Category: bestsellers

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list…all in perfectbound pocketsize form.

    2. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

    3. Maximumrocknroll #331 Dec 10 $4.00

    4. Diamond Comics #5, ed. by Jason Leivian (Floating World) $3.00 – Full color chaos. Stanley Lieber, Michael DeForge, Benjamin Marra, Cleon Peterson, Pete Toms, Panayiotis Terzis, Derek Ballard and a frantic cover by Skinner. You’ll probably cry if you miss this.

    Diamond Comics #5

    5. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – What do I have to say for myself? This is the pre-history-flashback issue of that homosexual birdman comic I draw. Try it, you just may like it- if you don’t, you know where to find me. -EF

    6. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

    7. Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00

    8. Picture This: The Near Sighted Monkey Book Learn How to Art with the Near Sighted by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

    9. Buildings & Bodies by Ryan Dodgson $10.00 – What would your friends look like if they were houses? What would your houses look like if they were your friends? Here’s a version of that being incredibly well-drawn and all taking place in Toronto!

    10. Giant Robot #68 $4.99

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Roctober #48 $4.00 – The world’s best music magazine from the folks behind the world’s best cable-access show. A million zillion pages, b&w with tons of pictures and loads of comics.

    2. Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by R. Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

    3. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – New issue from our very own Edie. Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s to celebrate the release of his Gaylord Phoenix book published by Secret Acres here at Quimby’s on Dec 9th!

    4. X’ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?

    5. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95 – The most recent addition of Chris Ware’s running issues. Interpret issues how you want.

    6. Picture This by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

    7. Wowee Zonk #3 (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Yo! It’s so good: Michael DeForge, Jan Avendano, Andrei Georgescu, Zach Worton, Ginette Lapalme, Selena Wong, Chris Simonen, Chris Kuzma, Dan Rocca, Patrick Kyle…And everyone really pulled out their A-game here, not a single bad apple in this whole round-up. Insanely beautiful cover art too – what planet are those colors from? -EF

    8. Possum and the Pepper Spray by Pete Hodapp $4.00

    9. Grime Time #3 $8.00

    10. Believer #76 Nov Dec 10 Art Issue $10.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Celebrate Peoples History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, ed. by Josh MacPhee (Feminist Pr) $24.95 – A beautiful and inspiring book collecting the Justseeds Celebrate Peoples History Posters to date, overwhelming and fantastic! -EF

    2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list and more.

    3. ‘Za the Pizza Zine by Nikki Yowell $4.00 – Get a Sloppy Slice of this hot pie!

    4. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Same as the Large Slingshot radical organizer above but in a perfect-bound pocketsize form.

    5. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95 – The newest issue from Chris Ware.
    6. X ‘ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?

    7. List #14 Fine For Now by Ramsey $4.00 – Reasons to love the new issue of List: The drawings just keep getting better, highly logical, yet intimately personal, good times, good foods, good dogs, stories broken down and organized into compelling, must-read-more formats, dreams, plans and schemes plotted in charming detail, homemade geography and chronology charts all woven gracefully into list-making and more!

    8. Best American Comics 2010 ed by Abel/Madden/Gaiman (HM) $23.00
    9. Four Squares #2 More Squares by Liz Prince, Maris Wicks, Tim Finn and Joe Quinones $5.00 – July 2008 served four different ways by four comic talents each doing strip-a-days. The weave is really nice here as everyone hops in and out of each other’s strips-sandwiches get invented, neighbors get spied on, raspberries get stolen and Boston gets hotttt.-EF
    10. Ramble On #1 by Calvin Wong (Sparkplug) $3.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. X’ed Out HC by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you? It was nice seeing all of you who came out to meet Charles Burns when he was here. Here’s proof he was here!
    2. Exquisite Book 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game by var. (Chronicle) $29.95 – The design dream team behind Also has somehow coordinated 100 of their favorite artists to participate in ten huge fold-out exquisite corpses. It means you get a little bit of everyone, and a whole lot of a whole lot with some amazing inadvertent collaborations erupting. -EF
    3. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – A new issue from our Edie! Don’t miss the book release for his book of the same title Dec 9th!


    4. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95

    5. Straight To Hell #67 $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories – Feels like heaven to me.

    6. Juxtapoz #118 Nov 10 $5.99
    7. Trubble Club vol 4 by Trubble Club $3.00 – A new offer from this local alternative comics collective.
    8. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

    9. Scam #7 The Return of Miami by by Erick Lyle $3.25 – Back to the weird Miami wildness goes Scam, straight into the Belly of the Basel, back through the Memory Maw of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement protests, and then rounding off the issue with a scene report from Miami’s badass squatters rights movement. Kinda leaves you awestruck, pummelled and breathless. -EF

    10. Brilliant Mistake #2 – Carrie’s second issue lays it bare, rips it raw, burns, shreds and begins to rebuild a devastated heart. Reading Brilliant Mistake #2 cuts to the chase and takes you right there – that place of the furious senselessness of love in tatters – and through reading it you sort out your own wreckage. Trial by fire, and feeling it hard. -EF

  • Weekly Bestsellers

    1. Xed Out HC by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you? And! Don’t miss Charles Burns at Quimby’s on 11/3!

    2. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95 – A completely wrenching tale of Jordan Lint’s awful life, rendered with Ware’s perfectly rendered tangential velocities that vault us back and forth through memory, fixation, anticipation and communication. Ware leaves us all awestruck again and again as his flawless craftsmenship builds a visual narrative that can eviscerate the hidden space between cause and effect in all the little (and big) damages of living. -EF

    3. Scam #7 The Return of Miami Spr 10 $3.25

    4. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer $12.00

    5. Bizarre #168 Nov 10 $10.50

    6. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, edited by Dave Eggers (HM) $14.95

    7. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (LB) $21.95

    8. Make #9 Spr Sum 10

    9.  Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00

    10. Womanimalistic #1

    Edie with Gaylord Phoenix

    Look how proud we are of our Edie here at Quimby’s. He’s with his new book Gaylord Phoenix, published by Secret Acres!

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (Harper) $14.99 – The first history of Riot Grrrl tells the story of a group of extraordinary young women coming of age and coming into their own.
    2. Xed Out HC by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?
    Don’t miss Charles Burns at Quimby’s on 11/3!
    3. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
    4. What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation, N+1 Small Books Series #3 by the editors of N+1 $10.00 – Chapters including “On Douchebags” and “Williamsburg Year Zero.” Yes, for real.
    5. Bitch #48 $5.95
    6. The Instructions HC by Adam Levin (McSweeneys) $29.00 – Written by a charismatic local writer and a Quimby’s frequent shopper, telling the story of a junior high kid who may or may not be the new messiah.
    7. Henry and Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
    8. Or Let It Sink #4 Halloweened/Dear Jaguar #3 Selected Errors Split Zine by Jim and Vicky $2.00 – A Halloween Special Split. Better than the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
    9. Super Maxi Pad Girl #1 by Daniel Olson and AJ Niehaus $4.00
    10. All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John (Chronicle) $9.95

  • Weekly Top 10 In-store Bestsellers

    1. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
    2. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (HC) $14.99 – Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s on Saturday, 10/23!
    3. Gentlewoman #2 Fall Win 10 $10.95
    4. What Was The Hipster: A Sociological Investigation – N+1 Small Books Series #3 by var. $10.00 – “Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write this history without contempt or nostalgia? Why are we tempted to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster’s “global brand” has just reached its apotheosis? A panel of writers invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster. Their debate took place at the New School University in New York City, and was followed by articles, responses, and essays, all printed here for the first time.”
    5. Fantastic Man #12 $12.99
    6. King Cat #71 by John Porcellino $3.00 – This one’s great. The whole first part is all tales of being over-thirty-and-still-dirty, beater cars, stinky pits, run down shoes and all. Then J.P. up and moves to Florida and there’s a really funny 4-page field guide to all the cray-zay teeming wildlife. -EF
    7. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
    8. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99
    9. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With Almost No Money by Dolly Freed (Tin House) $12.95 – The antidote to being a capitalist pig? Becoming a possum. Dolly Freed wrote this as a sassy and scrappy teenager in the 70s and finally someone had the common sense to reprint it.
    10. The Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Henry and Glenn Forever Deluxe New Edition by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

    2. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell) $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

    3. Cats Are Weird and More Observations: A Cat Book by Jeffrey Brown (Quirk) $12.95 – If you’re a cat person you’re in good company: Art Bell, William Burroughs and now Jeffrey Brown.

    4. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
    5. Rigor Mortis vol 3 $3.50
    6. Zisk #19 Fall 10 $2.00
    7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
    8. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus $14.99 – The last great underground cultural movement of the pre-Internet age, Riot Grrrl revolutionized girlhood itself. In the early 1990s, young women were realizing that the equality they’d been promised was still elusive, and a newly resurgent right wing was turning feminism into the ultimate dirty word. Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s with Jessica Harper, author of Girls Guide to Rocking on Oct 23rd, 7pm.
    9. Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EF

    10. Boneshaker Magazine #2 $8.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Peters Muscle by Michael DeForge $1.00
    2. Believer #74 Sep 10 $8.00
    3. Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99
    4. Giant Robot #67 $4.99
    5. Bicycle Diaries (soft cover) by David Byrne (Penguin)
    6. Beautiful Decay Book 4 Exquisite Corpse $20.00 – The Beautiful/Decay takes on the human body, in all its swollen blood-filled suck-sack glory. Local Swamplord Rachel Niffenegger has a throbbing, gristly portfolio in here that pretty much qualifies as a biohazard, and there’s some nice work from paper-powered Karen Sargysan and some of those hypnotic Leigh Bowery manuevers Nick Cave’s been pulling these days.

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    7. Doris #15 DIY Antidepression Guide by Cindy Crabb $2.00
    8. Shiny Shiny by Michael O’Flaherty $16.95
    9. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $20.00
    10. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

  • Weekly Top 10 and Banned Book Week Info

    1. Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat (Melville House)$25.95 – Jean-Christophe Valtat Read From Aurorarama on 9/22/10 here. Aurorarama is set in the glittering Arctic city of “New Venice,” Jean-Christoph Valtat’s Aurorarama imagines an intricate steampunk society populated with anarchists, hypnotists, rock stars, drug-addled bohemians, dapper secret police, and a secret society of subterranean garbage collectors. Sounds like our customers. Here’s a picture of him looking quite dapper himself.


    2. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF
    3. Is It the Future Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? Well, I predict you will fall madly in love with Corinne’s amazing new mini-comic, Is It the Future Yet?, which she made ‘specially for Quimby’s! I see you laughing out loud at the fresh psychic hijinx and time-travel schemes that grace every delightful page. I can see your love for this comic growing rich, deep, and strong and you will find it brings you much good luck and happiness as years go by…Yes, my friend, the future looks very bright indeed!
    4. Bitch #48 $5.95
    5. Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00 – Featuring essays by Michael Lind on the emerging American oligarchy; Yves Smith on the mountainous self-regard of the American finance industry; Chris Lehmann on libertarianism’s willful failure to understand the economic crisis; Naomi Klein’s reflections on “branding” in American politics 10 years after her magnum opus, No Logo; Matt Taibbi on the howler of a memoir just published by a certain doltish Midwestern governor; plus ruminations on the ruination of Detroit, a very funny fantasy about rumbling with the personnages of the Western literary canon, and a clever story by Paul Maliszewski.
    6. Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99
    7. Walking Dead TPB vol 12 Life Among Them by Robert Kirkman (Image) $14.99

    8. Letters I Will Never Send To You #4 by Morgan Inez $3.00 – Snippets and snappets jam packed in Morgan Inez’s castaway island of treasures. Found photos, ephemeras, rants and stories. A hearty garbage salad zine! Where did the Seaweed find a job? Ha. You’ll have to pick this zine up to get the punchline! -EF

    9. Proof I Exist #11 by Billy $1.00 – Get your fix now! He’s a-movin’ to Santa Fe! Serious!

    10. V Magazine #67 Fall 10 $7.50

    Also! Join us in honoring Banned Books Week – Celebrating the Freedom to Read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. The challenges have occurred in every state and in hundreds of communities. Click here to see a map of book bans and challenges in the US from 2007 to 2009.  This annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. Banned Books Week is endorsed by The Library of Congress Center for the Book and sponsored by various associations including the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Library Association(ALA) and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Stay tuned this week as we feature our first guest blogger, Julie Halpern, the writer behind the books Get Well Soon (which was originally a zine sold here at Quimby’s) and Into The Wild Nerd Yonder.