New Stuff This Week

Published on September 24, 2011 1 Comment

ZINES
Radical Pet #6 by Margarat Nee $2.50

Found Magazine #7 Willis Earl Beal Special Collection: Limited Edition Acousmatic Sorcery 17 Song Debut Album $20.00
Translady Fanzine #1 by Amos Mac and Zackary Drucker $20.00
Show and Tell #8 a zine made with love in Bend Oregon by Rachel Lee Carmen $3.00
Phallic Titty Manifesto by Jackie Wang $1.50
Peops #6 by Fly $4.00
Great Anarchists by Peter Willis $3.00
Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks by Dniel Gross, Staughton Lynd and Tom Keough (PM Press) $4.95
No More Unicorns by Emilie Robin $5.00
Train Stories #2 by Dre CTA $1.00
Can of Air #1 by Peter E. Rosales $2.00
Shotgun Seamstress #5 $3.00
Bookstores and Baseball: 2nd Inning the Moneyball Issue by David Labounty $4.00

COMICS & COMIX
Feedback #9 by John Isaacson  $2.00 – Jon goes to a lot of punk shows. Then he does comics about them.
Everything Dies #7 by Box Brown $5.00
Get on My Horse by Robin Emilie $3.00
Captcha #4 by Jojo Sherrow $4.00
Devil Burger by Kevin Fair $10.00
French Toast Comix #6 Coffee and Beer Money by Becky Hawkins $4.00
Zegas #1 by Michel Fiffe $9.95

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – New work from the artist of Blankets and Good-Bye Chunky Rice!
1-800 Mice HC by Matthew Turber (Picturebox) $22.95 – Finally! All in one place.
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 4 by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Pure Pajamas: A Handsom Treasure Trove of Scrumptious Visual Delights… by Marc Bell (D&Q) $22.95
Dawn of the Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley (Chronicle) $12.95
Hellboy vol 11 Bride of Hell and Others by Mike Mignola etc. (Dark Horse) $19.99
Hellboy vol 3 HC by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $49.99 – Collects Conqueror Worm and Strange Places.
New York Five TPB by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly (Vertigo) $14.99
New X Men TPB 1 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
Astonishing X-Men TPB Xenogenesis by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews (Marvel) $19.99

ART & DESIGN BOOKS
Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
Cut and Paste 21st Century Collage by Richard Brereton and Caroline Roberts (Laurence King) $29.95
Idols by Gilles Larrain (PowerHouse) $35.00
Rebus by James Jean (Chronicle) $45.00
What The Hell Are You Doing?: Essential David Shrigley (Norton) $35.00 – Thanks to everybody who came out to the David Shrigley event here at the store or the lecture at Columbia.
Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
Everyday Love: The Art of Nidhi Chanani $30.00 – Awfully cute.
Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00
Graffiti 365  by Jay “J.SON” Edlin (Abrams) $32.50 – This book delivers the first real insider’s view into the contemporary graffiti and street-art scenes, as well as their antecedents. A fun, wide-ranging survey of the international graffiti movement, this book uses more than 600 rare, previously unpublished, or legendary images to introduce and describe important artists—from Blade to Banksy—and styles—from bubble to wild. Along the way, Graffiti 365 covers different eras, cities, legendary walls and crews, police and public responses to graffiti, and more. Author J.SON, has been an artist and historian of the graffiti movement for decades—he started writing graffiti in 1973 and retired in 1984. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, Graffiti 365 is a wide-angle snapshot of an entire movement.

DIY
The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day by Laurie Henzel and Debbie Stroller (Stewart/Chang) $29.95

FICTION
All The Pretty People: Tales of Carob Shame and Barbie Envy by Ariel Gore and Summer Pierre (Lit Star) $10.00
Temple of Air by Patricia Ann McNair (Elephant Rock) $16.00
Murder At Any Age by Tony DeMarco $14.99
Zippermouth by Laurie Weeks (Feminist) $14.95
Stories of Haven I ed. by Bob Nelson – An collection of stories from Anthology Magazine.
God Complex by Chris Titus $19.95
In Case You Didn’t Hear Me The First Time by Sharon Skinner $7.99
Marks Night by Brian Schmarje $17.00
50 Plays Fifty Short One Act Plays by Joe Janes $25.00 – Don’t miss Joe Janes here at Quimby’s 10/1!

MAGAZINES
Color Ink Book vol 11 DIY Art Periodical $10.00
Bizarre #180 Oct 11 $10.50
Purple Fashion vol 3 #16 $45.00
Bust Oct Nov 11 $4.99
Razorcake #64 $4.00
Tape Op #85 Sep Nov 11 $4.95
Wax Poetics #48 $9.99
Harpers Magazine Oct 11 $6.99
Tattoo Revolution Oct 11 $11.75

POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Rogue: Searching For the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss (Crown) $25.00
Trans Love Radical Sex: Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary by Morty Diamond (Manic D) $14.95
Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Progressive) $15.95
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melvilee) $16.95

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
Origin of My Organs: Aching What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Loudin $6.95
A Capella Zoo #7 Fall 11 $7.00
Prompts Prompted Spr 11  by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $5.00
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #27 Aug 10 $5.00
Waukegan Pepsodent Conundrum by G. Wallace $3.00

MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab (university of Chicago) $20.00
Crap I Bought on E-Bay: 101 Crazy Bizarre Seriously Weird Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Running) $13.00
Death In the City of Light: Serial Killer of Nazi Occupied Paris by David King (Crown) $26.00
Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending Without Words by Romana Lefevre and Daniel Castro (Chronicle) $12.95
Stories in Reserve vol 1 by The Temporary Travel Office $15.00
Zombies Zombies Zombies: The Most Complete Collection of Zombie Stories Ever Published (Vintage) $25.00
Maybe He’ll Grow Out Of It: Collection of 45 Outlandish Stories of Youth Idealism by Christopher Gutierrez $16.00

SEX & SEXY
RFD #147 Fall 11 $9.95

OTHER STUFF
Flavor Savers Mustache Chip Clips (Gama Go) $8.00
New assorted wrapping papers with such graphics as: Bacon, Fancy Moustaches, Pi, Cupcake! $4.00 per pack
Instantly Antique Wall Decals: 35 Peel and Stick Decals Easy to Apply and Remove by Julia Rothman (Chronicle) $24.95
Crazy new toys! Finger Pickles that make your fingers into pickles! Whaaaat? Yes! ($.75 each!) And Finger Narwhals!
Shark Attack Porcelian Mug $9.50 – So you look inside, and at the bottom there’s a shark fin. Call the troops!
Individually Wrapped Bacon Candy $6.00 – It’s all about the tin it comes in!
Old-Fashioned Bacon Candy Canes $4.50 – September is the new December.
Silver Fox Sly Ceramic Desk Organizer (Gama Go) $20.00
Blood Sucking Sour Candy Blood Cherry $1.50
Gummy Earthworms Candy $.32
Topps Wacky Packages Stickers Series 7 $1.99
Best of CGW Radio by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $6.00
Popcorn Jelly Beans $5.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on September 20, 2011 0 Comments

Just a reminder that tonight artist David Shrigley will be here at 7pm. See you then!

No surprise what tops the list of bestellers — a new issue of Crap Hound and a new issue of Optic Nerve! A double bubble of excitement!

1. Crap Hound #8 Superstition (Show & Tell) $12.00
2. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95
3. Wallpaper Oct 11 $10.00
4. You Dont Get There From Here #20 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
5. Juxtapoz #129 Oct 11 $5.99
6. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.
7. Animal Sex You Might Not Want To Know by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – This mini is so good! It’s a sly and pervy funny-as-shit guide to kinky sex in the animal kingdom. From ungodly long schlongs of Argentine lake ducks to pheromone-fueled Garter Snake fuckballs, Rotman’s bestiary culls the cream of the crop from what sounds like some pretty extensive -uh- “internet research”. -EF

8. Neely Covers Comics To Give You The Creeps (Collectors Edition) by Tom Neely $6.00 – The calls are coming from inside the house as T.Neely does his number on 14 classic pulp comic covers.

9. Filter #45 $5.95
10. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

Kevin Coval Performs Poetry From L-Vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems

Published on September 17, 2011 0 Comments
Oct ’11
12
7:00 pm

Spoken-word poet Kevin Coval, co-founder and Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, will perform at Quimby’s in support of his third collection of poetry L-vis Lives! Racemusic Poems (Haymarket Books, September).

Coval, who has been hailed as “a new glowing voice in the world of literature” by Studs Terkel, explores the dynamic intersection of race and culture in America today with “L-vis,” an imagined persona and pastiche of artists who have used and misused Black music. In Coval’s poetic novella, L-vis’s story is equal parts autobiography and forgotten and re-imagined history. We see shades of Elvis Presley, the Beastie Boys, and Eminem, and meet some of history’s more obscure “whiteboy” heroes and antiheroes. A free audio preview of L-vis Lives!, with poems read by Coval and beats by Coolout Chris, can be heard here: http://bit.ly/oXSIxZ
“This book is bold, brave and morally messy – twelve rounds of knock-down, drag-out shadowboxing against a shapeshifter. The dark humor, intellectual fervor, and emotional rigor Coval brings to bear animates these pieces, turns caricatures to characters…”
—Adam Mansbach, author, Go the F**k to Sleep

For performance, interview, and review requests, contact: Jon Kurinsky, Haymarket Books, jon@haymarketbooks.org

Wed, Oct 12th, 7pm

from hero to most
i am a hero
to most. the great hope
of something other.
a complex back-story.
something other than
the business of my father.
bland’s antonym.
jim crow’s black sheep.
the forgotten son
left to rise in the darkness
among the dis
carded in the wild
of working class, single
mother hoods.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on September 17, 2011 0 Comments

Yes! Optic Nerve #12 is here! $5.95

ZINES
Punch Yourself In the Face and Drop Dead by Dimitri Karakostas (No Fun Press) $7.50
Basic Paper Airplane #5 by Joshua James Amberson $3.00
Zisk #20 Fall 11 $2.00
Half Nelson #2 $2.50
Bushwick Review #3 $5.00
Class Struggle #71 Aug Sep 11 $3.00

COMICS & COMIX
The Plot #1 a Monster in the Forbidden Forest by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Charming new comic from Neil, our comics sommalier. He got it all ready for SPX and boy, was it worth it!
Leper by Jeff Zwirek $3.00
Love Pile #1  by Ze San San $8.00
Barefoot On Bumblebees #1 $2.00
Fest #1 by Nicholas Bennett and Christopher Stryker $3.00
You Dont Get There From Here #20 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Jumping Bo: An American Legend by Alex #1 and #2 each $2.00
19 Short Comics by Drewscape $7.00
Boy and the Worm by Drewscape $5.00
Cartoon Picayune #2 Fall 11 by Josh Kramer, James Sturm, and Katherine Roy $4.00
Homos In Herstory 19th Century Edition by Elvis Bakaitis $3.00
Twinks for Sale: A Humble Comics Zine $3.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
Mark Twains Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Michael Kupperman has already indulged his love for Mark Twain in the pages of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, but the recent publication of Twain’s (real) autobiography has inspired the cartoonist to a full-blown book-length master- piece of hilarity.
Readers eager to see how Twain hunted the Yeti (“Come out here and face me, you snow-covered coward!”), met the Six Million Dollar Man, had a love affair with Mamie Eisenhower (“Boy oh boy, this lady was one hot dish”), and accidentally became involved in X-rated films, will devour this tome, which of course is augmented with Kupperman’s hilariously deadpan illustrations. 128 pages of full-color comics.


Prison Pit Book 3 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Armed Garden and Other Stories by David B. (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Man Who Grew His Beard by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Art of Joe Kubert by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Evil Garden by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95
Troop 142 by Mike Dawson (Secret Acres) $20.00
Korgi Book 3 by Christian Slade (Top Shelf) $9.95
Zahras Paradise by Amir and Khalil (First Sec) $19.99
New X-Men TPB vol 5 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
Crossed vol 2 Family Values by David Lapham (Avatar) $19.99
Lost Lions by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Hip Pocket Sleaze The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Tascen) $39.99 –
Twenty-seven of the famous Grimms’ fairy tales in an all-new translation, containing illustrations by some of the most famous illustrators from the 1820s to the 1950s.
Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00

DIY
Rabbit Food Cookbook: Practical Vegan Recipes Food History and Other Miscellany by Beth A. Barnett (Sasquatch) $21.00
Salad Daze: The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook by Alex Brown etc. (MBP) $25.00
Happy Buds: Marijuana For An Occasion by Ed Rosenthal (Quick) $12.95 Dance, play, chill, snuggle, this book is all about helping readers – whether they are casual or regular users. Select the right varieties for any mood or activity. This book offers expert guidance on marijuana buds that work best for more than 25 occasions, profiling more than 80 varieties of bud. Ed Rosenthal is joined by buds. That is, his friends Anna Foster and Mamakind.

FICTION
Karaoke Singers Guide to Self Defense by Tim Kinsella (Featherproof) $14.95 – Member of Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, Chicago’s own Tim Kinsella’s first novel tells the story of family members that reunite for a funeral, published by local publisher Featherproof.


Sour Candies by Jon Dambacher $19.95
Black Like Us a Century of Lesbian Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction ed. by Devon W. Carbado (Cleis) $24.95
American Wasteland: Bleak Tales On the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 911 ed. by Jason Pettus $20.00

MAGAZINES
Juxtapoz #129 Oct 11 $5.99
Shots #113 Fall 11 $6.50
Wallpaper Oct 11 $10.00
Up Magazine #44 Sum 11 $8.75
Goodfellas #3 $12.00
True Crime Aug 11 $8.99
Romka #5 $12.00
Open Minds Oct Nov 11 $6.50
Skeptic vol 16 #4 $6.95
ID Magazine Pre Fall 11 $12.00
High Times Nov 11 $5.99
Art of Mary Jane #6 $6.99
BlackBook #86 Sep 11 $4.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #4 Fall 11 $15.00
Explosion Proof Magazine #3 Sum 11 $9.00
Creative Nonfiction #42 Sum 11 $10.00
Radical History Review Fall 11 $14.00
Against the Current #156 Sep Oct 11 $5.00

POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Weinstein) $25.00
F’em Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls by Jennifer Baumgardner (Seal) $17.00
How the World Works: Four Classic Bestsellers in One Affordable Volume by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian (Soft Skull) $18.00 – Published as four short books in the famous Real Story series—What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good.
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington (Seven Stories) $14.00
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward (Oxford) $11.95
Liberating Society From The State and Other Writings by Erich Musham and Gabriel Kuhn (PM Press) $26.95
Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky by Nicholas Von Hoffman (Nation) $15.99

CHILDRENS
Treehorn Trilogy by Parry Florence Heide and Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $29.95
Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) $29.99 – By the author of Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking by Philipe Coudray (Toon) $12.95

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
Origin of My Organs Aching: What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Louden $6.95
South Loop Review vol 13 $10.00
First Line vol 13 #3 $3.00
Literary Review vol 54 #4 Sum 11 $8.00
Maximumrocknroll #341 Oct 11 $4.00
Sound Projector #20: Full Colour Edition $39.50, Mono Black and White Edition $12.00
Grow No Moss by Julia Hendrickson $16.00 – Local poet, with screen-printed images done at the local Spudnik Press.
I’m Not Your Fucking Doctor: Medicine Poems by Dustin C. Pickett $10.00

MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
Blood In, Blood Out: Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood by John Lee Brook (Headpress) $19.95
Steampunk Poe by Zdenko Basic and Manuel Sumberac (and oh yeah, Poe) (Running Press) $18.95 – Every Poe story and poems is fully illustrated with steampunk-inspired art—from 1920s aviation gear to elaborate musical instruments—creating a fresh perspective on his work containing bizarre characters of madmen and mystery.
Crap I Bought on EBay: 101 Crazy, Bizarre, Seriously Weird, Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Weinstein) $13.00
Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer (Pomegranate) $35.00
Amsterdamned If You Do: An Anthology About Setting ed. by Traci Kim (CCLaP) $20.00
99 Problems: Essays About Running and Writing by Ben Tanzer (CCLaP) $20.00
Spiritual Snake Oil: Fads and Fallacies in Pop Culture by Chris Edwards (See Sharp) $11.95

SEX & SEXY
Steamlust Stempunk Erotic Romance ed. by Kristina Wright (Cleis) $14.95 – Fetishizing the wardrobe, language, fantasy and rituals of steampunk, editrix extraordinaire Kristina Wright selects erotic stories of shiny brass and crushed velvet; mechanical inventions and romantic conventions; sexual fantasy and kinky fetish.


Take Me There Trans and Genderqueer Erotica ed. by Tristan Taormino (Cleis) $14.95
Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $14.95
Pinups #15 Micka $14.00
Front #159 $9.99

OTHER STUFF
Field Notes Blank Journals $9.95 – Our customers asked us to get these awesome blank books sold in packs of 3. And here they are! Blank, lined and graph styles. Also in other styles like neon colors, balsam fir and Illinois County Fair. They’re movin’ fast!


We Wish You a Crazy Christmas: 30 Oversized Postcards (Darling & Co.) $9.95 – Never to soon to get in the holiday craze.

Happy Birthday To Us!

Published on September 15, 2011 1 Comment

We’re 20 years old today! Almost old enough to drink. Definitely old enough to cause some trouble.

Thanks to Original Quimby’s founder Steven Svymbersky, all the way overseas in Amsterdam, who sent us these flowers with the card that says “Congratulations On 20 Years of Weirdness and Depravity!” We are proud to carry on two decades of mayhem!

Celebrate with us tonight at our event featuring Rebekah Mercuri reading from her book Weeding the Seeds of Deceit, her book of fiction closely based on her own experiences growing up in a catholic cult. 7pm.