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Brain Frame Comics Reading at Happy Dog 7/28

Published on July 24, 2011 0 Comments

This Thursday be sure to check out the Brain Frame Performative Comics Reading at Happy Dog Gallery, right around the corner from us at 1542 N Milwaukee, starting at 8pm. It’s a great lineup of local linework from Lyra Hill, Ian McDuffie and Sara Drake and special outta-sight outta-town guest Otto Splotch, and who knows what from Nick Jackson. Maybe you should give a call and see what he’s thinking about?

Ian McDuffie – www.violetmice.com
Sara Drake – sara-drake.blogspot.com
Lyra Hill – www.lyrahill.com
otto Splotch – www.squishthefish.net
NIck Jackson – 757-284-9293

New Stuff This Week

Published on July 2, 2011 0 Comments

Yes, we will be open on Monday, July 4th, but we will have limited holiday hours from noon to 5pm.

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
ITDN #1 A Poetic Conception of Reality: Group Publishing Publish Equilibrium Our Universe Six Artist Worker and ITDN #2 Fuck This Gags Fury $5.00 each – The art film that reads like a comic that reads like a video game, set in a bunker with lots of nudity. -EF

Butch Nor Femme #1 $1.50
Shit I Didn’t Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50
Don’t Be a Dick Paul Brown (Doris Distro) $1.00
When Language Runs Dry #1: A Zine For People With Chronic Pain and Their Allies by Claire and Meredith (Doris Distro) $3.50
FAQNP #2 Queer Nerd Travel Guide May 11 (Queer Nerd Publication) $7.00
Fluke Fanzine #9 20th Anniversary $2.00
Whitey On The Moon Book 2 by Joey Parlett $10.00
Chicken Livers and Jojos May 11: Drawings and Riff Raff #1 $2.00
Demongun #5 Jun 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
STOP #3 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $3.00
I Was a Teenage Zine Fiend #1 $1.00
In Case of Drought Read This #1 and #2 $1.00 each – From kids at 826CHI!
HyenaZine (Zine Hyenaxena) #2 and #3 by Hyena Xena $3.00 each
Idiots Books zine volumes by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, priced $5.00-$10.00: vol 12 Last Day, vol 28 Babies Ruin Everything, vol 29 Home Was an Epic Poet, vol 30 Inconclusive Passage In the Life of Bushy Washington
My Day On, Under and Around the St Johns Bridge with CD by Nate Orton, James Yeary and Justin Glenn Smith $6.00
My Day #17 Walking from Hillsboro to Forest Grove Ore by Nate Orton and James Yeary $3.00
Motor City Kitty #17 by Bri Z $1.00
Cheap Toys #6 and #7 by Gizmo $1.50 each
Dream Weavers $10.00
It’s Curtains #8 $2.00
You Made Devotion A Virtue #3 Be My Baby by Devan Ballbuster Bennett $2.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #8 Something Very Ugly by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Everything Quantizes #2 by Katherine Brideau $3.00
All Things Are Eagles #1 by Mike Mellenthin $1.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Various issues of Dogshed by Andy Burkholder $2.00-$3.00 – Wait? Why did you come here ANY WAY? Breakdown BrakeUp blind line leading the dog blind til it’s too tired…you look tired, so you should try. I know your trying to understand, but sometimes the comics justs gets weirds. -EF



Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00
This Isn’t Working: Comics About Ex Boyfriends $3.00 – Featuring Cara Bean, Caitlin Plovnick, Robyn Chapman, Liz Prince and more!
Make Comics About an Intimate Act $7.00 – Featuring Adriana Yugovich, Joseph Lambert, Robyn Chapman, Wicks Maris, Nate Beaty and more!
Galactic Breakdown #3 by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $8.00
In The Sounds and Seas vol 1 by Marnie Galloway $15.00
Flight of Forfeition – An Adventure… by Chris Monday $4.00
All Wet by Ian Endsley $3.00
Catholic Tastes IDTN Group by Darla Marx $1.00
Werewolf Horror Mask $4.00
You Okay Buddy $1.00
Absolute Loneliness various issues by Johns $1.00 each
Phil’s Adventures: #1 Featuring Land That Time Forgot and Mummie Alive, #2 Featuring Grey Lady Blues and Underneath the Water, #3 Featuring Some Reservations and Out In the Cold, all by by SA Winchell and $5.00 each
Tenebrous $1.50
Lords ov thee Black Sun #0 by Michael Miles $5.00 – That’s some crazy looking satan-y black metal shit.
All Aboard by Max Mose $4.00
Benol The Huckster by Max Mose $5.00
Calamity of Challenge #127 by Matthew Allison $6.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Incal Classic Collection by Alexandro Jodorowsky (Author), Moebius (Illustrator) (Humanoids, Inc.) $44.95 – Jean Giraud, more well known under his artist alias Moebius, comes forth with an artistic vision that still stands the test of time, The Incal. The Incal was responsible for introducing the Jodoverse world, the one in which all of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s science section sagas were all based in. Filled with surreal imagery, futuristic concepts that melt together with primitive societal conditions that run through the full gamut of historical perspectives. Centered around a Light Incal which gives powers sought by many corrupt groups. With an intro by Brian Michael Bendis.


Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme (Top Shelf) $29.95 – Art in a sort f even lower-fi version of Chester Brown.
Go Fish – How to Win Contempt and Influence People by Mr. Fish (Akashic) $18.95

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Utopie Texts and Projects 1967-1978 by Craig Buckley by Jean Louis Violeau (Semiotexte) $26.95
Fragile Bodies by Stephanie Greenquist by Emily Steigerwaid $11.95
Awful Resilient by Alex Pardee (Gingko) $29.95
Suggestivism: Artists Works Interviews and Studio Portraits (Gingko) $34.95
Las Vegas Underfoot Photo Book by Gordon Meyer and Gale Meyer $15.95
Type Image by Barbara Brownie (Gingko) $39.95
International Topsprayer by Moses, Taps, Sprayer (Publikat) $39.95

FICTION!
How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Vintage) $14.95 – Humerous yet compelling in it’s gimmicktry:. The fictinal story of the fictional family you might fictionally know. Now in soft cover. -LM
The Instructions by Adam Levine (McSweeneys) $18.00 – Now in soft cover. This awkward Jewish child might be the messiah. Maybe. Or not…? A funny book that’s several inches thick, but with crazy book paper technology that means it’s made of some sort of weight of paper that this soft cover book is only $18.00.
Peace Love and Petrol Bombs by DD Johnston (AK) $14.95
NVSQVAM Nowhere by Ann Sterzinger $13.00
Supernatural Noir ed. by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse) $19.99

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
The Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00 – Come’n’geddit while we got it. The annual Music Issue always goes fast!
Village on Horseback Prose and Verse 2003-2008 by Jesse Ball (Milkweed) $18.00
Knock #14 $9.00
Barrelhouse #9 $9.00
Creative Nonfiction #41 Spr 11 $10.00
Bomb #116 Sum 11 $7.95
Madman #1 by Prachi Gangwani $5.00

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Fine Fine Music by Cassie J. Snyder (Raw Art) $15.00 – With the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider brings her stories about growing up in the early eighties to Quimby’s on July 23rd. These stories that include Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not and locals waxing Camaros to Foreigner on cassette will leave you laughing and wanting more. Don’t miss her here, joined by Dave “On Subbing” Roche.


Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (HM) $28.00
225 Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by The New York Neo-Futurists (Hope) $16.00

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Ours To Master and To Own: Workers Control From the Commune To the Present by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket) $19.00

DIY!
CIA Lockpicking Manual by The Central Intelligence Agency (Skyhorse) $12.95
Author Illustrator Starter Kit  – Contains Three Completely Blank Books (McSweeneys) $13.95

MUSIC-RELATED!
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad (LB&C) $24.99 – Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould teams up with the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life to give his account of personal history as one of the most revered figures of punk.
Talk Minus Action Equals Zero: An Illustrated History of DOA by Joe Keithley (Arsenal) $27.95
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay (Verso) $24.95 – “From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.”
33 1/3 Series: Television’s Marquee Moon by Bryan Waterman (Continuum) $12.95 – From the series that deconstructs popula and/or important albums, written by musicians, critics and uber fans.
33 1/3 Series: Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me (Continuum) $12.95
Jerry Lee Lewis Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo (Continuum) $19.95
Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s by Paul Hegerty and Martin Halliwell (Continuum) $24.95

MAGAZINES!
Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – First issue of McSweeneys food rag everyone’s all on about. The Ramen issue. Don’t want to ever miss an issue? Ask about the Quimby’s Subscription Service!
Wholphin #13 $19.95
Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50
Boneshaker Magazine #5 $9.00
True Crime Jun 11 $8.99
Dwell Jul Aug 11 $5.99
UFO Magazine #156 vol 24 #3 $5.99
Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 11 vol 35 #4 $4.95
Neural #39 $8.00
Tattoo Revue #154 $6.99
Antenna Sum 11 $4.99
Goth Loli vol 16 $21.80
Maps vol 21 #1 $8.95
Treating Yourself #29 $7.99
Fangoria #305 $8.99
Skateboard Mag #89 $3.99
BlackBook #85 Jun Jul 11 $4.50
Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00
In These Times Jul 11 $3.50
ASR #56 Sum 11 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Urban Ink #20 $8.99
Inked Girls May Jul Aug 11 $7.99

CHILDRENS BOOKS!
We Need a Horse by Sheila Heti and Clare Rojas (McSweeneys) $16.95
Here Comes the Cat by Frank Asch (McSweeneys) $12.95

SEX & SEXY!
Dictionary of Semenyms 10th Edition – 1383 Synonyms for Semen by Cecil Goran $15.00 – With examples of usage from erotic literature.

OTHER STUFF!
Charley Harper ABC Nesting Blocks (Ammo) $24.95
Sharkula Diarrhea of a Madman DVD by Joshua Conro $15.00 – First documentary feature-length film by filmmaker and Quimby’s buddy Joshua Conro.
Cory Doctorows Makers Tile Game by Idiots Books $12.00

Cassie J. Sneider Reads From Fine Fine Music with Dave Roche and Danny ‘Ratso’ Rathbun 7/23

Published on June 29, 2011 0 Comments
Jul ’11
23
7:00 pm

FINE FINE MUSIC is a collection of stories about the other side of rock and roll and coming of age in the land that time forgot. Lake Ronkonkoma is stuck in 1981, an alcoholic blackout of unnatually tan people waxing their Camaros to Foreigner on cassette and knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not. From an internship making Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, and a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider delivers her tales of growing up in a land of fist-pumping Snookies with the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk.

Cassie J. Sneider grew up in the murky depths of Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, a town with a haunted lake, a trailer park, and a record store. She put 240,000 miles on a Toyota Echo doing readings all over the country. Cassie J. Sneider collects 8-tracks and new friends. You can catch her on the Sister Spit 2012 national tour. For more info: cassiejsneider.blogspot.com

Dave Roche is the zinester behind such titles as On Subbing and About My Disappearance. He is a Quimby’s favorite.

And now, one more name has been added! It’s Danny “Ratso” Rathbun, who writes about openly and honestly about failed relationships, drugs and depression, but always with a wink and a smile. He runs a number of tongue and cheek columns like, ‘Drunken Letters to Abstract Concepts’, ‘Copyrighted Material Used Without Permission’, and ‘Punk rock trading cards’, that have drawn comparisons to Mad Magazine. Ratso’s work has been printed in over twenty different newspapers around Virginia, including The Virginia Gazette, The Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, and others.  He is a regular contributor to Grassroots magazine, and the Commonwealth Times.  He publishes the zine Don’t Tread on Me, regularly performs standup comedy and gives readings across the state of Virginia, and is currently on a nationwide tour, doing readings across the country. For more info:  dtmzine.blogspot.com

Sat, July 23rd, 7pm

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New Stuff This Week

Published on June 25, 2011 0 Comments

Hey Revenge of Print fans! Sara Drake will be here doing comics and independent publishing workshops from 1:45 to 4:45 today! Click here for more info. 1:45 comics making demo, 3:00 self-publishing demo, 4:45 comics drawing workshop. Come on over! The water’s fine!

Today’s pick:

Empty the Sun: A Novel by Joseph Mattson with Soundtrack by Six Organs of Admittance (Ben Chasny and Steve Ruecker) (Barnacle) $18.00 – Book with CD. Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers — everywhere at once, stinging, dark and beautiful. Empty the Sun will take you to some strange places, but the trip is amazing. Mattson has written a truly inventive and vivid novel. -Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Destroy All Monsters Magazine $30.00 – It was a zine! No, a band! A zine, a band! Both?! Tomato, tomahto, let’s call it an art collective and be done with the debate. Shake?
Bathing Salts by Keith G. Herzik $5.00 – Crazy screenprinting master Herzik leaves us another artifact from his lab.
South Side Chicago Anti Racist Action #2 May Day Edition $2.00
Amazing Women #3 by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
You Made Devotion A Virtue #1 An Epic Tale of Phil Spector Modern Day Bluebeard – American Nightmare is His Wet Dream by Devan Elyse Bennett $2.00
Everything Good and Beautiful by Bucket Siler and Frey Anya $5.00
God Save the Zine #5 and #6 by Harrison Rosenberg $3.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
You Dont Get There From Here #19 Carrie McNinch $2.00
So Nervous #1 by Corinne Mucha and Heather Radke $3.00 – Heather writes material about anxiety which then inspires Corinne to do related comics. A fascinating collaboration!
Shirtlifter #4 by Steve Macisaac and friends (Drawn Out) $12.95
Suicide Girls Comic #3 $3.99 – Chicks with tattoos and big boobies save the world!
Kids Comics Anthology ed. by Jose Luis Olivares $8.00 – Featuring such folks as Nate Beaty, David Libens, Alex Kim and more.
Sock  #1 Adult Stories and Imagery ed. by Conor Stechshulte $8.00 – Featuring such folks as CF, Sam Gaskin and more.
Mindful Eating #1 by Drew Damron $2.00 – Drawn during the month of April 2010.
Powdered Milk #5 by Keiler Roberts $2.50
SF #1 by Ryan Cecil Smith
M. Sauter’s Guide to Douchebaggery #3 by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00 – Each issue a consistent seller here. What is that saying?
Vicki Stowe Brewmaster by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00
Comics by Kevin Ulrich ($1.00 each) Boot #1: Bunnies Rocks Unicorns, Boot #2: Starring Ted the Unicorn and Boot #3: With Exclusive Centerfold Comic

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Meatfist and Gronk Collected Fud and Bud Burgy $5.00
Continuity Guy Chrono Chaos by Klonowski and Burgy $5.00
Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944-1949: The First Female Superhero Created and Drawn by a Woman Cartoonist by Tarpe Mills (IDW) $49.99
Chester 5000 XYV by Jess Fink (Top Shelf) $14.95
Art of Doug Sneyd: Collection of Playboy Cartoons BY Doug Sneyd (Dark Horse) $39.99 – With a forward by Hugh Hefner.

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Back In the Days Remix 10th Anniversary Edition by Jamel Shabazz (PowerHouse) $35.00 – Reprint of this amazing photo collection of B-boys and girls.
Power to the Imagination Artists Posters and Politics by Jurgen Doring (U of Chicago) $29.95
I Should Be In Charge by Bob and Roberta Smith (Black Dog) $49.95
Medium Religion Faith Geopolitics Art ed. by Boris Groys  and Peter Weidel $46.00 – Art that questions religion, machines that “analyze” the bible. A hefty, er, tomb.
Red Maze by Stanley Donwood $59.95 – Follows the red maze of curated ephemera. Like “The Shining,” but um, not a hedge maze. With art. In a red maze.
Paul Madonna Album 01 Paul Madonna $24.95 – Comics artist Paul Madonna came in on the sly to sign a few copies of his books while he was in town, and he brought an awesome oversized show catalog of sorts, featuring, among other things, the finger monster toys we sell here too.
Chicano Graffiti and Murals The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada by Sojin Kim $30.00

DIY!
Apocalypse Cakes Recipes For the End by Shannon O’Malley and Keith Wilson (Running Press) $14.00
Mental Health Cookbook Creating Connection With Foods and Herbs (Needles and Pens) by H Finn Cunningham $7.00

FICTION!
Hundred Brothers by Donald Antrim $15.00
Ladies Man by Richard Price (Picador) $15.00
Lightning by Jean Echenoz (New Press) $19.95
Stories ed. by Neil Gaiman (Harper) $16.99 – Experimental fiction from the likes of Peter Straub and Chuck Pahlahnuik ed. by Mr. Sandman Neverwhere.
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen (Grand Central) $14.99
Vacant Lot by Oliver Rohe (Counterpoint) $18.00

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Through My Eyes: The Way I See Things and the Things I Saw by Eva Pilch $25.00
Always Messing With Them Boys Poems Jessica Helen Lopez $10.00
They Dont Make Memories Like That Anymore by Katrina K. Guarascio $10.00

MAGAZINES!
Handshake #1 $8.00 – New Chicago-based mag, debut issue. Interviews with blue collar folks and places you might proudly recognize. We look forward to more issues!
Shots #112 sum 11 $ $6.50
Shock Cinema #40
Wax Poetics #47 $9.99
Fader #74 Jun Jul 11 $5.99
Tattoo Society #28

CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter (McSweeneys) $22.00

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior (Bazillion) $39.95 – Don’t miss Jon and Tara here at Quimby’s on July 8th, 7pm. The pair will recount some of the hilarious and the tragic episodes contained in the book, and discuss a dedication to self-publishing spawned from the darkest excesses of metal.
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of The Punk and Hardcore Generation (UPM) $35.00 – Pretty awesome.

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Mayor Culpa: 1989-2011 Gone But Not Forgiven – The Unofficial Farewell Tribute to Mayor Richard M. Daley As Told Through His Long-Lost Campaign Memorabilia by Mark Weinberg $12.95 – Collection of Daley administration ephemera, hilarious yet telling satire Onion-style. The cover graphics of Daley looking like Mr. Burns is worth the cover price alone. From an art standpoint, the design of the book and the graphics are top notch. Small print run, independently published, and home-grown of course, here in the city with big shoulders. A must!
The People’s History of Poverty In America by Stephen Pimpare (New Press) $21.95

SEX & SEXY!
SPS #8 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00 – Oh don’t cry, sad little orifice dripping with goo. Your time will cum.
OP Original Plumbing #7 Trans Male Quarterly Green Issue by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos  $8.00
Hot Jocks Gay Erotic Stories by Richard Labonte (Cleis) $14.95
Brief Encounters 69 Hot Gay Shorts by Shane Allison (Cleis) $15.95
Angels Misfits by Gary Cook $32.95 – Photos in the vein of Suicidegirls but done desktop publishing style.
Crazy weird porny 3D stuff that comes with 3D glasses, in various prices: Larry Ferguson photography, 3D and Naughty A Sensual Collection of Pin Up Photography In Amazing 3D, Bottoms Up A Cocktail of Risque Recipes and Vintage Vixens, Vavoom #1 Fast Girls, Shh Presents Special Editions ($10.00 each) Hanna Hilton, Shh Presents Courtney Taylor, Kelley Jean
Doktor Mentor #1 and #2 $9.95 each – The booth across from us at C2E2 had the Nawdy Nurse, The Jail Babe Surgeon and other sexy names. This is something they publish. From the same consignor as the 3D stuff above. Also we have a DVD of these shenanagins for $20.00
Candie Land #2 $9.95

OTHER STUFF!
Embrace A Pregnancy Journal by Nikki McClure (Sasquatch) $16.95
Tree of Life Postcard Print by Mark Ryden $5.00 – WHAT?! Five BUCKS FOR A MARK RYDEN PRINT? Better get your paws on this soon before it flies outta here.
Onsmith/Paul Nudd Letterpress For Black Eye #1 Signing $15.00 – This was made exclusively for signings for the dark comics humor anthology Black Eye that was here last night, by sontributors Onsmith and Nudd, letterpress printed by local printer Rohner.
More Moleskine planners are here. Going into 2012 now!

Zap Retrospective Book Now Available

Published on May 26, 2011 0 Comments

We just got this really awesome book Zap: Masters of Psychedelic Art 1965-1974. It’s pretty awesome. It’s totally worth making a trip to our store to see it.

This gorgeous oversized book is an exhibition catalog for a Zap retrospective show at Andrew Edlin Gallery curated by Gary Panter. Included are complete stories by Robert Williams, Gilbert Shelton, and R. Crumb, and enormous images by Spain, Moscoso, Rick Griffin and S. Clay Wilson, some never-before printed. Everything was scanned from the original art and printed in luminous black and silver.

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