1. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (Harper) $14.99 – The first history of Riot Grrrl tells the story of a group of extraordinary young women coming of age and coming into their own.
2. 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?
Don’t miss Charles Burns at Quimby’s on 11/3!
3. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
4. What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation, N+1 Small Books Series #3 by the editors of N+1 $10.00 – Chapters including “On Douchebags” and “Williamsburg Year Zero.” Yes, for real.
5. Bitch #48 $5.95
6. The Instructions HC by Adam Levin (McSweeneys) $29.00 – Written by a charismatic local writer and a Quimby’s frequent shopper, telling the story of a junior high kid who may or may not be the new messiah.
7. Henry and Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
8. Or Let It Sink #4 Halloweened/Dear Jaguar #3 Selected Errors Split Zine by Jim and Vicky $2.00 – A Halloween Special Split. Better than the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
9. Super Maxi Pad Girl #1 by Daniel Olson and AJ Niehaus $4.00
10. All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John (Chronicle) $9.95
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1. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
2. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (HC) $14.99 – Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s on Saturday, 10/23!
3. Gentlewoman #2 Fall Win 10 $10.95
4. What Was The Hipster: A Sociological Investigation – N+1 Small Books Series #3 by var. $10.00 – “Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write this history without contempt or nostalgia? Why are we tempted to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster’s “global brand” has just reached its apotheosis? A panel of writers invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster. Their debate took place at the New School University in New York City, and was followed by articles, responses, and essays, all printed here for the first time.”
5. Fantastic Man #12 $12.99
6. King Cat #71 by John Porcellino $3.00 – This one’s great. The whole first part is all tales of being over-thirty-and-still-dirty, beater cars, stinky pits, run down shoes and all. Then J.P. up and moves to Florida and there’s a really funny 4-page field guide to all the cray-zay teeming wildlife. -EF
7. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
8. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99
9. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With Almost No Money by Dolly Freed (Tin House) $12.95 – The antidote to being a capitalist pig? Becoming a possum. Dolly Freed wrote this as a sassy and scrappy teenager in the 70s and finally someone had the common sense to reprint it.
10. The Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00
1. Henry and Glenn Forever Deluxe New Edition by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
2. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell) $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
3. Cats Are Weird and More Observations: A Cat Book by Jeffrey Brown (Quirk) $12.95 – If you’re a cat person you’re in good company: Art Bell, William Burroughs and now Jeffrey Brown.
4. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
5. Rigor Mortis vol 3 $3.50
6. Zisk #19 Fall 10 $2.00
7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
8. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus $14.99 – The last great underground cultural movement of the pre-Internet age, Riot Grrrl revolutionized girlhood itself. In the early 1990s, young women were realizing that the equality they’d been promised was still elusive, and a newly resurgent right wing was turning feminism into the ultimate dirty word. Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s with Jessica Harper, author of Girls Guide to Rocking on Oct 23rd, 7pm.
9. Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EF
10. Boneshaker Magazine #2 $8.00
1. Peters Muscle by Michael DeForge $1.00
2. Believer #74 Sep 10 $8.00
3. Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99
4. Giant Robot #67 $4.99
5. Bicycle Diaries (soft cover) by David Byrne (Penguin)
6. Beautiful Decay Book 4 Exquisite Corpse $20.00 – The Beautiful/Decay takes on the human body, in all its swollen blood-filled suck-sack glory. Local Swamplord Rachel Niffenegger has a throbbing, gristly portfolio in here that pretty much qualifies as a biohazard, and there’s some nice work from paper-powered Karen Sargysan and some of those hypnotic Leigh Bowery manuevers Nick Cave’s been pulling these days.
7. Doris #15 DIY Antidepression Guide by Cindy Crabb $2.00
8. Shiny Shiny by Michael O’Flaherty $16.95
9. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $20.00
10. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00
1. Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat (Melville House)$25.95 – Jean-Christophe Valtat Read From Aurorarama on 9/22/10 here. Aurorarama is set in the glittering Arctic city of “New Venice,” Jean-Christoph Valtat’s Aurorarama imagines an intricate steampunk society populated with anarchists, hypnotists, rock stars, drug-addled bohemians, dapper secret police, and a secret society of subterranean garbage collectors. Sounds like our customers. Here’s a picture of him looking quite dapper himself.
2. 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
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. Bitch #48 $5.95
5. Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00 – Featuring essays by Michael Lind on the emerging American oligarchy; Yves Smith on the mountainous self-regard of the American finance industry; Chris Lehmann on libertarianism’s willful failure to understand the economic crisis; Naomi Klein’s reflections on “branding” in American politics 10 years after her magnum opus, No Logo; Matt Taibbi on the howler of a memoir just published by a certain doltish Midwestern governor; plus ruminations on the ruination of Detroit, a very funny fantasy about rumbling with the personnages of the Western literary canon, and a clever story by Paul Maliszewski.
6. Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99
7. Walking Dead TPB vol 12 Life Among Them by Robert Kirkman (Image) $14.99
8. Letters I Will Never Send To You #4 by Morgan Inez $3.00 – Snippets and snappets jam packed in Morgan Inez’s castaway island of treasures. Found photos, ephemeras, rants and stories. A hearty garbage salad zine! Where did the Seaweed find a job? Ha. You’ll have to pick this zine up to get the punchline! -EF
9. Proof I Exist #11 by Billy $1.00 – Get your fix now! He’s a-movin’ to Santa Fe! Serious!
10. V Magazine #67 Fall 10 $7.50
Also! Join us in honoring Banned Books Week – Celebrating the Freedom to Read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. The challenges have occurred in every state and in hundreds of communities. Click here to see a map of book bans and challenges in the US from 2007 to 2009. This annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. Banned Books Week is endorsed by The Library of Congress Center for the Book and sponsored by various associations including the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association(ALA) and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Stay tuned this week as we feature our first guest blogger, Julie Halpern, the writer behind the books Get Well Soon (which was originally a zine sold here at Quimby’s) and Into The Wild Nerd Yonder.
