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ARCHER PREWITT SIGNS WORK ON PAPER
Multi-talented Chicago artist Archer Prewitt (The Sea and Cake, The Coctails) signs his new book, Work On Paper!
Not many people will know that the author of crazy and perverted comic, Sof’ Boy, is the same man who drew the beautiful and delicate nymph-like girl from the artists’ own music album, Wilderness. But look carefully and you will notice that the most intricately drawn fine lines and dots are mutual features of much of his work; the same organic, subtle, sophisticated and tender sensibility shine through in all of Archer Prewitt’s creations and never ceases to charm us.
This book collects 32 of selected works from a group of minimal drawings he has been working on for almost 20 years.
Foreword by Jim Harris (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
Work On Paper (PressPop)
Hardcover, 48 pgs, color, deboss stamping on front cover
Japanese/English
Size: 8 inches x 8 inches
For more info: http://www.presspop.comFREE
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Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 10th-May 16th, 2009
1. Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith (Quirk) $12.95
3. Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around by Cheryl Wagner (Citadel) $14.95
4. Proximity #4 $12.00
5. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
6. Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
7. Juxtapoz #100 May 09 $5.99
8. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
9. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
10. The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper (Chicago Review Press) $11.95 -
New Stuff!
Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
Luba by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Compiles various pieces of Luba’s comics in a handy tomb.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
Cabinet #33 Deception $12.00
Comics Journal #297 Apr 09 $11.99
Connective Tissue by Bob Fingerman (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Make vol 18 $14.99
Gothic Beauty #28 $5.95
Maximumrocknroll #313 $4.00
Hoboking A Hobo Odyssey by Peter Hillstrom $3.50 – new mini comic
For Lonely Adults Only #4 Spr 09 $5.00 – Lo-fi sexy mag
Spread vol 4 #4 $5.95
Smut Vol 2 from Nerve.com (Chronicle) $14.95
Proximity #4 $12.00 – Don’t miss this one!
Overqualified by Joey Comeau (ECW) $14.95 – Cooler than letters to a nut. Reading here June 27th
Perverts Guide To Cinema Parts 1, 2, 3 with Slavog Zizek DVD $29.99
Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Collection 1-3 by Bernie McGovern $20.00 – Beuatifully bound comics
32 Stories Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics by Adrian Tomine (D+Q) $19.95 – He’ll be here with comics artist Seth on June 10th!
Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples by Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas (Chronicle) $40.00
Paper Tiger Television Presents: Infiltrating the Underground The Corporatization of Radical Culture DVD with Anne Elizabeth Moore $25.00
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 4 Time of Your Life by Joss Whedon and friends (Dark Horse) $15.95 – Buffy lives, yo.
Free Range Chicken by Simon Rich (Random) $13.00 – Hilarious stories from the author of Ant Farm.
Bizarre #149 $10.50
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot (Scribner) $25.00
Please Step Back by Ben Greenman (melville) $16.95
Kilobyte Couture: Geek Chic Jewelry to Make From Easy to Find Computer Components (Watson) $18.95
The Match #107 $3.00 – Still keepin’ strong in 3 digits.
Cloud & Ashes Three Winters Tales by Greer Gilman (Small Beer) $26.00
Captive Audience by Dave Reidy (Ig) $14.95 – Short stories from a Chicago local. And he’ll be reading here at Quimby’s July 15th. Stay tuned for more info!
Green Zone by Barry Sanders (AK) $14.95
Young Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff (Seven) $19.95
The Believer #62 $8.00
High Times Jul 09 $5.99
Nexus vol 16 #3 May Jun 09 $5.9
In Praise of Indecency by Paul Krassner (Cleis) $12.95
Zombie Holocaust: How The Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture by David Flint (Plexus) $19.95
Dissection by John Harley Warner and James M Edmonson (Blast) $50.00 – Photos of what else? Dead bodies! Buy with the Zo,bie Holocaust book for a delicious experience!
Osama Van Halen by Michael Muhammad Knight (Ulysses) $14.95
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 3rd – May 9th, 2009
1. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
2. Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
3. The Chair by Peter Simeti, Kevin Christianson and Erin Korut (Alterna Co) $13.95
4. Wholphin #8 (McSweeney’s) $19.95
5. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
6. Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.95
7. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
8. Cinema Sewer #22 $7.00
9. Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk
10. Pygmy by Chuch Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 -
Drawn + Quarterly Artists Adrian Tomine and Seth at Quimby's
Please join Quimby’s and Drawn & Quarterly at an event with Optic Nerve cartoonist Adrian Tomine and Palooka-Ville cartoonist Seth. The two New Yorker illustrators will be celebrating their own new releases – Tomine’s new editions of Shortcomings and 32 stories and Seth’s new graphic novel George Sprott 1894-1975 as well as the releases of the books they have edited and designed – Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life (edited and designed by Tomine) and The Collected Doug: Canada’s Master Cartoonist (edited and designed by Seth). The two authors will be in conversation, take questions from the audience and will sign books.
This event is free!
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TEMPORARY CHANGE OF QUIMBY'S ON FRI., MAY 15TH & MON., MAY 25th
Just so ya’ll know, we will open 2 hours later on Friday, May 15th so that we’re opening at 2pm instead of the regular Friday opening time at noon and we’ll close at 5pm on Memorial Day, Mon., May 25th instead of the regular 9pm on Mondays.
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New Stuff As of 5/9/09
Last Saturday (5/2/09) Nic Collins was here to celebrate the release of the second edition of his book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition, screening some of the DVD that comes with the new edition. The picture above features a member of the CSO performing. That is, the Chicago Symphhacking Orchestra, which treated audience members to circuit-bending awesomeness! For more photos of the event, go here.
New stuff follows:
Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Litte Otsu) $12.95 – New graphic novel from the local comics superstar of The Lagoon fame.
Rumblings #2 by “Kevin H.” $3.00 Mini-comic by someone named “Kevin H” who has the same illustration style as Kevin Huizenga. Coincidence? I mean, we’re just sayin’.
On Tender Hooks The Art of Isabel Samaras (Chronicle) $35.00 – humerous and bizarre Ron English-inspired lowbrow art.
Tokion #68 $6.99
Rolling Thunder #7 Spr 09 $6.00
Gullible #29 $3.00
Workers Write vol 5 Tales From the Couch $8.00
Tiki Magazine vol 5 #1 $4.99
Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians by Julie Schaper and Steven Horwitz (Melville) $16.95 – As reviewed in Time Out.
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 – New hardcover from the author of Fight Club.
Mind Mapping A Travel Guide $5.00 – New mini comic!
18 month Moleskine Calendar journals! In different sizes and textures. they start in July 2009 and go through December 2010! $10.95-$18.95.
Sublime Stitching Stichable Stationary by Jenny Hart (Chronicle) $14.95
Big Stars Radio City 33 1/3 Series by Bruce Eaton (Continuum) $10.95
Minus Times #29 $15.00 – Yes! For real! A new issue of Drag City’s version of the Believer. Typed on a typewriter or font that looks like a typewriter? That is the question.
Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.00 – Cut’n’paste naughtiness. For lovers of the masculine physique.
Adult Crash Book and 7 inch Photographs by Dave Brown (Six Feet Under Records) $15.00
Gigantic #1 $3.00 – New lit journal.
Show Me the Money #29 $2.50
Giant Robot #59 $4.99
Burning Man Live 13 Years of Piss Clear Black Rock Citys Alternative Newspaper by Adrian Roberts (Re/Search) $24.99
Gearhead #18 $4.95
Maximumrocknroll #312 $4.00
Bizarre #148 $10.50
Fortean Times #247 May 09 $11.99
Requiem For a Paper Bag Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost by Davy Rothbart and various others (Fireside) $15.99 – Edited by the editor of FOUND Magazine
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine (Drawn+Quarterly) $14.95 – Now in soft cover! Stay tuned for more details about an event here at Quimby’s in June 09 with Adrian Tomine and Seth (Palookaville)!
33 1/3 Series: Lets Talk About Love by Celine Dion: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson (Continuum) $12.95
Mystery Theater Episode #1 The Human Brain by Julia Wertz $3.00 – New mini comic from the creator of Fart Party.
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Russell Howze Brings Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art to Quimby's
Russell Howze will be on the road this June, giving his slide presentation for “Stencil Nation.” This one hour presentation will give a great overview of the art form, using examples from the book as well as other outside sources, materials, and interesting items. Russell will also have actual cut stencils and will allow time for questions about all things stencil.
Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art packs over 500 full-color photographs in a 192 page, 8 inch by 8 inch pound of paper and ink. The book presents work by more than 350 artists from 28 countries. Without a doubt, stencils are the fastest, easiest, and cheapest method for painting an image on a wall, a sidewalk, or almost any object anywhere. Stencil Nation focuses on the unexpected mix of this lively, accessible medium to reveal engaging aspects of an intentionally secretive international creative community. With dynamically illustrated perspectives from diverse niches of the art form, hundreds of photographs and numerous essays have been curated by StencilArchive.org’s founder, Russell Howze. Stencil Nation builds upon previous published works to give the most extensive and up-to-date history of stencil art, as well as how-to tips from the artists who work within the art form.
Russell Howze saw his first stencil in 1990, which was J. R. “Bob” Dobbs on an apartment wall in Clemson, SC. In 1995, Russell saw an amazing sight on the exterior wall of the Reichstag in Berlin: a huge stenciled Bertolt Brecht poem. He snapped a photo of that stencil, then found one in Budapest, Hungary. Then a few more stencils appeared in Basel, Switzerland. When he landed in San Francisco in 1997, he found dozens on the sidewalks of the Mission and Haight neighborhoods. In 2002, Russell created the first version of Stencil Archive, thinking that he would have time to scan and upload his own collection before anyone discovered the site and submitted their own work. He was gladly mistaken, so Stencil Archive (www.stencilarchive.org <http://www.stencilarchive.org> ) took off, outgrew its parent site HappyFeetTravels.org, and ended up becoming a site with over 12,000 uploaded photographs.
For more info:
http://www.manicdpress.com
http://www.stencilnation.org
http://www.stencilarchive.orgALL EVENTS AT QUIMBY’S ARE FREE
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Mike Edison Reads From I Have Fun Everywhere I Go
Quimby’s is excited to welcome Mike Edison, author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot Porn Punk Rock Pro Wrestling Talking Apes Evil Bosses Dirty Blues American Heroes and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World.
A rollicking, high-octane, always irreverent journey through the seamy side of the publishing industry. Mike Edison’s resume spans twenty years and a slew of notorious titles, including Screw, High Times, Penthouse, and Hustler. An Ivy League dropout who’s never looked back, Edison embarked on a career that’s landed him in the producer’s chair for one of the worst B movies of all time; on tour with the likes of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, GG Allin, and the Ramones; undercover at a religious cult; on a bender with Evel Knievel; feuding with Hulk Hogan; smoking dope with Ozzy Osborne; and authoring some twenty novels you wouldn’t want your mother to catch you reading—let alone writing. I Have Fun Everywhere I Go combines the fear and loathing of Hunter Thompson’s journalistic thrill rides with the acerbic insider voice of Toby Young. It’s an eye-opening, gleeful view of life on the edge—and the outlaws and oddballs encountered there.“If you have any interest in pot, pornography, punk rock, or professional wrestling, just buy this fucking thing.” —Nick Tosches
Mike Edison is a writer, editor, and musician. He lives in New York City. At his event here at Quimby’s, he will be accompanied by the Interstellar Groove Machine, a “Rube Goldberg contraption built out of an electric organ, a tape loop generator, and theremin.” Expect literary mayhem of the highest order.
Check out his video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_0_gtMMdEFor more info: www.mikeedison.com
FREE EVENT
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Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors Reads
The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors is the story of one man’s journey through a rapidly transforming culture of lying, spying, revealing, and confessing.
We have entered the age of “Peep Culture”: a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security and even humanity. Peep culture is Reality TV, YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chatrooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, Dr. Phil, Borat, cellphone photos of your drunk friend making out with her ex-boyfriend, and more. In the age of Peep, core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.
With hilarious, exasperated acuity, social critic Hal Niedzviecki dives into Peep, starting his own video blog, joining every social network that will have him, monitoring the movements of his toddler, selling his secrets on Craigslist, hiring a private detective to investigate him, spying on his neighbors, trying out for reality TV, and stripping for the pleasure of a web audience he isn’t even sure exists. Part travelogue, part diary, part meditation and social history, The Peep Diaries explores a rapidly emerging digital phenomenon that is radically changing not just the entertainment landscape, but also the firmaments of our culture and society.
The Peep Diaries introduces the arrival of the peep culture age and explores its implications on entertainment, society, sex, politics, and everyday life. Mixing first-rate reporting with sociological observations culled from the latest research, this book captures the shift from pop to peep and the way technology is turning gossip into documentary and peeping toms into entertainment journalists. Packed with stranger-than-fiction true-life characters and scenarios, The Peep Diaries reflects the aspirations and confusions of the growing number of people willing to trade the details of their private lives for catharsis, attention, and notoriety.
HAL NIEDZVIECKI’s writings on culture have appeared in newspapers
and magazines across North America. He is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine and has published numerous works of social commentary and fiction, including Hello I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture.FREE