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Weekly Top 10

Published on May 23, 2012 0 Comments

Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart debuts on the weekly top 10 at #9 this week.

Thanks to everybody who came out to the Comics & Philsophy Conference at the Universty of Chicago this past weekend. We have two posters Chris Ware designed for the conference we’re proud to be selling, which are both available for purchase on our website! You can look at them here and here.

1. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF…Thanks to everybody that came out for the Clowes and Buenaventura signing here at Quimby’s last week!

2. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

3. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago. Aren’t we funny? Rag, you know like, what you clean a bar with? But also another name for a magazine? And crafted? As in, craft beer but then also this mag is crafted in Chicago? Hello? Hello? Where are you going? Are my jokes that bad? -LM

4. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other.

5. The Death Ray by Dan Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book.  Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover.

6. Ojitos Borrosos by Ines Estrada $10.00 – A simply killer collection of Inés Estrada’s amazing comics – charmed and pervy and smart and totally unpredictable….I can’t say enough good things about these except that you will love them. Reading them is like drinking your favorite juice and listening to your favorite record on a really nice day. In fact, if you did that AND read these comics all at once you’d probably send yourself into a self-perpetuating orgasm vortex. Ojitos collects a lot of odds and ends – minis and anthologies and one-pagees, and orders them up well with english translation for gringos like me. Get this get this get this. -EF

7. Animal Sex #2 Bugs and Slugs by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Hot bug on slug action.

8. Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD: Girls Singing Songs About Girls by Amara Leipzig & Isabella Rotman $5.00 – Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman assemble a cover album and cutes ha-hoots liner notes zine that’s all women singing songs originally written by men about women. Gender theory via aural pleasuring. -EF

9. Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart (Retrofit Comics) $6.00 –  Hart plays it fast and loose with this beach-bound poopy-baby quest. Drawn with relaxed flair – a little like maakies or old school simpsons in the cavalier slapstick and general heart. -EF

10. Straight To Hell #67 $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories. Feels like heaven to me.

Quimby’s Bookstore Welcomes Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch 6/15

Published on May 15, 2012 0 Comments
Jun ’12
15
7:00 pm

Gloriana is a long-form poem in graphic form, and within its pages, Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of mundane interactions and existential dissections of the units that construct our lives.
In Gloriana, Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of mundane interactions and existential dissections of the units that construct our lives. Huizenga has an understated, quiet approach to story writing that allows his characters (and his readers) the self-awareness to recognize the humor and tragedy of every moment.

Huizenga’s much-lauded work is finely detailed, and in its innovative use of form, it explores the boundaries of the comic medium, deconstructing and reconstructing panels to express temporality and lived experience more fully. Presented in this expanded edition, Gloriana employs familiar settings and thorough, sometimes scientific explanations to reach thoughtful conclusions.

Dan Zettwoch’s Birdseye Bristoe celebrates the visual complexity of our world, and the impossibility of distilling this into a single digital signal. In Birdseye Bristoe, there are homes rigged entirely from bungee cords and 3-liter soda bottles, geodesic domes that have been turned into jungle gyms, an array of lawn-mowing routes, and guessing games inspired by the ambiguity of religious and heavy metal iconography.

It’s a story line we know all too well: “A mysterious stranger comes to town.” Only the town is not really a town and the stranger is a gigantic cell-phone tower. The town is Birdseye Bristoe—a portmanteau created from an interstate sign that points to two real towns—and it has only one real permanent resident, an old-timer known only as Uncle. A confirmed bachelor and World War II veteran, he owns most of the real estate in town. His teenaged great-niece and -nephew visit occasionally, though the town doesn’t have much to offer apart from an adult superstore, a gas station, and a tackle shop.

Uncle reluctantly agrees to lease his land to a conglomerate of telecommunications carriers, and sets the somewhat random condition that the tower be built with a huge crossbar set horizontally into the mast, making it also the world’s largest cross. Birdseye Bristoe begins with the destruction of the cell tower and works backward to unravel the story of its fall.

For more info about both books, see drawnandquarterly.com

Don’t miss Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch here at Quimby’s Bookstore Fri, June 15th, 7pm

This event is in tandem with The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE] June 16th and 17th, celebrates independent, underground, and alternative comics. There will be comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more. Over 200 guests will be in attendance including: Carrie McNinch, Michael Deforge, Brian Ralph, Gabrielle Bell, Anders Nilsen, Laura Park, Lisa Hanawalt, Julia Wertz, Nate Powell, Secret Acres, Sparkplug, Ken Dahl, Nicole J. Georges, Kevin Huizenga, Patrick Kyle, Blaise Larmee, and The Providence Comics Consortium and more! CAKE wil be at Columbia College’s Ludington Building, 1104 S Wabash. Quimby’s is proud to be a co-sponsor, and even prouder to be sponsoring the CAKE panel “Crude and Rude: The Importance of Vulgarity with Ivan Brunetti, Lisa Hanawalt, Hellen Jo, and Onsmith, Moderated by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg of the comic Crass Sophisticate.” For more info: cakechicago.com

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Weekly Top 10

Published on May 15, 2012 0 Comments

1. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other.

2. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams) $17.95

3. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

4. Plastik #15 $16.99

5. Hark: A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95

6. Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi $12.00 – A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

7. A Greater Monster by David David Katzman and Caitlin Drake McCay (Bedhead) $17.95

8. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF And! Don’t miss Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura siging here this Thursday, May 17th at 7pm!

9. Fader #79 Apr May 12 $5.99

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

Weekly Top 10

Published on May 8, 2012 0 Comments

Fag School #4  enters the topsellers this week at #10.

1. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for Free Comic Book Day to see Jeffrey Brown. We still have a few copies of his mini comic that he made specifically for that day. Don’t miss your chance to get this one.

2. Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $5.00 – For real. New material that’s not in the “Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition.” And it’s numbered #1, so we expect more issues. Stay tuned for more adventures.

3. Monocle vol 6 #53 May 12 $12.00

4. Maximumrocknroll #348 May 12 $4.00

5. Handbook vol 6 #2 2012 $6.00 – As if Handbook needed a greatest hits, here’s volume 6, issue 2 delivering second dates with 3 of HB’s hawtest, surrounded by erotical essays and gaynotes of current concern. -EF

6. Cave Girl by Ireal $1.00 – Unfoldable stories of Cave Girl living, a lot about mushroom hunting, musings on bears and beasts, spiders too. -EF

7. How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz $1.00 – Manners with their self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.

8. Shut Up And Love The Rain by Robnoxious (Microcosm) $4.00 – “Robnoxious takes us along his path from early sexual exploration to his current sex-positive, constantly-deprogramming, uber-healthy queerness! Rob’s writing and comics show us that experimentation should start early, that guilty pleasures needn’t be guilty, and that talking it over and being honest with each other will lead to nothin’ but good. There’s hilarious, illuminating essays, intimate accounts of relationships outside the margins, and a touching, inspiring interview with Rob’s parents after his father came out as transgendered.”

9. Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs by The Icarus Project $6.00

10. Fag School #4 New Fiction – Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez (Paquita Press) $5.00 – Fag School is in session and I suggest you try to handle the full course load. This zine is fucking brilliant and amazing – always has been, and I think it might always will be. -EF

New Stuff This Week

Published on May 4, 2012 0 Comments

Of Intercourse and Intracourse: Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere by Johannes Grenzfurthner , Guenther Friesinger  and Daniel Fabry (Re/Search) $29.99 – An Anthology of the Arse Elektronika colloquium which explores technology as it is used in regards to erotic human relations: biotechnology, body modification, trans-species and extraterrestrial pornography, tantric sex, polyamory + technology, Burroughs, biometrics and more. Ed by members of monochrom, an art-technology-philosophy collective, an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism.

Zines
Metal and Meat Within the Chicago Underground $2.50 – OMG. The guys who do “Goat Fucker” get together and grill meat, smoke stuff and talk about metal. Awesome representative quote: “Gorick brings the 6.66 lbs of thin 4-Day marinate bag of steak.”
How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz Mason $1.00 – Self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.
Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks? by Milo $2.00 – An alphabet book for activists! By Milo from QZAP!
Salvager Kathy #1 $1.00 – A Chicago-based volunteer at an arts organization that works with the developmentally disabled made a zine describing her life-changing experiences working with her clients. They inspire and teach her to cope with her own pain, illustrating the necessity in recognizing that the line between “normal” and “disabled” can be fuzzy indeed. Recommended reading.
Graze #1 Spr 12 by Cyndi Fecher Brian J. Solem $10.00 – Self-described as “A food-oriented lit mag dedicated to the food on your mind and the thoughts in your wake.” Katrina discomfort food, stinky cheese of Cambodia and more.

Comics and Comix
Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado (Tom Neely, Ed Luce and Benjamin Marra) $5.00 – All new material about the love adventures of Rollins and Danzig, with their satanic neighbors Hall and Oates. Will it continue to be funny if it comes out regularly? We shall see.
Powdered Milk #6 by Keilor Roberts $9.00
Dope Mouthfeel #2 $4.00
Kraft Dinner by Julie Sabo $3.00
Demon Dust #9 Spr 12 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Over Burden by Nick Rohr, Sam Daley and Tim Abel $2.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Fallen Words: Eight Moral Comedies by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $19.95
Tanpopo by Camilla Derrico $24.99
Batman and Robin TPB vol 3 Batman Must Die by Grant Morrison et al. (DC) $17.99

Fiction
Boarded Windows by Dylan Hicks (Coffee House Press) $16.00 – Don’t miss author and musician Dylan Hicks here at Quimby’s on May 24th as he reads from this book about a record store clerk in 90s Minneapolis, as well as a musical performance of some of the songs from the soundtrack.
Company You Keep by Neil Gordon $14.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Hot Art Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman (Tin House) $16.95
Hilaretic: Church Reviews and Other Religious Writings by Dan Kelly $15.00 – Anybody who has been following the history of Quimby’s since its opening in 1991 will remember Dan Kelly of the zine Cop Porn.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Broadway) $16.00 – From the author of Devil In the White City. Now in soft cover.
Snow White by The Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia $14.99
Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces by Cory MacLauchlin $26.00
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson $16.00

Politics & Revolution
Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy by Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Autonomedia) $18.00

Childrens Books
Arctic Bears Chase by Steve Fiffer and Keiler Roberts $9.00
Ambitions Not An Awful Word by Zack Zage and Adam Watkins $16.95

Magazines
The Burlesque Bible vol 3 $16.95
Wallpaper May 12 $10.00
Backwoodsman vol 33 #3 May Jun 12 $4.95 – Get off my land!
Fortean Times #287 Jun 12 $11.99 – There are aliens on my land!
Plastik #15 $16.99
State vol 1 Voicings Articulations Utterances $14.00
Our Tattoos vol 2 $9.99
Stone Roses NME Uncut Special Collectors Magazine $12.99
Conduit #23 Night Light, Words and Visions for Minds on Fire $10.00
Mojo #222 May 12 $9.99
Monocle vol 6 #53 May 12 $12.00
Tattoo Revolution May 12 $11.75

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Gay Thurber Almanac of Careless Dignity and Criminal Intent by Alex  Marino and Meghan Plunkett $15.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought win 12  $10.00
Bad Attitude Poems $12.00

Sex and Sexy
Little Book of Big Penis ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $9.99 – Now in a smaller and more afforable format. The book that is. Insert joke here.
Little Book of Big Breasts ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $9.99 – Ditto.

Other Stuff
Hot Ten Dollar Bag $10.00 – Weirdo bag of fun from the local collaborative artists Greg and Fake, the guys behind the popular “existential superhero” cardboard art that you may have seen here.

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.