| Sep ’10 |
| 29 |
| 7:00 pm |
Work In Progress is our monthly meet-up. Bring whatever you’re working on and share it for feedback, come to meet folks, or just to hang out and soak it up. See you there!
Joe “Atticus” Mason shows off his new penny-farthing wheels at Quimby’s!
New Stuff This Week!
ZINES!
I Gotta Grunt: Winner of the Charles Manson Golden Seal of Absurdity (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00
Best Things in Life Are Free If You Are Rich by Chris Magnusson $6.00
Intersects vol 1 #1 Feb 10 $4.00 – Words also on the cover of this zine: Tranny Health Pidgeon Art Suck These Pronouns What is the Gay Face Funny Papers.
Proof I Exist #11 by Billy $1.00
Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #3 Apr May 10 $7.95
Grime Time #3 $8.00 – Chicago-based graff zine. In color.
Octopussy #1 Oct 10: KFG Zines Group, Ooh Baby I Like It Raw by Pace Taylor $3.50
Aqua Tit and Other Works by Phos Daddy $2.00
COMICS & MINICOMICS!
M. Sauters Guide to Douchebaggery (Sex & Weather Comics) $2.50
Deathwish #1 by Julian Boyer $2.00
Adventures In Ham Fisted Haberdashery by Nick Soracco & Julian Boyer $6.00
Three #1 Debut Issue by Joey Alison Sayers etc. $6.25
Oh Boy Comics #1 by Neil Brideau $8.00 – Quimby’s Finest does it again! A huge comics collection (can we even call it minicomix when its 106 pages?) eight years in the making and 100% extra-ordinary! Neil’s great at drawing hijinx, switcheroos, frustrated robots and blatant lies. Of the bazillion stories in here, his piece about Clever Laundry Thievin’ Cats and Ware, Massachusetts are among my top-very-favorites but there’s really no bad apples in this bushel. Employee of the Month! -EF
Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Book 5 by Bernie McGovern $10.00
Pushing It With Roids by KMK $4.00
Galactic Breakdown #2 $12.00
FICTION!
Ed Royal by Chris Connelly $9.99
Clockwork Angel: Infernal Devices Book 1 by Cassandra Claire – A prequel to the steampunk Mortal Instruments Series.
Dark Entries: A John Constantine Novel by Ian Rankin and art by Werther Delledera (Vertigo Crime) $12.99 – Not a graphic novel. A novel novel.
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Daniel Clowes: Conversations by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates (UPM) $22.00
AD: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld (Pantheon) $16.95 – Now in soft cover.
Cavemen In Space by Joey Weiser (Adhouse) $14.95
Moto Hagio’s Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Norman Pettingill: Backwoods Humorist with an introdction by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Naked people in barrels and the like.
Tango Collection, ed. by Bernard Caleo (Allen & Unwin) $26.95 – Over 50 comic creators from Australia and New Zealand.
ART BOOKS!
Snow Yak Show by Mark Ryden (Porterhouse) $28.00 – Beautiful show catalog from this amazing lowbrow artist. Big. And snuggely. And vaguely disturbing in all the ways you want it to be.
Every Day is a Good Day The Visual Art of John Cage (Hayward) $30.95
Blind Date by Jadranka Kosorcic (Kerber) $44.95
From Here to There A Curious Collection from the Hand drawn Map Association by Kris Harzinski (Princeton) $17.50
Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by various (Princeton) $29.95 – Now in soft cover.
Startling Art: Revealing the Art of Dennis Larkins (Last Gasp) $25.00
The Projectionist by Kendall Messick (Princeton) $40.00
MAGAZINES!
Bitch #48 $5.95
Venus #44 Fall 10 $4.50
Bizarre #166 Sep 10 $10.50
Wallpaper Sep 10 $9.50
Tokion Factory Fall 10 $6.99
BlackBook #78 Sep 10 $4.50
Paper Sep 10 $4.00
Freakout #46 Independent Music Magazine $2.00 – with CD.
LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
Papaya Juice #1 Sum 10 $5.00
Map: A Short Story by Matt Whispers $3.00
MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
Tales of Woe by John Reed (MTV) $20.00
Push Comes To Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women by Maud Lavin (MIT) $27.95
Mysterios Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring: A Complete Compendium of Astonishing Illusions by Gabe Fajuri (Quirk) $16.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Mick Rock Exposed: The Faces of Rock n Roll (Chronicle) $40.00
We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut 1988-2001 by Eric Davidson (Backbeat) $19.99
The Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka by Mark Richardson (Continuum) $10.95 – Part of the popular 33 1/3 Book Series. Don’t miss this managing editor of Pitchfork reading here at Quimby’s with other Continuum authors on Fri, Sep 17th at 7pm.
Max’s Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll by Lou Reed etc. (Abrams) $24.95
DIY & FOOD!
Witch Craft: Wicked Accessories, Creepy Cute, Toys, Magical Treats and More by var. (Quirk) $14.95 – You mean you HAVEN’T even started thinking about Halloween yet?! What are you waiting for? Don’t bring the same salsa and chips to that party again!
POLITCS & REVOLUTION
Please Dont Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on my Generation…by William Upski Wimsatt (Akashic) $14.95 – A new book from the writer of Bomb the Suburbs and No More Prisons. Don’t miss him here at Quimby’s on Wed, Sept 8th at 7pm.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS!
Tales from Moominvalley and Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (Squarefish) $6.99 each – Text, not graphic novel version. About the lovable Moominfolk. Not hippos!
Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell (Graywolf) $15.00
SEX & SEXY!
Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by var. (Harper) $25.99
Teleny and Camille: Based on the Novel by Oscar Wilde by John Macy (Northwest Comics) $29.99
Best of Jordi Bernet’s Clara (Auad) $24.95
Teens at Play: Spoiled Brats by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95
Hot Moms #14 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
STUFF
Dave Choe Dual Cover Sketchbook (Chronicle) $16.95
Exquisite Sketchbook 200 Pages of Blank Sketching Paper (Chronicle) $14.95
How is the Empire Postcard Set by Scott Musgrove (Last Gasp) $9.95
Our Love is Here to Stay: 15 Postcards of Affection by enormouschampion designs (Chronicle) $9.95
Local mad scientist Matt Bergstrom is constantly coming up with projects that straddle the border between whimsical interest in our city and extremely exact math. He’s created the Build Your Own Chicago Postcards, miniature cardboard scale model kits of Chicago landmarks. On posters, he’s measured and documented the city’s tallest buildings and its doors designed by Louis Sullivan. He’s also documented the city’s Route 66 landmarks, the motels on Lincoln Ave, and the area’s hot dog stands in 3D View-master reels.
NOW MATT NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Matt is set to release a new series of 3D Viewmaster reels documenting abandoned buildings in Chicago, and has set up a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to make it happen. Consider supporting this odd documentarian of our fair city.
Check out his Kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1709368454/american-ruins-in-3d
Busy Beaver Button Co. celebrates fifteen years of making custom buttons for bands, artists and organizations with the Grand Opening of a pop culture Button Museum and a new Button-O-matic series for vending machines across the country appropriately themed “SOUVENIR.”
The SOUVENIR collection is curated by participating Button-O-matic locations, including Cody Hudson for the Empty Bottle, Tae Won Yu for Land, Angela Finny-Hoffman for Post 27, Edie Fake for Quimby’s, Supercorn for Fly Bird, Joe Lauer for Penelope’s, Chris Corbalis for Strange Cargo, Jason Hammel for Lula Café, Russell Etchen for Domy, Melissa Grubbs for Reckless Records, Soo Choi for Little Branch Cafe, Mei Stewart for Art Supply Warehouse, Alicia Hermanny for Uncle Fun, and Brett Manning for Busy Beaver Button Co.
Join Busy Beaver to celebrate at an opening party with the world’s largest Button-O-matic vending machine filled with 10,000 souvenir buttons, and a showcase of treats from Busy Beaver Button Co. customers like Nice Cream, the Pepperoni King, and Upton’s Naturals.
What: SOUVENIR Button-O-matic Opening
When: Friday, September 10 from 7-10PM
Where: Busy Beaver Button Co., 3279 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
For more info: http://www.busybeaver.net/
1. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
2. Guide to Picking Locks #1 by Crimethinc (Microcosm) $6.50
3. Gothic Beauty #31 $5.95
4. Spring Goals by Jay Krevans $3.00 – Spring is sprung, dears. Krevans’ Spring Goals is a delicate and decadent mini-zine devoted to the fun craftsy side of warm weather with DIY vegetable dyes, scrapper gardening tips and a rhubarb punch recipe. All are punctuated with beautiful illustrations – “A Zillion Azaleas”? Yes!
5. Doris #27 $2.50
6. Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk $6.00
7. Oubliette On The Beach by Kenan Rubenstein $1.00 – Tales of the nude beach literally unfold as each panel doubles the one before it.
8. The Point #3 Fall 10 $12.00
9. Lose #1 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Klassick Komicks going through DeForge’s leperous Canadian meat grinder and fine line work going gleefully awry. Seriously, do not miss out on this one. -EF
10. Todds Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers by Matt Kessler and Zach Huesling $10.00 – Maybe we should just let Todd do the talking:
“Hi Potential Buyer,
I’ve long fantasized about this moment. I can see you now, reclining at your cubicle, cozy under the warm embrace of a hand-knitted wool afghan. It’s cold. Shivering, you slowly turn through Todd’s Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers. I’ve prepared this booklet especially for you; it’s a deeply intimate account of my romantic encounters with several favorite paramours. The electricity is out and you’re forced to read by candlelight. I tell you that I love you as I comb through your chest hair. We will be friends forever.
All my love, Todd”
Todd’s Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers is a zine by artist Zach Huelsing and writer Matt Kessler. This hand-assembled portfolio consists of a set of eight cards depicting adult film stars and their favorite flowers. The cards are designed to loosely mimic baseball cards, complete with appropriate stats and a fictitious anecdote about the collector’s imaginative run-ins with the actors. The cards are presented in protective sleeves and displayed in a Velcro-sealed portfolio. Neither book nor comic, Todd’s Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers relates the humorous and misinformed tale of Todd’s fantasies in a fun and unique way.
