Trevor Alixopulos and Laura Park Sign Comics at Quimby’s!

Published on September 9, 2008 0 Comments
Oct ’08
11
7:00 pm

Come celebrate the release of Trevor Alixopulos’ 2008 Ignatz Award nominated graphic novel, The Hot Breath of War by Sparkplug Comic Books, with some of Chicago’s finest emerging cartoonists.   Join Trevor’s friends and fellow 2008 Ignatz Awards nominees Laura Park and Jeremy Onsmith for a signing to celebrate the release the Hot Breath of War.

The Hot Breath of War explores love amidst conflict and the seduction of violence itself. Trevor lives and draws in Santa Rosa and is also the author of Mine Tonight (also by Sparkplug Comic Books). Old school Quimby’s heads might also remember Quagga?


Laura Park has done illustrations for The Reader, Asthmatic Kitty Records and many others. Her mini comic Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream is available now.

Jeremy Onsmith is crazy! We wish he did more minis!!!!

More info at:
www.alixopulos.com
www.flickr.com/photos/featherbed/

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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the Week of August 31st, 2008 – September 6th, 2008

Published on September 9, 2008 0 Comments


1.    Born Standing Up by Steve Martin (Scribner) $15.00
2.    Watchmen TPB by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
3.    How I Learned to Love Myself and Occasionally Other Men #1 $.50
4.    Cometbus #51: Loneliness of the Electra Menorah by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
5.    Venus #37 Fall 08 $4.50
6.    Cabinet #30 The Underground $12.00
7.    Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero (Marlowe) $27.50
8.    Beer Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling by Bob Calhoun (ECW) $19.95
9.    Comedians Jul/Aug 08 $4.50
10.  Etiquette by Lacey Hedtke $4.00

New Stuff 9/06/08

Published on September 6, 2008 0 Comments

Wow fall book season is ramping up. Lots of stuff coming out in paper back and tons of magazines with new issues just in time for longer CTA commutes and chilly days slacking in coffee shops. Also the poster sale is still going and there are some amazing finds to be had. Get your lazy butt over here and pick up a little color for your life…or something you can ebay for drug money!

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Don’t Miss Our Back to Art School Poster Sale and Last Chance Zine Extravanganza

Published on September 3, 2008 1 Comment

Why what’s that, you ask? Well, the posters are some limited edition show posters and other gems, and the zine part is all about zines that won’t be in these parts much longer. We’ve pulled them and put them in one space all together so that you won’t lose out on the opportunity to drool over them and make them your own. But don’t wait too long! Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the Week of August 24th, 2008 – August 30th, 2008

Published on September 2, 2008 0 Comments

1.    Cometbus #51: Loneliness of the Electra Menorah by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2.    Troubletown Told You So: Comics That Couldve Save Us from this Mess by Lloyd Dangle $11.95
3.    Watchmen TPB by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
4.    McSweeney’s #28 $24.00
5.    Maximumrocknroll #304 $4.00
6.    Doris #26 $2.00
7.    Adbusters #79 $8.95
8.    Bust Oct/Nov 06 $4.99
9.    Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
10.  What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami (Bantam) $21.00