Josh Alan Friedman Celebrates Black Cracker 3/29

Published on March 4, 2011 0 Comments
Mar ’11
29
7:00 pm

Celebrate “Black Tuesday” with Josh Alan Friedman and his autobiographical novel Black Cracker, about his childhood at New York’s last segregated school in the early 1960s. In first grade, your friends are your friends and all that really matters is who can come up with the best doo-doo jokes. But as the lone white boy at the local “colored school,” young Josh is in for some hard — and often hilarious — lessons in readin’, writin’, ’rithmetic and race.

With its child’s-eye view of controversial subjects, turbulent times and all-too-human frailties, Black Cracker is hard-hitting, heartbreakingly honest and hysterically funny — often all at once.

Writer-musician Josh Alan Friedman’s eight books include Tales of Times Square and Tell the Truth Until They Bleed; his recordings include Blacks ’n’ Jews and Famous & Poor. Quimby’s welcomes Josh Alan to Chicago for Black Tuesday, an unforgettable evening featuring readings from Black Cracker and a live set of Friedman’s music on atomic acoustic guitar.

“Friedman splits sides, breaks hearts and always remains ruthlessly honest about the real world, a place that doesn’t conform to the politically correct wishes of liberals or conservatives.”
— Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly

For more info: BlackCrackerOnline.com

Tuesday, March 29th, 7 pm

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Quimby’s on the FLOG!

Published on March 4, 2011 1 Comment

Thanks to Fantagraphics consumer marketing/web editor/hand model guy Mike Baehr who wrote about our limited edition Chris Ware print on FLOG! aka as the Fantagraphics Blog.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on March 1, 2011 0 Comments

Look at the awesome photos from Saturday’s Mildred Pierce #4 release event.

1. Mildred Pierce #4 by Megan Milks and John Bylander, eds $8.00 – This issue is endless, like a bottomless well of great things. I’ve been reading it for days, and I’m nowhere close to being done with it. MP always features a great and unconventional range of art essays, this issue by Megan Milks (on bulemic writing), Vicky Lim (on Hothead Paisan), Leeyanne Moore (on Sean Samoheyl), John Bylander (on Jimmy Joe Roche) and Joyce Kuechler (on Wangechi Mutu). As if that weren’t enough, there’s also wild prose by Jake Hoestetter, Ellen Nielsen, James Tadd Adcox and Jim Joyce, an interview with Pippi Zornoza on the opulent charmed terror of her drawing and performance work, tons of comics by the likes of Eamon Espey, Zach Hazard, Ed Choy Moorman, Noel Firebert, Jason T Miles. There’s more too. That’s not even hardly everything that’s here. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, that’s the point, forever. -EF

2. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00

3. Boys Club #3 by Matt Furie $4.95

4. Who Is Amy Amoeba by Jason Viola $3.00

5. Filling the Void: Interviews About Quitting Drinking and Using (Doris Press) $4.00 – This zine is so solid it’s like it’s made out of rocks. Cindy from Doris Zine has collected seven interviews here that discuss sobering up from DIY and non-religious perspectives. A great and resourceful thing to have if you or someone you know is trying to clean up their act and is maybe feeling frustrated with traditional modes of support and process. Just a great and resourceful zine to have in general. -EF

6. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes by Sean Tejaratchi, ed.(Show & Tell Press) $12.00 – BACK IN PRINT! 12 New Pages to seduce you! After the longest wait ever, THE BEST CLIP ART ZINE EVER HAS RETURNED. This picture book for discussion and activity features hands, hearts, and eyes. Get those tattoo guns ready, because you and your loved ones are going to need one once you get through looking through this issue. Amazing.

7. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

8. AdBusters #94 vol 19 #2 Mar Apr 11 $8.95

9. Thai Comic Horrors vol 1 by by Khun So and Krit $3.00 – Esteemed Quimby’s alumni/expat Logan just sent us this double-header of Thai pulp comics translated to English for the first time! This issue is comprised of two stories, “The Ghost That Comes to Steal Your Heart” and “Hunt For the Hell Drugs”. Hell yes, those titles are great- and would you believe the actual comics are EVEN BETTER? They are! Classic carnage with visual flair, packed full of jungle ghouls, beautiful babes and poor moral judgement. -EF

10. Your Guide to the Patron Saints of Regret by Michael Whittier and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler $5.00 – Saint Elspeth of the Remnant: Patroness of Ill-Chosen Relationships? Saint Bob the Reluctant: Patron of Introverts? Saint Tammy of Memphis: Patron of Unfortunate Hair Appointments? I tell you, it’s saints like these that really make me question papal infallibility. -EF
With magnifying glass and embossed ink cover.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on February 26, 2011 0 Comments

Tonight we’re getting ready for the Mildred Pierce release party! It starts at 7pm. Join us as we celebrate Mildred Pierce‘s fourth issue, the theme of which is “Comedy and the Grotesque.” Rumor on the street is that there will be refrshments. All the more reason to come.

And oh! As if you didn’t notice from the HUGE IMAGE on Quimbys.com of the Chris Ware print we’re selling, just to let you know, we are now selling an exclusive Quimby’s only print, designed and authorized by Chris Ware and printed by The Bird Machine. The print is of Chris’ original blueprint for our Quimby’s sign that hangs outside the shop. Click here for more details!

So! New Stuff!

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Filling the Void: Interviews About Quitting Drinking and Using (Doris Press) $4.00 – This zine is so solid it’s like it’s made out of rocks. Cindy from Doris Zine has collected seven interviews here that discuss sobering up from DIY and non-religious perspectives. A great and resourceful thing to have if you or someone you know is trying to clean up their act and is maybe feeling frustrated with traditional modes of support and process. Just a great and resourceful zine to have in general. -EF
Thai Comic Horrors vol 1 by Khun So and Krit $3.00 – Esteemed Quimby’s alumni/expat Logan just sent us this double-header of Thai pulp comics translated to English for the first time! This issue is comprised of two stories, “The Ghost That Comes to Steal Your Heart” and “Hunt For the Hell Drugs”. Hell yes, those titles are great- and would you believe the actual comics are EVEN BETTER? They are! Classic carnage with visual flair, packed full of jungle ghouls, beautiful babes and poor moral judgement. -EF
Mildred Pierce #4 $8.00
East Village Inky #46 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Grime Time #4 $12.00
Without Words and Without Kneeling #5 – A Serialized Zine Novella by Tomas Moniz $3.00 – By the editor of Rad Dad zine.
Fisting and Roses #1 $2.00
Toucan #10 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00
Class Struggle #69 by Spark $3.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
City Hunter Magazine #1 by CF, Featuring Main Dice (Picturbox) $8.00
Passion Du Bois by Frederic Fleury (Picturebox) $8.00
Nine Gallons #2 by Susie Cagle $4.00
Canadian Haircut by James Kirkpatrick and Peter Thompson $7.00
Thyme Balm Live at the Forest City Gallery With Special Guest Gym Sahib $3.00
Do You Know How Bad I Want to Use the Force by James Kirkpatrick $3.00
Dog Named Dracula by James Kirkpatrick $7.00
How to Survive Working in Retail #5 by Ronnie Gorham, Lisandro Di Pasquale and Markell Wilson (Three Guys Making Comics) $2.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Viande de Chevet – Owl Monster Woman Lady French France (Picturebox) $25.00 – Massive new collection from Stephane Blanquet’s UDA press. New work by artists including: Pascal Doury (tons of amazing unseen drawings), Captain Cavern, Ichiba Daisuke, BlexBolex (full length story!), Takashi Nemoto (full length story!), Savage Pencil, Xavier Robel, Helge Reuman, Yoshikazu Ebisu (full length story!), David Sandlin (full length story!), Isabelle Boinot, Namio Harukawa, Isabelle Boinot, Bruno Richard, Julie Doucet, Blanquet, MS Bastian, Frédéric Fleury (full length story!), Jonathon Rosen, and many more.
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Hellblazer – Pandemonium TPB by Delano and Jock (Vertigo) $17.99
Poe and Phillips TPB by Collado and Cedillo (Arcana) $14.95
Scalped vol 7 Rez Blues TPB (Vertigo) $17.99
Freakangels vol 5 TPB by Ellis and Duffield (Avatar) $19.99
Extreme Perspective For Artists by David Chelsea (Watson) $21.99

DIY/FOOD/DRUG STUFF!
Marijuana 101: Professor Lee’s Introduction to Growing Grade A Bud by Professor Lee (Green Candy Press) $18.00

FICTION!
Remembering Gage Park by William P. Shunas $20.00

MAGAZINES!
Purple Fashion vol 3 #15 $45.00

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Logan Square Literary Review #5 Win 11 $5.00
Literary Review vol 54 #2 Win 11 $8.00
Indigo Rising Magazine #7 $5.00

CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Slog’s Dad by by David Almond and Dave McKean (Candlewick) $15.99 – Part story, part graphic novel – a tender slice of life and death from the creators of “The Savage.” Do you believe there’s life after death? Slog does. He reckons that the scruffy bloke sitting outside the pork shop is his dad come back to visit him for one last time – just like he’d said he would, just before he died. Slog’s mate Davie isn’t convinced. But how does this man know everything Slog’s dad would know? Because Slog says it really is his dad, that’s how.

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Nothing to Envy SC Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Spiegel) $16.00

SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
I <3 Boy by J. Yatrofsky (PowerHouse) $24.95 – With an erotic softness and quiet confidence, the young, fully-nude subjects in this book exhibit a willingness to be celebrated by all for their beauty and openness. Posing in the intimacy of their own homes, often in studio apartments in Manhattan’s East Village and Lower East Side, lanky, hairless bodies are posed sensually against the minimalist backgrounds of naturally lit rooms with sparse furnishings.

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Burn Collector #15 Zine Release Event with Al Burian, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Liam Warfield on 3/22

Published on February 24, 2011 0 Comments
Mar ’11
22
7:30 pm

Celebrating fifteen years of publication as well as the appearance of issue number 15, Al Burian returns to Quimby’s to present a new installment of his long-running personal zine Burn Collector. Burian began distributing his work through the tight-knit network of the DIY punk music scene in the mid-nineties. Burn Collector caught on because of its unusual content—in a scene rife with dogmatic diatribes and bland record reviews, Burian presented his readers with humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, nuanced descriptions of odd locales and curious characters. Burn Collector #15 is the “Berlin vs. Chicago” issue: contents include an essay on the Berlin Wall by Chicago’s Anne Elizabeth Moore, and an interview with Chicago zine hero Liam Warfield, who debunks the myth of the endless techno party.

Al Burian was a Chicago resident from 2000-2008. His book, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine has just been republished by PM Press. He currently lives in Berlin.

“Al Burian is one of our generation’s great storytellers, a wily and insightful observer of the human condition.”      -Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine and This American Life

“Al Burian has become one of the most cultishly adored figures in the American punk underground. Burn Collector pairs existential dread with rapacious wit.” -Jessica Hopper, Chicago Reader

“Al Burian produces zines with a stubborn refusal to write dumbly.” -Sam McPheeters

Also joining the bill will be BC#15 contributors Liam Warfield (War Against the Idiots, The Skeleton, Secret Beach) and Anne Elizabeth Moore (Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity, former editor of now-defunct Punk Planet)

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:30 pm

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