Top Ten

Published on May 26, 2009 0 Comments

For the Week of May 17th-May 23rd, 2009

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Thanks to our patient customers on Friday night when we went without our phone line for the night. We can’t imagine why we would have electrical problems what with the tangle of cords in the place. Can you tell we fixed it?
1. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2. Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
3. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
4. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
5. Trubble Club vol 3 $3.00
6. Match #107 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
7. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
8. Shortcomings (soft cover) Adrian Tomine (Drawn+Quarterly) $14.95
9. Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice For Midwives and Herbalists by Catherine Marie Jeunet $5.00
10. Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 4 Time of Your Life (Dark Horse) $15.95

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New Stuff and Memorial Day Hours

Published on May 23, 2009 0 Comments

Just a reminder! Quimby’s will be open on Monday, May 25th, Memorial Day, but only with abbreviated hours. That day we will be open from noon to 5pm.


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Trubble Club vol 3 $3.00 – New comic from comics superstars who did our last window display! If we house the comic here. does that make Quimby’s a Club House?

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

Decal art (Idea) from a whole variety of cool artists, including: Royal Art Lodge, David Bromley, David Shrigley and more! Transfer it onto your Trapper Keeper! $9.50 each

Urinal Gum vol 8 $2.00

Hyphen #17 Spr 08 $4.95

Black Carrot #14 $3.00

Squish The Fish by Kevin Brady $3.00 – mini comic

Cabinet #33 Deception $12.00

Kilobyte Couture Geek Chic Jewelry to Make From Easy to Find Computer Components by (Watson) $18.95

Please Step Back by Ben Greenman (Melville) $16.95

Best of Simon and Kirby, edited by Steve Saffel (Titan) $39.95 – As in comics dudes Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, aka “comics’ Lennon/McCartney dream duo,” as the Library Journal says.

Tank Girl vol 1 and 2 by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin (Titan) $14.95 each – back in print!

Leftovers Again by Robin Hustle $3.00 – New zine from local sex activist.

Tape Op #71 $4.50

The Peep Diaries: How Were Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki (Citylights) $17.95 – He’s doing an event here on June 25th!

Love and Obstacles by Aleksander Hemon (Riverhead) $25.95 – New fiction from local M. Genius Grant (TM) writer.

Pork Chop Robinson #7 $3.00

The Comedians May 09 $4.50

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Bob Odenkirk Signs Here!

Published on May 22, 2009 0 Comments
Jun ’09
20
4:00 pm

BOB ODENKIRK COMES TO QUIMBY’S TO SIGN COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS© BOOK-ON-TAPE CD
(With Possible Special Funny Guest!)

With the belief that “true creativity comes from simple formulas and the memorization of data,” COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS© BOOKON-TAPE CD! is nothing short of an indispensable audio guide on how to be funny. Prof. Eric Hoffman & Dr. Gary Rudoren first reduced comedy to an easy-to-follow manual in the McSweeney’s humor bible COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS©, and now, for the first time ever, their work has been lovingly adapted to the medium of sound with the help of the brightest stars in the comedy galaxy. Would you like to make your co-workers laugh but have zero sense of humor? No problem! Take a tour of comedy history as you discover the power of such tried-and-true humor staples such as; “#-14-Catch Phrases,” “#16-Clowns,” “#86-Novelty Items,” “#24-Cursing,” “63-Jews & Their Idiosyncracies,” “#95-Pathos,” “#144-The Double Take,” “#82-Movie Spoofs,” “#101-Pie In The Face” and much, much more!

Guest readers featured on the CD include: Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Zach Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt, Andy Kindler, Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Walsh, McSweeney’s founder Dave Eggers and many more!

The question isn’t, “Can I live without this book-on-tape CD?”
The question is, “How have I lived this long without it?”
Executive producer by Bob Odenkirk (of “Mr. Show fame) will be on hand to sign copies of the CD with a special guest!

For more info on the CD: www.astrecords.com

This event is free.

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ARCHER PREWITT SIGNS WORK ON PAPER

Published on May 21, 2009 0 Comments
Jun ’09
20
7:00 pm

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Multi-talented Chicago artist Archer Prewitt (The Sea and Cake, The Coctails) signs his new book, Work On Paper!

Not many people will know that the author of crazy and perverted comic, Sof’ Boy, is the same man who drew the beautiful and delicate nymph-like girl from the artists’ own music album, Wilderness. But look carefully and you will notice that the most intricately drawn fine lines and dots are mutual features of much of his work; the same organic, subtle, sophisticated and tender sensibility shine through in all of Archer Prewitt’s creations and never ceases to charm us.

This book collects 32 of selected works from a group of minimal drawings he has been working on for almost 20 years.

Foreword by Jim Harris (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).

Work On Paper (PressPop)
Hardcover, 48 pgs, color, deboss stamping on front cover
Japanese/English
Size: 8 inches x 8 inches
For more info: http://www.presspop.com

FREE

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Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 10th-May 16th, 2009

Published on May 19, 2009 0 Comments

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1.    Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
2.    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith (Quirk) $12.95
3.    Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around by Cheryl Wagner (Citadel) $14.95
4.    Proximity #4 $12.00
5.    Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
6.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
7.    Juxtapoz #100 May 09 $5.99
8.    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
9.    The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
10.  The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper (Chicago Review Press) $11.95

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