Weekly Top 10

Published on May 23, 2012 0 Comments

Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart debuts on the weekly top 10 at #9 this week.

Thanks to everybody who came out to the Comics & Philsophy Conference at the Universty of Chicago this past weekend. We have two posters Chris Ware designed for the conference we’re proud to be selling, which are both available for purchase on our website! You can look at them here and here.

1. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF…Thanks to everybody that came out for the Clowes and Buenaventura signing here at Quimby’s last week!

2. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

3. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago. Aren’t we funny? Rag, you know like, what you clean a bar with? But also another name for a magazine? And crafted? As in, craft beer but then also this mag is crafted in Chicago? Hello? Hello? Where are you going? Are my jokes that bad? -LM

4. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other.

5. The Death Ray by Dan Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book.  Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover.

6. Ojitos Borrosos by Ines Estrada $10.00 – A simply killer collection of Inés Estrada’s amazing comics – charmed and pervy and smart and totally unpredictable….I can’t say enough good things about these except that you will love them. Reading them is like drinking your favorite juice and listening to your favorite record on a really nice day. In fact, if you did that AND read these comics all at once you’d probably send yourself into a self-perpetuating orgasm vortex. Ojitos collects a lot of odds and ends – minis and anthologies and one-pagees, and orders them up well with english translation for gringos like me. Get this get this get this. -EF

7. Animal Sex #2 Bugs and Slugs by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Hot bug on slug action.

8. Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD: Girls Singing Songs About Girls by Amara Leipzig & Isabella Rotman $5.00 – Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman assemble a cover album and cutes ha-hoots liner notes zine that’s all women singing songs originally written by men about women. Gender theory via aural pleasuring. -EF

9. Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart (Retrofit Comics) $6.00 –  Hart plays it fast and loose with this beach-bound poopy-baby quest. Drawn with relaxed flair – a little like maakies or old school simpsons in the cavalier slapstick and general heart. -EF

10. Straight To Hell #67 $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories. Feels like heaven to me.

Quimby’s Bookstore Welcomes Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch 6/15

Published on May 15, 2012 0 Comments
Jun ’12
15
7:00 pm

Gloriana is a long-form poem in graphic form, and within its pages, Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of mundane interactions and existential dissections of the units that construct our lives.
In Gloriana, Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of mundane interactions and existential dissections of the units that construct our lives. Huizenga has an understated, quiet approach to story writing that allows his characters (and his readers) the self-awareness to recognize the humor and tragedy of every moment.

Huizenga’s much-lauded work is finely detailed, and in its innovative use of form, it explores the boundaries of the comic medium, deconstructing and reconstructing panels to express temporality and lived experience more fully. Presented in this expanded edition, Gloriana employs familiar settings and thorough, sometimes scientific explanations to reach thoughtful conclusions.

Dan Zettwoch’s Birdseye Bristoe celebrates the visual complexity of our world, and the impossibility of distilling this into a single digital signal. In Birdseye Bristoe, there are homes rigged entirely from bungee cords and 3-liter soda bottles, geodesic domes that have been turned into jungle gyms, an array of lawn-mowing routes, and guessing games inspired by the ambiguity of religious and heavy metal iconography.

It’s a story line we know all too well: “A mysterious stranger comes to town.” Only the town is not really a town and the stranger is a gigantic cell-phone tower. The town is Birdseye Bristoe—a portmanteau created from an interstate sign that points to two real towns—and it has only one real permanent resident, an old-timer known only as Uncle. A confirmed bachelor and World War II veteran, he owns most of the real estate in town. His teenaged great-niece and -nephew visit occasionally, though the town doesn’t have much to offer apart from an adult superstore, a gas station, and a tackle shop.

Uncle reluctantly agrees to lease his land to a conglomerate of telecommunications carriers, and sets the somewhat random condition that the tower be built with a huge crossbar set horizontally into the mast, making it also the world’s largest cross. Birdseye Bristoe begins with the destruction of the cell tower and works backward to unravel the story of its fall.

For more info about both books, see drawnandquarterly.com

Don’t miss Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch here at Quimby’s Bookstore Fri, June 15th, 7pm

This event is in tandem with The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE] June 16th and 17th, celebrates independent, underground, and alternative comics. There will be comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more. Over 200 guests will be in attendance including: Carrie McNinch, Michael Deforge, Brian Ralph, Gabrielle Bell, Anders Nilsen, Laura Park, Lisa Hanawalt, Julia Wertz, Nate Powell, Secret Acres, Sparkplug, Ken Dahl, Nicole J. Georges, Kevin Huizenga, Patrick Kyle, Blaise Larmee, and The Providence Comics Consortium and more! CAKE wil be at Columbia College’s Ludington Building, 1104 S Wabash. Quimby’s is proud to be a co-sponsor, and even prouder to be sponsoring the CAKE panel “Crude and Rude: The Importance of Vulgarity with Ivan Brunetti, Lisa Hanawalt, Hellen Jo, and Onsmith, Moderated by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg of the comic Crass Sophisticate.” For more info: cakechicago.com

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Weekly Top 10

Published on May 15, 2012 0 Comments

1. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other.

2. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams) $17.95

3. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

4. Plastik #15 $16.99

5. Hark: A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95

6. Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi $12.00 – A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

7. A Greater Monster by David David Katzman and Caitlin Drake McCay (Bedhead) $17.95

8. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF And! Don’t miss Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura siging here this Thursday, May 17th at 7pm!

9. Fader #79 Apr May 12 $5.99

10. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00

Brain Frame #6 This Friday!

Published on May 14, 2012 0 Comments


Adding to the onslaught of Chicago’s Ultimate Weekend of Comics, be sure to catch the 6th edition of Lyra Hill’s outstanding live comics reading series, Brain Frame, this Friday, May 18th.

Featuring the antics and talents and talantics of Krystal DiFronzo, Ian Endsley, Beth Hetland, Carter Lodwick, Kyle O’Connell, Eric Rivera and Sam Sharpe, it’s gonna be a hot night!

Show starts at 8pm around the corner from the Quimbystore at 1542 N. Milwaukee Ave (2nd floor) and it’ll set you back 5 bones (worth every penny).

Weekly Top 10

Published on May 8, 2012 0 Comments

Fag School #4  enters the topsellers this week at #10.

1. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for Free Comic Book Day to see Jeffrey Brown. We still have a few copies of his mini comic that he made specifically for that day. Don’t miss your chance to get this one.

2. Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $5.00 – For real. New material that’s not in the “Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition.” And it’s numbered #1, so we expect more issues. Stay tuned for more adventures.

3. Monocle vol 6 #53 May 12 $12.00

4. Maximumrocknroll #348 May 12 $4.00

5. Handbook vol 6 #2 2012 $6.00 – As if Handbook needed a greatest hits, here’s volume 6, issue 2 delivering second dates with 3 of HB’s hawtest, surrounded by erotical essays and gaynotes of current concern. -EF

6. Cave Girl by Ireal $1.00 – Unfoldable stories of Cave Girl living, a lot about mushroom hunting, musings on bears and beasts, spiders too. -EF

7. How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz $1.00 – Manners with their self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.

8. Shut Up And Love The Rain by Robnoxious (Microcosm) $4.00 – “Robnoxious takes us along his path from early sexual exploration to his current sex-positive, constantly-deprogramming, uber-healthy queerness! Rob’s writing and comics show us that experimentation should start early, that guilty pleasures needn’t be guilty, and that talking it over and being honest with each other will lead to nothin’ but good. There’s hilarious, illuminating essays, intimate accounts of relationships outside the margins, and a touching, inspiring interview with Rob’s parents after his father came out as transgendered.”

9. Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs by The Icarus Project $6.00

10. Fag School #4 New Fiction – Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez (Paquita Press) $5.00 – Fag School is in session and I suggest you try to handle the full course load. This zine is fucking brilliant and amazing – always has been, and I think it might always will be. -EF