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Weekly Top 10

Published on July 6, 2010 0 Comments
Sonja Ahlers

Sonja Ahlers

The lovely artist Sonja Ahlers (left) came through Quimby’s this spring. She presented her wonderful art book The Selves (Drawn & Quarterly).

Here’s this week’s top 10:

1. Lose #1 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Klassick Komicks going through DeForge’s leperous Canadian meat grinder and fine line work going gleefully awry. Seriously, do not miss out on this one. -EF
2. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine 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!
3. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Bacterial throwdown-throwup in this new beautifully drawn book mostly about -what else- deadly festering horse parasites. Love it. -EF
4. Paul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher (Gallery) $15.00
5. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95 – William Ayers is a school reform activist, Distinguished Professor, and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ryan Alexander-Tanner is an art teacher and a Xeric Award-winning comic artist.
6. Hypertheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99
7. Taffy Hips #7 by Zara Messano and Gil Gentile $3.00 – Yow- Good to get these newsprint hips, a nice pure comics section shakedown with Margaret Powers, Gil Gentile, Jaime Kanzler, Pat Aulisio, Patrick Kain, Zoe Kraus, Katja Tukiainen, Austin English, Zara Messano, Jon Chandler, Ian Harker, Jose-Luis Olivares, Melissa Mendes, Chuck Forsman, Zak M, Blaise Larmee, Cella Costanza and Jack Rohman. -EF
8. Flesh and Bone by Julia Gfrorer (Sparkplug)$6.00
9. Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, Second Edition by Nicolas Collins (Routledge)$34.95
10. Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC (Chronicle) $16.95

Weekly Top 10

Published on June 29, 2010 0 Comments

1. Last Words of the Executed by Rob Elder (University of Chicago Press) $22.50 – Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. The product of seven years of extensive research by journalist Robert K. Elder, this book explores the cultural value of these final statements from relatively unknown executed inmates as well as the famous, such as Nathan Hale, Joe Hill, Ted Bundy, and John Brown. To watch footage of the event celebrating the book’s release, click on the image below!lastwordsevent
2. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell Press) $12.00
3. Bitch #47 $5.95
4. Henry And Glenn Forever (Microcosm) $4.00
5. Wax Poetics #41 $9.99
6. Juxtapoz #114 Jul 10 $5.99
7. Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95
8. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Bacterial throwdown-throwup in this new beautifully drawn book mostly about -what else- deadly festering horse parasites. Love it. -EF
9. Weathercraft: A Frank Comic by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Down the wormhole we go with Manhog, spiraling through the vaguely Midieval worldspheres of the Unifactor. This new [hardcover] volume is a full force onslaught of Woodring’s glorious geography of constantly shifting torments and delights and its effects are longer lasting than most psychedelic drugs I could compare it to. -EF
10. You Dont Get There From Here #14 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – An all-around life affirming issue of this nice diary series. Lots of intense dental work is offset by a jaunt to Oaxaca and plenty of coffee, coyote sightings and hangouts.

Weekly Top 10

Published on June 22, 2010 0 Comments
1. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (TCP) $15.95
2.Henry And Glenn Forever $4.00
3.Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95
4. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00
5. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00
6. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95
7. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
9. Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99
10. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00

1. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (TCP) $15.95

2.Henry And Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado $4.00

3.Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95

4. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00

5. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00

6. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95

7. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

9. Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99

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

rolemodels

Weekly Top 10

Published on June 15, 2010 0 Comments

1. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95 – We have a few signed copies left from the event on Saturday! Better hustle if ya want one!

2. Henry And Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $4.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

3. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine 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! AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S!

4. To Teach The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Alexander Tanner Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95

To Teach

This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher. And he’ll be here to talk about this Saturday, June 19th at 7pm! These illustrated stories begin with Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten and follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” Readers meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch as students grow across a year and a lifetime.

5. Mojo #200 Jul 10 $9.99

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

7. The Selves by Sonja Ahlers (D+Q) $19.95 – Collageria of of well brushed merkins and precious patchwork womanhood-EF

8. I Was a Teenage Comic Nerd by Liz Prince $3.00 – Everyone has something to be embarrassed about. For Liz Prince, it’s this collection of comics that she worked on during her pre-college years. These early stories include Liz developing crushes on boys, digging quarters out of trashcans, and dealing with insomnia. They’re lighthearted, strangely endearing, and show how far Liz has come from.

I Was A Teenage Comic Nerd

9. Proximity #7: A Catalog of Strategies $6.00 – An Art Communi-que on the Communit-tay- Chicago-centric yet limitless in scope, this issue is a Catalog of Strategies, split nicely between a recource/contact directory and focus articles pertaining to group and interventionist art. Useful on all fronts, and tremendously engaging too. -EF

Proximity #7 A Catalog of Strategies

10. Killing Time Before the Party Comics About Playing in a Band by People Who Play ed. by Justim Melkmann (Melkmann Comics) $3.00 – Comics ‘thology about playing in a band by people who play in bands. Posers go home.

Killing Time Before the Party

Weekly Top 10

Published on June 8, 2010 0 Comments

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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