picture of the man and his life.” — Martin Scorsese
For more info:
Facebook Event Invite for this Event.
Fri, Oct 13th, 7pm Free Event
