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  • Brain Frame Comics Reading at Happy Dog 7/28

    This Thursday be sure to check out the Brain Frame Performative Comics Reading at Happy Dog Gallery, right around the corner from us at 1542 N Milwaukee, starting at 8pm. It’s a great lineup of local linework from Lyra Hill, Ian McDuffie and Sara Drake and special outta-sight outta-town guest Otto Splotch, and who knows what from Nick Jackson. Maybe you should give a call and see what he’s thinking about?

    Ian McDuffie – www.violetmice.com
    Sara Drake – sara-drake.blogspot.com
    Lyra Hill – www.lyrahill.com
    otto Splotch – www.squishthefish.net
    NIck Jackson – 757-284-9293

  • 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

  • Cassie J. Sneider Reads From Fine Fine Music with Dave Roche and Danny ‘Ratso’ Rathbun 7/23

    FINE FINE MUSIC is a collection of stories about the other side of rock and roll and coming of age in the land that time forgot. Lake Ronkonkoma is stuck in 1981, an alcoholic blackout of unnatually tan people waxing their Camaros to Foreigner on cassette and knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not. From an internship making Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, and a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider delivers her tales of growing up in a land of fist-pumping Snookies with the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk.

    Cassie J. Sneider grew up in the murky depths of Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, a town with a haunted lake, a trailer park, and a record store. She put 240,000 miles on a Toyota Echo doing readings all over the country. Cassie J. Sneider collects 8-tracks and new friends. You can catch her on the Sister Spit 2012 national tour. For more info: cassiejsneider.blogspot.com

    Dave Roche is the zinester behind such titles as On Subbing and About My Disappearance. He is a Quimby’s favorite.

    And now, one more name has been added! It’s Danny “Ratso” Rathbun, who writes about openly and honestly about failed relationships, drugs and depression, but always with a wink and a smile. He runs a number of tongue and cheek columns like, ‘Drunken Letters to Abstract Concepts’, ‘Copyrighted Material Used Without Permission’, and ‘Punk rock trading cards’, that have drawn comparisons to Mad Magazine. Ratso’s work has been printed in over twenty different newspapers around Virginia, including The Virginia Gazette, The Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, and others.  He is a regular contributor to Grassroots magazine, and the Commonwealth Times.  He publishes the zine Don’t Tread on Me, regularly performs standup comedy and gives readings across the state of Virginia, and is currently on a nationwide tour, doing readings across the country. For more info:  dtmzine.blogspot.com

    Sat, July 23rd, 7pm

  • New Stuff This Week

    Hey Revenge of Print fans! Sara Drake will be here doing comics and independent publishing workshops from 1:45 to 4:45 today! Click here for more info. 1:45 comics making demo, 3:00 self-publishing demo, 4:45 comics drawing workshop. Come on over! The water’s fine!

    Today’s pick:

    Empty the Sun: A Novel by Joseph Mattson with Soundtrack by Six Organs of Admittance (Ben Chasny and Steve Ruecker) (Barnacle) $18.00 – Book with CD. Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers — everywhere at once, stinging, dark and beautiful. Empty the Sun will take you to some strange places, but the trip is amazing. Mattson has written a truly inventive and vivid novel. -Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Destroy All Monsters Magazine $30.00 – It was a zine! No, a band! A zine, a band! Both?! Tomato, tomahto, let’s call it an art collective and be done with the debate. Shake?
    Bathing Salts by Keith G. Herzik $5.00 – Crazy screenprinting master Herzik leaves us another artifact from his lab.
    South Side Chicago Anti Racist Action #2 May Day Edition $2.00
    Amazing Women #3 by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
    You Made Devotion A Virtue #1 An Epic Tale of Phil Spector Modern Day Bluebeard – American Nightmare is His Wet Dream by Devan Elyse Bennett $2.00
    Everything Good and Beautiful by Bucket Siler and Frey Anya $5.00
    God Save the Zine #5 and #6 by Harrison Rosenberg $3.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    You Dont Get There From Here #19 Carrie McNinch $2.00
    So Nervous #1 by Corinne Mucha and Heather Radke $3.00 – Heather writes material about anxiety which then inspires Corinne to do related comics. A fascinating collaboration!
    Shirtlifter #4 by Steve Macisaac and friends (Drawn Out) $12.95
    Suicide Girls Comic #3 $3.99 – Chicks with tattoos and big boobies save the world!
    Kids Comics Anthology ed. by Jose Luis Olivares $8.00 – Featuring such folks as Nate Beaty, David Libens, Alex Kim and more.
    Sock  #1 Adult Stories and Imagery ed. by Conor Stechshulte $8.00 – Featuring such folks as CF, Sam Gaskin and more.
    Mindful Eating #1 by Drew Damron $2.00 – Drawn during the month of April 2010.
    Powdered Milk #5 by Keiler Roberts $2.50
    SF #1 by Ryan Cecil Smith
    M. Sauter’s Guide to Douchebaggery #3 by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00 – Each issue a consistent seller here. What is that saying?
    Vicki Stowe Brewmaster by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00
    Comics by Kevin Ulrich ($1.00 each) Boot #1: Bunnies Rocks Unicorns, Boot #2: Starring Ted the Unicorn and Boot #3: With Exclusive Centerfold Comic

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Meatfist and Gronk Collected Fud and Bud Burgy $5.00
    Continuity Guy Chrono Chaos by Klonowski and Burgy $5.00
    Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944-1949: The First Female Superhero Created and Drawn by a Woman Cartoonist by Tarpe Mills (IDW) $49.99
    Chester 5000 XYV by Jess Fink (Top Shelf) $14.95
    Art of Doug Sneyd: Collection of Playboy Cartoons BY Doug Sneyd (Dark Horse) $39.99 – With a forward by Hugh Hefner.

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Back In the Days Remix 10th Anniversary Edition by Jamel Shabazz (PowerHouse) $35.00 – Reprint of this amazing photo collection of B-boys and girls.
    Power to the Imagination Artists Posters and Politics by Jurgen Doring (U of Chicago) $29.95
    I Should Be In Charge by Bob and Roberta Smith (Black Dog) $49.95
    Medium Religion Faith Geopolitics Art ed. by Boris Groys  and Peter Weidel $46.00 – Art that questions religion, machines that “analyze” the bible. A hefty, er, tomb.
    Red Maze by Stanley Donwood $59.95 – Follows the red maze of curated ephemera. Like “The Shining,” but um, not a hedge maze. With art. In a red maze.
    Paul Madonna Album 01 Paul Madonna $24.95 – Comics artist Paul Madonna came in on the sly to sign a few copies of his books while he was in town, and he brought an awesome oversized show catalog of sorts, featuring, among other things, the finger monster toys we sell here too.
    Chicano Graffiti and Murals The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada by Sojin Kim $30.00

    DIY!
    Apocalypse Cakes Recipes For the End by Shannon O’Malley and Keith Wilson (Running Press) $14.00
    Mental Health Cookbook Creating Connection With Foods and Herbs (Needles and Pens) by H Finn Cunningham $7.00

    FICTION!
    Hundred Brothers by Donald Antrim $15.00
    Ladies Man by Richard Price (Picador) $15.00
    Lightning by Jean Echenoz (New Press) $19.95
    Stories ed. by Neil Gaiman (Harper) $16.99 – Experimental fiction from the likes of Peter Straub and Chuck Pahlahnuik ed. by Mr. Sandman Neverwhere.
    Star Island by Carl Hiaasen (Grand Central) $14.99
    Vacant Lot by Oliver Rohe (Counterpoint) $18.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Through My Eyes: The Way I See Things and the Things I Saw by Eva Pilch $25.00
    Always Messing With Them Boys Poems Jessica Helen Lopez $10.00
    They Dont Make Memories Like That Anymore by Katrina K. Guarascio $10.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Handshake #1 $8.00 – New Chicago-based mag, debut issue. Interviews with blue collar folks and places you might proudly recognize. We look forward to more issues!
    Shots #112 sum 11 $ $6.50
    Shock Cinema #40
    Wax Poetics #47 $9.99
    Fader #74 Jun Jul 11 $5.99
    Tattoo Society #28

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter (McSweeneys) $22.00

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior (Bazillion) $39.95 – Don’t miss Jon and Tara here at Quimby’s on July 8th, 7pm. The pair will recount some of the hilarious and the tragic episodes contained in the book, and discuss a dedication to self-publishing spawned from the darkest excesses of metal.
    Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of The Punk and Hardcore Generation (UPM) $35.00 – Pretty awesome.

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Mayor Culpa: 1989-2011 Gone But Not Forgiven – The Unofficial Farewell Tribute to Mayor Richard M. Daley As Told Through His Long-Lost Campaign Memorabilia by Mark Weinberg $12.95 – Collection of Daley administration ephemera, hilarious yet telling satire Onion-style. The cover graphics of Daley looking like Mr. Burns is worth the cover price alone. From an art standpoint, the design of the book and the graphics are top notch. Small print run, independently published, and home-grown of course, here in the city with big shoulders. A must!
    The People’s History of Poverty In America by Stephen Pimpare (New Press) $21.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    SPS #8 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00 – Oh don’t cry, sad little orifice dripping with goo. Your time will cum.
    OP Original Plumbing #7 Trans Male Quarterly Green Issue by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos  $8.00
    Hot Jocks Gay Erotic Stories by Richard Labonte (Cleis) $14.95
    Brief Encounters 69 Hot Gay Shorts by Shane Allison (Cleis) $15.95
    Angels Misfits by Gary Cook $32.95 – Photos in the vein of Suicidegirls but done desktop publishing style.
    Crazy weird porny 3D stuff that comes with 3D glasses, in various prices: Larry Ferguson photography, 3D and Naughty A Sensual Collection of Pin Up Photography In Amazing 3D, Bottoms Up A Cocktail of Risque Recipes and Vintage Vixens, Vavoom #1 Fast Girls, Shh Presents Special Editions ($10.00 each) Hanna Hilton, Shh Presents Courtney Taylor, Kelley Jean
    Doktor Mentor #1 and #2 $9.95 each – The booth across from us at C2E2 had the Nawdy Nurse, The Jail Babe Surgeon and other sexy names. This is something they publish. From the same consignor as the 3D stuff above. Also we have a DVD of these shenanagins for $20.00
    Candie Land #2 $9.95

    OTHER STUFF!
    Embrace A Pregnancy Journal by Nikki McClure (Sasquatch) $16.95
    Tree of Life Postcard Print by Mark Ryden $5.00 – WHAT?! Five BUCKS FOR A MARK RYDEN PRINT? Better get your paws on this soon before it flies outta here.
    Onsmith/Paul Nudd Letterpress For Black Eye #1 Signing $15.00 – This was made exclusively for signings for the dark comics humor anthology Black Eye that was here last night, by sontributors Onsmith and Nudd, letterpress printed by local printer Rohner.
    More Moleskine planners are here. Going into 2012 now!

  • Zap Retrospective Book Now Available

    We just got this really awesome book Zap: Masters of Psychedelic Art 1965-1974. It’s pretty awesome. It’s totally worth making a trip to our store to see it.

    This gorgeous oversized book is an exhibition catalog for a Zap retrospective show at Andrew Edlin Gallery curated by Gary Panter. Included are complete stories by Robert Williams, Gilbert Shelton, and R. Crumb, and enormous images by Spain, Moscoso, Rick Griffin and S. Clay Wilson, some never-before printed. Everything was scanned from the original art and printed in luminous black and silver.

  • Kickstart the new PRISM Index

    If you haven’t gotten a chance to stop by the store and scope out the beautiful PRISM Index multi-media art anthology, by all means, come take a gander

    Now, editor Jeffrey Bowers has put together an epic Kickstarter campaign to print up the second issue, featuring a wild hot shot mix:
    *Art by Chris Johanson, Mel Kadel, Amy Lockhart, Lola Dupre, Michael DeForge, Matt Furie and others.
    *Writing and poetry from Aimee Bender, Bill Cotter, Stephanie Barber, Andrew Leland, Brian Evenson, Patrick DeWitt, Trinie Dalton.
    *Movies by Sam Green, Su Friedrich, Abigail Child, the Safdie brothers, Amy Lockhart, Seoungho Cho, and others.
    *The CD houses Real Estate, Phosphorescent, Ted Lucas, Julian Lynch, Mountain Man, David Grubbs, Guitar Slim, Big Blood, Dragging An Ox Through Water, Radio People, MV & EE and many more.
    I mean, seriously, this thing is going to be amazing and their fundraising rewards give you the opportunity to get your paws on some rad original art as well. With a little over two weeks to go and a little more than $2000 to raise, you know what to do….go make this great project happen!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yeah yeah, New Stuff is getting posted a day earlier than usual. Now you can plan your weekend early, around what you’re going to come in and buy.

    One thing’s for sure, tomorrow night (Sat 4/23) Dr. Chris Smit, who wrote the book The Exile of Britney Spears: A Tale of 21st Century Consumption (Intellect/University of Chicago Press), will be here at 7pm. Just in time for Britney Spears’ new album, Dr. Smit’s book illustrates the American popular culture’s thirst for—and complicity in—celebrity disgrace. And oh yeah, how we consume culture and puke it out when we’re done. Click here for more info about this event.

    Among other new things we received this week are The Point #4, Spr 11. Click here or the image below to see the feature about Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library. Some of the other features include: • White Boys, Hip Hop, Jay Electronica • Steroids, Baseball, America • Porn as a Way of Life • Sarah Palin’s Alaska • J.M. Coetzee’s Problem With Authority • Chicago’s Political Theater • What is Sport For?

     

    So here’s this week’s new stuff:

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Famous Forgeries by Eric William Pierson (Drippy Bone Books) $5.00
    PopNihil #3 Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before by Matthew Moyer and Jason Brown $2.00
    Because We Can’t Fight the Bulldozer Alone by Dan Sully Sullivan $6.00
    Memories – Darkwater Press Memorized Enforced $4.00
    Prince Zine by Joshua James Amberson and Carman Rachel Lee $5.00
    Readin and Fightin #2 Insisting on Literature by Women of Color by Camille $1.50

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Hate Annual #9 by Peter Baggue (Fantagraphics) $4.95
    Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00 – Seasonal #1 is a roundabout romance in a Utah megastore….all emotional-cleanup-in-aisle-9-style. -EF
    BAM Big Apple Monsters #1 by Jon and Dan Cottle $4.00
    Scenic Byways Welcome to Falling Rock National Park by Josh Shalek $9.00
    Freaks by Tony Rabit $1.00
    Time: An Anthology of Comics About Food (Trees and Hills) $5.00 – Includes a Free Calendar!

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    The New Gypsies by Iain McKell (Prestel) $39.95 – As in for real, young folks doing the nomadic thing.
    New Club Kids: London Party Fashion in the Noughties by Oggy Yordanov (Prestel) $24.95 – As in for real, young folks doing the club kid thing.
    Boutique London: A History Kings Road to Carnaby Street by Richard Lester (ACC) $49.95 – One of our customers suggested we get this. Here it is!
    What’s Weird by David Barnes $50.00Hyperacticitypography From A to Z (DGV) $29.90

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Klondike by Zach Worton (Fantagraphics) $24.95
    Sweet Tooth TPB vol 2 In Captivity by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo) $12.99
    Orc Stain TPB vol 1 by James Stokoe (Image) $17.99

    FICTION!
    Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Anchor) $15.00 – Short stories, now in soft cover.

    CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS
    Spoken Nerd Revolution by Shappy Seasholtz (Penmanship) $15.00 – Collecting Shappy’s work from the past gazillion years, finally in one nice volume! Hilarious of course. What would you expect from a former Quimby’s and Chicago Comics employee? Only the best.
    Verse vol 27 #1 $7.00
    Pain Needs To Remember by Stevie Edwards $12.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Tiki Magazine vol 7 #1 Spr 11 $5.99
    Fortean Times #274 Jun 11 $11.99
    True Detective Apr 11 $4.99
    Passenger Magazine #1 $5.00
    Make vol 26 $14.99 – As in the craft mag, not the lit journal.
    Dot Connector #13 2011 Double Issue $7.95
    Skeptical Inquirer May Jun 11 vol 35 #3 $4.95
    Wallpaper May 11 $10.00
    Dwell May 11 $5.99
    Modern Drunkard #56 $4.95
    Treats Magazine #1 $20.00
    Fangoria #303 $8.99
    Wire #326 Apr11 $10.99
    Black Velvet #68 $6.25
    Maximumrocknroll #336 May 11 $4.00
    XLR8R #138 $6.99
    Harpers Magazine May 11 $6.99
    Race & Class vol 52 #4 $18.00
    Earth First vol 31 #2 30th Anniversary $6.50 – Happy Earth Day!
    Urban Ink #19 $8.99
    Bound By Ink vol 1 #5 $7.99

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    The Wilder Life: My Adventures In the Lost World of Little House On the Prairie by Wendy McClure

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    33 1/3 Series: Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine By Daphne Carr (Continumm) $12.95 – In ten raw, heartbreaking oral histories woven through the book, fans living in the post-industrial Midwest discuss the successes and failures of the American dream as they are articulated in Nine Inch Nails’ music. Read an excerpt at the 33third blog.
    33 1/3 Series: Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk by Rob Trucks (Continuum) $12.95

    SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
    Blow Job vol 3 an Erotic Collection by Johnny Murdoc $8.00 – Home grown erotica! With sexy pictures too.
    Big Penis Book 3D by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – Comes with 3D glasses!
    Big Book of Breasts 3D by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – Also with 3D glasses.
    Handbook vol 5 #2 2011 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – The sensitive side of Trevor Wayne , the business side of Ty, Will and Mike and some nice articles about sexual versatility and “post-gay.”
    Sweets Magazine vol 4 #16 $5.99 – Ooo la la! Sweet!

    OTHER STUFF!
    I Love To Floss Blank Notebook by Blaire Miltenberger $12.00

  • Weekly Top 10 and an Attempt to Play A Portion of All Four Discs of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka at Once

    A children’s book made #1 this week?! That’s crazy. But true.

    Also! Here’s footage from an event here at Quimby’s for the Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about albums of the past 40 years. This event on 9/17/11 featured NIU prof Joe Bonomo who did a book about AC/DC’s Highway to Hell, Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork Media Scott Plagenhoef who did a book about Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister, and managing editor of Pitchfork Mark Richardson who did a book about the Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka. The footage below is of Mark Richardson reading from his book and then attempt to sequence the four CDs of the album to play simultaneously. Click on the image below and go watch it on YouTube.

    Mark Richardson reads from his book The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka
    Click on the picture to watch Mark Richardson discuss and play part of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka

     

    1. Counting In The Studio by Cecilia Pinto and Megan Williamson  $10.00 – This attempt to show the process of creative expression to young readers. A dog lives with an artist who has also depicted her own studio in the book. Inside the studio it is possible to stare out windows just like those in the book. The studio, at the back of the artist’s home, is nestled on a side street in a Chicago neighborhood. The artist and the writer met at the studio to talk about the project before and after making their own separate work. The dog was always present and lent his inestimable support even when napping on the comfy, pillow-strewn chaise lounge which is up against a wall with drawings on it, just like in the book.

    2. Spoken Nerd Revolution by Shappy Seasholtz (Penmanship) $15.00

    3. Mister Wonderful: A Love Story by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $19.95

    4. Gentlewoman #3 Spr Sum 11 $10.95

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

    6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00

    7. OP Original Plumbing #6 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The theme this round is “Schooled”, highlighting a twin commitment to both the “It Gets Better” and the “Make It Better” campaigns targeted at queer youth.

    8. 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

    9. Hi Fructose #19 $6.95

    10. Hot Teen Slut by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody) $15.00

  • Heads Up: 2011 Portland Zine Symposium in August

    The Portland Zine Symposium aims to promote greater community between diverse creators of independent publications and art. This fun and free event helps people share their work while exchanging their skills and information related to zine culture. Through workshops, panels and discussions, Portland Zine Symposium explores the role and effect of all types of zines.

    Time: August 6, 2011 at 10pm to August 7, 2011 at 5pm, Location: Refuge, Portland, OR

    For more info:

    Click here for more details and RSVP on We Make Zines, an online community for zine makers and zine readers.

    Also, not 100% updated: www.pdxzines.com

  • Calling All Nerdy Sluts & Slutty Nerds: Shappy Seasholtz & Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz Read at Quimbys

    Poets Shappy Seasholtz and Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz have had a pretty incredible last few months. In August, they left New York City (their home for the eight years) to move to Philadelphia, where Aptowicz had been awarded the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residency at the University of Pennsylvania– the first time that the honor had been given to a slam poet.

    In October 2010, Seasholtz won the slot to represent Philadelphia at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships, where he competed in December, placing in the top 10 after the first night of competition. In November 2010, it was announced that Aptowicz had been awarded a 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. And in 2011, a combined total of five books of poetry – covering the couple’s compete back catalogue – are being released on two separate independent presses.

    Shappy Seasholtz’s Spoken Nerd Revolution (Pennmanship Books, 2011) covers Seasholtz’s 20 year history in Performance Poetry. Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s Hot Teen Slut – her memoir-in-verse about the year she spent as a writer for porn – is one of four books by Cristin being re-issued in expanded editions by Write Bloody Publishing..

    “Reading Spoken Nerd Revolution was like looking in a fun house mirror, letting us laugh at and relish in our own oddity.  He makes nerd beautiful. Shappy pees on the shoes of the accepted poetic stereotypes.  He’s not writing the verses that will be dissected into eulogies and greeting cards, or blasted atop break beats until the meaning is lost.   These are real words, from a hilariously cynical and sincere person.  Everyone needs a Shappy in their life..” – John Hancock, The Legendary

    “When Aptowicz graduated from college, she got a job as porn editor. Hot Teen Slut are the poems she wrote about that time. The poems are as much about that first foray into the real world as they are about the day-to-day life of a porn editor. They are funny and painful and funny. I understand that what I’m about to say might seem a little nuts to poetry pros, but I’m going to say it anyway: I have found the greatest book of poetry ever written.” – Melissa Lion, Bookslut

    Quimbys is proud to be welcoming Shaptowicz back! Special guests and refreshments will be provided!

    For more info: uncleshappy.com and aptowicz.com

    Sat, Apr 16th, 7pm