Monthly Archive for December, 2010

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New Stuff This Week

Published on December 11, 2010 1 Comment

Fabulous new things available this week including new issues of Proximity and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 33 1/3 series books about Radiohead’s Kid A and Slint’s Spiderland, outer limits books about extraterrestrials and Atlantis, and more!

ZINES!
Son of Bing Short Stories by Dan Gleason $2.00
Spacenipple The Strange Retractions of Orbiting by Virginia Visker with help from Josh Doster $6.00 – Weirdo collage.
Toucan #9 win 10 $3.00
KerBloom #87 by ArtNoose $2.00
I Want To Tell You About Some Events by Jarrett Mitchell $6.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #3 A Shotgun Named Ambition by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Rise and Fall: A Concertina of Life by Micah Lidberg (Adhouse) $16.00
Letters I Will Never Send To You #6 The Longest August by Morgan Inez $3.00
Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
Robert Walser Literary Hero by Brian Allnutt $1.75
Shiny Things on the Ground #1 by Brandt Schmitz $2.00

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Banana Slug by Leslie Perrine $2.00
Milk and Moo BY Yumi Sakugawa (Sparkplug) $5.00
Study Group 12 #4 (Sparkplug) $20.00 – A great anthology with a ton of artists, edited by Zack Soto. Colorful stories and illustrations from T Edward Bak, Chris Cilla, Farel Dalrymple, Vanessa Davis, Amy Kuttab, Blaise Larmee, Tom Neely and more!Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch and Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00
Pood #2 $4.00
Fathers and Wolves #1 by Sophie Goldstein $4.00
Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00
C by Lizz Hickey $5.00
Taffy Hips #8 by Zara Messano by Gil Gentile $8.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (D&Q) $19.95
Unexplored Worlds Steve Ditko Archives vol 2 (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Graphic Cosmogony: 24 Artists Take on 7 Pages to Tell Their Tales of the Creation (Adhouse) $38.00
Too Much Crazy by Tom Tomorrow (Soft Skull) $14.95

DIY & CONSUMPTION!
Singing To the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan V Beyer (UofNM) $29.99 – Planning a trip?

FICTION!
Fiction at Work Biannual Report (Green Lantern)  $10.00
Fever Chart by Bill Cotter (McSweeney’s) $14.00 – Now in soft cover.

MAGAZINES!
Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00
Yeti #10 $11.95
Tokion Factory Art of Beauty Issue $3.99
High Times Feb 11 $5.99
In These Times Dec 10 $3.50
Progressive Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.95
Big Takeover #67 $5.99
Shindig vol 2 #19 Nov Dec 10 $9.99
Sneaker Freaker #19 $13.99
RFD #144 $9.95

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #26 Dec 10 $5.00

POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Essential Works of Lenin: What Is to be Done and Other Writings (Dover) $12.95
Signs of Change Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now – Exit Art (Serpents Tale) by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee $28.95
Outsider: My Quest for Justice by Adam Delgado $10.00

MUSIC BOOKS!
Cheetah Chrome A Dead Boys Tale from the Front Lines of Punk Rock by Cheetah Chrome (Voyageur) $24.00
White Bicycles Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd (Serpents Tale) $14.95
I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil (Touchstone) $15.99 – Now in soft cover.
Kraftwerk Music Non Stop by Sean Albiez and David Pattie (Continuum) $24.95
33 1/2 Series: Slint’s Spiderland by Scott Tennent (Continuum) $12.95
33 1/2 Series: Radiohead’s Kid A by Marvin Lin (Continuum) $12.95

MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS
Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions and Occult Revelations by Joscelyn Godwin (Inner Traditions) $19.95
Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and The Coming New Race by Len Kasten (Bear) $18.00
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (U of NM) $34.95 – Back in stock!
Bento Bestiary by Ben Newman and Scott Donsaldson (Adhouse) $20.00
My Year of Flops: One Mans Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure by Nathan Rabin (S&S) $15.00
Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia (S&S) $24.00

OTHER STUFF!
30 Zombie Temporary Tattoos by Mitch O’Connell (Chronicle) $9.95
LaPorte Indiana DVD $20.00 – You loved the book. Now enjoy the movie!
Underground Multiplex Mix DVD by Joseph Lewis $15.00

2011: Revenge of Print Pops Up Elsewhere Too!

Published on December 8, 2010 2 Comments

If you’ve been following our blog you know that 2011 has been declared the Revenge of Print, because we’re all tired of “the end of publishing as we know it” stories. Revenge of Print is a campaign to get as many people as possible to self-publish in 2011. We’ve been seeing it pop up in a whole variety of places, and we stumbled on to some more places too!

Yes, there’s a group for it on Facebook. Yeah, it’s been Tweeted. But it’s also been posted on  Microcosm Publishing’s site. And now there’s a wemakezines group!

Maybe you’ve been putting off another issue of your zine. Perhaps you’ve never printed one. Why not commit? Pledge your allegiance to it Facebook. And yes, the irony of posting it there is not lost on us. But still! Announce it to the world so that you’re forced to zine-i-fy.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on December 7, 2010 0 Comments

1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. Spiral-bound.

2. Brilliant Mistake #2 by Carrie $1.00 – Carrie’s second issue lays it bare, rips it raw, burns, shreds and begins to rebuild a devastated heart. Reading Brilliant Mistake #2 cuts to the chase and takes you right there – that place of the furious senselessness of love in tatters – and through reading it you sort out your own wreckage. Trial by fire, and feeling it hard. -EF

3. Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99

4. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
5. Slingshot 2011 Pocket Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. All in perfect-bound pocket-size form.

6. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

7. Peters Muscle by Michael Deforge $1.00 – More sick sauce from DeForge, this round is a Freudian take on what gets that Spider Sense a-tingling. -EF

8. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago By Laura Szumowski $7.95
9. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

10. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt  (Pigeon Press) $6.95

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 4, 2010 0 Comments

Ooo la la! So much cool stuff we’re bursting out of our lederhosen. A new issue of Wholphin, Show Me the Money, new comics from Lisa Hanawalt and Matt Furie, the Gaylord Phoenix graphic novel, the new Achewood book and more! Details below.

ZINES!
Show Me The Money #33 $2.50 – Still going!
So Me and You Are Reading This Zine #3 and You’re All Like Whoa This Is Great by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
Lean Mean Teen Machine #1  $1.00 – A zine by local preteens!
School #2 Women and Japanese Culture $12.00
Cryptozoology: A Pragmatists Guide $6.00 – The cutest crptozoology guide you’ll ever read.
Christmas Dream by C. Uphues $1.00
Life During Wartime #9 CD Audio Zine: The True Story of Finding a Lost Velvet Underground Acetate At A Yard Sale $5.00
Tales of the Unexplained by Aaron Manczyk $4.00

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95
Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00
Elf World vol 2 #1 ed. by Francois Vigneault (Family Style) $6.00 – With comics from Grant Reynolds, Alec Longstreth, Dash Shaw, Sammy Harkham and more!
It’s a Wonderful Strife by Nick Drnaso $5.00
RASL #9 by Jeff Smith $3.50
I Don’t Understand Farming #4 $.75
I Heart Cereal by Tony Rabit $1.00
Chili Dog Dad by Hazel Newlevant $4.00
Yellow Comics #1 by Erik Schneider $2.00
Malaise Trap by Jack Bracken and Reid Psaltis $3.00
Carry On Carrion – A Crow Funeral by Reid Psaltis $4.00
Cycling: A Guide to Menstruation by Laura Szumowski $12.95 – Are you there, God? It’s me, a cool comic about getting my period.
Chronicles of Edgebright and Leofwyn #2 by Jim Terry $3.00
Lets Fuck Like We Haven’t Been Married For the Last 40 Years by Aaron Manczyk $3.00 – Have you seen that documentary The Lifestyle? This book is sorta a lot like that movie, only less potluck dinners. -EF

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – By or Edie! Maybe if yer nice he’ll sign it for you if he’s working. Celebrate the release of it here at Quimby’s on 12/9 and 7pm!
Achewood vol 3 A Home For Scared People by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $16.99
Rise of the American Comics Artist Creators and Contexts by Williams and Lyons (U of Miss) $28.00
Fables vol 14 Witches by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $17.99

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Ten x Ten: A Collaboration Between Chicago Bands and Printmakers (Spudnik Press/Homeroom) $30.00 – A suite of ten fine art prints by Chicago artists to accompany ten songs of exclusive tracks by Chicago bands. Includes 10″ x 10″, 3-color prints and a super special secret code to download the songs. Songs by Locks, Max Alexander, The Late Model Races, Strictly Jug Nuts, Sky Event, Netherfriends, Nones, Christine Kick and Jason Adasiewicz. Prints by Dee Clements, Sanya Glisic, Kathleen Judge, Angee Lennard, Onsmith, Colin Palombi, Joey Potts, Grant Reynolds, Tom Smith and Sonnenzimmer. Perhaps this image featuring some of the art will wet yer whistle?

Fontology Free Fonts Source Book (Promo Press) $34.95
Private Zone Sketchbook by Stu Mead $40.00

DIY & CONSUMPTION!
Soil Mates: Companion Planting For Your Vegetable Garden by Sara Alway (Quirk) $16.95

FICTION!
Tales of The Bagman – A New Pulp Hero In Old Chicago by BC Bell $21.95
City of the Gods – Return of Quetzalcoatl by Patrick Garone $15.00

MAGAZINES!
Wax Poetics #44 Nov Dec 10 $9.99
Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99
Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
Fortean Times #269 Jan 11 $11.99

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
10 Love Poems by Jason Sturner $5.00

CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz (PM Press) $10.00
Struwwelpeter Or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffman (Pavilion) $14.99 – Wanna give your kid some nightmares? Here’s your chance.

POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker and Anne Hamersky (Chronicle) $27.50 – Dan Tucker of local free newspaper AREA and friends.
Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell (Free Press) $27.00
Blowing Smoke: Why The Right Keeps Serving up Whack Job Fantasies About The Plot by Michael Wolraich (Da Capo) $25.00

MUSIC BOOKS!
Mosh Potatoes: Recipes Anecdotes and Mayhem From the Heavyweights of Heavy Metal by Steve Seabury (AtriA) $15.00 – Recipes from Zakk Wylde, Lemmy, Guns & Roses, Lamb of God, Moth Eater, Shadows Fall, Anthrax, Testament, Overkill, Pantera and more. Hilarious and delicious. With an introduction by Chef Luke Tobias from Kumas’s Corner here in Chicago!

MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
Neo Bohemia: Art and Commerce In the Postindustrial City Second Edition by Richard Lloyd (Routledge) $34.95 – About Wicker Park! Now with updated info. Maybe pair it with the Hipster Mustache ($4.00)and What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation ($10.00). Now with more skinny jeans.

OTHER STUFF!
Wholphin #12 DVD $19.95
Stinckers 3 Pack Stickers by World Famous Cartoonists $3.00 – Stickers by Johnny Ryan, Esther Pearl Watson, MATS!? and more.
Typewriter Animals Calendar 2011 by Nathan Veach $6.00
2011 Never Sleeping Calendar Poster Antler Boy by Ben Chlapek $15.00
Snake Goddess Print by Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi $5.00
Gift To Winter DVD: The Story of the Winter Solstice Puppet Collective $10.00

Suggested Holiday Gift: ‘Za The Pizza Zine

Published on December 2, 2010 0 Comments

Perhaps you love pizza? But you missed the ‘Za The Pizza Zine event here at Quimby’s on November 10th with cutie Nicki Yowell (below) and friends? Well, you may have missed the event, but you can still get the zine here at Quimby’s. It’s a great stocking get-stuffed stuffer. Click on this sentence or the picture on the left to get a sloppy slice of this hot pizza-themed zine!