1. Femme a Barbe vol 2 by by J. Bee $2.00 – True tangles of bearded ladies, gender reformations, hirsute identity and all permutations of feminine stubble, well worth a thorough comb-through. -EF
2. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF
3. Monkey In the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00 – Mucha’s got this special brand of world-enhancing “deductive reasoning” paired with an uncanny untuition – part clown, part private eye, thoroughly entertaining. -EF
4. Gary Book 2 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00
5. Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00
6. Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia $2.00
7. Truckface #15 by LB $3.00
8. Bitch #53 $5.95
9. Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99
10. Grantland Quarterly vol 1 $25.00 – Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF
| Feb ’12 |
| 11 |
| 7:00 pm |
Vittorio Carli Reads A Passion For Apathy,
with Vince Bruckert, Dave Gecic, Lynn Fitzgerald, Bradley Lastname, and other special guests
In A Passion For Apathy, (published by Press of the Third Mind), Vittorio Carli experiments with many types of genres, and his poems were primarily influenced and informed by beat writings, dada, children’s literature, formalist verse, absurdism, fluxus, and surrealism.
“I need to make it clear that this relatively small (68 pages) collection is in no way narrow or repetitious, either stylistically or thematically. Far from it; There is free verse, rhyming verse (where Carli shows the least originality and strength), language poetry, story-poems, repetitive poems, and even a bit of vispo, and the ending poem of the book: “Theological Parody” is something else again, and well worth a few careful reads. Poet–publisher Bradley Lastname and Press of the 3rd Mind continue to be at the forefront of the small and independent press…” -Joey Madia in New Mystic Reviews
“A book by Vito Carli is long overdue. He is an ever changing fixture on the Chicago poetry scene, and seeing his work on the page, (mostly for the first time) does not pin him down in any one genre. He is a constant experimenter, and seeing his poetry in print gives the reader a far greater appreciation for the nuances in his work.” -Dave Gecic (publisher of Pudd’nhead Books)
Vittorio Carli’s poems have been published in Best of Chicago Poetry, Online! the Chicago Poetry Renaissance, Café Review, Rambunctious Review, Polvo, The American Dissident, Dissent, Struggle: The Journal of Revolutionary Literature, Mind in Motion, Alphabeat Press, Alternative Press, Poems of the World, Religious Humanism, The World Salad Anthology, and The Anti Mensch. Vittorio has done music, art and film reviews for The Star newspapers, The Southtown Star, Chicago Artists News, the Daily Herald, “Letter eX,” “Dialogue,” and reelmoviecritic.com. He currently does film commentary on WZRD (88.3 FM) on Sundays at 3:30, and he writes a poetry blog at www.examiner.com.
For more info: carlivit@gmail.com artinterviews.com bradleylastname.com bankley.org.uk/Artist-Carolyn-Curtis-Magri
Sat, February 11th, 7pm
Chromazoid $20.00 -This in full-color underground comics chromatic explosion is a BRAND SPANKING NEW publication. It has comics ready to vibrate your looking balls by such folks as Ben Bertin, Bill Cleveland, Ian McDuffie, Jeremy Tinder, Lale Westvind, Lisa Cline, Lyra Hill, Nick Jackson and Robert Calzone. It comes complete with a cutting edge CASSETTE MIX TAPE featuring WEIRDOS, musicians and drop outs from AROUND THE COUNTRY. We backed it on Kickstarter and now is your chance to see what we spend our money on. And don’t miss the release party for it at The Happy Dog Gallery tomorrow, Sat, Jan 21st at the Happy Dog Gallery (more info below).
The Point Magazine #5 Spr 12: Symposium: What is the Left for? $12.00 – In this Issue: Funny Girls by Jessica Weisberg, On Tiger Moms by Julie Park, Toward A Social Socialism by Erik Olin Wright, Freeing the Market by William Davies, Anti-Politics by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Not Even Past by Brickey LeQuire, Sizing Up Oprah by Timothy Aubry, Coming to Terms by Jon Baskin, An Interview with Bill Ayers by The Editors, Libya and the Left by Michael Berube.
Zines
Notes on Eric by Jon $3.00 – A heartwarming eulogy for a friend passed. At turns hilarious and then sad and then uplifting. Thumbs up! -LM Wilhelm Scream by Jeremy Behreandt $5.00 Black Carrot #16 by Dave $2.00 Congo: A European Invention by J. Gerlach $4.00 – Part of the Simple History Series Uptown Problems #3 by Nick Clemente $5.00 Wild Glass Look Back #1 by R. Clint Colburn $10.00
Comics & Comix
Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions by Corrine Mucha $5.00 Second Chances #1 by Eric Rivera $12.00 – A halfway house, some small time crooks, summoning satan. All sort of shenanagans. -LM Underground #1 by Cliodhna $4.00 comics by Neil Devlin $3.00 Issues of Kuti #2-#9 $3-$4 each various mini comix from Aron Nels Steinke, including issues of Big Plans and Super Crazy Cat Dance and Super Duper Dog Park. Ariadne auf Naxos #1 and #2 by Julia Gforer $5.00 each- Have TARDIS will travel. -LM SF Supplimentary File #2A and #2B by Ryan Cecil Smith $4.00 each – Newsprint manga adventures in SPAAAAAAAAAACe. Phase 7 #009 by Alec Longstreth $5.00
Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Lost and Found Comics 1969-2003 by Bill Griffith (Fantagraphics) $35.00 Lodger by Karl Stevens $19.95 Guilty $9.95 by Karl Stevens $9.95 Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres (Avatar) $17.99 Silence of Our Friends: The Civil Rights Stuggle Was Never Black and White by Long & Demonakos, art by Nate Powell (First Sec) $16.99
Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
UFO Strange Space on Earth by Paul Whitehead and George Wingfield $12.00 Graphic Designer A Cautionary Tale by Neil Devlin $7.99 Poised to Pummel: An Unauthorized Illustrated Biography of Bruce Lee by Aaron Block and John Marcoux $12.95 Sugarbabe Controversial: The Real Story of a Woman in Search of a Sugar Daddy by Holly Hill $16.95 Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall $14.95 – Now in soft cover. The Existentialist’s Guide to Death the Universe and Nothingness by Gary Cox (Continuum) $19.99 Reality Hunger SC A Manifesto by David Shields (Vintage) $15.00 Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker (Soft Skull) $14.95
Politics & Revolution
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Marable Manning $18.00 It Started In Wisconsin: Dispatches From the Front Lines Of the New Labor Protest by Mari Jo and Paul Buhle et al. (Verso) $14.95
Music Books
Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis and Nona Willis Aronowitz (U of Minn) $22.95
Childrens
Adventures of Tintin by Herge, Young Readers Editions: Black Island, King Ottokars Sceptre, both editions $8.99 each, and both contain over 20 pages of bonus material each!
Magazines
Juxtapoz #133 Feb 12 $5.99 Bust Feb Mar 12 $5.99 Clutter #16 Like Toys Love Clutter $9.99 Print vol 66 #1 Feb 12 Power Issue $12.95 Capricious #12 $17.00 True Crime Jan 12 $8.99 Harpers Magazine Feb 12 $6.99 Make vol 29 $14.99 Caduceus #82 $8.99 Open Minds Feb Mar 12 $6.50 Cemetery Dance #65 $5.00 High Times Mar 12 $5.99 Skunk vol 7 #5 $5.99 Fangoria #310 $9.99 Horror Hound #33 Jan Feb 12 $6.99 Granta #118 Win 12 Exit Strategies $16.99 Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00 Black Velvet #70 $7.00 Boston Review Jan Feb 12 $6.95 Razorcake #66 $4.00 Radical Philosophy #171 $13.00 Amass #42 $4.95 Against the Current #156 Jan Feb 12 $5.00 Tattoo Scout #27 $9.60 Tattoo Collection #48 $6.99 Inked Feb 12 $6.99 Tattoo #271 Mar 12 $7.99
Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
Willow Springs #69 $10.00 Barrelhouse #10 $9.00 Pleiades vol 32 #1 $9.00 Conium Review Spr 12 $.10 WomenArts vol 2 #1 Win 12 $10.00 Literary Review vol 55 #1 Fall Win 11 $8.00 Six By Six #25 $5.00
Sex & Sexy
Handbook vol 6 #1 2012 $6.00 Investigating Sex Surrealist Discussions by Jose Pierre (Verso) $19.95 Front #164 $9.99 Von Gutenberg #6 $19.00 Mate Win 12 $9.99
Other Stuff
Good Old Neon Classic Chicago Signs, a 2012 Calendar by Nick Freeman $5.00
…And new to our website: tons of Tape Op and Punk Planet back issues! See quimbys.com/store for which ones.
1. Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50 – A magazine I simultaneously have to look at but can’t.
2. Shit I Didnt Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50 – Compelling footnotes to various friends and relations, “Shit I Didn’t Tell You” is exactly that. It’s a nice checkup about sorting out how feelings get felt and life gets lived. -EF
3. Exxxtinction by Sy Loady $3.00 – Fuckasoreass Triceratopz.
4. Show Me The Money #36 $2.50
5. Hi Fructose #22 $6.95
6. Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99
7. Truckface #15 by LB $3.00 – Third year teaching high school English for CPS starts with LB hacking up a foreboding bloody clotball snotball. Truckface continues to be an annual report of both teaching and being taught- moving through all the drama, anger, goofiness and apathy and learning how to learn from it all. -EF
8. More Pictures About Feminism by Brad Troemel $10.00
9. Judas Goat Quarterly #51 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
10. Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 (Study Group Books) – I imagine the rousing success of last year’s fantastic Study Group 12 anthology (#4) has spurred Study Group Magazine into existence. Like Austin English’s Windy Corner before it, SGM #1 is a full-up ideosyncratic combo platter of comics, interviews and examinations. Articles on Eleanor Davis, Brecht Evens and Craig Thompson and a hearty sampling of comics and illustration from Jennifer Parks, Daria Tessler, Aidan Koch, David King, Malachi Ward, Chris Cilla, T Alixopulos, Zack Soto, Jonny Negron and Michael DeForge. Amen. -EF
