Monthly Archive for July, 2010

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Joey Comeau Reads From One Bloody Thing After Another

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7:00 pm

One Bloody Thing

One Bloody Thing After Another is a funny, strange, and sad book about the horror of losing family, and the things people will do to hold on. Jackie’s mother, who died of cancer, is still around. Glowing in the dark, vomiting into the toilet, but nobody else can see her. And Jackie has a crush on a girl named Ann, though Ann has other things to worry about. Her own mother and sister have turned into violent creatures, and she has to keep them locked in the basement so they won’t hurt anyone. But they need to be fed living things, so Ann starts hunting neighbourhood pets. She’s against this idea, but, you know, family is important.

Joey Comeau, writes the comic A Softer World, which has appeared in The Guardian and been profiled in Rolling Stone. He’s the author of Overqualified and Lockpick Pornography. You can find him online at http://www.asofterworld.com.

“The tone is poignant, sometimes wistful, and deadpan funny . . . The novel is more eccentric than gory, and what’s really shocking about it is that all the mayhem is finally about family ties, both severed and reconnected.” — Booklist

“Canadian author Comeau, best known for his darkly surreal Web comic, A Softer World, turns his adaptable talents to overt horror in this oddly touching novel of ghosts, friendship, bloody secrets, and family relationships. . . . the crescendos of terror are leavened by moments of unexpected humor and warmth.” — Publishers Weekly

For more info: http://www.ecwpress.com/onebloodything

Call out to self-publishers Re: Printers’ Ball

The Printers’ Ball, Chicago’s biggest celebration for printed matter is just around the corner:

July 30th from 6pm to 11pm to be precise.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Printers’ Ball, imagine a free party full of books, magazines, zines, comics, periodicals, etc. etc. all for the taking!  Sounds too good to be true?  Well, it’s not.

Quimby’s is contributing special grab bags to the event, mystery bundles full of self-published comics, zines and books! Of course we need to fill them with something, so that’s why we’re sending a call out to our consignors:

HEY CONSIGNORS!

We’re looking for donations for Printers’ Ball Grab Bags.
Drop off copies of your zine/comics/books by Monday July 26!
Please specify it’s for the Printers’ Ball Grab Bags

If you’re not a consignor, but make zines (et al) that you would like to have included in these bundles, you’re welcome to do that too.  But I gotta ask, why aren’t you consigning with us?

See You at the Ball!

Weekly Top 10

Sonja Ahlers

Sonja Ahlers

The lovely artist Sonja Ahlers (left) came through Quimby’s this spring. She presented her wonderful art book The Selves (Drawn & Quarterly).

Here’s this week’s top 10:

1. Lose #1 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Klassick Komicks going through DeForge’s leperous Canadian meat grinder and fine line work going gleefully awry. Seriously, do not miss out on this one. -EF
2. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? Well, I predict you will fall madly in love with Corinne’s amazing new mini-comic, Is It the Future Yet?, which she made ‘specially for Quimby’s! I see you laughing out loud at the fresh psychic hijinx and time-travel schemes that grace every delightful page. I can see your love for this comic growing rich, deep, and strong and you will find it brings you much good luck and happiness as years go by…Yes, my friend, the future looks very bright indeed!
3. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Bacterial throwdown-throwup in this new beautifully drawn book mostly about -what else- deadly festering horse parasites. Love it. -EF
4. Paul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher (Gallery) $15.00
5. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95 – William Ayers is a school reform activist, Distinguished Professor, and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ryan Alexander-Tanner is an art teacher and a Xeric Award-winning comic artist.
6. Hypertheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99
7. Taffy Hips #7 by Zara Messano and Gil Gentile $3.00 – Yow- Good to get these newsprint hips, a nice pure comics section shakedown with Margaret Powers, Gil Gentile, Jaime Kanzler, Pat Aulisio, Patrick Kain, Zoe Kraus, Katja Tukiainen, Austin English, Zara Messano, Jon Chandler, Ian Harker, Jose-Luis Olivares, Melissa Mendes, Chuck Forsman, Zak M, Blaise Larmee, Cella Costanza and Jack Rohman. -EF
8. Flesh and Bone by Julia Gfrorer (Sparkplug)$6.00
9. Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, Second Edition by Nicolas Collins (Routledge)$34.95
10. Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC (Chronicle) $16.95

Holiday Hours & New Stuff This Week

Yes! We will be open Sunday, July 4th, but with abbreviated hours: noon-5pm.

But Jeremy Tinder will not. He will be out walking his duck umbrella.

But Jeremy Tinder will not be here. He will be out walking his duck umbrella.

New Stuff This Week:

Zines
Meniscus #17 by Matt Fagan $2.00 – Local zinester in the house. Well, not exactly in our house, per se, but down the street at a different house.
Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark #5 Final Issue $2.00
Queery the Zine Compiled at Queery: A Radical Queer Arts Convergence October 10, compiled by caro zee eliot iah antonia and malic $1.00
East Village Inky #44 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Its Curtains #2 $1.00
Pop Song Living $1.00
God Save the Zine #1 and #2 by Harrison Rosenberg $1.00 each
Cowans Gap #1 by J. Macqueen and Nate East $4.00
Geopo Magazine #1 $10.00

Zine-related Books
Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83 by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion) $29.95 – Celebrate the release of this anthology with the editors of this famous zine, here at Quimby’s on Sat, July 17th!
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Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Le Croisic Our Night in a French Phone Booth and Other Stories by Justin Hall (All Thumbs Press) $4.00
Dirty Drawings by Justin Hall (All Thumbs Press) $4.00
Boring to the Punchline by Matt Fagan $1.00 – From the creator of the always hilarious Meniscus zine and the comic Love.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #12 $3.99
Eschew #2 by Robert Sergel (Sparkplug) $5.00
Jin & Jam #1 by Hellen Jo (Sparkplug) $5.00
Rock That Never Sleeps Two Stories of Lost Memories by Olga Volozova and Juliacks (Sparkplus) $6.00
Windy Corner #3 bu Austin English (Sparkplug) $11.00
I Still Live: Biography of a Spiritualist by Annie Murphy $7.00 – Xeric Grant winner!
Reich #7 by Elijah Brubaker (Sparkplug) $4.00
Old Time Taxidermy A Minimalist How To In Preseving Birds (Sparkplug) $7.00
Limbs of the Megalith by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug) $2.00

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft vol 1 by var. (Image) $16.99
R Crumb Trading Cards $11.95
Herbie 7 inch Vinyl Figure $39.99
Beasts of Burden Animal Rites HC by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson (Dark Horse) $19.99
Shade The Changing Man vol 3 Scream Time by var. (Marvel) $19.99
Ten Thousand Things To Do a Diary Comic by Jesse Reklaw $20.00
Rick Geary’s Treasury of Victorian Murder graphic novels: Saga of the Bloody Benders, Mystery of Mary Rogers, and The Murder of Abraham Lincoln (various prices)

Politics/Revolution Books
Poetics of Resistance: The Revoltionary Public Relations of the Zapatista by Jeff Conant (AK) $20.00

Fiction/Poetry Books
Journeymen by James Jay (Gorsky) $13.95 and Hanging Gardens of Split Rock by Mike Faloon (Gorsky) $13.95 – Don’t miss both of them at Quimby’s with Jonathan Messinger on Sat, July 10th!
Paul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher, with illustrations by Jeffrey Brown (Gallery) $15.00
Kraken HC by China Mieville (Ballantine), hardcover $26.00
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller (Stop Smiling/Melville House) $18.95 – OK so not actually fiction, but ABOUT the famous science fiction writer, by a biographer that followed him everywhere. And then reviewed his own book for Time Out Chicago! We think that’s a hoot!

Art, Design and Photography Books
666 Photography: Virgin Queens and High Camp Divas (KoKorero) $39.95 – is an Austin, Texas based company that specializes in retro/vintage photography.
Pen to Paper by Pictoplasma $39.95
Poet by Clare Rosean $35.00
Velo: Bicycle Culture and Design (DGV) $50.00
Beyond The Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, ed. by var. (DGV) $78.00

Magazines/Literary Journals
Nimrod Review vol 1 #2 Dec 09 Bump in the Night $2.00
Taps paraMagazine vol 6 #3 $5.95
Cabinet #37 Bubbles $12.00
Sovereign #13 Jul 10 $3.95
Hobo Magazine #12 $12.95
Raw Vision #69 $14.00
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #2 $6.25
Neural #36 $8.00
Bomb #112 Sum 10 $7.95
In These Times Jul 10 $3.50
Coilhouse #5 $12.99
Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 10 vol 34 #4 $4.95
Treating Yourself #23 $7.99
Tabu Tattoo #42 $7.99
Contributor Magazine #1 Spr Sum 10 $11.99
Eulogy #1 Jul 10 $9.50 – New outer-limits mag for yawl weirdos out there.
Taddle Creek Summer 2010 $4.95
After Hours #20 & #21 Sum 10 Combo Issue A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art, 10th Anniversary Issue $12.00


Music Books

Everybodys Scene: The Story of Connecticuts Anthrax Club by Chris Daily (Butter Goose Press) $18.00
Why Be Something That You’re Not?: Detroit Hardcore 1979 to 1985 by Tony Rettman (Revelation Books) $16.00
Anti Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post Punk and Hardcore Reader by Norman Brannon (Revelation Books) $15.00

Sexy Stuff
Big Butt Book ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $59.99
Virgin Project #2 by var. (Coffeetown) $12.50 – Oops- looks like you lost something….

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Also:
Eating The Dinosaur SC by Chuck Klosterman
Suck It Wonder Woman The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek HC by Olivia Munn (St. Mart) $23.99
Record Coasters 4 pack $12.00 – Made to look like an album called “Keep it Clean” by the Watermarks. Ha. Get it?
Chicago Police Tshirt $20.00 – Has Mickey Mouse, in a bag with some DVD action. In multiple sizes!
Not New This Week But New to Our Website For Purchase:

Jumbly Junkery #9 by L. Nichols $5.00 – L. Nichols’ scratchy rag doll comics are often punctuated with mathematic or physics diagrams, sometimes with a goofball style, sometimes totally serious, always exposing the endearing inner nerd force driving the sort-of-stressed-out ramble through the Jumbly Junkery. The cover looks good next to your copies of Buzz– totally fly! -EF

Coloring Book for the Deranged Mind Government Issued 2nd Edition by Keenan Marshall Keller $6.00 – Brought to you by the American Psychotics for Psychedelics Association. Need I say more? -EF

Down and Derby The Insiders Guide to Roller Derby by var. (Soft Skull) $14.95 – This insider’s derby guide is an intro, a love letter and a cheeky, dishy guide to the fierce world of rollin’. It almost makes me want to kiss my teeth goodbye and strap a pair on. -EF

End of the City A Book of Afterwards by Oso Arcilla $4.00 – Nice, crisp poetry, like a tidy apartment or a wet forest floor, and touching on a little of everything. An especilly good one is about chilly pumpkin guts and another treat weaves about the rough edges of a drunken romancing, full of fine moments, pauses, twists. -EF

In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contaceptive Choices For Women by Laura Eldridge (Seven Stories) $21.95 – This book urges readers to consider the environmental impacts of each method and to take part in a dialogue on how international reproductive health issues affect us all.

Aorta #3 Radical Art Magazine – Formerly Art XX, let this throbbing Aorta pump some feminist art blood through your creative veins. This issue features a wide range of artist’s projects, portfolios and interviews: Dusty Horn, Christy Road, Mary Christmas, Jennie Ottinger, Daphne Gottlieb, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Larisa Escobedo, Judith Page, Amy Casey, among lots others. -EF

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets (Ten Spreed) $35.00 – An introduction to the bioremediation potential of mushrooms with a far-reaching scope, Stamets passionately lays out how mycelial networks nourish our ecosystems and break down toxins both inside and outside our bodies. Did you know mycelial pathways can work symbioticlly with other plants to redirect nutrients to where they’re needed most? Or that mushrooms can be used to process the huge amounts of septic sludge generated by factory farming? I didn’t either until I read Mycelium Running, a truly eye-opening book that makes deep connections about ecological cycles of rot and regrowth. Important, digestible, home-grown- I’m pretty sure this hippie science is onto something. -EF

Dirty Hands #1 by David Alvarado $5.00 – A Sketchbook full of barf faces, Matt Furie-esque maniacal meatballs, vile non-sequitors and a great drawing of the old “floating finger” trick. -EF

Octopus Pie: There Are No Stars in Brooklyn by Meredith Gran (Villard) $17.00 – Youthful drama and shenanigans collected into a beefy book that shares a penchant for rockers, choppy haircuts and zippy one-liners with Robin Enrico’s minicomix.

Secret Beach #2 Gay Issue by Liam Warfield $3.00 – Love this zine. Liam “Idiot” Warfield sends us some good gay love from his new hometown of Berlin with this Chicago-homo-centric follow up to last year’s Secret Beach #1. Warfield’s reporting balances journalistic frankness and honest awe for his subjects – this round Andy Thayer, Elijah Burgher, and the band ONO. Well done and heartfelt. -EF

Whore Eyes by var. $10.00 – 3 New Mind Disintegration art zines festering away in the same envelope together like an oddly beautiful infected wound. There’s some rough rub-ups happening: Waliszewska’s little girls play some Dargerous games, Pierson topsy-turvys his Hollywood glossys and Lampinen comes in and blows everything to smithereens. That’s right, smithereens. Dare you to put the CD sampler on. -EFwhoreeyes3

Quimby’s Nominated Best Bookstore By Time Out Chicago!

Shopping Awards BallotQuimby’s Bookstore has been nominated by Time Out Chicago as best bookstore in Chicago! To help us attain the top title, we’ll need your vote! So go vote for us at timeoutchicago.com/shoppingawards. Thanks!