Wow! Three great events!
Join author David Samuels as he reads and signs from his first two books ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART and THE RUNNER at Quimby’s.
High-performance prose readings by Tim W. Brown, author of Walking Man, and Paul McComas, author of Planet of the Dates.
Michel Valdes will be reading from School Daze Year 1-a zine which chronicles his experiences being a teacher.
Don’t Miss out!!!
Join us for the release of Mods vs. Rockers #1, a 20-page comic book. This will be a meet and greet with artist/writer, Martin Cimek and Co-Publisher, Larry Fletcher of the Ton-Up Club Chicago Motorcycle Club. Enjoy complementary Hobgoblin English Ale while supplies last. Pick up a copy of the comic and get it signed by the creators. There will also be Mods vs. Rockers t-shirts, patches and posters for sale. This release will coincide with the 4th annual Mods vs. Rockers vintage motorcycle and scooter show (held at Delilah’s & Bottom Lounge June 14th).
About The Performers:
Martin Cimek: The bold imagery of Mods vs. Rockers is the product of graphic designer and illustrator, Martin Cimek. Since relocating in 1991 to Chicago from Grand Rapids, Michigan his career has included: logos, magazines, annual reports, advertisement, music packaging and websites. In 2002 he started his own company, Martin Cimek Design (MCD), and has also become a well known and published silkscreen poster artist. He has done numerous posters and commissions for many of Chicago’s most popular rock venues.
Larry Fletcher: Larry has been a longtime fixture on the local Chicago scene. He worked for years in the nightclub industry managing China Club and Kaboom and later serving as VIP ambassador at Crobar. His love of vintage motorcycles led him to open the Ace Cafe Chicago in 1997, An English style pub/cafe that had a vintage motorcycle motif. It’s at the Ace that Larry started hosting motorcycle events and shows. Through the years, his motorcycle shows have grown and evolved. In early 2005, Larry founded the Ton Up Club Chicago and immediately began planning Mods vs. Rockers I with his longtime friend Mike Miller of Delilah’s. 2008 marks the 11th anniversary of his first show at the Ace Cafe.
Check out their websites at:
Martin Cimek Design
THIS IS NOT AT QUIMBY’S!!!
But I though our faithful nerds might want to check this out!
Chicago Comics takes part in FREE COMIC BOOK DAY on Saturday, MAY 3rd!
with an EXTRA BONUS: Jeffrey Brown (clumsy, Unlikley, I am Going to Be Small) and Christian Slade (Korgi) will be signing books and comics! So not only can you get FREE Comics, but you can get your stuff signed too!
more info after the jump
Wake up, the Art Fair wars are over! The free booze has been drunk! The smoozing has subsided. So what do we do now. You come buy the hot of the presses new issue of Cabinet! (& and grab a copy of Proximity…if you missed out on its release this weekend) Wow!
Let the Art Madness continue! Its all way to conceptual in here. Peace I’m OUT!!!!!!
Independent press publishers Kevin Sampsell (Future Tense Books), James Stegall (So New Media) and Jackie Corley (Word Riot) will read their latest work.
About The Performers:
Kevin Sampsell is the author of Beautiful Blemish (Word Riot Press), the editor of The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press), and the publisher of Future Tense Books in Portland, Oregon. His new book of short fiction, Creamy Bullets, is due out this spring from Chiasmus Press.
James Stegall publishes books and distills liquor in Eugene, Oregon. His writing has appeared in Nerve, Flak Magazine, Eyeshot and others. So New Media (www.sonewpublishing.com), his press, has published work by Amy Guth, Neal Pollack, David Barringer, Jami Attenberg, Jen Michalski and many other amazing writers.
Jackie Corley writing has appeared on-line at MobyLives.com, 3AM Magazine and Pequin.org and in various print anthologies. She is the publisher of online literary magazine Word Riot (www.wordriot.org) and its print extension, Word Riot Press. Her short story collection, The Suburban Swindle, is coming out Summer 2008 from So New Media. Visit her personal website at jackiecorley.wordriot.org.
High-performance prose readings by Tim W. Brown, author of Walking Man, and Paul McComas, author of Planet of the Dates.
Tim W. Brown is the author of two published novels, Deconstruction Acres (1997) and Left of the Loop (2001). His novel Walking Man is forthcoming in 2008. Brown’s fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Slipstream, Chelsea, Pleiades, Another Chicago Magazine, The Ledge, Storyhead, Rockford Review, Bridge, Oyez Review, American Book Review, The Bloomsbury Review, RE:AL, Chiron Review, Rain Taxi, Small Press Review, Main Street Rag and New Observations. He currently serves on the executive council of the New York Center for Independent Publishing, and he is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
A long-time resident of Chicago, where he was a fixture in that city’s literary scene as a literary performer and publisher of the poetry zine Tomorrow (1982-1999), Brown moved to New York in 2003.
Paul McComas was born and raised in Milwaukee. He received his BA in English at Lawrence Univ. in Appleton, WI, and his MA in Film at Northwestern Univ. His short fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and he is the author of two critically acclaimed books: a novel, Unplugged (2002, John Daniel & Co.), and a short story collection, Twenty Questions (1998, Daniel & Daniel), now in its third printing. Paul’s comedic coming-of-age novel, Planet of the Dates, will be published in February 2008 by prestigious New York-based indie publisher The Permanent Press.
Since 1987, Paul has presented his performance art and monologues at more than 70 theaters and other venues nationwide, including the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City (2004), Chicago’s Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival (1998, 2003 [receiving the Chicago Reader’s “Critic’s Choice” in 2003]) and N.A.M.E. Gallery (1988, 1996), and twice at the International Performance Art Festival (1990, 1996). He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
For more info check: www.timwbrown.com or www.paulmccomas.com
