New Stuf This Week

Published on July 6, 2012 0 Comments

Four 1 32nd Scale Scenarios by Gary Kachadourian $5.00 – Urban models on a micro-scale to cut out so that you can create yr own dystopian settings for yr action figure collection! Throbbing Gristle soundtrack not included. – KS

Zines
Gather #1 Sum 12 Float Seasonal Recipes and Exceptional Ideas $19.99
Drupe Fruits #3 Spr 12 $3.00
Heeldragger by Chelsea Tadeyeske $4.00
Valid Lush with CD by Luis Humberto Valadez $10.00
Fin FinFinFinFinFin $3.50
Absolutely Zippo #48 by Robert Eggplant $1.00

Comics & Comix
Tales To Thrizzle #8 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95 – Yes! A new issue! Huzzah! Hilarious.
Face Man by Clara Bessijelle  (Domino Books In Association With Identity Group) $5.00
Difficult Loves $6.00
Weather Comic by Gabby Schulz (Secret Acres) $5.00
Wayward Girls by Michiel Budel (Secret Acres) $6.00
December 3 1967 An Alien Encounter by Michael Jasorka $13.00
Castle Waiting #17 by Linda Medley (Fantagraphics) $3.95
World War 3 Illustrated #43 Expression Repression Revolution $7.00
Quiet Human Contact by Juliacks, John Hankiewicz, Onsmith and more $3.00
It Doesnt Exist by Corinne Mucha $7.00
Nevergirl a Moral Laxative by Henry Glover $3.00
Urban Nomad #2 and #3 by Alisa Harris $5.00 each
Counter Attack #3 by Alisa Harris $3.00
Hell Yeah Rock On #1 by Chris Orridor $2.00
Elephant Ear #1 by Jeremy Tinder $8.00
Lurking Nocturners by Conor Stechschulte $6.00
Less Than Three by Sam Sharpe $4.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Adventures of Venus by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $9.99
Sanatorium Presents Duke and His Army A Dream Revisited by Emelie Ostergren (Domino Books) $13.00
Dungeon Quest Book 3 by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $19.99
God and Science: Return of the Ti Girls by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Collects story from Love & Rockets New Stories vols 1 & 2 plus new pages!
Only Skin TPB New Tales of the Slow Apocalypse by Sean Ford (Secret Acres) $21.95
Not The Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman $24.95
WIzzywig Portrait of a Serial Hacker by Ed Piskor (Top Shelf) $19.95
Freaks of the Heartland by Steve Niles and Greg Ruth (Dark Horse) $29.99
Fables vol 17 Inherit the Wind by Bill Willingham et al. (Vertigo) $14.99

Art & Design
Coming After Queer Time Arriving Too Late and the Spectre of the Recent Past by Jon Davies $26.00
History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days 1776-1994 (DGV) $29.90
XOOOOX (DGV) $30.00

Fiction
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man SC by Denis Johnson $15.00
The Age of Wire and String by BEn Marcus $11.95 – Reprint of the classic.
Last Man a Novel by W.C. Turck and The 99% $12.95 – Don’t miss the Occupy Chicago event for this book here on 7/14.
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan $24.95 – Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends – Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them -in this riveting story of an iconoclast.

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Her Knees Pulled In Poems by Elizabeth Jacobson $14.00
Chicago Atlas #1 16 6 2012 $15.00
Greenwoman vol 2 #1 Sum Fall 12 $5.95
Zoetrope All Story Sum 12 vol 16 #2 $8.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
How They Croaked SC the Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg and Kevin O’Malley $9.99
The Immorality Engine by George Mann $14.99 – a Newbury and Hobbes Investigation.
American Gypsy by Oksana Marafioti  $16.00

Music Books
If You Like Metallica Here are Over 200 Bands CDs Movies and Other Oddities that by Mike McPadden (Backbeat) $14.99

Magazines
Else 3 2012 (idpure) by Elysee Lausanne $16.95
Creative Review Jun 12 $14.99
Bold Italic San Francisco Spr 12 #3 $4.00
Afterall  #30 Sum 12 $10.00
Skeptical Inquirer May Jul 12 vol 36 #4 $4.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 29 #2 $6.25
Neural #42 $8.00
South As a State of Mind Sum 12 #1 $13.00
V Magazine #78 Fall Preview 12 $6.50
Treating Yourself #35 $7.99
Pin Up America May Jul Aug #10 $5.99
Horror Hound #36 Jul Aug 12 $6.99
Mojo #224 Jul 12 $9.99
Monocle vol 6 #55 Jul Aug 12 $12.00
Dissent Sum 12 $10.00
In These Times Jul 12 $3.50
Tattoo Revolution Jul 12 $11.75
Sweets Magazine vol 5 #19 $5.99

Sex & Sexy
Hot Moms #16 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95

Other Stuff
Plywood Pizza Slice by Garth Borovicka $20.00
Ten x Ten #2 A Collection of Prints and Music by Chicago Artists (Spudnik Press) – This second issue features local stars Jeremy Tinder, Nate Beaty, Joe Tallarico and more.

Off-Site Event: Like a Secondhand Sea: A story of the River and Lake told in 3 Parts

Published on July 4, 2012 0 Comments
Jul ’12
15
11:00 am

Pocket Guide to Hell presents Like a Secondhand Sea, a 3-part historical reenactment that uses costumes, props, and audience participation to tell the story of how human contact has altered Lake Michigan and the Chicago River on Sunday, July 15th. Using costumes, props, music, and a cast of hundreds, it tells a three-part story: Marquette and Joliet’s expedition along the original coastline of the Lake in 1673; Captain George Wellington Streeter’s founding of a squatter community on the reclaimed land that bears his name in 1886; and the Sanitary District’s reversal of the Chicago River in 1892-1900. This free and interactive event uses stories of the past to increase awareness of how human contact is continuing to change the waterways today. It’s FREE. Come whenever you want. Stay as long as you like. THIS EVENT IS NOT AT QUIMBY’S.

Part 1: Marquette & Joliet, starts at Chicago & Michigan at 11:00 AM
Part 2: Streeterville, starts outside the River East Arts Center (435 E Illinois) at 12:00 PM
Part 3: River Reversal Dedication, starts at Centennial Fountain at 2:00 PM

In Part 1 join Marquette & Joliet as they retrace the original coastline of the lake, today’s Michigan Avenue, in voyageur canoes on wheels. Part 2 brings to life the District of Lake Michigan, aka Streeterville, the outlaw and outcast community of gambling dens, saloons, and brothels that Capt. George Wellington Streeter built on land reclaimed from the lake. The Sanitary and Shipping Canal is dedicated and the Chicago River is reversed in Part 3, which restages the official ceremony inaugurating this marvel of engineering, complete with nickel-plated shovels and a marching band. Each Part leads directly into the next and will be used to highlight contemporary challenges to the health and sustainability of Chicago’s waterways.

With costumes by Claire Schaubel, Michelle Faust, & Nat Ward and props by Kenneth Morrison and Matt Malooly.

With performances by: Jon Langford, Martin Billheimer, Sally Tims, Tim Tuten, Alison Cuddy, Justin Amolsch, Rob Cruz, L. Wyatt, Scott M. Priz, Water Reclamations District Commissioner Debra Shore, Rich Cahan, Nick Fraccaro, Nicki Yowell, Kenneth Morrison, Matt Malooly, Nat Ward, Michelle Faust, Brant Veilleux, Tim Newberg, The Chicago Poetry Bordello, Sarah Crawford, Rich Bales, Ingrid Haftel, Kate Keleman, Meghan McGrath, Burke Bindbeutel, David Durstewitz, Tim Samuelson, Kevin Robinson, Jerry Boyle, Claire Glass, Richard Bales, Gail Spreen, Steve Mosqueda, Joe Mason, Nicki Yowell, Liz Mason, Tim Dashnaw, Rozi Cohen, Neville, Kennedy Greenrod, Justin Amolsch’s Brass Inferno Productions,  The Chicago Poetry Bordello, circus acrobats and puppeteers under the direction of Scott M. Priz,  Chris Olsen will provide tintype photographs. Water Reclamation District Commissioner Debra Shore will make a special guest appearance alongside Tim Samuelson, Rich Cahan, Thom Cmar, Richard F. Bales, and Kevin Robinson and many, many more.

With Art & Culture cops provided by: members of the Chicago Architectural Foundation, SOAR, Quimby’s, The Hideout, Public Media Institute, Chicago Publishes, The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Read/Write Library, and the Newberry.

Event partners include: Quimby’s – TimeOut Chicago – The Hideout – The Streeterville Organization of Active Residents (SOAR) – Read/Write Library – Haymarket Pub & Brewery – Chicago Publishes – The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame – Public Media Institute – Steampunk Chicago

Poster by Edie Fake. Handbill by Lyra Hill.

Pocket Guide to Hell is a series of free and interactive walking tours and historical reenactments dealing with Chicago’s past. Last spring’s full-scale 125th anniversary Haymarket Reenactment had over 1000 participants. Pocket Guide to Hell has been written about in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, TimeOut, and Vice among other places. See pocketguidetohell.com for information about past and upcoming events.

Interested in representing Quimby’s at this event? Contact liz(at)quimbys(dot)com

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Miguel Conner Reads 7/21

Published on July 4, 2012 0 Comments
Jul ’12
21
7:00 pm

Miguel Conner is host of Aeon Byte, the only topical and guest radio show on Gnosticism and timeless mysteries. He is author of the critically acclaimed Voices of Gnosticism (Bardic Press),as well as The Dark Instinct Series (Warner Books). His fantasy book The Executioner’s Daughter, will be released late in 2012 (Solstice Publishing). His articles, fiction, and reviews have appeared in such publication as Reality Sandwich, The Stygian Vortex, The Gnostic Journal, Heretic the Magazine, Houston Public News, Mindscape Magazine, The Cimmerian Journal, and many others.

Aeon Byte is an initiation-by-conversation into the dark corners of myth, magic and meaning; a crash course in cult, culture and conspiracy; a virtuous virus invoking and informing history, holiness and heresy.  Each week your host Miguel Conner commandeers your connection to bring the most accepted and rejected scholars and provocateurs to your attention. Fun, compelling, and deeply weird, this is the blow-your-mind cocktail party conversation you always wanted to listen in on. For more info: thegodabovegod.com  and aeonbytegnosticradio.com

For more info:
stargazervampirenovel.com

Sat, July 21st, 7pm

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“Bad Zine, Everyone’s Fault” Zine Tour Kick Off Reading 7/20

Published on July 4, 2012 0 Comments
Jul ’12
20
7:00 pm

A night of zine readings by four zinesters setting off on their East Coast tour.

Readings by:

Jen Twigg writes zines about playing music as a lady-identified punx, the dubious crossroads of football and feminism, and living in two places at once. She is writing a grad thesis about Star Trek and is an organizer of the Chicago Zine Fest.

Heather C writes Dig Deep, a zine about public libraries, street harassment, & the rad ways she’s working to create a full life. She also runs Stranger Danger, a zine distro that specializes in feminist, queer, & trans zines.

Xavi M. writes about identity and unripened fruit in a collection of poetry called Explorers Are We.

Leslie Perrine writes and illustrates short fiction and mini-comics mostly about talking animals.  She lives in Chicago with her cat Bum and is an organizer for the Chicago Zine Fest.

“This is going to be a night to remember!” Johnny Misfit, founder of Two Cookie Minimum reading series.

Check out work:

leslieperrine.blogspot.com

jtwiggjtwigg.tumblr.com

strangerdangerzines.com

www.chicagozinefest.org

Fri, July 20th, 7pm

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Weekly Top 10

Published on July 3, 2012 0 Comments


What Is This? Is a helpful primer about pagination, typefaces, trim areas and more. For the aspring publisher/designer.

1. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Get cruisin’ for some boozin’

2. Maximumrocknroll #350 Jul 12 $4.00

3. Womanimalistic #2 by Caroline Paquita  (Pegacorn Press) $3.00 – Vaginal dreamsicles dancing on the labial plane. Paquita makes you wild for the cooch style- as if you weren’t already- this new comic/zine/suitetreat has itself seriously plugged into the feminist power grid. -EF

4. Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue $12.00 – McSweeney’s food mag.

5. Bitch #55 $5.95

6. What Is This? A Poster A Book. (see image above) by Carol Sogard $4.00 – Is it a graphic design group project about book layout and printing that is also interesting and legible as a zine and poster also about book layout and printing? Why, yes, I think it is. -EF

7. Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado $5.00

8. Hodge Podge Anthology #1 by Ryan Ruiz et al. $4.20

9. Animal Sex #3 Under the Sea by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Rotman renders in chaming detail the zombie dick raunch orgy that comprises the deep blue sea. Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter, take it from me. -EF

10.Office Girl by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95 – Don’t miss Joe Meno at the Empty Bottle on July 26th. We’ll be there selling his books!