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New Stuff This Week
The Hic and Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor vol 1 United States ed. by Lauren Barnett & Nathan Bulmer. Featuring funny comics by Ian Andersen, Lauren Barnett, Bort, Box Brown, Nathan Bulmer, Nikki Burch, Anne Emond, Madéleine Flores, Zac Gorman, KC Green, Dustin Harbin, Sam Henderson, Martha Keavney, Patt Kelley, Jeff Lok, Jane Mai, Phil McAndrew, Dakota McFadzean, Maré Odomo, Liz and Jimmy Reed, Noah Van Sciver, Alex Schubert, Sam Sharpe, Grant Snider, Sam Spina, Nathan Stapley, Julia Wertz, and Matt Weigle.Lucky Peach #7 Travel $12.00 – McSweeney’s popular food mag. ANTHONY BOURDAIN talks Deliverance, Apocalypse Now, and Southern Comfort. Punk rock touring with BROOKS HEADLEY. Travel tips from AZIZ ANSARI. The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world. Chicken tamales at a gay cantina in Mérida. The history of curry. And much, much more.
Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Mere by CF $19.95 – In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex-all of them infused throughout by C.F.’s absurdist humor and loose improvisatory drawing. Those comics, along with unpublished art and photos, are collected here. Introduction by Nicole Rudick.
Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends: A Collection of Unsolved Mysteries ed. by Emi Gennis (Hic and Hoc) $12.00 – Contains over 30 non-fiction unsolved mysteries by relative newcomers and small press comics legends alike, including J.T. Yost, Julia Gfrorer, Noah Van Sciver, Simon Moreton, and Sam Spina. Previews below from pieces by Nikki DeSautelle, Sam Alden, and Graham Kahler. Featuring tales of slaughtered hikers, vanishing prime ministers, suicide forests, and meat falling from the sky.
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust (Fantagraphics) $35.00
Oswalds Mound by Ben East $6.00
Good Dog by Graham Chaffee (Fantagraphics) $16.99
The Watchmen Deluxe Edition by Alan Moore $35.99
Batman Noir Deluxe Edition by Eduardo Risso and Brian Azzarello $24.99Comics & Comix
Lose #5 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) $8.00 – “Hit list, top of the pops” says Edie. Don’t miss DeForge here with Lisa Hanawalt & Patrick Kyle on 6/14, followed by Ezra Claytan Daniels’ Comic Art Battle, as part of CAKE festivities!
Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever & Ever #2 by Igloo Tornado {Josh Bayer, Tom Neely, Mark Rudolph} (Microcosm Publishing) $5.00 – In the latest installment of the greatest love story ever told, Glenn’s mother, freshly unearthed from beneath the bricks, moves in with him and Henry. Without giving too much away, Glenn’s mommy issues come to the surface as she critiques his art, replaces his wardrobe, scrubs their dungeon, and recalls his childhood. Glenn tries to sell his signature to a UPS driver, takes a punch, and has some daydreaming adventures with a plunger. Henry, “a loud guy with a good work ethic,” shows his darker side and indifference to a fan as he drinks black coffee and bonds with Glenn over their distaste for their own bands; two men who suffer best alone together. Additional pin up art by Andy Belanger, Katie Skelly, and Tom Scioli. Darkest and best issue yet. Plus! We have more H&D sticker sets for 5 bucks too. Lucky you.
Radiator by Jon Marchione $7.00
Bots is Bots #2 by Gregg K. $1.00
Dumpling King #2 by Alex Kim $1.00
Word and Voice #5 by Aaron Cockle (Oily) $1.00
Lou #13 by Melissa Mendes (Oily) $1.00
Jo Dery In Conversation With Melissa Mendes (Oily) $1.00 – This is a 12 page interview zine with cartoonist/animator Jo Dery. Jo talks with Melissa Mendes about being an artist, identity, and how they are affected by their environment.
Home Ache by Marta Chudolinska $5.00
Gay Heart Throbs 3 $4.95
Me And Jana on Valentine’s Day by JR Milmoe et al. $5.00
Red by Bryn Adams $1.00
Heavy by Krystal DiFronzo $5.00
Grand Gestures by Simon Moreton (Retrofit) $6.00Zines
Peops #8 by Fly $5.00
Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy by Leslie James Pickering $5.00
Taking the Lane vol 10 Bikes in Space a Feminist Science Fiction Anthology by Elly Blue $6.00
Frontier #1 Uno Morales, Youth In Decline $8.00Art & Design
Oversize Mega Art and Installations by Victionary $39.95
Spinfluence: The Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses by Nick McFarlane (Carpet Bombing Culture) $19.95 – Spinfluence will appeal to crooked politicians, media manipulators and corporate big-wigs alike, in fact anyone interested in how to exploit people for profit or power. Covering fun techniques and tactics such as emotional hijacking, brainwashing and hysteria harnessing – Spinfluence is a glorious and insightful read about how to bend the truth and subvert the will of the herd. Wolf&Co. are a propaganda agency who are proud to say they’re in the business of “making people happy”. Nick McFarlane was commissioned to distil the secrets of propaganda into an agency induction manual – issued to everyone required to learn the black art.Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Wilderness: Essays and Art by Rennie Sparks $14.98 – By the lyricist from The Handsome Family. This book is a companion release to the album of the same name. Expands on themes such as the meticulously researched and little-known enigmas of the natural world: immortal jellyfish, woodpecker tongues, dancing octopi, fly royalty, the secret language of crows, and mysterious ant spirals.
True Crime: Real-life Stories of Grave-robbing, Identity Theft, Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, and More ed. by Lee Gutkind (InFact) $15.95
Politics & Revolution
Atheist In the Foxhole: A Liberal’s Eight Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right Wing Media $26.95DIY
Marijuana Smoker’s Guidebook: The Easy Way to Identify and Enjoy Marijuana Strains by Matt Mernagh (Green Candy Press) $15.00
Fireweed 2 A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting with Kids & Family Life $4.00Fiction
Insufferable Gaucho SC by Roberto Bolano $14.95Sex & Sexy
Nudity Today: Revealing Work By Emerging Photographers ed. by Jesse Pearson (Picturebox) $34.95 – Work Tim Barber, Jordan Bennett, Sandy Kim, Sasha Kurmaz, Maggie Lee, Nicole Lesser, and more.
Wild Girl’s Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories by Sacchi Green (Cleis) $15.95
Beach Bums: Gay Erotic Fiction by Neil Plakcy (Cleis) $15.95
Billy Miller stopped by and restocked us on past Straight to Hell issues and other sexy zine-y stuff. Come and check it out.Magazines
Decibel #105 Jul 13 $4.95
Mojo #235 Jul 13 $9.99Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
People Portraits #2 Palmistry by Alex Cohen $5.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought Win 13 $10.00Kids Stuff
Lost Sloth by J. Otto Seibold (McSweeney’s) $16.95Other Stuff
More Moleskine planners, both 2014 and 2013. The 2013 ones start in July 2013 and go through the end of 2014. Perfect for folks who don’t get it together for a planner the first half of the year. -
Off-Site: Saturday Strip: Comic Day MCA
Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor Saturday Strip:
Comic Day at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
July 27, 2013, 10am – 5pm
On Saturday, July 27th the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago will be showcasing all that is amazing in the world of independent comics, cartoons, and animation in Chicago. This all day event will include a series of workshops, talks, screenings and performances that will take place throughout the museum. Highlights include a pop-up comic fair co-presented with Quimby’s Bookstore, an Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation film program, Chicago’s Second City performing comics-themed improv, a mini-comics demonstration by Jeff Brown, a large-scale interactive jam comic by Trubble Club, Ezra Clayton Daniels’s Comic Art Battle, and a live shadow puppet performance by Manual Cinema.
This event is in tandem and inspired by the exhibit Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes, hanging at the MCA Jun 29–Oct 13, 2013. Clowes is known for his his seminal comic-book series Eightball, as well as cover art for the New Yorker. Clowes is now well known to a wide audience following the 2001 film adaptation of Ghost World and the 2006 release of Art School Confidential, written by Clowes. In recent years, Clowes has realized the widely praised graphic novel Wilson (2010) and a serialized comic for the New York Times Magazine, a “middle-aged romance” titled Mister Wonderful, collected in an expanded hardcover edition in 2011.
Please note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the MCA, at 220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 280-2660. -
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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Quimby's in the Printers Row Journal of the Chicago Tribune
In the 5/26/13 edition. Dowload the pdf for easier reading here.
Thanks to the hilarious Ken Krimstein (author of the collection Kvetch as Kvetch Can) for the story!
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New Stuff This Week
RAV #8 by Mickey Zacchilli $7.00 – Double dog dare you to delve back into the twists and turns of the Meat Cave,- this issue builds up to some serious unleashing of forces-shit gets opened up like an uncapped blender and Smoothie Season’s just begun. -EFZines
Crossways $5.00
Nothing Learned 2011 by Ryan Dodgson $4.00
Abstract Door #1 by Vicky Lim $2.00
Bums of the Bay by F. Brothers $10.00
a variety of titles from the Trans Oral History Project Zine Distro!
Not Bad #2 $1.00
PopNihil #8 by Matthew Moyer $7.00
Black and Tan #1 All Sandwiches $2.00
Easy Index of Andy Hood #1 Summer 2013 Edition $3.50
Gold Medal for Two Lumberjack Eyes #1 $1.50
Corner Store #2 $3.00
My Grandpa the Jazz Drummer $2.00
Please Look Don’t Hang on the Ropes $3.00
Skeleton News Misc Back Issues $6.00 each
Free Drugs by Ghetto P $10.00
Legends of the Silver Screen #3 You Kids Have Fun Jerry Lewis $3.00
What To Keep What to Give Away #1 $1.00
Birthday Party #1 $2.00
Dig Deep #5 by Heather $1.00Comics & Comix
Adapt #1 May 13 by Jonny Negron $7.00
Linework #4 Spr 13 Comics and Graphics Anthology $15.00
Daygloayhole #1 by Passmore $6.00
Hungry Bottom Comics #2 2 Fags 2 Furious $5.00
Blob Top Magazine #1 Nov 12 by Seth Scriver $5.00
Flexible Tube With Stink Lines #1 $5.00
Weight of Prayers Son of Satan $10.00
Windowpane #1 by Joe Kessler $10.00
Tank Girl Solid State #1 $3.99
Spirit House #2 $6.00
CPD 70 Ashcan $3.00
Dungeon Family by Matt Furie $6.00
As You Were #1 A Punk Comix Anthology $5.00
Distance Mover #10 by Patrick Kyle $5.00
comics by Ginette Lapalme
Water Phase $6.00
Rena Rouge vol 38 $4.00
Gag by Sam Sharpe $1.50
Elizabeth of Canada #2 by Michael DeForge $1.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt (D&Q) $22.95 – Collects stuff from I Want You The Believer and the Internet.
Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo $24.95
Whyoming by Patricia Pelletier $20.00
Occupy Comics #1 by Alan Moore and friends $3.50
Godzilla Half Century War by James Stokoe $19.99
Scott Pilgrim vol 3 Color Edition Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O’Malley $24.99
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by J. Fetter-Vorm $14.95 – Now in soft cover.Art & Design
Meeting of Styles vol 1 On the Run #17 by Manuel Gerullis (From here to Fame) $19.95
Arabic Graffiti by Pascal Zoghbi (From Here to Fame) $31.95
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society by Evans et al. (Last Gasp) $39.95
Subject Matter of the Artist Writings 1950-1965 by Robert Goodnough and Helen A. Harrison $12.00
Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes, and Curios from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History by William Bird $24.95
Ed Hardy’s TattooTime Slipcase Edition $50.00Fiction
Sinsemilla Bootlegger by Paul Kalman (Council Books) $15.00
Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self $15.00
Aurora by Chris Knickerbocker $10.00
Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen $14.95
City Water Light and Power by Matt Pine $19.00
Stoner by John Williams and John McGahern $14.95
What Purpose Did I Serve In Your Life by Marie Calloway (Tyrant) $19.95Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal by Weiderhorn and Turman$32.50
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Rolls Best Kept Secret $15.99
Hard Art Photography DC 1979 $23.95 – Rollins, MacKaye etc.
American Savage: Insights Slights and Fights on Faith Sex Love and Politics by Dan Savage $26.95
Liberace Extravaganza HC $29.99
Bunch of Amateurs Inside Americas Hidden World of Inventors Tinkerers by J. Hitt $15.95
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black $24.95
Ill Seize the Day Tomorrow by Jonathan Goldstein (Pintail) $16.00DIY & Drugs
Marijuanamerica One Mans Quest to Understand Americas Dysfunctional Love Affair With Weed by Alfred Ryan Nerz $19.95 – Don’t miss Quimby’s selling this book for the author at Jerry’s Sandwiches on 6/20.Sex & Sexy
Little Book of series by Taschen, $9.99 editions: Pussy, Legs, ButtsMagazines
Apartamento #11 $19.95
Bust Jun Jul 13 $5.99
Smith Journal #6 $17.99
Murder Most Foul #88 $9.99
True Crime May 13 $8.99
Brownbook #38 $14.99
Dwell Jun 13 $5.99
Congealed #1 by Chris Pottinger, Matt Brinkman and CF $10.00
3×3 vol 7 #3 #21 the Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $22.00
Colors #86 $16.95
I Love Fake #4 2013 $16.00
Man About Town #12 Spr Sum 13 $15.99
Flaunt Jun 13 #127 $10.95
Bad Day #15 $12.00
Dazed and Confused vol 3 #21 May 13 $9.99
Yeti #13 $14.95
Tape Op #95 May Jun 13 $4.95
Razorcake #74 $4.00
Wire May 13 #351 $11.25
SSLM vol 18 May 13 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Stand vol 11 #2 $12.00
The Believer #89 Jun 13 $8.00
What the Night Demands by Miles Walser (Write Bloody) $15.00
MPT #1 2013 Modern Poetry $15.99Other Stuff
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Off-Site: Quimby's sells Marijuanamerica by Alfred Ryan Nerz at Jerry's Sandwiches
Quimby’s will journey down the street to Jerry’s (the Wicker Park location, at 1938 W. Division) to welcome Alfred Ryan Nerz and sell his book Marijuanamerica: One Man’s Quest to Understand America’s Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed. What BoingBoing called “a fascinating and entertaining snapshot…it reads something Hunter S. Thompson might have written in his Hell’s Angels days, had he laid off the hard stuff and graduated from Yale.”
Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He’s also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America’s long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started out sensibly enough: taking classes at a cannabis college, hanging out with a man who gets three hundred pre-rolled joints per month from the federal government, and visiting the world’s largest medical marijuana dispensary.
However, after connecting with a mysterious friend of a friend, his journey took an unexpected turn and he found himself embedded with one of the largest growers and dealers on the West Coast. He quickly transformed from respectable journalist into an underworld apprentice — surrounded by pit bulls, exotic drugs, beanbags full of cash, and trunks full of weed.
While struggling to navigate the eccentric characters and rampant paranoia of the black market, he maintained enough equanimity to explore a number of vital questions: Is marijuana hurting or helping us? How is it affecting our lungs, our brains, and our ambitions? Is it truly addictive, and if so, are too many of us dependent on it? Should we legalize it? Does he need to quit?
As entertaining as it is illuminating, Marijuanamerica is one man’s attempt to humanize the myriad hot-button topics surrounding the nation’s worst-kept secret—our obsession with weed—while learning something about himself along the way.
Alfred Ryan Nerz is a freelance journalist whose pieces have appeared in Esquire, the Village Voice, and Time Out New York. In addition, he has written for NPR and produced television shows on Spike TV and the Biography channel. He lives in Brooklyn. He is also the author of Eat This Book: A Year on the Competitive Eating Circut.
Marijuanamerica: One Man’s Quest to Understand America’s Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed
By Alfred Ryan Nerz
Abrams Image / April 2013
U.S. $19.95
ISBN 978-1-4197-0408-6
Hardcover
272 pagesPlease note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It’s at Jerrys Sandwiches (the Wicker Park location) at 1938 W. Division, 773.235.1006.
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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. -
New Stuff This Week
Zines & Zine-Related Books
My Week In Catcalls: A Diary of Douchebags by Molly B. $1.50
Tales from the Concrete Highway $10.00 – The ninth issue in the Workers Write! literary journal series. This issue contains stories and poems from the driver’s point of view. Edited by David LaBounty with a variety of contributors.
2 zines from high school classes, both $3.00, one about food and one about The Unknown.
Plaid Will Mask the Bloodstains #1 $1.00
Cutting Corners #2 Graff Zine Featuring Serch Kmart Perp $2.00
Ego #3 Turbulence by Danja Jankovic $6.00
Prison Girls Deterred #1 by M. Comeau $5.00
Sweet Dreams/How to be a Lady Split Zine by Carolee Gilligan Wheeler and Marissa Falco $4.00Comic & Comix
Eschew #3 by Robert Sergel (Sparkplug) $6.00
Cid Hansonn Let Me Uhh Explain by Cristian Hurtado $6.66
Starship Gospel by Abe Lampert $5.00
Capacity #8 by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $7.00
S #13 Baltic Comics Magazine $12.00
Mini Kus #11 All You Need Is Love by Emmi Valve $4.00
Mini Kus #12 Historyjki by Maciej Sienczyk $4.00
Mini Kus #10 Otso by Mari Ahokoivu $4.00
Mini Kus #13 Our Library by Amanda Baeza $4.00
Sale Temps by Laureline Mattiussi (Mille Putois) $5.00
Dont Tell Mom #1 Poetry Unlimited Message Accepted by Molly Colleen O’Connell $5.00
Lapsos #2 by Ines Estrada $5.00
Proto Punk #1 by Brendan Wells $2.00Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon (First Sec) $15.99
Property by Rutu Modan (D&Q) $24.95
Journalism by Joe Sacco $22.00
The From Hell Companion by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf) $29.95
Authority HC vol 1 by Warren Ellis et al. $29.99
Adventure Time Playing With Fire by Danielle Corsetto et al. $11.99
Adventure Time Presents Marceline and the Scream Queens by Meredith Gran $19.99
Tetes De Mickey by Simon Bosse (Mille Putois) $25.00
W the Whore Makes Her Tracks by Anke Feuhrenberger $30.00
Dark Shine vol 1 by Aleksandar Opacic $16.00Art & Design
Firma 2004 2009 Skecbok by Igor Hofbauer $16.00
Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman $12.99 – In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art. The book Make Good Art, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman’s inspiring speech.DIY
EAT UP: The Inside Scoop on Rooftop Agriculture by Lauren Mandel (New Society) $29.95Fiction
Fall Out by Susan Daitch (Madras Press) $8.00
The Murder of Monty Woolley by Alfred Hitchcock (Madras Press) $8.00
Madhouse Fog by Sean Caswell (Manic D) $15.95Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe It Or Not” Ripley by Neal Thompson $26.00
Sex Lies and the Dirty by Nik Richie (Feral House) $16.95 – Confessions of the mind behind TheDirty.com, a heavily trafficked online gossip sheet.
The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus (Public Affairs) $13.99 – In his latest book—The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years—Marcus dissects the songs of the Jim Morrison-led band, drawing such unlikely connections with their work as Charles Manson, pop art, Thomas Pynchon, and the Christian Slater film Pump Up the Volume.
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties (Taschen) $49.99 – Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of illustrations, facts, and amusing anecdotes presenting 24 leading lights of New York’s jazz scene in the 1920s, complete with a CD containing some of their best tunes. The texts, contributed by Hans-Jürgen Schaal, give a vivid account of the club scene and the “band battles,” as well as the legendary recording sessions. A splendid read, a groovy CD—and not strictly for jazz fans only!Politics & Revolution
The Martin Duberman Reader: The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings (New Press) $21.95
In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene by Doug Peacock (AK Press) $15.00
Digital Revolutions: Activism in the Inernet Age by Symon Hill (World Changing) $16.95 – Focused on the real-life experiences of activists rather than theory or abstract statistics, Digital Revolutions asks how the internet has affected activism, how it has allowed movements to go global more quickly and what the future holds for corporations and social movements that are doing battle online.Magazines
Headmaster #5 $20.00
Arena Homme Plus #39 Spr Sum 13 $17.99Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Literary Review vol 56 #1 Early Spr 13 Invisible Cities
Overtime Hour 28 Inspection by Randy Simons $2.00Sex & Sexy
Housewives at Play: Wheres Your Mother by Rebecca $9.99
Drawn to New York by Peter Kuper (PM Press) $29.95Other Stuff
Friendly the Poodle by Ginette Lapalme $10.00 – A paper poodle in a bag. You put it togeter. So cute. -
Jason Robert Bell Brings The White Feathered Octopus to Quimby’s 6/11
Jason Robert Bell, Mystical Rebel Outlaw Baddasss, whose Advance Thothic Practice in Theatomix will one day rule the world, is releasing a limited paperback first edition of his new book The White Feathered Octopus (Tetragrammatron Press, 2012). This book talks about the gritty hard realties of growing up a blinded street beggar in Cairo, 1937, as if a mutant midwifed counterclockwise to the distant Jauntpads of Rocketcityutopia. It is a science fiction novel, written from one giant cryptographic anagram of Herman Melville’s Moby DIck. Not for the faint of heart! Read it if you dare. An erotic sexperiment in Philikdicking ones own mind back from the brink of madness and disability a biography of lowdown heights, back alley knife fights, and cold uptown delights, the whole while you have the sinking feeling that this all might not actually be happen, as if you are a chess piece on a scrabble board.
In other words, prepared to have your MindPenis Blown!
Mr. Bell will have a limited edition of 12 artist proof unedited copied of his 365 page unreadable sci fi sex, steampimp, one giant anagram of moby dick novel. They will be for sale for $17.766 cents Lumarian, $20 usd. The books come with a digital portfolio of images and the text in complete iPad friendly PDF.
Robin Dluzen, editor in chief of Chicago Art Magazine is having nightmares about:
The White Feathered Octopus – The cornerstone of Jason Robert Bell‘s “One Man Army Corpse” exhibition at Thomas Robertello Gallery is The White Feathered Octopus, a 300-page book written by the artist during a three-month, pharmaceutically laden, bedridden recovery from a medical injury, available for viewers to peruse on a shelf in the gallery.
Not since my adolescent discovery of William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch have I felt the same heavy, sinking feeling in my stomach from a work of art, visual, written, or otherwise. The artist is the author, protagonist, and narrator of this digitally composed, fragmented, stream-of-consciousness piece, fluctuating between seemingly autobiographical reality and fantastical nightmares.
Like Naked Lunch, The White Feathered Octopus is difficult to read in both structure and the nature of its content, and it is capable of giving a reader actual nightmares (as it did for me). But also like Burroughs’s masterpiece, it absolutely must be read for its courageous and frightening sincerity.
Jason Robert Bell is a Brooklyn-based experimental artist and mystic, who produces paintings, drawings, comics, sculpture, experimental films, outdoor installations, performances, and now text, that are the by-products of a mystical journey, conjuring a highly charged, alternative reality. His work has been exhibited at Postmasters Gallery, New York and Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago. Bell received a BFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute Chicago and an MFA from the Yale School of fArt.
For more info: http://www.tetragrammatron.com/ or cavemanrobot@gmail.com
June 11th, 2013, 7pm – Free Event
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Graham Kolbeins Presents The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame 6/7
Celebrate the release of legendary Japanese gay erotic artist Gengoroh Tagame’s first English-language collection of manga at Quimby’s! The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga features seven of Tagame’s dazzlingly brutal and sumptuously sexy S&M-influenced tales, exclusive sketches, author commentary and essays by Chip Kidd and Edmund White. Come explore Tagame’s oeuvre, background and artistic impact with the book’s editor, Graham Kolbeins. Plus, take part in an audience-facilitated performance of one of the book’s stories!
“The reader can’t help but feel they’ve been granted a delectable sneak peek into the debauched world of impossibly virile, nasty-as-hell alpha males.” – Ed Luce, creator of Wuvable Oaf
Gengoroh Tagame (born 1964) is a legend in gay comics throughout the world and in the American underground, where loyal fans have quietly shared foreign-language editions of his groundbreaking work in the outermost edges of bondage and pornography. Beyond the comic book format, Tagame’s original artwork has been exhibited internationally and paired with the works of Tom of Finland. Tagame was also the founding Editor and Art Director of Japan’s most widely circulated gay journal, G-Men.
For more info: gaymanga.tumblr.com
Friday, June 7th, 7pm – Free Event
