New Stuff This Week

God save the zine.

God save the zine.

Zines

Zine Name $1.00 – A template for you to make your own zine, computer free! Often what trips people up are figuring out the page numbers. So we got it all figured out for you. Plus, ideas for writing! Make a zine with the help of this, and then come consign it here at Quimby’s. When you bring your zine back to us, we’ll guide you through the consignment process. And maybe, if we get enough zines made with help from this thingy, ya’ll will get special shelf space!

Brainscan #24 and 25 by Alex Wrekk $5.00 – Open this thick handprinted envelope and a conucopia of Brainscan tumbles out: baby-sized Brainscan #24, monstertruck-sized Brainscan #25 and also a little Epilogue zine to help sweeten the deal. This zine pack is a real heart-on-the-sleeve labor-of-love and I would recommend it to anyone interested in things that are awesome.

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Buster Bear Go Hard Chicago by Alex Cohen $3.00

Clouds Clouds Clouds by Jordan Bernier (Nudashank Gallery) $10.00

Coffee & Boardgames #1 $3.00

Dad #1 by Timothy $1.75

Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #4 Aretha Franklin by Ethan Krause $3.00

In the Same Vein: Characters Overheard in Conversation by Ricardo Cozzolino $3.00

Jennifer Love Hewitt Times Infinity by Kevin Fanning $3.00 – Coming to us just in time for the Oscar Season, this zine seems to be part of a new generation of fan-fiction slithering into Quimby’s lately, a breed that has one eyeball reading People Magazine while the other one is tackling the footnotes of Infinite Jest. Here, Fanning casts “the other J-Lo” in his new creative writing series. It’s a serious part, but Hewitt’s presence adds wit and lightness to the stories, probably because of a grand combination of Fanning’s skill with prose and Hewitt’s cache of celebrity je ne sais quoi.

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Milk Milk Lemonaid #14 Drinkin Whisky and Doin Pushups Spr 10 $2.00

Sure to Shore #1 $1.00

Uncle Envelope #15 Thelonius Mancat Adventures for Profit by Peter Lazarski $4.50

Watch the Closing Doors #50 by Fred Argoff $2.50

Comics/Comix/Graphic Novels

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 6 Retreat by Jane Espenson etc. (Dark Horse) $15.99

Stooge Pile Loved By Millions by Seth Sepiver (DQ) $19.95 – More of an art book. Of DQ’s “Petits Livres” series.

Strange Tales (Marvel) $29.99

Demo vol 2 #2 Pangs by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonin (Vertigo) $2.99

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #9 by Philip K. Dick and Jonatham Lethem (Boom) $3.99

Breathers Books #1-4 by Justin Madson $5.00 each.

Unlovable vol 2 by Esther Pearl Watson (Fantagraphics) $22.99

(F) Arty Books & Mags

Red Book by David Shrigley (Chronicle) $16.95

For Love and Money: New Illustration, ed. by Li zFarrelly and Olivia Triggs (Laurence King) $40.00 – This book will investigate these myriad ways of working and creating, by featuring portfolios of images from a diverse range of more than 80 contemporary practitioners, some of whom have never before been featured in a book.

Ecodesign: The Sourcebook, Third Edition Fully Revised by Luke Alastair Faud (Chronicle) $35.00

Sticker Bomb 2 with over 280 Peelable Stickers, by Studio Rarekwai (Laurence King) $24.95

Fiction

Fast Forward vol 2 by Scott Forman, Kona Morris, Nancy Stohlman $12.00 – Flash fiction.

Mayhem

Girls and Corpses #4 Spr 10 $8.95

Lost States True Stories of Texlahoma Transylvania and Other States That Never… by M. Trinklein (Quirk) $24.95

Yetis, Sasquatch, & Hairy Giants by David Hatcher Childress (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95

Secret History of the World by Mark Booth (Overlook) $16.95

Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers What Your Teachers Told You… by Robert Schnakenberg (Quirk) $16.95

Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom (HM) $25.00

Bizarre #159 Feb 10 $10.50

Fortean Times #259 Apr 10 $11.99

Best Of Model Engineer vol 2 $11.90

Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnuts War Against the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America by Evan Wright (Berkley) $16.00

Blank Spots On The Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagons Secret World by Trevor Paglen (New American Library) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.

DIY

Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook by Annick Giroux (Bazillion) $27.95

Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With Almost No Money by Dolly Freed (Tin House) $12.95

Lifestyles, Culture, & Fashion

Purple Fashion vol 3 #13 $35.00

BlackBook #74 Mar 10 $4.50

Tabu Tattoo #41 $7.99

Literary Journals

Creative Nonfiction #38 Spr 10 $10.00

Criminal Class Review vol 3 #1 $15.00

Gigantic #2 $7.00

Oyez Review #37 $5.00

Wet Ink #17 $15.99

Blank Journals/Stationary

How High Am I Journal Genius Ideas Drawings Stuff You Dont Want To Forget (Chronicle) $9.95

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Postcard set (Chronicle) $9.95 – book of 30 postcards.

Music Mags

Clash #46 $8.99

Mojo #197 Apr 10 $9.99

Wire Feb 10 #312 $10.99

Essay

I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned From Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I’ve Dated by Julie Klausner (Gotham ) $15.00

How To Be A Better Person by Sebb Hunter (Atlantic Books) $14.95 – A steamrolling account of the author’s forays into the world of charitable volunteering.

Politics & Revolution

Monocle vol 4 #31 Mar 10 $10.00

Dumbo Feather Sum 10 $19.99

Poetry

This is All I Can Offer You: Futile Attempts To Appease The Poetry Gods by Shappy Seasholtz $5.00 – Poems about chupacabras, Hamburglar and wearing your favorite pants until they smell funky. It should come as no surprise this wiseguy is Quimbys alumni.

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Chicago Zine Fest Zine Reading

Mar ’10
12
7:00 pm

Quimby’s Bookstore will help kick off the Chicago Zine Fest by hosting a zine reading, Friday, March 12 at 7pm. Reading will be authors who span the range of self-publishing, from minicomics, to fiction, to cultural criticism. Three of the Zine Fest’s special guests, John Porcellino, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Jeffrey Brown will read alongside five zinesters who were selected by random lottery among exhibitors.
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John Porcellino draws the minicomic, King Cat, which he has been self-publishing since 1989.

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and the Erosion of Integrity. She is the former editor of Punk Planet, and teaches at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Jeffrey Brown is the award-winning comics artist behind the graphic novels Clumsy, Funny Misshapen Body, and the Incredible Changebots.

Amber Forrester, a long time feminist zinester, writes about small town revolutions and queer (in)visibility.

Monica Anderson writes and draws comics in her personal zine Endless Escalators.

Michelle Aiello is a Chicago-based writer, stationary designer and organizer of the Ephemera Festival.

Anthony Marvullo is a Boston-based poet, author of Various Segments of Industry, a chapbook about power tools.

Sarala Bee is a Montreal-based writer whose zines dealing with depression, love, and sex.

Quimby’s staff will start the event with an opening ceremony, which will include the presentation of the inaugural Quimby’s Long Arm Stapler Award. The award is designed to recognize and encourage an individual or group’s enthusiasm, inspiration, and commitment to self-publishing and the self- publishing community. The award’s recipient has yet to be announced.

For more info about the zine fest: http://www.chicagozinefest.org

Top 10 This Week In-store

1. McSweeneys #33 Panorama
2. Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus
3. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue
4. Puzzled Panther FOAD
5. Syndicate Product #15
6. Cooking with Surplus n Excess
7. Chicago Hot Dog Stands 3D View Master Photo Reel by Matt Bergstrom
8. Everything is Everything by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
9. Unlovable vol 2 by Esther Pearl Watson
10. Big Questions #13 by Anders Nilsen

Wicker Park Represent

Wicker Park Represent

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New Stuff This Week

Zines

Busting a Cap in Nina Gordons Ass: A Play in Three Acts, with Dialogue Courtesy of the Internet Commenting Community by Anne Elizabeth Moore $2.50

Zine World: A Readers Guide to the Underground #28 $4.00

Syndicate Product #15 by AV Michel $3.00

Imperfect Sutures by Sally Alatalo & Anne Wilson (Sara Ranchhoue Publishing) $15.00

Lady Fallopia win 09 10 $3.00 – Thank the goddess! This doula-duo dips into women’s health and takes it there. Where? You know, that magical, frank and down and dirty womyn’s health place where the zine actually has a color centerfold/recipe/how-to about cooking and preserving your placenta and an article about using your breast milk to help cure infections in your friends and loved ones. Don’t squirm, it’s just natural, baby!

Mayhem Books & Magazines

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Lucha Loco: Free Wrestlers of Mexico by Venville Malcolm (Universe) $24.95 – I should liken this impressive and beautiful photo book of Mexican wrestlers to the that book Fruits about outrageous Japanese street clothes. Both books have the relevatory effect that not only have all the good ideas for fashions been taken, they’ve also been realized to their fullest. Back to the lab.

Sovereign #9 Mar 10 $3.95

Skeptic vol 15 #3 $6.95

Namaste vol 11 #3 $9.99

Skeptical Inquirer Mar Apr 10 vol 34 #2 $4.95

American Gun Culture Report #5 Win Spr 10 $6.00

The Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine In the Jazz Age New York (Penguin) $25.95

Graphic Novels/Comics/Comix

Unlovable vol 2 HC by Esther Pearl Watson (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Between Here and Here by Brendan Monroe $5.00

Kind Aroo vol 1 HC by Jack Kent (IDW) $39.99

Bart Simpson Comics #52 $2.99

Fucking Pancakes

I’d Sure Like Some Fucking Pancakes by Lauren Barnett $2.00 – Lauren’s got some worries on her mind so the least you could do is make the gawddamned pancakes and let her concentrate on drawing her cute and funny comics. You make the best pancakes anyway.

World War 3 Illustrated #40 What We Want $5.00

Bebopman by Harvey Pekar, Tony Lavorgna and Lois Gilbery, art by Art by Gary Dumm $10.95

What Have You Been Up To by Kiana T & Paddy Puke $1.50 – A Snakepit-inspired diary mini-comic just stopped by Quimby’s and wants to know if it can crash on your coffee table tonight?

2 Books by Shaun Tan, both $19.99 each: Tales from Outer Suburbia and Arrival (both published by Scholastic) .

Secret Asian Man The Daily Days a Collection of Daily Comic Strips by Tak Toyoshima $20.00

Fiction, Poetry & Chap Books

Everything is Everything by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody) $15.00 – Don’t miss her here with former employee Shappy on 3/1/10, 7pm!

Book of Badius: A New Beginning to an Old Endings by Nathanel Washup $12.25

War of The Crown #1: Demon King William Lockett $15.00

Watcher Poems by Agnes Eva Savich $14.95

I Like To Keep My Troubles On The Windy Side of Things by Buzz Pool $10.00

Toucan #5 Valentines Day by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00

Art books

Nazi Knife #6 $27.00 – What would possess you to call your fashion-forward art book “Nazi Knife”? Being French is really no excuse. Despite that title feeling really unconsidered and trite, this book is actually an interesting collage and drawing anthology of cover-to-cover attractive garbage and mind compost AND nowhere on or in it does it actually say “Nazi Knife” so you could just refer to it as “that book with the really stupid name.” Sheesh.

Here Are My Instructions by Redell Olsen & Johanknecht (Sara Ranchhoue Publishing) $15.00

Art Mags

Creative Review Feb 10 $14.99

Gup #23 $7.99

Rojo Ever Chaos Continuum $29.00

Black Flash vol 27 #2 win 10 $8.00

HotShoe Feb Mar 10 $9.50

Lifestyles and Culture Mags

Skateboarder Apr 10 vol 19 #8 $4.99

Skunk vol 5 #8 $5.99

Skateboard Mag #73 $3.99

Travel Naturally #74 $9.95

Politics and Reolution Books/Mags/Zines

GLQ vol 16 #1-2 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2010 $12.00

Bitch #46 $5.95

Show Me the Money #31 $2.50

Race & Class vol 51 #3 $18.00

In These Times Mar 10 $3.50

New International #12, the Magazine of Marxist Politics and Theory Capitalisms. This issue: The Long Hot Winter Has Begun $16.00

Class Struggle #65 Feb Mar 10 $3.00

Music zines /magazines and Books

Maximumrocknroll #322 Mar 10 $4.00

Brutarian #54 $4.95

Fader #66 Feb Mar 10 $5.99

DVD

Celestial Navigations Short Films of Al Jarnow by various (Numero Group) $30.00 – Wow! Understated might be a good word for the amazing experimental animated films of Al Jarnow. His work brought everyday objects to life in unexpected ways and is probably best recognized in his memorable interludes for Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact. Combining a whole bevy of animation techniques, these films are smart and poignant- you’re as likely to learn about counting to 9 as you are about the waxing and waning of civilization. Numero Group continues their tradition of excellence with this attractively packaged look through Jarnow’s ouvre and includes a book and documentary focused on his storyboarding and technique. *DVD includes 45 of Jarnow’s films and a 30 minute documentary and comes with a 60-page perfect bound booklet.

Sexy Stuff

Obedient One Shitagariya by Yutakamaru Kagura $19.95