Monthly Archive for January, 2012

Dan Clowes Signs The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist 5/17

May ’12
17
7:00 pm

The First Monograph on the Celebrated Cartoonist:

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist

 Edited by Alvin Buenaventura

Designed by Jonathan Bennett

Interview by Kristine McKenna

Introduction by George Meyer

Essays by Chip Kidd, Susan Miller, Ken Parille,

 Ray Pride, and Chris Ware

“Clowes has explored the tedium and mystery of contemporary American life with more wit and insight than most novelists or filmmakers.” —New York Times

“A master storyteller and artist. There is poetry in every panel.”—Esquire

“The country’s premier underground cartoonist.” —Newsweek

Throughout his twenty-five-year career, Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s and 1990s his groundbreaking comic-book series Eightball defined the indie aesthetic of alternative comics, with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. His breakthrough success, Ghost World, convinced mainstream readers of comics’ literary potential. In the new millennium, with works such as Ice Haven, Wilson, Mister Wonderful, and The Death-Ray, Clowes has redefined the graphic novel as an art form.

Now, for the first time, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, cartoonist, and screenwriter opens his archives. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (Abrams ComicArts; April 2012; U.S. $ 40.00/Can. $45.00; ISBN 978-1-4197-0208-2), the first monograph on one of America’s most innovative cartoonists, collects Clowes’s best-known work alongside seldom-seen illustrations, personal photos and memorabilia, behind-the-scenes drawings and sketchbook pages, and unpublished comics and original art. This lavishly illustrated celebration of Clowes’s work, edited by Alvin Buenaventura, designed by Jonathan Bennett, also features essays by noted contributors such as Chip Kidd and Chris Ware.

The Art of Daniel Clowes ties in to a touring retrospective of Clowes’s work opening at the Oakland Museum of California in April 2012.

About the Author

Alvin Buenaventura recently started the publishing company Pigeon Press. He previously published artistic and insightful graphic novels, books, and prints under the imprint Buenaventura Press from 2003 to 2009. Buenaventura also edits the monthly comics section for McSweeney’s literary magazine The Believer. He lives in Oakland, California.

About the Book

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist

Edited by Alvin Buenaventura

Designed by Jonathan Bennett

Interview by Kristine McKenna

Introduction by George Meyer

Essays by Chip Kidd, Susan Miller, Ken Parille, Ray Pride, and Chris Ware

Abrams / April 2012

U.S. $40.00 / Can. $45.00

ISBN 978-1-4197-0208-2

Hardcover with jacket

224 pages / 9 ¼” x 12″

300 color illustrations

Weekly Top 10

1. The Point #5 Spr 12 Symposium: What is the Left For $12.00 – Chicago-based philosphy/criticism/literary journal.

2. 1-800-MICE by Matthew Thurber (Picturebox) $22.95 – 1-800-MICE is Matthew Thurber’s comic book anthropological study of the imaginary city of Volcano Park: a cross between Thomas Pynchon, Robert Altman and J.R.R. Tolkien. Over the course of the story we meet Peace Punk, a punker on the verge of a bourgeois lifestyle; Tom Chief, a beat cop with an identity crisis; and Groomfiend, a daffy creature who leads the narrative. The serial has earned Thurber rave reviews from, among others, cartoonist Ben Katchor, who writes: “Matthew Thurber has singlehandedly revived the Surrealist program of revolutionary politics through dreamwork. What more can you ask for in a comic-book?” This edition collects five issues of 1-800-MICE, plus 48 pages of new material.

3. Hi Fructose #22 $6.95 – For lovers of Juxtapoz.

4. 1Q84 HC by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.”

5. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF

6. My Aim Is True #4 by Carrie $1.00 – Winter reviews and recipes, talking about loving yrself and fat femininity, sex toy stories, cursive typewriter cut-n-paste school.

7. Remedy Quarterly #7 Heritage $7.50 – Inside you’ll find an interview with Patrick Martins from Heritage Foods USA (and Heritage Radio Network and the new Heritage Meat Shop) that will leave you inspired. Allison Kave of First Prize Pies fame shares her recipe for Bourbon Ginger Pecan Pie (yup, you read it right) and a story about finding inspiration in your kitchen, Erin Wengrovius whipped up a lovely illustrated recipe for us, and Zara Gonzalez Hoang gives us a peek into her Puerto Rican Christmas. Plus you’ll find even more stories, recipes, and tips inside.

8. The Femicide Machine (Semiotexte intervention ) by Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez (Semiotexte) $12.95 – “In Ciudad Juárez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomolous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn’t just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guaranteed impunity for those crimes and even legalized them. A lawless city sponsored by a state in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.” This title is Semiotext(e) Intervention Series #11.

9. Handbook vol 6 #1 2012 by by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – Another meaty issue of this cock-fueled nouveau physique rag. -EF

10. Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 2012 $4.00

Call for texts: Mash Tun, A Craft Beer Journal

Introducing…..

Mash Tun
A Journal about Craft Beer

The Mash Tun is a paean to craft beer. It follows the pleasures and aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society.

The Mash Tun will feature interviews and profiles with brewery owners, beer lovers, brewmasters, beer distributors, scientists, industry impresarios, coopers, bottle makers, bar owners,  home brewers and anyone who loves and is part of the process of making beer. There will features about figures in the industry as well as historical narratives. Short and long form entries will be interspersed with recipes, comics and photography featuring participating breweries, bars and restaurants.

The  Mash Tun will be a four-color, 120-160 + page, perfect bound publication that takes the from of a journal and it will be published by Public Media Institute (PMI), producer of Lumpen, Proximity, Materiel and other periodicals. PMI is a non profit arts organization that produces publications, festivals and host cultural events in Chicago and sometimes elsewhere. Its home is in Bridgeport.

Volume 1 Issue 1 will launch during Craft Beer Week.

If you like writing about beer then you should participate. Send them a one paragraph pitch, a writing sample or two, and email edmarlumpen (at) gmail.com  There is room for a few more pieces.

The deadline for texts on Issue 1 is March 1, 2012.

New Stuff This Week

Zines
Butch Nor Femme #5 $1.50 – BNF#5 is a result of Quimby’s first 24-hour zine challenge and it reads a little like an appendix/companion piece to some of Lynne’s previous writing – a Disney World scene report (see BNF#4/Curioddity #2 split), some wedding reflections (riffing on “with an e”), and looking at how 2011 felt in regards to zines, projects and sexuality. Piscean footnotes that hold their own.-EF
Besieged: A Dedication to Palestine by Students for Justice in Palestine $7.00
Angry Violist #4 Adventures in Alternative String Playing $2.00
Serial Killers Unite #9 $2.00
Number 7 #1.1-1.3 by Meredith Carey et al. $1.00 each
You Only Live Twice #1 by K.E. Bleier $2.00
Flying Into The Chandelier $2.00
Manor House Quarterly  Fall 11  #2 1877 $10.00
Ugly #1 Jan 12 a Collection of Drawings and Ideas by Matt Soria $2.00

Comics & Comix
Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by by Benjamin Marra $3.00 – You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

Night Business #4 by Benjamin Marra $3.00 – Gritty city vigilante shit, up to your knees in the eel tank. -EF

Elsewhere $5.00 – Comes with CD
Joking Victim #0 They Never Knew What Hit ‘Em by Matt Wyatt $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
ADD Adolescent Demo Division by Douglas Rushkoff et al. (Vertigo) $24.99
Sweet Tooth TPB vol 4 Endangered Species by Jeff Lemire et al. (Vertigo) $16.99

Art & Design Books
Ron English’s Stickable Art Offenses by Ron English (Last Gasp) $24.95

Fiction
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus $25.95
The Catastrophone Orchestra (Combustion) $8.00 – Scrappy steampunk adventures.
Autobiography of Jenny X Mischief and Mayhem by Lisa Dierbeck (OR) $16.00
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia by Glenn Mitchell $19.95
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: The Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles by Julio Cortazar et al. (Archipelag) $20.00

Music Books
Building a Better Robot: 10 Years of the Mr Roboto Project by Mulkerin et al. $20.00 – Comes with DVD.

Politics & Revolution
The Femicide Machine (Semiotexte intervention ) by Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez (Semiotexte) $12.95 – “In Ciudad Juárez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomolous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn’t just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guaranteed impunity for those crimes and even legalized them. A lawless city sponsored by a state in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.” This title is Semiotext(e) Intervention Series #11.

Against Equality: Dont Ask to Fight Their Wars by Ryan Conrad $10.00 – “The second “Against Equality” anthology gathers together pieces by contemporary radical voices critical of the mainstream gay community’s uncritical approach to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. It features an introduction by the inimitable Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and essays by writers of our digital archives on LGBT investments in militarism. This archival anthology asks why the historically left/ radical anti-war critique of war does not extend to DADT and the issue of queers in the military.

Undressing the Academy (Or the Student Handjob) by The University for Strategic Optimism (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia) $8.00
Practicing Feminist Mothering by Fiona Joy Green (Arbeiter Ring) $21.95
Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent by Rohan Quinby  (Arbeiter Ring) $19.95
This Time We Went Too Far by Norman G. Finkelstein (OR) $15.00
Who Killed Che: How the CIA Got Away With Murder by Michael Ratner et al. (OR) $16.00

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
Gethsemane an Epic Poem About Us by R. Douglas Jacobs $19.95

Magazines
Fortean Times #284 Mar 12 $11.99
Tape Op #87 Jan Feb 12 $4.95
Color Skateboards vol 9 #6 Special Culture Edition $7.99
Creative Review Jan 12 $14.99

Childrens Books
My Silly Monkeys by Michelle Marchand et al. $7.00

Other Stuff
Jello Biafra Bobble Head $19.95 – Yes, for real.

Not at Quimby’s, But you should go to: Lightness & Darkness at The Happy Dog Gallery 1/28