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Weekly Top 10

1. Fucussle Blecky Yuckerlla vol 4 A Comic Strip Collection by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraph) $11.99


2. Brainscan #26 by Alex Wrekk $2.00 – Alex writes about “what the deal is” with her and Microcosm.


3. Two Eyes of the Beautiful #2: A Grotesque Horror Manga by Ryan Cecil Smith $5.00 – The CCC diaspora is really doing a killer job of working and re-working different flavors of manga, classic horror, and classic horror manga. The results have been solid, and Ryan Cecil Smith’s Two Eyes of the Beautiful (which falls into the “reworked classic horror manga” category) is no exception. What’s it got that you want? Gore! Suspense! Psychic damage! Trust me, books about murdering innocent children for their beauty essence are rarely disappoint. -EF


4. Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – Michael DeForge continues to wrangle an Elvis Studio sense of drippy design chaos into creepy and beautiful amorphous narratives. This is a comic that’s about a field guide that’s about an oil-skinned mollusc that’s really about cultural displacement, wikipedian information templates and the fetishization/exploitation/commodification of subcultures and identities. Heavy- but full of laffs, in bleedy full color, and with a great slug sex scene to boot. -EF


5. Manifesti of Radical Literature by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Pressing Concern) $8.00 – This pocket-sized zine is a great introduction to the work of Anne Elizabeth Moore. The Manifesti of Radical Literaure condenses many ideas Moore has previously explored in other works — her critique of culture jamming, copyright laws, advertising, and why everyone should seriously consider self-publishing their own work. What saves this 50-paged effort from feeling redundant is Moore’s charming sense of humor. Grab a copy for yourself and another one to leave at your local library.
6. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95 – Well, I’ve been mourning the end of Gary Larson’s Far Side for fifteen years, but Lisa Hanawalt’s comics really do helluvalot towards easing that pain. Just as funny, just as bizzarro and as raunchy as she wants to be to boot. -EF
7. Hi Fructose #18 $6.95
8. Bust Feb Mar 11 $4.99
9. Rise and Fall – A Concertina of Life by Micah Lidberg (Adhouse) $16.00
10. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes $12.00 – BACK IN PRINT! 12 New Pages to seduce you! After the longest wait ever, THE BEST CLIP ART ZINE EVER HAS RETURNED. This picture book for discussion and activity features hands, hearts, and eyes. Get those tattoo guns ready, because you and your loved ones are going to need one once you get through looking through this issue. Amazing.

New Stuff

The Eisner people must regret sending us those stickers.

New Stuff!

ZINES!
Heh Head Corpuscorpus #3 ed. by Paul Nudd $20.00 – Show catalog for the Heads On Poles exhibit at Western Exhibitions (the show being up until Feb 19th). Each artist used the idea of Heads On Poles their own way. Artists include David Shrigley, Onsmith, Lilli Carre, Mike Diana, John Hankiewicz, Keith Herzik and more.
Nazi Knife #7 by Hendrik Hegray and friends, including CF and Leon Sadler (Picturebox) $5.00
Brainscan #26 by Alex Wrekk $2.00 – Answers the question, “What’s the Deal With You And Microcosm?” Inquiring minds want to know!
Uptown Problems #1 Win 10 11 $4.00
Feel Here Too by Davis Limbach $5.00
Johnny America #8 $3.00
Reality Mom vol 8 #1 Win 11 $3.00

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Two Eyes of the Beautiful #2 A Grotesque Horror Manga Based on Umezu Kazuos Bloo by Ryan Cecil-Smith $5.00
Phase 7 #008 by Alec Longstreth $4.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS!
Fucussle Blecky Yuckerlla vol 4 A Comic Strip Collection by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $11.99 – Just to give you an idea, if you’re not familiar with the work of omnipresent Johnny Ryan, words that can also be found on the cover of the book are “Fuck You Ass Hole asshole Fuc U Ss Le FYA.” Just so you know.
I See The Promised Land by Arthur Flowers and var. (Tara) $16.95 – Modern-day griot Arthur Flowers shares this beautiful graphic novel on Dr. MLK Jr. here at Quimby’s on 2/12.

Denis Kitchen’s Chipboard Sketchbook (Boom) $19.95 – In 1969, Denis Kitchen founded Kitchen Sink Press and for 30 years published many of the most prominent and innovative creators in the comics field. But he was also underground cartoonist who self-published Mom’s Homemade Comics in 1968. Here’s his sketchbook.
King of the Flies vol 2 Origin of the World by Mezzo and Pirus (Fantagrphics) $18.99
Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti (Fantagraphics) $19.99
BPRD Plague of Frogs HC vol 1 by Mike Mignola and Guy Davis (Dark Horse) $34.99 – From the pages of the popular Hellboy series.

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Before the End by James Kirkpatrick (aka Thesis Sahib) $39.95 – This 60 page hardcover art book comes with a 16 song digital download card and a color 7? record of Thesis Sahib’s music. Once finished downloading the album the download card can be planted to grow wildflowers! Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s on Sat, Feb 19th. Stay tuned for more info.

FICTION!
Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami (Norton) $13.95 – Creepy Asian fiction, finally reprinted and translated into English after its original printing in 1994. And there’s a lot of karaoke in it. Does that make it kreepy then?
Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano (NDP) $14.95 – Now in soft cover, another posthumous reprint.
Modem Times 2.0 Plus by Michael Moorcock (PM Press) $12.00 – From beloved British science fiction weirdo Moorcock, continuing the ongoing Jerry Cornelius chronicles in the present day.

MAGAZINES!
Kill Pretty #1 Magazine of Death 2009 $5.00
Bizarre #171 Jan 11 $10.50
Open Minds Feb Mar 11 $6.50
Make vol 25 $14.99 – As in the DIY makin’ stuff magazine, not the Chicago literary journal.
Bust Feb Mar 11 $4.99
Fangoria #300 $8.99
Creative Nonfiction #40 Win 11 $10.00
Maximumrocknroll #333 Feb 11 $4.00
XLR8R #137 $4.99
Harpers Magazine Feb 11 $6.99
Against the Current #150 $5.00

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!

Knee Jerk Offline vol 1 MMX $14.00

POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group (PM Press) $15.95 – Chronicling the history of two New York City 60s provocateur groups—Black Mask and Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker—this account complies the complete 10 issues of the newspaper Black Mask; numerous leaflets, articles, and flyers generated by Black Mask; the Up Against the Wall Motherfucker Magazine; and Free Press and more.

MUSIC BOOKS!
1000 Indie Posters ed. by John Foster (Rockport) $40.00 – Lotsa bands and lotsa artists. Who do you like? The Melvins? Yeah, there’s a Melvins poster or two. Like posters designed by Nick and Nadine of Sonnenzimmer? Yeah, they’re in there. Small Stakes? Yeah yeah, everybody’s there. Nice and geeky. Just the way you like it.

MAYHEM, MISCELLANY, MEMOIR, MIRTH & (M)OUTER LIMITS!
Blade Runners, Deer Hunters & Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies by Michael Deeley (Pegasus) $15.95 – The producor of Blade Runner comes clean about working with such stars as Harrison Ford, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman and more. But what should really entice you is his quote “”As Ridley Scott famously said, every movie is like going into battle. But Blade Runner was World War I and II combined.” Now are you interested?
Loud in the House of Myself Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall (Norton) $24.95
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World by James Kakalios (Gotham) $26.00 – From the author of The Physics of Superheroes.

SEX & SEXY!
Pleasure Bound Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Deborah Litz (Norton) $27.95
Josh #3 Fall 10 Remember Me Forget Me $12.00
Handbook vol 5 #1 2011 $6.00

OTHER STUFF!
Allen Ginsberg Toy Vinyl Figure and CD Set (Press Pop) $44.99 – Introducing the 3rd figure from the Great People Series by Archer Prewitt! The Allen Ginsberg Doll, officially approved by the Allen Ginsberg Estate. Comes with fabric cloth jacket, glasses, book, Uncle Tom hat, beaded necklace, and CD with 5 poetry readings and 1 song (all of the recordings are previously unreleased material).
Limited to 1000 pieces.

Weekly Top 10

We sell all different types of paper here.

This Week’s Top 10:

1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00
2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00
3. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95 – Well, I’ve been mourning the end of Gary Larson’s Far Side for fifteen years, but Lisa Hanawalt’s comics really do helluvalot towards easing that pain. Just as funny, just as bizzarro and as raunchy as she wants to be to boot. -EF
4. OP Original Plumbing #5 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The Fashion Issue, and a real dazzler at that.
5. First Line vol 12 #4 $3.00 – Literary journal where every item in the issue has the same first line, each piece written by somebody else.
6. Gang Bang Bong #1 ed. by Ginette LaPalme and Ines Estrada $4.00

7. Boys Club #4 Furie Matt (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF
8. What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation – Nplus1 research branch small books series #3 ed. by var. (Nplus1) $10.00
9. Explorers Are We #3 Xavier $1.00 – Chap book by a local poet.
10. Bitch #49 $5.95

New Stuff This Week

We found this hilarious picture posted on Flickr when we did a random search for Quimby’s! If you take a photo at Quimby’s, send us a jpg or link to it and we’ll post it on our blog! This one we found on Karen Foto’s Flickr photostream. If you want to make yourself a contact to Quimby’s on Flickr, click here. Have a photo you took at Quimby’s and want to put it in the public Quimby’s Group? Click here.

Anyway, good new stuff as usual: a cool zine about after-tattoo care, a cool anthology of contemporary Day of the Dead kustom kulture book, new ish of Juxtapoz, and a whole mess of cute Little Otsu thingies. It’s awfully awesome in here right now!

ZINES!
So Me and You Are Reading This Zine #4 and You’re All Like Whoa This Is Great I’m All I Know by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
Prism Index #1 $25.00
False Flag (Picturebox) $15.00
Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #6 Oct Nov 10 (Knockabout) $7.00
Little Otsu Living Things vol 1 by Lizzy Stewart (Little Otsu) $7.00
Little Otsu Living Things vol 2 by Jo Dery (Little Otsu) $7.00
Herbal Healing for Piercings and Tattoos Organic Aftercare for Everyone by Anastasia Weedsmith $3.00
Proof I Exist #13 by Billy Da Bunny $8.00 – As per Billy’s own review: “Seven awesome, but random, stories from my life, typed out on a computer, then cut n’ pasted all DIY-style.” Yay for Billy! He moved away from Chicago but we are sad to see him leave.

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Mould Map #1 New Comics and Narrative Art Publication (Picturebox) $12.00
Conversating by Martine Workman $8.00
Treasures of Sky Mall Your Inflight Shopping Magazine by Emma Correll (Little Otsu) $6.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Monte, King of Atom Age Monster Decals: Secrets of Fifties Vintage Decals Revealed by Bill Selby (Last Gasp) $14.95
Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami: 14 Films 1975-2009 (Carte Blanche) $35.00 – includes DVD
Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape by Pedro Alonzo and Alex Baker (Gingko) $29.95 – This show catalog for the exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego documents the historic revolution in visual culture, in which the codes and icons of the everyday found on the streets in graffiti, signage, waste, tattoos, advertising, and graphic design have been used in art. 20 artists from 10 countries including Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Swoon, and more.
Day of the Dead El Dia de Los Muertos by Dr. Alderete and Antoni Cadafalch (Korero) $35.00 – contemporary graphics inspired by Day of the Dead, including tattoo and kustom art mixed with Hollywood hip and the graphic tags of L.A.’s Latino gangs. Traditional elements of sugar skulls, flowers, and devils taken to the edge.

BODY MODIFICATION BOOKS!
Angels Ink From Above by Spider Webb (Schiffer) $35.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Proof vol 5 Blue Fairies TPB by var. (Image) $16.99

DIY/FOOD & DRUG CONSUMPTION STUFF!
Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development by Neal M Goldsmith (Healing Arts) $16.95
Morphine/My Lady Opium Double Book by Claude Farrere and Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest (Harper) $14.99 – A “flip book” featuring two classic novels about drugs, decadence—and Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Morphine is a rollicking novel about a handsome cavalry officer who introduces morphine to the aristocrats of 1889 Paris… and sleeps his way through town; and My Lady Opium, a fevered tour through the romantic and mysterious world of opium at the turn of the 20th century.

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #121 Feb 11 $5.99
Taps paraMagazine vol 7 #1 Jan Feb 11 $5.95
High Times Mar 11 $5.99
Tape Op #81 Jan Feb $4.95
True Crime Jan 11 $8.99

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
See You in the AM #1 by Dane Kuttler $4.00
Stories of Apples and Bellies #2 by Dane Kuttler $5.00
Explorers Are We #3 by Xavier $1.00

POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments by HP Albarelli (Trine Day) $29.95
Global Slump by David McNally (PM Press) $17.00

MUSIC BOOKS!

Bossa Nova and The Rise of Brazilian Music In the 1960s, edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records Publishing) $39.95 – Deluxe hardback 12″ x 12″ book, 200 pages, 100s of stunning absolutely killer Bossa Nova sleeves from Brazil plus loads of historical, cultural and social text as well as biographies on loads of the artists!
MAYHEM, MISCELLANY, MIRTH & (M)OUTER LIMITS!

I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor and Some That May Not Be Funny At All by Judd Apatow (McSweeney’s) $25.00
Why You Should Store Your Farts in a Jar and Other Oddball or Gross Maladies, Afflictions, Remedies, and “Cures” by David Haviland (Tarcher) $12.95

SEX & SEXY!

Filament vol 2 #3 $12.50

OTHER STUFF!

Ancient Documentaries of Southside Park DVD by var. $5.00 – This short film documents with humor the quest – in early 1900s fashion – of world famous archeologist La Stef (Stephanie Sauer) and her local assistant Miss Ella (Ella Diaz, Ph.D.) for the “Ancient Documentaries” of the Royal Chicano Air Force, an artist/activist collective that played a vital role in the Chicano civil rights movement. The two take on the personas of traditional historians in order to play with the presumed authority of such roles and question the cultural narratives they impart.
Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2011 $21.99
Little Otsu’s Annual Weekly Planner vol 5 $18.00 – 12 months, 54 weeks, undated, you fill in your own dates. Perfect if you need to go, say April 2011 to April 2012. Hey! You might have an accountant’s schedule. Who are we to judge?

Weekly Top 10

1. Hi-Fructose #18 $6.95
2. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine.
3. Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11 $4.00
4. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
5. Mojo #207 Feb 11 $9.99
6. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00 – “It all starts with the story I’ve told so many times it’s turned stale and tired from overuse. There I was, dropped off in a city far from home. I didn’t know a soul or have a hope, and so on…”
7. Serial Killers Unite #5 $2.00
8. Truckface #13 by LB $3.00- A huge little zine about a nerve-wracking rookie year teaching reading and writing to high school freshmen. This would basically be my nightmare job, and LB minces no words about how impossible, frustrating and life-consuming it can seem- but at the same time, there’s tons of funny shenanigans and the illustrations are beyond good, in a madcap Esther Pearl Watson way. An epic account of struggling through the school year and making out the other end with your sense of the ridiculous and amazing intact. -EF
9. Crap Hound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.95
10. True Crime Dec 10 Detective Monthly $8.99

Wow, they’ll give the Eisner-award to anybody!