Weekly Top 10

Published on July 19, 2011 0 Comments

Here’s the topsellers. But first, a reminder about our event this coming Saturday (July 23rd) at 7 pm, we’re excited to welcome Cassie J. Sneider with Dave Roche and Danny ‘Ratso’ Rathbun, which should be hilarious and fun. See our event calendar for more info.

Weekly Top 10

1. Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) $12.00 – Collects highlights from #44 to #48. including tales from the Dead End, Lanky, and the Back to the Land series.

2. Logan Square Literary Review #7 Sum 11 $5.00 – Fiction from Ray Cline and Evan Seeder, photos from April Lynn, poetry from Alicia Hilton and Brandon Holmquesta bike comic, a profile on the Logan Square CROP project and a recipe for kroppkakor.

3. Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00

4. Roctober #49 $4.00

5. Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00

6. Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

7. 8-Track Mind #101 Zines vs Blogs ed. by F.R. Russ Forster $3.00 – WELCOME BACK 8-TRACK MIND!!!! Holy Moly! After a 10-year hiatus 8-Track Mind heeds the call of the Revenge of Print and pulls a fresh new issue out of the oven! Man, this was the zine that I remember reading way-back-when that REALLY made me think, “Woah, you really can make a great zine about ANYTHING.” Truly. This issue goes light on the 8-trackology but stays true to its analog-obsessed roots with a well-rounded symposium all about “Zines Versus Blogs”. -EF — Contributors: Chris Barrows, Peter Bergman, Joe Carducci, Kim Cooper, Brendan DeVallance, Tony DuShane, Sam Green, Lance Laurie, Alison Levy, Tom Lynch, Danny Plotnick, Dan Sutherland, V Vale and Lucien Williams.

8. Your Secretary #10 Dig Deep #3 by Jami Sailor and Heather C. $2.00 –  Library-themed librarian zine split. Heather gushes about working the Young Adult program and Jami gives a run down of Library School field work and public library porn use. Something to definitely check out! -EF

9. Hobo Magazine #13 $15.00

10. Yeti #11 $11.95 – Another great issue of Yeti – a cd of exclusive tracks and a thick journal of comics, interviews, photos and art. Always a stunner. This issue: ON THE CD: all rare/unreleased music –a dozen tracks that are as long as their respective track numbers, so that track 12 is 12 minutes long and track 4 is 4 minutes long and you probably don’t need any more examples than that. The result is a 78-minute-long disc featuring Snake Hole, Sloppy Heads, Johnita and Joyce Collins, Atole, Gospel Creators, White Rainbow, The Dirashi Tribe, Roy Montgomery, Golden Retriever, Oneida, Phill Niblock, and Happy New Year. INSIDE THE BOOK: .interviews with Phill Niblock, Roy Montgomery, and Brian Chippendale; photography by Olivia Wyatt and Megan Holmes; art by Marcellus Hall and Victor Kerlow; an archival interview with Joe Brainard by Anne Waldman; fiction by Kimberly Parko and R. Foggo; rare May ’68 posters from Grenoble, and the Skaters.

David Shrigley comes to Quimby’s 9/20!

Published on July 16, 2011 0 Comments
Sep ’11
20
7:00 pm

David Shrigley – Live and in person! 9/20 7pm at Quimby’s

and 9/21 at Columbia College

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? The Essential David Shrigley

“David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.” -Dave Eggers

“With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I’ve never known—and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I’m laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me.” -Miranda July

David Shrigley is the rare artist that can comfortably walk the fine line between pop culture and high art. While he’s animated videos for musicians such as Blur and Bonny Prince Billy, his work can also be seen in world renowned museums such as MoMA and the Tate Modern, and his highly distinctive style has been on display in galleries in New York, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, and beyond. He is also clearly a madman.

The aptly named WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING: The Essential David Shrigley [W. W. Norton & Company; October 24th, 2011; $35.00 hardcover] is an outrageous compilation of his illustrations, comics, photography and sculpture. His crude drawings and unexpected compositions are at once childish and clever, and each depiction oddly sincere. They capture the morbid humor of Edward Gorey, the absurdity of a Monty Python sketch, and the peculiar perspective of a Charles Addams cartoon. In short, this beautiful, full color collection is an indispensible introduction to one of contemporary art’s most fascinating and provocative minds.

The pieces in this book are an eclectic and encompassing representation of Shirgley’s interest in the surreal. From a photograph of a hot dog (affixed with googly eyes and tucked comfortably into bed) to childlike drawings of humanity’s most grotesque members (a man drinking a goblet of blood, captioned simply with “CHEERS!”) this book is a both a celebration of condemnation of humanity’s most base urges, fears, and delights.

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? is remarkably bold, and Shrigley leaves no topic untouched. Through colorful commentary, he explores everything from clowns to caffeine, sexuality to God, and all the delightfully inappropriate bits in between. You would be hard-pressed to find, in any other work of art, a match to Shrigley’s satirical brilliance. As Will Self points out in the introduction, “Shrigley’s photographic works suggest the refined eye of someone sent back from the future beyond the looming apocalypse, charged with assembling images that, while ostensibly of the mundane, nonetheless explain how it came to pass that humanity destroyed itself.” By turns unsettling, moving, and gut-wrenchingly funny, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? is a revealing glimpse into an offbeat, darkly comedic, and utterly hilarious artistic mind. For more info: davidshrigley.com/

Also, click here for a hilarious animated video abut the book!

Tues, Sept 20th, 7pm here at Quimby’s Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave., Chicago

Wed, Sep 21st , 6:30pm – 9:30pm at Columbia College Chicago – Stage Two 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor — Quimby’s will  be there to sell books!

These events are co-sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, Columbia College and AIGA Chicago.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on July 15, 2011 0 Comments

Pitchfork weekend is upon us. Well, need an AIR-CONDITIONED respite? Why not join us here? We have some very exciting new things, including a new issue of 8 Track Mind, a Cometbus comp, two steampunk art books (how splendid!), a Tao Lin book, new ishes of Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose and more.

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection Collects by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) $12.00 Collects highlights from #44 to #48 including Lanky, Back to the Land and more.
8 Track Mind #101 Zines Vs Blogs by Russ Forster $3.00 – First issue in TEN YEARS! 2011 has truly become The Revenge of Print. Now where’s your zine?
Syndicate Product #18.2 Syndicate Consumption Second Quarter Apr-Jun by AJ Michel $1.00 – A truly entertaining overview of what master zinester AJ has been reading and enjoying. Always a compelling read.
Paper Radio #6 Formerly Signals A Radio and Media Zine by DJ Frederick $3.00
Comic Bible vol 4 #1 $10.00
Man Meat by Susie Swanton $1.00
I Dont Understand Farming #6 and I Dont Understand Farming #7 $.75 each
Niente $3.00
Uptown Problems #2 $4.00
Atlas #1 and Atlas #2 $3.00 each
Sob Story #9 $4.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
2012 by Sam Gaskin (Secret Acres) $7.00
Thirteen Steps of Getting Dumped by DGW Hedges and Otto Splotch $5.00
Melted Shelter by Otto Splotch $8.00
Death of Elijah Lovejoy by Noah Van Sciver $5.00
RASL #11 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies vol 1 by Fiffe Michel (Image) $18.99
Classic Next Men vol 1 by John Byrne (IDW) $24.99
Incognito TPB Bad Influences by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Icon) $17.99
Jack of Fables vol 9 The End TPB by Bill Willingham and var. (Vertigo) $17.99
New X Men TPB Book 3 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism by Jay Stongman (Korero) $35.00
Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions from the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement by Art Donovan (Fox Chapel) $19.95
Kicks Japan by Manami Okazaki and Geoff Johnson (MBP) $30.00

FICTION!
You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am by Tao Lin (Action) $14.00
Dance With Dragons HC by George RR Martin (Three Rivers Press) $35.00 – Song of Ice and Fire Book five.
Johannes Cabal: The Detective by Jonathan L. Howard (Anchor) $14.95
Midnight Movie by Tobe Hooper and Alan Goldsher (Three Rivers Press) $14.00 – Local writer Goldsher with the creator of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I Knew You’d Be Lovely by Alethea Black (Broadway) $14.00
Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime From Tin House (Tin House) $18.95
American Gods 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (Morrow) $26.99
Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images and Stories From Top Authors and Artists by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Harper) $22.99
Johnny Too Bad by Heather Augustyn and Carrie Coslov $15.00 – Augustyn is also the author of the comprhensive book Ska: An Oral History. One might say Johnny Too Bad is a book of historical fiction based in the birthplace of ska.

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Camera Obscura vol 3 Sum Fall 11 $12.95
Gathering of Tribes #13 $12.95
Ninth Letter vol 8 #1 $14.95

MUSIC BOOKS!
Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters ed. by Paul JR Maher (Chicago Review Press) $19.95

CHILDRENS!
Symphony City by Amy Martin (McSweeneys) $17.95
Beyond Stolen: Flames Forbidden Fruit and Telephone Booths- Our Own Myths Our Own Futures by students at June Jordan School for Equity (826) $22.00

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Sinister Forces Book 2: A Warm Gun – A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda (Trine) $24.95 – Now in soft cover.
Celebrity Comics Babble: 34 Stars In Their Own Words by Mary Ann Pierro $18.95 – From Comic Bible Magazine.
Shock Value: How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares Conquered Hollywood by Jason Zinoman (Penguin) $25.95
Muldoon: A True Chicago Ghost Story – Tales of a Forgotten Rectory by R. and D. Facchini (Lake Claremont) $15.00
Near West Side Stories: Struggles For Community in Chicagos Maxwell Street Neighborhood by Carolyn Eastwood $17.95
Politics of Place: A History of Zoning In Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $19.95
Sports Traveler Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $15.95
On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department by Daniel P. Smith (Lake Claremont) $17.95

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
People Wasn’t Made to Burn: The True Story of Race Murder and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen (Lake Claremont) $22.95
Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin (Pathfinder) $24.95
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg (Pathfinder) $14.95
Sexism and Science by Evelyn Reed (Pathfinder) $20.00
Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of Brian S. Wilson (PM Press) $20.00 – Autobiography of an activist who lost both his legs courtesy of a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action. Chomsky said that this memoir “should be read and pondered, and its lessons should be taken to heart by those who hope to create a more decent world.”

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #127 Aug 11 $5.99
Hi Fructose #20 $6.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #2 $6.25
Fortean Times #277 Aug 11 $11.99
Yeti #11 $11.95
True Crime Jul 11 $8.99
True Crime Summer Special 11 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
Namaste vol 12 #2 $9.99
Open Minds Aug Sep 11 $6.50
True Detective Jul 11 $4.99
Art of Mary Jane Jul 11 $6.99
Scootering #301 $8.99
Dazed & Confused #99 Jul 11 $9.99
Horror Hound #30 Jul Aug 11 $6.99
Wire #329 Jul 11 $10.99
Classic Rock #160 Sum 11 $11.99
Black Velvet #69 $6.25
Hip Mama #49 $5.95
Radical Philosophy #168 $13.00
Dissent Sum 11 $10.00
Bound By Ink vol 1 #6 $7.99
Tattoo Life #71 $6.99
Tattoo Scout #24 $9.60

SEX & SEXY!
Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir by Sheila McClear $14.95
Filament vol 3 #1 $12.50
Front #157 $9.99

Weekly Top 10

Published on July 13, 2011 0 Comments

1. Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G.Warrior (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – The greatest heavy metal story ever told—the complete tale of a life lived for metal. Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, METALION includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer Mag—Slayer 1 through Slayer XX, plus the precursor Live Wire zine—spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life’s story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to metal party beast to world-weary metal survivor. The book also features over 100 rare photographs, including two color sections and a portrait gallery of photographs taken by Kristiansen himself. For twenty-five years, Norway’s Slayer Mag published the gospel of black metal and death metal, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and relentless offbeat humor. With this anthology/memoir, editor Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen unfolds the extreme highs and lows of a life lived for heavy metal. Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Mag quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of Slayer Mag exploded along with the extreme metal underground, and as black metal rose to prominence in Norway in the 1990s, Slayer Mag remained the final word on the moods and motivations of those dark times. Expertly edited by friend and peer Tara G. Warrior. Thanks to everybody that came out for this amazing event last week!

2. Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #3 Sum 11 $15.00

3. Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00

4. Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00

5. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00

6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00 – Jenna and Jami are like a zine archivist Dream Team getting into a lot of crooks and nannies and doing it all in a zine. It’s a tricky topic…how and why do you archive media that often openly flaunts itself as underground, anti-establishment and anti-catagorization. They interview Milo Miller from the Queer Zine Archive Project, Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines, Adela C Licona author of Zines In the Third Space and Teal Triggs, author of the controversial “Fanzines” coffee table book that glossed over many issues of author consent and compensation. Jenna “Lower East Side Librarian” Freedman rounds out the issue with a breakdown of what seperates zines from blogs.
7. Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

8. Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00

9. Paying For It a Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

10. Your Secretary #6 Lake Effect #1 Split by Jami Sailor  and K $2.00

New Stuff This Week

Published on July 8, 2011 0 Comments

Countdown 2.5 hours from this very moment: Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior Discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries.

ZINES!
Purple Faced Man by John Minkoff $3.00
Refresh by Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay and Laura Parnes $5.00
Peehole #4 and Peehole #5: Weird Dreams by Jim Donaldson $2.00 each
You Made Devotion A Virtue #2 Sad Eyed Girl $2.00
Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00
Atlas of Childhood #2: Zine About Childrens Books by Celia C Perez $2.00
I Dreamed I was Assertive #13 $2.00
Travesty #1 Musings On Being a Transvestite Metalhead Oct 09 $2.00 and #2 is $1.00
Blue Floral Gusset $1.00
All I Want Is Everything #1 by Caitlin Constantine $3.00
Strange Thoughts Drawings and Things by Marta Chudolinska $15.00
Dark Matter Dunkle Materie $20.00
Untitled Hands: Fired This Is It Searching For Bullet Holes by Marta Chudolinska $5.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Plaid #2 (Sensational Second Issue) by Josh Lees $2.00
Plaid #3 (Thrashin Third Issue) by Josh Lees $2.00
Summer Daze #1 by Marta Chudolinska $4.00
Sad Luck #1 by Marta Chudolinska $10.00
Story of Your Life #1 by Marta Chudolinska $2.50

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Kick Ass TPB by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. (Marvel) $19.99 – Back in print.
Revolver TPB by Matt Kindt (Vertigo) $19.99

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Henry at Home $20.00

DIY BOOKS!
Elements of Fucking Style: A Helpful Parody by Chris Baker and Jacob Hansen (SMP) $9.99
Mushrooms, Myth, and Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe by Ruck, Hoffman + (Citylights) $23.95

FICTION!
Astounding The Amazing and The Unkown by Paul Malmont (Simon) $26.00 – From the author of Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.
True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies (Faber) $14.00
Jack Daniels Sessions EP: A Collection of Fantasies by Elwin Cotman $12.00
30 Under 30 An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by var. (Starcheron) $20.00

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Logan Square Literary Review #7 Sum 11 $5.00
Versal #9 $14.95
Chapbook by Charles JR Bane AND Isabelle Pruneau $14.99
Cousin Corinnes Reminder #3 $14.00

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons, Concerning the Planet Earth amd the Human Race Which Infests It by Martin Olson, Tony Millionnaire, and Mahendra Singh (Feral House) $19.95
Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live Work and Play in the City by Shelia Heti and Misha Glouberman (Faber) $13.00 – Misha Glouberman’s friend and collaborator, Sheila Heti, wanted her next book to be a compilation of everything Misha knew. Together, they made a list of subjects. As Misha talked, Sheila typed. He talked about games, relationships, cities, negotiation, improvisation, Casablanca, conferences, and making friends. His subjects ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. But sometimes what had seemed trivial began to seem important—and what had seemed important began to seem less so. Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting easier? What can spam tell us about the world?
Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day? One Geezers Handbook for Survival by Larry McCoy $14.95

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
People Wasn’t Made to Burn: The True Story of Race Murder and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen (Haymarket) $22.95
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage by Ryan Conrad and Yasmin Nair (Against Equality Press) $8.00

MAGAZINES!
Blood and Thunder #17 Womens Roller Derby Magazine $5.99
High Times Sep 11 $5.99
Diner Journal #18 Sum 11 $9.00
Reed Pages #00 $12.00
Reed Pages #01 $15.00
Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

SEX & SEXY!
Thickness #1 ed. by Katie Skelly $10.00 – With contributions from Ryan Sands. Michael Deforge and more.