MLA Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum: David Carlson and Landis Blair Present The Hunting Accident 1/4

Published on December 6, 2018 0 Comments
Jan ’19
4
7:00 pm

The MLA Comics and Graphic Narratives Forum Is Delighted to Sponsor a Presentation and Social Event at Quimby’s with Creators of The Hunting Accident David Carlson and Landis Blair.

Drawing in the Imagination: The Power of Image and Text

It was a hunting accident—that much Charlie is sure of. That’s how his father, Matt Rizzo—a gentle intellectual who writes epic poems in Braille—had lost his vision. It’s not until Charlie’s troubled teenage years, when he’s facing time for his petty crimes, that he learns the truth.

Matt Rizzo was blinded by a shotgun blast to the face—but it was while participating in an armed robbery.

Newly blind and without hope, Matt began his bleak new life at Stateville Prison. But in this unlikely place, Matt’s life and very soul were saved by one of America’s most notorious killers: Nathan Leopold Jr., of the infamous Leopold and Loeb.

In The Hunting Accident, light comes from darkness, crime leads to redemption, and killers save lives. It’ll probably be a movie or Netflix show in a couple years, but for now, it’s a damn great comic book.” —GQ

“The subtitle barely captures the scope of this ambitious debut graphic novel, a mix of biography, history, social commentary, literary analysis, and more.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

For more info: Susan Kirtley  skirtley(at)pdx(at)edu

Here’s the Facebook invite for this event.

Fri, Jan 4th, 7pm – Free Event

Refreshments will be provided.

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Quimby’s 2019 Zlumber Party 1/26-1/27

Published on December 5, 2018 0 Comments
Jan ’19
26
9:30 pm

 

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Hey zinesters and comics artists! Come to our Zlumber Party (as in Zine Slumber Party)! This is the seventh year in a row we’re inviting you to come in and spend the night with us working on your zine, and start your year off with a creative frenzy! Get here at 9:30 on Sat, Jan 26th (the store closes at 10pm). Then spend the night here! Stay until 6am Sun, Jan 27th! (And yes, you can leave whenever you want before then if you want or need to.) So bring yer jammies and a sleeping bag, then leave in the morning with what you’ve been workin’ on! There will be snacks! And coffee!

This year we’re rolling out a new party twist: party PRIZES in these categories:

*BEST ZINE-MAKING TOOL (the coolest stapler ever? the world’s neatest scissors? a tiny tiny portable riso printer?)

*BEST PAJAMAS (can anyone say footies?)

*BEST SNACK (got a specialty?)

*BEST SLEEPING ACCOUTREMENT (Will anybody ever top the folks that brought the pup tent one year? Wanna show off that quilt you made from t-shirts?)

What: Zlumber Party 2019!

When: Sat, Jan 26th, 9:30pm – Sun, Jan 27th, 5am

Where: Here at Quimby’s Bookstore at 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago

RSVP: Give us a holler so we have a head count and know how much pizza to order!: info(at)quimbys(dot)com.

Invite your friends with the Facebook invite here.

 

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Helpful hints!

*In terms of what to bring, definitely whatever project you’re working on, whether it’s a zine, a comic, a book, a magazine, an artist book — independent publishing knows no bounds!

*Be here at 9:30pm (the store closes at 10pm). This is NOT a lock in; you can leave whenever you want. You can stay as late as 5am on sunday morning, which is the official end time for the event.

*Wear comfy clothes! Don’t forget your sleeping gear! A sleeping bag if you wanna take a break to catch a few zzzz (or just be comfy), a pillow, footie pajamas, a blanket, slippers…whatever makes you comfy.

*We’ll provide some snacks and coffee, but you may want to bring some snacks with you if you like. A good way to make new friends is bring food, is all we’re saying. If you have food sensitivities or allergies please bring whatever nourishment you need to bring to sustain you.

*We’ll also provide some office supplies (papers, pens, scissors, staplers, that type of thing), chairs and tables.

*One final note: Don’t feel pressured to feel like you have to finish whatever you’re working on before you leave. If you feel excited to work on your project once you’ve been working on it here, that you’ve started your 2019 off jazzed that you got the creative ball rolling, then we’ve done our job (that’s once of the reasons we do this event in January). When you’re all done with your zine and you want to consign it here, we’re excited to sell it for you. More info about consignment here: quimbys.com/consignment

Also, click here for more info about consigning at Quimby’s Bookstore NYC!

 

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New Stuff This Week

Published on December 1, 2018 0 Comments

Isn’t our new window display awesome?

Zines & Zine-Related Books

No Apocalypse: Punk, Politics & The Great American Weirdness by Al Burian (Microcosm) $14.95 – Former Quimby’s employee and Burn Collector zinester’s collected work from 2000-2007 from columns he wrote for pubs like Punk Planet, Heartattack, and the Skeleton.

We The Drowned by Jonas $3

Shit Men Have Said To Me by Leah Short $3

Punk Called Rock by James Hippie $3

Pen Dive #1 & #2 by Lou Barrett $10 each

True Trans Bike Rebel (Taking the Lane #15) by Lydia Rogue with Elly Blue (Microcosm) $9.95

Thread #16 by Rachel Lee Carman $5

Mute Mutants Work by Matt Goldberg $12

Midwestern Upbringing Sum 2018 $4

Shut Up Bro by Hannah Chavez $5

Comics & Minis

Slow Leak #2 by Johnny Sampson $10

Your Friends Hate You So Much by Neil Brideau $8

Springs Swollen Fog by Kaitlin Kostus $2

Ambiguous Grunt #1 $3

Drift by Penina Gal $10

Three Stories Short Comics by Ashley Robin Frankln $5

Love Hurts by Ian Mackay $8

Hex Cymatics No Man #13 $15

Worms With Eyes and a Mouth #2 $6

Graphic Novels

Hi Jax & Hi Jinx: Life’s a Pitch – and Then You Live Forever by Dame Darcy (Feral House) $24.95

Cyanide Milkshake Collected by Liz Suburbia $19.95

Now vol 5 (Fantagraphics) $9.99

Memorabilia by Sergio Ponchione (Fantagraphics) $16.99

Now Is the Time of Monsters: A Graphic Discourse on Predatory Capitalsim (World War 3 Illustrated #49) $12 – This issue edited by Sue Simensky Bietila.

New Stuff From Peow Press: Mami by Diigii Daguna, Internal Affairs Tactical Stealth Internship by Patrick Crotty, Heat by Jean Wei, various prices

Welcome To Myself by Brad Rohloff $20

Parallel Lives by O. Schrauwen (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Politics & Revolution Books

Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt by AK Thompson (AK Press) $20

Outer Limits

The Penguin Book of Hell by Scott G. Bruce $17 – What better way to send a gift with a message?

Cults That Kill: Shocking True Stories of Horror from Psychopathic Leaders, Doomsday Prophets, and Brainwashed Followers to Human Sacrifices, Mass Suicides and Grisly Murders by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe $15.95

Everything Dies! A Coloring Book About Life! by Bri Barton $20

Film Books

The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing 2002-2018 by A.S. Hamrah (n+1 Books) $20 – Collects the best of Hamrah’s film writing for n+1, The Baffler, Bookforum, Harpers, and other publications. Acerbic & hilarious.

Humor

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art by Sam Wasson $15.99

Adventures

Portland Stair Walks: Explore Portland, Oregon’s Public Stairways by Laura O. Foster (Microcosm) $16.95

Fiction

Brewing Kane by Virgil Daniels $15

Hollow by Owen Egerton $16.95

Magazines

Paper Magazine Win 2018 $10

Soft Magazine #4 $18

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

Berlin Quarterly #8 European Review of Culture $20

What Should I Be Doing With My Hands by Andrew Hertzberg $5

Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food – Drink, Herbs and Spices by Cynthia Gallaher $16

Overtime 50: Orwell’s Year by Paul Perilli $2

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CHIPRC’s Zine Zine Club: White Elephant Edition, at Quimby’s!

Published on December 1, 2018 0 Comments
Dec ’18
18
7:00 pm

We’ve all got white elephants in our zine collection — titles that stand out because they’re wacky, unusual, or simply defy classification. This month at our book club-style event for people who read zines, we’ll be talking about the most out-there zines we’ve acquired. Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome to join us for a fun discussion and snacks.

We’re turning our Mystery Zine Swap into a White Elephant Exchange this month, too. Bring a zine (concealed in some way) and get in on the unwrapping, swapping, and stealing!

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

Tues, Dec. 18th, 7pm – Free Event

Here’s the Facebook Event Invite for this month’s ZZC.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on November 24, 2018 0 Comments

 

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2019 Lithium Lion National Waste Calendar by Leif Goldberg $25 – Enjoy each month of 2019 with Leif Goldberg’s whimsical screenprinted raccoons eating corn, IDs demanded of underage mushrooms, night meat vision and more! -LM

Zines & Zine-Related

Sigils For Daily Self-Care by Liz Walker $2

A People’s Guide to Publishing: Build a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful, Book Business From the Ground Up by Joe Biel (Microcosm) $19.95

zines by Heather Anacker: Pizza Is Awesome Everything Else Sux, Cats Words Feeling, Mushrooms Are Amazing & more. various prices.

Again and Again by Hanna M. Owens & friends $5

Men Apologizing to Me by Delphine Bedient $12

Comics & Minis

Amnesia by Al Columbia (Floating World) $10

Love and Rockets Magazine #6 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez $4.99

Fluoride Panther by Leif Goldberg $6

Oh Brother Joyous Day Joyous Day by Harrison Wyrick $3

Fragile by Melek Zertal $17

Runaway Hearts by Sean Christensen $14

Work Life Balance #1-#3 by Aisha Franz $6-$8

Loose and Win by Milena Bassen $15

I Want to Paint a Rose by Maren Karlson $15

Johns Worth #4 by Jonathan Chandler (Breakdown Press) $10

French Kids United, in FRENGLISH by C. Rudler $7

So Your Baby’s Psychic by Uncle Flannery $3

Girl and the Nun by Emily Schulert $20

Autoridder by Tom Kemp $3

Crescent Loop by Lando $10

Verk by Iris Erlings $10

Liz Yerby comics: New Yerby Spr 2018 $8, What Marcie Worries About $3 & more.

Graphic Novels

The Complete Matinee Junkie: Five Years at the Movies by Jordan Jeffries (Birdcage Bottom Books) $20

Occult Presence by Paqaru (Floating World) $10

R. Crumb’s Dream Diary by R. Crumb (Elara) $25

Objects for a Better Future by Tor Brandt $17

Wet Shape In the Dark by Jon Chandler (Breakdown Press) $20

Outdoors by Yokoyama Yuichi (Breakdown Press) $22.50

The Prince by Liam Cobb (Retrofit) $14

Silica Burn 2 by Liam Cobb and friends $12

Politics, Revolution & Essay Books

Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe’s Anti-fascist Struggle by Patrick Strickland (AK Press) $16

Evil Empire: A Reckoning with Power, edited by Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen (Boston Rev) $16

Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economics by Bobby Sullivan (Akashic) $15.95

High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter by Kristen Gallerneaux $21.95 – Literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.

Art & Photo Books

Osceola Godspeed by Mike Taylor $15

Fundamentals by Adam Jason Cohen $24.99

Art Matters by Neil Gaiman $19.99

Outer Limits & Mayhem

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris $26

Black Dahlia Avenger III: Murder As a Fine Art: Presenting the Further Evidence Linking Dr. George Hill Hodel to the Black Dahlia and Other Lone Woman Murders by Steve Hodel (Rare Bird Books) $20

Hungover: The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall $17

Humor & Trivia

Dent’s Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain by Susie Dent (Clays Ltd) $15.95

The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog by Anthony McGowan (Oneworld) $14.99

A Sidecar Named Desire: Great Writers and the Booze That Stirred Them by Greg Clarke / Monte Beauchamp $19.99

Music Books

Some Fantastic Place: My Life in and Out of Squeeze by Chris Difford $15.99

Fiction

Fiction by Set Sytes (Microcosm): Wulf Book One of the Fifth Place, India Bones and the Ship of the Dead, Faces in the Dark a Collection of Paranoid Horror $12.95-$15.95

Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories by Elly Blue, Monique Cuillerier, Gretchin Lair & more (Microcosm) $11.95

Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark by Charlie J. Eskew $18

Unclay by T.F. Powys $16.95

Magazines

Harpers Magazine Dec 18 $6.99

Got a Girl Crush #8 $18

The Black Aesthetic: 3 Fragments by Leila Weefur, Jamal Batts, Ra Malika Imhotep (Wolfman Books) 2018 $8

Apartamento #22 $24

It Looks Like This by Mike Taylor & Elito Greenwald $15

Mojo #301 $11.25

Anorak #47 $13

Mixmag #330 $10.50

Tape Op #128 $5.99

Lit Journals & Poetry

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art #56 $15

Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon $16.95

Poem About Desire by Hanna M. Owens $3

For the Kiddies

Grandpa’s Witched Up Christmas by James Flora (Feral House) $17.95

Other Stuff

Stuff from Secret Headquarters: enamel pins $10, air fresheners $5

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