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LIVE AT QUIMBYS!!!

Published on August 29, 2007 0 Comments

Thursday!!! LIVE at Quimby’s!!!

COMIC

ART

BATTLE!!!!!

Thursday, August 30 at 7:00

Loaded Blanks presents a Comic Art Battle!

To celebrate the release of Loaded Blanks Greetings series two, Loaded Blanks and Quimby’s will host a “Comic Art Battle,” featuring several of the artists and creators behind the new line of cards. A cross between “Win, Lose or Draw”, “Whose Line is it, Anyway?”, and Professional Wrestling, the “Comic Art Battle” pits the comic book world’s most talented creators, writers and artists against each other in a clash of lightning-quick wits and superior spontaneous draftsmanship!

Featured Performers / Combatants: Lilli Carre (Tales of Woodsman Pete, Deep Sea Diving), Grant Reynolds (To The Mouth Of The Source, Tales of Achilles), Laura Park (Loaded Blanks illustrator) and Ezra Claytan Daniels (The Changers, Loaded Blanks illustrator and co-owner).

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Quimby’s Top 10 Selling Titles for August 19th-26th 2007

Published on August 27, 2007 0 Comments

Not to be confused with the Top 10 Valedictorians…

Top 10

1. Butt #20 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90

2. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July $23.00 (Scribner)

3. Punk Planet #80 $4.95

4. Crap Hound #6 $12.00

5. Abolish Restaurants $5.00

6. XXX Scumbag Party vol II of the Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan $18.95 (Fantagraphics)

7. The Baffler #17 $10.50

8. Sin in the Second City: Madams Ministers Playboys and the Battler for Americas Soul by Karen Abbott $25.95 (Random House)

9.  Beautiful Decay issue T $5.95

10. Believer #46 $8.00

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RAGAD Event

Published on August 19, 2007 0 Comments
Sep ’07
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7:30 pm

RAGAD presents INTERSECTIONS: A READING FROM THE STREETS. Join local authors for a night of readings, both fictive and non, based on Chicago street intersections and locales. Come listen and see how the roads you travel inspire other. This event doubles as a release party for RAGAD # 4, which features a short called “The Landing” by Paul Silverman. This event is free. Copies of RAGAD’s new issue as well as back issues will be available. With readings by Pete Coco (editor of Please Don’t), Scott Stealy (editor of Please Don’t), Ben Tanzer (author of Lucky Man), CT Ballentine, and RAGAD editor Nick Ostdick. Fun for all!

Ben Tanzer’s debut novel Lucky Man was published by Manx Media this past spring – www.manxmedia.com/luckyman.htm. You can check out his blog “This Blog Will Change Your Life”

Pete Coco’s writing has appeared in The Madison Review, The 2ndhand, Econoculture, American Book Review, as a Featherproof Mini-Book and is forthcoming in Barrelhouse and Other Voices. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a founding editor of the forthcoming literary website, Please Don’t.

Scott Stealey has a mini-book out from Featherproof Books and is co-editor of the upcoming webzine Please Don’t, at please-dont.com .

CT Ballentine lives and writes in Chicago. He is the audio editor at www.the2ndhand.com

Nick Ostdick is the editor/publisher of RAGAD. His writing has appeared in Word Riot, THE2NDHAND, VerbSap, Identity Theory, Wandering Army, and others, and is forthcoming in Letter X. Visit him online at www.inthenickoftime.wordpress.com

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Wizard World Without Us!

Published on August 8, 2007 0 Comments

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Wow for the first time in a long time, Quimby’s is siting out Wizard World. I’m not sure where people will buy their Housewives at Play or Jack Chick Tracts…our big sellers each year, but it was time for us to move on. So if anybody out then in inter-web land makes it, get us some good shots of people in costumes and make sure to say hi to Lou and Virgil, and Bobby the Brain for us!

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New Stuff 7/28/07

Published on July 28, 2007 0 Comments

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Wicker Park Fest is in full effect. Crocs, ball caps and baggy tees. I think Jimmy Buffet was just in here looking at porn. Crazy! What more to say another week of new stuff. Looks like the summer lull is subsiding and hot books are starting to trickle out.

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