Top 10

This is Quimby’s Top 10 Bestsellers for the Week of Sept 20th-Sept 26th, 2009:

1. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99
2. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
3. Butt #26 $9.90
4. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
5. Laphams Quarterly vol 2 #4 Medicine $15.00
6. Tape Op #72 $3.95
7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00
8. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $24.00
9. Bipedal By Pedal: Experiences & Thoughts around the Critical Mass Bicycle Movement $2.00
10. Pinups #10 Scott $14.00

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Thumbs + Knuckles and The Dreaded Biscuits Zine Launch and Reading

Oct ’09
22
7:30 pm

What do you get when you mix 36 graphic designers, 34 writers, and 3 illustrators? The result is a double Zine featuring emerging writers and designers from Columbia College Chicago. Columbia faculty members Craig Jobson, Patrick Hogan, Jotham Burrello, Rob Duffer, and John Upchurch, the intrepid Production Manager, supervised the production of a 68-pp full color “Zine Columbia — Summer 2009,” aka “The Dreaded Biscuits / Thumbs and Knuckles”.

The Zine’s on-line presence can be found at:

http://adweb.colum.edu/~thumbsandknuckles/

http://adweb.colum.edu/~thedreadedbiscuits/

Please come celebrate the eighth Zine produced since 2003, and the first one printed offset. Featured readings and merriment will ensue between the book stacks of Quimby’s.

New Stuff This Week

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Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (WWNorton) $24.95 – About time!!!

King Cat #70 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Still goin’ strong!

Wild Things by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $19.95 – Loosely based on Where the Wild Things Are.

I Drink For a Reason by David Cross (Grand Central) $23.99

Plastic Knife #2 $2.00 – Zine from the writer behind the popular free zine You.

Mineshaft #24 $6.95 – Crumb, both R. and Sophie, plus various other interesting things.

Hipless Boy: Short Stories by Sully (Conundrum) $19.95 – New graphic novel material, sort of Matt Madden-esque style.

Monsters by Ken Dahl (Secret Acres) $18.00 – Beautious! Don’t have sex without (reading) it.

Miss Sequential #1 by Marissa Falco $2.00 – Cutest ziney-mini comic-y thing evah! From the artist of Red-Hooded Sweatshirt. Sort of Missy Kulick-esque.

Rosario Dawson Loves Me #1 Or I Want to Die Right Now Please by Justin Valmassoi $1.50 – Yes, the time has come. Rosario Dawson fan fiction.

Tulip Spr/Sum 09 $4.00 – New local literary journal. Jump on it now before it gets the buzz!

Road Kill vol 1 #10 $2.00

Gigantic Sequins vol 1 #1 $5.00 – Lit journal. Also hot!

Laterborn #7 by Jason Martin $2.00 – mini comic.

Razorcake #52 $4.00

Two new comic books from George Starr of Snowie fame: Triangle Versus Square ($8.00) and You’re Dead to Me ($6.00)

Dear Dave Magazine #5 $15.00 – Deluxe fashion mag.

Lulu Eightball vol 2 by Emily Flake (Atomic) $14.95 – New material from former local illustrator. Hilarious!

Bust Oct Nov 09 $4.99

Secret Beach #1 Sep 09 by Liam Warfield $2.00 – New material from the zinester behind War Against the Idiots! Finally!

Bizarre #154 Sep 09 $10.50

High Glitz: Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants by Susan Anderson (PowerHouse) $39.95 – That’s some freaky shit

Preparedness Now: An Emergency Survival Guide by Anton Edwards (Process) $16.95

2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce (Disinfo) $14.95

Pictures For Sad Children by John Campbell $15.00 – From local comics artist of Stevie Might Be a Bear.

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and illustr. by Brett Helquist (Harper) $14.99

Sulk #3 by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf) $6.00

Away We Go Screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Vintage) $14.00

Sound And Fury Art of Henry Darger (Edlin) $40.00

Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues by Loren Rhoads (Scribner) $14.99 – Material from the editors of the popular outer limits mag Morbid Curiousity.

Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag (Vintage) $16.00

1 800 MICE #3 by Matt Thurber $4.00

Tape Op #73  $4.50

Comic Diorama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00 – Don’t miss Grant Reynolds here on Oct 6th!

Best American Comics 2009 ed. by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden (Houghton Mifflin) $22.00

Private: The Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine, ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99