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.

New Stuff This Week and Holiday Hours

Published on August 31, 2012 0 Comments

Quimby’s will be open on Monday, September 3, 2012 from noon to 5pm. Come buy the new issue of Tiki Magazine then sit back and pour yourself a mai tai at home!

Tiki Magazine vol 8 #2 Fall Win 12/13 $6.99 – Celebrating the “Island” Lifestyle. This issue starts off with a beautiful cover by mosaic artists Maggie Rickard and Mark Bloom, better known as Velvet Glass. Other great features include famed carver Leroy Schmaltz, poet Don Blanding, comic book series the Neon Tiki Tribe, Disneyland Tiki bar Trader Sam’s…. and much,much more. With 66 pages of everything tiki.

Zines & Zine-Related Book
Paradox Lost #1  by Maxwell Stern and Timothy Dilich $7.00
Activities by Megan Hopkins $12.00
OK Cupid Messages I Have Not Responded To by Delphine Bedient $4.00
Abservd Magazine vol 1 #2 $5.95
Show Me The Money #37 by Tony Hunnicutt $2.50
Remedy Quarterly #10 Discovery $7.50 – Food n’ kitchen journal of personal essays and eating well.

KerBloom #97 Jul Aug 12 $2.00 – Artnoose writes a time capsule letterzine to new baby Bernard, frank and smart.

Comics & Comix
What It Is Comic  by Dawn Wing $7.00
comics by Hazel Nowlevant: Ci Vediamo and Curio vol 1 Experimental Issue
In Situ #1 and #2 by Sophie Yanow
Garage by Roope Eronen $5.00
Comics by Amanda Vahamaki: Maestro, In The Garden  $8.75 each
Crass Sophisticate #29 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $2.00 – Oh Shit, is that Anthony Bourdain porking Lady Superdawg on the cover of the latest Crass Sophisticate? Josh and Justin maintain their reputation for utter mayhem and dubious taste with this latest “Kill the Pigs” installment of Crass Sophisticate  that drags the manic cousins through the garden and comes to a shocking  conclusion that has to be read to be believed. -EF

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Dal Tokyo HC by Gary Panter (Fantagraphics) $35.00
One Soul by Ray Fawkes $24.99
Supernatural Dogs of Edinburgh by Brian Wood and Grant Bond $14.99
Heartless by Nina Bunjevac (Conundrum) $20.00
After School Special by Dave Kiersh $15.00
Homer – The Odyssey by Seymour Chwast $20.00

Fiction
Commodity a Love Story Told in Receipts by Caitlin R. Warner $12.00
Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson $16.00 – Yes, THAT William Gibson. Now in soft cover.
Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus (Semiotexte) $17.95
First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon (Arsenal) $14.95
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides $16.00 – From the author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Now in soft cover.
Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of Singularity Posthumanity and Awkward Social Situation by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross $24.99
J and L Illustrated #3 $20.00 – J & L Books’ acclaimed J & L Illustrated series presents handsomely designed paperback volumes of fiction and art at an affordable price. Shout magazine wrote of the first volume, published in 2002: “This impressive collection of illustrations and fiction makes sense of the world like good liquor should.” Edited by writer Paul Maliszewski (author of Prayer and Parable and Fakers), this third volume of J & L Illustrated is comprised of 13 short stories by authors Amie Barrodale, Scott Bradfield, Stephen Dixon, Steve Featherstone, William H. Gass, Michael Martone, Joseph McElroy, Elizabeth Miller, Robert Nedelkoff, Hasanthikia Sirisena, Steve Stern, Mike Topp and Xiaoda Xiao. The Paris-based artist Shoboshobo provides accompanying drawings.

Sex & Sexy
Thrones of Desire Erotic Tales of Swords Mist and Fire by Mitzi Szerto (Cleis) $15.95
Sexytime: Post Porn Rise of the Pornoisseur by Jacques Boyreau and Peter Van Horne (Fantagraphics) $29.99
B Magazine #2 $8.99

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road by Michelle Tea $16.95
100 Whores: Memoirs of a John by Dementiuk Mykola $15.00
One Thousand Mustaches: A Cultural History of the Mo by Allan Peterkin (Arsenal) $12.95 – Both a lighthearted cultural history and an earnest style manual.
My Heart Is an Idiot by Davy Rothbart $25.00 – Essays by the founder of FOUND Magazine and This American Life contributor.

Politics & Revolution
Occupying Language: Secret Rendezvous With History and the Present by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini (Zuccotti Park Press) $9.95 – From the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series.
Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters by Victoria Bassetti $17.95

DIY
Recycled Home: Transform Your Home Using Salvaged Materials by Rebecca Proctor $19.95
Cannabis Indica vol 2 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner $20.00

Music Books
The Indie Cred Test (Orange Second Edition) by Henry H. Owings $19.00
Jagger: Rebel Rock Star Rambler Rogue by Marc Spitz $16.00
Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett by Rob Chapman $20.00
Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness – an overview in an in-depth reader format, bridging the gap between conventional accounts of the scene and the new pan-academic focus on Black Metal as a conduit for socio-cultural expression.  by Louis Pattison, Nick Richardson, Brandon Stosuy (Black Dog Publishing) $29.95
Gainsbourg: The Biography by Gilles Verlant $24.95

Magazines
Bitch #56 $5.95
Design Bureau Sep Oct 12 $8.00
Wallpaper Sep 12 $10.00
Backwoodsman vol 33 #5 Sep Oct 12 $4.95
Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 12 vol 36 #5 $4.95
Sovereign #39 Sep 12 $3.95
Heroes and Desperados 2012 $8.95
Pacific Standard Sep Oct 12 $5.99
Bizarre #192 Sep 12 $10.50
Pigeons and Peacocks #5 $13.99
Gothic Beauty #37 $6.95
Skunk vol 8 #2 $5.99
Pin Up America Sep Oct #11 $5.99
Decades #1: Beet Stain $15.00
Lab Magazine #6 $9.99
Under the Radar #42 $5.99
Filter #49 $5.95
Mojo #226 Sep 12 $9.99
Big Cheese #147 $7.99
Decibel #96 Oct 12 $4.95
Monocle vol 6 #56 Sep 12 $12.00
In These Times Sep 12 $3.50
Empirical Sep 12 $6.99
Reason Oct 12 $3.95
Z Magazine Sep 12 $4.95
Tattoo Revolution Sep 12 $11.75

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Golden Handcuffs Review vol 1 #15 $12.00

Childrens
Benny and Penny in Lights Out by Geoffrey Hayes $12.95

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.

Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present 9/28

Published on August 30, 2012 0 Comments
Sep ’12
28
7:00 pm

The city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia hosts public dance lessons most nights on a newly revitalized riverfront directly in front of prime minister Hun Sen’s urban home. Shortly before dusk, much of the city gathers to bust a few Apsara moves and learn a couple choreographed hip- hop steps from a slew of attractive young men at the head of each group. Outside the bustling capital city, the provinces come alive, too, as the nation’s only all-girl political rock group sets up concerts that call into question the international garment trade, traditional gender roles, and agriculture under globalization. Cambodia is changing: not what it once was, not yet what it will be.  Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present provides images of a nation’s people emerging from generations of poverty.

Following on the heels of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, Anne Elizabeth Moore compiled photographs that document Cambodia’s bustling nightlife, the nation’s emerging middle class, and the ongoing struggle for social justice in the beautiful, war-ravaged land.

A series of essays complement the imagery, investigating the relationship between public and private space, mourning and memory, tradition and economic development. It is a document of a nation caught between states of being, yet still deeply affecting.

“Radical” (L.A. Times), “poignant” (Boston Globe), “should not be missed (Time), “a notable underground author” (The Onion), and “brilliant” (Kirkus) are all ways to describe Anne Elizabeth Moore and her writing. The award-winning author and artist has worked for years with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and her newest venture is a compilation of photographs and lyrical essays taking readers to the streets of the country’s capital city, Phnom Penh, and out into the countryside— where few get to travel. Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present released Aug. 28, 2012 from Green Lantern Press.

Alternating full color and black and white photographs depict Phnom Penh’s bustling nightlife as locals gather to dance on a newly revitalized riverfront directly in front of their prime minister’s urban home, thus forming a portrait of the nation’s emerging middle class. Images from a southern province depict a nation in dialogue with its government, hoping for development that lifts all citizens. A series of essays complement the imagery, investigating the relationship between public and private space, mourning and memory, tradition and an economic development unrivaled in the last 1,200 years.

“Traditional movements push against young passions,” Moore writes. “Development is fluid and janky. But a generation is learning what comfort feels like, learning what it feels like to have survived. To celebrate, to honor, they dance most nights like they are possessed.”

Hip Hop Apsara aims to break through the cavalier and hardened consciousness many hold about Cambodian culture and its recent, violent, past under the Khmer Rouge.

“People seem rooted in this belief that Cambodia’s very far away and very weird,” Moore said. “It is far away, but for 14 million Cambodians, it’s not weird at all – plus it’s a place the US has had a lot of negative influence over. So it seems like we should know something about it, as Americans.”

A Fulbright scholar, Moore is the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). She was co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007, named a Best Book of the Year by Mother Jones) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches in the Visual Critical Studies and Art History departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and with people of all ages and genders on media and gender justice work in the US. Her journalism focuses on the international garment trade. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has lectured around the world on independent media, globalization, and women’s labor issues. The multi-award-winning author has also written for N+1, Good, Snap Judgment, Bitch, the Progressive, The Onion, Feministing, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. She has appeared on CNN, WNUR, WFMU, WBEZ, Voice of America, and others. Her work with young women in Southeast Asia has been featured in USA Today, Phnom Penh Post, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out Chicago, Make/Shift, Today’s Chicago Woman, Windy City Times, and Print Magazine, and on GritTV, Radio Australia, and NPR’s Worldview. Moore recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and participated in Artisterium, Georgia’s annual art invitational. Her upcoming book, Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present (Green Lantern Press, Aug. 28, 2012), is a lyrical essay in pictures and words exploring the people of Cambodia’s most rampant economic development in at least 1,200 years.

BOOK DETAILS
Hardcover, $20 ISBN: 978-1-4507-7526-7 Photo/Essay, 100 pages Green Lantern Press

For more info:
AnneElizabethMoore.com
@superanne
Publicity: JKSCommunications.com

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Comics Release Party with John Porcellino and Noah Van Sciver 9/19

Published on August 28, 2012 0 Comments
Sep ’12
19
7:00 pm

Join John Porcellino and Noah Van Sciver as they celebrate the release of their new projects, King-Cat #73 (self-published) and The Hypo (Fantagraphics).  They’ll be reading from and showing slides of their work, answering questions, and signing books.

The Hypo, debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows the twenty-something Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before becoming our most beloved president. Lincoln is a rising Whig in the state’s legislature as he arrives in Springfield, IL to practice law. With all of his possessions under his arms in two saddlebags, he is quickly given a place to stay by a womanizing young bachelor who becomes his friend and close confidant. Lincoln builds a life and begins friendships with the town’s top lawyers and politicians. He attends elegant dances and meets an independent-minded young woman from a high-society Kentucky family, and after a brisk courtship, becomes engaged. But, as time passes and uncertainty creeps in, young Lincoln is forced to battle a dark cloud of depression brought on by a chain of defeats and failures culminating into a nervous breakdown that threatens his life and sanity. This cloud of dark depression Lincoln calls “The Hypo.” Dense crosshatching and an attention to detail help bring together this completely original telling of a man driven by an irrepressible desire to pull himself up by his bootstraps, overcome all obstacles, and become the person he strives to be. All the while, unknowingly laying the foundation of character he would use as one of America’s greatest presidents.

JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, a collection of King-Cat stories about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in 2005, and Perfect Example, first published in 2000, chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix and Map of My Heart, published in 2007/2009, offer a comprehensive overview of the zine’s first sixty-one issues, while Thoreau at Walden (2008) is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals. According to cartoonist Chris Ware, “John Porcellino’s comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive.”

For more info:

nvansciver.wordpress.com

www.king-cat.net

www.spitandahalf.blogspot.com

www.johnporcellino.blogspot.com

Wed, Sept 19th, 7pm, Free Event

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