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Off-Site: Quimby's Co-sponsors the EX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER Ladydrawers Exhibition
Quimby’s Bookstore (and our sister store, Chicago Comics) are proud to be a sponsor of the Ladydrawers Comics Collective exhibition entitled SEX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER, curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore, at Columbia College Chicago’s A+D Gallery, opening June 27th. S.M.R.G. will also feature a series of workshops that explores hot button topics with everything from site-specific murals to performance to empirical conversations to yes, comics.
Beginning with the opening night spectacle, the gallery (Columbia’s A+D Gallery, not Quimby’s) will be activated through fun, radicalthinking, and art making, a space to observe and reflect on ideas of SEX, MONEY, RACE, and GENDER. Instead of creating a catalog for the show, Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor a comics anthology including work by Robyn Chapman, Danielle Chenette, Clay Harris, Lyra Hill, MariNaomi, Corinne Mucha, Laura Szumowski, Lauren Weinstein.SEX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER. The Ladydrawers (of Chicago, IL)
Exhibition & Workshop Schedule
Opening Reception: June 27, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Exhibit closes on July 27th
Curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore
S.M.R.G OPENING NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA!
Featuring comedy, art making, readings, performance, and much more. Come explore issues of SEX, MONEY, RACE, and GENDER with a sprinkling of humor and pathos through stand up comedy, femcore anthems, live mural making, and interpretations of texts, personal readings (in the bathroom!), and even hula hooping. Join us, won’t you?
Opening Night Performers
Sarah Bell, Blizzard Babies, Gretchen Hasse, Lyra Hill, Elliott Junkyard, Francis Kang, Ever Mainard, Carolina Mayorga, Katie McVay, Yasmin Nair, Polly Yates
Exhibition Participants
Nicole Boyett, Jacinta Bunnel, Danielle Chenette, Gretchen Hasse, Elliott Junkyard, Francis Kang, Carolina Mayorga, Melissa Gira Grant, Lyra Hill, Franny Howes, Nia King, Viet Le, Nicole Marroquin, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Sarah Morton, Liz Rush, Rachel Swanson, Laura Szumowski, Bonsovathary Uoeung, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Welch, Elizabeth White, Mara Williams, Polly Yates
S.M.R.G Workshops
These workshops are collaborative and exploratory projects lead by outstanding cultural producers and thinkers—all amazing, smart people that you will like very much.
Radical Noticing: Riot Grrrl Press and Contemporary Comics
May Summer Farnsworth and Jamie Davida Lee
Saturday, June 29, 2013 2:00-4:00 p.m.
May Summer Farnsworth will discuss her experiences working on the formation of Riot Grrrl Press in 1993. Cartoonist Jamie Davida Lee will simultaneously lead a silent workshop on making comics and zines.
Lexicon of Sexicana
Esther Pearl Watson and Terri Kapsalis
Thursday, July 11, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Speech balloons! Giant boons! Big muscles! The hundred-year-old lexicon of comics was developed by its most prominent practitioners, mostly straight white dudes. It’s time to re-think the language of comics. Esther Pearl Watson and Terri Kapsalis will create a work exploring sexual health based on Mort Walker’s satirical look at comics devices for cartoonists, The Lexicon of Comicana.
Life and Labor
Delia Jean Hickey and Sarah Jaffe
Thursday, July 18, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
We all know what it means to work, but what extra effort do certain forms of labor extract from us? This workshop explores what it takes to make an honest living, with a particular focus on the service industry.
Boi Band Poser Poster Workshop
Viet Le and Morgan Claire
Thursday, July 25, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
This workshop challenges identities and identifications through pop and props. Thinking through gender, race, and (inner and outer) space, participants will form and “perform” their own pop bands and solo acts. Fun FOBulous times!
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Michael DeForge, Lisa Hanawalt & Patrick Kyle sign at Quimby's 6/14
Come to Quimby’s the night before the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo to meet three of the most exciting alternative comics makers working today. Michael DeForge (Very Casual, Koyama Press), Lisa Hanawalt (My Dirty Dumb Eyes, Drawn & Quarterly), and Patrick Kyle (Black Mass) will be signing their graphic novels and minicomics as part of the official festivities surrounding CAKE. This event will be followed by Ezra Claytan Daniels’ Comic Art Battle.
Michael DeForge lives in Toronto and works as a cartoonist and illustrator. His series Lose is published annually by Koyama Press. His web strip Ant Comic is serialized weekly and will be collected into a graphic novel by Drawn and Quarterly upon its completion. Michael DeForge is a Special Guest at CAKE this year.
Lisa Hanawalt is a renowned self-publisher and illustrator living in Brooklyn, New York. Her comics work has won several awards, and she was recently nominated for a James Beard Award for Humor for her piece, “The Secret Lives of Chefs.” Hanawalt’s illustration and comics clients include The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Hairpin, McSweeneys, Chronicle Books, and Vanity Fair. She lives in Brooklyn with a dog and a comedian. MY DIRTY DUMB EYES (May 2013) is her first book with Drawn & Quarterly.
Patrick Kyle is an artist and illustrator from Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Black Mass and the monthly science fiction series Distance Mover. Patrick was nominated for a Doug Wright Award and an Ignatz award in 2012 for his work in Black Mass. Patrick’s newest work New Comics #1 was published in May 2013 by Mother Books.
Quimby’s is a proud sponsor of the CAKE which will take place Saturday and Sunday, June 15 & 16th, 11am – 6pm at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted.
This event previously featured a presentation by Derf Backderf. Unfortunately, Derf had to cancel his trip to Chicago, and will no longer be involved in this event. We hope to host him again soon. -
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Laydeez Do Comics in June, CAKE-Inspired Edition: Mita Mahato & Zan Christensen 6/13
Laydeez Do Comics is London’s monthly comics salon. Quimby’s is host to the Chicago edition. Come hear comics creators speak about their work, their process, their plans, and whatever else they want to share with us.
The special June CAKE-inspired edition will feature Seattle visitors:
Cartoonist and academic Mita Mahato is an associate professor of English at University of Puget Sound. Her academic work often incorporates graphic novels, specifically those around illness. She is currently working on her own graphic novel in collage about grief and the loss of her mother. View her work in progress on her blog, theseframesarehidingplaces.com
LGBT comics writer and activist Charles ‘Zan’ Christensen founded Seattle’s Northwest Press in 2010. It’s a book publisher dedicated to publishing the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender comics collections and graphic novels and celebrating the LGBT comics community. He travels the country promoting and supporting his award winning creators. northwestpress.com
Peruse NW Press titles at http://northwestpress.com.
For more info: laydeezdocomics.com and comicnurse@mac.com
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Laydeez Do Comics May Edition: Tyrell Cannon & Sarah Morton 5/30
Laydeez do Comics is London’s monthly comics salon. Now there’s a branch in Chicago!
The monthly focus on lady comics and friends of lady comics artists returns. Come hear comics creators speak about their work, their process, their plans, and whatever else they want to share with us. For more info: laydeezdocomics.blogspot.com
May’s speakers will be indie cartoonists Sarah Morton and Tyrell Cannon.
About Sarah Morton:
Though originally from Utah (and no, she’s not Mormon), Sarah now lives in Chicago. She has pursued several various careers, including photojournalism and urban planning, but never stopped drawing. Sarah is currently working on volume 3 of Seasonal, a graphic novel based on the book by Bobbi Parry. Sarah is also working on as a series of autobiographical stories based on her aforementioned career experiences, a monthly comic about urban planning, and many, many others. sarahannmorton.comAbout Tyrell Cannon:
Tyrell Olen Cannon is also a Chicago local, and is a graduate of the SAIC. His blog Process Is Everything is a look into his art-making process. He does the comic Gary about a true-crime ispired serial killer.
tyrellcannon.comFor more info: laydeezdocomics.com and comicnurse@mac.com
join us:
Thursday, May 30 at 7pm and the last Thursday of every month
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Celebrate Free Comic Book Day with CAKE 5/4
The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo invites you to Celebrate Free Comic Book Day at Quimby’s Bookstore with them! This celebration will feature readings by local comics creators, Jo Dery (Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret, Little Otsu), Carter Lodwick (My Darling, Old Master), and Corinne Mucha (My Every Single Thought, Is It The Future Yet? (a Quimby’s exclusive), Freshmen, Zest Books). All three readers will be exhibiting at CAKE 2013.Quimby’s will feature free comics throughout the day, as well as free comics and refreshments during the event.Corinne Mucha
Corinne Mucha is a Chicago based cartoonist, illustrator, and teaching artist. She is the author of the YA graphic novel Freshman: 9th Grade Tales of Obsessions, Revelations, and Other Nonsense, as well as the Xeric award winning My Alaskan Summer. Her comic “The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions” won an Ignatz award in 2011. Her self published minicomics include “My Every Single Thought,” and “It Doesn’t Exist.” Corrine has a comic featured in Tugboat Press’ Free Comic Book Day comic, Runner Runner, which will be available at Quimby’s Bookstore. http://maidenhousefly.comJo Dery
Jo Dery lives in Chicago. She used to live in Providence. There are so many lovely people in both places, she feels very lucky to know them all. She makes short films, prints, and little books, and teaches younger folks to do make things too. Jo has a comic featured in the CAKE 2013 Digest Anthology, which will is for sale at Quimby’s. http://jodery.comCarter Lodwick
Carter draws comics about gardens and aging men in suits. Carter has a comic featured in the Free Comic Book Day Comic, Handout Comics #3, which will be available for free at Quimby’s. http://carterlodwick.tumblr.comThe Chicago Alternative Comics Expo The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE] is 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. Featuring 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. CAKE takes place June 15 & 16, at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted. Quimby’s is a proud sponsor of CAKE. http://cakechicago.com
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off-site but of interest: Long-Arm Stapler First Aid: OPENING RECEPTION at Spudnik Press Cooperative
Long-Arm Stapler First Aid: Self-Care In Zines and Mini Comics
Curated by Liz Mason and Neil Brideau
4/20/13 – 5/31/13Opening Reception: April 20, 2013 6:00 – 9:00pm
The Annex @ Spudnik Press Cooperative, 1821 W Hubbard, Suite 303, Chicago, IL(NOT at Quimby’s)Whether we’re soothing, grooming or creating major life changes, we’re always involved in some sort of self-care, no matter how big or trivial. Drinking coffee, petting animals, getting stuff off our chests, confronting personal and societal demons, we are perpetually creating a space for our own personal world to exist healthfully in the bigger world. Indeed, the personal is social.Instead of relying on professional services, one can create change using a DIY mentality, often with the help of some sort of reference. At their core, the pieces in this group show suggest we must be our own proponents for health and well-being.The exhibit “Long-Arm Stapler First Aid” features pieces by a variety of zinesters and comics artists. The pieces discuss and/or illustrate self-care topics that both help themselves and inspire the reader to be their own advocate in self-improvement. In honor of self-publishing as a means to foster well-being, Spudnik Press is proud to host this exhibition featuring dozens of zine makers from across the country, including Edie Fake, Rinko Endo, Kathleen McIntyre, Ramsey Beyer, Liz Prince, Dina Kelberman, Sara McHenry, Maris Wicks, Beth Barnett, Nate Beaty, Raleigh Briggs, Danielle Chenette, Emilja Frances, Turtel Onli, Trubble Club, Caroline Paquita, Sarah McNeil, Milo Miller, Corinne Mucha, Kitari Sporrong, Missy Kulik, Cathy Leamy, Erick Lyle and more.Long Arm Stapler First Aid will also include a limited edition exhibition zine, compiled by Liz Mason, encompassing relevant self-care themes in zines and mini-comics such as: healing, grief, fitness, and medical issues. The exhibit will also feature a limited edition screenprint by Ramsey Beyer, published by Spudnik Press.This show brings together an assortment of zines and comics that address health-related issues ranging from mental to physical, personal to societal, and preventative to regenerative, including such specifics as grooming, food preparation, self-defense, coping strategies, defense mechanisms, mental or spiritual development and even soul enrichment. These largely self-published works address, at times, incredibly personal experiences, usually with a large dose of wit.Unlike a film or a painting, readers of zines and comics are able to engage with these works at their own pace, choosing when they are ready to confront the next page. Perhaps this is what allows authors to broach difficult, and often very personal, topics with great breadth of emotion, honesty, and clarity. Through the combination of words and images, artists are able to rely on multiple modes of communication to bring together the tangible and the cerebral.Why the long-arm stapler? It’s the symbol of home-stapled periodicals, the best kind of stapler to use for getting to the center of the page that a normal stapler can’t reach. And the very act of making a zine and mini comic (and reading) is considered a therapeutic caring action.Long live (and maintain, groom and sooth) the long-arm stapler!About the curators:Liz Masonis the manager of Quimby’s Bookstore, known for selling a variety of self-published works, as well as the editor and publisher for the zine Caboose.Neil Brideau is comics artist and comics sommelier at Quimby’s Bookstore, as well as an organizer of CAKE, Chicago’s Alternative Comics Expo.
*Image Credit to Dina Kelbermann
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New Stuff This Week
Thanks to everybody who came out tonight for the Oyez Review party, to celebrate the new issue, #40 Spring 2013. Of course we still have a few left if you missed the event. Come get your copy now!Zines
St Owls Bay Wet Swords by Simon Hanselmann (Floating World Comics) $5.00 – Hanselmann’s team of bitchy fuckups possesses such a well-unbalanced chemistry of neurosis, aggression and nonchalance you just can’t turn away. Camp drugs and night terriers…I’d expect no less from a trip with these clowns. -EF
How Do I Look Show Catalogue $15.00
Problem Solution #1 by Bianca Barragan $5.00
Shards of Glass In Your Eye issues 7-9 by Kari Tervo $3.00 each
No Condoms, No Piece, Why Condoms Should Be Mandatory In Pornography by Harmonica $1.00 – Harmonica argues the rubberclad case for condoms in porn, pro bono and pro boner. -EF
Momentary Interaction by Gregg Evans $10.00 – Cruisin’ for a…..
Lil Cat Bianca $10.00
Bookstores and Baseball 5th Inning $4.00
Alley Connoisseur #1 by Sam and Raf $2.00
Awesome zines from the 2013 Chicago Zine Fest artist Laura Berger ($10.00 each): Seeing Clearly #1, Identifying Friends, Feel Better Now
Pox Corpuscorpus #4 by Paul Nudd with tonso crazy artists like Onsmith, Grant Reynolds and more. $12.00
Georgi and the Haunted Minivan Episode 3 My Month in Texas Daily Comic Issue by Georgi $1.00 – Georgi does daily comics about orbiting around Houston, van living and eating well. Don’t mess with it. -EFComics & Comix
New Jobs by Dash Shaw (Uncivilized Books) $5.00
Laskimooses #10 Perustusten Pystyttaminen by Herra Matti Hagelbergin $7.00
Adventures in Ham Fisted Haberdashery #2 by Nick Soracco et al. $4.00
Listen Part 1 $2.50
Quit Yer Blubberin, A Lil Erwin Minature Adventure by Erwin Ledford $2.00
Lost in Time Travel, Surrounded By Evil #1 by Hannah G. Thompson $5.00 – And issue #2 for $10.00
Lou #12 by Melissa Mendes (Oily Comics) $1.00
Noise #1 by Billy Burkert (Oily Comics) $1.00
Young Dumb and Full of Cum #1 The Autobiography by Nick Drnaso (Oily Comics) $1.00
Buddies #1 Oily Comics Whippets by Anna Haifisch (Oily Comics) $1.00
Tiger Man #1 by Yost Winslow and Grant Rae (Oily Comics) $1.00
Heyday Comics #5 Waking Days Will Never Die For Ones Who Live In Sleep by Daniel Elisii $3.00
Unlucky Hunter #13 SAIC Spr 13 Underground Comix Anthology by Paul Nudd, Marlene Konig, Liz Avery and more $7.00
Mystery: A Stream of Consciousness Historical Mystery Memoir (various issues) by Seamus O. Hames $2.00 each
Beach Tumble issues #1 of 2 by Jon Drawdoer $2.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Letting It Go by Miriam Katin (D&Q) $24.95
Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft and Inj Culbard (Self-Made Hero) $19.95
Punk Rock Jesus TPB by Sean Murphy $16.99
Work Burger (Stripburger) $20.00
Mind MGMT HC vol 1 The Manager by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse) $19.99 – Collects issues #0 through #6.
Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, Master of Gay Erotic Manga by Anne Ishii, Chip Kidd, and Graham Kolbeins (Picturebox) $29.95
So Long Silver Screen by Blutch (Picturebox) $22.95
Darwin – A Graphic Biography by Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr (Smithsonian) $9.95Art & Design
Cosey Complex by Maria Fusco and Richard Birkett (Koenig) $44.95
Blood 2003 Earl McGrath Gallery Exhibition Book 2nd Ed by Mark Ryden (Last Gasp) $19.95
Giant Eternal by Mike Giant (Gingko) $39.95
Juxtapoz New Contemporary (Gingko) $29.95
Draw Your Own Alphabets Thirty Fonts to Scribble Sketch and Make Your Own by Tony Seddon $19.95
Flip the Script: A Guidebook for Aspiring Vandals and Typographers by Christian P. Acker (Upper Playground) $35.00
Swissted: Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined by Mike Joyce $40.00 – Includes 200 ready to frame posters!Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Who Was Dracula? Bram Stoker’s Trail of Blood by Jim Steinmeyer $26.95
Ordinary Acrobat: The Journey Into the Wonderous World of the Circus Past and Present by Duncan Wall $26.95
Wired Up: Glam, Proto Punk and Bubblegum: European Picture Sleeves 1970-1976 by Jeremy Thompson and Mary Blount (Wired Up Media) $39.95
Wild: From Lost To Found On The Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed $15.95 – Now in soft cover.
Gulp by Mark Roach $26.95 – Popular science writer tackles what happens in our body when we eat. Fecal transplant anyone?
My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin $20.00
Bike Snob Abroad: Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets Quest for Cycling Paradise by Bike Snob NYC and Eben Weiss $16.95DIY
Cannabis Cupcakes: 35 Mini Marijuana Cakes to Bake and Decorate by Chris Stone and Carol Ann $13.99
Growing Medical Marijuana Securely and Legally by Dave DeWitt $19.99Politics & Revolution
Anarchist FAQ vol 2 by Iain McKay (AK Press) $25.00
Democracy Project: A History a Crisis a Movement by D. Graeber $26.00Fiction
Train to Pokipse BY Rami Shamire $15.00
Interestings by Meg Wolitzer $27.95
Driving Alone by Kevin Helmick $10.00
1Q84 Single Volume soft-cover edition by Haruki Murakami $16.95
Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe by M. Henderson Ellis (New Europe) $14.95Magazines
Tom Tom Magazine #13 $6.00 – Magazine For Female Drummers. The Metal Issue.
Juxtapoz #148 May 13 $5.99
Hi-Fructose #27 $6.95
King Brown #8 $28.00
Best of Skunk vol 7 $7.99
IdN vol 20 #1 $19.95
IDN Extra 08 Typo Graphic Posters $25.00
Dwell May 13 $5.99
True Crime Mar 13 $8.99
High Times Jun 13 $5.99
Gothic and Lolita Bible #45 $35.00
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 30 #1 $6.25
Flaunt Spr 13/Flaunt: Plutocracy Issue Fourteenth Anniversary $10.95 each
State vol 3 Social Olfactory/State vol 4 Dubai $14.00 each
Little Joe: Queers and Cinema Clubhouse Reader $13.00
Mojo #233 Apr 13 $9.99
Monocle vol 7 #62 Apr 13 $12.00
Dissent Spr 13 $10.00Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
The Baffler #22 $12.00
McSweeneys #43 Fiction from South Sudan $27.00
N Plus 1 #16 Spr 13 $13.95
Pank #8 $10.00
Coffin Factory #5 $9.00
Midwestern Gothic #9
Racket Games Basketball Camp Centerpiece Sultans Golden Cake Book $5.00Other Stuff
Crazy weird wrapping paper from Pepin Press. Must see it to believe it!
Advanced Dick Cancer Stage V Drawing Print and Hand of God #512 Drawing Print by Sloat and Greenstalk $1.00 each -
Yes, We're Open!
Perhaps you heard the news? The restaurant next door to Quimby’s had a fire. We’ve received a lot of concerned phone calls and e-mails from folks. Thanks for showin’ the love! Thanksfully, it has not affected Quimby’s and everything is safe here in the zine stacks!
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