New Stuff This Week

Published on August 18, 2018 0 Comments

New stuff this week! #Quimbys #QuimbysBookstore #QuimbysBookstoreChicago

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Zines

Basic Paper Airplane #12 Interview Issue by Joshua Amberson $3

2 Brian Cotnoir titles, $10 each: The Alchemical Wedding & On the Homunculus

Rejected Zine #1 by Troy Kody Cunio $3

Pfff by Chad Cook $5

Lana Del Rey Is That Bitch: A Zine by Mattie Ganson $2.50

Zines/Comics from Sara McHenry: Hard to Love #7 & #8 $3 each

Comics

Cloud by Tom McHenry $5

Politics, Revolution & Current Events

Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance by Michelle Akanji / Friedrich Von Borries (Lars Muller Publishers) $29.95 – Signs, photos, art, text and more from the last 50 years of protest.

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States, Revised and Updated by Priscilla Murolo / A. B. Chitty, with illustrations by Joe Sacco $19.99

Art Books

Off the Wall: Art of the Absurd by Victionary $34.95 – Talking pets, repurposed pop-culture icons & more from 20+ artists.

Local Interest

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins / A. Brad Schwartz $29.99

Mayhem

Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky $17

The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court by Patricia Barnes-Svarney / Thomas E. Svarney $21.95

Fiction

Eat Only When You’re Hungry by Lindsay Hunter $16

The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas $15.95 – Hilarious stories of a dog who simply won’t stop howling on social media, a very bad date that births an unforgettable meme and more!

Micro Novels by Tory Seller $14.99

Magazines

AdBusters #139 $14.95

Shots #140 $8.25

Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals

Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez (Haymarket) $16

Android Poet American Tongue by Troy Kody Cunio $4

Time Snail by Brian Cotnoir $5

Secrets of Daydreaming by Nathaniel Bek $12

I Come From There by Joy Stokes $9.99

Chicago Review vol 61 #3 and 61 #4 $15

Kids Stuff

3×4 by Ivan Brunetti (Toon Books) $12.95

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New Stuff This Week

Published on August 11, 2018 0 Comments

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Rally 2019 Nikki Mcclure Calendar: Share the Future $18

Zines

KerBloom #133 by Artnoose $2

Mentor: A Zine About Female Role Models by Monica Johnson and Michelle M. Murphy $10

Caboose #10 The Searching Issue by Liz Mason $4

Smudge vol 2 #8 by Clay Hickson & friends $5

Big Pharma Gets Stoned: An Art and Smart Zine $7

Bookstores and Baseball 10th Inning $5

Inkgoober vol 2 by Anna Lisa Schneider $15

Black Bean Zine #3 Is It Dark Is it Light Does it Matter by Simone Simone $5

Thank You for your Cooperation #2 Verhoeven Zine $8

Mono Rot #3 Susan Okla Drawings & #4 Bill Fick Prints (Rotland Press) $6 each

Screentime by Brendt Rioux $12

Vinyl Vagabonds #9 $8

Vinyl Vagabonds Presents Reggie The Lovable Record Slob $5

Strangers by Arfil Pajarillaga $5

Comics

American Flytrap #1 The Post Truth Issue 2017 & #2 the Gun Issue 2018 (Rotland Press) $10 each

Withered Memories by Urooj Shakeel $10

Daygloayhole Quarterly #2 by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket) $6

Graphic Novels

Look Back and Laugh: Journal Comics by Liz Prince (Top Shelf) $19.99

Constant Companion: A Noah Van Sciver Sketchbook (Fantagraphics Underground) $25 – Sketchbooks created between 2013 and 2017.

Sanpaku by Kate Gavino $24.99 – Don’t miss the author event here for this book on Thurs, August 23rd!

Love and Rockets vol 14: Three Sisters by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Retreat by Jaakko Pallasvuo (2d Cloud) $19.95

Petey & Pussy: Puppy Love by John Kerschbaum (Fantagraphics) $19.99

The Arab of the Future 3: A Graphic Memoir: A Childhood in the Middle East, (1985-1987) by Riad Sattouf $27

Politics & Revolution Books

I Am Action: Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles by Praxedis G. Guerrero (AK Press) $15 – A collection of writings from Mexico’s firebrand revolutionary. Available in English for the first time.

Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by Kaelyn Rich $14.99

Art Books

Dark and Fetish Art by Kaoru Arakawa (PIE International Books) $49.95

Improper Cross-Stitch: 35+ Properly Naughty Patterns by Haley Pierson-cox $19.99

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Ingratitude by Peter Sotos (Nine-Banded Books) $30

Music, Film & TV Books

Twin Peaks and Philosophy: That’s Damn Fine Philosophy! ed. by Richard Greene $19.95

The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities by Wayne Kramer $28

MDC Al Schvitz: Double Life in Double Time by Alan Schultz (Manic D Press) $16.95 – Memoir written in prison from the drummer from MDC.

Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge by Becky Aikman $18

Fiction

A Short Film About Disappointment by Joshua Mattson $25 – A jaded film critic peppers his reviews with disclosures from his own life, from his dream of making a film without mainstream commercialism to his feud with a vending-machine tycoon.

Perfect Conditions by Vanessa Blakeslee (Curbside Splendor) $16.95

Metabolize If Able a Novel by Clay Ad (Monster House Press) $14

Essays

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen $16

After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus (Semiotexte) $16.95 – Now in soft cover.

The Best of Royko: The Tribune Years by Mike Royko $28

Idiophone by Amy Fusselman $16.95

Magazines

Wire #414 $10.99

Illustoria #7 $16

Critical Mass vol 1 #17 & #18 $8 each

Lit Journals & Poetry

The Chicago Review vol 61 #3 and 61 #4 $15

Visions of Mundane Madness by Dwiputri Pertiwi $20

Black Glitter by Bree Jo Ann (Monster House Press) $12

Raffish #1 $8

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Ali Fitzgerald presents Drawn to Berlin 11/8

Published on August 9, 2018 0 Comments
Nov ’18
8
7:00 pm

Entwining political and personal displacement, Ali Fitzgerald’s graphic memoir, Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe, is about loss, community, and the drawings that bind us. The students in Fitzgerald’s drawing classes are among the record-breaking number of people who are seeking asylum in Berlin, fleeing from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. They draw images of experienced violence and careful optimism: rafts and tanks, flowers and the Eiffel Tower. Over the course of her decade in Germany, Fitzgerald experiences the highs of the creatively hopeful along with the deep depression of the disillusioned, all while waiting to stumble into her own glory like the great Modernists before her. Her comics are compassionate and unflinchingly intimate, as the fantasy of her bohemia crumbles in a globalized city.

“Ali Fitzgerald has given us a beautifully crafted and sobering history lesson.” –Harry Bliss, New Yorker cartoonist

Ali Fitzgerald is a comic artist and writer living in Berlin. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Her comics have also appeared in New York Magazine’s The Cut, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Bitch, and The Guardian. From 2013 to 2016, she wrote and drew the popular webcomic Hungover Bear and Friends for McSweeney’s.

For more info: fantagraphics.com/drawntoberlin

Here’s the Facebook event invite!

Thursday, November 8th 7pm – Free Event

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August Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter Now Available

Published on August 8, 2018 0 Comments

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Hot Air Balloon Duels! Space Drinks! Junk Drawers! The Antelope Release Party at Quimby’s 9/8

Published on August 8, 2018 0 Comments
Sep ’18
8
7:00 pm

Stop by Quimby’s on September 8th at 7pm to check out the release party of your new favorite journal of oral history and mayhem, The Antelope. Co-founders Elisa Shoenberger and Meghan McGrath have put together a great issue, featuring falconers, beekeepers, swashbuckling Frenchmen, drone hobbyists, space-themed drink recipes, artifacts of early flight, comics, poetry, blimp disasters, and more. This event will include a reading from contributor and fancy sweater-wearer Joe Mason, sharing tales of never-ending sushi, and at least one hot balloon duel. Eric Bartholomew’s famous Junk Drawer zine will make a special appearance, with historical Chicago artifacts galore.

“Elisa and Meghan are quirky and fun scholars interested in oral history and mayhem, and they’ve edited a wonderful magazine.” Quimbys.com

Elisa Shoenberger is a freelance writer who has written for the Boston Globe, Hello Giggles, City Creatures Blog, Curbed Chicago, and others. Meghan McGrath is a wombat enthusiast, community radio DJ, and security ethnographer based in New York.

For more info:
antelopemagazine.com
Facebook event invite for this event
The Antelope in the Quimby’s on-line store
theantelopemagazine(at)gmail(dot)com

Saturday, September 8th, 7pm – Free Event

 

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