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Logan Square Literary Review Reads: Halloween Edition

Published on September 30, 2011 1 Comment
Oct ’11
28
7:00 pm

Kick-off your Halloween weekend with the Logan Square Literary Review Reads: Halloween Edition! Grab your pumpkin beers and trick-or-treat bags and prepare yourself for the spooky, scary and creepy as read by: Lara Levitan, Michael McCauley, Alicia Hilton and others!

The Logan Square Literary Review is a not-for-profit quarterly journal based in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, IL. This publication aims to facilitate expression and add to the thriving community of arts and ideas in Logan Square. The Logan Square Literary Review is dependent upon submissions from the public. This event is to celebrate issue VIII Fall 2011.

Long live 60647!

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Weekly Top 10

Published on September 27, 2011 0 Comments

1. What The Hell Are You Doing: The Essential David Shrigley (Norton) $35.00 – “By turns hilarious, satirical, and brilliant, David Shrigley’s full-page illustrations-a combination of drawing, comics, photography, and sculpture-are sui generis: uproariously funny, pleasantly unnerving, and, most of all, really, really cool. Neither “graphic novel” nor “art book,” What the Hell Are You Doing? celebrates the surreal world of the artist who created Ants Have Sex in Your Beer and To Make the Meringue You Must Beat the Egg Whites Until They Look Like This.

2. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95 – Two pitch-perfect stories of rejection, imperfection, and relationship drama, each ending on a surprisingly uplifting note. “Hortisculpture” pushes Tomine into a stylistic camp with Sammy Harkham, Jordan Crane, Chuck Forsman and Kevin Huizenga – perhaps more than ever before. The story works with a “Chalky White”-ish suburban everyman and his tempered ambitions, but camps up the visual style into a Marmaduke-y newspaper strip aesthetic. The effect is similar to the trickiness of his wedding planning comics. The second half is a repolishing of his “Amber Sweet” college girl mistaken for porn star plot. Plus we get a glimpse into Tomine’s sad-sack mailbox, and some self-aware griping about putting out comics issue by issue.  -EF

3. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – Hotly anticipated new work from the author of Blankets and Goodbye Chunky Rice.

4. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00 – Clip art galore, collage style. Once you open it you can’t put it doooowwwnnn, superstitious theeeeeemed in time for Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeen!

5. Caroline Paquita 2012 Calendar  (Pegacorn Press) $10.00 – Thanks to everybody who came out last night for the release event for Pegacorn Press!

6. Future Tense  (Pegacorn Press) $8.00 – Ditto! A fabulous comics anthology.

7. Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010 byMichael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Yes, with text. Yes with illustrations. And oh yeah, yes with Mark Twain as porn star, drifter and grifter.

8. Bitch #52 $5.95

9. Prompts-Prompted Spr 11 The Creative Writers Guild $5.00 – Those art students! Bein’ all literary and stuff.

10. Maximumrocknroll #341 Oct $4.00

New Stuff This Week

Published on September 24, 2011 1 Comment

ZINES
Radical Pet #6 by Margarat Nee $2.50

Found Magazine #7 Willis Earl Beal Special Collection: Limited Edition Acousmatic Sorcery 17 Song Debut Album $20.00
Translady Fanzine #1 by Amos Mac and Zackary Drucker $20.00
Show and Tell #8 a zine made with love in Bend Oregon by Rachel Lee Carmen $3.00
Phallic Titty Manifesto by Jackie Wang $1.50
Peops #6 by Fly $4.00
Great Anarchists by Peter Willis $3.00
Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks by Dniel Gross, Staughton Lynd and Tom Keough (PM Press) $4.95
No More Unicorns by Emilie Robin $5.00
Train Stories #2 by Dre CTA $1.00
Can of Air #1 by Peter E. Rosales $2.00
Shotgun Seamstress #5 $3.00
Bookstores and Baseball: 2nd Inning the Moneyball Issue by David Labounty $4.00

COMICS & COMIX
Feedback #9 by John Isaacson  $2.00 – Jon goes to a lot of punk shows. Then he does comics about them.
Everything Dies #7 by Box Brown $5.00
Get on My Horse by Robin Emilie $3.00
Captcha #4 by Jojo Sherrow $4.00
Devil Burger by Kevin Fair $10.00
French Toast Comix #6 Coffee and Beer Money by Becky Hawkins $4.00
Zegas #1 by Michel Fiffe $9.95

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – New work from the artist of Blankets and Good-Bye Chunky Rice!
1-800 Mice HC by Matthew Turber (Picturebox) $22.95 – Finally! All in one place.
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 4 by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Pure Pajamas: A Handsom Treasure Trove of Scrumptious Visual Delights… by Marc Bell (D&Q) $22.95
Dawn of the Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley (Chronicle) $12.95
Hellboy vol 11 Bride of Hell and Others by Mike Mignola etc. (Dark Horse) $19.99
Hellboy vol 3 HC by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $49.99 – Collects Conqueror Worm and Strange Places.
New York Five TPB by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly (Vertigo) $14.99
New X Men TPB 1 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
Astonishing X-Men TPB Xenogenesis by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews (Marvel) $19.99

ART & DESIGN BOOKS
Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
Cut and Paste 21st Century Collage by Richard Brereton and Caroline Roberts (Laurence King) $29.95
Idols by Gilles Larrain (PowerHouse) $35.00
Rebus by James Jean (Chronicle) $45.00
What The Hell Are You Doing?: Essential David Shrigley (Norton) $35.00 – Thanks to everybody who came out to the David Shrigley event here at the store or the lecture at Columbia.
Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
Everyday Love: The Art of Nidhi Chanani $30.00 – Awfully cute.
Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00
Graffiti 365  by Jay “J.SON” Edlin (Abrams) $32.50 – This book delivers the first real insider’s view into the contemporary graffiti and street-art scenes, as well as their antecedents. A fun, wide-ranging survey of the international graffiti movement, this book uses more than 600 rare, previously unpublished, or legendary images to introduce and describe important artists—from Blade to Banksy—and styles—from bubble to wild. Along the way, Graffiti 365 covers different eras, cities, legendary walls and crews, police and public responses to graffiti, and more. Author J.SON, has been an artist and historian of the graffiti movement for decades—he started writing graffiti in 1973 and retired in 1984. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, Graffiti 365 is a wide-angle snapshot of an entire movement.

DIY
The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day by Laurie Henzel and Debbie Stroller (Stewart/Chang) $29.95

FICTION
All The Pretty People: Tales of Carob Shame and Barbie Envy by Ariel Gore and Summer Pierre (Lit Star) $10.00
Temple of Air by Patricia Ann McNair (Elephant Rock) $16.00
Murder At Any Age by Tony DeMarco $14.99
Zippermouth by Laurie Weeks (Feminist) $14.95
Stories of Haven I ed. by Bob Nelson – An collection of stories from Anthology Magazine.
God Complex by Chris Titus $19.95
In Case You Didn’t Hear Me The First Time by Sharon Skinner $7.99
Marks Night by Brian Schmarje $17.00
50 Plays Fifty Short One Act Plays by Joe Janes $25.00 – Don’t miss Joe Janes here at Quimby’s 10/1!

MAGAZINES
Color Ink Book vol 11 DIY Art Periodical $10.00
Bizarre #180 Oct 11 $10.50
Purple Fashion vol 3 #16 $45.00
Bust Oct Nov 11 $4.99
Razorcake #64 $4.00
Tape Op #85 Sep Nov 11 $4.95
Wax Poetics #48 $9.99
Harpers Magazine Oct 11 $6.99
Tattoo Revolution Oct 11 $11.75

POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Rogue: Searching For the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss (Crown) $25.00
Trans Love Radical Sex: Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary by Morty Diamond (Manic D) $14.95
Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Progressive) $15.95
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melvilee) $16.95

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
Origin of My Organs: Aching What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Loudin $6.95
A Capella Zoo #7 Fall 11 $7.00
Prompts Prompted Spr 11  by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $5.00
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #27 Aug 10 $5.00
Waukegan Pepsodent Conundrum by G. Wallace $3.00

MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab (university of Chicago) $20.00
Crap I Bought on E-Bay: 101 Crazy Bizarre Seriously Weird Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Running) $13.00
Death In the City of Light: Serial Killer of Nazi Occupied Paris by David King (Crown) $26.00
Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending Without Words by Romana Lefevre and Daniel Castro (Chronicle) $12.95
Stories in Reserve vol 1 by The Temporary Travel Office $15.00
Zombies Zombies Zombies: The Most Complete Collection of Zombie Stories Ever Published (Vintage) $25.00
Maybe He’ll Grow Out Of It: Collection of 45 Outlandish Stories of Youth Idealism by Christopher Gutierrez $16.00

SEX & SEXY
RFD #147 Fall 11 $9.95

OTHER STUFF
Flavor Savers Mustache Chip Clips (Gama Go) $8.00
New assorted wrapping papers with such graphics as: Bacon, Fancy Moustaches, Pi, Cupcake! $4.00 per pack
Instantly Antique Wall Decals: 35 Peel and Stick Decals Easy to Apply and Remove by Julia Rothman (Chronicle) $24.95
Crazy new toys! Finger Pickles that make your fingers into pickles! Whaaaat? Yes! ($.75 each!) And Finger Narwhals!
Shark Attack Porcelian Mug $9.50 – So you look inside, and at the bottom there’s a shark fin. Call the troops!
Individually Wrapped Bacon Candy $6.00 – It’s all about the tin it comes in!
Old-Fashioned Bacon Candy Canes $4.50 – September is the new December.
Silver Fox Sly Ceramic Desk Organizer (Gama Go) $20.00
Blood Sucking Sour Candy Blood Cherry $1.50
Gummy Earthworms Candy $.32
Topps Wacky Packages Stickers Series 7 $1.99
Best of CGW Radio by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $6.00
Popcorn Jelly Beans $5.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on September 20, 2011 0 Comments

Just a reminder that tonight artist David Shrigley will be here at 7pm. See you then!

No surprise what tops the list of bestellers — a new issue of Crap Hound and a new issue of Optic Nerve! A double bubble of excitement!

1. Crap Hound #8 Superstition (Show & Tell) $12.00
2. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95
3. Wallpaper Oct 11 $10.00
4. You Dont Get There From Here #20 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
5. Juxtapoz #129 Oct 11 $5.99
6. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.
7. Animal Sex You Might Not Want To Know by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – This mini is so good! It’s a sly and pervy funny-as-shit guide to kinky sex in the animal kingdom. From ungodly long schlongs of Argentine lake ducks to pheromone-fueled Garter Snake fuckballs, Rotman’s bestiary culls the cream of the crop from what sounds like some pretty extensive -uh- “internet research”. -EF

8. Neely Covers Comics To Give You The Creeps (Collectors Edition) by Tom Neely $6.00 – The calls are coming from inside the house as T.Neely does his number on 14 classic pulp comic covers.

9. Filter #45 $5.95
10. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, 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”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

Kevin Coval Performs Poetry From L-Vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems

Published on September 17, 2011 0 Comments
Oct ’11
12
7:00 pm

Spoken-word poet Kevin Coval, co-founder and Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, will perform at Quimby’s in support of his third collection of poetry L-vis Lives! Racemusic Poems (Haymarket Books, September).

Coval, who has been hailed as “a new glowing voice in the world of literature” by Studs Terkel, explores the dynamic intersection of race and culture in America today with “L-vis,” an imagined persona and pastiche of artists who have used and misused Black music. In Coval’s poetic novella, L-vis’s story is equal parts autobiography and forgotten and re-imagined history. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem, and meet some of history’s more obscure “whiteboy” heroes and antiheroes. A free audio preview of L-vis Lives!, with poems read by Coval and beats by Coolout Chris, can be heard here: http://bit.ly/oXSIxZ
“This book is bold, brave and morally messy – twelve rounds of knock-down, drag-out shadowboxing against a shapeshifter. The dark humor, intellectual fervor, and emotional rigor Coval brings to bear animates these pieces, turns caricatures to characters…”
—Adam Mansbach, author, Go the F**k to Sleep

For performance, interview, and review requests, contact: Jon Kurinsky, Haymarket Books, jon@haymarketbooks.org

Wed, Oct 12th, 7pm

from hero to most
i am a hero
to most. the great hope
of something other.
a complex back-story.
something other than
the business of my father.
bland’s antonym.
jim crow’s black sheep.
the forgotten son
left to rise in the darkness
among the dis
carded in the wild
of working class, single
mother hoods.

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