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Weekly Top 10

Published on November 30, 2010 0 Comments

1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list…all in perfectbound pocketsize form.

2. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

3. Maximumrocknroll #331 Dec 10 $4.00

4. Diamond Comics #5, ed. by Jason Leivian (Floating World) $3.00 – Full color chaos. Stanley Lieber, Michael DeForge, Benjamin Marra, Cleon Peterson, Pete Toms, Panayiotis Terzis, Derek Ballard and a frantic cover by Skinner. You’ll probably cry if you miss this.

Diamond Comics #5

5. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – What do I have to say for myself? This is the pre-history-flashback issue of that homosexual birdman comic I draw. Try it, you just may like it- if you don’t, you know where to find me. -EF

6. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

7. Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00

8. Picture This: The Near Sighted Monkey Book Learn How to Art with the Near Sighted by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

9. Buildings & Bodies by Ryan Dodgson $10.00 – What would your friends look like if they were houses? What would your houses look like if they were your friends? Here’s a version of that being incredibly well-drawn and all taking place in Toronto!

10. Giant Robot #68 $4.99

Weekly Top 10

Published on November 23, 2010 0 Comments

1. Roctober #48 $4.00 – The world’s best music magazine from the folks behind the world’s best cable-access show. A million zillion pages, b&w with tons of pictures and loads of comics.

2. Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by R. Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

3. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – New issue from our very own Edie. Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s to celebrate the release of his Gaylord Phoenix book published by Secret Acres here at Quimby’s on Dec 9th!

4. X’ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?

5. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95 – The most recent addition of Chris Ware’s running issues. Interpret issues how you want.

6. Picture This by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

7. Wowee Zonk #3 (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Yo! It’s so good: Michael DeForge, Jan Avendano, Andrei Georgescu, Zach Worton, Ginette Lapalme, Selena Wong, Chris Simonen, Chris Kuzma, Dan Rocca, Patrick Kyle…And everyone really pulled out their A-game here, not a single bad apple in this whole round-up. Insanely beautiful cover art too – what planet are those colors from? -EF

8. Possum and the Pepper Spray by Pete Hodapp $4.00

9. Grime Time #3 $8.00

10. Believer #76 Nov Dec 10 Art Issue $10.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on November 16, 2010 0 Comments

1. Celebrate Peoples History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, ed. by Josh MacPhee (Feminist Pr) $24.95 – A beautiful and inspiring book collecting the Justseeds Celebrate Peoples History Posters to date, overwhelming and fantastic! -EF

2. 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 and more.

3. ‘Za the Pizza Zine by Nikki Yowell $4.00 – Get a Sloppy Slice of this hot pie!

4. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Same as the Large Slingshot radical organizer above but in a perfect-bound pocketsize form.

5. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95 – The newest issue from Chris Ware.
6. X ‘ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?

7. List #14 Fine For Now by Ramsey $4.00 – Reasons to love the new issue of List: The drawings just keep getting better, highly logical, yet intimately personal, good times, good foods, good dogs, stories broken down and organized into compelling, must-read-more formats, dreams, plans and schemes plotted in charming detail, homemade geography and chronology charts all woven gracefully into list-making and more!

8. Best American Comics 2010 ed by Abel/Madden/Gaiman (HM) $23.00
9. Four Squares #2 More Squares by Liz Prince, Maris Wicks, Tim Finn and Joe Quinones $5.00 – July 2008 served four different ways by four comic talents each doing strip-a-days. The weave is really nice here as everyone hops in and out of each other’s strips-sandwiches get invented, neighbors get spied on, raspberries get stolen and Boston gets hotttt.-EF
10. Ramble On #1 by Calvin Wong (Sparkplug) $3.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on November 9, 2010 0 Comments

1. X’ed Out HC by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you? It was nice seeing all of you who came out to meet Charles Burns when he was here. Here’s proof he was here!
2. Exquisite Book 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game by var. (Chronicle) $29.95 – The design dream team behind Also has somehow coordinated 100 of their favorite artists to participate in ten huge fold-out exquisite corpses. It means you get a little bit of everyone, and a whole lot of a whole lot with some amazing inadvertent collaborations erupting. -EF
3. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – A new issue from our Edie! Don’t miss the book release for his book of the same title Dec 9th!


4. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95

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

6. Juxtapoz #118 Nov 10 $5.99
7. Trubble Club vol 4 by Trubble Club $3.00 – A new offer from this local alternative comics collective.
8. 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

9. Scam #7 The Return of Miami by by Erick Lyle $3.25 – Back to the weird Miami wildness goes Scam, straight into the Belly of the Basel, back through the Memory Maw of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement protests, and then rounding off the issue with a scene report from Miami’s badass squatters rights movement. Kinda leaves you awestruck, pummelled and breathless. -EF

10. Brilliant Mistake #2 – 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

Weekly Bestsellers

Published on November 2, 2010 0 Comments

1. Xed Out HC by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you? And! Don’t miss Charles Burns at Quimby’s on 11/3!

2. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95 – A completely wrenching tale of Jordan Lint’s awful life, rendered with Ware’s perfectly rendered tangential velocities that vault us back and forth through memory, fixation, anticipation and communication. Ware leaves us all awestruck again and again as his flawless craftsmenship builds a visual narrative that can eviscerate the hidden space between cause and effect in all the little (and big) damages of living. -EF

3. Scam #7 The Return of Miami Spr 10 $3.25

4. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer $12.00

5. Bizarre #168 Nov 10 $10.50

6. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, edited by Dave Eggers (HM) $14.95

7. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (LB) $21.95

8. Make #9 Spr Sum 10

9.  Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00

10. Womanimalistic #1

Edie with Gaylord Phoenix

Look how proud we are of our Edie here at Quimby’s. He’s with his new book Gaylord Phoenix, published by Secret Acres!

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