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Mike White Reads From Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection 12/4
Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit—Paris of the Midwest—came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture.
This book collects the best articles from the fifteen year history of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine with sections dedicated to Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, Black Shampoo, unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, and much more. Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem.
“Obsessive, indulgent, wildly erratic, yet Impossibly Funky still warms my hardened critic’s heart because of the burning passion for movie going of the writer. It’s manifested in the nutty, beyond-left-field takes on popular geeky movies, and, even better, the stretch beyond Lucas and Tarantino to Kenneth Fearing, Travis McGee, and the unheralded comic genius of Canadian cinema, John Paizs. I’ve got to get my butt to Black Shampoo!” – Gerald Peary, critic, The Boston Phoenix
For more info: http://www.impossiblefunky.com
Saturday, December 4th at 7PM
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‘Za the Pizza Zine Release and Pizza Party at Quimby’s 11/10
As spicy and sassy as a stick of pepperoni, ‘Za the Pizza Zine is a compilation about, what else, the wonders of pizza. Still, it’s about more than simply reveling in pepperoni prose for creator Nicki Yowell and her baker’s dozen of bi-coastal contributors. The Chicagoans are plenty and include Ramsey Everydaypants of List, Eric Bartholomew of Junk Drawer, gore poet Mason Pierce and Dining with Words’ Caroline Liebman. ‘Za combines fiction, essays, comics, illustration and photography to create an all-out snack time explosion. Come for the reading of eloquent odes to ‘za and stay for the pizza party, featuring actual pizza.For more info: zathepizzazine.wordpress.com
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2011: The Revenge of Print
We’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.
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Zines On Toast Show at Quimby's
An evening of entertainment and information with zine writers from the UK (Rumlad, Last Hours, Hey Monkey Riot and Morgenmuffel) on tour with Portland’s Alex Wrekk (Brainscan zine and Stolen Sharpie Revolution). Join them for accounts of UK zine culture including stories from Alex’s trip to the UK last year, plus tales of the London zine symposium, vegan mass catering, UK social centres, revolution, punk rock, anarchy and more! For more info: http://zinesontoast.org
Alex Wrekk “Author of the popular how-to guide of zine-making, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, over fifteen years of zine-making under her belt, and the most intimate details of her life photocopied, stapled, and mailed around the world, this is a woman committed to taking her experiences in life and putting them on display in a way that is not for ratings or profit. Rather, she does it for the love of writing, creating, and sharing.” (Feminist Review) www.smallworldbuttons.com
Isy Morgenmuffel “For the past ten years Morgenmuffel comic zine has been documenting the world that Isy inhabits. A world of riots in the city of London, cooking for hundreds of punks, starting housing co-ops, local social centres, or simply hanging out with friends and drinking. Through it all Isy’s love of life, and humour, is at the heart of the stories.” (Last Hours) www.morgenmuffel.co.uk
Edd Baldry, a radical illustrator and editor of Last Hours, and creator of Hey Monkey Riot: “Edd’s perhaps one of the few people drawing autobio comics who actually does interesting stuff, … with an angle on activism which is celebratory rather than polemical, yet also unafraid to point out absurdities.” (Lucid Frenzy) www.eddbaldry.co.uk
Steve Larder “Rum Lad is part comic, part scene report, part diary but all with a subtle positivity that works to remind you that being a punk is fucking awesome.” (Pete Willis) www.stevelarder.co.uk
Tom Fiction and Natalie of Last Hours magazine and resource for creative resistance, and the London Zine Symposium, an annual event now in its 6th year. www.lasthours.org.uk
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Dialogue Regarding the Genesis of the Zinewich
Actual transcript as pasted in from the Quimby’s e-mail:
From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:37:38 -0600
To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>
Subject: A question about the new issue of Black Carrot
Quimbys,
Soon enough, I will have a new issue (#15) of my zine Black Carrot. A zine
I have long enjoyed selling at Quimbys. This issue of Black Carrot, will
come with a sandwich. I am not kidding. Would this affect in any way
selling it at Quimbys? I mean you can keep the sandwiches in a cooler,
and eat a few if you wanted.. Anyways, share with me your thoughts.
xo,
dave
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com> wrote:
Hi Dave,
Liz Mason here. A sandwich! You are insane. Can I post your e-mail on our
blog?
Child, tell me more about your crazy sandwich zine. Specifically, what would
be on this sandwich? I like this idea more and more by the second.
Specifically, I like the idea of the zine being the meat, sandwhiched
in-between 2 slices of bread.
Liz
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Quimby’s Bookstore
> From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:54:40 -0600
> To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>
> Subject: Re: A question about the new issue of Black Carrot
>
> Liz,
> Feel free to post that anywhere. Build up a bit of hype for Black Carrot
> #15? It is hard to explain with email, but I guess I will stop into Quimbys
> this week and just show you what I am talking about? It is quite possibly
> the best idea I have had this week. Zinewich!
> -dave
Dave,
This is insanity. I eagerly anticipate your arrival of the zinewich! I’m starving.
Liz
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Quimby’s Bookstore
Actual transcript as pasted in from the Quimby’s e-mail:From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:37:38 -0600To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>Subject: A question about the new issue of Black CarrotQuimbys,Soon enough, I will have a new issue (#15) of my zine Black Carrot. A zineI have long enjoyed selling at Quimbys. This issue of Black Carrot, willcome with a sandwich. I am not kidding. Would this affect in any wayselling it at Quimbys? I mean you can keep the sandwiches in a cooler,and eat a few if you wanted.. Anyways, share with me your thoughts.xo,daveOn Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com> wrote:Hi Dave,Liz Mason here. A sandwich! You are insane. Can I post your e-mail on ourblog?Child, tell me more about your crazy sandwich zine. Specifically, what wouldbe on this sandwich? I like this idea more and more by the second.Specifically, I like the idea of the zine being the meat, sandwhichedin-between 2 slices of bread.Liz—Quimby’s Bookstore> From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:54:40 -0600> To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>> Subject: Re: A question about the new issue of Black Carrot>> Liz,> Feel free to post that anywhere. Build up a bit of hype for Black Carrot> #15? It is hard to explain with email, but I guess I will stop into Quimbys> this week and just show you what I am talking about? It is quite possibly> the best idea I have had this week. Zinewich!> -daveDave,This is insanity. I eagerly anticipate your arrival of the zinewich! I’m starving.Liz—Quimby’s Bookstor -
The Book Bike Stopped By Quimby's!
The Book Bike Gabriel Levinson swung his Book Bike over to Quimby’s last week, and bought a whole buncha stuff and wrote an article about it! Read about it at:
www.bookbike.org/the-great-book-bike-book-buy/
The Book Bike: a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books. Since July of 2008, The Book Bike has been responsible for placing over 3,000 new and used books into peoples’ hands. In spring and summer, you’ll find The Book Bike at Chicago public parks on the weekends; anyone who wants a book is invited to take something home to read. In the summer of 2010, The Book Bike puts a spotlight on independent publishers: from hand-crafted zines to literary magazines and books, The Book Bike is a unique resource of the global independent literary scene.
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Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark and Little Brother
One and a half years ago, in an attempt to overcome his nigh crippling shyness and to get out of the basement, Brayton J. Cameron began the zine Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark (Long Reach Publishing) so he wouldn’t just sit in the corner of venues silently weeping in the dark while on tour with local rock band Geronimo! This kind of worked. Issue 5 is Brayton’s celebrated final issue. Some said it was funny, others said it was stupid, he just said the same as issue one, it was the “World’s best content. World’s worst zine.”
Shaylah Kloska and Lauren Hunter teamed up early this year to create Little Brother, a zine about, well anything, their first issue contained stories, poems, comics, and drawing ranging in topics from actual brothers, to strangers, to an octopus with a typewriter. Throughout this year Shaylah and Lauren have worked across the ocean, but this event brings the two of them together once again to officially release their 2nd delightful issue and, of course, read a bit from it.
For more info: http://www.ddwbs.com & http://heylittlebrother.tumblr.com/ & Little Brother on Facebook.
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Tesco Vee and Steve Miller from TOUCH AND GO: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-83
Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson launched Touch and Go fanzine in Lansing, MI, in 1979, and set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on the new punk happenings. In laughably minuscule press runs by today’s standards, T & G was made by guys within the Midwest scene strictly for the edification of scenesters and pals in other cities like DC, Philly, Boston, LA, SF, and Chicago. Inspired by Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessy and Chris Desjardines, TV and DS pumped out twenty-two naughty, irreverent issues, spawned a legendary independent record label, and brought fame and fortune to the best bands in the land, including: Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Negative Approach, the Fix, the Avengers, the Necros, Discharge, Die Kreuzen, Poison Idea—any punks worth their weight in glorious black and white.
I was inspired by how fearless and together Touch and Go were. They were really wild and extremely funny.”—Henry Rollins
“It was really one of the first times anyone outside of Washington really paid us any mind. The fact that Touch and Go took an interest in us really blew us away.”—Ian MacKaye
“Anyone who’s ever published a true DIY fanzine owes at least a small debt to Touch and Go.”—Decibel
For more info: http://www.touchandgobook.com
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Shoutout to Zine Culture In LA
We received a really wonderful e-mail from someone carrying on the zine vibes out in CA. And why, just today, one of our customers lamented that they didn’t have a zine source in LA. So here you are!
> From: Meredith False Start <falsestartdistro@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 09:41:35 -0700
> To: <info@quimbys.com>
> Subject: False Start Independent Books & Zines!!!
>
> Hey there!
> I’ve unfortunately never had the pleasure of visiting Chicago (and therefore
> Quimby’s!), but Quimby’s has been a bit of an icon for me ever since I got
> into zines, about 10 years ago. I’m trying to bring some sort of zine
> culture to Los Angeles, where I currently live, but the goings been tough,
> so I thought perhaps I’d write you a little note and see if you could help
> me out with a blog mention or a link!
>
> I am a recent graduate of the UCLA School of Art and started my own small
> distro, False Start Independent Books & Zines (www.false-start.com), selling
> small press publications. The titles I carry range from literary zines to
> punk how-to guides to comics and art zines. The main thread that ties all of
> these works together is aesthetics and a DIY attitude about art and culture.
> Too often people feel excluded from the world of art — whether it’s because
> they think they need a formal education to create it or don’t have enough
> money to buy it. False Start wants to put an end to that!
>
> I recently had a table at Unique LA, a great art, craft & design show in
> downtown Los Angeles. I was the only person there selling zines and I
> received a great response. Zine culture isn’t entirely dead in LA, just
> hibernating, and I’m hoping that perhaps you could give a little shout out
> to False Start and help wake the world up to small press!> Either way, I hope you enjoy looking at the site as much as I enjoy yours!
> Take care,
> Meredith Wallace> False Start: independent books & zines
> PO Box 641154
> Los Angeles, CA 90064
