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

“Wilson” Snack Receipt Proves There Is Order In The Universe

Published on June 13, 2010 0 Comments

In an Unusual Cosmic Comics Alignment, “Wilson” sold Liz snacks for Daniel Clowes’ Wilson signing yesterday! Regard:
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Weird, right? Well, being right-proper nerds, and it being a Wilson signing, we had Mr. Clowes sign our copy of this strange “Wilson” receipt:
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…He also signed so many books we were all amazed he still had hands when it was over. We have a small supply of signed copies of the book still available, so pick one up quick if you missed yesterday’s event. And when you stop in you can gaze in awe at Thee Actual Snack Receipt displayed proudly and prominently on our “Wall of Holy Mysteries” in the back of the store.

A Letter From Ecuador

Published on June 13, 2010 0 Comments

Perhaps you’ve been wondering what Quimby’s alumni Brian “International” $hapiro is up to these days. Well, here’s a peek into what his Exciting, Educational, Emotional, Enviable life in Exhillarating Ecuador is like:
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Excellent!

New Stuff

Published on June 12, 2010 0 Comments

Major excitement as we prepare for Dan Clowes to arrive here in an hour! He’ll be here signing his new book Wilson. And the snacks we bought from the grocery store were rung up by a dude working, Wilson was his name. Weird!

Zines

Serial Killers Unite #1 by S K U $2.00 – Serial Killers Unite is a super interesting zine that starts to live up to its sensational name. This debut issue hinges on real letter excerpts from correspondence with serial killer Harrison Graham, who left his 6 victims’ corpses rotting in his living room. The author also puts out there that there’s tons more serial killer letters where that came from, just in case you’re interested. Reading through a few pages of sick fuck writing like this makes me glad some other weirdo is keeping these archives so I don’t have to. -EF

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NUMBx #1 (Bukowski Ironhide Poe and More) $2.00
Parts for Making a Fence a Booklet for Creating the Illusion of a Backyard Anywhere There’s a Wall by Gary Kachadourian $3.00 – This is the guy who does amazing black and white patterns of grass, plants and the like. Now he’s got all these other wonderful patterns! Decorate in style.
Brief Survey of Video Game Landscapes by Gary Kachadourian $1.50
Drawings From a Heroic Fantasy World by Gary Kachadourian $1.50
Motors Revised 05/28/10 192 illustrations by Gary Kachadourian $2.50
Welcome to Bend Basic No Frills Edition Population 80995 by Laura Walker $1.50
MAP (Manual of Architechtural Possibilities) #2: Quarantine $6.50
Carousel of Progress by Max G. Morton $8.34 – From the author of such titles as 23, Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse, Looking For Magic and more! Also, see his new titles Knights In Satans Service, also a strangely-priced $8.34.
Portage vol 1 #1 Jun 10 by var. $5.00
Scheming As Always – Hungry as Always $2.00
Watch the Closing Doors #51 by Fred Argoff $2.50

Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Long Distant Grunts by Josh Doster $6.00
Shaman Man #1 Dairy Aisle by Brett Muller $2.00
Shaman Man #2 Dewey Decimal System by Brett Muller $2.00
Bottle of Rum by Melanie Carson $3.00
Persimmon The Loneliest Little Unicorn by Melanie Carson $2.00
Phi I Dont Actually Own a Persian Rug GG Allen $4.00
Life As Art by Matt Bloomstrand $1.00
Herman The Manatee vol 3 Goes to Jail by Jason Viola $3.00
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagrphics) $4.95 – For schizzle.
Wowee Zonk #2 by var. $3.00
Black Mass #’s 1-3 by Kyle Patrick (prices of each range from $3.00 to $4.00)
Video Tonfa Feedback #7 Split $2.00
Killing Time Before the Party Comics About Playing in a Band by People Who Play ed. by Justin Melkmann (Melkmann Comics) $3.00 – Exactly what you want it to be. With contributions from lots of artists.
Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot #7 and #8 $1.00 and $2.00 respectively.
No More Fall by Lisa Cline $3.00
Chronicles of Edgebright & Leofwyn #1 the Gift by Jim Terry $3.00

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Neil Young’s Greendale by var. (Vertigo) $19.99 – Yes, as in a hardcover graphic novel of Neil Young’s Greendale, a concept album and film the musician released in 2003. Yup.
Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf) $14.95
Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics, ed. by Craig Yoe (IDW) $34.99
Doom Patrol vol 1 We Who Are About To Die by Keith Giffen and Matthew Clark (DC) $14.99
Hellboy vol 10 The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola (DArk Horse) $17.99
Temperance by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) $22.99
How I Made it to Eighteen A Mostly True Story by Tracy White (Roaring Brook) $16.99
To Teach: The Journey In Comics (see DIY above)
When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons From The Comic Book Project by Michael Bitz (see DIY above)

DIY, How-to & Food
To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers, illustrated by Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95 – Event here with both author and artist June 19th!
When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons From The Comic Book Project by Michael Bitz (Teachers College Press) $23.95
Barolo by Matthew Gavin Frank $24.95 – The author learned how to be a chef in Italy. While living in nothing but a tent. Here are his adventures.
How to Recycle Paper by Sean Hernandez $1.00 – A nice 10-step how-to zine of basic papermaking. Sean’s drawing style reminds me a bit of Lynda Barry’s here- full of grit and dustballs and perfect for illusrating messy crafts projects.

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Fiction
Doorway Unto Darkness by Owen Keehnen $15.00
Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello $15.00

Steampunk, Speculative and Science Fiction
Metatropolis ed. by Scalzi John $24.99 – Welcome to the dawn of uncivilization. Anthology of stories from today’s cutting-edge science-fiction writers, about those who live for technology battling those who would die rather than embrace it.
Hylozoic by Rudy Rucker (Tor) $15.99

Art & Design Books
Fatal Distraction by Sonja Ahlers (Insomniac Press) $16.95 – Pop culture-influenced collage. Like My Little Pony goes to hell.
Typeforce: The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars Feb Mar 10 by var. $9.95 – From the annual show of this title at Bridgeport’s Co-Prosperity Sphere. Getchyr font on.

Outer Limits
2012: Science or Superstition DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Cult of the Suicide Bomber: Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer Uncovers the Mystery of This Weapon of Terror DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Cult of the Suicide Bomber 2: Inside the Hidden World of Women and the Western Suicide Bombers DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Search of the Great Beast: Aleister Crowley The Wickedest Man In the World DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Tattoo Machine: Tall tales True Stories and My Life In Ink by Jeff Johnson $15.00

Magazines/Literary Journals
Exquisite Corpse Annual, Journal of Letters and Life #2 2010 by Andrei Codrescu $19.99
Kilter Journal of Gothic Art Chicago #8 Sum 10 $5.00
Tokion vol 3 #5 $6.99
High Times Aug 10 $5.99
Signal to Noise #58 Sum 10 $4.95
Green Teacher #88 Spr 10 $7.95
Versal #8 $15.00

Poetry/Chap Books
Sagittarius Agitprop by Matthew Gavin Frank $14.00

Music Books/DVD
Cover Story vol 2 Obscure and Outrageous Album Art, curated by Wax Poetics (PowerHouse) $24.95
RIP: A Remix Manifesto (Disinformation) DVD by Brett Gaylor $19.98 – About mashup music culture.

Sexy
OP Original Plumbing #3 Trans Male Quarterly Health and Safer Sex Issue $8.00

Also:
Gadabout Traveling Film Festival DVD Five Years of Driving Around and Breaking DVD $10.00
Shelter Offset Print by Jennie Smith (Little Otsu) $10.00
First Gear DVD An Introduction To Bike Safety by The Bicycle Transportation Alliance $25.00
I Love Public Transportation Button $1.50

Not New This Week But New to Our Website For Purchase:

Cinema Sewer #23 $4.00 – Cinema Sewer is the direct heir and foremost survivor of decades of mayhem-trash-film fanzines and Robin Bougie has proven time and again that there’s still meatballs to be pulled out of the gravy. His tastes are extreme but also interestingly ecclectic, and this issue includes a rundown of his favorite noir films and a review of a Betty Dobson feminist masturbation video along with plenty of <dare-I-say> thoughtful reviews of rare smut and grindcore. -EF

New Fuck You Adventures in Lesbian Reading $13.95 – This amazing, badass, randy and rowdy lesbian literature anthology came out in the dirty, dirty 90’s and features amazing poems and prose by Sapphire and Laurie Weeks.  Semiotext sez: “Currently in its 4th printing, this LAMBDA-award winning anthology crosses all boundaries of taste and style, to bring together stories by writers as diverse as Sapphire, Joan Larkin, Linda Yablonsky, Honor Moore, Carmelita Tropicana, Dodie Bellamy, and Laurie Weeks. The book’s thirty-nine contributors cover virtually the entire range that lesbians do: having a baby, buying heroin, watching a parent die, walking a dog. But unlike other lesbian anthologies that either exclude or fetishize sexuality, sex in The New Fuck You erupts as anarchically as it does in life, rejecting all “thematic consistency” and drawing from the new capitals of de-centered America, from DC riot grrls to Sin City, Louisiana, to white-girl flashbacks into a black reformatory in Ohio. More brawl than mall, this compilation asserts a new form of female underground culture that is as formless, interesting and as surprising as lesbian life today.”

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Weekly Top 10

Published on June 8, 2010 0 Comments

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While you were crying into your beer and brats at home, upset that your Memorial Day barbeque was rained out, Quimby’s had a blast with Chris Besinger (left), who read from his book The Usual Beast and the bands Group Icky Rats and ONO (right).

Bestsellers last week:

1. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

2. Cinema Sewer #23 by Robin Bougie $4.00 – Cinema Sewer is the direct heir and foremost survivor of decades of mayhem-trash-film fanzines and Robin Bougie has proven time and again that there’s still meatballs to be pulled out of the gravy. His tastes are extreme but also interestingly ecclectic, and this issue includes a rundown of his favorite noir films and a review of a Betty Dobson feminist masturbation video along with plenty of <dare-I-say> thoughtful reviews of rare smut and grindcore. -EF

3. Is It the Future Yet by Corinne 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!

4. Monocle vol 4 #34 Jun 10 $10.00

5. Bust Jun Jul 10 $4.99

6. Bars Across America Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast by John Greenfield $13.00

7. Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky (Haymarket) $16.00 – In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward-in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest “real progress toward freedom and justice.” Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.

8. Giant Robot #65 $4.99

9. Comics Section [from the] San Francisco Panorama of McSweeneys #33 $10.00

10. Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac (Wolverine Farm Publishing) $6.00 – “The Practical Bicyclist’s Handbook” and “Basic Field and Street Manual for Utilitarian Riding.” ‘Tis indeed! The farmer’s almanac for those on bikes, Boneshaker’s a fascinating compiled book of history, wit, wisdom, lore and prediction. Bamboo bikes? The time has come! Vintage posters? Yes please! Full moon forecasting? All there! Although they seem to think that there are noodles in potato salad, on all other counts this is real solid. -EF