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Work In Progress Get-Together

Published on April 30, 2010 0 Comments
May ’10
26
7:00 pm

We launched our new monthly working get-togetherhere at Quimby’s, which is called Work In Progress. At the first one, we had some wonderful folks sharing what they’re working on and hangin’ out withus. Comics, zines, poetry and fiction were represented, and we enjoyed snacks. Won’t you join us again on Wednesday, May 26th at 7pm?

Event!

Work In Progress is from 7-8:30pm on the last Wednesday of the month.  You can bring your current project and work on it in a social atmosphere.  If you’re looking for critiques or advice, you can get it from fellow attendees.  If you just want somewhere outside of your dark basement apartment to work on that new zine, this is the event you want to go to.

If you’re looking to meet more folks in the city who are making fun stuff, stop by!  We’re hoping this monthly series will become a positive space for self-publishers and other creative types here in Chicago.

Spread the word: Work In Progress at Quimby’s, the last Wednesday of every month!

Chris Besinger Reads The Usual Beast with Group Icky Rats and ONO

Published on April 30, 2010 0 Comments
May ’10
31
1:00 pm

Don‘t miss this dual release show featuring Chris Besinger, reading from The Usual Beast collected writings (Laughing Mouse Press) performing with Group Icky Rats from their work Group Icky Rats LP (Coat-Tail Records) with ONO.

Chris Besinger is vocalist for Minneapolis’s STNNNG. In addition to bringing copies of his new book, The Usual Beast (Laughing Mouse Press), a collection of STNNNG lyrics and other writings, with cover art by Tom Stack, Besinger will be performing with Group Icky Rats, his all-improvised rock band that is releasing its LP this month.

Group Icky Rats –Chris Besinger (STNNNG) on vocals, Jon Skuldt (White) on guitar and keyboard, and Bryan Reynolds on drums—forms, through its headlong charge into constant error, and force of will, new and gorgeous spectacular failure. That’s how it’s supposed to go when you make up all your rock songs on the spot. Wherever this vector directs the music, its components are 1) one poet dedicated, as are the finer ranters in the short history of rock—think Brewer from Saccharine Trust—to both massaging and upending the form through the formal and the informal, the situational, the “poetic” (Besinger); 2) another poet dedicated to –think Metal Machine Music—the piercing and to music-as-irritant (Skuldt); 3) and a shit-hot drummer who will crush you –think being destroyed— with total unadulterated punishing awesomeness (Reynolds). The new Group Icky Rats LP, out in an edition of 100 on Coat-Tail Records (home to releases by The Flying Luttenbachers, Xerobot, Melt-Banana, et al) will be available at the show and contains guitar from Mark Shippy (US Maple, Miracle Condition).

This event will also feature longtime Chicago way-out unit ONO, recently resurrected in what is now their nearly 30-year career, whose work –verifiable through early 80s releases and numerous performances archived on the internet— keeps re-setting the bar for total mind-bending performative fuckery.
For more info:

Group Icky Rats www.myspace.com/groupickyrats
ONO www.travistravis.com
Laughing Mouse Press www.laughingmouse.net

Cyberpunk Apocalypse’s Elwin Cotman & Daniel McCloksey

Published on April 28, 2010 0 Comments
May ’10
5
7:00 pm

Don’t miss this night of DIY speculative fiction. Fantasy writer Elwin Cotman will read from his debut short story collection, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP. Science fiction Daniel McCloksey will read from his upcoming novel. Both readers are members of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse, a DIY writers’ cooperative in Pittsburgh, PA.

Elwin Cotman is a writer, performance artist and activist from Pittsburgh, PA. Known for his energetic storytelling, he has featured at the TerPoets open mic, Artomatic, Babble-On and A Space Inside Reading Series. He has performed with musicians Bryan Depuy of “Jubilee” and Joy Toujours. He wrote a full-length story/liner notes for an album by piano-punk band Baby Killer Estelle. “The Jack Daniels Sessions EP” is his first book.

At the age of 20, Daniel McCloskey graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in fiction writing. At the age of 21, he founded the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers’ Co-op, which combines a writing residency program and a community space in order to support burgeoning writers. He currently resides at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers’ Co-op where he works to maintain the project, polish his first novel, and does freelance work.

For more info, see www.cyberpunkapocalypse.com.

Top 10 Last Week

Published on April 27, 2010 0 Comments
C2E2 booth shared with Chicago Comics.

C2E2 booth shared with Chicago Comics.

Thanks to everybody who visited our booth shared with Chicago Comics at C2E2!

Top 10 Last Week

1. MadM Signed Out of Our Minds (OOOM) comic by Melissa Auf der Maur $12.00

2. Lose #1 by Michael Deforge $5.00

3. Mojo #198 May 10 $9.99

4. Body World by Dash Shaw (Pantheon) $27.95

5. Snake Pit 2009 by Ben Snakepit (Birdcage Bottom) $6.00

6. Make #9 Spr Sum 10 $10.00

7. Bitch #46 $5.95

8. Beautiful Decay Book 3 The Underdogs $20.00

9. N Plus 1 #9 Spr 10 Bad Money $13.95

10. Pygmy (soft cover) by Chuck Palahniuk (Anchor) $14.95

New Stuff This Week

Published on April 24, 2010 0 Comments

Lit Journals

Rhino 2010 Poetry Forum $12.00

Logan Square Literary Review #3 Spr 10 $5.00

N Plus 1 #9 Spr 10 Bad Money $13.95

Barrelhouse #8 $8.00

Comics/Comix/minis

In This Corner by Andy Jewett $1.00

Sicko

Sicko by Andy Jewett $3.00

LosersWeepers2

Losers Weepers #1 and #2 by JT Yost (Birdcage Bottom) $5.00 each

Women & Their Hesitant Natures by Delia Hickey $5.00

Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin #1 – #4 (Fake Story Real Boy) by BT Livermore $4.00 for each issue individually.

Abortion Andy Baby Steps by GP Bonesteel $6.00

Aliens First Encounterby GP Bonesteel $3.00

LifeofVice2

Life of Vice #2 by Robin Enrico $3.00

Lose #1 & Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00 each

III Generation Mafia #1 Unsuspecting Victim by Dommanick Hampton $4.00

Hatred for a Human Host #666 by Zach Hazard Vaupen $5.00

Zines

Shock Action Stories #1 Gutter Punk Farmboy Death of Lit and Lang by Corry Graston $3.00

Shock Action Stories #2 Torture Issue Oh Shit Like Dogs by Corry Graston $3.00

Reading Log 2009 by Celia Perez $1.00

Atlas of Childhood: Zine About Childrens Books Celia Perez $2.00

I Dreamed I was Assertve #11 & I Dreamed I was Assertve #12 $2.00 each

Neighbourhood Sacrifice $2.00

Wowee Zonk Pobodys Nurfect by var. $10.0

Lifestyles, Culture & Art Mags

Deadbeat #13 $9.95

Meatpaper #11 Spr 10 $7.95

Wallpaper May 10 $9.50

Skunk vol 6#1 $5.99

Tattoo Scout #16 $8.00

Monster Children #26 $9.00

Urban Ink #52 $8.99

Harpers May 10 $6.95

Juxtapoz #112 May 10 $5.99

Dazed & Confused #84 Apr 10 $9.95

Tree Sapp #1 by Anika Sabin and John Wagner $11.00

Scoot Magazine #55 Apr 10 $5.95

Lowbrow & Street Art Books

Graffiti From A to Z by Booqs (Booqs) $14.95

Zine-Related Books

Better of McSweeneys vol 2 Issues 11 through 20 (McSweeneys) $18.00

Politics & Revolution Media

Motherhood and Feminism by Amber Kinser (Seal) $14.95

War and Civil Disobedience CD by Howard Zinn (PM Press) $14.95

Angry Brigade: A History of Britains First Urban Guerilla Group (PM Press) $24.95

In These Times Apr 10 $3.50

Amass #35 $4.95

Outer Limits, Mayhem & True Crime Books

The Key to Solomons Key: Is This the Lost Symbol of Masonry 2nd Edition by Lon Milo DuQuette & James Wasserman (Cons. of Coll. Cons.) $16.95

Get Capone The Secret Plot That Captured Americas Most Wanted Gangster HC by Jonathan Eig (Simon) $28.00

Dead Men Talking: The Worlds Worst Killers in Their Own Words by Christopher Berry Dee (John Blake) $16.95

Shared Madness: True Stories of Couples Who Kill (John Blake) $13.95

Real Zombies Living Dead and Creatures of the Apocalypse by Brad Steiger (Visible Ink) $19.95

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Snake Pit 2009 $6.00

The Culture Corner by Basil Wolverton & Monte Wolverton (Fantagraphics) $22.99

RASL TPB vol 2 Fire of St George by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $15.00

100 TPB SC by Paul Pope (Vertigo) $29.99

Grimjack The Manx Cat, Grim Jack by John Ostrander & Timothy Truman (IDW) $19.99

Sword of My Mouth TPB by Jim Munroe & Shannon Gerard (IDW) $14.99

Greetings From Cartoonia The Essential Guide to The Land of Comics (Stripburger) $20.00

Y the Last Man book 3, Deluxe Edition by Brian K. Vaughan and var. (Vertigo) $29.99

Freewheel vol 1 by Liz Baillie $12.00

BearFight

Bear Fight $12.00

CurioCabinet

Curio Cabinet TPB by John Brodowski (Secret Acres) $15.00

Fiction

The Third Rail by Michael Harvey (Knopf) $24.95 – As featured in The Chicago Reader.

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (Anchor) $14.95 – Now in soft cover.

Prints

Surf Concrete Poster Con Tiki Blockheads 2010 by Joseph Olenik $20.00

Music Books & Mags

The Olivetti Chronicles: Three Decades of Life and Music by John Peel (Corgi) $16.95

Maximumrocknroll #324 May 10 $4.00

Sexy Stuff

Handbook4-2

Handbook vol 4 #2 2010 $6.00

Girls Like Us (GLU) vol 2 #1 $12.00

Filament vol 1 #4 $12.50

Outer Limits Mags

Interzone #227 $7.50

Conspiracy Journal #30 $3.00

True Crime Detective Monthly Apr 10 $8.99

True Crime Spring Special 20 All True Murder Stories $10.99

Eye Spy #66 $6.50

Cemetery Dance #63 $5.00

Nexus vol 17 #2 Mar Apr 10 $5.95

Things That Can’t Be Classified By Your So-called “System,” Man.

On Farting Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages by Valerie Allen (Palgrave) $26.00

Obamistan: Land Without Racism by Damali Ayo (Lawrence Hill) $14.95

Ask Ninja, The Ninja Wisdom Deck: 50 Deadly Meditations for the Non Ninja (Random) $14.99