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Here are some delightful new items!

Wild Things FUR COVER by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $28.00 – So plushie it makes our hearts sing.

Busy Beaver Button Pack: Instant Halloween Costume $5.00

Eating The Dinosaur HC by Chuck Klosterman (Scriber) $25.00 – New essays from one of our fave cultural critics.

Wholphin #9 $19.95 – Newest issue of film stuff from the McSweeneys empire.

Build Your Own New York Postcards $2.00 – From the maker of the Build Your Own Chicago Postcards comes a variety of buildings in New York!

2010 Calendar of Half Frame Photos by AM Scott $8.00 – Taken with a 1968 Olympus Pen EES 2 Camera in the Land of California. In addition to telling you the date it makes a great poster.

Map of My Heart John Porcellino (D+Q) $24.95 – Porcellino’s most recent collection of King Cat stuff. Wonderful!

On Ruby Hill Poems 1997-2002 by John Porcellino $2.00 – Yes, of King Cat fame. Self-published by John himself. He brought some with him for last night’s event he did here. A rare gem!

Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf (Lyon) $24.95

Here Come The Regulars: How to Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget by Ian Anderson (Faber) $15.00

Johnny America #7 $4.00

Try State #2 Fall 09 $12.00

Pretentious Record Store Guy #2 by Gabriel Carlos Ruiz $2.99

Annalemma #5 $10.00

Art of Osamu Tezuka God of Manga by Hellen McCarthy (Abrams) $40.00

No Thanks Fuck Everything #3 Punk Fanzine $2.50

Chaplin The Tramps Odyssey by Simon Louvish

Hyphen #18 Sum 09 $4.95

Toads N Chodes #1 $5.00 by Noel Freibert – Mini comic with a hilarious name, we must say.

Rigor Mortis vol 1 #2 $3.00 – Fresh off the press. Buy it before it starts decaying.

Duva Diaries Fall 09 The Home Issue $1.00

Mini comix by Nalleli Sierra, all $1.00: Wishful Thinking #1, Illumine #1, Just Another Day #1

Scootering #280 $7.99

Casanova vol 1 Luxuria HC by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba (Image Comics) $24.99

Absolute Promethea Book #1 by Alan Moore and JH Williams (ABC) $99.99 – Collects the first twelve issues of the consciousness-expanding narrative. Fancy-pantsy!

That Summertime Sound by Matthew Specktor (MTV) $24.00

Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists by Rachel Kramer (Cleis) $14.95

When Ninjas Attack by Sam Kaplan (Ulysses) $12.95 – A survival guide. Yes, really.

Mister X Condemned TPB by Dean Motter (Dark Horse) $14.95

Activate Primer 16 Stories by the Premier Webcomics Collective by Dean Haspiel (IDW) $24.99

Absolute Death by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo) $99.99 – Combines the Death story arc of Gaiman’s Sandman series. Also fancy-pantsy!

You Are There HC by Jacques Tardi and Claude Forest Jean (Fantagraphics) $26.99 – Ooo la la c’est AWESOME.

Crestfallen #1 by Sandra Sierra $3.00 – Intricately packaged tiny envelope of mini comics. See it to believe it.

OP Original Plumbing #1 Trans Male Quarterly The Bedroom Issue $8.00 – This one is gonna be huge.

Love Songs to the Dead by Jonathan Shaw (Heartworm Press) $12.00

Skeptic vol 15 #2 $6.95

Death and Taxes Nov Dec 09 $4.99

Maximumrocknroll #318 $4.00

Under the Radar #28 $4.99

Grafik #177 Sep 09 $19.99

IDN Extra 01 Cut and Paste: From Sketch to Production $25.00

IdN vol 16 #4 $17.50

Best Music Writing 2009, ed. by Griel Marcus (Da Capo) $25.95

Fader #64 Oct Nov 09 $5.95

Slingshot 2010 Small Organizer $6.00

Slingshot 2010 Large Organizer $12.00

Inventory by Onion AV Club (Scribner) $18.00 – Lists from the Onion. With a forward by Chuck Klosterman.

Zombies A Record of the Year of Infection: Field Notes by Dr Robert Twombly (Chronicle) $19.95

Made and Sold Toys Tshirts Prints Zines and Other Stuff by Fl@33 (Laurence) $24.95

Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design (Laurence) $35.00

Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga (Abrams) $40.0

Manhood for Amateurs The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband Father and Son by Michael Chabon (Harper) $25.99

Postsecret Confessions on Life Death and God by Frank Warren (Morrow) $22.99

What Is This by Neil Brideau $1.00

Wax Poetics #37 $9.99

High Times Dec 09 $5.99

Hi Fructose #13 $6.95

3 x 3 vol 5 #1 $16.00

Another Dinner Is Possible: More Than Just A Vegan Cookbook (AK) $24.95

Still Brave: Evolution of Black Womens Studies by Stanlie M. James, Foster Francis Smith and Guy Guy-Sheftall (Feminst Press) $22.95

Nearest Exist May Be Behind Youby Bear S. Bergman (Arsenal Press) $18.95

Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (AK) $12.00

Birth And Death Of The Cool by Ted Gioia (Speck) $25.00

Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates (Andrews McMeel) $12.99

Valerie Favre Visions (Hatje Cantz) $45.00

Mojo Nov 09 #192 $9.99

Tim Burton (Moma) $19.95 – Show catalog from the exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.

Disco Files 1973 – 78 by Vince Aletti (DJHistory.com) $35.00

Fortean Times #254 Nov 09 $11.99

Wire Oct 09 #308 $10.99

Fantastic Man #10 Fall Win 09 $10.95

The Believer #66 Oct 09 $8.00

Hang The DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists by Angus Cargill (Soft Skull) $16.95

Recorded Attacks Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (Three Rivers) $17.00

Sheep Cant Fly: Written by the Students of Garfield High School by 826LA (826LA) $15.00

Fables Book 1 Deluxe Edition by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $29.99

Vampires Need Love Too #3 by Bill Cattapan $3.00

Well Never Have Paris vol 5 Sep 09 $4.00

Road Kill vol 2 #11 $2.00

Dirty Sanchezs Guide To Buck Nasty Sex by Dirty Sanchez (Ulysses) $10.00

Judas Goat Quarterly #43 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

Beast Calendar 2010 $18.00 – Sexy dudes with goofy shapes shaved into their chest hair!

Doris #27 $2.50

Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton (Dark Horse) $12.95

Cancer Vixen a True Story TPB by Marisa Acocella Marchetto (Pantheon) $16.95

30 Days of Night Collectors Set by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith (IDW) $39.99

Peter and Max: A Fables Novel by Bill Willingham and Steve Leialoha (Vertigo) $22.99

Talks Cheap: Lets Race Posts Along the Campaign Trail by Stump Connolly $14.95

Peoples Park Still Blooming Berkeley CA by Terri Compost (Slingshot Collective) $24.95

Nobody Uses an Umbrella in Portland Ten Foot Rule Journal Comix by Shawn Granton $2.00

German Issue Semiotext by Sylvere Lotringer (Sternberg Press) $29.95

Stories vol 1: The Green Umbrella, The Man In The Mirror, and Expecting by Martin Cendreda – New mini-comix from the artist of Dang and Zurik Robot.

Church Signs Across America by Pam and Steve Paulson (Overlook) $14.95

Enemy Within A Short History of Witch Hunting by John Demos (Penguin) $17.00

There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbors Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and Keith Gessen (Penguin) $15.00

Ruthless Zine #1 Back to School $7.00

Kilter #5 Fall 09 $5.00

Prize Comics #2 $6.00

Communicating Vessels #21 Fall Winter 2009 2010 $3.50

After the Honeymoon by Nathan Graziano $15.00

Holidays and Other Weird Events by Irwin Richman (Schiffer) $24.99 – Greeting cards of all manner of antique ridiculousness. Like a bartending bird wearing a yarmulke that says “Happy Easter.” Really.

Cross Country by MK Reed $10.00

Freewheel Chapters 1-3 by Liz Baillie $4.00 each. From the artist of My Brian Hurts.

Stickers 2: Urban Sticker Art (DGV) $55.00

Papercraft Design and Art With Paper: Includes Bonus DVD with Animations and DIY Templates (DGV) $65.00

Buro Destruct 3 (DGV) $60.00

Handbook vol 3 #4 2009 $6.00

Graph Out Loud by Graphjam.com (Gotham) $14.00

Pretentious Record Store Guy #2 by Carlos Gabriel Ruiz $2.99

HSM Magazine Issue #8 Praha Budapest Wien Bratislava Brno Tokyo Osaka $17.00

Fifty Flip Experiment #13 Jul Aug Sep 09 $2.00

Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood Feeding Creatures by Bill Schutt (Three Rivers) $15.00

The Wordy Shipmates SC by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead) $16.00

This is Quimby’s Top 10 Bestsellers for the Week of Sept 20th-Sept 26th, 2009:

1. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99
2. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
3. Butt #26 $9.90
4. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
5. Laphams Quarterly vol 2 #4 Medicine $15.00
6. Tape Op #72 $3.95
7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00
8. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $24.00
9. Bipedal By Pedal: Experiences & Thoughts around the Critical Mass Bicycle Movement $2.00
10. Pinups #10 Scott $14.00

Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (WWNorton) $24.95 – About time!!!

King Cat #70 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Still goin’ strong!

Wild Things by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $19.95 – Loosely based on Where the Wild Things Are.

I Drink For a Reason by David Cross (Grand Central) $23.99

Plastic Knife #2 $2.00 – Zine from the writer behind the popular free zine You.

Mineshaft #24 $6.95 – Crumb, both R. and Sophie, plus various other interesting things.

Hipless Boy: Short Stories by Sully (Conundrum) $19.95 – New graphic novel material, sort of Matt Madden-esque style.

Monsters by Ken Dahl (Secret Acres) $18.00 – Beautious! Don’t have sex without (reading) it.

Miss Sequential #1 by Marissa Falco $2.00 – Cutest ziney-mini comic-y thing evah! From the artist of Red-Hooded Sweatshirt. Sort of Missy Kulick-esque.

Rosario Dawson Loves Me #1 Or I Want to Die Right Now Please by Justin Valmassoi $1.50 – Yes, the time has come. Rosario Dawson fan fiction.

Tulip Spr/Sum 09 $4.00 – New local literary journal. Jump on it now before it gets the buzz!

Road Kill vol 1 #10 $2.00

Gigantic Sequins vol 1 #1 $5.00 – Lit journal. Also hot!

Laterborn #7 by Jason Martin $2.00 – mini comic.

Razorcake #52 $4.00

Two new comic books from George Starr of Snowie fame: Triangle Versus Square ($8.00) and You’re Dead to Me ($6.00)

Dear Dave Magazine #5 $15.00 – Deluxe fashion mag.

Lulu Eightball vol 2 by Emily Flake (Atomic) $14.95 – New material from former local illustrator. Hilarious!

Bust Oct Nov 09 $4.99

Secret Beach #1 Sep 09 by Liam Warfield $2.00 – New material from the zinester behind War Against the Idiots! Finally!

Bizarre #154 Sep 09 $10.50

High Glitz: Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants by Susan Anderson (PowerHouse) $39.95 – That’s some freaky shit

Preparedness Now: An Emergency Survival Guide by Anton Edwards (Process) $16.95

2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce (Disinfo) $14.95

Pictures For Sad Children by John Campbell $15.00 – From local comics artist of Stevie Might Be a Bear.

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and illustr. by Brett Helquist (Harper) $14.99

Sulk #3 by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf) $6.00

Away We Go Screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Vintage) $14.00

Sound And Fury Art of Henry Darger (Edlin) $40.00

Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues by Loren Rhoads (Scribner) $14.99 – Material from the editors of the popular outer limits mag Morbid Curiousity.

Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag (Vintage) $16.00

1 800 MICE #3 by Matt Thurber $4.00

Tape Op #73  $4.50

Comic Diorama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00 – Don’t miss Grant Reynolds here on Oct 6th!

Best American Comics 2009 ed. by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden (Houghton Mifflin) $22.00

Private: The Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine, ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99