While you were crying into your beer and brats at home, upset that your Memorial Day barbeque was rained out, Quimby’s had a blast with Chris Besinger (left), who read from his book The Usual Beast and the bands Group Icky Rats and ONO (right).
Bestsellers last week:
1. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $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
2. Cinema Sewer #23 by Robin Bougie $4.00 – Cinema Sewer is the direct heir and foremost survivor of decades of mayhem-trash-film fanzines and Robin Bougie has proven time and again that there’s still meatballs to be pulled out of the gravy. His tastes are extreme but also interestingly ecclectic, and this issue includes a rundown of his favorite noir films and a review of a Betty Dobson feminist masturbation video along with plenty of <dare-I-say> thoughtful reviews of rare smut and grindcore. -EF
3. Is It the Future Yet by Corinne 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!
4. Monocle vol 4 #34 Jun 10 $10.00
5. Bust Jun Jul 10 $4.99
6. Bars Across America Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast by John Greenfield $13.00
7. Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky (Haymarket) $16.00 – In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward-in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest “real progress toward freedom and justice.” Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.
8. Giant Robot #65 $4.99
9. Comics Section [from the] San Francisco Panorama of McSweeneys #33 $10.00
10. Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac (Wolverine Farm Publishing) $6.00 – “The Practical Bicyclist’s Handbook” and “Basic Field and Street Manual for Utilitarian Riding.” ‘Tis indeed! The farmer’s almanac for those on bikes, Boneshaker’s a fascinating compiled book of history, wit, wisdom, lore and prediction. Bamboo bikes? The time has come! Vintage posters? Yes please! Full moon forecasting? All there! Although they seem to think that there are noodles in potato salad, on all other counts this is real solid. -EF
