New Stuff This Week

Another person sent us a scan of the pictures they took in our photobooth! Balthazar, a self-described “Imaginary sailor, pretend photographer” sent it us. Check him out at CallMeBalthazar.com and find out how to request a (dirty) letter & a Polaroid.
Send us your pictures to info(at)quimbys(dot)com that you’ve taken here and we’ll post ’em!

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ZINES!
Boneshaker #43-100 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00
The Inner Swine vol 16 #3 and #4 by Jeffrey Somers $2.00 – Mr. Somers still publishing and being hilarious.
Fun Danger Danger Fun #1 by Richard Gin $7.00
Seize the Essance #1 by Alexander Drake $5.00
My Dance The Skull #1 by Megan Diddie $5.00
Dragon Slutz $3.00
Unicorn Whores $3.00
Mild Vilnc #01 $2.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #4 the Choke Pear by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Friction #2 by Justin Bostian $3.00
No Thoughts #4 $7.00

ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Smoking Typewriters The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media by John McMillian (Oxford) $27.95 – With a section about zines at the back.

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Notes On Conflict by Susie Cagle (Sparkplug) $6.00 – About the artist’s trip to the Middle East. Thoughtful and compelling.
Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia (Sparkplug) $2.00
I Have Something To Tell You #1 by Solomon Kidd $5.00
Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd #1 A Work of Satire and Fiction by Benjamin Marra (Sparkplug) $3.00
Cursed Pirate Girl TPB by Jeremy A Bastian (Olympian) $20.00 – Don’t miss the release event for this book at our sister store, Chicago Comics on 2/26!

Stories I Wish I Could Tell You #2 by Tim Manley $3.00
Zirp #4 by Till Thomas $7.00
Nurse Nurse #2 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
Attack Of The Zombie Soy Bot $2.00
Were Going To Do This Arent We $1.00
Whiskey Jack and Kid Coyote Meet the King of Stink by Shawn Cheng (Sparkplug) $2.00
Us In A Box by Spovatar WB Phlecender $4.00
Blindspot #1 by Jospeh Remnant $5.00
Strange Growths #15 by Jenny Zervakis $3.00
Kus #8 Comics Anthology $8.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS!

Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $16.00 – Same ol’ Haven, now in softcover to match your old Garfield books.
AOA vol 1 Daily Diary Comics of Melinda Boyce $18.00 – Collects diary comics from March to August 2009.
Evolution The Story of Life On Earth by Jay Hosler, Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon (Hill & Wang) $18.95

FICTION!

While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) $27.00 – Unpublished short fiction!
Sebastian Cross (History is not made without Casualties) by Kevin Lynn Helmick $15.00
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge (Small Beer) $16.00

MAGAZINES!
Nobrow #2 $17.50
Cine Qua Non #3 $5.00
Fortean Times #271 Mar 11 $11.99
Ready Made #51 Feb Mar 11 $4.99
Razorcake #60 $4.00
Z Magazine Feb 11

LITERARY JOURNALS AND POETRY!
Believer #78 Feb 11 $8.00
Small Murders by Carrie McGath $14.00
Cousin Corinnes Reminder #2 $20.00

MAYHEM, MISCELLANY, MEMOIR, MIRTH & (M)OUTER LIMITS!
The Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine In the Jazz Age by Deborah Blum (Penguin) $16.00
Freemasonry: An Introduction by Rivera Marke E Koltko PhD (Tarcher) $11.95
Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober, ed. by Bucky Sinister (Conari) $14.95 – Sinister goes beyond the 12-steps with stories from the misfits, freaks, and weirdos that have come to recovery from a variety of backgrounds — tattoo artists, bartenders, musicians, flight attendants–to help answer the What Now? question of living sober. Topics include: 10 Things Every New Recovering Addict Should Have; Prayer and the Atheist; Job Interviews; and Ways Addicts Can Be of Service to Normies.”Bucky’s writing is a lifeline for the non-spiritual.” -Patton Oswalt

Chicago Zine Fest 2011 at Various Places Around Town March 25th and 26th!

Mar ’11
25
2:00 pm

Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor Chicago Zine Fest 2011, Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th, at various locations around town. As part of the opening night’s festivities at 9pm on March 25th, Quimby’s offers some karaoke for giggles!

James Kirkpatrick/Thesis Sahib Launch for Before The End 2/19

Feb ’11
19
7:00 pm

Before the End showcases over fifty full-colour pages of James Kirkpatrick’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and includes a download card for his new 16 – song album as Thesis Sahib. When you’re done with the card, you can plant it to grow wildflowers!

It also comes with a blue vinyl 7-inch record featuring two previously unreleased tracks, noises from four of his sound sculptures, and two songs from the full length album.

James Kirkpatrick has shown his art and toured with his music internationally and was featured in the traveling group exhibition Pulp Fiction, presented at Museum London, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and at St. Mary’s University Art Gallery. He is also well known as the graffiti artist and rapper Thesis Sahib. He has created artwork for several album covers in the underground hip hop genre, and his collaborative art book with Peter Thompson, Brain Trust, is published by Anteism. He works collaboratively with Jamie Q as the art team Dusty Peas and with Peter Thompson as the art and music duo Brain Trust.  His paintings incorporate sculptural, kinetic, and auditory elements, as he combines his 2D aesthetic with circuit-bent electronic toys. Likewise, compositions written on modified Gameboys and circuit-bent sounds have become part of his music and on-stage performances.

“It’s good music. Kanye should take note” – DJ Wicked Awesome, the listening party CKCUFM 93.4 Ottawa.

“This lush hardbound monograph-plus-phonograph. Kirkpatrick’s paintings and sculptures have the mad gusto of Philip Guston, the child charm of Jean Dubuffet and sedated hamburger browns of Marc Bell. Nice work, with a 16-song wildflower-laden album and sky blue 7″ record included.” –EF on quimbys.com

For more info: http://www.jameskirkpatrick.org

Saturday, February 19th, 7 pm

More Photobooth Pics

We stumbeled onto someone else’s pictures they took in our photobooth. Our Flickr friend Andy, a librarian and archivist in Chicago was cool with us posting them on our blog.

Send us your Quimby’s photos at info(at)quimbys(dot)com if you want us to post ’em here!

Poster and Flyer Artists!

Have you ever made a poster for an event at Quimby’s? Or how about a flyer for an event at Quimby’s? Send us a digital copy and we’ll post it on our site! Contact us at info@quimbys.com. Also! Send it to the Quimby’s Flickr Group, and then make sure you add Quimby’s as a Flickr contact if you desire. We do.

This one was designed by Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine!