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!

Chris Besinger Reads The Usual Beast with Group Icky Rats and ONO

Published on April 30, 2010 0 Comments
May ’10
31
1:00 pm

Don‘t miss this dual release show featuring Chris Besinger, reading from The Usual Beast collected writings (Laughing Mouse Press) performing with Group Icky Rats from their work Group Icky Rats LP (Coat-Tail Records) with ONO.

Chris Besinger is vocalist for Minneapolis’s STNNNG. In addition to bringing copies of his new book, The Usual Beast (Laughing Mouse Press), a collection of STNNNG lyrics and other writings, with cover art by Tom Stack, Besinger will be performing with Group Icky Rats, his all-improvised rock band that is releasing its LP this month.

Group Icky Rats –Chris Besinger (STNNNG) on vocals, Jon Skuldt (White) on guitar and keyboard, and Bryan Reynolds on drums—forms, through its headlong charge into constant error, and force of will, new and gorgeous spectacular failure. That’s how it’s supposed to go when you make up all your rock songs on the spot. Wherever this vector directs the music, its components are 1) one poet dedicated, as are the finer ranters in the short history of rock—think Brewer from Saccharine Trust—to both massaging and upending the form through the formal and the informal, the situational, the “poetic” (Besinger); 2) another poet dedicated to –think Metal Machine Music—the piercing and to music-as-irritant (Skuldt); 3) and a shit-hot drummer who will crush you –think being destroyed— with total unadulterated punishing awesomeness (Reynolds). The new Group Icky Rats LP, out in an edition of 100 on Coat-Tail Records (home to releases by The Flying Luttenbachers, Xerobot, Melt-Banana, et al) will be available at the show and contains guitar from Mark Shippy (US Maple, Miracle Condition).

This event will also feature longtime Chicago way-out unit ONO, recently resurrected in what is now their nearly 30-year career, whose work –verifiable through early 80s releases and numerous performances archived on the internet— keeps re-setting the bar for total mind-bending performative fuckery.
For more info:

Group Icky Rats www.myspace.com/groupickyrats
ONO www.travistravis.com
Laughing Mouse Press www.laughingmouse.net

Cyberpunk Apocalypse’s Elwin Cotman & Daniel McCloksey

Published on April 28, 2010 0 Comments
May ’10
5
7:00 pm

Don’t miss this night of DIY speculative fiction. Fantasy writer Elwin Cotman will read from his debut short story collection, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP. Science fiction Daniel McCloksey will read from his upcoming novel. Both readers are members of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse, a DIY writers’ cooperative in Pittsburgh, PA.

Elwin Cotman is a writer, performance artist and activist from Pittsburgh, PA. Known for his energetic storytelling, he has featured at the TerPoets open mic, Artomatic, Babble-On and A Space Inside Reading Series. He has performed with musicians Bryan Depuy of “Jubilee” and Joy Toujours. He wrote a full-length story/liner notes for an album by piano-punk band Baby Killer Estelle. “The Jack Daniels Sessions EP” is his first book.

At the age of 20, Daniel McCloskey graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in fiction writing. At the age of 21, he founded the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers’ Co-op, which combines a writing residency program and a community space in order to support burgeoning writers. He currently resides at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers’ Co-op where he works to maintain the project, polish his first novel, and does freelance work.

For more info, see www.cyberpunkapocalypse.com.

Feelin’ Sappy?

Published on April 27, 2010 0 Comments

issue2callFeel this space! Tree Sapp magazine is looking for work for their upcoming second issue. Check out their website and blog and submit your watery works to their “River Beds, Sweat and Sheets” -themed issue by May 10th.

Tree Sap is a publication devoted to digging up, excavating and documenting the convergence of art & nature. Through artist features, collaborative projects, & personal narratives, we hope to offer commentary on the wild origin of our myths, sexuality, & inner lives.

-eds. Anika Sabin & John Wagner