THIS WEEKEND – it's The 3138 Dobson Street 5th Anniversary Sale!
Join us and building mates Mind Cure Records and Lili Coffee Shop on SATURDAY 13 JUNE 2015 in celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of the 3138 Dobson Street Cultural Complex (and we'll be continuing on with the celebration here at Copacetic through Sunday 14 June, as well!). For our part, we'll be offering a mountain of deals, and will be making an extra effort this year to assemble an amazing selection of $5 items in honor of completing our fifth year here. Details are being posted daily, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/856798151059277/ -- And, to top things off, from 7pm to 9pm in the evening, we will be celebrating the release of the new grahic novel by Pittsburgh-based comics creator, Sophie Goldstein: THE OVEN!
Free Comic Book Day is This Saturday, May 2
Yes, there will be a copious Copacetic offering of free FCBD comics on hand on Saturday. This year's main atttractions are the Hip Hop Family Tree "Three-In-One" mammoth size special that includes a Cosplayers back-up by Dash Shaw and pin-ups galore - 56 full color pages in all - and a 32 page comic book preview of Jillian Tamaki's long-awaited SuperMutant Magic Academy collection (which, by the way, just arrived at the shop). There will be plenty more on hand as well, with a focus on the smaller publishers, but also a few from the Big Two.
In addition, we will be having a BIG BACK ISSUE SALE with prices 25% to 50% off! See you there.
Plus plenty more! Supplies are limited... but you knew that.
Film Screening: The Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists - Saturday 30 April @ The Hollywood Theater
The Copacetic Comics Company and The Hollywood Theater present
THE HAIRY WHO & THE CHICAGO IMAGISTS
ONE SHOW ONLY: Thursday, April 30 at 7:30pm
The Hairy Who and The Chicago Imagists
a film by Leslie Buchbinder (Director) & John Corbett (Writer)
2014 • full color • 109 minutes
In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists. Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era - Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image, Marriage Chicago Style. Kissing cousins to the contemporaneous international phenomenon of Pop Art, Chicago Imagism took its own weird, wondrous, in-your-face tack. Variously pugnacious, puerile, scatological, graphic, comical, and absurd, it celebrated a very different version of ‘popular’ from the detached cool of New York, London and Los Angeles.
From Jim Nutt’s cigar-chomping, amputated women to Christina Ramberg’s studies of corsetry and bondage; from Barbara Rossi’s bejeweled dot paintings to Roger Brown’s secretive, silhouetted figures in windows; Chicago’s diverse artists followed no trend, preferring a path they ferociously cleared for themselves. Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell their wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story. Over forty interviews with the artists and a prominent group of critics, curators, collectors, and contemporary artists are featured, intertwined with a wealth of re-discovered archival footage and photographs. The film is narrated by Chicago theater legend Cheryl Lynn Bruce, and propelled by an original score for cello and voice by composer Tomeka Reid.
This is the story of the artists that emerged from the catalyzing exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center from 1966-1973, starting with the Hairy Who, who would come to be known as the Chicago Imagists. It brings to life the milieu of Chicago in the 1960s, and also showcases the legacy of the Imagists’ work in contemporary art production today, from Jeff Koons to Chris Ware. Themes in the narrative include the Imagists’ emergence within the national context of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the rise and fall of taste within art history, and the uncharacteristic equality afforded to women artists among this Chicago group.
Please visit the Pentimenti Productions Site devoted to the film, to watch the trailer, download images from the film, learn about the filmmakers, and more.
The screening will be preceded by a brief introduction and followed by a discussion.
The Hollywood Theater is located at 1449 Potomac Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15216
Sobertime Release Party w/ Jarrod Shanahan & Nate McDonough
Wednesday 8 April 2015 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at The Copacetic Comics Company.
