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Busy Beaver Founder Christen Carter & Co-Author Ted Hake Celebrate BUTTON POWER: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons ONLINE 10/2
“Social media is today’s most popular platform for self- expression, but the button preceded it as a way to tell others what was on your mind and as a tool to help spread an idea. No other form of wearable expression has yet to replace the humble button – and unlike social media, a button is something you can literally stand behind.” – excerpted from BUTTON POWER: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons by Christen Carter and Ted HakePunch line. Political Statement. Conversation piece. Souvenir. From the campaign trail to the rock tour, BUTTON POWER (Princeton Architectural Press) collects a people’s history of American culture told through the pin-back button. Lively commentary from two of America’s foremost button experts shows how the small but powerful button reveals the events and movements that outraged, amused, and inspired us over time, from the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh to the Black Power movement. In this chaotic time of protests and presidential elections, this book offers a glimpse into the cultural movements that make up our rich history. Artists, athletes, actors, politicians, punk and pop musicians, and mascots of the past 125 years make cameos, including Rube Goldberg, Muhammad Ali, the Ramones, Shirley Chisholm, and Bette Midler. The first book of its kind, BUTTON POWER is a rich visual feast. Each colorful spread chronicles defining moments in history through colorful photographs and artifacts. This collection will be an essential pick for fans of pop culture, visual culture, and design.
Don’t miss this virtual event celebrating BUTTON POWER: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons by authors Christen Carter and Ted Hake!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Christen Carter is the founder of Chicago-based Busy Beaver Button Company and has produced more than 50 million buttons for bands, artists, political campaigns, non-profits and more. In 2010, she started the Button Museum, dedicated to telling American history through pin-back buttons.Ted Hake is the founder of Hake’s Auctions, America’s first auction house to specialize in popular culture artifacts. He has written seventeen collectors’ guides that span presidential campaign items, vintage Disneyana, and comic character toys. Ted has received the American Political Items Collectors Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board.
Fri, October 2nd, 7:30PM CST.
This virtual event will be on the Quimby’s Bookstore’s You Tube Channel: youtube.com/QuimbysBookstore
Stay tuned to quimbys.com/store for book ordering & swag to accompany your book (!!!) while supplies last.
NO RSVP necessary.
Here’s the Facebook Event invite for this event.
In advance, Christen Carter gave a us a preview of what’s going to happen at the event!:
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Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: I Got It at Quimby’s! Edition 9/29
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, September 29 on Zoom
Free!
This month, our beloved Quimby’s Bookstore turns 29! To celebrate this anniversary of the best zine shop on the planet, we’ll be joined by a special guest: Steven Svymbersky, who founded Quimby’s in Chicago and now owns Quimby’s NYC. We’ll also be commemorating Zine Club Chicago’s second year with Quimby’s as our home base and sponsor.
Nearly three decades ago, Quimby’s opened in Wicker Park. Since then, the shop has offered a vast selection of zines, comics, and other unusual publications, along with championing the self-publishing community in Chicago and beyond.
At Zine Club Chicago Online: I Got it At Quimby’s! Edition, we’ll be discussing our favorite self-published works that we’ve snagged at the store over the years. If you’ve made a zine at Quimby’s (at a Zlumber Party or Zinemaking Hangout, perhaps?), acquired a title in a trade with another zinemaker there, or collaborated with someone you met in the aisles, please bring those zines to share, as well. BYOS(nacks) and join us on Zoom for a great conversation!
Please note our new event start time: 7:30 p.m. CST!
** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29. We’ll email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers and created our logo, and also made this awesome Zine Club Shoutout database of zines people talk about at Zine Club!
Steven Svymbersky published zines under the Quimby’s name from 1985-1991, opened Quimby’s Bookstore in 1991, lived in Amsterdam from 1997-2016 where he worked as the head technician for Boom Chicago Improv theater, and in 2016 moved to Brooklyn where he opened Quimby’s Bookstore NYC.
More info: on Instagram: @zineclubchicago
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/680699006122772/
Thanks to Megan Kirby for this great illustration of August’s meeting.
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New Stuff This Week
East Village Inky #62 by Ayun Halliday $3
Strange Tapes #7 by Scott R. Miller $7
Bootch Please by Milo $2
Razorblades and Aspirin #10 summer $8
A Sandwich for You by Eila Miller $15.50
Zines by Nick Disabato: Welcome to Dongletown, In Defense of Cooking In Defense of Baking $8 + more.
Zines by Keith Herzik: Opthalmic Out Rage $5, Attractive Nuissance $10, Amnesia Bomb $10
Dogs by Tim Brown $10
Restless Bones by Shannon M. Reeves $15.50
Vision by Julia Gfrörer (Fantagraphics) $16.99
World War 3 Illustrated #51 The World We Are Fighting For by Seth Tobocman & friends (AK Press) $15
Berlin Collected by Jason Lutes (Drawn and Quarterly) $39.95
Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som $18.99
Marmalade Hour by AD Sarjeant $25
Seize the Moments #2 by Steve Wallet $3.50
ReTargeting Iran by David Barsamian and other contributors (City Lights) $14.95
FKA USA: A Novel by Reed King $17.99 – Now in soft cover.
Dogcatcher and the Fox by JD Porter $15.99
Nicotine Chronicles by Lee Child (Akashic Books) $15.95
Disorder: A Political Fable by Leslie Kaplan (AK Press) $12
Now Is the Time to Invent! Reports from the Indie-Rock Revolution 1986-2000 by Katherine Spielmann and friends (Verse Chrous Press) $29.95
Makeup Is Not (Just) Magic: A Manga Guide to Cosmetics and Skin Care Book by Ikumi Rotta $13.99
She Shreds #20 $15
Bitch #88 fall $9.95
Highgate Eye #5 by Dean Squishman $4
I Don’t Know What an Oboe Can Do by Eric Tyler Benick $10
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Feels Good Man Sneak Preview Screening + Filmmaker Q&A, Aug 28th-29th
Join us for an online sneak preview screening + filmmaker Q&A of the 2020 Sundance-Award winning doc Feels Good Man on Aug 28-29 and select Quimby’s Bookstore to receive a portion of proceeds as well as make a donation, along with the opportunity to buy a signed copy of artist Matt Furie’s Mindviscosity. Only 250 tickets available per showtime at feelsgoodman.watch .
This weekend’s sneak preview showtimes will be the first and only way movie fans can watch this film before it opens in theaters and prior to its VOD (video on demand) release.
More info!:
@feelsgoodmanfilm for Instagram/Facebook
@feelsgoodmandoc for Twitter
P.S. Astute Quimby’s historians will remember beloved director Arthur Jones’ comics consigned here in 2002: 900 Lb Gorilla and Magic Pants when he was but a young comics-maker, as well as his book Post-it Note Diaries. Further, said astute Quimby’s historians will also recall artist Matt Furie’s comics and books sold at our fine establishment as well, featuring such titles as Boys Club, Dungeon Family and Night Riders. Quimby’s thanks Arthur, Matt and friends for including Quimby’s in this endeavor!
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Derf Backderf presents Kent State, Quimby’s Virtual Event 9/24
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children. Using the journalism skills he employed on his celebrated graphic novels My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore how mistakes, political rancor, and paranoia built to a deadly crescendo on an American campus. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts), to be published by the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent — as relevant today as it was in 1970.
“Backderf delivers a provocative, heartbreaking account of the days leading up to the infamous tragedy of May 1970… His expertly crafted chronicle of this defining moment in U.S. history serves as a deeply moving elegy for the victims.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review
Derf Backderf is the bestselling, award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, and recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, appeared in more than 100 newspapers for almost twenty-five years. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online event is a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email info@quimbys.com to RSVP by 5:30pm CST Thursday, Septemeber 24th. You’ll get an email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.
For a limited time, purchase this book and get a free author signed bookplate! While supplies last!
For more info on book, go to abramsbooks.com.
Check out Derf’s social media:
Twitter @DerfBackderf
Here’s the Facebook invite for this event.
Thursday, September 24th 7:30pm CST ON ZOOM.
Free Event
For publicity inquiries please contact Maya Bradford (mbradford(at)abramsbooks(dot)com)/212-229-7188
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New Stuff This Week
Mutations #2 by Corinne Halbert $10
Papercore DIY Punk Zine #03 by Giz $3
Punks Around #11 POC Punks by Alex Herbert & friends $3
No Scene Zine #3 Wet Hot American Camper & #2 Special Report Showbiz Pizza Palace $4 each
Cat Party #6 At Home With Our Cats Cats by Katie Haegele $4.95
Xerography Debt #48 $4.95
How to Organize Inclusive Events by Alexandra Ketchum $5.95
American Association of Patriots Presents: How to Talk to Your Cat About Evolution $4
There’s Something About a Train #4 $9.95
State Flags #1 Alabama thru Georgia by Billy McCall $2
DC Books to Prisons: 20+ Years of Answering Letters $5
Issues of Underexposed, various prices
a whole bunch of comics by Harry Onickel, mostly $1 each
Found on the Ground #1 by Sidney Berthrong $4
Unseen Saga of Kid Infinity vs the Stardunt Beast by Peter Kotas $10
I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt (D&Q) $21.95
Dope Dealer by MS Harkness $13
The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists Of The Jazz Age by Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Ghost Writer by Rayco Pulido (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Spellbound: A Graphic Novel by Bishakh Som (Street Noise Books) $18.99
A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier (Haymarket) $20
Modern Machines: Punk Interviews From the Void by David A. Ensminger (Left of the Dial Books) $12
Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade by Niko Vorobyov $29.99
Bust #122 $7.99
Monocle #135 july august $17
Wire #438 $12.50
Harpers Magazine september $7.99
Jacobin #38 summer $12.95
In These Times september $4.95
The Progressive august september $5.95
Cabinet #66 Land of Sunshine $12
Dovetail Magazine #1 summer $18
books by SB Gamble: Cruel Nature
2021 Nikki Mcclure Calendar Expand How We Intersect Is Community $19.99
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The Skullduggery of 1854!
Wonder what was at our address before it was Quimby’s? Who better to answer that question than one of our favorite history buffs, Quimby’s neighbor Gordon Meyer, the artist and tour guide behind Bizarre Bucktown, who says, “I was crawling thru the Trib archives and spent a few minutes looking into the history of your location. It was formerly a tire store, then an HVAC company. The latter of which might have gotten caught up in some backroom deals. Also, it appears the owner’s son was murdered at DePaul. (I didn’t go far enough to verify that these are the same folks, but it appears to be.)” How fitting that there was skullduggery related to 1854 W North Avenue before Quimby’s moved in to this very building.
Plus, also, those ads! Gum Dipped Cords! MAN SIZE COOLING!
Wonder what was at our address before it was Quimby’s? Who better to answer that question than one of our favorite history buffs, Quimby’s neighbor Gordon Meyer, the artist and tour guide behind Bizarre Bucktown, who says, “I was crawling thru the Trib archives and spent a few minutes looking into the history of your location. It was formerly a tire store, then an HVAC company. The latter of which might have gotten caught up in some backroom deals. Also, it appears the owner’s son was murdered at DePaul. (I didn’t go far enough to verify that these are the same folks, but it appears to be.)” How fitting that there was skullduggery related to 1854 W North Avenue before Quimby’s moved in to this very building.
Plus, also, those ads! Gum Dipped Cords! MAN SIZE COOLING!
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New Stuff This Week
Homicide Bucktown: Police Reports and Photographs by Sam Logan $15
Cul de Sac #8 Past Lives by Liz Mason and Julie Halpern $4
Happy Tapir #6 On the Make at the Drake by Johnny Masiulewicz $3
Lockdown With You by James Baroz $20
Library Excavations #12 Montana Prison News by Marc Fischer $6
It’s Ok To Be Sad july by Kevin Budnik $6
Various new comics from Nate Mcdonough
Not Today Satan #1 by Tom Ryan $8
Venus In the Blind Spot by Junji Ito $22.99
All Together Now by Hope Larson $12.99
It’s the World’s Birthday Today by Christian “Flake” “The keyboardist for Rammstein” Lorenz $26
American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness by Tea Krulos $22.95
Catland: The Soft Power of Cat Culture In Japan by Sarah Archer $19.95
We Do What We Want WDW3 #1 summer by Holy Mountain Printing $18
Hecho En vol 2 $20
Taproot #40 $12
Cinema Scope #83 summer $5.95
Mother Jones vol 45 #5 $8.99
Cinema Retro vol 16 #47 $11.99
