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Introducing Quimby’s Subscription Service

Published on January 27, 2010 1 Comment

psytransHey! We’re excited to announce we’ve started a subscription service here for our customers. If you sign up for this free service, you’ll be notified when the latest issue of your favorite magazine, comic or zine comes in. We’ll hold the item for you, and you can come and pick it up, without the fear that it’ll sell out before you know it’s out.

We’ve put just short of 50 titles on our subscription menu. These titles reflect the unique selection Quimby’s has to offer, including Big Questions, McSweeney’s, the Baffler, Conspiracy Journal, Butt and Burn Collector.

So what are you waiting for?! Come by and check out our subscription service! It’s totally awesome.

Amelia Klem Osterud Reads From The Tattooed Lady: A History

Published on January 20, 2010 0 Comments
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Amelia Klem Osterud is an academic librari¬an from Milwaukee who is working diligently on becoming heavily tattooed. Osterud has a master’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and writes and lectures on the subject of tattooing. She is the author of “A Life of Her Own Choosing: Artoria Gibbons’ Fifty Years as a Tattooed Lady,” published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. This is her first book.
“Tattooed ladies were a part of forgotten American history, often dismissed in print as second-rate circus freaks or as monstrous, yet sexy anomalies,” explains author Amelia Klem Osterud.
There is shockingly little documentation recounting the women (and men) who launched the cultural movement of tattooing. Publicity photos show up in general tattooing books, but the real stories behind these sideshow marvels remain a mystery, until now.

The first book of its kind, The Tattooed Lady explores the duality of life on- and offstage for these gutsy women. Through photographs, interviews, work histories, and newspaper articles, women such as Artoria Gibbons, Nora Hildebrandt, and Irene Woodward are fully fleshed out, allowing us a greater understanding of why they got tattooed, the rewards and regrets that came along with that career path, and the women behind their onstage, larger-than-life persona.

Visit Amelia Klem Osterud’s author blog at www.tattooedladyhistory.vox.com . For more info: www.fulcrumbooks.com

Granta #109: The Work Issue Now In Stock!

Published on January 7, 2010 0 Comments

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Peoples! The new Granta is here! It’s Granta #109, the Work issue!

This issue of Granta is The Work Issue. It is edited by John Freeman, and in spite of the fact that it has “Winter 2009” in the title, it actually is just barely out in 2010 as we post this. We were told that we’re the first store in the U.S. to sell this issue! And after the success of Granta #108 The Chicago Issue, we are proud to be given this honor.

From www.granta.com:

Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Industrial Revolution is, for better or for worse, our inclination to define who were are by what we do, and this essential new issue of GRANTA will lay bare the intrinsic link between work and identity.

From the jobless to the workaholics, from the hard work of dying to the landscape work has created out of office parks and suburbs, GRANTA 109 will tell the story of how and why we work in the twenty-first century. Joshua Ferris returns to the mind-numbing world of office work in America in a new piece of fiction, while Steven Hall visits the world’s pre-eminent robot lab to see what machines will do for us next. Caroline Moorehead explores the trafficking of workers into the United Kingdom and Daniel Alarcón infiltrates the world of book pirating in Peru. Salman Rushdie contributes a surprising essay on sloth.

GRANTA 109 gives us a glimpse of ourselves at our most primordial, in a day and age when work has become the most invisible (at least in literature) and yet all-encompassing aspect of human life.

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January News and New Stuff

Published on January 2, 2010 0 Comments

Link here if you couldn’t get it open or want to see a sample of what we send out monthly to people who sign up to our mailing list! To join our mailing list, go  here.

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 5, 2009 0 Comments

Today is our sale! That’s right. It’s 25% off all comics and graphic novels! Until 10pm tonight in-store only. Get here quickly before we run of every single comic!

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Sound Projector #18 $14.00

Found Magazine #7 $5.00

Drawing Between the Lines DVD $15.00 – Jeffrey Brown documentary by Bruce Parsons.

Wax Poetics #38 $9.99

Blue Dogs and Red Dogs: visit neptune lose your mind free time mini comic $.50

Paradise Road #1 A Hardboiled Detective Story comic by Igor Glushkin and Benji Ratliff $2.95

KerBloom #80 LXXX zine Sep Oct 2009 by Karen Switzer $2.00

Thought You Knew Thought You Knew Women 2010 Calendar and Men 2010 Calendar Chicago $15.00 each, a Women’s Health Center Benefit! They get 100% of the profits. Support it by buying either one or both. Sexy and pinupable!

XLR8R #130 $4.99

Green Teacher #86 Fall 09 $7.99

Artforum Dec 09 $10.00

Comics Journal #300 Nov 09 $14.99

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #6 $3.99 – Comics based on the PKD story.

Ex Machina Deluxe Edition Book 2 by Brian Vaughan and various (Wildstorm) $29.99 – With an introduction from the Wachowski Brothers!

Misery Obscura: The Photography of Eerie Von 1891 to 2009 (Dark Horse) $29.95

Goats vol 2 the Corndog Imperitive TPB by Jonathan Rosenberg (Del Ray) $15.00

BlackBook #73 Dec 09 Jan 10 $4.50

Mojo Jan 10 #194 $9.99

Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Noberto Fuentes (W.W. Norton) $27.95 – Yeah, you read that right. Autobio by someone else. Post-modern!

Filming Pancho How Hollywood Shaped the Mexican Revolution by Margarits De Orellana (Verso) $24.95

La Cruda #3 art magazine $12.00

Grime Time #2 $6.00 – Chicago-based street art/graff zine.

Hammer Projects 1999-2009 Art Book (Hammer Museum) $60.00

Urs Fischer: Shovel In a Hole (JRP Ringier) $69.95

Tokion vol 3 #2 $6.99

High Carb Low Life #5 zine $3.00

Another Mirror At the End of the Road vol 2 issue 3 fall 2009 zine by Peter Sbrockey $4.00

Green Light Zine #6 The Environmental Justice Issue zine by Lora DiFranco $2.00

Leviathan Some Notes On Martin Blimp Levy 1905-1961: Moshassuck Monograph Series No 13 by Kenneth Faig Jr. (Moshassuck Press)

Eye Design Hankerchief by Emily Stout $7.00 – We don’t sell a lot of things that are not of the reading material variety, but this one we can get behind. Different colors and styles of screen-printed hankies to play arty-farty hanky panky with. Dont know what they look like? Looks like you’ll have to come into the store to find out.

Coloring Book: Hop Along Queen Ansleis with PS Eliot Anaglyph mini comic by Matt Orr $3.00

Muck #3 In the Time of Swine Flu zine by Necio $2.00

Homeless Souls chap book by Jake Anderson (Antrim House) $18.00

Restocks!: Crap Hounds #6 and #7!!!! *** On Guerrilla Gardening: Handbook for Gardening Without Borders *** Sinister Forces Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft Book One The Nine *** Banksy’s Wall and Piece *** Lickin The Beaters Low Fat Vegan Desserts *** Urban Bikers Tricks & Tips