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NEW STUFF THIS WEEK:
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
FAQNP #2 Computer Camp Fall 10 Queer Nerd Publication $7.00
JD Samson From the Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 1 #2 2009 (B & D Press) $6.00
Agggresssive School Book – Trash Garbage Rubbish Zine by Mark Pawson $8.00
Comunicacion Contaminacion by Mark Pawson $7.50
Birkensnake #3 $4.00
And Who Shall I Say Is Calling? by Jasper Sebastian Sturup $8.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #2 Hewers of Water by Gabrielle Congrave $2.00
‘ Za the Pizza Zine by Nicki Yowell $4.00
Schematic Quarterly #3 $2.00
Dance Your Troubles Away by M. Miller $6.00
35th and Kind Drive – Bad Ass and Rides of Als Chicago South Side $6.00
Megaton Medias Modern Man Manual #1 $3.00
Dumb Magazine #1 Random Music Issue Hot Sum 10 (First Edition) by Noah Lyon $5.00 – From the artist of Retard Riot and the buttons that said, “Retardo Monteblon.” Like a David Shrigley for the mini-comics set.
Assuming Size #1 Poems $3.00
No More Coffee #3 by Ben Spies $2.00
Reality Mom vol 7 #4 Fall 10 by Corbin Lewars $3.00
Map #3 Manual of Architectural Possibilities – Archive $6.50
COMICS & MINICOMICS!
I Swallowed the Key to My Heart #2 by Liz Prince $6.00
Four Squares #2 More Squares by Liz Prince etc. $5.00
Ferocious Quarterly #1 $12.00
Acmeat 2 Fuckin Symphonies Bongout Colors by Sylvain Gerand $18.00
Retard Riot #35 by Noah Lyon $2.00
Love Under the Big Top by Dakota Bardy $4.00
This Tactile Earth by Patrick Kyle $3.00
Wowee Zonk #3 (Koyama Press) $8.00 – With Michael Deforge, Jan Avendano, Selena Wong, Patrick Kyle and more.
You Don’t Get There From Here #17 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
M. Sauters Guide to Douchebaggery vol 2 $3.00
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by Sophie Crumb (Norton) $27.95 – Don’t need any introduction here!
Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00 – The third volume in C.F.’s Dune-like science fiction/fantasy epic.
What I Did by Jason (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Castle Waiting vol 2 HC by Linda Medley (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Native Trees of Canada by Leanne Shapton (D+Q) $19.95
Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris and the Eiffel by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Beautiful. In English. And in color.
Tonoharu Part Two by Lars Martinson $19.95 – Part 2 of a semiautobiographical look at an American English teacher adjusting to life in rural Japan.
Will Eisner a Dreamer’s Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher (Bloomsbury) $28.00
Six Novels In Woodcuts the Collected Works of Americas First Great Graphic Novel by Lynd Ward, ed. by Art Spiegelman (Library of America) $70.00 – Some people argue that this is perhaps the first American graphic novel.
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo E Sex Blood and the Supernatural by Jack Hunter (Shinbaku) $29.95
God Damn the Sun: A 100 Drawings From Napoleon at the Party by Jasper Sebastian Sturup $30.00
Dot Dot Dot #20 $16.95
Noggins by Mark Pawson $16.00
Dr. Lakra by Dr. Lakra (Kurimanzu) $35.00
It’s a Boy – It’s a Girl by Kirsten Dietz (Taschen) $29.99 – Pictures of signs that are either female names or male names. Like Alice’s or Bob’s or whomever’s diner. You kind of have to see it. Well, guess you’ll have to come to Quimby’s then.
Scary Girl HC by Nathan Jurevicius (Last Gasp) $25.00 – A book of the vinyl toy character. Perhaps you bought one of the figures when it was here. Now get the book.
Kaws by Monica Ramirez-Montagut (Skira) $45.00 – A vibrant look at the celebrated New York-based artist and designer KAWS.
Hi Fructose Collected Edition vol 2: Under-the-Counter Culture (Last Gasp) $39.95 – This hardcover collect issues 5-8 of the magazine and feature emerging and established artists such as Camille Rose Garcia, Femke Hiemstra, Jordan Crane, Marion Peck, Paul Pope, KRK Ryden and more. Or get the Deluxe Box Set version for $60.00, which comes with prints, stickers and a poster! Scrumptious! This would make a great gift for someone you want to educate on lowbrow art. Or tell your people you want it.
Typefontbat 134 Fontbats equals 6000 Graphics (BNN) $39.95 – Weirdo fonts. Comes with disc to install ’em on your computer.
Hand Made Graphics Design and Art (BNN) $55.00
Playful Type 2: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts (DGV) $60.00 – You know you want it. That’s right.
DIY & CONSUMPTION
High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs In History Science and Culture by Mike Jay (Park Street) $19.95
Religion of Ayahuasca The Teachngs of the Church of Santo Daime by Alex Polari De Alverga (Park Street) $16.95
The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life: Cruelty Free Crafts, Recipes, Beauty Secrets and More by Melisser Elliott (Skyhorse) $16.95
Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! by Abigail Gehring (Skyhorse) $24.95
Punch: The Delights and Dangers of the Flowing Bowl by David Wondrich (Perigree) $23.95 – An anecdotal history of the original monarch of mixed drinks with more than forty historic recipes. Fully annotated and a complete course in the lost art of compounding punch. By the James Beard Award Winning author of Imbibe.
FICTION!
Sunset Park by Paul Auster (Holt) $25.00
Semina #7 Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home (Book Works) $19.95
Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses ed. by Bill Henderson (Pushcart) $18.95
Complete Stories of JG Ballard SC (Norton)
The Petting Zoo by Jim Carroll (Viking) $24.95
SteampunkD by var. (Daw) $7.99 – An anthology of all-original works of the genre.
Demon Lover by Dion Fortune (Weiser) $16.95
MAGAZINES!
UFO Magazine #154 vol 24 #1 $5.99
Skunk vol 6 #5 $5.99
Treating Yourself #25 $7.99
High Times Jan 11 $5.99
Gopher Illustrated #1 $16.00
Make: The Tool Guide Special Issue $9.99
Wire #321 Nov 10 $10.99
Ghetto Blaster #26 $3.95
Against the Current #149 $5.00
Radical Philosophy #164 $13.00
LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
Slake Los Angeles Sum 10 Still Life A City and Its Stories $18.00
Coming Envelope #2 Win 10 $10.00
Concisely #4 Stories Under 500 Words $3.00
The Believer #76 Nov Dec 10 Art Issue $10.00
Sous Les Paves vol 1 #1 Oct 10 by Micah Robbins $2.00
Used To Be annaelresiak $4.00
CHILDRENS!
Who Will Comfort Toffle: A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson (DQ) $16.95 – Moomin is not a hippo.
MUSIC BOOKS!
Sun Ra: Interviews and Essays ed. by John Sinclair (Headpress) $19.95
Left Handed Blows Writing on Sound 1993 to 2009 by Bruce Russell (Clouds) $25.00
Tao of Wu by RZA (Riverhead) $15.00
True Hip Hop by Mike Schreiber (MBP) $14.95 – Some classy photos.
POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America Draft Proposal by Revolutionary Communist Party USA $8.00
The Idea of Communism (Verso) $26.95 – An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism, including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Balso, Bruno Bosteels and more.
MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
Cult People: Tales from Hollywoods Exploitation A List by Nicanor Loreti (Headpress) $16.95
Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetitie For Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh by Chloe Castleden (Skyhorse) $12.95 – Who are you having over for dinner?
Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock by Vere Chappell (Weiser) $21.95
The Mystery of U33: Hitler’s Secret Envoy -The Incredible Story of the Mystery Uboats by Nigel Graddon (AdvUnlmtd) $19.95 – From the author of Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Armageddon Survival Handbook: How to Prepare Yourself for Any Possible Scenario by Rainer Stahlberg (Skyhorse) $12.95
ESSAYS & CULTURE!
Discombobulated Dispatches From the Wrong Side by Simon A Morrison (Headpress) $16.95 – During the course of the many adventures that make up this discordant operetta, Simon Morrison has a gun held to his head by a celebrity gangster, goes raving in Ibiza with a holiday grandmother, is trapped in a gay bar in Leipzig, sings happy birthday to Kylie Minogue, disco dances in a San Franciscan titty bar, is deported from Russia, travels the white heights of the Alps through to the gutters of Brazil, and still picks himself up in time for tea with boy band Take That.
Poseidons Steed: The Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality by Helen Scales PhD (Gotham) $15.00
Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the 80s by Richard Rushfield (Gotham) $16.00
The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide by Richard A. Muller, illustrated by Joey Manfre (Norton) $16.95
English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison (Norton) $35.00
SEX & SEXY!
Best Erotic Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. by Cecilia Tan and Bethany Zaiatz (Circlet) $19.95
Quaintance: The Art of George Quaintance by Reed Massengill (Taschen) $99.99
SPS #7 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00
Naked In the Gallery 2010 by Christian Gfeller $28.00
OTHER STUFF!
Hipster Mustache $4.00 – Put it with your trucker hat and blend right in.
Heart Gelatin Mold Just Like Moms $6.00 – No really. Like a real heart. Say it with love this holidays.
Calendario Bestiaro Bestiary Calendar 2011 by Dave Buchen $25.00 – Wood block animal screen prints, with a different adorable beast for every month.
Have you noticed some amazing changes on quimbys.com? No? Go to quimbys.com and hit your “refresh” button. Now do you see any changes? Think they look awesome? We do too. And there’s more to come. There will be kinks along the way as more changes go up. We hope you like it as much as we do!
Also! For the second time in Quimby’s recorded history, someone bought $6.66 worth of merchandise. Here is what the number of the beast will buy you:
Anyway, here’s new stuff for this week:
ZINES!
Nnnnnnnnnn Yes vol 1 #1 $10.00 – A seven-person dispicable draw off hurtling our way from South Korea. Cut-ups, cut-opens, cut-outs, “we let our dicks and persnalities hang out.” Work by Jeff Conricode, Dillon Turner, Patrick Hansor, Morgan Dale Tepsic, Eli Taylor, Chris Elizondo, Jesse Douglas
Underground by Scott and Jen Webel $10.00 – Published by Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, this zine is a lovingly illustrated catalogue of the Museum’s 2010 Underground exhibit, which takes the theme, as usual, to delightfully eccentric extremes. Practically perfect in every way, this concept allows for the full on display and linkage of Kidney Stones, Trilobytes and Blue Jeans From the Russian Black Market, as well as many more of your very favorite things. If you really want to rave in the cave, this zine pairs excellently with Underneath Providence and Muddy -EF
Some Scraps #4 Always on Mine The Final Chapter by Jordan Rutherford $.99
Sutdio Sweet Studio #1 by Tuesday Bassen $7.00
Engines of Fortitude #1 by Moore Allen Keating and Bill Tucker $3.50
COMICS & MINICOMICS!
You Don’t Get There From Here #16 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Daily diary comics in a Porcellin-ian vein, this issue is maybe both the wordiest issue and also the one with the most visual variations in style and content. McNinch faces numerous rattlesnakes and a mountain lion, goes to San Diego Comic Con and drinks well. Also, the accupuncture seems to be working, this issue’s a solid upper. -EF
Devastator #1 by Geoffrey Golden (Devastator) $7.95
Neonomicon #2 by Alan Moore etc. (Boom) $3.99
My Life as a Smut Peddler #1 and #2 by E Charles Connell and Jim Kidonakis #1 is $2.00 and #2 is $3.00
My Ghost Came As a Mexican by Jim Kidonakis $5.00
Full On and Proper Sap Tastic Voyage by Jim Kidonakis $2.00
Silk Lady Squirm Demon by Ryan Orlak and Jim Kidonakis $1.00
Its Dream Time, Snoop Doggy Dogg: A Collection of Celebrity Studded Dreams by JT Yost (Birdcage) $4.00
Pelage Fauve Tirage $5.00
Fsshmrwl Baouarf by Simon Bossé $5.00 – The biggest little zine we’ve got! Each page is a shenanigan-fueled 3-layer silkscreen print from the Bébête-o-sphere. You really can’t go wrong with the Mille Putois. -EF
Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EF
Vortex #2 by Don Robinson $5.20
Zombies Attack by Don Robinson $3.50
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Best American Comics 2010, ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, with guest editor Neil Gaiman (Houghton) $23.00
Palookaville #20 by Seth (D&Q) $19.95 – Single issue in book form.
Four Color Fear Forgotten: Horror Comics of the 1950s by Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fire and Water: Bill Everett The Sub Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Sanctuary by Nate Neal (Verso) $22.99
14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography by Tetsu Saiwai (Penguin) $15.00
Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula BY Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Plume) $16.00
Yearbooks by Nicholas Breutzman,Shaun Feltz, and Raighne Hogan $13.00
Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal by Marek Bennett $10.00
Bebete by Simon Bosse and Putois Mille $15.00
Spirits of St. Louis: 13 Tales of Terror From the Gateway City $9.99
Walking Dead: The Covers by Krikman, etc. (Image) $24.99
De Tales: Stories From Urban Brazil by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse) $19.99
Digested #2 by Bobby N. $9.95
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 7: Twilight by var. (Dark Horse) $16.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 3 HC by Philip K Dick etc. (Boom) $24.99
Bear Nuts vol 1: The Book of Prozac by Alison Action (DMF) $18.99
FICTION!
What Is All This: Uncollected Stories HC by Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fortunes of Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld (Norton) $13.95
The Bicycle Diaries SC by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.00
To Slow Down The Time Stories by Matthew Allard and Ian Dingman $20.00
Transubstantiate by Richard Thomas (Otherworld) $14.95 – Come see Richard Thomas read from this disturbing futuristic vision of terror and beauty at Quimbys on Sat, Oct 16th, with Otherworld authors including Laura Griffith, David Rosenstein and Nik Korpon.
Remember by Lynn Griffith (Otherworld) $14.95
Price of Life by Greg McCarty (Otherworld) $19.95
Silk Worm by David Rosenstein (Otherworld) $14.95
Elegy Written on a Crowded Street by Peter Plate (Seven Stories) $13.95
Entangled the Eater of Souls by Graham Hancock (Disinfo) $16.95
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Small Beer Press) $16.00
My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me – Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin) $17.00 – With stories from Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, Neil Gaiman, Shelley Jackson and more.
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Roosevelt by Jose Roosevelt (Fantasmus) $59.95
Art Toys by Brian McCarty (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
Rubber Duck by Karen Hsiao (Baby Tattoo) $35.00
Quadrant Fantasy (Fantasmus)$19.95
Tokyo Underground 2: Toy and Design Culture in Tokyo by var. (Super 7) $19.95
Drawings From The Gulag by Danzig Baldaev (Fuel) $32.95 – Brutal. Completely brutal.
Indie Craft by Jo Waterhouse (Abrams) $19.95
Stickers From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art by DB Burkeman and Monica LoCascio (Rizzoli) $35.00
Muralismo Morte: The Rebirth of Muralism In Contemporary Urban Art (From Here) $34.95
SABE: Fys Crew by Sabe (From Here) $14.95
Ghost: Ris Crew by Ghost (From Here) $14.95
Jepsy: The Real Deal by Jepsy (From Here) $14.95
Sten and Lex (Drago) $33.00
Wizards and Dragons Tattoo Flash CD Rom and Book Electronic Clip Art (Dover) $19.95 – 119 Royalty Free Designs
Classic Tattoo Designs CD Rom and Book Full Color Electronic Designs (Dover) $19.95 – 230 Royalty Free Designs, in Color and Black and White for Mac and Windows
MAGAZINES!
Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
ArtForum Oct 10 $10.00
High Times Dec 10 $5.99
BlackBook #79 Oct 10 $4.50
Fader #70 Oct Nov 10 $5.99
Mojo #204 Nov 10 $9.99
LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
Journal of Ordinary Thought Sum 10 $10.00
Creative Nonfiction #39 Fall 10 $10.00
The Believer #75 Oct 10 $8.00
Effigy #8 by Matt Whispers $4.00
The Toucan #8 Fall 2010 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00
CHILDRENS!
Mud Pies and Other Recipes by var. (NYRB) $14.95
Alternative ABCs by 13thfloor (Ammo) $14.95
Color Me Graffiti: How to Color Like the Masters a Coloring Book for Creative Kid (From Here) $8.95
MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (Knopf) $26.95
Occult America: White House, Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons and the Secret Mystic by Hitch Horowitz (Bantam) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
World Gnosis the Coming Gnostic Civilization by Mark Amaru Pinkham (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Funk and Soul Covers by Joaquim Paulo and Julius Wiedemann (Taschen) $39.99 – As in album covers. Not like a book of pictures of people covering funk and soul songs. Which would be hilarious.
Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the Smiths by Simon Goddard (Plume) $30.00
Bowie, A Biography by Marc Spitz (Three Rivers) $17.00 – In soft cover.
Touchable Sound A Collection of 7 Inch Records From the USA by var. (Sound Screen) $45.00
American Hardcore: A Tribal History Second Edition by Steven Blush (Feral House) $22.95 – Don’t miss Stephen Blush here at Quimby’s on Dec 3rd. Stay tuned for more details!
Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You & Your Grandma Can Understand (Abrams) $12.95
HUMOR!
100 Facts About Pandas by var. (Penguin) $13.00
MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
Animalisticus Fantasticus: 600 Amazing and True Facts About Animals (Nicotext) $9.95
Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams by var. (Coffee House) $22.00
POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Freefall America Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy by Jospeh E Stiglitz (Norton) $16.95 – now in soft cover.
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali (Verso) $16.95
SEX & SEXY!
Straight To Hell #67 by Billy Miller $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories – Feels like heaven to me. -EF
Private 1980 to 1989 Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine (Taschen) $39.99 – 5 volume box set collection.
Kinky Nature (Goliath) $24.95
Pissy Pussy Girls by Gordon Denman (Adventures Unlimited) $59.00
50 Years of the Playboy Bunny by Hugh M. Hefner etc. (Chronicle) $35.00
Coley – Eros vol 40: Running Wild Book 3 Hard Throb (Eros) $19.95
Other Stuff!
Grime Time Keychain Bottle Opener $1.50
Funkyfonic Cassette Tape Speaker $15.00
Uncle Archies Box O’Fun $13.00 – 25 Fabulous Prizes in Each Box!
Smells Like Teen Spirit 7 inch by Woody Sullender (Dead CEO) $6.00 – This clear 7″ lathe-cut record, pressed as part of a limited edition series of only 100, was cut one at a time by Peter King in New Zealand. It contains “erased” versions of two Nirvana songs, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Polly.” Both songs were run through a series of band-pass filters, which removes most of the frequency spectrum from an audio recording. “Polly” was erased based on the principle melody of the classic murder ballad.
We’re tired of all the END OF PAPER, the END OF PUBLISHING AS WE KNOW IT stories. We’ve been hearing and reading about it ever since we’ve been open (which is going on almost 20 years now).
So for 2011, we’re throwing a challenge out there. If you’ve ever made a zine or mini comic MAKE ONE MORE ISSUE. Come on, you’ve got one more in you! Maybe you were thinking in the back of your head you’d do another issue one day. Now is the time.
Join the group for discussion and more plans. This is just the beginning.
Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to help sponsor this challenge with our friends at Atomic Books in Baltimore, Xerography Debt and Zine World.
Nicholas Marzullo, owner of the West Side’s Pawn Works gallery and creator of the Pawn Works Sticker Club with New York based partner Seth Mooney, have developed an artist network program using sticker vending machines as the conduit. “We align the images we select with our own history as lifelong street- and graffiti-art aficionados,” he says. ” We believe the sticker is true to the accessibility and visceral nature of street/low-brow art. While it appeals to an age submerged in kitsch, the medium and the vending machines offer ways to deconstruct our childhoods and make the art of established artists from around the world accessible in a cool, cheap way.”
Just a few of the artists participating include: C215, a prolific Paris-based stencil artist and muralist whose splashes of color and meticulous representation of social outcasts, British luminary Eelus, whose dark sense of humor and surreal images bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Banksy, Chicago’s Joe Padilla, as well as The Grocer, who is an an enigmatic street artist with his bold images of, appropriately enough, produce, help make the city Chicago an even bigger component to the project.
Machines can also be found in various venues in New York City such as Brooklynite Gallery.
For more info: www.pawnworkschicago.com
