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Sexy Strangers = Great Lit

WOW PR working overtime!

We got this in the mail last week. Great to see the big publishers are all up on “zines” & “blogs” and making stuff slutty!

Books Gone Wild!!!

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P.S. This is real, I could not make this type of copy up!…….unless you paid me three figures and gave me a corner office.

Top 10 Best Sellers for Quimby’s For the Week of Sep 2nd-Sep 8th, 2007

Winner

1. Bizarre #127 Sep 07 $8.75

2. Juxtapoz #80 Sep 07 $4.99

3. FOUND Magazine #5 $5.00

4. ReadyMade #30 $4.99

5. Maximumrocknroll #292 $4.00

6. VenusZine #33 $4.50

7. Wholphin #4 $19.95

8. Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 $16.98

9. CrapHound #6 $12.00

10. Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky $16.00 (Penguin)

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the week of Aug 26th-Sep 1st, 2007

Top 10

1. Juxtapoz #80 Sep 07 $4.99

2. FOUND Magazine #5 $5.00

3. Wholphin #4 $19.95 (McSweeney’s)

4. Optic Nerve #11 by Adrian Tomine $3.95 (Drawn & Quarterly)

5. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July $23.00 (Scribner)

6. Beautiful Decay issue T $5.95

7. Giant Robot #49 $4.99

8. Punk Planet #80 $4.95

9. Make #11 $14.99

10. The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family by Isis Aquariam and Electricity Aquarian $24.95 (Process)

LIVE AT QUIMBYS!!!

Thursday!!! LIVE at Quimby’s!!!

COMIC

ART

BATTLE!!!!!

Thursday, August 30 at 7:00

Loaded Blanks presents a Comic Art Battle!

To celebrate the release of Loaded Blanks Greetings series two, Loaded Blanks and Quimby’s will host a “Comic Art Battle,” featuring several of the artists and creators behind the new line of cards. A cross between “Win, Lose or Draw”, “Whose Line is it, Anyway?”, and Professional Wrestling, the “Comic Art Battle” pits the comic book world’s most talented creators, writers and artists against each other in a clash of lightning-quick wits and superior spontaneous draftsmanship!

Featured Performers / Combatants: Lilli Carre (Tales of Woodsman Pete, Deep Sea Diving), Grant Reynolds (To The Mouth Of The Source, Tales of Achilles), Laura Park (Loaded Blanks illustrator) and Ezra Claytan Daniels (The Changers, Loaded Blanks illustrator and co-owner).

Quimby’s Top 10 Selling Titles for August 19th-26th 2007

Not to be confused with the Top 10 Valedictorians…

Top 10

1. Butt #20 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90

2. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July $23.00 (Scribner)

3. Punk Planet #80 $4.95

4. Crap Hound #6 $12.00

5. Abolish Restaurants $5.00

6. XXX Scumbag Party vol II of the Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan $18.95 (Fantagraphics)

7. The Baffler #17 $10.50

8. Sin in the Second City: Madams Ministers Playboys and the Battler for Americas Soul by Karen Abbott $25.95 (Random House)

9.  Beautiful Decay issue T $5.95

10. Believer #46 $8.00