New Stuff This Week

Published on February 10, 2012 0 Comments

 

We’re excited to have mono.kultur #30 – Chris Ware: A Sense of Thereness, Winter 2011/12 $15.00 – Interview by Urs Bellermann, artwork by Chris Ware.

Zines
Big Hands #9 by Aaron Lake Smith $4.00 – The first line I read of this zine when I randomly opened to a page in the middle of it had me hooked: “Overnight they had to drag an employee out of the plant after a vat of chemicals boiled over on top of him.” -LM
Bestiary Captain Birthday Press by Michelle Yacht $3.00
Amazing Women #6 by Devan Elyse Bennett $2.50
Moms Mabley A Life by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
Goat Fucker #2 $6.00 – This second issue of GF is more zine-y than the first issue, which was more comics heavy. Text about occulty stuff, and would be a good companion zine to go with The Current. -LM
Ugly  No 1 #2 Feb 12 A Collection of Drawings and Crap by Matt Soria $4.00 – Attractive humour pamphlet with Shriglesque overtones. -EF
Broken Pencil #54 $5.95
Super Friends #1 $3.00 – Featuring found notes and pictures in the tradition of FOUND mag. Always interesting, no matter who is publishing it. It makes you want to hold on to or burn any evidence of photos you’re in or your early published work (read: notes you wrote in junior high). -LM
Moral Fiber #2 and #4 by Chris Pernula $2.00 each – Clever pictures, quotes, drawings and what have you. David Shrigley meets street art, with some Fly-ish portrait renderings. Very funny. And snarky. Just the way I like it. -LM
Suitable 4 Framin #8 Win 11 $5.00
Oh My Word Picture That #1 by Kriss Stress $2.00
Meanwhile by Sydney Paula Benjamin Smith $2.00
The Inner Swine vol 17 #3 and #4 by Jeff Somers $2.00

Comics & Comix
Berlin #18 by Jason Lutes (D&Q) $4.95
Chameleon #2 2011 by Jesse Balmer et. al $10.00
Peehole #7 by Jim Donaldson $3.00 – Worlds collide! Welcome to the life of blood-drenched, skull-kissing, pantsless peacenik Danziggy! File this one next to Henry and Glenn Forever on your Danzig Humor Zeitgeist Shelf. -EF

Wecome Fever Its Me the Magic #2 by Keenan Marshall Keller (DrippyBone) $4.00
Galactic Breakdown #4  by Keenan Marshall Keller (DrippyBone) $8.00
Brendan Wells Presents: Mickey Comics #2 Fantasia by Walt Disney Jr. $3.00 – Mickey drinks, Mickey swears, Mickey admits that Fantasia is boring. Isn’t this way more interesting than the movie? – LM
Free Dog Food #2 Jan by Brendan Wells et. al $3.00
Station In Life #1 Dec 11 by Delia Jean Hickey $3.99
Vortex #1 by William Cardini $5.00 – The narrative of a primordeal blobby, swampy Paul Nudd-like goo, at once escaping and merging, in the “Hyperverse.”

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Chairs Hiatus by Matthew Bogart $9.00
Athos in America by Jason (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Preacher Book Three HC by Garth Ennis et. al (Vertigo) $39.99
Jinchalo by Matthew Forsythe (D&Q) $17.95
Batman Time and the Batman TPB by Grant Morrison et. al (DC) $14.99
Batman and Robin Batman Reborn  by Grant Morrison et. al (DC) $14.99
One Model Nation by C. Allbritton Taylor and Courtney Taylor (Titan) $24.95 – This is the epic journey of art noise band One Model Nation, the final dark days of the Baader-Meinoff Gang, and the band’s mysterious disappearance only months later. It’s by Courtney Taylor, from the band The Dandy Warhols and Jim Rugg, the co-writer and artist of Street Angel.
The Saga of the Swamp Thing HC Book Five by Alan Moore et. al (Vertigo) $29.99

Art & Design Books
Bellas Pockets by Lisa Bauso (Read Leaf) $19.95
The Delusional Story of the Jonathan LeVine Gallery by Caleb Neelon (Gingko) $34.95
Every Man Is My Enemy: Skinner (Gingko) $29.95 – Influenced by 80s pop culture, human struggle, myths and violence, dungeons and dragons, and the heavy metal gods, Skinner’s mind is one full of mayhem fueled by a calculated chaos. His work has been featured in many publications, including Blisss, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose, and Beautiful / Decay. This is just one of the many images in this book.

Closer by Soren Solkaer Starbird (Gingko) $35.00 – Amazing photographs of many of the world’s leading musicians from this Danish photographer: Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, The White Stripes, Kate Nash, Metallica, Damon Albarn and more.
We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project by Workhorse and PAC (Rizzoli) $35.00 – From early 2009 to mid-2010, the Underbelly Project was the world’s best-kept urban art secret. This is the only book documenting the project, during which the world’s leading urban artists, such as Swoon, Faile, Revok, and Lister, made late-night trips to an abandoned New York City subway station, painting night after night to transform the space into the largest underground art gallery in the world.

DIY
Seed to Weed: A Pot Enthusiasts Guide to Growing Marijuana by Chris Stone $13.99
Sillk Screen Basics: A Complete How To Handbook by Claire  Dalquie et. al $24.95

Fiction
The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith $23.99 – The tale of fascination with a random event sets into motion a madcap caper that will bring together an eccentric mathematician, last heard of investigating the physics of free will, a lovelorn Cambridge postgraduate and more.
Moment in the Sun by John Sayles (McSweeneys) $18.00
Simple Machine Like the Lever by Evan P Schneider $14.00
Node by Tito Perdue $12.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us by Andreas Kluth (Riverhead) $26.95
Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett $24.95 – Before Jules Verne’s flying machines and H. G. Wells’s spaceships, there was Frank Reade, globe-trotting inventor and original steampunk hero. Frank Reade magazines were the world’s first science fiction periodicals, enthralling millions of readers with tales of fantastic inventions and adventures. Now many of the spectacular images from the vintage dime novel series are being reprinted for the first time in more than a century, along with excerpts from the action-packed stories.

The Electric Information Age Book: Mcluhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback by Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michaels $22.95 – Zinesters take note! There’s a cultural cut and paste in the house.
Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast Got Its Crunch by Marty Gitlin $19.95

Magazines
Juxtapoz #134 Mar 12 $5.99
Wholphin #15 DVD $19.95
Zingmagazine #22 $30.00
There Magazine #13 $15.00
Eyemazing 2011 #4 $35.00
Mermaids and Mythology #2 $8.99
Tattoo Revue #157 $7.99
Witches and Pagans #24 $6.00
Skeptic vol 17 #1 $6.95
Mojo #220 Mar 12 $9.99
Record Collector Feb 12 $10.50
Mixmag #249 Feb 12 $10.50
Uncut Mar 12 #178 $9.99
Adbusters Mar Apr 12 #100 vol 20 #2 $8.95
In These Times Feb 12 $3.50
The Progressive Feb 12 $4.95
Radical History Review Win 12 $14.00
Tattoo #272 Apr 12 $6.99
Tattoo Savage Apr 12 #119 $7.99
Xalt vol 1 #1 $5.95 – A new tattoo and body art mag
Rebel Ink Magazine Mar 12 $5.99.

Literary Journals, Chap Books and Poetry
N Plus 1 #13 Win 12 $13.95
Creative Nonfiction #43 Fall Win 11
Elephant #9 Win 11 $19.99
PEN America #15 $10.00
Coffin Factory #2 $9.00
Pank #6 $15.00
IdN vol 18 #6 $17.95

Other Stuff
Beci Orpin Blank Notebooks: Lost Girl, Bear Magic $7.95 each
Free Wheelin Loony by Sid Yiddish $10.00

Not everything listed here is available on our website; much of it is in the brick and mortar store. To see new items available for purchase on quimbys.com click here.

Awesome Website for Zinesters: stolensharpierevolution.org

Published on February 9, 2012 0 Comments

You loved the zine, now love the online resource. stolensharpierevolution.org went live last week. The instigator? Alex Wrekk of the DIY zine resource Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Zine Resource (and the zine Brainscan, among others). The site is a companion to the book, just in time for the tenth anniversary of the first edition of the book. stolensharpierevolution.org features constant updating of things like zine distribution resources like distros and stores that buy and sell zines, zine-related event listing, international zine-related contacts and more.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on February 7, 2012 0 Comments

1. Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotexte)- An eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord.

2. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman $1.00

3. Hi-Fructose #22 $6.95

4. Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00

5. New Adventures of Beastlord by Chris Kuzma $4.00

6. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Marra Benjamin $3.00

7. Apartamento #8 $19.95

8. Eye of the Majestic Creature by Leslie Stein $4.00 – Hot on the heels of the EOTMC collection Fantagraphics releaed this Spring comes a brand new issue of one of my favorite minicomics, Eye of the Majestic Creature. This time, things take a turn for the worse: even deceptively happy-go-lucky elements like LarryBear’s anthropomorphic guitarfriend Marshmallow are getting drunk a little to much. Stein sets Larry’s New York life of arbitrary retail and sand counting to the grim realist prose of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. It’s a bit of heartwrench punctuated with Stein’s unflappable dark humor, bleaker certainly but still brilliant. -EF

9. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90- Good gawd, after a two year hiatus we are back in the pink. This may be the last time Butt goes to print, but it’s hardly a bitter end- this issue serves it extra long and thick. Obscene yet classy homoerotic art? Check. Juicy interviews with a whole gamut of gays? Check. John Waters? Check. Cool, let’s party like its 1999. -EF
10. Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of Doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement.

New Stuff This Week

Published on February 3, 2012 0 Comments

Tonight (Fri the 3rd) is Punk Rock Karaoke at The Beauty Bar, a fundraiser for the Chicago Zine Fest. See you there!

Zines
Rad Dad #21 Occupy by Tomas Moniz $4.00
On Being Hard Femme #1 by Jackie Wang $1.20 – Wang presents a great little zine about identity, toughness, bike grease femininity and lace trimmed queerness and making up definitions as you go along. -EF
Xerography Debt #30 $4.00
Railroad Semantics #5 2011 by Aaron Dactyl $6.50 – Absolutely, positively, without a doubt, obsessed with the rails. Another huge, densely packed issue, plenty of nice spreads of train tags and built around a winding travelogue taking us down the line from one notable stop to the next.

Want What You Got 2012 by Ana Norell $1.00
Travel On #1 and #2 by David Solomon $2.00 each – Solomon writes about his icoloclastic sentiments and what he’s trying to iconoclash with. Conversations about scars, letters about love, essays about collecting one’s own ephemera. -EF

Ways of the Two Spirits #1 Jan 12 by Devan Elyse Bennett $3.00 – Part One in a series of a five zine series of Queer History Trans Traditions.
Notes and Bolts #1 A Compendium of Music Food and Art by Kris Stress et al. $4.50
Thought Catalog 2011 by Emily Kozik $5.00
Light in the Dark With the Neon Arms BY Sonor On $10.00
Pigeon to the Phoenix $5.00
Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman, English grade 8 April 13 1991 $1.00

Comics & Comix
Nix Comics Quarterly #4 $5.00
Richie Rich: Poor Little Rich Boy by Sonor On $20.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by R. Crumb (Fatagraphics) $19.99
Action, Mystery, Thrills: Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933- 1945 (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Young Romance: The Best of Simon and Kirbys Romance Comics (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Rat Catcher by Andy Diggler et al. (Vertigo) $12.99
Unspent Love or Things I Wish I Told You by Shannon Gerard (Conundrum) $20.00
Hermoddities by Temple Bates (Conundrum) $20.00
Colliers Popular Press – David Collier’s 30 Years On the Newsstand by David Collier (Conundrum) $20.00

Art & Design Books
Lisa Anne Auerbach Umma Porjects July 11 – Oct 11 99 by Lisa Anne Auerbach et al. (University of Michigan Museum of Art) $7.00 – I love this phase from the introduction: “she probes the possibilities of craft and advocates for the leftist reclaimation of homemaking.”

Inklings by Vida Simon $20.00
Don’t Get Lonely Dont Get Lost by Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum) $25.00 – Sensitive, minimal and compelling. By the artist of Something to Pet the Cat About.
Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art ed. by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel (Damiani) $39.95

DIY
Mend It Better – Creative Patching Darning and Stitching by Kristin M. Roach (Scholastic) $18.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Grey Gardens by Sara and Rebekah Maysles (FNP) $45.00
Queer Spirits by AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs $34.95

Poltics & Revolution
Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics by Deric Shannon et al. (AK) $21.00
Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists by Janina Ciezadlo, Penny Rosemont et al. (Kerr) $17.00

Fiction
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano (ND) $13.95 – Now in soft cover.
Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill (Harper) $13.99
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic ed by Jimenez Eduardo Mayo (SB) $16.00
Embassytown SC by China Mieville (Del Ray) $16.00

Magazines
Cabinet #44 24 Hours $12.00
Apartamento #8 $19.95
Yeti #12 $14.95
Artbox #18 $10.99
Toilet Paper #3 Jun 11 $12.00
Toilet Paper #4 Nov 11 $12.00
Dwell Mar 12 $5.99
Wallpaper Feb 12 $10.00
Sovereign #32 Feb 12 $3.95
Flaunt #119 $10.95

Sex & Sexy
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots  – Flaming Challenges… by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (AK) $17.95
Luscious: Stories of Anal Eroticism ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $15.95

This Just In! “Zine Firsts” Submissions Wanted

Published on February 1, 2012 0 Comments

Are you a Chicago-based zinester or a zine-friendly reader? One of our Quimby faves, Jami Sailor, wants to hear from you. Here she is, we’ll put her on the line…

Recently I did a reading at Quimby’s that evolved into a talk about how we get into zines, the first zine we encounter and how that encounter has influenced us, and other first experiences relating to zines. This lead me to want to make a project focusing on this topic ZINES and FIRST TIMES = the first time you heard about zines, the first zine you ever got, your first zine fest (attending or tabling), the first time you bought something from a distro or from a brick and mortar store like Quimby’s, first time reviewed in Factsheet 5, Zine World, MMR, any first relating to zines.

Please consider submitting. For the first issue I am focusing on (present and past)  zinesters currently living in the Chicago area. The deadline for the first issue will be April 1, 2012. Submissions can be text, comics, or a combination. You can submit a comic, write an essay, submit a photograph, your choice. If you would prefer I could also interview you on this topic. Just let me know.

Topic: Firsts relating to zines
Deadline: April 1, 2012
Format: I will layout text pieces unless you have thoughts about how your piece should be laid out. No word limit. If you are submitting a comic or graphic-based piece, the dimensions are half letter size. Try to keep your comic four pages and under.

If you are interested in submitting let me know, and I will harass you. If you are not interested let me know, and I will not harass you. If I don’t hear from you, you may be harassed. Please forward this onto any current or past zine and mini-comic creators you think might be interested. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your time and I look forward to your submissions!

Jami Sailor,
yoursecretaryzine (at) gmail (dot) com