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ZINES!
If I Could Live in Hope – Sexual Abuse and Survival by Kisha Hope $3.00
Mountain Wilds by Jay Krevens $6.00 – Jay moved to the Portland and just sent us some new scenic love of misty lore and cabin crafts, looming, owling, bear worship and astral travails. Accordian folded booklet has crafts on one side and mountainscape panorama on the reverse. -EF
Fashionable Activism #1 Hardcore Punk Fanzine by Kevin McCaughey $2.00
Birdsong #14 $6.00 – The “Anew” issue of this hearty, arty, micropressed, silkscreenized zine.
Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #3 A Twilight Teeter Into Organic Esoterics $3.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #48 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
Public Collectors Paper Blog – Feeling Emotion in Everyday Life by Marc Fischer (Temporary Services) There are many types of libraries in the world but none quite like this one.
Parfait #4 Style Sheet fall 10 by Emily $2.00
You’re An Angel You lil Devil #4 by Randy Robbins $2.00
Narcolepsy Press Review #6 $2.00
We’ll Never Have Paris vol 7 Win 10 Modern Fire $4.00
Basic Paper Airplane #4 by Joshua $3.00
COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Catalogue de Boulons by Julie Doucet (Mille Putois) $5.00 – 3-color silkscreened artist portfolio. A circus of boulons in all shapes and functions harnessed by Doucet’s legendary homebrew design sensibility. En francais.
1 800 Mice #5 by Matthew Thurber (Picturebox) $6.00 – Brilliant and brimming with absurdist sex, escalating mayhem and dithering dimensional personalities.
Rabid Rabbit #12 Goes to Hell $6.00
Right Thing The Wrong Way: The Story of Highwater Books by Greg Cook and Tom Spurgeon (Bodega) $10.00 – The Catalog to Right Thing The Wrong Way art exhibit at the Fourth Wall Project in Boston MA. This oral history includes work and words by the core artists involved in the development of Highwater Books (Brain Ralph, Megan Kelso, Ron Rege, Jordan Crane, Greg Cook, Jef Czekaj, Marc Bell, Kurt Wolfgang).
Crickets #3: Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00
Neonomicon #3 by Alan Moore (Boom) $3.99
World War 3 Illustrated #41 30th Anniversary Issue $7.00
Eyeball Comix #2 $7.00 – Carved up, bezerker, infected-wound style comics mayhem from Britain. High-Grade Low-Grade shit. -EF
Three Stories by Lisa Cline $3.00
Bubblegum Party by Lee Bretschneider $4.00
Poseur #4 by Nat Hoonsan $3.00
Robbie and Bobby #1 A Comic Primer by Jason Poland $5.00
Candy Gang #4 Dream Nights by Chet Pickens $4.00
Hoyo de Gusano #1 by Ines Estrada $8.00
How To Be Lolita by Jojo $3.00 – Super cute fashion guide. Hint: Dressing Lolita involves lots of bows!
Takes One to Know One: Douche Bags – A Love Story by Jordan A. Fu $3.00 – Woah, Jordan, that guy’s an asshole.
Using A Multisensory Environment $8.00
Kim Gee Comics #1 by Kim Gee $5.00
Dewey Decimal System Is Decadent and Depraved A 24 Hour Comic by Bill Volk $2.00
Only Skin #6 by Sean Ford $5.00
Trigger #2 by Mike Bertino (Revival House) $5.00 – After doing three stories in three styles in the last issue, Bertino does three wildly different narratives here with a more unified look, like he’s been pinning stuff down. A lot of the characters are hapless assholes and it makes me think of what that means for the structure of the stories and the title “Trigger” itself…as in, it’s a comic about the grating destructive aspects but managed with subtlety and craft. The drawing skillz certainly pay the bills and seeing #1 and #2 together is making me think I do like reading about jerks. The plotlines are a Vermilean absurdity of hellbent talking pants, a continuation of the Huizengian suburban snark story of a newbie high school teacher and an outer space colonization story that pulls a little from Matthew Thurber and a lot from Star Trek. -EF
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
This Train an Artists Journal by Tony Fitzpatrick (Firecat Press) $40.00 – Wonderful new print book with the work of the local artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
Photobooth: The Art of the Automatic Portrait by Raynal Pellicer (Abrams) $35.00 – Edited by the author of Mug Shots, the book featuring celebrity mug shots. Come to Quimby’s for the book Photobooth. Stay to use ours!
Mascots by Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Animal Love Summer by Marion Peck (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Surreal and cute weirdness.
Juxtapoz Erotica (Gingko) $29.95 – Another addition to the popular Juxtapoz series of art books. This time it’s sexy!
Barry McGee Damiani DFW THR by Barry McGee (Alleged) $49.95 – New work from this popular lowbow artist.
Cathexis by Mark McCoy (Teenage Teardrops) $20.00 – Chemical Flesh Fog Photography.
Concrete Messages: Street Art on the Israeli Plaestinian Separation Barrier by var. (Dokument) $29.95
Rockin It Suckers: New York Citys Most Wanted Graffiti Vandals by var. (Dokument) $29.95
Graffiti Coloring Book 2 Characters by Jacob Kimvall $9.95
Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X: M+M Books No 1 ed. by var. (Actar) $54.95
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
New Character Parade by Johnny Ryan (Pigeon) $12.00 – 120 full-page strips starring 120 ridiculously clever characters including: Stink Saw, Mammuel Clemens, Judge Judy Dredd, Tron of Finland, Sherlock Homeless, Metaliban, Shark Fluffer, Sir Oreo Monocle, The Erotic Art Collecting Squirrel, and Lesbian Spock. New Character Parade is Ryan’s pièce de résistance, shamefully funny!
Drew Friedmans Sideshow Freaks by Drew Friedman (Blast) $19.95
Single Match by Oji Suzuki (D+Q) $24.95
FICTION!
Hungry Rats by Connor Coyne $16.00 – A teenage girl with a fear of rats tracks a serial killer named the Rat Man. Don’t miss Connor’s event here at Quimby’s on 2/15!
Forgery by Amira Hanafi (Green Lantern Press) $20.00
Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse by Lonely Christopher (Akashic) $15.95
Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman (Madras Press) $8.00 – “A thief charges into a bank with a loaded gun, but he does not ask for money; what he asks for, instead, is the object of greatest significance currently in the possession of each patron. The thief then leaves, and the patrons all survive, but strange things soon begin to happen to them: One survivor’s tattoo jumps off her ankle and chases her around; another wakes up to find that she’s made of candy; and Stacey Hinterland discovers that she’s shrinking, incrementally, a little every day, and nothing that her husband or son do can reverse the process. The Tiny Wife is a fable about losing yourself in circumstances and finding yourself in the the love of another.”
Moors by Ben Marcus (Madras Press) $7.00
Peter and Max: A Fables Novel by var. (Vertigo) $14.99 – Now in soft cover. Find it in with the graphic novels even though it’s a novel. It’s a companion to the Fables series.
Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean (Harper) $10.50 – Now in soft cover.
MAGAZINES!
Tattoo Society #25 $7.99
Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11 $4.00
Hi Fructose #18 $6.95
Capricious #11 $17.00
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #4 $6.25
Fortean Times #270 Feb 11 $11.99
Gothic Beauty #32 $5.95
Treating Yourself #26 $7.99
Boneshaker Magazine #3 $8.00
Mojo #207 Feb 11 $9.99
In These Times Jan 11 $3.50
Yeti #10 (Yeti Publishing) $11.95 – Everything is Terrible, interviews with Jacuzzi Boys and Robert Scott of the Bats, a fiberoptic anatomy lesson from Pavel Tchelitchew, some inky Nick Gazin spot illustrations, a bony brill mickey mouse zine by Cassie Ramone and a drop-dead gorge Memphis Elvis photo portfolio by Ted Barron. Comes with CD.
LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
McSweeneys #36 $26.00
Make Chicago Literary Magazine #10 Fall Win 10 At Play $12.00
The Believer #77 Jan 11 $8.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought Fall 10 $10.00
Six By Six #22 You Have a Bone (Ugly Duckling Press) $5.00
POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (RH) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance by Jason Hribal (AK) $15.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk by var. (Jawbone) $19.95
MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead by var. (Plexus) $24.95
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland HC by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $24.00 – Hilarious words from this articulate and witty comedian.
Zombies History of the United States from the Massacre at Plymouth Rock… by Dr. Worm Miller (Ulysses) $13.95 – If Howard Zinn was a member of the undead, he would have written this book.
Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore by Gary A. David (Adv Unl) $19.95
Cosmic Ships, Truth and Lies About UFOs: Other Humanities and Our Future by Samael Aun Weor (Glorian) $12.95
Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realms by Shade Rupe (Headpress) $27.95 – 27 candid interviews spanning 24 years conducted by New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural realm he inhabits with his Funeral Party books. Interviews with the smaller half of Penn & Teller, Divine, Crispin Glover, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and more.
Nomad Codes Adventures in Modern Esoterica by Erik Davis (Yeti Publishing) $17.95 – “Erik Davis explores the codes (spiritual, cultural and embodied) people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world, from Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods to Western occult and esoteric lore, to media technology and psychedelic science. Whether his subject is transvestite Burmese spirit mediums or Ufology, tripster king Terence McKenna or dub maestro Lee Perry, Davis writes with keen yet skeptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit, and unbridled curiosity.”
SEX & SEXY!
Teens At Play #4 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
I Like to Watch: Gay Erotic Stories by Christopher Pierce (Cleis) $14.95
Love In Abundance: A Counselors Advice on Open Relationships by Kathy Labriola (Greenery) $15.95
OP Original Plumbing Trans Male Quarterly #5 The Fashion Issue $8.00
OTHER STUFF!
2011 Full Metal Rabbit Calendar by Leif Goldberg $24.00 – The annual 12-month 4-color animal of silkscreen ingenuity from Chief Color Doctor and Acting Administrator of the Word Swamp, Leif Goldberg has arrived!
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In Hungry Rats, the Rat Man, a serial killer, is on the loose in Flint, Michigan. Meredith Malady, a high-school girl with a dysfunctional family and a terror of rats sees some common threads between her own life and the killer’s MO. She runs away from home to unearth a trail of clues, determined to catch a killer, but unsure what she’ll do when she meets the Rat Man face-to-face.
Connor Coyne has been published in Santa Clara Review, Moria Poetry Zine, Dick Pig Review, The Saturnine Detractor, and the Flint Broadside. He has a website at connorcoyne.com and a blog devoted to the apotheosis of the Gothic. Connor grew up in the East Village of Flint, Michigan, and has lived in Chicago and New York City. This year he published his first novel, Hungry Rats, but he is even more excited by the birth of his daughter, Mary Adelina.
“Hungry Rats is an emotional and aesthetic tour de force about deep matters of the human heart. Author Connor Coyne shows why the novel is still the most important medium to write about what matters in a manner that matters.” — Jeffery Renard Allen, author of the Heartland award-winning novel Rails Under My Back
For more info: http://hungryrats.com
Thanks to everybody who came out for the Mike White event on 12/13/10, talking about Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection!
And here’s this week’s top 10 (well, technically, last week, if you want to know the truth, but we post it weekly, so you know, it’s the Weekly Top 10.):
1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Yes! They are gone. But we do have some other 2011 planners in stock. Stop in and see what we’ve got.
2. Spotting Dee by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – A beautiful comic!
3. Is It THE FUTURE Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? This mini-comic was made ‘specially for Quimby’s!
4. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $24.00 – Yes! Hilarious essays from this comedian.
5. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine. Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and more!
6. Cometbus #50 by Aaron Cometbus $2.00
7. Baba Yaga and the Wolf by Tin Can Forest (Koyama Press) $15.00 – Visually, Baba Yaga and the Wolf is like getting lost deep in the woods as the sun is going down – everything gets extra shadowy and sinister and the pine needles get tangled into dense swirls of threatning demons and implied curses. In contrast, the language is vivid, visceral and crisp, evoking grisly and twisted Eastern European folk lore recounted with passion around a campfire or hearth. The two play nicely off each other, the restraint of the illustrations acting as a springboard for the imagination to conjur the satanic Black Forest chaos hiding in the bushes. -EF
8.Crickets #3: Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00
9. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (Drawn and Quarterly) $23.95
10. Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11
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Struwwelpeter, first published in Germany in 1844, contains ten cautionary tales for children, each one with a clear moral and overly exaggerated consequences for misbehavior. In one parable, a mother warns her son not to suck his thumbs. The son continues his habit. A tailor with giant scissors joins the scene, and the story heads in a dreadful direction. Artist and Illustrator Sanya Glisic, while a Resident Artist at Spudnik Press Cooperative, has created a new version with whimsical and playful illustrations that capture the dark, often morbid sensibilities of the tales. Glisic’s book is a handbound piece of art containing 36 pages of full color screen prints utilizing an astonishing array of overlays and halftones.
Sanya Glisic is best known for her silkscreens illustrations and poster design, including the Zodiac-Sideshow Collection based on the 12 Astrological signs. She is originally from Banja Luka, Bosnia. In 2007, she received her BFA in Illustration from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She currently lives in Chicago, printing, volunteering and occasionally teaching at Spudnik Press Cooperative, while working on art and illustration projects.
For more info: www.spudnikpress.com/struwwelpeter
Thursday February 10th, 7 pm
