Category: photobooth

  • Meags Fitzgerald Launches PHOTOBOOTH: A BIOGRAPHY 6/12

    quimby's photobooth portraitCome join Meags as she presents her work and discusses the process of making the definitive graphic novel about this fascinating subject.

    For almost a century chemical photobooths have occupied public spaces, giving people the opportunity to quickly take inexpensive, quality photos. In the last decade these machines have started to rapidly disappear, causing an eclectic group of in- dividuals from around the world to come together and respond. Illustrator, writer and long-time photobooth lover, Meags Fitzger- ald has chronicled the photobooth’s fortuitous history and the events which gave rise to the desperate need to save them. Having traveled in North America, Europe and Australia, she’s constructed a biography of the booth through the eyes of technicians, owners, collectors, artists and fanatics. In this ground-breaking book Fitzgerald struggles with her own relationship to these fleeting machines, while looking to the future.
    Meags Fitzgerald is an artist and storyteller who draws, animates, writes and performs. Working primarily as an illustrator, she has a BFA from the Alberta College of Art + Design and a certificate in Design from the Nova Scotia College of Art + Design University. In many of her works, Fitzgerald addresses memory, history and the act of collecting. Photobooth: A Biography is her first graphic novel.
    For more information:

    meagsfitzgerald.com

    Conundrum Press conundrumpress.com

    Thurs, June 12, 7pm – Free Event

  • Weekly Top 10

    Jacqueline Bovit used our photobooth to make a cute valentine’s card with her little Sadie. And we couldn’t resist begging her to scan them and send them to post on our blog.  Have you taken pictures of yourself in our store? Or used our photobooth? Send them as digital images and we’ll post ’em here on our blog.

    1. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – Okay, mister, so you’re old friends with Green Day and they ask you to join them on their bonkers tour of China. Of course you’re going to do that. Don’t tell me you’re too punk for your old friends, cause that sounds pretty fucking pretentious. Just join them for a little piece of their crazy-ass ride and see what happens, ‘kay? Oh, wait….you’re not old friends with Green Day? Well, Aaron-Fucking-Cometbus is and was in this very situation and not only did he go on tour with Green Day, he also wrote this huge, funny, frought and generally terrific issue of his zine about corporate tour mayhem and sorting it all out. It’s awesome, in case you needed me to tell you that. -EF
    2. Bust Feb Mar 11 $4.99
    3. Guide to Picking Locks #2 by CrimethInc $4.50
    4. Juxtapoz #122 Mar 11 $5.99
    5. Johnny America #8 $3.00
    6. Muse the News the Noose #7 Endless Escalators Megabus Split – Gets Megabusted Hell Bus by John Wawrzaszek and Monica Anderson $1.00 – What do you mean I can get a Megabus bus ticket from Chicago to Detroit for two dollars on the internet? Is there some kinda catch – like enduring 10 hours of sleepless septic hell bus leaky bathroom fast food breakdown with 50 other drunks, thieves and collicky babies? Ah well, at least people aren’t being beheaded, like if I was riding Greyhound or something. -EF
    7. Paper Spr 11 $4.00
    8. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer $12.00
    9. Squid Pro Quo by Jason Duarte $2.00
    10. Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Life #2 by Kisha $2.00 – Ai! If issue one wasn’t enough AWKWARD for you, here’s the next THNGVBL that takes us from 3rd-7th grade, encompassing puberty, fatness, misunderstood DIY fashions, queer crushes and early exposure to punk rock.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Another person sent us a scan of the pictures they took in our photobooth! Balthazar, a self-described “Imaginary sailor, pretend photographer” sent it us. Check him out at CallMeBalthazar.com and find out how to request a (dirty) letter & a Polaroid.
    Send us your pictures to info(at)quimbys(dot)com that you’ve taken here and we’ll post ’em!

    NeW sttUf tHiS wEek

    ZINES!
    Boneshaker #43-100 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00
    The Inner Swine vol 16 #3 and #4 by Jeffrey Somers $2.00 – Mr. Somers still publishing and being hilarious.
    Fun Danger Danger Fun #1 by Richard Gin $7.00
    Seize the Essance #1 by Alexander Drake $5.00
    My Dance The Skull #1 by Megan Diddie $5.00
    Dragon Slutz $3.00
    Unicorn Whores $3.00
    Mild Vilnc #01 $2.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #4 the Choke Pear by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    Friction #2 by Justin Bostian $3.00
    No Thoughts #4 $7.00

    ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Smoking Typewriters The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media by John McMillian (Oxford) $27.95 – With a section about zines at the back.

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Notes On Conflict by Susie Cagle (Sparkplug) $6.00 – About the artist’s trip to the Middle East. Thoughtful and compelling.
    Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia (Sparkplug) $2.00
    I Have Something To Tell You #1 by Solomon Kidd $5.00
    Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd #1 A Work of Satire and Fiction by Benjamin Marra (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Cursed Pirate Girl TPB by Jeremy A Bastian (Olympian) $20.00 – Don’t miss the release event for this book at our sister store, Chicago Comics on 2/26!

    Stories I Wish I Could Tell You #2 by Tim Manley $3.00
    Zirp #4 by Till Thomas $7.00
    Nurse Nurse #2 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Attack Of The Zombie Soy Bot $2.00
    Were Going To Do This Arent We $1.00
    Whiskey Jack and Kid Coyote Meet the King of Stink by Shawn Cheng (Sparkplug) $2.00
    Us In A Box by Spovatar WB Phlecender $4.00
    Blindspot #1 by Jospeh Remnant $5.00
    Strange Growths #15 by Jenny Zervakis $3.00
    Kus #8 Comics Anthology $8.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS!
    Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $16.00 – Same ol’ Haven, now in softcover to match your old Garfield books.
    AOA vol 1 Daily Diary Comics of Melinda Boyce $18.00 – Collects diary comics from March to August 2009.
    Evolution The Story of Life On Earth by Jay Hosler, Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon (Hill & Wang) $18.95

    FICTION!
    While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) $27.00 – Unpublished short fiction!
    Sebastian Cross (History is not made without Casualties) by Kevin Lynn Helmick $15.00
    Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge (Small Beer) $16.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Nobrow #2 $17.50
    Cine Qua Non #3 $5.00
    Fortean Times #271 Mar 11 $11.99
    Ready Made #51 Feb Mar 11 $4.99
    Razorcake #60 $4.00
    Z Magazine Feb 11

    LITERARY JOURNALS AND POETRY!
    Believer #78 Feb 11 $8.00
    Small Murders by Carrie McGath $14.00
    Cousin Corinnes Reminder #2 $20.00

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY, MEMOIR, MIRTH & (M)OUTER LIMITS!
    The Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine In the Jazz Age by Deborah Blum (Penguin) $16.00
    Freemasonry: An Introduction by Rivera Marke E Koltko PhD (Tarcher) $11.95
    Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober, ed. by Bucky Sinister (Conari) $14.95 – Sinister goes beyond the 12-steps with stories from the misfits, freaks, and weirdos that have come to recovery from a variety of backgrounds — tattoo artists, bartenders, musicians, flight attendants–to help answer the What Now? question of living sober. Topics include: 10 Things Every New Recovering Addict Should Have; Prayer and the Atheist; Job Interviews; and Ways Addicts Can Be of Service to Normies.”Bucky’s writing is a lifeline for the non-spiritual.” -Patton Oswalt

  • More Photobooth Pics

    We stumbeled onto someone else’s pictures they took in our photobooth. Our Flickr friend Andy, a librarian and archivist in Chicago was cool with us posting them on our blog.

    Send us your Quimby’s photos at info(at)quimbys(dot)com if you want us to post ’em here!