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| Aug ’19 |
| 10 |
| 7:00 pm |
James “Jinx” O’Connor and Damen Corrado’s new book Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art and Culture (Feral House) draws upon the world’s largest collection of Chicago street gang memorabilia and research material to decipher their arcane visual language of the city’s street organizations. This comprehensive survey breaks down and analyzes approximately 700 street gang business cards (“compliment cards”), along with photographic documentation of the lost era of street gang graffiti (“emblems”), gang member portraits, archival photos of varsity-style gang sweaters and patches, drawings, and commentary from gang members and artists such as Robert N. Taylor and Jack Walls.
Through these images Compliments of Chicagohoodz traces the history and development of the neighborhood street gang, from the “social athletic clubs” of the 1950s “greaser” era, through the racially divided 1970s, up to the 1990s and beyond.
Former Guardian Angel “Jinx” has spent 30 years combing the streets, researching territories, interviewing and photographing gang members and countless hours conducting research in the Chicago Historical Society and the Harold Washington Library.
Damen Corrado is an artist and filmmaker from the North Side of Chicago.
For more info:
feralhouse.com OR 323-666-3311
So Real It Hurts by Lydia Lunch $17.95 – The book rejected by 26 American publishers – interviews, rants, etc.
Zines
Queer Sailors #4 $8
Unsolved Cases: A Sketchbook Zine by Carmen Pizarro $4
Comics & Minis
Our Embrace by Kane Shirley $20
Pete and Pratt’s Wacky Western #1 Double Digest $6
Crybaby by Carmen Pizarro $12
It’s Just Another Day by Bluraven Houvener $2
Politics & Revolution
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics by Dan Kaufman $16.95
Outer Limits Books
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol to Ecstasy 5th Edition by Cynthia Kuhn PhD & friends $19.95
Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest by Ryan Thompson and Phil Orr (The Ice Plant) $32.50
The Impostor: A True Story by Javier Cercas $17 – About the revered Spanish Civil War vet and justice crusader who lied about being a Holocaust survivor (and various other fabrications).
Music Books
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs by Jonny Trunk (Four Corners Books) $24.95
Magazines
Uppercase #42 $18
Skeptical Inquirer $5.99
Fader #117 $6.99
The Baffler #46 July August $14
Anorak #49 $13
Puss Puss #9 $16.50
Chap Books
Improvemense $5
For the Kiddies
Stories for Ways and Means by Waxploitation/Jeff Antebi & friends $55 – Collabs between painters/writers/musicians on kids stories. Work by Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Frank Black, Kathleen Hanna, Swoon, James Jean and more. Supports nonprofits like 826.
A Children’s Book of Demons by Aaron Leighton (Koyama) $12
| Jul ’19 |
| 18 |
| 7:00 pm |
July is International Zine Month! CHIPRC’s Zine Club is commemorating this global celebration of self-publishing with an exploration of zines from other countries. Bring your favorite titles from outside the United States and join us for a fun discussion and snacks at Chicago’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome!
* Please note that we’re meeting on a Thursday evening this month. *
Looking for more ways to celebrate #IZF2019? Check out this cool calendar of daily activities created by Alex Wrekk of Portland Button Works and Zine Distro:
https://bit.ly/3019Fd6
Since July 18 is IZF’s Zine Trade Day, we’re putting a fun spin on our usual Mystery Zine Swap. Please bring a zine to trade, concealed in some way, and write a one-sentence description (without using the title or zinemaker’s name) on the wrapping. Then we’ll match up folks with the description that appeals most to them. Think of it as speed dating – but for zines and readers. 🙂
More info at quimbys.com. CHIPRC’s Zine Club is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.
Image credit: Alex Wrekk
Thurs, July 18th, 7pm
Free Event
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2280438425604527/
Zines
Stranger Voice: Part of My Trans Experience by Adira Slattery $5
Wasting Away Again: Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Zine by Megan Kirby and Jon Mastantuono $5
2018 Movie Watchlist by Johnny Misfit $3
Chicken Soup For the Oddly Specific Soul: You Are Not Alone by Heather Anacker $4
Get 2 Stepping by Adam Jason Cohen and Mike Gamboa $12
KerBloom #138 May June 19 by Artnoose $2
Broken Pencil #84 $7.95
Crimson Tarboosh by Dan Kelly $3
Wicker Park People by Sam Logan $10
Comics & Minis
You Don’t Get There From Here #50 by Carrie McNinch $4
Silver Wire by Kriota Willberg $10
Fat Farm #1-#3 by Max Airborne $5 each
Comics by Hyena Hell: Quality of Pain $8, True Stories From My Dumb Life #8 & #9 $10 each
Softer Than Sunshine by Harry Nordlinger $6
Shit Stats $2
Graphic Novels
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day by Brian Blomerth $30 – A Visual History if the Worlds First Acid Trip.
Alay-Oop by Gropper William $24.95 – A lost, early classic of the graphic novel, now back in print for the first time since 1930.
Tales From the Rhythmic Zone Onli Studios Collection $20
Art Books
This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community–a Life in Streetwear by Bobby Hundreds $28
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society by by John Law, Kevin Evans & Carrie Galbraith (Last Gasp) $29.95
Politics, Revolution & Essay
Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide by Cass R. Sunstein $16
100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism by Chavisa Woods $14.95
Fiction
We Sold Our Souls: A Novel by Grady Hendrix $14.99
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising: A Novel by Raymond A. Villareal $16.99
Here Is What You Do: Stories by Chris Dennis $16
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring $30
Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald $30 – Lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick.
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are, 25th Anniversary Edition by Bob Frissell $19.95
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum $28
Magazines
Bust July/August $6.99
Hi-Fructose #52 $8.95
Shock Cinema #56 $5
Drift vol 8 London $24
Ambrosia vol 6 London $19
Bowl and Plant #1 The Cannabis Quarterly $10
Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
SPELLS: 21st Century Occult Poetry by Sarah Shin and Rebecca Tamás $19.95
Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art #113 $14
The Paris Review #229 $20
Stuff from Mattieleighx: Kiss Me I Love You Lol, Emoji Dickison by Mattieleighx & more
