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Weekly Top 10

Published on August 24, 2010 0 Comments

1. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

2. Guide to Picking Locks #1 by Crimethinc (Microcosm) $6.50

3. Gothic Beauty #31 $5.95

4. Spring Goals by Jay Krevans $3.00 – Spring is sprung, dears. Krevans’ Spring Goals is a delicate and decadent mini-zine devoted to the fun craftsy side of warm weather with DIY vegetable dyes, scrapper gardening tips and a rhubarb punch recipe. All are punctuated with beautiful illustrations – “A Zillion Azaleas”? Yes!

springgoals5. Doris #27 $2.50

6. Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk $6.00

7. Oubliette On The Beach by Kenan Rubenstein $1.00 – Tales of the nude beach literally unfold as each panel doubles the one before it.

8. The Point #3 Fall 10 $12.00

9. Lose #1 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Klassick Komicks going through DeForge’s leperous Canadian meat grinder and fine line work going gleefully awry. Seriously, do not miss out on this one. -EF

10. Todds Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers by Matt Kessler and Zach Huesling $10.00 – Maybe we should just let Todd do the talking:

“Hi Potential Buyer,

I’ve long fantasized about this moment. I can see you now, reclining at your cubicle, cozy under the warm embrace of a hand-knitted wool afghan. It’s cold. Shivering, you slowly turn through Todd’s Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers. I’ve prepared this booklet especially for you; it’s a deeply intimate account of my romantic encounters with several favorite paramours. The electricity is out and you’re forced to read by candlelight. I tell you that I love you as I comb through your chest hair. We will be friends forever.

All my love, Todd”

Todd’s Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers is a zine by artist Zach Huelsing and writer Matt Kessler. This hand-assembled portfolio consists of a set of eight cards depicting adult film stars and their favorite flowers. The cards are designed to loosely mimic baseball cards, complete with appropriate stats and a fictitious anecdote about the collector’s imaginative run-ins with the actors. The cards are presented in protective sleeves and displayed in a Velcro-sealed portfolio. Neither book nor comic, Todd’s Favorite Adult Actors and Their Favorite Flowers relates the humorous and misinformed tale of Todd’s fantasies in a fun and unique way.

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 17, 2010 0 Comments

1. Overqualified by Joey Comeau (ECW) $14.95

2. Whore Magazine #1 Sum 10 $12.00

3. Hearts Mini Zine by C. Uphues $1.00

4. They Met in a Dream by Jennifer Parks (Sparkplug) $4.00 – This little gem reads like an old silent film and combines a soft Renee-French-style panelling and pacing with a sense of smoky mystery that resembles some of Lilli Carre’s woodsy minis.

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5. Seeds: An Anthology of Comics About Food (Tree & Hills Group) $5.00

6. Wax Poetics #42 Jul Aug 10 $9.99

7. Craphound #4: Clowns Devils and Bait $12.00 – Hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

8. Bitch #47 $5.95

9. Giant Robot #66 $4.99

10. Henry and Glenn Forever Deluxe by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – NEW PERFECT BOUND/LARGER SIZE EDITION! The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 10, 2010 0 Comments

1. 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

2. All My Friends Are Dead by var. (Chronicle) $9.95
3. Cats Are Weird and More Observations: A Cat Book by Jeffrey Brown (Quirk) $12.95 – If you’re a cat person you’re in good company: Art Bell, William Burroughs and now Jeffrey Brown.

4. Yeti #9 $11.95 – The comics and illustration really stand out in this issue -a fetching cover by Lori D plus work by James Turek, Lizz Hickey, Tuli Kupferberg reprints and an old interview with the late trickster collagist Bruce Conner. The mix cd really goes some special places too, like always.-E

5. Believer #73 2010 Music Issue $12.00

6. Bitch #47 $12.00

7. Brains Brilliancy Bohemia: Art and Politics In Jazz-age Chicago by Marc Moscato (Dil Pickles Clearing House) $13.00 – “Presenting photographs and copies from Chicago’s ill-forgotten radical nightclub, The Dil Pickle Club, hobo gatherings, and 1910s-20s ephemera, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia provides a timely look at the origin of American counterculture and working class art leading up to the Great Depression. Book also includes a DVD of the short film, The More Things Stay The Same, a documentary on the life and world of hobo king and prostitute physician, Dr. Ben Reitman.”

8. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

9. Bear in Underwear by Todd Doodler (Blue Apple) $12.99

10. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95

End of July/Beginning of August Top Ten

Published on August 4, 2010 1 Comment

Here’s the zeitgeist of how Quimby’s customers are dealing wiht the transition between July and August:

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1. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition by Igloo Tornado $6.00
The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

2.All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen & Jory John (Chronicle Books) $9.95 5

3.Believer #73 2010 Music Issue $12.00

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4.Brilliant Mistake by Carrie $1
What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF
5.Hi Fructose #16 $6.95

6. Cats Are Weird and More Observations a Cat Book by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle Books) $12.95

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7. Yeti #9 $11.95
The comics and illustration really stand out in this issue -a fetching cover by Lori D plus work by James Turek, Lizz Hickey, Tuli Kupferberg reprints and an old interview with the late trickster collagist Bruce Conner. The mix cd really goes some special places too, like alwways.-EF

8. Mini Paper Brain Blank Notebook $6

9. Make vol 23 $14.99

10. Maximumrocknroll #327 August 2010 $4.00
*We try to focus the top ten on the printed matter contained in our store, but the Quimby’s T-Shirt deserves honorable mention.

Weekly Top 10

Published on July 27, 2010 0 Comments

1. Scott Pilgrims vol 6 Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni) $11.99
2. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion) $29.95
3. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00
4. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition (Microcosm) $6.00
5. Black Carrot #15 Free Sandwich Zinewich by DF $5.00
6. Debbie’s Story by Kelly Froh $2.00
7. Doris #27 by Cindy $2.50
8. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
9. Meanwhile 3856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga (Abrams) $15.95
10. Acne Paper Sum 10 $15.00