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  • Weekly Top 10

     

    Michael the sausage dog took his owners Becky and Ali to Quimby’s and posed with our Cola Flavored Mustache Lollipop. Hot diggity dog!

    1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts)  $17.95 – Thanks to everybody who came to see Derf here this past Thursday.

    2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

    3. James Joyce by E. Choy $5.00 – Adaptations of James Joyce classics by Philidelphia-based Ed Choy! Includes Araby, an excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and an assortment of others. Interior pages feature alternating 1-color spreads in purple and Riso-Federal Blue.

    4. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

    5. Tales of Woodsman Pete With Full Particulars by Lilli Carré (Top Shelf) $7.00

    6. Maximumrocknroll #351 Aug 12 $4.00

    7. Razorcake #69 $4.00

    8. Duel Citizenship by Jen Twigg $2.00 – D.C./Maryland versus Chicago, but in a lovin’ kinda way. Twigg talks about what it means to feel like you live in a city and what’s great about places.-EF

    9. Office Girl by Joe Meno $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

    10. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 –  All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

  • Weekly Top 10

    Big bucks, no whammies. This is how we roll. Roll Big or Go Home is at #10 this week.

    1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) – Don’t miss Derf here on Thursday (Aug 9th) at 7pm, where he’ll take about this graphic novel he did about his experiences knowing Jeffrey Dahmer in high school!

    2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

    3. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

    4. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 The American Food Issue – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on with the American Food Issue. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

    5. Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Maranda Elizabeth and Dave Cave $3.00

    6. Womanimalistic #1 by Caroline Paquita $5.00 – “Amazing Amazing Amazing. Recipes for Fire Cider and Krotchbucha. Ridiculously funny comics about Vajazzling, punker health fiascos (such as the ol’ “Hash Brown Cure”) and urban hiving. Gorgeously patterned comics about love and loss and coming down with a case of The Going Crazies. I’ve been reading the Carson McCullers comic that opens this book over and over and over again – it keeps bringing me close to tears. Highest honors. Lovingly risographed in blue.” -EF

    7. Night Riders by Matt Furie (McSweeney’s) $15.95 – Where’s Matt Furie been lately? Apparently he’s been squirreled up drawing a truly stunning and mind-bending wordless children’s book for McSweeney’s, and I couldn’t be more excited about the fruits of his labors. Night Riders is truly awesome – cool animal-monsters staying up all night on a journey through a glowing nocturnal world, rendered in some ultralush colored pencil jewel hues. I love the chillpill laffs of Boy’s Club aplenty – however this is a different trip altogether: magic and riches with perfect delivery. A great kid’s book, and a great graphic novel to boot. -EF

    8. Elephant Ear #1 by Jeremy Tinder $8.00 – Jeremy Tinder launched this beast at CAKE a few months ago: deluxe stories of slipping, surreal illness and alone time. Paced a little like a Murakami story, I’d say- the richness of a character staring into space, the practicality of the mothman stealing batteries, the resignation to finding a tooth in your eyesocket. -EF

    9. Dig Deep #4 by Heather $1.00 – Local-based perzine by a rad librarian.

    10. Roll Big or Go Home by Rio Safari $2.00 – Cute lil love letter to fantasy, D&D and punk nerdery. Rad title, too. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Minus Times Collected 20 Years 30 Issues, ed. by Hunter Kennedy $16.95 – Begun as an open letter to strangers and fellow misfits, The Minus Times grew to become a hand-typed literary magazine that showcased the next generation of American fiction. Contributors include Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Patrick DeWitt, and Wells Tower, with illustrations by David Eggers and Brad Neely as well as interviews with Dan Clowes, Barry Hannah, and a yet-to-be-famous Stephen Colbert. With sly humor and striking illustrations, The Minus Times has earned a fervent following as much for its lack of literary pretension as its sporadic appearances on the newsstand. All thirty of the nearly-impossible-to-find issues of this improvised literary almanac are now assembled for the first time, typos and all.

    Zines & Zine-Related
    Serial Killers Unite #10 $2.00
    Telegram #24 Feb 12 by Maranda Elizabeth $3.00
    Real Life: A Magical Guide to Getting Off the Internet by Maranda Elizabeth and Dave Cave $3.00
    Hippie hippie shake: The dreams, the trips, the trials, the love-ins, the screw ups, the sixties by Richard Neville $16.95 – Collected retrospective of Oz Magazine, at the centre of a cyclone of radicals, rock musicians, artists and hustlers in the 60s.
    Nuts #10 $4.00
    Noisy Boy #2 Jul 12 by PJ Franzen $5.00
    Echo by Aaron Smith $5.00
    Snot Rocket City #2 $2.00
    Some Things Make No Sense, Like Jeggings by Carrie $1.00
    Paper Houses #7 The Batman Issue by Kriss Stress $1.00

    Comics & Comix
    Maddie #1 by Gabriela Cracraft $5.00
    Gold Star by John Martz (Retrofit Comics) $5.00
    Sheep Rumble by Sue Cargill $2.00
    Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson $3.50
    Genius and the Fatass by Alex Martin $1.00
    Pretentious Record Store Guy #3 by Carlos Gabriel Ruiz $2.99
    James Joyce by Ed Choy Moorman $5.00
    Art Appreciation vol 2 Sunday on la Grande Jatte 1884 by Georges Seurat $2.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    How Would I Know If Youre Dreaming: Finn and Charlie Are Hitched vol 3 by Tony Breed $12.00
    Making Of byBrecht Evans (D&Q) $29.95
    Karma Tastes Like Diet Coke by Chris McKay $8.00
    Blasted: An Ink and Drink Comics Science Fiction Anthology $11.99
    Blind to Blue and Other Things: A Stack of Poetry Comics by Paul K. Tunis $10.00

    Fiction
    The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems by Paul Legault (McSweeneys) $17.00

    Thirteen Girls by Mikita Brottman $13.00
    Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby the Learned Pig by Russell Potter $15.00
    Xanthous Mermaid Mechanics by Brion Poloncic $15.00
    Books by Eckhard Gerdes: Including Hugh Moore, The Sylvia Plath Cookbook: A Satire, Three Psychedelic Novels

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg $25.99 – Considering how much the word asshole does for us, and to us, it hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves –– at least until now.
    The Lords of 2112: The Poignantly Vulgar & Vulgarly Poignant Chronicle of America’s Future by Daniel Marion Mitchell Jr. $14.23 – Everything is weird about this book. Even the price.
    More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football Family and Time Itself by Nick Hornby $14.00 – More Beleiver columns from this High Fidelity author.

    DIY
    Lickin the Beaters 2 Vegan Chocolate and Candy by Siue Moffat, Celso and Missy Kulik (PM Press) $17.95
    You Cant Make This Stuff Up: Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between by Lee Gutkind $16.00

    Politics & Revolution
    Letters to a Young Activist by Todd Gitlin $14.99

    Magazines
    Maximumrocknroll #351 Aug 12 $4.00
    Decibel #95 Sep 12 $4.95
    Adbusters Sep Oct 12 #103 vol 20 #5 $8.95
    various issues of Uppercase: A Magazine For the Creative and Curious
    Dwell Sep 12 $5.99
    Wallpaper Aug 12 $10.00
    Skunk vol 8 #1 $5.99
    Ghetto Blaster #32 $3.95
    Makeshift #3 Sum 12 Journal of Hidden Creativity $10.00
    In These Times Aug 12 $3.50

  • Weekly Top 10


    This most recent issue of Remedy (#9, featuring the them of escape) is at #10 this week.

    1. Office Girl by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

    2. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 The American Food Issue – The McSweeney’s food rag rampages on with the American Food Issue. Less cranky then issue 3, this round has a sprawling Tex-Mex choose your own adventure, plenty of odes to diners and, unsurprisingly, the movie Diner, Cambodian American doughnut culture, Harold McGee being typically delightful and loads of recipes looking that scrummy kinda yummy you know tastes fine. -EF

    3. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

    4. The Believer #91 $12.00

    5. Lose #3 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) $5.00 – Lose has the same doomsday “joy” of early Dan Clowes or Chris Ware: pathetic characters trapped in a endless plummet of unaware-over-self-awareness that cuts straight to the heart of a modern crisis of meaning. Perhaps an interesting distinction here is that while D.C. and C.W. were dishing out their snarkiest and perhaps crassest work as absurd technology and media alienation was revving up, DeForge’s fined-tuned portraits of apocalyptic failure are being produced in sync with a deep cultural wallow in the bitter joke of “first world problems”. Whatever the case, his self-absorbed characters attempting (and failing) to toddle through their collapsed and bombed out trash cities unscathed is consistently scary and resonating. With each issue, his rotwater post-apocalypse hauntscape looks more and more like the 4 month pasta salad leftovers back of my fridge, but somehow it keeps you hungry for more. -EF

    6. Boys Club #1 by Matt Furie (Buenaventura Press) $6.00 – A collection of Matt Furie’s mini-comics featuring teenage monsters Andy, Brett, Landwolf and Pepe: drinkin;, stinkin; and never thinkin’.

    7. Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware (Pantheon) $27.50

    8. Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs (Adhouse) $9.95 – Jesse Jacobs bursts onto the comic scene with his first published work EVEN THE GIANTS. The work beautifully captures the isolation of the Great White North while also giving the artist a sequential canvas to explore and experiment. This book will be printed in three Pantone spot colors. Jesse’s work has been nominated for the Doug Wright award and has won the Gene Day award.

    9. Nurse Nurse by Kate Skelly (Sparkplug) $15.00 – Description from the back of the book: “It is a comic book about the future. It is a prediction about television. It is a cautionary tale about butterflies. It is science fiction for all kinds of people. It collects all seven issues of the mini-comic series and the never-before-seen eighth issue. Please have an adventure….Love is real. NURSE NURSE this.”

    10. Remedy Quarterly #9 Escape $9.50 – From the Remedy website describing this issue of this popular food zine: Issue 9 will leave you ready to make you’re own great escape—hopefully to your kitchen. Inside we’ve got a Q&A with Bonnie Slotnick of Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks in New York City (one of my personal favorite escapes), we’ll take you the countryside of Italy where you’ll learn to enjoy the sound of silence in Italy, and get adventurous at a Louisiana crab boil complete with a trip to the bayou. Plus recipes, tips & tidbits, and more!

  • New Stuff This Week Including New Quimby's Podcast Episode

    Yes! There is a new episode of the Quimby’s Podcast, which you can listen to and/or download on Podbean or I-Tunes. This episode features an interview with the charismatic, funny and extremely articulate Caseen Gaines, the author of Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon. Relevant topics? Public persona, breaking the fourth wall, hommage vs. rip off, tribute vs authorization…Mr. Gaines is a high school teacher, so let’s just say we bet sitting in his class must be awesome.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Not Bored Anthology 1983-2010 by William J. Brown (Colossal) $25.00
    Rad Dad Zine Compilation Issues 1-10 by Tomas Moniz (1984) $15.00
    Taking the Lane vol 7 BikeSexuality $4.00
    Bipedal By Pedal #3 A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland Oregon by Joe Biel $4.00
    The Worst of While You Were Sleeping (Schiffer) $39.99 – 496-page compilation of The Worst of While You Were Sleeping magazine, over 900 images of the graffiti crazed, boozed-up partiers, and scantily clad ladies, and pop culture. WYWS magazine was started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19.

    Mumbo #9 $6.00
    Please You Will Sodomize Me #3 Sum 12 $4.50
    Lady Gardens $2.00
    Art of Dismantling: A Radical Artisan Collective and Ongoing Interview Series by Chris Richards, Matt Gauck, Lantz Arroyo, Alan Moore et al. (AK) $3.00 issues #1 and #2 $3.00 each
    Beyond the Affinity Group: The Organisational Challenge for Anarchists by Andrew Flood $4.50
    American Worker by Paul Romano (AK) $3.00
    Peops #7 by Fly $4.00
    Finite and Flammable: A Zine About Zines by various $3.00
    Drop Target #3 by Jon Chad and Alec Longstreth $5.00
    The Nutella Cookbook by Anna Williams $4.00
    Born To Kill Cheese Bike #5 by Pat McCarthy $2.00
    Infecticitis #11 Selfish by Halley $2.50
    Pulling Ink: Build a One Color Press and Start Screenprinting Zine by Rio $2.00
    Xerography Debt #31 by Davida Gypsy Breier $4.00
    Publick Occurances #13 by Danny Martin $2.00
    Gold by Sarah Royal $3.00
    Roll Big or Go Home by Rio Safari $2.00
    zines by Kriss Stress: Paper Houses #6 Margin Walker #4 $1.00 each
    ByUs #1 the Gary Historical and Cultural Society Summer Enrichment Program Zine by Miss Curiouser $4.00
    How To Commit Revolution In Corporate America by Domhoff G. William $5.00

    Comics & Comix
    Everybody Loves Tank Girl #1 $3.99
    comics by Noah Van Sciver: Dueling $2.00, Blammo #7.5  $4.00
    Blindspot #2 by Jospeh Remnant $5.00
    Gorilla Year #1 by Cara Bean $5.00
    East West Zodiac and Journal by Turtel Onli $5.00
    Raccoons by Cathon $5.00
    Pulse Burst and Wagon Engourdi by Vincent Giard $6.00
    Colibri #4 $6.00
    Mille Putois comics by Pascal Girard: Apartment Number 3 $4.00, Des Adolescents $5.00
    Hellenistic Philosophers by Drew Damron $2.00
    Cup O Noodles by JF $.50
    comics from Emily Armstrong: I Don’t Really Use a Recipe $2.00, Some of Us #3 $6.00
    Pilot Theory #1 by John L. Gehron $1.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Luchadoras by Peggy Adam (Blank Slate) $17.99
    Flower of Battambang by Em Satya $2.00
    Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf) $19.95
    No Straight Lines HC Four Decades of Queer Comics by Justin Hall (Fantagraphics) $35.00
    Scalped vol 9 Knuckle Up TPB by Jason Aaron and RM Guera $14.99
    Fables Deluxe Edition Book 4 by Bill Willingham et al. $29.99
    3 Story Secret History of the Giant Man by Matt Kindt $19.99

    Art & Design
    Melamine Car Bomb by Mark Connery $9.95
    Art By Tattooists: Beyond Flash by Jo Waterhous $9.95

    Fiction
    City Life Coming of Age in Chicago by John G. Lineham $12.00
    This Bright River by Patrick Somerville $24.99 – New fiction from this popular local writer.
    Sorry Please Thank You Stories by Charles Yu $24.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    The Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Margaret Killjoy  and Colin Foran (Combustion Books) $10.00
    Pickled Punks and Girlie Shows: A Life Spent on the Midways of America by Rick West (Schiffer) $24.99
    Chicago’s Haunt Detective by Raymond Johnson $16.99
    The Art of Mediumship: Psychic Investigation Clairvoyance and Channeling by Elaine Kuzmeskus $16.99
    The UFOs Hunters Guide: Sightings, Abductions, Hot Spots, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, Identified and Unidentified and More by Bret Lueder (Weiser) $19.95
    God Forgive These Bastards by Rob Morton (Cantankerous) $7.95
    Toilet Yoga: Because Sometimes Shit Doesnt Happen by John Johnston and Jeff Tow $11.99
    Witchs Brew: Secrets of Scents by Morwyn (Schiffer) $16.95

    Poltics & Revolution
    Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America by Daniel Katz and Richard A. Greenwald $20.95

    Magazines
    True Crime Jul 12 $8.99
    Sneaker Freaker #24 $14.50
    BlackBook Sep 12 $4.95
    Empire Aug 12 $9.99
    Tattoo Society #34 $7.99

    Sexy & Sexy
    Handbook vol 6 #3 2012 $6.00

    Music Books
    The Gun is Loaded by Lydia Lunch (Black Dog) $55.00

    Other Stuff
    More 2013 Moleskines.
    Gless DVD Lonliness is Contagious $3.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. The Baffler #20 $10.00 – In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down? This 172-page issue also offers poems, stories, graphic art, and, just for kicks, the first-ever look at Christopher Lasch’s 1972 novel. Contributors include Thomas Frank, Jed Perl, Steve Almond, Chris Lehmann, Jim Newell, Eugenia Williamson, Heather Havrilesky, Kim Phillips-Fein, Emma Garman, Chris Bray, Matt Hinton, Will Boisvert, Seth Colter Walls, Tod Mesirow, David D’Arcy, and The Homeless Economist, who has a timely suggestion: “Green Gallows for the Wall Street Bankers.

    2. Office Girl by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?…And don’t  miss Joe Meno at the Empty Bottle this coming Thursday (July 26th) at 9pm.

    3. Razorcake #69 $4.00

    4. Bust Aug Sep 12 $5.99

    5. Fallen Words: Eight Moral Comedies by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $19.95 – “In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword,the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can’t extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi’s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature.”

    6. R. Crumb’s Blues Jazz and Country by R. Crumb $21.95 – Finally back in print! Comes with CD.

    7. Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life $5.00

    8. Inferno: A Poets Novel by Eileen Myles (OR) $16.00 – “Inferno” is one of the best books I have ever read. Myles’ writing here wraps the brute force of a memoir within words so gorgeously warm, honed and unstoppable you have no choice but to keep reading. Her prose barrels forward, simultaneously demolishing and defining the identities her life is tethered to. It’s a book that’s simultaneously sexy, cranky, funny, dishy, insightful and human. As suspicious as I can be of poetry, this book is undeniably poetic – and an honest-to-goodness tour de force. Beyond recommended, friends- I think this one should be required. -EF

    9. Hologram For the King by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $25.00 – In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy’s gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment.

    10. Juxtapoz #139 Aug 12 $5.99

  • New Stuff This Week

    CAKE Book 2012 $15.00 – 96 pages and 8″x10″, this puppy was pretty much the icing on the first Chicago Alternative Comics Expo: a bizarro ‘thology/look book/rogues’ gallery of modern graphic magic: 52 layers, lovingly assembled by Andy “whutta weirdo” Burkholder. Wanna slice of this? Yeah you do. -EF …Includes work from Anders Nilsen, Sanya Glisic, Blaise Larmee, Eamon Espey, Molly O’Connell, John Hankiewicz, MaxMorris, Lyra Hill, Henry Glover, Michael Deforge, Edie Fake and more.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    SC Simplicity Consistency Comics Jul 12 by Gene Booth, Grace tran and Krista booth $.50
    Luck by Isaac McCay Randozzi $14.00
    various issues of SSLM Special Price Edition Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00 each
    Atomic Elbow Professional Wrestling Fanzine #1 and #2 by Robert $5.00 each
    zines and comics by Rebecca Mir including: She Is Restless vol 3 Maelstrom, Apostrophe to the Ocean and more.
    various issues of Dig Deep
    Duel Citizenship by Jen Twigg $2.00
    ZSH Bunny King $3.00

    Comics and Comix
    So You Want to Work In Comics Jul 12 by Delia Jean, Jenny Frison, Nicole Hollander, Tim Seeley, Mike Norton et al. $1.00
    Hungry Bottom Comics #1 Wow You Are Colour Code by Eric Kostiuk Williams $5.00
    Them Anarchy Kids #1 by Brian D. Evans $2.00
    Fatima #2 of 4 the Blood Spinners by Gilbert Hernandez $3.99
    Reset #4 of 4 by Peter Bagge $3.50
    Dance Party #1 Andrea Tsurumi $5.00
    Lou #4 and #5 by Melissa Mendes $1.00 each
    Suck It Up by Krystal  DiFronzo $6.00
    Noah Van Sciver In Conversation with Charles Forsman, Feb 2012 Interview $1.00
    My Sincerest Apologies by Jessica Campbell $1.00
    Gagger #1 by Dane Martin $1.00
    Background by Andy Burkholder $1.00
    Moose #7 and #8 by Max De Rodrigues $1.00 each
    End of The Fucking World Part 8 and 9 by Charles Forsman $1.00 each
    Anais in Paris by Mardou $3.00
    Corn by Mark Thompson $3.00
    various issues of Act by Steve Ditko
    Morbid Dork #2 by Alex Nall $3.00
    Yellow Zine #2 Pretentious Comics and Funnies by Roman Muradov $6.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Nurse Nurse by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $15.00
    American Elf Book 4 January 2008-December 2011 by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $24.95 – More of the collected sketchbook diaries.
    Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 9 vol 1 Freefall by Joss Whedon et al. $17.99
    No Mans Land HC by Blexbolex (Nobrow) $21.95
    Notebook Drawings 2011-2012 1 Subject Notebook Drawings by Jim Rugg (Adhouse) $30.00
    R. Crumbs Heros of Blues Jazz and Country by R. Crumb $21.95 – Reissue! Finally back in print. Comes with CD.
    Creepy Presents Rochard Corben: Definitive Collection of the Artists Work $29.99
    Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory Strategy and Practice by Lan Dong $45.00

    Art & Design
    A to Z of Mod by Paolo Hewitt $24.95
    Significant Objects 100 Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things by Rob Walker et al. (Fantagraphics) $24.99
    Graffitti Coloring Book 3 International Styles $9.95
    Color Ink Book vol 15 DIY Art Periodical $10.00
    Duck Tails and Car Culture by Raymond Mosken $39.95
    Classic Hits New Yorks Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writers by ALan Fleisher $39.95 – Pioneering subway graffiti writers.
    A bunch of Dover clip art books including themes like Mythological and Fantastic Creatures, Day of the Dead, Beasts etc. Most come with CDs for your zine or graphic design needs.
    Graffiti Tattoo vol 2 by Alan Ket et al. (From Here to Fame) $39.99

    Fiction
    Bluff City Underground: A Roman Noir of the Deep South by Erik Morse (Creation) $16.95
    Champleve Gallery by William Masero $11.00
    Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch (Hawthorne) $16.95

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Time Bomb Snooze Alarm by Bucky Sinister (Write Bloody) $15.00
    The Believer #91 $12.00 – Comes with a cassette tape this issue.
    Public Space #16 $12.00
    Sinister Wisdom #86 Sum 12 $6.00
    Jubilat #21 $8.00
    Fence vol 15 #1 Sum 12 $10.00
    Feathertale Review #9 $10.00
    Upstreet #8 $12.00
    Conium Review vol 1 #1 Spr 12 and #2 Fall 12 $12.00 each

    Childrens Books
    Night Riders by Matt Furie (McSweeneys) $15.95
    Benny’s Brigade by Arthur Bradford and Lisa Hanawalt (McSweeneys) $19.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    The Conspiracy Reader: From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to Government Sponsored Alien Cover Ups by Al Hidell and Joan Darc $14.95
    What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness by Stanley Bing $14.99

    Music Books
    Anarchy Evolution:Faith, Science and Bad Religion In a World Without God by Greg Graffin and Steve Olson $14.99 – Fuck armeggedon this is hell. Now in soft cover! -LM
    Young Flesh Required: Growing Up With the Sex Pistols by Alan G. Parker and Mick O’Shea (Soundcheck) $19.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way In Todays Changing Economy by DW Gibson (OR Books) $20.00
    Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox For Revolution From the People Who Brought You the Yes Men/Billionaires For Bush by Andrew Boyd (OR Books) $25.00

    DIY
    Mini Farming Guide to Fermenting, Self Sufficiency from Beer and Cheese to Wine and Vinegar Bread by Brett L. Markham $14.95
    Little Paper Airplanes: 20 Artists Reinvent the Childhood Classic by Kelly Lynn Jones et al. $19.95
    Handmade to Sell: Hello Crafts Guide to Owning Running and Growing Your Crafty by Kelly Rand et al. $16.99

    Magazines
    Bust Aug/Sep 12 $5.99
    Amass #44 $4.95
    Globetrotter #1 $15.00
    Spike Art Quarterly #32 Sum 12 $14.90
    Girls Like Us vol 2 #3 $12.00
    True Crime Sum Special 12 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
    World Explorer vol 6 #4 $8.95
    Make vol 31 $14.99
    Meatpaper #18 Sum 12 $7.95
    Open Minds Aug Sep 12 $6.50
    Mother Earth News #253 Aug Sep 12 $5.99
    Bizarre #190 Jul 12 $10.50
    Fortean Times #290 Aug 12 $11.99
    Razorcake #69 $4.00
    Black Velvet #73 $9.00
    Wire #341 Jul 12 $9.99
    Harpers Magazine Aug 12 $6.99
    Progressive Aug 12 $4.95
    Against the Current #159 Jul Aug 12 $5.00
    various issues of Upping The Anti Journal of Theory and Action
    Tattoo Collection #51 $7.75

    Sex & Sexy
    Kinky Nylons by Holly Randall $37.95
    Girls Who Score: Hot Lesbian Erotica Ily Goyanes (Cleis) $15.95
    Anything For You: Erotica for Kinky Couples by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis) $15.95
    Sadomania Sinema de Sade by Jack Hunter (Creation) $16.95
    Housewives at Play: Wide Open Spaces by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99
    Spunk #8 by Aaron Tilford $9.00

    Other Stuff
    Witches Almanac #32 Spr 2013-Spr 2014 $11.95 – Just in time for your hand fasting or ham fasting ceramony or whatever the pagans call it.

    The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

  • Weekly Top 10

     

    KerBloom #96 May Jun 12 is at #7 this week, on giving birth and having the universe thwart your best-laid plans.

    1. Bitch #55 $5.95
    2. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95
    3. The Baffler #20 $10.00
    4. Monocle vol 6 #55 Jul Aug 12 $12.00
    5. Telegram #25 Feb 12 $3.00
    6. Train Wreck #9 by Dave Brainwreck $1.00 – Like “Big Hands”, “Train Wreck” is packed deep with a from-the-eyes record of living, the experience of different places, the gut of what it means.

    7. KerBloom #96 May Jun 12 by Artnoose $2.00 (See above)
    8. Living Cooperatively In Intentional Community by Dan Copulsky $3.00 – An introduction to co-op living from an intentional communicator – easy to digest with a page of Chicago-specific resources. With Chicago resource List.

    9. Gather (Artist Publications Editions) by Todd Freeman (Issue Press) $12.00 – Beautiful drawing zine of meticulous penline knotwork. This one’s got some serious net rewards. -EF

    10. Gems #1 Interview Zine Featuring Sic Alps, Kraftwerk and Geneva Jacuzzi by Mike S. (Strange Cessation) $4.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    What? It’s not Halloween yet? Well everyday is Halloween in these parts.

    1. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Five by Joshua Chapman $1.00

    2. Tales To Thrizzle #8 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95

    3. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 American Food Issue $12.00

    4. Prince Zine by Joshua Amberson $5.00 –  R U Ready 4 This 1? Although Amberson is no fanatical Rainbow Child, there’s more than enough purple passion and royal dedication here to assemble an inspired and juicy analysis of Prince’s dynasty, talent, discography and lifestyle choices. I like most that the zine puts some time and thought into getting behind Prince’s rampant weirdness — it’s not at all some sorry joke at Prince’s expense like that Mirror interview, but it doesn’t exactly let him off the hook either – it’s critical AND playful AND willing to admit that at everyone’s core there IS a huge weirdo. It may also be worthy of note that this zine rolled into Quimby’s on a snowy day in April, so it’s a little cosmic too, y’know? -EF

    5. Animal Sex #3 Under the Sea by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Rotman renders in chaming detail the zombie dick raunch orgy that comprises the deep blue sea. Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter, take it from me. -EF

    6. The Baffler #19 $10.00

    7. Hi-Fructose #24 $6.95

    8. Start Your Own Haunted House by Gas Mask Horse $1.98 – Gas Mask Horse masterminds the DIY haunted punk house here in Chicago and put out this amazing spine-chilling zine bloodbath of how to grow your own Halloween hellhouse. Walk throughs, how-tos, free Frankenstein’s monster mask. Tricky treats. -EF

    9. Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life $5.00 – 116p, b&w, softcover, 4.25″x7″

    10. Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) -“In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy’s gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment.”

  • New Stuf This Week

    Four 1 32nd Scale Scenarios by Gary Kachadourian $5.00 – Urban models on a micro-scale to cut out so that you can create yr own dystopian settings for yr action figure collection! Throbbing Gristle soundtrack not included. – KS

    Zines
    Gather #1 Sum 12 Float Seasonal Recipes and Exceptional Ideas $19.99
    Drupe Fruits #3 Spr 12 $3.00
    Heeldragger by Chelsea Tadeyeske $4.00
    Valid Lush with CD by Luis Humberto Valadez $10.00
    Fin FinFinFinFinFin $3.50
    Absolutely Zippo #48 by Robert Eggplant $1.00

    Comics & Comix
    Tales To Thrizzle #8 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95 – Yes! A new issue! Huzzah! Hilarious.
    Face Man by Clara Bessijelle  (Domino Books In Association With Identity Group) $5.00
    Difficult Loves $6.00
    Weather Comic by Gabby Schulz (Secret Acres) $5.00
    Wayward Girls by Michiel Budel (Secret Acres) $6.00
    December 3 1967 An Alien Encounter by Michael Jasorka $13.00
    Castle Waiting #17 by Linda Medley (Fantagraphics) $3.95
    World War 3 Illustrated #43 Expression Repression Revolution $7.00
    Quiet Human Contact by Juliacks, John Hankiewicz, Onsmith and more $3.00
    It Doesnt Exist by Corinne Mucha $7.00
    Nevergirl a Moral Laxative by Henry Glover $3.00
    Urban Nomad #2 and #3 by Alisa Harris $5.00 each
    Counter Attack #3 by Alisa Harris $3.00
    Hell Yeah Rock On #1 by Chris Orridor $2.00
    Elephant Ear #1 by Jeremy Tinder $8.00
    Lurking Nocturners by Conor Stechschulte $6.00
    Less Than Three by Sam Sharpe $4.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Adventures of Venus by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $9.99
    Sanatorium Presents Duke and His Army A Dream Revisited by Emelie Ostergren (Domino Books) $13.00
    Dungeon Quest Book 3 by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    God and Science: Return of the Ti Girls by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Collects story from Love & Rockets New Stories vols 1 & 2 plus new pages!
    Only Skin TPB New Tales of the Slow Apocalypse by Sean Ford (Secret Acres) $21.95
    Not The Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman $24.95
    WIzzywig Portrait of a Serial Hacker by Ed Piskor (Top Shelf) $19.95
    Freaks of the Heartland by Steve Niles and Greg Ruth (Dark Horse) $29.99
    Fables vol 17 Inherit the Wind by Bill Willingham et al. (Vertigo) $14.99

    Art & Design
    Coming After Queer Time Arriving Too Late and the Spectre of the Recent Past by Jon Davies $26.00
    History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days 1776-1994 (DGV) $29.90
    XOOOOX (DGV) $30.00

    Fiction
    Resuscitation of a Hanged Man SC by Denis Johnson $15.00
    The Age of Wire and String by BEn Marcus $11.95 – Reprint of the classic.
    Last Man a Novel by W.C. Turck and The 99% $12.95 – Don’t miss the Occupy Chicago event for this book here on 7/14.
    Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan $24.95 – Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends – Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them -in this riveting story of an iconoclast.

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Her Knees Pulled In Poems by Elizabeth Jacobson $14.00
    Chicago Atlas #1 16 6 2012 $15.00
    Greenwoman vol 2 #1 Sum Fall 12 $5.95
    Zoetrope All Story Sum 12 vol 16 #2 $8.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    How They Croaked SC the Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg and Kevin O’Malley $9.99
    The Immorality Engine by George Mann $14.99 – a Newbury and Hobbes Investigation.
    American Gypsy by Oksana Marafioti  $16.00

    Music Books
    If You Like Metallica Here are Over 200 Bands CDs Movies and Other Oddities that by Mike McPadden (Backbeat) $14.99

    Magazines
    Else 3 2012 (idpure) by Elysee Lausanne $16.95
    Creative Review Jun 12 $14.99
    Bold Italic San Francisco Spr 12 #3 $4.00
    Afterall  #30 Sum 12 $10.00
    Skeptical Inquirer May Jul 12 vol 36 #4 $4.95
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 29 #2 $6.25
    Neural #42 $8.00
    South As a State of Mind Sum 12 #1 $13.00
    V Magazine #78 Fall Preview 12 $6.50
    Treating Yourself #35 $7.99
    Pin Up America May Jul Aug #10 $5.99
    Horror Hound #36 Jul Aug 12 $6.99
    Mojo #224 Jul 12 $9.99
    Monocle vol 6 #55 Jul Aug 12 $12.00
    Dissent Sum 12 $10.00
    In These Times Jul 12 $3.50
    Tattoo Revolution Jul 12 $11.75
    Sweets Magazine vol 5 #19 $5.99

    Sex & Sexy
    Hot Moms #16 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95

    Other Stuff
    Plywood Pizza Slice by Garth Borovicka $20.00
    Ten x Ten #2 A Collection of Prints and Music by Chicago Artists (Spudnik Press) – This second issue features local stars Jeremy Tinder, Nate Beaty, Joe Tallarico and more.