Monthly Archive for October, 2009

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Off-Site Event: Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves Release Event at the Hideout

Celebrating the release of Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves, editor presents along with The AV Club’s Kyle Ryan, artist Derek Erdman and more special guests. This expert panel will shed light on the power of mixtapes and share their own tales of tapes given and received, crushes turned to heartaches. And special bonus! Illustrator Arthur Jones presents his hilarious loss-of-virginity tale as a Post-It Note Story.

Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: The
Street: 1354 West Wabansia
City/Town: Chicago, IL
Price: $5

Quimby’s will be there selling books! Please note this event is at the Hideout and not at Quimby’s!

Monday, November 9th, 8pm, $5.00
At the Hideout
1354 W Wabansia Ave
Chicago, IL 60642-1519
(773) 227-4433
www.hideoutchicago.com

Top 10 Bestsellers For the Week

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1. Map of My Heart by John Porcellino (DQ) $24.95

2. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99

3. Slingshot 2010 Organizer (small size) $6.00

4. Hot Damn and Hell Yeah Dirty South Cook Book: Recipes for Hungry Banditos by Ryan Splint (Microcosm) $6.00

5. Hi-Fructose #13 $6.95

6. King Cat #70 by John Porcellino $3.00

7. Best American Comics 2009, ed. by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden (Houghton) $22.00

8. Stories vol 1: The Green Umbrella, The Man In The Mirror and Expecting by Martin Cendreda $3.00

9. Tales of Woodsman Pete With Full Particulars TPB by Lilli Carre (Top Shelf) $7.00

10. Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf (24.95)

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New Stuff This Week

The Busy Beaver Button-O-Matic is back at Quimby's!

The Busy Beaver Button-O-Matic is back at Quimby's!

Here are some delightful new items!

Wild Things FUR COVER by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $28.00 – So plushie it makes our hearts sing.

Busy Beaver Button Pack: Instant Halloween Costume $5.00

Eating The Dinosaur HC by Chuck Klosterman (Scriber) $25.00 – New essays from one of our fave cultural critics.

Wholphin #9 $19.95 – Newest issue of film stuff from the McSweeneys empire.

Build Your Own New York Postcards $2.00 – From the maker of the Build Your Own Chicago Postcards comes a variety of buildings in New York!

2010 Calendar of Half Frame Photos by AM Scott $8.00 – Taken with a 1968 Olympus Pen EES 2 Camera in the Land of California. In addition to telling you the date it makes a great poster.

Map of My Heart John Porcellino (D+Q) $24.95 – Porcellino’s most recent collection of King Cat stuff. Wonderful!

On Ruby Hill Poems 1997-2002 by John Porcellino $2.00 – Yes, of King Cat fame. Self-published by John himself. He brought some with him for last night’s event he did here. A rare gem!

Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf (Lyon) $24.95

Here Come The Regulars: How to Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget by Ian Anderson (Faber) $15.00

Johnny America #7 $4.00

Try State #2 Fall 09 $12.00

Pretentious Record Store Guy #2 by Gabriel Carlos Ruiz $2.99

Annalemma #5 $10.00

Art of Osamu Tezuka God of Manga by Hellen McCarthy (Abrams) $40.00

No Thanks Fuck Everything #3 Punk Fanzine $2.50

Chaplin The Tramps Odyssey by Simon Louvish

Hyphen #18 Sum 09 $4.95

Toads N Chodes #1 $5.00 by Noel Freibert – Mini comic with a hilarious name, we must say.

Rigor Mortis vol 1 #2 $3.00 – Fresh off the press. Buy it before it starts decaying.

Duva Diaries Fall 09 The Home Issue $1.00

Mini comix by Nalleli Sierra, all $1.00: Wishful Thinking #1, Illumine #1, Just Another Day #1

Scootering #280 $7.99

Casanova vol 1 Luxuria HC by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba (Image Comics) $24.99

Absolute Promethea Book #1 by Alan Moore and JH Williams (ABC) $99.99 – Collects the first twelve issues of the consciousness-expanding narrative. Fancy-pantsy!

That Summertime Sound by Matthew Specktor (MTV) $24.00

Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists by Rachel Kramer (Cleis) $14.95

When Ninjas Attack by Sam Kaplan (Ulysses) $12.95 – A survival guide. Yes, really.

Mister X Condemned TPB by Dean Motter (Dark Horse) $14.95

Activate Primer 16 Stories by the Premier Webcomics Collective by Dean Haspiel (IDW) $24.99

Absolute Death by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo) $99.99 – Combines the Death story arc of Gaiman’s Sandman series. Also fancy-pantsy!

You Are There HC by Jacques Tardi and Claude Forest Jean (Fantagraphics) $26.99 – Ooo la la c’est AWESOME.

Crestfallen #1 by Sandra Sierra $3.00 – Intricately packaged tiny envelope of mini comics. See it to believe it.

OP Original Plumbing #1 Trans Male Quarterly The Bedroom Issue $8.00 – This one is gonna be huge.

Love Songs to the Dead by Jonathan Shaw (Heartworm Press) $12.00

Skeptic vol 15 #2 $6.95

Death and Taxes Nov Dec 09 $4.99

Maximumrocknroll #318 $4.00

Under the Radar #28 $4.99

Grafik #177 Sep 09 $19.99

IDN Extra 01 Cut and Paste: From Sketch to Production $25.00

IdN vol 16 #4 $17.50

Best Music Writing 2009, ed. by Griel Marcus (Da Capo) $25.95

Fader #64 Oct Nov 09 $5.95

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