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Weekly Top 10

Published on December 6, 2011 0 Comments

1. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – Sweet Spot. Come n’ get it.

2. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine $9.90

3. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF

4. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00

5. Book of Whale Insults (Blue Q) $3.99

6. Notes For A Peoples Atlas: People Making Maps of Their Cities by AREA Chicago $8.00 – This multi-city community mapping project started in Chicago in 2005, and has since expanded to a number of cities ranging from Zagreb to Greencastle, Indiana (USA). The project was initiated by AREA-Chicago, a magazine about art, research, education and activism in Chicago. The book and a website (peoplesatlas.com) document this project by presenting the maps collected in each city along with commentary by leading thinkers dealing with art, urban space, cartography and definitions of place.Featuring Mapping Projects from: Chicago, IL; Zagreb, Croatia; Syracuse, NY; Greencastle, IN; Portland, OR; Granada, Spain; Waterville, ME; Chisinau, Moldova; New York City, NY; Detroit, MI; Boston, MA; Pilsen; Chicago; Santiago, Chile; London, ON, Canada; Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Ukraine (Uzhgorod, Donetsk, Kherson, Simferopol, Vinnytsia); Gary, IN; and Valparasio, Chile.

7. Miami You’ve Got Style: A Little Golden Girls Book by Scott and Zach $13.00 – Epic quest through fashion policing every Golden Girls episode ever….it’s a media meltdown in lilac and mauve. -EF

8. Logan Square Literary Review #5 Win 11 $5.00 – This issue of the Logan Square is full up of milkyfoodyicebox double entendre: soliciting gay refrigerator sperm, simmering dr.pepper for orgasmic cookery, peeky toe crab benedict….and a few other nice things that maybe aren’t like that at all. -EF 9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – 10. Maximumrocknroll #343 Dec 11 $4.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on November 29, 2011 0 Comments

New Boyd Rice book in the house, debuting at the Top 10 this week. -Cassee Kasem

1. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00

2. Slingshot 2012 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  If you have color preferences, list a couple in your order notes!

3. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00

4. Biggest Mistake of Your Life – Wondering If You Are Making – Love Is Not Constantly by Sarah Miller $5.00 – Brilliantly styled as a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

5.  Adbusters Jan 2012 $8.95

6. Regional #3 An Examination of American Cuisine by Cassie Tompkins and Emily Gelsomin $8.50

7. My Aim Is True by Carrie $1.00

8. Brilliant Mistake #3 by Carrie $1.00

9. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00

10. Twilight Man by Boyd Rice and Nina Antonia (Heartworm) $15.00 – “Heartworm Press and 23WLVS are proud to present the new 100-page memoir by Boyd Rice, which follows Rice through San Francisco’s darkest crevices during his time as a responder for the Twilight Alarm Company. Preface by Nina Antonia, author of Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood.

Weekly Top 10

Published on November 22, 2011 0 Comments

But first! A reminder: We’ll be closing tomorrow (Nov 23rd) at 5pm, be closed on Nov 24th and open Nov 25th from noon to 10pm. See you then!

1. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00

2. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00

3. Slingshot 2012 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  If you have color preferences, list a couple in your order notes!

4. Field Guide to the Aliens of The Next Generation – Season One by Joshua Chapman $2.00 – Yes, you read that right. It’s hilarious. As you would expect.

5. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00

6. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95

7. Punk Planet #46 $3.95 – We’ve got lots of back issues of this one. Come in the store and see for yourself.

9. Railroad Semantics #4 Fall 10 $6.50

10. Remedy Quarterly #4 Celebration – Stories of Food Recipes For Feeling Good $7.50

Weekly Top 10 and Holiday Hours

Published on November 15, 2011 0 Comments

First, here’s Quimby’s Holiday Hours:
Sat, Dec 24th 11am-5pm
Sun, Dec 25th CLOSED
Sat, Dec 31st noon-5pm
Sun, Jan 1st, 2012 CLOSED

And now! Here’s the Weekly Top 10

1. A Greater Monster by David David Katzman, with illustrator Caitlin McKay (Bedhead Books) $17.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this event last week! David David Katzman’s second novel, A Greater Monster (Bedhead Books), is a groundbreaking multimedia work that includes 65 pages of illustrations, numerous graphic design elements, visual text poetry, and links to two websites, one of which features original music composed to mirror events in a scene of the book and another featuring an animated sequence. This story itself is a psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, influenced by Alice in Wonderland, Williams S. Burroughs, and graphic novelist Grant Morrison. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse mirror. A Greater Monster breathes new life into the possibilities of fiction. A buncha pictures in it are drawn by the talented comics and tattoo artist Caitlin McKay. She works at Chicago Comics our sister store!

2. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Radicalize! Organize!

3.   Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

4. Prince Zine by Joshua James Amberson $5.00 – R U Ready 4 This 1? Although Amberson is no fanatical Rainbow Child, there’s more than enough purple passion and royal dedication here to assemble an inspired and juicy analysis of Prince’s dynasty, talent, discography and lifestyle choices. I like most that the zine puts some time and thought into getting behind Prince’s rampant weirdness- it’s not at all some sorry joke at Prince’s expense like that Mirror interview, but it doesn’t exactly let him off the hook either – it’s critical AND playful AND willing to admit that at everyone’s core there IS a huge weirdo. It may also be worthy of note that this zine rolled into Quimby’s on a snowy day in April, so it’s a little cosmic too, y’know? -EF

5. Juxtapoz #131 Dec 11 $5.99

6. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – McSweeney’s has a food magazine. What’s next? A McSweeney’s sports magazine? Oh wait, there is a McSweeney’s sports magazine coming out.

7. Raw Deal #13 $2.00

8. Monocle vol 5 #48 Nov 11 $2.00

9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – Don’t miss Craig Thompson here this Thursday 11/17 at 7pm!

10. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

Quimby’s Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers

Published on November 8, 2011 0 Comments

1. Hi Fructose #21 $6.95

2. 2012 Slingshot Small (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  Perfect-bound pocket size.

3. 2012 Slingshot Large (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically. This large size is spiral-bound.

4. Everything vol 1 Comics from Around 1978 to 1981 Collected and Uncollected by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95

5. AdBusters #98 Nov Dec 11 $8.95

6. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00

7. East Village Inky #48 by Ayun Halliday $3.00 – First ever E.V.Inky Music Issue: Rundgren, Rundgren and then a trickle more of Rundgren! Also, get into the heads of what New York teenagers are listening to.

8. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – We can barely keep this one on the shelves!

9. Bring Me the Tongue – Poems by Chris Salib $4.00 – Way with words, feels like powder pigment, tarantulas and late summer crabgrass.

10. Fauna by Leda Zawacki $3.00