Alan Goldsher & Artist Jeffrey Brown

Published on May 28, 2010 0 Comments
Jun ’10
29
7:00 pm

Paul Is DeadWriter Alan Goldsher & Artist Jeffrey Brown will present their new book, Present Paul Is UnDead: The British Zombie Invasion, that Goldsher wrote and Brown illustrated.

Are readers ready for a world in which the Beatles just wanna eat your brains? ALAN GOLDSHER (Hard Bop Academy) thinks so, and he may be right. In this humor-filled splatterfest, the rise and fall of the zombie Beatles unfolds through eyewitness accounts, newspaper clippings, and interviews. Violence and music go hand-in-hand as the zombiefied Lennon, Harrison, and McCartney fight, eat, and rock their way to fame and popularity while ninja lord Ringo Starr tries to keep them out of trouble. Nothing can stop them–not even a vampiric Pete Best, zombie-killing Mick Jagger, rival ninja Yoko Ono, or bad reviews. In fact, their only enemies may be one another, as personal conflicts threaten to break them up for good. Roughly paralleling the real-world career of the Beatles, this alternate history reimagines successes, failures, and rivalries with over-the-top bizarro charm.

JEFFREY BROWN illustrated Paul Is Undead. He’s best known for his bittersweet autobiographical graphic novels like Clumsy, Unlikely, and more. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, NPR’s This American Life, the Chicago Reader, the New City, and Time. He has been featured on and created a short animated music video for the band Death Cab For Cutie.

For more info:
alangoldsher.com
Jeffreybrowncomics.com
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/jeffrey-brown

Robert K. Elder reads Last Words of the Executed

Published on May 27, 2010 0 Comments
Jun ’10
24
7:00 pm

Last Words Cover

The final words of the famous and infamous have been collected since antiquity because they speak to a primal curiosity and spark introspection: What does one say on the edge of oblivion?

We expect last words to be poignant, a résumé or summation of life experience. Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. We want them to reveal secrets. But they very seldom do. Journalist Robert K. Elder spent 7 years writing Last Words of the Executed, chronicling the ?nal thoughts of the most discarded, reviled members of society. It’s an oral history of the overlooked, the infamous and the forgotten—who nonetheless speak to a common humanity with their last act on earth. This is the history of capital punishment in America, told from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney.

“This is a dangerous book. Who knows how we will emerge from the encounter? It makes me want to live, to use my energies in soul-sized pursuits like justice, like love…”
—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
“Robert K. Elder is a journalist in the noblest tradition. . . . What I will remember most about this book is its poetry in the speech of people at the most traumatic moment of their lives.”
—Studs Terkel, from the foreword

For more info: http://lastwordsoftheexecuted.com

Work In Progress at Quimbys

Published on May 27, 2010 0 Comments
Jun ’10
30
7:00 pm

wipThe rumors are true, our monthly social get together, Work In Progress is tons of fun! It happens that last Wednesday of the month, and involves free snacks, and working on projects in a social atmosphere.

You can either present something your working on, and get feedback, or just hang out and work on your project and not feel so all alone for one night.

Stop by June 30 from 7 – 8:30pm for a good time!

Work In Progress May 26

Published on May 25, 2010 0 Comments

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Tomorrow is our monthly creative get-together, Work In Progress.

It’s a great event to come to if you’re interested in working on a project in a social atmosphere, or if you need advice on something you’re working on, or you want to eat our free snacks.

It starts at 7pm, and runs until 8:30-ish. Hope you can make it, bring whatever you want to work on!

Work In Progress happens the last Wednesday of every month!

Weekly Top 10

Published on May 25, 2010 0 Comments
Yes. We do offer gift certificates.

Yes. We do offer gift certificates.

So a teacher was teaching a class about David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, and the winning essay received a Quimby’s gift certificate. With footnotes. Three footnotes.

This week’s top 10:

1. Henry And Glenn Forever by Tornado Igloo (Tom Neely, Scot Nobles, Gin Stevens ) (Microcosm) $4.00

2. Is It THE FUTURE Yet? by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S!

3. Kinship Structure of Ferns by Lee Relvas $10.00

4. Arty Party by Sara Drake and James Payne $4.00 – Art history yuks and guffaws! 24pp, b&w, 8.5″x11″

5. Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95

6. Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC (Chronicle) $16.95

7. Bust Jun Jul 10 $4.99

8. Ovulation Awareness, Sex Ed and Social Commentary, 2nd ed. by Sam $4.00 – If you or someone you know ovulates you should probably read this fertile feminist DIY health zine.

9. Birthday Bees by Rylan Thompson $10.00

10. Weathercraft by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Down the wormhole we go with Manhog, spiraling through the vaguely Midieval worldspheres of the Unifactor. This new volume is a full force onslaught of Woodring’s glorious geography of constantly shifting torments and delights and its effects are longer lasting than most psychedelic drugs I could compare it to. -EF