Monthly Archive for June, 2010

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Eugene Nelson Jr. Reads From Covert Operations: Alpha

Jul ’10
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7:00 pm

Covert Operations: AlphaWhen asked about his influences, Eugene Nelson Jr. points to three enduring sources: growing up on the Southside of Chicago in the 1970s and 80s, playing Role Playing Games with people all over Chicago, and loving my family everyday. Not a likely combination for a writer, but one that has brought forth Covert Operations: Alpha (AuthorHouse Publishing), a debut book that is filled with action, love, friendship, death, mystery, humor, magic, betrayal, technology and vengeance. All set here in the back drop of Chicago. Fast paced and intriguing, Covert Operations: Alpha’s science fiction marks the difficulties of everyday life in a world that has evolved into a powerful society filled with powerful beings. This book will wake up every brain cell you have in an effort to understand each character and their actions. Just when you think you understand something, everything will change and so will your understanding. This is the thinking man’s book and you will enjoy every moment of it. So check your equipment at the door and get ready for the time of your life as you are introduced to the world of Covert.

Bad attitudes meet sophisticated intelligence, and underground crime meets big business in this involving debut book. Eugene Nelson Jr.’s complicated characters and rude cut offs in Covert Operations: Alpha evoke a self-absorbed population. Eugene Nelson Jr., who still lives in Chicago, works from home now and spends most of his time creating new and exciting tales from his role playing game by the same name of Covert Operations.

For more info: http://covertoperationsalpha.com/

Quimby’s T-Shirts!

Quimby's employee not included.

Quimby's employee not included.

QUIMBY’S T-SHIRTS?!  Ahem.  I mean, Quimby’s T-Shirts.  For the first time since Quimby’s arrived on your home planet of Earth, you can wear our family crest on your chest!  We decided to go pretty simple for our maiden voyage into the world of wearables: our logo (designed by the mighty and valiant Chris Ware) printed 5″ on black, pre-shrunk 100% cotton shirts.

These little treasures were printed just down the street at our neighbors’ Broken Cherry, and we’ve got a bunch of them in an assortment of sizes:

Ladies’: X Large, Large, Medium, Small

Men’s: XX Large, X Large,
Large, Medium, Small

Ankle Biters’: Size 2, 3, 4, 5/6

You can stop by and exchange $14.99 for it. Or if visiting the store would involve a plane ticket, you can always make us do all the work (with a little help from the United States Postal Service) by ordering it here.

Weekly Top 10 & a Cool Photo

We went to pick up books from the Independent Publishers Group warehouse on the south side. They had conveyer belts all over the place. It was like a highway system. We figured they wouldn’t let us take a ride on it, so we took a picture of it to show you how cool it looks.

IPG Warehouse

IPG Warehouse

And here’s this week’s top 10 bestsellers here at Quimby’s:

1. Is It THE FUTURE Yet by Mucha Corinne $3.00 – A Quimbys Bookstore exclusive edition!

2. Blue Yodel No 8 mm by Lamb $2.00 – Images from a reel shooting spree. Shooting film, that is.

3. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell Press) $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

4. Juxtapoz #113 Jun 10  $5.99

5. Giant Robot #65 $4.99

6. Bitch #47 $5.95

7. Squinty #1  by Sua Y00 $5.00

8. Poop by Sam Sharpe $2.00

9. Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac $6.00

10. Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – New comic for local artist superstar.