Check Out New York’s Art House Co-op and the Sketchbook Project at Home Gallery

Published on May 8, 2010 0 Comments
No, this event is not at Quimby’s, but it is awesome and you should totally go to tonight’s opening reception at the Home Gallery, an ongoing experimental exhibition space run by Laura Shaeffer out of her home in Hyde Park, on Chicago’s South Side.

The Sketchbook Project and Artists’ Books,
featuring Anders Nilsen, Michael Brehm, Amanda Vähämäki, Michelangelo Setola, and Doug Shaeffer
PRESENTED BY: Home Gallery 1407 E. 54th Place, Chicago, IL
Opening reception: Saturda,y May 8t, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Home Gallery is proud to host Brooklyn, New York’s Art House Co-op and the Sketchbook Project, a library of sketchbooks collected from artists around the world. In addition, Home Gallery will be featuring drawings, sketchbooks, and artist’s books from Anders Nilsen (Big Questions, Dogs and Water), Michael Brehm, Amanda Vähämäki & Michelangelo Setola (Souvlaki Circus), and Doug Shaeffer. For more info: and  http://thelarch.org

The Op Shop

The Op Shop

And then also, check out the Op Shop. The Opportunity Shop, that is. It’s a transitory, experimental project space for contemporary art in Hyde Park, and they’ve got stuff goin’ on, extended for the next few weeks. For more info: http://www.theopshop.org/about.php

Weekly Top 10

Published on May 4, 2010 0 Comments
Melissa Auf der Maur Was Here

Melissa Auf der Maur Was Here

1. Wilson HC BY DAN CLOWES (D&Q) $21.95

2. Freewheel vol 1 by Liz Baillie $12.00

3. Proximity #7 $12.00

4. The Point #2 Win 10 $12.00

5. Bars Across America Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast by John Greenfield

6. Detective Stories by Anne Elizabeth Moore $1.00

7. Out Of The Closets And Into The Libraries $2.20

8. Lower East Side Librarian Shout Out 2009 by Jenna Freedman $2.00

9. Wad #44 $15.00

10. Juxtapoz #112 May 10  $5.99

SUBMIT! Voices From the Grave #1

Published on May 2, 2010 0 Comments

VoicesGraveCall

A new Chicago Outer Limits zine and audio zine is festering! Got something odd to share? Listen to this call from VOICES FROM THE GRAVE headquarters:

ATTENTION FELLOW SNAKES AND FOLLOWERS OF WHAT EVER

Have You Ever?

Been ridden by an old hag? Heard voices during your early morning cemetery jaunt? Had visions of long lost civilizations? Been approached by dark angels? Contracted a mysterious disease? Picked up a phantom hitchhiker? Did you find a skeleton in your closet? Did you see a fireball light up the night sky?

If you have experienced any baffling, thrilling, or extra/ordinary phenomena we would like to have you participate. All stories welcome.

LET IT OUT -WE NEED YOUR WORDS

talk@voicesfromthegrave.org

and/or

Voices From the Grave

PO Box 478811

Chicago, IL 60647

New Stuff This Week

Published on May 1, 2010 0 Comments

wilsontopWilson HC by Dan Clowes (DQ) $21.95 – Dan Clowes will be at Quimby’s on June 12th! Stay tuned for more details.

Proximity #7 $12.00

Undeleted Scenes by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf) $15.00

Wholphin #11 DVD $19.95

Instructions Everything You’ll Need To Know On Your Journey by Neil Gaiman (Harper) $14.99

Simple History Series #6: 100 Years of Modern Iran 1891 1991 by var. $2.50

Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #7 $7.00

We Should A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95

Cult Street Wear by Josh Sims (Laurence) $29.95

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

Gama Go Yeti Tree or Squid Pirrate Floati Pens $5.00 each. – Based on Tim Biskup’s designs.

Came A Yeux 2004 to 2006 Drug For Eyes by Alexone (Kitchen 93) $37.95

Book of Tags 150 Original Writers Tags From All Over the World (Dropdrop) $41.95

Only Death Is Real an Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost by var. (Bazillion) $39.95

Schwarz Auf Weiss Style Needs No Color (From Here) $14.95

Gospel of Filth A Bible of Decadence and Darkness by G. Braddeley (Fab) $39.95

Nylon Girls Erotic Fashion Photography by Christine Kessler (Goliath) $24.95

DFW Zine $2.50

Camilla Derrico 30 Postcards (Last Gasp) $10.95

Kenk A Graphic Portrait by var. (Pop Sandbox) $25.95

Wormwood Gentleman Corpse HC vol 2 It Only Hurts When I Pee Deviant Edition by Ben Templesmith (IDW) $24.99

Lenore Wedgies HC by Roman Dirge (Titan) $24.95

Flash Rebirth HC by var. (DC) $19.99

The Walker Brothers No Regrets Our Story HC by John Walker (John Blake) $24.95

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned: True Stories Of Women Who Kill(John Blake) $13.9

Fallen: Life In and Out of Britains Most Insane Group Now With Added Ex Members by Dave Simpson (Canongate) $14.95 – As in the band The Fall.

Iraq The Forever War DVD with Noam Chomsky (PM Press) $14.95

Blood and Thunder #14 $5.99

Online Killers Portraits of Murderers Cannibals and Sex Predators Who Stalk by Christopher Barry Dee (Ulysses) $14.95

826CHI Compendium vol 1 An Assemblage of Writings by the Students of 826CHI $12.00

Bars Across America Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast by John Greenfield $13.00

Mandatory Moshing #0 by Evan Blanco $1.00

Philosophical Investigation by Philip Kerr (Penguin) $15.00

Dear Jaguar #2 The Nightmare Issue by Vicky Always $1.00

Clock Without a Face by Scott Teplin and var. (MCSweeney’s) $19.95

Introduction to Civil War by Tiqqun (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

Xombie Dead on Arrival DVD The Complete Flash Series (Halo Eight) $18.99

NYHC DVD The Legendary Documentary About the Worlds Hardest Music (Halo Eight) $18.99 – About New York Hard Core.

Confessions of an Antinatalist by Jim Crawford $12.00

Tag Team by Dennis Pacheco and var. $3.50

33 1/3 Series:  Pavements Wowee Zowee by Bryan Charles (Continuum) $12.95

33 1/3 Series:  ACDC’s Highway To Hell by Joe Bonomo (Continuum) $12.95

Supertalk #2 by Eric Watkins and var. (Birdcage Bottom) $5.00

Black Velvet #64 $6.25

Whale Tale #1 by Christopher Peralta $4.00

Prints by Hawk Krall: Chicago Depression Hot Dog Print/Chicago Hot Dog $35.00 each

Self Service #32 Spr Sum 10 $35.00

Damn #24 Apr May 10 $24.95

ID Magazine Spr 10 $10.99

Whip Smart HC by Melissa Febos (T. Dunne) $24.99

Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty (Holt) $16.99

Ask HC by Sam Lipsyte (FSG) $25.00

Spunk #7 $7.00

Resistance Book 1 by Carla Jablonski and var. (First Sec) $16.99

Afterbirth: Stories You Wont Read in a Parenting Magazine by D.K. Modisett (St. Mart) $14.99

City and the City SC by China Mieville (Ballantine) $15.00

Nobody Move SC by Denis Johnson (Picador) $14.00

Moomin books by Tove Jannson: Moominsummer Madness, Moominpappas Memoirs, Finn Family Moomintroll (squarefish) $6.99 each

Affinity Bridge A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation by George Mann (Tor) $13.99

Work In Progress Get-Together

Published on April 30, 2010 0 Comments
May ’10
26
7:00 pm

We launched our new monthly working get-togetherhere at Quimby’s, which is called Work In Progress. At the first one, we had some wonderful folks sharing what they’re working on and hangin’ out withus. Comics, zines, poetry and fiction were represented, and we enjoyed snacks. Won’t you join us again on Wednesday, May 26th at 7pm?

Event!

Work In Progress is from 7-8:30pm on the last Wednesday of the month.  You can bring your current project and work on it in a social atmosphere.  If you’re looking for critiques or advice, you can get it from fellow attendees.  If you just want somewhere outside of your dark basement apartment to work on that new zine, this is the event you want to go to.

If you’re looking to meet more folks in the city who are making fun stuff, stop by!  We’re hoping this monthly series will become a positive space for self-publishers and other creative types here in Chicago.

Spread the word: Work In Progress at Quimby’s, the last Wednesday of every month!