Sammy Harkham, Kevin Huizenga, & Anders Nilsen at Quimby?s!

Published on March 4, 2006 0 Comments
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Sammy Harkham, Kevin Huizenga, & Anders Nilsen at Quimby?s!Saturday, February 25th, 7:00 PMFREE
 
Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics Books, and the center for Cartoon Studies are proud to present comic artists; Sammy Harkham, Kevin Huizenga & Anders Nilsen on tour.
 
Sammy Harkham was born in Los Angeles on May 21st 1980. His comic strip Poor Sailor, originally published in Kramers Ergot 4, was subsequently included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2004 and has been published in French, Korean, and Italian. He was nominated in 2002 for an Ignatz Award for \’Promising New talent\’, and Kramers Ergot has been favorably reviewed and placed on numerous best of the year list\’s including the LA Weekly, Dazed And Confused, The Comics Journal, and Publisher\’s Weekly. Harkham currently lives in Los Angeles working on his comic series Crickets and the next volume of Kramers Ergot.
 
Kevin Huizenga was born in 1977 in Harvey, IL and spent most of his childhood in South Holland, IL, near Chicago. He began drawing comics in high school, Xeroxing his first issue (with friends) at the neighborhood Jewel Osco in 1993. In 2001 the Comics Journal named him \”Minimalism Cartoonist of the Year\” and called #14 of his Supermonster mini-comic series \”one of the best comics of any kind released in 2001.\” In 2001 he also started the Catastrophe Shop http://www.usscatastrophe.com, an online shop for self-published mini-comics Kevin won an Ignatz for his D+Q story GLENN GANES In the Drawn & Quarterly Showcase #1. His new comic Or Else is the first series Drawn & Quartley have launched by a new cartoonist since OPTIC NERVE.
 
Anders Nilsen was born in rural Northern New Hampshire in 1973 and grew up on a steady diet of comics and stories, from Tintin and the X-Men to Raw and Weirdo. He attended college at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, studying art and doing political work followed by a stint in graduate school at the Art Institute of Chicago. After college a group of paintings he did developed into an artists book called The Ballad of the Two Headed Boy. The graphic nature of this book moved him toward comics. While Anders still makes other kinds of work, it\’s the comics that seem to have a life of their own, receiving two Ignatz nominations for Big Questions #4 in 2002 as well as a Xeric and several grants from the City of Chicago to help keep him making them. Nielsen is currently working on finishing Big Questions as well as a couple of further collections of strips from his sketchbooks. Dogs and Water is his new comic published by Drawn and Quarterly.
 

School Daze zine event with author Michel Valdes

Published on February 25, 2006 0 Comments
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Michel Valdes author of School DazeThurs, Feb. 23rd at 7:30pmfree
 
School Daze details the accounts of one year Michel
worked as a teacher\’s assistant at an elementary
school in Los Angeles, CA. The zine debuted at
Portland Zine Symposium in 2005. Michel is 25 years
old and recently hired as a Special Education Teacher
at his old middle school. The zine is more text heavy
but has some drawings Michel did of his encounters.

Signing for Nano Stories with artist Michael Miller

Published on February 23, 2006 0 Comments
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Signing for Nano Stories with artist Michael MillerFriday, February 17th5:00-7:00 PMFREE
 
Sara Ranchouse publishes and distributes books and printed multiples by artists. NANO – Stories in a Blink by Michael Miller is the third in the \”SQUARE COMICS\” series.
 
Miller Miller makes collages, drawings, watercolors and digital prints that borrow from the conventions of editorial cartoons. For NANO Stories, Miller has configured his work into a sequential, narrative format. NANO presents two back-to-back visual stories–FACE TO FACE, a spinning rat race of nano-second confrontations and FLATMAN, a flat man\’s adventures in and about everyday foibles.
 
Michael Miller will be on hand to sign copies of NANO Stories. A mini-exhibition of Michael\’s work will accompany the signing.
 
More info about the artist www.michaelmillerart.com

Reading for Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction

Published on February 17, 2006 0 Comments
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Reading for Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired FictionThursday, Feburary 9th, 7:00 PMFREE
 
We live in political times where it is impossible not to be involved, inspired, appalled, or motivated by the current administration. It seems like everyone has something to say about politics these days ? and fiction writers are no exception. This came to the forefront of Stephen Elliott?s mind following the 2001 elections and the attacks of September 11th, when he and his fellow novelists began to question their focus and the relevance of their work in such times. Unconsciously, current events had seeped into their writing?and thus Politically Inspired was born.
 
Featured Readers at this event:
 
Stephen Elliott is the author of four novels, including Happy Baby, and the political memoir Looking Forward to It: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The American Political Process. He recently journeyed to the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina and contributed several articles to Salon.com. Stephen Elliott is available for interview and comment on this new release.
 
Audrey Niffenegger is a writer and visual artist who lives in Chicago, where almost everyone she knows has been quietly despondent ever since the last election and where the only words that bring any cheer are ?Barack Obama.?
 
Jeff Parker?s stories recently appeared in Hobart, Ploughshares, Tin House, and Life & Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End. For the past seven years he has co-directed Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and he co-edited Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States. The Drinking Game, a short story collection in the form of instructions, will be published by Jovian Books in 2006.
 
Stefan Kiesbye is the author of the novel Next Door Lived A Girl. In West Berlin in the 1980s, he worked as an actor, coffeehouse reader, drag queen, and nude model. As a radio show host, he covered the ?91 Contributors 327 Gulf War. Stefan currently lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Sanaz and is working on a new novel. You can visit him at www.skiesbye.com.
 
More info is at: www.stephenelliott.com
 

Sweet and Crumbly a vegan dessert potluck

Published on February 9, 2006 0 Comments
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Lickin? the Beaters presentsSweet and Crumbly a vegan dessert potluckSunday, February 5th, 3:00 PMFREE
 
Lickin\’ the Beaters presents Sweet and Crumbly – a vegan desert potluck focusing on cookies and candy. Siue Moffat is preparing for her 2nd vegan desserts cookbook, Lickin\’ the Beaters 2 – Candy and Chocolate, and is coming to Quimby\’s to share her new concoctions. Caramels, suckers, sour creem candy, fudge, centered chocolates etc. Everything a vegan dreams of eating in a cruelty free form. Participants are asked to bring their own homemade candy or cookies, sans eggs and dairy, to share. Siue will also be happy to answer questions on self-publishing and candy making. If you don\’t know the difference between saddle stitch and perfect bound or fudge and pralines now is your chance to find out!
 
Siue Moffat made vegan cooking zines before moving into full fledged publishing with Lickin\’ the Beaters: Low Fat Vegan Desserts. Illustarted by eight fantastic artists, Siue jumped in and produced Lickin? the Beaters entirely herself from layout and design, photos and index. She often finds herself spending hours over a pot of boiling syrup trying to replicate all the sweets she use to eat before turning vegan in 1997. Lickin\’ the Beaters 2, is currently in high gear recipe testing mode, and will feature chococolate confections, baked goods and candy. Currently Siue is a super 8 filmmaking, radical bookslinging, film archiving candy queen who spends her time between Portland Oregon and Toronto Canada.