Notable New Stuff

Lots of metal and noise folks in today for a big fest in town, giving the store a ditch gym to go smoke in the alley vibe. A perfect saturday at Quimby’s!

Also, awesome events this week! Tomorrow (Sunday) Russell Howze presents Stencil Nation and then on Wednsday is comic artists Adrian Tomine/Seth! For more info about events, go here.

And a quick reminder: we will open 2 hours later than usual on Tues., June 9th at 2pm instead of noon.

New Stuff:

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Whole Death Catalog: Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter (Ballantine) $18.00 – Because you’ll definitely need a guide book where you’re going.

McSweeneys vol 31 $24.00

Greetings From The Oceans Sweaty Face 100 McSweeneys Postcards (Chronicle) $19.95 – Comes in a cool recipe box-type recepticle. With such artists as Charles Burns, Marcel Dzama and more!

Convalescent by Jessica Anthony (McSweeneys) $22.00

White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day by Richie Unterberger (Jawbone) $29.95

A whole mess o’ Moleskinne 2010 planners $10.95-$15.95

Bldg Blog Book by Geoff Manaugh (Chronicle) $29.95

1000 New Eco Designs And Where To Find Them by Rebecca Proctor (Laurence King) $35.00

The Ocean TPB by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse (Wildstorm) $19.99

Side B: Music Lovers Comic Anthology (Poseur Ink) $22.99 – From the editors of the successful Side A: Music Lovers Comic Anthology!

Uptight #3 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $2.75

Venus Zine #40 Sum 2009 $4.50

Grid Index by Carston Nicolai (DGV) $60.00

Love Sex Fear Death: Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment by Timothy Wyllie and Adam Parfrey (Akashic) $24.95

Fugue State by Brian Evenson and Zak Sally (Akashic) $14.95

Will Work For Drugs by Lydia Lunch (Akashic) $15.95

Show That Smells by Derek McCormack (Akashic) $15.95

Action Painting: Bringing Art to the Trains/Introduction To the Phenomenon of Painting On Trains (Gingko Press) $39.95

Part of Rebellion #2 Dave the Chimp ed. by C100 (Publikat) $19.95 – Follow up in the Part of Rebellion graffiti series.

Big Book of Legs edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $29.99 – She (Dian Hanson, specifically) has got legs and she knows how to use them.

Extraordinary Records edited by Giorgio Moroder (Taschen) $39.99 – Yes, you read that right. Giorgio Moroder

Life Inc.: How The World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (Melville) $26.00 – By the author of Media Virus and contributor to Arthur Magazine.

Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter (Melville) $16.00

Watch the Closing Doors #47 $2.50

Nobrow #1 $25.00 – You won’t find this thing just anywhere! This is a wonderful debut issue of an imported British design periodical. It has lots of beautiful blue ink and is almost graphic novel-esque. You have to see it to believe it.

Plus, these exciting restocks are in!:

Rocket Science #1 Multi Limbed Anthology $4.00 – mini comix!

Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer (Soft Skull) $11.95

Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Cabinet ICONS Edition by Alexander Roob (Taschen) $9.99

The Zinn Reader by Howard Zinn (Seven Stories Press) $19.95

Vampire Vultures by John Fahey (Drag City) $17.98

Tape Op vol 2: The Book About Creative Music Recording (Tape Op) $24.99

Making Deals #1 and #2 $5.00 each

Lots of cute mini comix from Missy Kulik, such as Super Paws, Personal Charm, Where’s a Cookie and more! $.75 – $2.00

Merit Badges $4.00 – By a local individual who prefers to remain anonymous to the public but nonetheless impresses us with die-cut amazingness, with such hilarious sayings as “Born Again Atheist.” Only available in store! And they go fast!

Change of Hours on Tuesday

Just a quick reminder to let you know that Quimby’s will open 2 hours later than usual on Tuesday, June 9th. Instead of opening at noon, Quimby’s will open at 2pm. Thanks!

Top 10 This Week

This list spans the week 5/24/09 – 5/30/09

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1. Trubble Club #3 by the Trubble Club $3.00 – See Trubble Club members Laura Park and Jeremy Tinder looking victorious above!

2. Unfinal Call CD by Bonnie Prince Billy (Drag City) $8.00

3. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90

4. Rusted Train Makeovers #1 Jan 07 $5.00

5. Juxtapoz #101 Jun 09 $5.99

6. Stop Smiling #38 $6.99

7. Journalsong #6 by Steve $2.50

8. Contemporary Art Guide Chicago 2009 (Proximity Publication) $6.00

9. Proximity #4 $12.00

10. The Believer #62 $8.00

New Stuff This Week

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That’s right, somebody dropped off a donation for Midwest Books to Prisoners in the perfect bag. Appropriately located next to Dangerous Ink. Anyway, lotsa great new stuff this week as usual, as well as some great events planned for June, with just a few of the links below.

Comedy By the Numbers Book-On-Tape CD: Selections From the McSweeneys Book by Prof. Eric Hoffman and Dr. Gary Rudoren $12.99 – With all manner of cool guest stars reading selections on it, like David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman and more! Don’t miss executive producer Bob Odenkirk signing this CD on June 20th!

Works On Paper by Archer Prewitt (Presspop) $20.00 – That’s right. He’ll be here signing it June 20th. And yes, you read that correctly. Bob Odenkirk here at 4pm and Archer Prewitt here at 7pm. The same day!!

George Sprott 1894 – 1975 edited by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95 – Don’t miss Seth with Adrian Tomine at Quimby’s on Wednesday, June 10th!

Mark Ryden’s Tree Show: 15 Postcards (Porterhouse) $12.95

Papercut Heart: A Book of Zines by Ian Sullivan Cant (Conundrum) $15.00 – Beautiful and minimal art

All This Is Mine #12 $5.00

Because This Is How I Want to Remember You by Jordan A Fu $3.00 – Mini comix from a promising talent new to Quimby’s!

Killer Marguerite by Megan Milks (Another New Calligraphy) $6.00 – Don’t miss Megan Milks with Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf here at Quimby’s on July 26th!

Chugtitz #2 $2.00 – Old school cut’n’paste style zine.

You Don’t Get There From Here #11 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – As always, the artist behind The Assassin and the Whiner pumps out awesome mini comix.

Jobjumper by The Whiskey Rebel $15.00 – Yes! You read that right! This second edition revised and expanded of an old classic is here.

Teeth: I Walked Outside Today and Beast In a Bottle, both by the Bernard St Collective Production $2.00 each – Chap book action.

Precious Gems: A Compendium of Collectable Correspondence Cards (Koyama Press) $15.00 – Postcard book version of Team Macho art.

Twenty Reasons Why You Should Eat Magic Mushrooms by Jason Kieffer $1.00 – Can you guess what this comic is about?

Shoot Your Slut #1 $7.00 – Home made erotic mag $7.00

Go Get the Money Alamo Igloo 2009 by Keith Herzik $5.00 – Is he famous yet? ‘Cause his silkscreen comix are awesome.

Ode to Cabernet $4.00 – DIY sommelier!

Wax Poetics #35 $9.99

Swallow Presents John Watkiss Sparrow Art Book Series vol 11 (IDW) $11.99

Giocattoli Per Malinconici Toys For Melancholics by Gabriels (Stamen) $49.95 – For the lovers of the sexy biomechanics in the style of Giger.

Dirtypilot.com Year One Rewind A Survey of Graffiti Street and Urban Art (Dirty Pilot) $19.95

Thought Cloud Shrines: Drawings by Theo Ellsworth $5.00 – Delicious screenprinted imaginings.

Back In the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used To Know How to Do by Michael Powell (Sterling) $7.95

Dre Day 2009 Burlesque of North America Proudly Presents: Dr Dre Sticker Pack VII $5.00

Divine Filth by Georges Bataille (Solar) $14.95 – The people have spoken, and they want a reprint of classic erotica fiction.

Children of the Can 25 Years of Bristol Graffiti by Felix FLX Braun (Tangent) $50.00

Eroto: To the Prurient Interest The Erotic-Sexual Images of RC Horsch vol II (IMC) $19.95 – Kinky stuff!

Mysteries vol 7 #1 $6.95

American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent (Scribner) $14.00

Melvin Monster vol 1: John Stanley Library (Drawn & Quarterly) $19.95

Moomin Vol 4: Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip (Drawn & Quarterly) $19.95

Kev Grey – British tattoo-ish lowbrow artist, imported just for you. Sorta Sailor Jerry, sorta goth, sorta Mitch O’Connell. You won’t find this in many other places! $20.00

Juxtapoz #101 Jun 09 $5.99

You’ll Never Know vol 1 A Good and Decent Man by C. Tyler (Dark Horse) $24.99

Tape Op #71 $4.50

GlompX with CD $46.00 – Hardcover comics anthology. For lovers of Kramers E.

Big Book of Legs edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $59.99

James Hannaham Reads From God Says No

Jun ’09
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7:00 pm

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In God Says No (McSweeneys) by James Hannaham, Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. God Says No is his testimony—the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary Gray takes—from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee—gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can’t.

James Hannaham has written for the Village Voice, Spin, New York Magazine and once, circa 1997, a tiny sidebar in the front section of the New York Times Magazine. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Nerve.com, Open City, and several anthologies.

For more information about James Hannaham, see www.jameshannaham.com.