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Thumbs + Knuckles and The Dreaded Biscuits Zine Launch and Reading
What do you get when you mix 36 graphic designers, 34 writers, and 3 illustrators? The result is a double Zine featuring emerging writers and designers from Columbia College Chicago. Columbia faculty members Craig Jobson, Patrick Hogan, Jotham Burrello, Rob Duffer, and John Upchurch, the intrepid Production Manager, supervised the production of a 68-pp full color “Zine Columbia — Summer 2009,” aka “The Dreaded Biscuits / Thumbs and Knuckles”.
The Zine’s on-line presence can be found at:
http://adweb.colum.edu/~thumbsandknuckles/
http://adweb.colum.edu/~thedreadedbiscuits/
Please come celebrate the eighth Zine produced since 2003, and the first one printed offset. Featured readings and merriment will ensue between the book stacks of Quimby’s.
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New Stuff This Week
Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (WWNorton) $24.95 – About time!!!
King Cat #70 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Still goin’ strong!
Wild Things by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $19.95 – Loosely based on Where the Wild Things Are.
I Drink For a Reason by David Cross (Grand Central) $23.99
Plastic Knife #2 $2.00 – Zine from the writer behind the popular free zine You.
Mineshaft #24 $6.95 – Crumb, both R. and Sophie, plus various other interesting things.
Hipless Boy: Short Stories by Sully (Conundrum) $19.95 – New graphic novel material, sort of Matt Madden-esque style.
Monsters by Ken Dahl (Secret Acres) $18.00 – Beautious! Don’t have sex without (reading) it.
Miss Sequential #1 by Marissa Falco $2.00 – Cutest ziney-mini comic-y thing evah! From the artist of Red-Hooded Sweatshirt. Sort of Missy Kulick-esque.
Rosario Dawson Loves Me #1 Or I Want to Die Right Now Please by Justin Valmassoi $1.50 – Yes, the time has come. Rosario Dawson fan fiction.
Tulip Spr/Sum 09 $4.00 – New local literary journal. Jump on it now before it gets the buzz!
Road Kill vol 1 #10 $2.00
Gigantic Sequins vol 1 #1 $5.00 – Lit journal. Also hot!
Laterborn #7 by Jason Martin $2.00 – mini comic.
Razorcake #52 $4.00
Two new comic books from George Starr of Snowie fame: Triangle Versus Square ($8.00) and You’re Dead to Me ($6.00)
Dear Dave Magazine #5 $15.00 – Deluxe fashion mag.
Lulu Eightball vol 2 by Emily Flake (Atomic) $14.95 – New material from former local illustrator. Hilarious!
Bust Oct Nov 09 $4.99
Secret Beach #1 Sep 09 by Liam Warfield $2.00 – New material from the zinester behind War Against the Idiots! Finally!
Bizarre #154 Sep 09 $10.50
High Glitz: Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants by Susan Anderson (PowerHouse) $39.95 – That’s some freaky shit
Preparedness Now: An Emergency Survival Guide by Anton Edwards (Process) $16.95
2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce (Disinfo) $14.95
Pictures For Sad Children by John Campbell $15.00 – From local comics artist of Stevie Might Be a Bear.
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and illustr. by Brett Helquist (Harper) $14.99
Sulk #3 by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf) $6.00
Away We Go Screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Vintage) $14.00
Sound And Fury Art of Henry Darger (Edlin) $40.00
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues by Loren Rhoads (Scribner) $14.99 – Material from the editors of the popular outer limits mag Morbid Curiousity.
Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag (Vintage) $16.00
1 800 MICE #3 by Matt Thurber $4.00
Tape Op #73 $4.50
Comic Diorama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00 – Don’t miss Grant Reynolds here on Oct 6th!
Best American Comics 2009 ed. by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden (Houghton Mifflin) $22.00
Private: The Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine, ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99
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Off-site Event: The Interview Show at the Hideout
The Interview Show, a talk show at The Hideout, is back Friday, Oct. 2, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Host Mark Bazer welcomes guests Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, co-hosts of “Sound Opinions;” novelist Gillian Flynn (“Dark Places,” “Sharp Objects”) and Joe Winston, director of the documentary “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” $5. Plus, Quimby’s will on hand to sell books by the guests. The Hideout is located at 1354 W. Wabansia. -
Metralingua’s Down the Block Reading
Featuring Chicago authors Peter Zelchenko, Hugh Iglarsh, Sharyn Elman, and John Banas
Chicago authors Peter Zelchenko, Hugh Iglarsh, Sharyn Elman, and John Banas will read their contributions from Metrolingua’s anthology Down the Block.
As the “Metro” in Metrolingua implies urban life, Down the Block confronts and even celebrates life in the city. The authors’ interaction with cities reveal both complimentary and antagonistic reactions, expressing the complexity of what cities mean to us, whether we live within them or are just passing through.
Zelchenko is “an outspoken activist who pursues his causes long after most people would have given up” (Chicago Reader), and writes for Gapersblock.com, Thepoint.com, and has a popular column for the Chicago Journal. He also wrote the critically acclaimed exposé, It Happened Four Years Ago: Mayor Daley’s Brutal Conquest of Chicago’s First Ward.
Iglarsh has published satire, reviews and essays in such periodicals as The Lyric Opera Study Guide, New City, Bridge Magazine, World Jewish Digest, and Context.
Elman has worked as a broadcaster and producer for television and radio in Los Angeles and Chicago, and now teaches broadcasting at Columbia College.
Banas has experienced enough layoffs to write about it for this anthology and get involved in politics in DuPage county while pursuing other writing.
Metrolingua is a micro-publisher created by Margaret Larkin, to celebrate the human movement of writing in the 21st century as an alternative to the publishing monoliths that have emerged in the increasingly consolidated publishing business. See a full preview of the anthology and hear audio at: Metrolingua.com
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-24
- "Now I'm gonna split you in half and wear your lungs as underpants." PRISON PIT by @johnnyryan is here. http://vcgf8.tk #
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Grazfest Stops at Quimby's
With Sunny Outside Press, Featuring Nathan Graziano, Micah Ling and Charly “the city mouse” Fasano!
Nathan Graziano lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with his wife and two children. He is the author of Teaching Metaphors (sunnyoutside, 2007), Not So Profound (Green Bean Press, 2004), Frostbite (Green Bean Press, 2002), and seven chapbooks of poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in Rattle, Night Train, Freight Stories, the Coe Review, the Owen Wister Review, and others. His third book of poetry, After the Honeymoon, will be published in fall 2009 by sunnyoutside press.
Micah Ling is the author of the collection Three Islands, which is forthcoming from sunnyoutside press. She earned her MFA at Indiana University. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate, Flyway, Fifth Wednesday, and others. Her chapbook, Thoughts on Myself, was published by Finishing Line Press. She teaches writing and literature classes at Indiana University and at Butler University. She also serves as Deputy Editor for Keyhole Magazine. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Charly \”the city mouse\” Fasano is a poet and spoken word performer from Chicago. His stories/poems are inspired by his experiences touring with rock and roll bands, failed relationships and being lost in familiar places. He is the co founder of book publisher and cassette tape label Fast Geek Press / analog empire. He is determined to present the general public audio recordings and books that document the work of underground poets, musicians, artists and comedians in dead media formats. His monthly contribution to Lubricated Zine Online called “City Slicker Coconuts” is an examination of life in Chicago.
For more info:
nathangraziano.com
sunnyoutside.com
myspace.com/charlythecitymousefasano
http://lubricatedzine.blogspot.com
fastgeekpress.com
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-23
- free shit alert: Vice Magazine & ANP Quarterly are in the house. Get while the gettins good y'all. #
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Top 10 and Windy City Comic Con pics!
Quimby’s shared a booth with Chicago Comics this past weekend for the Windy City Comic Con at the Center on Halsted, 9/18/09 (see below). For more pics, see here.
This is the top 10 bestsellers at Quimby’s for the week of 9/13/09-9/19/09:
1. Too Cool to Be Forgotten by Alex Robinson (Top Shelf) $14.95
2. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
3. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00
4. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin) $13.95
5. Alarm #35 $14.00
6. Mojo Oct 09 #191 $9.99
7. Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99
8. Monologuist Paper Blog Supplemental and Postcard Set by Anders Nilsen $10.95
9. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10. Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-20
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New Stuff This Week
One of our customers is trying to grow his own crop circle from a kit he bought here. Wish Gordon Meyer luck!
Here is new stuff for the week of 9/12/09-9/19/09:
McSweeneys #32 $24.00
Monologuist by Anders Nilsen $10.95 – Ooo la la! Comics and postcards! Hand-packaged.
Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters (Quirk)$12.95
Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99
This Is a Comic Book August 1-22 2009 $8.50 – This is a show catalog from a cool exhibit at the Mahan Gallery.
Independents: A Guide For the Creative Spirit DVD $24.99 – Indie comics peoples! This is a neato thingy.
N Plus 1 #8 Fall 09 Recessional $13.95
You Dont Get There From Here #12 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Reliably high quality comix from the artist behind The Assassin and the Whiner.
After Hours #19 Sum 09 $8.00 – Local literary journal.
Miranda #19 $2.00
The Comedians Sep 09 $4.50
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #9 $7.00
Fast Geek Reader by Charly Fasano $10.00
No More Bummers #4 $3.00
The First Line vol 11 #3 $3.00 – The little literary journal that could — still going strong! Every issue contains stories that all start with the same first line.
Watch the Closing Doors #48 $2.50 – Hip hip hooray for commuter zines!
Make #8 Sum Fall 09 $10.00 – Chicago-based lit journal.
Hot Type 30 Sheets of Typo Graphic Fabric Transfers by Macfadden and Thorpe (Chronicle) $12.95
One Hundred Years of Menswear, ed. by Cally Blackman (Laurence King) $40.00 – These are some slick fashion photos, ladies.
Graffiti New York by Eric DEAL CIA Felisbret (Abrams) $35.00
Dreaded Feast: Writers On Enduring The Holidays, ed. by Michelle Clarke and Taylor Pimpton (Abrams) $15.95
Spirit Animals: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Animal Companions, ed. by Stefanie Iris Weiss (Chronicle) $14.95 – With illustrations from such artists as Clare Rojas, Kyle Field, and more!
Map As Art Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katherine Harmon (Princeton) $45.00
Ultraviolet: 69 Blackout Posters From the Aquarian Age and Beyond, ed. Dan Donahue (Abrams) $22.50 – To glow in the dark while you get your Led on.
How to Be Inappropriate by Daniel Nestor (Soft Skull) $14.95 – Hilarious experimental fiction and non-fiction. Well, er, let’s just put it this way (for example): he reimagines the Terry Gross interview with Gene Simmons on Fresh Air as being with a robot Gene Simmons.
Special Forces: Gay Military Erotica by Phillip MacKenzie (Cleis) $14.95
Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Collection by DL King (Cleis) $15.95
Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames (Vertigo) $14.99 – Now in soft cover.
Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
Black Sabbatical by Brett Eugene Ralph (Sarabande) $14.95
Last Time As We Are by Taylor Mali (WriteBloody) $22.00
Adbusters #86 $8.95
Conspiracy Journal #28 $3.00
Treating Yourself #18 $7.99
Earwigs Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends by May R. Berenbaum (Harvard University Press) $23.95
New Literary History of America, ed. by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Belknap Press) $49.95
Endless Summer Print, drawn by Eamon Espey (Secret Acres) $10.00
Pop and Modern Petit Pattern Book (Bug News Network) $38.00 – Coolest clip art ever! In fact, we got a bunch in from this publisher and it blows away that Dover crap!
Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien (Blue Apple) $14.99 – Goin’ toe to toe for the cuteness title right up there with Jeffrey Brown’s cat drawings. We used to have Lark Pien’s mini comix years ago, and now here’s a collection with some full color awesomeness.
25000 Years Of Erotic Freedom by Alan Moore (Abrams) $22.50 – A history of erotic art as surveyed by the author of Watchmen and Lost Girls.
Shoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin (Melville House) $13.00
Talking Lines: The Graphic Stories of RO Blechman (Drawn & Quarterly) $29.95
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00
Off the Bus And On the Record 22 Candid Interviews By the Teen Journalists of the Rock Star Stories by various teenage reporters (Zest) $18.95
I’m One 21st Century Mods by Horst A. Friedrichs (Prestel) $35.00 – Photos of mods.
Illusive Contemporary Illustration Part III (Die Gestalten Verlag) $65.00 – We only got one, so race here to get it!
Naive: Modernism and Folklore In Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag) $50.00
We Make Magazines: Inside the Independents by Andrew Losowsky (Mike Koedinger) $50.00