Weekly Top 10 and Tonight’s Beat Cop’s Guide to Eats Event

Published on June 14, 2011 0 Comments

1. Peoplings Book: Autism Education and the Savage of Aveyron by Courtney Angermeier and Jeff Benham $12.00 – Thanks to the Comics and Medicine Conference this past weekend!

2. Juxtapoz #126 Jul 11 $5.99

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

4. The Beat Cops Guide to Chicago Eats by Sgt David J Haynes and Christopher Garlington (Lake Claremont Press) $15.95 – Don’t miss tonight’s event for this book at 7pm!
5 Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Woodring’s comics continue to be pure magic.
6. Noah Novella by Noah VanSciver (Grimalkin Press) $4.00 – Noah VanSciver does autobio comics by taking us into his personal troll hole, and it’s not such a bad place to be. He’s a hater, for sure. His crabcake one-pagers about growing up poor, awkward and unlucky really do start to have the Crumb-y effect of explaining the chips on his shoulder. He’s got a good drawing sensibility too that just wrings extra angst and neuroses out of the story. I gotta say, his constant pursuit of fame and fortune through making weird comics wears me down stresses me out a little. The comics are good, they’re being published and noticed, and they’re getting better all the time, it might be time to stop sweating the small stuff and just go for it. -EF
7. Play It Make It – A Tiny Book of DIY Games by Rio (Microcosm) $1.00 – Creative DIY gamecrafting is the kind of thing that makes you a hit at bbqs, parties, car trips and anywhere else social boredom may try to strike. Lucky you, this fun one is packed with idears and sized to travel. -EF
8. The Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.00

9. The First Line vol 13 #2 $3.00

10. Believer #81 Jun 11 $8.00

 

And here’s more info about tonight’s event for The Beat Cops Guide to Chicago Eats:

Join Sgt. David J. Haynes of the Chicago Police Department, and his partner-in-crime, blogger Christopher Garlington on Tues, June 14th at 7pm as they talk about the places where they take a bite out of crime and also bites out of donuts, polish sausage, fried chicken, enchiladas, and omelettes. Peppered with outrageous stories from working cops, Chicago cop lore, and even a few recipes, The Beat Cop’s Guide To Chicago Eats takes you on a gustatory journey through all five Chicago areas, including some of the toughest neighborhoods in the nation.

Sgt. David J. Biscuit Haynes has spent the past 15 years dodging bullets and chasing down gang bangers on the city’s West Side, running Chicago’s first ever Homeland Security Task Force, and supervising squads in the 19th District at Belmont and Western. Christopher “The Bull” Garlington is a blogger and author, known for his stories of raising highly intelligent (devious) children published on the blog Death by Children. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Another Realm, Bathhouse, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and more. Together Haynes and Garlington have hosted the radio program The Dave & Chris Show! since 2007, during which they cultivate and maintain a long-standing argument about…everything. From politics and video games to the importance of cool nicknames and secret societies, they cover it on their live weekly broadcast from cigar stores, bars, and other manly locales around Chicago. Their show first aired on WJJG and is now broadcast online on blogtalk radio.

The book retails at $15.95 and includes $34 in coupons. It’s like being buddies with your alderman.

 

Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior Discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries 7/8

Published on June 8, 2011 1 Comment
Jul ’11
8
7:00 pm

Quimby’s welcomes Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior as they discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries.

For 25 years, Norway’s Slayer Mag published the gospel of extreme underground metal, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and relentless offbeat humor. Part anthology, part memoir, and part visual archive, METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries (Bazillion Points Books, 2011) is a weighty 744-page tour through this underworld, and Quimby’s welcomes author Jon Kristiansen from Sarpsborg, Norway, for a discussion with the book’s editor, newly-minted Chicago resident Tara G. Warrior. Kristiansen’s life story has taken him from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to party beast to world-weary survivor. The pair will recount some of the hilarious and the tragic episodes contained in the book, and discuss a dedication to self-publishing spawned from the darkest excesses of metal.

Friday, July 8th, 7pm

Bazillion Points Books has posted a preview video of the upcoming “METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries” book. The one-minute clip can be viewed at this location:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb9cBqOKS1o

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Orderly Disorder: Zinester Librarians in Circulation Tour featuring the Fly Away Zine Mobile 7/6

Published on June 8, 2011 0 Comments
Jul ’11
6
7:00 pm

If librarians in roving vehicles makes you think of bookmobiles parked on corners of dusty country roads, think again. Come listen to librarians read from their various zine projects when they roll into town as part of a nine-city zine-reading tour kicked off at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in New Orleans and wrapping up at the Zine Librarian (un)Conference in Milwaukee. The Fly Away Zine Mobile, a traveling library focused on zines and other forms of DIY publishing, will be present to help spread the zine love!

Tour participants are Jenna Freedman (Lower East Side Librarian and Barnard Zine Collection); Jami Sailor (Your Secretary and Archiving the Underground); John Stevens (Dilettantes and Heartless Manipulators and Blue Floral Gusset); Celia Perez (I Dreamed I Was Assertive and Atlas of Childhood); and Debbie Rasmussen, former publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Popular Culture, with her latest project the Fly Away Zine Mobile.

Wed, July 6th, 7pm


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Quimby’s Podcast #1 Available Now. And Weekly Top 10

Published on June 7, 2011 0 Comments

It’s true. We have for you this week’s top 10 but also, the first episode of the Quimby’s podcast that you can download from podbean.com. Eventually it will be on I-Tunes; we’re in the application stage where they listen to it and then (hopefully) approve it. So for now, you can listen to it at podbean and/or download it in some form to listen to it on some device or machine. The first episode features an interview with Margaret Hicks who wrote Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History. We think you will agree that she was extremely charming, if we don’t say so ourselves.

 

In other news, you will see that two artists featured in the first volume of the comics anthology Black Eye have made the top 10 bestsellers this week with their books, both Paul Hornschemeier and Lilli Carré. They will be here to celebrate the release of Black Eye on 6/24 with other contributors Ivan Brunetti, Paul Nudd and Onsmith.

Top 10 This Week

1. Life With Mr Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier (Villard) $22.00 – Life with Mr.Dangerous is a study of modern emotional understanding as tethered to pop culture fandom. Amy Breis, the book’s protagonist, does an awkward job of navigating a life full of seeming dead ends. Her response to reality is constantly informed by her love of a television show, and the show acts as a filter to make the mundane situations more dramatic and interesting.

2. Roctober #49 $4.00

3. Haymarket 1886-2011 by AREA Chicago $5.00 – As part of the 125th commemoration/reenactment of the Haymarket Riots, AREA Chicago has put out Haymarket 1886-2011 a look at the broad and still resonating impact of Haymarket today. Smartly laid out and broad in scope with contributions from: Penelope Rosemont, David Roediger, Alma Washington, the history of Haymarket walking tours, Euan Hague, Paul Buhle, Peter Chanthasena and Anh Nguyen, the Haymarket Historic Landmark District, Paul Durica, the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, reflections on Haymarket from the shadow of September 11, Holly Nelson, May Day, the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, Josefa Mellor and Nick Naber, 134 years of social struggle in Pilsen, Teko Sãso, Anthony Rayson, Josh Otte and Jordon Olson, Jerry Mead-Lucero, Sam Mitrani, alternative Haymarket monument proposals, Samuel Barnett, Lucy Parsons, teaching and learning about Haymarket, Bucky Halker and Nicolas Lampert.

4. 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

5. Little Otsu Living Things vol 4 Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $6.95

6. East Village Inky #47 $3.00 – Ayun gives us a Mermaid Parade 101 and plenty of scrapper parent scene reportage. Topped with tales of a sourdough starter (you know how New Yorkers like to brag about how cultured they are). -EF

7. Root Rot by Anne Koyama and Michael DeForge, eds. (Koyama Press) $12.00 – Koyama calls the 5-second rule on everything that falls to the forest floor. Root Rot’s an impressive comics-centric Nobrow-like look book of stunners. Moldy mushrooms and tossed moss from t edward bak, JFISH, Mickey Zacchilli, Bob Flynn, Lizz Hickey, Dan Zettwoch, Chris Eliopoulos, Joseph Lambert, Jon Vermilyea, Derek M Ballard, Angie Wang, Greg Pizzoli, Hellen Jo and Ines Estrada with special show-stoppin’ contributions from Robin Nishio and Jesse Jacobs. Let’s go camping, yes? -EF

8. Maximumrocknroll #337 Jun 11 $4.00

9. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

10. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian $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.

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New Stuff This Week

Published on June 4, 2011 0 Comments

Thanks to Dave Roche for taking this photo of Luke Sinclair (Platic Knife, You, Sticky) reading here and posting it on Flickr. Took some pictures here at Quimby’s? Tag ’em with Quimby’s Bookstore and/or add them to the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr. If you took a picture you’re particularly proud of let us know and we’ll post it on our blog.

But! So! New Stuff This Week!

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
East Village Inky #47 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Lean Mean Teen Zine Machine #2 and #3 $1.00 each
Vamostja Vampire Monster Ninja $1.00
Talzine #1 A Zine About Taleen – A Zine About Being Armenian by Taleen $2.00
Dining With Words – An Artists Banquet by Caroline Liebman, Taleen Kalenderian and Nicki Yowell $6.00
Faux Cal Point Press vol 1 #1 May 11 $1.00
Filth #1 Jan 11 $2.00 and Filth #2 Spr 11 $3.00
A Day in the Life of Baldwin P Leninforth Ombudsman #1 by Jennifer Shiman $5.00
Pneuma #1 by Tommy Nease $10.00
Holiday Pay #20 Appropriate Attire bt Turner Hilliker $3.00 – We also have several back issues.
Turbochainsaw #6 $7.50
Monsters Rock Apr 11 by Kione Kochi $2.50
Maribooks #1 Bully Power by Maria $1.00
Danielas World #1 by Daniela $1.00
12 Going on 13 $1.00
Your Boss Wants To Instill Confidence – Impar Skills and Ignite Potential by M. Miller $10.00
Bushwick Review #2 by Kristen Felicetti $5.00
How Things Break – A Short Poem by Marissa F $.50
Nature of Love – An Exploration by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
Bound Woman – Meditations On Love and Loneliness $1.50

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin #5 by BT Livermore $4.00
Terrible Beasts $4.00
Elf World vol 2 #2 ed. by Francois Vigneault (Family Style) $7.00 – Fabulous anthology featuring such artists as Horrocks, Tinder and more!
Andromeda #12 by Andy Scott $2.00
Peoplings Ashcan 2011 Autism Education and the Savage of Aveyron by Courtney Angermeier and Jeff Benham $3.00
Nace and Cenu At the Park by Natalie Peary and Jeff Benham $3.00
Feeberts Guest #2 an Ombudsman Tale by Jennifer Shiman $5.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Jim Woodring’s second full-length graphic novel, and first starring his signature character Frank that tells the story of what happens when Frank leaves the Unifactor.
Citizen Rex by Mario and Gilbert Hernandez (Dark Horse) $19.99 – This book asks the question “What compels life without a soul?” and is a bizarre, sexy view of the future! This handsome hardcover collection also features a new cover by Gilbert, sketches and behind-the-scenes material from Mario, and a special pinup from third Hernandez brother Jaime.
Isle of 100000 Graves by Jason and Fabien Vehlmann (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – Jason teamed up with Fabien Vehlmann to tell this dark comedy about a treasure map that leads to an island with a terrible secret.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 8 Last Gleaming by Joss Whedon and various (Dark Horse) $16.99
Yesterday and Maybe Tomorrow Too by Jeff Benham and Courtney Angermeier $6.00
Salmonilla Chronicles Collection vol 1 or Patchoulis Allure by Jeff Benham and Martinez Ryk $7.00
Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse) $29.99
Blunderbuss Wanderlust – Being an Account of the Temprol Travels of Colonel Victor by David Shapiro and Christopher Herndon $14.99
Tooth by Cullen Bunn, Shawn Lee and Matt Kindt (Oni) $24.99
Celluloid HC an Erotic Graphic Novel by Dave McKean (Fantagraphics) $35.00 – Dave McKean’s first original graphic novel since his landmark book Cages. And it’s kinda sexy.
Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels by Michael A. Chaney (University of Wisconsin Press) $26.95

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Cellophane House $20.00
Art and Agenda Political Art and Activism (DGV) $68.00

FICTION!
Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk (Anchor) $14.95 – Now in soft cover.
Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale (Blind Eye) $12.95
Citrus County by John Brandon (McSweeneys) $14.00 – Now in soft cover.

DIY & HOW-TO!
Kid Made Modern: 52 Kid Friendly Projects Inspired by Mid Century Modern Design by Todd Oldham (Ammo) $22.95
We Are Paper Toys by Louis Bou (Collins) $29.99
Pinhole Cameras: A Do It Yourself Guide by Chris Keeney (Princeton) $18.95
Protest Stencil Toolkit by Patrick Thomas (Laurence) $24.95
Psychedelic Explorers Guide: Safe Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys by James Fadiman PhD (Park Street) $18.95

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Granta #115 Spr 11 The F Word $16.99
Conduit #22 $10.00
Issues #5 and #6 of Concisely: Stories Under 500 Words $4.00 each
Theyre at It Again: Stories From Twenty Years of Open City, ed. by Thomas Bellar and Joanna Yas (Open City) $22.95

MAGAZINES!
Maximumrocknroll #337 Jun 11 $4.00
Chicago IRL #1 Spr 11 $20.00
AdBusters #96 July Aug 11 $8.95
In These Times Jun 11 $3.50
Cabinet #41 Infrastructure $12.00
Bizarre #176 Jun 11 $10.50
Art of Mary Jane Jun 11 $6.99
Frieze #139 May 11 $10.00
Infamous #4 $6.99
Murder Most Foul #80 $9.99
Monocle vol 5 #44 Jun 11 $10.00
IdN vol 18 #2 $17.50
Fangoria #304 $8.99
True Crime May 11 $8.99
Skateboard Mag #88 $3.99
Pinstriping #26 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Mojo #212 Jul 11 $9.99
Big Takeover #68 $5.99
Tattoo Collection #44 $7.75
Bound By Ink Annual 11 $8.99

CHILDRENS BOOKS!
ABC is for Circus by Patrick Hruby (Ammo) $14.95
The Red Shoes by Gloria Flower and Sun Young Yoo (Ammo) $16.95
Terra Tempo Ice Age Cataclysm by David Shapiro, Christopher Herndon and Erica Melville $14.99
City Numbers by Joanne Schwartz and Matt Beam (Groundwood) $18.95
Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn Young Readers Edition by Herge (Littlebrow) $8.99 – Includes bonus source material section.
Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackhams Treasure Young Readers Edition by Herge (Littlebrow) $8.99 – Includes bonus source material section.
Patrick in a Teddy Bears Picnic and Other Stories – A Toon Book by Geoffrey Hayes (Toon Books) $12.95

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Buskers: The On-the-Streets, In-the-Trains, Off-the-Grid Memoir of Two New York City Street Musicians by Heth and Jed Weinstein (Soft Skull) $14.95

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
JFK and UFO: Military Industrial Conspiracy and Cover Up From Maury Island to Dallas by Kenn Thomas (Feral House) $17.95 – Illustrated with rare images, JFK & UFO interconnects the lingering mysteries of America’s most notorious assassination and its weird ufological subculture.
Casebook On the Men in Black by Jim Keith (Adventu) $14.95
Soft Skull’s Deep Focus Series takes a critical and entertaining look at selected films and devotes a slim volume of affordable analysis ($12.95 each) to each film, not unlike Continuum’s 33 1/3 Series, except with movies instead of albums: Heathers by John Ross Bowie and The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training by Josh Wilker
It Was Over When…: Tales of Romantic Dead Ends by Rob K. Elder (Sourcebooks Casablanca) $12.99 – By local journalist Rob K. Elder, who was a staff writer at the Chicago Tribune from 2000-2009. This snapshot of modern romance gone bad is complete with its complexities and contradictions, compiling the best user-submitted stories from ItWasOverWhen.com, a site devoted to lost love, as well as from its companion website (www.itwasoverwhen.com), to create a greatest hits collection of cringe-inducing love schadenfreude.

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark (Verso) $26.95
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs (Univ Calif) $24.95

SEX & SEXY!
Pinups #14 $14.00
Afternoon Pleasures: Erotica for Gay Couples by Shane Allison (Cleis) $14.95
Jade Door Erotic Stories from Ancient China by Chaiko, Cheng Cheng, 7th Orange (Eurotica) $17.99
Travel Naturally #79 $9.95

OTHER STUFF!
Weirdo bobbleheads: GG Allin 1991 Condensed Carnage Edition Throbblehead $14.95, Keith Morris Statue Aggronautix $19.95, Tesco Vee of the Meatmen Bobblehead Aggronautix Condensed Carnage $19.95, Wendy O Williams Aggronautix Condensed Carnage Bobblehead $19.95