Offsite: Quimby’s Opens Pop Up Shop In Bridgeport on May 11th & 12th as Part of Version 12: Bridgeport: The Community of the Future

Published on April 19, 2012 0 Comments
May ’12
11
11:00 am


Version Festival is an annual arts festival produced by the Public Media Institute, makers of Lumpen magazine, Proximity magazine and producers of the MDW Fair and other events and festivals. This year Version festival is opening or remixing twelve different Pop Up enterprises in the neighborhood of Bridgeport throughout the month of May. Quimby’s Bridgeport pops up along side cultural workers ,community developers, urban entrepreneurs, artists, designers, foodies, public space hackers, urban planners, cultural geographers, and dreamers.

Quimby’s was part of the first pop up experiments that the Public Media Institute introduced to the neighborhood back in 2006. This year Quimby’s return to bring the denizens of the neighborhood a taste of Quimbys Bookstore. A selection of the finest independent zines, periodicals and books will be available.

Quimby’s Bridgeport pop-up will be open May 11th and 12th, from 11AM to 6PM. The shop is located at  755 W 32nd Street, right behind the Blue City Bike shop on Halsted Street.

More info: www.versionfest.org

Quimbys Bridgeport temporary pop up shop
At  755 W 32nd St, Chicago, IL 60616
May 11th and 12th, from 11AM to 6PM

Please note this event is NOT at Quimby’s in Wicker Park.

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Australian Cartoonists’ Caravan of Comics 5/9

Published on April 19, 2012 0 Comments
May ’12
9
7:00 pm

Australia’s premier independent  comic creators are hitting the road for three weeks in three small cars, stopping at Quimby’s on May 9th! Join us in welcoming:

Pat  Grant – artist-writer­surfer  whose debut  graphic novel  Blue (published by Top Shelf, scroll down to see a picture of it resting on his the coffee table near his bed) about localism and  racism  may  turn  out  to  be  the Great  Australian   Graphic  Novel  Ben Hutchings – a  cartoonist  whose  softly  spoken  manner  belies  a  surprisingly  cheeky streak  that   informs  some  of  the funniest comics in the world Andrew Fulton – a quiet and  unassuming  cartoonist  whose  wordless  action  comics  are breathtaking  in  their  inventiveness  and  sense  of  play  with  the  form Mandy Ord – whose   autobiographical  comics  about  life  in  suburban  Melbourne  (including the  recent  “Sensitive  Creatures”)  are consistently  some  of  Australia’s most   accomplished sequential storytelling Douglas Holgate  – part  Viking,  all  cartoonist – is  the  Caravan’s  most  established  member having   published  numerous  children’s  titles both  in  Australia  and overseas.  His  lively style  speaks  to  an   enormous  enthusiasm  for  comics. Sarah Howell – best  known  as  2009-2010  Co-Director  of  the  National  Young  Writers’ Festival, is an accomplished  illustrator whose  style  is  sometimes  whimsical, sometimes grounded, and always stunning. David Blumenstein – the  cartoonist  behind  the  long-running comedy series  The  Bret Braddock  Adventures  a  comic  that  mines  humor  from  the  guts-­tearing feeling  you  get when  you’re  being  taken   advantage  of  by  a  boss  who  hasn’t  paid  you  in two  months. Gregory Mackay – makes  award-­winning  comics  about  a  strange  kind  of everyday­ness that  are   both  quietly  desperate  and  charmingly  beautiful.  His  long running  Francis  Bear is  published  in   French  through  The  Hoochie  Coochie. Michael Hawkins – tells  stories  of  teen  dramas  and  suburban  explorers  told  in  a  visual style  that  drips  and  bleeds  from  one  panel  into  the  next  through  Hawkin’s  amazing  ink and  watercolours.  Hawkin’s  style  is  completely  unique. Jen Breach – a  short,  bespectacled Australian based  in  New  York  City,  writes  comics about  ordinary   children  in extraordinary circumstances,  collaborating  with  a  number  of talented  cartoonists  (including  some  on the Caravan).and special  guest star  Roadie,  the  Caravan  is  delighted  to  include  John Retallick,  presenter  of  3CR   radio’s  long-running  “The  Comic  Spot.”

More info: caravanofcomics.com

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Wed, May 9th, 7pm

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Weekly Top 10

Published on April 17, 2012 0 Comments

Michael Deforge rules the Top 10 this week! And a new issue of Burn Collector!

1. Burn Collector #16 by Al Burian (Paquita Press) $5.00

2.   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

3. Hoody #1 A Hip Hop Comic Graph Novel by Joel CRAVE Maxime Jr $5.00 – Bouncing through a chromosplash cityscape of graffitipsychedelia, Hoody’s an all-blue Vaughn Bodian anti-hero on a trail of pig roasting secret clues. Wild motions that sometimes remind me of Bernie McGovern’s “Army of Lovers” comics. -EF

4.  Thickness #2 by Angie Wang et al. $10.00 – Hot ‘n slimey crypto-beast on humanoid-beast action. Eagerly anticipated sophmore release for this sexy anthological comic. Works from Lisa Hanawalt, Michael DeForge, Jilian Tamaki and more.
5. Proximity #9 Grassroots Planning and Placemaking Objects Spr 12 vol 4 #1 $11.99
6. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season Three by Joshua Chapman $1.00 – Although the “school project” alibi is wearing a little thin on this educational zine series, the nerdery aboard this enterprise holds strong and is remarkably entertaining. Makes me wish I knew more Star Trek things to crack puns about.-EF
7. Colors #83 Win 12 $8.95
8. Incinerator by Michael Deforge (Secret Headquarters) $5.00

9. Kid Mafia #1 by Michael Deforge $3.00 – “That special time between the end of high school and the beginning of college… depicted by Michael DeForge, so it’s a complete fucking nightmare, OK?! With bonus skateboard action. Part one of an ongoing series. Features 2 bonus “Military Prison” strips.” – from wowcool.com

10. Open Country #2 by Michael Deforge $3.00

New Stuff This Week

Published on April 13, 2012 0 Comments

Typeforce 2 The Annual Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars $20.00 – A veritable font of design wizardry -EF

Miss me last week? Well that’s because I went out of town. But now I’m back, to tell you about TWO WEEKS worth of new stuff! Spend your tax refund here, perhaps on -LM

Zines
Burn Collector #16 by Al Burian (Paquita Press) $5.00 – It’s always a joy to see another installment of Al’s adventures, especially since we see him less and less in Chicago due to his relocation in Berlin. There’s plenty of flash rant-style review pieces (an Iron Maiden concert for one), books he’s read (a YA novel!), and also his comics. Like the last issue of BC there’s also some interviews too, like Tim Remis from Sweet Cobra (and of lesser-known Soviet folk singer fame), as well as Sascha Scatter of The Icarus Project. Published by Caroline Pequita’s art-freaker publishing house Pegacorn Press in Brooklyn.
Zines 101 An Intro to Zines by Carrie $1.00 – As in the Carrie of My Aim Is True and Brilliant Mistake. Carrie is also responsible for getting a variety of her students to sell their zines here. Passing it along to the next zinester generation!
The Match #110 Spr 12 $3.00
Roam #3 2012 for the Life of Little Things $1.00
9 to 5 #1 by Tom Callahan $8.00
Infect With Intellect #1 Apr 12 $2.00
Anarchist Panther vol 1 #3 Good Readings Zine Spring into Summer 01 by Firestarter Press $3.00
Skulk #1 by Your Secretary $1.00 – Made during the Quimby’s 24 Hour Zine Challenge this past January.
Interview Clothes a Paper Doll Zine by Jami Sailor and Jenna B. $1.00
These Boots by KE Bleier $3.00
Seesaw Fidgets by Evah Fan $5.00
Ugly  No 1 #4 Apr 12 a Collection of Stuff and Stuff by Matt Soria $4.00
Gems #1 Interview Zine Featuring Sic Alps Kraftwerk and Geneva Jacuzzi by Mike S and Byron Browne $4.00
Cloud Factory #2 by Ryan Homsley and Laura Walker $3.00
Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation, Season Three by Joshua Chapman $1.00
Collection of Jars #1 by Zach Hamilton et al. $4.00
Railroad Semantics #1 Eugene Protland Pocatello and Back by Aaron Dactyl $7.95
Anarchism Marxism and Hope for the Future by Noam Chomsky and the Red and Black Revolution (Microcosm) $1.65
Taking the Lane vol  5 Our Bodies Our Bikes by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $3.00
Hurt Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy by Kristian Williams (Microcosm) $6.95
Fireweed: A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting with Kids and Family Life by Jess (Microcosm) $3.80
KerBloom #95 Mar Apr 12 by Artnoose $2.00 – Comepelling reading about the author’s story to finding the right baby daddy for her fading fertility.
Number 4 Privet Drive by Paul Schwartz $1.00
Fag School #4 New Fiction Johnny, Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger, Join the Professionals by Brontez (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – One half fiction, the other half interviews with activists, photographers, Michelle Tea, Tobi Vail, the DJ Robot Hustle and more.

Comics and Comix
Wigstaff by Ruby Thorkelson $2.00 – Hairy trickster born of bakers!

Spitting Anorexic by Eamon Espey and Andrew Liang $2.00
SF Supplementary File #2C by Ryan Cecil Smith $6.00
Has Anyone Ever Told You That You Look Like Buddy Holly? by Lee Bretschneider $4.00
More Comics by Michael Deforge, various prices: Kid Mafia #1 (of moles and bullies!), Incinerator (a beagle’s offspring!), Open Country #1 and #2 (psychic travel!).
Sky In Stereo by Mardou $5.00
Archer by Nate Doyle $5.00
Bicycle Propaganda by Tom Lechner $2.00
Tales of Inertia #1-#3 by Tom Lechner $4.00 each
Wuvable Oaf Gory Details – Official Handbook to the Oafiverse by Ed Luce $6.00
Mad Soul #1 by Bobby Madness (Sparkplug) $3.50
Crass Sophisticate #28 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $2.00
Xerox Candy Bar #19 XCB Newspaper Edition Mar 12 $3.00
Reeds In The Wind Cambodian Life Under the Khmer Rouge by Danielle Chenette $4.00
Spinadoodles #2 The Second Year May 1 2010 to June 24 2011 Daily Sketchbook comic by Sam Spina $7.00
Grandma Stories a sort of 24 Hour Comic by Sam Spina $3.00
Stranger Two Stranger #3 Apr 12 – Actual Stories of Craigslist Missed Connections by R. Hendricks $2.00
Natural World #3 by Damien Jay $4.00
Teenaged Terror issues #4-#6 $4.00 each
Here Comic by Eroyn Franklin (Sparkplug) $7.00
Survivalist by Box Brown $7.99
1999  by Box Brown $5.00
Bellanova Redstar Space Girl 4199 #379 at the Edge of the Universe by Lee Bretchneider et al. $3.99
Howdy Pardner Small Activity Comic by Andrew Brandou (Robot) $2.00
Grump Toast #1 and #2 by Ben Horak $5.00 each
End of The Fucking World Parts 4 and 5 by Charles Forsman $1.00 each
Eat To Survive Spr 12 by Jeff Mahannah $3.00
Lou #1 by Melissa Mendes $1.00
Bonnie N Collide Nine to Five #1-#5 Even Rollergrils Have Day Jobs by Monica Gallagher (various different prices)
Fugue #1 and #2 a Family in Three Parts by Beth Hetland $6.00 each
Comics by Nils Balls: Now Playing In Hell $1.50, Sketchbook Drawings Sketchball $4.00, Joseph UPMC a Production of SkeletonBalls Comics $6.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Unterzakhn by Leela Corman (Schocken) $24.95
Books by Monica Gallagher: Gods and Undergrads Books 1 and 2 and Boobage (various prices)
Fight a Chapter Book by San Spina $5.00
Curse of the Masking Tape Mummy Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer (Dark Horse) $14.95
Joe Golem and the Drowning City – An Illustrated Novel by Mike Mignola et al. (SMP) $25.99
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 1 TPB by Alan Moore et al. (Vertigo) $19.99
American Barbarian HC by Tom Scioli (Adhouse) $19.95
100 Bullets HC Book 2 by Brian Azzarello (Vertigo) $49.99
Pete and Miriam and Rich Tommaso (Boom) $14.99
Lovecraft Anthology vol 1 Graphic Collection of Short Stories by HP Lovecraft (Self Made Hero) $19.95
Holiday Funeral by Nick Mullins $10.95

Art & Design Books
Mark Whalen: Human Development (Zero) $45.00
Amalgamate: The Art Design and Exploration of Blaine Fontana (Zero) $45.00
Now and Then: The Cabinet Card Paintings by Alex Gross (Gingko) $14.95
De Nada: The Art of Jeral Tidwell (Presto) $34.99
Physical Impossibility of Remembering Last New Years for Ross Turning Us…by Gregg Evans $5.00
Abstract City HC by Christoph Niemann (Abrams) $24.95
Fuse Collection #1 through 20 From Invention to Antimatter Twenty Years of Fuse by Neville Brody et al. (Taschen) $59.99
Making Wet the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing by Leonard Koren (Imperfect) $39.00

Fiction
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard (Norton) $24.95
Cambridge Street by John Michael Manship $8.99
Ataraxia Boom Boom by Michael Nolan $12.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants by David Rees (Melville) $19.95 – Remember Get Your War On and My Fighting Technique is Unstoppable? This is his new John-Hodgmanish book, about sharpening pencils.

All My Friends Are Still Dead by Avery Monsen et al. (Chronicle) $9.95 – Second book  in the series of a top selling humor book about punnishly showing angst over dead comrads.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) $25.95
Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure (Riverhead) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
New Literary History of America ed by Greil Marcus et al. (Harvard) $24.95 – Now in soft cover.
So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Travelers Guide to Time Travel by Phil Hornshaw et al. (Berkley) $15.00 – All wibbly wobbly timey wimey.

Magazines
Proximity #9 Grassroots Planning and Placemaking Objects Spr 12 vol 4 #1 $11.99
Juxtapoz #136 May 12 $5.99
ArtForum Apr 12 $10.00
Koshka #2 Homesick and Hungry by Kaitlin Kostus $4.00
True Crime Mar 12 $8.99
True Crime Spring Special 12 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
Dot Connector #15 $7.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 29 #1 $6.25
Pinstriping #31 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
various older Lumpens!
BlackBook #90 Mar 12 $4.95
Acne Paper Spr 12 $17.99
Tiki Magazine vol 8 #1 Spr Sum 12 $6.99
Ghetto Blaster #31 $7.00
Tattoo Flash #113 May 12 $7.99
Make Shift #11 Spr Sum 12 $6.95
Makeshift #2 Win 12 Journal of Hidden Creativity $10.00 (2 different mags with the same name, for real. When thinking up a name for your mag, how about do a simple google search? Just musing…)
Paleo Magazine Apr May 12 $5.99 – For those leading a paleo lifestyle. Are you into digesting your food with rocks in a gizzard? Perhaps this is the magazine for you.

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Pageboy Magazine 4 12 $10.00
Ecotone #13 $12.95
Slake Los Angeles #4 2012 Dirt $18.00
Ghetto Blaster #31 $3.95
Pocho Love by Pablo Ramirez $10.00
D: A Novella Deluxe Collectors Edition by Ronald Jones $19.95

Childrens & Radical Parenting Books
Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood by Barbara Almond (U of Calif) $19.95
Piranha Pancakes: A Buncha Silly Comics and Stories by Ray Fresen $9.95
Adventures of Tintin Young Readers Editions by Herge: Shooting Star (with 20 extra bonus pages), Crab with the Golden Claws $8.99 each

Sex & Sexy
Thickness #2 by Angie Wang et al. $10.00 – Hot ‘n slimey crypto-beast on humanoid-beast action. Eagerly anticipated sophmore release for this sexy anthological comic. Works from Lisa Hanawalt, Michael DeForge, Jilian Tamaki and more.
Fukitor #7 $10.00
OP Original Plumbing #9 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The Entertainment Issue. Features with Silas Howard, trans on film, Black Cracker, Schmekel, Geo Wyeth and more.
Handbook vol 6 #2 2012 $6.00 – Starring three previously featured nude guys from past issues.

DIY
Homesweet Homegrown How to Grow Make and Store Food No Matter Where You Live by Robyn Jasko et al. (Microcosm) $9.95
Cannibal Kitchen: A Horror Lovers Cookbook Over 90 Amazing Recipes Each With a Horrific Twist by Shannon Rullo $25.00
Cats Claw Herbal #1 DIY Medicinal Skin Care Stories Instructions…(Micorcosm) $1.10

Other Stuff
Skate Boarding Coloring Book by Magnus Frederiksen (Dokument) $9.95
Steampunk Tarot Card Set by Barbara Moore (Llewellyn) $28.95

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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