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New Stuff This Week & A Link to Our October News

Published on October 6, 2012 0 Comments


May We Shed These Human Bodies (Curbside Splendor) by Amber Sparks $12.00 – One of today’s freshest fiction voices.

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Some new stuff this week…

Zines & Zine-Related
Clearance Catalogue #1 $2.00
Real Fake Clouds Field Guide and Audio Companion by Ethan Krause and friends $5.00
Happy Crotch vol 1 #2 by Alicia Obermeyer and Lindsay Evans $1.50
On Struggling Identity #1 by Monica Trinidad $6.00
Whistle #2 Modern Pin Up Magazine Jodie by Eddy Price and Danielle Avery $10.00
14 S East Street Dollar Stories #4 by Peter Cavanaugh $1.00
Dogs of the City Dollar Stories #9 by Sarahana Shrestha $1.00
Real Americans Dollar Stories #6 by Joe Koplowitz $1.00

Comics & Comix
White Clay by Thomas Herpich (Adhouse) $4.95
Everybody Loves Tank Girl #3 by Jim Mahfood and Alan C. Martin $3.99
Mini Mouths Sum 12 by Jason Young $3.00
Ugly on Both Sides #1 by Colin Coyle $2.00
Autobiographic Fanfiction by Erik Schneider $2.00
Nice Tat by Erik Schneider $2.00
Over Here #1 by Andrea Tsurumi $9.00
Index #2 Otlet by Caitlin Cass $3.50
Alas vols 1 and 2 by Cathy Hannah $4.00 each
Cartoon Picayune #4 Fall 12 $4.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Building Stories $50.00 version by Chris Ware – Don’t miss Chris here to sign this book on 10/14! We also have the even fancier $79.95 version.
Understanding Monster Book 1 by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $21.95
Best American Comics 2012 guest ed. by Francoise Mouly $25.00
New York Drawings: A Decade of Covers, Comics, Illustrations and Sketches from the Pages of the New Yorker and Beyond by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $29.95
Ralph Azham vol 1 Why Would You Lie to Someone You Love by Lewis Trondheim et al. (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Cycles TPB by Kyle O’Connell $10.00
Walking Dead Compendium vol 2 by Robert Kirkman et al. $59.99
Death Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman $29.99
The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song by Frank M. Young and David Lasky $24.95

Art & Design
Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidereing Yoko Ono by Lisa “Rollerderby” Carver $18.99

Fiction
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 ed. by Dave Eggers $14.95
At Dawn by Jobie Hughes (Soft Skull) $15.95 – Jobie Hughes made national headlines as “Pittacus Lore,” the mysterious co-author of the bestsellers I Am Number Four  and The Power of Six (co-written with James Frey). Don’t miss Jobie Highes here to talk about this book. It’s set against the background of the recent American recession, where a former high school wrestling champion escapes a dark past in his small Ohio hometown for a new beginning in Chicago.
Mr. Penumbras 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan $25.00 – Global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life.

Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story by Lorin Stein and Sadie Stein $16.00 – Twenty masters of the medium to choose their favorite short stories from the sixty-year archive of the Paris Review, and write an introduction. The result is a series of “object lessons” in the art of short fiction.
Tumbling After Through Jills Eyes by E. Ternity $18.00
Fat Duck Book No 1 and Other Animals Almost Never Born by Peter Bowman $20.00
Assorted Fire Events Stories by David Means $15.00

DIY
Getting Your Shit Together: A Professional Practices Manual for Artists by Karen Atkinson et al. $29.00 – Taxes! Marketing! Publicity! All that business-y stuff artists hate dealing with — well now it’s all here for you! Recommeded.
The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home – The Happy Luddites Guide to Domestic Self-Sufficiency by Ken Albala et al. $23.00

Childrens
He Was There From the Day We Moved In by Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey $14.95
Moomin’s Winter Follies, Moominvalley Turns Jungle (D&Q) $9.95 each
Moomin vol & $19.95
Hereville How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch (D&Q) $9.95
Last Night I Swam With A Mermaid by Kimberly and Michael Muller $24.99

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Reel Terror: The Scary Bloody Gory Hundred Year History of Classic Horror Films by David Konow $18.99 – From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Paranormal Activity, Konow explores its all-time highs and lows, why the genre has been overlooked, and how horror films just might help us overcome fear. His on-set stories and insights delve into each movie and its effect on American culture.

Mobile Phenomena by Temporary Services (Half Letter Press) $8.00
Steampunk Gazette vol 1 by Major Tinker $24.99
The Lost Civilization Enigma: A New Inquiry into the Existence of Ancient Cities, Cultures, and Peoples Who Pre-Date Recorded History by Philip Coppens $19.99
American Vampires – Their True Bloody History From New York to California by Dr. Bob Curran $15.99
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo Interviews, Faux Lectures, Quasi Letters, Found Texts and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer $18.95
The Raven by Lou Reed and Mattotti (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Now in soft cover.

Politics & Revolution
Bolsheviks and Workers Control 1917-1921 The State and Counter Revolution by Maurice Brinton $20.00

Magazines
Adbusters Nov Dec 12 vol 20 #6 $8.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 29 #3 $6.25
Ladygunn #5  $9.99
AnOther Magazine #23 Fall Win 12 a New Dimension $14.99
Skunk vol 8 #3 $5.99
High Times Dec 12 $5.99
Mother Earth Living Nov Dec 12 $4.99
Paper Oct 12 vol 29 #2 $4.00
Cinefantastique Fall Win 12 3D Zombie Special Issue $9.99
Fangoria #317 $9.99
Diabolique #12 Sep Oct 12 $9.98
Canteen #8 State of Creation $12.00
Wallpaper Oct 12 $10.00
3×3 vol 7 #1 #19 the Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $22.00
Frieze #149 Sep 12 $10.00
Witches and Pagans #25 $6.95
Fader #82 Oct Nov 12 $5.99
Monocle vol 6 #57 Oct 12 $12.00
Radical Philosophy #175 $13.00

Sex & Sexy
Transformation #80 $12.50

Other Stuff
2013 SLINGSHOT ORGANIZERS ARE HERE! $6.00 small, $12.00 large
Sock Monster Button Pack by Neil Brideau $6.00
Carl Panzaram DVD The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance by John Borowski $20.00

Off-Site event: Quimby’s Co-Sponsors Karaoke Idol at the Beauty Bar Chicago 10/18

Published on October 5, 2012 0 Comments
Oct ’12
18
12:00 am


The next installment of Chicago’s favorite live karaoke battle KARAOKE IDOL cheeses up the stage at Beauty Bar Chicago on Thursday, Oct 18th at 8PM! This is a bi-monthly series benefitting different cool Chicago-based companies and organizations. One singer from each the following organizations will battle it out to determine who will benefit.

This month, competitors representing these fine organizations will compete:
Chicago Zine Fest
One Tail at a Time
Young Chicago Authors
Reversible Eye
& Graze

Celebrity Judges Mason Johnson, Amy Guth, & Jacob Knabb, and KJ Gods “Shameless Karaoke” will preside.

Show up at 8PM to compete in an epic hour-and-a-half long karaoke free-for-all! Sign up to sing your ass off for a chance to be chosen as the 6th contestant by our celebrity judges!

Tune in at 10PM as 2 FINALISTS are chosen from the field of 6 to compete in Chicago’s ultimate karaoke death-match.

YOU DECIDE THE WINNER! Ultimately CHICAGO DECIDES who wins based upon audience applause so come ready to cheer for your favorite performer!

Be sure to stick around afterward for OPEN KARAOKE. Just come early or stay late so you can sign up & belt out your favorite songs when your turn arrives.

KARAOKE IDOL is brought to you every other month at Beauty Bar Chicago by Curbside Splendor Publishing, Another Chicago Magazine, & Quimby’s Bookstore.
21+
$5 cover

Please note: this event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the Beauty Bar at 1444 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622

More info:
Click here for the FB page for the event.
Click here for the Karaoke Idol Chicago FB page.
Click here for the Beauty Bar site.
curbsidesplendor.com

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Dame Darcy Reads Handbook for Hot Witches: Dame Darcy’s Illustrated Guide to Magic, Love, and Creativity

Published on October 4, 2012 0 Comments
Oct ’12
29
7:00 pm

Just in time for Halloween! Quimby’s is excited to welcome Dame “Meat Cake” Darcy for her new book Handbook for Hot Witches.

Plenty of artwork to satisfy her comics and illustration fans both young and old, Dame Darcy combines a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells and voilà! Handbook for Hot Witches: Dame Darcy’s Illustrated Guide to Magic, Love, and Creativity is the guide for girls who want cool things to do and great friends to do them with, who aren’t afraid to be their different, awesome selves. It’s a celebration of powerful, creative girls—the sort of girls who may have been called “witches” once, but who, as this book proclaims, are “hot,” because of their talent and their uniqueness. With sections on banjo playing, beauty spells, palm reading, and much more, this fully illustrated handbook will send girls of any age on their way to independence, creativity, and magic DIY-style.

“Part graphic novel, part New Age primer, with dashes of astrology and crafts and pinches of beauty hints, the book packs a lot into its 200 pages.” —School Library Journal

What others have said about Dame Darcy:

“Darcy’s comics are aesthetic manifestos. . . . Darcy is a star.” —The New York Times

“I think she’s exquisite, let’s put it that way. I wish I knew her in high school.” —Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

Praise for Meat Cake:

“[Darcy] has created a childlike, otherworldly realm, a land that hovers in the twilight space between the whimsical and the macabre. Ghosts and goblins, foul-tempered stepmothers, lovesick mermaids and charmed forest are all rendered in Darcy’s distinctive hand, loose and flowing lines reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey.” —The Los Angeles Times

 Dame Darcy currently resides in New York City and Savannah, Georgia. She is known worldwide as an illustrator, writer, fine artist, musician, filmmaker, animator, environmentalist, and Cabaret Mermaid. Her illustrated titles include The Illustrated Jane Eyre, and she has been publishing her comic book series, Meat Cake, for twenty years. More info about her at damedarcy.com.
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Scott Campbell Discusses Great Showdowns

Published on October 4, 2012 0 Comments
Oct ’12
20
7:00 pm


Since the beginning of time, there has been struggle. The epic clash of being against being. Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Triceratops. Giant Squid vs. the Sperm Whale. The Circle vs. the Square.  The struggle is forever. It makes the world turn around. These are the struggles that make us stop what we are doing and sort of check things out… wondering what the eff. Scott C. chronicles some of the greatest confrontations in FILM HISTORY. The greatest moments of melee. These are the GREAT SHOWDOWNS. And they sort of enjoy that they are the great showdowns.

With equal parts style, humor, and insight, Scott C. has delighted an international fanbase with his unique watercolor paintings, illustrations, and drawings. Amazing Everything: The Art of Scott C. is his first monograph, the best and most imaginative works of art in his emerging career.

Admirers and collectors seek out Scott C.’s appearances at such diverse venues as Comic-Con in San Diego and Galerie Arludik in Paris to see his unusual depictions of pop-culture subjects and original creations: Victorian-era dinosaurs at high tea; lumberjacks and their sometimes-awkward relationship with trees; and ninjas lounging in their living room at home. These and other reflections of Scott C.’s artistic vision have kept him on the radar of such pop-culture trend outlets as Flavorpill and Hi-Fructose.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on October 4, 2012 0 Comments


Local Quimby’s fave Corrine Mucha’s new comic is at #4
1. Lose #4 by Michael Deforge (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Tremendous! DeForge’s well-oiled line skates through the Stud File, each story shedding it’s snakeskinnery onto the next. From leather terror to royal lace to Stacyface, this issue is an ode to the body as a husk and an assault on the idea of corpus control. Flesh, rendered alternately as vampirically smooth and bacterially roccoco is bound up in narratives of contemporary methods of “information sharing” and “social networking” and the effect is straight up cut-to-the-bone sci fi plastic surgery. Witty, sly and lovely to hold exuding a warm Canadian glow. -EF

2. By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press) $15.00

3. King Cat #73 by John Pocellino $3.00 – Porcellino goes cuckoo for cuckoo birds, plus cats at the movies, plus a South Beloit Top 36, plus a recurring spermophile theme.

4. Buzz #4 Joke Comics by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – Funnyuns! Buzz #4 is a new collection of hilarity unleashed from Mucha’s potent joke arsenal: crazy 8-balls, breakfast shorthand, bad dates, beauty tips and ideas, all special for you.

5. The Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz (Koyama) $15.00 – Three short stories or graphic novellas from the artist of Fart Party and Drinking at the movies. Filled with the sometimes messy, heartbreaking and hilarious moments that make up a life.

6. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf $17.95 – Backderf puts together a memoir of high school in the washed out suburban seventies when he was classmates and comrades with grisly serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

7. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 American Food Issue $12.00 – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

8. Paper Oct 12 vol 29 #2 $4.00

9. Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Dave Cave and Maranda Elizabeth $3.00 – Be ironic! Buy it on our website!

10. Fag School #4 New Fiction – Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – Fag School is in session and I suggest you try to handle the full course load. This zine is fucking brilliant and amazing – always has been, and I think it might always will be. -EF