Chicago Zine Fest Looking For Submissions For Zine

Published on January 17, 2014 3 Comments

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As per their press release:

The Chicago Zine Fest will be celebrating its fifth year of existence next year! We’re blown away by the massive zine love that takes place in Chicago each spring, and we are thankful that you’ve been a part of making that happen. To celebrate this five year milestone, we are putting together a comp zine of CZF stories. Do you have a memorable CZF experience, anecdote, or adventure? We’d love it if you could be a part of this project!

The details:
Submissions should be 1-3 pages
Submissions should be half size (5.5” x 8.5”)
New or previously published work accepted
Submissions should be about something related to the Chicago Zine Fest
A high resolution (at least 300 dpi) JPEG or PDF of the submission can be emailed to chicagozinefest@gmail.com.

Along with your submission, please send a contributor bio (featuring your name, the title of your zine, contact info, and a few sentences about yourself) to be listed in the back of the zine.

We reserve the right not to include every submission. Contributors will receive a copy of the zine, so please include your mailing address with your submission.

Submissions are due by February 1, 2014. The zine will be sold at CZF 2014 & online, with all proceeds going towards CZF.

Thank you for being a part of the Chicago Zine Fest!

 

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Jim Mitchell discusses The Walrus and The Elephants: John Lennon’s Years of Revolution 2/13

Published on January 16, 2014 0 Comments
Feb ’14
13
7:00 pm

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Author and journalist Jim Mitchell will discuss his recently released The Walrus and the Elephants: John Lennon’s Years of Revolution. Jim will be speaking about John Lennon’s early years of social activism, his music with the progressive New York band Elephant’s Memory, and Lennon’s special relationship with Ann Arbor.

 

Based entirely on new interviews and research, The Walrus and the Elephants is the first book about John Lennon to show how his emergence as a solo artist, his embrace of radical politics and feminism, and his love affair with New York City coincided. From controversial television appearances, to benefit concerts, to his new, post-Beatlemania band Elephant’s Memory, Walrus and the Elephants is Lennon’s story told by a cast of close friends and fellow activists from his Greenwich Village days.

 

JAMES A. MITCHELL is the author of But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at War, the story of an orphanage in Sri Lanka’s war-torn northeast; rock biography It Was All Right: Mitch Ryder’s Life in Music; and tales from a rural newspaper, Applegate: Freedom of the Press in a Small Town. A reporter and editor for more than twenty years, his writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The Humanist, and Starlog.

 

“The Walrus and The Elephants is an indispensable window into an amazing time in American history and the history of rock and roll.” —Danny Goldberg, author of Bumping Into Geniuses

For more info:

The book at publisher Seven Stories’ site.

The Facebook event invite.

To arrange an interview with James Mitchell, please contact Ruth Weiner at ruth(at)sevenstories(dot)com or (212)-226-8760.

Thursday, February 13th, 7pm – Free Event

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David Witter reads from Chicago Magic: A History of Stagecraft & Spectacle 2/15

Published on January 14, 2014 0 Comments
Feb ’14
15
7:00 pm

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In David Witter’s new book Chicago Magic: A History of Stagecraft & Spectacle (The History Press), he keeps track of the shell game of Chicago’s fascinating magic history from its vaudeville circuit to its contemporary resurgence. By the end of America’s “Golden Age of Magic,” Chicago had taken center stage in front of an American audience drawn to the craft by the likes of Harry Houdini and Howard Thurston. Cashing in on a craze that rivaled big-band mania, magic shops and clubs sprang up everywhere across the Windy City, packed in customers and put down roots. Over the last century, for example, Magic, Inc. has outfitted magicians from Harry Blackstone Sr. to Penn and Teller to David Copperfield. Magic was an integral part of Chicago’s culture, from its earliest venture into live television to the card sharps and hucksters lurking in its amusement parks and pool halls.

David Witter is a Chicago historian and author of the book Oldest Chicago. A native Chicagoan, he attended Louisa May Alcott School (the same grammar school as Marshall Brodien), Lane Technical High School, Columbia College (BA in writing) and Northeastern Illinois University (BA in secondary education). Also a freelance writer and photographer, he is a regular contributor to New City and Fra Noi. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, Living Blues, The Best of the Chicago Blues Annual, the Bay Area Music Magazine, the Copley News Syndicate and Lerner Newspapers.

For more info: danielle.raub(at)historypress(dot)net

Click here for Facebook event posting for this event.

Saturday, February 15th, 7pm – Free Event at Quimby’s Bookstore

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New Stuff This Week

Published on January 10, 2014 1 Comment

tenxten2013overview-585x370cTen x Ten, 2013 Edition, A Collection of Prints and Music by Chicago Artists $35.00 – Ten x Ten is a collaboration between visual artists and musicians exploring visual and auditory interaction. By challenging artists to conceptualize their work across media, Ten x Ten asks participants stretch and expand their creative process. Through producing a limited edition compilation and public presentation of the resulting artworks, Ten x Ten documents, celebrates, and promotes Chicago’s artistic community. Ten x Ten 2013 investigates the relationship between color and sound. Through exploring the underlying concepts of synesthesia, both academically and intuitively, artists and composers have worked together to produce artwork that takes the form of both a fine art print and an original score.  This project is presented by Access Contemporary Music, Homeroom, and Spudnik Press. The collection of prints includes an LP with ten unique tracks, a hand-printed folio, and a plastic protective sleeve. Featured print and song collaborations: Lilli Carre and Michael Miller, Edie Fake and Andrew Tham, Jo Dery and Jude Mathews, Aaron Renier and Brain Baxter, Chad Kouri and Marjorie Rusche, Craig Hansen and Betsy Start, Aaron Maurer and Tim Corpus, Ann Worthing and Amos Gillespie, Angee Lennard and Randall West, Renee Robbins and Seth Boustead.

Zines
Fashionable Activism Photozine #1 Hardcore Punk by Kevin McCaughey $8.00
Annular Obsession b y David Wicik $3.00
Any Questions #1 an Interactive Chicago Comedy Magazine $2.00
Smells Fingers Smells Fingers Smells Fingers by Alicia Rose $2.00

Comics & Comix
Believed Behavior Season 1 $5.00 – With contributions from the likes of KrystalDiFronzo, Edie Fake, Jeremy Tinder, Grant Reynolds, Andy Burkholder, Brad Rohloff.
Good Death vol 1 by Sydney Fletcher $5.00
Castle and Wood issues #1-#7 $4.00 each
Reptile Mind #1 by Bernard Stiegler $10.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Prison Pit Book 5 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Terra Obscura: Smash of Two Worlds by Alan Moore et al. (Vertigo) $24.99
Swamp Thing vol 1 Brian K Vaughan TPB by Brian K. Vaughan et al. (Vertigo) $19.99
Multiple Warheads TPB Book 1 by Brandon Graham $17.99
Ex Machina Book 1 TPB by Brian K. Vaughan et al. (Vertigo) $19.99

Fiction
Mustache Hes Always Wanted But Could Never Grow and Other Stories by Brian Alan Ellis $10.00
Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar $18.00

Politics & Revolution
Our America A Hispanic History of The United States by Armesto Felipe Fernandez $27.95

Magazines
Fool #4 Food Insanity Brilliance and Love $18.00
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Uppercase #20 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious
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Color Ink Book vols 19 & 20 DIY Art Periodical by The Brothers Washburn $10.00 each
Out of Order Win 13 $24.00
V Magazine #87 Spr Preview 14 $7.50
Iron and Air #12 $15.00

That’s it for this week! The polar vortex put a hold on a whole mess of shipments!

Don’t miss our Zlumber Party tomorrow night!

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Michael DeForge Talks About Ant Colony 2/8

Published on January 8, 2014 2 Comments
Feb ’14
8
7:00 pm

anttour-chicagoOn Saturday, February 8th, at 7pm, join Quimby’s and Drawn and Quarterly for the launch of Michael DeForge’s darkly existential graphic novel Ant Colony! In just a few short years, DeForge’s singular, idiosyncratic style has made him an important new voice in alternative comics. Here, he will present a slideshow with a signing to follow.

Ant Colony follows the denizens of a black ant colony under attack from the nearby red ants: from its opening pages, DeForge immerses the reader in a world of false prophets, unjust wars, and corrupt police officers. On the surface, Ant Colony tells the story of this war, the destruction of a civilization, and the ants’ all-too-familiar desire to rebuild. Underneath, though, Ant Colony plumbs the deepest human concerns – loneliness, faith, love, apathy, and more. DeForge’s striking visual sensibility – stark lines, dramatic color choices, and brilliant use of page and panel space – stands out in this volume.

 

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More info about Michael DeForge:

http://michaeldeforge.wordpress.com/

http://kingtrash.com/

Click here to see Facebook event invite.

Also! Santullo’s Eatery down the street (1943 W. North Ave) has generously agreed to provide pizza for the occassion! For more info about their delicious New York style pizza see santullos.com.

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