New Stuff This Week

Published on December 16, 2011 0 Comments

Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95 – In this issue Quincy, M.E. makes his comic book debut, struggling through the fantastic landscapes of his own dreams in “Quinception,” in which St. Peter also gets his own comic book. Snake ‘n’ Bacon make an appearance in “Reservoir Dogs 2,” where the gang reunites for another caper. Twain and Einstein deal with some family issues, McArf the Crime Dog takes a bite out of scum, and the origin of The Hamanimal! Plus a photocomic starring comedian Julie Klausner, “Voyage To Narnia.”

Zines
Archive vol 3 #2 Newsletter From the Green Lantern by the consistently charming Caroline Picard and Green Lantern Gallery friends. With illustrations by local comics artist Ian “I Don’t Understand Farming” Endsley.
Dope Bag #1 by A. Ford $1.00 – Whether at war with your anatomy diagram or making peace with your personal magnetic field, Dope Bag delivers a full 6 sixths of a medium pie and your daily dose of collaged subconscious. -EF


various issues of Mumbo by David Tosh $6.00 each
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #9 A Fault to Fall Back On by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Kung Fu Grip #5 Afro Samuri Champloo by Paco Taylor $3.50
Brief History of Corporations – Where Did They Come From? Bristol Radical Pampleteer #3 by Daniel Bennett $4.50
Aurthur and the Whale by Leslie Perrine $3.00 – From the Chicago-based zinester of Chicago Zine Fest organizer fame.
Kids in Idaho by Travis Neal Todd $3.00

Comics and Comix
Terminal Fuze 2012 Natonal Waste Calendar by Leif Goldberg $24.00 – Leif’s National Waste calendars have been blowing the fuze for a decade. Gorgeous gorgeous slayer layers, this is the way to ring in the new year and keep it ringing. Fully fermented silkscreen genius. -EF


Amateurs #1 by Conor Stechshulte $8.00
Black Mass #6 by Patrick Kyle $6.00


Holleweg #1 Hollow Road $5.00
Late Era Clash #24 by Mike Taylor (Pegacorn Press) $5.00
Scepter Gem #1 Magic Universe by Madeline Bliss $2.00
Dont Follow Me Silkscreened Book by Jen Tong $30.00
Ghost Heat Up issues #1-#3 by Anthony Meloro $8.00 each
Raw Power King Size Retrofit Comics Annual Dec 11 by Josh Bayer $6.50
Oak and Linden #3 by Pat Barrett $4.50
Oak and Linden #4 Dental Damned by Pat Barrett $2.00
Pino Town Part 1 by Matteson Avery Pino and Marissa N. Cameron (Pino) $10.00
Morbid Dork #1 by Alex Nall $3.00
Natural World #2 and #4 by Damien Jay (Sparkplug) $4.00 each
Virtuous Rise of the Matriarchy by Fiona Smyth (Sparkplug) $5.00
Pregenesis by Neta Levinson $7.00

DIY
Radical Brewing Work Energy Commoning and Beer – Bristol Radical Pamphleteer #10 by Steve Stuffit $4.50

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
500 Portraits by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Maakies and Sock Monekey superstar did a bunch of illustrations for The Believer and what have you.
Jack Davis – Drawing American Pop Culture: A Career Retrospective (Fantagraphics) $49.99
Comic Torah HC Reimagining the Very Good Book by Sharon Rosenzweig and Aaron Freeman $29.75 – Now in a fancy hardcover. Hannukah starts Dec 21st.
Walt and Skeezix vol 5 HC 1929 through 1930 – Including special DVD of Frank King’s home movies (D&Q) $39.95
Airy Tales by Olga Volozova (Sparkplug) $15.00
Jim Hensons Tale of Sand the Lost Screenplay by Jim Henson et al. (Archaia) $29.95
New X Men TPB vol 8 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99
Complete Battlefields SC vol 1  by Garth Ennis et al. (Dynamite) $24.99
Fables vol 16 Super Team by Bill Willingham et al. (Vertigo) $14.99
Walking Dead TPB vol 15 We Find Ourselves by R. Kirkman et al. (Image) $14.99

Art & Design Books
Positive Creations: The Visionary Art of Chris Dyer (Schiffer) $39.99
Graffiti Underworld: Villians, Vandals, and Visionaries by JR Mathews (Feral) $29.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Steampunk Magazine: The First Years #1 through #7 (Combustion) $20.99 – We had the first 2 issues back in the day. Then they took most of it online. Well here are the first issues. Splendid!
To Live Outside the Law: Caught By Operation Julie – Britain’s Biggest Drugs Bust by Leaf Fielding (Serpants Tail) $18.95
Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, The Fuck You Press by Ed Sanders (Da Capo) $26.99 – All about the Fugs counterculture on the lower east side. By the author of The Family.
Robin Hood, Peoples Outlaw and Forest Hero: A Graphic Guide by Paul Buhle and friends (PM Press) $15.00
Mammoth Book of Weird But True by Geoff Tibballs (Running Press) $13.95
50 Things Youre Not Supposed to Know Religion by Daniele Bolelli (Disinfo) $12.95

Poltics & Revolution
Fukushima Mon Amour by Daniel De Roulet et al. (Autonomedia) $9.95
Communization and its Discontents Contestation Critique and Contemporary Struggle by Noys Benjamin (Autonomedia) $24.00
Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg: Volume 1: 1918 by Farquhar McHarg (PM Press) $18.95 – n Farquhar McHarg’s autobiography, a young boy from Glasgow finds himself in the middle of Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at the tail end of World War I. Volume One chronicles McHarg’s liaisons between the British Secret Service Bureau and the Spanish anarchists.
On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press by Sean Stewart (PM Press) $20.00

Music Books
Balance European Hardcore by Tom Barry and Kon Sophia Schorr (MBP) $40.00

Poetry, Lit Mags and Chap Books
Logan Square Literary Review #9 $7.00

Magazines
Grantland Quarterly vol 1 $25.00 – McSweeneys rolls out a sports mag with writers like Chuck Klosterman.
Bizarre #183 Jan 12 $10.50
Wallpaper Jan 12 $10.00
Used #2 Fall Win 11 $14.99
Shots #114 Win 11 $6.50
True Crime Winter Special 11 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
Hunger #1 Win 11 $12.99
High Times Feb 12 $5.99
Clash #68 $6.99

Sex & Sexy
World of Gloria Badcock: A Comic for Adults by Maurice Vellekoop (Koyama) $5.00

Other Stuff
“This Economy Sucks” Coin Purse $3.99
“Keep It Real” Pocket Box $5.99
“Contraband” Junior Treasure Box $5.99
“Eat At Home” Dish Towel $9.95
Assorted wacky candles, various prices
“Art Supplies” Cigar Box $14.99
“Cameras” pencil case $4.99
Terminal Fuze 2012 Natonal Waste Calendar by Leif Goldberg $24.00 – Every year this hot screen-printed calendar sells out. Get yours now.
Elisabet Ericson 2012 Calendar by Elisabet Ericson $8.00

Poetry by Mitchell L.H. Douglas, Jessica Farquhar, Laura A. Lionello, Al Maginnes, and Brett Eugene Ralph 3/3

Published on December 15, 2011 0 Comments
Mar ’12
3
7:00 pm

Escaping the comfortable confines of the Associated Writing Programs’ annual meeting, five American poets go rogue to read their work in the more sharply stimulating environs of Quimby’s.  Collectively, these writers represent a truly American mosaic of sensibility and sentiment perfectly suited to the tough streets of Chicago.

Mitchell L. H. Douglas is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter and the anthologies The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and Zoland Poetry No. 2 among others. A Cave Canem fellow and cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets, his debut collection, Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem (Red Hen Press, 2009) was nominated for a 2010 NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry category and a 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His second poetry collection \blak\ \al-f? bet\, winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award, is forthcoming from Persea Books.

Jessica Farquhar is the Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Purdue, where she teaches and learns. Recently, her poems have appeared in The Lumberyard, New Madrid, and ABZ.

Laura A. Lionello was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from DePaul University. From 1999 to 2005, she lived in various cities in Colorado and California, working, not working, writing poetry, and talking about writing more poetry. While in Santa Monica, she co-hosted the weekly open mic Really Big Show (2003-2005). She and her co-host published two anthologies to feature works by the talented artists in the area. Laura’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications, both in print and online. Her poem “All Empty” earned first prize for poetry in the Tallahassee Writers Association 2008 Penumbra Poetry & Haiku contest. Her first collection of poems, Panic Kit, was published by Weak Creature Press in 2011. Laura lives in Chicago with her husband, Wayne.

Al Maginnes is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Ghost Alphabet (White Pine Press 2008) which won the 2007 White Pine Poetry Prize, Dry Glass Blues (Pudding House Press 2007), a single long poem published as a chapbook, and Film History (Word Tech Editions 2005). A former recipient of a fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council, his poems appear widely. He lives with his family in Raleigh, North Carolina and teaches composition, literature and creative writing at Wake Technical Community College.

Brett Eugene Ralph spent the better part of his youth in Louisville, Kentucky, playing football and singing in punk rock bands. His work has appeared in publications such as Field, Conduit, Willow Springs, and The American Poetry Review, and his poems have been anthologized in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets and The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. Black Sabbatical, his first full-length collection, was published in 2009 by Sarabande Books. The debut album by Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue, a revolving country rock ensemble, is available from Noise Pollution.  Filmmaker Harmony Korine calls Ralph “a true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare” while musician Will Oldham has described Ralph’s work as “sustaining, inspiring, even rescuing.”

Saturday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.

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Joyland Magazine and Dzanc Books present The Fiction Feed: AWP Edition 3/1

Published on December 15, 2011 0 Comments
Mar ’12
1
7:00 pm

Joyland Magazine and Dzanc Books present
The Fiction Feed: AWP Edition

Joyland Magazine and Dzanc Books are two innovative publishers pushing fiction with great writing and new means of print and digital distribution. Join us for an evening with four writers, hailing from Chicago, New York and Vancouver. Hosted by Joyland co-founder Brian Joseph Davis and Dzanc co-publisher Dan Wickett.

READERS

Eugene Cross has published work in Narrative Magazine, American Short Fiction, Story Quarterly and Callaloo, among other journals. He is the recipient of scholarships from the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He currently lives in Chicago. Fires of Our Choosing (Dzanc) is his first book.

Kevin Chong is the author of four books, including his acclaimed debut Baroque-a-Nova (Penguin) and the travelogue Neil Young Nation (Douglas & McIntyre). His new novel from Arsenal Pulp is titled Beauty Plus Pity. He lives in Vancouver and is a section editor for Joyland.

Jeff Parker is the author of the novel Ovenman (Tin House) and the story collection The Taste of Penny (Dzanc). He co-edited the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia. His nonfiction book Igor in Crisis: A Russian Journal is forthcoming from HarperCollins.

Megan Stielstra is a writer, storyteller and the literary director for 2nd Story, Chicago’s urban storytelling series. She has performed for the Goodman Theatre, the Chicago Poetry Center and National Public Radio. She teaches in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College. Her debut collection of stories, Everyone Remain Calm, is now available from Joyland/ECW Press.

For more info: joylandmagazine.com and dzancbooks.org

Thursday, March 1, 7PM

Advance pre-print event: Graham Rae Reads Soundproof Future Scotland 2/17

Published on December 15, 2011 0 Comments
Feb ’12
17
7:00 pm

SOUNDPROOF FUTURE SCOTLAND is a linguistically deranged trip into a dead-end, techno-punk future that lies firmly within our sight.

Scotsman Graham Rae’s new book Soundproof Future Scotland (Creation Books) is a sort-of futuristic meditation on his old home country. Welcome to the end of the known world. Set in the 22nd century in an independent Scotland, it details the lives and loves and hates of Johnny Certex and Ratsoup. These young cyberdrunk boyz spend their weekend boozing, band practice, drinking, digigames, hacktivism, skarboarding, chopping maul madness. The the book follows them as they drink and play digigames and ponder their small-town world (the center of Satellite Town, the rubbish dump where they live) before they start their crappy jobs as holographic refuse collectors. They plan to go to see their all-time fave band live, Empty Vessels, as the inescapable gravitational pull of Wavesound drags them closer to The Best Gig Ever.

Soundproof Future Scotland is more Charles Bukowski than William Gibson; a raw, lyrical, hilarious, thought-provoking trawl through the underbelly of a Scotland that may yet come to be.

This book is not in print yet, so Quimby’s will have vouchers valid for digital download  that will be on sale at the event.

SOUNDPROOF FUTURE SCOTLAND has already drawn significant praise:

“New writers, like yourself, will always keep appearing, thank God, + shock + delight a new generation of readers.” -JG Ballard

“If Henry Miller decided to rip off both William Gibson and William Burroughs, it might read like this gritty sexplosive novel set in the 22nd century.” -Richard Kern

“Aside from creative heckling, the highest praise one could pay Scottish ex-pat Graham Rae on the occasion of his rip-roaring novel Soundproof Future Scotland is to say that the writing crackles with the wit, (unintentional) wisdom, and sheer, unadulterated energy of great rock ‘n’ roll. Irvine Welsh, move over, and Lester Bangs, I think you’d be proud.” -Jim DeRogatis

“Graham Rae makes heterosex sound quite appealing. Which is of course the test of any great fiction writer.” -Mark Simpson

Graham Rae’s work has been featured in Realitystudio.org, Filmthreat.com, American Cinematographer, Cinefantastique, and 3ammagazine.com. His work has also appeared in the Deep Red Horror Handbook, and the anthology Please: Fiction Inspired by The Smiths. He has also appeared on BBC Radio Scotland as a film critic.

Fri, Feb 17th, 7pm

For more info: www.creationbooks.com

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Caseen Gaines Presents Inside Pee-Wee’s Playhouse 2/24

Published on December 15, 2011 0 Comments
Feb ’12
24
7:00 pm

Calling all Pee-wee Herman fans! Caseen Gaines, author of the one-and-only book about the entire Pee-wee Herman phenomenon, will be at Quimby’s Bookstore to discuss and sign copies of his brand-new book, Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse!

Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse is the first and only behind-the-scenes look behind the hit Emmy Award-winning TV show starring the pop culture icon Pee-wee Herman, complete with over 250 rare and never-before-published full color photos, marking the show’s 25th anniversary last fall. Gaines’ book is based on interviews with over a hundred cast members, writers, producers, network executives, crew members, puppeteers, and animators who contributed to the program TV Guide recently referred to as one of the “top ten cult classics of all time.”

“Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse is a must for any Pee-wee fan. Gaines unearths a significant moment in pop culture with the care of an archaeologist, and the vibrant humor of Pee-wee himself.” — John Ortved, author of The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History

“With his inspired, lunatic Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Paul Reubens showed a generation of television viewers that it’s okay to be different. Caseen Gaines has crafted a meticulously researched look at the origin, production, and legacy of this landmark series that is every bit as educational and entertaining as the show it chronicles.” — Jeremy Kinser, Senior Editor, The Advocate

“Though brutally honest in recounting crew conflicts and the fickle world of show business, Gaines demonstrates the enchantment and broad appeal of the Playhouse, as well as the spontaneity of a show where ‘anything could happen.'” — Publishers Weekly

For more info: insidetheplayhouse.com     facebook.com/caseengaines

Feb 24th, 7pm

 

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