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AREA/Chicago Underground Library Welcome Reception for The Alternative Press Center Magazine Archive
AREA and the Chicago Underground Library are pleased to invite you to a welcome party for the Alternative Press Center, who recently relocated their impressive archive of independent media to Chicago after several decades in Baltimore. Progressive and radical librarians, academics, students, researchers, and concerned citizens of Chicago are invited to come out for a night of complimentary drinks and snacks to say hello and welcome to Alternative Press Center (APC) staff and check out this new amazing local resource.
The APC is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.
Friday, October 24th, 2008 from 7-9pm, 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. on the 2nd floor (Location is not handicap accessible.)
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Chicago kickin' Ignatz!!!
Ignatz winners were announced last night and among some strong competition a couple of Chicago comics artists took home the golden bricks!
So congratulations to Laura Park and Lilli Carre!!!
Click here to see a full list of winners
or the Comics Reporter blog has a list with winners and nominees!
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of September 28th, 2008 – October 4th
1. Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. Bust Oct Nov 08 $4.99
3. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00
4. What’s Your Poo Telling You by Josh Richman and Anish Sheth (Chronicle) $9.95
5. Butt #24 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
6. Proximity #2 Cities Issue $10.00
7. Scarecrow by Max G Morton $6.00
8. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman (Scribner) $24.00
9. Demons In the Spring by Joe Meno (Akashic) $24.95
10. Pot Culture: A to Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life by Shirley Halperin (Universe) $19.95 -
Today's Featured Book: Beautiful Mutants by Mark Mothersbaugh
Yes, that Mark Mothersbaugh — the lead singer of Devo. Beautiful Mutants is the show catalog for the 2007 exhibition of the same name at CSUF Grand Central Art Center Project Room in Santa Ana, CA. It has lots of old timey photos of interesting people (Carmen Miranda, the Del Rubio Triplets, various circus-y freak people, just to name a couple, even a few pugs! I’ve seen the artist with his pugs. Awesome!) halved and then resewn to show the same half as the opposite side. What do I mean? OK, so let’s say you took a picture of me. Oh, and let’s say I’m a sad-eyed perfumier in Brecksville, Ohio in like, the forties. In one hand I’m holding some flowers. And in the other hand I’m holding lace. So then you take the side where I’m just holding the flowers and make a replica of that side, except that you reverse it. Now both sides are facing each other, totally symmetrical. You cut away the side with the lace, and you attach the side with the reversed image of me holding the flowers. And voila! I look like a very mutilated version of myself. And my sad eyes are way too close together. Or way too far apart so I look freaky like Jackie O. Does this make any sense? Some of the photos in the book the eyes are so close together that it makes one eye, so it’s like a cycloptic magician or something. Crazy!
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Henry “Chunklet” Owings at Quimby’s!
Henry Owings will discuss his history and work with Chunklet in addition to explaining how The Rock Bible was conceived/created/written. He will then open up the floor to a Q&A, followed by a signing.
The Rock Bible is an insider’s guide to living the rock ‘n’ roll dream. This hilarious rulebook is full of dos and don’ts for musicians, wannabe musicians, and rock fans of all ages.
Complete with faux-biblical illustrations and parables and essays from comedian Patton Oswalt, drummer Brian Teasley, and professional smartass Andrew Earles, The Rock Bible is a rude and raunchy look at the best and worst of rock ‘n’ roll.
Henry Owings is the publisher of the widely recognized Chunklet Magazine based in Georgia. He was in Entertainment Weekly’s “It List” for his confrontational “100 Biggest Assholes In Rock” issue and another time has been taken to court by Mad Magazine for his similarly parodied issue. “The Overrated Book”, Henry’s first foray into book publishing, came out a couple years ago. Mostly under the Chunklet moniker, he has been a concert promoter since the late 80’s and has put on over 1,000 shows in his career. Through show promotion and the magazine, Henry went on tour with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’s Mr. Show comedy tour and has subsequently worked very closely with the Comedians of Comedy tour which has criss-crossed the country for the past four years and has filmed specials on Comedy Central and Netfliz. In addition, he’s produced six comedy releases for Patton Oswalt (Pixar’s Ratatouille) and was instrumental in getting him signed to Sub Pop last spring. Henry has recorded releases for The Oblivians and The Black Lips and has released records on his own label by The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Harvey Milk and Man or Astroman?. Finally, just to keep busy, Henry is also a full-time Grammy-nominated art director who has done graphic design work for such diverse artists as John Cale (Velvet Underground), Captain Beefheart and Charley Patton, and has also done book design for Mr. Show and political cartoonist/ columnist Ted Rall. In his spare time, Henry plays whirlyball and does nothing else except sleep. Henry resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Sarah and dogs Bun and Dave. The Rock Bible is his second book.
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Bloging about being Bloged?
Over the weekend Brian from The Daily Cross Hatch blog came though the store. We had a short chat and he did a nice feature about us on his blog. For those of you who have never set foot in the store there are some good pics and some well edited quotes from me waxing about the store and the hood. Looks good, so thanks Brian.
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Poster Sale is Ending!!!
Guess what folks, in less than 24 hours the poster and last chance zine sale will be over.
So this is your final chance to grab some amazing prints for your pad or dorm!
All month I’ve watched lucky people walk out of here with sweet posters by Jay Ryan, Seripop, Keith Herzik , and many more. So this is it!!!! You snooze you loose!!!!!
LAST CALL!!!!!!!!
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of September 21st – September 27th 2008
1. Demons In the Spring by Joe Meno (Akashic) $24.95
2. Sin A Deadly Anthology by the Chicago Contingent $17.99
3. Bust Oct Nov 08 $4.99
4. Proximity #2 Cities Issue $10.00
5. Chunklet #20 $9.99
6. Annalemma #3 $10.00
7. Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth (McSweeneys) $22.00
8. Butt #24 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
9. Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10. Adbusters #80 $8.95 -
Kevin Coval at Quimby’s!
Join Kevin Coval as he reads and signs his new book of poetry Everyday People.
Kevin Coval is the author of everyday people (EM Press, Nov.’08) and slingshots (a hip-hop poetica) (EM Press, Nov. ’05), named Book of the Year-finalist by The American Library Association. Coval’s poems have appeared in The Spoken Word Revolution and The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux (Source Books), Total Chaos (Basic Civitas), I Speak of the City: New York City Poems (Columbia University Press), The Bandana Republic (Soft Skull Press), Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reporter, Cross Currents, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, 2nd Ave Poetry, The Drunken Boat, and many other periodicals and journals. Coval writes for The Huffington Post and can be heard regularly on National Public Radio in Chicago.
Coval has performed on four continents in seven countries including; The Parliament of the World’s Religions in Capetown, South Africa, The African Hip-Hop Festival: Battle Cry, Poetry Society of London, University of the West Indies in Jamaica, St. Xavier’s College in Bombay, India, and four seasons of Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry Jam, for which he also served as artistic consultant. From Jan. 2006 to May 2007, Coval visited 26 states and more than 50 cities during the promotional tour for his first book, performing at over 150 high schools, universities, book stores, theaters, community centers and Union Halls around the country.
Founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world, Coval is poet-in-residence at The Jane Addams’ Hull House Museum at The University of Illinois-Chicago and poet-in-residence at The University of Chicago’s Newberger Hillel Center, and teaches at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
