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Weekly Top 10

Published on August 17, 2010 0 Comments

1. Overqualified by Joey Comeau (ECW) $14.95

2. Whore Magazine #1 Sum 10 $12.00

3. Hearts Mini Zine by C. Uphues $1.00

4. They Met in a Dream by Jennifer Parks (Sparkplug) $4.00 – This little gem reads like an old silent film and combines a soft Renee-French-style panelling and pacing with a sense of smoky mystery that resembles some of Lilli Carre’s woodsy minis.

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5. Seeds: An Anthology of Comics About Food (Tree & Hills Group) $5.00

6. Wax Poetics #42 Jul Aug 10 $9.99

7. Craphound #4: Clowns Devils and Bait $12.00 – 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

8. Bitch #47 $5.95

9. Giant Robot #66 $4.99

10. Henry and Glenn Forever Deluxe by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – NEW PERFECT BOUND/LARGER SIZE EDITION! The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 10, 2010 0 Comments

1. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound 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. All My Friends Are Dead by var. (Chronicle) $9.95
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. Yeti #9 $11.95 – The comics and illustration really stand out in this issue -a fetching cover by Lori D plus work by James Turek, Lizz Hickey, Tuli Kupferberg reprints and an old interview with the late trickster collagist Bruce Conner. The mix cd really goes some special places too, like always.-E

5. Believer #73 2010 Music Issue $12.00

6. Bitch #47 $12.00

7. Brains Brilliancy Bohemia: Art and Politics In Jazz-age Chicago by Marc Moscato (Dil Pickles Clearing House) $13.00 – “Presenting photographs and copies from Chicago’s ill-forgotten radical nightclub, The Dil Pickle Club, hobo gatherings, and 1910s-20s ephemera, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia provides a timely look at the origin of American counterculture and working class art leading up to the Great Depression. Book also includes a DVD of the short film, The More Things Stay The Same, a documentary on the life and world of hobo king and prostitute physician, Dr. Ben Reitman.”

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. Bear in Underwear by Todd Doodler (Blue Apple) $12.99

10. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95

Weekly Top 10

Published on July 27, 2010 0 Comments

1. Scott Pilgrims vol 6 Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni) $11.99
2. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion) $29.95
3. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00
4. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition (Microcosm) $6.00
5. Black Carrot #15 Free Sandwich Zinewich by DF $5.00
6. Debbie’s Story by Kelly Froh $2.00
7. Doris #27 by Cindy $2.50
8. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
9. Meanwhile 3856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga (Abrams) $15.95
10. Acne Paper Sum 10 $15.00

Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers

Published on July 20, 2010 0 Comments

1. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 ed. by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion Points) $29.95 – Touch and Go binds together all 22 issues and peppers it with essays a bit of commentary and notation. Tesco Vee and Steve Miller were at Quimby’s this past weekend signing copies of this collected edition. Tesco’s charmingly tattooed son came, and while here Tesco fielded a phone call from his daughter who had just in a fist fight. Ah, the next generation makes itself known.

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2. Pizza Time by Joe Vermilyea (Koyama Press) $5.00 – This amazing atomic ninja turtle meltdown with extra cheese includes a breakdown of Krang’s perverse relationship with his android body and putty portraits of Bebop and Rocksteady. Turdle Power! -EF

3. Al Burian Goes To Hell by Al Burian (Migraine) $6.00 – We just learned that this periodical is actually an unauthorized bootleg of one of Al’s college assignments from many years ago and have opted not to sell it anymore. For more information, see Al’s blog.

4. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00 – Essays on admiration from my favorite catty bachelor. John Waters, I love you. -EF

5. Why Be Something That You’re Not Detroit Hardcore 1979 to 1985 by Tony Rettman (Revelation) $16.00 – chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties.

6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95

7. Stories vol 3: Catch Me If You Can by Martin Cendreda $3.00 – Eloquently drawn Giving-Tree-esque twists and turns of children growing and parents giving. -EF
8. The First Line vol 12 #2 $3.00

9. Core of Caligula Episodes 1 through 4 by CF (Picturebox)$2.00 – Cinematically paced and mostly outside the Darger-ian territories of Powr Mastrs, CF’s Core of Caligula slips in and out keeping its tape player close and its psychic mis-steps closer.-EF

10. Limbs of the Megalith by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug)$2.00 – Fraught focus on the myth-adventures of humanity and its xenophobic whims- Espey’s packed pages time travel from the city to the country, the beast to the chair, death to the rabbit hole and back again with a fluid language of modern hyroglyphics. -EF

Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers

Published on July 13, 2010 0 Comments

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1. The Believer #73 2010 Music Issue $12.00

2. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 by var. $29.95 (Bazillion Points) – If ever you needed a collected volume of zines, this may be it. Rough and wild midwest punk rock reporting and tons of tons of record reviews, Touch and Go the zine was opinionated, irreverent, and balls-to-the-walls funny. Bazillion Points has really gone berzerker lately too, churning out some of the sickest most creative and in-depth volumes of hardcore, punk and metal scene archiving I’ve ever seen. Touch and Go binds together all 22 issues and peppers it with essays a bit of commentary and notation. Bawdy and engaging, I can’t take my eyes off it, but it’s so jam-packed I have no doubt it’ll take me a year or two to read everything. -EF

3. Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC (Chronicle) $16.95 – A lush little volume of cheeky bike-ography coming into reality from the blogosphere.

4. Down and Derby – The Insiders Guide to Roller Derby by var. (Soft Skull) $14.95 – This insider’s derby guide is an intro, a love letter and a cheeky, dishy guide to the fierce world of rollin’. It almost makes me want to kiss my teeth goodbye and strap a pair on. -EF

5. 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

6. End of the City – A Book of Afterwards by Oso Arcilla $4.00 – Nice, poignant poetry, like a tidy apartment or a freshly baked good, touching on a little of everything.  An especilly good one is about chilly pumpkin guts and another treat weaves about the rough edges of a drunken romancing, full of fine moments, pauses, twists. -EF

7. Crap Hound #7 Church and State Part One $12.00

8. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S!

9. Hot Damn and Hell Yeah: Recipes for Hungry Banditos, Dirty South Cook Book by Ryan Splint $7.00

10. Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Pantheon) $19.95

Also! Join us tonight at the Holiday Club at 7pm as Quimby’s co-sponsors Dating For Nerds Singles Trivia Night! 4000 North Sheridan Road. For more info: http://nerdsatheart.com