Category: regular weekly post

  • New Stuff This Week and Holiday Hours

    Quimby’s will be open on Monday, September 3, 2012 from noon to 5pm. Come buy the new issue of Tiki Magazine then sit back and pour yourself a mai tai at home!

    Tiki Magazine vol 8 #2 Fall Win 12/13 $6.99 – Celebrating the “Island” Lifestyle. This issue starts off with a beautiful cover by mosaic artists Maggie Rickard and Mark Bloom, better known as Velvet Glass. Other great features include famed carver Leroy Schmaltz, poet Don Blanding, comic book series the Neon Tiki Tribe, Disneyland Tiki bar Trader Sam’s…. and much,much more. With 66 pages of everything tiki.

    Zines & Zine-Related Book
    Paradox Lost #1  by Maxwell Stern and Timothy Dilich $7.00
    Activities by Megan Hopkins $12.00
    OK Cupid Messages I Have Not Responded To by Delphine Bedient $4.00
    Abservd Magazine vol 1 #2 $5.95
    Show Me The Money #37 by Tony Hunnicutt $2.50
    Remedy Quarterly #10 Discovery $7.50 – Food n’ kitchen journal of personal essays and eating well.

    KerBloom #97 Jul Aug 12 $2.00 – Artnoose writes a time capsule letterzine to new baby Bernard, frank and smart.

    Comics & Comix
    What It Is Comic  by Dawn Wing $7.00
    comics by Hazel Nowlevant: Ci Vediamo and Curio vol 1 Experimental Issue
    In Situ #1 and #2 by Sophie Yanow
    Garage by Roope Eronen $5.00
    Comics by Amanda Vahamaki: Maestro, In The Garden  $8.75 each
    Crass Sophisticate #29 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $2.00 – Oh Shit, is that Anthony Bourdain porking Lady Superdawg on the cover of the latest Crass Sophisticate? Josh and Justin maintain their reputation for utter mayhem and dubious taste with this latest “Kill the Pigs” installment of Crass Sophisticate  that drags the manic cousins through the garden and comes to a shocking  conclusion that has to be read to be believed. -EF

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Dal Tokyo HC by Gary Panter (Fantagraphics) $35.00
    One Soul by Ray Fawkes $24.99
    Supernatural Dogs of Edinburgh by Brian Wood and Grant Bond $14.99
    Heartless by Nina Bunjevac (Conundrum) $20.00
    After School Special by Dave Kiersh $15.00
    Homer – The Odyssey by Seymour Chwast $20.00

    Fiction
    Commodity a Love Story Told in Receipts by Caitlin R. Warner $12.00
    Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson $16.00 – Yes, THAT William Gibson. Now in soft cover.
    Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus (Semiotexte) $17.95
    First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon (Arsenal) $14.95
    The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides $16.00 – From the author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Now in soft cover.
    Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of Singularity Posthumanity and Awkward Social Situation by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross $24.99
    J and L Illustrated #3 $20.00 – J & L Books’ acclaimed J & L Illustrated series presents handsomely designed paperback volumes of fiction and art at an affordable price. Shout magazine wrote of the first volume, published in 2002: “This impressive collection of illustrations and fiction makes sense of the world like good liquor should.” Edited by writer Paul Maliszewski (author of Prayer and Parable and Fakers), this third volume of J & L Illustrated is comprised of 13 short stories by authors Amie Barrodale, Scott Bradfield, Stephen Dixon, Steve Featherstone, William H. Gass, Michael Martone, Joseph McElroy, Elizabeth Miller, Robert Nedelkoff, Hasanthikia Sirisena, Steve Stern, Mike Topp and Xiaoda Xiao. The Paris-based artist Shoboshobo provides accompanying drawings.

    Sex & Sexy
    Thrones of Desire Erotic Tales of Swords Mist and Fire by Mitzi Szerto (Cleis) $15.95
    Sexytime: Post Porn Rise of the Pornoisseur by Jacques Boyreau and Peter Van Horne (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    B Magazine #2 $8.99

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road by Michelle Tea $16.95
    100 Whores: Memoirs of a John by Dementiuk Mykola $15.00
    One Thousand Mustaches: A Cultural History of the Mo by Allan Peterkin (Arsenal) $12.95 – Both a lighthearted cultural history and an earnest style manual.
    My Heart Is an Idiot by Davy Rothbart $25.00 – Essays by the founder of FOUND Magazine and This American Life contributor.

    Politics & Revolution
    Occupying Language: Secret Rendezvous With History and the Present by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini (Zuccotti Park Press) $9.95 – From the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series.
    Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters by Victoria Bassetti $17.95

    DIY
    Recycled Home: Transform Your Home Using Salvaged Materials by Rebecca Proctor $19.95
    Cannabis Indica vol 2 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner $20.00

    Music Books
    The Indie Cred Test (Orange Second Edition) by Henry H. Owings $19.00
    Jagger: Rebel Rock Star Rambler Rogue by Marc Spitz $16.00
    Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett by Rob Chapman $20.00
    Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness – an overview in an in-depth reader format, bridging the gap between conventional accounts of the scene and the new pan-academic focus on Black Metal as a conduit for socio-cultural expression.  by Louis Pattison, Nick Richardson, Brandon Stosuy (Black Dog Publishing) $29.95
    Gainsbourg: The Biography by Gilles Verlant $24.95

    Magazines
    Bitch #56 $5.95
    Design Bureau Sep Oct 12 $8.00
    Wallpaper Sep 12 $10.00
    Backwoodsman vol 33 #5 Sep Oct 12 $4.95
    Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 12 vol 36 #5 $4.95
    Sovereign #39 Sep 12 $3.95
    Heroes and Desperados 2012 $8.95
    Pacific Standard Sep Oct 12 $5.99
    Bizarre #192 Sep 12 $10.50
    Pigeons and Peacocks #5 $13.99
    Gothic Beauty #37 $6.95
    Skunk vol 8 #2 $5.99
    Pin Up America Sep Oct #11 $5.99
    Decades #1: Beet Stain $15.00
    Lab Magazine #6 $9.99
    Under the Radar #42 $5.99
    Filter #49 $5.95
    Mojo #226 Sep 12 $9.99
    Big Cheese #147 $7.99
    Decibel #96 Oct 12 $4.95
    Monocle vol 6 #56 Sep 12 $12.00
    In These Times Sep 12 $3.50
    Empirical Sep 12 $6.99
    Reason Oct 12 $3.95
    Z Magazine Sep 12 $4.95
    Tattoo Revolution Sep 12 $11.75

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Golden Handcuffs Review vol 1 #15 $12.00

    Childrens
    Benny and Penny in Lights Out by Geoffrey Hayes $12.95

    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.

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    Congrats to this week’s winners!

    1. Emotions Are Hard/Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50

    2. Dig Deep #2 by Heather $1.00

    3. Counter Attack #3 by Alisa Harris $3.00

    4. Hypnotic Induction Technique by Grant Reynolds $4.00 – Jeezus, Reynolds… This Technique is a patty melt full of bloody hair and a side of mucus fries. Split down the middle, H.I.T. begins with a medley of shorter pieces so viciously viscously combined it’s hard to tell where the pizza puff ends and the rectum begins, and frankly, why would you want to? Progressively wrapping itself around itself, the wormy mass and thready entrails put their cord through a narrative meat grinder. The resultant chuck and splatter is the perfect segway to “Peeled and Deveined” a prying terrorchase lit by nightmare flashlight. These are under-the-skin stories, the kind that keep you coming back to map the terrain of each page while your subconscious slides under the quicksand surface. Get in a suggestible state and sew this onto your mind.  -EF

    5. Crap Hound #6 by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) $13.00 – This is the fourth-fucking-edition of Crap Hound #6: Death Phones and Scissors and all the bonus material has it busting the staple barrier, so you get all 100 pages previously ever released plus a 16-page addendum. You say addendum, I say amazing. Seriously, if you have eyes you should be looking at this. -EF

    6.   Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95
    7. Office Girl by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

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

    9. Cheer the Eff Up #3 by Jonas #3 $1.00

    10. Every Thug Is a Lady Adventures Without Gender by Julia Eff $4.00

    Is it me or is it hilarious the reoccuring “eff” theme of the last two on this list? Dismissed as coincidence! -LM

  • New Stuff This Week

    Index #1 by Caitlin Cass $3.50 – Blank comfort and empty anxieties, in the cards.

    Zines
    Fix Your Clothes by Raleigh Briggs $5.00 – By the author of the smash hit of a DIY book in these parts Make Your Home. Cute and fun, but more importantly helpful.
    The Day I Stopped Being Punk by Siue $2.00
    Paper Radio issues #10-#12 a Media and Radio Zine by DJ Frederick $3.00 each
    Baitline Audiozine $4.00 – From the folks who publish the free, flirty and dirty want ad service broadsheet that one often finds in our free area. Comes with with CD containing interviews and testimonials with satisfied Baitline customers.
    Self-Help Self-Fuck A Tiny Story by BR Coyote $1.50
    The Printed Blog, various issues, various prices
    Loosey Goosey vol II $16.75
    Docs #1 Sum 12 Journal of Microbiology Solutions to Puzzles of the Blood by Dan Dorsey, Geff Stiubhairt, Amanda Dorsey $2.00
    older issues of Publick Occurances (#10 and #11) by Danny Martin $2.00 each

    Comix & Comics
    Jiggy Jiggy Boys #1 $5.00
    Blunt Naked #1 $3.00
    Fatima #3 of 4 the Blood Spinners by Gilbert Hernandez $3.99
    Nobrow #7 $24.00
    Cloaca Crossing Coloring Booklet $4.00
    Gnartoons #1 Apr 12 by James Stanton $6.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    History of Underground Comics (20th Anniversary Edition) by Mark James Estren (Roin Publishing) $29.95
    Fight #2 Graphic Novel by Jack Teagle (Nobrow) $13.95
    Bicycle by Ugo Gattoni (Nobrow) $24.95
    Prophet Volume 1: Remission by Brandon Graham , Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple, Giannis Milogiannis $9.99 – Collects issues #21-#26.

    Art & Design
    Getting Into Face: 52 Mondays Featuring JoJo Baby and Sal-E (Schiffer) $45.00 – Photographer Bernard Colbert rigorously captures Wicker Park-based performance artists (and Quimby’s regulars!) JoJo Baby and Sal-E in genius moments as psychedelic Hindi gods, comic book villains, fantastical creatures, astronauts, and much, much more. Over 100 photos, as featured in the Clive Barker documentary titled JoJo Baby.
    Pictorial Websters:A Pocket Dictionary $12.95
    The Tattoo Project: Body, Art, Image by Vince Hemingson (Schiffer) $45.00 – Here are the final results of The Tattoo Project, works by 11 fine art photographers with a variety of styles who shot portraits of 100 heavily tattooed individuals. The brainchild of photographer Vince Hemingson, the event sequestered models and photographers in Vancouver s Photo Workshop for a multiple-day shoot. Thousands of portraits were produced that aimed to explore who each of the subjects was through their ink and the photographic process. This volume features more than 200 images from the event and truly reflects not only who the subjects are, but who the photographers are as well. From differing approaches to lighting, mood, and color to different methods for engaging the subjects, each of the artists clearly has a unique vision. This is an ideal book for photography and tattoo art students, teachers, and enthusiasts.

    DIY/Food/Drugs
    True Living Organics: Ultimate Guide to Growing All Natural Marijuana Indoors by The Rev (Green Candy Press) $20.00
    Hashish: History, Cultures, Ingredients, Recreation, Medicine,  Hashish Making…$35.95
    Fifty Ways to Cure a Hangover: Weird Wacky and Wonderful Ways for Prevention and Cure by Sharratt Cara Frost and Jason Ford (Chronicle) $5.99

    Fiction
    We Only Know So Much by Elizabeth Crane $14.99
    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn $25.00
    Filling In the Blanks by Anthony Roberts $12.00
    The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (Back Bay) $16.99 – Now in soft cover.
    Between Heaven and Here by Susan Straight (McSweeneys) $24.00

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Haarp Heavy: Anti Authoritarian Rap Poems by Che Christ $20.00
    McSweeneys #41 $27.00
    Exact Change Only Win 2012 and Sum 2012 $10.00 each

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Breaking the Mirror of Heaven: The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval and Ahmed Osman $20.00 – Egyptology conspiracy theory! Exposes the many cycles of monument destruction and cultural suppression in Egypt from antiquity to the present day.
    Wall Street Coloring Book – Now You Can Color and Draw Like the Big Boys $7.99
    Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up ed . by Leah Odze Epstein et al. $16.00 – An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years.
    Truth According to Sally Miller $15.00
    Fast Girl: Don’t Brake Until You See the Face of God And Other Good Advice From the Racetrack by Ingrid Steffensen $16.00
    Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything by Randy Cohen $24.95 – By the entertaining and wise Ethicist from The New York Times.
    Darkest America Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen $26.95 – This book investigates the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a black art form—and embraced it as such. And, as the authors reveal, black minstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popular black entertainment, particularly in the work of contemporary artists like Dave Chappelle, Flavor Flav, Spike Lee, and Lil Wayne. Darkest America explores the origins, heyday, and present-day manifestations of this tradition, exploding the myth that it was a form of entertainment that whites foisted on blacks, and shining a sure-to-be controversial light on how these incendiary performances can be not only demeaning but also, paradoxically, liberating.
    Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures In the Counterculture by Paul Krassner (Soft Skull) $18.95

    Politics & Revolution
    2 Christopher Hitchens Books: Mortality and Arguably: Essays (in soft cover)
    The Man Who Never Died: The Life Times and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by William M. Adler $18.00

    Music Books
    How Music Works by David Byrne (McSweeneys) $32.00
    Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse $27.99

    Childrens Books
    Stories 1234 by Eugéne Ionesco and Etienne Delessert (McSweeneys) $19.95
    Hilda and the Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson (Nobrow) $24.00
    Maya Makes a Mess by Rutu Modan (Toon) $12.95

    Magazines
    Chicago IRL #4 Sum 12 $15.00
    McSweeneys #41 $27.00
    Harpers Magazine Sep 12 $6.99
    Paper Sep 12 $4.00
    Cabinet #46 Punishment $12.00
    Eye Magazine #83 Spr 12 $30.00
    True Crime Aug 12 $8.99
    Murder Most Foul #85 $9.99
    Interzone #241 $8.50
    Fortean Times #291 Sep 12 $11.99
    Press the Fashion vol 2 #1 Fall 12 $9.99
    Brownbook #34 $14.99
    Arise #16 $9.99
    The State vol 2 Sum 12 Speculative Geographies $14.00
    Empire Sep 12 $9.99
    Wire #342 Aug 12 $9.99
    Magnet #90 $4.99
    Clash #76 $8.99
    Uncut Sep 12 #184 $9.99

    Sex & Sexy
    Stepcest Taboo by Evan J. Xavier $9.00

    Other Stuff
    New blank journals and notebooks, such as My Beautiful Life: My Autobiography in Drawings $16.95, Mix Tape Mini Eco Journal Set $9.95, Make Something Good Today Blank Journal by Jen Renninger $9.95
    Two different 2013 Hark a Vagrant Wall Calendars by Kate Beaton: Beethoven Birthday Party and There She Blows Literary (D&Q) $14.95 each

    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.

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    Still shot of entries from the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest Olympics “Make a Zine Cover” Competition from opening night. And guess what? Dates have been announced for the next Chicago Zine Fest, which will be March 8th and 9th 2013. For more info, see chicagozinefest.org.

    1. DemonTears by Bernie McGovern (Hic and Hoc) $6.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out for the event with minicomics superstars Bernie McGovern, Lauren Barnett and Neil Fitzpatrick.

    2. Handbook vol 6 #3 2012 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – Steve Cruz, Keith Haring, reader dick, curated mens, elevator porn – a real handfull. -EF

    3. Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99

    4. Uppercase #14 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00

    5. Hypnotic Induction Technique by Grant Reynolds $4.00 – Jeezus, Reynolds… This Technique is a patty melt full of bloody hair and a side of mucus fries. Split down the middle, H.I.T. begins with a medley of shorter pieces so viciously viscously combined it’s hard to tell where the pizza puff ends and the rectum begins, and frankly, why would you want to? Progressively wrapping itself around itself, the wormy mass and thready entrails put their cord through a narrative meat grinder. The resultant chuck and splatter is the perfect segway to “Peeled and Deveined” a prying terrorchase lit by nightmare flashlight. These are under-the-skin stories, the kind that keep you coming back to map the terrain of each page while your subconscious slides under the quicksand surface. Get in a suggestible state and sew this onto your mind.  -EF

    6. Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley (“Pais) and Boo Radley $15.00 – The first magazine by cats for cats. (Recommended reading. -LM)

    7. Sex Gender Identity Orientation and Discrimination by Dan Copulsky $.25

    8. Taking the Lane vol 7 BikeSex $4.00 – Bikesexuals speak out.

    9. Everythingness by Neil Fitzpatrick (Hic and Hoc Press) $5.00

    10. Colors #84  $8.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Thank you to the charming David Rees (who we demand pose in our vintage photobooth in his apron) and for everybody that came to our event this past week (and a special thanks to audience members who participated as pencil sharpening novices). David demonstarted how to do some flashy sharpening moves as well as explained how to start your very own pencil sharpening business. Follow your dreams, kids!

    Handbook for Hot Witches: Illustrated Guide to Magic Love and Creativityby Dame Darcy $15.99 – Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells—voilà!—Handbook for Hot Witches. Ever wondered what your dreams mean? You can look them up here. Want to learn to knit? This book can get you started. With sections on witch holidays, love, crystal ball gazing, meditating, and much more, this fully illustrated guide is the handbook that will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic. What kind of witch are you? Let Dame “Meatcake” Darcy help you figure it out. And here’s an early bird announcement: Dame Darcy will be here at Quimby’s on October 29th to help you get your halloween samhain on.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    We’ll Never Have Paris: Greatest Hits – Literary Journal of Non-Fiction by Andria Alefhi and Jaime Borschuk $7.95
    Butch Nor Femme #6 Your Secretary #12 Split Zine by Lynne and Jami Sailor $1.00
    Tributaries #2 Illinois Withholding Allowance by JC $2.00
    Tributaries #3 On Tricycling History and Endings by JC $3.00
    When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler It’s Because They Think Sardines Will Be Thrown Into the Sea by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera $3.00
    Belmonte (De Francisco Lamb editions) $3.00
    Happie volume 1 by Lamb $10.00
    Alleyways: Eight Stone Press by William P. Tandy $4.00
    D Tuned #1 Jul 12 by Danica Favorito $1.00
    Emotions Are Hard – Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50
    Mystery & Adventure Series Review #46 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
    Glance in the Rearview Mirror: Neoliberal Ideology from its Origins… by Toussaint (Haymarket) $4.95
    Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible by Mike Davis (Haymarket Books) $4.95
    Cool Food #1 by Jessalyn Aaland $20.00 – That title’s no lie! Aaland reviews foods and cactuses, puts it out there whut’s rad about eating and hot tips on rad ways to eat the rad things. Blue plate special scrappy friend fun, written with frankjoy and illustrated sticker tripper doodlebugs of broccoli faces and donut buddies.

    Comics & Comix
    Colour Me Busy by Keith Jones (Koyama Press) $5.00
    Everybody Loves Tank Girl #2 Mahfood and Martin $3.99
    Me and You Chapter 3 $4.00
    Bots is Bots #1 by Gregg K $1.00
    Steel Sterling #1 by Michael Rae Grant and Gabriel Winslow Yost $5.00
    Dimensions issues #3 and #4  $15.00 each
    Let’s Do It BY Zejian Shen $3.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books) $24.95
    Comics Class by Matthew Forsythe (Koyama) $5.00
    Tomorrow Never Knows: A Comics History of the Psychedelic Beatles by Sean Ward (Harth Publishing) $12.00
    Economix: How Our Economy Works and Doesnt Work in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin et al. $19.95
    Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics by Margreet de Heer $16.95
    Graphic novels from Matt Dembicki: XOC the Journey of a Great White and District Comics: an Unconventional History of Washington DC
    The Creativity of Ditko by Craig Yoe et al. $39.99
    Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley and Boo Radley $15.00 – Important news from the perspectives of the two cats: Dust, Inside Utility Closet, plus Catnip Treats. Pressing matters! Inquiring minds are glad to read this because it’s hilarious.

    Art & Design
    Quoteskine vol 1 by Lee Crutchley (Carpet Bombing Culture) $18.95
    Paper Works (Gingko Press) $34.95
    From Ummmm to Der by Thomas Campbell 2009-2011 (Gingko Press) $29.95 – Very pretty monograph of Campbell’s recent work. He was prominently featured in the ground-breaking touring exhibition (2003-2008) “Beautiful Losers” and also the subsequent book and film.

    Drawn By Instinct by Tiffany Bozic $45.00
    Guide to Troubled Birds, Profusely Illustrated by Mincing Mockingbird $13.99
    Wacky Packages Gallery Most Comprehensive Resource Archive Compiled to Date From Two of the Most Knowledgeable Collectors in the Hobby by various (Last Gasp) $15.00
    Idle Hands: The Art of Coop (Baby Tattoo) $50.00
    Blab World #2 by Monté Beauchamp (Last Gasp) $24.95
    Alice by Trevor Brown $70.00
    Rivers Forgotten by Jeremy Kai (Koyama Press) $25.00
    Typoholic by the Victionary Workshop $39.95
    You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat by Banksy $35.00
    Stencil Wars: the Ultimate Book of Star Wars Inspired Street Art $29.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Complex of Carnage: Dario Argento Beneath the Surface by Jack Hunter – From the Cult Movie Files.
    Eccentropedia: The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived by Chris Mikul and Glenn Smith (Headpress) $25.95
    Flesh Ripping Ghouls of London: Murder, Madness and Mayhem from the Penny Bloods by JM Rymer et al (Creation) $14.95
    Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium by Mark Edward (Feral House) $18.95
    The Worlds Weirdest Places by Nick Redfern $15.99

    Music Books
    The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines By Candice Black $14.95

    Fiction
    One in Every Crowd Stories by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press) $15.95
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche $16.95

    Sex & Sexy
    Salome and Under the Hill Forbidden Erotic Classics by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley (Wet Angel) $14.95
    Das Einhorn #3 Aug Sep 12 $6.00

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99
    Bizarre #191 Aug 12 $10.50
    Paleo Magazine Aug Sep 12 $5.99
    High Times Oct 12 $5.99
    Pinstriping #33 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    Mojo #225 Aug 12 $9.99
    Maximumrocknroll #352 Sep 12 $4.00
    Fader #81 Aug Sep 12 $5.99
    WHOA (Whats Happening With Original Artists) Magazine Fall 12 $6.95
    Filter Good Music Guide Aug Sep 12 $2.99
    Cinema Retro #4 Movie Classics Special Edition $15.95
    The Indignados and Occupy Movements Across the World Reader $2.50
    Monocle Mediterraneo #5 Sum 12 $8.00
    ASR #58 Sum 12 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
    Tabu Tattoo #48 $7.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal #6 Sum 12 $12.00
    Mudfish #17 $12.00
    American Athiest 2nd and 3rd Quarter 12 $4.95
    Creative Nonfiction #45 Sum 12 $10.00
    Overtime Hour 25 Black Shift by TE Winningham III $2.00

    Other Stuff
    Plastic Crimewave Vinyl (Notes and Bolts Records and Tapes) $5.50 – 7″ of psychedelic goodness! On the A side, Steve a.k.a. Plastic Crimewave croons like Bowie if he were truly in space while Tsuyama from Acid Mothers Temple adds creepy ambience in the background. On the B side, Steve gets hazey as the shoegazey goodness seeps off of the grooves and through the speakers. A solid deal and the first vinyl outing from local zine turned vinyl shiller Notes and Bolts!

    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

     

    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