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Top 10 and Windy City Comic Con pics!
Quimby’s shared a booth with Chicago Comics this past weekend for the Windy City Comic Con at the Center on Halsted, 9/18/09 (see below). For more pics, see here.
This is the top 10 bestsellers at Quimby’s for the week of 9/13/09-9/19/09:
1. Too Cool to Be Forgotten by Alex Robinson (Top Shelf) $14.95
2. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
3. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00
4. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin) $13.95
5. Alarm #35 $14.00
6. Mojo Oct 09 #191 $9.99
7. Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99
8. Monologuist Paper Blog Supplemental and Postcard Set by Anders Nilsen $10.95
9. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10. Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
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New Stuff This Week
One of our customers is trying to grow his own crop circle from a kit he bought here. Wish Gordon Meyer luck!
Here is new stuff for the week of 9/12/09-9/19/09:
McSweeneys #32 $24.00
Monologuist by Anders Nilsen $10.95 – Ooo la la! Comics and postcards! Hand-packaged.
Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters (Quirk)$12.95
Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99
This Is a Comic Book August 1-22 2009 $8.50 – This is a show catalog from a cool exhibit at the Mahan Gallery.
Independents: A Guide For the Creative Spirit DVD $24.99 – Indie comics peoples! This is a neato thingy.
N Plus 1 #8 Fall 09 Recessional $13.95
You Dont Get There From Here #12 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Reliably high quality comix from the artist behind The Assassin and the Whiner.
After Hours #19 Sum 09 $8.00 – Local literary journal.
Miranda #19 $2.00
The Comedians Sep 09 $4.50
Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #9 $7.00
Fast Geek Reader by Charly Fasano $10.00
No More Bummers #4 $3.00
The First Line vol 11 #3 $3.00 – The little literary journal that could — still going strong! Every issue contains stories that all start with the same first line.
Watch the Closing Doors #48 $2.50 – Hip hip hooray for commuter zines!
Make #8 Sum Fall 09 $10.00 – Chicago-based lit journal.
Hot Type 30 Sheets of Typo Graphic Fabric Transfers by Macfadden and Thorpe (Chronicle) $12.95
One Hundred Years of Menswear, ed. by Cally Blackman (Laurence King) $40.00 – These are some slick fashion photos, ladies.
Graffiti New York by Eric DEAL CIA Felisbret (Abrams) $35.00
Dreaded Feast: Writers On Enduring The Holidays, ed. by Michelle Clarke and Taylor Pimpton (Abrams) $15.95
Spirit Animals: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Animal Companions, ed. by Stefanie Iris Weiss (Chronicle) $14.95 – With illustrations from such artists as Clare Rojas, Kyle Field, and more!
Map As Art Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katherine Harmon (Princeton) $45.00
Ultraviolet: 69 Blackout Posters From the Aquarian Age and Beyond, ed. Dan Donahue (Abrams) $22.50 – To glow in the dark while you get your Led on.
How to Be Inappropriate by Daniel Nestor (Soft Skull) $14.95 – Hilarious experimental fiction and non-fiction. Well, er, let’s just put it this way (for example): he reimagines the Terry Gross interview with Gene Simmons on Fresh Air as being with a robot Gene Simmons.
Special Forces: Gay Military Erotica by Phillip MacKenzie (Cleis) $14.95
Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Collection by DL King (Cleis) $15.95
Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames (Vertigo) $14.99 – Now in soft cover.
Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
Black Sabbatical by Brett Eugene Ralph (Sarabande) $14.95
Last Time As We Are by Taylor Mali (WriteBloody) $22.00
Adbusters #86 $8.95
Conspiracy Journal #28 $3.00
Treating Yourself #18 $7.99
Earwigs Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends by May R. Berenbaum (Harvard University Press) $23.95
New Literary History of America, ed. by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Belknap Press) $49.95
Endless Summer Print, drawn by Eamon Espey (Secret Acres) $10.00
Pop and Modern Petit Pattern Book (Bug News Network) $38.00 – Coolest clip art ever! In fact, we got a bunch in from this publisher and it blows away that Dover crap!
Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien (Blue Apple) $14.99 – Goin’ toe to toe for the cuteness title right up there with Jeffrey Brown’s cat drawings. We used to have Lark Pien’s mini comix years ago, and now here’s a collection with some full color awesomeness.
25000 Years Of Erotic Freedom by Alan Moore (Abrams) $22.50 – A history of erotic art as surveyed by the author of Watchmen and Lost Girls.
Shoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin (Melville House) $13.00
Talking Lines: The Graphic Stories of RO Blechman (Drawn & Quarterly) $29.95
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00
Off the Bus And On the Record 22 Candid Interviews By the Teen Journalists of the Rock Star Stories by various teenage reporters (Zest) $18.95
I’m One 21st Century Mods by Horst A. Friedrichs (Prestel) $35.00 – Photos of mods.
Illusive Contemporary Illustration Part III (Die Gestalten Verlag) $65.00 – We only got one, so race here to get it!
Naive: Modernism and Folklore In Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag) $50.00
We Make Magazines: Inside the Independents by Andrew Losowsky (Mike Koedinger) $50.00
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Top 10
Say yes to matching headbands. This is for the week of 9/6/09-9/12/09
1. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
2. Bitch #44 $5.95
3. Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly) $5.95
4. Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $6.00
5. Strange Tales #1 (Marvel) $4.99
6. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
7. Adbusters #85 $8.95
8. Serious Drawings: H Is For Holly Crap by Marc Johns (TeNeues) $19.95
9. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman (Picturebox) $15.00
10. Butt #27 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals: The Straight Issue $9.90 -
New Stuff This Week
Holy smokes! It’s a banner week for awesome new stuff, so hold on tight!
Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue ed. by John Freeman (Granta) $16.99 – With cover by Chris Ware and featuring Aleksandar Hemon, Don DeLillo and more!
Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00 – This issue is devoted to International Contemporary Photography, featuring artists such as Che Onejoon,Vincent Dermody, Caroline de Vries, Kim Keever, Jaimie Warren, Cassini Probe, Bert Stabler, Karsten Lund, Robby Herbst, Post Typography, Laura Pearson, and more.
All and Sundry Uncollected Work 2004-2009 by Paul Hornschemeier (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Butt #27 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90 – The Straight Issue!
Marquis #46 $19.00
Pop Up City by Cleveland Urban Design $20.00
Raymond Pettibone Devil Tote Bag $34.00
Group Work Zine: Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration by Temporary Services $1.50
Suzann Gage: Temporary Conversations by Temporary Services $3.00
Reich #6 by Elijah J. Brubaker (Sparkplug) $4.00 – The continuing saga of Wilheim Reich. In comics form!
Process Recess vol 3 The Hallowed Seam by James Jean (Adhouse) $34.95
Achewood vol 2 Worst Song Played On Guitar by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $15.95
Red Monkey Double Happiness Book by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $22.99
The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Grownups Are Dumb No Offense by Alexa Kitchen (Denis Kitchen) $8.99 – By possibly the youngest professional cartoonist in the world!
The Art of Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $39.95
Inspired Zine Package: Zines from Mark Todd Joel Nakamura and Tim Mantoani (Mark Murphy Design) $12.00 – It’s a beauty! And you can’t get this thing just anywhere. Click on the link above to find out more!
Pinups #10 Scott $14.00 – Let’s hear it for the boy. Named Scott. Who is naked in these photos.
John Cage Book of Days 2010 (John Cage Trust) $25.00 – Let John Cage help you to remember the date.
Giant Robot #61 $4.99
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 2 by The Hernandez Brothers (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Sinus Ogynus Doll and Loady McGee Dolls $39.99 – Based on the characters featured in Johnny Ryan’s Angry Youth Comix.
Censored 2010 by Project Censored (Seven Stories) $19.95
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Top 10
Look, this guy likes The Coop.
Quimby’s Top 10 For the Week of 8/30/09-9/5/09
1. Juxtapoz #104 Sep 09 $5.99
2. No by Boyd Rice (Heartworm) $14.95
3. Hi-Fructose #12 $6.95
4. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
5. Urb Sum 09 $4.99
6. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $15.00
7. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman (Picturebox) $15.00
8. Beautiful Decay vol 1 Supernaturalism $20.00
9. Art By Tattooists Beyond Flash by Jo Waterhouse ( Laurence King) $19.95
10. Batman Haunted Knight TPB by Loeb & Sale (DC) $14.99 -
New Stuff this Week
The Current #1 Spr 09 $3.00 – New Chicago-based occult periodical. Read what thou wilt.Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave (Faber) $25.00 – New fiction from the sideburned musician.
Down the Block: An Anthology of City Life From Metrolingua (Metrolingua) $12.00 – Chicago-related essays from locals.
North Georgia Gazette of 1821 (Green Lantern) $30.00 – Reprint of a winter chronicle from local press faves Green Lantern. Now with more art!
Roctober #47 $4.00
You’re a Genius All the Time Belief and Technique For Modern Prose by Jack Kerouac (Chronicle) $12.95 – Tiny hardcover reprint with photos. The price is right!
Whats My Pee Telling Me by Josh Richman and Dr. Anish Sheth (Chronicle) $9.95 – For lovers of What’s Your Poo Telling You.
Fuck a History of the World in 65 Unfortunate Incidents by Martin Rowson (Universe) $14.95
Occult America The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped our Nation by Mitch Horowitz (Bantam) $27.00
A whole slab of show catalogs from the local Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery including but not limited to:
Joseph Goto: Iron Man Paintings and Sculpture 1950-65 $20.00
Robert Donley: Red Sun Black Moon The LA Paintings 1959-64 $12.00
Rebecca Shore: AEIOU And Sometimes Y $12.00
Harold Haydon: Binocular Vision Paintings 1930-60 $12.00
Philip Hanson: Etymology Recent Paintings and Their Roots $10.00
And many, many more!
2666 by Roberto Bolano (Picador) $18.00 – Yes! Back in print!
Bitch #44 $5.95
Hotshoe Aug Sep 09 $9.50
Nude and Natural Fall 09 $9.00
Z Magazine Sep 09 $4.95
Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 09 $4.95
True Detective vol 2 #18 $4.49
N Plus 1 #8 Fall 09 $13.95
Bob’s World: The Life and Boys of A.M.G.’s Bob Mizer by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $59.99 – An overview of Bob Mizer’s 48 years making photos and films for his Athletic Model Guild, and 41 years publishing Physique Pictorial, America’s first, and most explicitly gay, physique magazine.
Cat Burglar Black by Richard Sala (First Sec) $16.99 – New graphic novel from the artist of Evil Eye fame.
The Adderall Diaries A Memoir of Moods Masochism and Murder by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf) $23.00 – Don’t miss Stephen Elliott here at Quimby’s on Nov 1st with Joe Meno! More details TBA!
Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern (Squarefish) $8.99 – Fiction about being committed to a mental hospital.
Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty Revised and Expanded by Dave Hickey (University of Chicago) $22.00 – From the author of Air Guitar.
Our Noise: The Story Of Merge Records by var. (Algonquin) $18.95
Day After Roswell by Philip J. Corso (Pocket) $6.99
AM PM A Book by Amelia Gray (Featherproof) $12.95 – Fiction published by local press faves.
The Believer #65 $8.00
DMZ vol 7 War Powers TPB by Brian Wood etc. (Vertigo) $14.99
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #3 $3.99 – Comics based on the PK Dick story, now with added awesomeness!
Strange Tales #1 (Marvel) $4.99 – With contributions from Peter Bagge, James Kochalka, Johnny Ryan and more!
Lynnee Breedloves One Freak Show by Lynnee Breedlove (Manic D) $14.95
Women Who Kill by ann Jones (Feminst Press) $15.95
College Without High School: A Teenagers Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College by Blake Boles (NSP) $16.95
Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn (Manic D) $16.00
Book of Jokes by Momus (Dalkey) $13.95
Comics Journal #299 Aug 09 $11.95
Complete Stories of JG Ballard (Norton) $35.00 – For real! One fat hardcover mutha!
Reheated Cabbage Tales of Chemical Degeneration by Irvine Welsh (Norton) $14.95
Stitches by David Small (Norton) $24.95
Dot Dot Dot 18 (Princeton) $16.95
Mojo Oct 09 #191 $9.99
Art By Tattooists Beyond Flash by Jo Waterhouse (Laurence) $19.95
Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $6.00 – Beautiful comic from the most recent artist of our bookmarks! Ya gotta come in to see ’em, is the thing. Or order stuff from our website!
Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government Enriched Themselves and Beggared the Nation by Thomas Frank (Holt) $16.00 – As in yes, Thomas Frank of The Baffler.
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Top 10
This is the Top 10 Bestsellers for Quimby’s Bookstore During the Week of 8/23/09-8/29/09:
1. Naked Lunch the Restored Text SC by William S. Burroughs (Grove) $14.00 – Click on the above picture to see photographs from the off-site event we sold books at to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch!
2. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
3. CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #5: Things You May Not Know About Iran Contra (Microcosm) $1.50
4. My Father by Yasmin $6.00
5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage ) $14.00
6. Hamburger Eyes #13 $10.00
7. Swoon NYC Music Issue $5.00
8. I’d Start a Revolution But I Don’t Have Time by Jolie $1.00
9. Transition Transportation by Joey Jacks $1.75
10. Acme Novelty Library #19 by Chris Ware (Drawn+Quarterly) $15.95 -
New Stuff This Week — Just a Smattering!
Dear High School Boy by Eryca $1.00 – cute little thingy.
Never Kneel #1 A Testimony of Personal Enlightenment Through Rejection of Faith by Seth Graham $2.00
Worst Future Ever #2 The Alienated Virtually Unreal 1990s by JD $1.00
Garfield In Chains by Ian McDuffie $6.00 – Holy smokes hilarious.
Fadge 100 Doodles by BT Livermore $9.00 – Attractive comics!
Blindworms Null 1012 2008 by Paul Nudd $5.00 – And restock of his awesome blobby art zines. And check out DVDs too! One about Keih Herzik and one about Nick Black! $5.00 each.
Mourning Star vol 2 by Kazimir Strzepek (Bodega) $13.00
Hungover Gourmet #11 by Dan Tylor $2.00
Blood and Thunder #12 $5.99
EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon Massachusetts Ghostly Voices by Michael Markowicz (Schiffer) $19.99
Paranormal Great Lakes An Illustrated Encyclpoedia by Charles Cassady Jr (Schiffer) $14.99
Portable Atheist Essential Readings For the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens (New Press) $17.95
Ink In the Hood Tattoos For Darker Skin by Dragon Randy Holder (Schiffer) $29.99
Sick a Compilation Zine on Physical Illness edited by Ben Holtzman (Microcosm) $6.00
Dwelling Portably 1990-1999 by Brett and Holly Davis (Microcosm) $8.00
Label 228 Street Art Project by Camden Noir (Soft Skull) $24.95
Spliffigami by Chris Stone (Ten Speed) $12.95
Ghanavision Hand Painted Film Posters From Ghana (Bongout) $25.00
Sports Book by Jonas Wood (Picturebox) $20.00 -Some pretty hilarious illustrations of athletes.
Anxiety and Depression by Scott King (JRP) $15.00
Pigxote by Harmony Korine (Nieves) $28.00
Hamburger Eyes #13 $10.00
Pelu vol 1 Little Fluffy Gigolo by Junko Mizuno (JaPress) $17.95
Best Erotic Comics 2009 edited by Greta Christina (Last Gasp) $19.95
Diary of a Catering Whore Years 1-3 by Sean Seamous McWhinny $3.00 for each issue – A comic for anybody in the food service industry.
Burlesque Poster Design The Art of Tease by Chaz Royal (Korero) $34.95
Juxtapoz Car Culture (Gingko) $29.95
Smile Hon Youre in Baltimore #11 by Patrick William Tandy $3.00
Lesbian Cowboys Erotic Adventures by var. (Cleis) $14.95 – Giddyup!
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Top 10 Last Week
This is the Quimby’s Top 10 for the week of 8/16/09-8/22/09
1. Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $5.95
2. Stop Smiling #38 $6.99
3. Everything Is Terrible DVD $20.00
4. Big Questions #6 Anoesia and the Matrideicidic Theophany by Anders Nilsen $6.00
5. Cabinet #34 Testing $12.00
6. Clothesdick vol 2 #3 $3.00
7. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
8. Uptight #3 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $2.75
9. Mixed Reviews by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10. Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth TPB by Chris Ware (Pantheon) $19.95 -
New Stuff This Week
Fifth Estate vol 44 #2 #381 Sum Fall 09 $4.00
Id Start a Revolution But I Dont Have Time $1.00
Smile Hon Youre in Baltimore #11 $3.00
Ellis Island vol #1 to vol 4 #12 by Robert Viscusi $15.00
Chris Ware Paper Musician by Edward Choy Moormin $1.00
Lesbian Cowboys Erotic Adventures by S. Green and R. Valencia (Cleis) $14.95
Rasskazy New Fiction From a New Russia edited by M. Lossel and J. Parker (TinHouse) $18.95
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler (Featherproof) $14.95
Tiki Magazine Vol 5 #2 Sum 09 $4.99
Maximumrocknroll #316 $4.00
Geek Monthly #31 Sep 09 $5.99
Hip Hop History Flocabulary Study Guides by B. Harrison and A. Rappaport (Cider Mill) $18.95 – With CD!!
Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects Magical Worlds (Cider Mill) $24.95
AD New Orleans After The Deluge by Josh Neufeld (Pantheon) $24.95
Housewives At Play TPB Working Moms by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95
Collected Essex County TPB by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) $29.95
Direct Action An Ethnography by D. Graeber (AK) $25.95
Rogue Economics by L. Napoleni (Seven Stories) $16.95
From CBGB To The Roundhouse: Music Venues Through The Years by T. Burrows (Marrion)
Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox (AK) $17.95
Whos To Say Whats Obscene by Paul Krassner (Citylights) $16.95
Out Of Exile: Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan by C. Walzer (McSweeneys) $16.00
Sex World by Dan Gleason $2.00 – All you want it to be and more from a local weirdo fave.
Graffiti World Updated Edition by N. Ganz (Abrams) $35.00
Indie Rock Coloring Book by the Yellow Bird Project (Chronicle) $9.95
Jeffrey Brown Cat Journal (Chronicle) $9.95 – For your own work, with some of his. See it to believe it.
Toon Treasury Of Classic Childrens Comics by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (Abrams) $40.00
Lotsa new moleskines!
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #2 $3.99 – A comic of the original Philip K. Dick story that inspired Bladerunner. Now with extra material!
Noise Vs Subversive Computing: Computationally Infeasible Records 001 The Flash Drive Versus $20.00 – Ummmmm, a flash drive zine!
Monsters In Love #1 by Phil Forsyth $1.25 – Great mini comic!
How I Fell In Love With Punk Rock by Duncan Wilder Johnson $4.00
One Hit Wonder Collection $2.00 – the zine for you.
Reality Mom Vol 6 #3 Sum Fall 09 $3.00
Women In Hats by Richard C. Miller $25.00 – Some crazy photo work. For real? Guess you’ll have to see it!
Best Erotic Comics 2009 edited by greta Christina (Last Gasp) $19.95
History of German Porn: From the Gretchen Kraut Collection (Goliath) $29.95
Best Buy Comics by R. Crumb $2.50 – Unearthed and waiting to be taken home with you for sweet lovin’.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00 – Now in soft cover. A meditiation on running and creativity.
Inner Swine vol 15 #2 $2.
My Secret Cockupation #2: Private Journals Of A Prostitute by Lil Princess, Hugo and Robin Bougie – $4.00