Works Cited Photo Funnies at Quimby’s!

Oct ’07
18
7:00 pm

Works Cited Photo Funnies at Quimby’s!
Thursday, October 18th, 7:00 PM
FREE

Come visit the Works Cited Photo Studio. Have your photo taken, and then defaced, middle school-style by the creators of Works Cited. During the hour, your photo, along with all your friends’ photos, will be arranged and compiled in a mini-yearbook of all the Quimby’s faithful. The end result will be a portrait of yourself for you to take home, fully defaced in thick ink lines and moderately inappropriate captions. Every entry will be compied into an online yearbook posted on the Eye Rocket website.

Artist zine WORKS CITED #1 By Zach Huelsing and Matt Kessler is limited to 300 copies. Each issue features a hand-drawn cover. Inside the zine, you’ll find a collection of classroom items you might find at an actual school. Witness the antagonism of a 3rd grade rad dude. Peek into a young girl’s diary. Check out a blue book from exam day, test questions included. And learn about your masculinity in the accomplished essay, The Importance of Memory in the Appreciation of Culture and History and the Necessity of this Tie to the Past as a Bridge to the Future .Each copy is numbered.

Eye Rocket is an independent publishing house that operates out of Champaign, Illinois. With a focus on zines, comics, books and everything inbetween, Check out the website for more info: www.eyerocketbooks.com

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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of Sep 9th – Sep 15th, 2007

 Think Like a Winner

1. Abolish Restaurants $5.00

2. FOUND Magazine #5 $5.00

3. Wholphin #4 $19.95

4. Phonebook 2007 2008 Annual Directory for Alternative Artspaces (Green Lantern) $10.00

5. Do It Yourself Screenprinting How to Turn Your Home into a T-shirt Factory by John Isaacson (Microcosm) $10.00

6. Butt #20 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90

7. Maximumrocknroll #292 $4.00

8. Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book by Aye Jay (ECW Press) $9.95

9. Muerte by Mike Giant (Drago) $25.00

10. Urban Bikers Tricks & Tips by Mr. Bike Dave Glowacz (Wordspace) $14.95

New Stuff 9/15/07

art and craft battle

Renegade Craft Fair is going on down on Division, There is an Awesome art show by Jen Stark at Heaven Gallery and there is tons of new stuff on the shelves. You have no excuse to avoid a trip to the crotch of Wicker Park this weekend!
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Works Cited review

Works Cited

Over at the FantagraphicsFlog! blog, Eric Reynolds posts a great review of Works Cited by Zach Huelsing and Matt Kessler of Eye Rocket Books:

WRIGHT PREPARATORY ACADEMY by various – I don’t know who did this (a collective of artists, it seems), or where you can get it, so this might be the most unhelpful web recommendation since hyperlinks were invented. But it’s great, so there! More zine than comics, this is a screenprinted manilla envelope filled with random paper detrius from a (presumably) fictional high school, including permanent student records, diary entries, confiscated notes, etc. Funny stuff, and there is a narrative thread that weaves through some of the elements that makes it greater than the sum of its parts. There was one narrative trick in particular which involved reading two files in a particular order, and I’m not quite sure how the creators could be assured they would be read in the proper order, but in my case they were and the payoff was laugh-out-loud hilarious and I’m totally impressed.

Sexy Strangers = Great Lit

WOW PR working overtime!

We got this in the mail last week. Great to see the big publishers are all up on “zines” & “blogs” and making stuff slutty!

Books Gone Wild!!!

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P.S. This is real, I could not make this type of copy up!…….unless you paid me three figures and gave me a corner office.