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Top 10 This Week
1. Packingtown Review vol 2 2010 $13.00
3. Ready Made #46 Apr May 10 $4.99
4. No Better Than Apples #6 Piecemeal by Kate Larson $2.00
5. Bizarre #153 Aug 09 $10.50
7. The Believer #70 Mar/Apr 10 Film Issue $10.00
8. McSweeneys #33 Panorama $16.00
9. Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #2 Arts and Letters $15.00
10. Gothic Beauty #30 $5.95
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Melissa Auf der Maur from Smashing Pumpkins and Hole Signs OOOM
Please note! This event was originally scheduled to start at 6pm. It has been rescheduled for an hour earlier, to start at 5pm.
Melissa Auf der Maur (MAdM) was a member, songwriter and bass player of Hole from 1994-1999, culminating in the Grammy and Billboard nominated album “Celebrity Skin.” In 2000 she joined the Smashing Pumpkins for their farewell world tour. She has toured and collaborated with bands and members of QOTSA, Marilyn Manson, The Cure, Indochine, NIN, Muse, Ryan Adams, Ric Ocasek and more.
“OUT OF OUR MINDS” (OOOM ) is a multi-medium release that includes album, film, comic, and photo collection. It is MAdM’s upcoming album, and it is the key component of her independently produced 21st century concept album – a multi-media experience that beyond the rock album, includes a short film with an original score and a comic book. The film portion premiered at Sundance film festival 2009.

OOOM ALBUM: 12 track follow-up solo album. Guest Stars: Glenn Danzig, members of NIN, Helmet / Battles and Priestess. OOOM Film: 28min, H-D. Color, Fueled on Solar Power, directed by Tony Stone (“Severed Ways”). Original score to the film by MAdM and the Entrance Band. OOOM COMIC: Illustrated by the young and exceptionally talented Jack Forbes from Brooklyn, NY.For more info: http://xmadmx.com/
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Best American Comics 2011
The Best American Comics Series is collecting submissions for their 2011 volume. Best American Comics is an annual comics anthology featuring short stories and excerpts of graphic novels by North American comics artists. The series is edited by comics artists, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, and features a different guest editor each year. Past guest editors include Lynda Barry (One Hundred Demons), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan), Harvey Pekar (American Splendor), and Charles Burns (Black Hole)
They want you to submit your comics! If you make minicomics, you should definitely send your comics in, and represent selfpublishers. The work must be published between September 1, 2009 and August 31, 2010, and needs to be submitted by September 7, 2010. Work published after August 31 can be submitted for the 2012 volumeFor a full explaination plus the address to which you need to mail your amazing comics, check out http://www.bestamericancomics.com/2009/submissions.php
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Top 10 Bestselling Winners Last Week
1. Cabinet #36 Friendship $12.00
4. Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) $12.95
5. Make (Chicago Literary Magazine) #9 Spr Sum 2010 $10.00
6. Bomb #111 Spr 10 $7.95
7. The Point #2 Win10 $12.00
8. Small Stakes Music Posters by Jason Munn/Small Stakes (Chronicle) $24.95
9. The Believer #70 Mar Apr 2010 Film Issue $10.00
10. Dwelling Portably 1980 – 89 by Burt and Holly Davis (Microcosm) $8.00
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New Stuff This Week
Comics of Chris Ware: Drawings is a Way of Thinking by David Ball and Martha Kuhlman (University of Mississippi) $28.00 – Maybe you’ve heard of Chris Ware? With contributions by David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, Jacob Brogan, Isaac Cates, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Shawn Gilmore, Matt Godbey, Jeet Heer, Martha B. Kuhlman, Katherine Roeder, Peter R. Sattler, Marc Singer, Benjamin Widiss, and Daniel Worden.”
Judas Goat Quarterly #45 Spr 10 $1.50 – 45 issues and still goin’ strong here in the city of big shoulders.
Dont Forget a God Damn Thing by Chelsea Dirck $3.00
Effigy #6 by Matt Whispers $3.00 – chap book.
Raving 89 by Neville Watson and Gavin Watson (DJHistory) $29.95 – Photos from the raves of 1989. Because people always look the best when they’re sweaty and peeking on ecstacy.
London Club by Nicole Trevillian (Charta) $29.95
Young Girls Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments by Pierre Louys, translated by Longnecker Geoffrey (Wakefield) $12.95 – Disturbing. Yet compelling. A fine combination.
Rock Music Writings by Dan Graham (Primary Information) $18.00
Shots #107 Spring 10 $5.95
Tag a Novelette by Jay Carlson $6.00 – fiction.
Other Side of Me by Michael Solomon $17.95 – Also fiction.
Rad Dad #17 by Tomas Moniz $3.00 – His biggest issue yet. All kinds of writing on anarchy and parenting.
Rain by Jarod Rosello $2.00 – If you want to convince your parents you should get a puppy, this is what you need to give them.
Make #9 Spr Sum 10 $10.00 – There’s a witch in the club! -This Myth, Magic and Ritual Issue does not dissapoint. Chicago-based Make Magazine continues to raise the bar on creative fiction, nonfiction, and depiction this time with a spirit slant.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #10 by Philip K. Dick with Jonathan Lethem and Tony Parker (Boom) $3.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 2 HC by by Philip K. Dick with Tony Parker (Boom) $24.99
RASL #7 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50
Shindig vol 2 #15 Mar Apr 10 $9.99
Time Out Chicago Apr 10 $2.99
Creeper HC by Steve Ditko (DC) $39.99
Roadside America: Architectural Relics From a Vanishing Past by John Margolies (Taschen) $39.99
Arty Party by Sara Drake and James Payne $4.00 – Art history yuks and guffaws!
Desperate But Not Serious by Nicholas Peterson $3.00 – No, not an Adam Ant fanzine. What it is though, is a zine of crazy drawings of animals lamenting their state of affairs, or alternately for example, a camel, just resting. Other animals pontificate their place in the world elsewhere in this collection of detailed black and white drawings. Is this something in the independent publishing zeitgeist? “Big Questions” by Anders Nilsen, “Sad Animals” by Adam Meuse, and now this recent addition to the genre. The genre of what, you inquire? Why the “animals tackling big issues and maybe being a little sad” genre.
Skate Trips From Hell vol 1 #1 by Lou Shields $3.00 – new mini comic. It’s sk8 or die for real here as a free-form road trip goes endless-bummer-zombie-warfare-panic-in-Detroit style ultimately fullfilling the promise and potential of the tour-journal genre.
Detective Stories by Anne Elizabeth Moore $1.00 – Murder and mayhem dug up from cultural critic Anne Elizabeth Moore’s (of Unmarketable fame) grade school forensic files. Proves that gritty realism and suspicious conclusions are at their surreal-pychic best when written by a crime-obsessed fifth grader. As performed at a recent Chicago production of “Mortified.” Hilarious!
By Hand The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art by Shu Hung and var. (Princeton) $24.95
Library Book by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Princeton) $30.00 – Librarians! Get yer nerd on here. Helpful ideas for shelfing your books in an artsy art-book format.
Selby is in Your Place by Todd Selby (Abrams) $35.00
Meanwhile 3856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga (Abrams) $15.95
Art of Jaime Hernandez The Secrets of Life and Death, ed. by Todd Hignite (Abrams) $40.00 – With an intro by Alison Bechdel.
Art in Time Unkown Comic Book Adventures 1940 to 1980 HC by Dan Nadel (Abrams) $40.00
Walt and Skeezix vol 4 HC by Frank King (DQ) $39.95
Everyone You Know Is Currently Dead by Louis M. Schmidt $3.00 – zine.
Tears in the Fence #51 $8.00 – lit journal.
Was That Supposed To Be Funny? by Lauren Barnett $4.00 – From the artist of the awesomely-titled “I’d Sure Like Some Fucking Pancakes.” Comics based on second-grade journal entries full of hermit crabs and Supermodel Presidents.
Nutted 8 Static Cautionary Tales by Dustin Harbin $3.00 – mini comic.
Sneaker Freaker #17 $12.50
Psychedelic Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s by var. (MIT) $29.99 – Ready to move on to something past your fractals?
Fortean Times #260 May 10 $11.99 – Would be a nice way to complement the title above.
Look at this Fucking Hipster by Joe Mande (St Martins) $11.99 – Not that much different from the fashiobaly unfashionable “douchebag” trend.
Booth: Actor Lover Idealist Assassin by CC Colbert and Tanitoc (First Second) $19.99
Organ Haus Drawings #2 Weird Jesus Mtn Dew Reptoids $3.00 – Doesn’t the name alone pull you in? The theory behind this art zine is that the aliens are living in the dumpster behind Family Dollar.
Freedom Goes Freedom Comes A Reflection on Protest 10 Years After Seattle by Josh Redd Sanchez Josh $3.00 – zine
Nachbar Innen Eine Murmel Comics Anthologie #31 Herbst 09 $2.00 – mini comic.
History of Flying Vaginas by Kristie Alshaibi and Usama Alshaibi $15.00 – zine
Seattle Review vol 2 #2 and #3 $10.00 – As per customer request.
True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary by var. (Skyhorse) $12.95
New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson (Thames) $40.00
It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $24.99
High Soft Lisp by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $16.99
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"Work In Progress" Meet-Up
Join us for our monthly get-together entitled “Work In Progress.” The idea is to provides feedback, community and work space. You can bring whatever you’re working on, whether it’s a zine, a comic, or some other project. We’ll provide the space and time, you provide the help for each other. This monthly event will take shape however it needs to. It will meet on the last Wednesday of every month here at Quimby’s from 7pm-8:30pm.
Here’s what we’re hoping “Work In Progress” will offer:
-Feedback. You can bring what you’re working on and get the feedback you need from other like-minded people. Maybe you need this feedback to be in the form of an informal discussion or you need it be in the form of a workshop. Or maybe you need it to be in some other format that will take shape at that moment. Or maybe there’s something else entirely different that you need help with. Perhaps you need to find somebody who can talk to you about finding a a good printer. Or maybe you want to ask other creators how they perform their work once they’ve written it. Who knows what? This is truly a “Work In Progress” that will organically take shape based on the people that attend it. You yourself may be helpful to someone else if you possess the know-how for something they need.
-Creative networking and community. Yes, this sounds super cheesy, but still. Here’s your chance to meet other people who are in your writing/art/general creative community. Who knows what can happen? Maybe you’ll find some other social misfit like yourself. Maybe you’ll meet a future collaborator or a friend. Maybe you’ll form a collective with some folks you meet. Maybe you’ll publish something with someone you meet. This will be exciting to see who meets who and what alliances are made. We meet so many great people that come through Quimby’s. It’s time for all of you to meet each other.
-Work space and designated time. Maybe you need to leave your house to get some work done. Maybe you need a designated time and place to force you to actually get some creative work done. Are you one of those people that if you were left to your on devices you’d never get anything done? You’ve got all these good ideas but you never do anything with them. Maybe this is the inspirational kick in the pants you need. Or maybe you just need to be surrounded by other people while you work, because for you, working alone at home is less fun. And unlike working at coffee shops, you won’t feel weird about talking to people you don’t know.
So maybe you’ve noticed that it’s not quite a workshop, not quite a skillshare, not quite an open house, and yet it can be all three. See you there!
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Chicago author Josh Wilker reads from Cardboard Gods
Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. While it is rooted in a life obsessed with baseball, Cardboard Gods is much more than just a baseball book; it’s a touching family saga that perfectly captures an era, the late 1970s. Like Nick Hornby or Chuck Klosterman, Wilker finds something very large in the seemingly small.
Josh expertly shares his classic observations about his central artifacts, the baseball cards, while setting up the poignant tales of his youth. He uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as “Designated Pinch Runner” Herb Washington and Mark “The Bird” Fidrych; he writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski. Cardboard Gods is both the perfect book for baseball fans and a great read for anyone compelled by the question, “What if what’s gone can return?”
“Josh Wilker’s Cardboard Gods is a poignant and vivid account of how and why he accessed baseball cards as a survival tool while negotiating a 1970s childhood marked by changing mores and confusing mixed messages. This is a story of brotherly love, survival of the also-ran, and the hope that quickens a kid’s heartbeat each time he rips open a fresh pack of baseball cards, gets a whiff of bubble gum, and, holding his breath, sees who he’s got as opposed to who and what he needs. If you love the writing of Dave Eggers or Augusten Burroughs, you just may love Josh Wilker’s Cardboard Gods, too. I did.”
–Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and The Hour I First Believed“Josh Wilker writes as beautifully about baseball and life as anyone ever has.”
–Rob Neyer, ESPNFor more info: http://cardboardgods.net/cardboard-gods-the-book/
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Librarian Zinesters and Zine Librarians at Quimby’s
Four card-catalog-holding librarians will ride into Quimbys on their book carts, zines in hands on April 23rd. These self-professed print culture nerd zinesters will read at what promises to be an entertaining evening stereotype busting. What, you thought all librarians shushed? Well, shush to you.
Zinesters reading include:
Celia Perez, author of the perzine I Dreamed I Was Assertive and mamazine Roots & Wings;
Library school student Jami Thompson of the long-running No Better Voice;
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out and Reading Log publisher Jenna Freedman
Nell Taylor, zine contributor and Executive Director of the Chicago Underground Library
There may even be limited references to Boolean operators. You won’t want to miss this chance to get your library geek on!
For more info: http://zinelibraries.info/2010/03/28/zine-librarians-zine-reading-at-quimbys
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Patrick Wensink and Michael Allen Rose
Yes, there will be (a) Sex Dungeon for Sale! at Quimby’s. The book with that title, that is.
Combine an optimistic realtor selling a home with a sexual playground, a kindergartener convinced he’s actually French, and something called “Chicken Soup for the Kidnapper’s Soul,” and you get Patrick Wensink’s hilarious collection of short stories titled Sex Dungeon for Sale! (Eraserhead Press). Join Patrick Wensink as he reads from this new book.
Sex Dungeon for Sale! takes these bold characters and a few other outrageous situations to create an unforgettable and quick literary ride. While keeping an eye focused on the surreal, but both feet firmly planted in reality, these stories dissect a modern world so strange you have to laugh. Wensink’s punchy style is perfect for the brevity-obsessed Twitter generation, but saves room in his utility belt of brief tales for humor, humanity and an extra helping of WTF?.
“A deliciously dark and funny book” –Louisville Courier-Journal
“Unputdownable” –The Next Best Book
“Wensink’s evident writerly talents make this an auspicious debut.” –James Greer, author of Artificial Light and The Failure
“Sex Dungeon for Sale! takes facets of everyday American life and twists them until they gag out comedic gold.” -Joey Goebel, author of Torture the Artist and The Anomalies
Also joining the bill is Chicago’s playwright Michael Allen Rose, who will read from his RoShamBo Theatre production Attack Ships on Fire.For more info: http://www.patrickwensink.com































