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  • Dame Darcy Reads Handbook for Hot Witches: Dame Darcy's Illustrated Guide to Magic, Love, and Creativity

    Just in time for Halloween! Quimby’s is excited to welcome Dame “Meat Cake” Darcy for her new book Handbook for Hot Witches.

    Plenty of artwork to satisfy her comics and illustration fans both young and old, Dame Darcy combines a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells and voilà! Handbook for Hot Witches: Dame Darcy’s Illustrated Guide to Magic, Love, and Creativity is the guide for girls who want cool things to do and great friends to do them with, who aren’t afraid to be their different, awesome selves. It’s a celebration of powerful, creative girls—the sort of girls who may have been called “witches” once, but who, as this book proclaims, are “hot,” because of their talent and their uniqueness. With sections on banjo playing, beauty spells, palm reading, and much more, this fully illustrated handbook will send girls of any age on their way to independence, creativity, and magic DIY-style.

    “Part graphic novel, part New Age primer, with dashes of astrology and crafts and pinches of beauty hints, the book packs a lot into its 200 pages.” —School Library Journal

    What others have said about Dame Darcy:

    “Darcy’s comics are aesthetic manifestos. . . . Darcy is a star.” —The New York Times

    “I think she’s exquisite, let’s put it that way. I wish I knew her in high school.” —Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

    Praise for Meat Cake:

    “[Darcy] has created a childlike, otherworldly realm, a land that hovers in the twilight space between the whimsical and the macabre. Ghosts and goblins, foul-tempered stepmothers, lovesick mermaids and charmed forest are all rendered in Darcy’s distinctive hand, loose and flowing lines reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey.” —The Los Angeles Times

     Dame Darcy currently resides in New York City and Savannah, Georgia. She is known worldwide as an illustrator, writer, fine artist, musician, filmmaker, animator, environmentalist, and Cabaret Mermaid. Her illustrated titles include The Illustrated Jane Eyre, and she has been publishing her comic book series, Meat Cake, for twenty years. More info about her at damedarcy.com.

  • Weekly Top 10


    Local Quimby’s fave Corrine Mucha’s new comic is at #4
    1. Lose #4 by Michael Deforge (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Tremendous! DeForge’s well-oiled line skates through the Stud File, each story shedding it’s snakeskinnery onto the next. From leather terror to royal lace to Stacyface, this issue is an ode to the body as a husk and an assault on the idea of corpus control. Flesh, rendered alternately as vampirically smooth and bacterially roccoco is bound up in narratives of contemporary methods of “information sharing” and “social networking” and the effect is straight up cut-to-the-bone sci fi plastic surgery. Witty, sly and lovely to hold exuding a warm Canadian glow. -EF

    2. By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press) $15.00

    3. King Cat #73 by John Pocellino $3.00 – Porcellino goes cuckoo for cuckoo birds, plus cats at the movies, plus a South Beloit Top 36, plus a recurring spermophile theme.

    4. Buzz #4 Joke Comics by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – Funnyuns! Buzz #4 is a new collection of hilarity unleashed from Mucha’s potent joke arsenal: crazy 8-balls, breakfast shorthand, bad dates, beauty tips and ideas, all special for you.

    5. The Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz (Koyama) $15.00 – Three short stories or graphic novellas from the artist of Fart Party and Drinking at the movies. Filled with the sometimes messy, heartbreaking and hilarious moments that make up a life.

    6. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf $17.95 – Backderf puts together a memoir of high school in the washed out suburban seventies when he was classmates and comrades with grisly serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

    7. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 American Food Issue $12.00 – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

    8. Paper Oct 12 vol 29 #2 $4.00

    9. Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Dave Cave and Maranda Elizabeth $3.00 – Be ironic! Buy it on our website!

    10. Fag School #4 New Fiction – Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – Fag School is in session and I suggest you try to handle the full course load. This zine is fucking brilliant and amazing – always has been, and I think it might always will be. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week


    Temporary Services 7 Offset Poster Booklets:Set includes 7  11″ X 17″ color offset poster booklets from 2005-2012 that includes Prisoners’ Inventions (2005), Product Placements (2005), Supermax Subscriptions (2012) and more. $7.00

    Zines
    Black Thorns in the White Cube Catalogue, curated by Amelia Ishmael $20.00 – Exhibition catalog from an exhibit of the same name, demonstrating the instersection of contemporary artists who are bilingual, speaking both Black Metal and Art History fluently. Features nine artists from four countries, including Alexander Binder, Vincent Como, Chicago’s own Terence Hannum and more.
    This Is A Sketchbook #1 by Peregrine Angthius $10.00
    (Subculture Clash Presents) Storylings: Short, Short Fiction, Essays and Things $1.50
    Nazi Knife #8 $23.00

    Comics & Comix
    The Plot #2 Your Curiosity Will Get You Killed by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Shhhhh don’t tell Neil we told you this, but if you come in and buy this comic, maybe if you ask him all nice-like he’ll sign it for you, because he’s going to be super duper famous because his comics are awesome and then you’ll be really glad you had him sign it.
    King Cat #73 by John Porcellino (Spit and a Half) $3.00 – John’s cuckoo for cuckoo birds in this issue, among other topics. Thanks to everybody who came out for the release event here earlier this week for KC #73, along with Noah Van Sciver and his graphic novel Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln!
    Buzz #4 Joke Comics by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – Charming and hilarious pieces from local Quimby’s fave.
    Red Rum #0 Black and White Nightmare by Scott Wygmans $10.00
    Ocean Marauders by Alejandro Rosado $5.00
    Fatima #4 of 4 the Blood Spinners by Gilbert Hernandez $3.99
    Dope Mouthfeel #3 by Steve Schaberg $4.00
    Heyday Comics #1-#4 by Daniel Elissi $3.00 each
    Subculture Clash Black White and Grey All Over $2.00
    Seasonal vol 2 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $5.00
    JRH Jr. A Young Man in Japan – Tales of an LDS Mission 1961-1963 by Jim Howell and Sarah Morton $3.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Everything Together Collected Stories by Sammy Harkham (Picturebox) $19.95 – Collected short fiction pieces.
    Neil Hamburger Comics Digest by Gregg Turkington $6.00
    Mark Twain Was Right: The 2001 Cincinnati Riots by Dan P. Moore (Microcosm) $8.95
    Dark Country by Thomas Ott, Tab Murphy and Thomas Jane (Raw Studio) $24.99
    100 Bullets HC Book 3 by Brian Azzarello et al. $49.99
    Blonde Woman by Aidan Koch $18.00

    Art & Design
    Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs. The Art of William S. Burroughs $60.00 – Exhibition catalog in both German and English that featured countercultural icon Burroughs’s cut-ups in such different media as text-image collages, photo-montages, audio-tape experiments and film, together with the legendary shotgun paintings.
    Negron by jonny negron (Picturebox) $19.95

    Fiction
    Books published by The Chicago Center For Literature and Photography: Solo Down by Lauryn Allison Lewis,Get Up Tim by Sally Weigel, Have You Seen Me by Katherine Scott Nelson, all books $20.00 each
    2 Davis Schneiderman books: Drain ($15.00) and Blank ($10.00)
    Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad by Derrick Jemsen and Stephanie McMillan (PM Press) $14.95
    Return by Roberto Bolano $14.95 – Now in soft cover.

    DIY
    Action Professor Know It All’s Illustrated Guide to Film and Video Making by Bill Brown (Microcosm) $11.95 – by Bill “Dream Whip” Brown.
    Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices by William Gurstelle $16.95 – Expanded and Even More Explosive 2nd Edition. THANK GOD.
    You Are Awesome: 21 Crafts to Make You Happy by Abbey Hendrickson (Cicada) $15.95 – Vintage inspired pennants!Valentine medals! Ribbon chalkboards! Obligatory bird craft!
    Unsinkable: How to Build Plywood Pontoons & Longtail Boat Motors Out of Scrap by Robnoxious (Microcosm) $7.95

    Music Books
    I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons $27.99
    Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk by Sam Sutherland $22.95
    Punk: An Aesthetic by Johan Kugelberg, Jon Savage and William Gibson $55.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Ghosts of Northern Illinois by Stephen Osborne (Schiffer) $16.99 – There are a host of ghostly tales and legends surrounding Chicago, Rockford, Dekalb, Dixon, Byron, and other cities in towns in the Prairie State! In Ghosts of Northern Illinois, meet the spirit of a woman who was brutally murdered in the 1940s. Shiver as you learn about a blue figure that runs down the alley adjacent to the Biograph Theater, then falls to the ground and disappears. Encounter a phantom jogger, the Madonna of Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, and the mysterious scent of perfume at the Coronado Theater. Come and visit Willow Creek Farm, one of the top-ten haunted houses in Illinois, where over 30 spirits have been detected! Think Illinois looks calm and peaceful? Think again!

    Politics & Revolution
    It’s Not About Religion by Gregory Harms (Perceval) $11.00 – When the Middle East is covered on the news or depicted in film, what is shown is a region defined almost exclusively by violence, chaos, and extremism, and a common question often arises in response: Does religion have anything to do with it? This book is a constellation of history and culture that will hopefully help move the conversation of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in a more grounded and precise direction. Thanks to everybody that came out for this event with Mr. Harms last week!
    Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank $16.00 – Now in soft cover. Don’t miss Thomas “The Baffler” Frank here at Quimby’s on October 23rd.
    Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem (PM Press) $20.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law (PM Press) $20.00
    Basics From the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian $10.00

    Children, Radical Parenting and Allies
    Adventures In Cartooning Christmas Special by James Sturm et al. (First Second) $9.99
    Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities by Victoria Law and China Martens (PM Press) $17.95 – Collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. It focuses on issues affecting children and caregivers within the larger framework of social justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation. Contributors include: Ramsey “List” Beyer, Jessica Hoffman, Heather Jackson, Rahula Janowski, London Pro-Feminist Men’s Group, Tomas “Rad Dad” Moniz, Coleen Murphy and more.

    Magazines
    Subconscious Restaurant by Ron Hanson $10.00 – New publication produced by White Fungus and The Physics Room, connecting New Zealand artists working in sound, and Taiwan.
    True Crime Sep 12 $8.99
    Purple Fashion vol 3 #18 $50.00
    Dossier #10 $15.00
    Mother Earth News #254 Oct Nov 12 $5.99
    Razorcake #70 $4.00
    Magnet #91 $4.99
    If If If Magazine #1 $6.00 – Swarming collage and prose, rich color, nice layout, cool reaches but also deeply pixelated on the visual end and my eyes just wanna focus. Work from Matthew Koons, Stephana Tyler, Colin Wynnette, Shane Wright, Jarrett Hayman, PW Hofstad, Isabel Borczuch. -EF

    Class Struggle #75 Aug Sep 12 by Spark $3.00
    Harpers Magazine Oct 12 $6.99
    Inked Oct 12 #49 $6.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    The First Line vol 14 #3 Fall 12 $3.00 – The first line of all the offerings in this issue is “A light snow was falling as Charlie Reardon left the diner and made his way down Madison Street.”

    Sex & Sexy
    Catalog #1 by Goodyn Green $20.00
    Bend Over Magazine #7 Sum/Fall 2012 $12.00 – Feminism sexuality and queer art.

    Other Stuff
    Snail Watering Can $11.00 – Waaaaaaaateeeeeeeer yooooooooour plaaaaaaaaants reaaaaaaaaalllly slowwwwwwwwllllllly.
    Slingshot Ballpoint Pen $5.00 – Use this catapult pen with a built in rubberband for annoying fellow classmates, co-workers or family members. Also! Pair it with the Slingshot Planners which will be coming in in October. Insert joke here!
    Best Love Song Ever Cassette Tape Coin Purse $6.00
    Jack the Ripper Lavatory Mist $12.00
    “Yummy Pharmaceuticals That Will Please You” Petite Cigar Box $11.00
    Poison “Danger – Toxic” Pocket Cigarette Box $6.00
    Bicycles Messenger Bag $19.00
    Peregrine Angthius Sticker Pack $5.00
    Cycling Shorts DVD Short Documentaries About Bicycles $14.95

    Noteworthy Restocks
    Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon $27.99
    Adventures of Venus by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $9.99
    Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00
    Cheer the Eff Up issues #1-#3 by Jonas
    Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton $19.95
    Scenes From an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine $9.95
    Seth by Christopher Schulz $10.00

    The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

  • Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present 9/28

    The city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia hosts public dance lessons most nights on a newly revitalized riverfront directly in front of prime minister Hun Sen’s urban home. Shortly before dusk, much of the city gathers to bust a few Apsara moves and learn a couple choreographed hip- hop steps from a slew of attractive young men at the head of each group. Outside the bustling capital city, the provinces come alive, too, as the nation’s only all-girl political rock group sets up concerts that call into question the international garment trade, traditional gender roles, and agriculture under globalization. Cambodia is changing: not what it once was, not yet what it will be.  Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present provides images of a nation’s people emerging from generations of poverty.

    Following on the heels of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, Anne Elizabeth Moore compiled photographs that document Cambodia’s bustling nightlife, the nation’s emerging middle class, and the ongoing struggle for social justice in the beautiful, war-ravaged land.

    A series of essays complement the imagery, investigating the relationship between public and private space, mourning and memory, tradition and economic development. It is a document of a nation caught between states of being, yet still deeply affecting.

    “Radical” (L.A. Times), “poignant” (Boston Globe), “should not be missed (Time), “a notable underground author” (The Onion), and “brilliant” (Kirkus) are all ways to describe Anne Elizabeth Moore and her writing. The award-winning author and artist has worked for years with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and her newest venture is a compilation of photographs and lyrical essays taking readers to the streets of the country’s capital city, Phnom Penh, and out into the countryside— where few get to travel. Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present released Aug. 28, 2012 from Green Lantern Press.

    Alternating full color and black and white photographs depict Phnom Penh’s bustling nightlife as locals gather to dance on a newly revitalized riverfront directly in front of their prime minister’s urban home, thus forming a portrait of the nation’s emerging middle class. Images from a southern province depict a nation in dialogue with its government, hoping for development that lifts all citizens. A series of essays complement the imagery, investigating the relationship between public and private space, mourning and memory, tradition and an economic development unrivaled in the last 1,200 years.

    “Traditional movements push against young passions,” Moore writes. “Development is fluid and janky. But a generation is learning what comfort feels like, learning what it feels like to have survived. To celebrate, to honor, they dance most nights like they are possessed.”

    Hip Hop Apsara aims to break through the cavalier and hardened consciousness many hold about Cambodian culture and its recent, violent, past under the Khmer Rouge.

    “People seem rooted in this belief that Cambodia’s very far away and very weird,” Moore said. “It is far away, but for 14 million Cambodians, it’s not weird at all – plus it’s a place the US has had a lot of negative influence over. So it seems like we should know something about it, as Americans.”

    A Fulbright scholar, Moore is the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). She was co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series.

    Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007, named a Best Book of the Year by Mother Jones) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches in the Visual Critical Studies and Art History departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and with people of all ages and genders on media and gender justice work in the US. Her journalism focuses on the international garment trade. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has lectured around the world on independent media, globalization, and women’s labor issues. The multi-award-winning author has also written for N+1, Good, Snap Judgment, Bitch, the Progressive, The Onion, Feministing, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. She has appeared on CNN, WNUR, WFMU, WBEZ, Voice of America, and others. Her work with young women in Southeast Asia has been featured in USA Today, Phnom Penh Post, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out Chicago, Make/Shift, Today’s Chicago Woman, Windy City Times, and Print Magazine, and on GritTV, Radio Australia, and NPR’s Worldview. Moore recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and participated in Artisterium, Georgia’s annual art invitational. Her upcoming book, Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present (Green Lantern Press, Aug. 28, 2012), is a lyrical essay in pictures and words exploring the people of Cambodia’s most rampant economic development in at least 1,200 years.

    BOOK DETAILS
    Hardcover, $20 ISBN: 978-1-4507-7526-7 Photo/Essay, 100 pages Green Lantern Press

    For more info:
    AnneElizabethMoore.com
    @superanne
    Publicity: JKSCommunications.com

  • New Stuff This Week

    Thank you to the charming David Rees (who we demand pose in our vintage photobooth in his apron) and for everybody that came to our event this past week (and a special thanks to audience members who participated as pencil sharpening novices). David demonstarted how to do some flashy sharpening moves as well as explained how to start your very own pencil sharpening business. Follow your dreams, kids!

    Handbook for Hot Witches: Illustrated Guide to Magic Love and Creativityby Dame Darcy $15.99 – Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells—voilà!—Handbook for Hot Witches. Ever wondered what your dreams mean? You can look them up here. Want to learn to knit? This book can get you started. With sections on witch holidays, love, crystal ball gazing, meditating, and much more, this fully illustrated guide is the handbook that will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic. What kind of witch are you? Let Dame “Meatcake” Darcy help you figure it out. And here’s an early bird announcement: Dame Darcy will be here at Quimby’s on October 29th to help you get your halloween samhain on.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    We’ll Never Have Paris: Greatest Hits – Literary Journal of Non-Fiction by Andria Alefhi and Jaime Borschuk $7.95
    Butch Nor Femme #6 Your Secretary #12 Split Zine by Lynne and Jami Sailor $1.00
    Tributaries #2 Illinois Withholding Allowance by JC $2.00
    Tributaries #3 On Tricycling History and Endings by JC $3.00
    When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler It’s Because They Think Sardines Will Be Thrown Into the Sea by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera $3.00
    Belmonte (De Francisco Lamb editions) $3.00
    Happie volume 1 by Lamb $10.00
    Alleyways: Eight Stone Press by William P. Tandy $4.00
    D Tuned #1 Jul 12 by Danica Favorito $1.00
    Emotions Are Hard – Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50
    Mystery & Adventure Series Review #46 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
    Glance in the Rearview Mirror: Neoliberal Ideology from its Origins… by Toussaint (Haymarket) $4.95
    Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible by Mike Davis (Haymarket Books) $4.95
    Cool Food #1 by Jessalyn Aaland $20.00 – That title’s no lie! Aaland reviews foods and cactuses, puts it out there whut’s rad about eating and hot tips on rad ways to eat the rad things. Blue plate special scrappy friend fun, written with frankjoy and illustrated sticker tripper doodlebugs of broccoli faces and donut buddies.

    Comics & Comix
    Colour Me Busy by Keith Jones (Koyama Press) $5.00
    Everybody Loves Tank Girl #2 Mahfood and Martin $3.99
    Me and You Chapter 3 $4.00
    Bots is Bots #1 by Gregg K $1.00
    Steel Sterling #1 by Michael Rae Grant and Gabriel Winslow Yost $5.00
    Dimensions issues #3 and #4  $15.00 each
    Let’s Do It BY Zejian Shen $3.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books) $24.95
    Comics Class by Matthew Forsythe (Koyama) $5.00
    Tomorrow Never Knows: A Comics History of the Psychedelic Beatles by Sean Ward (Harth Publishing) $12.00
    Economix: How Our Economy Works and Doesnt Work in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin et al. $19.95
    Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics by Margreet de Heer $16.95
    Graphic novels from Matt Dembicki: XOC the Journey of a Great White and District Comics: an Unconventional History of Washington DC
    The Creativity of Ditko by Craig Yoe et al. $39.99
    Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley and Boo Radley $15.00 – Important news from the perspectives of the two cats: Dust, Inside Utility Closet, plus Catnip Treats. Pressing matters! Inquiring minds are glad to read this because it’s hilarious.

    Art & Design
    Quoteskine vol 1 by Lee Crutchley (Carpet Bombing Culture) $18.95
    Paper Works (Gingko Press) $34.95
    From Ummmm to Der by Thomas Campbell 2009-2011 (Gingko Press) $29.95 – Very pretty monograph of Campbell’s recent work. He was prominently featured in the ground-breaking touring exhibition (2003-2008) “Beautiful Losers” and also the subsequent book and film.

    Drawn By Instinct by Tiffany Bozic $45.00
    Guide to Troubled Birds, Profusely Illustrated by Mincing Mockingbird $13.99
    Wacky Packages Gallery Most Comprehensive Resource Archive Compiled to Date From Two of the Most Knowledgeable Collectors in the Hobby by various (Last Gasp) $15.00
    Idle Hands: The Art of Coop (Baby Tattoo) $50.00
    Blab World #2 by Monté Beauchamp (Last Gasp) $24.95
    Alice by Trevor Brown $70.00
    Rivers Forgotten by Jeremy Kai (Koyama Press) $25.00
    Typoholic by the Victionary Workshop $39.95
    You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat by Banksy $35.00
    Stencil Wars: the Ultimate Book of Star Wars Inspired Street Art $29.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Complex of Carnage: Dario Argento Beneath the Surface by Jack Hunter – From the Cult Movie Files.
    Eccentropedia: The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived by Chris Mikul and Glenn Smith (Headpress) $25.95
    Flesh Ripping Ghouls of London: Murder, Madness and Mayhem from the Penny Bloods by JM Rymer et al (Creation) $14.95
    Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium by Mark Edward (Feral House) $18.95
    The Worlds Weirdest Places by Nick Redfern $15.99

    Music Books
    The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines By Candice Black $14.95

    Fiction
    One in Every Crowd Stories by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press) $15.95
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche $16.95

    Sex & Sexy
    Salome and Under the Hill Forbidden Erotic Classics by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley (Wet Angel) $14.95
    Das Einhorn #3 Aug Sep 12 $6.00

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99
    Bizarre #191 Aug 12 $10.50
    Paleo Magazine Aug Sep 12 $5.99
    High Times Oct 12 $5.99
    Pinstriping #33 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    Mojo #225 Aug 12 $9.99
    Maximumrocknroll #352 Sep 12 $4.00
    Fader #81 Aug Sep 12 $5.99
    WHOA (Whats Happening With Original Artists) Magazine Fall 12 $6.95
    Filter Good Music Guide Aug Sep 12 $2.99
    Cinema Retro #4 Movie Classics Special Edition $15.95
    The Indignados and Occupy Movements Across the World Reader $2.50
    Monocle Mediterraneo #5 Sum 12 $8.00
    ASR #58 Sum 12 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
    Tabu Tattoo #48 $7.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal #6 Sum 12 $12.00
    Mudfish #17 $12.00
    American Athiest 2nd and 3rd Quarter 12 $4.95
    Creative Nonfiction #45 Sum 12 $10.00
    Overtime Hour 25 Black Shift by TE Winningham III $2.00

    Other Stuff
    Plastic Crimewave Vinyl (Notes and Bolts Records and Tapes) $5.50 – 7″ of psychedelic goodness! On the A side, Steve a.k.a. Plastic Crimewave croons like Bowie if he were truly in space while Tsuyama from Acid Mothers Temple adds creepy ambience in the background. On the B side, Steve gets hazey as the shoegazey goodness seeps off of the grooves and through the speakers. A solid deal and the first vinyl outing from local zine turned vinyl shiller Notes and Bolts!

    The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

  • Weekly Top 10

     

    KerBloom #96 May Jun 12 is at #7 this week, on giving birth and having the universe thwart your best-laid plans.

    1. Bitch #55 $5.95
    2. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95
    3. The Baffler #20 $10.00
    4. Monocle vol 6 #55 Jul Aug 12 $12.00
    5. Telegram #25 Feb 12 $3.00
    6. Train Wreck #9 by Dave Brainwreck $1.00 – Like “Big Hands”, “Train Wreck” is packed deep with a from-the-eyes record of living, the experience of different places, the gut of what it means.

    7. KerBloom #96 May Jun 12 by Artnoose $2.00 (See above)
    8. Living Cooperatively In Intentional Community by Dan Copulsky $3.00 – An introduction to co-op living from an intentional communicator – easy to digest with a page of Chicago-specific resources. With Chicago resource List.

    9. Gather (Artist Publications Editions) by Todd Freeman (Issue Press) $12.00 – Beautiful drawing zine of meticulous penline knotwork. This one’s got some serious net rewards. -EF

    10. Gems #1 Interview Zine Featuring Sic Alps, Kraftwerk and Geneva Jacuzzi by Mike S. (Strange Cessation) $4.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Galactic Zoo Dossier #9 (Drag City) $21.98 – Galactic Zoo Dossier #9 has over 100 pages on overlooked freak rock bands, heady comics and populist pop-psych. Contributors include creator Plastic Crimewave, Byron Coley (The Wire), Eric Colin (Ugly Things / Shindig), Avi Spivak (Human Being Lawnmower) and Scott Wilkinson (Ugly Things, Endless Trip). Contains Interviews with Arthur Brown, Black Widow, Poppy Family, Rodriguez and Mark Fry. Features on Egg & East Of Eden, Collectors & Folklords, Curtis Knight, John Berberian, Psyched Archie & Mad, Kirby, Texas psych scene, Kak, Moody Blues, White Witch. Trading cards of damaged guitar gods and astral folk maidens, in full colour. The CD compilation contains unreleased and mind-frying sounds by Mainliner, Secret Syde, Ultima Thule, Mark Fry, Daze Of Night and The Light Company, amongst others.

    Zines
    Pieces #7 On Belief Delusion and Love by Nichole $3.00
    Hoax #7 Feminism and Change $3.00
    Suck It and See by Zanny Begg $5.00
    NA680 by Blaise Larmee $3.00
    Zines from Drippy Bone: Locked Up Forevers by Alicia Ordal $4.00, Freak Scene $7.00, MOCA #1 Magazine of Contemporary Alchemy by Gordon Magnin $5.00
    Decrepit Americana #1 and #2 by Iowa Joe $3.00 each
    Magic Afternoon #1 $10.00
    Stuff from the Transgender Oral History Project Distro, including: Transgender Herb Garden An MtF Guide to Disconnecting Ones Self From Big Pharma, Trannydykewhore #1, Excerpts From a Journal of a Trans Girl and more.
    Telegram #25 Feb 12 by Miranda Elizabeth $3.00
    Cop Dad #1 Premier Issue Magazine of the Exceptional Personal Experience $2.00
    zines by Dan Copulsky: Concisely #7 Stories Under 500 Words, Living Cooperatively In Intentional Community by Dan Copulsky with a Chicago Resource List. Personal Account of Tipping
    Cocaine Makes the Heart Grow Fonder by Harry  Marker et al. $3.00
    Quick Non Monogamy Glossary by Max Mandax $.25
    Prickly Places Raisin Catalog #1 by Alex Nichols $28.00
    Playing Victim #5 by Brittany Maksimovic $2.00
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 8 featuring Jessica Seamans $6.95
    Period by Christopher Adams $5.00
    Acid Kat #4 Jun Jul 12 by Austin et al. $3.00

    Comics & Comix
    Executive Werewolf Raisin Catalog #.5 by Alex Nichols $3.00 – Were the 99%.

    Linework #3 Spr 12 $12.00
    RAV #6 by Mickey Z $6.00
    Freal Real by Pat Aulisio $5.00
    John Blaze #1 by Leslie Weibeler $4.00
    Nome #1 by Jason T. Miles et al. $7.00
    Jason T. Miles titles: Pines #2-#4, No Body Move Know Buddy Moves Love and more.
    Swamr #1 by Michael Olivo $3.00
    Ductile Anchor by Karneeleus $3.50
    Crestfallen #5 by Sandra Sierra $4.00
    Swaying Gates by Naji $4.00
    Jason Ludtke titles: Colossal Feathers and Composite Armour, Colossal Vulpes Vulpes
    LCB (Liberty Crew Breakers) by Nate Beaty $5.00
    Pizza Face #1 by Mikey Anderson $4.00
    Donda by Jon Dradoer $2.00
    Spazz Factory #1 by “Bill Cosby” $2.00
    Breakfast for Dinner by Kelci Crawford $3.50
    Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00
    Slurricane #3 by Will Laren $8.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Cake Book 2012 $15.00 – The official anthology of CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) $15.00
    Hellboy vol 5 by Mike Mognola et al. (Dark Horse) $49.99 – Contains the stories Darkness Calls and The Wild Hunt.
    Flannery O’Connor The Cartoons (Fantagraphics) $22.95
    JLA vol 2 TPB by Grant Morrison et al. $24.99
    Midnight Days Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman $24.99

    Art & Design
    Wolf the Artist From Apocalypse Back by Wolfgang Carver and Lisa Carver $13.00

    Fiction
    Gather Yourselves Together by Philip K. Dick $13.95
    My American Unhappiness by Dean Bakopoulos $13.95
    Torn in Two by Brit Sigh $10.00
    Year Zero by Rob Reid $25.00
    Enchantment New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank (Counterpoint) $16.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Black 911: Money, Motive and Technology by Mark H. Gaffney (Trine Day) $19.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Books by Prof Oddfellow (and friends): Annotated Ellipses Revealing Hidden dot to dot game within a novelists Eccentric $9.95, Presumptive Conundrums Rhetorical Math Questions and Answers $14.25, Moon Fish Ocean a Zen Converstion of Rock Paper Scissors $11.49 Wyes Dictionary of Improbable Words by Craig Conley $27.99
    It Chooses You by Miranda July (McSweeneys) $16.00 – Now in soft cover, this book is about Miranda July’s fascination with PennySaver classified ads. Then it turned into this big meditation on the creative process. And she got a photographewr in on the action. Then it became a movie.

    Music Books
    If You Like Metallica Here Are Over 200 Bands, CDs, Movies, and Other Oddities That You Will Love by Mike McPadden (Backbeat) $14.99 – This book illuminates the sounds and styles that influenced and have been influenced by this band, in addition to non-musical elements such movies, books, and cultural iconoclasts.
    Hammered: Heavy Tales from the Hard-Rock Highway ed. by Kirk Blows – Whether being threatened by members of Motörhead, sipping soup with Ozzy Osbourne, sharing a stage with Metallica, drinking with UFO or enjoying candid conversation with Queen, veteran journo Blows presents a collection of enticing tales that provide an often hilarious, always unique insight into an exciting and largely unseen world. Packed with over 200 adventures and anecdotes that span a twenty-year period.

    Childrens
    Just Add Water: Making the City of Chicago by Renee Kreczmer (Lake Claremont Press) $12.95

    Magazines
    The Baffler #20 $10.00
    Hi-Fructose #24 $6.95
    Wallpaper Jul 12 $10.00
    Juxtapoz #139 Aug 12 $5.99
    Wilder Quarterly vol 1 #3 Sum 12 $18.95 – Art mag about gardening. All the rage!
    Brownbook #33 $14.99
    High Times Sep 12 $5.99
    Boneshaker Magazine #9 $12.00
    Dazed & Confused vol 3 #11 Jul 12 $9.99
    Z Magazine Jul Aug 12 $6.95
    Inked Aug 12 #47 $6.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Literary Review vol 55 #2 Spr 12
    Artifice Magazine #4 $7.00
    Bad Version vol 1 #3 Sum 12 $9.00
    Women Arts vol 2 #3 Sum 12 $10.00
    Ninth Letter vol 9 #1 Spr Sum 12 $14.95
    Tape Op #90 Jul Aug 12 $4.95

    Sex & Sexy
    Our sister store, Chicago Comics sent us a buncha their sexy books and comics that are –um, how shall we phrase this? — more appreciated over here. Soem of them we’re selling for cheaper than their original retail price. And there are a lot of them, probably too many to mention. Stuff by Kevin Taylor, older Housewives at Play stuff, hilarious older sexy comics and more.
    Housewives at Play – Do You Work Here? by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99
    Meat #7 by Adrian Lourie $20.00 – Fresh pack.

    Other Stuff
    We just a big shipment of stuff in from Buy Olympia, including cards by artists like Little Otsu, Nikki MCClure, Paper Milk, Stumptown Printers and more. And a few prints in too, including a Jill Bliss Octopus print.

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  • Weekly Top 10

    1.  Cartooning Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale) $13.00 – This is about as close you are going to get to having Ivan Brunetti come to your house and teach you how to make great comics. Turns out, it’s pretty damn close – Philosophy and Practice serves up a concise and well-honed crash course on finding and fine tuning your comics voice. -EF

    2. Art of Daniel Clowes Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams ComicArts) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF

    3. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago.

    4. Weirdo #28 Verre Deau $4.95

    5.   What It Is by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95

    6. 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

    7. Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green (McSweeneys) $29.99 – A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is a young Catholic struggling with all the usual problems of adolescence-puberty, agnosticism, and the fear that the strange ray of energy emanating from his private parts will strike a picture of the Holy Virgin Mary. Deeply confessional, with artwork that veers wildly between formalist and hallucinogenic, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is the controversial masterpiece which invented the Autobiographical Graphic Novel.

    8. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if your dad was DV? You might eat ice-cream together maybe? Or maybe he’d freeze your best friend in it maybe? No?

    9. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

    10. Remedy Quarterly #9 Escape $7.50