Yearly Archive for 2011

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Trubble Club celebrates Free Comic Book Day at Quimby’s 5/7

Published on April 14, 2011 0 Comments
May ’11
7
7:00 pm

Come to Quimby’s on Free Comic Book Day to have your conception and/or death drawn by the infamously untamable Chicago cartoonist gaggle, Trubble Club. Care to dabble in the inky arts yourself? Free pamphlets will be provided with starter panels and jam recipes. Pick one up and fill in a box with your very own genius. Additional free comics will be available at Quimby’s all day while supplies last.

Trubble Club accepts the fact that we have to sacrifice a whole Saturday drawing comics at Quimby’s for what- ever it was that we did wrong. What we did WAS wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Trubble Club.
To pre-sear your eyeballs, aim your internet at trubbleclub.com.

Saturday May 7th, 7 pm

Heads Up: 2011 Portland Zine Symposium in August

Published on April 14, 2011 0 Comments

The Portland Zine Symposium aims to promote greater community between diverse creators of independent publications and art. This fun and free event helps people share their work while exchanging their skills and information related to zine culture. Through workshops, panels and discussions, Portland Zine Symposium explores the role and effect of all types of zines.

Time: August 6, 2011 at 10pm to August 7, 2011 at 5pm, Location: Refuge, Portland, OR

For more info:

Click here for more details and RSVP on We Make Zines, an online community for zine makers and zine readers.

Also, not 100% updated: www.pdxzines.com

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Weekly Top 10 and Video Footage of Deb Olin Unferth

Published on April 12, 2011 0 Comments

Here’s your Top 10 for the last week. No real surprises in what made the list of bestsellers, since most of it is stuff that’s made it on there before. However, COG Magazine is a title we just started carrying, a nice biking mag, about city biking, bike messengering and the like, from all around the world.

Also! Footage from the Deb Olin Unferth event is up. She was here at Quimby’s on 3/7/11 reading from her memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War. The piece we put up is a super funny bit about how religion got worked into her expereince, and how her Jewish family reacted to her short bout with Christianity. No matter how you feel about religion, this bit will crack you up. Click on the picture of Deb below, and it will take you to where you can watch it at You Tube.

1.    OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement.”

2.    Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #2 Spr 11 $15.00

3.    Cartooning Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale) $13.00 – This is about as close you are going to get to having Ivan Brunetti come to your house and teach you how to make great comics. Turns out, it’s pretty damn close – Philosophy and Practice serves up a concise and well-honed crash course on finding and fine tuning your comics voice. -EF

4. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine.

5. Monocle vol 5 #42 Apr 11
6. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

7.  Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95

8. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00

9. N Plus 1 #11 Spr 11 $13.95

10. COG Magazine #10 $6.00

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Best American Comics

Published on April 10, 2011 0 Comments

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden want us to remind you that if you make comics, you really should be sending a copy of everything you make to the Best American Comics.  The Best American Comics 2012 edition will feature comics published from September 1, 2010 to August 30, 2011.  They would prefer you not wait until the last minute to send your comics, so grab what you’ve made since last september, put it in an envelope and mail it (plus contact information and the release date of your comic) to:

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
Series Editors
The Best American Comics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
215 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003

Mail your comics in!  No joke!  I’m talking to YOU!

New Stuff This Week

Published on April 9, 2011 0 Comments

All sorts of new stuff this week. And hey, the sun is out. Just in time for you to come in to Quimby’s to buy the new issue of Hi-Fructose.

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
High School Sucks by Megan Speers $3.00 – AMEN!
Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Zine by Priyanka Pandit $10.00
Pieces #5 On Change by Nichole $2.00
Goat Fucker #1 by Jack Mulkern $6.00
Signals #4 A Radio Zine by DJ Frederick $5.00
Me Magazine #20 Spr 11 $7.50
XXX Gratuitous Type #1 $15.00
Adore The Adorable by John Ruch and Heather Reynolds $3.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Facials Part One by Nic Greasy $3.00 – Amorphous sexual consumption and transformation with a serious case of the drips. -EF
Memories and Delusions by David Alvarado $4.00
Wanderlust by David Alvarado $2.00
Live Work #1 by Pat Palermo $6.00
Position Wanted by Pat Palermo $1.00
Tread Lightly #1 by Jonathan Bell Wolfe $7.00
The Yellow Zine- Pretentius Comics and Funnies by Roman Muradov $5.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Where Art Belongs by Chris Kraus (Semiot) $12.95
But I Can’t Do Anything Else by Rob Schrab (Vertigo) $24.99
Skullface by Yak ElDroubie and Antoni Cadafalch (Korero) $35.00
Whose Hair by Christina Christoforou (Laurence) $12.95 – Do you recognize this drawing of a famous person’s hair?
Textile Design Portfolio by Simon Clarke (Laurence) $35.00
Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing Mike Perry (Princeton) $35.00 – Screenprint-handmade font guru picks some of his fave screen printers.

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Complete Wendel by Howard Cruse (Universe) $24.95
Everything is its Own Reward by Paul Madonna (CityLights) $27.95
Fables vol 15 Rose Red by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $17.99

FICTION!
November Criminals by Sam Munson (Anchor) $15.00
Song of Ice and Fire series books (Game of Thrones etc.) by George RR Martin (Bantam) prices vary

CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS
Insane in the Quatrain by Bradley La$tname $10.00
Hand Me Downs of Hannah Hoch by Robert Pomerhn $15.95
Blest For This Poet Crest to Rest on My Chest by Robert Pomerhn $4.95
N Plus 1 #11 Spr 11 $13.95
Oyez Review #38 $5.00

MAGAZINES!
Hi Fructose #19 $6.95
Bizarre #174 Apr 11 $10.50
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #1 $6.25
Girls and Corpses #5 Spr 11 $8.95
Namaste vol 12 #1 $9.95
UFO Magazine #155 vol 24 #2 $5.99
Colors #80 Spr11 $8.95
Skunk vol 6 #8 $5.99
COG Magazine #10 $6.00 (And we have some back issues of this wheels-related title too.)
Diner Journal #17 Spr 11 $9.00
BlackBook #83 Apr 11 $4.50
Explosion Proof Magazine #2 win 2011 $11.00
IDN Extra 05 Most Wanted vol 2 $25.00
ArtForum Apr 11 $10.00
Fury #19 $2.00
Mojo #210 May 11 $9.99
Ugly Things #31 $8.95
In These Times Apr 11 $3.50
AdBusters #95 vol 19 #3 May Jun 11 $8.95

CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Bear In Pink Underwear by Todd H Doodler (Blue Apple) $12.99

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes and Other Writings on The Holocaust, Revisionism, and Historical Understanding by Samuel Crowell (Nine-Banded Books) $20.00
Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination In the Classroom by Rick Ayers, William Ayers and Haki R Madhubuti (Teachers College Press) $21.95

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
American Demon: A Memoir by Jack Grisham (ECW) $19.95 – Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty). Don’t miss his reading from this book here at Quimby’s on May 14th!
The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries by Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton (Black Cat) $16.95 – Acclaimed authors and music historians Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have spent years traveling across the world to interview the revolutionary and outrageous DJs who shaped the last half-century of pop music. With discographies, favorite songs, and amazing photos of all the DJs as young firebrands, The Record Players offers an unparalleled music education: from records to synthesizers, from disco to techno, and from small groups of influential music lovers to arenas packed with thousands of dancing fans.A history told by the visionaries who experienced the movement, The Record Players allows a rare glimpse into the sound, culture, and craft that developed into a worldwide industry.

SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade (Peter Owen Publishing) $15.95
For Lonely Adults Only #9 Fall Win 11 by Regis Trigano $8.00

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Nowhere To Be Home: Narratives From Survivors of Burmas Military Regime by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West (McSweeneys) $16.00

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