New Stuff This Week

illustratedgdhumorThe Hic and Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor vol 1 United States ed. by Lauren Barnett & Nathan Bulmer. Featuring funny comics by Ian Andersen, Lauren Barnett, Bort, Box Brown, Nathan Bulmer, Nikki Burch, Anne Emond, Madéleine Flores, Zac Gorman, KC Green, Dustin Harbin, Sam Henderson, Martha Keavney, Patt Kelley, Jeff Lok, Jane Mai, Phil McAndrew, Dakota McFadzean, Maré Odomo, Liz and Jimmy Reed, Noah Van Sciver, Alex Schubert, Sam Sharpe, Grant Snider, Sam Spina, Nathan Stapley, Julia Wertz, and Matt Weigle.

Lucky Peach #7 Travel $12.00 – McSweeney’s popular food mag. ANTHONY BOURDAIN talks Deliverance, Apocalypse Now, and Southern Comfort. Punk rock touring with BROOKS HEADLEY. Travel tips from AZIZ ANSARI. The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world. Chicken tamales at a gay cantina in Mérida. The history of curry. And much, much more.

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Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Mere by CF $19.95 – In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex-all of them infused throughout by C.F.’s absurdist humor and loose improvisatory drawing. Those comics, along with unpublished art and photos, are collected here. Introduction by Nicole Rudick.

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Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends: A Collection of Unsolved Mysteries ed. by Emi Gennis (Hic and Hoc) $12.00 – Contains over 30 non-fiction unsolved mysteries by relative newcomers and small press comics legends alike, including J.T. Yost, Julia Gfrorer, Noah Van Sciver, Simon Moreton, and Sam Spina. Previews below from pieces by Nikki DeSautelle, Sam Alden, and Graham Kahler. Featuring tales of slaughtered hikers, vanishing prime ministers, suicide forests, and meat falling from the sky.
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Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust (Fantagraphics) $35.00
Oswalds Mound by Ben East $6.00
Good Dog by Graham Chaffee (Fantagraphics) $16.99
The Watchmen Deluxe Edition by Alan Moore $35.99
Batman Noir Deluxe Edition by Eduardo Risso and Brian Azzarello $24.99

Comics & Comix
Lose #5 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) $8.00 – “Hit list, top of the pops” says Edie. Don’t miss DeForge here with Lisa Hanawalt & Patrick Kyle on 6/14, followed by Ezra Claytan Daniels’ Comic Art Battle, as part of CAKE festivities!
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Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever & Ever #2 by Igloo Tornado {Josh Bayer, Tom Neely, Mark Rudolph} (Microcosm Publishing) $5.00 – In the latest installment of the greatest love story ever told, Glenn’s mother, freshly unearthed from beneath the bricks, moves in with him and Henry. Without giving too much away, Glenn’s mommy issues come to the surface as she critiques his art, replaces his wardrobe, scrubs their dungeon, and recalls his childhood. Glenn tries to sell his signature to a UPS driver, takes a punch, and has some daydreaming adventures with a plunger. Henry, “a loud guy with a good work ethic,” shows his darker side and indifference to a fan as he drinks black coffee and bonds with Glenn over their distaste for their own bands; two men who suffer best alone together. Additional pin up art by Andy Belanger, Katie Skelly, and Tom Scioli. Darkest and best issue yet. Plus! We have more H&D sticker sets for 5 bucks too. Lucky you.
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Radiator by Jon Marchione $7.00
Bots is Bots #2 by Gregg K. $1.00
Dumpling King #2 by Alex Kim $1.00
Word and Voice #5 by Aaron Cockle (Oily) $1.00
Lou #13 by Melissa Mendes (Oily) $1.00
Jo Dery In Conversation With Melissa Mendes (Oily) $1.00 – This is a 12 page interview zine with cartoonist/animator Jo Dery. Jo talks with Melissa Mendes about being an artist, identity, and how they are affected by their environment.
derymendesHome Ache by Marta Chudolinska $5.00
Gay Heart Throbs 3 $4.95
Me And Jana on Valentine’s Day by JR Milmoe et al. $5.00
Red by Bryn Adams $1.00
Heavy by Krystal DiFronzo $5.00
Grand Gestures by Simon Moreton (Retrofit) $6.00

Zines
Peops #8 by Fly $5.00
Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy by Leslie James Pickering $5.00
Taking the Lane vol 10 Bikes in Space a Feminist Science Fiction Anthology by Elly Blue $6.00
Frontier #1 Uno Morales, Youth In Decline $8.00

Art & Design
Oversize Mega Art and Installations by Victionary $39.95
Spinfluence: The Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses by Nick McFarlane (Carpet Bombing Culture) $19.95 – Spinfluence will appeal to crooked politicians, media manipulators and corporate big-wigs alike, in fact anyone interested in how to exploit people for profit or power. Covering fun techniques and tactics such as emotional hijacking, brainwashing and hysteria harnessing – Spinfluence is a glorious and insightful read about how to bend the truth and subvert the will of the herd. Wolf&Co. are a propaganda agency who are proud to say they’re in the business of “making people happy”. Nick McFarlane was commissioned to distil the secrets of propaganda into an agency induction manual – issued to everyone required to learn the black art.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Wilderness: Essays and Art by Rennie Sparks $14.98 – By the lyricist from The Handsome Family. This book is a companion release to the album of the same name. Expands on themes such as the meticulously researched and little-known enigmas of the natural world: immortal jellyfish, woodpecker tongues, dancing octopi, fly royalty, the secret language of crows, and mysterious ant spirals.
True Crime: Real-life Stories of Grave-robbing, Identity Theft, Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, and More ed. by Lee Gutkind (InFact) $15.95TrueCrime_Cover

Politics & Revolution
Atheist In the Foxhole: A Liberal’s Eight Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right Wing Media $26.95

DIY
Marijuana Smoker’s Guidebook: The Easy Way to Identify and Enjoy Marijuana Strains by Matt Mernagh (Green Candy Press) $15.00
Fireweed 2 A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting with Kids & Family Life $4.00

Fiction
Insufferable Gaucho SC by Roberto Bolano $14.95

Sex & Sexy
Nudity Today: Revealing Work By Emerging Photographers ed. by Jesse Pearson (Picturebox) $34.95 – Work Tim Barber, Jordan Bennett, Sandy Kim, Sasha Kurmaz, Maggie Lee, Nicole Lesser, and more.
Wild Girl’s Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories by Sacchi Green (Cleis) $15.95
Beach Bums: Gay Erotic Fiction by Neil Plakcy (Cleis) $15.95
Billy Miller stopped by and restocked us on past Straight to Hell issues and other sexy zine-y stuff. Come and check it out.

Magazines
Decibel #105 Jul 13 $4.95
Mojo #235 Jul 13 $9.99

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
People Portraits #2 Palmistry by Alex Cohen $5.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought Win 13 $10.00

Kids Stuff
Lost Sloth by J. Otto Seibold (McSweeney’s) $16.95

Other Stuff
More Moleskine planners, both 2014 and 2013. The 2013 ones start in July 2013 and go through the end of 2014. Perfect for folks who don’t get it together for a planner the first half of the year.

Off-Site: Saturday Strip: Comic Day MCA

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Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor Saturday Strip:

Comic Day at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

July 27, 2013, 10am – 5pm

On Saturday, July 27th the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago will be showcasing all that is amazing in the world of independent comics, cartoons, and animation in Chicago. This all day event will include a series of workshops, talks, screenings and performances that will take place throughout the museum. Highlights include a pop-up comic fair co-presented with Quimby’s Bookstore, an Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation film program, Chicago’s Second City performing comics-themed improv, a mini-comics demonstration by Jeff Brown, a large-scale interactive jam comic by Trubble Club, Ezra Clayton Daniels’s Comic Art Battle, and a live shadow puppet performance by Manual Cinema.

This event is in tandem and inspired by the exhibit Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes, hanging at the MCA Jun 29–Oct 13, 2013. Clowes is known for his his seminal comic-book series Eightball, as well as cover art for the New Yorker. Clowes is now well known to a wide audience following the 2001 film adaptation of Ghost World and the 2006 release of Art School Confidential, written by Clowes. In recent years, Clowes has realized the widely praised graphic novel Wilson (2010) and a serialized comic for the New York Times Magazine, a “middle-aged romance” titled Mister Wonderful, collected in an expanded hardcover edition in 2011.Clowes_Eightball18cover

Please note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the MCA, at  220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 280-2660.

Off-Site: Quimby’s Co-sponsors the EX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER Ladydrawers Exhibition

Jun ’13
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Quimby’s Bookstore (and our sister store, Chicago Comics) are proud to be a sponsor of the Ladydrawers Comics Collective exhibition entitled SEX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER, curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore, at Columbia College Chicago’s A+D Gallery, opening June 27th.  S.M.R.G. will also feature a series of workshops that explores hot button topics with everything from site-specific murals to performance to empirical conversations to yes, comics.
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Beginning with the opening night spectacle, the gallery (Columbia’s A+D Gallery, not Quimby’s) will be activated through fun, radicalthinking, and art making, a space to observe and reflect on ideas of SEX, MONEY, RACE, and GENDER.  Instead of creating a catalog for the show, Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor a comics anthology including work by Robyn Chapman, Danielle Chenette, Clay Harris, Lyra Hill, MariNaomi, Corinne Mucha, Laura Szumowski, Lauren Weinstein.

SEX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER.  The Ladydrawers (of Chicago, IL)

Exhibition & Workshop Schedule

 

Opening Reception: June 27, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Exhibit closes on July 27th

Curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore

S.M.R.G OPENING NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA!

Featuring comedy, art making, readings, performance, and much more. Come explore issues of SEX, MONEY, RACE, and GENDER with a sprinkling of humor and pathos through stand up comedy, femcore anthems, live mural making, and interpretations of texts, personal readings (in the bathroom!), and even hula hooping. Join us, won’t you?

Opening Night Performers

Sarah Bell, Blizzard Babies, Gretchen Hasse, Lyra Hill, Elliott Junkyard, Francis Kang, Ever Mainard, Carolina Mayorga, Katie McVay, Yasmin Nair, Polly Yates

Exhibition Participants

Nicole Boyett, Jacinta Bunnel, Danielle Chenette, Gretchen Hasse, Elliott Junkyard, Francis Kang, Carolina Mayorga, Melissa Gira Grant, Lyra Hill, Franny Howes, Nia King, Viet Le, Nicole Marroquin, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Sarah Morton, Liz Rush, Rachel Swanson, Laura Szumowski, Bonsovathary Uoeung, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Welch, Elizabeth White, Mara Williams, Polly Yates

S.M.R.G Workshops

These workshops are collaborative and exploratory projects lead by outstanding cultural producers and thinkers—all amazing, smart people that you will like very much.

Radical Noticing: Riot Grrrl Press and Contemporary Comics

May Summer Farnsworth and Jamie Davida Lee

Saturday, June 29, 2013 2:00-4:00 p.m.

May Summer Farnsworth will discuss her experiences working on the formation of Riot Grrrl Press in 1993. Cartoonist Jamie Davida Lee will simultaneously lead a silent workshop on making comics and zines.

Lexicon of Sexicana

Esther Pearl Watson and Terri Kapsalis

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Speech balloons! Giant boons! Big muscles! The hundred-year-old lexicon of comics was developed by its most prominent practitioners, mostly straight white dudes. It’s time to re-think the language of comics. Esther Pearl Watson and Terri Kapsalis will create a work exploring sexual health based on Mort Walker’s satirical look at comics devices for cartoonists, The Lexicon of Comicana.

Life and Labor

Delia Jean Hickey and Sarah Jaffe

Thursday, July 18, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

We all know what it means to work, but what extra effort do certain forms of labor extract from us? This workshop explores what it takes to make an honest living, with a particular focus on the service industry.

Boi Band Poser Poster Workshop

Viet Le and Morgan Claire

Thursday, July 25, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

This workshop challenges identities and identifications through pop and props. Thinking through gender, race, and (inner and outer) space, participants will form and “perform” their own pop bands and solo acts. Fun FOBulous times!

Please note: these events are at the A+D Gallery at 619 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, Il 60605, NOT QUIMBY’S BOOKSTORE.

Quimby’s in the Printers Row Journal of the Chicago Tribune

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In the 5/26/13 edition. Dowload the pdf for easier reading here.

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Thanks to the hilarious Ken Krimstein (author of the collection Kvetch as Kvetch Can) for the story!PRJ052613d

New Stuff This Week

rav8_lgRAV #8 by Mickey Zacchilli $7.00 – Double dog dare you to delve back into the twists and turns of the Meat Cave,- this issue builds up to some serious unleashing of forces-shit gets opened up like an uncapped blender and Smoothie Season’s just begun. -EF

Zines
Crossways $5.00
Nothing Learned 2011 by Ryan Dodgson $4.00
Abstract Door #1 by Vicky Lim $2.00
Bums of the Bay by F. Brothers $10.00
a variety of titles from the Trans Oral History Project Zine Distro!
Not Bad #2 $1.00
PopNihil #8 by Matthew Moyer $7.00
Black and Tan #1 All Sandwiches  $2.00
Easy Index of Andy Hood #1 Summer 2013 Edition $3.50
Gold Medal for Two Lumberjack Eyes #1 $1.50
Corner Store #2 $3.00
My Grandpa the Jazz Drummer $2.00
Please Look Don’t Hang on the Ropes $3.00
Skeleton News Misc Back Issues $6.00 each
Free Drugs by Ghetto P $10.00
Legends of the Silver Screen #3 You Kids Have Fun Jerry Lewis $3.00
What To Keep What to Give Away #1 $1.00
Birthday Party #1 $2.00
Dig Deep #5 by Heather $1.00

Comics & Comix
Adapt #1 May 13 by Jonny Negron $7.00
Linework #4 Spr 13 Comics and Graphics Anthology $15.00
Daygloayhole #1 by Passmore $6.00
Hungry Bottom Comics #2 2 Fags 2 Furious $5.00
Blob Top Magazine #1 Nov 12 by Seth Scriver $5.00
Flexible Tube With Stink Lines #1 $5.00
Weight of Prayers Son of Satan $10.00
Windowpane #1 by Joe Kessler $10.00
Tank Girl Solid State #1 $3.99
Spirit House #2 $6.00
CPD 70 Ashcan $3.00
Dungeon Family by Matt Furie $6.00
As You Were #1 A Punk Comix Anthology $5.00
Distance Mover #10 by Patrick Kyle $5.00
comics by Ginette Lapalme
Water Phase $6.00
Rena Rouge vol 38 $4.00
Gag by Sam Sharpe $1.50
Elizabeth of Canada #2 by Michael DeForge $1.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt (D&Q) $22.95 – Collects stuff from I Want You The Believer and the Internet.
Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo $24.95
Whyoming by Patricia Pelletier $20.00
Occupy Comics #1 by Alan Moore and friends $3.50
Godzilla Half Century War by James Stokoe $19.99
Scott Pilgrim vol 3 Color Edition Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O’Malley $24.99
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by J. Fetter-Vorm $14.95 – Now in soft cover.

Art & Design
Meeting of Styles vol 1 On the Run #17 by Manuel Gerullis (From here to Fame) $19.95
Arabic Graffiti by Pascal Zoghbi (From Here to Fame) $31.95
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society by Evans et al. (Last Gasp) $39.95
Subject Matter of the Artist Writings 1950-1965 by Robert Goodnough and Helen A. Harrison $12.00
Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes, and Curios from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History by William Bird $24.95
Ed Hardy’s TattooTime Slipcase Edition $50.00

Fiction
Sinsemilla Bootlegger by Paul Kalman (Council Books) $15.00
Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self $15.00
Aurora by Chris Knickerbocker $10.00
Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen $14.95
City Water Light and Power by Matt Pine $19.00
Stoner by John Williams and John McGahern $14.95
What Purpose Did I Serve In Your Life by Marie Calloway (Tyrant) $19.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal by Weiderhorn and Turman$32.50
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Rolls Best Kept Secret $15.99
Hard Art Photography DC 1979 $23.95 – Rollins, MacKaye etc.
American Savage: Insights Slights and Fights on Faith Sex Love and Politics by Dan Savage $26.95
Liberace Extravaganza HC $29.99
Bunch of Amateurs Inside Americas Hidden World of Inventors Tinkerers by J. Hitt $15.95
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black $24.95
Ill Seize the Day Tomorrow by Jonathan Goldstein (Pintail) $16.00

DIY & Drugs
Marijuanamerica One Mans Quest to Understand Americas Dysfunctional Love Affair With Weed by Alfred Ryan Nerz $19.95 – Don’t miss Quimby’s selling this book for the author at Jerry’s Sandwiches on 6/20.

Sex & Sexy
Little Book of series by Taschen, $9.99 editions: Pussy, Legs, Butts

Magazines
Apartamento #11 $19.95
Bust Jun Jul 13 $5.99
Smith Journal #6 $17.99
Murder Most Foul #88 $9.99
True Crime May 13 $8.99
Brownbook #38 $14.99
Dwell Jun 13 $5.99
Congealed #1 by Chris Pottinger, Matt Brinkman and CF $10.00
3×3 vol 7 #3 #21 the Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $22.00
Colors #86 $16.95
I Love Fake #4 2013 $16.00
Man About Town #12 Spr Sum 13 $15.99
Flaunt Jun 13 #127 $10.95
Bad Day #15 $12.00
Dazed and Confused vol 3 #21 May 13 $9.99
Yeti #13 $14.95
Tape Op #95 May Jun 13 $4.95
Razorcake #74 $4.00
Wire May 13 #351 $11.25
SSLM vol 18 May 13 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00

Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
Stand vol 11 #2 $12.00
The Believer #89 Jun 13 $8.00
What the Night Demands by Miles Walser (Write Bloody) $15.00
MPT #1 2013 Modern Poetry $15.99

Other Stuff
Tons of 2014 Moleskines in a variety of sizes, colors, layouts and prices!