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Holy smokes! Look at this beautiful new Jay Ryan book, Animals and Objects In and Out of Water Posters by Jay Ryan 2005-2008 published by Akashic, for a mere $22.95. Of course, it is as beautiful as you would expect. Don’t miss him here with Paul Hornschemeier on 11/11/09!
Anyway, this is new stuff for the week of 10/18/09-10/24/09:
Sex Drugs and Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection by Shana Liebman (Grand Central) $13.99
Rolling Thunder #8 Fall 09 $6.00 – To get your anarchist hood on.
Little Black Book of Griselidis: Real Days And Nights Of An Anarchist Whore by Jean-Luc Hennig [Semiotext(e)] $14.95 – To get your anarchist hard on.
New Stuff From Buenaventura Press:
Boys Club #3 by Matt Furie $4.95
Ted Mays Injury #3 $4.95
Aviatrix #1 by Eric Haven $4.95
I Want You #1 by Lisa Hanawalt $4.95
Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt $5.00
Manifest Decadency by Chris McKay an Alex West $2.00 – Mini comic in just today!
No More Coffee #2 Stories Etc. Revised and Updated by Ben Spies $2.00
Briefly The Heart and Other Poems 2006-2009 by Dana Jerman $8.00
Meatpaper #9 Fall 09 $7.95
Tattoo Society #18 $7.99
Juxtapoz #106 Nov 09 $5.99
Chalo India a New Era of Indian Art (Prestel) $45.00
Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies (Standard) by Matthew J Gerkin, Christian Kiefer and Pitcher Jefferson $20.00
Ansel Adams New Landscapes by Luke Strosnider $25.00 – OK so like, there’s this photography thing called a histogram that measures the levels of things in a photo and sometimes if the histogram is perfectly symmetrical, it looks like a mountain, right? So Ansel Adams’ works are perfectly symmetrical in their histograms which mean they’re really boring composed formulaic photos. So like, you know, this is a book of mountanous histograms to show how you know, Ansel Adams is like, y’know, really square. Photography industry humor! Hilarious!
I’m Drinkin This Mixtape vol 2 by Harrison Martin $6.00 – VHS!
Ex Machina vol 5 Smoke Smoke by Brian K Vaughan (Wildstorm) $12.99
Fourth World Omnibus vol 4 by Jack Kirby (DC) $49.99
Sun Struck by Robert and John Waters (New Horizon) $24.95
And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Anniversary Edtion by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs (Grove) $14.00
Uncle Sam by Steve Darnell and Alex Ross (Veritgo) $19.99
Book About Moomin Mymble and Little My by Tove Janssen (D+Q) $16.95
Sugar Shock One Shot: Dont be a Viking by Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon (Dark Horse) $3.50
Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics by Schutz Diana, Brian Azzarello, Ed Brubaker and more (Dark Horse) $12.95
Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century Selected Poems 1961-1985 by Edward Sanders (Coffee House Press) $20.00
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl by Karyna McGlynn (Sarabande) $14.95 – Best name for a book ever.
Flats Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer (Two Dollar Radio) $17.00
Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom by Aiden Shaw (Alyson) $15.95
Zombie Pinup Calendar 2010 $20.00
Pith Magazine vol 3 #1 Fall 09 $5.00
Bizarre #155 Oct 09 $10.50
Urinal Gum #9 $2.00
The Fixer TPB by Joe Sacco (D+Q) $19.95 – Now in soft cover.
Liver A Fictional Organ with Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes by Will Self (Bloomsbury) $26.00
Jack of Fables vol 6 Big Book of War TPB by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $14.99
Look At The Birdie: Unpublished Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) $27.00
Outlaws Adventures of Pirates Scoundrels and Other Rebels by Laurent Marechaux (Flammarion) $45.00
Best of the Yellow Rake Zine by Brian Polk $10.00
Snitches Get Stitches by Charly The City Mouse Fasano $10.00
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders by John Potash, the book $20.00, the DVD $16.00
Another Chicago Magazine #49 $12.00
Scientific Method by Jaime Raybin $1.00
Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist by Haynes Johnson and Harry Katz (WWNorton) $35.00
Homesteading A Backyard Guide by Gehring (Skyhorse) $24.95 – Growing your own food, canning, keeping chickens, generating your own energy, crafting, herbal medicine…And more!
Literary Hoaxes an Eye Opening History of Famous Frauds by Melissa Katsoulis (Skyhorse) $22.95
Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars by Kenneth Hartman (Atlasco) $22.00
New Retro: Classic Graphics, Todays Designs by Brenda Dermody (Thames) $45.00
The Unfortunates by BS Johnson (New Directions) $24.95
VU: The Story of a Magazine by Michel Frizot and Cedric De Veigy (Thames) $75.00
Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music by Rob Young (Verso) $19.95
Mome vol 16 Fall 09 (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Penguin) $16.00 – Lilli Carre did the cover and it looks awesome!
Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live (Harper) $16.99
I Am America And So Can You by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central) $15.99 – Now in soft cover.
Tim Burton (Moma) $19.95 – Show catalog from the Moma exhbit.
The Philip K Dick Collection: 13 Complete Novels in Three Volumes, Over 2800 Pages, edited by Jonathan Lethem (Library of America) $110.00 – With VALIS, Ubiq, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly and more!
Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, edited by Ilan Stevans (Library of America) $40.00
Tao of Wu by RZA (Riverhead) $24.95 – Wisdom from the life and travels of RZA, the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a follow up to The Wu-Tang Manual.
The Best of Punch Cartoons by Helen Walasek (Overlook) $50.00
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Celebrating the release of Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves, editor Jason Bitner presents along with The AV Club’s Kyle Ryan, artist Derek Erdman and more special guests. This expert panel will shed light on the power of mixtapes and share their own tales of tapes given and received, crushes turned to heartaches. And special bonus! Illustrator Arthur Jones presents his hilarious loss-of-virginity tale as a Post-It Note Story.
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: The Hideout
Street: 1354 West Wabansia
City/Town: Chicago, IL
Price: $5
Quimby’s will be there selling books! Please note this event is at the Hideout and not at Quimby’s!
Monday, November 9th, 8pm, $5.00
At the Hideout
1354 W Wabansia Ave
Chicago, IL 60642-1519
(773) 227-4433
www.hideoutchicago.com
How does one honor the tradition of Chicago’s checkered past? By embracing it’s bloody cliches. The comic anthology Pinstriped Bloodbath does just that, showcasing several of the best Chicago area cartoonists, as they tackle the seedy gangland crime of the 20’s and 30’s. Each book is painstakingly silkscreened and constructed by hand and features simulated blood spray across the jacket. Inside are 38 pages of beautiful black and white artwork featuring comics by Bernie McGovern, Neil Brideau, Nate Beaty, Rickey Gonzales, Neil Jam, Sam Sharpe, Jeff Zwirek, and Jeremy Tinder. The book also features illustrations by comic greats, Ivan Brunetti and Joshua Cotter. The book is a limited print run of 250 copies and is $8.00.
Be there for the party celebrating the release of the book in Chicago after its debut at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda Maryland. Meet and have your book signed by the cartoonists representing the current alternative comic scene in Chicago.
For more info: http://www.pinstripedbloodbath.blogspot.com
Dean Haspiel, co-founder of the premier online comic art collective, ACT-I-VATE.com, will be hosting a multimedia salon to celebrate the release of The ACT-I-VATE Primer, 16 original stories by some of the most highly respected visual storytellers working today. This will also be the Chicago debut of The ACT-I-VATE Experience, a 30-minute documentary by filmmakers Seth Kushner and Carlos Molina about how ACT-I-VATE is leading the webcomics revolution. Dean will be projecting panels from his contribution to the Primer, “Bring Me The Heart Of Billy Dogma,” while discussing the journey these stories have taken from print to web and back again. Joining Dean will be Chicago-area multimedia writer Tim Hall, whose groundbreaking text-comics for ACT-I-VATE have already sparked spirited discussion and debate in the comics community about visual writing and pictureless comics.
The Act-i-vate Primer boasts original art and stories by Joe Infurnari, Roger Langridge, Mike Dawson, Nick Bertozzi, Tim Hamilton, Dean Haspiel, Simon Fraser, Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt, Mike Cavallaro, Pedro Camargo, Jim Dougan & Hyeondo Park, Ulises Farinas, Michel Fiffe, Maurice Fontenot, Jennifer Hayden, and Leland Purvis.
“ACT-I-VATE makes comics better.” –Warren Ellis [from the ACT-I-VATE PRIMER foreword]
For more info: http://www.act-i-vate.com
Chicago postermaker Jay Ryan has been busy since the 2005 release of his book 100 Posters, 134 Squirrels (in its third printing with Akashic/Punk Planet Books), a collection of his favorite prints from the first decade of his work. This debut collection of Jay’s was praised by Chicago media and publications across the globe, including:
“Not only a gorgeous catalog of the artist’s many memorable posters, but a history of sorts of the Chicago underground rock scene in the last 15 years.” –Chicago Sun-Times
“Jay Ryan takes the germ of an idea and makes it uniquely great. His genius is in knowing what matters and what doesn’t . . . His genius is in having the image matter.” –Steve Albini
Since the release of that book, he has honed his craft continuing without the use of computers, and screen-printing the work in his shop called the Bird Machine for bands such as the Melvins, the Shins, Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, Shellac, My Morning Jacket, and hundreds of others. His new book, Animals and Objects In and Out of Water features 120 of Jay Ryan’s favorite pieces of art from the last three years, including text about each of the prints, detail photos (shot at the MCA in Chicago), and original drawings. With a foreword by Andrew Bird and an essay by best-selling novelist Joe Meno (Hairstyles of the Damned), this volume solidifies Jay’s position as one of the most unique postermakers in a thriving and exciting field.
Jay Ryan has been making screen-printed concert posters in Chicago since 1995. Known for his hand-drawn type, humorous animal subjects, and muted color selections, he has worked for thousands of rock bands, as well as clients like Patagonia clothing, Converse shoes, Burton Snowboards, and the BBC. When he’s not playing bass in his band Dianogah, Jay lectures students and shows his prints at universities and galleries across the U.S. and Europe.
Jay will be joined by fellow artist and author, Paul Hornschemeier, who will be presenting his newest book, All and Sundry: Uncollected Work, 2004-2009, which corrals Hornschemeier’s work from the last five years — work previously ungathered, and in many cases never before seen in print. These works span the globe, from periodicals to museums, including: conceptual drawings and comics of Ulysses S. Grant created for an exhibit in Paris; an award-winning cover exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the seventeen-part serialized tale of divine intervention, non-linearity, and social webs “Huge Suit Visits the People” created for the celebrated German newspaper Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung; and comic strips for The Wall Street Journal and CNN featuring the unlikely cartoon protagonists of Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, and the “gray fox,” Anderson Cooper. In addition to these oddities, All and Sundry collects covers and designs from multiple foreign editions of Paul’s books, ranging from Holland to Korea; recent album art for David Byrne’s Luaka Bop record label; a collaboration with celebrated comics humorist Michael Kupperman (Tales Designed to Thrizzle); as well as short, illustrated prose (thus far seen only in the pages of the anthology Mome). The collection concludes with extensive selections from sketches and sketchbooks, providing an unusual glimpse at the chaotic world of Hornschemeier’s work, before the polishing of lines and colors of the printed page. Here we see how works have developed and what the future holds for still gestating projects. All and Sundry, perhaps more than any previous collection of Hornschemeier’s work, demonstrates the variety and depth of the artist’s interests and pursuits, and invites an examination of the entirety of his process, from first fevered scrawl to final, pristine brush line.
“Hornschemeier doesn’t simply push the panel edges of the comics medium; he designs entirely off the page, encouraging other creators to join him over the horizon.” –Chicago Tribune
So a transgender cowboy, a pornographer/Bible teacher, and a nostalgic former fundamentalist walk into a bookstore. It’s not a joke; it’s what will happen at Quimby’s Saturday, November 14 at 7 pm when Quince Mountain, Erik Hanson and E.J. Park read their contributions to Believer Beware, edited by Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau:“Cowboy for Christ”, “Bible Porn”, and “The Joy of Dissent (Or, Why I Miss Fundamentalism)”, respectively. The second collection from killingthebuddha.com, Believer Beware uncovers “first person dispatches from the margins of faith” and exposes them to the world. As editor Jeff Sharlet describes in his introduction
“Caught between comics and scripture is the stuff of this collection, memoir. Memoir, after all, is euphemistic label for testimony, a cleaned-up manifestation of the comic book sensibility.”
Join contributors and killingthebuddha.com editors for this Chicago launch of Believer Beware.
“Shocking, exhilarating, and never dull…. Highly recommended.” — Library Journal
“A complex, fascinating collection, full of surprises.” –Booklist
“Believer Beware is a door that leads from religious indoctrination to freedom. It is a book worth reading, vastly entertaining and (for me anyway) yet another liberating step from exile to better place. —Frank Schaeffer Author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back and the forthcoming Patience With God: Faith For People Who Don’t Like Religion (Or Atheism)
For more info: http://killingthebuddha.com/ktblog/believer-beware/
