Weekly Top 10

Published on January 4, 2011 1 Comment
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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Sanya Glisic Presents Her New Version of Struwwelpeter Here Feb 10th!

Published on January 4, 2011 4 Comments
Feb ’11
10
7:00 pm

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

Way to Go

Published on December 30, 2010 0 Comments

Doing some filing this evening, I noticed a couple of titles that had a common theme, a quick search in our database revealed some thematic cousins. Here are some titles we’ve had in the past:

Death By Black Hole
Death By Chocolate Redux
Death By Puppies #4
Death By Robot
Death By Zamboni

Thought you would like to know.

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Weekly Top 10 & Steven Blush Pics

Published on December 27, 2010 0 Comments

If you missed Steven Blush talking about the 2nd edition of his book American Hardcore A Tribal History, then you missed the punk rock professor at his best! We only have a few signed copies left in the store, so you better rush here and get it. Pictures below!

Here’s the top bestsellers from last week:

1. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00
2. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Franceschini, Tucker and Hamersky (Chronicle) $27.50
3. Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
4 Snow Yak Show by Mark Ryden (Porterhouse/Last Gasp) $28.00 – What’s Abe Lincoln doing in the Snow Cave of the Ice Princess anyway?
5. X’ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?
6. Big Takeover #67 $5.99
7. Bizarre #170 Dec 10 $10.50
8. Who Will Comfort Toffle: A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly) $16.95
9. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.
10. Doris #27 by Cindy Crabb $2.50

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Top 10 This Week

Published on December 21, 2010 0 Comments

1. Slingshot Small Organizer $6.00 – Get your rad self organized!

2. Slingshot Large Organizer $12.00

3. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint (D&Q) $23.95 – A completely wrenching tale of Jordan Lint’s awful life, rendered with Ware’s perfectly rendered tangential velocities that vault us back and forth through memory, fixation, anticipation and communication.

4. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Abel, Madden and Gaiman (HM) $23.00

5. The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier (First Second) $13.99 – Does it sound cheesy if I say this book is perfect for kids age 5 to 105? Cause it really is!  The Unsinkable Walker Bean is an unstoppable, rollicking high seas adventure full of codes, inventions, antediluvian intrigues and funny names. There’s this “pure joy of drawing” in Aaron’s work which loads the panels with sly little details and charming gestures -but nothing feels superfulous- even the silliest elements weave themselves into the plot. The story itself, about returning a cursed skull to two giant sea-hag sisters, champions scrapper ingenuity, resourcefulness and teamwork in a way that’s never heavy-handed, it’s just plain cool. Refreshing in a similar way is how Walker Bean’s world escapes simple hero vs. villain dichotomies, giving every character a heart to the point that you’ll even find the fierce, giant mer-witches endearing. The exceptional storytelling is emphasized by Alec Longstreth’s (Phase 7) beautiful color work full of crisp ocean blues, kelp-y ochres and my favorite sorts of pale, sea-sick greens. The book is also completely and solidly kid-friendly and that’s a big part of it’s magic: reading it as an adult stirs up all the youthful thrills and adventures of creative problem-solving. SO GOOD! -EF

6. Big Questions #15 The Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – The most gorgeous, most finalest one… the Big Questions end times is disruptive, surreal and poetic. Nilsen’s draughtmanship is pure and stunning, where disarmingly simple forms are made perfectly right. If you’ve been keeping time with this series, you’ll certainly be excited by this chapter, and if you’re just catching up, you’ll be dazzled by this near-religious, cryptic conclusions you’ll be catching here. -EF

7. 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 Javier Rodrigo, Michael Piazza, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Lavie Raven, Lisa Junkin, Jazmen McKinnor, Louise Dreier, Elizabeth Knafo, Caroline Liebman, Alexander Keefe, Daniel Fuller, Dara Greenwald, Jesse Senechal, Rebecca Zorach, Jorge Lucero, Huong Ngo, Paul Mack, Andrew Oesch, InCUBATE, Noah Berlatsky, Sara Black and John Preus, Katie Hargrave, Susannah Kite Strang, Emmy Bright, Zach Cahill, Chris Cronin, Bert Stabler, Erin Elder, and Paul Sargent.

8 Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris & Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99

9. Celebrate Peoples History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution by Josh MacPhee (Feminist Press) $24.95 – A beautiful and inspiring book collecting the Justseeds Celebrate Peoples History Posters to date, overwhelming and fantastic! -EF

10. Manifesti of Radical Literature by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Pressing Concern) $8.00 – This pocket-sized zine is a great introduction to the work of Anne Elizabeth Moore. The Manifesti of Radical Literaure condenses many ideas Moore has previously explored in other works–her critique of culture jamming, copyright laws, advertising, and why everyone should seriously consider self-publishing their own work. What saves this new 50-paged effort from feeling redundant is Moore’s charming sense of humor. Grab a copy for yourself and another one to leave at your local library.