Category: bestsellers

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – It’s awesome, in case you needed us to tell you that.
    2. Brilliant Mistake #4 Your Secretary #8 by Carrie and Jami Sailor $3.00 – Valentine’s Day special!!
    3. Your Secretary #7 Playing Victim #4 by Jami Sailor $1.00
    4. Politics of Penetration $1.00
    5. Big Questions #15 the Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – The most gorgeous, most finalest one… the Big Questions end times is disruptive, surreal and poetic. Nilsen’s draughtmanship is pure and stunning, where disarmingly simple forms are made perfectly right. If you’ve been keeping time with this series, you’ll certainly be excited by this chapter, and if you’re just catching up, you’ll be dazzled by this near-religious, cryptic conclusions you’ll be catching here. -EF
    6. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine.
    7. Believer #78 Feb 11 $8.00
    8. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.
    9. Proof I Exist #13 by Billy Da Bunny $8.00 – This issue includes perhaps the most proof that Billy exists in zine form EVER: sewn terrycloth Chuck E Cheez photobooth covers, handmade stickers, pasted photo inserts, miscellany, true tales from the depths of New Mexico, remenicins about those good ol’ Chicago days and a dime bag of chest hair. That’s what you call pulling out all the stops, kids. Wow, for reals. -EF
    10. First Line vol 12 #4 $3.00 – All submissions published have the same first line in every issue.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – Okay, mister, so you’re old friends with Green Day and they ask you to join them on their bonkers tour of China. Of course you’re going to do that. Don’t tell me you’re too punk for your old friends, cause that sounds pretty fucking pretentious. Just join them for a little piece of their crazy-ass ride and see what happens, ‘kay? Oh, wait….you’re not old friends with Green Day? Well, Aaron-Fucking-Cometbus is and was in this very situation and not only did he go on tour with Green Day, he also wrote this huge, funny, frought and generally terrific issue of his zine about corporate tour mayhem and sorting it all out. It’s awesome, in case you needed me to tell you that. -EF

    2. Cursed Pirate Girl TPB by Jeremy A. Bastian (Olympian) $20.00
    3. Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotext[e]) $12.95 – This eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe is written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.”

    4. Handbook vol 5 #1 2011 by by Darren Ackenbauer $6.00 – Super cruisy scene over here.

    5. Boneshaker #43-100: A Bicycling Almanac (Wolverine Farm Publishing) $8.00

    6. Uptown Problems #1 Win 10 11 $4.00 – From the tender side of twenty comes a tell-it-like-it’s-been “aborted journal of radical self help” ladelled out in snippets with the bitterness and bravado of a washed up child actor. -EF

    7. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes by by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) $12.00

    8.    Maximumrocknroll #333 Feb 11 $4.00

    9.    Phase 7 #008 by Alec Longstreth $4.00

    10. Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk $6.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Jin & Jam #1 by Hellen Jo (Sparkplug) $5.00 – Jin and Jam is a head-on collision of California 2 Cool 4 School and Tekkon Kinkreet. -Yeah, it really is that good. Hellen Jo’s drawings are perfect and her action-packed San Jose misfit tween girl rampage fights dirty the whole way through. It’s an impeccable tornado of an issue and if you come out with a black eye and gum in your hair, you’ll consider yourself lucky. -EF

    2. Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – Michael DeForge continues to wrangle an Elvis Studio sense of drippy design chaos into creepy and beautiful amorphous narratives. This is a comic that’s about a field guide that’s about an oil-skinned mollusc that’s really about cultural displacement, wikipedian information templates and the fetishization/exploitation/commodification of subcultures and identities. Heavy- but full of laffs, in bleedy full color, and with a great slug sex scene to boot. -EF

    3. Gothic Beauty #32 $5.95

    4. Ice Haven by Dan Clowes (Pantheon) $16.00 – Same ol’ Haven, now in softcover to match your old Garfield books.

    5. My Every Single Thought – What I Think About Being Single by by Corrine Mucha $5.00 – An exclusive Corrine made for Quimby’s! ‘Cause we’re awesome.

    6. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $20.00 – By the artist who made a bookmark for us once! ‘Cause we’re awesome!

    7. Crickets #3 Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00

    8. Juxtapoz #121 Feb 11 $5.99

    9. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95 – Who has made signs for us! ‘Cause we’re awesome!

    10. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $ 17.95 – Edie works here! ‘Cause we’re awesome!

  • Weekly Top 10

    We sell all different types of paper here.

    This Week’s Top 10:

    1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00
    2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00
    3. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95 – Well, I’ve been mourning the end of Gary Larson’s Far Side for fifteen years, but Lisa Hanawalt’s comics really do helluvalot towards easing that pain. Just as funny, just as bizzarro and as raunchy as she wants to be to boot. -EF
    4. OP Original Plumbing #5 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The Fashion Issue, and a real dazzler at that.
    5. First Line vol 12 #4 $3.00 – Literary journal where every item in the issue has the same first line, each piece written by somebody else.
    6. Gang Bang Bong #1 ed. by Ginette LaPalme and Ines Estrada $4.00

    7. Boys Club #4 Furie Matt (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF
    8. What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation – Nplus1 research branch small books series #3 ed. by var. (Nplus1) $10.00
    9. Explorers Are We #3 Xavier $1.00 – Chap book by a local poet.
    10. Bitch #49 $5.95

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Hi-Fructose #18 $6.95
    2. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine.
    3. Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11 $4.00
    4. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound 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
    5. Mojo #207 Feb 11 $9.99
    6. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00 – “It all starts with the story I’ve told so many times it’s turned stale and tired from overuse. There I was, dropped off in a city far from home. I didn’t know a soul or have a hope, and so on…”
    7. Serial Killers Unite #5 $2.00
    8. Truckface #13 by LB $3.00- A huge little zine about a nerve-wracking rookie year teaching reading and writing to high school freshmen. This would basically be my nightmare job, and LB minces no words about how impossible, frustrating and life-consuming it can seem- but at the same time, there’s tons of funny shenanigans and the illustrations are beyond good, in a madcap Esther Pearl Watson way. An epic account of struggling through the school year and making out the other end with your sense of the ridiculous and amazing intact. -EF
    9. Crap Hound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.95
    10. True Crime Dec 10 Detective Monthly $8.99

    Wow, they’ll give the Eisner-award to anybody!

  • Weekly Top 10

    Thanks to everybody who came out for the Mike White event on 12/13/10, talking about  Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection!
    And here’s this week’s top 10 (well, technically, last week, if you want to know the truth, but we post it weekly, so you know, it’s the Weekly Top 10.):
    1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Yes! They are gone. But we do have some other 2011 planners in stock. Stop in and see what we’ve got.
    2. Spotting Dee by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – A beautiful comic!
    3. Is It THE FUTURE Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? This mini-comic was made ‘specially for Quimby’s!
    4. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $24.00 – Yes! Hilarious essays from this comedian.
    5. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine. Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and more!
    6. Cometbus #50 by Aaron Cometbus $2.00
    7. Baba Yaga and the Wolf by Tin Can Forest (Koyama Press) $15.00 – Visually, Baba Yaga and the Wolf is like getting lost deep in the woods as the sun is going down – everything gets extra shadowy and sinister and the pine needles get tangled into dense swirls of threatning demons and implied curses. In contrast, the language is vivid, visceral and crisp, evoking grisly and twisted Eastern European folk lore recounted with passion around a campfire or hearth. The two play nicely off each other, the restraint of the illustrations acting as a springboard for the imagination to conjur the satanic Black Forest chaos hiding in the bushes. -EF
    8.Crickets #3: Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00
    9. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (Drawn and Quarterly) $23.95
    10. Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11

  • Weekly Top 10 & Steven Blush Pics

    If you missed Steven Blush talking about the 2nd edition of his book American Hardcore A Tribal History, then you missed the punk rock professor at his best! We only have a few signed copies left in the store, so you better rush here and get it. Pictures below!

    Here’s the top bestsellers from last week:

    1. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00
    2. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Franceschini, Tucker and Hamersky (Chronicle) $27.50
    3. Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
    4 Snow Yak Show by Mark Ryden (Porterhouse/Last Gasp) $28.00 – What’s Abe Lincoln doing in the Snow Cave of the Ice Princess anyway?
    5. 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?
    6. Big Takeover #67 $5.99
    7. Bizarre #170 Dec 10 $10.50
    8. Who Will Comfort Toffle: A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly) $16.95
    9. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.
    10. Doris #27 by Cindy Crabb $2.50

  • Top 10 This Week

    1. Slingshot Small Organizer $6.00 – Get your rad self organized!

    2. Slingshot Large Organizer $12.00

    3. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint (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.

    4. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Abel, Madden and Gaiman (HM) $23.00

    5. The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier (First Second) $13.99 – Does it sound cheesy if I say this book is perfect for kids age 5 to 105? Cause it really is!  The Unsinkable Walker Bean is an unstoppable, rollicking high seas adventure full of codes, inventions, antediluvian intrigues and funny names. There’s this “pure joy of drawing” in Aaron’s work which loads the panels with sly little details and charming gestures -but nothing feels superfulous- even the silliest elements weave themselves into the plot. The story itself, about returning a cursed skull to two giant sea-hag sisters, champions scrapper ingenuity, resourcefulness and teamwork in a way that’s never heavy-handed, it’s just plain cool. Refreshing in a similar way is how Walker Bean’s world escapes simple hero vs. villain dichotomies, giving every character a heart to the point that you’ll even find the fierce, giant mer-witches endearing. The exceptional storytelling is emphasized by Alec Longstreth’s (Phase 7) beautiful color work full of crisp ocean blues, kelp-y ochres and my favorite sorts of pale, sea-sick greens. The book is also completely and solidly kid-friendly and that’s a big part of it’s magic: reading it as an adult stirs up all the youthful thrills and adventures of creative problem-solving. SO GOOD! -EF

    6. Big Questions #15 The Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – The most gorgeous, most finalest one… the Big Questions end times is disruptive, surreal and poetic. Nilsen’s draughtmanship is pure and stunning, where disarmingly simple forms are made perfectly right. If you’ve been keeping time with this series, you’ll certainly be excited by this chapter, and if you’re just catching up, you’ll be dazzled by this near-religious, cryptic conclusions you’ll be catching here. -EF

    7. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine. Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and Javier Rodrigo, Michael Piazza, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Lavie Raven, Lisa Junkin, Jazmen McKinnor, Louise Dreier, Elizabeth Knafo, Caroline Liebman, Alexander Keefe, Daniel Fuller, Dara Greenwald, Jesse Senechal, Rebecca Zorach, Jorge Lucero, Huong Ngo, Paul Mack, Andrew Oesch, InCUBATE, Noah Berlatsky, Sara Black and John Preus, Katie Hargrave, Susannah Kite Strang, Emmy Bright, Zach Cahill, Chris Cronin, Bert Stabler, Erin Elder, and Paul Sargent.

    8 Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris & Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99

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

    10. Manifesti of Radical Literature by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Pressing Concern) $8.00 – This pocket-sized zine is a great introduction to the work of Anne Elizabeth Moore. The Manifesti of Radical Literaure condenses many ideas Moore has previously explored in other works–her critique of culture jamming, copyright laws, advertising, and why everyone should seriously consider self-publishing their own work. What saves this new 50-paged effort from feeling redundant is Moore’s charming sense of humor. Grab a copy for yourself and another one to leave at your local library.

  • Top 10 This Week

    1. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

    2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized!

    3. 100 Posters 134 Squirrels, Revised & Updated by Jay Ryan (Akashic) $22.95 – 100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS showcases one of underground poster art’s most prolific and talented practitioners. Featuring an all-new interview with Ryan and an introduction by Chicago Tribune rock critic Greg Kot, and framed by essays from underground luminaries–recording engineer and Shellac guitarist Steve Albini, graphic design iconoclast Art Chantry, and distinguished art and design historian Debra Parr–100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS offers a unique look into Ryan’s approach to poster art.

    4. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot) $6.00

    5. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

    6. Bust Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.99

    7. Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch & Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00 – They don’t make ’em like they used to, that’s for certain. Papa Zettwoch takes us on an exacting tour of life in midcentury Louisville telephone operations, in particular the oracle operators who fiddled with antiquated 8-board switchpanels. Dan lovingly arts up the exacting craft, attention to detail and squirrely diagnostic techniques that existed before everything got replaced with plastic and no one could remember a phone number. -EFhttps://www.quimbys.com/images/teltales1.jpg

    8. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker etc. (Chronicle) $27.50 – “With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this fascinating project is an introduction to the many individuals who are producing sustainable food, challenging public policy, and developing community organizing efforts. With hundreds of photographs and a foreword from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, Farm Together Now will educate, inspire, and cultivate a new wave of modern agrarians.”

    9. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00

    10. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden & Neil Gaiman (HM) $23.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. 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. Spiral-bound.

    2. Brilliant Mistake #2 by Carrie $1.00 – 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

    3. Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99

    4. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
    5. Slingshot 2011 Pocket Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. All in perfect-bound pocket-size form.

    6. 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

    7. Peters Muscle by Michael Deforge $1.00 – More sick sauce from DeForge, this round is a Freudian take on what gets that Spider Sense a-tingling. -EF

    8. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago By Laura Szumowski $7.95
    9. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

    10. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt  (Pigeon Press) $6.95