Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 3rd – May 9th, 2009

Published on May 13, 2009 0 Comments

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1.    The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
2.    Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
3.    The Chair by Peter Simeti, Kevin Christianson and Erin Korut (Alterna Co) $13.95
4.    Wholphin #8 (McSweeney’s) $19.95
5.    Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
6.    Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.95
7.    Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
8.    Cinema Sewer #22 $7.00
9.    Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk
10.  Pygmy by Chuch Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95

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Drawn + Quarterly Artists Adrian Tomine and Seth at Quimby’s

Published on May 12, 2009 0 Comments
Jun ’09
10
7:00 pm

Please join Quimby’s and Drawn & Quarterly at an event with Optic Nerve cartoonist Adrian Tomine and Palooka-Ville cartoonist Seth. The two New Yorker illustrators will be celebrating their own new releases – Tomine’s new editions of Shortcomings and 32 stories and Seth’s new graphic novel George Sprott 1894-1975 as well as the releases of the books they have edited and designed – Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life (edited and designed by Tomine) and The Collected Doug: Canada’s Master Cartoonist (edited and designed by Seth). The two authors will be in conversation, take questions from the audience and will sign books.

This event is free!

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TEMPORARY CHANGE OF QUIMBY’S ON FRI., MAY 15TH & MON., MAY 25th

Published on May 12, 2009 0 Comments

Just so ya’ll know, we will open 2 hours later on Friday, May 15th so that we’re opening at 2pm instead of the regular Friday opening time at noon and we’ll close at 5pm on Memorial Day, Mon., May 25th instead of the regular 9pm on Mondays.

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New Stuff As of 5/9/09

Published on May 9, 2009 0 Comments

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Last Saturday (5/2/09) Nic Collins was here to celebrate the release of the second edition of his book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition, screening some of the DVD that comes with the new edition. The picture above features a member of the CSO performing. That is, the Chicago Symphhacking Orchestra, which treated audience members to circuit-bending awesomeness! For more photos of the event, go here.

New stuff follows:

Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Litte Otsu) $12.95 – New graphic novel from the local comics superstar of The Lagoon fame.

Rumblings #2 by “Kevin H.” $3.00 Mini-comic by someone named “Kevin H” who has the same illustration style as Kevin Huizenga. Coincidence? I mean, we’re just sayin’.

On Tender Hooks The Art of Isabel Samaras (Chronicle) $35.00 – humerous and bizarre Ron English-inspired lowbrow art.

Tokion #68 $6.99

Rolling Thunder #7 Spr 09 $6.00

Gullible #29 $3.00

Workers Write vol 5 Tales From the Couch $8.00

Tiki Magazine vol 5 #1 $4.99

Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians by Julie Schaper and Steven Horwitz (Melville) $16.95 – As reviewed in Time Out.

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 – New hardcover from the author of Fight Club.

Mind Mapping A Travel Guide $5.00 – New mini comic!

18 month Moleskine Calendar journals! In different sizes and textures. they start in July 2009 and go through December 2010! $10.95-$18.95.

Sublime Stitching Stichable Stationary by Jenny Hart (Chronicle) $14.95

Big Stars Radio City 33 1/3 Series by Bruce Eaton (Continuum) $10.95

Minus Times #29 $15.00 – Yes! For real! A new issue of Drag City’s version of the Believer. Typed on a typewriter or font that looks like a typewriter? That is the question.

Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.00 – Cut’n’paste naughtiness. For lovers of the masculine physique.

Adult Crash Book and 7 inch Photographs by Dave Brown (Six Feet Under Records) $15.00

Gigantic #1 $3.00 – New lit journal.

Show Me the Money #29 $2.50

Giant Robot #59 $4.99

Burning Man Live 13 Years of Piss Clear Black Rock Citys Alternative Newspaper by Adrian Roberts (Re/Search) $24.99

Gearhead #18 $4.95

Maximumrocknroll #312 $4.00

Bizarre #148 $10.50

Fortean Times #247 May 09 $11.99

Requiem For a Paper Bag Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost by Davy Rothbart and various others (Fireside) $15.99 – Edited by the editor of FOUND Magazine

Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine (Drawn+Quarterly) $14.95 – Now in soft cover! Stay tuned for more details about an event here at Quimby’s in June 09 with Adrian Tomine and Seth (Palookaville)!

33 1/3 Series: Lets Talk About Love by Celine Dion: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson (Continuum) $12.95

Mystery Theater Episode #1 The Human Brain by Julia Wertz $3.00 – New mini comic from the creator of Fart Party.

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Russell Howze Brings Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art to Quimby’s

Published on May 8, 2009 0 Comments
Jun ’09
7
2:00 pm

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Russell Howze will be on the road this June, giving his slide presentation for “Stencil Nation.” This one hour presentation will give a great overview of the art form, using examples from the book as well as other outside sources, materials, and interesting items. Russell will also have actual cut stencils and will allow time for questions about all things stencil.

Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art packs over 500 full-color photographs in a 192 page, 8 inch by 8 inch pound of paper and ink. The book presents work by more than 350 artists from 28 countries. Without a doubt, stencils are the fastest, easiest, and cheapest method for painting an image on a wall, a sidewalk, or almost any object anywhere. Stencil Nation focuses on the unexpected mix of this lively, accessible medium to reveal engaging aspects of an intentionally secretive international creative community. With dynamically illustrated perspectives from diverse niches of the art form, hundreds of photographs and numerous essays have been curated by StencilArchive.org’s founder, Russell Howze. Stencil Nation builds upon previous published works to give the most extensive and up-to-date history of stencil art, as well as how-to tips from the artists who work within the art form.

Russell Howze saw his first stencil in 1990, which was J. R. “Bob” Dobbs on an apartment wall in Clemson, SC. In 1995, Russell saw an amazing sight on the exterior wall of the Reichstag in Berlin: a huge stenciled Bertolt Brecht poem. He snapped a photo of that stencil, then found one in Budapest, Hungary. Then a few more stencils appeared in Basel, Switzerland. When he landed in San Francisco in 1997, he found dozens on the sidewalks of the Mission and Haight neighborhoods. In 2002, Russell created the first version of Stencil Archive, thinking that he would have time to scan and upload his own collection before anyone discovered the site and submitted their own work. He was gladly mistaken, so Stencil Archive (www.stencilarchive.org <http://www.stencilarchive.org> ) took off, outgrew its parent site HappyFeetTravels.org, and ended up becoming a site with over 12,000 uploaded photographs.

For more info:
http://www.manicdpress.com
http://www.stencilnation.org
http://www.stencilarchive.org

ALL EVENTS AT QUIMBY’S ARE FREE

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