Monthly Archive for April, 2010

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Trubble Club Celebrates Free Comic Book Day

May ’10
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7:00 pm

trubbleclub2Like the underground comix artists in 1960’s Berkeley, Trubble Club brings together Chicago’s most talented young comics artists to draw some of the weirdest comics out there today. The group meets every Sunday at a rotating location and draws jam-comics together. One artist draws the first panel of a jam comic, and then passes it to another artist in the group to draw the second panel, who then passes it on to a third artist. This process is continued until the group has a finished comic. Trubble club then self-publishes the finished comics in minicomics.

Saturday, May 1st is Free Comic Book Day, when comic book stores around the country hand out free promotional comics to customers. Trubble Club will contribute a free comic, which apes PSA comics from the 70’s and 80’s, and will spend the evening drawing at Quimby’s, and prophesizing the future of audience members in comic-book form. Trubble Club contributors at the event will include Aaron Renier, Jeremy Tinder, Grant Reynolds, Russel Gottwaldt, Bernie McGovern, Lucy Knisley, Joe Tallarico, Nate Beaty, and many more. Refreshments for the event will be provided by Metropolitan Brewing, an Andersonville-based brewery whose German-inspired lagers are crafted with toasty malts, spicy hops and a ferocious DIY ethic.

Though the event starts at 7pm, Free Comic Book Day starts as soon as Quimby’s opens its doors at 11am. Quimby’s will have free comic books while supplies last from a host of artists. Free comics include the Short Pants Observer from Chicago-based small-press publisher, Short Pants Press, and the Xeric Grant winning graphic novel Black Mane by Michael LaRiccia.

For more info: http://www.trubbleclub.blogspot.com

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Top 10 This Week

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1. Packingtown Review vol 2 2010 $13.00

2.Comics of Chris Ware Drawings is a Way of Thinking by David Ball & Martha Kuhlman (University Press of Mississippi) $28.00

3. Ready Made #46 Apr May 10 $4.99

4. No Better Than Apples #6 Piecemeal by Kate Larson $2.00

5. Bizarre #153 Aug 09 $10.50

6.  Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00

7.  The Believer #70 Mar/Apr 10 Film Issue $10.00

8.  McSweeneys #33 Panorama $16.00

9. Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #2 Arts and Letters $15.00

10. Gothic Beauty #30 $5.95

Melissa Auf der Maur from Smashing Pumpkins and Hole Signs OOOM

Apr ’10
24
5:00 pm

Please note! This event was originally scheduled to start at 6pm. It has been rescheduled for an hour earlier, to start at 5pm.

Melissa Auf der Maur (MAdM) was a member, songwriter and bass player of Hole from 1994-1999, culminating in the Grammy and Billboard nominated album “Celebrity Skin.” In 2000 she joined the Smashing Pumpkins for their farewell world tour. She has toured and collaborated with bands and members of QOTSA, Marilyn Manson, The Cure, Indochine, NIN, Muse, Ryan Adams, Ric Ocasek and more.

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“OUT OF OUR MINDS” (OOOM ) is a multi-medium release that includes album, film, comic, and photo collection. It is MAdM’s upcoming album, and it is the key component of her independently produced 21st century concept album – a multi-media experience that beyond the rock album, includes a short film with an original score and a comic book. The film portion premiered at Sundance film festival 2009.

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OOOM ALBUM:
12 track follow-up solo album. Guest Stars: Glenn Danzig, members of NIN, Helmet / Battles and Priestess. OOOM Film: 28min, H-D. Color, Fueled on Solar Power, directed by Tony Stone (“Severed Ways”). Original score to the film by MAdM and the Entrance Band. OOOM COMIC: Illustrated by the young and exceptionally talented Jack Forbes from Brooklyn, NY.

For more info: http://xmadmx.com/

Best American Comics 2011

The Best American Comics Series is collecting submissions for their 2011 volume.  Best American Comics is an annual comics anthology featuring short stories and excerpts of graphic novels by North American comics artists.   The series is edited by comics artists, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, and features a different guest editor each year.  Past guest editors include Lynda Barry (One Hundred Demons), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan), Harvey Pekar (American Splendor), and Charles Burns (Black Hole)

260372789_0e900aa37eThey want you to submit your comics!  If you make minicomics, you should definitely send your comics in, and represent selfpublishers.   The work must be published between September 1, 2009 and August 31, 2010, and needs to be submitted by September 7, 2010.  Work published after August 31 can be submitted for the 2012 volume

For a full explaination plus the address to which you need to mail your amazing comics, check out http://www.bestamericancomics.com/2009/submissions.php

Top 10 Bestselling Winners Last Week

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1. Cabinet #36 Friendship $12.00

2. Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00

3. Papercutter #12 $4.00

4. Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood) $12.95

5. Make (Chicago Literary Magazine) #9 Spr Sum 2010 $10.00

6. Bomb #111 Spr 10 $7.95

7.  The Point #2 Win10 $12.00

8. Small Stakes Music Posters by Jason Munn/Small Stakes (Chronicle) $24.95

9. The Believer #70 Mar Apr 2010 Film Issue $10.00

10.  Dwelling Portably 1980 – 89 by Burt and Holly Davis (Microcosm) $8.00