Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Weekly Top 10

1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list…all in perfectbound pocketsize form.

2. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

3. Maximumrocknroll #331 Dec 10 $4.00

4. Diamond Comics #5, ed. by Jason Leivian (Floating World) $3.00 – Full color chaos. Stanley Lieber, Michael DeForge, Benjamin Marra, Cleon Peterson, Pete Toms, Panayiotis Terzis, Derek Ballard and a frantic cover by Skinner. You’ll probably cry if you miss this.

Diamond Comics #5

5. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – What do I have to say for myself? This is the pre-history-flashback issue of that homosexual birdman comic I draw. Try it, you just may like it- if you don’t, you know where to find me. -EF

6. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

7. Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00

8. Picture This: The Near Sighted Monkey Book Learn How to Art with the Near Sighted by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

9. Buildings & Bodies by Ryan Dodgson $10.00 – What would your friends look like if they were houses? What would your houses look like if they were your friends? Here’s a version of that being incredibly well-drawn and all taking place in Toronto!

10. Giant Robot #68 $4.99

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New Stuff This Week

ZINES!Your Secretary #5 The Truth About Your Secretary by Jami Sailor $1.00 – Jami’s ‘betes issue, all about how to be a young queerdo punk with wildly fluctuating glucose and still thrash hard.
Hang Time $5.00
Listening to the Lower Frequencies – Parking Block by Tim Pigott $4.00
Personal Dinner Invitation  – Tomorrow We Will Know With Clarity What We Did Today – Parking Block by Alberto Aguilar $4.00
Communicating Vessels #22 $3.50
Ultimate Worrier #2 Twice as Many Colors Twice as Many Pages, Oh Geez – Never Trust Anyone Who Really Enjoyed High School by Ben Chlapek $6.00
Sex Industry Apologist #1 $3.00

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Salvaged Parts by Lucy Knisley $10.00
Floating World Diamond Comics #1-#5 $3.00
Sunman and the Creation of the Universe #1 by Dustin Williams $8.00
Buttons by Vince Nigito and Allison Rich $2.00
Monty Comix by Kayla Escobedo – #1: True Stories, #2: New and Improved, #3: Primitive the Story of a Whale Girl  $5.00 each

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art and Culture by var. (MBP) $45.00
Special Exits by Joyce Farmer (Fantagraphics) $26.99
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant by PKD and var. (Marvel) $24.99
Chew vol 3 TPB Just Desserts by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image) $12.99
Ex Machina vol 10 Term Limits by var. (Wildstorm) $14.99
Do Androids Drean of Electric Sheep  – Dust to Dust vol 1 by PKD etc. (Boom) $9.99

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Art of Rebellion 3 The Book About Street Art ed. by C100 (Gingko) $29.95
Open Daybook ed. by David P. Earle (MBP) $45.00 – Each day illustrated by a different artist. You can fill in your schedule or respond artistically. The over 300 contributing artists have all created work especially for this book to be used as a daily journal, sketch book or admired as an art book.
Everything That Can Happen In a Day by David Horvitz (MBP) $27.95
Street and Studio From Basquiat to Seripop (Kunst) $55.00
Monster Revolt: The Art of Dirty Donny (Gingko) $29.95
Joe Sorren Painting and Sculpture 2004-2010 (Gingko) $29.95
Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art and Design (Victionary) $29.95
EMEK The Thinking Mans Poster Artist Collected Works of AaarghT (Gingko) $39.95
The Cardboard Book (Gingko) $29.95

DIY & CONSUMPTION!
Appetite For Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low Fat Vegan Recipes by Isa Chandra Moskowitz (Da Capo) $19.95

FICTION!
Feast for Crows by George RR Martin (Bantam) $16.00
20 Under 40: Stories from the New Yorker ed. by Deborah Treisman (FSG) $16.00
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld (Simon) $18.99 – This is the second book of the steampunk series Leviathan.
Sophomoric Philosophy – A Novel by Victor David Giron $14.99

MAGAZINES!
Bitch #49 $5.95
Giant Robot #68 $4.99
Bust Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.99
Randy #1 by AK Burns and Sophie Morner $8.00
Maximumrocknroll #331 Dec 10 $4.00
Tape Op #80 Nov Dec 10 $4.95
Infamous #2 $7.99 – Second issue of the graffiti lifestyle mag.
IdN vol 17 #5 $17.50
Dwell Jan 11 $5.99
Crystal Friends #2 $9.00
Murder Most Foul #78 $9.99
True Crime Nov 10 Detective Monthly $8.99
Sovereign #18 Dec 10 $3.95
Tattoo 1 Tribal #25 $8.95
Neural #37 $8.00
Open Minds Dec 10 Jan 11 $6.50
Chelsea Fall 10 The Sophomore Issue $15.00
Shock Cinema #39 $5.00
Mojo Classic vol 2 #8 Zappa $12.50
Alarm #38 Invisible $18.00
Z Magazine Dec 10 $4.95
National Green Pages 2011 $9.95
Dissent Fall 10 $10.00
Bound By Ink vol 1 #3 $7.99

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!

Nuance Literary Arts Magazine $5.00
Fugue #39 Sum Fall 10 by Ilya Kaminsky and Junot Diaz $8.00
N Plus 1 #10 Fall 10 Self Improvement #13.95
Farting Fire by Justin Blackburn $3.00
Overtime Hour 16 Versions by Pir Rothenberg $2.00

POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock (Pathfinder) $15.00 – Introduction by Noam Chomsky.
Piss ‘Em All Off and Other Practices of the Effective Citizen by Don Gordon $14.95

MUSIC BOOKS!
The Best Music Writing 2010 ed. by Ann Powers (Da Capo) $16.95
Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett by Rob Chapman (Da Capo) $28.00 – With a forward by Graham Coxon.

MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
Fate, Time and Language: An Essay on Free Will by David Foster Wallace (Columbia) $19.95
Weimar Cinema: 1919 to 1933 Daydreams and Nightmares by Kardish (Moma) $39.95
Not Rocket Science by Prof OddFellow $9.00
Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas by Craig Conley and Michael Warwick $10.25
Skeleton Key of Solomon – Unlocking the Secrets of Sigils and Veves by Prof OddFellow $14.50
Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, The Living Dead and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States by Gary Laderman (New Press) $17.95
Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation by Ted C. Fishman (Scribner) $27.50

OTHER STUFF!
Dirty Bird Bike Jam Pocket Blank Journal (Gama Go) $5.50

Off-site Event: Indie Lit Roadshow: The Last Annual Midwest Pop-Up Bookshop

Dec ’10
12
10:00 am

At The Green Lantern Gallery/The Paper Cave, 2542 W. Chicago Ave., Storefront

This is not at Quimby’s, but Quimby’s will be tabling at this curatorial pop-up bookshop at the Green Lantern Gallery. Besides book shopping, this event will feature sporadic performances, some of which will be in Artifice Magazine’s papier-mâché cave, you can crawl into to hear some of the best in Chicago readings. Lots of different types of book stores, presses and magazines will be present besides Quimby’s, including Featherproof Books, Knee-Jerk Magazine, The Book Cellar, Another Chicago Magazine, Rose Metal Press, THE2NDHAND, Dzanc, Make Magazine, The Show ‘n Tell Show, Other Voices Books, The Encyclopedia Show, Sara Ranchouse Publishing, Vouched Books, Switchback Books, PANK Magazine, Golden Age, Stop Smiling Books and more!

The weekend of December 10-12 is the The Indie Lit Roadshow, a cross-country celebration of the best in independent literature. It represents a coming-together of independent bookstores, presses, journals, magazines, reading series and pop-up bookshops, all rooted in the home-grown literary scenes blossoming in the following places besides Chicago including Austin, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Brooklyn, Portland, Seattle and more!

For more info:

http://roadshow.ampcommunity.com

http://thegreenlantern.org

http://www.thepapercave.com

Weekly Top 10

1. Roctober #48 $4.00 – The world’s best music magazine from the folks behind the world’s best cable-access show. A million zillion pages, b&w with tons of pictures and loads of comics.

2. Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by R. Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

3. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – New issue from our very own Edie. Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s to celebrate the release of his Gaylord Phoenix book published by Secret Acres here at Quimby’s on Dec 9th!

4. X’ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?

5. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95 – The most recent addition of Chris Ware’s running issues. Interpret issues how you want.

6. Picture This by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

7. Wowee Zonk #3 (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Yo! It’s so good: Michael DeForge, Jan Avendano, Andrei Georgescu, Zach Worton, Ginette Lapalme, Selena Wong, Chris Simonen, Chris Kuzma, Dan Rocca, Patrick Kyle…And everyone really pulled out their A-game here, not a single bad apple in this whole round-up. Insanely beautiful cover art too – what planet are those colors from? -EF

8. Possum and the Pepper Spray by Pete Hodapp $4.00

9. Grime Time #3 $8.00

10. Believer #76 Nov Dec 10 Art Issue $10.00