Off-site Event: Karaoke Idol April Edition 4/25

Published on March 28, 2013 0 Comments
Apr ’13
25
9:00 pm

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Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor this monthly series at Beauty Bar Chicago, which raises funds for Chicago not-for-profits and culturally minded aspiring businesses. One singer each from Chicago-based companies and organizations will battle it out to determine who will wear the crown of KARAOKE IDOL! And one lucky competitor will be chosen from the crowd to compete with the other representatives from local businesses. Maybe that’s you?

This month’s edition is on April 25th. Celebrity Judges Mason Johnson, Amy Guth, & Jacob Knabb, and KJ Gods “Shameless Karaoke” will preside.

Please note: this event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the Beauty Bar Chicago, at 1444 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Karaoke-Idol-Chicago/485722288105544

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Laydeez Do Comics Chicago April Edition With Jeffrey Brown

Published on March 27, 2013 1 Comment
Apr ’13
25
7:00 pm

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The monthly focus on lady comics and friends of lady comics artists returns. Come hear comics creators speak about their work, their process, their plans, and whatever else they want to share with us. For more info: laydeezdocomics.blogspot.com

This month’s guest is artist Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy, and his new book is Vader’s Little Princess.
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About Jeffrey Brown:

After growing up in Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he completed his studies, he had abandoned painting and started drawing comics seriously. His first self-published book, Clumsy, appeared seemingly out of nowhere to grab attention from both cartoonists and comics fans. Established as an overly sensitive chronicler of bittersweet adolescent romance and nonsense superhero parody, Brown’s current direction remains split between more autobiography examining the minutiae of everyday life and whatever humorous fiction he feels in the mood for. His most popular works include Clumsy, Unlikely, AEIOU, and Every Girl is the End of the World For Me, comprising the so-called “Girlfriend Trilogy” and its epilogue. More recently his autobiographical work has included Little Things and Funny Misshapen Body. His parody The Incredible Change-Bots, the Ignatz Award winning I am going to be small and humorous cat book Cat Getting Out Of A Bag all stand out amongst his humor work, while his Sulk series continues to take on a variety of subjects with satire. Jeffrey’s work has appeared in a host of anthologies from McSweeney’s to The Best American Comics, as well as mainstream books like The Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror and Marvel’s Strange Tales. His original artwork has been exhibited in New York, Paris, and Chicago. Brown has been featured on NPR’s This American Life and even created a short animated music video for the band Death Cab For Cutie. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son. More info: jeffreybrowncomics.com

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Off-Site Event: Pop Up Book Fair at the Empty Bottle

Published on March 27, 2013 0 Comments
Apr ’13
14
12:30 pm
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NOT AT QUIMBY’s, at the Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western Ave.
Curbside Splendor Publishing and The Chicago Writer’s House are pleased to announce the 2nd installment in their seasonal series of POP UP BOOK FAIRS. Quimby’s joins 40 independent publishers, presses, and booksellers will be on hand at The Empty Bottle hocking their goods. Grab a cocktail and listen to live music as you satiate your bibliophiliac needs! And best of all the book fair is FREE if you RSVP by CLICKING HERE! Otherwise admission is $5 at the door. 21+ unless minors accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Live music by: Mr. Mayor & the Highballers, Warm Bones (a new project by Russ Woods of Tiny Folk) and If Trees Could Write.
Sunday, April 14th, 1:30pm-6:30pmNOT AT QUIMBY’s, at the Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western Ave.
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Off-Site: OUTSIDERS: Zines, Samizdat, and Alternative Publishing

Published on March 27, 2013 0 Comments
Apr ’13
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Off-Site Event:
Caxton Club/Newberry Library Symposium presents
OUTSIDERS: Zines, Samizdat, and Alternative Publishing
Sat, April 6th (various times)
The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610

This symposium explores the world of the alternative press with experts from around the country, featuring speakers such as Jenna Freedman (Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out zine), Davida Breier (Xerography Debt) Anne Elizabeth Moore (independent publisher, activist, writer and teacher). And Quimby’s will be there selling zines! For more info: caxtonclub.org/events/2013-symposium

Please note, this event is NOT at Quimby’s. It’s at the Newberry Library at 60 West Walton St.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on March 23, 2013 0 Comments

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Kate Beaton Sketchbook $10.00 – Of Hark a Vagrant fame.

Grantland Quarterly vol 5 (McSweeneys) $25.00 – Sports journals from the McSwee empire. Work from Bill Simmons, Brian Phillips, Jane Leavy, Chuck Klosterman, Rembert Browne, Katie Bak, Molly Lambert $25.00

BF-sLUJCYAAbZwIZines & Zine-Related Books
Junk Drawer #7 Landscape Part 2 From the Drawer to the Streets, Tracing the Origins of Odds and Ends by Eric Bartholomew $3.50
If Nothing Else the Sky by Dave Roche #5.00
Regional #7 Wisconsin $8.50
Shitty Birds #1 Golden Flow $1.00
issues of Piltdown Lad by Kelly Dessaint
Xerography Debt #32 $4.00
Celebrated Rubber Chicken of Dingo and Dizmal Ms Olive Rootbeer Coloring Book $5.00
HB and Other Stories Part 1 by Tanner Ballengee $2.00
Brooklyn to Mars #3 $8.00
Dirty Hands #3 by David Alvarado $5.00
I Know Someone I Can Hurt #1 by Paul McGrew $3.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #57 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
Records as Portable Exhibitions and Interactive Participatory Objects by Temporary Services $4.00

Comics & Comix
Monster Dudes #2 by Dave Scheidt & Matt Fagan $3.99
Demon Dust issues #15 & #16 Feb 13 by Bernie McGovern $2.00 each
Black Sheep Coat by Krystal DiFronzo $4.00
Phase 7 #017 by Alec Longstreth $4.00 –  Based on Weezer’s Blue Album.
Distance Mover #8 & #9 by Kyle Patrick $5.00 each
Jade vol 1 by Fiona Avocado $8.00
Super Aids Zine #1 $3.00
Owls Make Lousy People by Carl Antonowicz $1.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Black Paths by David B. (Self-Made Hero) $24.95
Massive vol 1 Black Pacific TPB by Brian Wood et al. (Dark Horse) $19.99
Crossed vol 5 by Daivd Lapham et Al. $24.99
Rough House vol 1 by William Kauber et al. $12.00
Our Ever Improving Living Room Daily Diary Comic Collected Color Cover by Kevin Budnik $20.00

Art & Design
Decadence and Dissolution: Tattoo and Kabuki Art (Ukiyo E Master Series vol 4) by Kunichika (Shinbaku) $39.95
a variety of arty titles from Idiots Books: Sex to the Third Power Idiots Books vol 38 and more.
Crap Graffiti by Adam Elliott et al. (Ebury Press) $13.95
A Is For Anchor: A Tattoo Alphabet by Paul Slifer (Schiffer) $19.99

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
End Times and 2019 End of the Mayan Calendar and Countdown to Judgement Day by David Montaigne (Adv Unlmtd) $19.95
Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women In Extreme Religions by Susan Tive (Seal) $16.00
Deserts of Heaven by MG Meile $13.00
Official Truth 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera by Rex Brown and Mark Eglinton $26.00

Politics & Revolution
Homos and Hebrew Live Long and Prosper by MG Meile $8.00

Fiction
Sea Is My Brother SC by Jack Kerouac $18.99 – The lost novel!
Book of My Lives by Aleksander Hemon $25.00
Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter: The Worlds Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, and America’s Greatest Indian Chief by Gerald Kolpan $15.95 – Now in soft cover.
Everyone Says That at the End of the World by Owen Egerton (Soft Skull) $15.95
Names of Silence by MG Meile $13.00
Bear Season by Bernie Hafeli $14.95
War Is Language: 101 Short Works by Nath Jones $4.99

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders by Jared Hawkley, Susan Rich, Brian Turner (McSweeneys) $16.00
X by Dan Chelotti (McSweeneys) $20.00
The First Line vol 15 #1 Spr 13 $3.00
Conium Review vol 2 #1 Spr 13 $12.00
Straight Line Shaped Like a Knot by Ari Feld & Amanda Huff $4.00
Expotition Where In by Edwin R. Perry $3.00

Magazines
Bust Apr May 13 $5.99
Cabinet #48 Trees $12.00
Paper Apr 13 vol 29 #6 $4.00
Gentlewoman #7 Spr Sum 13 $14.99
Hunter Fashion Magazine #22 $24.99
Highsnobiety Win 13 #6 $22.00
Tape Op #94 Mar Apr 13 $4.95
Razorcake #73 $4.00
Wire Mar 13 #349 $9.99
SSLM vol 17 Mar 13 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00
Harpers Magazine Apr 13 $6.99
RFD #153 Spr 13 $9.95

Sex & Sexy
Fukitor #8 by Jason Karns $10.00
Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy by Ophira Eisenberg (Seal) $16.00
Meat #9 $20.00

Other Stuff
The Door is Always Open, Gary Baseman Journal (Dark Horse) $9.99
Garbage Pail Kids Series 2 Card Pack $3.75 – 10 Sticker Cards, Brand New Series