Category: bestsellers

Here’s the topsellers. But first, a reminder about our event this coming Saturday (July 23rd) at 7 pm, we’re excited to welcome Cassie J. Sneider with Dave Roche and Danny ‘Ratso’ Rathbun, which should be hilarious and fun. See our event calendar for more info.

Weekly Top 10

1. Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) $12.00 – Collects highlights from #44 to #48. including tales from the Dead End, Lanky, and the Back to the Land series.

2. Logan Square Literary Review #7 Sum 11 $5.00 – Fiction from Ray Cline and Evan Seeder, photos from April Lynn, poetry from Alicia Hilton and Brandon Holmquesta bike comic, a profile on the Logan Square CROP project and a recipe for kroppkakor.

3. Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00

4. Roctober #49 $4.00

5. Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00

6. Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

7. 8-Track Mind #101 Zines vs Blogs ed. by F.R. Russ Forster $3.00 – WELCOME BACK 8-TRACK MIND!!!! Holy Moly! After a 10-year hiatus 8-Track Mind heeds the call of the Revenge of Print and pulls a fresh new issue out of the oven! Man, this was the zine that I remember reading way-back-when that REALLY made me think, “Woah, you really can make a great zine about ANYTHING.” Truly. This issue goes light on the 8-trackology but stays true to its analog-obsessed roots with a well-rounded symposium all about “Zines Versus Blogs”. -EF — Contributors: Chris Barrows, Peter Bergman, Joe Carducci, Kim Cooper, Brendan DeVallance, Tony DuShane, Sam Green, Lance Laurie, Alison Levy, Tom Lynch, Danny Plotnick, Dan Sutherland, V Vale and Lucien Williams.

8. Your Secretary #10 Dig Deep #3 by Jami Sailor and Heather C. $2.00 –  Library-themed librarian zine split. Heather gushes about working the Young Adult program and Jami gives a run down of Library School field work and public library porn use. Something to definitely check out! -EF

9. Hobo Magazine #13 $15.00

10. Yeti #11 $11.95 – Another great issue of Yeti – a cd of exclusive tracks and a thick journal of comics, interviews, photos and art. Always a stunner. This issue: ON THE CD: all rare/unreleased music –a dozen tracks that are as long as their respective track numbers, so that track 12 is 12 minutes long and track 4 is 4 minutes long and you probably don’t need any more examples than that. The result is a 78-minute-long disc featuring Snake Hole, Sloppy Heads, Johnita and Joyce Collins, Atole, Gospel Creators, White Rainbow, The Dirashi Tribe, Roy Montgomery, Golden Retriever, Oneida, Phill Niblock, and Happy New Year. INSIDE THE BOOK: .interviews with Phill Niblock, Roy Montgomery, and Brian Chippendale; photography by Olivia Wyatt and Megan Holmes; art by Marcellus Hall and Victor Kerlow; an archival interview with Joe Brainard by Anne Waldman; fiction by Kimberly Parko and R. Foggo; rare May ’68 posters from Grenoble, and the Skaters.

1. Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G.Warrior (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – The greatest heavy metal story ever told—the complete tale of a life lived for metal. Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, METALION includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer Mag—Slayer 1 through Slayer XX, plus the precursor Live Wire zine—spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life’s story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to metal party beast to world-weary metal survivor. The book also features over 100 rare photographs, including two color sections and a portrait gallery of photographs taken by Kristiansen himself. For twenty-five years, Norway’s Slayer Mag published the gospel of black metal and death metal, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and relentless offbeat humor. With this anthology/memoir, editor Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen unfolds the extreme highs and lows of a life lived for heavy metal. Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Mag quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of Slayer Mag exploded along with the extreme metal underground, and as black metal rose to prominence in Norway in the 1990s, Slayer Mag remained the final word on the moods and motivations of those dark times. Expertly edited by friend and peer Tara G. Warrior. Thanks to everybody that came out for this amazing event last week!

2. Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #3 Sum 11 $15.00

3. Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00

4. Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00

5. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00

6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00 – Jenna and Jami are like a zine archivist Dream Team getting into a lot of crooks and nannies and doing it all in a zine. It’s a tricky topic…how and why do you archive media that often openly flaunts itself as underground, anti-establishment and anti-catagorization. They interview Milo Miller from the Queer Zine Archive Project, Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines, Adela C Licona author of Zines In the Third Space and Teal Triggs, author of the controversial “Fanzines” coffee table book that glossed over many issues of author consent and compensation. Jenna “Lower East Side Librarian” Freedman rounds out the issue with a breakdown of what seperates zines from blogs.
7. Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

8. Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00

9. Paying For It a Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

10. Your Secretary #6 Lake Effect #1 Split by Jami Sailor  and K $2.00

Just a heads up, we’ve got 3 events happening this week that we’re excited about, each of them starting at 7pm:

Wed, July 6th Orderly Disorder: Zinester Librarians in Circulation Tour featuring the Fly Away Zine Mobile
Fri, July 8th 7:00 pm Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior Discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries
Sat, July 9th Heather Augustyn Reads From Ska: An Oral History

Top 10

1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – McSweeneys food rag.
2. Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00 – By mini-comics superstar.

3 Mental Health Cookbook: Creating Connection With Foods and Herbs by H. Finn Cunningham (Needles and Pens) $7.00 – Starter guide to all sorts of diy holistic food practices.

4. Handbook vol 5 #2 2011 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – The sensitive side of Trevor Wayne , the business side of Ty, Will and Mike and some nice articles about sexual versatility and “post-gay.”

5. 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

6. Make Comics About an Intimate Act by var. $7.00

7. Take a Joke vol 3 of The Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $18.99 – “Johnny Ryan’s transgressive masterpiece Prison Pit has been the talk of altcomics circles since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before Prison Pit, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humor anthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Correctness), Angry Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects many of the best stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice magazine, to which Ryan has contributed for years.

8. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $15.00

9. Bitch #51 $5.95

10. Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50

Announcement before the week’s bestsellers: the second episode of the official Quimby’s Bookstore Podcast is now up! It features an interview with the authors of The Beat Cop’s Guide to Chicago Eats, Sgt. David J. Haynes and blogger Christopher Garlington. You can find it on I-Tunes and also at quimbys.podbean.com. Don’t forget to subscribe wherever you listen to it so you can receive every episode.

Weekly Top 10

1.    Black Eye #1 ed. by Ryan Standfest $14.95 – Black Eye is the comics magazine dedicated to ludicrous violence, unrelenting nihilism and gratuitous gross-out. Chicago heavy-hitters Paul Nudd, Lilli Carré, and Ivan Brunetti get super nasty and Onsmith’s totally tasteless contributions warranted a book seizure at the Canadian border. The scandal doesn’t end there either…Stéphane Blanquet, Jeet Heer, Al Columbia, Kaz, Michael Kupperman, Tom Neely and Brecht Evans are all at work causing some internal bleeding on this one. A real bad egg if you ask me. -EF …And thanks to everybody that came out for the signing for this anthology on this past Saturday!

2.    Linework #2 Comics and Graphics Anthology Spr 11 $10.00

3.    Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.

4.    Bust Jun Jul 11 $4.99

5.    Sock #1 Adult Stories and Imagery Comics Anthology by Conor Stechshulte $8.00

6.    Roots #1 by Alison Vellas $3.50 – Meat your maker. Nicely plotted comic about a stubborn generational battle betwixt an old-world bubbe, and her righteous vegetarion whippersnapper grandaughter. Taking on the stickiness of negotiation between tradition and food politics, Vellas does a nice job of catering to both sides. -EF

7.    SF #1 by Ryan Cecil Smith (Closed Caption Comics) $5.00 – Ryan Cecil Smith’s new serial “SF” gives classic sci-fi comics an impish, homespun twist while still staying true to form. Introducing the space-scientist-fighter crew of the S.F.S.F.S.F. and the hapless orphan earthling Hupa Dupa, Smith balances straight up expository scripting with satisfying bursts of rough-and-tumble action. Humor gets played fast-and-loose here giving the tight storytelling a breezy edge and lending a weird wit to the crisp Tintin-flavored schemes. –EF

8.    So Nervous #1 by Corinne Mucha and Heather Radke $3.00 – Worrisome!

9.    Weird Schmeird #0 Conversations in Your Neighborhood by Ryan Cecil Smith $7.00 – A fun book-toy-thing!

10.    Woman House by Esther Pearl Watson $5.00

1. Chicago Street Art ed. by Joseph J. Depre and Oscar Arriola $15.00

2. Lose #3 by Michael Deforge (Koyama) $5.00

3. Comic Nurse by MK Czerwiec $25.00

4. Fear of Failure Episode #1 Featuring Doctor Lois Pritchard by Thom Ferrier $5.00

5. Maximumrocknroll #338 Jul 11 $4.00

6. Cornish Legend by Gould S. Baring $.10

7. Cabinet #41 Infrastructure $12.00 – Tweakier than the New Yorker, weirder than Harper’s, subtler than McSweeney’s, Cabinet remains the smart shining star of the NPR media spectrum. -EF

8. Rad Dad #19 by Tomas Moniz $3.00 – This is the Rad Dad “heavy topics” issue; its pages are concerned with talking to your kids about topics you might shy away from—important issues like racism, sexism, death, domestic violence, police brutality, and environmental crisis.

9. Telegram Maam #20 Sum 10 $3.00

10. Notes On Conflict by Susie Cagle $6.00

1. Peoplings Book: Autism Education and the Savage of Aveyron by Courtney Angermeier and Jeff Benham $12.00 – Thanks to the Comics and Medicine Conference this past weekend!

2. Juxtapoz #126 Jul 11 $5.99

3. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

4. The Beat Cops Guide to Chicago Eats by Sgt David J Haynes and Christopher Garlington (Lake Claremont Press) $15.95 – Don’t miss tonight’s event for this book at 7pm!
5 Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Woodring’s comics continue to be pure magic.
6. Noah Novella by Noah VanSciver (Grimalkin Press) $4.00 – Noah VanSciver does autobio comics by taking us into his personal troll hole, and it’s not such a bad place to be. He’s a hater, for sure. His crabcake one-pagers about growing up poor, awkward and unlucky really do start to have the Crumb-y effect of explaining the chips on his shoulder. He’s got a good drawing sensibility too that just wrings extra angst and neuroses out of the story. I gotta say, his constant pursuit of fame and fortune through making weird comics wears me down stresses me out a little. The comics are good, they’re being published and noticed, and they’re getting better all the time, it might be time to stop sweating the small stuff and just go for it. -EF
7. Play It Make It – A Tiny Book of DIY Games by Rio (Microcosm) $1.00 – Creative DIY gamecrafting is the kind of thing that makes you a hit at bbqs, parties, car trips and anywhere else social boredom may try to strike. Lucky you, this fun one is packed with idears and sized to travel. -EF
8. The Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.00

9. The First Line vol 13 #2 $3.00

10. Believer #81 Jun 11 $8.00

And here’s more info about tonight’s event for The Beat Cops Guide to Chicago Eats:

Join Sgt. David J. Haynes of the Chicago Police Department, and his partner-in-crime, blogger Christopher Garlington on Tues, June 14th at 7pm as they talk about the places where they take a bite out of crime and also bites out of donuts, polish sausage, fried chicken, enchiladas, and omelettes. Peppered with outrageous stories from working cops, Chicago cop lore, and even a few recipes, The Beat Cop’s Guide To Chicago Eats takes you on a gustatory journey through all five Chicago areas, including some of the toughest neighborhoods in the nation.

Sgt. David J. Biscuit Haynes has spent the past 15 years dodging bullets and chasing down gang bangers on the city’s West Side, running Chicago’s first ever Homeland Security Task Force, and supervising squads in the 19th District at Belmont and Western. Christopher “The Bull” Garlington is a blogger and author, known for his stories of raising highly intelligent (devious) children published on the blog Death by Children. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Another Realm, Bathhouse, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and more. Together Haynes and Garlington have hosted the radio program The Dave & Chris Show! since 2007, during which they cultivate and maintain a long-standing argument about…everything. From politics and video games to the importance of cool nicknames and secret societies, they cover it on their live weekly broadcast from cigar stores, bars, and other manly locales around Chicago. Their show first aired on WJJG and is now broadcast online on blogtalk radio.

The book retails at $15.95 and includes $34 in coupons. It’s like being buddies with your alderman.

1. Confessions of a Chicago Punk by Marie Kanger-Born (Chicago Punx Pix Productions) $22.00 – What? You couldn’t make it to this event last week? We’ve still got a few copies left of this book that compiles stuff from the author’s zine, pictures, recollections and more. Hard to find this one in lotsa other places!
2. Lose #3 by Michael Deforge (Koyama) $5.00
3. The Game by Anders Nilsen $9.00 – Double-sided poster with trading cards, and originally appeared as 3 pages in an issue of Kramers Ergot. This has that plus a fourth page!
4. Diamond Comics #6 by Jason Levian (Floating World) $4.00 – New full color issue of a tip top newsprint ‘thology. Big, big pages from Paul Pope, Farel Dalrymple, Lane Milburn, Lala Albert, Jim Rugg, Zack Soto, Dash Shaw, Stanley Lieber, Sam Hiti, Bendik Kaltenborn and a 4-page sunshine vampire story by Jonny Negron that really sold me on the whole thing. -EF
5. Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99
6. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95
7. Under the Radar #36 $5.99
8. Life With Mr Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier (Villard) $22.00
9. Bitch #51 $5.95
10. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.

Once again, the Chester Brown book tops the list for bestsellers here. Dan Gleason’s new best of book is next, and would you believe, he’s on a greatest hits volume 3! Thanks to everybody that came out for his release event here at Quimby’s this past weekend.

1. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

2. Dear Sweetness – Dan Gleason’s Greatest Hits vol 3 $8.95 – It is once again time to bathe in the Living Light that is Dan Gleason. His generosity, wit, craftsmanship and sexual potency know no boundaries. His greatest hits are perhaps best likened to the secret treasures of the Vatican. Where there was one set of footsteps, my child, that is where Dan Gleason carried you. -EF

3. Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00

4. Boys Club #1 by Matt Furie (Buenaventura Press) $5.00 – A collection of Matt Furie’s latest mini-comics featuring teenage monsters Andy, Brett, Landwolf and Pepe: drinkin;, stinkin; and never thinkin’.

5. Diamond Comics #6 $4.00

6. AdBusters #95 vol 19 #3 May Jun 11 $8.95

7. Ready Made #53 Jun Jul 11 $4.95

8. Big Hands #8 by Aaron Smith $3.00 – How can you love a zine that’s tackling just about basically everything mediocre and obnoxious? In Big Hands #8 Aaron picks apart cubicle jobs, prowling around on Facebook, couples, dropping dollars at the club, the movie Juno, cliche party drama, and lord have mercy, that Black Eyed Peas song “I Gotta Feeling”, offering up a cultural critique that’s flexible and relevant without being bitchy or pre-determined. It’s like that phenomena where you hate the movie but love the Anthony Lane film review.

9. New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00 – Beastlord tackles social anxiety disorder leaving friends, syntax and party planning decimated in his wake. Also a nice little Wog comic too. Drawings that leave you wishing you had lotsa weird muscles or at least more lovely lady lumps. -EF

10. Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #5 Prince $3.00 – That’s right, you heard me right: Prince. Sixteen artists take that iconic ‘do and turn it into a symbol. -EF