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Nate Powell Discusses Come Again on 8/9
Nate Powell’s new graphic novel Come Again (Top Shelf) is a demon-filled 1970’s Ozark fairy tale, following two families pursuing elusive dreams in their dried-up hippie community. Under impossibly close scrutiny they carve out space for their secrets, while deep within the hills something monstrous stirs, ready to feast on village whispers. Come Again explores questions of changing ideals, privacy, love, parenthood, and the horror of casualness in the face of crisis. Powell will deliver a multimedia presentation exploring the book’s themes, influences, and creative development, followed by audience questions and a book signing.
“With his work on Swallow Me Whole and March, Nate established himself as one of the premier talents in comics, but Come Again is his finest work yet. Profoundly moving, intimate, and haunting, this book will resonate with you for a long, long time.” – Jeff Lemire
In 2016, Nate Powell became the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award for his work on the March trilogy, chronicling civil rights icon John Lewis’ experiences in the movement. His work includes Eisner Award-winning Swallow Me Whole, Any Empire, You Don’t Say, The Silence Of Our Friends, and Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.
For more info: seemybrotherdance.org
Thurs, August 9th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Dark Tourism by Rebecca Bathory (Carpet Bombing Culture) $45 – Photo collection of places associated with death and tragedy around the world. Creepily compelling.
Zines
Lazy Diana #4 A Punk Pagan Zine by Kelci Crawford $3
Professional Amateur Business Cards by Paul Shortt $5
Fixer Eraser #5 by Jonas $3
What Problems Can Artist Publishers Solve? by Marc Fischer $6
Library Excavations #9 Chicago’s Filed Artists $6
Mura Press #1 $10
Proof I Exist #28 by Billy McCall $2
Black Bean Zine #2 $5
Rumors and Hope by Aaron Krach $6
Inktober 16 by Nicolette Baltad $3
Comics
Splendid Eye by Kera Ling $8
The Kurdles Adventure Magazine #1 $10 – All ages/kids mag from Fantagraphics! This issue: Robert Goodin, Cathy Malkasian & more!
I Spy by Alli Katz $6
New Wave Comics Presents #4-#6 $1.50 each
Lemmy #1-#4 by Sam Logan $1 each
Graphic Novels
Little Stranger by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $21.95 – Have you ever gotten turned on while stuffing a turkey? Get a Little Stranger!
In the Future We are Dead by Eva Müller (Birdcage Bottom Books) $15
Politics & Revolution
Artivism by Poch Arcadi / Daniela Poch (Carpet Bombing Culture) $34.95 – Art as the megaphone of the unfairness.
How the World Swung to the Right: Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions by Francois Cusset (Semiotexte) $14.95
Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone $21.95
Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics by Erin McHugh $15.95
D.I.Y. Resistance: 36 Ways to Fight Back! by Anthony Alvarado $14.95 – Shares the successful actions people’s movements use to defeat tyrants, including defending free speech, looking after the community, fighting racism and misogyny, organizing, protesting, networking, and publishing.
Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present by Philip S. Foner (Haymarket) $25
Outer Limits
The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes by Nina Barrett $35 – A history of Chicago’s infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, told chiefly through a rare collection of carefully arranged primary source material, including confessions, court transcripts, psychological reports, evidence photos, and more.
Music Books
What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography by Bruce Dickinson $17.99 – From Iron Maiden lead singer. Details include: schoolboy misbehaviour, handbanging injuries, becoming a pilot. What you want in a rock’n’roll memoir minus the drugs (except for the beer).
Mods: A Way of Life by Patrick Potter (Carpet Bombing Culture) $24.95
Food
Paleo for Unicorns by Amy Subach (Microcosm) $14.95 – Eat the patriarchy!
Fiction
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy (Coffee House Press) $16.95 – Full of vulgarity, excess, and discomfort: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and man-eating plants. Darkly funny, smart, and engrossing.
Magazines
The Internationalist #52 $1
Lit Journals
Sinister Wisdom Multicultural Lesbian Lit & Art Journal #109 $14
Sexxxy
Meat #27 $14
Elska #18 Los Angeles $18.50
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In Brooklyn? Check out July Quimby's Bookstore NYC events!
You know there’s a Quimby’s in Brooklyn, right? Quimby’s Bookstore NYC is at 536 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn. Check out some events there this July!
July 8th, 5-8pm – Third Anthropomorphic Insect Diorama Workshop/Anthropomorphic Beetle Diorama Class** TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE** (so they know how many beetles to bring!)Rhinoceros beetles: nature’s tiny giants. Adorable, with their giant heads and tiny legs, and wonderful antler-like protrusions. If you think they would be even more adorable drinking tiny beers and holding tiny fishing poles, this is the perfect class for you!Students will learn to make–and leave with their own!–shadowbox dioramas featuring carefully positioned beetles doing nearly anything you can imagine. An assortment of miniature furniture, paper, paints, and foods will be made available to decorate your habitat, but students are STRONGLY encouraged to bring any dollhouse props they would like to use. 1:18 scale is generally best. Beetles stand about 3″ when posed upright like people. Each student will receive one beetle and one shadowbox in addition to materials as mentioned above and all supplies needed to pose and attach the shadowbox items. Daisy Tainton was Senior Insect Preparator at the American Museum of Natural History, then became a curatorial assistant, and has been working with insects professionally for several years. Eventually her fascination with insects and love of miniature items naturally came together, resulting in cute and ridiculous museum-inspired yet utterly unrealistic dioramas. Beetles at the dentist? Beetles eating pie and knitting sweaters? Even beetles on the toilet? Why not?July 14th 2-7pm – Quimby’s NYC at the Pete’s Candy Zine FestJuly 22nd, 7pm- International Zine Month Zinester Reading, readers TBAMore info at @quimbysnyc at quimbysnyc.com
These events are at Quimby’s Bookstore NYC, not the Quimby’s in Chicago!
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New Stuff This Week
In/visibility: Perspectives on Queer Utility Passing and Drawing Blurry Lines vol 1 $5
Zines & Zine-Related Books
Lady Parts #5 by Amelia Hruby $3
You’re Here, What Now? The Awesome Guide to Visiting Pilsen and Little Village by Yolocalli Arts Reach $2
Black Metal of the Americas Is Dead: Pentacle of the Moon by Ed $5
Why We Vote and How by Bronwyn Mauldin $7
Zisk #29 by Mike Faloon $3
Wishes by Georges Perec (Wakefield Press) $17.95 – A paean to the pun by this member of Oulipo. Perec sent out new year’s wishes from 1970 until he died in 1982. This volume collects all 10 pamphlets.
Mantid Mania #2 Femme Fatale by Mike Smith $5
Hall Pass #3 by Mr. Rizzo $5
Don’t Quit Your Day Job by Joseph Wilcox $3
Mapping Out Utopia #2 Boston 1970s Boston Area Counterculture $11 & #3 $8.50
Graphic Novels
Poochytown by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Frank forms a new friendship and journeys to the farthest reaches of the Unifactor.
Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – A sea nymph is cast out and finds her own way in this debut graphic novel. With loving nods to the Bronte sisters, David Bowie, and the Beatles.
Beanworld Omnibus 1 by Larry Marder (Dark Horse) $24.99 – Collects Beanworld issues #1-#21.
A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, art by Rafael Albuquerque (Dark Horse) $17.99 – A supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
Memoirs
The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir by Graham Caveney $28 – Caveney reconciles his past and present in 1970s in the north of England, having armed himself against the confusing nature of adolescence with a thick accent, a copy of Kafka, and a record collection including the likes of the Buzzcocks and Joy Division.
Music Books
We Are the Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered by Mark Andersen / Ralph Heibutzki (Akashic) $18.95 – An impassioned history of the final, turbulent years of The Clash. $18.95
Fiction
I Will Burn You Down by Michael Allen Rose $12
Magazines
Got a Girl Crush #6 + #7 $15 each
Maximumrocknroll #422 July 2018 $4.99
Hi Fructose #48 $8.95
The Sick Muse #10 $12Lit Journals
The First Line vol 20 #2 $4
Sheriff Nottingham #14 Twilight Zone $10
After Hours #36 Sum 18 Journal of Chicago Writing and Art $10For the Kiddies
The Little World of Humongo Bongo by George A. Romero $16.99 – Kids book by the director Night of the Living Dead.
Bubble by Geneviève Castrée (D+Q) $12.95 – Artist and musician Geneviève Castrée’s last work before she passed to pancreatic cancer, as one final gift for her two-year-old daughter.
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July Quimby’s Bookstore News!
The July Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter available for viewing here!
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Holiday Hours
Yes, we’re open on the 4th of July, but only from noon to 5pm. Drop by and say hello!
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New Stuff This Week
Welcome to Venice Rxcx by Ric Clayton (Kill Your Idols) $45 – Book featuring the work of the guy who does the art work for the Suicidal Tendencies, lots of like-minded bands, LA skate graphics n more. All I wanted was a Pepsi, but I got this book instead. -Liz M.
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music by David Hollander (Anthology Project) $55 – A deep dive into the music used during heyday of low-budget TV and scrappy genre filmmaking, when producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Featuring histories, interviews, & visuals. Even George A. Romero used library music in Night of the Living Dead, which is why he wrote the intro to this examination of this unique genre at the nexus of art and commerce.
Zines
Riot Grrrl Reviews #2 June 18 by Jolie Ruin $2
New titles from Chicago print artist Keith Herzik
Interim by Kayle Karbowski $20
alchemy zines by Brian Cotnoir
Just Encased #2 Curated by Danielle Susi $7
Comics & Minis
My Green Tessellated Boudoir Winter by Krystal DiFronzo $15
Like a Garment That Gapes by Jameson Skelton Doody $5
New titles by H Tweedell
Graphic Novels
Dull Margaret by Jim Broadbent & Dix (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Jim Broadbent, the British actor who is in, like everything, from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones (?!), collaborated with the Guardian cartoonist Dix in this book, inspired by the Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Dulle Griet (1561) painting (aka “Mad Meg”) of a woman with a sword in one hand in front of the mouth of hell.
Father by Gabriel M. Howell $20
Eric by Tom Manning $24.99
Let’s Make Comics: An Activity Book to Create, Write, and Draw Your Own Cartoons by Jess Smart Smiley $12.99
Luisa, Now and Then by Carole Maurel (Humanoids) $29.95 – At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self.
Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco (Self Made Hero) $24.99
Art & Design
The Design of Dissent: Greed, Nationalism, Alternative Facts, and the Resistance by Milton Glaser / Mirko Ilic $25
Skin & Ink: Illustrating the Modern Tattoo by Sandu (Gingko Press) $39.95
Far Fetched Inversosimilie by Jesse Jacobs (Tabularasa Edizioni) $36
The Creature Garden: An Illustrator’s Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna by Harry Goldhawk / Zanna Goldhawk $25
Politics & Revolution
90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow $16.99 – Examines the history of women in the 1990s, during which American society grew increasingly hostile to women who dared to speak up.
Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society by Thomas Frank $25 – The founding editor of The Baffler and acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal presents a collection of scathing interlocking essays denouncing the four-decade economic battle in America that has culminated in today’s devastating levels of financial inequality.
Outer Limits
Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-day Use of Psychedelic Plants & Substances by Cody Johnson $24.99
Film & Music Books
Room to Dream by David Lynch / Kristine McKenna $32 – Part memoir-part bio, McKenna talks to people in Lynch’s life, they talk smack about him and then he refutes it! What an idea! – Liz M.
The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s by Greg Prato $22.95
Sex Guides & Culture
Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) by Sophie Lucido Johnson $16.99
Magazines
Lacunae vol 1 An Undergraduate Journal for Queer of Color Critique $12
RFD #174 Sum 18 Amuse Us $11.95
Fortean Times #367 $12.50
Mojo #296 $11.25
Shock Cinema #54 $5Lit Journals & Chap Books
Staind vol 2 The Shame Issue $15
Swiping Right and Other Regrets by Noelle Pouzar $12
Tilde # 1 $7
Submerging #3 Where Are We In the Story $6…and as usual, much, much more!
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Keiler Roberts Reads From Chlorine Gardens & Jessica Campbell Reads from XTC69 on 10/5
Quimby’s welcomes Keiler Roberts & Jessica Campbell on Fri, October 5th at 7pm!
Dealing with pregnancy, child-rearing, art-making, mental illness, and an MS diagnosis, the parts of Chlorine Gardens (Koyama Press) sum sound heavy, but Keiler Roberts’ gift is the deft drollness in which she presents life’s darker moments. She doesn’t whistle past graveyards, but rather finds the punch line in the pitiful.
“Keiler Roberts is forthright and adroit as she diagrams the pain inherent in memory, but it is Roberts’ idiosyncratic way of buckling you into her brilliant, uncomfortable, funny-as-fuck soul that lifts you above the ground.” — Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing is Monsters
In XTC69 Jessica Campbell, the artist, presents the tale Commander Jessica Campbell of the planet L8DZ N1T3 and her crew are searching for men to breed with when they discover the last human on Earth, the cryogenically frozen Jessica Campbell. With a new, but familiar crewmember, the search for men continues, but will it be worth it?
“This oddball escapade delights from opening salvo to closing quip.” — Publishers Weekly
KEILER ROBERTS is a Chicago-based artist whose autobiographical comic series Powdered Milk has received an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series and was included in The Best American Comics 2016. Her first book with Koyama Press, Sunburning, was published in 2017.
JESSICA CAMPBELL is from Victoria, BC and is an enthusiast of jokes, painting and comics. She completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is a comics instructor. In 2016, she unleashed the art world and chauvinist skewering: Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists.
For more info: koyamapress.com
Friday, October 5, 7pm – Free Event
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Quimby's Welcomes Slackjaw Columnist Jim Knipfel, with Andy Slater 7/19
Born in Wisconsin, Jim Knipfel was a staff writer at the now-defunct weekly alternative newspaper New York Press for thirteen years, where wrote the long-running and popular “Slackjaw” column, a cynical, misanthropic look at daily life. He is the author of ten books, including Slackjaw, Quitting the Nairobi Trio, These Children Who Come at You With Knives, The Blow-off: A Novel, and, most recently, Residue. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Village Voice, The Believer, OZY, and countless other publications. He’s also blind, and currently lives in the last remaining vestige of true Brooklyn.
Self-described local blindo, Andy Slater aka Velcro Lewis, will host the event. Slater will be sharing excerpts from his comic How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up, his new stand-up act Permission To Fail, and details of his work with the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists.
This event is supported by 3Arts, Bodies Of Work, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
“[Slackjaw] is an extraordinary emotional ride, through the lives and times of reader and writer alike, maniacally aglow with a born storyteller’s gifts of observation, an amiably deranged sense of humor, and a heart too bounced around by his history, and ours, not to have earned Mr. Knipfel, at last, an unsentimental clarity that is generous and deep.” –Thomas Pynchon
“Life hasn’t been easy for Jim Knipfel. He’s blind…He’s got a drinking problem. He’s been in an out of mental hospitals. He’s attempted suicide. But he’s managed to keep his sense of humor.”—Boston Herald
Thurs, July 19th, 7pm
More info:
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New Stuff This Week
The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery by Rex Sorgatz $19.99 – Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag Operations, Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, Kayfabe, Laugh Tracks, Milli Vanilli, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Photoshopping, Potemkin Villages, Rachel Dolezal, Strategery, Truthiness, and the Uncanny Valley.
Zines
KerBloom #132 May Jun 18 by Artnoose $2
National Teenset Outsider #35 $1
Skating with Shes and Hers: April to June 2017: Volume 1 by Amelia Bjesse-Puffin $6 – Photos and interviews with women, nonbinary and gender fluid folks that skate.
Smudge vol 2 #6 by Clay Hickson $5
Do You Have the Time by McKenzie Carlock $7.95
Working: Makin’ Paper Without Losing Your Mind or Selling Your Soul by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm) $4
Lover – A Zine by Katie Wright $5
Crown Jewel of the Caucusus by Benjamin Kraco $10
Incognito #1 by Rachel Orr $10
Beauty of Rat Dreams: A Fold Out Zine About Radiators Worms and Hidden Layers by Jam $1
zines/comics by M Sabine Rear: Bending Spoons: A Field Guide to Ableist Microaggressions $3, Women Artists Zine $6, Reverse Flaneur $10 & more!
Comics & Minis
Samurai Corpse #1 by Rainier Flores $2
Paintings by Keiler Roberts $5
Demons by Emily Hutchings $6
Would’ve Been Could’ve Been Should’ve Been Never Was and Never Will Be by Yewon Kwon $20
Graphic Novels
Fab4 Mania: A Beatles Obsession and the Concert of a Lifetime by Carol Tyler (fantagraphics) $29.95
Fukushima Devil Fish by Katsumata Susumu (Breakdown Press) $34.99
Then It Was Dark: A Paranormal Anthology by Sarah Benkin $22
The Strange by Jérôme Ruillier (D+Q) $21.95
Hellboy 1: The Complete Short Stories by Mike Mignola $24.99 – 16 standalone stories that can be read in any order.
George Orwell Illustrated by David Smith & illustrated by Mike Mosher (Haymarket) $17
Politics & Revolution
A Nation Unmade by War by Tom Engelhardt $15.95 – Writings from TomDispatch.com.
Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship by Tariq Ali $19.95
Music & TV Books
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers $18.99
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons by Mike Reiss $27.99
I’ve Got Something to Say by Danko Jones (Feral House) $19.95 – In-your-face collection of 10 years of onstage and backstage by Canadian garage rocker Danko Jones.
Stuff That Helps
The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick: Your Guide to Crafting Charms, Rituals, and Spells from the Natural World by Judy Ann Nock $16.99
Food
Spam: The Cookbook by Marguerite Patten $9.99
Fiction & Lit
We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill $26.99
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing by Charles Bukowski (City Lights) $15.95 – Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man.
Sex Culture
Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun $30
Magazines
Frankie #83 $15.95
Wire #412 $10.99
Gather Journal vol 7 #13 $19.99
Kilter Magazine #13 2018 $5
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Little Star #7 $14.95
Growing by Bridget Johnson $3.50For the Kiddies
AlphaBots by Impossible Winterbourne $19.95