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Footage from Brett Eugene Ralph and Steve Albini Event and Top 10 This Week

Looky! It’s footage from the event with Brett Eugene Ralph and Steve Albini from 9/20/09. Enjoy! And then this week’s top 10.

Standing room only!

Standing room only!

Here is the Quimby’s Top 10 for the last week of October 09:

1. Formal Additive Programs by Nadine Y Nakanishi $15.00

2. Adderall Diaries A Memoir of Moods Masochism and Murder by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf Press) $23.00

3. Granta #108: The Special Chicago Issue $16.99

4. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (WWNorton) $24.95

5. Wild Things (fur cover edition) by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $28.00

6. Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press) $5.00

7. The Comedians Jun 09 $4.50

8. Monocle vol 3 #28 Nov 09 $10.00

9. Waiting Out the Rain by Ester Vonplon $15.00

10. I Want You #1 by Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press) $4.95

New Stuff This Week and Hot Mini-Comix Display

A rainbow of fruit flavors. Alphabetized!

A rainbow of fruit flavors. Alphabetized!

Look! Neil did a bang-up job reorganizing the comics and even alphabetized them by artist, except for the above photo which is an informal “These Are Some Hot Ones You Should Totally Totally Totally Check Them Out” area. Now you know exactly what shelf you’ll find  Jerks In Space #1: Krackle.

You can find stuff now!

You can find stuff now!

Here’s new stuff for the week of 10/25/09-10/31/09:

Pinstriped Bloodbath, ed. by Jeff Zwirek $8.00 – Don’t miss the release event on 11/17 for this awesome anthology of (mostly) Chicago cartoonists writing about Chicago true (mostly) crime.

Formal Additive Programs by Nadine Y. Nakanishi $15.00 – Artist book from one half of the team of Sonnenzimmer Gallery, who created our most recent awesome window display.

Our Front Pages: The Onion 21 Years of Greatness Virtue and Moral Rectitude, ed. by Paul Williams (Simon) $28.00

Kids Go by They Might Be Giants and Pascal Campion (Simon) $19.99 – Includes Animated DVD.

Very Bad Wizard Morality Behind The Curtain: Nine Conversations by Tamler Sommers (Believer Books) $14.00 – As in from the McSweeney’s book magazine The Believer.

Butt by Will Self (Bloomsbury) $16.00 – Butt yes, you should buy it.

Illustration Now 3, ed. by Juluis Wiedemann (Taschen) $39.99

Studio Culture: The Secret Life Of The Graphic Design Studio by Tony Brook (Unit) $40.00

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #5 by Philip K. Dick and Tony Parker (Boom) $3.99

Freakangels vol 3 TPB by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield (Avatar) $19.99

Key Moments from the History of Comics by Francois Ayroles (Beguiling) $10.00

Every Single Thought What I Think About Being Single by Corrine Mucha $5.00 – New work from a local Chicago mini-comix fave!

Freedom Rhythm and Sound Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965 to 1983 by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Publishing) $39.95

Pyramids Or Bright Future by Mike Slack (IcePlant) $30.00 – Photos from Mike Slack.

Naked Lunch 50th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs (Grove) $24.00 – Fancy green hardcover with a cool box.

New Retro Classic Graphics: Todays Designs by Brenda Dermody and Teresa Breathnach (Thames) $45.00

Literary Hoaxes an Eye Opening History of Famous Frauds by Melissa Katsoulis (Skyhorse) $22.95

Salad Floss $4.00 – Waxed for your pleasure.

Guide to Picking Locks #1 – CrimethInc for your pleasure.

My Brain Hurts vol 2 by Liz Baillie $7.00

Crazy Wacky Theme Restaurants by La Carmina (Mark Batty) $24.95

Noir A-Z by Julian Hibbard (Mark Batty) $22.95 – That’s one mayhemic alphabet book.

Instructions For The Apocalypse by Rob Sweet and Tim Williams (Mark Batty) $24.95

Thirsty Day in Noah Ark by Jimenez Lai $3.00 – New mini-comic.

Graffiti Planet 2 More of the Best Graffiti From Around the World, ed. by KET (Michael OMara Books) $15.95

Skateboarders Start Up A Beginners Guide to Skateboarding (2nd ed.) by Doug Werner and Steve Badillo (Traacks) $13.95

Vegetarian Myth Food Justice and Sustainability by Lierre Keith (PM Press) $20.00

Diario de Oaxaca a Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico by PEter Kuper (PM Press) $29.95

Cult Magazines A to Z Compendium of Culturally Obsessive Curiosly Expressive…(Nonstop Press) $34.95

I Doll Life and Death with the New York Dolls Arthur Killer Kane (Chicago Review Press) $24.95

123 Chicago a Cool Counting Book by Puck and Kevin Somers (Duo Press) $8.95

Monocle vol 3 #28 Nov 09 $10.00

Panopticon #1: itachi and atsumaru $2.99

Mapping the Trail of a Serial Killer by B.R. Lewis (Lyons) $19.95

Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Viking) $25.95

Home Rockanomics: 54 Projects and Recipes for Style on the Edge by Heidi Minx (Thomas Dunne) $16.99

Do It Yourself Brain Surgery and Other Implausibly Titled Books by Joel Rickett (Bloomsbury) $12.95

Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves by Jason Bitner (S. Martin’s) $22.99 – Don’t miss Jason Bitner (from Dirty FOUND and FOUND Magazine, and oh! the photo book LaPorte, Indiana) at the Hideout on 11/9/09 where we’re selling books) with special guests from The Onion.

Che A Graphic Biography HC by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Hill and Wang) $22.00

Death and Art Europe 1200 to 1530 by Elanor Townsend (V and A) $22.50

33 1/3 Continuum Series: Brian Eno’s Another Green World by Geeta Dayal (Continuum) $10.95

Astor Hotel – Could You Hand me The Bible Please $2.00

Black Velvet #62 $6.25

Grime Time #1: Mario Desa Nola Cleans Chicago Gang Graffiti $6.00 – And boy do we have a bone to pick with graff blasters, what with them setting off our smoke alarm when they work nearby (for real).

Manifest Decadency by Chris McKay $2.00 – You are my decadency.

Top 10 For Last Week

Here is The Quimby’s Top 10 Sellers for the Week of 10/20-24/09

1. Guide to Picking Locks #1 by CrimetInc $6.00

2. Slingshot Planner Small $6.00

3. Recorded Attacks Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (Three Rivers) $17.00

4. Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Norton) $24.95

5. Wholphin #9 (McSweeneys) $19.95

6. Monsters by Ken Dahl (Secret Acr) $18.00

7. Down the Block: An Anthology of City Life From Metrolingua $12.00

8. Doris #28 $2.50

9. East Village Inky #42 $3.00

10. News Nudity and Nonsense: Best of Vice Vol 2 2003 – 08 (Vice) $18.00

New Stuff This Week

AnimalsandObjects

Holy smokes! Look at this beautiful new Jay Ryan book, Animals and Objects In and Out of Water Posters by Jay Ryan 2005-2008 published by Akashic, for a mere $22.95. Of course, it is as beautiful as you would expect. Don’t miss him here with Paul Hornschemeier on 11/11/09!

Anyway, this is new stuff for the week of 10/18/09-10/24/09:

Sex Drugs and Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection by Shana Liebman (Grand Central) $13.99

Rolling Thunder #8 Fall 09 $6.00 – To get your anarchist hood on.

Little Black Book of Griselidis: Real Days And Nights Of An Anarchist Whore by Jean-Luc Hennig [Semiotext(e)] $14.95 – To get your anarchist hard on.

New Stuff From Buenaventura Press:

Boys Club #3 by Matt Furie $4.95

Ted Mays Injury #3 $4.95

Aviatrix #1 by Eric Haven $4.95

I Want You #1 by Lisa Hanawalt $4.95

Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt $5.00

Manifest Decadency by Chris McKay an Alex West $2.00 – Mini comic in just today!

No More Coffee #2 Stories Etc. Revised and Updated by Ben Spies $2.00

Briefly The Heart and Other Poems 2006-2009 by Dana Jerman $8.00

Meatpaper #9 Fall 09 $7.95

Tattoo Society #18 $7.99

Juxtapoz #106 Nov 09 $5.99

Chalo India a New Era of Indian Art (Prestel) $45.00

Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies (Standard) by Matthew J Gerkin, Christian Kiefer and Pitcher Jefferson $20.00

Ansel Adams New Landscapes by Luke Strosnider $25.00 – OK so like, there’s this photography thing called a histogram that measures the levels of things in a photo and sometimes if the histogram is perfectly symmetrical, it looks like a mountain, right? So Ansel Adams’ works are perfectly symmetrical in their histograms which mean they’re really boring composed formulaic photos. So like, you know, this is a book of mountanous histograms to show how you know, Ansel Adams is like, y’know, really square. Photography industry humor! Hilarious!

I’m Drinkin This Mixtape vol 2 by Harrison Martin $6.00 – VHS!

Ex Machina vol 5 Smoke Smoke by Brian K Vaughan (Wildstorm) $12.99

Fourth World Omnibus vol 4 by Jack Kirby (DC) $49.99

Sun Struck by Robert and John Waters (New Horizon) $24.95

And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Anniversary Edtion by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs (Grove) $14.00

Uncle Sam by Steve Darnell and Alex Ross (Veritgo) $19.99

Book About Moomin Mymble and Little My by Tove Janssen (D+Q) $16.95

Sugar Shock One Shot: Dont be a Viking by Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon (Dark Horse) $3.50

Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics by Schutz Diana, Brian Azzarello, Ed Brubaker and more (Dark Horse) $12.95

Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century Selected Poems 1961-1985 by Edward Sanders (Coffee House Press) $20.00

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl by Karyna McGlynn (Sarabande) $14.95 – Best name for a book ever.

Flats Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer (Two Dollar Radio) $17.00

Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom by Aiden Shaw (Alyson) $15.95

Zombie Pinup Calendar 2010 $20.00

Pith Magazine vol 3 #1 Fall 09 $5.00

Bizarre #155 Oct 09 $10.50

Urinal Gum #9 $2.00

The Fixer TPB by Joe Sacco (D+Q) $19.95 – Now in soft cover.

Liver A Fictional Organ with Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes by Will Self (Bloomsbury) $26.00

Jack of Fables vol 6 Big Book of War TPB by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $14.99

Look At The Birdie: Unpublished Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) $27.00

Outlaws Adventures of Pirates Scoundrels and Other Rebels by Laurent Marechaux (Flammarion) $45.00

Best of the Yellow Rake Zine by Brian Polk $10.00

Snitches Get Stitches by Charly The City Mouse Fasano $10.00

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders by John Potash, the book $20.00, the DVD $16.00

Another Chicago Magazine #49 $12.00

Scientific Method by Jaime Raybin $1.00

Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist by Haynes Johnson and Harry Katz (WWNorton) $35.00

Homesteading A Backyard Guide by Gehring (Skyhorse) $24.95 – Growing your own food, canning, keeping chickens, generating your own energy, crafting, herbal medicine…And more!

Literary Hoaxes an Eye Opening History of Famous Frauds by Melissa Katsoulis (Skyhorse) $22.95

Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars by Kenneth Hartman (Atlasco) $22.00

New Retro: Classic Graphics, Todays Designs by Brenda Dermody (Thames) $45.00

The Unfortunates by BS Johnson (New Directions) $24.95

VU: The Story of a Magazine by Michel Frizot and Cedric De Veigy (Thames) $75.00

Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music by Rob Young (Verso) $19.95

Mome vol 16 Fall 09 (Fantagraphics) $14.99

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Penguin) $16.00 – Lilli Carre did the cover and it looks awesome!

Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live (Harper) $16.99

I Am America And So Can You by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central) $15.99 – Now in soft cover.

Tim Burton (Moma) $19.95 – Show catalog from the Moma exhbit.

The Philip K Dick Collection: 13 Complete Novels in Three Volumes, Over 2800 Pages, edited by Jonathan Lethem (Library of America) $110.00 – With VALIS, Ubiq, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly and more!

Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, edited by Ilan Stevans (Library of America) $40.00

Tao of Wu by RZA (Riverhead) $24.95 – Wisdom from the life and travels of RZA, the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a follow up to The Wu-Tang Manual.

The Best of Punch Cartoons by Helen Walasek (Overlook) $50.00

Off-Site Event: Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves Release Event at the Hideout

Celebrating the release of Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves, editor Jason Bitner presents along with The AV Club’s Kyle Ryan, artist Derek Erdman and more special guests. This expert panel will shed light on the power of mixtapes and share their own tales of tapes given and received, crushes turned to heartaches. And special bonus! Illustrator Arthur Jones presents his hilarious loss-of-virginity tale as a Post-It Note Story.

Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: The Hideout
Street: 1354 West Wabansia
City/Town: Chicago, IL
Price: $5

Quimby’s will be there selling books! Please note this event is at the Hideout and not at Quimby’s!

Monday, November 9th, 8pm, $5.00
At the Hideout
1354 W Wabansia Ave
Chicago, IL 60642-1519
(773) 227-4433
www.hideoutchicago.com