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Weekly Top 10 and Holiday Hours

Published on November 15, 2011 0 Comments

First, here’s Quimby’s Holiday Hours:
Sat, Dec 24th 11am-5pm
Sun, Dec 25th CLOSED
Sat, Dec 31st noon-5pm
Sun, Jan 1st, 2012 CLOSED

And now! Here’s the Weekly Top 10

1. A Greater Monster by David David Katzman, with illustrator Caitlin McKay (Bedhead Books) $17.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this event last week! David David Katzman’s second novel, A Greater Monster (Bedhead Books), is a groundbreaking multimedia work that includes 65 pages of illustrations, numerous graphic design elements, visual text poetry, and links to two websites, one of which features original music composed to mirror events in a scene of the book and another featuring an animated sequence. This story itself is a psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, influenced by Alice in Wonderland, Williams S. Burroughs, and graphic novelist Grant Morrison. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse mirror. A Greater Monster breathes new life into the possibilities of fiction. A buncha pictures in it are drawn by the talented comics and tattoo artist Caitlin McKay. She works at Chicago Comics our sister store!

2. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Radicalize! Organize!

3.   Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

4. Prince Zine by Joshua James Amberson $5.00 – R U Ready 4 This 1? Although Amberson is no fanatical Rainbow Child, there’s more than enough purple passion and royal dedication here to assemble an inspired and juicy analysis of Prince’s dynasty, talent, discography and lifestyle choices. I like most that the zine puts some time and thought into getting behind Prince’s rampant weirdness- it’s not at all some sorry joke at Prince’s expense like that Mirror interview, but it doesn’t exactly let him off the hook either – it’s critical AND playful AND willing to admit that at everyone’s core there IS a huge weirdo. It may also be worthy of note that this zine rolled into Quimby’s on a snowy day in April, so it’s a little cosmic too, y’know? -EF

5. Juxtapoz #131 Dec 11 $5.99

6. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – McSweeney’s has a food magazine. What’s next? A McSweeney’s sports magazine? Oh wait, there is a McSweeney’s sports magazine coming out.

7. Raw Deal #13 $2.00

8. Monocle vol 5 #48 Nov 11 $2.00

9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – Don’t miss Craig Thompson here this Thursday 11/17 at 7pm!

10. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

New Stuff This Week

Published on November 11, 2011 0 Comments

Did you miss us? We skipped a week of posting new stuff on the blog and the website because one third of the staff (um, 1 of 3 people) was on vacation. Enjoy a longer than usual list! Stay tuned as we curate which of these items will be available for order on our website. You can always call and ask us to put things on hold as well at 773-342-0910.

Here’s something cool we got in, before we launch into all the new stuff:

Get In If You Want To Live – 19 Stories 19 Artists (Paper Darts Press) $15.00 – From the author of 2010’s If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. Each of hs stories in the collection is accompanied by a specially curated illustration from hand-selected artists such as Jennifer Davis, Andres Guzman, Laura Andrews, AMTK, Kylo Moonguts and many, many more.

anyway…

ZINES
Leg and Boob DNA Gel by Keith G. Herzik $5.00 – Local screenprinting mad genius.
Grand Mystery by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
Poems and Parables by Devan Bennett $1.50
Raw Deal #13 Loitering Is Good $2.00
KerBloom #92 Sep Oct 11 by Artnoose $2.00
Volume #1 Fall 2011 Vuu Collective by Margo Dooney  $20.00
Meat #5 by Adrian Lourie  $20.00
Or Let It Sink #5 by Jim $1.00
Brainscan #28 It’s Complicated by Alex Wrekk $2.00
Meta #1 by Marissa Falco $4.00
Indifferentspace by Jay Kervens $6.00
Connections by Lisa Romero (Parking Block Publishing) $4.00
Wherever God Strikes Me Down by Jeremy Tubbs (Parking Block Publishing) $4.00
Bend Over Magazine #6 $12.00
Broken Pencil #53 $5.95
Hyphen #24 Win 11 $4.95

COMICS & COMIX
Happy Hour in America #3 by Timothy Lane $5.00
Squeaky Noises by Cara Bean $5.00
Battle Kittens the Art of R. Dart $6.00
Shuteye #6 Fetch by Sarah Becan $5.00
Amy in the Spring of 1990 by Colin Ryono and MIke Skryzynski $5.00
Pd Indigest by Roman Muradov $6.00
Impressions of Impressions of Africa: A 24 Hour Comic Book Day Comic Book by Roman Muradov $3.00
Plus One by Joakim Ojanen $6.00
Kuben by Joakim Ojanen $8.00
Doodles In a Dark Time by Hanna Andersson $8.00
Free Dog Food #1 Oct 11 by Donald Jess Bandy and Brendan Richardson Wells $3.00
San Diego Diary by Gabrielle Bell $4.00
Colibri #3 $6.00
Brainclouds by Charlie Newton $4.00
Mishy Gosh #2 by Rosie Shipman $4.00
Viewotron #1 by Sam Sharpe and David Goodrich $5.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS + TRADE PAPERBACKS
R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection by R. Crumb (WWN) $27.95 – A landmark work that pays splendid homage to a forgotten era of seminal American music. Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn’t resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers-particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s-since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb went on to draw hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. So remarkable were Crumb’s artistic interpretations of these old 78 rpm singles that the art itself proved influential in their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s. Including such classics as Truckin’ My Blues Away, Harmonica Blues, and Please Warm My Weiner, Crumb’s opus also features more recent covers done for CDs. 450 four-color illustrations.
Everything vol 1 Comics from Around 1978-1981 Collected and Uncollected by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adéle Blanc-Sec vol 2 The Mad Scientist/Mummies On Parade by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Dragon Puncher Island by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
Joe the Barbarian Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $29.99
Hellboy House of the Living Dead HC by Mile Mignola and Richard Corben (Dark Horse) $14.99
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus Edition HC by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Vertigo) $49.99
Adventures of Herge by Jose Louis Bocquet et al. (D&Q) $19.95
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 6 HC by Alan Moore et al. (Vertigo) $24.99
Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz TPB by Frank L. Baum et al. (Marvel) $24.99
New X Men TPB vol 7 by Grant Morrison et al. (Marvel) $14.99

ART + DESIGN BOOKS
Gig Posters vol 2 ed. by Clay Hayes (Quirk) $40.00 – Includes 101 Ready to Frame Posters originally featured on gigposters.com. Designers include: The Bubble Process, The Bungaloo, Chicken Billy, Clint Wilson, Clinton Reno, The Comet Substance, Concepcion Studios, The Half and Half, Hatch Show Print and more.
Blue Collar White Collar by Sterling Hunter (Adhouse) $24.95
New York City Graffiti – The Destiny Children (Schiffer) $50.00

MUSIC BOOKS
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum (Penguin) $29.99
Gig Posters vol 2! Look in art and design books for description.
Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip Hop by Dan Charnas (New American Library) $16.00
Everything Is an Afterthought: Life and Writings of Paul Nelson by Kevin Avery (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Beck by Autumn De Wilde (Chronicle) $35.00
Decoded by Jay-Z (Spiegel) $25.00 – Now in soft cover.
Love Goes To Buildings on Fire – Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes (Faber) $30.00
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks by Dave Tompkins (Melville House/Stop Smiling) $25.95 – Now in soft cover.
Rocket In my Pocket: The Hipster’s Guide To Rockabilly Music by Max Decharne (Serpant) $18.95
Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music ed. by Chris Force et al. (Alarm Press) $40.00 – Almost 400 pages of full-color artwork that explores the synesthsic experince of where art and music meet.

DIY + DRUUUUUUGS
Dr. Seymour Kindbud’s Stoner Snacks, Mad Marijuana Munchies, Baked and Fried (CH Press) $12.95 – More than 100 recipes.
The Speed Chronicles by Joseph Mattson and friends (Akashic) $15.95 – Pieces about the aforementioned drug. Pieces by William Vollman, Sherman Alexie and more.
Boneshaker #43-200 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00
On Food and Cooking Science and Lore of the Kitchen Completely Revised/Updated by Harold McGee (Scribner) $40.00
Firewalkers Madness Beauty and Mystery – Radically Rethinking Mental Illness by VOCAL $15.00

SEX + SEXY
Do It Yourself 25th Anniversary Special by Uwe Ommer (Taschen) $14.99
Classic Modern Pinups by Alvarado (Schiffer) $34.99
Halsted Plays Himself William E. Jones (Semiot) $24.95
Hot Moms #15 $4.95

MISCREANTS & MAYHEM & MISC
Elf Girl by Rev. Jen (Gallery) $15.00
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson (Simon) $32.50
Propaganda and the Holy Writ of The Process Church of the Final Judgment: Including The Gods on War, Read by Timothy Wyllie, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lydia Lynch, and Adam Parfrey by Malachi McCormick et al. (Feral House) $50.00 – The celebrated thematic magazines of the notorious Process Church of the Final Judgment cult were created to be hawked on the street in order to raise money and attract like-minded adherents to their unorthodox Gnostic theology. Printed in order of their first appearance, the Sex, Fear, and Death issues are here reproduced in their entirety in a handsome clothbound book. The magazines reproduced in this book are lionized as being decades ahead of their time in terms of the sophistication of its art and design. The cult was also attacked for including in its Death issue a contribution by Charles Manson. This inclusion led the dark-robed cult to be characterized as a sinister death cult. This book provides an introduction by Adam Parfrey, and by the magazine’s original art director, Timothy Wyllie. Adam Parfrey contextualizes the meanings and impact of the magazines on the world at large.
That Is All by John Hodgman (Penguin) $25.00 – The third in the Complete World Knowledge series (The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require) by the “Resident Expert” from The Daily Show. Oh yeah, and he’s the PC on the Mac commercials.
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt (Simon) $14.00 – Now in soft cover!
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science (Vintage) $16.00
Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions by Julia Suits (Perigree) $15.95 – The Curious World of the DeMoulin Brothers and their Fraternal Lodge, Prank Machines, Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to Electric Carpets…
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney (Morrow) $25.99
Good the Bad and the Godawful – 21st Century Movie Reviews by Kurt Loder (SMP) $21.99
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures
of North America by Colin Woodard (Viking) $30.00
Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy Imploded and How by John Perkins (Crown) $14.00
The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level in Real Life (Berk) $24.95 – Developing a system, blog, and podcasts, Hardwick shares hard-earned wisdom about turning seeming weakness into world-dominating strengths in this hilarious self-help book.

POLITICS + REVOLUTION
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve) $30.00
Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop it by Lawrence Lessig (Twelve) $12.99
Ai Weiweis Blog Writings Interviews and Digital Rants 2006 to 2009 (MIT) $24.95
Autonomy Solidarity Possibility the Colin Ward Reader (AK) $21.95
Rude Pundits Almanack (O/R) $17.00
In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster the Fate of the Gulf… by Peter Lehner et al. (O/R) $16.00

FICTION
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman (Scriber) $25.00 – Second novel of fiction from pop culture expert of Fargo Rock City fame. He’s on public radio every two seconds talking about it, hypnotising you with his articulate witticisms…You WILL buy this book, you WILL buy this book. -LM
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick, ed. by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem (Houghton) $40.00 – Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. This book is Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work. It documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called “2-3-74,” a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe “transformed into information.” In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work.

The Petting Zoo by Jim Carroll (Penguin) $16.00
Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper (Harper) $14.99
The Cradle by Patrick Somerville (BB) $13.99 – Now in soft cover.
Adults by Alison Espach (Simon) $15.00
Family Fang by Kevin Wilson (Ecco) $23.99
Inferno – A Poets Novel by Eileen Myles (O/R Books) $16.00
A Greater Monster by David David Katzman (Bedhead) $17.95 – Trippy new fiction by the author of Death By Zamboni with interior art by comics/tattoo artist Caitlin McKay. This book is a multimedia work that includes 65 pages of illustrations, numerous graphic design elements, visual text poetry, and links to two websites, one of which features original music composed to mirror events in a scene of the book and another featuring an animated sequence. This story itself is a psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, influenced by Alice in Wonderland, Williams S. Burroughs, and graphic novelist Grant Morrison. Thanks to everybody that came to last night’s event.

And So It Goes Kurt Vonnegut – A Life by Charles J. Shielfs (Holt) $30.00
Ecstacy of Influence Nonfictions Etc. by Jonathan Lethem (DD) $27.95
Rich People Things by Chris Lehman (O/R Books) $16.00
Windy City Queer LGBTQ Dispatches From the Third Coast by Kathie Bergquist (U of Q P) $24.95

POETRY + CHAP BOOKS + LIT JOURNALS
Ladies and Gentlemen by Michael Robins $14.00
The Believer #85 Nov/Dec 11 $10.00
Slice Fall 11 Win 12 #9 $8.00
Gigantic Sequins 2.2 $5.00
Nuance 2011 Literary Arts Magazine $7.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought Sum 11 $10.00
Six By Six #24 I Mean This Thing $5.00

MAGAZINES
Juxtapoz #131 Dec 11 $5.99
Fortean Times #281 Dec 11 $11.99
Mojo #217 Dec 11 $9.99
Mojo 60s #2 Special Edition $12.50
Uncut Dec 11 #175 $9.99
Tattoo Revue #156 $7.99
Open Minds Dec 11 Jan 12 $6.50
Frieze #142 Oct 11 $10.00
ArtForum Nov 11 $10.00
Design Bureau Nov Dec 11 $8.00
UFO Magazine #157 vol 24 #4 $5.99
Skateboarder vol 21 #6 $5.99
Paper Nov 11 vol 28 #3 $4.00
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #3 Nov 11 $9.99
Monocle vol 5 #48 Nov 11 $10.00
In These Times Nov 11 $3.50
Against the Current #155 Nov Dec 11 $5.00
Tattoo Society #30 $7.99

OTHER STUFF
More Moleskine Notebooks  and Planners in an array of styles, sizes, colors and prices.
Nudie Ladies 2012 Ladies of Lore by Flannery Cashill $3.00
Greg and Fake Necklace Man Charm $6.66
Vinyl Frontier DVD by Daniel Zana $20.00

Quimby’s Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers

Published on November 8, 2011 0 Comments

1. Hi Fructose #21 $6.95

2. 2012 Slingshot Small (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  Perfect-bound pocket size.

3. 2012 Slingshot Large (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically. This large size is spiral-bound.

4. Everything vol 1 Comics from Around 1978 to 1981 Collected and Uncollected by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95

5. AdBusters #98 Nov Dec 11 $8.95

6. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00

7. East Village Inky #48 by Ayun Halliday $3.00 – First ever E.V.Inky Music Issue: Rundgren, Rundgren and then a trickle more of Rundgren! Also, get into the heads of what New York teenagers are listening to.

8. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – We can barely keep this one on the shelves!

9. Bring Me the Tongue – Poems by Chris Salib $4.00 – Way with words, feels like powder pigment, tarantulas and late summer crabgrass.

10. Fauna by Leda Zawacki $3.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on November 1, 2011 1 Comment

Some older stuff made its way onto the Top 10 this week. Interesting.

1. Post-It Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon Embarrassing Mishaps and Everyday Adventure illustrations by Arthur Jones, with stories by Chuck Klosterman, John Hodgeman, David Rakoff and more (Plume) $15.00. When Arthur Jones cocreated a reading series centered around ubiquitous Post-Its(r), the series struck a chord. It grew in popularity and was ultimately featured on a This American Life live simulcast broadcast across the nation. Inspired by the series and spanning a wide and weird range of topics from an A-list roster of contributors, Post-It Note Diaries captures everyday occurrences from a job interview gone hilariously awry and a nude run-in with a neighbor to hair-raising events like an overnight encounter at Nicholas Cage’s house (it’s not what you think!), and nearly drowning while trying to paddle across the East River in a homemade canoe. Post-It Note Diaries is perfect for NPR addicts and fans of unique graphic favorites like Postsecret and Blankets. Thanks to everybody that came out to this event on Saturday at the Hideout with Arthur Jones, Staree Kine and David Wilcox!

2. Logan Square Literary Review #8 $5.00- Loads of Loganics! Poetry, prose, recipes, a profile of Red Gate Studio and painting portfolio from Aaron Delahanty. Congrats to all who came out for this release event last week.

3. Twenty Dollar Twenty Minute Meals by Caroline Wright $17.50 – Wright approaches food with a clear understanding of intuitive preparation and hearty flavorfulness. Low on procedure and casual about measurement, $20/20min reads less like a cook book and more like a spell book for approachable kitchen magic. -EF

4. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00 – World’s best Fair Use clip arty collagey stuff.

5. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – We can barely keep this one on the shelves!

6. Found Magazine #7 $5.00 – And not even the most recent FOUND. How did it make it onto th Top 10 this week? Amazing.

7. Start Your Own Haunted House: Delve Into Controlled Terror $1.98 – Written by the creative mastermind of a local haunted house here in Chicago. There’s the description of walking through it, how they did it, and even a mask! DIY indeed.

8. Tales of The Leather Nun by Dave Sheridan, Jaxon, R. Crumb and more (Last Gasp) $2.95 – We just got in a mega stash of older underground comix, some dirtier than others. Quick! Get over here before we run out!

9. Kim Gee Comics #3 by Kim Gee $5.00

10. Sorry Partner All The Trees Are Chopped by Dustin Williams $8.00 – Somewhere between a Shel Silverstein story and a Jeremy Tinder drawing rests this latest fully silkscreened comic from Dustin Williams. Lovely two-color design throughout, looking rad in plaid. -EF

New Stuff This Week

Published on October 29, 2011 0 Comments

A shout out to Carrie of My Aim Is True and Brilliant Mistake zines who dropped off cookies and candy to keep us in a delicious haze of a sugar high. Thanks, Carrie!

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Telegram Maam #23 Stealing Violets Sep 11 by Maranda Elizabeth $3.00 – Maranda gets to spend some time in a hospital program and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, as opposed to prior BiPolar diagnoses that now feel ill-fitting. The zine examines what it all means to ever chase elusive wellness and cope with one’s own terms of tenuous sobriety. Also, writing on what it is to redefine one’s gender without changing one’s self, and the power of reaching in and being your own therapist in moments of crisis. -EF

Flying Saucers Rock ‘n’ Roll: Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock ‘n’ Soul Eccentrics (Refiguring American Music) by Jake Austen (Duke University Press) $24.95 – A best of Roctober anthology!


Mental Floss: The Book Only the Greatest Lists in the History of Listory (Harper) $17.99
Fun In The End Times by Natty Soltesz $2.00
Happiness of Dirt by Aozora Brockman $5.00
Or Let It Sink Octobered by James Joyce $1.00 – Spooky zinester tales of spooky halloweenie spookiness. Contributors include: Dave Roche, Leslie Perrine, Xavier Malsonado and more.
Start Your Own Haunted House: Delve Into Controlled Terror $1.98 – Written by the creative mastermind of a local haunted house here in Chicago. There’s the description of walking through it, how they did it, and even a mask! DIY indeed.
Actual Bird Song Field Guide and Audio Companion by Neil Gravander etc. $5.00
Bag of Rad Zine (Pizza Vultures) by Morgan Inez Smith and Ben Chlapek $10.00
New Planes Public Press #2 $5.00
My Aim Is True #3 $1.00
Sassyfrass Circus #7 by J. Bee $2.00
Femme a Barbe vol 3 by Jenna Brager $2.00
Relevance of Anarchism on Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (See Sharp) $2.00

Comics & Comix
Smoke Signal #10 Sept 11 $3.00 – with comics from Matthew Thurber, Kaz, Noah Van Sciver and more. Newsprint action published by our buddy Gabe at Desert Island in Brooklyn.
Hoody #1 A Hip Hop Comic Graph Novel by by Joel CRAVE Maxime Jr. $5.00 – Bouncing through a chromosplash cityscape of graffitipsychedelia, Hoody’s an all-blue Vaughn Bodian anti-hero on a trail of pig roasting secret clues. Wild motions that sometimes remind me of Bernie McGovern’s “Army of Lovers” comics. -EF


Oh Goodie #2 Working Man by SP Burke $2.99
Midwestern Cuban Comics vol 1 #1 by Odin Cabal $5.00
Animal Sex #2 Bugs and Slugs by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – The first was such a hit that we imagine you’ll love this one as well.
Exquisite Corpse Collection #1 Aug 11 by various $4.99
Abuela Y Los Dead Mexicans #1 $6.00
Heaven All Day by John Martz (Adhouse) $4.00
Tank Girl Carioca #1 by McMahon and Martin (Titan) $5.99
A buncha old comics from Last Gasp: Slow Death, Clowns, Demented Pervert, Commies From Mars #4, Forbidden Knowledge Comics, Wimmens Comix  – This is where a bunch the classic underground folks got their start with these goodies. Phoebe Gloeckner, Roberta Gregory, Lynda Barry, Crumb and more!
Demongun #7 Oct 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00 – McGovern’s sobriety comic monthly commemorates triumph through some tough struggles, slips into a quarterly schedule and weird cgi photocollage. -EF

WWI by Raymond B. Biesinger (Mille Putois) $5.00 – Screenprinted beauty.
Comics by Lizz Lunney: Big Cat Parade, At The Planetarium, Dust Leopards in Leotards Flip Comic, Cat Hearts Peanut Butter and Marshmallows Split Comic, Tubetastic Unicorns and Werewolves (price varies $5.00-$10.00)
Islands by Brendan Monroe $6.00
Everything Unseen Parts 1, 2 and 3 by Drew Beckmeyer (Revival House) $12.00 – And we have Everything Unseen Parts 4 and 5 too. ($14.00)
Today Today and Better Better Set by David Alvarado $7.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Gary Book 2 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00 – The second installment of Cannon’s brutal graphic narrative loosely wound on the story of the Green River Killer.  Deftly drawn with a flavor of fluid storytelling that maps a life warped by unchecked sociopathic murder yet tethered to society. -EF

Someday Funnies: 129 Original Comic Strips About the 1960s by Choquette, Greenfield and Heer (Abrams) $55.00
Oh Goodie #1 Introduce Yourself by SP Burke $14.99
Government Issue: Comics For the People 1940-2000s by Richard Graham (Abrams) $29.95
Important Comics Are Bad by Dina Kelberman $14.00
De Profundis by James Jarvis (Picturebox) $19.95
Color Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama (Picturebox) $35.00
Steve Ditko: Angry Apes N Leapin Lizards (PI) $25.00
Bone 20th Anniversary Edition: Full Color, One Volume Edition by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $150.00 – We’d be happy to order this for you!
Bizarro Heroes Special Humor Lovers Edition by Dan Piraro (Last Gasp) $11.95

Art & Design Books
Juxtapoz Illustration 2 (Gingko) $29.95
Graffiti and Street Art by Anna Waclawek (T&H) $19.95
Overkill: The Art of Tomer Hanuka (UP) $29.95
On Marvellous Things Heard by Gretchen E. Henderson (Green Lantern Press) $12.00

Art Deco Postcards by Patricia Bayer (T&H) $27.95
Art Prophets: Artists, Dealers and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World by Richard Polsky (Other) $24.95
Sailor Jerry Treasure Chest (HM) $30.00
Inspirational Moustache (Cicada) $9.95
Folk Art Tattoo Flash  (HM) $30.00
Unventions: Every Invention Has an Equal and Opposite Unvention by Cleon Daniel (Carpet Bombing Culture) $16.95
Schwarz Auf Weiss vol 2 by Style Needs No Color (From Here) $29.90 – Style Needs No Color works on the notion that excessive colors and flashy techniques should not be used to repair a weak foundation. They believe that artwork should be able to stand alone without unnecessary distractions and therefore SNNC artists restrict their palette to black and white. In the follow-up release to their successful first book, Schwarz auf Weiss II, you can see the stark beauty and striking simplicity of this idea in action.
Shit London Snapshots of a City on the Edge by Patrick Dalton (Portico) $14.95
Color Me Graffiti 2: How to Color Like the Masters a Coloring Book for Creative  (From Here) $8.95

Fiction
Sunset Park by Paul Auster (Picador) $15.00
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – This book is so popular that even before we got it in people were reserving copies. More are on the way, but e-mail us at info@quimbys.com if you want us to add you to the list of reserved copies when they get here.
Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka ed. by John Kessel and Patrick kelly James (Tachyon) $15.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Muckracking and Misc
Christmas Exposed: Holiday Coverage From Americas Finest News Source by The Onion (Quirk) $12.95
Microwave Experiment: A Story of Government Testing on a United States Customs Officer by Mary Efrosini Gregory (Tachyon) $14.95
UFO Conspiracy by Carmen McLaren (Schiffer) $29.99
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Criclons and Alternative Theories of Everything by Margaret Werthem (Walker) $27.00
Pulphead by John Keremiah Sullivan (FSG) $16.00
Schotts Quintessential Miscellany by Ben Schott (Bloomsbury) $16.00
How to Be An Existentialist Or How to Get Real Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses by Gary Cox (Continuum) $14.95
Common As Air by Lewis Hyde (FSG) $16.00

Poltics and Revolution
Lives On the Left: A Group Portrait by Francis Mulhern (Verso) $24.95
Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of Historys 100  Worst Atrocities by Matthew White (Norton) $35.00
Bolobolo 30th Anniversary Edition by PM (Autonomedia) $11.95

DIY
Soup and Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time by Martha Baynes (Surrey) $20.95 – As in the Soup and Bread series at the Hideout!
Mycophilia Revelations From the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone (Rodale) $25.99
Have Yourself a Very Vintage Christmas: Crafts, Decorating, Tips, and Recipes From the 20s-60s by Susan Waggoner (STC) $19.95 – Includes instructions for 50 craft projects.
State of Craft by Victoria Woodcock (Cicada) $19.95
Books about Chicago food from G. Bradeley  Publishers such as Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History and Polish Chicago: Our History Our Recipes.

Music Books
33 1/3 Series: Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace by Aaron Cohen (Continuum) $12.95
Listen to This y Alex Ross (Picador) $18.00
Album Cover Art of Studio One Records: Right Around the World Todays Sounds  Today(Soul Jazz) $49.95

Childrens Books
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Harper) $12.99 – A new  edition.

Magazines
Autocult #1 (OLUM Occidental Lodge of Underground Motoring) $12.00 – From their website about the first issue of this magazine: “And when we say ‘culture,’ we don’t mean ‘kulture.’ Kulture was first widely used back in 1993 when the Kustom Kulture exhibit toured the country and dropped an A-bomb on the hot rod scene of the era. But by 2011, it’s turned into a four-letter word, just like ‘rat rod.’ No, when we use the word culture to describe what we do here, we use it in the context of ‘cultural anthropology.’ That sounds better to us. And when we use the phrase ‘rat rod,’ we’re talking about the first wave of revolution twenty years ago that took the hot rod out of the exclusionary realm of high-end street rod shops and put it back in the home garage, where it all started. ”

Pinstriping #28 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Afterall  #28 Fall Win 11 $10.00
Burlesque Bible vol 2 $16.95
Backwoodsman vol 32 #6 Nov Dec 11 $4.95
Skeptical Inquirer Nov Dec 11 vol 35 #6 $4.95
Color Skateboards vol 9 #4 $7.99
Skateboard Mag #93 $3.99
Pin Up America Nov 11 #6 $5.99
BlackBook #88 Nov 11 $4.95
Fangoria #308 $9.99
Maximumrocknroll #342 Nov 11 $4.00
Under the Radar #38 $5.99
Ugly Things #32 $8.95
Z Magazine Nov 11 $4.95
The Progressive Nov 11 $4.95
Tattoo Revolution Nov 11 $11.75

Chap Books and Literary Journals
The Handshake #2 $8.00 – Chicago-based mag harkening back to the New Journalism that captured the American readership back in 1960s, dedicated to publishing conversations, interviews, experimental essays, short fiction, and photographic travelogues.

Wholphin #14 DVD (McSweeneys) $19.95
Public Space #14 $12.00
Granta #117 Fall 11 Horror $16.99
Lana Turner #4 $12.00
Urban Confustions #1
Long Sexy Boring True Short… by Stephanie Dunn $10.00

Sex & Sexy
The Great American Pin Up by Charles G. Martignette (Taschen) $19.99
A buncha older dirty porn comics: Young Lust, Tales of The Leather Nun, Pandoras Box Comix, White Whore Funnies, Junque Land, Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge Girl Blimp: Urban Tales Poetry NonFiction Art from Women Across Cities of the World $12.00

Other Stuff
Sinsemilla Sinsations Postcards Cannabis Inspired Art Spanning Four Decades by Pat Ryan (Last Gasp) $12.95
Rockeys 6 Key Caps (Gama Go) $6.00 – To rock it in your pocket.