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Top 10 For the Last Week of January 2010
better late than never…
It’s the TOP 10 FOR THE FINAL WEEK OF JANUARY 2010
1. Ganges #3 by Kevin Huizenga $7.95
3. Gaylord Phoenix #2 by Edie Fake $4.00
4. Sling Shot 2010 Small Organizer $6.00
5. Cooking With Surplus n Excess $3.00
6. Juxtapoz #109 Feb 2010 $5.99
7. Think Tank for Human Beings in General by Jordan Castro $3.00
8. Loop Distro Zine Grab Bag $3.00
9. Time Out Chicago Jan 28, 2010 $2.99
10. Two With Water #1 Dec 2009 $4.00
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San Francisco Panorama
McSweeneys, the literary magazine that usually pretends to be a book has just come out with issue 33. This time it’s playing the role of Sunday Edition of a newspaper. It comes complete with different sections, a pull-out glossy magazine, full color comics section (ranging in talents from Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library) to Erik Larsen (Savage Dragon)), and step by step instructions on how to be Death Cab for Cutie. It all comes in a sealed package, which makes you feel like you’re opening up astronaut food, or new checks. After much anticipation, the issue showed up this morning, cooing like a dove. -
Daniel Nester Showed Quimby's How To Be Inappropriate
As if we needed to know how! HAR!
Proud of his baby!
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Help fund publishing Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait
Ya’ll should join us backing this part of the zine canon, yo! They need the dough so they can make it happen.
Chloe Eudaly is raising funds for Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait on Kickstarter! Beloved by artists, crafters and designers alike, Crap Hound is a great resource and a work of art in and of itself. Come on pledgers, help publish! But do it quickly! This project will only be funded if at least $12,500 is pledged by Feb 12, 11:59pm EST. -
Introducing Quimby's Subscription Service
Hey! We’re excited to announce we’ve started a subscription service here for our customers. If you sign up for this free service, you’ll be notified when the latest issue of your favorite magazine, comic or zine comes in. We’ll hold the item for you, and you can come and pick it up, without the fear that it’ll sell out before you know it’s out.We’ve put just short of 50 titles on our subscription menu. These titles reflect the unique selection Quimby’s has to offer, including Big Questions, McSweeney’s, the Baffler, Conspiracy Journal, Butt and Burn Collector.
So what are you waiting for?! Come by and check out our subscription service! It’s totally awesome.
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Amelia Klem Osterud Reads From The Tattooed Lady: A History
Amelia Klem Osterud is an academic librari¬an from Milwaukee who is working diligently on becoming heavily tattooed. Osterud has a master’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and writes and lectures on the subject of tattooing. She is the author of “A Life of Her Own Choosing: Artoria Gibbons’ Fifty Years as a Tattooed Lady,” published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. This is her first book.
“Tattooed ladies were a part of forgotten American history, often dismissed in print as second-rate circus freaks or as monstrous, yet sexy anomalies,” explains author Amelia Klem Osterud.
There is shockingly little documentation recounting the women (and men) who launched the cultural movement of tattooing. Publicity photos show up in general tattooing books, but the real stories behind these sideshow marvels remain a mystery, until now.The first book of its kind, The Tattooed Lady explores the duality of life on- and offstage for these gutsy women. Through photographs, interviews, work histories, and newspaper articles, women such as Artoria Gibbons, Nora Hildebrandt, and Irene Woodward are fully fleshed out, allowing us a greater understanding of why they got tattooed, the rewards and regrets that came along with that career path, and the women behind their onstage, larger-than-life persona.
Visit Amelia Klem Osterud’s author blog at www.tattooedladyhistory.vox.com . For more info: www.fulcrumbooks.com
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Granta #109: The Work Issue Now In Stock!
Peoples! The new Granta is here! It’s Granta #109, the Work issue!
This issue of Granta is The Work Issue. It is edited by John Freeman, and in spite of the fact that it has “Winter 2009” in the title, it actually is just barely out in 2010 as we post this. We were told that we’re the first store in the U.S. to sell this issue! And after the success of Granta #108 The Chicago Issue, we are proud to be given this honor.
From www.granta.com:
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Industrial Revolution is, for better or for worse, our inclination to define who were are by what we do, and this essential new issue of GRANTA will lay bare the intrinsic link between work and identity.
From the jobless to the workaholics, from the hard work of dying to the landscape work has created out of office parks and suburbs, GRANTA 109 will tell the story of how and why we work in the twenty-first century. Joshua Ferris returns to the mind-numbing world of office work in America in a new piece of fiction, while Steven Hall visits the world’s pre-eminent robot lab to see what machines will do for us next. Caroline Moorehead explores the trafficking of workers into the United Kingdom and Daniel Alarcón infiltrates the world of book pirating in Peru. Salman Rushdie contributes a surprising essay on sloth.
GRANTA 109 gives us a glimpse of ourselves at our most primordial, in a day and age when work has become the most invisible (at least in literature) and yet all-encompassing aspect of human life.
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New Stuff This Week
Today is our sale! That’s right. It’s 25% off all comics and graphic novels! Until 10pm tonight in-store only. Get here quickly before we run of every single comic!
Drawing Between the Lines DVD $15.00 – Jeffrey Brown documentary by Bruce Parsons.
Wax Poetics #38 $9.99
Blue Dogs and Red Dogs: visit neptune lose your mind free time mini comic $.50
Paradise Road #1 A Hardboiled Detective Story comic by Igor Glushkin and Benji Ratliff $2.95
KerBloom #80 LXXX zine Sep Oct 2009 by Karen Switzer $2.00
Thought You Knew Thought You Knew Women 2010 Calendar and Men 2010 Calendar Chicago $15.00 each, a Women’s Health Center Benefit! They get 100% of the profits. Support it by buying either one or both. Sexy and pinupable!
XLR8R #130 $4.99
Green Teacher #86 Fall 09 $7.99
Artforum Dec 09 $10.00
Comics Journal #300 Nov 09 $14.99
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #6 $3.99 – Comics based on the PKD story.
Ex Machina Deluxe Edition Book 2 by Brian Vaughan and various (Wildstorm) $29.99 – With an introduction from the Wachowski Brothers!
Misery Obscura: The Photography of Eerie Von 1891 to 2009 (Dark Horse) $29.95
Goats vol 2 the Corndog Imperitive TPB by Jonathan Rosenberg (Del Ray) $15.00
BlackBook #73 Dec 09 Jan 10 $4.50
Mojo Jan 10 #194 $9.99
Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Noberto Fuentes (W.W. Norton) $27.95 – Yeah, you read that right. Autobio by someone else. Post-modern!
Filming Pancho How Hollywood Shaped the Mexican Revolution by Margarits De Orellana (Verso) $24.95
La Cruda #3 art magazine $12.00
Grime Time #2 $6.00 – Chicago-based street art/graff zine.
Hammer Projects 1999-2009 Art Book (Hammer Museum) $60.00
Urs Fischer: Shovel In a Hole (JRP Ringier) $69.95
Tokion vol 3 #2 $6.99
High Carb Low Life #5 zine $3.00
Another Mirror At the End of the Road vol 2 issue 3 fall 2009 zine by Peter Sbrockey $4.00
Green Light Zine #6 The Environmental Justice Issue zine by Lora DiFranco $2.00
Leviathan Some Notes On Martin Blimp Levy 1905-1961: Moshassuck Monograph Series No 13 by Kenneth Faig Jr. (Moshassuck Press)
Eye Design Hankerchief by Emily Stout $7.00 – We don’t sell a lot of things that are not of the reading material variety, but this one we can get behind. Different colors and styles of screen-printed hankies to play arty-farty hanky panky with. Dont know what they look like? Looks like you’ll have to come into the store to find out.
Coloring Book: Hop Along Queen Ansleis with PS Eliot Anaglyph mini comic by Matt Orr $3.00
Muck #3 In the Time of Swine Flu zine by Necio $2.00
Homeless Souls chap book by Jake Anderson (Antrim House) $18.00
Restocks!: Crap Hounds #6 and #7!!!! *** On Guerrilla Gardening: Handbook for Gardening Without Borders *** Sinister Forces Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft Book One The Nine *** Banksy’s Wall and Piece *** Lickin The Beaters Low Fat Vegan Desserts *** Urban Bikers Tricks & Tips
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Best Former Webcomic That Turned into a Minicomic That Turned Back into a Webcomic of the Week
Liz Baillie’s minicomic serial, Freewheel, is a fun follow up to her more serious My Brain Hurts, and shows her growing by leaps and bounds in the field of visual storytelling.
Originally a webcomic for Fall of Autumn‘s website, Liz abandoned the digital format in 2008 to stick with her home turf of minicomics. Like so many Democrats before her, Liz has reversed her earlier decision, and is abandoning her print ambitions for the story…for now (if we were of the mind to use emoticon, we’d either be winking at you, or darting our eyes back and forth in a conspicuous manner). Freewheelcomics.com will be updating every Tuesday and Thursday.
Quimby’s has copies of issues one and three, if you’re the type that wants the hard copy before it runs out. We’d carry issue two, but we know you like the hunt.
