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Just this morning I was arranging the free area and I stumbeled across a flyer someone left there, announcing that they’re looking for work submissions:
Anobium is a new, Chicago-based literary magazine that plans to print a high-quality, small volume of work (in the realm of 80-100 pages) for the first magazine. Their flyer said “Terrestrial – subreal – insectile” on one side, and on the other it says, “Printed literature in a digital world (Sustainable in temperatures up to 506 Kelvin.” Sounds intriguing.
1. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our Quimby’s Exclusive line of periodicals, AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF
And don’t miss Al here at Quimby’s on Tues, March 22nd! He’ll be celebrating the release of Burn Collector #15 and this Quimby’s Exclusive edition. In attendance will also be BC #15 contributors Anne Elizabeth Moore and Liam Warfield. Al will also be at the Chicago Zine Fest starting March 25th.
2. Your Wildest Dreams Within Reason by Mike Sacks (Tin House) $13.95 – “Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks’s unique humor pieces into one handsome, convenient volume. Originally published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and McSweeney’s, among other venerable publications, Sacks’s writing is original and sharp, yet broadly funny. Whether it’s a groom tweeting his wedding and honeymoon in real time, or a publisher offering editorial suggestions for The Diary of Anne Frank, Sacks’s work tangles contemporary social satire with his absurdist sensibilities.”
3. Juxtapoz #123 Apr 11 $5.99
4. Is It the Future Yet by Corinne Mucha (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Who said print is dead? Well they are wrong, wrong, wrong. Another Quimby’s exclusive topping our bestseller list this week, made ‘specially for us by the lovely and talented Ms. Mucha! The future of print looks very bright indeed!
5. Make Your Place – Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
6. Mojo #209 Apr 11 $9.00
7. Brainscan #26 by Alex Wrekk $2.00 – Alex writes about “what the deal is” with her and Joe Biel of Microcosm. This zine takes it to the point – talking about some serious issues wrapped up in unresolved emotional abuse and failed mediation. -EF
8. Pinups #13 Chuck by Christopher Schulz $14.00 – This issue delivers 56 tantalizing pages of hanging out (nude) in a backwoods cabin, fiddling with the transistor radio (nude), crunching some granola (nude) and “frolicing” in the forest (nude). Featuring Chuck (who, in my humble opinion, is Pinups hottest model yet), these quiet moments with this strapping young (nude) woodsman ooze superhottt rustic autonomy not to be missed. Be sure to take the staples out and assemble your giant wall-size Chuck poster from the backside of the pages.
9. Believer #79 Mar Apr 11 2011 Film Issue $10.00
10. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00
Many of our customers have been anxiously awaiting for the opportunity to purchase a signed version of the Quimby’s Bookstore Chris Ware Signage Print. Well, the time is now! We now have a limited run of them SIGNED! They’re $100 signed and the unsigned ones are $50.00. Click here to find out more about each of them.
And! And! And! We are proud to present you…
OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our Quimby’s Exclusive line of periodicals, AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S. And of course it is compelling, humorous and wistful, as you would expect from the Burn Collector himself. Don’t miss Al here at Quimby’s on Tues, March 22nd! He’ll be celebrating the release of Burn Collector #15 and the Quimby’s Exclusive. In attendance will also be BC #15 contributors Anne Elizabeth Moore and Liam Warfield. Al will also be at the Chicago Zine Fest starting March 25th.
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Herbal First Aid – Assembling a Natural First Aid Kit DIY Academy 2005 by Raleigh $1.00
Body-Conscious Birth Control: An Introduction to the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) $2.00 – This small DIY zine provides basic information necessary to use FAM as birth control. This zine takes a whole-body approach to natural birth control, focusing on awareness above all else.
Life Death Love and All of the Above by Meredith Wallace $4.00
Smiling Disease – A Guide to Public Stickering by Scott (Microcosm) $1.00 – Have you ever dreamed of plastering the city with stickers of your own design and annoying the crap out of squares? Here is a your chance: A complete guide to placing adhesive decorations in places where the general populace will see them. Everything from how to get the best stickers printed, to going undetected, some theory, stickering scruples, and dealing with the full psychological ramifications of having your stickers removed. Clear Channel posts their ads everywhere, why shouldn’t you?
Ice Cream by Kelsey Gauret $2.00
Cheap and Raunchy #6 $4.00
Half Nelson #1 by Samantha LaFountain and Jon Natzke $1.50
Welcome Home by S. Chapman $2.00
Wish You Were Here Wish I Was There by Lauren P Smith and Stacey Chapman $2.00
I Dont Understand Farming #5 by Ian $.75
Space Bodies #1 Simple Plezzzures vol 2 2011 by Zoe Jet Ellis and Kevin Quinn McGuinness $8.00
Spank #17 Homo Art Zine $7.75
Travel Naturally #78 $9.95
COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Inkfight by Ruby Thorkelson $6.00
Animal Sex: You Might Not Want To Know by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Yes, you do want to know, because this comic is so cute yet informative it’s hard to put it down.
Blammo #7 by Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books) $5.00
Temporama by Clayton Jr (Nobrow) $13.50
Jeff Job Hunter by Jack Teagle (Nobrow) $13.50
Ada by Atak and Gertrude Stein (Nobrow) $18.00
Expansion Part 1 by Matt Sheean and Malachi Ward (Adhouse) $8.00
Utu by Malachi Ward (Adhouse) $8.00
Class Reunion #1 by Charlie Newton $2.50
Jam Comics $6.00
Jerks In Space Art Latest Minicomic Science Edition by John Karnes $1.00
Scout by Malachi Ward (Adhouse) $5.00
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Street Art, ed. by Johannes Stahl (h.f.ullmann) $16.99
Abstract Graffiti ed. by Cedar Lewisohn (Merrell) $29.95
Tools of Criminal Mischief by Roger Gastman (R. Rock Enterprises) $24.95
Store Front the Disappearing Face of New York by James T. Murray (Gingko) $24.95
Cutting Edge Surface Patterns and Palettes 960 Seamless Patterns (Sendpoints) $39.95 – Contains DVD with 960 patterns in in vector format.
Marylin – Box Set Photographs and Memories by Andre De Dienes (Taschen) $39.99 – Before there was Marilyn, there was Norma Jeane Dougherty. She was briefly engaged to photographer Andre De Dienes. When he died fans ravaged his home and found all this awesome Marilyn stuff. About ten years ago we sold a version of this book that was $200. Now Taschen has released it in a more affordable edition, a 2 volume hardcover in a slipcase.
Basquiat 25 Anniversary Special Edition by Leonhard Emmerling (Taschen) $14.99
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Night Animals by Brecht Evans (Top Shelf) $7.95
Volume One Danny Jeremy Carol Comics by Lizz Hickey $14.00
Birchfield Close by Jon McNaught (NoBrow) $16.00
Pebble Island by Jon McNaught (NoBrow) $16.50
Melvin Monster vol 3 John Stanley Library (D+Q) $24.95
Girl Comics TPB (Marvel) $15.99 – With such artists as Lucy Knisley, Jill Thompson, Colleen Coover and more.
Comics – An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art 1895-2010 by Jerry Robinson (Dark Horse) $39.99
FICTION!
Rexworth Manifesto – A Novella and Stories by GT Hilary $15.95
MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #123 Apr 11 $5.99
Fortean Times #272 Apr 11 $11.99
Skeptical Inquirer Mar Apr 11 vol 35 #2 $4.99
Sneaker Freaker #20 $14.95
ID Magazine Spr 11 $10.99
Art of Mary Jane Mar 11 $6.99
Treating Yourself #27 $7.99
High Times May 11 $5.99
Hip Mama #48 $5.95
Boneshaker Magazine #4 $9.00
BlackBook #82 Mar 11 $4.50
Fangoria #301 $8.99
Granta #114 Win 11 Aliens $16.99
Wire #325 Mar 11 $10.99
In These Times Mar 11 $3.50
Monocle vol 5 #41 Mar 11 $10.00
Against the Current #151 Mar Apr 11 $5.00
Rebel Ink Magazine Apr 11 $5.99
Urban Ink #18 $8.99
CHILDRENS BOOKS!
To Market To Market by Nikki McClure (Abrams) $17.95
Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (Harper) $6.99
MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Suck It Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek by Olivia Munn (St Martins) $14.99 – Now in soft cover.
Nerds – How Dorks Dweebs Techies and Trekkies Can Save America by David Anderegg PhD (Tarcher) $14.95
Street Boners – 1764 Hipster Fashion Jokes ed. by Gavin McInnes (Grand Central) $18.99
MUSIC BOOKS!
Alex Steinweiss – The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover by Kevin Reagan (Taschen) $69.99 – Alex Steinweiss invented the album cover as we know it, and created a new graphic art form. In 1940, as Columbia Records’ young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months record sales increased by over 800 per cent. His covers for Columbia—combining bold typography with modern, elegant illustrations—took the industry by storm and revolutionized the way records were sold. Over three decades, Steinweiss made thousands of original artworks for classical, jazz, and popular record covers for Columbia, Decca, London, and Everest; as well as logos, labels, adverting material, even his own typeface, the Steinweiss Scrawl. He launched the golden age of album cover design and influenced generations of designers to follow.
SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
Erotic Bible To Europe From Kinky to Chic by Erika Lust (Femme Fatale Books) $19.95
Topless Summer Love Girls – A Gentlemans Guide to Women Relationships and Breasts $29.99
OTHER STUFF!
I Read Zines Sticker $1.00
Support Independent Publishing Sticker $1.00
Here’s some oppportunities to submit your work or ideas that we thought you might appreciate:
For Version 11 Festival and Related Activity:
Version 11: The Community
April 22 to May 1, 2011
Chicago • USA
A Call For Proposals.
Deadline March 26, 2011
“These years of recession, insolvency, uncertainty, and calamity have affected us in ways we couldn’tve imagined before. The debt crisis, atomized and divisive political culture, a lethargic economy that sees almost one of out of eight people out of work, and attacks on our collective social welfare can only mean one thing: It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
But there is hope. In the dusty corners of the world, individuals, friends, collaborators, and affinity groups are cementing bonds and creating methods for survival in this so-called “marketplace” where we all work, play, and inhabit. These artists, art workers, writers, activists, and organizers (also their enthusiasts, supporters, and fans) still believe in growing the gardens of our social and cultural ecology, despite the hardships we collectively endure.
Version 11 is a celebration of the Chicago communities — projects, spaces, groups, individuals — creating their own strategies for participatory economies, co-prosperity, and the pursuit of genuine happiness. Version will demonstrate the possible, celebrate the impossible, and showcase the ingenuity, spirit and passion that create The Community we aspire to take part in together. This is an invitation to share your community, your goals, your dreams for a better Community of the Future. It’s all we have left.
Produced by the Public Media Institute, a non profit 501(c)(3) arts organization, Version is an annual arts convergence that brings together hundreds of artists, cultural workers, and educators from around the world to present some of the most challenging ideas and progressive art initiatives of our day. The ten day festival showcases emerging trends in art, technology and music.
The festival presents a diverse program of activities featuring an exposition/art fair called The MDW Fair, guest curated exhibitions, a massive reenactment of the Haymarket Square riot, community garden projects, public interventions, video screenings, performances, live art, presentations, talks, workshops, art rendezvous and action.
Email Proposals with Subject Line: Version 11 to edmarlumpen (at) gmail.com
Please send us a 100-300 word description of your proposal.
We are accepting proposals for these platforms:
Free University (FREE U)
Each year Version features workshops, presentations, demonstrations, talks, lectures and classes within the framework of the Free University platform. Ideas for provocations and projects as well as instructional guides, lecture and class ideas are welcome.
Performance/ Interventions/ Mobile Projects
Performance art in site specific locations, picnics, tours, public interventions, asphalt canoeing, anarchist marching bands, creative disturbances in public space are important components of the festival. Initiatvies by space hijackers and performance artists of all stripes welcome.
Call for TEXTS Proximity 009
This year Proximity magazine will be releasing it’s Community themed issue covering the Chicago art worlds. It’s a revisiting of issues addressed in Issue #1. Send a proposal very very soon.
The MDW Fair: visual arts landing in Chicago
CHICAGO: threewalls, Roots and Culture and Public Media Institute announce The MDW Fair, a gathering of alternative art initiatives, spaces, galleries and artist groups from the Chicago metropolitan area. Held April 22-23, 2011 at The Iron Studios, 3636 S. Iron Street, The MDW Fair will demonstrate the diversity, strength and vision of the people/places making it happen in the art ecology of our region.
The fair features for-profit, 501(c)3, and commercial and unincorporated galleries, independent curatorial projects and publishers and media groups in over 25,000 square feet of exhibition space that includes a 10,000 square foot sculpture garden with work by local artists. The MDW Fair is a manifestation of the collective spirit behind the region’s most innovative visual cultural organizers, focusing on the breadth of work done here by artists and arts-facilitators alike. Participants include: threewalls, Roots and Culture, Reuben Kincaid, ebersmoore, Antenna, OxBow, The Suburban, ACRE, Iceberg Projects, The Post Family and more.
The MDW Fair is currently accepting proposals from independent curators due April 1st. Please send a project description and up to 10 images of proposed work to mdwfair@gmail(dot)com. “
From The Wunderkabinet:
“We’ve played our exhibitions close to the heart of late and forgone on the open calls, but the upcoming transformation of The Wunderkabinet into No. 3/The Reading Raum has us wanting to reach out to writers and zinesters around the globe. We’ll be splitting the kabinet into two components: ‘for sale’ & ‘read-only’. This means that if you’re more into the collecting than the making, you could lend or donate zines to the exhibition. Of course, if you’re a maker of zines, books, and related ephemera, we want to hear from you, too! The deadline to get in touch with us is March 25 – please do so if you have any questions. Submission guidelines can be found HERE! No. 3 will open in mid-May and run for the summer.”
Thanks to Edmar and Becky for the info!
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