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New Stuff This Week

Published on June 25, 2016 3 Comments

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The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise by Brix Smith Start $18.95 – American Brix Smith Start spent ten years in The Fall with Mark E. Smith while being married to him, which ended in a violent disintegration. Growing up in the Hollywood Hills in the ’60s in a dilapidated pink mansion her life has taken her from luxury to destitution, from the cover of the NME to waitressing in California, via the industrial wasteland of Manchester in the 1980s.

*ZINES*

The Difference Between #5 How Some Things are Similar Yet Different by Billy McCall, with illustrations by Jaime Tillotson $2.00

Soon Everyone Will Know $15.00

See You at the Buck by Rob Brulinski $10.00

Just Make Pictures Zine #8 Memories of a Dream by Michael Jarecki $4.00

Good Riddance: A Zine About Stuff by Megan Kirby and Rosamund Lannin $3.00

Sub/Verse #6 by Chloe Graham $5.00

zines by George Porteus $7.00 each
Naked Mole Rats Drawings
Mountain Lies

Dreams in Cryogenic Fugue by Chris Johnson $10.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Stockholme Is Sauceome by Sarah Becan $10.00

Corpus Distorta by Grant Reynolds $7.00

Enter to Exit by George Porteus $7.00

Comics by Amara Leipzig:
Night Blanket $6.00
Fifth Window $7.00
Other Side by Amara Leipzig 2015 $2.00

Dream of Dobermans Sprinting Across the Asphalt by Yewon Kwon $7.00

Succinct Scary Stories by Jonas and Rebecca Peloquin $3.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden (Top Shelf) $29.99

Northlanders vol 1 The Anglo Saxon Saga by Brian Wood and friends $29.99

18 Days TPB vol 2 Heroes and Legends by Grant Morrison & friends $14.99

Tiny Splendor zines, comics & graphic novels:
Anime Fan Club by Kenneth Srivijitiakar & Max Stadnik $12.00
Catabunga #2 $4.00
Land Around Us by Bijou Karman, Juliette Toma & Vivian Shih $10.00
Ugly Girl Gang #2 & #3 by Tuesday Bassen(Tiny Splendor) $7.00 each
Die Homer by Tyler J. Hutchison (Tiny Splendor) $10.00
Many Ways of the Potato by Sanaa Khan $2.00
Urge to Regurge by Sanaa Khan $2.00

*ART BOOKS*

Understanding the Sky by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $24.00 – Mr. Eggers rode a lightweight plane. Here’s a poem-essay-photo book thingy about it.

*MUSIC BOOKS*

A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics by Billy Bragg $18.95

*FICTION*

Bye Bye Blondie by Virgine Despentes (Feminst Press) $17.95

Unnoticeables by Robert Brockway $14.99

*ESSAYS*

Bukowski in A Sundress: Confessions from A Writing Life by Kim Addonzio $16.00

*SCIENCE!*

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Charles Foster $28.00

*FOOD BOOKS*

Famous Nathan: A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog by Lloyd Handwerker $26.99

*MAGAZINES*

Mojo #272 July 2016 Prince and Bob Dylan $10.99

Hi Fructose #40 New Contemporary Art Magazine $7.95

RFD #166 Sum 16 $9.95

Paper Sum 16 $10.00

*CHAP BOOKS & LIT JOURNALS*

Plastic Pajaros by Melissa Lozada Olivia $7.00

One Day I will be Louder Than all the Bruises on Your Knees by Elaine Hsiang & Tiffany Mallery $5.00

The First Line vol 18 #2 Sum 16 $4.00

*FOR THE KIDDIES*

Anna and Froga Out and About by Anouk Ricard (D&Q) $15.95

various issues of childrens mag Brain Bug $10.00 each

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Offsite & More: CAKE Kick Off Events & Tabling Exhibition …AND a QUIMBY’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY PANEL!

Published on May 26, 2016 0 Comments
Jun ’16
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Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor The [CAKE], 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. The Fifth Annual CAKE tabling exhibition will take place on June 11th-12th at the Center on Halsted (more info below). Special guests include Chester Brown, Tyrell Cannon, Ezra Clayton Daniels, Sammy Harkham, Cathy G Johnson, Patrick Kyle, Laura Park, Trina Robbins, and Leslie Stein.

 There are all sorts of awesome CAKE-related things happening that weekend in other places that weekend too! Here are just a few:

Thurs, June 9th, 7pm  David Alvarado & Tyrell Cannon at Sulzer Library at  4455 N. Lincoln Ave (NOT at Quimby’s)

Fri, June 10th, noon-1:30pm Chester Brown at Graham Crackers Comics Downtown, 77 E Madison St. (NOT at Quimby’s) He’ll be signing and discussing his new graphic novel Mary Wept at the Foot of Jesus.

Fri, June 10th, 7pm YES, THIS IS AT QUIMBY’S: CAKE Presents Kramer’s Ergot 9 Signing, with Sammy Harkham, Andy Burkholder, Anya Davidson, Kevin Huizenga, Patrick Kyle, John Pham, and Lale Westvind. This event is also sponsored by Revolution Brewery, and will have refreshments provided while supplies last!

Sat, June 11th & Sun, June 12th 11am-6pm Tabling exhibition at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted Ave.  (NOT at Quimby’s) Workshops and panels and all that fun stuff! 

AND OH!!! Don’t miss the Quimby’s 25th Anniversary Panel at CAKE!

11:30–12:30 A 25th Anniversary Celebration of Quimby’s! 

All Panels are located on the 3rd Floor Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted

Ok, so a lot of things happened in 1991: with George H. W. Bush still in office, the Gulf War came to an end, the indie comics scene was still recovering from the so-called “black and white implosion,” Superman had about a year left to live, and Nirvana released Nevermind. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Steven Svymbersky opened a little shop on Damen Avenue that, he said, would “carry every cool—bizarre—strange—dope—queer—surreal—weird publication ever written and published,” a place where you could discover, he added, “something you never even knew could exist.” A quarter of a century later, Quimby’s, stuffed with comics and zines and poetry and novels and magazines and newspapers and other paper things that don’t even have a name yet, remains one of the premier bookshops in North America. Jake Austen, editor and publisher of the legendary Chicago music and comics zine Roctober, will moderate a conversation with zinemaker Liz Mason and cartoonists Gabby Schulz (a.k.a. Ken Dahl) and CAKE Special Guest Laura Park (Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream) about the history of Quimby’s and its legacy of strangeness and delight. Who’s bringing the cake? This panel is sponsored by The Center for Cartoon Studies.

For more info about CAKE: cakechicago.com & Max Morris cakeexpo(at)gmail(dot)com.

This year’s banner by Chicago’s own Krystal DiFronzo.

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Quimby’s March Newsletter out now!

Published on March 4, 2016 0 Comments

March News

Click here to see the monthly newsletter of Quimby’s news, store events and notable new items! Sign up to get it in your inbox at quimbys.com.

Quimby’s Welcomes The Pirate Book launch: Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska 3/24

Published on February 27, 2016 1 Comment
Mar ’16
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7:00 pm

Screen Shot 2016-02-27 at 8.21.05 PMThe Pirate Book offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy. It contains a compilation of texts on grassroots situations whose stories describe strategies developed to share, distribute and experience cultural content outside of the confines of local economies, politics or laws. These stories recount the experiences of individuals from India, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Mali and China. The book is structured in four parts and begins with a collection of stories on piracy dating back to the invention of the printing press and expanding to broader issues (historical and modern antipiracy technologies, geographically specific issues, as well as the rules of the Warez scene, its charters, structure and visual culture…).

The Pirate Book, a compilation of stories about sharing, distributing and experiencing cultural contents outside the boundaries of local economies, politics, or laws.

Nicolas Maigret is an artist and curator based in Paris, his works have been presented in international exhibitions and festivals such as Transmediale (Berlin), File (Sao Paulo), Museum of Art and Design (New York), Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), The Pirate Bay 10th Anniversary (Stockholm). Maria Roszkowska is a Polish graphic designer based in Paris. Between 2010 and 2014 she joined Intégral Ruedi Baur, a cultural graphic design studio in France. In 2013 she designed and coordinated Don’t Brand my public space, a 3 years research on the issue of cities applying branding strategies.

Published by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Co-published by Pavillon Vendôme Art Center, Clichy, Kunsthal Aarhus, and Abandon Normal Devices

For more info: thepiratebook.net | http://peripheriques.free.fr | http://printityourself.org

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8/1: Caseen Gaines presents We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy!

Published on July 9, 2015 0 Comments
Aug ’15
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Great Scott! Come celebrate the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future along with award-winning author Caseen Gaines. He is returning to   Quimby’s Bookstore to discuss and sign copies of his brand-new book, We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy, which has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, People Magazine, Vulture, and positively reviewed by NPR and Library Journal.

We Don’t Need Roads includes original interviews with Zemeckis, Gale, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Huey Lewis, and over fifty others who contributed to one of the most popular and profitable film trilogies of all time. It’s the ultimate read for anyone who has ever wanted to ride a hoverboard, hang from the top of a clock tower, travel through the space-time continuum, or find out what really happened to Eric Stoltz after the first six weeks of filming.

Complete with rare and previously unreleased photographs, fans of the timeless can learn all they didn’t know about Back to the Future – by those who caught lightning 30 years ago.

“Caseen Gaines has written a very compelling and enjoyable history of our trilogy. Reading it was like going back in time. And – Great Scott – there were even a few anecdotes that I’d never heard!” – Bob Gale, co-creator, co-producer, and co-writer of the Back to the Future trilogy

“The most enlightening and informative book I’ve read since Grays Sports Almanac. Every true fan of the Holy Trilogy should own a copy. It’s your density.” – Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One

Invite your friends with the Facebook post for this event!

For press inquiries, contact Mary Pomponio, mpomponio(at)penguinrandomhouse(dot)com

Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 7:00pm

 

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