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February Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter Now Available
The February Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter is available at this link here!
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Off-Site: CHIPRC’s Zine Club: DIY Edition, at Pumping Station: One on 2/21
CHIPRC’s Zine Club: DIY Edition
THIS MONTH’S ZINE CLUB MEETING IS AT A SPECIAL LOCATION, NOT AT QUIMBY’S! It’s at Pumping Station: One is at 3519 N. Elston Ave.
This February, Zine Club takes a field trip to Pumping Station: One in Avondale, Chicago’s oldest and largest hackerspace!
We’ll be discussing DIY zines that teach and inspire readers to do it yourself. Bring your favorite titles that instruct us on how you can make, design, build, create, tinker, and hack anything! Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome to join us for a fun discussion and snacks.
We’ll also be taking a short tour of Pumping Station: One to see all the tools and members working on projects, to serve as inspiration for your next venture.
We have a Mystery Zine Swap every month! If you’d like to participate, bring a zine (concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot.
This free event will be led by PS1 member (and Zine Club regular) Mariano Muñoz and Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.
If you’re planning to attend, you’ll need to digitally sign Pumping Station: One’s waiver either in advance or when you arrive at the hackerspace: bit.ly/2IWwdV5
Sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, Free Event
Thursday, Feb. 21st, 7pm
More info:
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New Stuff This Week
The Comics Journal 303: Winter – Spring 2019 (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – TCJ back in print! This issue, the first in its new twice-a-year format, covers the “new mainstream” in American comics — how the marketplace and overall perception of the medium has drastically shifted since the “graphic novel boom” of the early 2000s and massive hits like Persepolis, Fun Home, and Smile. It also includes sketchbook pages from French-born cartoonist Antoine Cossé, an introduction to homoerotic gag cartoons out of the U.S. Navy, Your Black Friend cartoonist Ben Passmore’s examination of the role art and comics have in gentrification, a reconsideration of the comics canon by Eisner Award-winner Dr. Sheena C. Howard, and more.
GenderFail: An Anthology On Failure $24.99
Zines
Way Down Below by Corinne Halbert $5 – Little booklet featuring eight paintings including my HELL TRIPTYCH from late 2018 and early 2019. Limited edition of 200. ~CH
Behind the Zines Jan 19 #7 A Zine About Zines edited by Billy McCall $3
G by Jesse Maria Gomez Villeda $25
Absolute Horseradish #1 $6
Comics & Minis
Comics by Jessica Campbell: My Erotic Life #1 + Ten Most Incestuous Royals + JC’s Way
Four Years Part 1 by Kevin Czap $8
Viewotron #1 by Sam Sharpe & and Peach S. Goodrich (AdHouse) $6.95
Spaghetti Punch #1 by Betsey Swardlick $4
Pressure: A Short Story + We are Not Alone by Ezra Clayton Daniels $5 – Short science fiction stories that dig deep.
Dr. Zombie Monster Family Physician #1 by Tommy Cannon $6
Graphic Novels
Starseeds 2 by Charles Glaubitz $29.99
The Chancellor and the Citadel by Maria Capelle Frantz (Iron Circus) $15
An Illustrated History of Filmmaking by Adam Allsuch Boardman (Nobrow) $24
Tank Girl All Stars by Alan Martin & friends $29.99
Fred the Mustard Packet Does the Scottish Play by Tommy Cannon $12
Art & Design Books
Mural Masters: A New Generation by Kiriakos Iosifidis (Gingko Press) $45
Border Bang by Jorge R. Gutiérrez $24.95 – Mexican folklore meets U.S. pop culture.
Outer Limits
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt $27
Fiction
American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman (Soft Skull) $16.95
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson $17 – Finished shortly before Johnson’s death in 2017, this short story collection came 25 years after the seminal work Jesus’ Son.
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas $26.99
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews (Counterpoint) $16.95
Food
To Drink and to Eat 1: Tastes and Tales from a French Kitchen by Guillaume Long (Lion Forge) $24.99
Sex Guides & Culture
Bang Like a Porn Star: Sex Tips from the Pros by Winston Gieseke $19.99
Essays
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers $16.95
For the Kiddies
Eddie Spaghetti by Rutu Modan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Mr. Fibber by Yirmi Pinkus (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Paper Toys Books from Gingko Press, $9.95 each: Aliens by Loulou and Tummie, Monsters by Niark
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New Stuff This Week
Egg Cream vol 1 by Liz Suburbia (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $11.99 – Serving up a delicious concoction of sweet, sweet comics, chilled to frothy perfection — Liz Suburbia returns with a new annual, collecting the newest and best that she can dish out. We’re talking dog dreams, modern day saints, and the first installment of the ongoing feature Sacred Heart part 2, “Livin’ in the Future” (exclusive to Egg Cream)!
Zines
Cheap Toys #22 by Giz $4
Homocats Modern Problems $12
One Month of Drawings by Brandon Alvarado $18
Soggy Velvet by Golda Pinals $20
Comics & Minis
Worn Tuff Elbow #2 by Marc Bell (D+Q) $8
Fifty Flip Experiment #24 Jan 19 by Dan Hill $5
Pregnant and Fired by Meghan Turbitt $5
True Pooch: Real Stories Of Love, Loss And Leashes edited by Alessa Kreger $7
One Thing at a Time Bud by Kevin Budnick $8
Emotional Data Test Tube Sugar Baby by Abby Jame (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $6
Graphic Novels
Jumbo Mumbo (Tinto Press) $24.99
Fistful of Drawings: A Graphic Journal by Joe Ciardiello (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Monkey Chef: A Love Story by Mike Freiheit (Kilgore Books) $19.95
Fred the Mustard Packet Does the Scottish Play by Tommy Cannon $12
Drop Target Omnibus by Alec Longstreth (Birdcage Bottom Books) $29.99
Off Season by James Sturm (D+Q) $24.95
Fiction
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis (Catapult) $23
Magazines
Cinema Scope #77 $5.95
Smith Journal #28 $18.99
Maximumrocknroll #429 $4.99
Mojo #303 $11.25
Lit Journals
The Believer #123 $12
N+1 #33 $14.95
For the Kiddies
Skateboarding Animals Alphabet by Rex Flodstrom $24.99
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New Stuff This Week
Tape Op #129 $5.99
Zines
How to Survive a Best Friend Break Up $3
Repair by Turner Hilliker $5
Zine Template by Liz Mason $3 – To scared to make a zine ’cause you don’t know where to start? Well start here!
Avoid Being Stung By a Scorpion by Not Reaching Into Debris Piles or Reaching Beneath Rocks by Iris Stratman $8
Draw Every Day $2
Comics
Yellow Light #1 by Raziel Puma $12
Stripburger #72 $10
Graphic Novels
Lost Girls (Expanded Edition) by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie (Top Shelf) $49.99 – Collects all three volumes plus 32 pages of new artwork and commentary.
Politics & Revolution
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown (AK Press) $16 – Radical self-help.
Humankind: Solidarity With Non-human People by Timothy Morton $16.95 – A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans.
Art Books
Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell $24.95
Fiction
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker $27
Magazines
Hi-Fructose #50 $8.95
RFD #176 $11.95
Uppercase #40 $18
Frankie #86 $16.99
Fortean Times #374 $12.40
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New Stuff This Week
American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us To Love Bananas, Spam®, and Jell-O® by Christina Ward (Process) $22.95 – Loaded with full-color images, Ward pulls recipes and images from her vast collection of cookbooks and a wide swath of historical advertisements to show the influence of corporations on our food trends. Though easy to mock, once you learn the true history, you will never look at Jell-O the same way again! Don’t miss Christina Ward here at Quimby’s to DISH about this crazy book (and serve Kraut Kake!) on Friday, March 1st!
Zines
Woke Parenting #2-#4 by Faith G. Harper $5 each
Proud to be Retarded #2 Autistic Pride In a Neurophobic World: The Suicide Issue by Joe Biel & friends $5
Understanding and Surviving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – A Real Story by Marie Kube $9
Chain Reaction by J Gattis $2
Comics & Minis
That Night by Tony Breed $6
Lover by Huunly $5
Infinite Wheat Paste #7 by Pidge $5
Nothing Matters by J Bladder $4
Linus Shrub Is a Regular Guy $3
Underworld Adventure #0 Treasure Vault of Mago the Magnificent $5
Graphic Novels
Hobo Mom by Charles Forsman & Max De Radiguès (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Have Fun Leave Me Out of It – Muddlers Beat vol 2 by Tony Breed $12
Baby Let’s Cruise by Jasjyot Singh Hans $20
The Sea by Rikke Villadsen (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Art & Design
Japanese Tattoos: Meanings, Shapes and Motifs by Yori Moriarty (Promopress) $29.95
Politics, Revolution & Current Events Books
Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism by John Patrick Leary (Haymarket) $16
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt $15
Marxists in the Face of Fascism: Writings by Marxists on Fascism from the Inter-War Period edited by David Beetham (Haymarket) $21.95
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff $18 – New soft cover edition includes new afterword.
Essays
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life by Kim McLarin $16.95
Music Books
Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Meaning of Life by Seth Kaufman (OR Books) $17.95
Local Interest
Dugan’s Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady by Owen Keehnen $17
Fiction
Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead edited by Gordon Van Gelder (OR Books) $18.95 – Brutality, infrastructure collapse, daily threats of war: 45 writers of speculative fiction share their visions of what’s to come.
Big Bang by David Bowman $32
Hark by Sam Lipsyte $27
Phone by Will Self $18
The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce $16
McGlue: A Novella by Ottessa Moshfegh $15
Outer Limits
Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials by Lucinda Herring $21.95
Magazines
The Baffler #43 $14
Maximumrocknroll #428 and #427 $4.99 (Yes, both issues in one)
Make Muse #1 $16.50
Tattoo Energy #116 $9.99
Shindig #86 $13.99
Zoetrope All Story Win 2019 $10 – Guest Editor David Lynch
Poetry & Chap Books
Duppies by D.S. Marriott (AK Press/Commune Editions) $18
Hearingaid by Jon Dambacher $10
Lover by JLK $16
The Last Line #5 Winter 2018 $3
The First Line vol 20 #4 Winter 2018 $4
Sexxxy
Math Magazine #6 $18
Elska #21 Seoul Korea $18.50
Other Stuff
Furrawn Day Planner 2019 $20
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Jaime Hernandez Book Launch for Is This How You See Me? in conversation with Anya Davidson
In Is This How You See Me?, Maggie and Hopey get the band back together — literally. Now middle-aged, they leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to reluctantly attend a punk rock reunion in their old neighborhood. The present is masterfully threaded with a flashback set in 1979, during the very formative stages in Maggie and Hopey’s lifelong friendship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is expertly juxtaposed against all of the love, heartbreak, and self-awareness that comes with lives actually lived. The result is no sentimental victory lap, however — this is one of the great writers of literary fiction at the peak of his powers, continuing to scale new heights as an artist.
“One of the most talented artists our polyglot culture has produced.” — The New York Times Book Review
Hernandez’s acclaimed ongoing comics series Love and Rockets has entertained readers for over 35 years, and his beloved characters — Maggie, Hopey, Ray, Doyle, Daffy, Mike Tran, and so many others — have become fully realized literary creations. Is This How You See Me? collects Hernandez’s latest interconnected vignettes, serialized over the past four years in Love and Rockets, into a long-form masterpiece for the first time.
Jaime will be in conversation with Chicago-based artist Anya Davidson, author of Band For Life, School Spirits & more.
For more info:
Cohen(at)fantagraphics(dot)com
Here’s the invite for this event on Facebook.
Monday, March 11th, 7pm – Free Event
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Christina Ward presents a thrillingly gruesome slide show talk about 20th Century American food at Quimby’s. (Yes, there will be snacks!)
In Christina Ward’s new book American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam®, Bananas, and Jell-O® (Process Media, a Feral House imprint) is a deeply researched and entertaining survey of American food history; connecting cultural, social, and geopolitical events. Author Christina Ward (Preservation: The Art & Science of Canning, Fermentation, and Dehydration, Process Media, 2017) uses her vast collection of cookbooks to tell the fascinating and often infuriating story of corporate greed and advertising and the manipulation of American cuisine. Academic researchers have published histories of American food and politics, but Ward brings all these elements together to tell the larger story of why we eat what we do. Though easy to mock, once you learn the real history, you will never look at Jell-O® the same way again! American Advertising Cookbooks, How Corporations Taught Us To Love Bananas, Spam®, and Jell-O® features full-color images and essays uncovering the origins of favorite foods.
In this engaging book, readers will learn of the role bananas played in the Iran-Contra scandal, how Sigmund Freud’s nephew decided Carmen Miranda would wear fruit on her head, and how Puritans built an empire on pineapples. American food history is rife with crackpots, do-gooders, con men, and scientists all trying to build a better America-while some were getting rich in the process. Loaded with full-color images, Ward pulls recipes and images from her vast collection of cookbooks and a wide swath of historical advertisements to show the influence of corporations on our food trends. Though easy to mock, once you learn the true history, you will never look at Jell-O the same way again!
“A bizarrely tantalizing read, Christina serves up a feast of fascinating facts about food and cookbooks and shows us how corporations wooed and seduced the American working-class palate.” –Alice Bag, Punk Rock founding goddess and author of Violence Girl-LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
Christina is a featured contributor to Serious Eats, Edible Milwaukee, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Remedy Quarterly, and Edible magazines. Christina, despite klutziness, is often found in classrooms and community kitchens with sharp knives, spilling vinegar into unsuspecting handbags while wildly gesticulating as she teaches folks how to make perfect pickles. She is a featured guest food expert on morning television programs and public radio stations across the United States.
For more info: feralhouse.com / info(at)feralhouse(dot)com
Here’s the Facebook invite for this event!
Friday, March 1st, 7 pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
On Being Read Issue #2 by edited by Gabrielle Walsh $10 – Artistic responses to how one is read in gender, edited by Gabrielle Walsh, with work by Gabe Howell, Caroline Cash, Rosie Accola and more. Essays, illustration, poetry — many expressions running the continuum of feeling not outwardly “queer enough” to quieting the anxiety of ostracism for being “too queer.” -LM
Zines
We Let Our Battles Choose Us by Ed Blair $3
Dos and the Don’ts of Supporting Survivors by Leah Short $5
Riot Grrrl Press Coloring Book Zine Version by Julie Ruin $3
Graphic Novels
Ink & Anguish: A Jay Lynch Anthology with Ed Piskor and Patrick Rosenkranz (Fantagraphics) $39.99
The Secret Voice vol 1 by Zack Soto (Floating World Comics) $24.95
Essays
Perfect Worlds Artistic Forms and Social Imaginations vol by Michael Workman $15
Magazines
Broken Pencil #82 $7.95
Chap Books & Fiction
The Transition: A Novel by Luke Kennard $18
Jesus Crawdad Death by Betsy Phillips (Third Man Books) $10 – Third publication in TMB limited ed chap book series, this one featuring speculative fiction stories.
Pretend I’m Dead: A Novel by Jen Beagin $16
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January Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter Now Available
The January Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter is available at this link here!
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