The Book Bike Stopped By Quimby’s!

The Book Bike

The Book Bike

Gabriel Levinson swung his Book Bike over to Quimby’s last week, and bought a whole buncha stuff and wrote an article about it! Read about it at:

www.bookbike.org/the-great-book-bike-book-buy/

The Book Bike: a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books. Since July of 2008, The Book Bike has been responsible for placing over 3,000 new and used books into peoples’ hands. In spring and summer, you’ll find The Book Bike at Chicago public parks on the weekends; anyone who wants a book is invited to take something home to read. In the summer of 2010, The Book Bike puts a spotlight on independent publishers: from hand-crafted zines to literary magazines and books, The Book Bike is a unique resource of the global independent literary scene.

Edie’s The Best!

gaylord3We’re super proud of Quimby’s employee, Edie Fake for winning the heavily competitive title of Best Alternative Comics Artist Behind the Counter at an Alternative Comics Mecca in the Chicago Reader’s Best of 2010 issue (out today)!

We’d also like to award him with The Best Alternative Comics Mecca Employee Behind An Alternative Comic title.  The same fantastic craftsmanship, design sense and creativity that go into such comics as Gaylord Phoenix and Rico Mc Taco are applied on a daily basis to the store

Way to go Edie!

Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark and Little Brother

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One and a half years ago, in an attempt to overcome his nigh crippling shyness and to get out of the basement, Brayton J. Cameron began the zine Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark (Long Reach Publishing) so he wouldn’t just sit in the corner of venues silently weeping in the dark while on tour with local rock band Geronimo!  This kind of worked.    Issue 5 is Brayton’s celebrated final issue.  Some said it was funny, others said it was stupid, he just said the same as issue one, it was the “World’s best content.  World’s worst zine.”

Shaylah Kloska and Lauren Hunter teamed up early this year to create Little Brother, a zine about, well anything, their first issue contained stories, poems, comics, and drawing ranging in topics from actual brothers, to strangers, to an octopus with a typewriter.    Throughout this year Shaylah and Lauren have worked across the ocean, but this event brings the two of them together once again to officially release their 2nd delightful issue and, of course, read a bit from it.

Dear Dear Wolf Bear SharkLittle Brother Cover

For more info: http://www.ddwbs.com & http://heylittlebrother.tumblr.com/ & Little Brother on Facebook.

Check Out Neil on Indie Spinner Rack!

Hey! Guess what? This week’s webcast of Indie Spinner Rack features Quimby’s very own Neil Brideau! Apparently, Charlito and Colin Panetta ambushed him (that’s right, “ambushed”) at the MoCCA fest in New York this spring and got him to give a reading from his totally adorable mini comic “What Is This?” The episode also features Liz Baillie, Kenan Rubenstein, Bill Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner. What are you waiting for? Give it a listen here.

more good stuff made by Neil

more good stuff made by Neil

Weekly Top 10

1. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (TCP) $15.95
2.Henry And Glenn Forever $4.00
3.Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95
4. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00
5. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00
6. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95
7. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
9. Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99
10. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00

1. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (TCP) $15.95

2.Henry And Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado $4.00

3.Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95

4. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00

5. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00

6. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95

7. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

9. Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99

10. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00 – Essays on admiration from my favorite catty bachelor. John Waters, I love you. -EF

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