Quimby’s Presents Our First 24-Hour Zine Challenge Jan 14th-Jan 15th

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

 

Perhaps you were not able to participate in the 2011 Revenge of Print Challenge by getting your zine or comic out. Or perhaps you need some encouragement. Do you work well under deadlines? Perhaps you’re addicted to the adrenal rush of zine crafting?

Well, you’re in luck.

The 24-Hour Zine Challenge is for you. Starting Sat, 1/14 at 7pm and going until 7pm on Sun 1/15 here at Quimby’s, we invite you to come in and make your zine within 24 hours. And we’ll let you crash at our pad. By “pad” we mean on our floor.

We’ll provide: paper, minimal scanner use, zine supplies such as a long arm stapler, some food, power strips, temporary free wifi.

You provide: sleeping gear, ideas, stamina, your computer or typewriter (if that’s your thing)

AND THEN! Want to read from your zine here at one of our events? On Sat, Jan 28th we’ll be having the ZINES MADE AT THE QUIMBY’S 24 HOUR ZINE CHALLENGE EVENT.

Please RSVP to info(at)quimbys(dot)com for the 24 Hour Zine Challenge by Wed, Jan 11th.  because there is limited space available. Only RSVP’d zinesters will be allowed in the store between midnight and 6am. Visitors are welcome at all other times. The store will be open until midnight (usually we close at 10pm on Saturday nights).

Get your New Year’s zine resolution resolved before the first month of 2012 is over.

 Sat, Jan 14th 7pm to Sun, Jan 15th 7pm

Weekly Top 10

Published on December 13, 2011 0 Comments

A lot of this stuff is not on our website (ones that are have links). Guess you’ll just have to come in to see ’em.

1. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00 – Come n’ get it.

2. Butt #29 $9.90

3. Abuela Y Los Dead Mexicans #1 by David Ortega $6.00
4. Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes (Akashic) $14.95
5. Paris Review #199 $12.00
6. 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

7.  S #9 Baltic Comics Magazine (Kus) $9.50 – As pictured above.

8. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – The hit of the season.

9. Bitch #53 $5.95

10. Go For Broke #2 Klimbing Kilimanjaro $2.50

Not at Quimby’s…But you should go anyway

Published on December 10, 2011 0 Comments

 

Tonight: See a rare live appearance of Psychic TV at Reggies Rock Club on Dec 11. This is PTV’s only Midwestern appearance. Show is 17+ with regular and VIP tickets available.

More info at reggieslive.com/rockclub/
Tickets at Ticketfly

This event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at

REGGIES ROCK CLUB
2109 South State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60616
(312) 949-0121

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 9, 2011 0 Comments

Worn #13 Fashion Journal
Zines
Curioddity #1 Nov 11 by Curioser Jane $2.00
With an E #1 by Lynne $1.50
Johnny America #9 $4.00
Fashion Illustrations by Jame D et al. (Public Collectors) $2.50
Tag #1 by Mateo and friends $8.50
Fashion Statement by Bella Dehm (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00
Letters In Color Are Better and Life In Color Is Better $15.00 each – From niceomestreetart.com
Good Fine Okay #2 by Marissa F $2.00
Hip Mama #50 $5.95
Thoughts and Other Stuff: What Am I Thinking – A Series of Random Thoughts $2.00 – Best title for a zine EVER.

Comics & Comix
Occupy Chicago Investigative Portraits: I Cant Make a Change By Myself But If People Have One Mind We Can Change the World by Sharon Rosenweig $7.00
Occupy Wall Street: Investigative Portraits, Never Take Off Your Button by Sharon Rosenweig $7.00
Ballad of Little Monster vol 1 by Herve Largeaud $3.99
Vacuum Horror #1 by Max Morris $8.00 – With work from Leslie Weibeler, Andy Burkholde, David Alvarado, Edie Fake, Anya Davidson, Nick Drnaso, April Camlin, Brett Koontz, Onsmith, Paul Nudd, Joe Tallarico and Dane Martin.
Ballad of Little Monster vol 1 by Herve Largeaud $3.99
Cartoonshow #1 You Will All Die In Pain by Derek M. Ballard (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00
Go Forth  – A Series of Doodles in Book Form by Bort $2.00
Shitty Titties #2 by Bort $1.00
Talamaroo issues #1-3 Hungry by Alabaster $6.00 each
The Iliad By Homer As Interpreted By Keith Schnell $3.00
Complex #2 by Chris Kuzma $5.00
Lizz Hickey comics: Leave Jeremy Alone – Finally Invisible, Carol Verse Carol, Danny Deathbed $2.00 each – Hilarious of course.
Systems of Metric Matter by Keith Jones $2.00
Lyra Hill comics: Compiled #1, Dock Ellis, Are You Lonesome Tonight – various prices
Anchovie #1 by James Turek $6.00
(ku)š Baltic Comics Magazine, various issues, various prices
Strawberry Creeps By Joe Schorgl $3.00
Mad Butcher Kingsbury Run  by Joe Schorgl $3.00
Purpose of A Million Stars by Alexis Vert $1.00
Food Stamp Foodie #2 by Virginia Paine $2.00
various issues of Milkyboots by Virginia $2.00-$3.00

Art & Design Books
Beautiful Chickens by Aschwanden & Perris (Thomas Dunne) $19.99 – That’s right. Chickens. They’re SOOOOOOO hot.

Childrens Books
Moomin and the Birthday Button by Tove Jansson (FSG) $12.99

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Sigh by Marjane Satrapi (Archaia) $10.95
Mush Sled Dogs With Issues by Glenn Eichler & Joe Infurnari (First Sec) $17.99
Criminal vol 6 Last of the Innocent by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips (Icon) $14.99
Bad Doings and Big Ideas Deluxe Edition by Bill Willingham et. al (Vertigo) $49.99
Most Dangerous Game: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection by Zach Weiner (Breadpig) $18.00
Fuff #0 Come to my Show Flyer Minicomix 1998 – 2001 by Jeff Lewis $5.00
Projections: Comics and the History of the Twenty First Century Storytelling by Jared Gardner (Stanford) $24.95

DIY
From the Couch to the Kitchen: A Book to Indulge In Food Writing… by The Dorsey High School Students (826) $15.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoir, Misc
Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace Love and Acid to the World by Nicholas Schou (Thomas Dunne) $15.99 – Just days after California became the first state in the union to ban LSD, the Brotherhood formed a legally registered church in its headquarters at Mystic Arts World on Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, where they sold blankets and other countercultural paraphernalia retrieved through surfing safaris and road trips to exotic locales in Asia and South America. Before long, they also began to sell Afghan hashish, Hawaiian pot (the storied “Maui Wowie”), and eventually Colombian cocaine, much of which the Brotherhood smuggled to California in secret compartments inside surfboards and Volkswagen minibuses driven across the border. This book explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia.
100 Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind $12.00 – Hilarity, drama, surrealism — the Neo-Futurists are always compelling.
Learning to Live Finally Last Interview by Jacques Derrida et al. (Melville) $15.95
Gonzo Republic: Hunter S. Thompson’s America by William Stephenson (Continuum) $27.95

Lit Journals & Chap Books
McSweeneys #39 $24.00
Paris Review #199 $12.00
Sinister Wisdom #84 Fall 11 $6.00
New York Tyrant vol 3 #3 $15.00
Boat Magazine #2 Fall Win 11 $12.00
Errata by Ingrid Olson $10.00

Magazines
Juxtapoz #132 Jan 12 $5.99
Design Bureau Jan Feb 12 $8.00
ID Magazine Win 11 $12.00
High Times Feb 12 $5.99
Color Skateboards vol 9 #5 $7.99
Skateboarders Journal vol 1 #1 Win 12 $8.95
BlackBook #89 Dec 11 $4.95
Paper Win 11 12 vol 28 #4 $4.00
Little White Lies #38 $9.99
Classic Rock #165 Dec 11 $11.99
Mojo #218 Jan 12 $9.99
Uncut Jan 12 #176 $9.99
Wire #334 Dec 11 $10.99
Fader #77 Dec 11 Jan 12 $5.99
Monocle vol 5 #49 Dec 11
GLQ vol 18 #1 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
In These Times Dec 11 $3.50
Progressive Dec 11 Jan 12 $4.95
National Green Pages 2012 $9.95
Travel Naturally #81 $9.95
Rebel Ink Magazine Jan 12 $5.99
Tattoo 1 Tribal #31 $8.50

Sex & Sexy
The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City—Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages by Catharine Arnold (SMP) $25.99
Sad People Sex #10 Drowning In My Own Tears by Heather Benjamin $3.00
Hatebreed #1: Sexual Menu Fantasy Phone Katebreed by HKB $4.00
Decathexis #1 by Conor Edmunds $2.00
Chameleon #1 2011 by Jonny Negron et al. $10.00

Other Stuff
Apocalypse Calendar 2012 Wall Calendar $20.00 – Get your Mayan on, with work by a variety of artists, including Jay Ryan.

Weekly Top 10

Published on December 6, 2011 0 Comments

1. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – Sweet Spot. Come n’ get it.

2. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine $9.90

3. 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

4. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00

5. Book of Whale Insults (Blue Q) $3.99

6. Notes For A Peoples Atlas: People Making Maps of Their Cities by AREA Chicago $8.00 – This multi-city community mapping project started in Chicago in 2005, and has since expanded to a number of cities ranging from Zagreb to Greencastle, Indiana (USA). The project was initiated by AREA-Chicago, a magazine about art, research, education and activism in Chicago. The book and a website (peoplesatlas.com) document this project by presenting the maps collected in each city along with commentary by leading thinkers dealing with art, urban space, cartography and definitions of place.Featuring Mapping Projects from: Chicago, IL; Zagreb, Croatia; Syracuse, NY; Greencastle, IN; Portland, OR; Granada, Spain; Waterville, ME; Chisinau, Moldova; New York City, NY; Detroit, MI; Boston, MA; Pilsen; Chicago; Santiago, Chile; London, ON, Canada; Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Ukraine (Uzhgorod, Donetsk, Kherson, Simferopol, Vinnytsia); Gary, IN; and Valparasio, Chile.

7. Miami You’ve Got Style: A Little Golden Girls Book by Scott and Zach $13.00 – Epic quest through fashion policing every Golden Girls episode ever….it’s a media meltdown in lilac and mauve. -EF

8. Logan Square Literary Review #5 Win 11 $5.00 – This issue of the Logan Square is full up of milkyfoodyicebox double entendre: soliciting gay refrigerator sperm, simmering dr.pepper for orgasmic cookery, peeky toe crab benedict….and a few other nice things that maybe aren’t like that at all. -EF 9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – 10. Maximumrocknroll #343 Dec 11 $4.00