Monthly Archive for January, 2009

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Are you into this?

A few of our customers have asked us if there’s any chance we might start a . So this is an inquiry to see if that’s something that you’d be interested in, Dear Readers. So! If you are interested, please answer the following questions in an e-mail (cut’n'paste it, yo!) to us at info at quimbys dot com :

Is this a good idea? Lame idea? Only do it if it’s not so feel-good-cheesy-support-groupish or classroomy?

What types of books would you want to read? Fiction? Zine-related books, zines themselves, essays, political, graphic novels? Etc.?

How often would you want to meet? Here? Or somewhere else? What day or night of the week would you want it on? And for how long should it meet? How many people do you feel like should there be as a minimum for it to be fun, effective, etc. so that you don’t feel like you’re the only person at the party?

How do you want it structured? Free form? Someone mediating it? Or like, no format, just see how it plays out?

What things would be necessary for it to be worth doing or for you to participate?

What else do you want to tell us about this? Comments? Anyone? Anyone? Is anybody out there? Hello? Is this thing on? (tap tap) Testing testing, can I get some more vocals on the monitor?

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of December 28th, 2008 – January 3rd, 2009

1.    Slingshot Organizer 2009 Small Size $6.00
2.    Trubble Club #2 $3.00
3.    Quietly Sure Like the Keeper of a Great Society by Jo Dery (Little Otsu) $10.95
4.    Acme Novelty Library #19 by Chris Ware (Drawn+Quarterly) $15.95
5.    Toward 2012: Perspectives in the Next Age by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan (Tarcher) $16.95
6.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
7.    FOUND Magazine #6 $5.00
8.    Slingshot Organizer 2009 Large Size $12.00
9.    King Cat #69 by John Porcellino $3.00
10.  Free For All: Oddballs Geeks and Gangstas in the Public Library by Don Borchert (Virgin) $12.95

Ice Box Press at Quimby’s!

Jan ’09
23
7:00 pm

will hold a reading and book signing to celebrate the release of their inaugural chapbook, These Bones, Live! by Ryan Pendell. Joining Ryan Pendall for the reading will be Tara Walker and Erin Messer with a special sneak preview from their up coming chapbooks. Ice Box Press is housed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

About the Performers:

Ryan Pendell’s poetry employs lyrical and melodic abandon, combining elements of childhood daydreams and philosophical discourse. Pendell is the founder and co-editor of Lark(!) Magazine (www.larkmag.com).

Tara G. Walker is a poet fascinated by word games and the visual possibilities of language, currently finishing her MFA in writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works as a teaching artist with Urban Gateways and is the creator of the luckywhale jewelry line, available online at etsy.com.

E.C. Messer is a California native, like manzanita trees and purple sage.  She was born on a very rainy Sunday.  UCLA made her a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre…and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is almost done making her a Master of Fine Arts in Writing.  She’s pretty sure both schools will either be very pleased or very sorry they did so.  Her parents’ bizarre sense of humor is probably the great gift of her life.  She suspects that you are delicious and would be glad to know you.

Lilli Carré at Quimby’s!

Jan ’09
15
7:00 pm

Join Lilli Carré as she signs copies of her new graphic novel . She will also sell prints and various little handmade book items. Refreshments will be served!

In The Lagoon, a family is seduced by a mysterious creature’s siren song that can be heard emanating from the lagoon after dark, and how each member reacts to the song in The Lagoon is the crux of the story. For the wise — or pixilated — Grandpa, the song reminds him that, in the time he has left, he must pause to respect, appreciate, and fear nature. The song hints at something that Zoey, the daughter, is too young to fully grasp. And the song lures the sexually frustrated mother, and eventually, her husband, into danger… Carré experimented with nib pens and brushes while drawing this black-and-white graphic novel, giving the art a different feel from her previous, Eisner-and-Harvey-Award-nominated story, Tales of . The Lagoon was influenced by the films Creature from the Black Lagoon and Night of the Hunter, but reads more like the gothic, family narratives of Flannery O’Connor or Carson McCullers. Rhythms — Grandpa’s taps, the ticking of a metronome — are punctuated by silences that pace this “sound”-driven story. Older teen and adult readers are invited to imagine the enigmatic creature’s haunting, ever-shifting tune as it reverberates through weedy waters, eventually escaping the lagoon to creep into windows at night.

Lilli Carré was born in 1983 in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in Chicago, making animations, illustrations, and comics. Her animated films have shown in various festivals in the US and abroad, including the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and her previous book of comics Tales of Woodsman Pete is a collection of her stories surrounding a hermit who’s slowly losing his wits.

Visit her at lillicarre.com

Jo Dery at Quimby’s!

Jan ’09
3
7:00 pm

Join us for an evening of storytelling! Come see short animations, hear live radio plays, check out zines and books from the Ocean State, lil’ Rhody! will show several short animated films and will read and perform stories and radio plays from the new audio issue of his zine “The Sparkle.” Get your hands on the recently published book by , titled Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret (Little Otsu, publisher).

About the performers:

Jo Dery lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where she makes drawings, prints and short films. Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret is her first published book. She self-published little books under the series name Plant Life for Human Lesson, and her drawings have appeared in Paper Rodeo, Lumpen and the SPX Anthology.

www.jodery.com
New book from Little Otsu

Walker Mettling is a Bay Area native who makes zines of collected stories; stories that come to him by postcard, email, and telepathy. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.