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New Stuff This Week

Published on August 18, 2012 0 Comments

Thank you to the charming David Rees (who we demand pose in our vintage photobooth in his apron) and for everybody that came to our event this past week (and a special thanks to audience members who participated as pencil sharpening novices). David demonstarted how to do some flashy sharpening moves as well as explained how to start your very own pencil sharpening business. Follow your dreams, kids!

Handbook for Hot Witches: Illustrated Guide to Magic Love and Creativityby Dame Darcy $15.99 – Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells—voilà!—Handbook for Hot Witches. Ever wondered what your dreams mean? You can look them up here. Want to learn to knit? This book can get you started. With sections on witch holidays, love, crystal ball gazing, meditating, and much more, this fully illustrated guide is the handbook that will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic. What kind of witch are you? Let Dame “Meatcake” Darcy help you figure it out. And here’s an early bird announcement: Dame Darcy will be here at Quimby’s on October 29th to help you get your halloween samhain on.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
We’ll Never Have Paris: Greatest Hits – Literary Journal of Non-Fiction by Andria Alefhi and Jaime Borschuk $7.95
Butch Nor Femme #6 Your Secretary #12 Split Zine by Lynne and Jami Sailor $1.00
Tributaries #2 Illinois Withholding Allowance by JC $2.00
Tributaries #3 On Tricycling History and Endings by JC $3.00
When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler It’s Because They Think Sardines Will Be Thrown Into the Sea by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera $3.00
Belmonte (De Francisco Lamb editions) $3.00
Happie volume 1 by Lamb $10.00
Alleyways: Eight Stone Press by William P. Tandy $4.00
D Tuned #1 Jul 12 by Danica Favorito $1.00
Emotions Are Hard – Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50
Mystery & Adventure Series Review #46 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
Glance in the Rearview Mirror: Neoliberal Ideology from its Origins… by Toussaint (Haymarket) $4.95
Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible by Mike Davis (Haymarket Books) $4.95
Cool Food #1 by Jessalyn Aaland $20.00 – That title’s no lie! Aaland reviews foods and cactuses, puts it out there whut’s rad about eating and hot tips on rad ways to eat the rad things. Blue plate special scrappy friend fun, written with frankjoy and illustrated sticker tripper doodlebugs of broccoli faces and donut buddies.

Comics & Comix
Colour Me Busy by Keith Jones (Koyama Press) $5.00
Everybody Loves Tank Girl #2 Mahfood and Martin $3.99
Me and You Chapter 3 $4.00
Bots is Bots #1 by Gregg K $1.00
Steel Sterling #1 by Michael Rae Grant and Gabriel Winslow Yost $5.00
Dimensions issues #3 and #4  $15.00 each
Let’s Do It BY Zejian Shen $3.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books) $24.95
Comics Class by Matthew Forsythe (Koyama) $5.00
Tomorrow Never Knows: A Comics History of the Psychedelic Beatles by Sean Ward (Harth Publishing) $12.00
Economix: How Our Economy Works and Doesnt Work in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin et al. $19.95
Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics by Margreet de Heer $16.95
Graphic novels from Matt Dembicki: XOC the Journey of a Great White and District Comics: an Unconventional History of Washington DC
The Creativity of Ditko by Craig Yoe et al. $39.99
Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley and Boo Radley $15.00 – Important news from the perspectives of the two cats: Dust, Inside Utility Closet, plus Catnip Treats. Pressing matters! Inquiring minds are glad to read this because it’s hilarious.

Art & Design
Quoteskine vol 1 by Lee Crutchley (Carpet Bombing Culture) $18.95
Paper Works (Gingko Press) $34.95
From Ummmm to Der by Thomas Campbell 2009-2011 (Gingko Press) $29.95 – Very pretty monograph of Campbell’s recent work. He was prominently featured in the ground-breaking touring exhibition (2003-2008) “Beautiful Losers” and also the subsequent book and film.

Drawn By Instinct by Tiffany Bozic $45.00
Guide to Troubled Birds, Profusely Illustrated by Mincing Mockingbird $13.99
Wacky Packages Gallery Most Comprehensive Resource Archive Compiled to Date From Two of the Most Knowledgeable Collectors in the Hobby by various (Last Gasp) $15.00
Idle Hands: The Art of Coop (Baby Tattoo) $50.00
Blab World #2 by Monté Beauchamp (Last Gasp) $24.95
Alice by Trevor Brown $70.00
Rivers Forgotten by Jeremy Kai (Koyama Press) $25.00
Typoholic by the Victionary Workshop $39.95
You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat by Banksy $35.00
Stencil Wars: the Ultimate Book of Star Wars Inspired Street Art $29.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Complex of Carnage: Dario Argento Beneath the Surface by Jack Hunter – From the Cult Movie Files.
Eccentropedia: The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived by Chris Mikul and Glenn Smith (Headpress) $25.95
Flesh Ripping Ghouls of London: Murder, Madness and Mayhem from the Penny Bloods by JM Rymer et al (Creation) $14.95
Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium by Mark Edward (Feral House) $18.95
The Worlds Weirdest Places by Nick Redfern $15.99

Music Books
The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines By Candice Black $14.95

Fiction
One in Every Crowd Stories by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press) $15.95
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche $16.95

Sex & Sexy
Salome and Under the Hill Forbidden Erotic Classics by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley (Wet Angel) $14.95
Das Einhorn #3 Aug Sep 12 $6.00

Magazines
Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99
Bizarre #191 Aug 12 $10.50
Paleo Magazine Aug Sep 12 $5.99
High Times Oct 12 $5.99
Pinstriping #33 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Mojo #225 Aug 12 $9.99
Maximumrocknroll #352 Sep 12 $4.00
Fader #81 Aug Sep 12 $5.99
WHOA (Whats Happening With Original Artists) Magazine Fall 12 $6.95
Filter Good Music Guide Aug Sep 12 $2.99
Cinema Retro #4 Movie Classics Special Edition $15.95
The Indignados and Occupy Movements Across the World Reader $2.50
Monocle Mediterraneo #5 Sum 12 $8.00
ASR #58 Sum 12 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Tabu Tattoo #48 $7.99

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal #6 Sum 12 $12.00
Mudfish #17 $12.00
American Athiest 2nd and 3rd Quarter 12 $4.95
Creative Nonfiction #45 Sum 12 $10.00
Overtime Hour 25 Black Shift by TE Winningham III $2.00

Other Stuff
Plastic Crimewave Vinyl (Notes and Bolts Records and Tapes) $5.50 – 7″ of psychedelic goodness! On the A side, Steve a.k.a. Plastic Crimewave croons like Bowie if he were truly in space while Tsuyama from Acid Mothers Temple adds creepy ambience in the background. On the B side, Steve gets hazey as the shoegazey goodness seeps off of the grooves and through the speakers. A solid deal and the first vinyl outing from local zine turned vinyl shiller Notes and Bolts!

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on August 14, 2012 0 Comments

 

Michael the sausage dog took his owners Becky and Ali to Quimby’s and posed with our Cola Flavored Mustache Lollipop. Hot diggity dog!

1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts)  $17.95 – Thanks to everybody who came to see Derf here this past Thursday.

2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

3. James Joyce by E. Choy $5.00 – Adaptations of James Joyce classics by Philidelphia-based Ed Choy! Includes Araby, an excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and an assortment of others. Interior pages feature alternating 1-color spreads in purple and Riso-Federal Blue.

4. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

5. Tales of Woodsman Pete With Full Particulars by Lilli Carré (Top Shelf) $7.00

6. Maximumrocknroll #351 Aug 12 $4.00

7. Razorcake #69 $4.00

8. Duel Citizenship by Jen Twigg $2.00 – D.C./Maryland versus Chicago, but in a lovin’ kinda way. Twigg talks about what it means to feel like you live in a city and what’s great about places.-EF

9. Office Girl by Joe Meno $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

10. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 –  All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 7, 2012 0 Comments

Big bucks, no whammies. This is how we roll. Roll Big or Go Home is at #10 this week.

1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) – Don’t miss Derf here on Thursday (Aug 9th) at 7pm, where he’ll take about this graphic novel he did about his experiences knowing Jeffrey Dahmer in high school!

2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

3. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

4. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 The American Food Issue – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on with the American Food Issue. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

5. Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Maranda Elizabeth and Dave Cave $3.00

6. Womanimalistic #1 by Caroline Paquita $5.00 – “Amazing Amazing Amazing. Recipes for Fire Cider and Krotchbucha. Ridiculously funny comics about Vajazzling, punker health fiascos (such as the ol’ “Hash Brown Cure”) and urban hiving. Gorgeously patterned comics about love and loss and coming down with a case of The Going Crazies. I’ve been reading the Carson McCullers comic that opens this book over and over and over again – it keeps bringing me close to tears. Highest honors. Lovingly risographed in blue.” -EF

7. Night Riders by Matt Furie (McSweeney’s) $15.95 – Where’s Matt Furie been lately? Apparently he’s been squirreled up drawing a truly stunning and mind-bending wordless children’s book for McSweeney’s, and I couldn’t be more excited about the fruits of his labors. Night Riders is truly awesome – cool animal-monsters staying up all night on a journey through a glowing nocturnal world, rendered in some ultralush colored pencil jewel hues. I love the chillpill laffs of Boy’s Club aplenty – however this is a different trip altogether: magic and riches with perfect delivery. A great kid’s book, and a great graphic novel to boot. -EF

8. Elephant Ear #1 by Jeremy Tinder $8.00 – Jeremy Tinder launched this beast at CAKE a few months ago: deluxe stories of slipping, surreal illness and alone time. Paced a little like a Murakami story, I’d say- the richness of a character staring into space, the practicality of the mothman stealing batteries, the resignation to finding a tooth in your eyesocket. -EF

9. Dig Deep #4 by Heather $1.00 – Local-based perzine by a rad librarian.

10. Roll Big or Go Home by Rio Safari $2.00 – Cute lil love letter to fantasy, D&D and punk nerdery. Rad title, too. -EF

New Stuff This Week

Published on August 3, 2012 0 Comments

The Minus Times Collected 20 Years 30 Issues, ed. by Hunter Kennedy $16.95 – Begun as an open letter to strangers and fellow misfits, The Minus Times grew to become a hand-typed literary magazine that showcased the next generation of American fiction. Contributors include Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Patrick DeWitt, and Wells Tower, with illustrations by David Eggers and Brad Neely as well as interviews with Dan Clowes, Barry Hannah, and a yet-to-be-famous Stephen Colbert. With sly humor and striking illustrations, The Minus Times has earned a fervent following as much for its lack of literary pretension as its sporadic appearances on the newsstand. All thirty of the nearly-impossible-to-find issues of this improvised literary almanac are now assembled for the first time, typos and all.

Zines & Zine-Related
Serial Killers Unite #10 $2.00
Telegram #24 Feb 12 by Maranda Elizabeth $3.00
Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Maranda Elizabeth and Dave Cave $3.00
Hippie hippie shake: The dreams, the trips, the trials, the love-ins, the screw ups, the sixties by Richard Neville $16.95 – Collected retrospective of Oz Magazine, at the centre of a cyclone of radicals, rock musicians, artists and hustlers in the 60s.
Nuts #10 $4.00
Noisy Boy #2 Jul 12 by PJ Franzen $5.00
Echo by Aaron Smith $5.00
Snot Rocket City #2 $2.00
Some Things Make No Sense, Like Jeggings by Carrie $1.00
Paper Houses #7 The Batman Issue by Kriss Stress $1.00

Comics & Comix
Maddie #1 by Gabriela Cracraft $5.00
Gold Star by John Martz (Retrofit Comics) $5.00
Sheep Rumble by Sue Cargill $2.00
Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson $3.50
Genius and the Fatass by Alex Martin $1.00
Pretentious Record Store Guy #3 by Carlos Gabriel Ruiz $2.99
James Joyce by Ed Choy Moorman $5.00
Art Appreciation vol 2 Sunday on la Grande Jatte 1884 by Georges Seurat $2.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
How Would I Know If Youre Dreaming: Finn and Charlie Are Hitched vol 3 by Tony Breed $12.00
Making Of byBrecht Evans (D&Q) $29.95
Karma Tastes Like Diet Coke by Chris McKay $8.00
Blasted: An Ink and Drink Comics Science Fiction Anthology $11.99
Blind to Blue and Other Things: A Stack of Poetry Comics by Paul K. Tunis $10.00

Fiction
The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems by Paul Legault (McSweeneys) $17.00

Thirteen Girls by Mikita Brottman $13.00
Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby the Learned Pig by Russell Potter $15.00
Xanthous Mermaid Mechanics by Brion Poloncic $15.00
Books by Eckhard Gerdes: Including Hugh Moore, The Sylvia Plath Cookbook: A Satire, Three Psychedelic Novels

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg $25.99 – Considering how much the word asshole does for us, and to us, it hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves –– at least until now.
The Lords of 2112: The Poignantly Vulgar & Vulgarly Poignant Chronicle of America’s Future by Daniel Marion Mitchell Jr. $14.23 – Everything is weird about this book. Even the price.
More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football Family and Time Itself by Nick Hornby $14.00 – More Beleiver columns from this High Fidelity author.

DIY
Lickin the Beaters 2 Vegan Chocolate and Candy by Siue Moffat, Celso and Missy Kulik (PM Press) $17.95
You Cant Make This Stuff Up: Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between by Lee Gutkind $16.00

Politics & Revolution
Letters to a Young Activist by Todd Gitlin $14.99

Magazines
Maximumrocknroll #351 Aug 12 $4.00
Decibel #95 Sep 12 $4.95
Adbusters Sep Oct 12 #103 vol 20 #5 $8.95
various issues of Uppercase: A Magazine For the Creative and Curious
Dwell Sep 12 $5.99
Wallpaper Aug 12 $10.00
Skunk vol 8 #1 $5.99
Ghetto Blaster #32 $3.95
Makeshift #3 Sum 12 Journal of Hidden Creativity $10.00
In These Times Aug 12 $3.50

Weekly Top 10

Published on July 31, 2012 0 Comments


This most recent issue of Remedy (#9, featuring the them of escape) is at #10 this week.

1. Office Girl by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

2. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 The American Food Issue – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on with the American Food Issue. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

3. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

4. The Believer #91 $12.00

5. Lose #3 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) $5.00 – Lose has the same doomsday “joy” of early Dan Clowes or Chris Ware: pathetic characters trapped in a endless plummet of unaware-over-self-awareness that cuts straight to the heart of a modern crisis of meaning. Perhaps an interesting distinction here is that while D.C. and C.W. were dishing out their snarkiest and perhaps crassest work as absurd technology and media alienation was revving up, DeForge’s fined-tuned portraits of apocalyptic failure are being produced in sync with a deep cultural wallow in the bitter joke of “first world problems”. Whatever the case, his self-absorbed characters attempting (and failing) to toddle through their collapsed and bombed out trash cities unscathed is consistently scary and resonating. With each issue, his rotwater post-apocalypse hauntscape looks more and more like the 4 month pasta salad leftovers back of my fridge, but somehow it keeps you hungry for more. -EF

6. Boys Club #1 by Matt Furie (Buenaventura Press) $6.00 – A collection of Matt Furie’s mini-comics featuring teenage monsters Andy, Brett, Landwolf and Pepe: drinkin;, stinkin; and never thinkin’.

7. Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware (Pantheon) $27.50

8. Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs (Adhouse) $9.95 – Jesse Jacobs bursts onto the comic scene with his first published work EVEN THE GIANTS. The work beautifully captures the isolation of the Great White North while also giving the artist a sequential canvas to explore and experiment. This book will be printed in three Pantone spot colors. Jesse’s work has been nominated for the Doug Wright award and has won the Gene Day award.

9. Nurse Nurse by Kate Skelly (Sparkplug) $15.00 – Description from the back of the book: “It is a comic book about the future. It is a prediction about television. It is a cautionary tale about butterflies. It is science fiction for all kinds of people. It collects all seven issues of the mini-comic series and the never-before-seen eighth issue. Please have an adventure….Love is real. NURSE NURSE this.”

10. Remedy Quarterly #9 Escape $9.50 – From the Remedy website describing this issue of this popular food zine: Issue 9 will leave you ready to make you’re own great escape—hopefully to your kitchen. Inside we’ve got a Q&A with Bonnie Slotnick of Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks in New York City (one of my personal favorite escapes), we’ll take you the countryside of Italy where you’ll learn to enjoy the sound of silence in Italy, and get adventurous at a Louisiana crab boil complete with a trip to the bayou. Plus recipes, tips & tidbits, and more!