You loved the zine, now love the online resource. stolensharpierevolution.org went live last week. The instigator? Alex Wrekk of the DIY zine resource Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Zine Resource (and the zine Brainscan, among others). The site is a companion to the book, just in time for the tenth anniversary of the first edition of the book. stolensharpierevolution.org features constant updating of things like zine distribution resources like distros and stores that buy and sell zines, zine-related event listing, international zine-related contacts and more.
1. Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotexte)- An eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord.
2. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman $1.00
3. Hi-Fructose #22 $6.95
4. Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00
5. New Adventures of Beastlord by Chris Kuzma $4.00
6. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Marra Benjamin $3.00
7. Apartamento #8 $19.95
8. Eye of the Majestic Creature by Leslie Stein $4.00 – Hot on the heels of the EOTMC collection Fantagraphics releaed this Spring comes a brand new issue of one of my favorite minicomics, Eye of the Majestic Creature. This time, things take a turn for the worse: even deceptively happy-go-lucky elements like LarryBear’s anthropomorphic guitarfriend Marshmallow are getting drunk a little to much. Stein sets Larry’s New York life of arbitrary retail and sand counting to the grim realist prose of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. It’s a bit of heartwrench punctuated with Stein’s unflappable dark humor, bleaker certainly but still brilliant. -EF
9. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90- Good gawd, after a two year hiatus we are back in the pink. This may be the last time Butt goes to print, but it’s hardly a bitter end- this issue serves it extra long and thick. Obscene yet classy homoerotic art? Check. Juicy interviews with a whole gamut of gays? Check. John Waters? Check. Cool, let’s party like its 1999. -EF
10. Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of Doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement.
Tonight (Fri the 3rd) is Punk Rock Karaoke at The Beauty Bar, a fundraiser for the Chicago Zine Fest. See you there!
Zines
Rad Dad #21 Occupy by Tomas Moniz $4.00
On Being Hard Femme #1 by Jackie Wang $1.20 – Wang presents a great little zine about identity, toughness, bike grease femininity and lace trimmed queerness and making up definitions as you go along. -EF
Xerography Debt #30 $4.00
Railroad Semantics #5 2011 by Aaron Dactyl $6.50 – Absolutely, positively, without a doubt, obsessed with the rails. Another huge, densely packed issue, plenty of nice spreads of train tags and built around a winding travelogue taking us down the line from one notable stop to the next.
Want What You Got 2012 by Ana Norell $1.00
Travel On #1 and #2 by David Solomon $2.00 each – Solomon writes about his icoloclastic sentiments and what he’s trying to iconoclash with. Conversations about scars, letters about love, essays about collecting one’s own ephemera. -EF
Ways of the Two Spirits #1 Jan 12 by Devan Elyse Bennett $3.00 – Part One in a series of a five zine series of Queer History Trans Traditions.
Notes and Bolts #1 A Compendium of Music Food and Art by Kris Stress et al. $4.50
Thought Catalog 2011 by Emily Kozik $5.00
Light in the Dark With the Neon Arms BY Sonor On $10.00
Pigeon to the Phoenix $5.00
Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman, English grade 8 April 13 1991 $1.00
Comics & Comix
Nix Comics Quarterly #4 $5.00
Richie Rich: Poor Little Rich Boy by Sonor On $20.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by R. Crumb (Fatagraphics) $19.99
Action, Mystery, Thrills: Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933- 1945 (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Young Romance: The Best of Simon and Kirbys Romance Comics (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Rat Catcher by Andy Diggler et al. (Vertigo) $12.99
Unspent Love or Things I Wish I Told You by Shannon Gerard (Conundrum) $20.00
Hermoddities by Temple Bates (Conundrum) $20.00
Colliers Popular Press – David Collier’s 30 Years On the Newsstand by David Collier (Conundrum) $20.00
Art & Design Books
Lisa Anne Auerbach Umma Porjects July 11 – Oct 11 99 by Lisa Anne Auerbach et al. (University of Michigan Museum of Art) $7.00 – I love this phase from the introduction: “she probes the possibilities of craft and advocates for the leftist reclaimation of homemaking.”
Inklings by Vida Simon $20.00
Don’t Get Lonely Dont Get Lost by Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum) $25.00 – Sensitive, minimal and compelling. By the artist of Something to Pet the Cat About.
Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art ed. by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel (Damiani) $39.95
DIY
Mend It Better – Creative Patching Darning and Stitching by Kristin M. Roach (Scholastic) $18.95
Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Grey Gardens by Sara and Rebekah Maysles (FNP) $45.00
Queer Spirits by AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs $34.95
Poltics & Revolution
Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics by Deric Shannon et al. (AK) $21.00
Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists by Janina Ciezadlo, Penny Rosemont et al. (Kerr) $17.00
Fiction
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano (ND) $13.95 – Now in soft cover.
Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill (Harper) $13.99
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic ed by Jimenez Eduardo Mayo (SB) $16.00
Embassytown SC by China Mieville (Del Ray) $16.00
Magazines
Cabinet #44 24 Hours $12.00
Apartamento #8 $19.95
Yeti #12 $14.95
Artbox #18 $10.99
Toilet Paper #3 Jun 11 $12.00
Toilet Paper #4 Nov 11 $12.00
Dwell Mar 12 $5.99
Wallpaper Feb 12 $10.00
Sovereign #32 Feb 12 $3.95
Flaunt #119 $10.95
Sex & Sexy
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots – Flaming Challenges… by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (AK) $17.95
Luscious: Stories of Anal Eroticism ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $15.95
Are you a Chicago-based zinester or a zine-friendly reader? One of our Quimby faves, Jami Sailor, wants to hear from you. Here she is, we’ll put her on the line…
Recently I did a reading at Quimby’s that evolved into a talk about how we get into zines, the first zine we encounter and how that encounter has influenced us, and other first experiences relating to zines. This lead me to 
want to make a project focusing on this topic ZINES and FIRST TIMES = the first time you heard about zines, the first zine you ever got, your first zine fest (attending or tabling), the first time you bought something from a distro or from a brick and mortar store like Quimby’s, first time reviewed in Factsheet 5, Zine World, MMR, any first relating to zines.
Please consider submitting. For the first issue I am focusing on (present and past) zinesters currently living in the Chicago area. The deadline for the first issue will be April 1, 2012. Submissions can be text, comics, or a combination. You can submit a comic, write an essay, submit a photograph, your choice. If you would prefer I could also interview you on this topic. Just let me know.
Topic: Firsts relating to zines
Deadline: April 1, 2012
Format: I will layout text pieces unless you have thoughts about how your piece should be laid out. No word limit. If you are submitting a comic or graphic-based piece, the dimensions are half letter size. Try to keep your comic four pages and under.
If you are interested in submitting let me know, and I will harass you. If you are not interested let me know, and I will not harass you. If I don’t hear from you, you may be harassed. Please forward this onto any current or past zine and mini-comic creators you think might be interested. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your time and I look forward to your submissions!
Jami Sailor,
yoursecretaryzine (at) gmail (dot) com
| May ’12 |
| 17 |
| 7:00 pm |
The First Monograph on the Celebrated Cartoonist:
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist
Edited by Alvin Buenaventura
Designed by Jonathan Bennett
Interview by Kristine McKenna
Introduction by George Meyer
Essays by Chip Kidd, Susan Miller, Ken Parille,
Ray Pride, and Chris Ware
“Clowes has explored the tedium and mystery of contemporary American life with more wit and insight than most novelists or filmmakers.” —New York Times
“A master storyteller and artist. There is poetry in every panel.”—Esquire
“The country’s premier underground cartoonist.” —Newsweek
Throughout his twenty-five-year career, Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s and 1990s his groundbreaking comic-book series Eightball defined the indie aesthetic of alternative comics, with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. His breakthrough success, Ghost World, convinced mainstream readers of comics’ literary potential. In the new millennium, with works such as Ice Haven, Wilson, Mister Wonderful, and The Death-Ray, Clowes has redefined the graphic novel as an art form.
Now, for the first time, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, cartoonist, and screenwriter opens his archives. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (Abrams ComicArts; April 2012; U.S. $ 40.00/Can. $45.00; ISBN 978-1-4197-0208-2), the first monograph on one of America’s most innovative cartoonists, collects Clowes’s best-known work alongside seldom-seen illustrations, personal photos and memorabilia, behind-the-scenes drawings and sketchbook pages, and unpublished comics and original art. This lavishly illustrated celebration of Clowes’s work, edited by Alvin Buenaventura, designed by Jonathan Bennett, also features essays by noted contributors such as Chip Kidd and Chris Ware.
The Art of Daniel Clowes ties in to a touring retrospective of Clowes’s work opening at the Oakland Museum of California in April 2012.
About the Author
Alvin Buenaventura recently started the publishing company Pigeon Press. He previously published artistic and insightful graphic novels, books, and prints under the imprint Buenaventura Press from 2003 to 2009. Buenaventura also edits the monthly comics section for McSweeney’s literary magazine The Believer. He lives in Oakland, California.
About the Book
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist
Edited by Alvin Buenaventura
Designed by Jonathan Bennett
Interview by Kristine McKenna
Introduction by George Meyer
Essays by Chip Kidd, Susan Miller, Ken Parille, Ray Pride, and Chris Ware
Abrams / April 2012
U.S. $40.00 / Can. $45.00
ISBN 978-1-4197-0208-2
Hardcover with jacket
224 pages / 9 ¼” x 12″
300 color illustrations
