New Stuff This Week

Published on October 23, 2010 0 Comments

2011 Slingshot planners are in and a new Charles Burns book! More info below!

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Three Zine by Anand Vedawala $5.00 for #1 and $15.00 for #2
I Just Dont Know What to Do With Myself A Series of Rants by Mia Beatrice $1.00
Stop #2 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $3.00
So Me and You Are Reading This Zine and You’re All Like “Whoa This Is Really Great” and I’m All “I Know” #1 by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00 – Despite being married to Rosario Dawson in the afterlife and a busy schedule of shopping box stores with Hollywood’s A-List, Justin still manages to find time to self-publish his fantastic zines. That’s exactly the kind of commitment to the arts we like to see around here. -EF
Brown Bag Lunch Hour #1 by Naomi Martinez $2.00
Or Let It Sink #4: Halloweened split w/ Dear Jaguar #3: Selected Errors Split Zine $2.00 by Jim and Vicky $2.00
Coffee Spoons #1 by Megan Kirby $2.00
Rad Dad #18 by Tomas Moniz #3.00
Without Words and Without Kneeling: A Serialized Zine Novella by Tomas Moniz $3.00 each for first and second installments

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Seafaring #1 by Tiffanie Bui and Sophie McMahan $7.00 – Weird and wonderful, like what might happen if Phoebe Gloeckner decided to draw an issue of Curio Cabinet.
CBGB #4 (Boom) $3.99
Vertigo Resurrected #1 Shoot (Vertigo) $7.99
Juicy City #1 – Ouicy Hey Man You Want This and Juicy City #2 – Guicy by Cosmo Jones $6.50 each
That Poison Bunnie #1 by Nate Higley $3.00
F #2 by Kevin Huizenga $3.00
Jumbo Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Book 5 by Bernie McGovern $12.00
Joshua Tree 24 Hour Comic One Trees Search For the Truth by Harrison Rosenberg $3.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Xed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Don’t miss Charles Burns here at Quimby’s on  Nov 3rd, reading from this first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.

Luthor HC by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo (DC) $19.99
Picture This – The Near Sighted Monkey Book Learn How to Art with the Near Sighted by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95
Wrong Place by Brecht Evens(D&Q) $24.95
Y the Last Man vol 4 Deluxe Edition by Brian K. Vaughan (Vertigo) $29.99
Hellblazer TPB India (Vertigo) $14.99
Saga of Rex TPB by Michel Gagne (Image) $17.99
Comic Torah Rimagining the Very Good Book by Aaron Freeman and Sharon Rosenweig $17.00

STEAMPUNK!
Flaming Zeppelins: The Adventures of Ned the Seal by Joe R. Lansdale (Tachyon) $14.95

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Chicks On Speed: Don’t Art Fashion Music by Chicks On Speed (DCA) $35.00 – They’re a band! No, they’re artists! No, they’re an activist performance art collective! No, they’re Chicks On Speed. And they don’t play guitars. -LM
Discrepancies HC by Alex Gross (Gingko) $29.95 – Surreal and beautiful for those who appreciate Mark Ryden.
Juxtapoz Handmade (Gingko) $29.95 – Crafting anthology lowbrow art Juxtapoz style.
Mural Art vol 3: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces All Over the World From Graffiti  to Trompe L’oeil (Publikat) $39.95

DIY & CONSUMPTION
Stich’N’Bitch Superstar Knitting by Debnie Stoller (Workman) $17.95
Revolutionary Women Book of Stencils by Queen of the Neighborhood (PM Press) $12.00

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #118 Nov 10 $5.99
Bizarre #168 Nov 10 $10.50
New Heroes #2 $15.00
Fortean Times #267 Nov 10 $11.99
Make vol 24 $14.99
Ack Ack Ack #2 $3.00
Black Velvet #66 $6.25
Dodgem Logic #4 Jun Jul 10 and Dodgem Logic #5 Aug Sep 10 by Alan Moore $7.00 each

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
Rejected Quarterly #21 Win Spr Sum 10 $7.50

MUSIC BOOKS!
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman (Knopf) $40.00

POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Don’t Mourn: Balkanize Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubacic (PM Press) $20.00

MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Mirror Maze: A Norwegian Mans True Story of Five Years in Mexican Prison During the 1980s by Tom Brungar and Lisa Nicole Walker $12.95
Success Principles by Carol Sankar $11.99
This Is NPR The FIrst Forty Years (Chronicle) $29.95

SEX & SEXY!
Handbook vol 4 #4 2010 $6.00

OTHER STUFF!
Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer $6.00 or Large $12.00
Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00
Ron Rege Jr 2011 Calendar and Poster (Little Otsu) $12.00
Willie Wrinkles Notebook 3 Pack Recycled Sketchbooks $6.00

Jay Ryan at Quimby’s on 12/10!

Published on October 20, 2010 0 Comments
Dec ’10
10
7:00 pm

Quimby’s is proud to  welcome Chicago-based poster artist Jay Ryan, celebrating the release of AN UPDATED AND REVISED GREATEST-HITS COLLECTION of Jay Ryan’s first decade of compelling posters, 100 Posters/134 Squirrels. Known for his hand-drawn type, humorous animal subjects, and muted color selections, Jay Ryan has been making screen-printed concert posters in Chicago since 1995. He’s worked for thousands of rock bands, as well as clients like Patagonia clothing, Converse shoes, Burton Snowboards, and the BBC.

The work in 100 Posters/134 Squirrels is framed by essays from luminaries in the music, design, and poster worlds–including Steve Albini, Art Chantry, Greg Kot, and Debra Parr. This 2005 debut collection of Jay’s was praised by Chicago media and publications across the globe, including:

“Not only a gorgeous catalog of the artist’s many memorable posters,  but a history of sorts of the Chicago underground rock scene in the  last 15 years.”                                     –Chicago Sun-Times

“Jay Ryan takes the germ of an idea and makes it uniquely great. His genius is in knowing what matters and what doesn’t . . . His genius is in having the image matter.”                        –Steve Albini

Since the release of that book, he has honed his craft continuing without the use of computers, and screen-printing the work in his shop called the Bird Machine for bands such as the Melvins, the Shins, Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, Shellac, My Morning Jacket, and hundreds of others. His book, Animals and Objects In and Out of Water, features 120 of Jay Ryan’s favorite pieces of art from the last three years, including text about each of the prints, detail photos (shot at the  MCA in Chicago), and original drawings.

For more info: thebirdmachine.com

akashicbooks.com/100posters_reissue.htm

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Weekly Top 10 In-store Bestsellers

Published on October 19, 2010 0 Comments

1. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
2. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (HC) $14.99 – Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s on Saturday, 10/23!
3. Gentlewoman #2 Fall Win 10 $10.95
4. What Was The Hipster: A Sociological Investigation – N+1 Small Books Series #3 by var. $10.00 – “Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write this history without contempt or nostalgia? Why are we tempted to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster’s “global brand” has just reached its apotheosis? A panel of writers invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster. Their debate took place at the New School University in New York City, and was followed by articles, responses, and essays, all printed here for the first time.”
5. Fantastic Man #12 $12.99
6. King Cat #71 by John Porcellino $3.00 – This one’s great. The whole first part is all tales of being over-thirty-and-still-dirty, beater cars, stinky pits, run down shoes and all. Then J.P. up and moves to Florida and there’s a really funny 4-page field guide to all the cray-zay teeming wildlife. -EF
7. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
8. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99
9. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With Almost No Money by Dolly Freed (Tin House) $12.95 – The antidote to being a capitalist pig? Becoming a possum. Dolly Freed wrote this as a sassy and scrappy teenager in the 70s and finally someone had the common sense to reprint it.
10. The Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00

Mike White Reads From Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection 12/4

Published on October 16, 2010 0 Comments
Dec ’10
4
7:00 pm

Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit—Paris of the Midwest—came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture.

This book collects the best articles from the fifteen year history of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine with sections dedicated to Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, Black Shampoo, unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, and much more. Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem.

“Obsessive, indulgent, wildly erratic, yet Impossibly Funky still warms my hardened critic’s heart because of the burning passion for movie going of the writer. It’s manifested in the nutty, beyond-left-field takes on popular geeky movies, and, even better, the stretch beyond Lucas and Tarantino to Kenneth Fearing, Travis McGee, and the unheralded comic genius of Canadian cinema, John Paizs. I’ve got to get my butt to Black Shampoo!” – Gerald Peary, critic, The Boston Phoenix

For more info: http://www.impossiblefunky.com

Saturday, December 4th at 7PM

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New Stuff This Week

Published on October 16, 2010 2 Comments

Hey look. Someone has a restaurant called Quimby’s. Is their food delicious? It better be.

NEW STUFF!

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Truckface #14 by LB $3.00 – LB has been teaching secondary school and has plenty to say about it. Wise and heartfelt.
Drupe Fruits #1 Oct 10 $2.50
Tiptown by Edwin Perry $2.50
The Muse The News The Noose #8 Three Stories by John Wawrzaszek $1.00
Kilter #9 Fall 10 $5.00 – Another issue of the gothtastic Chicago-based zine.
Fanzines: The DIY Revolution by Teal Triggs (Chronicle) $40.00 – Huge and beautiful, with shout outs to some of the zines you may have bought here.
Snake Histories #1 by Priyanka Pandit $10.00
12 Records Ta Shake Your Ass To $2.00
Three Zines #1 and #2 $5.00/$15.00
I Just Dont Know What to Do With Myself: A Series of Rants by Mia Beatrice $1.00

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Back That Fact Up Amazing Facts and Beyond Collection III by Leon Beyond (aka Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch) $5.00
Ouroboros by Ben Newman (Spiro) $13.50
Abecederia by Blexbolex (Spirow) $16.50
Diary Comics #1 Jan-Jun 10 by Dustin Harbin (Koyama) $6.00
Birds And Wolves Excerpt by Ian McDuffie $3.00
There Is A Mountain Starring Donovan by Joe Schorgl $1.00
Snap Shots by Rhett Brinkley by and Phillip Huddleston $4.00
New Growing Antlers by Michael Inscoe and Phillip Huddleston $4.00
Womanimalistic #1 by Caroline Paquita $5.00
Late Era Clash #22 Featuring Big Baby Man by Mike Taylor by Sam McPheeters $4.00
Ultimate Burnout Dad #1 Oct 10 by var. $2.50
Beer In Blood Out by Tony Rabit $1.00 – Dainty but angry and sad inanimate objects and animals.
Seafaring by Tiffanie Bui by Sophie McMahan $7.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco (Metropolit) $23.00 – Now in soft cover.
Duncan the Wonder Dog Show 1 by Adam Hines (Adhouse) $24.95

Digested #2 by Bobby N. $5.00 – Bobby N. may be Ken Dahl’s secret Australian identity- there’s a lot of similar style moves and snapping point anxieties here. Finesse in the face of inadequacy?


Hellboy vol 11: Masks and Monsters… by Mike Mignola etc. (Dark Horse) $17.99
Dick Briefers Frankenstein: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics by Craig Yoe (IDW) $21.99
Walking Dead Book Six HC by Kirkman etc. (Image) $39.99 – Collects issues #61-#72 TPB or graphic novel volumes 11 and 12.
Horror: The Horror Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read ed. by var. (Abrams) $29.95

FICTION!
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (LB) $21.99

STEAMPUNK!


Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded ed. by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Tachyon) $14.95 – An anthology with work from William Gibson, Cherie Priest, Stephen Baxter, Margo Lanagan and more.

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Morph Traits by Daniel Higgs by Kyle Ranson (N&P) $18.00
Blab World #1 (Last Gasp) $24.95
Spirit City Toronto by Aaron Leighton (Koyama) $10.00
It Is Folly To Assume My Awesome Lies Dormant the Paintings of the Mincing Mocki by Matt Adrian $39.99
Herve Moran the Genius of French Poster Art (PIE) $35.00
Trespass a History of Uncommissioned Urban Art by var. (Wooster Collective/Taschen) $39.99

DIY & CONSUMPTION
The Acid Diaries: A Psychonauts Guide to the History and Use of LSD by Christopher Gray (Holloway) $16.95
The Pot Book A Complete Guide to Cannabis Its Role in Medicine Politics Science and Culture by Julie Holland MD (Park Street) $19.95
Official High Times Pot Smokers Activity Book by Natasha Lewin (Chronicle) $16.95
The Cuter Book by Aranzi Aronzo (Vertical) $14.95 – More intruction for making simple yet adorable felt animals. No sewing machine necessary. Just a few supplies they list in the front. Perfect for folks who less crafting and sewing experience.
The Home Physician – The Classic Edition of 1910, compiled by Rolfe Cobleigh (Burford) $12.95 – Reprinted from the 1910 original. Gives advice on how to handle such maladies as the whooping cough, leprosy, a cocaine habit and consumption. Definitely of interest to those who enjoy tonics, glycerin suppositories and lip salve. But we’re not responsible if you die from some type of poisoning. -LM

MAGAZINES!
Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
Dwell Nov 10 $5.99
True Detective Sep 10 $4.99
Fantastic Man #12 $12.99
Gentlewoman #2 Fall Win 10 $10.95
Under the Radar #33 $4.99
Monocle vol 4 #37 Oct 10 $10.00
Social Anarchism #44 $6.00
Radical History Review Fall 10 $14.00
In These Times Oct 10 $3.50
Tabu Tattoo #43 $7.99

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
What Was The Hipster? – A Sociological Investigation: n+1 Research Branch Small Books Series #3 by n+1 etc. $10.00 – A text documenting a symposium discussion about the hipster: what exactly is/was one? Do/did they truly exist? Are there different types? These questions and more are discussed in this intelligent and humerous volume, which is more fun than acadmeic but more academic and self-aware than parody. Engaging. -LM

CHILDRENS!
Tales For Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Childrens Literature, ed. by var. (NYU) $24.95

MUSIC BOOKS!
Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again by var. (Sterling) $19.95 – A loving look at record stores around the country with the folks who own and run them. And Dusty Groove, one of the coolest record stores ever, which is down the street from us, they’re in it too. Photos, anecdotes, memorabilia, interviews with well-known musicians about their first record store purchases and more.
Malevolent Melody by McBess $23.50
Anthology of Rap ed. by var. (Yale) $35.00

MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers Du Cinemart Collection by Mike White etc. (Bear Manor) $24.95 – Don’t miss Mike White here at Quimby’s in December. Stay tuned for more details.
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin and Steve Olson (Harper) $22.99 – Graffin is the lead singer of Bad Religion. He also has a PhD in zoology from Cornell University and teaches evolution at the UCLA. This edition of the book is a signed first edition. Yes, he ties in some Bad Religion lyrics and history into it too. My sixteen year old self would have memorized this and spewed it to people at Denny’s. -LM


Archeology of Violence by Pierre Clastres (Semiot) $15.95
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre (F&F) $15.00
A Book of Jean’s Own by Jean Teasdale (SMP) $14.99 – The Onion presents all new wit, wisdom and wackiness from the Onion’s beloved humor columnist.
Mirror Maze: A Norwegian Mans True Story of Five Years in Mexican Prison During the 1980s by Tom Brungar $12.95
Tinsel: A Search For Americas Christmas Past by Hank Stuever (Mariner) $14.95

SEX & SEXY!
Housewives at Play #19 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95

OTHER STUFF!
Mini 2011 Caroline Paquita Calendar-Planner/Big 2011 Caroline Paquita Calendar $5.00/$12.00