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DB Burkeman and Martha Cooper at The Maxwell Colette Gallery For “STUCK UP”

Published on January 5, 2012 0 Comments
Jan
21
1:00 pm

Gallery invites you Saturday, January 21st from 1pm – 3pm for a special book-signing event with and . This event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition STUCK UP: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers. This museum-quality traveling exhibition comes from Burkeman’s extensive personal collection and is featured in his book Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art.

Note this event is not at Quimby’s. It’s at the Maxwell Colette Gallery at 908 N. Ashland Avenue in Chicago. For more information go to www.maxwellcolette.com or email gallery@maxwellcolette.com.

The book will be available for advance purchase here at Quimby’s Bookstore or you may purchase a copy of the book at the event. Limited quantities of the book are available though. If you are unable to purchase a book in advance, you may RSVP prior to the event to request a book reservation. Please send reservation requests, including your name and contact information, to gallery@maxwellcolette.com.

Here’s more info about the show itself that’s at the gallery from the gallery’s website:

STUCK UP: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers.
January 20, 2012 – March 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, January 20th from 6pm – 10pm.
Book Signing: Saturday, January 21st from 1pm – 3pm.

Maxwell Colette Gallery and DB Burkeman are excited to present STUCK UP: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers. This museum-quality traveling exhibition, curated by Burkeman from his extensive personal collection, provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore the expanding role that have played in popular culture over the past four decades. ‘STUCK UP…’ features from Street Art legends (Banksy, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, KAWS), and internationally lauded contemporary artists (Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Tom Sachs) shown side by side with anonymous peeled from the streets of NYC.

On Friday, January 20th Maxwell Colette Gallery and DB Burkeman will host the exhibition’s opening reception from 6pm – 10pm. Then on Saturday, January 21st the gallery will host a book signing from 1pm – 3pm featuring DB Burkeman and the celebrated photographer, author, and self- described sticker thief Martha Cooper. Concurrent with these happenings, the gallery will present a selection of new sticker-based collage work from the ever-talented Chris Mendoza, and will showcase an incarnation of ‘Slap Happy’, the charity sticker invitational that made its debut as a part of SCOPE 2011 in Miami. This will be the only place outside of that art fair where the limited edition stickers and signed black books from the project will be available to view and purchase in person.

Maxwell Colette Gallery
908 N Ashland Ave | Chicago, IL | 60622
312.496.3153

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Not at Quimby’s…But you should go anyway

Published on December 10, 2011 0 Comments

 

Tonight: See a rare live appearance of Psychic TV at Reggies Rock Club on Dec 11. This is PTV’s only Midwestern appearance. Show is 17+ with regular and VIP tickets available.

More info at reggieslive.com/rockclub/
Tickets at Ticketfly

This event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at

REGGIES ROCK CLUB
2109 South State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60616
(312) 949-0121

Chicago Book Expo 2011, November 19 & 20

Published on November 12, 2011 0 Comments

Don’t miss this literary spectacle in Uptown, featuring a pop-up bookstore, literary nonprofit fair, a commissioned performance by Joan of Arc, architectural tours, author readings, children’s workshops, panel discussions, and more.Please note, this is NOT at Quimby’s. For places and times, see the image below or click on the info link.

More info here: chicagowritershouse.org/bookexpo2011.html

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Weekly Top 10 Quimby Bestsellers

Published on October 18, 2011 0 Comments


Before we jump into this weeks Top 10, just a note to let you know we will be tabling at The MDW Fair this coming weekend (Oct 21st-23rd). This fair showcases solo and duo exhibitions curated by small not-for-profits, artist-run spaces, independent galleries, collectives and curators from around the country and a whole lot more. The fair starts on Fri the 21st, but we’ll be tabling on Sat/Sun. For more info: mdwfair.org

That makes a full month that Optic Nerve #12 has been in the top 10, slowly but surely moving up from where it debuted at #3, then hanging out at #2 for a few weeks, and then this week #1. A bunch of the usual suspects (Bust, Hi-Fructose) but then some that I don’t think have been on our top 10: Likes Dislikes and Piano Rats. Congrats small publishers!

1. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95 – Two pitch-perfect stories of rejection, imperfection, and relationship drama, each ending on a surprisingly uplifting note. “Hortisculpture” pushes Tomine into a stylistic camp with Sammy Harkham, Jordan Crane, Chuck Forsman and Kevin Huizenga – perhaps more than ever before. The story works with a “Chalky White”-ish suburban everyman and his tempered ambitions, but camps up the visual style into a Marmaduke-y newspaper strip aesthetic. The effect is similar to the trickiness of his wedding planning comics. The second half is a repolishing of his “Amber Sweet” college girl mistaken for porn star plot. Plus we get a glimpse into Tomine’s sad-sack mailbox, and some self-aware griping about putting out comics issue by issue.  -EF

2. The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book. Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover.

3. Bust Oct Nov 11 $4.99

4. Hi Fructose #21 $6.95

5. The Logan Square Literary Review #8 Fall 11 $5.00 – Don’t miss the release event here at Quimby’s Fri 10/28 for this issue Halloween weekend with the Logan Square Literary Review Reads: Halloween Edition! Grab your pumpkin beers and trick-or-treat bags and prepare yourself for the spooky, scary and creepy as read by: Lara Levitan, Michael McCauley, Alicia Hilton and others!

6. Likes Dislikes #1 by Lacey Hedtke $2.00 – As per the Microcosm website: A great little slice of personality from Lacey’s via her extensive lists of likes and dislikes. Some highlights include: Likes: “The thought that Aliens and Humans might someday become one.” “What Illegal things arose out of prohibition” “talking about conspiracies” Dislikes: “Having to break into a place you have the key to.” “Realizing you like your boyfriend’s friends more than you like him” “Playing with silly putty after someone with warts” “Undressing a man only to find he has creepy underwear” With things like this, we get a gradual growing depth into what Lacey is all about and even her seeming contradictions. We smile at shared feeling and cringe at a horrible experience we haven’t yet lived through.

7. Everything Dies #7 by Box Brown (Microcosm) $5.00 – “Issue seven is a comic retelling of the pan-cultural “flood myth.” Here we see Sumerian wind god Enlil (a total badass jerk  a la an evil pro-wrestler) setting out to destroy the newly-created people of the Earth. The “Noah” of this polytheistic ark story is King Ziasudra, and his trajectory and fate are much different than the Christian Biblical version. Beautifully drawn and deep-packed with “the things that make you go hmm,”  Everything Dies will keep you reassessing who we are and what we’ve built our shared narrative from.” – Microcosm Synopsis

8. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

9. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00

10. Piano Rats by Franki Elliot (Curbside Splendor) $10.00 – Elliot’s poems dissect the 9,000 year gap between the breakfast and the bus ride, the eons between bodies and the slick sopes of memory.  -EF

Want your zine, comic or book to be in the top 10 and get some exposure? Tell your friends to come in and get it.

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Anders Nilsen Celebrates Big Questions at Lula Cafe with Quimby’s 8/30

Published on August 1, 2011 1 Comment
Aug ’11
30
7:00 pm

’s graphic novel collection of is coming out, and we’re going to celebrate with him at Lula Cafe on August 30th at 7pm.

A haunting postmodern fable, Big Questions is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful and minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and over 600 pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. A downed plane is thought to be a bird and the unexploded bomb that came from it is mistaken for a giant egg by the group of birds whose lives the story follows. The indifferent and stranded pilot is of great interest to the birds–some doggedly seek his approval, while others do quite the opposite, leading to tensions in the group. Nilsen seamlessly moves from humor to heartbreak. His distinctive, detailed line work is paired with plentiful white space and large, often frameless panels, conveying an ineffable sense of vulnerability and openness.

Big Questions has roots in classic fable–the story’s birds and snakes have more to say than their human counterparts and there are hints of the classic hero’s journey, but the easy moral that closes most fables is left here as open and ambiguous. Rather than lending its world meaning, Nilsen’s parable lets the questions wander out to go where they will.

Paperback, 7.25 x 9.25, colour, 658 pages

Anders will be joined by John Porcellino of King-Cat Comics and Stories, and local fiction writer Kyle Beachy (The Slide) and Zak Sally (Like a Dog Recidivist, former bassist of Low, editor of La Mano Press).

Please note that this event is NOT AT QUIMBY’S!

It is at Lula Cafe which is at 2537 N. Kedzie Blvd, Chicago
lulacafe.com
773-489-9554

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