All The Writers I Know Presents: No Pleasure Is A Guilty Pleasure Queer Literary Showcase 6/22

Published on June 6, 2012 0 Comments
Jun ’12
22
7:00 pm

Quimby’s will be hosting the next installment of All The Writers I Know on June 22nd, titled, “No Pleasure Is A Guilty Pleasure.” Readers Patrick Gill, Rosy Phinick, Mar Curran, ellie june navidson, and Jamie Royce, among others, will be reading pieces about the pleasures people find and create in life.

All The Writers I Know is the brainchild of Gill and Phinick, who realizing their social circles contained many talented writers who had no queer-focused space to read their work, started hosting the showcase in Gill’s livingroom. As it has moved outside his home to Southside Hub of Production in Hyde Park and now Quimby’s, Gill has sought to retain the intimacy among the readers and audience the showcase was first known for. With a growing fan base and audience, audiences will recognize recurring performers such as Gill, Phinick, and Curran, while hearing new talented writers such as navidson.

Maintaining a queer-focused space in which pleasure could be openly celebrated and embraced is important for Gill and Phinick, as well as their writers, who feel that fostering queer voices in safe spaces allows for open dialogue about pleasure and its importance in their lives.

“Queer people are often alienated from society and culture. It’s important to celebrate ourselves and the pleasure we derive from our experience to reject dominant narratives on the value of queer folks and, more importantly, to acknowledge the real beauty in our lives,” said navidson.

Readers will also have zines of their work available for purchase.

For more info:

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Fri, June 22nd, 7pm

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Weekly Top 10

Published on June 5, 2012 0 Comments

I Like Your Work debuts in our Weekly Top 10 at #7.

1. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00
2. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00
3. Is It the Future Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00
4. Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue $12.00
5. Bust Magazine Jun/Jul 12 $5.99
6. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95
7.  I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette (for more info, see above)
8. Words One Hundred Stories #1 by Re Harris $2.50 – Flash fiction of ripped sleeves, torn hair, broken hearts and wrecked heels.
9. First Sign of Anything by Kevin Hooyman $10.00
10.  Graze #1 Spr 12 by Cyndi Fecher and Brian J Solem $10.00 – Fooding pursuits near and far, gourmand reporting and lit.

New Stuff This Week

Published on June 2, 2012 0 Comments

Limited Edition Echo Cut Up Drawings From Black Hole  by Charles Burns $30.00. And if you hustle now, we have an even more limited edition version with one of Mr. Burns’ original pencil sketches tucked inside for $125.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
World in Darkness World in Bloom $1.50
Reckless Chants #17 Formerly Sad and Beautiful World Just One More Beer… $2.50
Duped #1 The New Age by Scrappy Dobbins $3.00
Cloud Factory #3 March 2012 by Ryan Homsley and Laura Walker $3.00
Gather by Todd Freeman (Artist Publications Editions) $12.00
Tributaries #1 by JC $2.00
Brooklyn to Mars #1 $8.00

Comics & Comix
Benjamin Marra comics: Lincoln Washington Free Man #1, American Psycho Drawings Newsprint (for reals, crazy)
Squa Tront #13 The EC Comics Magazine (Fantagraphics) $9.99
Now In Lemon $5.50
Do Not Cross #1 by John Gregg $4.00
EJ Barnes comics: Birds of the Baltic: An Ornithological Travelogue Drowned Town, Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed by (with Jonathon Swift), Carolines Catalog: Historical Comic Book, How Dear To Me Is Sleep a 24 Hour Comic
Feedback #11 by John Isaacson $2.00 – John goes to see bands play and does awesome comics about the shows.

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Days of Destruction Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco (Nation Books) $28.00
Angelman Fallen Angel by (Nicolas) Mahler (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Channel Zero Complete Collection by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (AIT) $19.99
Zombies: T by Craig Yoe et al. (IDW) $24.99
Boy Who Made Silence vol 1 by Joshau Hagler  (Markosia) $22.99
Fables Deluxe Edition Book 5 by Bill Willingham et al. (Vertigo) $29.99
Graphic Canon vol 1 Worlds Great Literature as Comics and Visuals by Russ Kick et al. (Seven Stories) $34.95
Batman Death by Design by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor (DC) $24.99
Monsieur Jean – The Singles Theory by Dupuy and Berberian (Humanoids) $24.95
Kick Ass 2 by Mark Millar and John Romits Jr. (Marvel) $24.99

Art & Design Books
Super iam8bit: More Art Inspired By Classic Video Games of the 80s by Jon M. Gibson et al. (iam8bit) $24.95
You Animal You by Charlotte Cory (Black Dog) $29.95
Some really great street art books: Glorious vol 3 Kings of Green vol 1 #1 (Whole Train Press) $29.95, Eloquent Vandals History of Nuart Norway $39.95, Street Art Norway Deluxe $29.95
Destroying Everything Seems Like the Only Option by Ricky Adam (HLP) $39.95

Sex & Sexy
Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography by Robert Rosen (Headpress) $19.95
Themed erotica short story books for $15.95 each!: Bound By Lust: Romantic Stories of Submission and Sensuality, Suite Encounters: Hotel Sex Stories, Girl Fever 69 Stories of Sudden Sex for Lesbians

DIY and FOOD and DRUGS
Growing Things: A Guide For Beginning Gardeners by Joshua James Amberson et al. $3.50
Time to Eat Cake by Students of 826 et al. (McSweeneys) $12.00 – Little book thingy about cake written by little kids.
Music Books
Punkademics: The Basement Show In the Ivory Tower by Zack Furness (Minor Compositions) $20.00
Howlin’ Wind: Pub Rock and the Birth of New Wave by John Blaney (Soundcheck) $29.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Enigma of Cranial Deformation: Elongated Skulls of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress $19.95
Conspiracy Cinema: Propaganda, Politics, and Paranoia by David Ray Carter (Headpress) $19.95
Against Their Will Sadistic Kidnappers and the Courageous Stories of Their Innocent Victims by Nigel Cawthorne $14.95
Saucers snd Swastikas and Psyops: A History of a Breakaway Civilization, Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations by Joseph P. Farrell $19.95

Politics & Revolution
Me the People: One Man’s Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America by Kevin Bleyer $26.00
Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the Peoples Historian $19.95
Occupy by Noam Chomsky – part of the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series (Zuccotti) $9.95

Fiction
Mammoth Book of Steampunk: 30 Extraordinary Tales $13.95

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Fragile Acts by Allan Peterson (McSweeneys) $18.00
Planets Gourds and Traveling Staffs by Maya Odim $10.00
Flash Card Fiction #2 by Thomas Fricilone and Shawn Rosenblatt $3.00
I Love Science by Shanny Jean Maney (Write Bloody) $15.00 – From co-founder of The Encyclopedia Show.
Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox $8.00 – A short encyclopedia, full of entries that waver between fiction and memoir. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark future. Gift shops are burned down, rebuilt, burned down once again. Entries end, almost inevitably, not on what we know, but on what we cannot know.

Magazines
Bitch #55 $5.95
Wallpaper Jun 12 $10.00
Cabinet #45 Games $12.00
True Crime May 12 $8.99
Ponystep #3 $34.99
Murder Most Foul #84 $9.99
Fortean Times #288 Jul 12 $11.99
Pinstriping #32 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
BlackBook #92 Jun Jul 12 $4.95
Worn #14 $8.00
Shock Cinema #42 $5.00
Mojo #223 Jun 12 $9.99
Decibel #93 Jul 12 $4.95
Monocle vol 6 #54 Jun 12 $12.00
Z Magazine Jun 12 $4.95
Evolved #1 $6.99 – New tattoo  mag.

Other Stuff
2013 Moleskine Small Monthly Notebook Diary Planner Soft Cover $14.95

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

Weekly Top 10

Published on May 29, 2012 0 Comments

1.  Cartooning Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale) $13.00 – This is about as close you are going to get to having Ivan Brunetti come to your house and teach you how to make great comics. Turns out, it’s pretty damn close – Philosophy and Practice serves up a concise and well-honed crash course on finding and fine tuning your comics voice. -EF

2. Art of Daniel Clowes Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams ComicArts) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF

3. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago.

4. Weirdo #28 Verre Deau $4.95

5.   What It Is by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95

6. Picture This – The Near Sighted Monkey Book, Learn How to Art with the Near-Sighted by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

7. Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green (McSweeneys) $29.99 – A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is a young Catholic struggling with all the usual problems of adolescence-puberty, agnosticism, and the fear that the strange ray of energy emanating from his private parts will strike a picture of the Holy Virgin Mary. Deeply confessional, with artwork that veers wildly between formalist and hallucinogenic, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is the controversial masterpiece which invented the Autobiographical Graphic Novel.

8. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if your dad was DV? You might eat ice-cream together maybe? Or maybe he’d freeze your best friend in it maybe? No?

9. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

10. Remedy Quarterly #9 Escape $7.50

Holiday Hours for Mon, 5/28

Published on May 26, 2012 0 Comments

Quimby’s will be open on Monday, May 28th, Memorial Day, from noon to 5pm.

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