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  • Grow Author Eleanor C. Whitney Moderates DIY Success Panel with Selena Fragasi, Rebecca Ann Rakstad & Bradley Adita

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    Eleanor C. Whitney’s new book Grow: How to Take Your Do It Yourself Project and Passion to the Next Level and Quit Your Job (Microcosm Publishing), is a practical field guide for creative people who want to achieve success with their ideas for independent projects.  Author Eleanor Whitney enables readers to clarify their vision, set goals, create a plan, fundraise, publicize, and manage their “do-it-yourself” endeavor. Whitney will discuss achieving success and sustainability as an independent writer, publisher and creative business owner with Chicago-based creatives Selena Fragassi (Boxx Magazine), Rebecca Ann Rakstad (Rarrar Press), and Bradley Adita (PopPunk.com).

    “The ultimate creative person’s companion- for anyone who’s thought of, attempted to, or has already made some steps to turning their vision into a  viable product, this practical and personal how-to is like a business-savvy mentor.” – Cathy Erway, author of The Art of Eating In: How I learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove and editor of Not Eating Out in New York

    Eleanor Whitney is a Brooklyn-based writer, musician and arts professional. She has written for publications such as Venus Zine and Remedy Quarterly and contributes regularly to Idealist.org and Artsfwd.org. She has spoken about creative success and sustainability at national conferences such as South by Southwest and the Creative Chicago Expo.

    For more info: growdiy.com

  • Quimby’s Welcomes Dan Gleason and Friends 7/6

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    It’s a celebratory event for the release of Dan Gleason’s 50th zine, ‘A Book Of Themes!’ Skip all of those 6th of July firework-filled galas, which inevitably end in the emergency room, and take heed to the words of a cavalcade of weirdos at your favorite local bookstore. This night’s roster of readers includes the great Rachel McPadden, former lead singer of the hardcore punk band Shit Ass, the artists behind the early 90’s hit ‘Playground.’ She has contributed to Mr. Skin’s website and is the only person ever to have claimed a crush on film actor George C. Scott. Mike McPadden – he’s head writer at Mr. Skin and author of the books ‘Heavy Metal Movies: From Anvil to Zardoz, the 666 Most Headbanging Movies of All Time’ and ‘If You Like Metallica.’ He also briefly replaced Bowzer in Sha Na Na back in ’83 after that artist’s split from the group. Gregory Jacobsen is lead singer of the band Lovely Little Girls, the Fatty Jubbo behind Fatty Jubbo’s Cake and Polka Parade podcast, brought to you by WFMU, and the finest painter in all of Chicagolandia. For a time he danced with a box on his head on the Chic-A-Go-Go! show, too. Jenny Inzerillo writes, paints, molds the minds of the youth and is the only thing worth two shakes any more in that stinking Logan Square neighborhood. She aspires to leave this planet one day soon on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo. Gabriel Wallace is Jeffrey-Elaine Shotzenberger, and host of the Pamela monthly reading series, and Dan Gleason is a hirsute hermit who has produced fifty of those little fold up zine/books that you (hopefully) enjoy.

    Come try their words on for size, evolve, and then leave the premises with a much more promising outlook on life, which should include a sudden longing to work with wicker, the ability to make your own gillie suit with only a half dozen discarded hairnets and five feet of twine, a won’t for knowledge of the ‘inner algorithms,’ a potential subscription to the H&R Block monthly newsletter, a lust for vice, a turning out, a tuning in, a tuna rolling, and a rin-tin-tin-atuding. GET DOWN FOR THE UPSTROKE! ’88 was great, ’99 was fine, but damn do I miss the music of GENUWINE! LOVE LIVING- AND BE THERE!

    Dan Gleason has at least 25 books on the market for your pleasure, here are the titles of just a few of them: The Unexpected Gratification I Received From Taking In The Sexual Act With A Homeless Person And Other Less Contemplative Thoughts Rendered In Short Story Form By Dan Gleason, The NCA’s Introductory Book To Your Newest Saints, Fairy Tales With Important Morals For Children And Other Unambitious Writings By Dan Gleason, The Great American Novella, Stories Of Life Minus Context And Sense Plus Other Little Ditties By Dan Gleason, I Married A White Woman, Satansbraten: Stories For The Season Of The Witch, The Gospel According To Dan Gleason, All Of Those Happier Thoughts I Was Too Afraid To Express Before (AKA My Big Bland Book Of Feelings) By Dan Gleason, Memoirs Of A Guy In The Band, and Interludes. He is a Quimby’s favorite.

    For more info: stopgostop.com/dangleason/

    Saturday, July 6th, 7pm – Free Event

  • New Stuff This Week

    riotgrrrlcollectionThe Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms and Johanna Fateman (Feminist Press) $34.95 – The Riot Grrrl Collection is an attempt to document the evolution of the Riot Grrrl movement, particularly in the years between 1989 and 1996. Because Riot Grrrl was (and is) both a political and a cultural movement, its output was diverse, including writing, music, performance, film, activism, photography, video, and original art, as well as documentation of activism and performance. This research collection will provide primary resources for scholars who are interested in feminism, punk activism, queer theory, gender theory, DIY culture, and music history.

    Zines & Zine-Related
    Book of Themes Book #50 by Dan Gleason $3.00 – Don’t miss Dan Gleason and friends here at Quimby’s on July 6th.
    My Aim Is True #8 by Carrie $1.00
    Tongueswell #1 by Jen T. $1.00
    Roethlisberger Castration Society #1 by Jen T. $2.00
    This Page is Intentionally Left Blank $5.00
    Blotch: Thoughts on Diversity From Middle School Thinkers $1.00
    Tributaries #4 $2.00
    zines from The  Awkward Ladies Club, all $3.00:
    Never Date Dudes From the Internet #1 A Response to a Craigslist F4M Ad
    Never Finish Grad School #1 Excerpts From My Livejournal 2004-2006
    Paper Radio: A Media and Radio Zine issues #11.2  and #12.2 by DJ Frederick $3.00 each
    Think About the Bubbles #5 Fears Loves by Joyce Hatton $5.00
    Suitable 4 Framin #10 Win 12 $5.00
    Silkscreened in Pittsburgh Jan 13 by Georgi $.50
    Chomp #3 by Mitsu Sucks $9.00
    Alamo Igloo #13 by Herzik $5.00
    Sloan Simone Szucs #1 $2.00
    The The House of Crosses $4.50 – Mingling of narrative memory, urban history and design nerdery, a intro to a former hausterpiece of visionary art in Chicago, the Szewczyk House of Crosses.

    Comics & Comix
    Scum TV #1 Fall 12 BY Joren Cull $15.00 – Sexy parodies of Thomas the Tank engine etc.
    Dubble Trouble vol 1 by Ted Gudlat $15.00
    Supermag #1 by Jim Rugg (Adhouse) $9.95
    Turtie Needs Work by Steve Woldhard (Koyama Press) $3.00
    Crushable: Mary Tyler Moore by Janice Shapiro $5.00
    Crushable John Doe: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Janice Shapiro $5.00
    Day One by Drew Panckeri $2.00
    Hello There How Are You – The Beginning by Tony Rabit $3.00
    Fiesta en Piyama by Ines Estrada $4.00
    Nervous Tic #1 A Comic Book of Stories with a Manly Theme by Kathryn Newman $5.00
    Piss N Shit by Aiden Cook $5.50

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle (D&Q) $12.95
    I Watered Everything by Aaron Demuth $8.00
    500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill $12.95
    Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill $12.95
    Everybody Gets it Wrong and Other Stories: David Chelsea’s 24 Hour Comics vol 1 $19.99
    Hellboy vol 6 by Mike Mignola $49.99
    Walking Dead TPB vol 18 What Comes After by Robert Kirkman $14.99

    Art & Design
    Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger (PowerHouse) $29.95
    Cruel: Bearing Witness To Animal Exploitation by Sue Coe (OR Books) $40.00

    Fiction
    Taipei by Tao Lin $14.95
    Hologram For the King by Dave Eggers $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
    The Big Book of Magic 1400s-1950s by Noel Daniel (Taschen) $69.99
    Big Star: The Story of Rocks Forgotten Band by Rob Jovanovic (Jawbone Press) $19.95 – The Revised and Updated Edition.
    Ascent of the A Word: Assholism the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg $14.99
    Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger for Free Content Starves Creativity by Chris Ruen (OR Books) $20.00
    End of the World by Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen) (OR Books) $12.00 – The founder of the Church of Stop Shopping muses on the apocalypse.
    Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet by Julian Assange et al. (OR Books) $16.00 – Founder of WikiLeaks and peers discuss the future of the internet.
    How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K Dick’s Robotic Resurrection by David F. Dufty $16.00 – In this remarkable behind-the-scenes narrative, David F. Dufty follows a group of scientists on their mission to create “Phil,” a life-size android of famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. We witness the obstacles the scientists encounter and the innovative solutions they apply to overcome them. The fact that the subject Phil was built to mimic was a man notoriously paranoid and fascinated by artificial intelligence colors the story all the way to its unforgettable end, when the robot’s head goes missing, never to be seen again. A riveting story that will capture science enthusiasts and general readers alike, How to Build An Android traces the line where artificial intelligence and humans collide. Now in soft cover.
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    Politics & Revolution
    Beautiful Trouble: The Toolbox For Revolution From the People Who Brought You the Yes Men and Billionaires For Bush by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell (OR Books) $13.00 – New Pocket Edition.

    DIY
    Lust for Leaf: Veggie Crowd Pleasers to Fuel Your Picnics Potlucks and Ragers by Alex Brown and Evan George $19.99

    Sex Guides & Culture
    Guide For the Modern Bear: Field Study of Bears in the Wild by Travis Smith (Modern Bear) $19.99

    Magazines
    Bitch #59 $5.95
    Juxtapoz #150 Jul 13 $5.99
    Shots #120 Sum 13 $6.95
    ArtForum Sum 13 $10.00
    Creative Review May 13 Annual Special Issue $14.99
    Cemetery Dance #69 $9.95
    Paleo Magazine Jun Jul 13 $5.99
    Maps vol 23 #1 $8.95
    Skunk vol 9 #1 $5.99
    High Times Aug 13 $5.99
    Taproot #6 $9.00
    Cinema Retro vol 9 #26 $11.99
    Horror Hound #41 May Jun 13 $6.99
    Shock Cinema #44 $5.00
    Camera Obscura #82 Feminism Culture and Media Studies $12.00
    Big Takeover #72 $5.99
    Maximumrocknroll #361 Jun 13 $4.00
    Filter #52 $5.95
    Radical History Review Spr Sum 13 $9.95
    Wax Poetics #55 $11.99
    Gather #3 Spr Sum 13 $19.99 – Gather is a lushly photographed and deleriously appetizing food magazine (phood fotography?)- their Spring/Summer film issue is no exception with a slew of cinematicly inspired original recipes.
    Monocle vol 7 #64 Jun 13 $12.00
    In These Times Jun 13 $3.50
    Radical History Review Spr 13 $14.00
    Tattoo Venus Special #9 From Tattoo Life $9.99
    Inked Jun Jul 13 #56 $6.99

    Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
    Fourteen Hills vol 19 #2 2013 $9.00
    Public Space #18 $12.00

    Other Stuff
    Gary Baseman Coasters 4 Coaster Set $9.99
    Giggle and Pop Magnet Set by Gary Baseman $8.99
    More Moleskine planners. varying prices, sizes, formats and colors.

  • New Stuff This Week

    illustratedgdhumorThe 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.

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    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.

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    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.
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    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 $24.99

    Comics & 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!
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    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.
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    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.
    derymendesHome 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) $6.00

    Zines
    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 $8.00

    Art & 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) $15.95TrueCrime_Cover

    Politics & Revolution
    Atheist In the Foxhole: A Liberal’s Eight Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right Wing Media $26.95

    DIY
    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 $4.00

    Fiction
    Insufferable Gaucho SC by Roberto Bolano $14.95

    Sex & 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 $9.99

    Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
    People Portraits #2 Palmistry by Alex Cohen $5.00
    Journal of Ordinary Thought Win 13 $10.00

    Kids Stuff
    Lost Sloth by J. Otto Seibold (McSweeney’s) $16.95

    Other 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

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    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.Clowes_Eightball18cover

    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

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    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.
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    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!

    Please note: these events are at the A+D Gallery at 619 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, Il 60605, NOT QUIMBY’S BOOKSTORE.

  • Quimby's in the Printers Row Journal of the Chicago Tribune

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    In the 5/26/13 edition. Dowload the pdf for easier reading here.

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    Thanks to the hilarious Ken Krimstein (author of the collection Kvetch as Kvetch Can) for the story!PRJ052613d

  • New Stuff This Week

    rav8_lgRAV #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. -EF

    Zines
    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 $1.00

    Comics & 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 $1.00

    Graphic 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 $50.00

    Fiction
    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) $19.95

    Mayhem, 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) $16.00

    DIY & 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, Butts

    Magazines
    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 $5.00

    Poetry, 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 $15.99

    Other Stuff
    Tons of 2014 Moleskines in a variety of sizes, colors, layouts and prices!

  • Off-Site: Quimby's sells Marijuanamerica by Alfred Ryan Nerz at Jerry's Sandwiches

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    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 pages

    Please note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It’s at Jerrys Sandwiches (the Wicker Park location) at 1938 W. Division, 773.235.1006.

  • 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.

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    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.

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    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.newcomics1_patrickkyle

    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.