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New Window Display and Top 10 This Week

Look at our awesome window display, created by Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher of the Sonnenzimmer Studio! Don’t miss Nadine’s event here on Oct 29th!

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1. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99

2. Bust Oct/Nov 09 $4.99

3. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00

4. The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99

5. Monocle vol 3 #27 Oct 09 $10.00

6. Rainbow Connection Richard Hunt Gay Muppeteer by Jessica Max Stein $7.00

7. Achewood vol 2 Worst Song Played On Guitar by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $15.95

8. Comic Dirama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00

9. In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek (Verso) $19.95

10. Dark Places by Filian Flynn (Shaye Areheart) $24.00

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New Stuff This Week

We’ll Never Have Paris vol 5 Sep 09 $4.00

Road Kill vol 2 #11 $2.00

Courting the Bull An Anthology of Expatriate Literature In Spain, edited by Sara E. Rogers $15.00

Juice #66 $3.99

Tattoo Life #60 $6.99

Day in the Life (Lyfe) #9 $5.99

Dice #28 $6.95

Z Magazine Oct 09 $4.95

Progressive Oct 09 $3.95

UFO Magazine #151 vol 23 #10 $5.99

XLR8R #129 $4.99

2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 26 #3 $6.25

Hip Mama #44 $5.95

Cinema Retro vol 5 #15 $11.99

In These Times Oct 09 $3.50

Maximumrocknroll #317 $4.00

Witches Almanac #29 Spr 2010 to Spr 2011 $11.95

Radical Teacher #85 $8.50

William S Burroughs Remebered DVD $15.00 – Subtitled: Naked Lunch at the Bourgeois Pig/ Naked Lunch Publication 50th Anniversary 2009

Chicagos Tallest Buildings Poster $20.00 – Designed by Matt Bergstrom of the Build Yourn Own Chicago Postcards.

Rad Dad #15 $3.00

About My Disappearance #3 $1.00 – From Dave, the zinester who wrote On Subbing.

Monocle vol 3 #27 Oct 09 $10.00

Aya The Secrets Come Out by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (DQ) $19.95

Trotsky A Graphic Biography by Rick Gerary (Hill and Wang) $16.95

Umbrella Academy vol 2 TPB Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse) $17.95

Fables Deluxe Edition Book 1 by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $29.99

Batman the Black Glove TPB by Grant Morrison and JH Williams (DC) $17.99

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #4 by PKDick and Ed Brubaker (Boom) $3.99

Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 5 Predators and Prey by Joss Whedon etc. (Dark Horse) $15.95

Super Maxi Pad Girl #1 and #2 by Daniel Olson and AJ Niehaus $4.00 each – Comix!

Poop mini comic by Sam Sharpe $2.00 – Very pretty actually!

Map Manual of Architecture Possibilities #1 Antarctica $6.50 – In case you’re planning a trip there.

For Lonely Adults Only #5 Sum Fall 09 $6.00

Alpha City Comics #2 by Kevin Sciretta and Neil Brideau $2.00

Show Me the Money #30 $2.50

Elfish Gene: Dungeons Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe (Soho) $14.00

Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk and Whites The Elements Of Style (Touchstone) $22.99

Logan Sevilles Finest: On the Run (From Here) $14.95

Cubabrasil: On the Run (From Here) $14.95

American Motorcycle Girls 1900 ts 1950: A Photographic History of Early Women Motorcyclists $50.00

Sexicon Sexual Dictionary (Nicotext) $9.95

Dedalus Book of Literary Luicides Dead Letters by Gary Lachman (Dedalus) $15.99

Backjumps The Live Issue #3: Urban Communication and Aesthetics (From Here) $29.95

Stalking Tricksters Shapeshifters Skinwalkers Dark Adepts And 2012 by Christopher Obrien (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95

Sublime Stitching Vital Organs Embroidery Pattern (Sublime) $5.00

I Drink For a Reason by David Cross (Grand Central) $23.99

Waste Uncovering The Global Food Scandal by Tristam Stuart (WW Norton) $27.95

Prison Pit by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99

First As Tragedy Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek (Verso) $12.95

Top 10

This is Quimby’s Top 10 Bestsellers for the Week of Sept 20th-Sept 26th, 2009:

1. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99
2. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
3. Butt #26 $9.90
4. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
5. Laphams Quarterly vol 2 #4 Medicine $15.00
6. Tape Op #72 $3.95
7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00
8. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $24.00
9. Bipedal By Pedal: Experiences & Thoughts around the Critical Mass Bicycle Movement $2.00
10. Pinups #10 Scott $14.00

New Stuff This Week

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Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (WWNorton) $24.95 – About time!!!

King Cat #70 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Still goin’ strong!

Wild Things by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $19.95 – Loosely based on Where the Wild Things Are.

I Drink For a Reason by David Cross (Grand Central) $23.99

Plastic Knife #2 $2.00 – Zine from the writer behind the popular free zine You.

Mineshaft #24 $6.95 – Crumb, both R. and Sophie, plus various other interesting things.

Hipless Boy: Short Stories by Sully (Conundrum) $19.95 – New graphic novel material, sort of Matt Madden-esque style.

Monsters by Ken Dahl (Secret Acres) $18.00 – Beautious! Don’t have sex without (reading) it.

Miss Sequential #1 by Marissa Falco $2.00 – Cutest ziney-mini comic-y thing evah! From the artist of Red-Hooded Sweatshirt. Sort of Missy Kulick-esque.

Rosario Dawson Loves Me #1 Or I Want to Die Right Now Please by Justin Valmassoi $1.50 – Yes, the time has come. Rosario Dawson fan fiction.

Tulip Spr/Sum 09 $4.00 – New local literary journal. Jump on it now before it gets the buzz!

Road Kill vol 1 #10 $2.00

Gigantic Sequins vol 1 #1 $5.00 – Lit journal. Also hot!

Laterborn #7 by Jason Martin $2.00 – mini comic.

Razorcake #52 $4.00

Two new comic books from George Starr of Snowie fame: Triangle Versus Square ($8.00) and You’re Dead to Me ($6.00)

Dear Dave Magazine #5 $15.00 – Deluxe fashion mag.

Lulu Eightball vol 2 by Emily Flake (Atomic) $14.95 – New material from former local illustrator. Hilarious!

Bust Oct Nov 09 $4.99

Secret Beach #1 Sep 09 by Liam Warfield $2.00 – New material from the zinester behind War Against the Idiots! Finally!

Bizarre #154 Sep 09 $10.50

High Glitz: Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants by Susan Anderson (PowerHouse) $39.95 – That’s some freaky shit

Preparedness Now: An Emergency Survival Guide by Anton Edwards (Process) $16.95

2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce (Disinfo) $14.95

Pictures For Sad Children by John Campbell $15.00 – From local comics artist of Stevie Might Be a Bear.

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and illustr. by Brett Helquist (Harper) $14.99

Sulk #3 by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf) $6.00

Away We Go Screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Vintage) $14.00

Sound And Fury Art of Henry Darger (Edlin) $40.00

Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues by Loren Rhoads (Scribner) $14.99 – Material from the editors of the popular outer limits mag Morbid Curiousity.

Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag (Vintage) $16.00

1 800 MICE #3 by Matt Thurber $4.00

Tape Op #73  $4.50

Comic Diorama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00 – Don’t miss Grant Reynolds here on Oct 6th!

Best American Comics 2009 ed. by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden (Houghton Mifflin) $22.00

Private: The Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine, ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99

Top 10 and Windy City Comic Con pics!

Quimby’s shared a booth with Chicago Comics this past weekend for the Windy City Comic Con at the Center on Halsted, 9/18/09 (see below). For more pics, see here.

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This is the top 10 bestsellers at Quimby’s for the week of 9/13/09-9/19/09:

1. Too Cool to Be Forgotten by Alex Robinson (Top Shelf) $14.95

2. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00

3. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00

4. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin) $13.95

5. Alarm #35 $14.00

6. Mojo Oct 09 #191 $9.99

7. Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99

8. Monologuist Paper Blog Supplemental and Postcard Set by Anders Nilsen $10.95

9. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

10. Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95