Monthly Archive for March, 2010

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Joyland vs. CellStories: Brian Joseph Davis of Joyland + Dan Sinker

Apr ’10
6
7:00 pm

Brian Joseph Davis of Joyland will be reading from Ronald Reagan, My Father and Dan Sinker of CellStories will present stories from cellphones.
By the time Brian Joseph Davis stops in Chicago to promote his new collection of short stories, Ronald Reagan, My Father (ECW), over half will have been given away via Chicagoan Dan Sinker’s CellStories project. The two met when Sinker was finding content partners and Joyland.ca, a short story web journal edited in 7 different North American cities and co-founded by Davis, was a perfect match, leading to Davis to experiment with distributing his own stories. Tonight they’ll read and talk about the ins and outs of free fiction.

Ronald Reagan, My Father

Ronald Reagan, My Father

In Ronald Reagan, My Father the elderly take to the streets at night for illegal electric scooter racing. A copy editor suffers brain damage from a virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry. A Texas doctor transplants the mind of a meth-addicted convict into the body of a suburban web developer, resulting in America’s first “death-penalty case that turned into a custody case that turned into a right-to-die case.” Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and the author of Portable Altamont, a collection that garnered praise from Spin Magazine for its “elegant, wise-ass rush of truth, hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes.” Slate called his first novel,
I, Tania, “The book of your fever dreams.”

Dan Sinker is the founder of Punk Planet magazine and is the creator of CellStories, which provides a new short story or essay everyday and has been recently praised in Publisher’s Weekly for its bold approach to networked reading.

For more info: http://www.joyland.ca , http://brianjosephdavis.com/ , http://www.cellstories.net

Props to Time Out Chicago!

That’s right! Time Out Chicago did a feature with Neil Brideau, our comics sommelier, in their March 11-17th issue, about zines and the Zine Fest, which is this weekend, Fri 3/12 and Sat 3/13 at various places around Chicago. Click here to read the full article in Time Out Chicago. Click here for more info about this year’s Chicago Zine Fest.

Zines Fer Sale!

Zines Fer Sale!

Top 10 This Week

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1. Bad Reputation: Performances Essays Interviews by Penny Arcade (Semiotext(e)) $19.95

2. Criminal Class Review vol 3 #1 $15.00

3. Pinups #11 Dominic $14.00

4. Maximumrocknroll #322 Mar 10 $4.00

5. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

6. Answer Me: The First Three New, Revised Edition by Jim Goad (Scapegoat) $21.95

7. Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00

8. Cabinet #36 Friendship $12.00

9. Applicant #1 by Jesse Reklaw (Microcosm) $4.00

10. Milk Milk Lemonaid #14 Drinkin Whisky and Doin Pushups Spr 10 $2.00

New Stuff This Week

God save the zine.

God save the zine.

Zines

Zine Name $1.00 – A template for you to make your own zine, computer free! Often what trips people up are figuring out the page numbers. So we got it all figured out for you. Plus, ideas for writing! Make a zine with the help of this, and then come consign it here at Quimby’s. When you bring your zine back to us, we’ll guide you through the consignment process. And maybe, if we get enough zines made with help from this thingy, ya’ll will get special shelf space!

Brainscan #24 and 25 by Alex Wrekk $5.00 – Open this thick handprinted envelope and a conucopia of Brainscan tumbles out: baby-sized Brainscan #24, monstertruck-sized Brainscan #25 and also a little Epilogue zine to help sweeten the deal. This zine pack is a real heart-on-the-sleeve labor-of-love and I would recommend it to anyone interested in things that are awesome.

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Buster Bear Go Hard Chicago by Alex Cohen $3.00

Clouds Clouds Clouds by Jordan Bernier (Nudashank Gallery) $10.00

Coffee & Boardgames #1 $3.00

Dad #1 by Timothy $1.75

Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #4 Aretha Franklin by Ethan Krause $3.00

In the Same Vein: Characters Overheard in Conversation by Ricardo Cozzolino $3.00

Jennifer Love Hewitt Times Infinity by Kevin Fanning $3.00 – Coming to us just in time for the Oscar Season, this zine seems to be part of a new generation of fan-fiction slithering into Quimby’s lately, a breed that has one eyeball reading People Magazine while the other one is tackling the footnotes of Infinite Jest. Here, Fanning casts “the other J-Lo” in his new creative writing series. It’s a serious part, but Hewitt’s presence adds wit and lightness to the stories, probably because of a grand combination of Fanning’s skill with prose and Hewitt’s cache of celebrity je ne sais quoi.

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Milk Milk Lemonaid #14 Drinkin Whisky and Doin Pushups Spr 10 $2.00

Sure to Shore #1 $1.00

Uncle Envelope #15 Thelonius Mancat Adventures for Profit by Peter Lazarski $4.50

Watch the Closing Doors #50 by Fred Argoff $2.50

Comics/Comix/Graphic Novels

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 6 Retreat by Jane Espenson etc. (Dark Horse) $15.99

Stooge Pile Loved By Millions by Seth Sepiver (DQ) $19.95 – More of an art book. Of DQ’s “Petits Livres” series.

Strange Tales (Marvel) $29.99

Demo vol 2 #2 Pangs by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonin (Vertigo) $2.99

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #9 by Philip K. Dick and Jonatham Lethem (Boom) $3.99

Breathers Books #1-4 by Justin Madson $5.00 each.

Unlovable vol 2 by Esther Pearl Watson (Fantagraphics) $22.99

(F) Arty Books & Mags

Red Book by David Shrigley (Chronicle) $16.95

For Love and Money: New Illustration, ed. by Li zFarrelly and Olivia Triggs (Laurence King) $40.00 – This book will investigate these myriad ways of working and creating, by featuring portfolios of images from a diverse range of more than 80 contemporary practitioners, some of whom have never before been featured in a book.

Ecodesign: The Sourcebook, Third Edition Fully Revised by Luke Alastair Faud (Chronicle) $35.00

Sticker Bomb 2 with over 280 Peelable Stickers, by Studio Rarekwai (Laurence King) $24.95

Fiction

Fast Forward vol 2 by Scott Forman, Kona Morris, Nancy Stohlman $12.00 – Flash fiction.

Mayhem

Girls and Corpses #4 Spr 10 $8.95

Lost States True Stories of Texlahoma Transylvania and Other States That Never… by M. Trinklein (Quirk) $24.95

Yetis, Sasquatch, & Hairy Giants by David Hatcher Childress (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95

Secret History of the World by Mark Booth (Overlook) $16.95

Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers What Your Teachers Told You… by Robert Schnakenberg (Quirk) $16.95

Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom (HM) $25.00

Bizarre #159 Feb 10 $10.50

Fortean Times #259 Apr 10 $11.99

Best Of Model Engineer vol 2 $11.90

Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnuts War Against the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America by Evan Wright (Berkley) $16.00

Blank Spots On The Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagons Secret World by Trevor Paglen (New American Library) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.

DIY

Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook by Annick Giroux (Bazillion) $27.95

Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With Almost No Money by Dolly Freed (Tin House) $12.95

Lifestyles, Culture, & Fashion

Purple Fashion vol 3 #13 $35.00

BlackBook #74 Mar 10 $4.50

Tabu Tattoo #41 $7.99

Literary Journals

Creative Nonfiction #38 Spr 10 $10.00

Criminal Class Review vol 3 #1 $15.00

Gigantic #2 $7.00

Oyez Review #37 $5.00

Wet Ink #17 $15.99

Blank Journals/Stationary

How High Am I Journal Genius Ideas Drawings Stuff You Dont Want To Forget (Chronicle) $9.95

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Postcard set (Chronicle) $9.95 – book of 30 postcards.

Music Mags

Clash #46 $8.99

Mojo #197 Apr 10 $9.99

Wire Feb 10 #312 $10.99

Essay

I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I’ve Dated by Julie Klausner (Gotham ) $15.00

How To Be A Better Person by Sebb Hunter (Atlantic Books) $14.95 – A steamrolling account of the author’s forays into the world of charitable volunteering.

Politics & Revolution

Monocle vol 4 #31 Mar 10 $10.00

Dumbo Feather Sum 10 $19.99

Poetry

This is All I Can Offer You: Futile Attempts To Appease The Poetry Gods by Shappy Seasholtz $5.00 – Poems about chupacabras, Hamburglar and wearing your favorite pants until they smell funky. It should come as no surprise this wiseguy is Quimbys alumni.

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Chicago Zine Fest Zine Reading

Mar ’10
12
7:00 pm

Quimby’s Bookstore will help kick off the Chicago Zine Fest by hosting a zine reading, Friday, March 12 at 7pm. Reading will be authors who span the range of self-publishing, from minicomics, to fiction, to cultural criticism. Three of the Zine Fest’s special guests, John Porcellino, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Jeffrey Brown will read alongside five zinesters who were selected by random lottery among exhibitors.
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John Porcellino draws the minicomic, King Cat, which he has been self-publishing since 1989.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and the Erosion of Integrity. She is the former editor of Punk Planet, and teaches at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Jeffrey Brown is the award-winning comics artist behind the graphic novels Clumsy, Funny Misshapen Body, and the Incredible Changebots.

Amber Forrester, a long time feminist zinester, writes about small town revolutions and queer (in)visibility.

Monica Anderson writes and draws comics in her personal zine Endless Escalators.

Michelle Aiello is a Chicago-based writer, stationary designer and organizer of the Ephemera Festival.

Anthony Marvullo is a Boston-based poet, author of Various Segments of Industry, a chapbook about power tools.

Sarala Bee is a Montreal-based writer whose zines dealing with depression, love, and sex.

Quimby’s staff will start the event with an opening ceremony, which will include the presentation of the inaugural Quimby’s Long Arm Stapler Award. The award is designed to recognize and encourage an individual or group’s enthusiasm, inspiration, and commitment to self-publishing and the self- publishing community. The award’s recipient has yet to be announced.

For more info about the zine fest: http://www.chicagozinefest.org