New Stuff This Week

Published on May 15, 2010 0 Comments

Sure, we have a whole lotta new stuff this week, but what we really enjoyed was Jason Young’s envelope, which he sent us his mini comics in, which are Veggie Dog Saturn #3 ($3.00) & Veggie Dog Saturn #4 ($2.00).

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In case you can’t read it, the mouse on the left is saying “Ha! This comic’s great!” The mouse on the right is saying “Hurry up! I wanna get my drink on!”

Highlights this week:

Weathercraft by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – It’s a Frank comic! In a beautiful hard cover book!

Hopes and Prospects SC by Noam Chomsky (Haymarket) $16.00

Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.00 – Did we tell you about this one last week? Worth repeating!

Wally Gropius by Tim Hensley (Fantagraphics) $18.99 – Hilarious. There is at least one referance to Huey Lewis.

Very Kraftwerk Summer by Christopher Hutsul $7.00 – A memoir comic about an adolescent posse influenced by the band. But looking at the art, it almost looks a bit like one of Archer Prewitt’s Coctails posters. Cool! If only me and my friends were this cool at that age. -LM

And other stuff that’s new this week:


Wilding #3 $5.00
Wunderkammer #1 by Nicholas DiGenova $8.00
Black Mass Pleasure Pack by Patrick Kyle $10.00
This Is Art Now Poster by Thomas Garman $10.00
Oubliette Drought by Kenan Rubenstein $1.00
Write Back Soon by Stephanie Tardy $6.00
Moonlight by Kira Mardikes $4.00
What Have You Been Up TWO #2 by var. $1.75
Advanced Genius Theory by Jason Hartley (Scribner) $15.00
Effigy #7 by Matt Whispers $3.00
Dinosaur Vs Bedtime by Bob Shea (Hyperion) $15.99
Crooked Little Vein SC by Warren Ellis (Harper) $13.99
Shitbeams On the Loose #2 (Revival House) $12.00
Trigger #1 by Mike Bertino (Revial House) $5.00
Sideburn #5 (Motorsport) $8.99
Print Jun 10 $15.95
XLR8R #133 $4.99
High Times Jul 10 $5.99
Color Skateboards vol 8 #2 $7.99
Artforum May 10 $10.00
Nature of Human Brain Work An Introduction to Dialectics by Joseph Dietzgen (PM) $20.00
Wormfood SC by Jeff Jacobson (Medallion) $14.95
Little Lulu vol 1 Giant Size by John Stanley & Irving Tripp (Dark Horse) $24.99
Sweet Tooth TPB vol 1 Out of the Deep Woods by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo) $9.99
Nobody TPB by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo) $14.99
Ex Machina vol 9 Ring Out the Old by Brian K. Vaughan (Vertigo) $14.99
The Muppet Show Comic Book: On the Road by Roger Langridge (Boom) $9.99
Catland Empire by Keith James (D&Q) $29.95
Roy Cranes Captain Easy vol 1 1933-1935 by Roy Crane (Fantagraphics) $39.99
What We See Advancing The Observations of Jane Jacobs HC by var. (New Village) $26.95
How to Catch a Falling Knife by Daniel Johnson (Alice James Books) $15.95 – No, that’s Daniel JohnSTON that you’re thinking of. This is a different guy. Poetry.
Low Spark 1913 1938 1973 201 by Ian McDuffie $4.00
Class Struggle #66 $3.00

Crestfallen #3 Sad Girl Face Pack and Crestfallen #4 Purple Cat Pack by Sandra Sierra $3.00 each – The 3rd volume of Crestfallen has 3 micro-minicomics is maybe the most sinister one yet- it’s like finding a fancy handbag with a dried-up lizard in it- even if you can’t distinguish if it’s cursed, charmed or just weirdly interesting, you’re going to take it home with you. And #4 gives Dame Darcy a run for her money with that potent combination of smart, whimsical girls and gnarly, toadish mayhem, with 5 minicomics. Both packs come in glittery pouches and are 2.75″x4.5″ in size. -EF

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Crestfallen #3 Sad Girl Face

Crestfallen #4 Purple Cat Pack

Crestfallen #4 Purple Cat

Falling is Like This by Kate Rockland (Thomas Dunne) $13.99
KerBloom #83 Rhinovirus Challenge by ArtNoose $2.00
Clash #49 $7.99
Uncut Jun 10 #157 $9.99
Bizarre #162 May 10 $10.50
Fantastic Man #11 Spr Sum 10 $10.95
International DJ May 10 #125 IDJ $10.95
Man About Town #6 Spr Sum 10 $15.99
True Crime May 10 Detective Monthly $8.99
Wire May 10 #315 $10.99
Colors #77 Spr 10 $8.95
Fortean Times #261 $11.99
Monocle vol 4 #33 May 10 $10.00
Mojo #199 Jun 10 $9.99
Feminist Promise 1792 to the Present by Christine Stansell (Modern Library) $35.00
Other Peoples Rejection Letters by Bill Shapiro (Clarkson) $22.50
Lowside of the Road A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns (Broadway) $19.99
How to Survive Working in Retail #2 by var. $2.00
Good Porn: A Womans Guide by Erika Lust (Seal) $17.95
Telephone & Me #1 by Mel Stringer $6.00
Thought Fish #1 by Ruen Wright $6.95
St Catherine Street by Michael Brehm $7.00
Little Town Circus by Michael Brehm $10.00
Bitter Ends Tender Buds Drawings 2007-2010 by Mike Brehm $15.00

Shoutout to Zine Culture In LA

Published on May 14, 2010 0 Comments

We received a really wonderful e-mail from someone carrying on the zine vibes out in CA. And why, just today, one of our customers lamented that they didn’t have a zine source in LA. So here you are!

> From: Meredith False Start <falsestartdistro@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 09:41:35 -0700
> To: <info@quimbys.com>
> Subject: False Start Independent Books & Zines!!!
>
> Hey there!
> I’ve unfortunately never had the pleasure of visiting Chicago (and therefore
> Quimby’s!), but Quimby’s has been a bit of an icon for me ever since I got
> into zines, about 10 years ago. I’m trying to bring some sort of zine
> culture to Los Angeles, where I currently live, but the goings been tough,
> so I thought perhaps I’d write you a little note and see if you could help
> me out with a blog mention or a link!
>
> I am a recent graduate of the UCLA School of Art and started my own small
> distro, False Start Independent Books & Zines (www.false-start.com), selling
> small press publications. The titles I carry range from literary zines to
> punk how-to guides to comics and art zines. The main thread that ties all of
> these works together is aesthetics and a DIY attitude about art and culture.
> Too often people feel excluded from the world of art — whether it’s because
> they think they need a formal education to create it or don’t have enough
> money to buy it. False Start wants to put an end to that!
>
> I recently had a table at Unique LA, a great art, craft & design show in
> downtown Los Angeles. I was the only person there selling zines and I
> received a great response. Zine culture isn’t entirely dead in LA, just
> hibernating, and I’m hoping that perhaps you could give a little shout out
> to False Start and help wake the world up to small press!

> Either way, I hope you enjoy looking at the site as much as I enjoy yours!

> Take care,
> Meredith Wallace

> False Start: independent books & zines
> PO Box 641154
> Los Angeles, CA 90064

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Dan Clowes Signs Wilson

Published on May 13, 2010 1 Comment
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WILSON.coverWILSON is one of the most anticipated books of the year to hit stores — by Daniel Clowes, the cartoonist of David Boring, Ghost World and Ice Haven and the legendary Eightball comic book series. Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family – a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.

For more information: www.drawnandquarterly.com/blog

Weekly Top 10

Published on May 11, 2010 0 Comments
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Yes, we sell this Cal Q Tek 2000 Calculator Watch. It's only $15.00.

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. Squinty #1 by Sua Yoo $5.00

3. How I Learned to Love You From So Far Away: Stories About Love Technology by Kevin Fanning $3.00

4. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky (Broadway) $16.99

5. Wilson HC by Daniel CLowes (D+Q) $21.95 – I have a strong urge to hate on books all about cruel, petty, delusional, pompous, middle-aged windbags, but that’s what Wilson is about and I don’t hate it at all. It’s truly something special, a cutting collection of vignettes set up like cheap midlife crisis one-liners but woven into something much more complicated. Although the tropes of the book are simple, the corner of hell Clowes has carved out for Wilson is well-suited to the bearded antagonist’s snarky, egotistical banter. Wilson could have easily slipped into super-bleak character indulgences (and occasionally it toes that line) but instead it’s true critiques are subtle and crafty and its dark wit shows you an abyss without pushing you in. In my head, Clowes’ work has always been tied to David Lynch’s films, mostly in the way detached mediocre normalcy is constantly being eroded by deep undercurrents of the bat-shit-craziness of being alive. Here, Clowes has taken his obnoxious, incorrigible scumbag of a character and through some alchemical magic shined that little shit into pure gold.-EF

6. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

7. Snake Pit 2009 by Ben Snakepit (Birdcage Bottom) $6.00 – Another punk rock year down the hatch!

8. Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance (Compiled for the workshop how to love your bike right at the 2003 portland zine symposium) $2.00

9. Introduction to Civil War by Tiqqun (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

10. Juxtapoz #112 May 10 $5.99

New Stuff This Week

Published on May 8, 2010 0 Comments

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

Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #25 May 10 $5.00

Tell All HC by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95

Superfuckers TPB by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $14.95 – Best of Issues #271 through 279 plus Jack Krak #1

The Anthology Project vol 1 HC ed. by var. $24.95

Usagi Yojimbo Book One by Stan Sakai (Fantagraphics) $15.95

Screencraps #1 $4.00

Cousin Corinnes Reminder #1 Spr 10 $20.00

SF 11 by Isaac McKay Randozzi $3.00

Moon Is Made Of Cheese $4.00

Commies For Satan #1 $1.00 – You won’t find this at Borders. At Quimby’s, where we know how to cross borders. Ha ha ha ha.

Squinty #1 by Sua Yoo $5.00

Mr Cellars Attic by Mr. Freibert $6.00

Good Porn: A Womans Guide by Erika Lust (Seal) $17.95

Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by var. (Tin House) $16.95 – Tim for a beverage.

Outcast: David Hurles Old Reliable in Living Color by David Hurles (Green Candy) $35.00 – Sexy muscley men.

Cataract of Fire and Blood by Elijah Brugher and Terrence Hannum $10.00 – Fancy art from Chicago locals. Slick black cover.

Hexagon Kids Present Can You Find the ABCs In You – I learn so much when I listen to YOU by Patty Durkin $8.99 – Yeah, artsy title. But it’s a children’s book.

ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know by var. (Monthly Review Press) $11.95 – Not a children’s book.

Surface #82 $6.99

Urban Garden #10 May Jun 10 $5.95

The Believer #71 May 10 $8.00

3X3 vol #14 The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $16.00

Deathcat Skullguts #1 $4.00

Zine About Billy: A Story of a Story by Danny Mac $2.00

Bridge: A Journal by Kelly Ginger $8.00

Walking Dead Book Five HC by Kirkman and var. (Image) $34.99

Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot (Scribner) $14.00 – By co-host of Sound Opinions. Now in soft cover.

Krazy & Ignatz 1916-18 by George Herriman (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – The first three years of Krazy Kat.

Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane (Fantagraphics) $18.99

Blazing Combat by var. (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Living In The End Times HC by Slavoj Zizek (Verso) $29.95

Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman (Revolutions – Sheila Rowbotham Presents) by Mary Wollstonecraft (Verso) $15.95

Natural Computing DNA Quantum Bits and the Future of Smart Machines by var. (W.W. Norton) $16.95

Why Bother Print A Non Fiction Square Box Drawings by Weng Pixin $10.00

Lay Flat 02 Meta $30.00

Toucan #6 by var. $3.00

Correspondence #1 by Kyle Krueger $1.00

Chronicles of a Peeping Tom by Miki Zmaj $3.00

Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J Kaczynski aka The Unabomber (Feral) $22.95

Babylons Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics High Finance and Ancient Religion by Joseph Farrell (Feral) $19.95

New World of Indigenous Resistance: Voices From North South and Central America by Noam Chomsky & var. (CityLights) $18.95

The Worst Book I Ever Read – Unbearables (Autonomedia) $16.95

Witches Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by var. (Feminist Press) $6.95

Upping the Anti #8 Journal of Theory and Action $10.00

Understandable Guide to Music Theory – Most Useful Aspects by Chaz Bufe (See Sharp) $9.95

This Country Must Change: Essays on the Necessity of Revolution in the USA by Craig Rosebraugh (Arissa) $16.95

Subverting the Present Imagining the Future Insurrection Movement Commons – Class Struggle by Werner Bonefeld (Autonomedia) $15.95

Strategic Reality Dictionary: Deep Infopolitics and Cultural Intelligence by Konrad Becker (Autonomedia) $12.95

Sounding Off: Music as Subversion Resistance Revolution by var. (Autonomedia) $15.00

Read Me: ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge by Nettime (Autonomedia) $19.95

Rapist Who Pays the Rent 2nd Edition by var. (Falling Wall) $6.00

Portland Queer Tales of the Rose City by Ariel Gore (Lit Star) $15.95

Negativeland a Novel by Doug Nufer (Autonomedia) $9.95

Living on Third Street: Plays of the Living Theatre 1989-1992 by Hanon Reznikov (Autonomedia) $15.95

Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness by var. (Feminst Press) $6.95

Breakfast for Anarchists by Norman Nawrocki (No Bar Code Press) $14.00

Barefoot and in the Kitchen #4: Vegan Recipes by Ashley (AK) $3.00

Ask Any Woman By Ruth E. Hall (Falling Wall Press) $10.00

Anarchists Book of Verse by Charlotte Keller (Keller Com) $14.99

FEDS vol 7 #32 $5.99

Sovereign #11 May 10 $3.95

Shut Up vol 5 #1 $4.25

Awkward Family Photos ed. by var. (Three Rivers Press) $15.00

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Graphic Novel SC by Jane Austen and var. (Del Ray) $14.99

Little Women and Werewolves by Louissa May Alcott and Porter Grand (Ballantine) $14.00

HotShoe Apr May 10 $9.95

Bongology: Art of Creating 35 of the Worlds Most Bongtastic etc. by Chris Stone (Ten Speed) $12.99

Treating Yourself #22 $7.99

The Progressive May 10 $3.95

Dwell 100 Houses We Love Special Sum 10 $9.99

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (Three Rivers Press) $14.00 – Local Chicago fiction writer, now in soft cover.

Sports From Hell My Search for the Worlds Dumbest Competition HC by Rick Reilly (Doubleday) $26.00

Hanging Loose #96 $9.00

Against the Current #146 $5.00

Frieze #130 Apr 10 $10.00

Race & Class vol 51 #4 $18.00

World Explorer vol 5 #6 $6.00

Granta #110 Spr 10 Sex $18.99

Skeptical Inquirer May Jun 10 vol 34 #3 $4.95

Under the Radar #31 $4.99

Ghetto Blaster #24 $3.95

In These Times May 10 $3.50

Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon (Riverhead) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.

Weird Baby Motivational Poster by Simon Hunt $20.00

When I Was A Mall Model by Monica Gallagher $5.50

Don’t Scream Im Just A Spider by Birdy Jones and var. $18.00

Paper May 10 $4.00

See America First Welcome to Falling Rock National Park $6.00

Eagle Fight Squad 2030 AD Bird On Fire by Alex Kim $5.00

Wall City by Alex Kim $12.00

Trnsfr vol 1 #2 Jan Feb 10 $7.00

Survival A Heros Story by Noelle Havens $1.00

Backward Jane #1 by Jane $2.00

Workers Write vol 9: Tales From the Capitol $8.00

Annalemma #6 $10.00

21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves $10.00

Obscure Animal Compenduim vol 3 by Nate Marsh $9.00

Sedimental by Talya Modlin $5.00

Blue Okoye #1 by Blue Okoye $1.00

Lessons of Lil Pebbles by Bernie McGovern $3.00

Bad World Small Things by William Cleveland $4.00 – Rolled back in the weedy ferns beyond any semblance of decency, Cleveland’s sunboiled carcasses rot and roam through the unincorporated overgrowth of festering menace. Bad World Small Things claws and gnaws at the dirty small town outskirt with brutal sexual textures and skinned sweaty palms.

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Bad Worlds Small Things

This muggy afternoon vascilates between listless tweenage nerds being restless-as-fuck with their boredom and scared-as-shit of what they don’t know- and the comic comes into itself, scratching its bugbites and trying out different cuss words under its breath.

Decorum Short Shorts and Doodles – Hey Bay Bee Ima Objectify Shit Outta by Ed Choy Moorman $3.00

Oh No comic by John Campbell $5.00 – Campbell’s world looks so cute and that’s why its so good at talking shit and getting away with it.

Oh No
Oh No