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DR. REVOLT and Gary Panter
DR. REVOLT and Gary Panter Appearance and signing of The Lost Ones
Steve Niles teams up with four visual artists to bring you a graphic novel that will challenge what you think about time and space travel. DR. REVOLT, an original member of the historic New York City graffiti crew The Rolling Thunder Writers, Gary Panter, an illustrator known for his surreal and raw style, Morning Breath, Brooklyn-based art and design duo, and emerging painter/fashion designer Kime Buzzelli – each bring a remarkable and unique drawing style to the project.
“The Lost Ones” tells the story of Duncan, Roxy, Rasheed and Cynthia, who leave their Earth and get swept up in an epic intergalactic adventure. What starts out as a harmless day of extreme planet jumping turns into a mind-blowing, white-knuckle race for their lives to get back home. Collector’s and paperback editions of “The Lost Ones” will be available for free in early July 2008 at select comic book stores nationwide.
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New Stuff 7/26/08
Wicker Park Fest is in effect….so all the regulars are staying out of the hood. But if you are a brave one we got some hot new stuff here to reward you for dealing with the gladiator sandal wearing masses.
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Orphan Schlitz III at Quimby’s!
Join Quimby’s for the Orphan Schlitz Reading Series III hosted by Marc Arcuri. Performers will read short stories and poetry.
With:
Marc Arcuri-SlopArtist, Musician, Fashion Editor, Hipster, Degenerate, Entertainer
Dan Gleason-Writer, Artist, Renegade
Ted McClelland-Author of book HORSEPLAYERS: LIFE AT THE TRACK
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of July 13th, 2008 – July 19th, 2008
1. Believer #55 Music Issue $10.00
2. Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance $2.00
3. Bigfoot I Not Dead by Graham Roumieu (Plume) $15.00
4. Bust Aug/Sep 08 $4.99
5. Heeb #17 $5.99
6. N Plus 1 Pamphlet Series #2 $9.00
7. Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (Picador) $16.00
8. Found #4 $5.00
9. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (Little Brown & Co.) $25.99
10. Save My Life by Cody Hudson (Upper Playground) $19.95 -
Stephanie Kuehnert at Quimby’s!
The Literary Writer’s Network presents a reading for debut novelist Stephanie Kuehnert, reading from her book I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading.
STEPHANIE KUEHNERT got her start writing bad poetry about unrequited love and razor blades in eighth grade. In high school, she discovered punk rock and produced several D.I.Y. feminist zines. Stephanie received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago. She currently resides in Forest Park, IL. This novel is her first. Visit her website at www.stephaniekuehnert.com.
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone is a raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell.
The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones.
Punk rock is in Emily Black’s blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back.Now Emily’s all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn’t it lead her right back to Emily?
About the Literary Writer’s Network:
LWN is an organization dedicated to literary excellence through the advancement and promotion of emerging and creative non-fiction writers. LWN seeks to help writers understand the literary publishing landscape, offers them a community with other writers and provides them with opportunities to further develop and refine their artistry. LWN is dedicated specifically to the art of literary prose and offers a bimonthly writing groups and quarterly reading series. We also publish the literary magazine 10,000 Tons of Black Ink that strives to give new and burgeoning literary artists a forum for quality publication. -
New Stuff July 19th
We’ll been a week but here you go two weeks worth of new stuff. Hopefully the rain hasn’t ruined Pitchfork too much! These festival weekends are always awesome; it is so great to see all our people’s who stop in once or twice a summer. So “Holler” if you’re in town!
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers Week of July 6th, 2008 – July 12th, 2008
1. Butt #23 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2. Watchmen TPB by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
3. Giant Robot #54 $4.99
4. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Scribner) $14.00
5. Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00
6. Do It Yourself Screenprinting How to Turn Your Home into a T-shirt Factory by John Isaacson (Microcosm)
7. Doris #25 $2.00
8. Believer #55 Music Issue $10.00
9. Crap Hound #7 Church and State Part One
10. The Match #106 $3.00 -
New Summer Window Display
In the neighborhood? Spend some time basking the glory of our new window display by artist Zachary Huelsing (of Eyerocket Books). With a cast of characters including a nun, a rapper, a baseball catcher, a calculator, a leather daddy, some dogs in love, and a rainbow, it’s kind of like a technicolor rebus for the forces of good.
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Quimby’s Top Five Best Sellers For the Week of July 1st, 2008 – July 6th, 2008
1. Giant Robot #54 $4.99
2. Dwelling Portably 1980 – 89 by Bert Davis (Microcosm) $8.00
3. Aubade #4 Virginia Stories $2.00
4. Stop Smiling #35 $5.95
5. Juxtapoz #90 July 08 $4.99 -
Erick Lyle a.k.a Iggy Scam at Quimby’s!
“Forget the statistics and pretentious analysis of urban society. Take a walk through the city with Erick Lyle and discover the reality of how people live in an American city.” — Howard Zinn
“Erick Lyle’s SCAM: MY favorite zine of all-time” — Pete the Dishwasher
Join Erick Lyle as he reads from his new book On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City.
On the Lower Frequencies is at once a manual, memoir, and history of creative resistance in a world awash with war and poverty. With these tales of squatting the ruins of the dot-com era, playing hit-and-run punk shows in the streets and organizing neighborhood anti-war parades, the editor of the underground classic SCAM magazine, Erick Lyle, traces not only the evolution of cities, but of his own thinking — and in so doing, gives the reader inspiration for living defiantly.
Erick Lyle, once upon a time known as Iggy Scam, has been editing SCAM magazine and traveling around the nation in various bands since 1991. Lyle will be playing in Chicago a few days before with his band BLACK RAINBOW at the Mauled By Tigers fest.
