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Chicago Zine Fest 2011 at Various Places Around Town March 25th and 26th!
Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor Chicago Zine Fest 2011, Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th, at various locations around town. As part of the opening night’s festivities at 9pm on March 25th, Quimby’s offers some karaoke for giggles!
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Weekly Top 10
1. Fucussle Blecky Yuckerlla vol 4 A Comic Strip Collection by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraph) $11.99
2. Brainscan #26 by Alex Wrekk $2.00 – Alex writes about “what the deal is” with her and Microcosm.
3. Two Eyes of the Beautiful #2: A Grotesque Horror Manga by Ryan Cecil Smith $5.00 – The CCC diaspora is really doing a killer job of working and re-working different flavors of manga, classic horror, and classic horror manga. The results have been solid, and Ryan Cecil Smith’s Two Eyes of the Beautiful (which falls into the “reworked classic horror manga” category) is no exception. What’s it got that you want? Gore! Suspense! Psychic damage! Trust me, books about murdering innocent children for their beauty essence are rarely disappoint. -EF
4. Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – Michael DeForge continues to wrangle an Elvis Studio sense of drippy design chaos into creepy and beautiful amorphous narratives. This is a comic that’s about a field guide that’s about an oil-skinned mollusc that’s really about cultural displacement, wikipedian information templates and the fetishization/exploitation/commodification of subcultures and identities. Heavy- but full of laffs, in bleedy full color, and with a great slug sex scene to boot. -EF
5. Manifesti of Radical Literature by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Pressing Concern) $8.00 – This pocket-sized zine is a great introduction to the work of Anne Elizabeth Moore. The Manifesti of Radical Literaure condenses many ideas Moore has previously explored in other works — her critique of culture jamming, copyright laws, advertising, and why everyone should seriously consider self-publishing their own work. What saves this 50-paged effort from feeling redundant is Moore’s charming sense of humor. Grab a copy for yourself and another one to leave at your local library.
6. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95 – Well, I’ve been mourning the end of Gary Larson’s Far Side for fifteen years, but Lisa Hanawalt’s comics really do helluvalot towards easing that pain. Just as funny, just as bizzarro and as raunchy as she wants to be to boot. -EF
7. Hi Fructose #18 $6.95
8. Bust Feb Mar 11 $4.99
9. Rise and Fall – A Concertina of Life by Micah Lidberg (Adhouse) $16.00
10. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes $12.00 – BACK IN PRINT! 12 New Pages to seduce you! After the longest wait ever, THE BEST CLIP ART ZINE EVER HAS RETURNED. This picture book for discussion and activity features hands, hearts, and eyes. Get those tattoo guns ready, because you and your loved ones are going to need one once you get through looking through this issue. Amazing.
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Not at Quimby's, but still cool: Printpalooza Print Fair at Block Museum
Prints aren’t reproductions of someone else’s art. They are original works of art created by artists. Come see how they are made, what makes them so special and find contemporary and affordable ones to take and wear home.
Printpalooza Print Fair
Saturday, January 29, Noon to 4 pm
Free admission
Featuring live printmaking demonstrations, on-the-spot t-shirt printing, an affordable original print market (prices start below $20), the Dumbo Press and one-of-a-kind publications from Drive By Press, Cannonball Press, Spudnik Press and Comix Revolution + DJ sets by abstract science.
Free parking.
Accessible from the CTA Purple Line Davis and Foster stops.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 847.491.4000
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu
Click here for Facebook group.
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Art of Comics
Oots Ha-hoots! This month three great new art shows have opened in Chicago with a heavy focus on comics art and comics artists! Check out work by a throng of Quimby’s favorites:
At The Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave:
New Chicago Comics
January 8 – 30, 2011For the month of January, the MCA presents an exhibition of the work of four young, Chicago-based cartoonists and animators: Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen. In their own unique styles each of these artists expands and challenges the conventions of a visual art form for which Chicago continues to be renowned: the comic book.
Jeffrey Brown’s autobiographical works examines modern relationships with discomforting detail and intimacy. His comics are drawn in a deliberately awkward and simple style that heightens both the emotional impact and charming humor of the stories. Each comic is written and drawn in an individual sketchbook, and Brown is showing a selection of these original books as part of the exhibition.
Lilli Carré is an animator and cartoonist who has produced a series of celebrated comics, illustrations, and hand-drawn, animated short films. Her work combines an elegant visual style with elliptical narratives that are imbued with an absurdist, and at times, unsettling humor. Along with a series of original illustrations, the exhibition includes a selection of Carré’s short films.
Paul Hornschemeier’s widely acclaimed comics incorporate complex, self-referential narrative structures that knowingly appropriate various comic book styles. A selection of his original blue graphite and ink drawings are on display.
Using a sparse aesthetic and narrative style, Anders Nilsen creates existentialist fables that revolve around the interactions between animals (birds and dogs) and young men. Nilsen shows a selection of original graphite and ink drawings from his recently completed 600-page comic Big Questions, which is to be published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2011.
Chicago has a bastion of dark horse artists that enrich the world of comic books through the imprint this city leaves on them. A certain noir factor absorbed through brick and steel-heavy architecture, inky black alleys and a history of subversive characters has worked its way under their skin.
Participating artists: Alex Wald, Andrew Pepoy, Chris Burnham, Corinne Mucha, Doug Klauba, Hilary Barta, Heather McAdams, Jeffrey Brown, Jenny Frison, Jill Thompson, Tony Akins, Nicole Hollander, Mike Norton, Mitch O’Connell, Sarah Becan, Dave Dorman, Nicole Hollander, Tim Seeley, Lucy Knisley, Gary Gianni, Steve Krakow and Bill Reinhold.
At Western Exhibitions, 119 N. Peoria, Suite 2A
Heads on Poles
January 14 to February 19, 2011The iconic display of a head, severed and mounted on a stick, is ubiquitous as a representation of ominous primordial savagery. Cliché in its references to cannibalistic ritual, human sacrifice or cautionary symbolism, its general structure also contains rich connotations to formal art- a 3-dimensional image-object, laden with material and conceptual possibility.
For the purposes of this project, curators Paul Nudd and Scott Wolniak have adopted the concept of Heads on Poles as an open guideline to direct broad responses from a large group of artists. Over four dozen artists, ranging widely in discipline and style, were invited to produce sculptures loosely based on the formula of Head On Pole, in any material. These totem-objects will be simply placed, as casually clustered bodies, throughout the main gallery space of Western Exhibitions.
Additional artists have been asked to respond to the same theme with graphic works for a concurrent print project.
Through collective effort and the idea that creative freedom can occur within structural uniformity, Nudd and Wolniak hope to achieve a complex and immersive spectacle. Diverse interpretations are anticipated, with possible outcomes such as conceptual objects, portraiture, obscenity, abstraction, political gestures, humor and horror. With no attempt on the part of the curators to control submissions after the initial call for participation, the final group of works will be a surprise for all.
Participating artists: Mike Andrews, Ali Bailey, Jason Robert Bell & Marni Kotak, Nick Black, Daniel Bruttig, Andrew Burkholder, Lilli Carré, Joseph Cassan, Mariano Chavez, Ryan Travis Christian, Vincent Como, Bruce Conkle, Jean-Louis Costes, Vincent Dermody, Mike Diana, Edie Fake, Scott Fife, R.E.H. Gordon, John Hankiewicz, Keith Herzik, Carol Jackson, Bob Jones, Chris Kerr, David Leggett, Mike Lopez, Teena McClelland, Dutes Miller, Miller & Shellabarger, Joe Miller, Andy Moore, Max Morris, Rachel Niffenegger, William J. O’Brien, Onsmith, David Paleo, John Parot, Michael Rea, Tyson Reeder, Dan Rhodehamel, Bruno Richard, John Riepenhoff, Kristen Romaniszak, Steve Ruiz, David Sandlin, Mike Schuh, Mindy Rose Schwartz, David Shrigley, Edith Sloat & Sophie Greenstalk, Edra Soto, Ryan Standfest, William Staples, Ben Stone, Bill Thelen, Jeremy Tinder, Sean Townley, Jim Trainor, Anne Van der Linden, Jason Villegas, Sarah Beth Woods, Aaron Wrinkle
AND! While you’re at Western Exhibitions, check out Terence Hannum’s exhibit of work from his artist’s books in their Gallery 2:
Terence Hannum
Negative LitaniesTerence Hannum’s drawings, paintings and video installations cull the periphery of heavy metal and hardcore music subcultures to analyze the nexus of music, myth, audience and ritual. In addition to the above work, Hannum is a prolific zine maker and for his show in Western Exhibitions’ Gallery 2, Hannum will present a box set of 12 zines, all made in 2010, as well as drawings, paintings and other work that inspired the publications.
Exemplifying the DIY spirit inherent in the scenes he’s documenting, his use of the zine relates to the format’s origin, that of the self-produced fanzine. Hannum recontextualizes elements of his drawings, paintings, installations and even sound work in his zines, at times documenting the above works, but also casting new narratives intrinsic to the multi-page format.
Every month in 2010 Hannum produced a new zine, each one taking a different format, maximizing the possibilities of the cheaply printed page. He achieves remarkable textures, surfaces and images through seemingly simple combinations of toner on white, black and gray papers. Every subsequent zine ups the ambition from the prior one, as Hannum experiments with color xeroxes, collaborations (with New York artist Scott Treleaven and Chicagoan Elijah Burgher), vellum, sealed wax covers, obi bands and mini-CDs. Hannum pushes the zine to its extremes, much like the extreme sonic scenes he’s documenting and influenced by.
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Call for Proposals: AREA issue #11 – im/migration
AREA Chicago is dedicated to gathering and sharing information and histories about local social movements, political and cultural organizations. They do a biannual mag and lots of events. They’re accepting proposals for their upcoming issue. Here’s their announcement:
Chicago is a city shaped by movement and trade. First inhabited by indigenous peoples, the city was built through land speculation at the intersection of major waterways, and expanded as the intersection of railroads and highways. It became the destination for successive waves of new arrivals seeking opportunity: from those escaping the Jim Crow South and European fascism during the industrial era, to post-industrial rustbelt refugees and, most recently, those displaced from a structurally adjusted global south in the era of free trade. Today’s corporate towers tout Chicago’s preeminence as a hub for the non-stop flow of global capital. Mainstream media often couch these economic, demographic and spatial shifts within a partial and simplistic narrative of “progress”. AREA Issue #11 is calling for a range of contributions to support a more robust and nuanced discussion of human movement, and its impact on the political and cultural life of our city.
The distinction between migration and immigration can be viewed and discussed via the concept of the nation-state. In recent decades, as globalization opened borders for the movement of goods, natural resources and currency, a call for national security is increasingly used to justify the policing of human movement. US international policy has resulted in the forced dislocation of peoples around the world, while the fear of losing jobs and social benefits to immigrants is used to criminalize migrant labor forces in the US. Meanwhile, domestic policies increasingly reinforce inequalities along race and class lines. These disparities take physical form in our cities and can be seen by mapping the distribution of social services, wealth and resources, and access to arts and culture. In our city political forces draw imaginary lines that have real, tangible consequences for those who must navigate them.
How have internal migrations, such as the African American Great Migration and white flight, shaped the physical and psychological space of the city? How are race politics woven into the visible and invisible borders that crisscross the urban landscape? What are the forces driving displacement and gentrification, and how are they being resisted? Whose mobility is deemed “legitimate” and whose is considered a “trespass”? How is access created and redefined by im/migrants and people disabilities? Who is intentionally immobilized and by what forces? How does human movement impact the natural environment—from animal migration patterns to invasive species?
As immigrants arrive in Chicago from around the globe, what do they carry with them and what is left behind? How are language, food and music preserved as transmitters of culture, and how are they transformed? What is shared in the experience of immigrants from different countries of origin and what is particular? How does the immigrant experience differ according to age and place in life? How does identity shift in relation to where one stands at any given moment and to whom one speaks? How does media focus on Latina@ immigrants affect the discourse around immigration in the US? How does immigration reform reinforce the legitimacy of borders and the increased militarization of society?
While issues central to the theme of im/migrations are among the most talked about political issues in the country today, it seems that remarkably little is actually being said. In Im/migrations we invite contributors to depart from the mainstream discourse, to traverse the blurry line between personal and political experiences of movement.
We hope the issue will be an opportunity to explore the diverse politics of the individuals and organizations working for the rights of the undocumented. We invite contributors to challenge existing dialogues about immigration reform and to think of AREA as a space to experiment with new possibilities for language and action. We hope it will be a space to explore how migration and immigration intersect with other movements, such as those for environmental justice, gender justice, economic justice, and more. We also hope the issue will serve as a movement-building tool for those working to carve out a space in the city and defend the right to stay.
If you have something to say about these issues, we invite you to contribute! Your contributions can take many forms. We are interested in brief descriptions of the work you or your organization are doing, analysis and commentary, interviews, mapping projects, photography and other visual expressions, events, performances and more. If you have an idea, but are unsure how it might fit into im/migrations we´ll be happy to discuss the possibilities with you.
Proposals are due February 1st. Scheduled for release in May 2011.
Direct proposals, comments and questions to: immigration@AREAchicago.org
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2011: Revenge of Print Pops Up Elsewhere Too!
If you’ve been following our blog you know that 2011 has been declared the Revenge of Print, because we’re all tired of “the end of publishing as we know it” stories. Revenge of Print is a campaign to get as many people as possible to self-publish in 2011. We’ve been seeing it pop up in a whole variety of places, and we stumbled on to some more places too!Yes, there’s a group for it on Facebook. Yeah, it’s been Tweeted. But it’s also been posted on Microcosm Publishing’s site. And now there’s a wemakezines group!
Maybe you’ve been putting off another issue of your zine. Perhaps you’ve never printed one. Why not commit? Pledge your allegiance to it Facebook. And yes, the irony of posting it there is not lost on us. But still! Announce it to the world so that you’re forced to zine-i-fy.
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Quimby's December Events and News
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New Stuff This Week & Old School Ephemera Quimby's Business Card
Check out this old Quimby’s business card! From the last century! How cool is that?
NEW STUFF THIS WEEK:
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
FAQNP #2 Computer Camp Fall 10 Queer Nerd Publication $7.00
JD Samson From the Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 1 #2 2009 (B & D Press) $6.00
Agggresssive School Book – Trash Garbage Rubbish Zine by Mark Pawson $8.00
Comunicacion Contaminacion by Mark Pawson $7.50
Birkensnake #3 $4.00
And Who Shall I Say Is Calling? by Jasper Sebastian Sturup $8.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #2 Hewers of Water by Gabrielle Congrave $2.00
‘ Za the Pizza Zine by Nicki Yowell $4.00
Schematic Quarterly #3 $2.00
Dance Your Troubles Away by M. Miller $6.00
35th and Kind Drive – Bad Ass and Rides of Als Chicago South Side $6.00
Megaton Medias Modern Man Manual #1 $3.00
Dumb Magazine #1 Random Music Issue Hot Sum 10 (First Edition) by Noah Lyon $5.00 – From the artist of Retard Riot and the buttons that said, “Retardo Monteblon.” Like a David Shrigley for the mini-comics set.
Assuming Size #1 Poems $3.00
No More Coffee #3 by Ben Spies $2.00
Reality Mom vol 7 #4 Fall 10 by Corbin Lewars $3.00
Map #3 Manual of Architectural Possibilities – Archive $6.50COMICS & MINICOMICS!
I Swallowed the Key to My Heart #2 by Liz Prince $6.00
Four Squares #2 More Squares by Liz Prince etc. $5.00
Ferocious Quarterly #1 $12.00
Acmeat 2 Fuckin Symphonies Bongout Colors by Sylvain Gerand $18.00
Retard Riot #35 by Noah Lyon $2.00
Love Under the Big Top by Dakota Bardy $4.00
This Tactile Earth by Patrick Kyle $3.00
Wowee Zonk #3 (Koyama Press) $8.00 – With Michael Deforge, Jan Avendano, Selena Wong, Patrick Kyle and more.
You Don’t Get There From Here #17 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
M. Sauters Guide to Douchebaggery vol 2 $3.00
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by Sophie Crumb (Norton) $27.95 – Don’t need any introduction here!
Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00 – The third volume in C.F.’s Dune-like science fiction/fantasy epic.
What I Did by Jason (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Castle Waiting vol 2 HC by Linda Medley (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Native Trees of Canada by Leanne Shapton (D+Q) $19.95
Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris and the Eiffel by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Beautiful. In English. And in color.
Tonoharu Part Two by Lars Martinson $19.95 – Part 2 of a semiautobiographical look at an American English teacher adjusting to life in rural Japan.
Will Eisner a Dreamer’s Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher (Bloomsbury) $28.00
Six Novels In Woodcuts the Collected Works of Americas First Great Graphic Novel by Lynd Ward, ed. by Art Spiegelman (Library of America) $70.00 – Some people argue that this is perhaps the first American graphic novel.
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo E Sex Blood and the Supernatural by Jack Hunter (Shinbaku) $29.95
God Damn the Sun: A 100 Drawings From Napoleon at the Party by Jasper Sebastian Sturup $30.00
Dot Dot Dot #20 $16.95
Noggins by Mark Pawson $16.00
Dr. Lakra by Dr. Lakra (Kurimanzu) $35.00
It’s a Boy – It’s a Girl by Kirsten Dietz (Taschen) $29.99 – Pictures of signs that are either female names or male names. Like Alice’s or Bob’s or whomever’s diner. You kind of have to see it. Well, guess you’ll have to come to Quimby’s then.
Scary Girl HC by Nathan Jurevicius (Last Gasp) $25.00 – A book of the vinyl toy character. Perhaps you bought one of the figures when it was here. Now get the book.
Kaws by Monica Ramirez-Montagut (Skira) $45.00 – A vibrant look at the celebrated New York-based artist and designer KAWS.
Hi Fructose Collected Edition vol 2: Under-the-Counter Culture (Last Gasp) $39.95 – This hardcover collect issues 5-8 of the magazine and feature emerging and established artists such as Camille Rose Garcia, Femke Hiemstra, Jordan Crane, Marion Peck, Paul Pope, KRK Ryden and more. Or get the Deluxe Box Set version for $60.00, which comes with prints, stickers and a poster! Scrumptious! This would make a great gift for someone you want to educate on lowbrow art. Or tell your people you want it.
Typefontbat 134 Fontbats equals 6000 Graphics (BNN) $39.95 – Weirdo fonts. Comes with disc to install ’em on your computer.
Hand Made Graphics Design and Art (BNN) $55.00
Playful Type 2: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts (DGV) $60.00 – You know you want it. That’s right.
DIY & CONSUMPTION
High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs In History Science and Culture by Mike Jay (Park Street) $19.95
Religion of Ayahuasca The Teachngs of the Church of Santo Daime by Alex Polari De Alverga (Park Street) $16.95
The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life: Cruelty Free Crafts, Recipes, Beauty Secrets and More by Melisser Elliott (Skyhorse) $16.95
Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! by Abigail Gehring (Skyhorse) $24.95
Punch: The Delights and Dangers of the Flowing Bowl by David Wondrich (Perigree) $23.95 – An anecdotal history of the original monarch of mixed drinks with more than forty historic recipes. Fully annotated and a complete course in the lost art of compounding punch. By the James Beard Award Winning author of Imbibe.FICTION!
Sunset Park by Paul Auster (Holt) $25.00
Semina #7 Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home (Book Works) $19.95
Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses ed. by Bill Henderson (Pushcart) $18.95
Complete Stories of JG Ballard SC (Norton)
The Petting Zoo by Jim Carroll (Viking) $24.95
SteampunkD by var. (Daw) $7.99 – An anthology of all-original works of the genre.
Demon Lover by Dion Fortune (Weiser) $16.95
MAGAZINES!
UFO Magazine #154 vol 24 #1 $5.99
Skunk vol 6 #5 $5.99
Treating Yourself #25 $7.99
High Times Jan 11 $5.99
Gopher Illustrated #1 $16.00
Make: The Tool Guide Special Issue $9.99
Wire #321 Nov 10 $10.99
Ghetto Blaster #26 $3.95
Against the Current #149 $5.00
Radical Philosophy #164 $13.00LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
Slake Los Angeles Sum 10 Still Life A City and Its Stories $18.00
Coming Envelope #2 Win 10 $10.00
Concisely #4 Stories Under 500 Words $3.00
The Believer #76 Nov Dec 10 Art Issue $10.00
Sous Les Paves vol 1 #1 Oct 10 by Micah Robbins $2.00
Used To Be annaelresiak $4.00CHILDRENS!
Who Will Comfort Toffle: A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson (DQ) $16.95 – Moomin is not a hippo.MUSIC BOOKS!
Sun Ra: Interviews and Essays ed. by John Sinclair (Headpress) $19.95
Left Handed Blows Writing on Sound 1993 to 2009 by Bruce Russell (Clouds) $25.00
Tao of Wu by RZA (Riverhead) $15.00
True Hip Hop by Mike Schreiber (MBP) $14.95 – Some classy photos.POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America Draft Proposal by Revolutionary Communist Party USA $8.00
The Idea of Communism (Verso) $26.95 – An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism, including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Balso, Bruno Bosteels and more.MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
Cult People: Tales from Hollywoods Exploitation A List by Nicanor Loreti (Headpress) $16.95
Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetitie For Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh by Chloe Castleden (Skyhorse) $12.95 – Who are you having over for dinner?
Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock by Vere Chappell (Weiser) $21.95
The Mystery of U33: Hitler’s Secret Envoy -The Incredible Story of the Mystery Uboats by Nigel Graddon (AdvUnlmtd) $19.95 – From the author of Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Armageddon Survival Handbook: How to Prepare Yourself for Any Possible Scenario by Rainer Stahlberg (Skyhorse) $12.95ESSAYS & CULTURE!
Discombobulated Dispatches From the Wrong Side by Simon A Morrison (Headpress) $16.95 – During the course of the many adventures that make up this discordant operetta, Simon Morrison has a gun held to his head by a celebrity gangster, goes raving in Ibiza with a holiday grandmother, is trapped in a gay bar in Leipzig, sings happy birthday to Kylie Minogue, disco dances in a San Franciscan titty bar, is deported from Russia, travels the white heights of the Alps through to the gutters of Brazil, and still picks himself up in time for tea with boy band Take That.
Poseidons Steed: The Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality by Helen Scales PhD (Gotham) $15.00
Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the 80s by Richard Rushfield (Gotham) $16.00
The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide by Richard A. Muller, illustrated by Joey Manfre (Norton) $16.95
English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison (Norton) $35.00SEX & SEXY!
Best Erotic Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. by Cecilia Tan and Bethany Zaiatz (Circlet) $19.95
Quaintance: The Art of George Quaintance by Reed Massengill (Taschen) $99.99
SPS #7 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00
Naked In the Gallery 2010 by Christian Gfeller $28.00OTHER STUFF!
Hipster Mustache $4.00 – Put it with your trucker hat and blend right in.
Heart Gelatin Mold Just Like Moms $6.00 – No really. Like a real heart. Say it with love this holidays.
Calendario Bestiaro Bestiary Calendar 2011 by Dave Buchen $25.00 – Wood block animal screen prints, with a different adorable beast for every month. -
New Stuff, Including Our Website Update!
Have you noticed some amazing changes on quimbys.com? No? Go to quimbys.com and hit your “refresh” button. Now do you see any changes? Think they look awesome? We do too. And there’s more to come. There will be kinks along the way as more changes go up. We hope you like it as much as we do!
Also! For the second time in Quimby’s recorded history, someone bought $6.66 worth of merchandise. Here is what the number of the beast will buy you:
Anyway, here’s new stuff for this week:
ZINES!
Nnnnnnnnnn Yes vol 1 #1 $10.00 – A seven-person dispicable draw off hurtling our way from South Korea. Cut-ups, cut-opens, cut-outs, “we let our dicks and persnalities hang out.” Work by Jeff Conricode, Dillon Turner, Patrick Hansor, Morgan Dale Tepsic, Eli Taylor, Chris Elizondo, Jesse Douglas
Underground by Scott and Jen Webel $10.00 – Published by Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, this zine is a lovingly illustrated catalogue of the Museum’s 2010 Underground exhibit, which takes the theme, as usual, to delightfully eccentric extremes. Practically perfect in every way, this concept allows for the full on display and linkage of Kidney Stones, Trilobytes and Blue Jeans From the Russian Black Market, as well as many more of your very favorite things. If you really want to rave in the cave, this zine pairs excellently with Underneath Providence and Muddy -EFSome Scraps #4 Always on Mine The Final Chapter by Jordan Rutherford $.99
Sutdio Sweet Studio #1 by Tuesday Bassen $7.00
Engines of Fortitude #1 by Moore Allen Keating and Bill Tucker $3.50COMICS & MINICOMICS!
You Don’t Get There From Here #16 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Daily diary comics in a Porcellin-ian vein, this issue is maybe both the wordiest issue and also the one with the most visual variations in style and content. McNinch faces numerous rattlesnakes and a mountain lion, goes to San Diego Comic Con and drinks well. Also, the accupuncture seems to be working, this issue’s a solid upper. -EF
Devastator #1 by Geoffrey Golden (Devastator) $7.95
Neonomicon #2 by Alan Moore etc. (Boom) $3.99
My Life as a Smut Peddler #1 and #2 by E Charles Connell and Jim Kidonakis #1 is $2.00 and #2 is $3.00
My Ghost Came As a Mexican by Jim Kidonakis $5.00
Full On and Proper Sap Tastic Voyage by Jim Kidonakis $2.00
Silk Lady Squirm Demon by Ryan Orlak and Jim Kidonakis $1.00
Its Dream Time, Snoop Doggy Dogg: A Collection of Celebrity Studded Dreams by JT Yost (Birdcage) $4.00
Pelage Fauve Tirage $5.00
Fsshmrwl Baouarf by Simon Bossé $5.00 – The biggest little zine we’ve got! Each page is a shenanigan-fueled 3-layer silkscreen print from the Bébête-o-sphere. You really can’t go wrong with the Mille Putois. -EF
Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EFVortex #2 by Don Robinson $5.20
Zombies Attack by Don Robinson $3.50GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Best American Comics 2010, ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, with guest editor Neil Gaiman (Houghton) $23.00
Palookaville #20 by Seth (D&Q) $19.95 – Single issue in book form.
Four Color Fear Forgotten: Horror Comics of the 1950s by Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fire and Water: Bill Everett The Sub Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Sanctuary by Nate Neal (Verso) $22.99
14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography by Tetsu Saiwai (Penguin) $15.00
Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula BY Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Plume) $16.00
Yearbooks by Nicholas Breutzman,Shaun Feltz, and Raighne Hogan $13.00
Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal by Marek Bennett $10.00
Bebete by Simon Bosse and Putois Mille $15.00
Spirits of St. Louis: 13 Tales of Terror From the Gateway City $9.99
Walking Dead: The Covers by Krikman, etc. (Image) $24.99
De Tales: Stories From Urban Brazil by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse) $19.99
Digested #2 by Bobby N. $9.95
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 7: Twilight by var. (Dark Horse) $16.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 3 HC by Philip K Dick etc. (Boom) $24.99
Bear Nuts vol 1: The Book of Prozac by Alison Action (DMF) $18.99FICTION!
What Is All This: Uncollected Stories HC by Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fortunes of Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld (Norton) $13.95
The Bicycle Diaries SC by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.00
To Slow Down The Time Stories by Matthew Allard and Ian Dingman $20.00
Transubstantiate by Richard Thomas (Otherworld) $14.95 – Come see Richard Thomas read from this disturbing futuristic vision of terror and beauty at Quimbys on Sat, Oct 16th, with Otherworld authors including Laura Griffith, David Rosenstein and Nik Korpon.
Remember by Lynn Griffith (Otherworld) $14.95
Price of Life by Greg McCarty (Otherworld) $19.95
Silk Worm by David Rosenstein (Otherworld) $14.95
Elegy Written on a Crowded Street by Peter Plate (Seven Stories) $13.95
Entangled the Eater of Souls by Graham Hancock (Disinfo) $16.95
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Small Beer Press) $16.00
My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me – Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin) $17.00 – With stories from Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, Neil Gaiman, Shelley Jackson and more.ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Roosevelt by Jose Roosevelt (Fantasmus) $59.95
Art Toys by Brian McCarty (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
Rubber Duck by Karen Hsiao (Baby Tattoo) $35.00
Quadrant Fantasy (Fantasmus)$19.95
Tokyo Underground 2: Toy and Design Culture in Tokyo by var. (Super 7) $19.95
Drawings From The Gulag by Danzig Baldaev (Fuel) $32.95 – Brutal. Completely brutal.
Indie Craft by Jo Waterhouse (Abrams) $19.95
Stickers From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art by DB Burkeman and Monica LoCascio (Rizzoli) $35.00
Muralismo Morte: The Rebirth of Muralism In Contemporary Urban Art (From Here) $34.95
SABE: Fys Crew by Sabe (From Here) $14.95
Ghost: Ris Crew by Ghost (From Here) $14.95
Jepsy: The Real Deal by Jepsy (From Here) $14.95
Sten and Lex (Drago) $33.00
Wizards and Dragons Tattoo Flash CD Rom and Book Electronic Clip Art (Dover) $19.95 – 119 Royalty Free Designs
Classic Tattoo Designs CD Rom and Book Full Color Electronic Designs (Dover) $19.95 – 230 Royalty Free Designs, in Color and Black and White for Mac and WindowsMAGAZINES!
Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
ArtForum Oct 10 $10.00
High Times Dec 10 $5.99
BlackBook #79 Oct 10 $4.50
Fader #70 Oct Nov 10 $5.99
Mojo #204 Nov 10 $9.99
LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
Journal of Ordinary Thought Sum 10 $10.00
Creative Nonfiction #39 Fall 10 $10.00
The Believer #75 Oct 10 $8.00
Effigy #8 by Matt Whispers $4.00
The Toucan #8 Fall 2010 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00CHILDRENS!
Mud Pies and Other Recipes by var. (NYRB) $14.95
Alternative ABCs by 13thfloor (Ammo) $14.95
Color Me Graffiti: How to Color Like the Masters a Coloring Book for Creative Kid (From Here) $8.95
MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (Knopf) $26.95
Occult America: White House, Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons and the Secret Mystic by Hitch Horowitz (Bantam) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
World Gnosis the Coming Gnostic Civilization by Mark Amaru Pinkham (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Funk and Soul Covers by Joaquim Paulo and Julius Wiedemann (Taschen) $39.99 – As in album covers. Not like a book of pictures of people covering funk and soul songs. Which would be hilarious.
Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the Smiths by Simon Goddard (Plume) $30.00
Bowie, A Biography by Marc Spitz (Three Rivers) $17.00 – In soft cover.
Touchable Sound A Collection of 7 Inch Records From the USA by var. (Sound Screen) $45.00
American Hardcore: A Tribal History Second Edition by Steven Blush (Feral House) $22.95 – Don’t miss Stephen Blush here at Quimby’s on Dec 3rd. Stay tuned for more details!
Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You & Your Grandma Can Understand (Abrams) $12.95HUMOR!
100 Facts About Pandas by var. (Penguin) $13.00MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
Animalisticus Fantasticus: 600 Amazing and True Facts About Animals (Nicotext) $9.95
Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams by var. (Coffee House) $22.00POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Freefall America Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy by Jospeh E Stiglitz (Norton) $16.95 – now in soft cover.
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali (Verso) $16.95SEX & SEXY!
Straight To Hell #67 by Billy Miller $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories – Feels like heaven to me. -EF
Private 1980 to 1989 Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine (Taschen) $39.99 – 5 volume box set collection.
Kinky Nature (Goliath) $24.95
Pissy Pussy Girls by Gordon Denman (Adventures Unlimited) $59.00
50 Years of the Playboy Bunny by Hugh M. Hefner etc. (Chronicle) $35.00
Coley – Eros vol 40: Running Wild Book 3 Hard Throb (Eros) $19.95Other Stuff!
Grime Time Keychain Bottle Opener $1.50
Funkyfonic Cassette Tape Speaker $15.00
Uncle Archies Box O’Fun $13.00 – 25 Fabulous Prizes in Each Box!
Smells Like Teen Spirit 7 inch by Woody Sullender (Dead CEO) $6.00 – This clear 7″ lathe-cut record, pressed as part of a limited edition series of only 100, was cut one at a time by Peter King in New Zealand. It contains “erased” versions of two Nirvana songs, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Polly.” Both songs were run through a series of band-pass filters, which removes most of the frequency spectrum from an audio recording. “Polly” was erased based on the principle melody of the classic murder ballad. -
2011: The Revenge of Print
We’re tired of all the END OF PAPER, the END OF PUBLISHING AS WE KNOW IT stories. We’ve been hearing and reading about it ever since we’ve been open (which is going on almost 20 years now).So for 2011, we’re throwing a challenge out there. If you’ve ever made a zine or mini comic MAKE ONE MORE ISSUE. Come on, you’ve got one more in you! Maybe you were thinking in the back of your head you’d do another issue one day. Now is the time.
Join the group for discussion and more plans. This is just the beginning.
Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to help sponsor this challenge with our friends at Atomic Books in Baltimore, Xerography Debt and Zine World.
