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Notable New Stuff
Lots of metal and noise folks in today for a big fest in town, giving the store a ditch gym to go smoke in the alley vibe. A perfect saturday at Quimby’s!
Also, awesome events this week! Tomorrow (Sunday) Russell Howze presents Stencil Nation and then on Wednsday is comic artists Adrian Tomine/Seth! For more info about events, go here.And a quick reminder: we will open 2 hours later than usual on Tues., June 9th at 2pm instead of noon.
New Stuff:
Whole Death Catalog: Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter (Ballantine) $18.00 – Because you’ll definitely need a guide book where you’re going.
McSweeneys vol 31 $24.00
Greetings From The Oceans Sweaty Face 100 McSweeneys Postcards (Chronicle) $19.95 – Comes in a cool recipe box-type recepticle. With such artists as Charles Burns, Marcel Dzama and more!
Convalescent by Jessica Anthony (McSweeneys) $22.00
White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day by Richie Unterberger (Jawbone) $29.95
A whole mess o’ Moleskinne 2010 planners $10.95-$15.95
Bldg Blog Book by Geoff Manaugh (Chronicle) $29.95
1000 New Eco Designs And Where To Find Them by Rebecca Proctor (Laurence King) $35.00
The Ocean TPB by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse (Wildstorm) $19.99
Side B: Music Lovers Comic Anthology (Poseur Ink) $22.99 – From the editors of the successful Side A: Music Lovers Comic Anthology!
Uptight #3 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $2.75
Venus Zine #40 Sum 2009 $4.50
Grid Index by Carston Nicolai (DGV) $60.00
Love Sex Fear Death: Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment by Timothy Wyllie and Adam Parfrey (Akashic) $24.95
Fugue State by Brian Evenson and Zak Sally (Akashic) $14.95
Will Work For Drugs by Lydia Lunch (Akashic) $15.95
Show That Smells by Derek McCormack (Akashic) $15.95
Action Painting: Bringing Art to the Trains/Introduction To the Phenomenon of Painting On Trains (Gingko Press) $39.95
Part of Rebellion #2 Dave the Chimp ed. by C100 (Publikat) $19.95 – Follow up in the Part of Rebellion graffiti series.
Big Book of Legs edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $29.99 – She (Dian Hanson, specifically) has got legs and she knows how to use them.
Extraordinary Records edited by Giorgio Moroder (Taschen) $39.99 – Yes, you read that right. Giorgio Moroder
Life Inc.: How The World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (Melville) $26.00 – By the author of Media Virus and contributor to Arthur Magazine.
Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter (Melville) $16.00
Watch the Closing Doors #47 $2.50
Nobrow #1 $25.00 – You won’t find this thing just anywhere! This is a wonderful debut issue of an imported British design periodical. It has lots of beautiful blue ink and is almost graphic novel-esque. You have to see it to believe it.
Plus, these exciting restocks are in!:
Rocket Science #1 Multi Limbed Anthology $4.00 – mini comix!
Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer (Soft Skull) $11.95
Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Cabinet ICONS Edition by Alexander Roob (Taschen) $9.99
The Zinn Reader by Howard Zinn (Seven Stories Press) $19.95
Vampire Vultures by John Fahey (Drag City) $17.98
Tape Op vol 2: The Book About Creative Music Recording (Tape Op) $24.99
Making Deals #1 and #2 $5.00 each
Lots of cute mini comix from Missy Kulik, such as Super Paws, Personal Charm, Where’s a Cookie and more! $.75 – $2.00
Merit Badges $4.00 – By a local individual who prefers to remain anonymous to the public but nonetheless impresses us with die-cut amazingness, with such hilarious sayings as “Born Again Atheist.” Only available in store! And they go fast!
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Change of Hours on Tuesday
Just a quick reminder to let you know that Quimby’s will open 2 hours later than usual on Tuesday, June 9th. Instead of opening at noon, Quimby’s will open at 2pm. Thanks!
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Top 10 This Week
This list spans the week 5/24/09 – 5/30/09
1. Trubble Club #3 by the Trubble Club $3.00 – See Trubble Club members Laura Park and Jeremy Tinder looking victorious above!
2. Unfinal Call CD by Bonnie Prince Billy (Drag City) $8.00
3. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
4. Rusted Train Makeovers #1 Jan 07 $5.00
5. Juxtapoz #101 Jun 09 $5.99
7. Journalsong #6 by Steve $2.50
8. Contemporary Art Guide Chicago 2009 (Proximity Publication) $6.00
10. The Believer #62 $8.00
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New Stuff This Week
That’s right, somebody dropped off a donation for Midwest Books to Prisoners in the perfect bag. Appropriately located next to Dangerous Ink. Anyway, lotsa great new stuff this week as usual, as well as some great events planned for June, with just a few of the links below.
Comedy By the Numbers Book-On-Tape CD: Selections From the McSweeneys Book by Prof. Eric Hoffman and Dr. Gary Rudoren $12.99 – With all manner of cool guest stars reading selections on it, like David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman and more! Don’t miss executive producer Bob Odenkirk signing this CD on June 20th!
Works On Paper by Archer Prewitt (Presspop) $20.00 – That’s right. He’ll be here signing it June 20th. And yes, you read that correctly. Bob Odenkirk here at 4pm and Archer Prewitt here at 7pm. The same day!!
George Sprott 1894 – 1975 edited by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95 – Don’t miss Seth with Adrian Tomine at Quimby’s on Wednesday, June 10th!
Mark Ryden’s Tree Show: 15 Postcards (Porterhouse) $12.95
Papercut Heart: A Book of Zines by Ian Sullivan Cant (Conundrum) $15.00 – Beautiful and minimal art
All This Is Mine #12 $5.00
Because This Is How I Want to Remember You by Jordan A Fu $3.00 – Mini comix from a promising talent new to Quimby’s!
Killer Marguerite by Megan Milks (Another New Calligraphy) $6.00 – Don’t miss Megan Milks with Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf here at Quimby’s on July 26th!
Chugtitz #2 $2.00 – Old school cut’n’paste style zine.
You Don’t Get There From Here #11 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – As always, the artist behind The Assassin and the Whiner pumps out awesome mini comix.
Jobjumper by The Whiskey Rebel $15.00 – Yes! You read that right! This second edition revised and expanded of an old classic is here.
Teeth: I Walked Outside Today and Beast In a Bottle, both by the Bernard St Collective Production $2.00 each – Chap book action.
Precious Gems: A Compendium of Collectable Correspondence Cards (Koyama Press) $15.00 – Postcard book version of Team Macho art.
Twenty Reasons Why You Should Eat Magic Mushrooms by Jason Kieffer $1.00 – Can you guess what this comic is about?
Shoot Your Slut #1 $7.00 – Home made erotic mag $7.00
Go Get the Money Alamo Igloo 2009 by Keith Herzik $5.00 – Is he famous yet? ‘Cause his silkscreen comix are awesome.
Ode to Cabernet $4.00 – DIY sommelier!
Wax Poetics #35 $9.99
Swallow Presents John Watkiss Sparrow Art Book Series vol 11 (IDW) $11.99
Giocattoli Per Malinconici Toys For Melancholics by Gabriels (Stamen) $49.95 – For the lovers of the sexy biomechanics in the style of Giger.
Dirtypilot.com Year One Rewind A Survey of Graffiti Street and Urban Art (Dirty Pilot) $19.95
Thought Cloud Shrines: Drawings by Theo Ellsworth $5.00 – Delicious screenprinted imaginings.
Back In the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used To Know How to Do by Michael Powell (Sterling) $7.95
Dre Day 2009 Burlesque of North America Proudly Presents: Dr Dre Sticker Pack VII $5.00
Divine Filth by Georges Bataille (Solar) $14.95 – The people have spoken, and they want a reprint of classic erotica fiction.
Children of the Can 25 Years of Bristol Graffiti by Felix FLX Braun (Tangent) $50.00
Eroto: To the Prurient Interest The Erotic-Sexual Images of RC Horsch vol II (IMC) $19.95 – Kinky stuff!
Mysteries vol 7 #1 $6.95
American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent (Scribner) $14.00
Melvin Monster vol 1: John Stanley Library (Drawn & Quarterly) $19.95
Moomin Vol 4: Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip (Drawn & Quarterly) $19.95
Kev Grey – British tattoo-ish lowbrow artist, imported just for you. Sorta Sailor Jerry, sorta goth, sorta Mitch O’Connell. You won’t find this in many other places! $20.00
Juxtapoz #101 Jun 09 $5.99
You’ll Never Know vol 1 A Good and Decent Man by C. Tyler (Dark Horse) $24.99
Tape Op #71 $4.50
GlompX with CD $46.00 – Hardcover comics anthology. For lovers of Kramers E.
Big Book of Legs edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $59.99
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Top Ten
For the Week of May 17th-May 23rd, 2009
Thanks to our patient customers on Friday night when we went without our phone line for the night. We can’t imagine why we would have electrical problems what with the tangle of cords in the place. Can you tell we fixed it?
1. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2. Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
3. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
4. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
5. Trubble Club vol 3 $3.00
6. Match #107 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
7. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
8. Shortcomings (soft cover) Adrian Tomine (Drawn+Quarterly) $14.95
9. Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice For Midwives and Herbalists by Catherine Marie Jeunet $5.00
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New Stuff and Memorial Day Hours
Just a reminder! Quimby’s will be open on Monday, May 25th, Memorial Day, but only with abbreviated hours. That day we will be open from noon to 5pm.
And here’s New Stuff!
Trubble Club vol 3 $3.00 – New comic from comics superstars who did our last window display! If we house the comic here. does that make Quimby’s a Club House?
Youll Never Know vol 1 A Good and Decent Man by C. Tyler (Dark Horse) $24.99
Decal art (Idea) from a whole variety of cool artists, including: Royal Art Lodge, David Bromley, David Shrigley and more! Transfer it onto your Trapper Keeper! $9.50 each
Urinal Gum vol 8 $2.00
Hyphen #17 Spr 08 $4.95
Black Carrot #14 $3.00
Squish The Fish by Kevin Brady $3.00 – mini comic
Cabinet #33 Deception $12.00
Kilobyte Couture Geek Chic Jewelry to Make From Easy to Find Computer Components by (Watson) $18.95
Please Step Back by Ben Greenman (Melville) $16.95
Best of Simon and Kirby, edited by Steve Saffel (Titan) $39.95 – As in comics dudes Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, aka “comics’ Lennon/McCartney dream duo,” as the Library Journal says.
Tank Girl vol 1 and 2 by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin (Titan) $14.95 each – back in print!
Leftovers Again by Robin Hustle $3.00 – New zine from local sex activist.
Tape Op #71 $4.50
Love and Obstacles by Aleksander Hemon (Riverhead) $25.95 – New fiction from local M. Genius Grant (TM) writer.
Pork Chop Robinson #7 $3.00
The Comedians May 09 $4.50
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Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 10th-May 16th, 2009
1. Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith (Quirk) $12.95
3. Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around by Cheryl Wagner (Citadel) $14.95
4. Proximity #4 $12.00
5. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
6. Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
7. Juxtapoz #100 May 09 $5.99
8. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
9. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
10. The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper (Chicago Review Press) $11.95 -
New Stuff!
Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
Luba by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Compiles various pieces of Luba’s comics in a handy tomb.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
Cabinet #33 Deception $12.00
Comics Journal #297 Apr 09 $11.99
Connective Tissue by Bob Fingerman (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Make vol 18 $14.99
Gothic Beauty #28 $5.95
Maximumrocknroll #313 $4.00
Hoboking A Hobo Odyssey by Peter Hillstrom $3.50 – new mini comic
For Lonely Adults Only #4 Spr 09 $5.00 – Lo-fi sexy mag
Spread vol 4 #4 $5.95
Smut Vol 2 from Nerve.com (Chronicle) $14.95
Proximity #4 $12.00 – Don’t miss this one!
Overqualified by Joey Comeau (ECW) $14.95 – Cooler than letters to a nut. Reading here June 27th
Perverts Guide To Cinema Parts 1, 2, 3 with Slavog Zizek DVD $29.99
Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Collection 1-3 by Bernie McGovern $20.00 – Beuatifully bound comics
32 Stories Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics by Adrian Tomine (D+Q) $19.95 – He’ll be here with comics artist Seth on June 10th!
Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples by Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas (Chronicle) $40.00
Paper Tiger Television Presents: Infiltrating the Underground The Corporatization of Radical Culture DVD with Anne Elizabeth Moore $25.00
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 4 Time of Your Life by Joss Whedon and friends (Dark Horse) $15.95 – Buffy lives, yo.
Free Range Chicken by Simon Rich (Random) $13.00 – Hilarious stories from the author of Ant Farm.
Bizarre #149 $10.50
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot (Scribner) $25.00
Please Step Back by Ben Greenman (melville) $16.95
Kilobyte Couture: Geek Chic Jewelry to Make From Easy to Find Computer Components (Watson) $18.95
The Match #107 $3.00 – Still keepin’ strong in 3 digits.
Cloud & Ashes Three Winters Tales by Greer Gilman (Small Beer) $26.00
Captive Audience by Dave Reidy (Ig) $14.95 – Short stories from a Chicago local. And he’ll be reading here at Quimby’s July 15th. Stay tuned for more info!
Green Zone by Barry Sanders (AK) $14.95
Young Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff (Seven) $19.95
The Believer #62 $8.00
High Times Jul 09 $5.99
Nexus vol 16 #3 May Jun 09 $5.9
In Praise of Indecency by Paul Krassner (Cleis) $12.95
Zombie Holocaust: How The Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture by David Flint (Plexus) $19.95
Dissection by John Harley Warner and James M Edmonson (Blast) $50.00 – Photos of what else? Dead bodies! Buy with the Zo,bie Holocaust book for a delicious experience!
Osama Van Halen by Michael Muhammad Knight (Ulysses) $14.95
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 3rd – May 9th, 2009
1. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
2. Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
3. The Chair by Peter Simeti, Kevin Christianson and Erin Korut (Alterna Co) $13.95
4. Wholphin #8 (McSweeney’s) $19.95
5. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
6. Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.95
7. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
8. Cinema Sewer #22 $7.00
9. Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk
10. Pygmy by Chuch Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 -
TEMPORARY CHANGE OF QUIMBY'S ON FRI., MAY 15TH & MON., MAY 25th
Just so ya’ll know, we will open 2 hours later on Friday, May 15th so that we’re opening at 2pm instead of the regular Friday opening time at noon and we’ll close at 5pm on Memorial Day, Mon., May 25th instead of the regular 9pm on Mondays.