New Stuff This Week

Published on August 18, 2012 0 Comments

Thank you to the charming David Rees (who we demand pose in our vintage photobooth in his apron) and for everybody that came to our event this past week (and a special thanks to audience members who participated as pencil sharpening novices). David demonstarted how to do some flashy sharpening moves as well as explained how to start your very own pencil sharpening business. Follow your dreams, kids!

Handbook for Hot Witches: Illustrated Guide to Magic Love and Creativityby Dame Darcy $15.99 – Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells—voilà!—Handbook for Hot Witches. Ever wondered what your dreams mean? You can look them up here. Want to learn to knit? This book can get you started. With sections on witch holidays, love, crystal ball gazing, meditating, and much more, this fully illustrated guide is the handbook that will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic. What kind of witch are you? Let Dame “Meatcake” Darcy help you figure it out. And here’s an early bird announcement: Dame Darcy will be here at Quimby’s on October 29th to help you get your halloween samhain on.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
We’ll Never Have Paris: Greatest Hits – Literary Journal of Non-Fiction by Andria Alefhi and Jaime Borschuk $7.95
Butch Nor Femme #6 Your Secretary #12 Split Zine by Lynne and Jami Sailor $1.00
Tributaries #2 Illinois Withholding Allowance by JC $2.00
Tributaries #3 On Tricycling History and Endings by JC $3.00
When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler It’s Because They Think Sardines Will Be Thrown Into the Sea by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera $3.00
Belmonte (De Francisco Lamb editions) $3.00
Happie volume 1 by Lamb $10.00
Alleyways: Eight Stone Press by William P. Tandy $4.00
D Tuned #1 Jul 12 by Danica Favorito $1.00
Emotions Are Hard – Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50
Mystery & Adventure Series Review #46 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
Glance in the Rearview Mirror: Neoliberal Ideology from its Origins… by Toussaint (Haymarket) $4.95
Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible by Mike Davis (Haymarket Books) $4.95
Cool Food #1 by Jessalyn Aaland $20.00 – That title’s no lie! Aaland reviews foods and cactuses, puts it out there whut’s rad about eating and hot tips on rad ways to eat the rad things. Blue plate special scrappy friend fun, written with frankjoy and illustrated sticker tripper doodlebugs of broccoli faces and donut buddies.

Comics & Comix
Colour Me Busy by Keith Jones (Koyama Press) $5.00
Everybody Loves Tank Girl #2 Mahfood and Martin $3.99
Me and You Chapter 3 $4.00
Bots is Bots #1 by Gregg K $1.00
Steel Sterling #1 by Michael Rae Grant and Gabriel Winslow Yost $5.00
Dimensions issues #3 and #4  $15.00 each
Let’s Do It BY Zejian Shen $3.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books) $24.95
Comics Class by Matthew Forsythe (Koyama) $5.00
Tomorrow Never Knows: A Comics History of the Psychedelic Beatles by Sean Ward (Harth Publishing) $12.00
Economix: How Our Economy Works and Doesnt Work in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin et al. $19.95
Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics by Margreet de Heer $16.95
Graphic novels from Matt Dembicki: XOC the Journey of a Great White and District Comics: an Unconventional History of Washington DC
The Creativity of Ditko by Craig Yoe et al. $39.99
Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley and Boo Radley $15.00 – Important news from the perspectives of the two cats: Dust, Inside Utility Closet, plus Catnip Treats. Pressing matters! Inquiring minds are glad to read this because it’s hilarious.

Art & Design
Quoteskine vol 1 by Lee Crutchley (Carpet Bombing Culture) $18.95
Paper Works (Gingko Press) $34.95
From Ummmm to Der by Thomas Campbell 2009-2011 (Gingko Press) $29.95 – Very pretty monograph of Campbell’s recent work. He was prominently featured in the ground-breaking touring exhibition (2003-2008) “Beautiful Losers” and also the subsequent book and film.

Drawn By Instinct by Tiffany Bozic $45.00
Guide to Troubled Birds, Profusely Illustrated by Mincing Mockingbird $13.99
Wacky Packages Gallery Most Comprehensive Resource Archive Compiled to Date From Two of the Most Knowledgeable Collectors in the Hobby by various (Last Gasp) $15.00
Idle Hands: The Art of Coop (Baby Tattoo) $50.00
Blab World #2 by Monté Beauchamp (Last Gasp) $24.95
Alice by Trevor Brown $70.00
Rivers Forgotten by Jeremy Kai (Koyama Press) $25.00
Typoholic by the Victionary Workshop $39.95
You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat by Banksy $35.00
Stencil Wars: the Ultimate Book of Star Wars Inspired Street Art $29.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Complex of Carnage: Dario Argento Beneath the Surface by Jack Hunter – From the Cult Movie Files.
Eccentropedia: The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived by Chris Mikul and Glenn Smith (Headpress) $25.95
Flesh Ripping Ghouls of London: Murder, Madness and Mayhem from the Penny Bloods by JM Rymer et al (Creation) $14.95
Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium by Mark Edward (Feral House) $18.95
The Worlds Weirdest Places by Nick Redfern $15.99

Music Books
The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines By Candice Black $14.95

Fiction
One in Every Crowd Stories by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press) $15.95
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche $16.95

Sex & Sexy
Salome and Under the Hill Forbidden Erotic Classics by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley (Wet Angel) $14.95
Das Einhorn #3 Aug Sep 12 $6.00

Magazines
Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99
Bizarre #191 Aug 12 $10.50
Paleo Magazine Aug Sep 12 $5.99
High Times Oct 12 $5.99
Pinstriping #33 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Mojo #225 Aug 12 $9.99
Maximumrocknroll #352 Sep 12 $4.00
Fader #81 Aug Sep 12 $5.99
WHOA (Whats Happening With Original Artists) Magazine Fall 12 $6.95
Filter Good Music Guide Aug Sep 12 $2.99
Cinema Retro #4 Movie Classics Special Edition $15.95
The Indignados and Occupy Movements Across the World Reader $2.50
Monocle Mediterraneo #5 Sum 12 $8.00
ASR #58 Sum 12 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Tabu Tattoo #48 $7.99

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal #6 Sum 12 $12.00
Mudfish #17 $12.00
American Athiest 2nd and 3rd Quarter 12 $4.95
Creative Nonfiction #45 Sum 12 $10.00
Overtime Hour 25 Black Shift by TE Winningham III $2.00

Other Stuff
Plastic Crimewave Vinyl (Notes and Bolts Records and Tapes) $5.50 – 7″ of psychedelic goodness! On the A side, Steve a.k.a. Plastic Crimewave croons like Bowie if he were truly in space while Tsuyama from Acid Mothers Temple adds creepy ambience in the background. On the B side, Steve gets hazey as the shoegazey goodness seeps off of the grooves and through the speakers. A solid deal and the first vinyl outing from local zine turned vinyl shiller Notes and Bolts!

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.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on August 14, 2012 0 Comments

 

Michael the sausage dog took his owners Becky and Ali to Quimby’s and posed with our Cola Flavored Mustache Lollipop. Hot diggity dog!

1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts)  $17.95 – Thanks to everybody who came to see Derf here this past Thursday.

2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

3. James Joyce by E. Choy $5.00 – Adaptations of James Joyce classics by Philidelphia-based Ed Choy! Includes Araby, an excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and an assortment of others. Interior pages feature alternating 1-color spreads in purple and Riso-Federal Blue.

4. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

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

6. Maximumrocknroll #351 Aug 12 $4.00

7. Razorcake #69 $4.00

8. Duel Citizenship by Jen Twigg $2.00 – D.C./Maryland versus Chicago, but in a lovin’ kinda way. Twigg talks about what it means to feel like you live in a city and what’s great about places.-EF

9. Office Girl by Joe Meno $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

10. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 –  All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

New Stuff This Week

Published on August 10, 2012 0 Comments

Rebuttal In Spandex by Morgan Brainchild and David Diarrhea $2.00 – Reports from harms way, long form word play, cuneiform apartment plans and an automatic thought registry. A little treat from Brainchild and Diarrhea. -EF

Zines
Zines by Lynne: With an E #3 Looking For a Job, Butch Nor Femme #7 $1.50 each
Fire Dogs #1 A SPOC Publication (Self-Publisheres of Chicago) $3.00 – Inspired by a book at the Read/Write Library here in Chicago, about the extremely specific topic of Firedogs at different fire stations around Chicago. With contributions from by Nicki Yowell, Grant Reynolds, Eric Bartholomew, Liz Mason Paul Durica and Meghan McGrath $3.00

Zines from the Trans Oral History Zine Distro including: various issues of Bound to Struggle, Gendrfailz #1 and #2, Vanguard Revisited Fab 11, various prices
Cheer the Eff Up #3 by Jonas $3.00
Fibonacci in Biology by Adrian M. Pijoan $4.00
Never Ain’t Nuthin’ by Benjamin Boyd Austin $1.00 – Cool stuff Benjamin’s never done.

Comics & Comix
Tucker Toon #1 by Dustooned $5.00
Comics by Frederick Noland: Infallible vol 1, Teats on a Boar, Black Sheep #1 and #2 $4.00 each
Jerrys Journal by Neil Fitzpatrick $5.00
Buck #1 of 1 by Drawdoer Jones
Comics by Leda Zewacki: Smoke Signals, My Escape from a Sea Monster Based on a True Story, $3.50 each
S #11 Baltic Comics Magazine $11.00
Comics by Adrian Manuel Pijoan Don’t Fear the King Story of Surface to Volume Ratio Size and Shape of Animals, Mexican, various prices
Space Basket #1 by Jonathan Petersen (Domino Books) $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Tell Me More $10.00
Taxes the Tea Party and Those Revolting Rebels a History in Comics of the American Revolution by Stan Mack $14.99
Eyes of the Cat by Moebius and Jodorowsky $34.95
Game For Swallows to Die to Leave to Return by Zeina Abirached $9.95
Scott Pilgrim vol 1 Color Edition: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley et al. $24.95
RASL TPB vol 4 Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla by Jeff Smith $19.95

Art & Design
Yield to Temptation by Todd James (Picturebox) $20.00
Art of Molly Crabapple vol 2 Devil in the Details by Molly Crabapple $12.99

Fiction
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood $14.95
Dead Do Not Improve  by Jay Caspian $25.00
Giving up the Ghost: Story about Friendship 80s Rock Lost Scrap of Paper What It Means to be Haunted by Eric Nuzum $15.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Pyraminds and the Pentagon: The Government’s Top Secret Pursuit of Mystical Relics, Ancient Astronauts and Lost Civilizations by Nick Redfern $15.99
This Book Is From the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes and Other Adventures In Time Travel by Marie D. Jones and Lassy Flaxman $15.99
Lords of the Left Hand Path: Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies From the Cult of Set to the Church of Satan by Stephen E Flowers, PhD. $24.95
Psycho USA Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of by Harold Schechter $20.00
Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness by Normandi Ellis  $18.00
Truth by Nina Yau $15.00

DIY
Color Me Drunk: A Drinking and Drawing Activity Book: Get Arty While You Party $12.99

Politics & Revolution
Territories In Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements by Paul Zibechi (AK) $19.95

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Specimen Magazine #2 $6.00
Moonseed by Schrreiner $3.00

Sex & Sexy
S and M Feminist by Clarise Thom $20.00
Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser by Clarise Thom $20.00

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.

Matthew Gavin Frank Reads From Pot Farm 9/7

Published on August 8, 2012 0 Comments
Sep ’12
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7:00 pm

In Matthew Gavin Frank’s new book Pot Farm (The University of Nebraska Press), he talks about his work on a medical marijuana farm in Northern California. Through firsthand observations and experiences (some influenced by the farm’s cash crop), interviews, and research, Pot Farm exposes a thriving but unsung faction of contemporary American culture.

” Investigative research coupled with personal reflections on a controversial arena of American farm production.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Pot Farm is the curious and compelling tale of a hazy season spent harvesting medical marijuana. The cast of characters rivals those found in the finest comic fiction, except these folks are real, and really peculiar. Pot Farm is smart, sly, revelatory, often laugh-out-loud funny, and entirely legal. —Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

“Sex, politics, intrigue, crime, adventure, life and death—it’s all here, in a strangely compelling hybrid of action flick meets postmodern philosophical meditation meets Cheech and Chong. This compulsively readable exposé from a self-proclaimed ‘unreliable narrator’ has it all, including a cast of outcast characters who simply jump off the page.”—Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of Pot Farm, Barolo, Warranty in Zulu, The Morrow Plots (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books), Sagittarius Agitprop and more. Recent work appears in The New Republic, The Huffington Post, The Iowa Review, The Best Food Writing, The Best Travel Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Gastronomica, and others. He currently teaches Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Northern Michigan University, where he is the Nonfiction Editor of Passages North.  This winter, he prepared his first batch of whitefish-thimbleberry ice cream.

For more info: matthewgfrank.com

Fri, Sept 7th, 7:00 pm

Weekly Top 10

Published on August 7, 2012 0 Comments

Big bucks, no whammies. This is how we roll. Roll Big or Go Home is at #10 this week.

1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) – Don’t miss Derf here on Thursday (Aug 9th) at 7pm, where he’ll take about this graphic novel he did about his experiences knowing Jeffrey Dahmer in high school!

2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

3. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

4. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 The American Food Issue – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on with the American Food Issue. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

5. Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Maranda Elizabeth and Dave Cave $3.00

6. Womanimalistic #1 by Caroline Paquita $5.00 – “Amazing Amazing Amazing. Recipes for Fire Cider and Krotchbucha. Ridiculously funny comics about Vajazzling, punker health fiascos (such as the ol’ “Hash Brown Cure”) and urban hiving. Gorgeously patterned comics about love and loss and coming down with a case of The Going Crazies. I’ve been reading the Carson McCullers comic that opens this book over and over and over again – it keeps bringing me close to tears. Highest honors. Lovingly risographed in blue.” -EF

7. Night Riders by Matt Furie (McSweeney’s) $15.95 – Where’s Matt Furie been lately? Apparently he’s been squirreled up drawing a truly stunning and mind-bending wordless children’s book for McSweeney’s, and I couldn’t be more excited about the fruits of his labors. Night Riders is truly awesome – cool animal-monsters staying up all night on a journey through a glowing nocturnal world, rendered in some ultralush colored pencil jewel hues. I love the chillpill laffs of Boy’s Club aplenty – however this is a different trip altogether: magic and riches with perfect delivery. A great kid’s book, and a great graphic novel to boot. -EF

8. Elephant Ear #1 by Jeremy Tinder $8.00 – Jeremy Tinder launched this beast at CAKE a few months ago: deluxe stories of slipping, surreal illness and alone time. Paced a little like a Murakami story, I’d say- the richness of a character staring into space, the practicality of the mothman stealing batteries, the resignation to finding a tooth in your eyesocket. -EF

9. Dig Deep #4 by Heather $1.00 – Local-based perzine by a rad librarian.

10. Roll Big or Go Home by Rio Safari $2.00 – Cute lil love letter to fantasy, D&D and punk nerdery. Rad title, too. -EF