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  • THE MDW FAIR Visual Arts Landing in Chicago 4/23 and 4/24


    Version 11: The Community. Announces the creation of The MDW Fair: Visual Arts Landing in Chicago

    THE MDW FAIR Visual Arts Landing
    At Geolofts, 3636 South Iron Street, Chicago, IL, 60608
    Saturday, April 23rd: 1-10pm
    Sunday, April 24th: 1-6pm
    www.mdwfair.org
    Admission: $5

    Public Media Institute, Roots & Culture and threewalls have created The MDW Fair, a first annual gathering of independent art initiatives, spaces, galleries, publishers and artist groups from the Chicago metropolitan area and beyond. With over 50 participants, The MDW Fair demonstrates the diversity, strength and vision of the people and places that make up the rich art ecology of our region. Launched at Version 11: The Community, The MDW Fair is a rare chance to encounter the creators of the vibrant art ecology of our region.

    Held April 23-24, 2011 at The Geolofts, 3636 S. Iron Street, Chicago, the fair features 501(c)3, commercial and unincorporated galleries, independent curatorial projects, publishers and media groups in over 25,000 square feet of exhibition space that includes a 8,000 square foot sculpture garden with work by local artists featuring: Mike Andrews, Dayton Castleman, Jacob C. Hammes, Jesse Harrod, Cody Hudson, Daniel Lavitt, Heather Mekkelson, Brian Murer, The Mt. Baldy Expedition: James Barry and Hui-min Tsen, Ben Stone, and Patrick Willi.

    In addition to exhibitions by participating spaces, local podcasters Bad At Sports will host a live game-show and panel discussions will be scheduled throughout fair hours chaired by Britton Bertran, Jamilee Polson, Lorelei Stewart and Steve Ruiz.

    The MDW Fair is a manifestation of the collective spirit behind the region’ s most innovative visual cultural organizers, focusing on the breadth of work done here by artists and arts-facilitators alike. Please join us and see why Chicago remains a center of ingenuity and talent. Participants include: Twelve Galleries, Peregrine Program, Western Exhibitions, Alderman Exhibitions, ACRE, 65GRAND, Roots and Culture, Lloyd Dobler, Flat 9 Prelude, Adds Donna, Johalla Projects, Devening Projects, Linda Warren Gallery, Green Gallery, Sidecar Gallery, Pentagon Gallery, Post Family, Iceberg Projects, Slow, Reuben Kincaid, The Hills Esthetic Center, Ebersmoore, Antenna, University of Illinois at Chicago, LVL3, No Coast, JNL Graphic Design, Roxaboxen, Packer Schopf Gallery, Monument II, Stockyard Institute, Harold Arts, Heaven Gallery, The Suburban, ZG Gallery, Regional Relationships, The Storefront, Hornswaggler, University of Chicago, 2nd Bedroom/TAG TEAM, Chicago Arts Review, Oxbow, Bad At Sports, What It Is, The Hyde Park Art Center, threewalls, The Cultural Center, Rebuild Foundation, The Chicago Urban Art Society and others

    Visit the MDWfair.org website for updates

  • Weekly Top 10 and an Attempt to Play A Portion of All Four Discs of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka at Once

    A children’s book made #1 this week?! That’s crazy. But true.

    Also! Here’s footage from an event here at Quimby’s for the Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about albums of the past 40 years. This event on 9/17/11 featured NIU prof Joe Bonomo who did a book about AC/DC’s Highway to Hell, Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork Media Scott Plagenhoef who did a book about Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister, and managing editor of Pitchfork Mark Richardson who did a book about the Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka. The footage below is of Mark Richardson reading from his book and then attempt to sequence the four CDs of the album to play simultaneously. Click on the image below and go watch it on YouTube.

    Mark Richardson reads from his book The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka
    Click on the picture to watch Mark Richardson discuss and play part of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka

     

    1. Counting In The Studio by Cecilia Pinto and Megan Williamson  $10.00 – This attempt to show the process of creative expression to young readers. A dog lives with an artist who has also depicted her own studio in the book. Inside the studio it is possible to stare out windows just like those in the book. The studio, at the back of the artist’s home, is nestled on a side street in a Chicago neighborhood. The artist and the writer met at the studio to talk about the project before and after making their own separate work. The dog was always present and lent his inestimable support even when napping on the comfy, pillow-strewn chaise lounge which is up against a wall with drawings on it, just like in the book.

    2. Spoken Nerd Revolution by Shappy Seasholtz (Penmanship) $15.00

    3. Mister Wonderful: A Love Story by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $19.95

    4. Gentlewoman #3 Spr Sum 11 $10.95

    5. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.

    6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00

    7. OP Original Plumbing #6 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The theme this round is “Schooled”, highlighting a twin commitment to both the “It Gets Better” and the “Make It Better” campaigns targeted at queer youth.

    8. Cartooning Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale) $13.00 – This is about as close you are going to get to having Ivan Brunetti come to your house and teach you how to make great comics. Turns out, it’s pretty damn close – Philosophy and Practice serves up a concise and well-honed crash course on finding and fine tuning your comics voice. -EF

    9. Hi Fructose #19 $6.95

    10. Hot Teen Slut by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody) $15.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    New stuff from Dan Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez, a new issue of Show Me the Money, a new issue of comics anthology Pood, a Claire Rojas book, and the last David Foster Wallace book of fiction before he passed on, The Steampunk Bible and more!

    And look what some silly goose posted here!

    And don’t forget at 7pm tonight, Sat 4/16: Shappy Seasholtz & Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz read!

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Show Me The Money #34 $2.50
    So This Is What It’s Come To – A Comic Zine About the Trials and Tribulations of OK by Liz Prince, Leslie Perrine, Kettner, and Ramsey Everydaypants $3.00
    Punks Git Cut by Jay Howell $6.00
    I Remember You #1 by Bryan Riek $3.35
    Hack This Zine #10 Spr 10 Fuck the Binary System $2.15
    Hackbloc – How To Make Friends With Volcanoes Anarchy Hacking and Mental Health $1.25
    Cryptic Slaughter #25 $1.25 – Giovanni has been around the world and has a lot to say and what we get are words on Turkish media, zine libraries, travel food, tea-drinking, trains, his fallout with the punk scene and more. The first issue in five years!

    OCD – An Activity Book For Grown Ups $3.25
    Awesome Science Posters It All Starts With Oxygen $6.50
    Travel Magic #1: A Cross Country Travelogue About Freedom and Luck by Megan Speers $3.00
    All of My Friends Are Dead #1 An Activity Book For Homicidal Humans by Amanda B. $3.00
    Adita #0 $.50
    Shoganai $3.00
    Jimmy #1 Male Intimacy $7.00
    Kings – An Illustrated History of the World’s Best Hawaiian Sweet Bread by Christina Seo $3.00
    Drama Award Greatest Improvement In Dance by Edgar Amaya $4.00
    Meat #3 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
    Plastic Knife #6 & Black Paint Gold Wire #8 Split Zine $2.00
    Are You a Boy or a Girl #1 by Jen Jessey $2.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Monster Comic by Paul Lyons/Fort Thunder $20.00
    Pood #3 (Big If) $4.50 – Newpaper style comics anthology featuring Hans Rickheit, Joe Infurnari and more.
    Karl Wirsum  – Drawings 1967-1970 (Picturebox) $18.00
    Frankie’s Dreams #1 by Claire Krueger and Frankie $1.00 – A little book of surreal dream sketches. Mysteries!

    Human Condition #1 by Ian McDuffie $8.00
    Coup #1 by C. Eifler and C.Lodwick $3.00
    Old Master #1 by Carter Lodwick $1.00
    Bang Gang #1 by William Cleveland, Ian Endsley, Carter Lodwick and Talya Modlin $2.00
    Solid Silver – All Deez Femalez Crawl split minicomic – The Louie Jean Johnston Story – This Right Heres a Panty Dropper by Matt Runkle and Amanda Verwey $5.00
    1998-2008 Collection Portefeuille #3 by IRIS/Mille Putois $5.00
    Kus #6 Baltic Comics Magazine $4.50 – Way crazy awesome anthology, for real from the Baltics. And we have some back issues too. Has to be seen to believed.
    Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Street Art – Contemporary Prints by Riikka Kuittinen (V and A) $25.00
    Everything Flowers by Claire Rojas (Chronicle) $22.95 – The beautiful and exotic paintings of Clare Rojas. One of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most beloved art stars, Rojas is influenced by craft, folk art, and the beauty and wisdom of the garden. Her work weaves together flowers, plants, animals, and various folk figures to create mysterious narratives. Through the language of flowers delicate yet resilient, powerful yet flexible Rojas tells enchanting stories with color.
    3D Type Book by Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek and FL@33 (Laurence King) $29.95
    Made in Russia Unsung Icons of Soviet Design by Michael Idov (Rizzoli) $25.00
    In the Wilds: Drawings by Nigel Peake (Princeton AP) $22.95
    Money – Everything You Never Knew About Your Favorite Thing to Save, Spend, and Covet by Sandra and Harry Choron (Chronicle) $18.95 – This miscellany explains our fascination with money and how it has shaped our world. Vintage photographs and artwork illustrate surprising facts, lists, and trivia about forgotten financial catastrophes and famous bank robbers, the history of bankruptcy and ancient money gods, wacky cash-related slang and get-rich-quick schemes for the ages.

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Mister Wonderful: A Love Story by Dan Clowes (Pantheon) $19.95 – This new graphic novella expanded from a serial that ran in the New York Times Magazine is about a blind date gone crazy. With lots of Clowes style loathing on the part of a schlubby, broke, lonely divorcé, but also a little sweetness too.


    Love From the Shadows by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – The third in Gilbert Hernandez’s line of original graphic novel hardcovers featuring Love and Rockets’ “Fritz” in her guise as a Z-movie actress (the first two were Chance in Hell and The Troublemakers) is a trippy thriller that stars Fritz in no fewer than three roles. A beautiful waitress (Fritz, of course) and her hospital nurse brother (also Fritz) visit their estranged father, a once successful but now retired writer (amazingly enough, also Fritz), in order to find out the true reason why their mother committed suicide. There’s also a venture into ghost territory, with frauds bilking the gullible and Fritz’s character(s) right in the middle.
    Safe Area Gorazde Special Edition by Je Sacco (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – All fancy and in hardcover.
    I Will Bite You and Other Stories by Jospeh Lambert (Secret Acres) $14.00
    Reunion by Pascal Girard (D&Q) $19.95
    Mercury by Hope Larson (Simon) $19.99
    Mort Finkelman Presents Giant Sized Tales To Suffice by Kenny Keil $14.99
    Sleepyheads by Randall C (Blank Slate) $24.99
    Runaways TPB vol 1 Pride and Joy by Brian K. Vaughan (Marvel) $9.99
    Empire State A Love Story or Not by Jason Shiga (Abrams) $17.95

    DIY!
    Lost Wisdom: Celebration of Traditional Knowledge From Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals by Una McGovern and Paul Jenner (Chambers Harrap) $16.95
    Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills For Sustainable Living by Rachel Kaplan (Skyhorse) $16.95
    Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks and Good Food by Jeff Potter (MO) $34.99 – Information covered in this book include how to initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools, the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation and caramelization, firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, chemists and more!
    The Repurposed Library: 33 Craft Projects that Give Old Books New Life by Lisa Occhipinti and Allyson Gowdy Thayer (STC) $24.95

    FICTION!
    The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (LB&C) $27.99 – The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace’s death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel.
    Ambient Parking Lot Pamela Lu $14.95
    Walking to Hollywood – Memories of Before the Fall by Will Self (Grove) $24.00
    Typewriter Is Holy by Bill Morgan (Counterpoint) $15.95
    Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern (Square Fish/Feiwel) $9.99
    Mild Form of Madness vol 1 by Robbie Rimsky (Walton Street Pub) $20.00
    Great Frustration Stories by Seth Fried (Soft Skull) $14.95 – Seth Fried balances the dark—a town besieged, a yearly massacre, the harem of a pathological king—with moments of sweet optimism—researchers unexpectedly inspired by discovery, the triumph of a doomed monkey, the big implications found in a series of tiny creatures.

    CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS
    Learn Then Burn: A Modern Poetry Anthology for the Classroom ed. by Tim Stafford and Derrik Brown (Write Bloody) $15.00
    The Point #4 Spr 11 $12.00 – New issue of the acclaimed local philosopy mag.

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #124 May 11 $5.99
    True Crime Winter Special 11 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
    Gentlewoman #3 Spr Sum 11 $10.95
    High Times Jun 11 $5.99
    Sideburn #7 $10.00
    Pinstriping #25 Mar Apr 11 $9.95
    Tattoo Society #27 $7.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Moomins Little Book of Numbers and Moomins Little Book of Words by Tove Jansson (FSG) $5.99 each – Moomintroll, Moominmamma, and the Snork Maiden help create a game out of learning.
    My Tattooed Dad by Daniel Nesquens and Magicomora (Groundwood) $18.95
    Stop Snoring Bernard by Zachariah Ohora (Holt) $16.99

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    The Steampunk Bible by Jeff Vandermeer and SJ Chambers (Abrams) $24.95
    Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean Calabar by Peter Macinnis (Arcade) $12.95
    Genes, Giants, Monsters and Men by Joseph P Farrell (Feral House) $19.95

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Hard Ground by Tom Waits and Michael O’Brien (University of Texas) $40.00
    Indie Rock Poster Book by Andy J Miller and Project Yellow Bird – This poster collection is inspired by classic indie rock songs of each artist’s choosing. 30 removable prints of original artwork by thirty illustrators including Mike Perry, Deanne Cheuk, Jeremyville, Andy J. Miller and more. Featuring acts like Broken Social Scene, Grizzly Bear, Metric, Devendra Banhart, TV On the Radio and more. Royalties go to charities supported by Yellow Bird Project.
    The Resurrection of Johnny Cash: Hurt Redemption and American Recordings by Graeme Thomson (Jawbone) $19.95

    SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
    Handsome Prince Gay Erotic Romance by Neil Placky (Cleis) $14.95
    Dream Lover: Paranormal Tales of Erotic Romance by Kristina Wright and Megan Hart (Cleis) $14.95
    Persistence All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan E Coyote and Zena Sharman (Arsenal) $21.95 – In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is this book. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words “butch” or “femme.”

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice –  Fiction Poetry and Essays Addressing the Most Pressing Issues of Our Time by William Reichard (Feral House) $19.95
    Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Marshall Eddie Conway (AK) $15.95

  • Trubble Club celebrates Free Comic Book Day at Quimby's 5/7

    Come to Quimby’s on Free Comic Book Day to have your conception and/or death drawn by the infamously untamable Chicago cartoonist gaggle, Trubble Club. Care to dabble in the inky arts yourself? Free pamphlets will be provided with starter panels and jam recipes. Pick one up and fill in a box with your very own genius. Additional free comics will be available at Quimby’s all day while supplies last.

    Trubble Club accepts the fact that we have to sacrifice a whole Saturday drawing comics at Quimby’s for what- ever it was that we did wrong. What we did WAS wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Trubble Club.
    To pre-sear your eyeballs, aim your internet at trubbleclub.com.

    Saturday May 7th, 7 pm

  • Heads Up: 2011 Portland Zine Symposium in August

    The Portland Zine Symposium aims to promote greater community between diverse creators of independent publications and art. This fun and free event helps people share their work while exchanging their skills and information related to zine culture. Through workshops, panels and discussions, Portland Zine Symposium explores the role and effect of all types of zines.

    Time: August 6, 2011 at 10pm to August 7, 2011 at 5pm, Location: Refuge, Portland, OR

    For more info:

    Click here for more details and RSVP on We Make Zines, an online community for zine makers and zine readers.

    Also, not 100% updated: www.pdxzines.com

  • Weekly Top 10 and Video Footage of Deb Olin Unferth

    Here’s your Top 10 for the last week. No real surprises in what made the list of bestsellers, since most of it is stuff that’s made it on there before. However, COG Magazine is a title we just started carrying, a nice biking mag, about city biking, bike messengering and the like, from all around the world.

    Also! Footage from the Deb Olin Unferth event is up. She was here at Quimby’s on 3/7/11 reading from her memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War. The piece we put up is a super funny bit about how religion got worked into her expereince, and how her Jewish family reacted to her short bout with Christianity. No matter how you feel about religion, this bit will crack you up. Click on the picture of Deb below, and it will take you to where you can watch it at You Tube.

    1.    OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement.”

    2.    Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #2 Spr 11 $15.00

    3.    Cartooning Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale) $13.00 – This is about as close you are going to get to having Ivan Brunetti come to your house and teach you how to make great comics. Turns out, it’s pretty damn close – Philosophy and Practice serves up a concise and well-honed crash course on finding and fine tuning your comics voice. -EF

    4. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine.

    5. Monocle vol 5 #42 Apr 11
    6. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

    7.  Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95

    8. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00

    9. N Plus 1 #11 Spr 11 $13.95

    10. COG Magazine #10 $6.00

  • Best American Comics

    Jessica Abel and Matt Madden want us to remind you that if you make comics, you really should be sending a copy of everything you make to the Best American Comics.  The Best American Comics 2012 edition will feature comics published from September 1, 2010 to August 30, 2011.  They would prefer you not wait until the last minute to send your comics, so grab what you’ve made since last september, put it in an envelope and mail it (plus contact information and the release date of your comic) to:

    Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
    Series Editors
    The Best American Comics
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    215 Park Avenue South
    New York, NY 10003

    Mail your comics in!  No joke!  I’m talking to YOU!

  • New Stuff This Week

    All sorts of new stuff this week. And hey, the sun is out. Just in time for you to come in to Quimby’s to buy the new issue of Hi-Fructose.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    High School Sucks by Megan Speers $3.00 – AMEN!
    Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Zine by Priyanka Pandit $10.00
    Pieces #5 On Change by Nichole $2.00
    Goat Fucker #1 by Jack Mulkern $6.00
    Signals #4 A Radio Zine by DJ Frederick $5.00
    Me Magazine #20 Spr 11 $7.50
    XXX Gratuitous Type #1 $15.00
    Adore The Adorable by John Ruch and Heather Reynolds $3.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Facials Part One by Nic Greasy $3.00 – Amorphous sexual consumption and transformation with a serious case of the drips. -EF
    Memories and Delusions by David Alvarado $4.00
    Wanderlust by David Alvarado $2.00
    Live Work #1 by Pat Palermo $6.00
    Position Wanted by Pat Palermo $1.00
    Tread Lightly #1 by Jonathan Bell Wolfe $7.00
    The Yellow Zine- Pretentius Comics and Funnies by Roman Muradov $5.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Where Art Belongs by Chris Kraus (Semiot) $12.95
    But I Can’t Do Anything Else by Rob Schrab (Vertigo) $24.99
    Skullface by Yak ElDroubie and Antoni Cadafalch (Korero) $35.00
    Whose Hair by Christina Christoforou (Laurence) $12.95 – Do you recognize this drawing of a famous person’s hair?
    Textile Design Portfolio by Simon Clarke (Laurence) $35.00
    Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing Mike Perry (Princeton) $35.00 – Screenprint-handmade font guru picks some of his fave screen printers.

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Complete Wendel by Howard Cruse (Universe) $24.95
    Everything is its Own Reward by Paul Madonna (CityLights) $27.95
    Fables vol 15 Rose Red by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $17.99

    FICTION!
    November Criminals by Sam Munson (Anchor) $15.00
    Song of Ice and Fire series books (Game of Thrones etc.) by George RR Martin (Bantam) prices vary

    CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS
    Insane in the Quatrain by Bradley La$tname $10.00
    Hand Me Downs of Hannah Hoch by Robert Pomerhn $15.95
    Blest For This Poet Crest to Rest on My Chest by Robert Pomerhn $4.95
    N Plus 1 #11 Spr 11 $13.95
    Oyez Review #38 $5.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Hi Fructose #19 $6.95
    Bizarre #174 Apr 11 $10.50
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #1 $6.25
    Girls and Corpses #5 Spr 11 $8.95
    Namaste vol 12 #1 $9.95
    UFO Magazine #155 vol 24 #2 $5.99
    Colors #80 Spr11 $8.95
    Skunk vol 6 #8 $5.99
    COG Magazine #10 $6.00 (And we have some back issues of this wheels-related title too.)
    Diner Journal #17 Spr 11 $9.00
    BlackBook #83 Apr 11 $4.50
    Explosion Proof Magazine #2 win 2011 $11.00
    IDN Extra 05 Most Wanted vol 2 $25.00
    ArtForum Apr 11 $10.00
    Fury #19 $2.00
    Mojo #210 May 11 $9.99
    Ugly Things #31 $8.95
    In These Times Apr 11 $3.50
    AdBusters #95 vol 19 #3 May Jun 11 $8.95

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Bear In Pink Underwear by Todd H Doodler (Blue Apple) $12.99

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes and Other Writings on The Holocaust, Revisionism, and Historical Understanding by Samuel Crowell (Nine-Banded Books) $20.00
    Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination In the Classroom by Rick Ayers, William Ayers and Haki R Madhubuti (Teachers College Press) $21.95

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    American Demon: A Memoir by Jack Grisham (ECW) $19.95 – Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty). Don’t miss his reading from this book here at Quimby’s on May 14th!
    The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton (Black Cat) $16.95 – Acclaimed authors and music historians Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have spent years traveling across the world to interview the revolutionary and outrageous DJs who shaped the last half-century of pop music. With discographies, favorite songs, and amazing photos of all the DJs as young firebrands, The Record Players offers an unparalleled music education: from records to synthesizers, from disco to techno, and from small groups of influential music lovers to arenas packed with thousands of dancing fans.A history told by the visionaries who experienced the movement, The Record Players allows a rare glimpse into the sound, culture, and craft that developed into a worldwide industry.

    SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
    Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade (Peter Owen Publishing) $15.95
    For Lonely Adults Only #9 Fall Win 11 by Regis Trigano $8.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Nowhere To Be Home: Narratives From Survivors of Burmas Military Regime by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West (McSweeneys) $16.00

  • Monstrous Achievement : Jack Grisham Reads From His New Memoir An American Demon 5/14

    An American Demon is Jack Grisham’s story of depravity and redemption, terror and spiritual deliverance. While Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty), his writing and true life experiences are physically and psychologically more complex and unsettling than those of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk.

    Eloquently disregarding the prefabricated formulas of the drunk–to–sober, bad–to–good tale, this is an entirely new kind of life lesson: summoned through both God and demons, while settling within eighties hardcore punk culture and its radical–to–the–core (and most assuredly non–evangelical) parables, Grisham leads us, cleverly, gorgeously, between temporal violence and bigger-picture spirituality toward something better. An American Demon flourishes on both extremes, as a scary hardcore punk memoir and as a valuable message to souls navigating through an overly materialistic and woefully self–absorbed “me first” modern society.

    An American Dem    on conveys anger and truth within the perfect setting, using a youth rebellion that changed the world to open doors for this level of brash destruction. Told from the point of view of a seminal member of the American Punk movement — doused in violence, rebellion, alcoholism, drug abuse, and ending with beautiful lessons of sobriety and absolution — this book is as harrowing and life–affirming as anything you’re ever going to read.

    Now in heavy demand as a public speaker, Jack Grisham currently receives thousands of monthly phone calls from individuals and organizations seeking his advice, expertise, wit, mentorship, and support, especially on drug and alcohol–related issues. Grisham is a master hypnotherapist and resides in Huntington Beach, California. He spends his time with his family, surfs, and voluntarily offers his services to his community. An American Demon is Grisham’s first book.

    “If you’ve ever found yourself unable to turn away from witnessing an accident, crash or natural disaster, you’ll read An American Demon straight through, like I did.  Jack Grisham’s memoir is as original as it is horrifying.  I couldn’t put it down.”    — James Frey, bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces

    “What isn’t shocking is that Jack wrote a fantastically depraved, heart wrenching, thoroughly engaging book that you’ll want to read in one sitting. What is shocking is that it wasn’t written from inside a jail cell at a maximum security prison.”     — Jim Lindberg, former lead singer of Pennywise, and author of Punk Rock Dad

    “…the book is unnervingly brilliant, compulsive reading for those of us that are glad it’s all over.”
    — Rat Scabies, musician.  Scabies played drums for the punk band The Damned.

    “Jack Grisham is a legend to those in the know.  Much of the success of punk rock was built on the blood, sweat, and tears of this surf punk, Southern California mad man. After such a compelling read, it’s so nice to see him break on through to the other side…some weren’t so lucky…” — Mark McGrath, singer

    “Jack Grisham finally, irrevocably, puts to death the slander that the early Los Angeles punk scene was ‘plastic.’ The first true literature to come out of our pathetic little punk lives, American Demon is haunting and awakens monsters. But it should come with a warning label: it’s a dangerous book. Read Patti Smith’s Just Kids. Then read this. But only if you have the courage to follow poetry as far as it can go.”— Paul Roessler, producer, composer, musician

    For more info: jackgrisham.com and  ecwpress.com

    Saturday, May 14th, 7pm

  • Chester Brown Stops at Quimby’s on the Paying For It Tour 5/11

    It’s tempting to call Chester Brown a recluse, but if you live in Toronto, he’s not. But it is rare for him to hit the road, and he will be on tour in 2011 for PAYING FOR IT.

    Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. As the cartoonist of the autobiographical The Playboy and the biography Louis Riel, Paying For It is a natural progression for Brown as it combines the personal and sexual aspects of his autobiographical work with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world’s most hot-button topics–prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work–from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of cliches street corners, drugs, or primps.

    Paying For It is a book that stands for itself and will be the most talked about graphic novel of 2011. In stores this May.

    Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5, Black & White, 272 pages, ISBN: 9781770460485, $24.95 US / $25.95 CDN

    “PAYING FOR IT is a very enlightening book, as well as being entertaining…{Chester Brown} is a very skillfull artist in that way.”–R. CRUMB, from his introduction to PAYING FOR IT

    Wed, May 11th, 7pm

    Refreshments Provided by Piece Pizzeria & Brewery!