Monthly Archive for May, 2015

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CAKE Presents . . . A Conversation with Eleanor Davis, John Porcellino, and Keiler Roberts Moderated by Hillary Chute 6/5

Jun ’15
5
7:00 pm

Poster_Low-Res porcWhat better way to usher in CAKE weekend than a conversation with three of the most innovative cartoonists working today? If there’s a graphic narratives supergroup—the Emerson, Lake, & Palmer of American indie comics—this is it.

 

Eleanor Davis’s Fantagraphics collection How to Be Happy was just nominated for a 2015 Eisner Award. Keiler Roberts’s series Powdered Milk is a consistently stunning example of why so many of us fell in love with autobiographical comics in the first place. John Porcellino’s The Hospital Suite was one of the most critically acclaimed comics of 2014. With King-Cat Comics and Stories now 25 years old and going stronger than ever, John remains one of the guiding lights of the indie comics scene and for CAKE itself. Hillary Chute, comics scholar extraordinaire, author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics and Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists, will moderate this exciting roundtable.

Please join us for a rocking, inspiring kick-off event for CAKE 2015! For more information on this event & on the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, visit cakechicago.com . CAKE is June 6th-June 7th. Quimby’s is proud to be a co-sponsor.

Click here for the Facebook invite for this event.

Friday, June 5th, 7pm – Free Event!

New Stuff This Week

#QuimbysBookstore Comics up front, movie & popcorn in the back. A #FCBD mullet. Open til 10pm tonight!

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Zines

PWF Pro Wrestling Feelings #1 $3.00

Somnambulist #25 The PI Story by Martha Grover $4.00 – What its really like to be a private investigator. FOR REAL.

Satori Original Screenplay by Erica Schreiner $10.00

KerBloom #113 Mar Apr 15 by Artnoose $2.00

Everyday Magic #2 Between $3.00

Publishing Zines for Prisoners: An Interview with Anthony Rayson (Temporary Services) $5.00

Resist #48 Minneapolis from the Saddle A Winter Cycling Journal by Mat Resist $6.00

Comics & Minis

Smoker Girl #1 by Alexander Ryu $5.00

Pure Extravagance Shit I Bought with My Tip Money by Chloe Wilson $6.00 – See a variety of stuff by Chloe Wilson here!

Nordhouse by Erik Schneider (Easy Press) $5.00 – Erik Schneider documents a camping trip he and two friends take away from the city.  Alcohol and the wonders of the cosmos set the trio in a pretty good head space.  Erik’s designy figure work is juxtaposed nicely against a sketchy pencil rendering of the wilderness that surrounds them. -NB

You Gotta Have Art by David F. Toste $12.00

Three by Gabrielle Howell $10.00

Ozman: Harpocrates by André Freitas & Paulo Cesar Santos $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki (D& Q) $22.95

Black River by Josh Simmons (Fantagraphics) $18.99

Fables vol 21 TPB Happily Ever After by Bill Willingham & friends $17.99

Walking Dead vol 23 TPB Whispers into Screams by Robert Kirkman & friends $14.99

Team Adventure Kids: Jumpy Jackie’s First Day of School by Kevin J. Dill & Zayha $12.95

321 Fast Comics $24.99

Art & Design Books

Queer Geographies: Beirut, Tijuana, Copenhagen by various $21.95 – A collaborative work of artists, activists, and scholars, showcases the work of queer art installations in these three very different cities throughout the 2000s.

Fiction

Adjacent by Christopher Priest $14.95

Vorrh by B. Catling $15.95

City Chicken by Todd Miller $10.00

Music Books

Anger Is An Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon $28.99

Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America by Michaelangelo Matos $25.99

Mayhem

The Dope Game – Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason by Seth Ferranti $15.00 – Fat Cat and Pappy Mason are the most infamous and legendary figures out of New York’s crack era. A time that massively influenced rap culture and led to the ghetto icons becoming mythical figures in hip-hop’s lyrical lore. Not only did the street stars inspire rappers like Run DMC, LL Cool J and 50 Cent with their styles, attitudes and swagger, they set the tone for a generation of hustlers, gun thugs and drug barons, who tried to live up to the hype and standard of violence these street legends set, with their vicious and brutal foray into the drug game that transformed the black underworld as Uzi-toting drug thugs in bulletproof vests, Timberlands and BMW’s became the norm. This book details Fat Cat and Pappy Mason’s story chronicling their rise and fall in the annals of gangster lore. Both drug lords are imprisoned for life, due to their crimes and exploits, but their legends live on in hip-hop and popular culture. Written by noted true crime historian, Seth Ferranti.

Kids Books

Orpheus in the Underworld: A TOON Graphic Hardcover by Yvan Pommaux $16.95

Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure: A TOON Graphic by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez $16.95

Magazines

Mash Tun #6 Craft Beer Journal $10.00 – Hoppy days are here again! Mash Tun is full of craft beer inspiration, history and interviews! Raise a glass to a heady read. -NB

Unsung Magazine #1 Fall Win 14 Femmes Special Edition, ed. by Emily Ornberg & Jim DeRogatis $10.00 – How artistic expressions from counter cultures such as webcam models and lesbian rappers are assaulting the norm.

Headmaster #7 the Field Trip Issue $20.00

Backwoodsman vol 36 #3 May Jun 15 $4.95

Inventory #12 Spr Sum 15 $20.00

Neural #50 $7.99

Frankie #64 $19.25

Toilet Paper April 1987 $19.00

Maximumrocknroll #384 May 15 $4.99

Shindig #46 $12.99

Decibel #128 Jun 15 $5.99

Skeptical Inquirer vol 39 #3 May Jun 15 $5.99

Fantastic Man #21 Spr Sum 15 $14.99

Dear Dave #19 $15.00

Cannabis Now #14 $7.99

Rock A Rolla #54 Feb Mar 15 $9.95

Under the Radar #53 Apr May 15 $5.99

Psychic News Apr 15 $10.99

Tattoo Energy #94 $9.99

On sale later this week (the 5th):

The Sketchbook Project: World Tour by Steven Peterman & Sara Elands Peterman $30.00

Stickerbomb Skateboard: 150 Classic Skateboard Stickers, Peelable Stickers From Girl, Santa Cruz, Real, Alien Workshop and Toy Machine (Laurence King) $24.95