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New Stuff This Week

Fifth Estate vol 44 #2 #381 Sum Fall 09 $4.00

Id Start a Revolution But I Dont Have Time $1.00

Smile Hon Youre in Baltimore #11 $3.00

Ellis Island vol #1 to vol 4 #12 by Robert Viscusi $15.00

Chris Ware Paper Musician by Edward Choy Moormin $1.00

Lesbian Cowboys Erotic Adventures by S. Green and R. Valencia (Cleis) $14.95

Rasskazy New Fiction From a New Russia edited by M. Lossel and J. Parker (TinHouse) $18.95

Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler (Featherproof) $14.95

Tiki Magazine Vol 5 #2 Sum 09 $4.99

Maximumrocknroll #316 $4.00

Geek Monthly #31 Sep 09 $5.99

Hip Hop History Flocabulary Study Guides by B. Harrison and A. Rappaport (Cider Mill) $18.95 – With CD!!

Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects Magical Worlds (Cider Mill) $24.95

AD New Orleans After The Deluge by Josh Neufeld (Pantheon) $24.95

Housewives At Play TPB Working Moms by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95

Collected Essex County TPB by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) $29.95

Direct Action An Ethnography by D. Graeber (AK) $25.95

Rogue Economics by L. Napoleni (Seven Stories) $16.95

From CBGB To The Roundhouse: Music Venues Through The Years by T. Burrows (Marrion)

Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox (AK) $17.95

Whos To Say Whats Obscene by Paul Krassner (Citylights) $16.95

Out Of Exile: Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan by C. Walzer (McSweeneys) $16.00

Sex World by Dan Gleason $2.00 – All you want it to be and more from a local weirdo fave.

Graffiti World Updated Edition by N. Ganz (Abrams) $35.00

Indie Rock Coloring Book by the Yellow Bird Project (Chronicle) $9.95

Jeffrey Brown Cat Journal (Chronicle) $9.95 – For your own work, with some of his. See it to believe it.

Toon Treasury Of Classic Childrens Comics by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (Abrams) $40.00

Lotsa new moleskines!

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #2 $3.99 – A comic of the original Philip K. Dick story that inspired Bladerunner. Now with extra material!

Noise Vs Subversive Computing: Computationally Infeasible Records 001 The Flash Drive Versus $20.00 – Ummmmm, a flash drive zine!

Monsters In Love #1 by Phil Forsyth $1.25 – Great mini comic!

How I Fell In Love With Punk Rock by Duncan Wilder Johnson $4.00

One Hit Wonder Collection $2.00 – the zine for you.

Reality Mom Vol 6 #3 Sum Fall 09 $3.00

Women In Hats by Richard C. Miller $25.00 – Some crazy photo work. For real? Guess you’ll have to see it!

Best Erotic Comics 2009 edited by greta Christina (Last Gasp) $19.95

History of German Porn: From the Gretchen Kraut Collection (Goliath) $29.95

Best Buy Comics by R. Crumb $2.50 – Unearthed and waiting to be taken home with you for sweet lovin’.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00 – Now in soft cover. A meditiation on running and creativity.

Inner Swine vol 15 #2 $2.

My Secret Cockupation #2: Private Journals Of A Prostitute by Lil Princess, Hugo and Robin Bougie – $4.00

Top 10 For Last Week

1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00
3. Adbusters #85 $8.95
4. Journalsong #6 $2.50
5. Trubble Club vol 1 $3.00
6. List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00
7. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Otsu) $12.95
8. FOUND #6 $5.00
9. Wax Poetics #36 $9.99
10. Trubble Club vol 2 $3.00

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

Delicious!

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