Gilbert Hernandez Talks About Marble Season 4/18

Published on March 2, 2013 2 Comments
Apr ’13
18
7:00 pm

MARBLE.case-webJoin beloved cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez (LOVE & ROCKETS) as he launches his new D+Q graphic novel MARBLE SEASON, his first semiautobiographical story of his childhood. Hernandez will present a fascinating slide show “From Funnybooks to Graphic Novels” featuring the comics of his childhood, in addition to a Q+A and signing.  These silver age comics not only influenced MARBLE SEASON, but also set the course for Gilbert, as well as his brothers Jaime and Mario, to become the legendary comics creator they are today.

MARBLE SEASON is the first ever semi-autobiographical novel by  acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez of Love & Rockets, and is also his first graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly. Meet Huey. He’s the middle child of a big family, growing up in a California suburb in the 1960s. He stages Captain America plays in the backyard and treasures his older brother’s comic-book collection almost as much as his approval. Set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics, MARBLE SEASON is a subtle and deft rumination on the redemptive and timeless power of storytelling and worldbuilding in childhood.

“Perhaps no other current creators of comics recognize (or vividly remember) the ways actual kids think, talk, or even stand and walk as accurately as the Hernandez brothers, and no other comics artists so delicately intertwine moments of childhood trauma with the goofy logic that otherwise sustains kids when they begin to sense that they live in an irrational world.”
—from the afterword by Corey Creekmur

“Gilbert Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics.”—New York Times

Praise for Palomar: “These deeply influential tales, a sort of Archie-comics-meets-Marquez melange of complicated pan-American inter-relationships, are a comix epic.”—Time

Praise for Gilbert Hernandez: “He…[should]…be considered one of the greatest American storytellers. It’s so hard to do funny, tragic, local and epic, and he does all simultaneously, and with great aplomb.”
—Junot Diaz, Los Angeles TIMES

Need some help getting up to speed on the rich history of Los Hernandez Bros? Need a quick “How to Read Love & Rockets” 101 of sorts? There’s a helpful Love and Rockets Guide at the Fantagraphics website!

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Jay Wexler Reads from The Adventures of Ed Tuttle, Associate Justice, and Other Stories 3/30

Published on March 2, 2013 0 Comments
Mar ’13
30
7:00 pm

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A zoo with only black and white animals. A camp where children are forced to gather clams or face a trip to the “hot box.” A Supreme Court Justice’s confirmation hearing presided over by the 1977 Kansas City Royals. The Adventures of Ed Tuttle, Associate Justice, and Other Stories transports the reader to these hilarious places and beyond. This is a world, according to Dan Kennedy, host of The Moth Storytelling Podcast, “where corporate cafeteria lunch servers blurt out Kierkegaard quotes to soften the hard luck of a low supply of the ‘lunch beans’ that two raging alcoholic white collar workers crave daily; a world where an HMO in-network dentist hovers over patients and instead of asking about their flossing habits or aches, asks what it is that they like best about him; a world where television sitcoms are set on death row. That’s nothing—that’s the tip of the iceberg.” These stories, illustrations, and other errata are as funny as they are strange, as wonderful as they are wacky.

“This is funny stuff, and I hope that Jay Wexler will donate his brain to neuroscience so we can see what’s up with it.” –Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate.

JAY WEXLER is a law professor at Boston University and a former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. His stories, humor pieces, essays, and reviews have appeared in places like Barrelhouse, The Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Mental Floss, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Monkeybicycle, Opium, and Spy. His first two books are ‘Holy Hullabaloos’ and ‘The Odd Clauses.’

For more info: jaywex@bu.edu or jaywex.com

Saturday, March 30, 7pm – Free Event

Also by Jay Wexler:

The Odd Clauses Understanding Constitution Through 10 of Its Most Curious Provisions

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“For a variety of reasons, many of the Constitution’s more obscure passages never make it to any court and therefore never make headlines or even law school classrooms, which teach from judicial decisions. In this captivating and witty book, Jay Wexler draws on his extensive professional and educational backgrounds in constitutional law to demonstrate how these “odd clauses” have incredible relevance to our lives, our government’s structure, and the integrity of our democracy.”

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Off-Site Event: Special Screening of Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines and Superhero Expo

Published on February 28, 2013 0 Comments
Mar ’13
16
2:00 pm

 

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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013
2:00-4:00 PM
CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
2nd Floor Claudia Cassidy Theatre
With a discussion featuring comics artists Jill Thompson, Lyra Hill and Jenny Frison.
Host: Allison Cuddy of WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio.

(NOT AT QUIMBY’S; AT THE CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER, 78 E Washington St  Chicago, IL 60602)

Superhero Expo
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
in the 1st Floor Garland Room
with Brain Frame, Girls in the Game, Quimby’s Bookstore and more.
Featuring the Superhero art show (see details below), Photo Booth (with costumes),
and the Superhero Portrait Slam with Project Onward artists (11am – 4pm)!

Envision Superheroines for the Modern Age!
Renditions will be displayed at the Wonder Women Expo at the Cultural Center on March 16th during and following the screening of the documentary Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, this documentary looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation.

Bring your drawings/paintings/art to the Expo.  Any format for the art is fine.

To consider:
What is her mission?
What does she look like? What is her costume?
What powers does she possess?
What issues does she tackle? Whom is she going to save?
Does she have an everyday alter-ego/cover?  If so, what is her occupation?
What are her personal challenges?
Does she have a sidekick?
What is her mode of transportation?
Special gadgets she employs in her feats?
What is her “kryptonite”?

Presented by WTTW Channel 11 and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in partnership with Chicago Foundation For Women, Eileen Fisher Foundation, Project Onward and Quimby’s Bookstore.

Community Cinema is a national civic engagement initiative featuring free monthly screenings of films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Every month in 100+ cities, community members come together to learn, discuss, and get involved in key social issues of our time.

 

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New Stuff This Week

Published on February 23, 2013 0 Comments

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Radon 45 Travis Fristoe and by Aaron Cometbus – An independent publisher take on Continuum’s 33 1/3 series, inspired by the 90s Gainesville pop punk band Radon.

Zines
Cometbus #55 Pen Pals by Aaron Cometbus $3.00 – With a cover by Jordan Crane.
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Letters I Will Never Send to You #7 Pocket Full of Rocks Pull Here to Open by Morgan Inez $4.20
Show Me The Money #38 by Tony Hunnicutt $2.50

Comics & Comix
Crass Sophisticate #30 Josh Reinwald Rises by Josh Reinwald $3.00
Farm School by Jason Turner $5.00
Addicted To Garbage vol 1 $2.00
Sleazy Slice #6 by Robin Bougie $6.00
Bandthology #2 Another Music Anthology (King Bone Press) $5.00
World War 3 Illustrated #44 Other Issue $7.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
more Moomin books by Tov Jansson from Drawn & Quarterly: Moomin Builds a House and Moomin Falls in Love $9.95 each
On the Ropes by James Vance and Dan E. Burr $24.95
Goon vol 12 Them That Raised Us Lement by Eric Powell (Dark Horse) $16.99
Fables Deluxe Edition Book 6 by Bill Willingham et al. (Vertigo) $29.99

Art & Design
Mens Group: The Video by Ben Jones (Picturebox) $34.95 – Edited by Dan Nadel. . The last five years of work from this Paper Rad artist, on the theme of maleness: paintings, comics, drawings, products and videos, and is published on the occasion of the his solo exhibition, The Video, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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Posada and Manilla Illustrations for Mexican Fairy Tales by Jose Posada, Manuel Manilla and Mercurio Casillas (RM Verlag) $24.95
Sage Vaughn: Ice Age (Zero Plus) $55.00
Os Gemeos by Pedro Alonzo (Gingko) $29.95 – Brazilian twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, best known as Os Gemeos, are credited as leaders of graffiti and urban art in Brazil. Quirky, yellow, oblong-headed figures have become their visual signature.
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Mommys New Tattoo: A Bedtime Story for People by Levi Greenacres (Schiffer) $16.99 – A young lady takes a trip to a tattoo shop with her mother and finds out what happens inside, and why her mom would get a tattoo. Years later, old enough to get a tattoo of her own, the young lady considers the consequences of making a decision that won’t wash off. Based on the author’s true childhood story, the book portrays three Pacific Northwest tattooists: Vyvyn Lazonga, Katie Williams, and Ximena Quiroz. Fans of the tattoo central to the story will find that the cover can be used as a color reference, as well as the line art included on its own page to use either as a stencil, or page to color your own way.
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Oriental Tattoo Art Contemporary Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Masters by Du Ying and Shan Shan (China Youth Press International) $35.00
Tattooisme by Chris Coppola and Frederic Claquin (Schiffer) $39.99 – Work from 32 internationally acclaimed tattoo artists working with multiple art mediums, utilizing an array of art movements, techniques and styles.
Steampunk: The Beginning by James P. Blaylock, K. W. Jeter, Tim Powers and Mike McGee (Gingko) $24.95 – Features over 80 illustrations of characters and scenes from three seminal Steampunk novels: Homonculus by James Blaylock, Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter, and Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. All three authors were students at Cal State Fullerton in the 1970s, where they wrote early steampunk short stories. So it makes sense that tThe illustrations are all by Cal State Fullerton students, alumni, and faculty. Also featuring essays by Blaylock, Jeter and Powers.
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Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Cant Look Away By Eric G. Wilson $14.00
The Mad Scientists Guide to World Domination by John Joseph Adams $14.99

Fiction
Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution ed. by Victoria Blake  (Underland) $15.95 -Thirty years after cyberpunk party-crashed the science fiction scene the future they imagined is here. Stories by legendary cyberpunk authors like Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, as well as stories by new cyberpunk voices like Cory Doctorow and Jonathan Lethem.
Meltdown in the Cereal Aisle by David V. Matthews $10.00
Arrive Breathe and Be Still: Collaboration With 826 Valencia and American Conservatory Theater Monologues and Short Plays by Downtown High School Student Playwrights (826 Books) $18.00
Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian $26.95

Sex & Sexy
Hot Moms #17 $4.95

Magazines
Cinema Sewer #26 $4.00 – 44 comic book sized pages, cover by Orc Stain creator, James Stokoe. Includes: Bougie’s experiences on the set of the 1980s BMX movie “RAD”, Mike Sullivan’s review of YOR, an exclusive interview with the director of DAD MADE DIRTY MOVIES, a historical retrospective of the Times Square’s Capri Cinema, amazing reviews of Canadian trash classics by Paul Corupe, and piles more.
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Maximumrocknroll #358 Mar 13 $4.00
Bitch #58 $5.95
Wire Feb 13 #348 $9.99
Design Bureau Mar 13 $8.00
Murder Most Foul #87 $9.99
True Crime Feb 13 $8.99
Interzone #244 $9.99
Hanging Loose #101 $11.00
Boneshaker Magazine #11 $12.00
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #18 Feb 13 $9.99
Harpers Magazine Mar 13 $6.99

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
The Believer #97 $12.00
14 Dreams of Death by Ken Baumann, Blake Butler and M. Kitchell $8.00
Granta #122 Win 13 Betrayal $16.99
Creative Nonfiction #47 Win 13 $10.00
Seventeen Television Stories by Justin Maurer $6.00

Kids
Toon Books, $4.99 each: Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith, Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons by Agnes Rosenstiehl, Chick and Chickie Play All Day by Claude Ponti, Benny and Penny in the Toy Breaker by Geoffrey Hayes, Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking by Philippe Coudray.
Steampunk! Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (Candlewick) $12.99 – A YA steampunk book. Now in affordable soft cover for when you exclaim “We can’t have nice things!” to the Dickensian street orphan in your life with fingerless gloves spilling their porridge on it.

Other Stuff
Hello Chicago Map: a Guide to the Usual (Herb Lester Associates), designed by Mike McQuade $6.00 – Well ain’t that just the cutest most design-y map ever?

Notable Reprints and Restocks
Mine – Marking the roughly simultaneous re-release of Peter Sotos’ Tool and Mine, Sotos will appear at Quimby’s Bookstore Sat, March 23rd with his publisher Nine-Banded Books founder, Chip Smith.
Quiet Rumours Anarcha Feminist Reader by Dark Star (AK) $17.00
Mixed Reviews by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
Crafting With Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts to Make with Your Cat $14.95
The Lowbrow Tarot: An Artistic Collaborative Effort in Honor of Tarot $34.99
Ganja Kitchen Revolution the Bible of Cannabis Cuisine $22.00
Henry Rollins Interview by V. Vale $9.99

“Mitch O’Connell: The World’s Best Artist” Book Signing & Slideshow With Book Designer Joseph Allen Black at 3/21

Published on February 16, 2013 0 Comments
Mar ’13
21
7:00 pm

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Humorous and masterful, Mitch O’Connell: the World’s Best Artist by Mitch O’Connell, (Last Gasp Publishing) is a career-spanning retrospective of work from the king of kitsch, Mitch O’Connell. This full-color, 284 page tome—resplendent with a foam-filled, vinyl, glitter-enhanced cover—collects all the good stuff (the crappy art is under lock and key) from this prolific pop artist. If you appreciate the finer things in life, such as beehives, boobs, and big-eyed kittens, you will not want to miss this book.

 “I am stunned by how remarkably talented he is … I’ve been jealous of him for over 30 years!”-Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing

“What David Lynch might read to his kids at night! Great!” – Boston Globe

Mitch O’Connell’s work has been featured in such places as: Playboy, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, and Juggs. He has made campaign art for Coke, McDonalds, KFC, Kelloggs, and more. His tattoo designs can be found on bodies belonging to people with impeccable taste the worldwide. His previous books include Mitch O’Connell Tattoos, Pwease Wuv Me, and Good Taste Gone Bad.

Mr. O’Connell will  be joined by the book’s designer Jospeh Allen Black.

For more info: mitchoconnell.com  lastgasp.com and jospehallenblack.com

Thursday, March 21st, 7pm – Free Event

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