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OH MY GOD WE HAVE QUIMBY’S T-SHIRTS NOW!

Neil, Mini-Comix Sommalier

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All the time people ask us if we sell Quimby’s t-shirts and are sad when we tell them we don’t. Well guess what? We decided the time has come for us to cave in to the public’s demands. And we’re glad we did, because these shirts are totally hot. We have them in all manner of sizes! It features our logo, designed by Chris Ware, printed on black pre-shrunken cotton. It’s sweet, simple and to the point: QUIMBY’S! Available in the following sizes: Ladie’s: X Large, Large, Medium, Small – Men’s: XX Large, X Large, Large, Medium, Small – Youth: Size 2, 3, 4, 5/6. $14.99 each. Come on in and geddit! Or order one here. And while yer at it, get a Quimby’s totebag. We have those too! They’re $12.99. You may as well get a tattoo with our logo too, just to help us increase our brandocitinessesqueness. Yeah.

Zines
This Preferable Hell #1 $8.00
Dodgem Logic #2 Feb Mar 10 $4.25 – As in a zine. From Alan Moore. For reals.
Welcome to Flavor Country #19 by Kurt Morris $2.00 – With stories by Amy Adoyzie.
We Are Hardly Alone #1 Moon 3476 by Adrian Rew $1.00
Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #2 A Twilight Teeter Into Oganic Esoterics by var. $3.00
Zine Columbia Win 09: Rusty Clutch Boom Boom and Inky Ruin $10.00 – Made in class at Columbia, here in Chicago

Fiction
Generation A SC by Douglas Coupland (Scribner) $15.00 – As in, Gen X but like, in the digital now. Or whatever.
Mesopotamia SC by Arthur Nersesian (Akashic) $15.95
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake HC by Aimee Bender (Doubleday) $25.95
Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann (Spiegel) $26.00

DIY How-to & Food
When There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Home Healthcare in Challenging Times by Gerard Doyle S MD (Process) $16.95
Ripe From Around Here A Vegan Guide to Local and Sustainable Eating No Matter Where You Live by Jae Steele (Arsenal Pulp) $23.95
New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook by Louise Hagler (Book Publishing Co.) $12.95

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks

The Selves by Sonja Ahlers (D+Q) $19.95 – Don’t miss her here at Quimby’s this week! Thursday, June 10th, 7pm, with Anne Elizabeth Moore! Collageria of of well brushed merkins and precious patchwork womanhood. -EF – Kathleen Hanna said this feminist scrapbook memoir was “seductive, familiar and very funny.” It tells the story of different selves in a lifetime starting from baby to lady. The ‘character’ grows up throughout the pages. The cast includes: Hollie Hobbie, Drew Barrymore, the Olsen twins, Camille Claudel, Alice Munro, Degrassi kids, Angelina Jolie, and Stevie Nicks and Judy Chicago. These selves appear by way of collage, illustration and poetry.

FunnyMan the First Jewish Superhero From the Creators of Superman by var. (Feral House) $24.95
DMZ vol 8 Hearts and Minds TPB by Brian Wood and var. (Vertigo) $16.99
Final Crisis TPB by Grant Morrison and var. (DC) $19.99
Stuck Rubber Baby HC by Howard Cruse (Vertigo) $24.99 – New edition. Of the book. Um, not the band New Edition.
Jonah Hex HC No Way Back by var. (DC) $19.99
Freakangels vol 4 TPB by Warren Ellis (Avatar) $19.99
Made With 90 Recycled Art Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer (Dark Horse) $10.99
Criminal vol 4 Bad Night by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Icon) $14.99
Ex Machina Deluxe Edition vol 1 (Wildstrom) $29.99
Fantastic Four vol 1 by Hickman etc. (Marvel) $19.99
Sleeper seasons 1 and 2 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Wildstorm) $24.99 each.
Runaways Escape to New York TPB by Brian K. Vaughan etc. (Marvel) $14.99
Runaways Live Fast HC by Brian K. Vaughan etc. (Marvel) $19.99

Steampunk
Yes, we have started a steampunk shelf. These are just some of the titles we have added. As more titles come in we’ll let you know. Some of these are not necessarily new books, but they are new to Quimby’s. What is steampunk, you say? There are tons of ways to describe it, but here are some helpful nouns and adjectives: neo-Victorian science fiction, sepia-toned goth, brass goggles, airships, gears, Britishness, clocks, cogs, all the while wearing your esteemed finery. For more info about the genre and other local Chicago-based steampunk happenings, see http://steampunkchicago.com/

Dr Grordbort Presents Victory Scientific Adventures Violence For Young Men…by Greg Broadmore (Dark Horse) $19.95

The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (Bantam) $7.99
Diamond Age Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson $15.00
Mainspring by Jay Lake (Tor) $7.99
Steampunk ed. by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Tachyon) $14.95
Steampunk Style Jewelry Victorian Fantasy and Mechanical Necklaces Bracelets… by Jean Campbell (Creative P) $24.99
Souless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel by Gail Carriger (Orbit) $7.99

Sex Guides, Culture and Play
Housewives At Play Mother Knows Best by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95
Cumming of Jizzus DVD Chelsea Chainsaw $18.00 – Another fine film from Cinema Sewer autour Robin Bougie.
Sleazy Slice #4 by Robin Bougie $6.00
Maximum Superexcitement #3 by Robin Bougie $4.00
Dear Mr Bougie #2 by Robin Bougie $4.00
Cinema Sewer #23 by Robin Bougie $4.00
Sex is Fun Creative Ideas for Exciting Sex by Kidder Kaper (Avery) $20.00
Nightlife by var. (Bruno Gmun) $33.99

Street Art/Lowbrow/Kinda Arty
Rock Paper Show Flatstock vol 1, ed. by Geoff Peveto (Soundscreen Design) $60.00 – Over 60 editorial contributors, including Aesthetic Apparatus, Craig Finn (the Hold Steady), John Foster (author, Masters of Poster Design), Clay Hayes (gigposters.com), Jeff Kleinsmith (Patent Pending), Jay Ryan (the Bird Machine), and Paula Scher (Pentagram).
I’m With Stupid the Artwork of Jeremy Fish (Upper Playground) $19.95
Stay High 149 by Sky Farrell and Chris Pape (Gingko) $19.95
In Plain View: 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise by Dan Witz (Gingko) $39.95
Saber Mad Society New Edition by Saber (Gingko) $35.00
David Choe 30 Postcards (Chronicle) $9.95
Minimalist Coloring Book Paper Reflects All Colors by Craig Conley $11.95
Grotesk: A Decade of Swiss Design Lost in Brooklyn by Kimou Meyer (aka Grotesk) (Upper Playground) $29.95

Design
42 x 12 Cult of the Fixed (ProActif) $29.95
Eccentric Design (CYPI) $39.95
Vivid the Allure of Color In Design 102 Color Projects (Gingko) $39.95
20th Century Travel 100 Years of Globe Trotting Ads by var. (Taschen) $39.99

Memoir/Essay/Culture
I Was Looking for a Street by Charles Willeford (Picturebox) $15.95 – Memoir of the writer most known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe.
Coma by Pierre Guyotat [Semiotext(e)] $17.95 – The famous French writer of Eden Eden Eden fame writes about his coma.
Renegade Sportsman Drunken Runners Bike Polo Superstars Rollerderby Rebels by Zach Dundas (Riverhead) $15.00
Satiristas Comedians Contrarians Raconteurs and Vulgarians by var. (Harper) $29.99
Pink Noises Women on Electronic Music and Sound by Tara Rodgers (Duke) $23.95
Rockabillies by var. (Center) $50.00 – Fancy photo book of the rockabilly subculture.

Outer Limits
100 Under 140 by Gordon Meyer $10.95 – The time has come. Twitter as vehicle for humor.
Social Organization of The Computer Underground by Gordon Meyer $8.95
Field Guide to Identifiying Unicorns by Sound a Compact Handbook of Mythic… by Craig Conley $14.75
One Minute Mystic By Professor Oddfellow by Craig Conley $14.75
Hitlers Occult War by Michael Fitzgerald (Roberthale) $17.95
Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology Werewolves Dragons Skyfish Lizard Men… by Deena West Budd (Weiser) $14.95
Last Words of the Executed HC by Rob Elder (Univers of Chic) $22.50, forward by Studs Terkel – As seen in Time Out. Don’t miss Rob Elder’s event here at Quimby’s Thursday, June 24th, 7pm!

Magazines & Lit Journals
Believer #72 Jun 10 $8.00
Bizarre #163 Jun 10 $10.50
Wax Poetics #41 $9.99
Shook Magazine vol 1 #8 $7.99
Hip Mama #46 $5.95
True Detective vol 2 #21 $4.49
Eye Spy #67 $6.50
Murder Most Foul #76 $9.99
In These Times Jun 10 $3.50
Camera Obscura vol 1 Sum 10 $12.00
Extra vol 23 #6 May 10 $4.95
Tattoo Life #64 $6.99
Progressive Jun 10 $3.95
Black Clock #12 $13.00
GLQ vol 16 #3 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2010 $12.00
Skunk vol 6#2 $5.99
UFO Magazine #153 vol 23 #12 $5.99
Rebel Pink Jul 10 $8.99
Radical History Review spr 10 $14.00
Big Takeover #66 $5.99
Hobart #11 $10.00
Adbusters #90 Jul Aug 10 vol 18 #4 $8.95
Monocle vol 4 #34 Jun 10 $10.00
Shindig vol 2 #16 May Jun 10 $9.99
Reason Jul 10 $3.95
Frieze #131 May 10 $10.00
Mojo #200 Jul 10 $9.99
STOP #1 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $2.00
Venus Zine #43 $4.50

Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Pizza Time by Joe Vermilyea $5.00
Sundogs #9 Sum 09 & Sundogs #10 by Adam Pasion $3.00 each – Can’t get enough Snakepit? Leave Ben alone and peep on someone else’s life for a change! Adam Pasion’s Sundogs diary comic comes direct to us from his life teaching and drawing in Japan and has that charming day-by-day feel y’ know and love. -EF

Werewolf #1 and Werewolf #2 by Josh Rosen and Penina Gal $5.00 Hairy-ass werewolf comics anthology. Swardlick’s piece is especially good, including this one highly poetic panel wherein the vegan werewolf protagonist declares “Aaah. I have Vomited all my human teeth!!” Werewolf #2 continues some of the full-moon fever from Werewolf #1 and also adds an onslaught of new folks – Denis St John, Laura Terry, Matt Aucoin, Mark Bilokur, Nick Patten, Betsey Swardlick, Joshua Rosen, Stephen Bissette and David Yoder -Comin’ at you like a silver bullet. -EF

Chutzpah by Nomi Kane $5.00 – A real treat – this issue is a homespun origin story of the heroine’s humble beginnings and empowering superpowerment. Do yourself a mitzvah and check it out.

Poetry/Chap Books
Usual Beast Poems and Lyrics by Chris Besinger $10.00
Here by David Mabi $10.00
Nouveau Bored by Marc Gaba $6.00