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It’s Lalalalapaapsaloopsa weekend! Just in time for some showers and 90 degree weather. Perfect for mosquitoes to eat you alive. Delicious! Anyz, new stuff here:

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s) $24.00 – Facty-fictiony new hardcover from Mr. Eggers, about post-Katrina trials.

Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (Drawn + Quarterly) $5.95 – Newest issue from the local comics sensation!

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin) $27.95

Imperial by William T. Vollmann (Viking) $55.00

And Heres the Kicker: Conversations With 21 Top Humor Writers On Their Craft edited by Mike Sacks (Writers Digest) $17.99 – Words from various comedians of different comedy sorts, including Bob Odenkirk, among others.

Scootering #277 $7.99

Fortean Times #251 $11.99

Wallpaper Aug 09 $9.50

Mojo Sep 09 #190 $9.99

Cradle by Patrick Somerville (Littlebrown) $21.99

Hunting and Gathering: For and About Experimental Art Writing by the Happy Hyocrite (Bookworks) $22.00

Put About: A Critical Anthology On Independent Publishing (Bookworks) $39.95

Urban Recordings by Ingo Giezendanner (Passenger) $35.00

Todays Hieroglyphics: Imprints On Packaging For Transport Rudolph Lutz Hans (Ram) $105.00 – Up keep dry fragile, people!

Err by David Shrigley (Bookworks) $15.00 – A somewhat lesser known edition of the quirky artist’s work!

Women And Children Royal Art Lodge (Perugi) $55.00 – Yes for you, the dedicated follower of Marcel Dzama fashion.

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger by Joanna Rubin Dranger (Arvinius) $40.00 – Strangely cute art book for such a title.

Braindead by Laurina Paperina (Perugi) $35.00 – Art about brains. Brings to mind the quote from Emo Philips: “I used to think that the brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I thought, well look what’s telling me that.”

Locas II Maggie Hopey and Ray by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagrapahics) $39.99

Abstract Comics edited by Andrei Molotiu (Fantagraphics) $39.99

Worst Future Ever #1 The Red Menace by JD $1.00

We All Gonna Die by John Campbell $3.00

The Comedians Jul Aug 09 $4.50

Family The Secret Fundamentalist at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet (Harper) $15.99

It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice (Riverhead) $25.95 – By the writer and musician from Scud Mountain Boys, Chappaquiddick Skyline, and the Pernice Brothers.

Best Creative Nonfiction Vol 3 edited by Liee Gutkind (Norton) $16.95

Fever Chart by Bill Cotter (McSweeney’s) $22.00

Zinn And The Art Of Road Bike Maintenance 3rd Edition by Lennard Zinn (VeloPress) $24.95

Zombie Handbook: How To Identify the Living Dead and Survive the Coming Apocalypse by Rob Sacchetto (Ulysses) $16.95

Art Of The Modern Movie Poster by various (Chronicle) $75.00

Fresh Dialogue 8 Designing Audiences $16.95

Retro Graphics by Jon Raimes and Ben Renow-Clarke (Chronicle) $24.95

t(here) magazine $10.00

Cabinet #34 Testing $12.00

Gigantic Robot by Tom Gauld (Buenaventura Press) $16.95

Complete Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty (Buenaventura Press) $34.95

New Poster Book by Edward Gorey (Pomegran) $19.95

Bizarre #152 $10.50

Valis And Later Novels by Philip K Dick (Penguin) $35.00 – Finally! In one handsome volume, includes Valis, A Maze Of Death, Divine Invasion and The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer.

Fair Use: Notes From Spam by Graham Parker(Bookworks) $32.00

Chimushi II by Saeki Toshio (panexotica) $45.00 – Yes, this is an older book. But we are glad to have this artist back in stock. At first you think it’s just traditional Japanese art, but then up close you see it’s taboo.

All This Is Mine #15 $4.00

Everything Is Terrible: The Movie DVD $20.00 – From the creators of a Quimby’s DVD fave, Future Schlock. Hilarious modified found footage culled from who knows where. Do we want to know how they got it? No! Wait. Yes! Or maybe no? Who cares? It’s a must have!

Young Is Dumb #1 by Wesley Stokes $5.00

Hey I’m Okay by Olive Flower $.50 – Pfew! We were worried for a second there.

Whiskey Pike by Jeff Phillips $13.50 – Fiction. Any relation to Emo?

Death and Taxes Jul Aug 09 $4.99

Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 09 $4.95

Paranoia #51 $6.00

Geek Monthly #29 Aug 09 $5.99

Maximumrocknroll #315 $4.00

ASR Anarcho Syndicalist Review Sum 09 #52 $5.00

Z Magazine Jul 09 $6.95

Treating Yourself #17 $7.99 – Aw, come on! You know you deserve it! Splurge! Live a little! Besides all the cool kids are doin’ it!

TA Naturist #43 $7.99

Hip Mama #43 $5.95

2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 26 #2 $6.25

Dice #27 $6.95

True Detective vol 2 #17 $4.49

UFO Magazine #150 vol 23 #9 $5.99

Tattoo Life #59 $6.99

Feathertale Review #4 $10.00

Dissent Sum 09 $10.00

Quimby’s Top 10 Bestsellers
This is for the week of 7/26/9-8/1/09

1     Bust Aug/Sep 09 $4.99
2     Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
3     FOUND Magazine #6 $5.00
4     WWZD What Would Zombie Do? Spinner $4.50
5     Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon) $29.95
6     Boneshaker #42-100 Bicycling Almanac $5.00
7     Dwelling Portably 2000 – 2008 by Bert and Holly Davis (Microcosm) $8.00
8     As of Yet Unseen by Jeremy Tinder $3.00
9     Yeti #7 $11.95
10   Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #24 Jul 09 $5.00

At Quimby’s, on July 18th, 2009.  Jeremy Tinder (Cry Yourself to Sleep, Trubble Club) is on the left, then Alex Robinson (Box Office Poison, Too Cool To Be Forgotten) is in the middle, and Josh Cotter (Skyscrapers of the Midwest) is on the right. For video footage about their discussion of segueways and ambience, go here.

Cinema Sewer vol 2 by Robin Bougie (Fab Press) $19.95 – Second collection of work from the editor of one of the naughtiest, funniest zines devoted to ladies in film.

Beautiful Decay vol 1 Supernaturalism $20.00 – Beautiful Decay ended the alphabet and started over at the beginning with an amazing new book format! It’s a lowbrow beauty!

Pee Dog #2 (PictureBox) $12.00 – A vintage “graphic novel” from 1986 by Ed Nukey Nukes and Jocko Levent Brainiac, two crazed Texans artists related to another artist PictureBox published whose name rhymes with Shmarey Canter. Only 500 copies printed!

Bad Mags vol 2 by Tom Brinkman (Headpress) $22.95

Mome vol 15 Sum 09 (Fantagraphics) $14.99

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon) $29.95

Girls and Corpses #3 Sum 09 $8.95

Death and Taxes Jul Aug 09 $4.99

Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 09 $4.95

Paranoia #51 $6.00

Skeptic vol 15 #1 $6.95

Geek Monthly #29 Aug 09 $5.99

Coilhouse #3 $15.00

Maximumrocknroll #315 $4.00

ASR Anarcho Syndicalist Review Sum 09 #52 $5.00

Z Magazine Jul 09 $6.95

Grafik #174 Jun 09 $19.99

Treating Yourself #17 $7.99

Laphams Quarterly vol 2 #3 Travel $15.00

Hip Mama #43 $5.95

XLR8R #127 $4.99

Under the Radar #27 $4.99

2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 26 #2 $6.25

Feathertale Review #4 $10.00

Dissent Sum 09 $10.00

Skin Deep by Charles Burns (Fantagraphics) $16.99 – New soft cover reissue for a great price!

Wax Poetics #36 $9.99

Milky Way Shuffle by Elio $4.00

Moon Sparks #7 Skunk by Dan Rowbottom $1.00

Muse the News and the Noose Shortages by John Wawrzaszek $1.00

Famous Hairdos of Popular Music vol 2 Diana Ross $3.00 – Follow up to the popular zine that started with famous hairdos of James Brown.

Exoskeleton Haiku Trilogy $.50

Ninth Letter vol 6 #1 $14.95

Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #24 Jul 09 $5.00

Adbusters #85 $8.95

Insert #4 $2.00

Heeb #21 Sum 09 $5.99

Bust Aug Sep 09 $4.99

Harpers Magazine Aug 09 $6.95

Juxtapoz #103 Aug 09 $5.99

Plus: restocks on fabulously priced Taschen 25th anniversary edition books, restock on Robert Anton Wilson books. Stay on the lookout for what’s coming this week ahead: Big Questions #12 by Anders Nilsen and Zeitoun by Dave Eggers!

This is for the week 7/19/09-7/25/09:

1. The Believer #64: The Music Issue $10.00

2. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

3. Boneshaker #42-100: Bicycling Almanac $5.00

4. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

5. The Point #1 Spr 09 $10.00

6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle vol 1 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $24.99

7. Fart Party vol 2 by Julia Wertz (Atomic) $13.95

8. Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance $2.00

9. As of Yet Unseen by Jeremy Tinder $3.00

10. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation by Fletcher Hanks and Paul Karasik (Fantagraphics) $24.99

No (Heartworm #33) by Boyd Rice (Heartworm) $14.9

Who Killed Amanda Palmer by Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer (JSR) $16.99 – Photos of Ms. Palmer (from the band the Dresdon Dolls) in various dead body scenarios, based on her lyrics. With accompanying short stories by Neil Gaiman!

Prurient Rose Pillar (Heartworm) $110.00 – Text and photo accompaniment. Comes with record.

Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine by Tyler E Boudreau (Feral House) $16.95 – See the author at Quimby’s August 12th!

From Wonderland With Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium by Steffin P Maarup (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Paul Thek Artists Artist by Harold Falckenberg and Peter Weibel (MIT Press) $54.95

Milk Milk Lemonaid #13 $.50

Black Velvet #61 $6.25

The Virgin Project ed. by KD Boze and Stasia Kato $25.00 – Exactly what you want it to be: comics about the very topic.

Of Walking In Ice Munich Paris 23 November to 14 December 1974 by Werner Herzog (Free Association) $25.00 – Reprint of the classic novella by Herzog about his winter hike in hopes to heal his dear friend.

Tiny Meat Enid Wallet $4.00 – The time has come. Fan fiction wallets.

There’s Something Wrong With Sven by Greg Gerke $10.00 – Don’t miss him here August 13th!

Bomb It DVD $26.95 –  Fascinating  film by Jon Reiss, a look at global graffiti culture.

Spacedog by Hendrik Dorgathen (Gingko) $12.95 – Graphic novel or artist illustrated no word art book? You be the judge.

L’Invasion de Paris (Gingko)  $35.00 – featuring the work of Space Invader

Lenore vol 2 #1 by Roman Dirge (SLG) $3.99

Medicine Cabinet Of Curiosities: An Unconventional Compendium of Health Facts And Oddities by Nicholas Bakalar (Times) $15.00

Ray Bradburys Farenheit 451: Authorized Adaptation by Tim Hamilton (Hill&Wang) $16.95 – In graphic novel form!

Chicago Neon Signs by Dan Zamudio (Wicker Park Press) $24.95/ Water Tanks Of Chicago A Vanishing Legacy: Photographs and Paintings by Larry W Green (Wicker Park Press) $19.95 -Wanna give your friends a feel for Chicago? Support local presses and buy these poignant photo books.

Kilter #4 Sum 09 $5.00

Boneshaker #42-100: Bicycling Almanac $5.00

Spread Vol 5 #1 Sum 09 $5.95

Fake Your Own Death #2 $10.00 – Comes with CD.

Surrogates Flesh and Bone by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele (Top Shelf) $14.95

The Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie (Top Shelf) $45.00 – Couldn’t afford it in the fancy purple box? Get it in this fancy hardcover.

Late Fauna of Early North America by Scott Musgrove (Billy Shire Fine Arts) $34.95 – Deluxe reprint of an old classic. For fans of dark but cute blobby creatures.

Papercutter #10 (Tugboat)  $4.00 – Featuring works from Damien Jay, Jesse Reklaw and Minty Lewis.

Heeb #92 $5.99

Juxtapoz Aug 09 $5.99

Serious Pitchfork action right now. And this guy!

Dig this new stuff!:

Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie (Top Shelf) $45.00

Portable February by David Berman (Drag City) $9.98

Galactic Zoo Dossier #8 Magazine and DVD $16.98 – Yes! A new issue!

Welcome to Forest Island by Bwana Spoons (Top Shelf) $30.00

Batman Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader The Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (Boom) $24.99

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #1 by Philip K. Dick and Warren Ellis (Boom) $3.99

Preacher Book One HC by Garth Ennis (Vertigo) $39.99

Welcome to Forest Island by Bwana Spoons (Top Shelf) $30.00 – These amazing colors will blow yer mind!

Looking For The Magic by Max G. Morton (Heartworm) $10.00

23 by Max G. Morton (Heartworm) $10.00

Super Power $3.25

Fake Your Own Death #2 $10.00 – Zine featuring a variety of prints, comix and whatever else. And the CD is a mix of sound footage.

Tape Op #72 $4.50

The Believer #64 The 2009 Music Issue $10.00

Nexus vol 16 #4 Jul Aug 09 $5.95

Ballads Of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert $13.00 – New fiction from the author of I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone.

Sugarcube by Samuel C Gaskin $4.00 – Cute mini comic!

PS Comics by Minty Lewis (Secret Acres) $11.00 – Anthology with, among other things, doggies!

Audio Culture by Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner (Continuum) $29.95

Peoples Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm by Tribe Called Quest – by Sean Taylor (Continuum 33 1/3 Series) $10.95

Rejected Quarterly #19 Win Spr 09 $7.50

Spank #13 Homo Art Zine $6.00

Libellers Almanac Vol 1 #2 $6.00

Threshold 2009 #29 $14.99

So You Want To Be A Librarian by Lauren Pressley (Library Juice Press) $15.00

Makeout Creek #3 $8.00

Datacide #10 $4.50

Handbook vol 3 #3 2009 $6.00

Puzzled Panthers Meter Meltdown $1.00 – Rather timely zine about takin’ down the meters. With heavy metal fonts and pictures!

Hi Fructose #12 $6.95

Double Life Is Twice Is Good by Jonathan Ames (Scriber) $15.00

Militant Flamboyance #1 A Brief History of the Stonewall Riots and Other Queer Happenings $1.50

List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00

Duplex Planet #185 $2.00

Everyone Is Stupid Except For Me and Other Astute Observations by Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) $16.99

Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora by Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon (Fantagraphics) $34.99

Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper (Harper) $13.99

Johannes Cabal The Necromancer by Jonathan L Howard (Doubleday) $25.00

Girls Guide to Rocking How to Start A Band Book Gigs And Get Rolling to Rock by Jessica Hopper (Workman) $13.95

Tales Designed to Thrizzle vol 1 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $24.99