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Naked Raygun Signs Limited Edition Comic Book/Broken Things 7″ + WAX TRAX! Naked Raygun Pop-Up on Feb 4th

Published on January 12, 2023 0 Comments

Feb ’23

3:00 pm

Naked Raygun Signs Broken Things 7″ With Comic
+
WAX TRAX! Naked Raygun Pop-Up on Feb 4th
at Quimby’s Bookstore
Saturday, Feb 4th, 3pm

Quimby’s welcomes Chicago punk legends Naked Raygun for an in-store signing of their limited edition 7″ Broken Things that comes with a comic insert (and etched B side) by indie comics artists James Romberger (who will also be joining us!) & Josh Bayer.

In addition to the band’s attendance, famed vinyl titans WAX TRAX! will be on hand to offer additional NR merch in a pop-up store that fits right in with Quimby’s.

Broken Things is from NR’s first album in 30 years, Over the Overlords. This 7″ is brought to you courtesy of Xylophone, and Quimby’s is the only store in Chicago / Illinois / The Midwest / the 49 states (that are not New York) that has this!

Excited to see you at our free event!

Want to buy Broken Things in advance so it doesn’t run out before you get here? Get it at quimbys.com here.

Dig that flyer! Art by James Romberger and Josh Bayer, with art direction by Jason Mojica.

FB event invite here.

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And!

•There may be some FREE SHIT.

•There will be silkscreened event posters for sale featuring new James Romberger & Josh Bayers art.

•We will have a limited amount of blue vinyl of the comic + 7″ that you can only get AT THE EVENT!

•There is an official unofficial afterparty in the works.

•We should add that the date of this event is also the birthday of Quimby’s manager Liz.

•You have no excuse not to attend.

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P.S. You saw Quimby’s in the background of the NR documentary, right?

P.P.S. Can you count how many past and present Quimby’s employees are in the NR video for “Living the Good Times”?

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***The Fine Print That You Should Most Positively, Definitely, Indubitably Read***

Please adhere to these rules and don’t drive Quimby’s employees bananas:
Due to small print run, purchase of this item is limited to 2 per customer at both quimbys.com and in store.
Band will only be signing copies at our event on 2/4/23. Customer must be present at event to get their item signed.
Quimby’s will not get this item signed for you, nor will we hold or ship signed copies.
Due to time constraints, we respectfully customers to limit signing requests to 3 items or less per person.
No swimming without lifeguard on duty.

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New Stuff This Week

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Zines

KerBloom #159 by Artnoose $2.00

Zines by Your Pal AL: In the Night: A Retrospective $3.00, Pocket Isopod $4.00

How to Have More Fun On Your New Bike by Rosario Parker Gordon $8.00

Craigslist Zine #1 $4.00

Flung From the Volcano #2 by Emmy E. Smith and Guy Laramie $5.00

Comics

666 #2 Blood: A Horror Anthology (Really Easy Press) by Caroline Cash & friends $12

Graphic Novels

Sungazer by T. Sean $15

Art Books

Fungal Inspiration: Art and Illustration Inspired by Wild Nature (Victionary/Gingko) $45

Graphite: The H to B of Contemporary Pencil Art & Drawings (Victionary/Gingko) $45

Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design (Victionary/Gingko) $45

Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art and Magic by Victoria Jenkins (Tate Publishing) $35.00

Politics & Revolution Books

Restocks & New Stuff From GenderFail, including: Manifesto Profit for Survival: Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices by Be Oakley $22.00, Against Artsploitation Unionizing the New Museum by Dana Kopel $20.00, GenderFail Reader #4 $20.00 & more.

The Enduring Legacy of Portland’s Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon by Joe Biel (Microcosm) $19.99

From Conflict to Community: Transforming Conflicts Without Authorities by Gwendolyn Olton (Microcosm) $16.95

The George Floyd Uprising edited by The Vortex Group (PM Press) $22.95

Decolonize Self-Care by Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe C. Meleo-Erwin $19.95

Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr. (PM Press) $16.95

We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action by Shannon Clay (PM Press) $24.95

Agitated: Grupos Autónomos and Armed Anticapitalism in Spain, 1974–1984 by Joni D. (AK Press) $24

Music Books

Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983 by Jen B. Larson (Feral House) $28.95

Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer (Faber & Faber) $14.95

Fiction

Bicycles and Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories About Witches on Bikes edited by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $12.95

DIY

Culpeper’s Complete Herbal: A Compendium of Herbs and Their Uses by Nicholas Culpeper $24.95

Magazines

RFD #192 $11.95

Poetry, Chap Books & Fiction Zines

Bard Kinetic by Anne Waldman (Coffee House Press) $19.95

Extremely Gay For the Moon and the Lake by Erin J. Watson & Hyacynth Wrobel $5.00

All Clues Point to Mystery (The Meatball Mystery Series) by Damon Charles Bishop $8.95

Sexxxy

Atlas of Half-Lives $8

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

Crass $1.00

Everytime Burt Ward Says Holy $1.50

Heliotrope #1 A Guide to a More Sustainable Lifestyle $15.00

Zines by Hadass Bar-Lev: Purple Moon Spawn: A PMS Perzine #18-#19 $1.50 each, More Than Default Male: A Perzine Comprehensive Zine About Multi-Gender Hebrew $2.50, Raise Your Horns Grrrls and Growls #2 Nov 22 Hadass Bar-Lev $2.50 + a bunch of restocks

zines by Arwen: Music Reviews For People Who Like That One Song Off That One Album #1 $4.00, Eight Drawings of Hot Dogs Dec 22 by Arwen $1.00

No Bad Whores Just Bad Laws Support Hose Year 6 $5.00

Comics & Minis

Comics by Alan Jennings $5.00 each: Florida Man An Expose, Primer on Greek Gods and Hangers On, Scenes From the Life of General George Washington Retold & more.

Graphic Novels

Weekly Bun Life vol 1 by Jessi Zabarsky $10.00

Art Books

Drawing by Laurie Lipton (Last Gasp) $49.99

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Occult Paris: City of Night by Philippe Baudouin and Daphna Sebbane $14.00

Music Books

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83 (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – Reprint!

DIY

Cross Stitch or Die Tryin’: 30 Patterns for Hip Hop Lovers by Kate Blandford $16.95

Magazines

Apartamento #30 $35.00

For the Young at Heart

Sound of Letters by Julien Billaudeau (Little Gestalten) $26.95

Other Stuff

Mushroom Lovers Journal $12.95

Sam Kunkel Discusses Gustave Kahn’s The Solar Circus With Jeremy Kitchen at Quimby’s on Feb 18th

Published on December 28, 2022 0 Comments

Feb ’23

3:00 pm

Quimby’s welcomes translator Sam Kunkel, who will discuss the great forgotten Symbolist masterpiece The Solar Circus with Chicago author and critic Jeremy Kitchen on Saturday, Feb 18th at 3pm in the afternoon.

Gustave Kahn’s The Solar Circus is an 1898 French novel dripping in psychedelic images of exotic gemstones, merfolk, and phantasmagoric menageries. Inverting day for night and reality for a dazzling dream, this is the story of a solipsistic Bavarian count who falls in love with the star of a traveling circus—thereby forcing him out of self-imposed seclusion. As the lovers set out from the count’s castle, they encounter a world in transformation: peasants in rebellion, the bright lights of London’s Orpheum theater, and even an ether-swilling Jack the Ripper in an opium den. In the process, the count must come to grips with his own fragile notions of superiority and truth.

The Solar Circus is text unlike any other, one that vacillates effortlessly between wild, imagistic poetry and philosophical prose, prefiguring those seminal 20th century works of Modernist literature which would appear more than two decades later.

The Solar Circus is being published by Michigan City-based First to Knock. Its publication will mark not only the novel’s first appearance in English but also its first independent reissue since it was published in 1898. The novel has been newly translated by Sam Kunkel, a Paris-based, Chicago-born scholar of 19th century Symbolist literature.

Kunkel will discuss Kahn’s novel and its place in the lineage of circus books with Chicago’s very own Jeremy Kitchen—author, literary critic, and librarian. A Q&A will follow. Books will be for sale.