What About Tomorrow? An Oral History of Russian Punk chronicles the history of punk rock in Russia from its earliest manifestation in 1978 to its current standing. It looks at how punk entered the Soviet Union and managed to persist despite the cultural police, how it struggled for definition in the 1990s, and how punks formed Antifa, animal rights, and feminist groups to help carve out safe spaces in an otherwise conservative country. The book is compiled from over one hundred interviews, fanzines, and releases, and is the first history of its kind in any language.
The title of the book What About Tomorrow? is a call for punks around the world to think about what punk has meant, and what it should mean. At this discussion, author Alexander Herbert will talk briefly about why he researched the book, and then gives a brief chapter outline before talking about the larger narratives. Then, during the Q and A, he invites everyone to think about the successes and failures of Russia’s punk scene as a way of critiquing our own counter-cultures and learning to use them to achieve the world we want.
Alexander Herbert is a doctoral student at Brandeis University focusing on the history of the late Soviet Union. His research interests include social movements, youth culture, macabre film, music, and politics toward the end of the socialist experiment. He is a devoted father to a beautiful daughter, veteran vegan, self-ascribed environmentalist, occasional musician, opportunistic freelance writer and translator, and fan of beer and pickle pizza.
A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.
Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of a couple people in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.
CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by The Times (London) in 2009. Building Stories was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both The New York Times and Time magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to The New Yorker, and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.
Chris Ware will be in conversation with Marnie Galloway.
Marnie Galloway is a Chicago cartoonist who makes literary & poetic comics that experiment with book form and narrative structure. She is best known for her Xeric Award winning wordless comic, “In the Sounds and Seas,” which made the Notable Comics list in Best American Comics, and was highlighted in the Best Comics of 2016 by the AV Club. Other comics of note include Particle/Wave, published by So What Press; Burrow, self published with support from the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; and Slightly Plural, a short collection of poetry comics. She served as an organizer for CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, for four years, and has had comics published by the New York Times, Cricket Magazine, Saveur Magazine, Cambridge University Press, and Ask Magazine, where she currently works as the staff cartoonist. marniegalloway.com
“Remarkable . . . Masterfully illustrated, brilliantly designed, and bursting with compassion . . . This is without a doubt one of the most exciting releases of the year.”—Library Journal [starred Editor’s Pick]
Previously circulated:
“Ware delivers an astounding graphic novel about nothing less than the nature of life and time as it charts the intersecting lives of characters that revolve around an Omaha, Neb., parochial school in the 1970s . . . Ware again displays his virtuosic ability to locate the extraordinary within the ordinary, elevating seemingly normal lives into something profound, unforgettable, and true.” —Publishers Weekly [starred]
“Ware fans rejoice . . . Curious and compelling . . . As with Ware’s other works of graphic art, the narrative arc wobbles into backstory and tangent: Each page is a bustle of small and large frames, sometimes telling several stories at once in the way that things buzz around us all the time, demanding notice . . . a beguiling masterwork of visual storytelling from the George Herriman of his time.” —Kirkus Reviews [starred]
Breakdown Sonic Meditations Workbooks: Immersive Ecological Entanglement #s 2 & #3 by Brett Bloom & friends $6
Library Excavations #10 Health and Safety by Marc Fischer $6
Courtroom Artist Residency Report by Public Collectors Residencies #9-12 by Marc Fischer & friends $8
Jane: The Legendary Story of the Underground Abortion Service, 1968-1973 by Judith Arcana (Microcosm) $4.95
Behind the Zines July #8 A Zine About Zines by Billy & friends $3
Towards A Less Fucked Up World: Sobriety and Anarchist Struggle by Nick Riotfag EXPANDED EDITION $5
Witches Grimoire by Sabrina Cintron $10
Aftermath Explorations of Loss and Grief by Radix Media $18.95
Mr Foreginger Trilogy by Charles Joseph Smith $5
Sinternet by Julie Herrmann $2
LLiLL – Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries issue #2 by Peter Miles Bergman (is PRESS) $7
Comics & Minis
š! Baltic Comics Magazine issues #34 Redrawing Stories from the Past II & #35 Bonkers $12 each
mini kuš! $5 each: #75 by Alice Socal, #76 by Paula Puiupo, #77 Rebeka Lukosus, #78 by Hironori Kikuchi
Black Bile by Ari S. Mulch (Uncivilized) $6
Introvert Sketchbook Comics and Drawings by Erin Nations $5
Cavern Book by Ari Ganahl $12
comics by November Garcia $8 each: Malarkey #1-$3, Rookie Moves
Trans Girls Hit the Town by Emma Jayne $7
Livewire #0 by David Feaman $4
Graphic Novels
Tonta by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Bad Gateway by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphcis) $29.99
Anthology of Mind by Tommi Musturi (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Empress Cixtisis by Anne Simon (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Phantoms In The Attic by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Jeremiah by Cathy Johnson (Adhouse) $15
The Nib Magazine Issue 4: Scams $14.95
Paper Peril by Jean-Baptiste Bourgois (Fantagraphics Underground) $18
Dream Eater by Emma Jayne $20
Art & Design Books
Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art by Hereward Tilton (Fulgur Press) $49.95
The Infernal Bestiary by Justine Ternel w/ illustrations by Matthieu Hackière (Gingko Press) $35
Sparkling by Chika Takei (Nippan) $50
Be the Change: A Justseeds Coloring Book by Molly Fair (Radix Media) $15
Politics & Revolution
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg $10
All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body edited by Dani Burlison (PM Press) $19.95
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook by Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore (PM Press) 14.95
Godless: 150 Years of Disbelief edited by Chaz Bufe (PM Press) $19.95
New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right by David Renton (Haymarket) $22
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard $19.95
Essay Books
Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno $16.99
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe (Chicago Review Press) $16.99
The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage by Jeff Abraham & Burt Kearns (Chicago Review Press) $16.99
Sounds of Infinity by Lee Morgan $24.95
Practical Witches Almanac 2020 vol 13 $12.95
Help
Unfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness by by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm Publishing) $9.95
Music Books
Cassette Cultures: The Past and Present of a Musical Icon by John Z. Komurki (Benteli Verlags) $24.95
Punk Chronicles by David Ensminger $15
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons by Ben Folds $28
Fiction
Watching the Wheels by Simon Morris (Amphetamine Sulphate) $15
Black Card by Chris L. Terry (Catapult) $25
Travel
This Is San Francisco: The Ups Downs Ins and Outs of the City By the Bay by Alexander Barrett (Microcosm) $12.95
Magazines
Horror Hound #78 July August $6.99
Shindig #93 August $13.99
Fortean Times #381 July $12.40
Vive Le Rock #64 Post Punk $12.75
Mojo #309 August $11.99
The Internationalist #56 May June $1
Lit Journals & Chap Books
McSweeney’s #56 $28
Funny Looking Dog Quarterly #2 $10
Berlin Quarterly #10 $20
Delicate Pipes by Erin Dorney $7
Piranahcane Now by Damon Charles Bishop $6.95
After Hours: Journal of Chicago Writing and Art #38 Summer $10
From vintage daguerreotypes and Polaroids to strips of photo booth selfies and digitally altered images, the pages of zines provide an excellent frame for photographs of all kinds. This month at our book club-style event for people who read zines, we’ll be talking about our favorite titles that focus on photos. Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome to join us for a fun discussion and snacks.
If you’d like to participate in our Mystery Zine Swap, bring a zine (concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot!
CHIPRC’s Zine Club is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.
Tues, Aug 13th, 7pm
Here at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park
Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art and Culture by Jinx and Mr C (Feral House) $22.95 – This book is now in stock but don’t miss the event on August 10th!
Juxtapoz: Black & White, edited by Evan Pricco (Gingko/Juxtapoz) $39.95
Original Grin: The Art of Ron English $65
Politics & Revolution
The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain by Sean Michael Wilson & Robert Brown (New Internationalist) $18.95
Fiction
Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country & Other Stories by Chavisa Woods $15.95
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin (plus books 2 Judas Rose and 3 Earthsong in the trilogy) (Feminist Press) $17.95 each
Crash: Deluxe Edition by J. G. Ballard (Rare Bird Books) $30 – Plus other short stories, interviews with Ballard, stuff about a BBC2 film about Ballard & more.
Notes From the Fog: Stories by Ben Marcus $16
Magazines
Protean Magazine vol 1 #1 Pattern Machines $20
Gear Patrol #10 $20
Create Magazine #15 $15
Fortean Times june $12.40
Dazed and Confused summer $13.20
RFD summer $11.95
Shindig #92 $13.99
Monocle july august $17
Wire july $10.99
Pomme Magazine the Internet $15
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Mizna vol 19: #1 The Playing Field $10 & #2 The Palestine Issue $12
James “Jinx” O’Connor and Damen Corrado’s new book Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art and Culture (Feral House) draws upon the world’s largest collection of Chicago street gang memorabilia and research material to decipher their arcane visual language of the city’s street organizations. This comprehensive survey breaks down and analyzes approximately 700 street gang business cards (“compliment cards”), along with photographic documentation of the lost era of street gang graffiti (“emblems”), gang member portraits, archival photos of varsity-style gang sweaters and patches, drawings, and commentary from gang members and artists such as Robert N. Taylor and Jack Walls.
Through these images Compliments of Chicagohoodz traces the history and development of the neighborhood street gang, from the “social athletic clubs” of the 1950s “greaser” era, through the racially divided 1970s, up to the 1990s and beyond.
Former Guardian Angel “Jinx” has spent 30 years combing the streets, researching territories, interviewing and photographing gang members and countless hours conducting research in the Chicago Historical Society and the Harold Washington Library.
Damen Corrado is an artist and filmmaker from the North Side of Chicago.
Pete and Pratt’s Wacky Western #1 Double Digest $6
Crybaby by Carmen Pizarro $12
It’s Just Another Day by Bluraven Houvener $2
Politics & Revolution
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics by Dan Kaufman $16.95
Outer Limits Books
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol to Ecstasy 5th Edition by Cynthia Kuhn PhD & friends $19.95
Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest by Ryan Thompson and Phil Orr (The Ice Plant) $32.50
The Impostor: A True Story by Javier Cercas $17 – About the revered Spanish Civil War vet and justice crusader who lied about being a Holocaust survivor (and various other fabrications).
Music Books
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs by Jonny Trunk (Four Corners Books) $24.95
Magazines
Uppercase #42 $18
Skeptical Inquirer $5.99
Fader #117 $6.99
The Baffler #46 July August $14
Anorak #49 $13
Puss Puss #9 $16.50
Chap Books
Improvemense $5
For the Kiddies
Stories for Ways and Means by Waxploitation/Jeff Antebi & friends $55 – Collabs between painters/writers/musicians on kids stories. Work by Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Frank Black, Kathleen Hanna, Swoon, James Jean and more. Supports nonprofits like 826.
A Children’s Book of Demons by Aaron Leighton (Koyama) $12
