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Top 10 For Last Week, and Footage from the Chicago Comics Party

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Nerdburger the movie.

Our sister store, Chicago Comics, hosted a party to welcome in the Chicago Comic Con last week, on Saturday, Augst 8th. For footage, click on the above movie!

Here’s the topsellers for the week of 8/2/09-8/8/09:

1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

2. Portable February by David Berman (Drag City) $9.98

3. Jason Walks by Mikey Anderson $5.00

4. Stop Smiling #38 $6.99

5. Bust Aug/Sep 09 $4.99

6. Milk Milk Lemonade #13 $.50

7. List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00

8. Chimaera $3.00

9. Butt #26 $9.90

10. Under the Radar #27 $4.99

New Stuff This Week

It’s Lalalalapaapsaloopsa weekend! Just in time for some showers and 90 degree weather. Perfect for mosquitoes to eat you alive. Delicious! Anyz, new stuff here:

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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s) $24.00 – Facty-fictiony new hardcover from Mr. Eggers, about post-Katrina trials.

Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (Drawn + Quarterly) $5.95 – Newest issue from the local comics sensation!

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin) $27.95

Imperial by William T. Vollmann (Viking) $55.00

And Heres the Kicker: Conversations With 21 Top Humor Writers On Their Craft edited by Mike Sacks (Writers Digest) $17.99 – Words from various comedians of different comedy sorts, including Bob Odenkirk, among others.

Scootering #277 $7.99

Fortean Times #251 $11.99

Wallpaper Aug 09 $9.50

Mojo Sep 09 #190 $9.99

Cradle by Patrick Somerville (Littlebrown) $21.99

Hunting and Gathering: For and About Experimental Art Writing by the Happy Hyocrite (Bookworks) $22.00

Put About: A Critical Anthology On Independent Publishing (Bookworks) $39.95

Urban Recordings by Ingo Giezendanner (Passenger) $35.00

Todays Hieroglyphics: Imprints On Packaging For Transport Rudolph Lutz Hans (Ram) $105.00 – Up keep dry fragile, people!

Err by David Shrigley (Bookworks) $15.00 – A somewhat lesser known edition of the quirky artist’s work!

Women And Children Royal Art Lodge (Perugi) $55.00 – Yes for you, the dedicated follower of Marcel Dzama fashion.

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger by Joanna Rubin Dranger (Arvinius) $40.00 – Strangely cute art book for such a title.

Braindead by Laurina Paperina (Perugi) $35.00 – Art about brains. Brings to mind the quote from Emo Philips: “I used to think that the brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I thought, well look what’s telling me that.”

Locas II Maggie Hopey and Ray by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagrapahics) $39.99

Abstract Comics edited by Andrei Molotiu (Fantagraphics) $39.99

Worst Future Ever #1 The Red Menace by JD $1.00

We All Gonna Die by John Campbell $3.00

The Comedians Jul Aug 09 $4.50

Family The Secret Fundamentalist at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet (Harper) $15.99

It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice (Riverhead) $25.95 – By the writer and musician from Scud Mountain Boys, Chappaquiddick Skyline, and the Pernice Brothers.

Best Creative Nonfiction Vol 3 edited by Liee Gutkind (Norton) $16.95

Fever Chart by Bill Cotter (McSweeney’s) $22.00

Zinn And The Art Of Road Bike Maintenance 3rd Edition by Lennard Zinn (VeloPress) $24.95

Zombie Handbook: How To Identify the Living Dead and Survive the Coming Apocalypse by Rob Sacchetto (Ulysses) $16.95

Art Of The Modern Movie Poster by various (Chronicle) $75.00

Fresh Dialogue 8 Designing Audiences $16.95

Retro Graphics by Jon Raimes and Ben Renow-Clarke (Chronicle) $24.95

t(here) magazine $10.00

Cabinet #34 Testing $12.00

Gigantic Robot by Tom Gauld (Buenaventura Press) $16.95

Complete Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty (Buenaventura Press) $34.95

New Poster Book by Edward Gorey (Pomegran) $19.95

Bizarre #152 $10.50

Valis And Later Novels by Philip K Dick (Penguin) $35.00 – Finally! In one handsome volume, includes Valis, A Maze Of Death, Divine Invasion and The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer.

Fair Use: Notes From Spam by Graham Parker(Bookworks) $32.00

Chimushi II by Saeki Toshio (panexotica) $45.00 – Yes, this is an older book. But we are glad to have this artist back in stock. At first you think it’s just traditional Japanese art, but then up close you see it’s taboo.

All This Is Mine #15 $4.00

Everything Is Terrible: The Movie DVD $20.00 – From the creators of a Quimby’s DVD fave, Future Schlock. Hilarious modified found footage culled from who knows where. Do we want to know how they got it? No! Wait. Yes! Or maybe no? Who cares? It’s a must have!

Young Is Dumb #1 by Wesley Stokes $5.00

Hey I’m Okay by Olive Flower $.50 – Pfew! We were worried for a second there.

Whiskey Pike by Jeff Phillips $13.50 – Fiction. Any relation to Emo?

Death and Taxes Jul Aug 09 $4.99

Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 09 $4.95

Paranoia #51 $6.00

Geek Monthly #29 Aug 09 $5.99

Maximumrocknroll #315 $4.00

ASR Anarcho Syndicalist Review Sum 09 #52 $5.00

Z Magazine Jul 09 $6.95

Treating Yourself #17 $7.99 – Aw, come on! You know you deserve it! Splurge! Live a little! Besides all the cool kids are doin’ it!

TA Naturist #43 $7.99

Hip Mama #43 $5.95

2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 26 #2 $6.25

Dice #27 $6.95

True Detective vol 2 #17 $4.49

UFO Magazine #150 vol 23 #9 $5.99

Tattoo Life #59 $6.99

Feathertale Review #4 $10.00

Dissent Sum 09 $10.00

Top 10 Last Week

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Quimby’s Top 10 Bestsellers
This is for the week of 7/26/9-8/1/09

1     Bust Aug/Sep 09 $4.99
2     Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
3     FOUND Magazine #6 $5.00
4     WWZD What Would Zombie Do? Spinner $4.50
5     Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon) $29.95
6     Boneshaker #42-100 Bicycling Almanac $5.00
7     Dwelling Portably 2000 – 2008 by Bert and Holly Davis (Microcosm) $8.00
8     As of Yet Unseen by Jeremy Tinder $3.00
9     Yeti #7 $11.95
10   Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #24 Jul 09 $5.00

Jeremy Tinder, Alex Robinson, and Josh Cotter Discuss Comics

Segueways and Ambience

Ahem! Discussion!

At Quimby’s, on July 18th, 2009.  Jeremy Tinder (Cry Yourself to Sleep, Trubble Club) is on the left, then Alex Robinson (Box Office Poison, Too Cool To Be Forgotten) is in the middle, and Josh Cotter (Skyscrapers of the Midwest) is on the right. For video footage about their discussion of segueways and ambience, go here.

New Stuff This Week

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Cinema Sewer vol 2 by Robin Bougie (Fab Press) $19.95 – Second collection of work from the editor of one of the naughtiest, funniest zines devoted to ladies in film.

Beautiful Decay vol 1 Supernaturalism $20.00 – Beautiful Decay ended the alphabet and started over at the beginning with an amazing new book format! It’s a lowbrow beauty!

Pee Dog #2 (PictureBox) $12.00 – A vintage “graphic novel” from 1986 by Ed Nukey Nukes and Jocko Levent Brainiac, two crazed Texans artists related to another artist PictureBox published whose name rhymes with Shmarey Canter. Only 500 copies printed!

Bad Mags vol 2 by Tom Brinkman (Headpress) $22.95

Mome vol 15 Sum 09 (Fantagraphics) $14.99

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon) $29.95

Girls and Corpses #3 Sum 09 $8.95

Death and Taxes Jul Aug 09 $4.99

Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 09 $4.95

Paranoia #51 $6.00

Skeptic vol 15 #1 $6.95

Geek Monthly #29 Aug 09 $5.99

Coilhouse #3 $15.00

Maximumrocknroll #315 $4.00

ASR Anarcho Syndicalist Review Sum 09 #52 $5.00

Z Magazine Jul 09 $6.95

Grafik #174 Jun 09 $19.99

Treating Yourself #17 $7.99

Laphams Quarterly vol 2 #3 Travel $15.00

Hip Mama #43 $5.95

XLR8R #127 $4.99

Under the Radar #27 $4.99

2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 26 #2 $6.25

Feathertale Review #4 $10.00

Dissent Sum 09 $10.00

Skin Deep by Charles Burns (Fantagraphics) $16.99 – New soft cover reissue for a great price!

Wax Poetics #36 $9.99

Milky Way Shuffle by Elio $4.00

Moon Sparks #7 Skunk by Dan Rowbottom $1.00

Muse the News and the Noose Shortages by John Wawrzaszek $1.00

Famous Hairdos of Popular Music vol 2 Diana Ross $3.00 – Follow up to the popular zine that started with famous hairdos of James Brown.

Exoskeleton Haiku Trilogy $.50

Ninth Letter vol 6 #1 $14.95

Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #24 Jul 09 $5.00

Adbusters #85 $8.95

Insert #4 $2.00

Heeb #21 Sum 09 $5.99

Bust Aug Sep 09 $4.99

Harpers Magazine Aug 09 $6.95

Juxtapoz #103 Aug 09 $5.99

Plus: restocks on fabulously priced Taschen 25th anniversary edition books, restock on Robert Anton Wilson books. Stay on the lookout for what’s coming this week ahead: Big Questions #12 by Anders Nilsen and Zeitoun by Dave Eggers!