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Weekly Top 10

Published on March 15, 2011 0 Comments

1. 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, AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S. 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

And don’t miss Al here at Quimby’s on Tues, March 22nd! He’ll be celebrating the release of Burn Collector #15 and this Quimby’s Exclusive edition. In attendance will also be BC #15 contributors Anne Elizabeth Moore and Liam Warfield. Al will also be at the Chicago Zine Fest starting March 25th.

2. Your Wildest Dreams Within Reason by Mike Sacks (Tin House) $13.95 – “Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks’s unique humor pieces into one handsome, convenient volume. Originally published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and McSweeney’s, among other venerable publications, Sacks’s writing is original and sharp, yet broadly funny. Whether it’s a groom tweeting his wedding and honeymoon in real time, or a publisher offering editorial suggestions for The Diary of Anne Frank, Sacks’s work tangles contemporary social satire with his absurdist sensibilities.”

3. Juxtapoz #123 Apr 11 $5.99

4. Is It the Future Yet by Corinne Mucha (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Who said print is dead? Well they are wrong, wrong, wrong. Another Quimby’s exclusive topping our bestseller list this week, made ‘specially for us by the lovely and talented Ms. Mucha! The future of print looks very bright indeed!

5. Make Your Place – Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

6. Mojo #209 Apr 11 $9.00

7. Brainscan #26 by Alex Wrekk $2.00 – Alex writes about “what the deal is” with her and Joe Biel of Microcosm. This zine takes it to the point – talking about some serious issues wrapped up in unresolved emotional abuse and failed mediation. -EF

8. Pinups #13 Chuck by Christopher Schulz $14.00 – This issue delivers 56 tantalizing pages of hanging out (nude) in a backwoods cabin, fiddling with the transistor radio (nude), crunching some granola (nude) and “frolicing” in the forest (nude). Featuring Chuck (who, in my humble opinion, is Pinups hottest model yet), these quiet moments with this strapping young (nude) woodsman ooze superhottt rustic autonomy not to be missed. Be sure to take the staples out and assemble your giant wall-size Chuck poster from the backside of the pages.

9. Believer #79 Mar Apr 11 2011 Film Issue $10.00

10. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00

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New Stuff This Week

Published on March 12, 2011 0 Comments

Many of our customers have been anxiously awaiting for the opportunity to purchase a signed version of the Quimby’s Bookstore Chris Ware Signage Print. Well, the time is now! We now have a limited run of them SIGNED! They’re $100 signed and the unsigned ones are $50.00. Click here to find out more about each of them.


And! And! And! We are proud to present you…

OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian $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, AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S. And of course it is compelling, humorous and wistful, as you would expect from the Burn Collector himself. Don’t miss Al here at Quimby’s on Tues, March 22nd! He’ll be celebrating the release of Burn Collector #15 and the Quimby’s Exclusive. In attendance will also be BC #15 contributors Anne Elizabeth Moore and Liam Warfield. Al will also be at the Chicago Zine Fest starting March 25th.

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Herbal First Aid – Assembling a Natural First Aid Kit DIY Academy 2005 by Raleigh $1.00
Body-Conscious Birth Control: An Introduction to the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) $2.00 – This small DIY zine provides basic information necessary to use FAM as birth control. This zine takes a whole-body approach to natural birth control, focusing on awareness above all else.
Life Death Love and All of the Above by Meredith Wallace $4.00
Smiling Disease – A Guide to Public Stickering by Scott (Microcosm) $1.00 – Have you ever dreamed of plastering the city with stickers of your own design and annoying the crap out of squares? Here is a your chance: A complete guide to placing adhesive decorations in places where the general populace will see them. Everything from how to get the best stickers printed, to going undetected, some theory, stickering scruples, and dealing with the full psychological ramifications of having your stickers removed. Clear Channel posts their ads everywhere, why shouldn’t you?
Ice Cream by Kelsey Gauret $2.00
Cheap and Raunchy #6 $4.00
Half Nelson #1 by Samantha LaFountain and Jon Natzke $1.50
Welcome Home by S. Chapman $2.00
Wish You Were Here Wish I Was There by Lauren P Smith and Stacey Chapman $2.00
I Dont Understand Farming #5 by Ian $.75
Space Bodies #1 Simple Plezzzures vol 2 2011 by Zoe Jet Ellis and Kevin Quinn McGuinness $8.00
Spank #17 Homo Art Zine $7.75
Travel Naturally #78 $9.95

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Inkfight by Ruby Thorkelson $6.00
Animal Sex: You Might Not Want To Know by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Yes, you do want to know, because this comic is so cute yet informative it’s hard to put it down.
Blammo #7 by Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books) $5.00
Temporama by Clayton Jr (Nobrow) $13.50
Jeff Job Hunter by Jack Teagle (Nobrow) $13.50
Ada by Atak and Gertrude Stein (Nobrow) $18.00
Expansion Part 1 by Matt Sheean and Malachi Ward (Adhouse) $8.00
Utu by Malachi Ward (Adhouse) $8.00
Class Reunion #1 by Charlie Newton $2.50
Jam Comics $6.00
Jerks In Space Art Latest Minicomic Science Edition by John Karnes $1.00
Scout by Malachi Ward (Adhouse) $5.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Street Art, ed. by Johannes Stahl (h.f.ullmann) $16.99
Abstract Graffiti ed. by Cedar Lewisohn (Merrell) $29.95
Tools of Criminal Mischief by Roger Gastman (R. Rock Enterprises) $24.95
Store Front the Disappearing Face of New York by James T. Murray (Gingko) $24.95
Cutting Edge Surface Patterns and Palettes 960 Seamless Patterns (Sendpoints) $39.95 – Contains DVD with 960 patterns in in vector format.
Marylin – Box Set Photographs and Memories by Andre De Dienes (Taschen) $39.99 – Before there was Marilyn, there was Norma Jeane Dougherty. She was briefly engaged to photographer Andre De Dienes. When he died fans ravaged his home and found all this awesome Marilyn stuff. About ten years ago we sold a version of this book that was $200. Now Taschen has released it in a more affordable edition, a 2 volume hardcover in a slipcase.
Basquiat 25 Anniversary Special Edition by Leonhard Emmerling (Taschen) $14.99

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Night Animals by Brecht Evans (Top Shelf) $7.95
Volume One Danny Jeremy Carol Comics by Lizz Hickey $14.00
Birchfield Close by Jon McNaught (NoBrow) $16.00
Pebble Island by Jon McNaught (NoBrow) $16.50
Melvin Monster vol 3 John Stanley Library (D+Q) $24.95
Girl Comics TPB (Marvel) $15.99 – With such artists as Lucy Knisley, Jill Thompson, Colleen Coover and more.
Comics – An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art 1895-2010 by Jerry Robinson (Dark Horse) $39.99

FICTION!
Rexworth Manifesto – A Novella and Stories by GT Hilary $15.95

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #123 Apr 11 $5.99
Fortean Times #272 Apr 11 $11.99
Skeptical Inquirer Mar Apr 11 vol 35 #2 $4.99
Sneaker Freaker #20 $14.95
ID Magazine Spr 11 $10.99
Art of Mary Jane Mar 11 $6.99
Treating Yourself #27 $7.99
High Times May 11 $5.99
Hip Mama #48 $5.95
Boneshaker Magazine #4 $9.00
BlackBook #82 Mar 11 $4.50
Fangoria #301 $8.99
Granta #114 Win 11 Aliens $16.99
Wire #325 Mar 11 $10.99
In These Times Mar 11 $3.50
Monocle vol 5 #41 Mar 11 $10.00
Against the Current #151 Mar Apr 11 $5.00
Rebel Ink Magazine Apr 11 $5.99
Urban Ink #18 $8.99

CHILDRENS BOOKS!
To Market To Market by Nikki McClure (Abrams) $17.95
Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (Harper) $6.99

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Suck It Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek by Olivia Munn (St Martins) $14.99 – Now in soft cover.
Nerds – How Dorks Dweebs Techies and Trekkies Can Save America by David Anderegg PhD (Tarcher) $14.95
Street Boners – 1764 Hipster Fashion Jokes ed. by Gavin McInnes (Grand Central) $18.99

MUSIC BOOKS!
Alex Steinweiss – The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover by Kevin Reagan (Taschen) $69.99 – Alex Steinweiss invented the album cover as we know it, and created a new graphic art form. In 1940, as Columbia Records’ young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months record sales increased by over 800 per cent. His covers for Columbia—combining bold typography with modern, elegant illustrations—took the industry by storm and revolutionized the way records were sold. Over three decades, Steinweiss made thousands of original artworks for classical, jazz, and popular record covers for Columbia, Decca, London, and Everest; as well as logos, labels, adverting material, even his own typeface, the Steinweiss Scrawl. He launched the golden age of album cover design and influenced generations of designers to follow.

SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
Erotic Bible To Europe From Kinky to Chic by Erika Lust (Femme Fatale Books) $19.95
Topless Summer Love Girls – A Gentlemans Guide to Women Relationships and Breasts $29.99

OTHER STUFF!
I Read Zines Sticker $1.00
Support Independent Publishing Sticker $1.00

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New Stuff This Week

Published on March 5, 2011 0 Comments

Only a few weeks until Chicago Zine Fest! Neil shows off a first peek at CZF buttons and t-shirts.

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
No Better Than Apples #7 $3.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #5 – Things to Embarass Mother by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out 2010 by Jenna Freedman $2.00
Ninja Punks vol 1 $2.00 – Compiles the first 3 issues.
Jail HIV Stalking Threats and Vanna – $10.00
Dear God, I Hate Myself – Special Edition Box Set by J. Morrison and Jamie Stewart $40.00 – Fancy pantsy. In conjunction with Xiu Xiu’s “Dear God, I Hate Myself” album, Brooklyn artist J. Morrison and Xiu Xiu lead singer, Jamie Stewart collaborated on a limited edition box set. Morrison created twelve new drawings to correspond with the twelve songs on the album, and in turn Stewart wrote twelve new unpublished haikus to accompany them. They come unpackaged in a glossy black jewelry box with handwritten gold ink covers.
Your 100 Percent You’re 100 Percent B by Sveta $1.00
So Me and You Are Reading This Zine And Youre All Like Whoa This Is Great…#5 Mar 11 by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
Fuck Would I Say What For #1 Mar 11 by Justin Michael Valmassoi $4.00
Good Fine Okay #1 by Marissa F $2.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
160 Page Package by Steve Ditko (Sparkplug) $12.00
Oh No Not Again – Odds and Ends Ditko by Steve Ditko (Sparkplug) $4.00
Dig Yourself Out by Tony Rabit $1.00
Ugle People #1 by Zack Empire – Zackery Jackson $3.00
Underpanting by Matt Wiegle (Sparkplug) $1.00
Nine Gallons #1 by Susie Cagle (Sparkplug) $5.00
Nurse Nurse #3 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
Social Discipline #1 by Ian Sundahl (Sparkplug) $4.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Power Up Female Pop Art (DuMont) $45.00
Chen Ke: Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World by Ke Chen (Timezone 8) $30.00
Compendium of Secrets by Trevor Paglen (Kerber) $37.50
Cult Ure Ideas Can Be Dangerous by Rian Hughes (Fiell) $45.00
Custom Lettering of the 40s and 50s by Rian Hughes (Fiell) $45.00
Everything Is Going To Be OK (Chronicle) $12.95 – This pocket-sized volume is filled with artwork bearing mottos of encouragement and affirmation. Featuring work from a diverse roster of indie artists, designers, and crafters—including beloved figures such as Mike Perry, Marian Bantjes, Marc Johns, Enormous Champion, and Yee-Haw Industries, as well as a host of emerging new talents.
Graffiti Art Coloring Book by Aye Jay (Chronicle) $9.95
Graphic USA: An Alternative Guide to 25 U.S. Cities ed. by Edited Ziggy Hanaor (Cicada) $30.00
Krampus: The Devil of Christmas ed. by Monte Beauchamp (Last Gasp) $18.95

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Mome vol 21 Win 11 (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – Sara Edward-Corbett cover & story, plus Weissman, Ponchione, Simmons, Bak, Van Gieson, Mahler, Shaw, Kaczynski, Wolfgang, Adams, Carré, and newcomer Nick Thorburn.
Freeway by Mark Kalesniko (Skyhorse) $28.99
Krazy and Ignatz 1919-1921 by George Herriman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Popeye vol 5 Whas a Jeep HC by EC Segar (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Popeye: The Great Comic Book by Bud Sagendorf (IDW/Yoe) $29.99
Jack of Fables vol 7 New Adventures of Jack and Jack by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $14.99

DIY
Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living (Skyhorse) $14.95
WorldChanging: A Users Guide For the 21st Century (Revised and Updated) by var. (Abrams) $24.95

FICTION!
The Art of Asking Your Boss For a Raise by Georges Perec (Verso) $16.95
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte (Picador) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.

MAGAZINES!
Bitch #50 $5.95
True Crime Feb 11 $8.99
Murder Most Foul #79 $9.99
Meatpaper #14 $7.95
Fader #72 Feb Mar 11 $5.99
Z Magazine Mar 11 $4.95
Tattoo Society #26 $7.99

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Believer #79 Mar Apr 11 2011 Film Issue $10.00
Mojo #209 Apr 11 $9.99
Deadline Annualis #1 $17.00
Ninth Letter vol 7 #2 $14.95

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Art That Kills: A Panoramic Portrait of Aesthetic Terrorism 1984-2001 ed. by George Petros (Creation) $26.95 – Art That Kills examines the point where art meets crime. The book documents a diabolical era, 1984-2001. It chronicles the evolution of a new aesthetic movement, a terrifying fringe of Underground Art where enlightenment and depravity combined. Murder, rape, torture, pedophilia, cannibalism, drugs, sedition, racism and blasphemy mixed with literature, history, politics, news, movies, TV, punk rock, philosophy and science. The book profiles a pantheon of dissidents and deviants, presents excerpts from their work, re-lives their crimes, and attempts to analyze an elusive era. The scene described herein is essentially the “second generation” of American Underground Art (the “first generation” ran from ’66 through the 70s). All varieties of taboos and criminal advocacy found confluence, beyond “confrontation” or “shock.” Pure sadism drove it. Sexual psychosis flavored it. Frustration with politics, big business and mass entertainment fueled it. GG Allin, Jim Goad, Lydia Lunch, Adam Parfrey, Genesis P-Orridge, Anton Lavey and all manner of usual suspects.
The Cynic’s Guide to a Rich and Full Life by Mario DiGiorgio (Last Gasp) $11.95
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder In the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker (Norton) $25.95
Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast In Fact Fiction and Folklore by Benjamin Radford (U of NM Press) $24.95
Stretch – Coming of Age in Post War Germany by Gunter Nitsch $10.00
Aerotropolis: The Way Well Live Next by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay (FSG) $30.00

MUSIC BOOKS!
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture by Alice Echols (Norton) $17.95 – No in soft cover.
Hüsker Dü – The Story of the Noise Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock by Andrew Earles (Voyageur) $24.00 – Biographical portraits of band members, stuff about their early days, nonstop touring, and defiant embrace of the DIY ethic, all in thoughtful criticism of their work.

SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
Seth by Christopher Schulz $10.00 – Does Seth Rogan know he posed for this sexy zine, featuring his naked form delictely drawn in various sexy poses?
RFD #145 Spr 11 $9.95
Housewives At Play – Do As You’re Told by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99
Bunnyhead Porn A Flip Fuck Book by J. Morrison $25.00

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Weekly Top 10

Published on March 1, 2011 0 Comments

Look at the awesome photos from Saturday’s Mildred Pierce #4 release event.

1. Mildred Pierce #4 by Megan Milks and John Bylander, eds $8.00 – This issue is endless, like a bottomless well of great things. I’ve been reading it for days, and I’m nowhere close to being done with it. MP always features a great and unconventional range of art essays, this issue by Megan Milks (on bulemic writing), Vicky Lim (on Hothead Paisan), Leeyanne Moore (on Sean Samoheyl), John Bylander (on Jimmy Joe Roche) and Joyce Kuechler (on Wangechi Mutu). As if that weren’t enough, there’s also wild prose by Jake Hoestetter, Ellen Nielsen, James Tadd Adcox and Jim Joyce, an interview with Pippi Zornoza on the opulent charmed terror of her drawing and performance work, tons of comics by the likes of Eamon Espey, Zach Hazard, Ed Choy Moorman, Noel Firebert, Jason T Miles. There’s more too. That’s not even hardly everything that’s here. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, that’s the point, forever. -EF

2. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00

3. Boys Club #3 by Matt Furie $4.95

4. Who Is Amy Amoeba by Jason Viola $3.00

5. Filling the Void: Interviews About Quitting Drinking and Using (Doris Press) $4.00 – This zine is so solid it’s like it’s made out of rocks. Cindy from Doris Zine has collected seven interviews here that discuss sobering up from DIY and non-religious perspectives. A great and resourceful thing to have if you or someone you know is trying to clean up their act and is maybe feeling frustrated with traditional modes of support and process. Just a great and resourceful zine to have in general. -EF

6. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes by Sean Tejaratchi, ed.(Show & Tell Press) $12.00 – BACK IN PRINT! 12 New Pages to seduce you! After the longest wait ever, THE BEST CLIP ART ZINE EVER HAS RETURNED. This picture book for discussion and activity features hands, hearts, and eyes. Get those tattoo guns ready, because you and your loved ones are going to need one once you get through looking through this issue. Amazing.

7. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

8. AdBusters #94 vol 19 #2 Mar Apr 11 $8.95

9. Thai Comic Horrors vol 1 by by Khun So and Krit $3.00 – Esteemed Quimby’s alumni/expat Logan just sent us this double-header of Thai pulp comics translated to English for the first time! This issue is comprised of two stories, “The Ghost That Comes to Steal Your Heart” and “Hunt For the Hell Drugs”. Hell yes, those titles are great- and would you believe the actual comics are EVEN BETTER? They are! Classic carnage with visual flair, packed full of jungle ghouls, beautiful babes and poor moral judgement. -EF

10. Your Guide to the Patron Saints of Regret by Michael Whittier and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler $5.00 – Saint Elspeth of the Remnant: Patroness of Ill-Chosen Relationships? Saint Bob the Reluctant: Patron of Introverts? Saint Tammy of Memphis: Patron of Unfortunate Hair Appointments? I tell you, it’s saints like these that really make me question papal infallibility. -EF
With magnifying glass and embossed ink cover.

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Borders Is bankrupt. So let us order the book you want.

Published on February 17, 2011 0 Comments

It’s true. With Borders crossing over into the border of being Border less we can still whatever book you want (if it’s in print and the distributors we go through have it).

Like what, for example? Like this for example…

The Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell

This people’s history of ‘merican scoundrels, nogoodniks, misfits and criminals. This is the balls-to-the-wall version of the U.S. of A. you really do wish you learned about in school. A nice hardcover for only $27.00.

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