New Stuff This Week

Published on September 15, 2012 0 Comments

 

Burgermancer #1 The Burger Lovers Magazine Aug Sep 12 by Jason Fischer $4.00 – With comics, interviews and more. Now that’s a tasty burger.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Zisk #21 Fall 12 by Mike Faloon and friends $2.00 – The Baseball Magazine for Poeple Who Hate Baseball Magazines.
Rookie Yearbook One ed. by Tavi Gevinson (D&Q) $29.95 – Collection from rookiemag.com. You know who’s cool? Teenage Girls, that’s who. Tavi “Style Rookie” Gevinson and her online magazine Rookie embody this radness to a T -written largely by and for girls it’s fun, critical, smart, shameless, pretty and goofy while being wholeheartedly feminist and deleriously stylish. Very awesome. -EF
Three Sites by Emily Kozik $2.50
Ugly No 1 #8 Aug 12 a Collection of Drawings and Ideas by Matt Soria $2.00
PRISM Index #2 $25.00

Comics and Comix
You Dont Get There From Here #23 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Demon Dust #10 Sep 12 by Bernie McGovern $2.00 – I think this issue is about particles of dust being made from broken down cells of dead people and things, but I could be wrong here….McGovern’s prodding some sort of atomic obscurity, in any case. -EF
Captcha #5 and #6 by Jojo Sheroow $5.00 each
Flocks Chapter 1 A Paradox of Faith by L. Nichols $5.00
Marvel Comics Presents #6 Rom and Friends by Josh Bayer and friends (DrippyBone Books) $8.00
Marvel Premiere #28 The Legion of Monsters (DrippyBone Books) $2.00
Cosmic Bummer Funnies #1 $8.00
Line Land #1 $8.00
Zebratron #3 $3.00
Black Mansion #1 by Christopher Graybill $2.00
Casualty of Tour #1 by Aaron Amodt $3.00
Infinite Jest Tijuana Bible by Drawdoer Jones $3.00
2005 a Fragment of the Larger Work by Sean ABT Christensen (Sparkplug) $5.00
Small Noises by Sarah Glidden (Sparkplug) $3.00
Dear Dear by Eroyn Franklin (Sparkplug) $6.00
Party Plans #1 by Zejian Shen $8.00
You Are Destined For Darker Things #1 by Nick Wortham $2.00
Habitat #2 by Dunja Jankovic $9.00
Bye Bye A True Story Told In Allegory by JM Hanson $6.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Year One by Ramsey Beyer $14.00 – Ramsey of “List” zine and “Everydaypants” comic unleashes her first book – diary comics detailing the her move from Chicago to Philadelphia, filled with reconnection, introspection and romantic complication.

Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln by Noah Van Scriver (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Don’t miss Noah here with John Porcellino on Wednesday! (Sept 19th)
Unfamiliar Path by Brian and Roger Boss $15.00
Illustrated Press Chicago by Darryl Holliday and EN Rodriguez $12.00
Bulletproof Coffin vol 2 TPB Disinterred by David Hine and Shaky Kane $17.99
The Cavalier Mr. Thompson: A Sam Hill Novel: Sams Early Days 1924 by Rich Tommaso $16.99
Crossed Wish You Were Here vol 1 TPB by Simon Spurrier and Javier Barreno $19.99
Is That All There Is by Joost Swarte (Fantagraphics) $25.00
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 5 by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Library Edition HC vol 2 by Joss Whedon et al. (Dark Horse) $29.99
Detained by Eroyn Franklin (Sparkplug) $16.00

Art & Design
Sticker Bomb Monsters 250 Peelable Stickers Inside by Studio Rarekwai $17.95 – Created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, including: Vladimir Stankovic, Alex Young, Iain Burke, Johnny Ryan, Ronzo and Sunil Pawar.

Pop Psychedelic Designed & edited by BigBros Workshop $39.95 – A massive, comprehensive graphic design collection exploding with a blend of psychedelic and pop imagery. This is a fantastic sourcebook featuring dozens of contemporary artists, illustrators & designers.

You Are So Loved $12.95 – Optimism from a mix of artists, including Enormouschampion, Katie Daisy, Jen Renninger, Dallas Clayton, Lisa Congdon, and Jessica Hische.

2 Mike Perry books (th guy who does a lot of those handwrite-y font books): Coloring Book By Mike Perry and You $9.95 and Type Wall Decals 200 Peel and Stick Letters $24.95

Fiction
Telegraph Ave by Michael Chabon $27.99
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz  $26.95
Laura Lamont’s Life In Pictures by Emma Straub $26.95

Sex and Sexy
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf $27.99
Chomp #2 by Mitsu Sucks $9.00 – Queer skater art rag ships out from Japan. Portfolios from Ken Kagami, Artrash Graphic, Ai Ezaki and Mitsuru Saigusa, interviews and a secret sealed smut compartment.
Pinups #16 Jeff by Christopher Schulz $14.00 – Fun in the sun, Jeff on the rocks. Although it sounds excessive I will always advocate that you pick up two copies of this fine publication: one to keep intact and another one to dissassemble and properly reconstitute as a giant wall-sized nude poster.

Travel Naturally #84 $9.95
Wild Boys: Gay Erotic Fiction ed. by Richard Labonte $15.95
RFD #151 Fall 12  $9.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
F for Effort: More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers by Richard Benson $9.95
Tokyo Grindhouse vol 1 $24.95 – Between 1970 and 1974, numerous Japanese film companies – in particular Nikkatsu and Toei – produced dozens of films in a new sub-genre which combined action, sex, violence and crime, and was dominated by ruthless and deadly delinquent females. This sub-genre, which Toei would eventually dominate and define, is now known as pinky violence. With such series as Girl Boss, Girls’ High School Terror, and Female Prisoner: Scorpion, as well as individual films like Ranking Boss Rock and Criminal Women: Killing Melody, Toei created a cinematic world filled with nudity, sex, cat-fights, torture, rape and revenge, and peopled by very, very bad girls – renegade cops, girl gang leaders, rebel highschool girls, female convicts – who stripped off their clothes as readily as they pulled out a gun or a knife. TOKYO GRINDHOUSE Volume One is the first English-language book publication devoted to this brief but highly influential 70s movie craze for sexy bad girl action, whose themes have more recently been echoed and revived in films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill and Death Proof. The book contains an extensive introductory history by Jack Hunter, as well as illustrated sections on all the main pinky violence series and one-offs. It is printed in full-colour throughout, with over 140 rare images of film posters and publicity shots, plus nude glamour galleries of leading pinky violence stars Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto.

Politics & Revolution
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek  $14.95

DIY
Indie Rock Button Factory: Everything You Need to Create 25 Fabric Covered Pins by the Yellow Bird Project $18.95

Childrens Books
Stella’s Big Wish by Leslie Perrine $7.00 – Leslie’s first book is a big-sized version of a kinship story for small folk. Illustrated ulta-cute style with extra twinkle twinkle. -EF

Secret of the Stone Frog: A Toon Graphic Novel by David Nytra $14.95

Magazines
ArtForum International Sep 12 $10.00
Shots #117 $6.95
Raw Vision #76 $14.00
Headmaster #4 $20.00
Skeptic vol 17 #3 $6.95
Fortean Times #292 $11.99
Many of Them #2 Days of Being Wild $45.00
Flaunt #123 $10.95
Treating Yourself #36 $7.99
Color Skateboards vol 10 #3 $7.99
BlackBook Oct Nov 12 $4.95
Taproot #3 $9.00
Laphams Quarterly vol 5 #4 Fall 12 $15.00
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #13 Sep 12 $9.99
Horror Hound #37 Sep Oct 12 $6.99
Bomb #121 Fall 12 $7.95
The Cure and The Story of Alternative 80s Metal Hammer Classic Rock Special Fall  Win 12 $14.99
Tape Op #91 Sep Oct 12 $4.95
Against the Current #160 Sep Oct 12 $5.00
GLQ vol 18 #4 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
Tattoo Collection #52 $6.99

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
The Believer #92 $8.00

Other Stuff
Aleister Crowley 2012 Commemorative Coin Set $10.00 – The front of the coin features the embossed AC2012 design with the bust of Aleister Crowley. The reverse is stamped with the Mark of the Beast and the traditional greetings of Thelemites, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” and “Love is the law, love under will.” These are verses from the principal holy book of Thelema, Liber AL vel Legis: The Book of the Law. “A handsomely minted set of coins that I shall look forward to spending whenever the age of Horus finally arrives. Wonderful little things that would adorn anyone’s altar.” –Alan Moore. Sold in sets of 10 for $10.00 or singularly for $1.00 each. Front and back as pictured below.

Floating Eyeballs! Only $1.50 each! Cheap!
Balloons that say “Happy Fucking Birthday”!
“Silence of the Lambs” in Your Pocket Key Chain, comes with Hannibal Lecter quotes from the movie. Freak the people the fuck out with your tiny crazy noise machine. Having a friend for dinner? Fava beans anyone? $10.00, just in time for freaky Halloweenness!
Get your Moomin on with these Moomin-themed items: Journal $9.95, Notecard Set $14.95, Sticky Notes $9.95
Pop Out Snake in Mixed Nuts Can $3.30 – Fancy some nuts? Or a snake?

Notable Restocks
Cinema Sewer vol 3 by Robin Bougie $19.95
Hot Dog Beach #1 by Lale Westvind $7.00
various issues of Weirdo and Zap!

 

Chris Ware Celebrates Building Stories 10/14

Published on September 14, 2012 0 Comments
Oct ’12
14
5:00 pm

It’s here: the new graphic novel by Chris Ware, BUILDING STORIES. It imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other’s company another minute; and the building’s landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. Taking advantage of the absolute latest advances in wood pulp technology, BUILDING STORIES is a book with no deliberate beginning nor end, the scope, ambition, artistry and emotional prevarication beyond anything yet seen from this artist or in this medium, probably for good reason.

 

“One of our favorite graphic novelists of all time….Ware’s gorgeous, complex treasure chest of a book—actually 14 separate printed works that can be read in any order—tells the complex, interconnected story of a lonely woman and the building she inhabits, and demands to be handled with care, each component studied and cradled and touched. You might be touched, too.”

—Flavorwire

 

“Ware provides one of the year’s best arguments for the survival of print…the spectacular, breathtaking visual splendor make this one of the year’s standout graphic novels.”

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

 

“A treasure trove of graphic artworks—they’re too complex to be called comics—from Ware, master of angst, alienation, sci-fi and the crowded street…A dazzling document.”

—Kirkus, starred review

 

“Ware has been consistently pushing the boundaries for what the comics format can look like and accomplish as a storytelling medium…More than anything, though, this graphic novel mimics the kaleidoscopic nature of memory itself—fleeting, contradictory, anchored to a few significant moments, and a heavier burden by the day. In terms of pure artistic innovation, Ware is in a stratosphere all his own.”—Booklist, starred review

 

Chris Ware’s Building Stories is the rarest kind of brilliance; it is simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, shockingly intimate and deeply insightful. There isn’t a graphic artist alive or dead who has used the form this wonderfully to convey the passage of time, loneliness, longing, frustration or bliss.  It is the reader’s choice where and how to begin this monumental work—the only regret you will have in starting it is knowing that it will end.—J. J. Abrams

 

“Building Stories is the graphic novel of the season or perhaps the year, a story that must be experienced rather than read…Ware takes visual storytelling to a new level of both beauty and despair in a work people will be talking about for a long time.” –Publishers Weekly Fall Announcement

 

About the author:

CHRIS WARE’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the “100 Best Books of the Decade” by The Times (London) in 2009.  A contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared), his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.

 

For more info: www.pantheonbooks.com

www.facebook.com/pantheonbooks

For publicity inquiries: Michiko Clark <MiClark@randomhouse.com>

Sun, Oct 14th, 5pm – Free Event

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Weekly Top 10

Published on September 11, 2012 0 Comments

Nobrow #7 is at #3 this week.

1. OK Cupid Messages I Have Not Responded To by Delphine Bedient $4.00

2. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek the Next Generation, Seasons #6 and #7 by Joshua Chapman $2.00

3. Nobrow #7 (NoBrow Press) $24.00 – “Is this our ‘Brave New World’? Have we yet to enter into it? Or are we on the brink of discovering a world entirely separate from ours: alien, parallel, internal? Inspired by the eponymous dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1931, Nobrow 7 asks 15 internationally renowned cartoonists, each contributing 4 page visual narratives, and 30 star illustrators to interpret the theme ‘Brave New World’. 45 Creative visionaries take on the theme to produce cutting edge comics and illustration in this fantastic large format anthology that has taken the illustration and comics world by storm.

4. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Benjamin Marra (American Tradition Comics) $2.00

5. King City Cat Master Comix by Brandon Graham $19.99

6. Womanimalistic #2 Coochie Party by Caroline Paquita (Pegacorn Press) $3.00 – Vaginal dreamsicles dancing on the labial plane. Paquita makes you wild for the cooch style- as if you weren’t already- this new comic/zine/suitetreat has itself seriously plugged into the feminist power grid. -EF

7. Baffler #20 – Contributors include Thomas Frank, Jed Perl, Steve Almond, Chris Lehmann, Jim Newell, Eugenia Williamson, Heather Havrilesky, Kim Phillips-Fein, Emma Garman, Chris Bray, Matt Hinton, Will Boisvert, Seth Colter Walls, Tod Mesirow, David D’Arcy, and The Homeless Economist, who has a timely suggestion: “Green Gallows for the Wall Street Bankers.

8. S #9 Baltic Comics Magazine $10.00

9. Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs (Adhouse) $9.95

10. Fuck Yeah I Can Be Sentmental: Foster James’ Little Book of I Love Yous by Patrick Gill $1.00 – A love letter to the love letter.

New Stuff This Week

Published on September 8, 2012 0 Comments

Best Game Ever Card Game $8.00 – It’s a card game about zines! By Billy “Proof I Exist” the Bunny and and AJ Hermz. Also this week we received Billy’s Last Night at the Casino #3 Jun 12.
I Don’t Know Anything About This But $3.00

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Unapologetic #3 The Journal of Irresponsible Gender by Anne Tagonist $2.00 – From a transsexual punk persepctive.
Bound to Struggle vol 3 Language Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet $3.00
Suitable 4 Framin #9 Sum 12 $5.00
Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Seasons #6 and #7 by Joshua Chapman $2.00
Fakeizm #1 by Tone $10.00
Backstage Past #1-#3: True Stories of Rock Encounters by MC Orly $3.00 each
No Better Than Apples #8 $3.00
Happy and Crotch vol 1 #1 by Alicia Obermeyer $1.50
Wenn Man Den Kleinen Finger Dem Teufel Zeigt So Nimmt Double Zine $12.00
Offline #2 by Emily Haasch and Darrin Higgins $5.00
Printed Blog #8 Deja Vu Issue $3.00
Cherrypepper #5 Marc Calvary $20.00 – Remember that zine from the early oughts about pin-up style porny pictures of girls in Eugene, Oregon? Lucky you, now there’s this box set contains 6 zines a polaroid and a sticker.

Comics & Comix
Lou #6 by Melissa Mendes $1.00
Moose #9 and #10 by Max deRadigues $1.00 each
All sorts of awesomeness from Oily Comics, including:
Malichi Ward In Conversation with Sean Ford Jun Jul 12 by Sean Ford, Malichi Ward and Melissa Mendes, Word and Voice #1 July 2012 by Aaron Cockle, Close Your Eyes When You Let Go #1 (of 3) by James Hindle, End of the Fucking World #10 by Charles Forsman, Dont Stop Me Now #1 and #2 by Gariet Cowin
Daucus Carota #2 $5.00
Laskimooses #5 Alustavia Tieoja & Laskimooses #6 Eksytyksen Tiella by Herra Matti Hagelbergin $6.00 each – Hagelberg’s game-changing scratch builds the world and his sick/stick story stagger makes it a punker place to be.-EF

Graphic Novels and Tradepaperbacks
Crackle of the Frost by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Comics Sketchbooks: Private Worlds of Todays Most Creative Talents by Steven Heller $44.95
Aya: Life In Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (D&Q) $24.95 – Collects three books in the Aya series.
Scalped vol 8 You Gotta Sin to Get Saved TPB by Jason Aaron et al. $17.99
Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly $16.99
Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis $19.99

Art & Design
Pataphysics: A Useless Guide by Andrew Hugill (Semiotexte) $24.95

Fiction
Skagboys by Irvine Welsh $26.95

Music Books
Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy by Will Oldham and Alan Licht $16.95

Politics & Revolution
Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics by Eusi Kwayana $20.00
Occupy Nation: The Roots the Spirit and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street by Todd Gitlin $12.99
Making of the Indebted Man (Semiotexte intervention series #13) by Maurizio Lazzarato $13.95

Magazines
Juxtapoz #141 Oct 12 $5.99
Pop Magazine #27 Fall Win 12 $14.99
High Times Nov 12 $5.99
Gastronomica vol 12 #3 $12.99
Wax Poetics #52 $11.99
SSLM vol 14 Aug 12 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00

Other Stuff
Little Pack of Scraps by Echo $3.00 – Twelve pieces of mostly vintage ephemera. Might I suggest pairing up a package with one of our fine grab bags that you can only purchase in the store and not on our website? A fine choice. -LM
Magic Guillotines and Magic Drawers $5.00 each – Startle and stun or baffle and bamboozle with simple step-by-step instructions to help you master the magic in minutes!
Vintage replicas of winding tin toys in various shapes and sizes and prices. A pecking chicken! A monkey on a tricycle! A robot on a bike! UFOs!

Tricerachops Meat Chart Mug by Jay Jay Burridge $10.00
Wild Bunch Woodland Paper Clips $6.00

Restocks!
The usual whole mass of Vertigo graphic novels (Watchmen, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, 100 Bullets, Grant Morrison titles), Dal Tokyo by Gary Panter, Ubik by PK Dick, One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry, issues of Ganges by Kevin Huizenga, Housewives at Play: Original Recipe, Walking Dead graphic novels, Monologues For Calculating The Density Of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen, issues of Papercutter, Pictures For Sad Children by John Campbell, Complete Ouija Interviews by Sarah Becan, Liz Prince minis, Meat Cake collected by Dame Darcy, issues of Berlin by Jason Lutes, OP Original Plumbing issues #5-#8, Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, Love and Rockets New Stories vol 4 by Jaime Hernandez, Milk and Cheese Dairy Products Gone Bad by Evan Dorkin and more!

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

Weekly Top 10

Published on September 4, 2012 0 Comments

1. By This You Shall Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press) $15.00 – So outrageously good I just can’t hardly stand it. -EF (I agree. -LM)

2. Fix Your Clothes by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm Publishing) $5.00 – Briggs’ latest zine is a practical guide to mending and maintaining fabric, covering the basics of sewing, patching, darning, buttons and zippers, hemming and waterproofing. Like “How to Make Soap Without Burning Your Face Off” and “Make Your Place” the writing is clear, concise, scrappy and handy. -EF

3. How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz $1.00 – Where’s your Emily Post? Upstanding citi-zines My Aim Is True’s Carrie and Caboose’s Liz Mason sit down and try to teach you kids some manners with their self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.

4. Tales of Woodsman Pete With Full Particulars by Lille Carré (Top Shelf) $7.00

5. Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99

6. Paper Sep 12 $4.00

7. Bust Aug/Sep 12 $5.99

8. Publick Occurances #13 by Danny Martin $2.00

9. Sex Gender Identity Orientation and Discrimination by Dan Copulsky $.25

10. Fuck Yeah I Can Be Sentmental: Foster James Little Book of I Love Yous by Patrick Gill $1.00 – A love letter to the love letter.