Monthly Archive for September, 2009

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New Stuff This Week

Published on September 12, 2009 0 Comments

Holy smokes! It’s a banner week for awesome new stuff, so hold on tight!

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Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue ed. by John Freeman (Granta) $16.99 – With cover by Chris Ware and featuring Aleksandar Hemon, Don DeLillo and more!

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Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00 – This issue is devoted to International Contemporary Photography, featuring artists such as Che Onejoon,Vincent Dermody, Caroline de Vries, Kim Keever, Jaimie Warren, Cassini Probe, Bert Stabler, Karsten Lund, Robby Herbst, Post Typography, Laura Pearson, and more.

All and Sundry Uncollected Work 2004-2009 by Paul Hornschemeier (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Butt #27 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90 – The Straight Issue!

Marquis #46 $19.00

Pop Up City by Cleveland Urban Design $20.00

Raymond Pettibone Devil Tote Bag $34.00

Group Work Zine: Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration by Temporary Services $1.50

Suzann Gage: Temporary Conversations by Temporary Services $3.00

Reich #6 by Elijah J. Brubaker (Sparkplug) $4.00 – The continuing saga of Wilheim Reich. In comics form!

Process Recess vol 3 The Hallowed Seam by James Jean (Adhouse) $34.95

Achewood vol 2 Worst Song Played On Guitar by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $15.95

Red Monkey Double Happiness Book by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $22.99

The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99

Grownups Are Dumb No Offense by Alexa Kitchen (Denis Kitchen) $8.99 – By possibly the youngest professional cartoonist in the world!

The Art of Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $39.95

Inspired Zine Package: Zines from Mark Todd Joel Nakamura and Tim Mantoani (Mark Murphy Design) $12.00 – It’s a beauty! And you can’t get this thing just anywhere. Click on the link above to find out more!

Pinups #10 Scott $14.00 – Let’s hear it for the boy. Named Scott. Who is naked in these photos.

John Cage Book of Days 2010 (John Cage Trust) $25.00 – Let John Cage help you to remember the date.

Giant Robot #61 $4.99

Love and Rockets New Stories vol 2 by The Hernandez Brothers (Fantagraphics) $14.99

Sinus Ogynus Doll and Loady McGee Dolls $39.99 – Based on the characters featured in Johnny Ryan’s Angry Youth Comix.

Censored 2010 by Project Censored (Seven Stories) $19.95

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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-12

Published on September 12, 2009 0 Comments
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Grant Reynolds Signs Comic Diorama

Published on September 12, 2009 0 Comments
Oct ’09
6
7:00 pm

Grant Reynolds has been making and self-publishing comics for the better part of his life. By the time you see him at this event he will have turned thirty years old only a few weeks prior. You might wanna wish him a happy birthday (belated) when you see him sitting at the table signing copies of his new book published by Top Shelf entitled Comic Diorama, or even ask how his summer was. If you’re thinking to yourself, “Grant Reynolds, where have I heard that name before?” …well, it might have been from The Skeleton News or Trubble Club, or you may have read one of his books, like Smaller Parts or To the Mouth of the Source…or maybe you both just talked about movies in someone’s kitchen at a party. In any case, if he owes you money, never returned that book he borrowed, or you’ve just got some personal score you’ve been waiting to settle, you’ll know where to find him on October 6th at 7pm.

“Chicagoan mini-comics mastermind.”  — Al Burian, Burn Collector

For more info: http://www.myspace.com/grantreynolds

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Hans Rickheit Presents The Squirrel Machine

Published on September 11, 2009 0 Comments
Oct ’09
10
7:00 pm

WHAT IS THE SQUIRREL MACHINE? A rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one’s guarded harvest? An anachronistic fable for the convulsive elite? A nugatory diversion for the subliterate? The answer to that question can be obtained in the form of an unusual new graphic novel in a book-signing tour ploughing its way through the northeast coast this Autumn.

THE SQUIRREL MACHINE is the brainchild of HANS RICKHEIT, who will be making appearances to autograph books, make sketches and speak personally to curious readers.

The Plot: Situated in a fictive 19th Century New England town, two brothers, Edmund and William Torpor confront public scorn when they reveal their musical creations built from strange technologies and scavenged animal carcasses. Driven to seek a concealment for their aberrant activities, they make a startling discovery. Will they divine the mystery of THE SQUIRREL MACHINE?

This book is a meticulously-rendered creation that defies all known genres. It can best be described as “PROTO-SURREALIST” or “RETRO-FUTURIST” Disregarding labels and buzz-phrases, it is ultimately an immutably strange and haunting narrative that transcends known logics and presumptive dream-barriers. A distillation of subconscious beauty and madness. A dangerous object for the incautious. A revelation for the undernourished crypto-seeker .

HANS RICKHEIT  was born in 1973 and grew up in New England, lived in the basement of an eccentric art gallery/performance space called the Zeitgeist Gallery from 1997-2002, and currently resides in Philadelphia. Aside from his many self-published efforts, he has appeared in many anthologies, including PAPER RODEO, HOAX and KRAMERS ERGOT.

“Rickheit is a vastly under-seen talent.” – Tom Spurgeon, THE COMICS REPORTER

www.squirrelmachine.org, www.thesquirrelmachine.blogspot.com www.chromefetuscomics.com

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The Week Behind Celebrates 17 Years on the Internet

Published on September 11, 2009 0 Comments
Oct ’09
7
7:00 pm

On October 7, The Week Behind will celebrate its 17th anniversary as the oldest online magazine in America. Before Slate, before Salon, and almost 10 years before the invention of blogs, The Week Behind was entertaining Chicago audiences with its lively coverage of the arts, culture, politics and technology.

Join original founders Scott Jacobs, Marilyn Wulff and Bob Brink discuss how The Week Behind evolved from the in-house newsletter of IPA, The Editing House into an Internet sensation (Cool Site of The Day on December 31, 1992.) Meet current contributors and find out how you can write for today’s magazine.

On hand for this special celebration will be Stump Connolly, chief political correspondent of The Week Behind, reading and signing his recently released book about the 2008 Campaign The Long Slog: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The White House.

The Long Slog is Connolly’s irreverent account of his 20 months following the presidential campaign. Read his first hand reports from New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio, see how he sneaks into the Republican and Democratic conventions, and join him for Barack Obama’s triumphant Election Night rally in Chicago.

Rick Kogan calls Stump “as clear-eyed and sharp-eared a reporter as there is in the land.” Tom Geoghagen says he is “a modern day Poor Richard, a witness of uncommon good sense to the nonsense of our presidential elections . . . an American Original.”

“I don’t think anyone had more fun covering the campaign than Stump, or reading him than me,” adds Bill Kurtis. “You laugh and learn at the same time.”

For a lively evening of fun, politics and surprise guests, don’t miss The Week Behind Birthday Bash at Quimby’s. The first 20 people in the door are eligible to purchase the last 20 original copies of the 1992 classic “The Week Behind: A Year in the Life of Small Business.”

For more info: www.theweekbehind.com

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