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  • Weekly Top 10 and Holiday Hours

    First, here’s Quimby’s Holiday Hours:
    Sat, Dec 24th 11am-5pm
    Sun, Dec 25th CLOSED
    Sat, Dec 31st noon-5pm
    Sun, Jan 1st, 2012 CLOSED

    And now! Here’s the Weekly Top 10

    1. A Greater Monster by David David Katzman, with illustrator Caitlin McKay (Bedhead Books) $17.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this event last week! David David Katzman’s second novel, A Greater Monster (Bedhead Books), is a groundbreaking multimedia work that includes 65 pages of illustrations, numerous graphic design elements, visual text poetry, and links to two websites, one of which features original music composed to mirror events in a scene of the book and another featuring an animated sequence. This story itself is a psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, influenced by Alice in Wonderland, Williams S. Burroughs, and graphic novelist Grant Morrison. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse mirror. A Greater Monster breathes new life into the possibilities of fiction. A buncha pictures in it are drawn by the talented comics and tattoo artist Caitlin McKay. She works at Chicago Comics our sister store!

    2. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Radicalize! Organize!

    3.   Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

    4. Prince Zine by Joshua James Amberson $5.00 – R U Ready 4 This 1? Although Amberson is no fanatical Rainbow Child, there’s more than enough purple passion and royal dedication here to assemble an inspired and juicy analysis of Prince’s dynasty, talent, discography and lifestyle choices. I like most that the zine puts some time and thought into getting behind Prince’s rampant weirdness- it’s not at all some sorry joke at Prince’s expense like that Mirror interview, but it doesn’t exactly let him off the hook either – it’s critical AND playful AND willing to admit that at everyone’s core there IS a huge weirdo. It may also be worthy of note that this zine rolled into Quimby’s on a snowy day in April, so it’s a little cosmic too, y’know? -EF

    5. Juxtapoz #131 Dec 11 $5.99

    6. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – McSweeney’s has a food magazine. What’s next? A McSweeney’s sports magazine? Oh wait, there is a McSweeney’s sports magazine coming out.

    7. Raw Deal #13 $2.00

    8. Monocle vol 5 #48 Nov 11 $2.00

    9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – Don’t miss Craig Thompson here this Thursday 11/17 at 7pm!

    10. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

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    September at Quimby’s Bookstore
    Here’s your September Quimby’s Bookstore news, store events and some notable things we’ve received since the last time you heard from us.And oh! Happy Labor Day. We’ll be open abbreviated hours on Monday, September 5th from noon to 5pm.

    Quimby’s Bookstore Temporary Tattoos Now Available
    The people have spoken. And we listened. So here they are. Come in and get yours. Then take a picture and add it the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr.


    Fouth Episode of the Quimby’s Bookstore Podcast Available Now
    This episode features an interview and discussion with Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior talking about Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries. It’s available for your listening pleasure, in a variety of formats and places for you to stream or download. And the best part? The podcast is free.

    Dates Announced Fot the Chicago Alternative Expo (CAKE): June 16th-17th, 2012
    Save the date! This will be the debut of CAKE next year on June 16th and 17th at Columbia College’s Ludington Building. This event is focused on celebrating independent and alternative comics of all stripes. The festival plans to feature over 100 exhibitors along with a two-day program of signings, panels, workshops and lectures. With Chicago’s long legacy as a stronghold for underground and alternative comics, the Windy City is an ideal locale to showcase some of the most wild, weird and wonderful contemporary comics talent.


    Anders Nilsen Did Our Window Display
    It’s true. And it celebrates his beautiful Big Questionsanthology that Drawn & Quarterly just published. Thanks, Anders!

    September Events At Quimby’s Bookstore
    For more info about events at Quimby’s, see quimbys.com/blog/store-events/

    Cindy Crabb Reads From The Encyclopedia of Doris
    Sat, Sep 3rd 7pm
    Cindy Crabb has been writing the influential, internationally distributed, autobiographical-feminist zine Doris since the early ‘90’s. Her new book, The Encyclopedia of Doris, brings together the last 10 years of zines and a ton of new writing as well.

    CCLaP Releases American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
    Fri, Sep 9th, 7pm
    With all the talk of “hope” and “honor” that was bound to arise during the tenth anniversary of September 11th, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) thought it was important to also remind the future of what the last ten years have REALLY been like. That’s why the center put together this latest anthology, which took a dark science-fiction conceit as its core and then invited a series of writers across the nation to pen stories set within that alternative universe. Writers in attendance will be Delphine Pontvieux, Mark R. Brand and Lawrence Santoro. (Please note, this event is actually on September 9th.)

    Rebekah Mercuri Reads From Weeding the Seeds of Deceit
    Thurs, Sep 15th, 7pm
    Many of the events experienced by the main character of Rebekah Mercuri’s debut novel echo the true-life experiences of the author, who herself, was involved in a Christian Cult.

    A David Shrigley Double Shot!

    David Shrigley Celebrates What The Hell Are You Doing: The Essential David Shrigley
    Tues, Sep 20th, 7pm
    David Shrigley’s new book of illustrations, comics, photography and sculpture include crude drawings and unexpected compositions that are at once childish and clever, and each depiction oddly sincere. They capture the morbid humor of Edward Gorey, the absurdity of a Monty Python sketch, and the peculiar perspective of a Charles Addams cartoon. “David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.” -Dave Eggers
    David Shrigley Comes to Columbia College Chicago
    Wed, Sep 21st , 6:30pm–9:30pm
    David Shrigley will also be at Columbia College Chicago – Stage Two 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor. Quimby’s will be there to sell books!
    These David Shrigley events are co-sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, Columbia College and AIGA Chicago.

    The Creative Writing Guild (CWG) Presents: Prompts/Prompted
    Fri, Sep 23rd, 7pm
    The CWG presents it’s latest publication, Prompts/Prompted. The dual issue is a compilation of instructions for experimental writing, and the CWG’s own written results. Five CWG contributors will read selections from the books, explain instructions, and share recent summer writing. Bring a pen and paper. The CWG aims to share experimental and traditional writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago writing community.

    Caroline Paquita of Pegacorn Press Reads and Shows Works with Jo Dery and Edie Fake
    Mon, Sep 26th, 7pm
    Caroline Paquita is releasing the first two official works out on this small, “queer, feminist, total-art-freaker,” publishing house, Pegacorn Press. Using Risograph duplicators to create such works as her comic-zine WOMANIMALISTIC and an annual calendar, this once informal self-publishing venture officially expanded and became it’s own formal entity earlier this year. In celebration, a 2012 calendar will be released, as well as a new comic compilation, featuring some of Chicago’s finest – Edie Fake (Gaylord Phoenix) and Jo Dery (Quietly Sure Like the Keeper of a Great Secret). Fake, Dery and a handful of artists in the U.S. and Germany were asked to create works surrounding the loose theme of of “2012,” and/or “THE FUTURE.”

    Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh With Sara Drake
    Thurs, Sep 29th, 7pm
    In Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, the writer and independent publisher brings her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia, a country known mostly for the savage extermination of around 2 million of its own under the four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge. Moore is a columnist for Truthout, and has written for The Progressive, Bitch, Annalemma, Tin House, the Boston Phoenix, and The Onion. The former editor of Punk Planet and the Comics Journal, Moore received a Fulbright to continue her work in Cambodia in 2010, and recently held a solo exhibition at the MCA. Moore will be joined by Chicago cartoonist and writer Sara Drake, currently planning a comics project in Cambodia.

    Save the date! Alison Bechdel comes to Quimby’s 10/8. She’s guest editing The Best American Comics 2011.

    And here’s some news from our sister store, Chicago Comics…

    (Just Some of the)New Stuff This Month at Quimby’s Bookstore
    For weekly updates, see quimbys.com/blog/

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!

    Xerography Debt #29 $3.00 – “The review zine with perzine tendancies.
    My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00
    Whore Eyes #4 by Jesse Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw. Comes with comes with Whore Eyes Comp Govmnt Acid compilation CD (Drippy Bone Books) $11.00
    Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck-Ups Know-It-Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Who’s Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00 – Can I just say that this is on the cover?: “Fuck You Buy It It’s Cheap”? Is that reason enough? No? Maybe this will sell you on it if you know this next fact: One page has a picture of Emo Philips with a trombone around his neck and it says “I still believe Emo Philips is a genius.” What else do you need to know? -LM
    Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb (Doris) $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement. Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on 9/3.
    Broken Pencil #52 $5.95
    The Inner Swine vol 17 #1 and #2 $2.00
    Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood by Tomas Moniz and various (PM Press) $15.00
    Anarchist Organisation Suggestions and Possibilities by Graham Purchase (AK) $2.50
    Mamphiles #4 Raising Hell $6.00
    Red Army Faction the Urban Guerilla Concept $5.00
    Relevence of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (Kerr) $4.00
    Return of the Cake Scoffer: Cheap’n’ Easy Vegan Cooking by Ronny $3.50
    Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse by various $7.00
    Zine About Womens Self Defence #1 Fighting Back, Not Taking Shit Being Heard $3.00
    Anarchist Economics an Alternative for the World In Crisis by Abraham Guillen $5.00
    Compleat Anglerfish by Michelle Yacht $8.00
    Underground Music Fanzines From the Late 1980s-Early 90s by Marc Fischer and Temporary Services (Temporary Services) $5.00 – Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.
    Put a Egg On It #4 Sum Fall 11 $7.00
    Wanderlust Herbal $2.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!

    Eye of the Majestic Creature #5 by Leslie Stein $4.00 – Larrybear moves back to New York after having lived in the countryside. Life back in the big city! This issue was featured in outer limits mag Bizarre. First new issue since Fantagraphics compiled #1-#4. And yes, we have that too.
    Comics by Leda Zawacki: Fauna $3.00 and Puddles of Cute: A Comics Collection by $6.00 – Puddles reprints “Monster in the Mansion” from Goat Girl #1 plus 3 other stories:  “Fireflies”,  “Ladybird” and  “Killer Whale People” drawn with a Nicole J. George-ish eye  for  the  strangely  cute. -EF
    One Time Only by Cassie J. Sneider $1.50 – How do you sneak out from a shameful one night stand while the other person is asleep? What if they have really bad wall tapestries? Is hitting rock bottom both depressing and somewhat exciting because that makes you one step closer to resembling Vince Neil? Written by the hilarious Cassie J. Fine Fine Music Sneider and drawn by Nick Rhode. Um no, not Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. Just Nick Rhode. FYI. -LM
    Cebolla Con Chocolate by Ines Estrada and Rodrigo Simancas (Cafe Con Leche) $8.00 – Absurd burds, wurds, turds and nurds! Inés’ drawings are brillbrilliant and Rodrigo’s writing is smartgood and it also features a lovely contraption from the future. In español.
    various issues of S. Baltic Comics Magazine (various prices)
    Chronicles of Fortune by Caroline Picard $10.00
    Crass Sophisticate Color Cover #24 #25 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $3.00
    Losing Things is Easy a One Off Zine with Original Poetry Drawings and Photos by Franziska Andonopoulos $2.00
    Graffiti Coloring Book vol 1 $20.00
    Stars Were Exploding by Meghan Ansbach $2.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!

    Mome #22 Fall 11 (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – This issue jampacked with Jospeh Lambert, Lilli Carre, Anders Nilsen, Laura Park and more!
    PS Magazine: Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will and Ann Eisner and Eddie Campbell (Abrams) $21.95 – It’s a lot like watching Disney WW2 educational army cartoons. -EF
    3×3 Kus: Specializdevums Special Edition $9.00
    We3 HC The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $24.99
    Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus TPB vol 1 by Shannon Wheeler (Vertigo) $24.99
    Big Questions (soft cover veresion) by Anders Brekhus Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Includes every issue! And there’s a fancy hard cover version as well for $69.95
    Blankets by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf) $39.95 – New deluxe hardcover edition, featuring higher-quality paper, Smyth-sewn bindings, a spot gloss, and a slightly wider trim size.
    Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Hidden by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot by Jacques Tardi and Jean Patrick Manchette (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill (First Sec) $14.99
    Bake Sale by Sara Varon (First Sec) $16.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!

    Beautiful Decay Book 6 Future Perfect $20.00 – 300 artists riffed on what their ideal future would be and one Grand Prize winner was selected. Over 100 finalist’s work are featured throughout the publication.The book also includes a feature length article with notable, emerging, New York artist, Robin Williams whose surreal paintings give us a view into her very own Future Perfect. Only 1,500 copies were made, all of which are ad-free and hand numbered.”
    Subway Player Blackbook Cult Series vol 2 by MSER (Whole Train) $29.95
    Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne by Jake Smallman  and Carl Nyman (MBP) $21.95
    Criminal Class Review vol 4 #2 $15.00 – CCR searches for gritty, hard luck tales from all walks of life. This issue, guest editors identical twins Kent and Keith Zimmerman (who teach literary endeavors at prisons like San Quentin) curate this “Prison Issue.” And the cover is a beauty, designed by Chicago print artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
    Despite Moments of Clarity There Is No -Ism In This Book: 100 New Artists by Francesca Gavin (Laurence) $39.95
    Lets Make Some Great Art by Marion Deuchars (Laurence) $19.95
    General Idea Imagevirus by Gregg Bordowitz (Afterall) $16.00
    Human Nature by Daikichi Amano (Bongout) $50.00 – This book makes me feel sort of throw-uppy but I can’t take my eyes off it, and I kind of want to own it. Marilyn Manson said it best: “Daikichi Amano’s art is a combination of Jean Cocteau and Jacques Cousteau.” -LM
    Graffiti Japan by various (MBP) $21.95

    FICTION!

    How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher (Melville) $15.00 – Welcome to Christopher Boucher’s zany literary universe, a place where metaphors shift beneath your feet, familiar words assume new meanings, objects talk, trees attack, and time actually is money. Modeled on the cult classic 1969 hippie handbook of the same name.
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown) $24.00
    Machine Man by Max Barry (Vintage) $14.95
    Subversions: Anarchist Short Stories by The Anarchist Writers Bloc (AK) $14.95
    Zero History by William Gibson (Berkley) $16.00 – Now in soft cover. From the author of Neuromancer.LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!

    McSweeneys #38 (Mcsweeneys) $18.00 – Their quarterly concern.
    N Plus 1 #12 Fall 11 $13.95
    Pageboy Magazine III 11 $10.00
    Exact Change Only Sum 11 $10.00
    Granta #116 Sum 11 Ten Years Later $16.99
    So Sorry To See You Go by Carrie McGath $12.00
    Slake Los Angeles #3 2011 Crossing Over A City and Its Stories $18.00

    DIY!

    In Every Town: An All Ages Music Manualfesto (All Ages Movement Project) $14.99 – rom the All-Ages Movement Project comes this fantastic guide to finding a space, apeasing the neighbors, raising money, and getting a scene off the ground. DIY or die!
    Mission Street: Food Recipes and Ideas From an Improbably Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz (McSweeneys) $30.00
    SexPot: The Marijuana Lover’s Guide to Gettin’ It On – Sexy Stoner Advice From Cannabis Columnist by Mamakind (Quick) $14.95
    Cannabis Indica vol 1 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner and Greg Green (Green Candy) $20.00
    Marijuana Recipes and Remedies for Healthy Living by Mary Jane Stawell (Ronin) $14.95
    Baked: Over 50 Tasty Marijuana Treats by Yzbetta Sativa (Green Candy) $18.00
    Bumping Back: An Activist’s Guide To Getting There, Doing the Business & Getting Away with It  by L. Hobley (Niccolo) $24.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!

    Secret Societies: Inside the Freemasons Yakuza Skull and Bones Worlds Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds (Arcade) $14.95 – A smart and surprising behind-the-scenes exploration of the tales confirmed and fabricated that surround the best known and often least understood secret societies.
    UFOs: Generals Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean and John Podesta (Three Rivers) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands For a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff with illustrations by Leland Purvis (Soft Skull) $14.95 – From the author of Media Virus, Coercion and Life Inc. Will the internet rule us? Or will we rule the internet? And which is better?
    Fashion Cats:  Feline Couture from Japans Number 1 Cat Tailor by Takako Iwasa (Vice) $12.00 – Yes, this is for real. Takako Iwasa makes adorable goth-lolita clothes for her Scottish-fold kitties, and it’s so cute you want to cry. As originally featured in Vice Magazine.
    Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism In Western Civilization by Donald P. Dulchinos (Autonomedia) $17.95
    Year In the Life of A Factory by Maynard Seider (Kerr) $14.00
    Fxxxing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker and Biz Stone (Simon) $12.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!

    Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project and the Lessons of Internation by Ramor Ryan (AK) $16.00
    Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 911 Injustice by Alia Malex and Karen Korematsu (McSweeneys) $16.00
    The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth (Vintage) $15.95 – A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
    Some Mother’s Daughter: Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence by The International Prostitutes Collective (Crossroads) $13.99
    Russian Tragedy by Alexander Berkman (Phoenix) $11.95
    Autobiography of Mother Jones (Kerr) $6.95
    Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Made a Difference by Bob Breving (Kerr) $9.00
    Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by various (Falling Wall) $9.99

    MAGAZINES!

    Maximumrocknroll #340 Sep 11 $4.00
    Bizarre #179 Sep 11 $10.50
    Tattoo Revolution Aug 11 $11.75
    Cabinet #42 Forgetting $12.00
    Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $4.99
    Skunk vol 7 #2 $6.99
    Wire #330 Aug 11 $10.99
    Bitch #52 $5.95
    Monocle vol 5 #46 Sept 11 $10.00
    Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99
    Fortean Times #278 Sep 11 $11.99

    SEX & SEXY!

    Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance ed. by Mitzi Szereto (Cleis) $14.95
    Housewives at Play #20 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
    Anal Intruders From Uranus #4 $3.95
    SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00

    OTHER STUFF!

    Inherit 2012 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00 – Since we started getting Nikki McClure’s calendars in 2004 it’s been a bestseller. And when you see it, you’ll understand why.
    Write Here $8.00 – Nice blank journal made by Cindy Crabb of Doris fame.
    Annual Weekly Planner vol 6 (Little Otsu) $18.00 – 12 Months, 54 Weeks, undated.
    2012 Space Garden Claendar by Apak (Little Otsu) $14.00
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  • New Stuff This Week

    Yes, we will be open on Monday, July 4th, but we will have limited holiday hours from noon to 5pm.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    ITDN #1 A Poetic Conception of Reality: Group Publishing Publish Equilibrium Our Universe Six Artist Worker and ITDN #2 Fuck This Gags Fury $5.00 each – The art film that reads like a comic that reads like a video game, set in a bunker with lots of nudity. -EF

    Butch Nor Femme #1 $1.50
    Shit I Didn’t Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50
    Don’t Be a Dick Paul Brown (Doris Distro) $1.00
    When Language Runs Dry #1: A Zine For People With Chronic Pain and Their Allies by Claire and Meredith (Doris Distro) $3.50
    FAQNP #2 Queer Nerd Travel Guide May 11 (Queer Nerd Publication) $7.00
    Fluke Fanzine #9 20th Anniversary $2.00
    Whitey On The Moon Book 2 by Joey Parlett $10.00
    Chicken Livers and Jojos May 11: Drawings and Riff Raff #1 $2.00
    Demongun #5 Jun 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
    STOP #3 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $3.00
    I Was a Teenage Zine Fiend #1 $1.00
    In Case of Drought Read This #1 and #2 $1.00 each – From kids at 826CHI!
    HyenaZine (Zine Hyenaxena) #2 and #3 by Hyena Xena $3.00 each
    Idiots Books zine volumes by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, priced $5.00-$10.00: vol 12 Last Day, vol 28 Babies Ruin Everything, vol 29 Home Was an Epic Poet, vol 30 Inconclusive Passage In the Life of Bushy Washington
    My Day On, Under and Around the St Johns Bridge with CD by Nate Orton, James Yeary and Justin Glenn Smith $6.00
    My Day #17 Walking from Hillsboro to Forest Grove Ore by Nate Orton and James Yeary $3.00
    Motor City Kitty #17 by Bri Z $1.00
    Cheap Toys #6 and #7 by Gizmo $1.50 each
    Dream Weavers $10.00
    It’s Curtains #8 $2.00
    You Made Devotion A Virtue #3 Be My Baby by Devan Ballbuster Bennett $2.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #8 Something Very Ugly by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    Everything Quantizes #2 by Katherine Brideau $3.00
    All Things Are Eagles #1 by Mike Mellenthin $1.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Various issues of Dogshed by Andy Burkholder $2.00-$3.00 – Wait? Why did you come here ANY WAY? Breakdown BrakeUp blind line leading the dog blind til it’s too tired…you look tired, so you should try. I know your trying to understand, but sometimes the comics justs gets weirds. -EF



    Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00
    This Isn’t Working: Comics About Ex Boyfriends $3.00 – Featuring Cara Bean, Caitlin Plovnick, Robyn Chapman, Liz Prince and more!
    Make Comics About an Intimate Act $7.00 – Featuring Adriana Yugovich, Joseph Lambert, Robyn Chapman, Wicks Maris, Nate Beaty and more!
    Galactic Breakdown #3 by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $8.00
    In The Sounds and Seas vol 1 by Marnie Galloway $15.00
    Flight of Forfeition – An Adventure… by Chris Monday $4.00
    All Wet by Ian Endsley $3.00
    Catholic Tastes IDTN Group by Darla Marx $1.00
    Werewolf Horror Mask $4.00
    You Okay Buddy $1.00
    Absolute Loneliness various issues by Johns $1.00 each
    Phil’s Adventures: #1 Featuring Land That Time Forgot and Mummie Alive, #2 Featuring Grey Lady Blues and Underneath the Water, #3 Featuring Some Reservations and Out In the Cold, all by by SA Winchell and $5.00 each
    Tenebrous $1.50
    Lords ov thee Black Sun #0 by Michael Miles $5.00 – That’s some crazy looking satan-y black metal shit.
    All Aboard by Max Mose $4.00
    Benol The Huckster by Max Mose $5.00
    Calamity of Challenge #127 by Matthew Allison $6.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Incal Classic Collection by Alexandro Jodorowsky (Author), Moebius (Illustrator) (Humanoids, Inc.) $44.95 – Jean Giraud, more well known under his artist alias Moebius, comes forth with an artistic vision that still stands the test of time, The Incal. The Incal was responsible for introducing the Jodoverse world, the one in which all of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s science section sagas were all based in. Filled with surreal imagery, futuristic concepts that melt together with primitive societal conditions that run through the full gamut of historical perspectives. Centered around a Light Incal which gives powers sought by many corrupt groups. With an intro by Brian Michael Bendis.


    Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme (Top Shelf) $29.95 – Art in a sort f even lower-fi version of Chester Brown.
    Go Fish – How to Win Contempt and Influence People by Mr. Fish (Akashic) $18.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Utopie Texts and Projects 1967-1978 by Craig Buckley by Jean Louis Violeau (Semiotexte) $26.95
    Fragile Bodies by Stephanie Greenquist by Emily Steigerwaid $11.95
    Awful Resilient by Alex Pardee (Gingko) $29.95
    Suggestivism: Artists Works Interviews and Studio Portraits (Gingko) $34.95
    Las Vegas Underfoot Photo Book by Gordon Meyer and Gale Meyer $15.95
    Type Image by Barbara Brownie (Gingko) $39.95
    International Topsprayer by Moses, Taps, Sprayer (Publikat) $39.95

    FICTION!
    How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Vintage) $14.95 – Humerous yet compelling in it’s gimmicktry:. The fictinal story of the fictional family you might fictionally know. Now in soft cover. -LM
    The Instructions by Adam Levine (McSweeneys) $18.00 – Now in soft cover. This awkward Jewish child might be the messiah. Maybe. Or not…? A funny book that’s several inches thick, but with crazy book paper technology that means it’s made of some sort of weight of paper that this soft cover book is only $18.00.
    Peace Love and Petrol Bombs by DD Johnston (AK) $14.95
    NVSQVAM Nowhere by Ann Sterzinger $13.00
    Supernatural Noir ed. by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse) $19.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    The Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00 – Come’n’geddit while we got it. The annual Music Issue always goes fast!
    Village on Horseback Prose and Verse 2003-2008 by Jesse Ball (Milkweed) $18.00
    Knock #14 $9.00
    Barrelhouse #9 $9.00
    Creative Nonfiction #41 Spr 11 $10.00
    Bomb #116 Sum 11 $7.95
    Madman #1 by Prachi Gangwani $5.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Fine Fine Music by Cassie J. Snyder (Raw Art) $15.00 – With the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider brings her stories about growing up in the early eighties to Quimby’s on July 23rd. These stories that include Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not and locals waxing Camaros to Foreigner on cassette will leave you laughing and wanting more. Don’t miss her here, joined by Dave “On Subbing” Roche.


    Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (HM) $28.00
    225 Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by The New York Neo-Futurists (Hope) $16.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Ours To Master and To Own: Workers Control From the Commune To the Present by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket) $19.00

    DIY!
    CIA Lockpicking Manual by The Central Intelligence Agency (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Author Illustrator Starter Kit  – Contains Three Completely Blank Books (McSweeneys) $13.95

    MUSIC-RELATED!
    See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad (LB&C) $24.99 – Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould teams up with the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life to give his account of personal history as one of the most revered figures of punk.
    Talk Minus Action Equals Zero: An Illustrated History of DOA by Joe Keithley (Arsenal) $27.95
    White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay (Verso) $24.95 – “From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.”
    33 1/3 Series: Television’s Marquee Moon by Bryan Waterman (Continuum) $12.95 – From the series that deconstructs popula and/or important albums, written by musicians, critics and uber fans.
    33 1/3 Series: Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me (Continuum) $12.95
    Jerry Lee Lewis Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo (Continuum) $19.95
    Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s by Paul Hegerty and Martin Halliwell (Continuum) $24.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – First issue of McSweeneys food rag everyone’s all on about. The Ramen issue. Don’t want to ever miss an issue? Ask about the Quimby’s Subscription Service!
    Wholphin #13 $19.95
    Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50
    Boneshaker Magazine #5 $9.00
    True Crime Jun 11 $8.99
    Dwell Jul Aug 11 $5.99
    UFO Magazine #156 vol 24 #3 $5.99
    Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 11 vol 35 #4 $4.95
    Neural #39 $8.00
    Tattoo Revue #154 $6.99
    Antenna Sum 11 $4.99
    Goth Loli vol 16 $21.80
    Maps vol 21 #1 $8.95
    Treating Yourself #29 $7.99
    Fangoria #305 $8.99
    Skateboard Mag #89 $3.99
    BlackBook #85 Jun Jul 11 $4.50
    Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00
    In These Times Jul 11 $3.50
    ASR #56 Sum 11 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
    Urban Ink #20 $8.99
    Inked Girls May Jul Aug 11 $7.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    We Need a Horse by Sheila Heti and Clare Rojas (McSweeneys) $16.95
    Here Comes the Cat by Frank Asch (McSweeneys) $12.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Dictionary of Semenyms 10th Edition – 1383 Synonyms for Semen by Cecil Goran $15.00 – With examples of usage from erotic literature.

    OTHER STUFF!
    Charley Harper ABC Nesting Blocks (Ammo) $24.95
    Sharkula Diarrhea of a Madman DVD by Joshua Conro $15.00 – First documentary feature-length film by filmmaker and Quimby’s buddy Joshua Conro.
    Cory Doctorows Makers Tile Game by Idiots Books $12.00

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  • New Stuff This Week

    Quimby’s will be open for abbreviated hours

    on Mon, Sep 6th, from noon to 5pm.

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    NEW STUFF at QUIMBY’S!

    ZINES!

    Uncle Envelope #20 Write Now by Neil Brideau $4.50 Uncle Envelope is this thing where you sign up and you get a new and exciting paper object or craft each month. It might be a funny mini-comic or a set of trading cards. Or it might be a fantastic map or a blueprint you can use to create your very own robot, monster, or game. They’re made by cool artists, always G-Rated, but it delights everybody. Quimby’s mini-comics sommalier Neil Brideau has this new zine that is both a love letter and tutorial to self-publishing.
    KerBloom #85 Jul Aug 10: Bloom Enough of Their Lies by Artnoose $2.00
    This is the Truth $1.00
    Its Curtains #4 $1.00
    Watch the Closing Doors #52 $2.50
    Friction #1 $3.00
    List #14 Fine For Now by Ramsey $4.00
    Welcome to Flavor Country #21 by Kurt Morris $2.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Interiorae #4 by Gabriella Giandelli (Fantagraphics) $7.95
    Tank Girl Hairy Heroes Super Summer Special by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo (Image) $3.99
    Niger #3 by Leila Marzocchi (Fantagraphics) $7.95
    M. Sauters Guide to Douchebaggery by M. Sauter (Sex & Weather Comics) $2.50 – A rough field guide to douchebags and related species like assholes and tools.doucebaggery
    Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot #9 – Aaaattack by Tom Dewing and Artnoose $2.00
    Conked Motor by Leslie Weibeler $1.00
    This Time by LW $1.00
    Yawning Void #1 by Pete Hodapp $5.00
    Possum and the Pepper Spray by Pete Hodapp $4.00
    Pump: A Yawning Void Flip Book by Pete Hodapp $3.00
    Koolosaurus by Sam Sharpe $1.00 – Very cute.
    Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #5 Prince $3.00

    FICTION!
    Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat (Melville House) $25.95 – Don’t miss this French author coming to Quimby’s on Wed, Sept 22nd, 7pm. Set in the glittering Arctic city of “New Venice,” 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. French author Jean-Christophe Valtat has drawn on a wealth of research about Arctic exploration, Victorian mysticism, and 19th-century technology to create a truly unforgettable literary adventure tale that calls to mind Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the graphic-novel classics of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, and such genre-bending literary sensations as Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell or Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series.Aurorarama
    How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Pantheon) $24.00 – Funny, poetic and reminiscent of Jasper Fforde. If this were on Facebook I would give it a “like.” The main character is a guy who fixes time machines and screw-ups in the spacetime continuum. I would like to have that job. But I don’t have the time. -LM
    Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave (Faber) $15.00 – Most recent work of fiction now in an affordable soft cover edition for fans of musician Nick Cave.
    Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Faber) $28.00
    Noise, A Novel by Darin Bradley (Ballantine) $15.00
    You Were Wrong by Matthew Sharpe (Bloomsbury) $14.00 – From the author of Jamestown, an author once upon a time published by Soft Skull.
    Daddys – Bait and Novelties 24 Fictions by Lindsay Hunter (Featherproof) $14.95
    Ghosted by Stall Shaughnessy Bishop (Soft Skull) $15.95
    Dreamland by Kevin Baker (Harper) $14.99 – From the author of Strivers Row and Paradise Alley.
    Look at the Birdie – Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial) $15.00 – In soft cover.
    Richard Yates by Tao Lin (Melville House) $14.95 – We have it on hand but it’s so under wraps that we can’t even sell it to you until September 3rd! That’s the type of excitement there is about this author, that according to Clancy Martin of How to Sell, “May well be the most important writer under thirty working today.” Don’t miss Tao Lin reading form this book here at Quimby’s on Wed, Sept 15th, 7pm. Tao Lin’s second novel tracks the relationship between writer Haley Joel Osment, a New Yorker in his early twenties, and Dakota Fanning, his 16-year-old lover. -LMRichardYatesTaoLin

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz (Three Rivers Press) $15.00 – Wertz, known for her hilarious Fart Party, continues her entertaining slice of life.
    Stitches: A Memoir by David Small (WW Norton) $15.95 – His parents gave him cancer! So he got back at them and made an amazing graphic novel about it. Ah. The best revenge is a tell-all. I bet Christopher Ciccone agrees. -LM
    Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood by Martin Lemelman (Bloomsbury) $26.00
    Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise, a graphic novel adopted and illustrated by Seymour Chwast (Bloomsbury) $20.00
    Strange Tales TPB (Marvel) $24.99 – Collects Strange Tales #1-3, featuring the long awaited Peter Bagge “Incorrigible Hulk!” Collects Startling Stories: The Megalomaniacal Spider-Man, Hulk vs. the Rain, and Diary of the Hulk. Written and illustrated by Paul Pope, Jhonen Vasquez, Tony Millionaire, Nicholas Gurewitch, Nick Bertozzi, Junko Mizuno and many more!

    ART BOOKS!
    Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game, curated by ALSO (Chronicle) $29.95 – Crazy foldy-outy art book in the tradition of the game Exquisite Corpse. Includes work from contemporary illustrators and indie artists like Jordan Crane, Jill Bliss, David Shrigley, and Quimby’s employee Edie Fake!!!exquisitebook-cover
    Love Letter For You: Brick Valentines on the Philly Skyline by Steve Powers (Free News) $19.95
    Bittersweet by Caroline Kober (Kerber) $35.00
    Too Black for BET Episodes 1 and 2 by Jayson Scott Musson (Free News) $10.00
    Joe Leadbetters Sketchbook by Joe Leadbetter (Nerdcore) $25.00
    Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperback by Steven Brower (Universe) $24.95
    Full Bleed New York City Skateboard Photography by Alex Corporan etc. (Vice) $35.00
    Illustration Play 2: An Expedition to the Extraordinary (Victionary) $39.95
    New Girly Graphics: A New Generation of Glamourous Cute and Romantic Designs (PIE Books) $75.00
    Street View: The New Nylon Book of Global Style (Universe) $24.95 – That way you’ll know how to dress BEFORE you go into Urban Outfitters around the corner.
    Street Art Stencil Book: 20 Laser Cut Stencils by the Worlds Greatest Street Artists, curated by On.Studio (Laurence King) $29.95 – Stencils by such artists as Bandit, Blek Le Rat, Pure Evil and more. Now you can stencil that gnome on a skateboard on your parents coffee table. They’ll LOVE that. Screw you, mom and dad! -LM

    MAGAZINES!
    Murder Most Foul #77 $9.99
    Flaunt #110 $8.99
    Treating Yourself #24 $7.99
    Boneshaker Magazine #2 $8.00
    Sideburn #6 $10.25
    Dazed & Confused #89 Sep 10 $9.95
    Super Kawaii #1 $14.99
    Razorcake #56 $4.00
    Mojo #203 Oct 10 $9.99
    Signal to Noise #59 Fall 10 $4.95
    Filter #41 $5.95
    Monocle vol 4 #36 Sep 10 $10.00
    Z Magazine Sep 10 $4.95
    Against the Current #148 $5.00
    In These Times Sep 10 $3.50
    Travel Naturally #76 $9.95
    Tattoo Society #23 $7.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    Bull Spec #1 Spr 10 $5.00
    Bull Spec #2 Sum 10 $8.00

    MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
    Re/Search – Modern Primitives 20th Anniversary Edition (Re/Search) $25.00 – Putting bones in your ears are as popular as ever before! -LM
    Mirage Men: An Adventure Into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare and UFOs by Mark Pilkington (Skyhorse) $22.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Route 19: Revisited The Clash and London Calling by Marcus Gray (Soft Skull) $17.95

    MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
    Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford (NYRB) $15.95
    You Ruined It For Everyone: 101 People Who Screwed Things Up For the Rest of Us by Matthew Vincent (Soft Skull) $14.95
    True Prep: Its a Whole New Old World by Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd (Knopf) $19.95
    America by Jean Baudrillard (Verso) $19.95 – This new edition of France’s (late) leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveller’s tales from the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night. Contains a new introduction by novelist Geoff Dyer about this popular book’s continued resonance.

    CHILDREN’S BOOKS!
    Three Classic Childrens Stories: Little Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant, Killer Rum by James Donnelly and Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $17.95
    Half Upon a Time by James Riley (AladdinMix) $15.99

    SEXY!
    America Swings by var. (Taschen) $39.99 – Yes, that kind of swinging.
    RFD #143 $7.75 – Queer Sustainability.

    STUFF
    Adventures of Buffy the Cat 2011 Calendar $12.95 – We don’t carry a lot of wall calendars anymore because they don’t do so well for us. But the public, who adored the amazing photography book Buffy the Cat: No Dogs Allowed who loves to be dressed in ANYTHING, demanded a year of Buffy’s adventures. And we are happy to provide. The Buffy book and calendar are consigned by a local photographer who donates the procedes of both to charity. Support Buffy and you support a person in need. And you support cats who play the guitar and ride snowboards. -LM
    Pink Hotel DVD by Chris Hefner $15.00 – A local filmmaker made this film. It’s shown at places like the Music Box. So you know, it’s kinda arty.

    Click here for new stuff quimbys.com since last week.

  • Black Friday Kick Off to the Season!

    Starting Friday November 28th spend over $100 in one shopping trip and receive a Quimby’s tote bag at no extra charge. Limit of one bag per customer per day. This special offer will end on January 1st. So act fast, supplies are limited!

    Also please note our Holiday Hours over the next couple of days:

    WEDNESDAY, NOV 25: 12pm – 5pm
    THURSDAY, NOV 26: ~C L O S E D~
    On Friday, NOV. 27th we will open at 12pm and be back on our normal schedule!

    If you need directions via tain, plane or automobile feel free to call the store we will be glad to help

    Also we will be offering gift wrapping starting Friday, more info to follow!!

  • Thanksgiving Holiday Hours

    Please note Quimby’s will close early on Wed., Nov 26th at 5pm. Also, Quimby’s will be closed on Thanksgiving, Thurs., Nov 27th.

    We will, of course, be open Fri., Nov 28th so you can get your day-after-Thanksgiving-shopping on and burn off some o’those calories.

  • Labor Day Hours

    Quimby’s will close at 5pm on Monday, September 1st. Thanks!