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Art Spiegelman's WORDLESS! with music by Phillip Johnston at the Logan Center, Performance Hall
Two performances onlySat, Jan 25, 2014 / 3 pm and 8 pmLogan Center, Performance HallIn his Pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece, Maus—a moving father-son memoir about the Holocaust drawn with cats and mice—Art Spiegelman changed the definition of comics forever. In WORDLESS!—a new and stimulating hybrid of slides, talk and musical performance—he probes further into the nature and possibilities of his medium.A noted artist, historian and theorist of comics, Spiegelman collaborates with critically-acclaimed jazz composer Phillip Johnston, whose all-new scores performed by his sextet will accompany the cartoonist’s personal tour of early graphic novels and their influence on him: silent picture stories made by early 20th Century masters like Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward and Milt Gross. As Spiegelman explores “the battle between Words and Pictures,” he smashes at the hyphen between High and Low Art in a presentation featuring a new work drawn specifically for this project, “Shaping Thought.”The Logan Center is proud to host the Chicago premiere of Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston’s WORDLESS!, an innovative show combining slides, talk, film, and live musical performance. -
New Stuff This Week
Sonnet Youth: Daydream Nation by Jeffrey Lewis $2.00 – All of Daydream Nation’s fourteen songs have been rewritten by Jeffrey as fourteen sonnets in the Shakespearian mode in iambic pentameter, accompanied by illustrations.Zines
The Operature: A collaboration with ATOM-r -Book from The Operature 25-screen exhibition . Comes apart to reveal a 33″ x 42.5″ poster.
Blank Stare #2 $5.00
Jazz Tobacco #1 $5.00
Brain Damage #1 Bjork Is Up Your Ass by Johan Bjorkegrens $18.00
Earth Is Mostly Ocean by Tyler Meese $2.00
Future Trash #1 by Adam Wiesner $3.00
Sunfighter Gunfighter by Abe Lampert $5.00
Dire Earth Chronicles #1 Dead Walls & Dire Earth Chronicles #2 Transparent Color by Luke Thompson, Kevin Moran & Nic Collins $10.00 each
The Unsuccessful Artists Handbook by Dana Jeri Maier $10.00
Victory Journal #6 Fall 13 Blood and Asphalt $5.00
Soulbond #2 A Dorky MTG Fanzine $1.00 – Magic The Gathering in the house.
Duke City Graffiti #1 by Lisa Barrios and Agustin McCord $5.00 – Devoted to Albuquerque graffiti. 8×11-inch full color.Comics & Comix
Stripburger #62 $8.00 – A kick-ass international zine with a Slavic flavour.
Havawood #1 by April Hava Shenkman $15.00
Weird Magazine #4 $10.00 – Comics from the likes of Noel Freibert, CF, Sua Yoo, Chris Day, Dash Shaw, Andy Burkholder & more.
Night of the Shears #1 by Noel Freibert $3.00
Addicted to Garbage #2 by Mathyou Landvote $2.00
Roundhouse Kick by R. Burns $3.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Gut Feelings by Leah Wishnia $6.00Art & Design
Schizo-Culture, 2-vol. set, The Event, The Book, ed. by Sylvère Lotringer and David Morris (Semiotext(e)) $34.95 – This slip-cased edition includes The Book: 1978, a facsimile reproduction of the original Schizo-Culture publication; and The Event: 1975, a previously unpublished and comprehensive record of the legendary 1975 “Schizo-Culture” conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective conference, that set it all off. The journal that came later was designed by a group of artists and filmmakers including Kathryn Bigelow and Denise Green, it documented the chaotic creativity of an emerging downtown New York scene, and offered interviews with artists, theorists, writers, and No Wave and pre-punk musicians together with new texts from Deleuze, Foucault, R. D. Laing, and other conference participants.
Exposure Nudity and Graffiti In Albuquerque by Billy McCall (and friends) $30.00Essays
White Girls by Hilton Als (McSweeneys) $24.00DIY/How to
Alive With Vigor: Survivng Your Adventurous Lifestyle by Robert Earl Sutter III (Microcosm) $9.95Politics & Revolution
Socialist and Labor Songs: An International Revolutionary Songbook by Elizabeth Morgan (PM Press) $14.95
Talking Anarchy by Colin Ward & David Goodway (PM Press) $14.95
Until the Rulers Obey: Voices From Latin American Social Movements by Clifton Ross & Marcy Rein (PM Press) $29.95
Slash They Ass Up: A Black Punk Manifesto by Yumii Thecato $16.00Sex & Sexy
Erotic Stories ed. by Rowan Pelling $16.00 – Erotic tales from all over the world, by such writers as Pauline Réage, Anaïs Nin, Nicholson Baker and more.Fiction
Last Girlfriend on Earth and Other Love Stories by Simon Rich $13.00 – Now in soft cover.
Highly Unlikely Scenario: Or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor $16.95
Orfeo by Richard Powers $26.95
Gun Machine by Warren Ellis $17.00 Now in soft cover.
Leaving the Sea: Stories by Ben Marcus $25.95
Magazines
The Baffler #24 $12.00
Juxtapoz #157 Feb 14 $5.99
Neural #46 $8.00
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 30 #4 $6.95
Disfunkshion vol 18 $5.99
Tom Tom Magazine #16 Magazine For Female Drummers $6.00
Makeshift #8 Win 13 Journal of Hidden Creativity $10.00
Colors #88 $16.95
High Times Mar 14 $5.99
Man of the World #6 $20.00
Special Request #1 Food $20.99 – Like design? Like food? Like mags like Gather? This is for you.
Dazed and Confused vol 3 #29 Jan 14 $9.99
Film Comment vol 50 #1 Jan Feb 14 $5.99
Fangoria #330 $10.99
The Shadow #55 $1.00
In These Times Jan 14 $3.50
Against the Current #168 Jan Feb 14 $5.00
Dissent Win 14 $10.00
Freshly Inked vol 4 #1 Mar 14 $6.99
Tabu Tattoo #56 $6.99
Mountain Astrologer Feb Mar 14 $7.95
Outburn #72 $4.95
Tape Op #99 Jan Feb 14 $4.95Poetry, Lit Journals & Chap Books
Comb #2 by Ian Hubert $3.00
Calyx by Michael Anichini and Elizabeth Chisholm (Convulsive Editions) $8.00
Means of Egress by Chad Chmielowicz (Convulsive Editions) $8.00
June Cuckold by Catherine Theis (Convulsive Editions) $8.00
In Forest Static by Christopher Hund (Convulsive Editions) $6.00
The Believer #104 Jan 14 $8.00
The Iowa Review vol 43 #3 Win 13 14 $9.95
Poetry: Sit With Me a While, Collected Works 2000-2011 by Michael A. Horvitch
Geist Fact Fiction #91 $6.95Kids Stuff
Hearts by Thereza Rowe (Toon Books) $12.95
Glass Owl by Cecilia Pinto & Megan Williamson $10.00 -
Chicago Zine Fest Looking For Submissions For Zine
As per their press release:
The Chicago Zine Fest will be celebrating its fifth year of existence next year! We’re blown away by the massive zine love that takes place in Chicago each spring, and we are thankful that you’ve been a part of making that happen. To celebrate this five year milestone, we are putting together a comp zine of CZF stories. Do you have a memorable CZF experience, anecdote, or adventure? We’d love it if you could be a part of this project!
The details:
Submissions should be 1-3 pages
Submissions should be half size (5.5” x 8.5”)
New or previously published work accepted
Submissions should be about something related to the Chicago Zine Fest
A high resolution (at least 300 dpi) JPEG or PDF of the submission can be emailed to chicagozinefest@gmail.com.Along with your submission, please send a contributor bio (featuring your name, the title of your zine, contact info, and a few sentences about yourself) to be listed in the back of the zine.
We reserve the right not to include every submission. Contributors will receive a copy of the zine, so please include your mailing address with your submission.
Submissions are due by February 1, 2014. The zine will be sold at CZF 2014 & online, with all proceeds going towards CZF.
Thank you for being a part of the Chicago Zine Fest!
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David Witter reads from Chicago Magic: A History of Stagecraft & Spectacle 2/15
In David Witter’s new book Chicago Magic: A History of Stagecraft & Spectacle (The History Press), he keeps track of the shell game of Chicago’s fascinating magic history from its vaudeville circuit to its contemporary resurgence. By the end of America’s “Golden Age of Magic,” Chicago had taken center stage in front of an American audience drawn to the craft by the likes of Harry Houdini and Howard Thurston. Cashing in on a craze that rivaled big-band mania, magic shops and clubs sprang up everywhere across the Windy City, packed in customers and put down roots. Over the last century, for example, Magic, Inc. has outfitted magicians from Harry Blackstone Sr. to Penn and Teller to David Copperfield. Magic was an integral part of Chicago’s culture, from its earliest venture into live television to the card sharps and hucksters lurking in its amusement parks and pool halls.
David Witter is a Chicago historian and author of the book Oldest Chicago. A native Chicagoan, he attended Louisa May Alcott School (the same grammar school as Marshall Brodien), Lane Technical High School, Columbia College (BA in writing) and Northeastern Illinois University (BA in secondary education). Also a freelance writer and photographer, he is a regular contributor to New City and Fra Noi. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, Living Blues, The Best of the Chicago Blues Annual, the Bay Area Music Magazine, the Copley News Syndicate and Lerner Newspapers.
For more info: danielle.raub(at)historypress(dot)net
Click here for Facebook event posting for this event.
Saturday, February 15th, 7pm – Free Event at Quimby’s Bookstore
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New Stuff This Week
Ten x Ten, 2013 Edition, A Collection of Prints and Music by Chicago Artists $35.00 – Ten x Ten is a collaboration between visual artists and musicians exploring visual and auditory interaction. By challenging artists to conceptualize their work across media, Ten x Ten asks participants stretch and expand their creative process. Through producing a limited edition compilation and public presentation of the resulting artworks, Ten x Ten documents, celebrates, and promotes Chicago’s artistic community. Ten x Ten 2013 investigates the relationship between color and sound. Through exploring the underlying concepts of synesthesia, both academically and intuitively, artists and composers have worked together to produce artwork that takes the form of both a fine art print and an original score. This project is presented by Access Contemporary Music, Homeroom, and Spudnik Press. The collection of prints includes an LP with ten unique tracks, a hand-printed folio, and a plastic protective sleeve. Featured print and song collaborations: Lilli Carre and Michael Miller, Edie Fake and Andrew Tham, Jo Dery and Jude Mathews, Aaron Renier and Brain Baxter, Chad Kouri and Marjorie Rusche, Craig Hansen and Betsy Start, Aaron Maurer and Tim Corpus, Ann Worthing and Amos Gillespie, Angee Lennard and Randall West, Renee Robbins and Seth Boustead.Zines
Fashionable Activism Photozine #1 Hardcore Punk by Kevin McCaughey $8.00
Annular Obsession b y David Wicik $3.00
Any Questions #1 an Interactive Chicago Comedy Magazine $2.00
Smells Fingers Smells Fingers Smells Fingers by Alicia Rose $2.00Comics & Comix
Believed Behavior Season 1 $5.00 – With contributions from the likes of KrystalDiFronzo, Edie Fake, Jeremy Tinder, Grant Reynolds, Andy Burkholder, Brad Rohloff.
Good Death vol 1 by Sydney Fletcher $5.00
Castle and Wood issues #1-#7 $4.00 each
Reptile Mind #1 by Bernard Stiegler $10.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Prison Pit Book 5 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Terra Obscura: Smash of Two Worlds by Alan Moore et al. (Vertigo) $24.99
Swamp Thing vol 1 Brian K Vaughan TPB by Brian K. Vaughan et al. (Vertigo) $19.99
Multiple Warheads TPB Book 1 by Brandon Graham $17.99
Ex Machina Book 1 TPB by Brian K. Vaughan et al. (Vertigo) $19.99Fiction
Mustache Hes Always Wanted But Could Never Grow and Other Stories by Brian Alan Ellis $10.00
Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar $18.00Politics & Revolution
Our America A Hispanic History of The United States by Armesto Felipe Fernandez $27.95Magazines
Fool #4 Food Insanity Brilliance and Love $18.00

Uppercase #20 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious

Color Ink Book vols 19 & 20 DIY Art Periodical by The Brothers Washburn $10.00 each
Out of Order Win 13 $24.00
V Magazine #87 Spr Preview 14 $7.50
Iron and Air #12 $15.00That’s it for this week! The polar vortex put a hold on a whole mess of shipments!
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Michael DeForge Talks About Ant Colony 2/8
On Saturday, February 8th, at 7pm, join Quimby’s and Drawn and Quarterly for the launch of Michael DeForge’s darkly existential graphic novel Ant Colony! In just a few short years, DeForge’s singular, idiosyncratic style has made him an important new voice in alternative comics. Here, he will present a slideshow with a signing to follow.Ant Colony follows the denizens of a black ant colony under attack from the nearby red ants: from its opening pages, DeForge immerses the reader in a world of false prophets, unjust wars, and corrupt police officers. On the surface, Ant Colony tells the story of this war, the destruction of a civilization, and the ants’ all-too-familiar desire to rebuild. Underneath, though, Ant Colony plumbs the deepest human concerns – loneliness, faith, love, apathy, and more. DeForge’s striking visual sensibility – stark lines, dramatic color choices, and brilliant use of page and panel space – stands out in this volume.
More info about Michael DeForge:
http://michaeldeforge.wordpress.com/
Click here to see Facebook event invite.
Also! Santullo’s Eatery down the street (1943 W. North Ave) has generously agreed to provide pizza for the occassion! For more info about their delicious New York style pizza see santullos.com.
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New Stuff This Week
Xerox Ferox: The Wild World of the Horror Film Fanzine by John Szpunar (Headpress) $34.95 – Xeroxferox is the first book to cover the horror film fanzines and the culture they spawned…XEROXFEROX traces the rise of the horror film fanzine, from the Famous Monster-starved kids of the 1960s to the splatter-crazed gorehounds of the Fangoria generation.zines & zine-related
Put a Egg On It #8 Win 13 $7.00
Vintage Pin Up Girls $10.00
Halfling Zine #2 2013 $7.00
I’m Definitely Not Going On Tour: Stories and Thoughts From the Race Riot Tour (Think About the Bubbles #9) by Joyce Hatton $2.00
Moral Fiber #9 by Chris Pernula $2.00
Queer Art Activism – various issues by Miyuki Baker $4.00 each
Book of Myths Book #52 by Dan Gleason abnd Theresa Currie $3.00
Last Night at the Casino #6 Dec 13 by BJ McCall $2.00 – Zinester turned card dealer in Vegas!
KerBloom #105 Nov Dec 13 by Artnoose $2.00comics & comix
Henry and Glenn #4 Forever and Ever by Igloo Tornado and friends $5.00
Last Playlist by Marta Chudolinska $7.00
King Cat #74 by John Porcellino $4.00
New Comics #2 by Patrick Kyle $8.00
The Next World Over by Ian McDuffie $6.00
Blackwax Boulevard #1 by Dmitri Jackson $5.00graphic novels & trade paperbacks
Kid Mafia Digest by Michael Deforge (Secret HQ) $10.00 – Collects issues #1-3 of Kid Mafia. Don’t miss Michael DeForge here at Quimby’s Feb 8th!
Qu33r New Comics From Thirty threee Creators $29.99 – Includes work from Edie Fake, Marian Runk, MariNaomi, Diane DiMassa, Ed Luce, Kris Dresen, Carrie McNinch, Nicole Georges and more!art & design
The Graffiti Cookbook: Complete Do It Yourself Guide to Graffiti by various $29.95
Ed Hardy Interviews by V. Vale (ReSearch Publications) $14.99For Kids
Atop a Hill in Frostville by Daniel Frost (ittle Otsu) $15.95fiction
Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein by Dave Zeltserman $14.95
Sounds of War: Iraq Attack of Thomas Edington by Thomas Ferreolus $10.00
Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki $16.00sexy
Delicious Torment a Story of Submission by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $16.95
Study in Fetishisms vol 1 Manifesto $18.00
Transformation #88 $12.50
RFD #156 Win 13 $9.95music-related
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen $16.00politics & revolution
Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Voices From Tunis to Damascus by Layla Al Aubaidi and Matthew Cassel $17.00mags
Cabinet #51 Wheels $12.00
Design Bureau Jan Feb 14 $8.00
ArtForum Jan 14 $10.00
Dwell Feb 14 $5.99
Hi-Fructose #30 $7.95
Skeptic vol 18 #4 $6.95
Skeptical Inquirer Jan Feb 14 vol 38 #1 $4.95
American Atheist 1st Quarter 14 $4.95
True Crime Dec 13 $8.99
Ladygunn #8 $9.99
Dapper Dan #8 Fall Win 13 $10.99
Boneshaker #43-400 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00
Sofilm #2 Dec 13 $9.99
Wax Poetics #57 $11.99
Maximumrocknroll #368 Jan 14
Mojo #242 Jan 14 $9.99
Uncut Special: Neil Young $13.99
Tattoo Traditional Special #10 From Tattoo Life $9.99
Our Tattoos vol 3 Best Tattoos From the Worlds Best Artists (WP Tattoo Series 4) $9.99poetry, lit journals & chap books
Boulevard of Broken Discourse by Matthew Freeman $11.95
Tombo by WS DiPiero (McSweeneys) $20.00
The Paris Review #207 $15.00
Creative Nonfiction #50 Fall 13 Win 14 $10.00
Six By Six #29 Reduced to Survival $5.00 -
New Stuff This Week
The Pitchfork Review #1 Win 14 $19.96 – Quarterly music publication that combines new long-form feature stories, photography, illustrations and other ephemera with selected recent pieces from Pitchfork. With contributions from the Pitchfork staff and edited by J.C. Gabel of Stop Smiling and The Chicagoan.Zine & Zine-Related Book
Pedway of Today by Hui Min Tsen (Green Lantern Press) $15.00 – Always wanted to learn where the pedways in Chicago are? Here’s your chance!
No Regrets: Three Discussions (N+1 Small Book Series) $9.00
Gun Fag Manifesto by Hollister Kopp $20.00
FOUND Parking Notes $16.99 – Courtesy of FOUND Magazine, these 25 reprints of previously found parking notes.
Can’t Tell No One What To Do by Michael F. Conway $4.00
Night Watch #2 Warning Contains Beer Boobs and Barf & Night Watch #3 Eyeball Issue by Tallboy and Krusty $6.00 each
Sutterlinschrift – The Lost German Handwriting by Grace Dobush $4.00
Power Places by Joseph Wilcox $8.00
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Opening a Moments Catalog December 8 2012 / Journal of Aesthetics and Protest by Benjamin Shepard, Mrc Herbst and Emily Larned $15.00
Viscera of My Konos #1 Art Zine About Greek Mythology and Mythos by Jake Lawrence, Byron Buslig et al. $2.00
Punks Thugs Vandals $8.00
Margin Creep 2 $6.00
Data Bodies by Daniel Borzutzky $10.00
These Necrotic Ethos Come the Plains by Devin King (Green Lantern Press) $10.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #60 $1.50
Singkre Nisite by Esme O. $6.00Comics & Comix
You Dont Get There From Here #27 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Belly Wot Leaflet 2012 Knoze Clippah Edition (Half World Books) $5.00
Seven or Eight by Lara Antal $3.00
Dust Motes Parts 1 and 2 – A Journal Comic by Kevin Budnik $6.00 each
Desk by Leslie Stein (Oily Comics) $1.00
Outside 3 of 3 by Marc Geddes and Warren Craghead (Oily Comics) $1.00
Dumpling King #4 by Alex Kim (Oily Comics) $1.00
Blood Visions #3 by Zach Worton (Oily Comics) $1.00
Teen Creeps #5 by Charles Forsman (Oily Comics) $1.00
Keep Fresh by Zejian Shen (Retrofit) $6.00
Exes #1 Comic by Dave Kiersh and Cole Johnson $2.00
RL #3 Rosalie Lightning Comic by Tom Hart $3.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Infomaniacsby Matthew Thurber (Picturebox) $22.95
The Best of Wonder Warthog by Gilbert Shenton $29.95
B+F by Gregory Benton (Adhouse) $19.95
Deep Park by David C. Mahler $12.00
Spy vs Spy Fight to the Finish by Peter Kuper $9.99
Delusional by Farel Dalrymple (Adhouse) $24.95Art & Design
Greetings From Shitsville UK by Monty Cantsin $24.95
Rope Rapture and Bloodshed by Trevor Brown and Antoine Bernhart $36.00
Inkslingers: Under the Skin by Jakob Schultz et al. $49.95
I Think of Thee When Far Away 16 Postcards by Femke Hiemstra (Last Gasp) $12.95Film, TV & Music
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: The Complete Text and Lyrics to the Cult Smash by Cameron Mitchell and friends $14.95
This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra $12.95Fiction
Benzedrine Highway Hi-Octane Early Work by Charles Plymell and Allen Ginsberg $14.95Politics & Revolution
Depression Alphabet Primer by D. Riccuito $19.95Magazines
Shots #122 Win 13 $6.95
Frankie #56 $13.95
Wrap #9 Telling Tales $19.99
Bizarre #209 Feb 14 $10.50
Interzone #249 Nov Dec 13 $9.99
Backwoodsman vol 35 #1 Jan Feb 14 $4.95
Brownbook #42 $12.95
I-D Magazine Win 13 #328 $12.99
Specimen Magazine #7 $6.00
Wire Dec 13 #358 $11.25
Clash #90 $8.99
Harpers Magazine Jan 14 $6.99Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
The First Line vol 15 #4 Win 13 $3.00Sex & Sexy
OP Original Plumbing #12 Trans Male Quarterly $9.00To see new stuff available from our website, see quimbys.com/store/.










