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The Microcosm Tour Lands at Quimby’s!

Published on June 18, 2008 0 Comments
Jul ’08
14
7:00 pm

The Microcosm Tour Lands at Quimby’s!
Join the Microcosm crew as they make a stop in Quimby’s while on their summer tour.

With performers:

Dave Roche is small man with a big heart. He’s friends with some weird Hollywood celebs but you’d know him best as the author of “On Subbing”  and “About My Disappearance”.

Joe Biel tinkers in zines, film, and books. He screens short film “talkies” about eccentric topics and is co-authoring a new edition of the book “Make a Zine”.

Sparky Taylor is the creative visual brain behind designing books at Microcosm Publishing. She also draws cute animals doing things like eating cookies on buttons and operates the Paperfort Zine Library.

About Microcosm:

Microcosm Publishing is an independent publisher and distributor based in Bloomington, IN and Portland, OR. They distribute & publish zines, books, pamphlets, stickers, buttons, patches, t-shirts, posters, films, and more! They work to add credibility to zine writers and their ethics, teach self empowerment, show hidden history, and nurture people’s creative side. Microcosm began in 1996 with one person doing part time mailorder out of a bedroom.

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Bizarro Fiction Night

Published on June 15, 2008 0 Comments
Jul ’08
10
7:00 pm

Eckhard Gerdes, D. Harlan Wilson, David Agranoiff and Garrett Cook will be reading selections from their Bizarro Fiction books!

The Performers:
Eckhard Gerdes is the author of My Landlady the Lobotmist, The Million-Year Centipede, and Przewalski’s Horse. Eckhard publishes The Journal of Experimental Fiction. At times, he writes about literature for The Review of Contemporary Fiction, American Book Review, and Electronic Book Review. His fiction appears in various journals every now and then.

D. Harlan Wilson is the author of Dr Identity, Pseudo City; The Kafka Effekt, and Stranger on the Loose. Currently he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of Bizarro literature, and is contributing editor for Guide Dog Books.

David Agranoff is the author of Screams from a Duying World.

Garrett Cook is the author of Murderland Part I: h8.

Other info:
www.bizarrocentral.com

Sean Carswell, Mickey Hess and Scott Stealey

Published on June 15, 2008 0 Comments
Jul ’08
12
7:00 pm

Join authors Sean Carswell, Mickey Hess and Scott Stealey as they read and sign their recent books.

Sean Carswell is the author of the novel Drinks for the Little Guy (1999) and two short story collections: Glue and Ink Rebellion (2002) and Barney’s Crew (2005).  His fiction has appeared in dozens literary journals over the fifteen dozen years.  He has been a staff writer for Flipside Magazine, READ, Clamor, and Ink 19, and is a regular contributor to Razorcake.  He is a co-founder of both Razorcake Magazine and Gorsky Press.  He is on tour promoting his new novel, Train Wreck Girl.

Mickey Hess lives and writes in Lawrenceville, NJ, where he likewise teaches at Rider University. He is the author of much, including the memoirish novel Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory and the collections One Thousand Pound Locket and El Cumpleanos de Paco. He edited the Greenwood Press anthology the Icons of Hip-hop (2007).

Scott Stealey is the editor of the online literary magazine, Please Don’t (please-dont.com), and author of the Featherproof mini-book, Letter from the Seaway.

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Rauan Klassnik and Paula Cisewski

Published on May 26, 2008 0 Comments
Jun ’08
23
7:00 pm

A reading by Black Ocean poets Rauan Klassnik, author of Holy Land, and Paula Cisewski, author of Upon Arrival.

The Performers:
Rauan Klassnik was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Now he spends most of his time in Mexico looking after birds and dogs with his wife Edith. His poems have appeared in such journals The North American Review, MiPoesias, No Tell Motel, Caesura, Sentence, Tex!, Pilot Poetry, and Hunger Mountain.

Paula Cisewski is the author of Upon Arrival (Black Ocean, 2006) and the chapbook How Birds Work (Fuori Editions, 2002).  She lives in the Twin Cities where she teaches writing and humanities courses and hosts the Imaginary Press Reading Series.

From early silent films to early punk rock, Black Ocean brings together a spectrum of influences and combines them with a radical social perspective on the nature of art and humanity. We manifest our aesthetic in the books we print, the shows we produce, and the work we promote.

Based out of Boston, New York and Chicago, our intent is to saturate the public with skillful and passionate forms of expression through a wide variety of mediums.
Other info: www.blackocean.org

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden

Published on May 26, 2008 0 Comments
Jun ’08
25
7:00 pm

Join Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, authors of DRAWING WORDS & WRITING PICTURES as they talk about their new book and Jessica’s new books Life Sucks and the paper back edition of La Perdida.

Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is a systematic course on that teaches the alchemical art of combining words and pictures to make comics. In it, Jessica and Matt have laid out a complete, structured syllabus that guides students from creating narrative within a single drawing to orchestrating all the skills involved in creating a multi-page, complex story.

Life Sucks is the story of Dave Marshall. The girl he’s in love with doesn’t know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can’t go out in daylight without starting to charbroil. Undead life in its uncoolest incarnation yet is on display in this cinematic, supernatural drama told with gallons of humor and hemoglobin.  In striking, colorful, B-movie style artwork and light-hearted, intelligent writing by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece, Dave Marshall’s story comes alive – in a vampiric kind of way.

La Perdida is the story of Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, who heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” Her intense desire to make a connection with Mexico and her unwillingness to see the impact of her own history on her understanding combine to turn an innocent journey down a dark path. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La Perdida is a story about finding yourself by getting lost.

Jessica Abel is a cartoonist and writer. Born and raised in Chicagoland, she moved in 2000 to Brooklyn, New York, after a two-year pit stop in Mexico City. In her “free” time, she likes to build things, garden, and cook, and hopes that doesn’t make her sound like the biggest dork ever. Along with La Perdida she is also responsible for the popular comic Artbabe.

Matt Madden started self-publishing minicomics in the early 1990s. He published his first graphic novel, Black Candy in 1998, and in 2001 published Odds Off. Madden lives in Brooklyn with his wife, author and cartoonist Jessica Abel. He works in comics and illustration, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University.  His latest works appear in A Fine Mess, his bi-annual series published by Alternative Comics.

More info at www.jessicaabel.com
Wednesday, June 25th, 7:00 PM
FREE

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