Jeffrey Brown Celebrates Free Comic Book Day Here on 5/5

Published on April 12, 2012 0 Comments
May ’12
5
3:00 pm

Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown explores, What if Darth Vader actively raised his son? What if “I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other—except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith. Celebrated artist Jeffrey Brown’s delightful illustrations give classic Star Wars moments a fresh twist, showing that the trials and joys of parenting are universal, even in a galaxy far, far away. Life lessons include lightsaber battling practice, using the Force to raid a cookie jar, Take Your Child to Work Day on the Death Star, and the special bonding moments shared between any father and son. Humorous and touching, Darth Vader and Son is the perfect gift for dads of the Star Wars generation.

And guess what? For Free Comic Book Day Jeffrey Brown is debuting a free comic book specifically for folks who come to this event at Quimby’s!

Jeffrey Brown is the author of numerous graphic novels and comics, including Cat Getting Out of a Bag, Cats Are Weird, Clumsy, Unlikely and other titles. Jeffrey also co-wrote and created artwork for the film Save The Date, which was selected for Dramatic Film Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. A lifelong Star Wars fan, he lives in Chicago with his wife and five-year-old son.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on April 10, 2012 0 Comments

Proximity #9 is at #3 this week.

1. The Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – Joining the literary-minded ranks of n+1, The Paris Review, The Believer and Lapham’s Quarterly, and doing it with Midwestern flair, The Chicagoan ressurects a long defunct jazz-age magazine and focuses in on non-profit production, local distribution and general excellence in writing and design. The debut issue is a stunner, a cohesive and relevant blend of fiction, history, innovation, interviews and a 50-page oral history of Siskel and Ebert. -EF

2. Hi-Fructose #23 $6.95 – Showcasing an eclectic mix of underground artists, pop surrealists, emerging and rediscovered counter cultures, and awe inspiring art.

3. Proximity #9 Grassroots Planning and Placemaking Objects Spr 12 vol 4 #1 $11.99

4. Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue (McSweeney’s) $12.00 – Dave Chang of the Momofuku restaurant empire alternates between griping about everything being done already and the kids having no motivation these days in this new issue which I thought was themed “The Death of Integrity” but instead seems to be about, uh, “Cooks and Chefs”. I’m still up in the air about how self-referential this magazine is – it’s sort of like a chef perzine with a big magazine budget, which sometimes makes it’s cavalier attitude feel like chef crony-ism and empty trash talk. All the same, I’m interested in eating and the Matt Furie centerfold is sooper cute. Food is dead, long live food. -EF

5. Cave Girl by Ireal $1.00 Unfoldable stories of Cave Girl living, a lot about mushroom hunting, musings on bears and beasts, spiders too. -EF

6. Trubble Club #5 by Everybody – Mi Familia! The cartoonist cabal is back for more with this deluxxx edition full color comics offering, silkscreen print and possibly stickers (Thanks Post Family!)! Trubble from: Nate Beaty, Grant Reynolds, Laura Park, Jeremy Tinder, Aaron Renier, Rachel Niffenegger, Bernie McGovern, Lilli Carré, Corinne Mucha, Jeffrey Brown, Lucy Knisley, Becca Taylor, Jose Garibaldi, Joshua Cotter, Joe Tallarico, Onsmith, Lyra Hill, Sam Sharpe and Carrie Vinarsky with assists from Ezra Claytan Daniels, Craig Thompson, Thorne Brandt, Erika Moen, Antoine Dode and Alec Longstreth. KAPOW! -EF
(P.S. Edie is far too modest to write that he himself is also in it! -LM)

7. Judas Goat #53 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

8. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) $17.95 – Backderf puts together a memoir of high school in the washed out suburban seventies when he was classmates and comrades with grisly serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. My Friend Dahmer is a compelling read in the way it maps the social environment and reflects on Dahmer’s self-awareness. Backderf focuses in with a too-close-for-comfort look at Dahmer’s disturbed adolescence and also his humanity, and this is the most shocking and intriguing part of this book, the separation -for a minute- of the man from the monster. It doesn’t attempt to tackle the truly gruesome part of Dahmer’s biography, the part we all know, and so the portrait the book produces is both intimate and casual – a bit like Gus VanSant’s Elephant, a character study where we are looking at some trecherous moral precipices, and trying to understand what makes someone leap from them. -EF

9. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00

10. Cat & Gnome by Graham Roumieu (Blue Q) $7.99

Radical Librarians to Host a Midwest Zine Festival April 28th in Urbana, IL

Published on April 4, 2012 0 Comments


Do you make zines? Do you DIY? Do you run a distro/make art/like to hang out with other folks that do these things? Well this event is for you. The Radical Librarians are pleased to announce the second annual Midwest Zine Festival (MWZF). The Fest take place from 11 AM to 11:30 PM on April 28th at the Independent Media Center (IMC) at 202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL 61801. The Fest will be a gathering of zine-makers, authors, speakers, musicians and other rad people for the purpose of celebrating zines and zine-culture. MWZF will include interactive events, food, speakers, music and plenty of zines. The festival is open to the public and admission is free. Organizers are now taking registrations from artists, zine-makers, activists, authors or groups interested in having a table, presenting talks, or purposing interactive events as part of the festival. It will also feature an evening concert sponsored by the C-U Collective.

The Radical Librarians group at the Independent Media Center is headed up by Chris Ritzo, Jeanie Austin and Maggie Taylor, all Graduates of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The IMC has had a zine library since about 2001. The library was originally started in the living room of volunteers interested in sharing zines and other materials. The library is volunteer run and takes donations from the public.

The 2012 MWZF is co-sponsored by Common Ground Food Coop, Weiskamp screenprinting, and an arts grant from the City of Urbana.

More info:
midwestzinefest.ucimc.org
ucimc.org
Click here to register to table.
facebook.com/events/335167909850531

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Weekly Top 10

Published on April 3, 2012 0 Comments

1. The Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – Joining the literary-minded ranks of n+1, The Paris Review, The Believer and Lapham’s Quarterly, and doing it with Midwestern flair, The Chicagoan ressurects a long defunct jazz-age magazine and focuses in on non-profit production, local distribution and general excellence in writing and design. The debut issue is a stunner, a cohesive and relevant blend of fiction, history, innovation, interviews and a 50-page oral history of Siskel and Ebert. -EF

2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins $8.99

3. Roctober #50 $5.00 – Roctober is 20 years old! This is issue #50! I love this magazine!!!!! LOVE THIS MAGAZINE! Let’s have a party.  -EF P.S. Thanks to everybody that came out for this event last week.

4. The Avocado #1 by Mellie Manfredi- Winter writing about feelin’ chilly and eating chili! -EF

5. Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace (33 1/3 Series) by Aaron Cohen (Continuum) $12.95

6. Doris #29 by Cindy Crabb $2.00 – More mini horse adventures(!), tales of life, grandparents and Girls Rock Camp plus half the issue devoted to a longer personal essay, charmingly titled “How I learned to stop worrying and love being queer.” It’s a new issue of Doris, of course you should read it. -EF

7. DIY Magic (Floating World Comics) $13.95 – Magical practice for the roving tripper, sloppy scrapper, intuitive lifesprout, beligerent believer, permanent vacationer and dirty weirdo. Illustrated by a dream team of visual power – Ron Rege, Pippi Zornoza, Aiden Koch, Tommi Musturi, Inés Estrada, Dunja Jankovic, Christian DiFilippo and Lala Albert amongst much others! Call these corners, pronto! -EF

8. The Baffler #19 $10.00 – What?! A new issue of THE BAFFLER?! For reals.

9. Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) $12.00 – A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness. “One of my favorite zines of all time” –Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

10. Bust Apr May 12 $5.99

New Stuff This Week

Published on March 31, 2012 0 Comments

The Baffler #19 $10.00 – WHAT? A new Baffler? For reals! Features include Thomas Frank on making a career out of mistakes, Barbara Ehrenreich on animal spirits, David Graeber on flying cars, Rick Perlstein on Ronald Reagan, and more.

Zines
xXXXx vol 1 Straight Edge Erotic Fiction by Artnoose $5.00 – I’m going to repeat myself and re-state that the title of this zine is straight-up brilliant. Smut’s not half bad either. -EF

World’s First Anarchist Manifesto by Anselme Bellegarrigue $4.00
Judas Goat #53 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
Funny Animal Stories by Anne Elizabeth Moore $1.00
Waves by Kriss Stress $4.00
Zines by Rachel Swanson: 42 Percent is not Passing or How Sex Ed in America is Failing $2.00, Masturbation A Guide to Female Pleasure its not just for boys $2.00, Twilight the Greatest Accidental Horror Story of our Times $3.00
Not Invented Here #1 by Alexander Stewart $4.00
Give ’em Hell/Oblivion Split Zine by Michael Heck, Melissa Kagerer  $7.00
No Loot No Job Portrait Collection by Michael Heck $6.00
High and Low: Daniel Meet Santa Claus $1.50
Kurt Mitchell zines: Tao of Stubbie Pencil, Surreal Tao of Stubbie Pencil $9.95 each
Expect Anything Fear Nothing the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia… $30.00

Comics and Comix
Trubble Club #5 $8.00 – On newsprint! And it’s beauoooootiful, by the local based T-Club all stars. Pump up the comics jam. -LM…And from Edie: Mi Familia! The cartoonist cabal is back for more with this deluxxx edition full color comics offering, silkscreen print and possibly stickers (Thanks Post Family!)! Trubble from: Nate Beaty, Grant Reynolds, Laura Park, Jeremy Tinder, Aaron Renier, Rachel Niffenegger, Bernie McGovern, Lilli Carré, Corinne Mucha, Jeffery Brown, Lucy Knisley, Becca Taylor, Jose Garibaldi, Joshua Cotter, Joe Tallarico, Onsmith, Lyra Hill, Sam Sharpe and Carrie Vinarsky with assists from Ezra Clayton Daniels, Craig Thompson, Thorne Brandt, Erika Moen, Antoine Dode and Alec Longstreth. KAPOW! -EF
Spot of Noir by Lilli Carre $4.00
Hipster Holocaust #2 Two Fisted Tales of Urban Edgyness by Ernest J. Ramon, Sarah Howell Morton, Leda Zawacki et al. $7.00
Laskimooses #1 and #2 Maailman Kirkas Aamunkoitto by Herra Matti Hagelbergin $7.00 each
Happiness Machines a New Comic From the Chronicle of Fortune by Caroline Picard $4.00
various Familiar Faces Comics by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner $5.00 each
various comics by Rachel N. Swanson: Oregon Trail Zombie Edition  $3.00, Thunder Snow issues #1-#4 $2.00 each
6 In a Rut – philanthropy is so rewarding by Frank Aggro $3.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Krazy and Ignatz 1922-1924 At Last My Drim of Life Has Come True by George Herriman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller  by Jospeh Lambert (Hyperion) $17.99
DMZ vol 11 Free States Rising TPB by Brian Wood et al. (Vertigo) $19.99
Rachel Rising vol 1 Shadow of Death TPB by Terry Moore (Abstract) $16.99
Black Charity by Bal Speer (Archaia) $19.95

Art & Design Books
Portrait of a Young Man Trying to Draw by William Schaff (Lamano 21) $30.00
Ryan Trecartin Any (Rizzoli) $45.00
Susie Says by Gina Garan and Justin vivian Bond (PowerHouse) $19.95
Pen and Ink: A Collection of Editorial Illustrations by Kurt Mitchell $9.95
Capturing Beauty With Your Camera: 10 Tips To Taking Better Photographs by James K. Kropp $25.00
Alice in Wonderland Giant Poster and Coloring Book: 12 Prints to Frame to Color by Sir John Tenniel and Lewis Caroll (Abrams) $12.95

Fiction
Suddenly a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (FSG) $14.00
Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson $26.95
Golem by Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus) $11.99
Scratched From Dreams: A Collection of Short Stories by Kurt Mitchell et al. $9.95

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Another Chicago Magazine #50.2 $12.00
Oyez Review #39 $5.00
Paris Review #200 $15.00
Bomb #119 Spr 12 $7.95
Foxglove by Erica Schreiner $3.00

DIY
Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook More Than 50 Irresistible Recipes…by The Editors of High Times Magazine et al. (Chronicle) $18.95
Marijuana: Let’s Grow a Pound: A Day by Day Guide to Growing More Than You Can Smoke by SeeMoreBuds (Quick) $19.95
Tasting Beer: An Insiders Guide to the Worlds Greatest Drink by Randy Mosher (Storey) $16.95 – From the author of Radical Brewing.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur’an by Michael Muhammad Knight (Soft Skull) $15.95 – When Michael Muhammad Knight sets out to write the definitive biography of his “Anarcho-Sufi” hero and mentor, writer Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey), he makes a startling discovery that changes everything. At the same time that he grows disillusioned with his idol, Knight finds that his own books have led to American Muslim youths making a countercultural idol of him, placing him on the same pedestal that he had given Wilson. In an attempt to forge his own path, Knight pledges himself to an Iranian Sufi order that Wilson had almost joined, attempts to write the Great American Queer Islamo-Futurist Novel, and even creates his own mosque in the wilderness of West Virginia. He also employs the “cut-up” writing method of Bey’s friend, the late William S. Burroughs, to the Qur’an, subjecting Islam’s holiest scripture to literary experimentation. William S. Burroughs vs. the Qur’an is the struggle of a hero-worshiper without heroes and the meeting of religious and artistic paths, the quest of a writer as spiritual seeker.
Body Art 3 from the makers of Bizarre Magazine (Titan) $16.95

Music Books
Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground by Rob Jovanovic $26.99
Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone (Abrams) $24.95
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form by Anna Anthropy $14.95 -“Anna Anthropy is an independent videogame designer and critic, and a key personality in the ongoing paradigm shift that is slowly changing the way videogames are understood, by creators and players, and by the wider culture.” —Patrick Alexander, Eegra.com

Magazines
Hi Fructose #23 $6.95
Bust Apr May 12 $5.99
Bizarre #186 Mar 12 $10.50
Fortean Times #286 May 12 $11.99
Wallpaper Apr 12 $10.00
IdN vol 19 #1 $19.95
World Explorer vol 6 #3 $8.95
Open Minds Apr May 12 $6.95
Flaunt #120 $10.95
Sneaker Freaker #23 $14.50
Skunk vol 7 #7 $5.99
Skateboarder vol 22 #2 $5.99
Paper Apr 12 $4.00
Fangoria #312 $9.99
Meatpaper #17 Spr 12 $7.95
Decibel #91 May 12 $4.95
Mojo #221 Apr 12 $9.99
Harpers Magazine Apr 12 $6.99
In These Times Apr 12 $3.50
Z Magazine Apr 12 $4.95
Inked Apr 12 #44 $6.99
Skin and Ink Jun Jul 12 #136 $8.99
Rebel Ink Magazine May Jun 12 $5.99
Tattoo Revolution Apr 12 $11.75

Sex & Sexy
Heroes With Hardons: Big Book of Class Comics ed. by Patrick Fillion (Bruno Gmunder) $43.99

Other Stuff
Eyeball Lunch Bag $13.50 – Probably this bag is what the Residents take their lunch in.
Steampunk Sleep Mask $4.50 – Brass goggles for brass giggling.
Roller Girl Candy Cigarettes $2.00 – Orange flavored. For your fave derby grrrl.
Crime Scene Sandwich Bags $4.50 – Ziplocked. To quarantine your lunch from greedy co-workers.

Meat Fancy Foil Decorative Aluminum Wrap, Butchers Choice  $4.00

Cola Flavored Mustache Lollipop $3.00
More Moleskine journals, various permutations and prices: lined, unlined, red, black, soft cover, hard cover, date books, etc.
Inflatable Unicorn Horn $6.99
Inflatable Tentacle Arm $12.00
Roctober #50 Skateboard Deck $65.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out to the event for the release of Roctober #50 last night!

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