1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910
Spring is in the air and so is impending arty madness. Its the time of year coked out art vampires don sunblock to go out of their bat caves once again and the smelly art kids return to the streets to fight the man and their boredom with a mix of dance moves and wheat pasted stickiness. In a dark void somewhere in between these two groups Version >08 is taking place. So check out the website for full schedule and to make sure you don’t miss any of the fun!
| May ’08 |
| 31 |
| 7:00 pm |
The Gay Utopia is an online symposium devoted to exploring that ideal realm in which gender, sexuality, and identity dissolve. It includes poetry, artwork, comics, personal essays, reviews, fiction, drama, slash, and more by Ursula K. Le Guin, Jennifer Baumgardner, Dame Darcy, Johnny Ryan, Ariel Schrag, Julia Serano, Michael Manning, Matt Thorn, Neil Whitacre, Edie Fake, and a host of other contributors.
The forum covers an enormous range of topics, from early animation to Restoration romance novels, from horror films to shojo manga, from the kinship structure of ferns to the relationship between men and trucks. Some highlights are:
–Scott Treleaven’s classic 1997 essay on an unusual use for the orgasm
–Tabico’s insect-sex-zombie apocalypse
–Paul Nudd’s vile recipes for chutney
— Kinukitty on why teenage girls need more manporn
–gay utopia questions answered by a Giant Squid.
Incidentally, this forum has a fair bit of explicit adult content. Please proceed with caution if that seems advisable. So in other words, the Gay Utopia has something for everyone. Please come by and check it out: The Gay Utopia
For this event Gay Utopia contributors will read essays, stories, etc. from the Gay Utopia website. There will also be a zine containing material from the website (including contributions from Ursula K. Le Guin, Johnny Ryan, Dame Darcy, Ariel Schrag, Edie Fake, Lilli Carré, and others.)
The Performers for this event will include:
Noah Berlatsky (critic),Bert Stabler (critic and artist), Paul Nudd (artist),Dewayne Slightweight (comics creator and artist), David Erik Nelson (official emissary of the Giant Squid)They will be reading content from the zine and website.
| May ’08 |
| 22 |
| 7:00 pm |
Join author Jim Munroe in conversation with Jef Smith from Think Galactic, the Wicker Park political SF book club as they discuss Munroe’s graphic novel Therefore Repent! Jim Munroe will also sign copies.
What if the religious right… are right?
Therefore Repent! is a graphic novel set in a Chicago neighborhood after the Rapture. Once the Christians have floated bodily into the sky, life goes on pretty much as usual for the immoral majority… except that magic works, if you’re willing to risk demonic mutations. CNN reports that Mr. Christ and Mr. Bush are on a speaking tour of the red states. And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners. But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship.
In the tradition of The Book of Revelations, Therefore Repent!, courtesy of novelist Jim Munroe (Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask) and acclaimed artist Salgood Sam (Sea of Red) is a lurid, dark fantasy tale. By taking the apocryphal scripture as literal truth — as the American powers-that-be claim to do — the story also explores the political and spiritual ramifications of God abandoning humanity.
Jim Munroe ‘s first novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask was published in 1999 by HarperCollins. He founded No Media Kings in 2000 to provide a publishing alternative to media conglomeration. He is also author of Angry Young Spaceman (Four Walls, 2000), Everyone in Silico (2002) and An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil (2004). A cultural activist and former managing editor of Adbusters magazine, he lives in Toronto
NOT AT QUIMBY’S but worth checking out.
On Saturday, April 26th, DvA Gallery in collaboration with Billy Shire Fine Arts in California will be having a gallery show and booksigning with all your favorite artists. The book signing event will be from 4-6pm and the gallery opening is from 7-11pm. Artists in attendance include Dave Cooper, Elizabeth McGrath, Daniel Martin Diaz, Glann Barr, Bob Dob, Martha Rich and many more. We will also have other merchandise for signing such as t-shirts, toys and posters.
This event is also made possible by our sponsors Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago Comics and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Hope to see you all there!
DvA Gallery is located at 2568 N. Lincoln Ave. (Lincoln and Sheffield)
773.871.4382 www.dvagallery.com
| Apr ’08 |
| 26 |
| 12:00 am |
NOT AT QUIMBY’S but worth checking out.
On Saturday, April 26th, DvA Gallery in collaboration with Billy Shire Fine Arts in California will be having a gallery show and booksigning with all your favorite artists. The book signing event will be from 4-6pm and the gallery opening is from 7-11pm. Artists in attendance include Dave Cooper, Elizabeth McGrath, Daniel Martin Diaz, Glann Barr, Bob Dob, Martha Rich and many more. We will also have other merchandise for signing such as t-shirts, toys and posters.
This event is also made possible by our sponsors Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago Comics and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Hope to see you all there!
DvA Gallery is located at 2568 N. Lincoln Ave. (Lincoln and Sheffield)
773.871.4382 www.dvagallery.com
Quimby's Bookstore · 1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910 
