Monthly Archive for August, 2011

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New Stuff This Week

Published on August 19, 2011 0 Comments

ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb (Doris) $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement. Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on 9/3.


The Comedians Aug Sep 11 #27 $4.50
Exp #00 Infinity by Matthew Kumar $7.00
There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here #1 Sleep by various $8.00 – “The street corner magicians who plugged in this archive of dangerous thinkers and awesome nobodies have finally put together something in paperback form that will last through the wars when virtual Tomorrowland comes crashing down. A perfect-bound reader for all gods of the porcelain throne. The Sleepy of the Week; Greatest Hits now at a nice price. Featuring candid photos of the ones who have the right idea.”


Broken Pencil #52 $5.95
The Inner Swine vol 17 #1 and #2 $2.00
Things That Matter by Jamie issues #1-#3 $2.00 each and #3 is a split zine with M. Xavier.

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
(FD Agent In) Haystack Full of Needles #1  by various $7.00
various issues of S. Baltic Comics Magazine (various prices)

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Europe 1 20000000 $8.00
3×3 Kus: Specializdevums Special Edition $9.00
Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising 1970s to 1940s ed. by Rick Marschall and Warren Bernard (Fantagraphics) $28.99
Even More Old Jewish Comedians by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics) $19.99
John Constantine, Hellblazer TPB Bloody Carnations (Vertigo) $19.99
Fables Deluxe Edition Book 3 by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $29.99
We3 HC The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $24.99
New X-Men vol 4 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99 – Collects New Xmen 127 through 133.
Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus TPB vol 1 by Shannon Wheeler (Vertigo) $24.99

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Beautiful Decay Book 6 Future Perfect $20.00 – 300 artists riffed on what their ideal future would be and one Grand Prize winner was selected. Over 100 finalist’s work are featured throughout the publication.The book also includes a feature length article with notable, emerging, New York artist, Robin Williams whose surreal paintings give us a view into her very own Future Perfect. Only 1,500 copies were made, all of which are ad-free and hand numbered.”


Cult Street Ware by Josh Sims (Laurence) $16.95
Despite Moments of Clarity There Is No -Ism In This Book: 100 New Artists by Francesca Gavin (Laurence) $39.95
Lets Make Some Great Art by Marion Deuchars (Laurence) $19.95
General Idea Imagevirus by Gregg Bordowitz (Afterall) $16.00
Microworlds by Marc Valli and Margherita Dessanay (Laurence) $19.95
1000 Steampunk Creations Neo Victorian Fashion Gear and Art by Dr. Grymm amd Barbe Saint John (Quarry) $24.95
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patrterns of Information by Manuel Lima (Priceton) $50.00

FICTION!
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown) $24.00

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
McSweeneys #38 (Mcsweeneys) $18.00
N Plus 1 #12 Fall 11 $13.95
Pageboy Magazine III 11 $10.00
Exact Change Only Sum 11 $10.00
Granta #116 Sum 11 Ten Years Later $16.99
Upstreet #7 $12.00
Slake Los Angeles #3 2011 Crossing Over A City and Its Stories $18.00

DIY!
Mission Street: Food Recipes and Ideas From an Improbably Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz (McSweeneys) $30.00
SexPot: The Marijuana Lover’s Guide to Gettin’ It On – Sexy Stoner Advice From Cannabis Columnist by Mamakind (Quick) $14.95
Cannabis Indica vol 1 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner and Greg Green (Green Candy) $20.00
Marijuana Recipes and Remedies for Healthy Living by Mary Jane Stawell (Ronin) $14.95
Baked: Over 50 Tasty Marijuana Treats by Yzbetta Sativa (Green Candy) $18.00
Jiggles: Shots 75 Recipes To Get the Party Started by Rachel Federman (Abrams) $12.95

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
UFOs: Generals Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean and John Podesta (Three Rivers) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.
Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands For a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff with illustrations by Leland Purvis (Soft Skull) $14.95 – From the author of Media Virus, Coercion and Life Inc. Will the internet rule us? Or will we rule the internet? And which is better?

MUSIC BOOKS!
Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith (Mariner) $13.95
Overkill: The Untold Story of Motorhead by Joel McIver (Omnibus) $23.95

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 911 Injustice by Alia Malex and Karen Korematsu (McSweeneys) $16.00

MAGAZINES!
Cabinet #42 Forgetting $12.00
Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $4.99
Wallpaper Sep 11 $10.00
True Detective Aug 11 $4.99
Skunk vol 7 #2 $6.99
Wire #330 Aug 11 $10.99
Maximumrocknroll #340 Sep 11 $4.00
Fader #75 Aug Sep 11 $5.99
Monocle Mediterraneo #3 Sum11 $8.00
Harpers Magazine Sep 11 $6.99
In These Times Sep 11 $3.50
Inked Sep 11 $7.99
Rebel Ink Magazine Sep 11 $5.99

SEX & SEXY!
Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance ed. by Mitzi Szereto (Cleis) $14.95
Frat Boys: Gay Erotic Stories by Shane Allison (Cleis) $14.95
Girls Who Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica by Delilah Devlin (Cleis) $14.95
Front #158 $9.99
All American Guys #1 $9.99

Quimby’s Temporary Tattoos

Published on August 18, 2011 0 Comments

For the longest time, people have asked us if we have temporary tattoos. And often, they look at our business cards and say, “Oh, is that a temporary tattoo?” When we tell them they’re just our business cards, they get sad, and then they say, “You should totally do temporary tattoos.” Well! The people have spoken. And we listened. So here they are. Come in and get yours. Then take a picture and add it the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr.

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 16, 2011 0 Comments

Once again, Lucky Peach at the top, followed by some of the usual suspects. However, we got in a publication from AK about Zapatistas, which is a topic that always seems to work here. Also, a local Chicago guide that I think may be its first time on our Top 10, if I remember correctly. Noah Van Sciver’s history comic rounds out the mix, and that’s available on our website, as are all of the items that have links. Other things, well, guess you’ll have to come in the store or give us a buzz at 773-342-0910.

1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – I read this straight through right before I went to sleep the other night and had an INTENSE NIGHTMARE ABOUT RAMEN. Woke up hungry. -EF

2. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #2 1969 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $9.95 – The newest issue!

3. Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99

4. Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) – Collects Cometbus 44-48 and a bit of new material. Tales from the Dead End, Lanky, and the Back to the Land series.

5. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – Always a Quimby’s staple.

6. Commune In Chiapas: Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion (PAGP) $5.00

7. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95 – Need a cooler guide to the city than those other alternative weekly or NFT books? Try this one.

8. Death of Elijah Lovejoy by Noah Van Sciver $5.00 – VanSciver’s snarly lines and curmudgeonly tendancies lend themselves nicely to his mayhem-laden comic about pre-civil war lynch mobs and the ambush and murder of abolitionist and jounalist, Elijah Lovejoy. -EF

9. Plazm #30 $10.00

10. Dazed & Confused #100 Aug 11 $9.99

New Stuff This Week

Published on August 12, 2011 0 Comments

We’re proud to offer you Leslie Stein’s first new issue of Eye of the Majestic Creature since Fantagraphics published her collection of issues #1-#4.

In this fifth issue Larrybear has moved back to New York after having lived in the countryside. She finds herself employed at a dress shop run by an absentee boss in the East Village, and living with her old friend Seashell in an infested Brooklyn apartment. Of course, Marshmallow and her anthropomorphic friends are there too, but being magical they are not allowed to leave the house. Not that this stops Marshmallow, who is becoming increasingly depressed and drinking way too much.On a nice winter day, roaming around Manhattan, Larry finds herself drawn to the Visionary Arts Museum, and is amazed to find they are having a retrospective of Victorian Sand Counters. Inspired, Larry begins to count sand seriously, but in a world where this is largely a forgotten art form, where can it possibly take her?

…and other stuff!

ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
Shows I’ve Seen At Metro by Timothy James McPherrin $2.00 – This is adorable.
Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood by Tomas Moniz and various (PM Press) $15.00
Darkness to the West by Adam Gnade $2.00
various issues of High on Burning Photographs $1.00 each
Anarchism: The Feminist Connection by Peggy Kornegger (Kersplebed) $4.00
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, Also Who Was Emma Goldman by Emma Goldman and The Workers Solidarity Movement (Kersplebed) $3.00
Anarchist Organisation Suggestions and Possibilities by Graham Purchase (AK) $2.50
Commune In Chiapas Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion (PAGP) $5.00
Deadly She Wolf: Assassin at Armageddon and Mommas Song by various $20.00
Down With the Prison Walls a Talk by Iglesias  Martinez Laudelino 3.00
Guerilla Warfare: A Method by Erenesto Che Guevara $4.00
Hieroglyphica Anonymous $5.00
Mamphiles #4 Raising Hell $6.00
Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman $2.00
Non Western Anarchisms Rethinking the Global Context by Jason Adams $3.00
Profit and Exploitation by Peter Kropotkin (Thought Crime Ink) $4.00
Red Army Faction the Urban Guerilla Concept $5.00
Relevence of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (Kerr) $4.00
Return of the Cake Scoffer: Cheap’n’ Easy Vegan Cooking by Ronny $3.50
Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse by various $7.00
Zine About Womens Self Defence #1 Fighting Back, Not Taking Shit Being Heard $3.00
Anarchist Economics an Alternative for the World In Crisis by Abraham Guillen $5.00
Molten Rectangle #3 Special Family Issue $10.00
It Should Be Obvious #1 Kelcey Towell  $13.00
My Aim is True by Carrie $1.00
Zine Centro $1.00
Compleat Anglerfish by Michelle Yacht $8.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Three #2 by various $6.25
Chronicles of Fortune by Caroline Picard $10.00
Sand Dune #1 Jun Jul 11 Erik Schneider $1.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Big Questions (soft cover veresion) by Anders Brekhus Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Join us and Anders celebrating the release of his magnum opus Big Questions at Lula Cafe on Tuesday, September 30th. This beautiful and minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and over 600 pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. Ask about the fancy $69.95 hardcover version, signed and numbered version.
Blankets by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf) $39.95 – New deluxe hardcover edition, featuring higher-quality paper, Smyth-sewn bindings, a spot gloss, and a slightly wider trim size.
Forming vol 1 by Jesse Moynihan (Spiro) $29.95
Nipper 1965-1966 by Doug Wright (D&Q) $16.95

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Graffiti Japan by various (MBP) $21.95

FICTION!
Machine Man by Max Barry (Vintage) $14.95
Subversions: Anarchist Short Stories by The Anarchist Writers Bloc (AK) $14.95
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher (Melville) $15.00 – Don’t miss Christopher Boucher here at Quimby’s on Wed, Aug 24th at 7pm, joined by Adam Levin, the author of The Instructions.

http://www.quimbys.com/blog/books/christopher-boucher-reads-from-how-to-keep-your-volkswagen-alive-with-adam-levin-the-instructions-824/

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Resonant Space by Devon King $10.00

DIY!
In Every Town: An All Ages Music Manualfesto  (All Ages Movement Project) $14.99
Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer by Erin Mann (Beacon) $15.00
Bumping Back: An Activist’s Guide To Getting There, Doing the Business & Getting Away with It  by L. Hobley (Niccolo) $24.95

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Fashion Cats:  Feline Couture from Japans Number 1 Cat Tailor by Takako Iwasa (Vice) $12.00 – Yes, this is for real. Takako Iwasa makes adorable goth-lolita clothes for her Scottish-fold kitties, and it’s so cute you want to cry.
Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism In Western Civilization by Donald P. Dulchinos (Autonomedia) $17.95
Year In the Life of A Factory by Maynard Seider (Kerr) $14.00

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth (Vintage) $15.95 – A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
Some Mother’s Daughter: Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence by The International Prostitutes Collective (Crossroads) $13.99
Russian Tragedy by Alexander Berkman (Phoenix) $11.95
Autobiography of Mother Jones (Kerr) $6.95
Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Made a Difference by Bob Breving (Kerr) $9.00
Emergent Publics: An Essay on Social Movements and Democracy by Ian Angus (Arbeiter Ring) $9.95
Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by various (Falling Wall) $9.99
Intervention Series 9: Atta by Jarett Kobek (Semio) $12.95
Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy by Christian Marazzi (Semio) $15.95

CHILDRENS!
Secret World of Terijian (Crimethinc) $6.00

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99
Fortean Times #278 Sep 11 $11.99
Under the Influence #9 2011 La Folie Issue $19.50
Plazm #30 $10.00

SEX & SEXY!
Housewives at Play #20 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95

OTHER STUFF!
Write Here $8.00 – Nice blank journal made by Cindy Crabb of Doris fame. And P.S.: Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on here Sat, Sep 3rd, 7pm to celebrate her new book, The Encyclopedia of Doris, which brings together the last 10 years of zines and a ton of new writing as well.

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 9, 2011 0 Comments

1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – I read this straight through right before I went to sleep the other night and had an INTENSE NIGHTMARE ABOUT RAMEN. Woke up hungry. -EF

2. Under the Radar #37 $5.99

3. 8-Track Mind #101 Zines vs Blogs By Russ Forster $3.00 – After a 10-year hiatus 8-Track Mind heeds the call of the Revenge of Print and pulls a fresh new issue out of the oven!

4.  Bitch #51 $5.95

5. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00

6. So Raw its Downright Filthy: A Raw Vegan Cookbook by Joshua Ploeg (Microcosm) $4.00 – Weirdo delicious recipes that also happen to be raw.

7. Mountain Wilds by Jay Krevens $6.00 – Jay moved to the Portland and just sent us some new scenic love of misty lore and cabin crafts, looming, owling, bear worship and astral travails. Accordian folded booklet has crafts on one side and mountainscape panorama on the reverse. -EF


8. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00

9. Readin and Fightin #3 Mental Health/Education Issue – Insisting on Literature by Women of Color by Camille Yarnover $1.50 – Thoughtful post-collegiate musings from a New Haven zinester exploring issues of race, edication and mental health and how they intersect. -LM

10. Tiny Bangs #1 by Olivia Horvath $5.00 – This is the build: Emily, with a swarm of hair, working as a nude model, feels the twinges of coming apart at the seams. On her psychic wavelength are her lover Bea full of balance calm and touch and the drawing teacher Ben, smitten and shy. Moody with the light changing like clouds rolling in. -EF