Monthly Archive for July, 2012

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Quimby’s Participates In Bookstore Crawl 2012

 

Participating:
Heritage Bicycles • 2959 N Lincoln Ave
Powell’s North • 2850 N Lincoln Ave
Bookworks • 3444 N Clark St
Unabridged • 3251 N Broadway
Quimby’s • 1852 W North Ave
Open Books • 213 W Institute Pl
Powell’s • 1218 S Halsted St
Crawl starts at 1pm at Heritage Bicycles! Spend the day with your two favorite inventions, bicycles and books!

It finally ends at Powell’s in University Village (1218 S. Halsted) for the opening of “Bike Crawl: An Art Show,” which starts at 7pm.
Featured local artists: Kyle Baker, Todd Irwin, Deborah Maris-Lader, Jay Ryan, Maria Sanchez, Shawn Stuckey, Michael Una, and Julia Victor Curated by Kyra Termini
For more info, click the images above.

Eliza Frye Reads From Regalia 8/11

Aug ’12
11
7:00 pm

Regalia is a collection of short stories exploring themes of sex and death through visual metaphor, magical realism, and white tigers. Some of the stories have been previously published and some are brand new. They are all love letters.

“Frye has a powerful style. I had an immediate, almost visceral reaction to the images.”

—  Derik A. Badman, COMIXTALK

“I really want this … but I’m afraid of what my pastor will say.”

Chicago Comic Con Attendee

Eliza Frye is a graphic novelist, illustrator and exhibiting artist. Her comics have been featured in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States and Europe, and her short story “The Lady’s Murder” was nominated for a 2009 Eisner Award. She has studied Character Animation at California Institute of the Arts and has a BA in Japanese Literature from UCLA. She enjoys her tea earl grey, hot.

For more info: elizafrye.com and mail@elizafrye.com

Sat, Aug 11th 7pm

Derf Reads My Friend Dahmer at Quimby’s 8/9

Aug ’12
9
7:00 pm

“If you want to read a heavy story about a disturbing teenager, My Friend Dahmer will certainly quench your dark little desires. But this book is about a lot of other things that matter much, much more: the institutionalized weirdness of the suburban seventies, what it means to be friends with someone you don’t really like, a cogent explanation as to why terrible things happen, and a means for feeling sympathy toward those who don’t seem to deserve it.”
Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and The Visible Man

 

“A solid job. Putrid serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s origins are explored in this fine book. Dig it—it’ll hang you out to dry.”
James Ellroy, author of My Dark Places and L.A. Confidential

My Friend Dahmer (Abrams ComicArts; March 2012; Non-fiction; Graphic Novel; Paperback $17.95; ISBN: 978-1-4197-0217-4; Hardcover $24.95; ISBN: 978-1-4197-0216-7) is an original graphic novel that gives a unique perspective on the notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, he was “Jeff,” a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways and car rides. Using a combination of his own memories and journals, conversations with old friends, and Dahmer’s interviews and transcripts, writer-artist Backderf unveils a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man—a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a misfit who never quite fit in with his classmates—struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche.

My Friend Dahmer:

  • offers fascinating and disturbing answers to the question, “What was Jeffery Dahmer like as a kid?”
  • raises the question “Could these murders have been prevented?”
  • touches on the issues of bullying, teen alcoholism, and the role of parents and teachers in a troubled teen’s life.

 

About the Author:

Derf Backderf lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been nominated for two Eisner Awards and has received a host of honors, including the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartooning. His weekly comic strip, The City, has appeared in more than 100 newspapers over the past 22 years.

Thurs, Aug 9th, 7pm

The author is available for interviews, and images are available upon request. Contact: Katrina Weidknecht, Executive Director, Publicity, kweidknecht@abramsbooks.com

Brion Poloncic and Eckhard Gerdes Read 8/3

Aug ’12
3
7:00 pm

Brion Poloncic’s novel Xanthous Mermaid Mechanics pushes at all of our preconceptions and misconceptions not only about the self, but also about art.  Artists are too often and too easily cast as outsiders, and Outsider Art has become somewhat of a commodity with so-called “outsiders” who seem to market their “outsidedness” for monetary gain.  One wonders if in some cases the outsider stance isn’t merely a con.  But with Poloncic, who has been called the “Daniel Johnston” of literature, we see the real thing, and it is beautiful and scary, marvelous and delightful, yet also angry, insecure, self-doubting.  In other words, this is as human as it gets.  And sometimes it as humorous as it gets as when, in the depths of his artistic quest, Poloncic begins channeling William S. Burroughs, who dictates a manuscript to him, or when he realizes that all we really need to get through our lives successfully is a sequence of form letters.  Although it is deliciously funny, the book is, simply put, both charming and discombobulating, which is a note that rings absolutely true to the ear.  Brion Polonic is also an accomplished artist and musician.  He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his dog Tinca.

“This book was a very interesting read. At times, the author goes on a road that I don’t follow, but above and beyond, the first person narrative is brilliant. Dealing with mental illness, drug abuse and some very bad behavior without making excuses or apologies, this book chronicles parts of the author’s psyche that most of us keep locked away. My personal favorite was ‘Schizophrenia 101’. It is a step by step guide for “new” schizophrenics. Though written with humor, one can’t help but wonder if the advice and detailed guide of symptoms and meanings WOULD be a useful tool for people experiencing their first psychotic episode.”   –Kyle Muntz, Author of VII (A Novel): The Life, Times, and Tragedy of Sir Edward William Locke the Third: Gentleman.

Also joining the bill is Chicago author Eckhard Gerdes, who will read from his new books The Three Psychedelic Novellas of Eckhard Gerdes (Enigmatic Ink Books) and The Sylvia Plath Cookbook (Sugar Glider Press).

For more info: www.experimentalfiction.com, www.eckhardgerdes.com

Fri, Aug 3rd, 7pm

New Stuf This Week

Four 1 32nd Scale Scenarios by Gary Kachadourian $5.00 – Urban models on a micro-scale to cut out so that you can create yr own dystopian settings for yr action figure collection! Throbbing Gristle soundtrack not included. – KS

Zines
Gather #1 Sum 12 Float Seasonal Recipes and Exceptional Ideas $19.99
Drupe Fruits #3 Spr 12 $3.00
Heeldragger by Chelsea Tadeyeske $4.00
Valid Lush with CD by Luis Humberto Valadez $10.00
Fin FinFinFinFinFin $3.50
Absolutely Zippo #48 by Robert Eggplant $1.00

Comics & Comix
Tales To Thrizzle #8 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95 – Yes! A new issue! Huzzah! Hilarious.
Face Man by Clara Bessijelle  (Domino Books In Association With Identity Group) $5.00
Difficult Loves $6.00
Weather Comic by Gabby Schulz (Secret Acres) $5.00
Wayward Girls by Michiel Budel (Secret Acres) $6.00
December 3 1967 An Alien Encounter by Michael Jasorka $13.00
Castle Waiting #17 by Linda Medley (Fantagraphics) $3.95
World War 3 Illustrated #43 Expression Repression Revolution $7.00
Quiet Human Contact by Juliacks, John Hankiewicz, Onsmith and more $3.00
It Doesnt Exist by Corinne Mucha $7.00
Nevergirl a Moral Laxative by Henry Glover $3.00
Urban Nomad #2 and #3 by Alisa Harris $5.00 each
Counter Attack #3 by Alisa Harris $3.00
Hell Yeah Rock On #1 by Chris Orridor $2.00
Elephant Ear #1 by Jeremy Tinder $8.00
Lurking Nocturners by Conor Stechschulte $6.00
Less Than Three by Sam Sharpe $4.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Adventures of Venus by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $9.99
Sanatorium Presents Duke and His Army A Dream Revisited by Emelie Ostergren (Domino Books) $13.00
Dungeon Quest Book 3 by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $19.99
God and Science: Return of the Ti Girls by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Collects story from Love & Rockets New Stories vols 1 & 2 plus new pages!
Only Skin TPB New Tales of the Slow Apocalypse by Sean Ford (Secret Acres) $21.95
Not The Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman $24.95
WIzzywig Portrait of a Serial Hacker by Ed Piskor (Top Shelf) $19.95
Freaks of the Heartland by Steve Niles and Greg Ruth (Dark Horse) $29.99
Fables vol 17 Inherit the Wind by Bill Willingham et al. (Vertigo) $14.99

Art & Design
Coming After Queer Time Arriving Too Late and the Spectre of the Recent Past by Jon Davies $26.00
History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days 1776-1994 (DGV) $29.90
XOOOOX (DGV) $30.00

Fiction
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man SC by Denis Johnson $15.00
The Age of Wire and String by BEn Marcus $11.95 – Reprint of the classic.
Last Man a Novel by W.C. Turck and The 99% $12.95 – Don’t miss the Occupy Chicago event for this book here on 7/14.
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan $24.95 – Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends – Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them -in this riveting story of an iconoclast.

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Her Knees Pulled In Poems by Elizabeth Jacobson $14.00
Chicago Atlas #1 16 6 2012 $15.00
Greenwoman vol 2 #1 Sum Fall 12 $5.95
Zoetrope All Story Sum 12 vol 16 #2 $8.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
How They Croaked SC the Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg and Kevin O’Malley $9.99
The Immorality Engine by George Mann $14.99 – a Newbury and Hobbes Investigation.
American Gypsy by Oksana Marafioti  $16.00

Music Books
If You Like Metallica Here are Over 200 Bands CDs Movies and Other Oddities that by Mike McPadden (Backbeat) $14.99

Magazines
Else 3 2012 (idpure) by Elysee Lausanne $16.95
Creative Review Jun 12 $14.99
Bold Italic San Francisco Spr 12 #3 $4.00
Afterall  #30 Sum 12 $10.00
Skeptical Inquirer May Jul 12 vol 36 #4 $4.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 29 #2 $6.25
Neural #42 $8.00
South As a State of Mind Sum 12 #1 $13.00
V Magazine #78 Fall Preview 12 $6.50
Treating Yourself #35 $7.99
Pin Up America May Jul Aug #10 $5.99
Horror Hound #36 Jul Aug 12 $6.99
Mojo #224 Jul 12 $9.99
Monocle vol 6 #55 Jul Aug 12 $12.00
Dissent Sum 12 $10.00
In These Times Jul 12 $3.50
Tattoo Revolution Jul 12 $11.75
Sweets Magazine vol 5 #19 $5.99

Sex & Sexy
Hot Moms #16 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95

Other Stuff
Plywood Pizza Slice by Garth Borovicka $20.00
Ten x Ten #2 A Collection of Prints and Music by Chicago Artists (Spudnik Press) – This second issue features local stars Jeremy Tinder, Nate Beaty, Joe Tallarico and more.