New Stuff This Week

Published on June 19, 2010 0 Comments
Zines
Muse the News the Noose #7 (Endless Escalators Gets Megabusted Hell Bus) by John Wawrzaszek $1.00
Genderfuck is My Boyfriend Polyamory Is My Girlfriend $1.00
Coelacanth Journal #4 $4.00
Transmission A Zine Exploring Some of the Ways in Which We Communicate by Christine M. Rose $1.25
Dissemination by Christine M. Rose $5.00
Maximumrocknroll #326 Jul 10 $4.00
McGriddle Defense by var. $3.00
Mind Control #1 Deluxe with Hand Drawn Cover 2010 by Sean Jun Hernandez $8.00
Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
You Dont Get There From Here #14 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Papercutter #13 w/ Mat Wiegle, Tim Root, Jonas Madden Connor, Greg Means, Nate Beaty (Tugboat Press) $4.00
Nice to Meet You Love You by I Endsley $1.00
I Dont Understand Farming #1 by I Endsley $1.00
Drawn to You A Conversation Comic by Lucy Knisley and Erika Moen $15.00
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #11 by PKD & Jonathan Lethem (Boom) $3.99
Taffy Hips #7 by var. $3.00
Peter the Insect Boy Special Collectors Edition Chapters 1 2 and 3 by Leslie Bloomfield $8.00
Peter the Insect Boy #4 Home by Adele Moss $2.75
Rotten by Oto Splotch $5.00
Quarter Vomit #1 by Otto Splotch $5.00
Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Book of Mr Natural HC Profane Tales Of That Old Mystic Madcap by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Artichoke Tales HC by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Make Yourself Happy by Lucy Knisley $15.00
Hellboy vol 10 The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $17.99
Somewhere by Daniel Murphy $12.00
Conan Spear and Other Stories TPB by var. (Dark Horse) $14.99
Chew vol 2 TPB International Flavor by var. (Image) $12.99
Seven Soldiers of Victory vol 1 HC by Grant Morrison (DC) $39.99
Batman RIP TPB by Grant Morrison and TOny S. Daniel (DC) $14.99
Meat Cake Compilation SC by Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics) $22.99
DIY, How-to & Food
Mycelium Running How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets (Ten Speed) $35.00
Fiction/Poetry Books
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (Vintage) $15.95 – Now in soft cover.
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (Anchor) $15.95
Tough Skin by Sarah Eaton $16.00
Steampunk, Speculative and Science Fiction
Art & Design Books
When I Die Bury Me In the Clothes of My Youth by var. $15.00
The Art of McSweeneys (Chronicle) $45.00
Outer Limits
World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers Schemers Anarchists and Secret Age by Alex Butterworth (Pantheon) $30.00
Hyperthericals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter) $14.99 – From the cultural critic of Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs fame $14.99
Magazines/Literary Journals
Fortean Times #263 Jul 10 $11.99
Literary Review vol 53 #3 Spr 10 $8.00
Shots #108 $6.50
Tiki Magazine vol 6 #1 Sum 10 $4.99
Pleiades vol 30 #2 $8.00
Tattoo Revue #147 $6.99
Spread Artculture #5 $6.95
Skeptic vol 15 #4 $6.95
Scoot Magazine #56 Jun 10 $5.95
Rethinking Schools vol 24 #4 Sum 10 $5.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #3 Sum 10 $15.00
Juxtapoz #114 Jul 10 $5.99
Harpers Magazine Jul 10 $6.99
Fader #68 Jun Jul 10 $5.99
Cavalier vol 1 #1 Literary Couture $10.00
Canteens Win 09 10 Youth Edition $6.00
Amass #36 $4.95
Paris Review #193 $12.00
Open City #29 $10.00
Mother Jones Aug 10 $5.95
Rolling Thunder #9 Spr 10 (CrimethInc) $6.00
RFD #142 $7.75
Dazed & Confused #86 Jun 10 $9.95
Wire Jun 10 #316 $10.99
Ninth Letter vol 7 #1 $14.95
First Line vol 12 #2 $3.00
Chap Books
Woods by Brian Wallace $5.00
Music Books
Sexy Stuff
Also!
Creepy Christian Cinema DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
School A Delic DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
Mouse Forgets DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
Modern Housewife DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00
C is For Comunist Atomic Age Classics DVD vol 5 $15.00
Abombs Fallout and Nuclear War Atomic Age Classics: Archival Collection Public Ed DVD $15.00
Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer (PM PRess) $15.95
Lady Q The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen SC by var. (Chicago Review) $16.95
Not New This Week But New to Our Website For Purchase

Zines

Muse the News the Noose #7 (Endless Escalators Gets Megabusted Hell Bus) by John Wawrzaszek $1.00

Genderfuck is My Boyfriend Polyamory Is My Girlfriend $1.00

Coelacanth Journal #4 $4.00

Transmission A Zine Exploring Some of the Ways in Which We Communicate by Christine M. Rose $1.25

Dissemination by Christine M. Rose $5.00

Maximumrocknroll #326 Jul 10 $4.00

McGriddle Defense by var. $3.00

Mind Control #1 Deluxe with Hand Drawn Cover 2010 by Sean Jun Hernandez $8.00

Comics/Comix/Mini Comics

You Dont Get There From Here #14 by Carrie McNinch $2.00

Papercutter #13 w/ Mat Wiegle, Tim Root, Jonas Madden Connor, Greg Means, Nate Beaty (Tugboat Press) $4.00

Nice to Meet You Love You by I Endsley $1.00

I Dont Understand Farming #1 by I Endsley $1.00

Drawn to You A Conversation Comic by Lucy Knisley and Erika Moen $15.00

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #11 by PKD & Jonathan Lethem (Boom) $3.99

Taffy Hips #7 by var. $3.00

Peter the Insect Boy Special Collectors Edition Chapters 1 2 and 3 by Leslie Bloomfield $8.00

Peter the Insect Boy #4 Home by Adele Moss $2.75

Rotten by Oto Splotch $5.00

Quarter Vomit #1 by Otto Splotch $5.00

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks

Book of Mr Natural HC Profane Tales Of That Old Mystic Madcap by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Artichoke Tales HC by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Make Yourself Happy by Lucy Knisley $15.00

Hellboy vol 10 The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $17.99

Somewhere by Daniel Murphy $12.00

Conan Spear and Other Stories TPB by var. (Dark Horse) $14.99

Chew vol 2 TPB International Flavor by var. (Image) $12.99

Seven Soldiers of Victory vol 1 HC by Grant Morrison (DC) $39.99

Batman RIP TPB by Grant Morrison and TOny S. Daniel (DC) $14.99

Meat Cake Compilation SC by Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics) $22.99

DIY, How-to & Food

Mycelium Running How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets (Ten Speed) $35.00

Fiction/Poetry Books

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (Vintage) $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (Anchor) $15.95

Tough Skin by Sarah Eaton $16.00

Art & Design Books

When I Die Bury Me In the Clothes of My Youth by var. $15.00

The Art of McSweeneys (Chronicle) $45.00

Outer Limits

World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers Schemers Anarchists and Secret Age by Alex Butterworth (Pantheon) $30.00

Hyperthericals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter) $14.99 – From the cultural critic of Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs fame $14.99

Magazines/Literary Journals

Fortean Times #263 Jul 10 $11.99

Literary Review vol 53 #3 Spr 10 $8.00

Shots #108 $6.50

Tiki Magazine vol 6 #1 Sum 10 $4.99

Pleiades vol 30 #2 $8.00

Tattoo Revue #147 $6.99

Spread Artculture #5 $6.95

Skeptic vol 15 #4 $6.95

Scoot Magazine #56 Jun 10 $5.95

Rethinking Schools vol 24 #4 Sum 10 $5.95

Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #3 Sum 10 $15.00

Juxtapoz #114 Jul 10 $5.99

Harpers Magazine Jul 10 $6.99

Fader #68 Jun Jul 10 $5.99

Cavalier vol 1 #1 Literary Couture $10.00

Canteens Win 09 10 Youth Edition $6.00

Amass #36 $4.95

Paris Review #193 $12.00

Open City #29 $10.00

Mother Jones Aug 10 $5.95

Rolling Thunder #9 Spr 10 (CrimethInc) $6.00

RFD #142 $7.75

Dazed & Confused #86 Jun 10 $9.95

Wire Jun 10 #316 $10.99

Ninth Letter vol 7 #1 $14.95

First Line vol 12 #2 $3.00

Chap Books

Woods by Brian Wallace $5.00

Also!

Creepy Christian Cinema DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

School A Delic DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

Mouse Forgets DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

Modern Housewife DVD 16mm films from the AV Geeks Archive $15.00

C is For Comunist Atomic Age Classics DVD vol 5 $15.00

Abombs Fallout and Nuclear War Atomic Age Classics: Archival Collection Public Ed DVD $15.00

Floodgates of Anarchy by Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer (PM PRess) $15.95

Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen SC by var. (Chicago Review) $16.95

Free Minicomics!

Published on June 19, 2010 0 Comments

minisLocal small press comics publisher Short Pants Press has announced a monthly minicomics treasure hunt.  Short Pant’s publisher Sarah Becan has collected tons of minicomics over the years through purchases, and trades, and doesn’t know what to do with them.  So each month she’s bundling up a dozen of them and hiding them somewhere in Chicago.  She’ll take a photo of the hiding place and post it over various means of internet broadcast for you (including twitter).  All you have to do is be the first person to actually go and grab the treasure!  Get your swash buckling on, the first bundle of comics booty will be hidden this weekend!

Sarah Becan is the author of the Xeric Grant winning Complete Ouija Board Interviews, and the dream-themed series Shuteye.  Short Pants Press has also published comics by Grant Reynolds, Corinne Mucha, Jeremy Tinder, Becca Taylor, Neil Brideau, Robert Stevenson, Bernie McGovern, and Jason Robards.

Mike Faloon, James Jay and Jonathan Messinger

Published on June 18, 2010 0 Comments
Jul ’10
10
7:00 pm

Mike Faloon, editor of the world-famous Go Metric! zine, celebrates the launch of his new book of stories, The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock: Stories, out now on Gorsky Press. Faloon is on tour with fellow Gorsky-ite James Jay (The Undercards), and will be joined by Chicago guy Jonathan Messinger (Hiding Out).

According to conventional wisdom some goals are best not pursued. The characters in The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock have yet to learn this. Pocket Hercules taps into the power of the ancient wonders to mend a broken heart, with some heavy metal to help. Little League coach Gary Shouldice probably goes too far in motivating his son. Leon Rayner serenades a girl he barely knows with his week-old punk band. From small town watering holes to veterinary clinics to jam band festivals the people portrayed in The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock are undeterred in the pursuit of their dreams. And maybe they should be. Deterred, that is.

The Performers:

Mike Faloon has paid the bills as a DJ, dishwasher, drummer, and school teacher. He is the publisher of two zines (Go Metric, Zisk) and a contributing writer to magazines such as Chunklet, Razorcake, and Roctober. His work has also appeared in The Zine Yearbook (Soft Skull) and The Overrated Book (Last Gasp). He lives in Brewster, New York with his family.

Poet and essayist James Jay lives in Flagstaff, Arizona where he has worked as a bartender, fire fighter, dish washer, janitor, furniture mover, and the like. He has taught poetry in high schools, jails, and universities. Currently, he is the Executive Director for the Northern Arizona Book Festival and the Managing Editor for Two Dogs Press.

Jonathan Messinger is the co-founder of Featherproof books, co-host of the Dollar Store reading series, Books Editor for Time Out Chicago and author of the short-story collection Hiding Out. He’s currently at work on Hiding Out 2: Hiding In, and Hiding Out 3: Don’t Stop Hiding.

For more info:    Mike Faloon: http://www.gometric.typepad.com/ James Jay: http://jamesjay.org

Jonathan Messinger: http://featherproof.com

Tesco Vee and Steve Miller from TOUCH AND GO: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-83

Published on June 18, 2010 2 Comments
Jul ’10
17
7:00 pm

Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson launched Touch and Go fanzine in Lansing, MI, in 1979, and set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on the new punk happenings. In laughably minuscule press runs by today’s standards, T & G was made by guys within the Midwest scene strictly for the edification of scenesters and pals in other cities like DC, Philly, Boston, LA, SF, and Chicago. Inspired by Slash and Search and Destroy and writers like Claude Bessy and Chris Desjardines, TV and DS pumped out twenty-two naughty, irreverent issues, spawned a legendary independent record label, and brought fame and fortune to the best bands in the land, including:  Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Misfits, Negative Approach, the Fix, the Avengers, the Necros, Discharge, Die Kreuzen, Poison Idea—any punks worth their weight in glorious black and white.

T&G4T&G3T&G2T&G1

balloon-proof

I was inspired by how fearless and together Touch and Go were. They were really wild and extremely funny.”—Henry Rollins

“It was really one of the first times anyone outside of Washington really paid us any mind. The fact that Touch and Go took an interest in us really blew us away.”—Ian MacKaye

“Anyone who’s ever published a true DIY fanzine owes at least a small debt to Touch and Go.”—Decibel

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

Weekly Top 10

Published on June 15, 2010 0 Comments

1. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95 – We have a few signed copies left from the event on Saturday! Better hustle if ya want one!

2. Henry And Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $4.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

3. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? Well, I predict you will fall madly in love with Corinne’s amazing new mini-comic, Is It the Future Yet?, which she made ‘specially for Quimby’s! I see you laughing out loud at the fresh psychic hijinx and time-travel schemes that grace every delightful page. I can see your love for this comic growing rich, deep, and strong and you will find it brings you much good luck and happiness as years go by…Yes, my friend, the future looks very bright indeed! AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S!

4. To Teach The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Alexander Tanner Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95

To Teach

This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher. And he’ll be here to talk about this Saturday, June 19th at 7pm! These illustrated stories begin with Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten and follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” Readers meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch as students grow across a year and a lifetime.

5. Mojo #200 Jul 10 $9.99

6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95

7. The Selves by Sonja Ahlers (D+Q) $19.95 – Collageria of of well brushed merkins and precious patchwork womanhood-EF

8. I Was a Teenage Comic Nerd by Liz Prince $3.00 – Everyone has something to be embarrassed about. For Liz Prince, it’s this collection of comics that she worked on during her pre-college years. These early stories include Liz developing crushes on boys, digging quarters out of trashcans, and dealing with insomnia. They’re lighthearted, strangely endearing, and show how far Liz has come from.

I Was A Teenage Comic Nerd

9. Proximity #7: A Catalog of Strategies $6.00 – An Art Communi-que on the Communit-tay- Chicago-centric yet limitless in scope, this issue is a Catalog of Strategies, split nicely between a recource/contact directory and focus articles pertaining to group and interventionist art. Useful on all fronts, and tremendously engaging too. -EF

Proximity #7 A Catalog of Strategies

10. Killing Time Before the Party Comics About Playing in a Band by People Who Play ed. by Justim Melkmann (Melkmann Comics) $3.00 – Comics ‘thology about playing in a band by people who play in bands. Posers go home.

Killing Time Before the Party