CHIPRC’s Zine Club: Made in Chicago Edition, at Quimby’s! March 26th

Mar ’19
26
7:00 pm

In March, our husky, brawling metropolis turns 182, and we’re celebrating by exploring zines made in Chicago! This month at our book club-style event for people who read zines, we’ll be talking about our favorite titles that were created right here in the city that is second to none when it comes to self-publishing. Local zinemakers, please bring one of your own zines to share! Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome to join us for a fun discussion and snacks.

If you’d like to participate in our Mystery Zine Swap, bring a zine (concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot!

This event will be led by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.

CHIPRC’s Zine Club: Made in Chicago Edition, at Quimby’s!

7 p.m. Tuesday, March 26

Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park

Free

Facebook fiend? The invite is here.

New Stuff This Week

Russian Criminal Playing Cards: Deck of 54 Playing Cards edited by Damon Murray (Fuel) $20


Stuff from Contagion Press!

Zines & Zine-Related

Other One by Marie Reichel $18

Glister #1 An Alt Pop Photo Series $15

Melancholy Musings of a Misfit Girl by Tianne Pitz #1 $5

zines from Carrie: IDGAF About Your Diet Deborah by Carrie $2, Surviving High School for Teens Freaks and Other Outlaws $2

Why I Do Not Write Poetry: A Manifesto on Art and Modern Life In Praise of the Open Text by Elizabeth Harper $2

KerBloom #136 Jan Feb 2019 by Artnoose $2

Just Another Asshole No. 6 by Glenn Branca & Barbara Ess $14.95 – Was a seminal and now legendary series of publications that helped define New York’s No Wave community, edited by photographer and musician Barbara Ess from 1978 to 1987.

Freedom of the Presses: Artists’ Books in the Twenty-First Century $25

Radio Luzifer Las Luzes Illuminando La Oscuridad by Luz Magdaleno $5

Exploration In Atrophy by Isabella Aimone 2018 $20

Late to the Party Fall Winter 18 by Erik Jacobson $3

Comics

Follicle by JJ McLuckie $12

So Buttons #9 $5

Scrambled Eggs by Chris Mattei $5

High Maintenance Machine #28 $4

New Wave Comics Presents #9 by David Soileau $1.50

On Struggling Relationships (b+w version) by Brown and Proud Press $5

Searching for Youth by Jake Marrus $6

Smallest Unit of Life Comic by A. Bellstorf $8

Horkin and Henry the Death of a Universe by Spencer Scudder $16

Worlds by Elvis Vasquez and Maddison Chaffer & friends $10

I Loved My Dead Dog by Cameron Feeley $1.50

Delia Awesome #3

Graphic Novels

James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Billie the Bee by Mary Fleener (Fantagraphics) $14.99

Letter to Survivors by Gébé $15.95

Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage by Fabien Grolleau, illustrated by Jérémie Royer (Nobrow) $22.95

Politics & Revolution

The Future Is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women, edited by Mallory Farrugia $24.95

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr $30

Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism the Manifesto Series vol 2 (McSweeneys) $9.99

Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Paul Buhle / Steve Max, illustrated by Noah Van Sciver $19.95

The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs: Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877–1892, edited by Tim Davenport (Haymarket) $36

Art Books

The Art of Kaneoya Sachiko (Iron Circus) $35 – First English translation of an artist inspired by anime and manga from the 50s and 90s, showcasing the monstrous, the romantic, and the mortal suffering of her subjects.

Mayhem

Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma Byrne $15.95

Music & Film Books

Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982 (Trapart Books) $39.95 – Punk and industrial culture in late ’70s and early ’80s San Francisco from photographer Ruby Ray, whose photos have appeared in Search & Destroy and RE/Search.

Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin by Samm Deighan (Spectacular Optical) $36.95

Essays

I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays by Tim Kreider $16

Fiction

Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten $16

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill $16.99

Magazines

Oh So Magazine #1 Celebrating the Female Global Skateboarding Community $16

Bust #115 Mar/Apr 2019 $6.99

Little White Lies #78 Jan/Feb 2019 $12.99

Maximumrocknroll #430 Mar 2019 $4.99

Adbusters #142 $10

The Point #18 Winter 19 $14.99 – This issue: Chicago Police Torture

Mojo #304 Mar 2019 $11.25

Harpers Magazine Mar 2019 $6.99

Wire #420 Feb 19 $10.99

Raw Vision #100 $16

The Monthly Review vol 70 #9 Feb 2019 $6

Free Ass Mag #5 $15

Cinema Retro vol 15 #43 $11.99

New Skin Mag #1 $10

Pictures of My Mother Touching Wild Animals by Gwen Bedient $7

Lit Journals, Poetry & Chap Books

Granta #146 Politics of Feeling #16.99

Hotel Alexander by Rebekah Morgan $10.95

Creature by Tianne Pitz #3 $5

Bai by Shannon Campbell and Marcello Di Russo $8

From My Lips by Lupita Carrasquillo $15

Sobotka Literary Magazine #7 Winter 19 $10

New titles from Amphetamine Sulphate, $10 each: Sea of Love by Simon Morris – Scum by Alex Binnie – Anatomical Charisma by Sam McKinlay – Granite City Blues by Josh Peterson – Inside the Castle by Josiah Morgan – Small Talk at the Clinic by Thomas Moore – Missing by Josh Peterson…& more.

Other Stuff

Postcards from Paperback Paradise.

Video Game Art Gallery Celebrates the Release of Issue 2 of the VGA Reader at Quimby’s, March 9th

Mar ’19
9
7:00 pm

Come join the staff of the Video Game Art Gallery, the editorial board, and their colleagues in celebrating the release of issue 2 of the Video Game Art Reader, a scholarly peer-reviewed art history publication. The VGAR is an attempt to not only deepen the discourse around video games, but to also make it more accessible to the public and inclusive of marginalized voices. The theme for this issue was “survival strategy,” an investigation not just into the defined genre of “survival games,” but the methods by which all games can become tools for conditioning, coping, and creating within the digital world. Issue 2 includes works by Martin Zeilinger writing on the limits of digital performance art, Andrew Bailey examining how exploration of digital spaces can transform understanding of physical ones, Michael Anthony DeAnda investigating the consequences of digital surveillance, Luisa Salvador Dias discussing how video games depict war, Michael Paramo arguing for better representation of queer characters, and Treva Michelle Legassie probing the implications of rendering oneself in a video game. This issue also includes a practitioner statement by Elizabeth LaPensée on her water-protecting side-scroller, Thunderbird Strike, and an interview with the evocative game designer and scholar Anna Anthropy.

The event will begin at 7pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be served. Copies of the latest VGAR will be available for sale, as will the Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition catalogue, also produced by the VGA Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

For more info: 

vgagallery.com

mreed(at)vgagallery(dot)com

facebook event invite here

Sat, March 9th, 7pm – Free Event

New Stuff This Week

Charles R. Childs Panoramas: A Panoramic Construction of the Images of Charles R. Childs by Perry Casalino $20 – From 1907 to 1912, Charles R. Childs produced over 5,400 individual photographic views of Chicago for use as picture postcards. Charles R. Childs Panoramas is a collection of whimsical panoramic views using Childs’ postcards. These constructions give a sense of place never before seen in vintage Chicago photography.

Zines

Trial and Error #6 Pocket Guide to Being Totally Cool $3

Safe Sex Mini Bundle How to talk about STDS with Sexual Partners $1

Hieratic Art or the Alchemy of Talismans by Brian Cotnoir $10

Would Be President by John Dishwasher $5

Lacunae by Lisa Wilde $20

Music Men Ruined For Me by Alison Lang $10

Raise Your Horns $2.50

Xerography Debt #43 and #44 $4 each

Post Modern Romance #1 The View From Marriage $8

BYOC Build Your Own Chimera: A Guide to Creature Invention by Jam $1

Comics & Minis

Every Drop Counts by Tori Holder $5

Duel by Finn Walker $4

Graphic Novels

Nothing Nice to Say: Complete Discography by Mitch Clem (Silver Sprocket) $24.99

Mort Gerberg on the Scene by Mort Gerberg (Fantagraphics Underground) $25

Journey Into the Unknown by Randi Drozd $20

Through a Life by Tom Haugomat (Nobrow) $18.95

Politics & Revolution

The Anarchist Encyclopedia edited by Sébastien Faure (AK Press) $22

Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson (Haymarket) $21.95

Don’t Shoot I Want to Live: Gun Violence In America by Tyshondra Barnes $5.99

Art & Design Books

Unnatural Selections: The Artwork of Tiffany Bozic by Tiffany Bozic / Mary Ellen Hannibal (Gingko) $45

Essays

Up Up, Down Down: Essays by Cheston Knapp $16

Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith $18

Fiction

Carnivorous Lunar Activities by Max Booth III (Fangoria) $15

I Am God by Giacomo Sartori (Restless) $17.99

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin $16

The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño $24

Same Same by Peter Mendelsund $17.95

A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Charlie Jane Anders & A. Merc Rustad (One World Classics) $17

Music Books

Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever by Geoff Edgers $27

Consuming

On Drinking by Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel Debritto $26.99

Crafts

Paper Animals: Fox, Deer, Meerkat and Bear Family by Paperwolf (Gingko) $24.95

Magazines

Fortean Times #375 $12.40

Horror Hound #75 $6.99

Lit Journals & Chap Books

Bloom Magazine Aug 18 $12

God Made Dirt Dirt Don’t Hurt by B. Traverse $3

Sex Guides & Culture

Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm) $14.95

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