Monthly Archive for August, 2016

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New Stuff This Week

Cards Against Humanity & friends! #quimbys #cardsagainsthumanity

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Cards Against Humanity & friends shelf! The fine folks at CAH said that they were getting inundated with requests to visit their office. They regretted that they were not able to accomodate and thought it might help if they sent people here to Quimby’s to see their offerings as well as things written, created and published by the folks that work there. Come check out their display here to check out their offerings. You’ll find not just the game itself and all six expansion packs but also such readables as: Your Emails Are Bad and You Should Feel Bad $5.00 – Hilarious e-mails CAH has received. Fisticuffs: A Card Game by the Nerdologues $20.00. Themed CAH expansion packs with such themes as: Fantasy, Geek, 90s Nostalgia ($5.00 each). Handbook by Kevin Budnik $20.00 – A recent offering from the talented and local comics artist. Descartes’ Meditations, Bro: A Retelling of Meditations on First Philosophy by Tommy Maranges $15.00 – If Cliff Notes were hilarious and fun, this would be them. Maxistentialism issues #1-#3 by Max Temkin $5.00 – Exactly what you want it to be. Here’s a thoughtful dude!
*ZINES & ZINE-RELATED*

East Village Inky #57 by Ayun Halliday $3.00

Library Excavations Correctional Advertising 1979-1989 by Marc Fischer (Temporary Services) $6.00 – These are all ads featured in magazines for the correctional institute trade. People who work in prisons, this is their magazine. And it is for real. And also, surreal.

Living Southerners #4 July 16 by J Wu $2.00

Ultimate Guide to the Chicago Public Library You Media Teens by W. Mack $2.00

Calling For Zine Doantions by Claire $2.00

Grub #2 Jun 16 Food and More $4.00

Stressed and Overwhelmed Good Habits for the Exhausted Overachiever by Elly Blue $3.00

Xerography Debt #38 & #39 $4.00 each

Sprouts: Live Well with Living Foods by Ian Giesbrecht $9.95

Letters I’ll Never Send #1 A Personal Study by Brittany Meyer $6.00

Young Thug, John Cage and Other Musical Visionaries by Mia $2.00

Slash: A Punk Magazine from Los Angeles 1977-1980 edited by Brian Roettinger and JC Gabel (Hat & Beard Press) $60.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Trash City #1 $6.00 – With work from such mini-comics luminaries as Samuel Nigrosh, Clay Hickson, Carrie Vinarsky and more!

Fridge Zone by Bobby Sims $6.00

Elsewhere #1 by Lindsay Mathers $5.00

Save Our Souls Magazine #2 by David Ziggy Greene $9.25

Forty Eight Hour Lies by Adrienne Bazir $5.00

Mini Kus issues! $5.00 each:
#38 Three Sisters by Ingrida Pickane
#39 Unwell by Tara Booth
#40 1944 by Hanneriina Moisseinen
#41 Eyez by Aisha Franz
#42 Alien Beings by Laura Kenins

S #24 Baltic Comics Magazine Feb 16 & S #25 Baltic Comics Magazine Jul 16, $12.00 each

Shh by Ellissa Jane $12.00

Murder by the Pound #1 Shadow the Dog Detective by Scott Lee Sharp $8.00

This issues #1 & #2 by Evil Nemec $4.00 each

Kaan and the Heavy Metal Lords of War by Victor Puchalski $2.99

Island #9 Story by Matt Sheean, art by Brandon Graham $7.99

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Cosplayers Perfect Collection by Dash Shaw (Fantagraphics) $22.99

She’s Not into Poetry: Mini Comics 1991 through 1996 by Tom Hart $14.95

Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire $29.99

March Book 3 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $19.99

Otherworld Barbara vol 1 by Moto Hagio (Fantagraphics) $39.99

Growing Up in Public by Ezequiel Garcia (Fantagraphics) $22.99

End of A Fence by Roman Muradov $12.00

Miss US of Heya by Menorah Horwitz (Floating World) $12.00

*OUTER LIMITS & MAYHEM*

Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama $16.99

Man in the Monster: Inside the Mind of A Serial Killer by Martha Elliott $17.00

Vile: Peeking Under the Skin of Murderers by Benjamin S. Jeffries (Schiffer) $24.99

UFOs Over America by Joseph Flammer (Schiffer) $19.99

*FICTION*

Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers $28.95

This Might Hurt A Bit by Steve Silver $12.95

Dahlia Cassandra: A Novel by Nathaniel Kressen $16.00

Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann $35.00

Descending Memphis by Robert R. Moss $12.99

City On Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg $17.00

*MUSIC, TV & FILM BOOKS*

Sick on You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats, The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard of by Andrew Matheson (Blue Rider Press) $16.00

Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Campy Cult Classic by Dave Thompson $19.99

Twin Peaks FAQ: All Thats Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange by David Bushman and Arthur Smith $19.99

*ESSAYS*

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson $16.00 – Now in soft cover!

I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir by Nadja Spiegelman $27.00 – By the daughter of Art and Françoise Spiegelman.

*SCIENCE!*

Women in Science: Fifty Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky $16.99

*FOOD*

The Seitanic Spellbook: Recipes and Rantings of the Vegan Black Metal Chef by Brian Manowitz, illustrated by Jenny Ashford (L’Age D’Homme) $25.00

*MAGAZINES*

Razorcake #93 $4.00

Juxtapoz #188 Sept 16 $6.99

Tattoo Life #101 $9.99

Atlantis Rising #119 Egypts Obelisk Mystery $6.95

Ghetto Blaster #44 $4.50

AdBusters #127 vol 24 #5 Sep Oct Year of Living Dangerously $14.99

Mojo #273 The Smiths 50 Greatest Songs $10.99

*OTHER STUFF*

stickers by Corinne Halbert, $3.00 each:
Green Skull
Hail Mary

Thrive 2017 Nikki Mcclure Calendar $18.00

& yeah, yeah, yeah, more Moleskinne planners and notebooks.

OH! WE HAVE AIR CONDITIONING. Just sayin’.