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AREA/Chicago Underground Library Welcome Reception for The Alternative Press Center Magazine Archive

AREA and the Chicago Underground Library are pleased to invite you to a welcome party for the Alternative Press Center, who recently relocated their impressive archive of independent media to Chicago after several decades in Baltimore. Progressive and radical librarians, academics, students, researchers, and concerned citizens of Chicago are invited to come out for a night of complimentary drinks and snacks to say hello and welcome to Alternative Press Center (APC) staff and check out this new amazing local resource.

The APC is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.

Friday, October 24th, 2008 from 7-9pm, 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. on the 2nd floor (Location is not handicap accessible.)

Chicago kickin’ Ignatz!!!

Ignatz winners were announced last night and among some strong competition a couple of Chicago comics artists took home the golden bricks!

So congratulations to Laura Park and Lilli Carre!!!

Click here to see a full list of winners

or the Comics Reporter blog has a list with winners and nominees!

Bloging about being Bloged?

Over the weekend Brian from The Daily Cross Hatch blog came though the store. We had a short chat and he did a nice feature about us on his blog. For those of you who have never set foot in the store there are some good pics and some well edited quotes from me waxing about the store and the hood. Looks good, so thanks Brian.

Check it out!

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of August 17th, 2008 – August 23rd, 2008

1.    Cometbus #51: Loneliness of the Electra Menorah by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2.    Doris #26 $2.00
3.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
4.    Mostly True by Bill Daniel $8.00
5.    Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
6.    N Plus 1 Pamphlet Series #2: What We Should Have Known Two Discussions $9.00
7.    Adbusters #79 $8.95
8.    Wax Poetics #30 $9.99
9.    Save My Life by Cody Hudson (Upper Playground) $19.95
10.  Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of August 10th, 2008 – August 16th, 2008

1.    Bust Aug/Sep 08 $4.99
2.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
3.    Doris #26 $2.00
4.    Handbook vol 2 #3 2008 $6.00
5.    Adbusters #79 $8.95
6.    Bizarre #139 Aug 08 $9.50
7.    Mojo Sep 08 $9.99
8.    No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Scribner) $14.00
9.    Burn Collector Collected Stories 1-9 by Al Burian $13.00
10.  Dishwasher: One Mans Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan (Harper Collins) $13.95