July Is International Zine Month

Published on July 3, 2013 0 Comments

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Need an excuse to finish that zine you’ve been working on? Or um, talking about working on? Well the perfect kick in the pants is here: July is International Zine Month. Get your zine on. On our racks that is. When you’re done making it, you come in and consign it. Give us five copies, fill out a form, and then once it sells you get 60% of your retail price. It’s that easy. More info about consigning here at Quimby’s here.

More info about International Zine Month at the amazing zine resource site stolensharpierevolution.org.

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Off-Site: POP-UP BOOK FAIR, Sunday, July 7th at The Empty Bottle

Published on July 3, 2013 0 Comments
Jul ’13
7
12:30 pm

POP-UP-BOOKS-624x794Sunday (July 7th) at The Empty Bottle is POP-UP BOOK FAIR! Beginning at 12:30pm and going until 5pm, join Curbside Splendor Publishing as they play host to 40+ small indie presses and publishers. The event is FREE with RSVP if you click here, and it’s $5 at the door. It is a 21+ event, so all minors must be accompanied. There will be live music provided by  Nagasaki, DJ Goldie Bear, DJ “2nd Cousin, Twice Removed”, DJ Kale Party, DJ Heavy Inspinuation, KRUBREDNUF, and DJ DG.

Featured purveyors include:

2nd Story
7 Vientos
826chi
Another Chicago Magazine
Artifice Mag
Black Ocean
Burial Day Books
Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP)
Chicago Zine Fest
chicagopoetry.com
co•im•press
Convulsive Editions
Criminal Class Press
Curbside Splendor Publishing
Dream of Things
Fifth Star Press
Haymarket Books
Kenning Editions
Knee Jerk Magazine
Labletter
Love Symbol Press
Mid American Review
Miss Nyet
Monsters & Dust
Moon City Review
New American Press
Orange Alert
Quimby’s
READ/WRITE
Rhino Poetry
Richochet Review
Rose Metal Press
Soberscove
Solace in So Many Words
South Loop Review
Switchback Books
THE 2ND HAND
Tortoise Books
& MORE

Please note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It is at The Empty Bottle which is at 1035 N. Western Ave.  Chicago, IL 60647.

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Steve Miller Talks Detroit Rock City Book and Punk Rock Provocateur Tesco Vee Squawks Touch and Go

Published on June 29, 2013 0 Comments
Jul ’13
26
7:00 pm

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Michigan madmen Steve Miller and Tesco Vee, veterans of the unbridled musical sounds that made the Midwest famous, appear together July 26 to talk about Miller’s new oral history, Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Five Decades of Rock ‘N Roll in America’s Loudest City (Da Capo). The two will also discuss the classic punk rock tome Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83 (Bazillion Points), the 576-page monsterpiece written by TV and edited by Miller.

Steve Miller is a noted true crime author, award-winning investigative journalist, and former singer of hardcore punk legends the Fix. In Detroit Rock City, Miller spins a tale of rust belt rebellion culled from hundreds of hours spent interviewing a litany of rock titans, from Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop to Jack White and John Brannon. Miller does the walkin’ and lets the principals do the talkin’ as he creeps through 50 years  of hard rockin’ magnificence from the “Mitten.”

Tesco Vee is the irascible, ageless, iconic punk rock impresario, renaissance man, and founder of Touch and Go. His band The Meatmen continue to amaze and astound. His rapier wit will be on full display Friday.

Detroit Rock City is …A sharply edited oral history that nails most of the major players and includes the inherent contradictions in each person’s account of how history went down, it offers up that singular Detroit attitude that somehow fuses an inferiority/superiority complex into something loud, aggressive, and delightfully unique. Not to be crude, but– holy crap. – Dave DiMartino, former editor, Creem magazine

“Creem may have taught me how to piss, but Touch and Go taught me how to shit. I owe my career to that magazine.”—John Brannon, Negative Approach

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New Stuff This Week

Published on June 29, 2013 1 Comment

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Mash Tun #3 Craft Beer Journal: 2013 We Heart Love Beer $8.00

Zines & Zine-Related
Majik Gurlz by Brett Manning $6.00 – Beautifully rendered drawings of cosmic ladeez ready to sweep you up in their curls and claws. Also there’s a Majik Boys.
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Semen Leather #2 Trainwreck by Timm Mettler $5.00
Werewolf by Andy Hood $3.00
Docs #4 Spr 13 $3.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #58 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
I Heart Twin Peaks vol 1 by Jessixa $5.00 – Full color character sketches, one-pager gag strip-style. Hilarious.  And there’s a volume 2. Diane, send those earplugs. P.S. This same artist dropped off “Jessixas Portable Quotable 80s” vols 1 and 2. Which is, of course, equally hilarious.
Hoi Polloi Haikus by A. Bagley $5.00
Paint on Paint on Paint $5.00
Fluke Fanzine #11 $3.00

Comics & Comix
Trubble Club vols 6 and 7 $5.00 each
Wolfman Chicago Eats Pants Pie by Nate Beaty $2.00
Jeremy Tinder comics:
Amsterdam Sketchbook $3.00
Transformerman $7.00
Viewotron #2 by Sam Sharpe $6.00
All Rumors Are True by Laurel Lynn Leake $10.00 – Leake’s comics have a badass snarl, crafty pop draftsmanship and bionic take-no-shit pacing  that fits right in with the likes of Hellen Jo and Liz Suburbia. All Rumors Are True is about a cult reality drag porn star, and the blur of the spotlight – catchy.
Piece Meal #3 by Nate Beaty $4.00
Sea Cow by Seamous O. Hames $5.00
Beth Dean #2 Pregnant With Desire by Beth Dean $5.00
Linework #4 SPECIAL EDITION $40.00 – Comes with a plethora of stickers and originaldrawings and zines! Ooo la la.
Brass City Stories by B. Cremins $3.00
Misper #3 by Anthony Melero $3.00
I Will Eat Your Heart by Andy Glass $3.00
Robot Versus Ghost by Drew Alderfrer $6.00
Hole Show #3 Gnartoons by James Stanton $4.00
You Text Your Mama With That Font by Steve Keiser $1.00
Yellow Zine #3 by Roman Muradov $6.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Eye of the Majestic Creature 2 by Leslie Stein (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Green Eggs and Maakies by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Destination X by John Martz (Nobrow) $15.95
Stink Helmet by Otto Splotch $15.00
Digbys Sweater by Ben East $6.00
The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation, Using Lincolns Words to Tell The Whole Story of Americas Civil War 1776-Present by Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell $15.99
Locke and Key TPB vol 4 Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez $19.99
Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York by Samuel R. Delany and Mia Wolff (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Before Watchmen – Deluxe Editions, $29.99 each:
Silk Spectre by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner
Ozymandias Crimson Corsair by Lein Wein, Jae Lee, John Higgins

Fiction
Lexicon by Max Barry $26.95
How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti $16.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O’Brien and Sarah E. Melville $14.00
Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue, Authorized Biography by Robert Scotto (Process) $22.95 – Now in soft cover.
Man from Mars: Ray Palmer’s Amazing Pulp Astonishing But True Journey by Fred Nadis $28.95
Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science by Micahel Brooks (Overlook) $16.95
President and the Provocateur: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox (Feral House) $15.95

Politics & Revolution
Anarchists Against the Wall: Anarchist Interventions 05 by Uri Gordon and Ohal Grietzer by Uri Gordon (AK Press) $12.00
Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism by Michael Schmidt (AK Press) $12.00

Druuuuuuuuugs
The Marijuana Chronicles ed. by Jonathan Santloffer (Akashic) $15.95

Magazines
SSLM vol 19 Jun 13 Same Sex Life Magazine: Say I Do Wedding Expo Special Edition $5.00
Backwoodsman vol 34 #4 Jul Aug 13 $4.95
Dazed and Confused vol 3 #22 Jun 13 $$9.99
Empire Jul 13 $9.99
Fader #86 Jun Jul 13 $5.99
Decibel #106 Aug 13 $4.95
Nobrow #8 Hysteria $24.00
Tom Tom Magazine #14 Magazine For Female Drummers $6.00

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
The Believer #100 Jul Aug 13 Music Issue $12.00
Rusted Radishes #1 Beirut Literary and Art Journal $10.00
Ricochet Review #1 Spr 13 $10.00
Last American Poet by Nicholas Conlon $20.00
Mirrors for Princes by Lesley Dixon $8.00

Notable Restocks
More Moleskines! Various colors and sizes.
Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #2 $5.00
Unstuck: A Little Zine Full of Ideas for Writing by Carrie Colpitts $1.00
Journal by Julie Delporte (Koyama) $20.00
Saga TPB vol 1 by Brian. K. Vaughan $9.99
Railroad Semantics #1 Eugene Portland Pocatello and Back $7.95

Fan Interference: The Best of Zisk Zine Release Event with Mike Faloon, Steve Reynolds and Jake Austen 7/19

Published on June 27, 2013 0 Comments
Jul ’13
19
7:00 pm

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Intending to cover baseball from a fan’s perspective, the first issue of Zisk was published in the summer of 1999 and is now published twice a season. Named for the former “South Side Hitman” Richie Zisk, the zine is for those who love the charm, history and quirks of America’s pastime. The publication is edited by New York-based writers Mike Faloon and Steve Reynolds and is touted as “the Baseball Magazine For People Who Hate Baseball Magazines.” FAN INTERFERENCE: A COLLECTION OF BASEBALL RANTS AND REFLECTIONS  (Blue Cubicle Press, 2013) is an anthology of the best musings culled from over 15 years of Zisk. Edited by MIKE FALOON (Go Metric, Egghead.) and STEVE REYNOLDS (Trouser Press, Party Like It’s 1999) and featuring contributions from academics to punk rockers, comedians to fans with an ax to grind, FAN INTERFERENCE examines the intersection of baseball, lifestyle and music — all colored with bit of nostalgia, a great deal of humor and, often, a tongue planted firmly in cheek.

In addition to Faloon and Reynolds, contributors to the anthology include JAKE AUSTEN (author, TV-A-Go-Go: Rock Music on Television from American Bandstand to American Idol), SEAN CARSWELL (college professor, co-founder of the independent music magazine Razorcake and the independent book publisher Gorsky Press), KEVIN CHANEL (Punk Rock Confidential), BRIAN COGAN (The Encyclopedia of Punk), DR. NANCY GOLDEN (writer; wildlife toxicologist), JOHN SHIFFERT (author, Base Ball in Philadelphia), TODD TAYLOR (founder and executive director of Razorcake/Gorsky Press Inc.), CHARLIE VASCELLARO (journalist, Washington Post, Chicago Sun Times, Los Angeles Times), ARI VOUKYDIS (comedian/writer, BuzzFeed, GQ, Grantland, etc) and REV NORB (musician; inventor of Sick Teen magazine, former writer for Maximum Rocknroll).

FAN INTERFERENCE: A COLLECTION OF BASEBALL RANTS AND REFLECTIONS (Blue Cubicle Press, 2013)

Anthology – Paperback

238 pages Print – $22.95

ISBN: 978-1-938583-04-9

“…For those who love baseball for its charm, history and eccentricities and not merely as something to play a fantasy league around. It’s for the true fans who populate the upper deck, not the party animals in the bleachers.” – Chicago Tribune

“Baseball is the most important thing in the world. It’s also completely meaningless in the grand scheme of life. These guys recognize that those two philosophies can co-exist in the human brain, which makes their writing a truly electric, and all too rare, jolt to the synapses.” – Variety

Fri, July 19th, 7pm

For more info:

ziskmagazine.com

facebook.com/ZiskTheBook

thebellhouseny.com

 

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