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Monthly Archive for September, 2009
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Quimby’s shared a booth with Chicago Comics this past weekend for the Windy City Comic Con at the Center on Halsted, 9/18/09 (see below). For more pics, see here.
This is the top 10 bestsellers at Quimby’s for the week of 9/13/09-9/19/09:
1. Too Cool to Be Forgotten by Alex Robinson (Top Shelf) $14.95
2. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
3. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00
4. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin) $13.95
5. Alarm #35 $14.00
6. Mojo Oct 09 #191 $9.99
7. Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99
8. Monologuist Paper Blog Supplemental and Postcard Set by Anders Nilsen $10.95
9. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10. Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
One of our customers is trying to grow his own crop circle from a kit he bought here. Wish Gordon Meyer luck!
Here is new stuff for the week of 9/12/09-9/19/09:
McSweeneys #32 $24.00
Monologuist by Anders Nilsen $10.95 – Ooo la la! Comics and postcards! Hand-packaged.
Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters (Quirk)$12.95
Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99
This Is a Comic Book August 1-22 2009 $8.50 – This is a show catalog from a cool exhibit at the Mahan Gallery.
Independents: A Guide For the Creative Spirit DVD $24.99 – Indie comics peoples! This is a neato thingy.
N Plus 1 #8 Fall 09 Recessional $13.95
You Dont Get There From Here #12 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Reliably high quality comix from the artist behind The Assassin and the Whiner.
After Hours #19 Sum 09 $8.00 – Local literary journal.
Miranda #19 $2.00
The Comedians Sep 09 $4.50
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #9 $7.00
Fast Geek Reader by Charly Fasano $10.00
No More Bummers #4 $3.00
The First Line vol 11 #3 $3.00 – The little literary journal that could — still going strong! Every issue contains stories that all start with the same first line.
Watch the Closing Doors #48 $2.50 – Hip hip hooray for commuter zines!
Make #8 Sum Fall 09 $10.00 – Chicago-based lit journal.
Hot Type 30 Sheets of Typo Graphic Fabric Transfers by Macfadden and Thorpe (Chronicle) $12.95
One Hundred Years of Menswear, ed. by Cally Blackman (Laurence King) $40.00 – These are some slick fashion photos, ladies.
Graffiti New York by Eric DEAL CIA Felisbret (Abrams) $35.00
Dreaded Feast: Writers On Enduring The Holidays, ed. by Michelle Clarke and Taylor Pimpton (Abrams) $15.95
Spirit Animals: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Animal Companions, ed. by Stefanie Iris Weiss (Chronicle) $14.95 – With illustrations from such artists as Clare Rojas, Kyle Field, and more!
Map As Art Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katherine Harmon (Princeton) $45.00
Ultraviolet: 69 Blackout Posters From the Aquarian Age and Beyond, ed. Dan Donahue (Abrams) $22.50 – To glow in the dark while you get your Led on.
How to Be Inappropriate by Daniel Nestor (Soft Skull) $14.95 – Hilarious experimental fiction and non-fiction. Well, er, let’s just put it this way (for example): he reimagines the Terry Gross interview with Gene Simmons on Fresh Air as being with a robot Gene Simmons.
Special Forces: Gay Military Erotica by Phillip MacKenzie (Cleis) $14.95
Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Collection by DL King (Cleis) $15.95
Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames (Vertigo) $14.99 – Now in soft cover.
Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
Black Sabbatical by Brett Eugene Ralph (Sarabande) $14.95
Last Time As We Are by Taylor Mali (WriteBloody) $22.00
Adbusters #86 $8.95
Conspiracy Journal #28 $3.00
Treating Yourself #18 $7.99
Earwigs Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends by May R. Berenbaum (Harvard University Press) $23.95
New Literary History of America, ed. by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Belknap Press) $49.95
Endless Summer Print, drawn by Eamon Espey (Secret Acres) $10.00
Pop and Modern Petit Pattern Book (Bug News Network) $38.00 – Coolest clip art ever! In fact, we got a bunch in from this publisher and it blows away that Dover crap!
Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien (Blue Apple) $14.99 – Goin’ toe to toe for the cuteness title right up there with Jeffrey Brown’s cat drawings. We used to have Lark Pien’s mini comix years ago, and now here’s a collection with some full color awesomeness.
25000 Years Of Erotic Freedom by Alan Moore (Abrams) $22.50 – A history of erotic art as surveyed by the author of Watchmen and Lost Girls.
Shoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin (Melville House) $13.00
Talking Lines: The Graphic Stories of RO Blechman (Drawn & Quarterly) $29.95
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00
Off the Bus And On the Record 22 Candid Interviews By the Teen Journalists of the Rock Star Stories by various teenage reporters (Zest) $18.95
I’m One 21st Century Mods by Horst A. Friedrichs (Prestel) $35.00 – Photos of mods.
Illusive Contemporary Illustration Part III (Die Gestalten Verlag) $65.00 – We only got one, so race here to get it!
Naive: Modernism and Folklore In Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag) $50.00
We Make Magazines: Inside the Independents by Andrew Losowsky (Mike Koedinger) $50.00
| Oct ’09 |
| 16 |
| 7:00 pm |
Map of My Heart celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino’s seminal and influential comics zine, King-Cat Comics, which he began self-publishing in 1989, and which has been his predominant means of expression ever since. In this collection, Porcellino, while living in isolation and experiencing the pain of divorce, crafts a melancholic, tender graphic-ballad of heartbreak and reflection. Known for his sad, quiet honesty, rendered in his signature deceptively minimalist style, Porcellino has a command of graphic storytelling as sophisticated as the medium’s more visually intricate masters. Few other artists are able to so expertly contemplate the sadness, beauty, and wonder of life in so few lines.
John Porcellino was born in Chicago in 1968, and began drawing and writing at an early age, compiling his work into little hand-made booklets. His acclaimed self-published zine, King-Cat Comics and Stories, begun in 1989, has found a devoted worldwide audience, and is one of the most influential comics series of the past twenty years.
For more information please visit www.king-cat.net or www.drawnandquarterly.com.
Also on the bill is musician and poet PATRICK PORTER who will read from his work and perform an acoustic set.
“Beneath the crude linework and dream-journalism, Porcellino has crafted an affecting scrapbook of a part–time artist’s life. The decade-plus remove from these comics’ initial publication only adds another layer of poignancy, since so many of its concerns are those of a young man, unaccountably adrift in a decade geared towards his generation… A–”
—THE ONION AV CLUB
“Porcellino is a master at miniature poignance.” –ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
