Chris Ware Signs MONOGRAPH 11/3

Published on September 29, 2017 0 Comments
Nov ’17
3
7:00 pm

While Chris Ware’s singular body of work is often categorized as comics, his writing/drawing defies classification. Whether he’s creating graphic novels, making paintings or building sculptures, Ware explores social isolation, emotional pain and human desperation with a fine visual clarity and uncertain mnemonic organization, the end result being intentionally empathetic and complex. Like Charles Schulz, Art Spiegelman and R. Crumb before him, Ware has attempted to elevate cartooning to a fine art form.

MONOGRAPH is a personal, never-before-seen look at how the artist’s private and work life intersect, beginning with the influence of his newspaper family to his art school days in Austin and Chicago to his life from the early 1990s to the present day. The book delves into how, as a storyteller and builder, Ware’s work in three dimensions feeds into the thinking of his finely textured narrative art, offering a prismatic look at his work, including rarely-seen early attempts, previously unpublished strips and notes, all serving as a window into how artwork made for reproduction is still fundamentally “art.”

“There’s no writer alive whose work I love more than Chris Ware. The only problem is it takes him ten years to draw these things and then I read them in a day and have to wait another ten years for the next one.” –Zadie Smith    

About the Author: Chris Ware is a contributor to the New Yorker, and his “Building Stories” was selected as a best book of the year by both the New York Times and Time magazine. Ira Glass is the creator and producer of the radio program This American Life. Françoise Mouly is the publisher of TOON Books and the art editor of the New Yorker. Art Spiegelman is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Maus.

MONOGRAPH
By Chris Ware
Contributions by Ira Glass, Françoise Mouly, and Art Spiegelman
Hardcover, three-piece case / 13” x 18” / 280 pages / 300+ color and b&w photographs
$60.00 U.S., $80.00 Canadian, £45.00 U.K.
ISBN: 978-0-8478-6088-3 / Rizzoli New York / Release date: November 2017
www.rizzoliusa.com

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Singer-Songwriter-Guitarist and Author Phil Circle Launches His New Book The Outback Musician’s Survival Guide 10/19

Published on September 26, 2017 0 Comments
Oct ’17
19
7:00 pm

In Phil Circle’s new book The Outback Musician’s Survival Guide (Guilt By Association), he uses his 30+ years as an independent musician to shed some light on the real world of music for 99% of American musicians. Through a series of tales both whimsical and dark, reflections on the craft and the business, and admissions of his own faults, he brings a human face to a seemingly glamorous world. You’re likely to find that some of what you’ve heard about being a musician is sadly or hysterically true, and that other widely held beliefs are little more than hot air.

“Towards the end of the book, Phil says, “I don’t have some profound message.” In fact, by sharing his humanity and his failings as well as his high points, he has created a profound message. It is often in mere survival that we create greatness, although we ourselves don’t know it at the time. The touch of human grief amidst all of the adrenaline pumping adventure makes this book something of a celebration of what it means to be human.” -Sarah Jane Clarke, Beat Media, Oxford, UK

Phil Circle has written, recorded and produced eight albums of his own music and two albums of cover songs, one featuring almost entirely music by Chicago songwriters. As a writer, Phil’s work has appeared in articles for various music zines and other publications over the years, including Chicago Music Guide, Pro-Am Guide and a report on the industry for NARAS.

For more info: www.philcirclemusic.com @philcircle

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New Stuff This Week

Published on September 23, 2017 0 Comments

New this week! Night Watch Studios stuff! Patches $6 Stickers $3 Pins $5 #quimbys #patches #nightwatchstudios

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Stuff from Night Watch Studios! Patches, stickers, buttons!

*ZINES*

Infinite Wheat Paste #2 $5.00

Survival Guide, Spring Fever $3.00

Night Watch #13 Psychedelic Issue $8.00

Derived From Matter $5.00

Dream Machine #1 Roots Growth $8.00

Razorblades and Aspirin #2 $8.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Comics by Bianca Xunise, $10 each: Diary Comics & Say Her Name

My Son Falcon Girl by Marky Starr & friends $3.00

Shiner by Nathan Cowdry $10.00

Lost Little Dog #1 Sphinx by Swinnea $3.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Robert Crumb: Sketchbook, Vol. 2: Sept. 1968-Jan. 1975, edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99

Present by Leslie Stein (D+Q) $21.95

Dark Knight III: The Master Race Frank Miller & friends $29.99 – Batman and his friends have retreated for years but a new war is beginning. An army of unimaginable power led by Superman’s own daughter is preparing to claim Earth as their new world. The only force that can stop this master race—Batman—is dead. Long live the new Batman…Collects all 9 issues of the series.

Short Con by Pete Toms (Study Group) $9.95

*ART & DESIGN*

27 Exposures: A Disposable Scavenger Hunt by Alison Hunt $15.00

Green Lantern Press books:
Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening $30 – Artists and writers reflect upon plant life as it troubles both physical and ideological human spaces.
Notes On by Magalie Guerin $20 – An artist documenting her process in a, well, super arty way.
The New [New] Corpse $30 – Exhibition catalog from the Sector 2337 group show.
& more!

*MUSIC & FILM BOOKS*

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace and Dan Ozzi $16.99 – Soft cover version of memoir by the lead singer from Against Me!

Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski $32.95 – Don’t miss author Ed Godziszewski (and publisher of JAPANESE GIANTS magazine) here at Quimby’s talking about the book on Oct 13th about the director behind the original GODZILLA and many of its beloved sequels and spin-offs of the 1950s and ‘60s!

*OUTER LIMITS*

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix $24.99 – A celebration of plotlines of devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate with book covers showcasing well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and more!

*DRUUUUUUGS*

Grow Your Own: Understanding, Cultivating, and Enjoying Cannabis by David Stein, Liz Crain, Micah Sherman, and Nichole Graf $26.95

*MAGS*
Hello Mr #9 About Men Who Date Men $20.00
Bust #107 Oct Nov 17 $6.99
Four Two Nine #11 Fall 17 $12.99
Tape Op #121 Sep Oct 17 $4.95

*LIT JOURNALS*
McSweeneys #50 $30.00
The First Line vol 19 #3 Fall 17 $4.00
The Literary Review vol 60 #2 Sum 17 Physics: The Fiction Issue $10.00

*SEXXXY*

Meat #24 $20.00

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New Stuff This Week

Published on September 16, 2017 0 Comments

Fukitor #10 & #11 by Jason Karns $10.00 each

California Infernal: Anton LaVey and Jayne Mansfield As Portrayed by Walter Fischer (Trapart Books) $39.95

*ZINES*

Naughty Nuns by Corinne Halbert $10.00

Cometbus #58 Zimmerwald $3.00 – A teenager finds solace in a diner full of grumpy seniors during the heydey of San Francisco punk. It’s a mythological place, full of ghostly archetypes, the aging veterans of scenes past and future. Reads like a novel, but is it fiction or barely disguised autobiography? Or is it the obituary of a movement? That’s up to the reader to decide and Aaron to never let on. Either way, the backstory of the angry old woman glaring at you from the other end of the counter becomes a disturbing glimpse into your own future and distressing as this may be it’s hard to put down or get out of your head.

Zines by Nyxia Grey, $2 each: Overthrow the Status Quo: A Super Rad Kickass Primer About Zines, Everything is Fine vol 1 #5 You’ve Got Mail, You Matter Always: A Zine About Making the World Less Shitty

Fairy Tales for Cynical Girls vol 1 by K8 $2.00

Sluice issues #2, #3.5 $3.00 each

Manic Spring 2 This Time It’s Summer by Maira $5.00

Pigmento #1 A Zine Created By and For People of Color $7.00

San Antonio Bound Death Sentence #1 by Kris $3.00

Mapping Out Utopia #1 Cambridge 1970 Boston Area Counterculture $8.50

Mystery and Adventure Series Review #51 by Fred Woodworth $3.00

Temporary Automatic Writing Zone #1 Aug 17 TAWZ $4.00

Disruptor #4 Sum 17 Fourth Issue of Disruptor $5.00

Worst Fucking Food Ever by Billy McCall $1.00

Picking Stuff Apart by Joshua Amberson and Rock Craven $3.00

Myrkfaelni #1 $16.00

The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others by China Martens (PM Press) $22.00 – Back in print!

Getting to Know Someone Just Means Hearing About their Exes by Alex Wrekk $1.00

Skidmark Zine #15 $5.00

KerBloom #127 July Aug 17 by Artnoose $2.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Ryan Cecil Smith titles: My Dream Comics $5.00 and SF Liquid Planet Battle #1 $7.00

Isabella Rotman titles: Run With Your Demons $7.00 & Long Black Veil $6.00

Slasher #4 by Charles Forsman $4.99

Comics by Tony R: Exacerbate $4.00, I Sure Wish I Could Find the Motivation To Be Creative by Tony R. $5.00 & more!

Comics by Sam Spina: My Dumb Kids $3.00, Spinadoodles #7 Having a Time $5.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Sax Rohmer’s Dope by Trina Robbins $24.99 – A talented young actress becomes fatally ensnared in London’s mysterious and glittery drug culture. Based on Sax Rohmer’s 1919 novel and inspired by true events, Dope was both the first novel to speak openly about the international drug trade and the first story to center around the death of a celebrity by drug overdose.

Nick Cave: Mercy on Me by Reinhard Kleist (Self Made Hero) $22.88 – Sit down in your Mercy Seat and devour this while eating cake at a Birthday Party!

Language Barrier: Zines, Comics and Other Fragments by Hannah K. Lee (Koyama) $20.00

Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey by David Collier (Conundrum) $20.00

Dreams In Thin Air: by Michael M. Nybrandt and Thomas E. Mikkelsen (Conundrum) $25.00

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Season 8 vol 1 (Dark Horse) $24.99

Total Tank Girl by Alan C. Martin (Titan) $24.99

Fred The Clown In… “The Iron Duchess” by Roger Langridge (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Superfuckers Forever by James Kochalka $17.99

Last Girl Standing by Trina Robbins $19.99 – Heavily illustrated memoir of the underground, feminist cartoonist.

Iceland by Yuichi Yokoyama (Retrofit) $15.00

Ghosts Etc by George Wylesol $13.99

Beirut Won’t Cry by Mazen Kerbaj (Fantagraphics Underground) $30.00

Mountebank: A Psychedelic Sketchbook by DW (Fantagraphics) $25.00

Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly & Lewis Trondheim (D+Q) $21.95

This Must Be the Place: A Please Keep Warm Collection by Michael Sweater (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $20.00

Catboy by Benji Nate (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $20.00

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Did It! from Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary by Pat Thomas (Fantagraphics) $49.99 – Bio & oral/visual history of the co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War radical, Chicago 8 defendant, New Age/Self Help proponent, and social-networking pioneer.

Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People by Danny Katch (Haymarket Books) $13.95

Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, edited by Cindy Milstein (AK Press) $19.95

Curry: Eating, Reading and Race by Naben Ruthnum (Coach House Books) $13.95

*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

Soviet Bus Stops vol 2 by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherly (Fuel) $32.50

Walled City: The Art of the Mural (Sandu Publishing) $39.95 International anthology of artists risking life and limb for huge scale works.

Asad Faulwell: Les Femmes D’Alger by David Pagel and Franklin Sirmans (Zero+) $45.00 – Mixed media paintings focused on Algerian women who actively engaged in combat during the Algerian War of Independence.

Freestyle: Illustrating Urban Fashion (Sandu Publishing) $35.00

Ricky Powell: The Individualist by Tono Radvany and Nemo Librizzi $35.00 – Collection of Powell’s work, one of NYC’s most prolific street photographers, with portraits of the Beastie Boys, RUN DMC, LL Cool J, Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Haring and hundreds more.

Turn The Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose by Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and Alison Byrne (Baby Tattoo) $40.00

*OUTER LIMITS*

Trumpocalypse Now: The Triumph of the Conspiracy Spectacle by Kenn Thomas (Adventures Unlimited) $16.95

Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by A.J. Lees $18.95 – A fascinating account by one of the world’s leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson’s Disease.

Adventures of a Hashish Smuggler by Henri de Monfreid (Adventures Unlimited) $16.95

Project MK-Ultra and Mind Control Technology: A Compilation of Patents and Reports by Axel Balthazar (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95

*HUMOR*

A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation by Zachary Auburn (Devastator) $15.00 – Collecting the zines of the same name. Hilarious!

*MUSIC & FILM BOOKS*

Thurston Moore: We Sing a New Language by Nick Soulsby $23.95

Buzzcocks: The Complete History by Tony McGartland $13.95

David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones $28.00

Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) Eric Eidelstein $14.95

Quazarz Vs. The Jealous Machines by Shabazz Palaces & Joshua Ray Stephens (Fantagraphics/Sub Pop) $25.00 – Hand-numbered, limited-edition art piece with download code for the new Shabazz Palaces album.

The Who on the Who: Interviews and Encounters, edited by Sean Egan $30.00

Tokyo Cinegraphix One: Horror And Exploitation: 100 Film Posters From Japan by Kagami Jigoku Kobayashi (Shinbaku) $27.95

Voluptuous Terrors: 120 Horror And SF Film Posters From Italy (Art Of Cinema) by G.H. Janus (Deicide) $29.95

*FOR THE KIDDIES*

Moomin Begins a New Life by Tove Jansoon (D+Q) $9.95

Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers & Shawn Harris $19.99

Book of Bones: Ten Record Breaking Animals by Balkan & Brewster $19.95

The First Rule of Punk by Celia Perez $16.99 – YA book from Chicago zinester and librarian.

*MAGS*
AdBusters #134 vol 25 #6 Nov Dec 17 $14.95
Skeptic vol 22 #3 $6.95
The Monthly Review vol 69 #4 Sep 17 Meaning of Work in a Sustainable Society $6.00=
Make vol 59 Oct Nov 17 Home Making $9.99
Fortean Times #357 Crowley: The Comic Strip $12.50
Purple Fashion vol 3 #28 Anniversary Issue $25.00
Modern Farmer #17 Fall 17 $7.99

*LIT JOURNALS*

Midwestern Gothic #25 Sum 17 $12.00
Sinister Wisdom #106 A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal by Julie R. Enszer $12.00
The Paris Review #222 $20.00
Lapham’s Quarterly vol 10 #4 Fall 17 Music $19.00
Fence vol 18 #2 Sum 17 $13.00

*SEXXXY*

Elska #13 Helsinki Finland $18.50

“Godzilla” Director Ishiro Honda’s New Biography Presented by Author Ed Godziszewski at Quimby’s 10/13

Published on September 13, 2017 0 Comments
Oct ’17
13
7:00 pm

Godzilla first laid waste to Tokyo more than 60 years ago in a symbolic reenactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. But even as the monster has become recognizable worldwide, the filmmaker who brought it to the screen has remained in Godzilla’s giant shadow.

Ed Godziszewski comes to Quimby’s Bookstore to present ISHIRO HONDA: A LIFE IN FILM, FROM GODZILLA TO KUROSAWA, the first major overview of the life and career of Ishiro Honda, the director behind the original GODZILLA and many of its beloved sequels and spin-offs of the 1950s and ‘60s. Godziszewski, a lifelong Chicagoan, is one of the leading scholars of Japanese science-fiction and fantasy cinema and publisher of JAPANESE GIANTS magazine. He co-wrote the book with Steve Ryfle, also a noted genre scholar. Nearly 10 years in the research and writing, the book is published by Wesleyan University Press.

Honda was the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unparalleled succession of genre movies that were commercial hits worldwide, including MOTHRA, RODAN, THE MYSTERIANS, and many others. Honda’s films reflected postwar Japan’s real-life anxieties and incorporated fantastical special effects, a formula that still appeals to audiences around the globe. The new book sheds light on this long-overlooked director’s work and the experiences that shaped it—including his days as a reluctant Japanese soldier, his witnessing of the aftermath of Hiroshima, and his lifelong friendship with Akira Kurosawa.

“This carefully researched and detailed book gives us a full picture of the man and his life.” — Martin Scorsese

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