Today’s Featured Book: L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Illustrated by Graham Rawle

This is no ordinary reprint. This version of The Wizard of Oz is an artbook illustrated by Graham Rawle, author of Woman’s World (a novel created entirely from fragments of found text from 60s womens mags, now being made into a movie). The text is the same — hence it being almost 300 pages long! There’s illustrations on almost every page, and they’re crazy. Collage-y type of stuff with dolls and toys and beads and doll slippers and bottles and things cut out from other things — like he cut up magazines and newspapers and then went crazy at American Science and Surplus. Kids would love this but adults may love it more. Even some of the font is spicy with cursive and italics and who knows what else. There’s little graphic surprises on almost every page. A lot of work went into this thing!

Chris Onstad creator of Achewood at Quimby’s!

Nov ’08
6
5:00 pm

The elusive creator of Achewood has finally emerged!  Chris Onstad is shedding his usual shroud of secrecy and hitting the road on a national tour to meet, greet, shake hands, and kiss babies.

On the heels of the release of The Great Outdoor Fight hardcover and a second straight Ignatz award for Best Online Comic, Onstad is making stops in major cities across North America to celebrate the success of Achewood with the dedicated fans that have made it all possible.

But these aren’t your typical creator signings.  Tattoos, turkey, drinks, machismo bonding for ladies and dudes, topped off with enough Achewood merchandise for everyday of the week, each stop will be an event in its own right.

Come and join the party at comic shops across the country with the man who spends his days drawing cats and dogs as you’ve never seen them before.

Since 2001, cult comic favorite Achewood has built a six-figure international following. Intelligent, hilarious, and adult but not filthy, it’s the strip you’ll wish you’d discovered as an underappreciated fifteen-year-old. Dark Horse presents the hardbound edition of Achewood’s The Great Outdoor Fight, the story of “Three Days, Three Acres, Three Thousand Men.”

AREA/Chicago Underground Library Welcome Reception for The Alternative Press Center Magazine Archive

AREA and the Chicago Underground Library are pleased to invite you to a welcome party for the Alternative Press Center, who recently relocated their impressive archive of independent media to Chicago after several decades in Baltimore. Progressive and radical librarians, academics, students, researchers, and concerned citizens of Chicago are invited to come out for a night of complimentary drinks and snacks to say hello and welcome to Alternative Press Center (APC) staff and check out this new amazing local resource.

The APC is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world.

Friday, October 24th, 2008 from 7-9pm, 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. on the 2nd floor (Location is not handicap accessible.)

Chicago kickin’ Ignatz!!!

Ignatz winners were announced last night and among some strong competition a couple of Chicago comics artists took home the golden bricks!

So congratulations to Laura Park and Lilli Carre!!!

Click here to see a full list of winners

or the Comics Reporter blog has a list with winners and nominees!

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of September 28th, 2008 – October 4th

1.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2.    Bust Oct Nov 08 $4.99
3.    Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Edited by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00
4.    What’s Your Poo Telling You by Josh Richman and Anish Sheth (Chronicle) $9.95
5.    Butt #24 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
6.    Proximity #2 Cities Issue $10.00
7.    Scarecrow by Max G Morton $6.00
8.    Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman (Scribner) $24.00
9.    Demons In the Spring by Joe Meno (Akashic) $24.95
10.  Pot Culture: A to Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life by Shirley Halperin (Universe) $19.95