New Stuff This Week

Published on August 10, 2013 2 Comments

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Violence, erotica and horror were popular even in 19th century Japan, as evidenced by the Ukiyo-E art-form. These mass produced “images from the floating world” include weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts and monsters. Stock up on these art books while they’re still in stock and in print. We suggest these titles published by Shinbaku Books: Outlaw Swords of Death: Warrior & Hero Designs 1825-45 By Utagawa Kuniyoshi $39.95 Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-E: Sex, Blood, Demons, Monsters, Ghosts, Tattoo $39.95 Night Parade of Hell: Creatures Bizarre Demonic Art by Kawanabe Kyosai $34.95

Zines
Cervical Mucus and Your Fertility by Kione $1.50
Impractical Cartography #1 Buffalo NY $15.00
Pride Inside Zine From Queer Folks Incarcerated in Illinois, issues #1 and #2 $6.00 each
I Hate Mondays #3 Chicago $2.00
Cheap and Easy #1 by Hutch Hutchinson $10.00
Two Girls One Brain $1.00

Comics & Comix
Crass Sophisticate #31 The Poo Is True $3.00
various comics by Chris Uphues, various prices
Laudanum Thief vol 1 by Mason Dickerson $5.00
Wolves in Sheeps Clothing vol 1 by Chris Rietman and and April Guinn (Broken Teeth Dreaming) $5.00
Lower East Side Story issues #1-3 by Pete Friedrich $4.75 each

Graphic Novel & Trade Paperbacks
Fashion Beast by Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren et al. $24.99
Fagin the Jew: A Reinvention of Dickenss Classic Character by Will Eisner (Dark Horse) $19.99
Crossed vol 6 by Garth Ennis et al. $24.99
Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America with Pete Friedrich, Jessica Abel, Peter Kuper, Phoebe Gloeckner, Martin Cendreda, Gilbert Hernandez and more $22.95

Art & Design
Incurable Disorder by Elizabeth McGrath (Last Gasp) $39.95 – For fans of lowbrow art like Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, and Camille Rose Garcia.
First Ten Years of Needles and Pens by Andrew Scott Martin $12.00 – People ask us if there are other stores we would suggest for cool reading material. Why yes! Have you been to Needles and Pens in San Francisco? Well here’s an oral and pictoral history that proves they’ve been around for at least 10 years. P.S. We do also have some links about Quimby’s-ish stores on our newly updated links page.
Nice Coffee Time by Liz Clayton (Tiny Person) $14.95 – An art boook dedicated to the nectar of the caffeine gods.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The Secret Origins of the Crass Symbol by Dave King $12.00
Animals Talking In All Caps: It’s Just What It Sounds Like by Justin Valmassoi $15.00 – From the author of Rosario Dawson loves me zine.
Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman $15.95 – Hey have you heard the news? Scientologists are crazy! Now in soft cover.
Constantine Affliction: A Pimm & Skye Adventure by Aaron T. Payton (Night Shade) $14.99
American Indian Medicine Dreambook by Brad Steiger $19.95
Midwest Hauntings by Lee Prosser $14.99 – Planning your next road trip? Perhaps we might suggest these sites? We also just got in a Ghost Hunters Tool Kit you can bring with you.
Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke by Rob Sheffield $25.99 – From the author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.

DIY
Bake and Destroy: Good Food For Bad Vegans by Natalie Slater $19.99
Kids Stuff
Anna and Froga: I Dunno What Do You Want To Do by Anouk Ricard (D+Q) $14.95
Squirrel We Call Sneakers by Shawn Rainbolt et al. $5.99
True Adventures of Foamy and Leafy by Pete Friedrich $2.75

Fiction
Scarce Resources: 18 Weird Stories by Brendan Detzner $10.00
Elect H Mouse State Judge by Nelly Reifler $11.00
Terminal Atrocity Zone by J.G. Ballard, ed. by Candice Black (Sun Vision) $15.95

Sex & Sexy
Baby Got Back: Anal Erotica ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel $15.95
Down and Dirty: 69 Super Sexy Short Shorts ed. by Alison Tyler $15.95
High Octane Heroes: Erotic Romance for Women ed. by Delilah Devlin $15.95

Magazines
Zingmagazine #23 $30.00
Juxtapoz #152 Sep 13 $5.99
Design Bureau Aug 13 $8.00
American Atheist 3rd Quarter 13 $4.95
Neural #45 $8.00
Bizarre #204 Sep 13 $10.50
Skunk vol 9 #2 $5.99
High Times Oct 13 $5.99
Color Skateboards Sum 13 vol 11 #2 $7.99
Pinstriping #39 Kustom Graphics Magazine Aug Sep 13 $10.00
Howler #3 Sum 13 $15.00
Maximumrocknroll #363 Aug 13 $4.00
Monocle Mediterraneo #7 Sum 13 $8.00
ASR #60 Sum 13 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Progressive Aug 13 $4.95
AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95
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Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
N+1 #17 Fall 13 $13.95
Camera Obscura vol 6 Spr 13 $12.95
Greenwoman vol 3 #1 Sum Fall 13 $5.95
Specimen Magazine #6 $6.00

Other Stuff
The Mermaid Tarot Deck by Dame Darcy $40.00 – The mostest beautiful tarot deck ever from the artist of Meatcake. Sea-shantirifc!

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The Believer Box of Bad Advice Game: Mixed-up Advice From Messed Up People $14.95 – Everybody’s favorite clever McSweeneyNPRians are here: Eggers, Sedaris – you get the idea.
Crickettes Bacon and Cheese $2.50 – You know how all the former vegetarians say that what called them back to meat was bacon? What about pig-flavored crickets? Also Salt’N’Vinegar flavor available. Eat up!
Blood Red Soap $1.25 – Wanna freak your guests out? This soap looks normal until you use it, then it turns red. Bwahahahaha.
Scorpion Suckers $3.99 – People love the look of bugs in amber. That shit sells. What about making it look like amber but have it be sugar? And edible. Eat your words, people! In a variety of delicious flavors: apple, banana, blueberry and strawberry.

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Peter Bagge Presents Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 10/19

Published on August 8, 2013 5 Comments
Oct ’13
19
7:00 pm

WOMANREBEL.tour.WEB-quimbysOn Saturday, October 19th at 7:00pm, join Quimby’s and Drawn & Quarterly for an evening with cartoonist Peter Bagge to celebrate the launch of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, a dazzling, accessible biography of the activist, educator, nurse, mother, and protofeminist who founded Planned Parenthood. Bagge will be presenting a slideshow focusing on Sanger’s social and political activism and how Woman Rebel came together, sharing original sample pages from his book.

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story presents the life of the outspoken, driven Margaret Sanger from her birth in the late nineteenth century to her death after the invention of the birth control pill. Balancing humor and respect, Bagge makes Sanger whole and human, showing how her flaws fueled her fiery activism just as much as her compassionate nature did. Sanger’s legacy is still incredibly relevant, important, and inspiring.

About Peter Bagge:

Peter Bagge was born on December 11th, 1957, and raised in Peekskill, New York, about 40 miles north of New York City. While enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1977, Bagge discovered underground comics, and the work of R. Crumb in particular turned what had initially been only a vague interest in cartooning into a passion.

In the early ’80s Bagge co-published three issues of COMICAL FUNNIES (1980-81), a New York-based comic tabloid which saw the debut of Bagge’s dysfunctional suburban family, The Bradleys. Bagge broke into R. Crumb’s legendary magazine, WEIRDO, and Bagge took over as managing editor of that magazine from 1983 to 1986.

Bagge started his own comic book series, NEAT STUFF, for Fantagraphics Books, producing 15 issues from 1985 to ’89. Buddy Bradley, the Bradleys’ alienated and pessimistic teenage son, emerged as Neat Stuff’s most engaging and fully-realized character. In 1990, NEAT STUFF evolved into a new title, HATE, which exclusively followed the foibles of the semi-autobiographical Buddy Bradley. Hate became the voice of the twenty-nothing slackers as well as being hailed by critics for its brilliant characterization in its complete chronicle of the 1990s. HATE and Buddy Bradley continue to appear in print, albeit less frequently, under the title HATE ANNUAL.

Since 1999, Bagge has worked on many other comic-related projects, including writing an all ages comic book for DC called YEAH! (drawn by Gilbert Hernandez). as well as the short lived humor series SWEATSHOP, also for DC. He also wrote and drew a one-shot satire of Spider-Man for Marvel, and has done the same with Marvel’s The Hulk, though the later title has yet to be scheduled for release. Other projects include a 2 year stint writing and drawing a weekly comic strip about Bat Boy for THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, and a series of illustrated essays for the now defunct website Suck.com, which led to his becoming a current regular features contributor to the political and social commentary magazine REASON. Also, comic APOCALYPSE NERD was collected into a graphic novel, published Dark Horse.

Bagge’s exaggerated and distinctively in-your-face illustration style has also appeared on many record and CD covers, and in magazines as far ranging as HUSTLER, MAD and the OXFORD AMERICAN. He’s also had a hand in several animation projects, most notably the online Rock & Roll Dad cartoon series he co-created with Dana Gould for Icebox.com.

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Quimby’s Welcomes Black & Brown Press’ On Struggling Issue #3 with Guest Readers Stephanie Camba, Jonas Cannon and Mercedez Gonzalez

Published on August 7, 2013 0 Comments
Sep ’13
6
7:00 pm

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In the latest issue of On Struggling by the Brown & Proud Press, the theme of bodies is explored through a collaboration of short stories, poetry, comics and drawings. Receiving submissions from across the country, this zine exemplifies the complexities of body issues for people of color, covering topics such as self-hatred and skin color, chronic pain/illness, fatphobia, colonialism and assimilation, sexual abuse, and more. With the goal of reaching out to people of color with similar issues, the zine juxtaposes stories of struggle with stories of survival, including Ode to Survival in this Great Wide World by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, and Historically Struggling Bodies of POC and Even More Work to be Holistic Allies by Mika Munoz.

“We believe sharing these stories with and amongst other people of color helps to dismantle the isolation and shame that white supremacy [colonialism, capitalism] creates, and replaces them with support, strength, and communities of care” – Monica Trinidad, co-founder of Brown & Proud Press

As well as being sold at Quimby’s in Chicago and Bluestockings in New York, On Struggling is also distributed through Brown Recluse Zine Distro (Seattle), twelveohtwo Distro (Toronto), and No Shame Distro (New Brunswick), and archived with POC Zine Project and the University of Chicago library. Brown & Proud Press was also recently invited to participate in the Zine Pavilion section of the American Library Association’s 2013 Conference, highlighting the noteworthiness of self-published works.

For more info visit: onstruggling.tumblr.com or email brownandproudpress(at)gmail(dot)com

Friday, September 6th, 7pm – Free Event

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New Stuff This Week

Published on August 3, 2013 1 Comment

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Optic Nerve #13 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95

Zines & Zine-Related
Meta Zine: It’s a Zine About Zines by Davida Gypsy Brier $2.00 – A primer of sorts from the editor of Xerography Debt.
Brooklyn to Mars #4 by Markus Almond $8.00
My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon by Amber Pitt $5.00
Unfinished Lives by Elliott Junkyard $8.00
I Mirage/My Mirage #1 a Zine About Body Image – Jonas of Shut the Eff Up zine made 2 zine anthologies of different zinesters talking about body image.  There’s also My Mirage I Mirage #2 a Zine About Body Image, because not everything would fit in one. It’s a double one-shot. Both are $3.00 each.
KerBloom #102 May Jun 13 by Artnoose $2.00
Very Very Edge by Alexander Stewart $4.00
Subp-A-Roht issues #1 and #2 by Logan Bay $2.00 each
Onsmith and Nudd Sac #1 by Paul Nudd and Jeremy Onsmith $20.00
Nudd Public Library vol 1 by Paul Nudd $5.00 – Paul Nudd’s illustrations that he offers as his take on book covers. How appropriate to be selling it here. Gleepy gloppy gloopy!
Vinyl Vagabonds issues #2-#4 by Sara and Eric Gordon $4.00 each
Acid Kat issues #7 and #8 $3.00 each

Comics & Comix
Black Eye #2 by Ryan Standfest (Rotland Press) $15.95
Lyra Hill comics: Possession Scenes #1 The Exorcist and Possession Scenes #2 Twin Peaks Episode 14 Lonely Souls $2.00 each, also Copulate $6.00
Jijijiji Mena Comics No I Do Not Imaging the After Life $6.00
Adventures of Vampire Kitty and Space Bat by Elliott Junkyard $5.00
Sanpaku #1 by Zoe Burke $5.00
Sky in Stereo #2 by Mardou $6.00
Thai Comic Horrors vol 2 by Logan Bay $3.00
Fall to the Tower by Ben Bertin $3.00
Eye In the Sky by Carrie Vinarsky $6.00
Klaus #1 by Richard Short $6.00
Runx Tales #3 by Matt Runkle $8.00
We Are Not White Lesbians by Nia King $5.00
Connecting by Nick Jankowski $3.00
Sauce #1 by Ben Bertin et al. $6.00
222 N Hillcrest by Rachel and Lorraine Swanson $2.00
Seasonal #3 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $4.00
Cosmouse #1 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Be the Love #2 by Jon Drawdoer $2.00
Andrew Jackson Throws a Punch an Inaugural Brawl by Andrea Tsurumi $10.00
Beach Girls Plus Dweeb by Box Brown et al. (Retrofit Comics) $6.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell (Top Shelf) $19.95
Sammy The Mouse Book 2 TPB by Zak Sally (Uncivilized) $15.00
Creepy Presents Steve Ditko $19.99
Last of the Mohicans: Ten Cent Manga by Shigeru Sugiura et al. (Picturebox) $22.95
Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Incidents in the Night Book 1 by David B. et al. (Uncivilized) $19.00
Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 1934 to 1972 by Willard Mullin et al. (Fantagraphics) $35.00
Amazing Facts and Beyond With Leon Beyond: The USS Catastrophe Library of Knowledge Encyclopedia Graphic Almanac Humor by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch (Uncivilized) $24.95
Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $24.95
Over the Wall by PEter Wartman (Uncivilized) $14.95
Fiction
Momo by Michael Ende with illustrations by Marcel Dazama (McSweeney’s) $22.00
Static Station Lullaby by Amber Pitt $10.00
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher $14.95
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff $26.95
Welcome to Weltschmerz: A Bedroom Theater Memoir by Gabriel Chad Boyer $16.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders $26.99
Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein’s True Creator by Scott Douglas de Hart (Feral House) $16.95
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn $27.50
Young Lovecraft vol 3 by Bartolo Torres and Jose Oliver $19.95
Rocks Off: 50 Tracks that Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones by Bill Janovitz $25.99
What You Want Is In The Limo: On the Road with Led Zepplin, Alice Cooper and the Who in 1973, The Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born by Michael Walker $26.00
Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
Follow For Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes by Roy Christopher $14.95 – Featuring interviews with the lieks of  DJ Spooky, Philip K. Dick, Douglas Rushkoff, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Shepard Fairey, Dalek and more.
Eat a Bug Cookbook Revised by David George Gordon $16.99  – Real recipes. For real, for real.
Entheogens and the Developement of Culture: Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience by John A. Rush $27.95

Politics & Revolution
The Afghanistan Picture Show or How I Saved the World by William T. Vollmann $16.95
Jobs With Justice: 25 Years 25 Voices by Eric Larson et al. (PM Press) $15.95

Magazines
The Baffler #23 $12.00
Uppercase #18 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
Incite issues #1-#3 Journal of Experimental Media $12.00 each
Made Quarterly Edition 2 $20.00
Toilet Paper Jun 13 $19.00
Dwell Sep 13 $5.99
True Crime Jul 13 $8.99
Flaunt #128 $10.95
Boneshaker Magazine #12 $12.00
Smith Journal #7 $17.99
Vaga #4 $15.00
Black Velvet #77 $9.00
Razorcake #75 $4.00
Mojo #237 Aug 13 $9.99
Vinyl Riot #5 Sum 13 $13.99
Decibel #107 Sep 13 $4.95
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Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Boss by Victoria Chang (McSweeneys) $20.00
Necropastoral by Joyelle McSweeney $12.00
Core Sample by Gordon Massman $12.00
Midwestern Gothic #10 $12.00
Overtakelessness by Quick Dan Beachy $12.00
Conium Review vol 2 #2 Fall 13 $12.00

Sex & Sexy
Teens At Play: End of Innocence by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99

Other Stuff
Gravy Candy $6.00 – 12 pieces individually wrapped in a funny, fun tin. Tastes like, you guessed it.
Be Nice Or Leave Pencil Case $5.00
I Want Free Shit To Not Cost Anything Wet Wipes $4.00
Control Panel Zipper Pouch $6.00
Hey Bitches: I Was Just Thinking About You Wanna Bake Some Brownies Gum $1.40
Maybe You Touched Your Genitals Liquid Soap $9.50 – Fresh Meadow Scent!
Thanks For Holding Back My Hair Hand Sanitizer $5.50 – Kills Germs on Contact For Really Good Friends!
Random Crap From Here and There Pocket Box  $6.00
Family Drugs Cigar Box $15.00
Coffee The Last Cheap Drug Coin Purse $4.00
Build Your Own Wurlington Press Postcard: The Farnsworth House $2.00

Laydeez Do Comics August edition 8/29 With Joyce Rice and Kat Leyh of Symbolia Magazine.

Published on August 3, 2013 0 Comments
Aug ’13
29
7:00 pm

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Guests will be Joyce Rice and Kat Leyh of Symbolia Magazine.

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Symbolia is a tablet magazine of illustrated journalism that pairs incendiary reporting with thoughtful illustration and comics, the first digital journal solely dedicated to the form. Symbolia was founded by Erin Polgreen  Joyce Rice. Deanna Zandt wrote for Forbes that, “Symbolia has accomplished two major feats: elevated the status of illustrated, sequential art as a form in a neglected space, and created a new space for us to reimagine what journalism can look – and feel – like.”

Speaker Bios:
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Joyce Rice collaborates with artists to craft intriguing narratives that merge audio, animation, and hand illustration with high-quality journalism. A seasoned illustrator and interactive designer – and a specialist in sequential storytelling, interactive content and publication design – she’s cofounder and creative director of the digital magazine Symbolia.  Joyce publishes comics and drawings in a variety of independent magazines and comics anthologies, and has been self-publishing an ongoing diary comic – Bird Wizards! – since 2008. Her work has appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, has been written about in FastCo., Poynter, and other outlets, and she has spoken about the intersection of comics and journalism at the Michigan State University Comics Forum.
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Laydeez do Comics is a unique salon with a focus on graphic works based on life narrative, the drama of the domestic, and the everyday. Invited guest speakers have 10-20 minute slots to present works/ideas followed by a Q&A. Launched in London in July 2009, the group has now expanded to other cities, including Chicago. Quimby’s hosts the Chicago chapter and it is usually the last Thursday of every month. For August the meeting is on Thurs, Aug 29th at 7pm.

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