Monthly Archive for September, 2007

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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 “” & “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.

Top 10 Best Sellers for Quimby’s For the Week of Sep 2nd-Sep 8th, 2007

Winner

1. Bizarre #127 Sep 07 $8.75

2. Juxtapoz #80 Sep 07 $4.99

3. FOUND Magazine #5 $5.00

4. ReadyMade #30 $4.99

5. Maximumrocknroll #292 $4.00

6. VenusZine #33 $4.50

7. Wholphin #4 $19.95

8. Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 $16.98

9. CrapHound #6 $12.00

10. Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky $16.00 (Penguin)

NEW STUFF 9/08/07

What a week the final Phoenix volume by Tezuka is now out, a nice new Clare Rojas monograph dropped from nowhere, and the new Knit Knit books is looking seriously to move crafting out of the bored house person scrapbook gutter! WOW!
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the week of Aug 26th-Sep 1st, 2007

Top 10

1. Juxtapoz #80 Sep 07 $4.99

2. FOUND Magazine #5 $5.00

3. Wholphin #4 $19.95 (McSweeney’s)

4. Optic Nerve #11 by Adrian Tomine $3.95 (Drawn & Quarterly)

5. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July $23.00 (Scribner)

6. Beautiful Decay issue T $5.95

7. Giant Robot #49 $4.99

8. Punk Planet #80 $4.95

9. Make #11 $14.99

10. The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family by Isis Aquariam and Electricity Aquarian $24.95 (Process)