Archive for the 'bestsellers' Category

Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart debuts on the weekly top 10 at #9 this week.

Thanks to everybody who came out to the Comics & Philsophy Conference at the Universty of Chicago this past weekend. We have two posters Chris Ware designed for the conference we’re proud to be selling, which are both available for purchase on our website! You can look at them here and here.

1. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF…Thanks to everybody that came out for the Clowes and Buenaventura signing here at Quimby’s last week!

2. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

3. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago. Aren’t we funny? Rag, you know like, what you clean a bar with? But also another name for a magazine? And crafted? As in, craft beer but then also this mag is crafted in Chicago? Hello? Hello? Where are you going? Are my jokes that bad? -LM

4. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other.

5. The Death Ray by Dan Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book.  Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover.

6. Ojitos Borrosos by Ines Estrada $10.00 – A simply killer collection of Inés Estrada’s amazing comics – charmed and pervy and smart and totally unpredictable….I can’t say enough good things about these except that you will love them. Reading them is like drinking your favorite juice and listening to your favorite record on a really nice day. In fact, if you did that AND read these comics all at once you’d probably send yourself into a self-perpetuating orgasm vortex. Ojitos collects a lot of odds and ends – minis and anthologies and one-pagees, and orders them up well with english translation for gringos like me. Get this get this get this. -EF

7. Animal Sex #2 Bugs and Slugs by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Hot bug on slug action.

8. Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD: Girls Singing Songs About Girls by Amara Leipzig & Isabella Rotman $5.00 – Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman assemble a cover album and cutes ha-hoots liner notes zine that’s all women singing songs originally written by men about women. Gender theory via aural pleasuring. -EF

9. Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart (Retrofit Comics) $6.00 –  Hart plays it fast and loose with this beach-bound poopy-baby quest. Drawn with relaxed flair – a little like maakies or old school simpsons in the cavalier slapstick and general heart. -EF

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

Fag School #4  enters the topsellers this week at #10.

1. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for Free Comic Book Day to see Jeffrey Brown. We still have a few copies of his mini comic that he made specifically for that day. Don’t miss your chance to get this one.

2. Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $5.00 – For real. New material that’s not in the “Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition.” And it’s numbered #1, so we expect more issues. Stay tuned for more adventures.

3. Monocle vol 6 #53 May 12 $12.00

4. Maximumrocknroll #348 May 12 $4.00

5. Handbook vol 6 #2 2012 $6.00 – As if Handbook needed a greatest hits, here’s volume 6, issue 2 delivering second dates with 3 of HB’s hawtest, surrounded by erotical essays and gaynotes of current concern. -EF

6. Cave Girl by Ireal $1.00 – Unfoldable stories of Cave Girl living, a lot about mushroom hunting, musings on bears and beasts, spiders too. -EF

7. How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz $1.00 – Manners with their self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.

8. Shut Up And Love The Rain by Robnoxious (Microcosm) $4.00 – “Robnoxious takes us along his path from early sexual exploration to his current sex-positive, constantly-deprogramming, uber-healthy queerness! Rob’s writing and comics show us that experimentation should start early, that guilty pleasures needn’t be guilty, and that talking it over and being honest with each other will lead to nothin’ but good. There’s hilarious, illuminating essays, intimate accounts of relationships outside the margins, and a touching, inspiring interview with Rob’s parents after his father came out as transgendered.”

9. Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs by The Icarus Project $6.00

10. Fag School #4 New Fiction – Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez (Paquita Press) $5.00 – Fag School is in session and I suggest you try to handle the full course load. This zine is fucking brilliant and amazing – always has been, and I think it might always will be. -EF