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  • New Stuff Week of January 31, 2010

    Check out these new things before anyone else does. Then take their eyeballs, so they can’t check them out ever!

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    ZINES

    Fluke Magazine #8 $2

    COMICS/COMIX/MINIS

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer #32 By Joss Whedon $2.99

    Crass Sophisticate #23 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

    Crass Sophisticate #24 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

    Crestfallen #2 by Sandra Sierra $3

    Franz Kafka’s Poseidon by Jarod Rosello $4

    Stories vol 2 Copy Matthew and Buster Swimming Free Hugs by Martin Cendreda $3

    Tales From The Crypt #13 $3.95

    Tank Girl Skidmarks #3 by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo $3.99

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS

    Crogan’s March by Chris Schweizer $14.95

    Fables vol 13 the Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, and Mark Buckingham $17.99

    Teenage Timberwolves Lust for Lightning by James Havoc & Daniele Serra $14.95

    MAGS

    Against the Current #144 Jan Feb 10 $5

    Altercation #24 $3.95

    Car Busters #40 $5

    Dwell Mar 10 $5.99

    Earth First vol 30 #2 Jan Feb 10 $4.5

    Extra Feb 10 vol 23 #2 $3.95

    Grafik #181 Jan 10 $19.99

    Hails and Horns #16 WIn 09 $4.95

    Haunted Times vol 4 #3 Win 10 $6.5

    Hip Mama #45 $5.95

    In These Times Feb 10 $3.5

    Monocle vol 3 #30 Feb 10 $10

    Namaste Vol 11 #2 $9.99

    Nexus vol 17 #1 Jan Feb 10 $5.95

    Progressive Feb 10 $3.95

    Tattoo Life #62 $6.99

    Tattoo Society #20 $7.99

    Time Out Chicago Feb 4 10 $2.99

    Trace #86 $5.99

    Transworld Skateboarding Mar 10 $3.99

    Vman #17 Spr 10 $5.5

    Winq Win 10 $7.95

    Z Magazine Feb 10 $4.95

    LIT JOURNALS

    826 Quarterly #10 Sum 09 $15

    McSweeneys #33 $16

    Pleiades vol 30 #1 $8

    FICTION ‘N’ POETRY

    Failure By James Greer $15.95

    Orange Crush By Simone Muench $14.95

    MUCKRAKING, MEMOIRS, AND MISCELLANY

    Complaint, From Minor Moans to Principled Protests By Julian Baggini $15.95

    Madame Curie Complex, the Hidden History of Women in Science By Julie Des Jardins $16.95

    DIY/HOW TO BOOKS

    Artist in the Office, How to Creativel Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week By Summer Pierre $13.95

    Little Green Book of Absinthe, an Essential Companion with Lore Trivia and Classic Recipes By Paul Owens $18.95

    FINE, LOW BROW, AND GRAFITTI fART BOOKS

    Cholo Writing, Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles By Francois Chastanet $24.95

    Autumns Come Undone By Shag $40

    Open Book Drink and Draw Collaborations $24.95

    Shadowplay by Mark Wilkinson $39.95

    MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS

    Strange Case of Dr HH Holmes, World’s Fair Serial Killer by John Borowski $20

    Hollow Earth, the Bizarre 60s Classic Back in Print By Raymond Bernard $16.95

    Homage to Pan, the Life Art and Sex Magic of Rosaleen Norton By Nevill Drury $24.95

    MUSIC

    Band Crime Punk77 Revisited, a Photographic Look at the Band Crime and Punk By James Stark $14.95

    Radiohead Hysterical and Useless By Martin Clarke $19.95

    POLITICS

    World Report 2010 By Human Rights Watch $25

    PORN BOOKS

    Season of Infidelity, BDSM tales From the Classic Master By Oniroku Dan $14.95

    Exhibitionism for the Shy, Show Off Dress Up and Talk Hot By Carol Queen $15.95

  • 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

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    1. Ganges #3 by Kevin Huizenga $7.95

    2. Baffler Vol 2. #1 $12.00

    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

  • San Francisco Panorama

    McSwirglesMcSweeneys, 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!

  • 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.

    Help fund publishing Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait
    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

    psytransHey! 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.

  • Amelia Klem Osterud Reads From The Tattooed Lady: A History

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    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

  • Granta #109: The Work Issue Now In Stock!

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    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.

  • January News and New Stuff

    Link here if you couldn’t get it open or want to see a sample of what we send out monthly to people who sign up to our mailing list! To join our mailing list, go  here.

  • 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!

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    Sound Projector #18 $14.00

    Found Magazine #7 $5.00

    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