New Stuff This Week

riotgrrrlcollectionThe Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms and Johanna Fateman (Feminist Press) $34.95 – The Riot Grrrl Collection is an attempt to document the evolution of the Riot Grrrl movement, particularly in the years between 1989 and 1996. Because Riot Grrrl was (and is) both a political and a cultural movement, its output was diverse, including writing, music, performance, film, activism, photography, video, and original art, as well as documentation of activism and performance. This research collection will provide primary resources for scholars who are interested in feminism, punk activism, queer theory, gender theory, DIY culture, and music history.

Zines & Zine-Related
Book of Themes Book #50 by Dan Gleason $3.00 – Don’t miss Dan Gleason and friends here at Quimby’s on July 6th.
My Aim Is True #8 by Carrie $1.00
Tongueswell #1 by Jen T. $1.00
Roethlisberger Castration Society #1 by Jen T. $2.00
This Page is Intentionally Left Blank $5.00
Blotch: Thoughts on Diversity From Middle School Thinkers $1.00
Tributaries #4 $2.00
zines from The  Awkward Ladies Club, all $3.00:
Never Date Dudes From the Internet #1 A Response to a Craigslist F4M Ad
Never Finish Grad School #1 Excerpts From My Livejournal 2004-2006
Paper Radio: A Media and Radio Zine issues #11.2  and #12.2 by DJ Frederick $3.00 each
Think About the Bubbles #5 Fears Loves by Joyce Hatton $5.00
Suitable 4 Framin #10 Win 12 $5.00
Silkscreened in Pittsburgh Jan 13 by Georgi $.50
Chomp #3 by Mitsu Sucks $9.00
Alamo Igloo #13 by Herzik $5.00
Sloan Simone Szucs #1 $2.00
The The House of Crosses $4.50 – Mingling of narrative memory, urban history and design nerdery, a intro to a former hausterpiece of visionary art in Chicago, the Szewczyk House of Crosses.

Comics & Comix
Scum TV #1 Fall 12 BY Joren Cull $15.00 – Sexy parodies of Thomas the Tank engine etc.
Dubble Trouble vol 1 by Ted Gudlat $15.00
Supermag #1 by Jim Rugg (Adhouse) $9.95
Turtie Needs Work by Steve Woldhard (Koyama Press) $3.00
Crushable: Mary Tyler Moore by Janice Shapiro $5.00
Crushable John Doe: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by Janice Shapiro $5.00
Day One by Drew Panckeri $2.00
Hello There How Are You – The Beginning by Tony Rabit $3.00
Fiesta en Piyama by Ines Estrada $4.00
Nervous Tic #1 A Comic Book of Stories with a Manly Theme by Kathryn Newman $5.00
Piss N Shit by Aiden Cook $5.50

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle (D&Q) $12.95
I Watered Everything by Aaron Demuth $8.00
500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill $12.95
Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill $12.95
Everybody Gets it Wrong and Other Stories: David Chelsea’s 24 Hour Comics vol 1 $19.99
Hellboy vol 6 by Mike Mignola $49.99
Walking Dead TPB vol 18 What Comes After by Robert Kirkman $14.99

Art & Design
Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger (PowerHouse) $29.95
Cruel: Bearing Witness To Animal Exploitation by Sue Coe (OR Books) $40.00

Fiction
Taipei by Tao Lin $14.95
Hologram For the King by Dave Eggers $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The Big Book of Magic 1400s-1950s by Noel Daniel (Taschen) $69.99
Big Star: The Story of Rocks Forgotten Band by Rob Jovanovic (Jawbone Press) $19.95 – The Revised and Updated Edition.
Ascent of the A Word: Assholism the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg $14.99
Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger for Free Content Starves Creativity by Chris Ruen (OR Books) $20.00
End of the World by Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen) (OR Books) $12.00 – The founder of the Church of Stop Shopping muses on the apocalypse.
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet by Julian Assange et al. (OR Books) $16.00 – Founder of WikiLeaks and peers discuss the future of the internet.
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K Dick’s Robotic Resurrection by David F. Dufty $16.00 – In this remarkable behind-the-scenes narrative, David F. Dufty follows a group of scientists on their mission to create “Phil,” a life-size android of famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. We witness the obstacles the scientists encounter and the innovative solutions they apply to overcome them. The fact that the subject Phil was built to mimic was a man notoriously paranoid and fascinated by artificial intelligence colors the story all the way to its unforgettable end, when the robot’s head goes missing, never to be seen again. A riveting story that will capture science enthusiasts and general readers alike, How to Build An Android traces the line where artificial intelligence and humans collide. Now in soft cover.
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Politics & Revolution
Beautiful Trouble: The Toolbox For Revolution From the People Who Brought You the Yes Men and Billionaires For Bush by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell (OR Books) $13.00 – New Pocket Edition.

DIY
Lust for Leaf: Veggie Crowd Pleasers to Fuel Your Picnics Potlucks and Ragers by Alex Brown and Evan George $19.99

Sex Guides & Culture
Guide For the Modern Bear: Field Study of Bears in the Wild by Travis Smith (Modern Bear) $19.99

Magazines
Bitch #59 $5.95
Juxtapoz #150 Jul 13 $5.99
Shots #120 Sum 13 $6.95
ArtForum Sum 13 $10.00
Creative Review May 13 Annual Special Issue $14.99
Cemetery Dance #69 $9.95
Paleo Magazine Jun Jul 13 $5.99
Maps vol 23 #1 $8.95
Skunk vol 9 #1 $5.99
High Times Aug 13 $5.99
Taproot #6 $9.00
Cinema Retro vol 9 #26 $11.99
Horror Hound #41 May Jun 13 $6.99
Shock Cinema #44 $5.00
Camera Obscura #82 Feminism Culture and Media Studies $12.00
Big Takeover #72 $5.99
Maximumrocknroll #361 Jun 13 $4.00
Filter #52 $5.95
Radical History Review Spr Sum 13 $9.95
Wax Poetics #55 $11.99
Gather #3 Spr Sum 13 $19.99 – Gather is a lushly photographed and deleriously appetizing food magazine (phood fotography?)- their Spring/Summer film issue is no exception with a slew of cinematicly inspired original recipes.
Monocle vol 7 #64 Jun 13 $12.00
In These Times Jun 13 $3.50
Radical History Review Spr 13 $14.00
Tattoo Venus Special #9 From Tattoo Life $9.99
Inked Jun Jul 13 #56 $6.99

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Fourteen Hills vol 19 #2 2013 $9.00
Public Space #18 $12.00

Other Stuff
Gary Baseman Coasters 4 Coaster Set $9.99
Giggle and Pop Magnet Set by Gary Baseman $8.99
More Moleskine planners. varying prices, sizes, formats and colors.

New Stuff This Week

illustratedgdhumorThe Hic and Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor vol 1 United States ed. by Lauren Barnett & Nathan Bulmer. Featuring funny comics by Ian Andersen, Lauren Barnett, Bort, Box Brown, Nathan Bulmer, Nikki Burch, Anne Emond, Madéleine Flores, Zac Gorman, KC Green, Dustin Harbin, Sam Henderson, Martha Keavney, Patt Kelley, Jeff Lok, Jane Mai, Phil McAndrew, Dakota McFadzean, Maré Odomo, Liz and Jimmy Reed, Noah Van Sciver, Alex Schubert, Sam Sharpe, Grant Snider, Sam Spina, Nathan Stapley, Julia Wertz, and Matt Weigle.

Lucky Peach #7 Travel $12.00 – McSweeney’s popular food mag. ANTHONY BOURDAIN talks Deliverance, Apocalypse Now, and Southern Comfort. Punk rock touring with BROOKS HEADLEY. Travel tips from AZIZ ANSARI. The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world. Chicken tamales at a gay cantina in Mérida. The history of curry. And much, much more.

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Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Mere by CF $19.95 – In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex-all of them infused throughout by C.F.’s absurdist humor and loose improvisatory drawing. Those comics, along with unpublished art and photos, are collected here. Introduction by Nicole Rudick.

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Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends: A Collection of Unsolved Mysteries ed. by Emi Gennis (Hic and Hoc) $12.00 – Contains over 30 non-fiction unsolved mysteries by relative newcomers and small press comics legends alike, including J.T. Yost, Julia Gfrorer, Noah Van Sciver, Simon Moreton, and Sam Spina. Previews below from pieces by Nikki DeSautelle, Sam Alden, and Graham Kahler. Featuring tales of slaughtered hikers, vanishing prime ministers, suicide forests, and meat falling from the sky.
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Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust (Fantagraphics) $35.00
Oswalds Mound by Ben East $6.00
Good Dog by Graham Chaffee (Fantagraphics) $16.99
The Watchmen Deluxe Edition by Alan Moore $35.99
Batman Noir Deluxe Edition by Eduardo Risso and Brian Azzarello $24.99

Comics & Comix
Lose #5 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) $8.00 – “Hit list, top of the pops” says Edie. Don’t miss DeForge here with Lisa Hanawalt & Patrick Kyle on 6/14, followed by Ezra Claytan Daniels’ Comic Art Battle, as part of CAKE festivities!
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Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever & Ever #2 by Igloo Tornado {Josh Bayer, Tom Neely, Mark Rudolph} (Microcosm Publishing) $5.00 – In the latest installment of the greatest love story ever told, Glenn’s mother, freshly unearthed from beneath the bricks, moves in with him and Henry. Without giving too much away, Glenn’s mommy issues come to the surface as she critiques his art, replaces his wardrobe, scrubs their dungeon, and recalls his childhood. Glenn tries to sell his signature to a UPS driver, takes a punch, and has some daydreaming adventures with a plunger. Henry, “a loud guy with a good work ethic,” shows his darker side and indifference to a fan as he drinks black coffee and bonds with Glenn over their distaste for their own bands; two men who suffer best alone together. Additional pin up art by Andy Belanger, Katie Skelly, and Tom Scioli. Darkest and best issue yet. Plus! We have more H&D sticker sets for 5 bucks too. Lucky you.
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Radiator by Jon Marchione $7.00
Bots is Bots #2 by Gregg K. $1.00
Dumpling King #2 by Alex Kim $1.00
Word and Voice #5 by Aaron Cockle (Oily) $1.00
Lou #13 by Melissa Mendes (Oily) $1.00
Jo Dery In Conversation With Melissa Mendes (Oily) $1.00 – This is a 12 page interview zine with cartoonist/animator Jo Dery. Jo talks with Melissa Mendes about being an artist, identity, and how they are affected by their environment.
derymendesHome Ache by Marta Chudolinska $5.00
Gay Heart Throbs 3 $4.95
Me And Jana on Valentine’s Day by JR Milmoe et al. $5.00
Red by Bryn Adams $1.00
Heavy by Krystal DiFronzo $5.00
Grand Gestures by Simon Moreton (Retrofit) $6.00

Zines
Peops #8 by Fly $5.00
Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy by Leslie James Pickering $5.00
Taking the Lane vol 10 Bikes in Space a Feminist Science Fiction Anthology by Elly Blue $6.00
Frontier #1 Uno Morales, Youth In Decline $8.00

Art & Design
Oversize Mega Art and Installations by Victionary $39.95
Spinfluence: The Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses by Nick McFarlane (Carpet Bombing Culture) $19.95 – Spinfluence will appeal to crooked politicians, media manipulators and corporate big-wigs alike, in fact anyone interested in how to exploit people for profit or power. Covering fun techniques and tactics such as emotional hijacking, brainwashing and hysteria harnessing – Spinfluence is a glorious and insightful read about how to bend the truth and subvert the will of the herd. Wolf&Co. are a propaganda agency who are proud to say they’re in the business of “making people happy”. Nick McFarlane was commissioned to distil the secrets of propaganda into an agency induction manual – issued to everyone required to learn the black art.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Wilderness: Essays and Art by Rennie Sparks $14.98 – By the lyricist from The Handsome Family. This book is a companion release to the album of the same name. Expands on themes such as the meticulously researched and little-known enigmas of the natural world: immortal jellyfish, woodpecker tongues, dancing octopi, fly royalty, the secret language of crows, and mysterious ant spirals.
True Crime: Real-life Stories of Grave-robbing, Identity Theft, Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, and More ed. by Lee Gutkind (InFact) $15.95TrueCrime_Cover

Politics & Revolution
Atheist In the Foxhole: A Liberal’s Eight Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right Wing Media $26.95

DIY
Marijuana Smoker’s Guidebook: The Easy Way to Identify and Enjoy Marijuana Strains by Matt Mernagh (Green Candy Press) $15.00
Fireweed 2 A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting with Kids & Family Life $4.00

Fiction
Insufferable Gaucho SC by Roberto Bolano $14.95

Sex & Sexy
Nudity Today: Revealing Work By Emerging Photographers ed. by Jesse Pearson (Picturebox) $34.95 – Work Tim Barber, Jordan Bennett, Sandy Kim, Sasha Kurmaz, Maggie Lee, Nicole Lesser, and more.
Wild Girl’s Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories by Sacchi Green (Cleis) $15.95
Beach Bums: Gay Erotic Fiction by Neil Plakcy (Cleis) $15.95
Billy Miller stopped by and restocked us on past Straight to Hell issues and other sexy zine-y stuff. Come and check it out.

Magazines
Decibel #105 Jul 13 $4.95
Mojo #235 Jul 13 $9.99

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
People Portraits #2 Palmistry by Alex Cohen $5.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought Win 13 $10.00

Kids Stuff
Lost Sloth by J. Otto Seibold (McSweeney’s) $16.95

Other Stuff
More Moleskine planners, both 2014 and 2013. The 2013 ones start in July 2013 and go through the end of 2014. Perfect for folks who don’t get it together for a planner the first half of the year.

Off-Site: Saturday Strip: Comic Day MCA

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Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor Saturday Strip:

Comic Day at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

July 27, 2013, 10am – 5pm

On Saturday, July 27th the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago will be showcasing all that is amazing in the world of independent comics, cartoons, and animation in Chicago. This all day event will include a series of workshops, talks, screenings and performances that will take place throughout the museum. Highlights include a pop-up comic fair co-presented with Quimby’s Bookstore, an Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation film program, Chicago’s Second City performing comics-themed improv, a mini-comics demonstration by Jeff Brown, a large-scale interactive jam comic by Trubble Club, Ezra Clayton Daniels’s Comic Art Battle, and a live shadow puppet performance by Manual Cinema.

This event is in tandem and inspired by the exhibit Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes, hanging at the MCA Jun 29–Oct 13, 2013. Clowes is known for his his seminal comic-book series Eightball, as well as cover art for the New Yorker. Clowes is now well known to a wide audience following the 2001 film adaptation of Ghost World and the 2006 release of Art School Confidential, written by Clowes. In recent years, Clowes has realized the widely praised graphic novel Wilson (2010) and a serialized comic for the New York Times Magazine, a “middle-aged romance” titled Mister Wonderful, collected in an expanded hardcover edition in 2011.Clowes_Eightball18cover

Please note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the MCA, at  220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 280-2660.

Off-Site: Quimby’s Co-sponsors the EX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER Ladydrawers Exhibition

Jun ’13
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Quimby’s Bookstore (and our sister store, Chicago Comics) are proud to be a sponsor of the Ladydrawers Comics Collective exhibition entitled SEX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER, curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore, at Columbia College Chicago’s A+D Gallery, opening June 27th.  S.M.R.G. will also feature a series of workshops that explores hot button topics with everything from site-specific murals to performance to empirical conversations to yes, comics.
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Beginning with the opening night spectacle, the gallery (Columbia’s A+D Gallery, not Quimby’s) will be activated through fun, radicalthinking, and art making, a space to observe and reflect on ideas of SEX, MONEY, RACE, and GENDER.  Instead of creating a catalog for the show, Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor a comics anthology including work by Robyn Chapman, Danielle Chenette, Clay Harris, Lyra Hill, MariNaomi, Corinne Mucha, Laura Szumowski, Lauren Weinstein.

SEX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER.  The Ladydrawers (of Chicago, IL)

Exhibition & Workshop Schedule

 

Opening Reception: June 27, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Exhibit closes on July 27th

Curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore

S.M.R.G OPENING NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA!

Featuring comedy, art making, readings, performance, and much more. Come explore issues of SEX, MONEY, RACE, and GENDER with a sprinkling of humor and pathos through stand up comedy, femcore anthems, live mural making, and interpretations of texts, personal readings (in the bathroom!), and even hula hooping. Join us, won’t you?

Opening Night Performers

Sarah Bell, Blizzard Babies, Gretchen Hasse, Lyra Hill, Elliott Junkyard, Francis Kang, Ever Mainard, Carolina Mayorga, Katie McVay, Yasmin Nair, Polly Yates

Exhibition Participants

Nicole Boyett, Jacinta Bunnel, Danielle Chenette, Gretchen Hasse, Elliott Junkyard, Francis Kang, Carolina Mayorga, Melissa Gira Grant, Lyra Hill, Franny Howes, Nia King, Viet Le, Nicole Marroquin, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Sarah Morton, Liz Rush, Rachel Swanson, Laura Szumowski, Bonsovathary Uoeung, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Welch, Elizabeth White, Mara Williams, Polly Yates

S.M.R.G Workshops

These workshops are collaborative and exploratory projects lead by outstanding cultural producers and thinkers—all amazing, smart people that you will like very much.

Radical Noticing: Riot Grrrl Press and Contemporary Comics

May Summer Farnsworth and Jamie Davida Lee

Saturday, June 29, 2013 2:00-4:00 p.m.

May Summer Farnsworth will discuss her experiences working on the formation of Riot Grrrl Press in 1993. Cartoonist Jamie Davida Lee will simultaneously lead a silent workshop on making comics and zines.

Lexicon of Sexicana

Esther Pearl Watson and Terri Kapsalis

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Speech balloons! Giant boons! Big muscles! The hundred-year-old lexicon of comics was developed by its most prominent practitioners, mostly straight white dudes. It’s time to re-think the language of comics. Esther Pearl Watson and Terri Kapsalis will create a work exploring sexual health based on Mort Walker’s satirical look at comics devices for cartoonists, The Lexicon of Comicana.

Life and Labor

Delia Jean Hickey and Sarah Jaffe

Thursday, July 18, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

We all know what it means to work, but what extra effort do certain forms of labor extract from us? This workshop explores what it takes to make an honest living, with a particular focus on the service industry.

Boi Band Poser Poster Workshop

Viet Le and Morgan Claire

Thursday, July 25, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

This workshop challenges identities and identifications through pop and props. Thinking through gender, race, and (inner and outer) space, participants will form and “perform” their own pop bands and solo acts. Fun FOBulous times!

Please note: these events are at the A+D Gallery at 619 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, Il 60605, NOT QUIMBY’S BOOKSTORE.

Quimby’s in the Printers Row Journal of the Chicago Tribune

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In the 5/26/13 edition. Dowload the pdf for easier reading here.

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Thanks to the hilarious Ken Krimstein (author of the collection Kvetch as Kvetch Can) for the story!PRJ052613d