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The Microcosm Tour Lands at Quimby’s!
The Microcosm Tour Lands at Quimby’s!
Join the Microcosm crew as they make a stop in Quimby’s while on their summer tour.With performers:
Dave Roche is small man with a big heart. He’s friends with some weird Hollywood celebs but you’d know him best as the author of “On Subbing” and “About My Disappearance”.
Joe Biel tinkers in zines, film, and books. He screens short film “talkies” about eccentric topics and is co-authoring a new edition of the book “Make a Zine”.
Sparky Taylor is the creative visual brain behind designing books at Microcosm Publishing. She also draws cute animals doing things like eating cookies on buttons and operates the Paperfort Zine Library.
About Microcosm:
Microcosm Publishing is an independent publisher and distributor based in Bloomington, IN and Portland, OR. They distribute & publish zines, books, pamphlets, stickers, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters, films, and more! They work to add credibility to zine writers and their ethics, teach self empowerment, show hidden history, and nurture people’s creative side. Microcosm began in 1996 with one person doing part time mailorder out of a bedroom.
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Printers' Ball Is a Comin'!
Our friends at Poetry Magazine and some other sponsors are putting together this year’s Printers’ Ball. Here’s their call to action if you want to get involved! -Liz
Poetry magazine, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Newcity invite you to participate in this year’s Printers’ Ball!
The Printers’ Ball
Friday, August 22, 5pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
FREEThe Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print literature in Chicago. Over one hundred arts and literary organizations gather under one roof to present a diverse showcase of print publications including free magazines, journals, books, weeklies, posters, and more.
There is no fee to participate in the Printers’ Ball. To be a part of the festivities, simply reply to this e-mail by June 30. With your reply, please provide:
–The name of your organization
–A twenty to fifty word description of your organization or publication
(To be published in a special Printers’ Ball insert in Newcity)
–URL
–Representative
–Address
–Telephone
–e-mail
–Frequency/circulation of publication (if applicable)
–In kind donation (with approximate value)The Printers’ Ball runs on the good will of the city and is able to provide Chicago with the most comprehensive array of its print literature every year because of the generosity of its participants.
Please donate as many current and back issues of your publication as possible (up to 300) for the Chicago print display in the MCA’s atrium. IF YOU CANNOT DONATE MORE THAN A FEW COPIES, YOU CAN STILL PARTICIPATE BY SHOWCASING YOUR PUBLICTION IN THE PRINTERS’ BALL VIEWING LIBRARY. Tables will be set up to display your wares in the lower lever of the MCA. You will not be able to sell your products, but will share and spread the word about your work.
To register to show your print in the Printers’ Ball viewing library, please complete and send your information to fsasaki@poetrymagazine.org, subject title “Printers’ Ball Viewing Library.”
We also encourage you to contribute literature about your organization, subscription offers, broadsheets, buttons, fliers, handbills, stickers, T-shirts, etc. Literary organizations and websites that are not affiliated with a print publication are welcome to promote at the Printers’ Ball in this way as well.
Again, this is a free event, including music, video, performance, and more with no fee to present. We won’t have assigned tables or signs or panels, but plenty of room to step out from behind the page to engage our colleagues and community.
As always we are trying to broaden the scope of the Printers’ Ball, so please forward this invitation to everyone you know who’s working for our vibrant literary community. The Printers’ Ball is open to everyone, and we need everyone’s help to make this as inclusive and representative as possible!
Best regards,
Fred Sasaki
Assistant Editor, Poetry
444 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1850
Chicago, IL 60611-4034
312.787.7070 Ext. 8005
312.787.6650 Fax
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Bizarro Fiction Night
Eckhard Gerdes, D. Harlan Wilson, David Agranoiff and Garrett Cook will be reading selections from their Bizarro Fiction books!
The Performers:
Eckhard Gerdes is the author of My Landlady the Lobotmist, The Million-Year Centipede, and Przewalski’s Horse. Eckhard publishes The Journal of Experimental Fiction. At times, he writes about literature for The Review of Contemporary Fiction, American Book Review, and Electronic Book Review. His fiction appears in various journals every now and then.D. Harlan Wilson is the author of Dr Identity, Pseudo City; The Kafka Effekt, and Stranger on the Loose. Currently he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of Bizarro literature, and is contributing editor for Guide Dog Books.
David Agranoff is the author of Screams from a Duying World.
Garrett Cook is the author of Murderland Part I: h8.
Other info:
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Sean Carswell, Mickey Hess and Scott Stealey
Join authors Sean Carswell, Mickey Hess and Scott Stealey as they read and sign their recent books.
Sean Carswell is the author of the novel Drinks for the Little Guy (1999) and two short story collections: Glue and Ink Rebellion (2002) and Barney’s Crew (2005). His fiction has appeared in dozens literary journals over the fifteen dozen years. He has been a staff writer for Flipside Magazine, READ, Clamor, and Ink 19, and is a regular contributor to Razorcake. He is a co-founder of both Razorcake Magazine and Gorsky Press. He is on tour promoting his new novel, Train Wreck Girl.
Mickey Hess lives and writes in Lawrenceville, NJ, where he likewise teaches at Rider University. He is the author of much, including the memoirish novel Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory and the collections One Thousand Pound Locket and El Cumpleanos de Paco. He edited the Greenwood Press anthology the Icons of Hip-hop (2007).
Scott Stealey is the editor of the online literary magazine, Please Don’t (please-dont.com), and author of the Featherproof mini-book, Letter from the Seaway.
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New Stuff 6/07/08
Ahh, Division has been done, so it’s back to normal in the hood. Some essential summer restocks hit the shelves this week along with a nice selection of comics-a little something for everyone.
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Science-related zines, comics, brochures Show Soliciting Entries
I’m passing along info from some folks organizing this thing, so contact them if this is your bag!
-Liz
Hello, makers of small-press media and other amazing things:
I wanted to pass along this call for entries for part of an art exhibition exploring issues of agency and biology. I’m curating the show together with biologist/artist Andrew Yang for Gallery 400, and we’re working to track down as many science-related zines, comics, brochures etc. as we can.
If you or anyone you know is making zines, minicomics, brochures, DVDs, podcasts or anything else small and easily distributable that has to do with sharing/elaborating upon/explaining biological information: i.e. anatomy, bacteria, insects, the mating habits of other organisms, the ocean, plant life, starlings, dna, etc. etc. etc. please check out our official call for entries HERE <http://artscichicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/call-for-biology-zines-comics-etc.html> .
Deadline for materials is August 1st.
You may also be interested in submitting single-page science zine projects to Andy’s Small Science Collective <http://www.andrewyang.com/sscpage.htm> , which publishes and distributes science-related ephemera both online and in paper form across the country. (And yes, you can submit to both things at once).
Please pass this along to anyone doing cool distributable things having to do in some way with biological themes!
If you have any questions about the project, feel free to drop us an e-mail and we’ll be happy to explain further.
Best,
Christa
http://www.christadonner.com
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New Stuff May 31st 2008
Wow May has come and gone! Summer is in full effect so here’s you weekly list of new stuff! Come check out the Gay Utopia in store tonight!
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Rauan Klassnik and Paula Cisewski
A reading by Black Ocean poets Rauan Klassnik, author of Holy Land, and Paula Cisewski, author of Upon Arrival.
The Performers:
Rauan Klassnik was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Now he spends most of his time in Mexico looking after birds and dogs with his wife Edith. His poems have appeared in such journals The North American Review, MiPoesias, No Tell Motel, Caesura, Sentence, Tex!, Pilot Poetry, and Hunger Mountain.Paula Cisewski is the author of Upon Arrival (Black Ocean, 2006) and the chapbook How Birds Work (Fuori Editions, 2002). She lives in the Twin Cities where she teaches writing and humanities courses and hosts the Imaginary Press Reading Series.
From early silent films to early punk rock, Black Ocean brings together a spectrum of influences and combines them with a radical social perspective on the nature of art and humanity. We manifest our aesthetic in the books we print, the shows we produce, and the work we promote.
Based out of Boston, New York and Chicago, our intent is to saturate the public with skillful and passionate forms of expression through a wide variety of mediums.
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Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
Join Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, authors of DRAWING WORDS & WRITING PICTURES as they talk about their new book and Jessica’s new books Life Sucks and the paper back edition of La Perdida.
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is a systematic course on that teaches the alchemical art of combining words and pictures to make comics. In it, Jessica and Matt have laid out a complete, structured syllabus that guides students from creating narrative within a single drawing to orchestrating all the skills involved in creating a multi-page, complex story.
Life Sucks is the story of Dave Marshall. The girl he’s in love with doesn’t know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can’t go out in daylight without starting to charbroil. Undead life in its uncoolest incarnation yet is on display in this cinematic, supernatural drama told with gallons of humor and hemoglobin. In striking, colorful, B-movie style artwork and light-hearted, intelligent writing by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece, Dave Marshall’s story comes alive – in a vampiric kind of way.
La Perdida is the story of Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, who heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” Her intense desire to make a connection with Mexico and her unwillingness to see the impact of her own history on her understanding combine to turn an innocent journey down a dark path. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La Perdida is a story about finding yourself by getting lost.
Jessica Abel is a cartoonist and writer. Born and raised in Chicagoland, she moved in 2000 to Brooklyn, New York, after a two-year pit stop in Mexico City. In her “free” time, she likes to build things, garden, and cook, and hopes that doesn’t make her sound like the biggest dork ever. Along with La Perdida she is also responsible for the popular comic Artbabe.
Matt Madden started self-publishing minicomics in the early 1990s. He published his first graphic novel, Black Candy in 1998, and in 2001 published Odds Off. Madden lives in Brooklyn with his wife, author and cartoonist Jessica Abel. He works in comics and illustration, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University. His latest works appear in A Fine Mess, his bi-annual series published by Alternative Comics.
More info at www.jessicaabel.com
Wednesday, June 25th, 7:00 PM
FREE
