Yearly Archive for 2011

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Weekly Top 10

Published on May 24, 2011 0 Comments

Once again, the Chester Brown book tops the list for bestsellers here. Dan Gleason’s new best of book is next, and would you believe, he’s on a greatest hits volume 3! Thanks to everybody that came out for his release event here at Quimby’s this past weekend.

1. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

2. Dear Sweetness – Dan Gleason’s Greatest Hits vol 3 $8.95 – It is once again time to bathe in the Living Light that is Dan Gleason. His generosity, wit, craftsmanship and sexual potency know no boundaries. His greatest hits are perhaps best likened to the secret treasures of the Vatican. Where there was one set of footsteps, my child, that is where Dan Gleason carried you. -EF

3. Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00

4. Boys Club #1 by Matt Furie (Buenaventura Press) $5.00 – A collection of Matt Furie’s latest mini-comics featuring teenage monsters Andy, Brett, Landwolf and Pepe: drinkin;, stinkin; and never thinkin’.

5. Diamond Comics #6 $4.00

6. AdBusters #95 vol 19 #3 May Jun 11 $8.95

7. Ready Made #53 Jun Jul 11 $4.95

8. Big Hands #8 by Aaron Smith $3.00 – How can you love a zine that’s tackling just about basically everything mediocre and obnoxious? In Big Hands #8 Aaron picks apart cubicle jobs, prowling around on Facebook, couples, dropping dollars at the club, the movie Juno, cliche party drama, and lord have mercy, that Black Eyed Peas song “I Gotta Feeling”, offering up a cultural critique that’s flexible and relevant without being bitchy or pre-determined. It’s like that phenomena where you hate the movie but love the Anthony Lane film review.

9. New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00 – Beastlord tackles social anxiety disorder leaving friends, syntax and party planning decimated in his wake. Also a nice little Wog comic too. Drawings that leave you wishing you had lotsa weird muscles or at least more lovely lady lumps. -EF

10. Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #5 Prince $3.00 – That’s right, you heard me right: Prince. Sixteen artists take that iconic ‘do and turn it into a symbol. -EF

New Stuff This Week

Published on May 21, 2011 0 Comments

So far the world hasn’t ended. So guess that means you’ll have to come in to look at new stuff and then in about an hour Dan Gleason will be here to celebrate the release of ‘Dear Sweetness – Dan Gleason’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 3’ and will feature the Great Mike McPadden (aka El McBeardo), noted diarist Grace LaPeruto, Gabriel Wallace, author of the Great Sheboygan Panty Raid of 18977, Gregory Jacobsen – he of the long flowing locks- and the late Marc Arcuri. See you at 7pm!

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Zine World A Readers Guide to the Underground #30 $4.00
Deutschland 77 by Kaitlin Kostus $4.00
Resist Rebel Defy by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
Manifesto to the Industrial Workers of the World by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
Manifesto de los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo Trabajadores Las Prisiones by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
Death Posture by Terrence Hannum and Scott Treleaven $20.00
Ablation by Terrence Hannum $15.00
Hilltown Experiment by Dr. Sarah Ingersoll $4.00
Spuzzed Out Bastard Son of the Sun by Jack Mulkern $4.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Masked Owls by Marian Runk $2.00
Leanne composition norcom by Marian Runk $5.00
New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00
From Light to Light #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
Tales From the Salmon #1 by Aland D. Caesar $6.00
Class Reunion #4 by Charlie Newton $2.50
Gang Bang Bong #2 by Ginette Lapalme and Ines Estrada $10.00 – Want a tremendous 100% solid anthology of experimental comics? GANG BANG BONG!!!! It’s like if Gary Panter raised 33 feral children, each one with a different diet of psychotropic drugs and B vitamins. Standout moments in a pile of great are Ana Albero’s cafeteria blues, Johnny Negron’s horny porny kool squirts, Abraham Díaz’s rat face dumpty chaos, and Aisha Franz’s fryin’ lion. There’s more too, like new work from house favorites Mickey Zacchilli. Michael DeForge, Lizz Hickey, Aidan Koch and Austin English. I’m more than happy to vouch for this one. -EF

Black Mass #5 by Kyle Patrick $5.00 – The build up to The Big Punk Off continues in furious dripper dropper style as Patrick Kyle’s Black Mass rages on. This issue is full of unsane ramble-ly tangents, which is the bloody beating spaghetti sauce heart of the series. The punks bicker over toilet lager, Bizarro Turdswallo sux a soul, Dingball flashes back to the charmed 40 that changed his game and Turdswallo Junior sorta undorks. Meanwhile, Turdswallo Proper gets his mojo back and thee punx swarm. There’s secrets, mutiny, goofy murder, shapes with no scientific name, fucked up drawings of the Crass logo, and maybe someone has some weed, too. On top of that, the plot is both funny and cohesive and the dialogue is so clowny, its fresh again. It’s tops, get all of theeze. -EF

Roots #1 by Alison Vellas $3.50
Stranger Two Stranger #1 May 11 by R. Hendricks $1.25
Layers #1 by Paul Walker $3.00
Tiny Bangs #1 by Olivia Horvath $5.00
Writing For Change May 11 $3.00
Alien Invasion #1 by Lauren Albert $5.00
Hattie et Millie #1 by Calvin Wong $2.00
Magus Pi #1 Root Ritual of the Goman by Randall Wayne Parker $2.50
Pick Me Up #1 by SWSS $3.00
Morning Song by Laura Terry $3.00
Heartbreak for Beginners by Laura Terry $4.00
Cat Came Back by Tim Stout and Laura Terry $2.00
BFF Best Friends Forever Ever Comic by Laura Terry $4.00
Impulse Sack $2.00
Poseur #5 by Nat Hoonsan $4.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Bay Area Graffiti 80s-90s Early Bombing by Sfaustina and Jocelyn Superstar (MBP) $50.00
Letter Fountain: The Anatomy of Type – Ultimate Typeface Reference Guide (Taschen) $69.99

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Take a Joke vol 3 of The Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Forget Sorrow an Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang (Norton) – With a lilting voice and a strongly etched fairy tale hand, writer/artist Yang weaves a riveting true-life tale of ancestral jealousies and familial woes from her father’s recollections of growing up in China.
Approximate Continuum Comics by Lewis Trondheim (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Liars Kiss by Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano (Top Shelf) $14.95
Yeah TPB by Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez (Norton) $19.99
Comics Comics Cartoons Drawn by Your Favorite Comedians, ed. by Erich Beasley (MBP) $14.95 – With original illustrations from the likes of Jeff Garlin, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Robert Smigel, Molly Shannon, Eugene Mirman, Jim Breuer, Max Brooks, Rob Cantrell, Julia Sweeney, Monty Pythons Terry Jones, and many, many more, this book is sure to appeal to fans of comedy and celebrity alike.

FICTION!
Embassytown by China Mieville (Del Ray) $26.00
Lake by Banana Yoshimoto (Melville House) $23.95
God Machine by Robert Fisher $10.00

DIY
Practical Pyromaniac: Build Fire Tornadoes One Candlepower Engines, Great Balls of Fire and More Incendiary Devices by William Gurstelle (Chicago Rev Press) $16.95
Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches and More from Your Old Electronics by Ed Sobey (Chicago Rev Press) $16.95
Herbal Remedies for Winter Wellness by Olivia Horvath $1.00

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Criminal Class Review vol 4 #1 $12.00
Toucan #11 Spr 11 $3.00
Feathertale Review #7 $10.00
Hobart #12 $10.00
Let by Sarah R Louden $18.95
Perfect Distance From the Sun vol 1 #1 Spr 11 by Ryan Buell, Dan Warner, Franz Hilarius $3.00
Fjords vol 1 #1 Arts and Literary Review $10.00
Six By Six #23 We Were All Great in the Observatory $5.00
Poems By Hillary Basile $1.00
Overtime Hour 19 The List by TD Corum $2.00

MAGAZINES!
Fortean Times #275 Jun 11 $11.99
3×3 vol 6 #1 #16 3X3 vol 5 #3 The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $16.00
Skeptic vol 16 #3 $6.95
Tattoo Revue #153 $6.99
Gothic Beauty #33 $6.95
Best of Skunk vol 3 $6.99
BlackBook #84 May 11 $4.50
Ready Made #53 Jun Jul 11 $4.99
Classic Rock #158 Jun 11 $11.99
Tape Op #83 May Jun 11 $4.95
Filter #44 $5.95
Under the Radar #36 $5.99
Razorcake #62 $4.00
Hyphen #23 Spr 11 $4.95
Harpers Magazine Jun 11 $6.99
Selvedge #40 May Jun 11 $24.95
Tattoo Scout #23 $9.60

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson (Riverhead) $25.95
Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History by M. Hicks (History Press) $19.99 – This book follows the evolution of the “Chicago Style of Comedy” from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the 50’s, and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Don’t miss author Margaret Hicks here at Quimby’s on Sat 5/28, 7pm!

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Visions For Chicago: A Highly Politicized Public Art Project ed. by Dan Tucker, With Contributions From 100 Chicagoans (Green Lantern Press) $10.00

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Journey To A Plugged In State Of Mind Electronic Music: 100 Years Of Experimention And Exploitation by Dave Henderson (Cherry Red) $22.95 – This book explores the long and exhaustive legacy and unearths the greatest albums, experiences and tunes from over a century of electronic sound. From anarchic sound art manifestos of the early 1900s to the three minute radio-friendly hits of the late Twentieth Century, via tape manipulations, WWII surplus gadgetry, synthetic versions of the Beat les and the development and domination of the synthesiser, the sequencer and their descendants which form the basic building blocks of much of the music we listen to today.


OTHER STUFF!
Comptons Cafeteria Riot San Francisco 1966 Celebrate Peoples History Poster by Andre Perez $12.00
Abracadabra vol 1 Box of Cards – A Response in Illustration of Ballards Rhymed Answers to Bellamys Century of Charades by Jay Krevens $12.00
Demongun #4 May 11 Video Edition by Bernie Mcgovern $15.00

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Eddie Trunk Signs Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal 5/20

Published on May 18, 2011 0 Comments

Event Canceled!

The Eddie Trunk Signing for Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal at Quimby’s 5/20 has been canceled.

Due to unseen circumstances, this signing has been cancelled. Stay tuned to quimbys.com for a potential rescheduling of this event in the future.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on May 17, 2011 0 Comments

Thanks to Jerianne Thompson of Zine World for these Revenge of Print stamps!

1. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95 – Chester Brown did a pretty great thing with this book, one of the most anticipated graphic novels pretty much ever. I think it’s about time more johns speak out publicly about their involvement and investment in sex economies. In Paying For It, Brown presents an especially crisp libertarian-flavor case in favor of decriminalized sex work. There’s also sort of a nice journey of personal growth in here too where, through the course of the book, he goes from completely trashing and dismissing the idea of “romantic love” to finding his own weird and wonderful variation of it (thanks to his john-dom).Here in Chicago, aldermen are currently trying to get batshit-crazy anti-prostitution laws on the books, so, you know, speaking up about the destigmatizing and decriminalizing of sex work truly matters. Brown’s frank and shame-free stance is loud and clear and his cartooning style is built primarily around building his case. At times, the dialogue gets so loaded it’s almost polemic but the characters are all fleshed out enough that it sways more toward Fun Home-style self-analytical autobio. Also, there’s this tricky issue where he draws all the women he pays with the same faceless anonymity. Initially, this seemed troublesome, but I think that here Brown is showing us physical anonymity while letting the dialogue convey some of the subtler levels of involvement that make each of his encounters unique. When I think of great writing and art by sex workers, johns are often afforded a similar style of anonymity, making Brown’s approach just seem like common courtesy from the other side of the coin. -EF

2.The Believer #80 May 11 $8.00

3. Diamond Comics #6 (Floating World) $4.00

4. Kus #5 Baltic Comics Magazine

5. Rigor Mortis vol 4 by Davida Gypsy Breier $3.50 – The classic horror review zine with MAD drawing chops! Much like Robin Bougie’s Cinema Sewer, Rigor Mortis is oozing outrageous content out every orifice. Built on an open artery of monster flick reviews with special features on sexual subversion and queer subtext in early horror cinema, this is like sweetened condensed homebrew Fangoria . -EF

6. Ultraviolet Catastrophe by Andrea Walls $5.00 – “Ultraviolet Catastrophe is a chapbook excerpted from a larger work-in-progress, The Black Body Curve, a full-length collection of poetry in which the author considers the events of May 13, 1985, the day the city of Philadelphia, under the leadership of its first Black Mayor, dropped a C-4 explosive into the roof of 6221 Osage Avenue, a row-home known to be occupied by men, women and children, ultimately killing 11 people including 5 children and destroying 61 homes leaving 250 citizens homeless. The author tries to answer the question, how did this happen? How did issues of race, rhetoric and geography collide with the city’s history to inform the catastrophic conflict with the MOVE Organization and the residents of Osage Avenue?”

7. Boneshaker Magazine #4 $9.00

8. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00

9. Monocle vol 5 #43 May 11 $10.00

10. List #12: Goodbye Baltimore $3.00

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New Stuff This Week

Published on May 14, 2011 0 Comments

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Haymarket 1886:2011 by AREA Chicago $5.00 – Featuring contributions by and about: Penelope Rosemont, David Roediger, Alma Washington, the history of Haymarket walking tours, Euan Hague, Paul Buhle, Peter Chanthasena and Anh Nguyen, the Haymarket Historic Landmark District, Paul Durica, the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, reflections on Haymarket from the shadow of September 11, Holly Nelson, May Day, the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, Josefa Mellor and Nick Naber, 134 years of social struggle in Pilsen, Teko Sãso, Anthony Rayson. Jerry Mead-Lucero, Sam Mitrani, alternative Haymarket monument proposals, Samuel Barnett, Lucy Parsons, teaching and learning about Haymarket and more.
Rigor Mortis vol 4 $3.50
Little Otsu Living Things vol 3 by Hannah Waldron (Little Otsu) $6.95
Little Otsu Living Things vol 4 by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $6.95
How I Quit School #2 $3.00
Monsters Rock Tattoos #1 Jan 11 by Kione Kochi $4.00 – Zine and temporary tattoo pack.
Broken Pencil #51 $5.95
Bite Sized Wisdom by E. Jason Gremley $5.00
NBB by various $5.00
Dear Sweetness Dan Gleasons Greatest Hits vol 3 by Dan Gleason $8.95 – Don’t miss Dan and friends here at Quimby’s for this release event 5/21!
Stupor Treasury of True Stories by Steve Hughes $14.95
Esoterra: The Journal of Extreme Culture by Chad Hensley (Creation) $24.95

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Magic Hedge And Other Stories #1 Magic Moments by Marian Runk $10.00
Foie Gras #3 by Edie Fake and Joy of Cooking $2.00
RASL #10 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50
New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00
From Light to Light #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
Tales From the Salmon #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
Poison the Cure #3 by Jad Ziade and Alex Cahill $11.00
Post Age by Sua You $4.00
Asian Mysticism Mar 11 by Sua You $4.00
Trapped by Sophie Yanow $5.00
Vsnqst by Sophie Yanow $5.00
Solo #1 by Waxwing $4.00
Class Reunion #4 by Charlie Newton $2.50
Silver Surfer #1 Battl for Good N Evil by Waxwing Get Rad $5.00
Squirm: A Story of Love Hope Betrayal or Just a Choose Your Own Adventure… by Lauren Luciano $2.50
Sorry Ice Monster The Weather Is Warm by Dustin Williams $8.00
Diamond Comics #6 (Floating World) $4.00
In The Parlor Room by Jeremy Sorese $10.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Sailor Jerry Tattoo Drawings (Hardy Mark) $30.00 – Them kids can’t get enough o’ that flash tattoo style. Here’s more!
Corn Liquor vol 1 and Other Pictures – Mostly Inspired by Nelson Algrens A Walk on the Wild Side by John Minkoff $9.00
Big Bad City by Slinkachu (Lebowski Publishing) $25.95
I Am Not of This Planet the Art of Gary Edson Arlington by Gary Edson Arlington (Last Gasp) $14.95
Rockin’: The Rockabilly Scene by Andrew Shaylor and Jerry Chatabox (Merrell) $50.00 – Swingin’ photobook for those interested in rockabilly.
History of American Graffiti by Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon (Harper) $40.00
Are You Reading Me by Laser (Lebowski) $25.95 – Coll graff book with an introduction by King Adz.
Vhils Selected Works 2005-2010 by Alexandre Farto (Lebowski) $25.95
Stencil King: The Dutch Godfather of Stencil Graffiti by Hugo Kaagman (Lebowski) $25.95

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Bat Boy: The Complete Weekly World News Comic Strips by Peter Bagge (IDW) $17.99
Batman and Robin: Batman and Robin Must Die Deluxe Edition HC by Grant Morrison etc. (DC) $24.99
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On the Media by Brooke Gladstone, illustrated by Josh Neufeld, Randy Jones and Susann Ferris-Jones (Norton) $23.95 – Interesting deconstruction of media, public radio style.
Pinocchio by Winshluss (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Not your grandparents’ Pinnocchio.

FICTION!
The Meowmorphosis by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook (Quirk) $12.95 – Not a bug. A cute kitty.

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #125 Jun 11 $5.99
High Times Ju1 11 $5.99
Wire #327 May 11 $10.99

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin by James Sullivan (Da Capo) $16.00
Oops: The Text Messages You Wish You Never Sent (Nicotext) $9.95
In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Crown) $26.00 – From the author of Devil in the White City.

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism–The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by by Christopher Hitchens, Windsor Mann and Martin Amis (Da Capo) $17.00
The Feminist Promise 1792 to the Present by Christine Stansell (Modern Library) $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski (Beacon) $27.95
Sea In Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout by Carl Safina (Crown) $25.00
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Andrea Smith (South End) $16.00
Killing Game by Gary and Eric Webb (Seven Stories) $19.95
This is Not a Program by Tiqqun (Semiotexte) $13.95

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Heartbeat And a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears by Antonino Dambrosio (Nation) $16.99
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young (Faber) $25.00
Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica by Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth about Led Zep.

OTHER STUFF!
All sortsa Moleskine planners and journals. Planners for 2012 are hitting our shelves now. Lined, dated, blank, week-at-a-glance, month-at-a-glance, 18-month starting this coming summer, 12-month starting next year, soft cover, hard cover, smaller or bigger — you name it, we got it.
Alpine Songs Weekly Planner by Lart C Berliner (Little Otsu) $16.00