Chicago Alternative Comics Expo 2014 Application Now Open

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Chicago Alternative Comics Expo 2014 application is open to the public!
Apply at http://www.cakechicago.com/cake-2014-exhibitor-application/

The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE] is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers.

CAKE 2014 will  be:

Saturday & Sunday
May 31 & June 1, 2014

11am – 6pm
Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted

Stay tuned for more details!

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Why Yes, We Do Have T-Shirts In Kids Sizes

470Thanks for modeling, Ainsley Avers! The shirt features our logo, designed by Chris Ware, printed on black pre-shrunken cotton. It’s sweet, simple and to the point: QUIMBY’S! We have sizes for babies, kids and adults. Order your here now!

 

Anya Davidson Reads and Signs School Spirits 11/12

Nov ’13
12
7:00 pm

schoolspiritsSchool Spirits is Anya Davidson‘s idiosyncratic and captivating debut full-length graphic novel. It is the story of Oola, a high school student with an unusual connection to the supernatural. Comprised of four chapters, each deploying a different narrative technique, School Spirits is at once funny, sexy, mystical and, above all, utterly readable. Davidson’s crisp cartooning style makes even the strangest occurrences somehow seem plausible. This publication is sure to appeal to Davidson’s existing extensive underground following, as well as to fans of the farther reaches of contemporary graphic fiction.

Anya Davidson is a cartoonist and musician based in Chicago. She is the author of numerous zines and was a member of the acclaimed band Coughs. More info at anyadavidson.blogspot.com.

School Spirits
Hardcover, 152 pages PictureBox, $19.95
For more info: dan(at)pictureboxinc(dot)com

Quimby’s gift to you, in honor of our own holiday, Quimbas at this event: Take a nibble of a free Krampus Candy Cane.  But don’t gobble too quickly, little fellow. There’s a special Krampus mystery missive wrapped on that sweet treat.

New Stuff This Week

slingsm14The Slingshot Collective Pocket-Sized 2014 Planner $10.00 -Quimby’s Qustomers jump up and down with excitement when these week-at-a-glance organizers from this Berkeley collective arrive at this time every year. Even anarchists need to (get) organize(d)!

Zines & Zine-Related
Zisk #23 $2.00
Atomic Elbow: A Professional Wrestling Fanzine issues #5-#7 $5.00 each
Fig 1 Human Body Kseniya Yarosh $3.00
Jungleland #1 A Springzine by Matthias Scherer $4.00 – As in Bruce Springsteen.
Taken For a Ride: My Night in the Cash Cab – Essays on Game Shows as Seen From Both Sides of the Screen ed. by Matt Carman $3.00
After Hours: Cats I Know by Kaori Mitsushima $12.00
Little Book of Monsters vol1 by Rodney Dollah $12.95
Victory Journal #5 Sum 13 Water $5.00
Street Preacher #1 The New York Hard Core Review of Books by Dave Morse $1.00
Spider Teeth: Wherein our Protagonist Flies to Thailand to Get a Brand New Cunt by ellie june navidson $5.00
Communicating Vessels #25 Fall Win 13 14 by Anthony Walent $3.50

Comics & Comix
Palookaville #21 by Seth (D&Q) $21.95
Multiple Warheads Down Fall One Shot by Brandon Graham $7.99
31 Drawings That Have Something to Do With Being In Love and Not Being In Love by Eleanor Davis $5.00
Copra Compendium #2 by Michel Fiffe (Bergen Street Comics Press) $12.00
Delia Awesome #1 by Michael Schneider and Jane Huh $3.00
new comics from Patrick Kyle! Special Friend #1 $10.00, Fffpt $5.00
Poupy London Fashion by Luca & Friends $12.00
Miss Lonelyhearts #2 by Gabrielle Gamboa $5.00
Pourquoi Il Faut Penser A Nettoyer Son Aquarium by Amandine Ciosi $10.00
Abecedaire Abecedaire Abecedaire Pour Dames & Messieurs by Aurelien Vallade $10.00
Borb issues #1-#3 by Jason Little – various prices
Structures 24 through 34 by Michael DeForge $5.00 – Calligraphic hoo-ha from the polished greenhouse of doodads; cascading shape charades.
Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream Autoptic Mini by Laura Park (Uncivilized Books) $4.00
Loud Comix #1 Oct 13 by Jamie Vayda et al. $6.00
Colibri #5 $10.00
Joy and Spider #14 $3.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Best American Comics 2013 ed. by Jeff Smith, Jessica Abel & Matt Madden $25.00
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 6 by Hernandez Bros (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Treasury of Minicomics vol 1 (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Father Gaetano’s Puppet Catechism: A Novella by Mike Mognola and Christopher Golden $14.99
Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide by Stephanie McMillan $16.95
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge (D&Q) $21.95 – Don’t miss Peter Bagge here at Quimby’s on Sat, 10/19!
Fran: Continuing and Preceding Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Battling Boy by Paul Pope (First Second) $15.99
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 vol 4 Welcome to the Team by Joss Whedon et al. (Dark Horse) $17.99
Mind MGMT vol 2 HC The Futurist by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse) $19.99
Colonized TPB Zombies vs Aliens by Chris Ryall & DrewMoss $17.99

Fiction
Mr Penumbras 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan $15.00
Naughty by Monte Schulz (Fantagraphics) $35.00
A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn $25.95
The Red Queen Dies by Frankie Y. Bailey $24.99
Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk $24.95
Greatest Hits by Matthias Wolfboy Connor $12.00
The Walking Dead: Fall of the Governor Part One by Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga $24.99

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits by James Greene Jr. $14.95
True Crime Detective Magazines 1924-1969 ed. by Eric Godtland & Dian Hanson (Taschen) $19.99 – Sin! Scandal! Sex! Death! Over 450 covers!
My Heart Is An Idiot, Essays by Davy Rothbart $16.00
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy -A Very Oral History ed. by Yael Kohen $16.00
Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch and Irish Whiskey by Fred Minnick (Potomac) $26.95 – Don’t miss this event at The Hungry Brain on Wed, Oct 16th!
Rookie Yearbook Two ed. by Tavi Gevinson (D&Q) $29.95

DIY
Cat Hats: Sixteen Paper Hats You Put on Your Unsuspecting Kitty by Kitty Barnett $9.95 – Yeah, that’s right, it’s in the DIY section.
Crime Lab 101: 25 Different Experiments in Crime Detection by Robert Gardner $6.99
Knitster: 20 Patterns for Hip Knitters by Robbie Dulaney $19.95

Poltics & Revolution
Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals 2006-2013 by Janet Hamlin (Fantagraphics) $28.99

Mags
Gratuitous Type #C Color: A Pamphlet of Typographic Smut $18.00
Uppercase #19 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
Mesh #1 Fall 13 $15.00
Juxtapoz #154 Nov 13 $5.99
Dwell Nov 13 $5.99
Fantastic Man #18 Fall Win 13 $14.99
Hello Mr #2 About Men Who Date Men $20.00
Huck #40 $12.99
Alarmist Magazine #3 Fall Win 13 $14.99
Dazed and Confused vol 3 #26 Oct 13 $9.99
Dark Side #155 Sep Oct 13 $11.99 – Who thought of the name of this magazine? Awesome.
Fader #88 Oct Nov 13 $5.99
Wire Oct 13 #356 $11.25

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Deadyears three poems by Elizabeth S. Tieri $2.00

Kids Stuff
The Goods vol 1 Games and Activities for Big Kids, Little Kids and Medium Sized Kids by the folks of McSweeneys (Big Picture Press) $22.99
Slovenly Betsy: The American Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman and Walter Hayn $12.99
Pippi Fixes Everything: Pippi Longstocking Comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman (D&Q) $14.95
Maps by Aleksandra & Daniel Mizielinska (Big Picture Press) $35.00
Captain Cat by Inga Moore $15.99
The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents: Adventures in Cartooning, Characters in Action by James Sturn et al. (First Second) $9.99
Windows Reflect Everything: Stories from Chicago Students by 826CHI, Students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy & Students at Golder College Prep $15.00

Other Stuff
Bob Dobbs Messenger Bag $12.00 – Pack up your goods in this Church of the Subgenius bag before the pleasure saucers arrive (again).
Krampus Gift Wrap $4.00
Foodie Bandages $6.00
Bacon Lollipop $4.00
Meat Parade Metal Lunch Box $15.00
Day of the Dead Notebook $1.50
Hollywood Said No Audio CD: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, Abandoned Darlings by Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Brian Posehn & Friends $40.00 – Bob and Dave and friends do the voices. Remember the videotape they threw in the air in that one episode of Mr. Show? It’s as if someone found the tape. And made audio. With the voices of Bob and David and friends. FOR THREE UNABRIDGED HOURS.

Gene Gregorits Reads With Alan Hoffmann 11/8

Nov ’13
8
7:00 pm

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In Gene Gregorits’ latest, Fishhook (Monastrell Books), he takes a break from his Dog Days series, which has won him a mountain of small press support while also inviting hellish scorn since its emergence last year. Throughout this new volume’s 550 pages, we experience the notorious cult writer and well-known Facebook abuser’s oftentimes hazardous day-to-day life with both humor and a terrifying clinical detachment. Fishhook is the first book of its kind: a literary anthology comprised entirely of status updates. It works as a conceptual coffee table piece, but fans of his novels can investigate this collection as a real life companion to both Dog Days and Johnny Behind the Deuce.

The work of Gene Gregorits has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years. His first 2 books, 2002’s Sex & Guts and 2007’s Midnight Mavericks: Reports From The Underground, sold less than 50 copies each, despite heavy marketing, exceptional writing, and one-of-a-kind interviews. He finds the relentless attempts to extinguish him as a writer and force of nature amusing, particularly now that with his own imprint, Monastrell, he has finally managed to discover an intelligent and informed readership that, like him, is none too happy about the current void in American literature. His rapidly growing cult of ne’er do wells, malcontents, and highly literate reprobates seems to be largely based in Chicago, and he is very excited to meet every one of them on November 8th.
Gregorits is coming all the way from Florida for this event; he will be reading from Dog Days Volume Two, Fishhook, and his current work-in-progress, Intra-Coastal: One Year On St. Pete Beach. For more info: www.MonastrellBooks.com

“Gene Gregorits is the best and truest writer you have never heard of.” -Lisa Carver, VICE MAGAZINE

Alan Hoffman is a Chicago-based writer-performer who collaborates with musicians (including current-regular ambient accompanist Cinchel) to create dark sonic portraits about human nature. His current project is a recording for late 2013 which includes his own monologues, along with one each by director Christophe Honore and author Dennis Cooper. Alan will read a piece from this recording tonight and will be performing the show in its entirety (with several other local musicians) in the near future.” For more info: http://cinchel.com/

Friday, November 8th, 7pm – Free Event

In honor of Gregoritis’ love for Facebook, we’ll be giving away FREE GRAB BAGS to any customer who can prove that they shared that day’s event and tagged Quimby’s Bookstore. Social media: truly the gift that keeps on giving. Please note: customers must be in the store at the Gregorits in-store appearance to pick up their grab bags.

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