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On & Off-Site: {CAKE} The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo 6/15-6/16

Jun ’13
15
11:00 am
Jun ’13
16
11:00 am

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Quimby’s is proud to help sponsor The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE], which is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers.

Special guests this year include Collective Stench, Michael DeForge, Kim Deitch, Phoebe Gloeckner, Oily Comics, Charles Forsman, Melissa Mendes, Jason Shiga and more!

Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE)
Saturday and Sunday, June 15 & 16, 2013
11 am – 6pm
Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted
FREE and open to the public!
http://cakechicago.com

Don’t miss other things going on ON THE 14th though, around the city! We’re particularly excited about DERF (My Friend Dahmer, The City) being at Quimby’s on Friday, June 14th at 9pm as well as a Comic Art Battle led by Ezra Claytan Daniels (Upgrade Soul, The Changers)!

Also find CAKE on twitterfacebook, and tumblr.

Quimby’s welcomes Annie Mok with Sam Sharpe 5/25

May ’13
25
7:00 pm

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Annie Mok reads recent comics from Frank Santoro’s online magazine Comics Workbook and elsewhere that touch on themes of childhood trauma, resilience, sexuality, and trans identity. She will sell Risograph-printed comics and digital prints, such as the Jim Henson bio comic Stitching Together, and the American Illustration 2012 ‘Archive’ selection Annie Mok Draws James Joyce. She lived in Chicago from 2009-2011. A Q&A and signing follow the reading. Annie & Sam Sharpe collaborated on “Roosterlegs” for the 2012 2DCloud anthology, Little Heart.

“Annie Mok is bursting with ideas… ‘Roosterlegs’ is by far the best-looking strip in [Little Heart] thanks to the bold, confident lines, clever character design, and interesting use of spot color.”
Rob Clough, The Comics Journal / High-Low

Annie Mok’s minicomics have been chosen to be archived for the Library of Congress’s Small Press Expo Collection. She has been featured on the podcast Inkstuds. She was awarded the Xeric Grant to self-publish the 2009 anthology she edited and contributed to, Ghost Comics. Her work has appeared in anthologies such as The Graphic Canon Volume 3 from Seven Stories Press. She collaborated on a story with Emily Carroll for DC/Vertigo’s fall 2013 anthology The Witching Hour.

http://anniemakesstories.com/
http://anniemok.tumblr.com/
@HeyAnnieMok on twitter & InstagramAnnie will be joined by Sam Sharpe, who has self-published over a dozen comics with such names as Koolosaurus, Poop, Return Me to the Sea and These Yams Are Delicious. His work has made the Best American Comics’s “Notable Comics” list. He was born and raised in Madison Wisconsin, attended college at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now lives in Chicago. The first collection of his work will be published next year by Carpet-Bugle Press.
http://www.sambsharpe.com/Annie & Sam collaborated on “Roosterlegs” for the 2012 2DCloud anthology, “Little Heart.”

“Annie Mok is bursting with ideas… ‘Roosterlegs’ is by far the best-looking strip in [the ‘Little Heart’ anthology] thanks to the bold, confident lines, clever character design, and interesting use of spot color.” – Rob Clough, The Comics Journal / High-Low

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/367416030043049/

Laydeez Do Comics May Edition: Tyrell Cannon & Sarah Morton 5/30

May ’13
30
7:00 pm

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Laydeez do Comics is London’s monthly comics salon. Now there’s a branch in Chicago!

The monthly focus on lady comics and friends of lady comics artists returns. Come hear comics creators speak about their work, their process, their plans, and whatever else they want to share with us. For more info: laydeezdocomics.blogspot.com

May’s speakers will be indie cartoonists Sarah Morton and Tyrell Cannon.

About Sarah Morton:
Sarah Morton
Though originally from Utah (and no, she’s not Mormon), Sarah now lives in Chicago. She has pursued several various careers, including photojournalism and urban planning, but never stopped drawing. Sarah is currently working on volume 3 of Seasonal, a graphic novel based on the book by Bobbi Parry.  Sarah is also  working on as a series of autobiographical stories based on her aforementioned career experiences, a monthly comic about urban planning, and many, many others. sarahannmorton.com

About Tyrell Cannon:
Tyrell Cannon
Tyrell  Olen Cannon is also a Chicago local, and is a graduate of the SAIC. His blog Process Is Everything is a look into his art-making process. He does the comic Gary about a true-crime ispired serial killer.
tyrellcannon.com

For more info: laydeezdocomics.com and  comicnurse@mac.com

join us:

Thursday, May 30 at 7pm and the last Thursday of every month

 

New Stuff This Week

contradictionaryContradictionary: A Bestiary of Words in Revolt (CrimethInc) $11.95 – Whence do Stockholm Syndrome and Broken Window Theory derive their names? What is the common root of aristocracy and democracy? Who gets diagnosed with Anarchia and Drapetomania? How did voting kill Edgar Allen Poe, and why is a crater on the dark side of the moon named for the man who blew up the Tsar? Alternately scathing and sublime,Contradictionary pulls back the curtain from the war within every word, revealing the conflict behind the façade of the commonplace. In the tradition of The Devil’s Dictionary, Crimethinc’s Contradictionary assembles a wide range of wit and whimsy. This is no mere miscellany, but a lighthearted work of serious literature, concentrating a wealth of ideas and history into aphorisms and anecdotes.

Zines & Zine-Related
East Village Inky #52 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Revering Individual Posessions #1 by Elizabeth S. Tieri $1.00
Long Arm Stapler First Aid Self Care In Zines and Mini Comics ed. by Liz Mason (Spudnik Press) $2.00
Fuck Small Talk – Both And Always Never Split #1 $2.00
Corin #1 OXOX by Neelybat Chestnut and Miss C. Bean (Mend My Dress) $5.00
zines by Sergej Vutuc $8.00 each: Phil Jackson, Coincidence
It It by Danny Wayne Olsen $5.00
00 Series #01 and #02 by Sarah Machicado $5.00 each
Build Your Own Solidarity Network – A Guide to Building a Successful Solidarity Network Along the Lines of the Seattle Solidarity Network Written by Two SeaSol Organisers by Cold B. and T. Barnacle (Workers Solidarity Alliance) $4.00
Direct Unionism #2 A Discussion Paper – Recomposition Notes for Workerism $5.00
Strengthening Anarchisms Gender Analysis by J. Rogue $2.00 – Lessons from the transfeminist movement.
Super Special issues #1-#5 $4.00 each
Volume #2 Things We’ve Seen $15.00
Warning Signs #1, #3, #4 by Marisaover $2.00 each
Yollocalli Fashion Zine #2 Work Style Zine $3.00

Comics & Comix
More issues of Mini Kus!
More from Josh Bayer: Suspect Device #3 $10.00, Transformer $2.00
Ripper and Friends #1 by Benjamin Marra $6.00
Lapsos #1 part 1 Inechi by Ines Estrada $4.00
Fiends #1 Monster Mag by Timothy Tyler $10.00
Geography in a Glass vol 1 Homebrewing at the Intersection of Geography and by Kyle Smith and Sarah Morton $4.00
Qviet #2 by Andy Burkholder $6.00
S #12 Baltic Comics Magazine with Annie Koyama and Michael Deforge $12.00
Tucker Toon #2 by Dustooned $6.00
We Will Remain by Andrew White (Retrofit) $6.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Snake Pit Gets Old Daily Diary Comics 2010-2012 by Ben Snakepit (Bordcage Bottom Books) $16.95 – Ben’s 6th book.
Other Stuff TPB From the Back Pages of Hate Comics and Elsewhere by Peter Bagge $19.99
Adventures of a Japanese Business Man by Jose Domingo (Nobrow Press) $29.99
Creep by John Arcudi and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse) $19.99
Double Fine Action Comics vols 1 & 2 by Scott Campbell (as in Scott C.). $19.99 each
Grey Museum by Lorenz Peter (Concundrum) $20.00
Next Years Girl vol 1 Reckless Result of One Too Many Somedays by Katie Valeska $17.00 – Collectionof the web comic.
Who is AC by Hope Larson and Tintin Pantoja (Antheneum) $14.99
Ningens Nightmares by JO Kalonji $12.99

Art & Design
Power to the People The Graphic Design of the Radical Press, and the Rise of the Counter Culture 1964-1974 Counterculture by Geoff Kaplan (U of Chicago Press) $45.00
Dali the Paintings by Robert Descharnes (Taschen) $19.99
Door is Always Open by Gary Baseman (Skira) $45.00

DIY
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 3 Build Siege Weapons of the Dark Ages by John Austin (Chicago Review Press) $16.95

Sex & Sexy
Pledges Gay Erotic Stories by Shane Allison (Cleis) $15.95
Under Her Thumb Erotic Stories of Female Domination by DL King $15.95
Shot By Kern by Richard Kern (Taschen) $39.99 – Includes 60 minute DVD music by Thurston Moore.
Twice the Pleasure: Bisexual Womens Erotica by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis) $15.95
Sweets Magazine vol 6 #21 $5.99
Transformation #84 $12.50

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Orgasmo vols 1 and 2 Amazing Images of Erotic Movies by Christophe Bier and Jimmy Pantera (Serious Publishing) $49.99
International Steampunk Fashions by Lady Lisa Victoriana (Schiffer) $39.99 – Oooooo la la. Time pieces, jewelers loops, whimsical weirdo clothes — bodice-rippingly awesome. With some refined Chicago locals!
Mythology by Editch Hamilton $15.99
Temperatures Rising: A Galaxie 500 Oral and Visual History by Mike McGonigal $19.95
The Great Lakes Book Project, Anthology of Creative Nonfiction from the Region’s Best Authors by Walter Blake Knoblock $15.00
We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider $16.00

Fiction
Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves $9.99
Silver Dream by Mallory and Michael Reaves with Neil Gaiman $18.99
King of Good Intentions by John Andrew Frederick (Verse Chorus Press) $14.95
Slippage by Ben Greenman $14.99

Politics & Revolution
Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out of the 20th Century by McKenzie Wark $26.95
Tangled Roots: Dialogues Exploring Ecological Justice Healing and Decolonization by Matt Soltys (Healing the Earth Radio) $16.00
Best of Social Anarchism by Howard J. Ehlirch (See Sharp Press) $24.95

Magazines
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Tiki Magazine vol 9 #1 Spr 13 $6.99
Uppercase: A Magazine For the Creative and Curious, issues #15-#17 $18.00 each
Make vol 34 $14.99
Creative Review Apr 13 $14.99
Design Bureau May Jun 13 $8.00
Skeptical Inquirer May Jun 13 vol 37 #3 $4.95
Bizarre #200 May 13 $10.50
Wild Magazine Spr 13 Bold Issue $22.00
Cannabis Now Magazine #6  $7.99
Paper May 13 vol 29 #7 $4.00
Fangoria #323 $9.99
Filter Good Music Guide Apr May Jun 13 $2.99
Maximumrocknroll #360 May 13 $4.00
Mojo #234 May 13 $9.99
Uncut: The Smiths Ultimate Music Guide #14 $13.99
Wire Apr 13 #350 $11.25
AdBusters May Jun 13 $12.95
Harpers Magazine May 13 $6.99
Make Shift #13 Spr Sum 13 $6.95
Progressive May 13 $4.95
Radical Philosophy #179 $13.00
Bound By Ink vol 1 #13 $8.99
Inked May 13 #55 $6.99

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
The Believer #98 $8.00
77 and Protection, both by Gregg Shapiro $15.00 each
Granta #123 Spr 13 Best of Young British Novelists 4 $16.99
Parody vol 2 #1 $5.00
The White Review #7 $20.00
Continental Interlude #2 by Collin Brennan and Matt Whispers $3.00

Teens Read Work Inspired by Chicago Zine Fest 5/14

May ’13
14
7:00 pm

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In the week following March’s Chicago Zine Fest, 13 high school students participated in a series of talks and workshops with exciting self-publishing artists from the greater Chicagoland area. Now here’s their chance to present and read from their self-published works inspired by what they learned during the series, that include essays, poems, comics and stories. Quimby’s is proud to support the next era of self-publishers.

F E A T U R I N G   T A L E S    OF  . . .

Eggplants <> Deep Fears <> Deep Loves

White Castle  <> Radio Reception and more!

Tuesday (a good day for mail), May 14th, 7pm