Thanks to Fantagraphics consumer marketing/web editor/hand model guy Mike Baehr who wrote about our limited edition Chris Ware print on FLOG! aka as the Fantagraphics Blog.
Look at the awesome photos from Saturday’s Mildred Pierce #4 release event.
1. Mildred Pierce #4 by Megan Milks and John Bylander, eds $8.00 – This issue is endless, like a bottomless well of great things. I’ve been reading it for days, and I’m nowhere close to being done with it. MP always features a great and unconventional range of art essays, this issue by Megan Milks (on bulemic writing), Vicky Lim (on Hothead Paisan), Leeyanne Moore (on Sean Samoheyl), John Bylander (on Jimmy Joe Roche) and Joyce Kuechler (on Wangechi Mutu). As if that weren’t enough, there’s also wild prose by Jake Hoestetter, Ellen Nielsen, James Tadd Adcox and Jim Joyce, an interview with Pippi Zornoza on the opulent charmed terror of her drawing and performance work, tons of comics by the likes of Eamon Espey, Zach Hazard, Ed Choy Moorman, Noel Firebert, Jason T Miles. There’s more too. That’s not even hardly everything that’s here. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, that’s the point, forever. -EF
2. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00
3. Boys Club #3 by Matt Furie $4.95
4. Who Is Amy Amoeba by Jason Viola $3.00
5. Filling the Void: Interviews About Quitting Drinking and Using (Doris Press) $4.00 – This zine is so solid it’s like it’s made out of rocks. Cindy from Doris Zine has collected seven interviews here that discuss sobering up from DIY and non-religious perspectives. A great and resourceful thing to have if you or someone you know is trying to clean up their act and is maybe feeling frustrated with traditional modes of support and process. Just a great and resourceful zine to have in general. -EF
6. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes by Sean Tejaratchi, ed.(Show & Tell Press) $12.00 – BACK IN PRINT! 12 New Pages to seduce you! After the longest wait ever, THE BEST CLIP ART ZINE EVER HAS RETURNED. This picture book for discussion and activity features hands, hearts, and eyes. Get those tattoo guns ready, because you and your loved ones are going to need one once you get through looking through this issue. Amazing.
7. 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
8. AdBusters #94 vol 19 #2 Mar Apr 11 $8.95
9. Thai Comic Horrors vol 1 by by Khun So and Krit $3.00 – Esteemed Quimby’s alumni/expat Logan just sent us this double-header of Thai pulp comics translated to English for the first time! This issue is comprised of two stories, “The Ghost That Comes to Steal Your Heart” and “Hunt For the Hell Drugs”. Hell yes, those titles are great- and would you believe the actual comics are EVEN BETTER? They are! Classic carnage with visual flair, packed full of jungle ghouls, beautiful babes and poor moral judgement. -EF
10. Your Guide to the Patron Saints of Regret by Michael Whittier and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler $5.00 – Saint Elspeth of the Remnant: Patroness of Ill-Chosen Relationships? Saint Bob the Reluctant: Patron of Introverts? Saint Tammy of Memphis: Patron of Unfortunate Hair Appointments? I tell you, it’s saints like these that really make me question papal infallibility. -EF
With magnifying glass and embossed ink cover.
Tonight we’re getting ready for the Mildred Pierce release party! It starts at 7pm. Join us as we celebrate Mildred Pierce‘s fourth issue, the theme of which is “Comedy and the Grotesque.” Rumor on the street is that there will be refrshments. All the more reason to come.
And oh! As if you didn’t notice from the HUGE IMAGE on Quimbys.com of the Chris Ware print we’re selling, just to let you know, we are now selling an exclusive Quimby’s only print, designed and authorized by Chris Ware and printed by The Bird Machine. The print is of Chris’ original blueprint for our Quimby’s sign that hangs outside the shop. Click here for more details!
So! New Stuff!
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Filling the Void: Interviews About Quitting Drinking and Using (Doris Press) $4.00 – This zine is so solid it’s like it’s made out of rocks. Cindy from Doris Zine has collected seven interviews here that discuss sobering up from DIY and non-religious perspectives. A great and resourceful thing to have if you or someone you know is trying to clean up their act and is maybe feeling frustrated with traditional modes of support and process. Just a great and resourceful zine to have in general. -EF
Thai Comic Horrors vol 1 by Khun So and Krit $3.00 – Esteemed Quimby’s alumni/expat Logan just sent us this double-header of Thai pulp comics translated to English for the first time! This issue is comprised of two stories, “The Ghost That Comes to Steal Your Heart” and “Hunt For the Hell Drugs”. Hell yes, those titles are great- and would you believe the actual comics are EVEN BETTER? They are! Classic carnage with visual flair, packed full of jungle ghouls, beautiful babes and poor moral judgement. -EF
Mildred Pierce #4 $8.00
East Village Inky #46 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Grime Time #4 $12.00
Without Words and Without Kneeling #5 – A Serialized Zine Novella by Tomas Moniz $3.00 – By the editor of Rad Dad zine.
Fisting and Roses #1 $2.00
Toucan #10 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00
Class Struggle #69 by Spark $3.00
COMICS & MINI COMIX!
City Hunter Magazine #1 by CF, Featuring Main Dice (Picturbox) $8.00
Passion Du Bois by Frederic Fleury (Picturebox) $8.00
Nine Gallons #2 by Susie Cagle $4.00
Canadian Haircut by James Kirkpatrick and Peter Thompson $7.00
Thyme Balm Live at the Forest City Gallery With Special Guest Gym Sahib $3.00
Do You Know How Bad I Want to Use the Force by James Kirkpatrick $3.00
Dog Named Dracula by James Kirkpatrick $7.00
How to Survive Working in Retail #5 by Ronnie Gorham, Lisandro Di Pasquale and Markell Wilson (Three Guys Making Comics) $2.00
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Viande de Chevet – Owl Monster Woman Lady French France (Picturebox) $25.00 – Massive new collection from Stephane Blanquet’s UDA press. New work by artists including: Pascal Doury (tons of amazing unseen drawings), Captain Cavern, Ichiba Daisuke, BlexBolex (full length story!), Takashi Nemoto (full length story!), Savage Pencil, Xavier Robel, Helge Reuman, Yoshikazu Ebisu (full length story!), David Sandlin (full length story!), Isabelle Boinot, Namio Harukawa, Isabelle Boinot, Bruno Richard, Julie Doucet, Blanquet, MS Bastian, Frédéric Fleury (full length story!), Jonathon Rosen, and many more.
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Hellblazer – Pandemonium TPB by Delano and Jock (Vertigo) $17.99
Poe and Phillips TPB by Collado and Cedillo (Arcana) $14.95
Scalped vol 7 Rez Blues TPB (Vertigo) $17.99
Freakangels vol 5 TPB by Ellis and Duffield (Avatar) $19.99
Extreme Perspective For Artists by David Chelsea (Watson) $21.99
DIY/FOOD/DRUG STUFF!
Marijuana 101: Professor Lee’s Introduction to Growing Grade A Bud by Professor Lee (Green Candy Press) $18.00
FICTION!
Remembering Gage Park by William P. Shunas $20.00
MAGAZINES!
Purple Fashion vol 3 #15 $45.00
LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Logan Square Literary Review #5 Win 11 $5.00
Literary Review vol 54 #2 Win 11 $8.00
Indigo Rising Magazine #7 $5.00
CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Slog’s Dad by by David Almond and Dave McKean (Candlewick) $15.99 – Part story, part graphic novel – a tender slice of life and death from the creators of “The Savage.” Do you believe there’s life after death? Slog does. He reckons that the scruffy bloke sitting outside the pork shop is his dad come back to visit him for one last time – just like he’d said he would, just before he died. Slog’s mate Davie isn’t convinced. But how does this man know everything Slog’s dad would know? Because Slog says it really is his dad, that’s how.
MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Nothing to Envy SC Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Spiegel) $16.00
SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
I <3 Boy by J. Yatrofsky (PowerHouse) $24.95 – With an erotic softness and quiet confidence, the young, fully-nude subjects in this book exhibit a willingness to be celebrated by all for their beauty and openness. Posing in the intimacy of their own homes, often in studio apartments in Manhattan’s East Village and Lower East Side, lanky, hairless bodies are posed sensually against the minimalist backgrounds of naturally lit rooms with sparse furnishings.
Burn Collector #15 Zine Release Event with Al Burian, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Liam Warfield on 3/22
| Mar ’11 |
| 22 |
| 7:30 pm |
Celebrating fifteen years of publication as well as the appearance of issue number 15, Al Burian returns to Quimby’s to present a new installment of his long-running personal zine Burn Collector. Burian began distributing his work through the tight-knit network of the DIY punk music scene in the mid-nineties. Burn Collector caught on because of its unusual content—in a scene rife with dogmatic diatribes and bland record reviews, Burian presented his readers with humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, nuanced descriptions of odd locales and curious characters. Burn Collector #15 is the “Berlin vs. Chicago” issue: contents include an essay on the Berlin Wall by Chicago’s Anne Elizabeth Moore, and an interview with Chicago zine hero Liam Warfield, who debunks the myth of the endless techno party.
Al Burian was a Chicago resident from 2000-2008. His book, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine has just been republished by PM Press. He currently lives in Berlin.
“Al Burian is one of our generation’s great storytellers, a wily and insightful observer of the human condition.” -Davy Rothbart, Found Magazine and This American Life
“Al Burian has become one of the most cultishly adored figures in the American punk underground. Burn Collector pairs existential dread with rapacious wit.” -Jessica Hopper, Chicago Reader
“Al Burian produces zines with a stubborn refusal to write dumbly.” -Sam McPheeters
Also joining the bill will be BC#15 contributors Liam Warfield (War Against the Idiots, The Skeleton, Secret Beach) and Anne Elizabeth Moore (Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity, former editor of now-defunct Punk Planet)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:30 pm
Jacqueline Bovit used our photobooth to make a cute valentine’s card with her little Sadie. And we couldn’t resist begging her to scan them and send them to post on our blog. Have you taken pictures of yourself in our store? Or used our photobooth? Send them as digital images and we’ll post ’em here on our blog.
1. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – Okay, mister, so you’re old friends with Green Day and they ask you to join them on their bonkers tour of China. Of course you’re going to do that. Don’t tell me you’re too punk for your old friends, cause that sounds pretty fucking pretentious. Just join them for a little piece of their crazy-ass ride and see what happens, ‘kay? Oh, wait….you’re not old friends with Green Day? Well, Aaron-Fucking-Cometbus is and was in this very situation and not only did he go on tour with Green Day, he also wrote this huge, funny, frought and generally terrific issue of his zine about corporate tour mayhem and sorting it all out. It’s awesome, in case you needed me to tell you that. -EF
2. Bust Feb Mar 11 $4.99
3. Guide to Picking Locks #2 by CrimethInc $4.50
4. Juxtapoz #122 Mar 11 $5.99
5. Johnny America #8 $3.00
6. Muse the News the Noose #7 Endless Escalators Megabus Split – Gets Megabusted Hell Bus by John Wawrzaszek and Monica Anderson $1.00 – What do you mean I can get a Megabus bus ticket from Chicago to Detroit for two dollars on the internet? Is there some kinda catch – like enduring 10 hours of sleepless septic hell bus leaky bathroom fast food breakdown with 50 other drunks, thieves and collicky babies? Ah well, at least people aren’t being beheaded, like if I was riding Greyhound or something. -EF
7. Paper Spr 11 $4.00
8. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer $12.00
9. Squid Pro Quo by Jason Duarte $2.00
10. Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Life #2 by Kisha $2.00 – Ai! If issue one wasn’t enough AWKWARD for you, here’s the next THNGVBL that takes us from 3rd-7th grade, encompassing puberty, fatness, misunderstood DIY fashions, queer crushes and early exposure to punk rock.
