Category: regular weekly post

  • Weekly Top 10

    I Like Your Work debuts in our Weekly Top 10 at #7.

    1. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00
    2. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00
    3. Is It the Future Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00
    4. Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue $12.00
    5. Bust Magazine Jun/Jul 12 $5.99
    6. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95
    7.  I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette (for more info, see above)
    8. Words One Hundred Stories #1 by Re Harris $2.50 – Flash fiction of ripped sleeves, torn hair, broken hearts and wrecked heels.
    9. First Sign of Anything by Kevin Hooyman $10.00
    10.  Graze #1 Spr 12 by Cyndi Fecher and Brian J Solem $10.00 – Fooding pursuits near and far, gourmand reporting and lit.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1.  Cartooning Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti (Yale) $13.00 – This is about as close you are going to get to having Ivan Brunetti come to your house and teach you how to make great comics. Turns out, it’s pretty damn close – Philosophy and Practice serves up a concise and well-honed crash course on finding and fine tuning your comics voice. -EF

    2. Art of Daniel Clowes Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams ComicArts) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF

    3. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago.

    4. Weirdo #28 Verre Deau $4.95

    5.   What It Is by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95

    6. Picture This – The Near Sighted Monkey Book, Learn How to Art with the Near-Sighted by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

    7. Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green (McSweeneys) $29.99 – A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is a young Catholic struggling with all the usual problems of adolescence-puberty, agnosticism, and the fear that the strange ray of energy emanating from his private parts will strike a picture of the Holy Virgin Mary. Deeply confessional, with artwork that veers wildly between formalist and hallucinogenic, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is the controversial masterpiece which invented the Autobiographical Graphic Novel.

    8. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if your dad was DV? You might eat ice-cream together maybe? Or maybe he’d freeze your best friend in it maybe? No?

    9. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

    10. Remedy Quarterly #9 Escape $7.50

  • A Couplaweeks a'New Stuff

    The Lowbrow Reader by Jay Ruttenberg (Drag City) $19.95- Writings and Drawings from the World Reknowned Comedy Journal. Its eight issues have featured contributions from David Berman, Shelley Berman, Neil Michael Hagerty, Lee Hazlewood, Gilbert Rogin, and other kind souls moonlighting from the hallowed worlds of rock music, fiction, journalism, cartooning, and television.

    Did you miss the past two weeks of weekly new stuff updates? Well we’ve been budy little busybodies with both the Version Pop Up shop in Bridgeport the second weekend Of May and then the Comics Philosophy and Practice Conference in Hyde Park. Thanks to everybody that came out to both of these weekend long events! And! We now have the Comics conference posters available on our website, for mail order, designed by Chris Ware in both a larger size and a smaller size. And for the low, low price of $30.00 each!

    Zines & Zine-Related Books

    Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season Four by Joshua Chapman $1.00
    The Book of the Zine Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People Before Marriage by Bryce Galloway and Friends (Clouds) $29.95 – Pages from issues 1 through 37.
    Tales From the Combat Zone Workers Write $10.00 – Bonus Overtime Hour 10 The Home Front by Paul Silverman.
    OLD ISSUES OF ROLLERDERBY by LISA CARVER!
    With an E #2 Vegan Dining in Walt Disney World /Butch nor Femme Withane by Lynne Monsoon $1.50
    View of Outer Space From an Aquarium: From opening at Famous Accountants $2.00
    Badlands Gazette Imp of the Perverse $2.00
    Head Shot vol 1 by Gibson Culbreth and friends $3.00
    Fact and Folklore vol 1 Insect Orders and their Mythologies Lepidoptera Coleopte by Julia Spagnuolo $2.00
    My Friends by Maria Raquel Cochez $5.00
    5 x 8 Zine #1 by Scott Blake $5.00
    Thoughts and Other Stuff #2 Seen and Heard $1.50
    Ilse Content #11 by Alexis Wolf and Rose Oliveira $3.50
    Capitalism and its Discontents by Anne Elizabeth Moore $10.00
    Metatron #2 May 12 $4.50
    Imperfection is Perfection $2.00
    Hysteria #1 $1.00
    Unconventional Route #1 by Stella Rae $3.00 – Flood stories and miscellany done with cozy cut-n-paste collage.

    Tips for Aliens – A Guide For the Interstellar Traveler Hand Gestures by Kailey Stevens $2.00
    With Boys #2 Mementoes by Tim Johnson $5.00
    Does Not Equal Happy Days $5.00
    Every Thug Is a Lady – Adventures Without Gender by Julia Eff $4.00
    Taking the Lane vol  6 Lines on the Map by Elly Blue $3.00
    Fire and Ice Warm Cool and Spicy Vegan Recipes from Hot and Soul by Joshua Ploeg (Cantankerous) $4.35
    Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #8 Win 11 12 Grassroots Modernism $20.00
    We Only See The Sky As It Was by Gregg Evans $6.00
    Mint Milk #1 by Erica Parott $6.00
    Kriss Stress zines: Margin Walker #2 $2.00, Paper Houses #4 Southern Subcultural Snippets Part 3 $3.00
    O Public Art Project by Scott Blake $2.00
    Stupor Washed in Dirt by Steve Hughes $2.00
    Smoke Oracles Scrying the Divine a Book of Automatic Paintings by Johnny Decker Miller $6.50
    Filth #6 Spr 12 $4.00
    Groovy Pickle #2 by Pamela Larson $2.00
    Disappearing #1 by Gloria Cristina $4.00
    Dust Moats by Jesse Smith $3.00
    FAQNP #4: Queer Nerd Publication, Science Fiction and Fantasy Issue by Raymond Cha $10.00
    Remedy Quarterly #9 Escape $7.50
    Scuzz Report #2 by Ben Mister $8.00
    Marc Clavary titles, each $1.00: Undercover Ablutions, Thin White Duke and the Beatle a Childrens Story, Chinatown and more.
    Range RAD 0001 Local Distant Fringe by Radius $5.00
    Occupy Voice #1 $5.00
    Overtime Hour 24 Peddling Souls by Cassondra Windwalker $2.00
    Class Struggle #74 by Spark $3.00 $3.00

    Comics and Comix
    Reset #2 of 4 by Peter Bagge $3.50
    Goat Fuck Your Self #1 by Jack Mulkern $10.00 – From the satanic shit spires of the Goat Fucker publishing empire slithers Mulkern’s high-casualty chromaTroma  solo comic crudscrawl. -EF   –  BEST. NAME. FOR. A. COMIC. EVER. -LM
    Tales of the Night Watchman vol 1 #1 by Dave Kelly and Lara Antal $5.00
    Chrome and Dust Chapter 1 by Ed Siemienkowicz $6.00
    Love Story #1 by Sarah Howell $4.00
    Showman: The Bret Braddock Adventures #2 Overtime Approved by David Blumenstein $10.00
    Handball Heaven by Ben Hutchings $5.00
    Comics by Mike Hawkings: Introduction to Frosnall Graaf #1 – Please Allow Us Brief Dominion Of Your Heart and Mind and Night Out In Frosnall Graaf #2 and more.
    Inurrectos by Dave Ortega $6.00
    Veggie Dog Saturn #6 by Jason Young $3.00
    More Liz Prints comics!! Each $5.00: Four Squares #3 Mundane Gore Squares (with Maris Wicks, Tim Finn, Joe Quinone), Alone Forever #2, I Swallowed the Key to My Heart #3 Truer Than True Tales of Strange Romance
    Everythingness by Neil Fitzpatrick $5.00
    Bowman #2 2016 Apr 12 by Pat Aulisio $5.00
    Majnuna $1.00
    Pointless Adventures of Kid Man #1 by Bob Pierce $1.00
    Humans Are the Weirdest by Jen Breach $3.00
    Comics by Andrew Fulton, various prices: Beach Balloon, I Will Beat You at Mario Kart and You Will Cry Romance in Three Laps, Mad Bonaz 4 Lyfe and more.
    Corey The Dweller In The Hollow by Michael Hawkins $8.00
    Bird Brain Comix #1  $4.00
    Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart (Retrofit Comics) $6.00 –  Hart plays it fast and loose with this beach-bound poopy-baby quest. Drawn with relaxed flair – a little like maakies or old school simpsons in the cavalier slapstick and general heart. -EF
    Carbirish the Time We Met the Slenderman by Ben Fetters $4.00
    Rat Hex #1 by Jesse McManus, Michael Deforge et al. $10.00 – Mad infestation from the driptone pestilence machine Space Face Books…unleashing a plague of surreal comics vermin from Michael DeForge, Robert Beatty, Jesse McManus, Clint Colburn and Matt Lock. No joke this ‘thology is ratty as hell -adventures in liquid and muscles and liquid muscles and and yr gunna love it. -EF

    Anna May Wong Chinese American Movie Star by Julia Von De Bur $4.00
    Sweet Summer by Robnoxious $4.35
    Comics from Rachel Swanson: Everybody Loves Comics a Comics Anthology, Royal Rejects and more.
    Zegas #2 by Michel Fiffe $12.00
    Boots and Sandal #1 by A. Tarun $3.00
    End of The Fucking World Parts 6 and 7 by Charles Forsman $1.00 each
    Lou #2 and #3 by Melissa Mendes $1.00 each
    Moose issues #1-#6 by Max De Radrigues $1.00 each
    Rebel Rebel #1 by MJ Robinson $2.00
    Vortex #2 by William Cardini $6.00
    (Creative Woes Presents) Fresh Pressed and Ready to be Dressed by Alexandra Martin  and Marc Sciandra $3.50

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00
    Year of the Beasts by Cecil Castellucci and NAte POwell $16.99
    Idyll by Amber Albrecht (D&Q) $19.95
    Silence by Bruce Mutard $10.00
    Vampires Nee Love Too Carpe Noctem by Brian Cattapan $13.00
    Complete Talamaroo by Alabaster $15.00 – All of Alabaster’s grumpy, humpy Talamaroo comics under one Talamaroof – everything about this book is ideal. Three mini comics and a new adventure and bound up in a killer Leif-Goldberg flavored wraparound silkscreened cover! The best! -EF

    Lars The Last Viking Goes to the End of the World by Matt Taylor $10.00
    Sensitive Creatures by Mandy Ord $10.00
    Trials of Francis Bear by Gregory Mackay $15.00
    Nonnonba by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $26.95
    Interiorae TPB by Gabriella Giandelli (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Mysterious Traveler The Steve Ditko Archives vol 3 (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Space Ducks #1 An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness by Daniel Johnston $19.99
    Mastering Comics – Drawing Words and Writing Pictures Continued by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden $34.99
    Ojitos Borrosos by Ines Estrada $10.00 – A simply killer collection of Inés Estrada’s amazing comics – charmed and pervy and smart and totally unpredictable….I can’t say enough good things about these except that you will love them. Reading them is like drinking your favorite juice and listening to your favorite record on a really nice day. In fact, if you did that AND read these comics all at once you’d probably send yourself into a self-perpetuating orgasm vortex. Ojitos collects a lot of odds and ends – minis and anthologies and one-pagees, and orders them up well with english translation for gringos like me. Get this get this get this. -EF
    Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $16.95 – In soft cover.
    Me Likes You Very Much by Lauren Barnett $14.00 – Are you planning your August calendar yet? Well you better save the date: Lauren Barnett and friends will be here Quimby’s on August 18th! More info as the date comes closer. Want to make sure you always get our monthly e-mail updates about events, see the box at quimbys.com  to sign up to make sure.
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    Babys in Black Astrid Kirchnerr Stuart Sutclilffe and the Beatles by Arne Bellstorf $24.95
    Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $16.95 – In soft cover.
    Goodbye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $16.95 – In soft cover.
    Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle (D&Q) $14.95
    Crogans Loyalty the Crogan Adventures Book 3 by Chris Schweizer $14.99
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Library Edition HC vol 1 by Joss Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan and more.
    Comic Book History of Comics $21.99
    Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations Part One 1783-1953 by Jean Pierre Filiu and David B. $24.95
    First Sign of Anything by Kevin Hooyman $10.00 – It looks beaaauuutiful.

    Art & Design Books
    Brain Activity by David Shrigley et al. $40.00
    I Like Your Work Art and Etiquette (nplusone) Paper Monument $8.00
    People I’ve Never Met and Conversations I’ve Never Had  by Nick White (Nobrow) $18.00
    Mengeles Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics by K. Thomas et al. $19.95
    Design Act Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today Critical Roles… by Magnus Ericson $24.95
    Presidential Campaign Posters From the Library of Congress $40.00
    Buenos Aires Street Art by G. Dobleg $25.00
    All City Writers by Andrea Caputo $49.95
    Draw Me a House: Architectural Ideas Inspiration and Colouring… by Thibaud Herem $20.00

    Fiction
    Loom of Ruin  by Sam McPheeters $16.00
    Healers Legacy by Sharon Skinner $16.99
    Rare Earth by Paul Mason (OR Books) $15.00
    Further Interpretations of Real Life Events by Kevin Moffet $14.99
    A bunch of Philip K. Dick reprints! (Counter Clock World, Man Who Japed, etc.)
    Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley $17.95
    Walking to Hollywood Memories of Before the Fall by Will Self (Grove) $15.00
    Orientation and Other Stories  by Daniel Orozco $13.00
    Antwerp by Roberto Bolano $9.95 – Now in soft cover.
    Railsea by China Mieville $18.00

    Sex and Sexy
    Tokyo Lucky Hole 25th Anniversary Edition by Araki (Taschen) $14.99
    Kink #16 vol 1 2012 by Paco Y Manolo $29.99 – Glossy and imported, for your viewing pleasure.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Pure Filth by Jamie Gillis and Peter Sotos (Feral House) $69.00
    It Chooses You by Miranda July (McSweeneys) $24.00
    Tasteful Nudes and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation by Dave Hill $24.99
    Bike Tribes: Field Guide to North American Cyclists Bicycling by Mike Magnuson and Danica Novgorodoff $18.99
    Popular Crime Reflections on the Celebration of Violence by Bill James $17.00
    Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories All Star Cast of Literary Legends by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer $29.99
    Cryptoscatology Conspiracy Theory as Art Form by Guffey Robert $19.95
    The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, Other Obstacles on the Path by Bike Snob NYC $16.95
    Brightest Thing in the World 3 Lectures from the Institute of Failure by Matthew Goulish (Green Lantern) $12.00
    Future Primitive Revisited by John Zerzan (Feral House) $15.00
    Like A Fat Kid Love Cake by Casey Droege $18.00
    White Elephants on Yard Sales Relationships and Finding What Was Missing by Katie Heagele (Microcosm) $7.95
    Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen $26.00
    This is How – Help for the Self in Overcoming Shyness…by Augusten Burroughs $24.99

    Politics & Revolution
    The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post 911 Torture Program by Larry Siems (OR) $22.00
    Hopeless – Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank (AK) $16.95
    Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement by various (PM Press) $19.95
    Historic Unfulfilled Promise by Howard Zinn (Citylights) $16.95
    Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourmer Truth Organization 1969-1986 (AK) $19.95

    Music Books
    The Clash – The Music That Matters Complete Guide to their Music Timeline by Tony Fletcher $14.95
    The Talking Heads’ Fear of Music, of Continuum’s 33 1/3 Series by Jonathan Lethem $12.95
    The Official Book of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Lists by Judy McGuire and Cliff Mott  $16.95

    DIY and FOOD and DRUGS

    At Home on the Range by Elizabeth Gilbert and Margaret Yardley Potter (McSweeneys) $24.00 – Cookbook presented by Gilbert’s great grandmother.
    New American Vegan by Vincent J. Guihan (PM Press) $17.95
    Barefoot and In the Kitchen Vegan Recipes For You by Ashley Rowe (Microcosm) $8.95
    The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture, Green Homes, Edible Plant… by N. Faires $16.95
    The Bike Owners Handbook by P. Drinkell $14.95
    Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History of Candy by Kate Hopkins $25.99

    Magazines
    Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago. Aren’t we funny? Rag, you know like, what you clean a bar with? But also another name for a magazine? And crafted? As in, craft beer but then also this mag is crafted in Chicago? Hello? Hello? Where are you going? Are my jokes that bad? -LM
    Juxtapoz #137 Jun 12 $5.99
    Bust Jun Jul 12 $5.99
    Mother Earth News #252 Jun Jul 12 $5.99 – This mag was DIY before the term DIY existed.
    Apartamento #9 $19.95
    Bizarre #188 May 12 $10.50
    Tape Op #89 May Jun 12 $4.95
    IdN vol 19 #2 $19.95
    ArtForum May 12 $10.00
    White Fungus #12 $9.99
    Dwell Jun 12 $5.99
    Skeptic vol 17 #2 $6.95
    Flaunt #121 $10.95
    Open Minds Jun Jul 12 $6.50
    VMan #26 Sum 12 $5.95
    High Times Jul 12 $5.99
    Skunk vol 7 #8 $5.99
    Treating Yourself #34 $7.99
    Blood and Thunder – Womens Roller Derby Magazine #20 $5.99
    Paper May 12 $4.00
    BlackBook #91 Apr May 12 $4.95
    Treats Magazine #3 $20.00
    Time Out Chicago Kids Jun Jul 12 $2.99
    Fader #79 Apr May 12 $5.99
    Filter #48 $5.95
    Gastronomica vol 12 #2 $12.99
    Horror Hound #35 May Jun 12 $6.99
    Wire #339 May 12 $9.99
    Razorcake #68 $4.00
    unFLOP Paper #3 $49.95 – A unisex, bi annual magazine in English, that investigates, critically, contemporary culture. We only have one! Want more info about it? Check out info about it on their website here then come to Quimby’s and pick it up!
    Hyphen #25 Spr 12 $7.95
    Z Magazine May 12 $4.95
    Against the Current #158 May Jun 12 $5.00
    The Progressive Jun 12 $4.95
    Harpers Magazine Jun 12 $6.99
    Amass #43 $4.95
    Fat Magazine #2 B Reinvention $14.99
    Vinyl Riot #4 Spr 12 $13.00
    Skin and Ink Aug 12 #137 $6.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    The Believer #89 $8.00
    Parody vol 1 #1 $5.00
    Verse vol 27 #2 #3 $6.00
    Two With Water #2 May 12 $8.00
    N1FR the N Plus 1 Film Review Supplement Spr 12

    Childrens Books
    Middle School Get Me Out of Here by James Patterson et al., featuring illustrations by Laura Park $15.99

    Other Stuff
    Comics Philosophy and Practice Conference posters, designed by Chris Ware: larger size and smaller size. $30.00 each.

    2013 Moleskines are out. Check out our variety of styles, sizees and colors. We also have some 18 months ones that start in July 2012 and end at the end of 2013.

    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

    Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart debuts on the weekly top 10 at #9 this week.

    Thanks to everybody who came out to the Comics & Philsophy Conference at the Universty of Chicago this past weekend. We have two posters Chris Ware designed for the conference we’re proud to be selling, which are both available for purchase on our website! You can look at them here and here.

    1. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF…Thanks to everybody that came out for the Clowes and Buenaventura signing here at Quimby’s last week!

    2. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

    3. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00 – Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago. Aren’t we funny? Rag, you know like, what you clean a bar with? But also another name for a magazine? And crafted? As in, craft beer but then also this mag is crafted in Chicago? Hello? Hello? Where are you going? Are my jokes that bad? -LM

    4. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other.

    5. The Death Ray by Dan Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book.  Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover.

    6. Ojitos Borrosos by Ines Estrada $10.00 – A simply killer collection of Inés Estrada’s amazing comics – charmed and pervy and smart and totally unpredictable….I can’t say enough good things about these except that you will love them. Reading them is like drinking your favorite juice and listening to your favorite record on a really nice day. In fact, if you did that AND read these comics all at once you’d probably send yourself into a self-perpetuating orgasm vortex. Ojitos collects a lot of odds and ends – minis and anthologies and one-pagees, and orders them up well with english translation for gringos like me. Get this get this get this. -EF

    7. Animal Sex #2 Bugs and Slugs by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – Hot bug on slug action.

    8. Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD: Girls Singing Songs About Girls by Amara Leipzig & Isabella Rotman $5.00 – Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman assemble a cover album and cutes ha-hoots liner notes zine that’s all women singing songs originally written by men about women. Gender theory via aural pleasuring. -EF

    9. Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart (Retrofit Comics) $6.00 –  Hart plays it fast and loose with this beach-bound poopy-baby quest. Drawn with relaxed flair – a little like maakies or old school simpsons in the cavalier slapstick and general heart. -EF

    10. Straight To Hell #67 $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories. Feels like heaven to me.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other.

    2. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams) $17.95

    3. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00

    4. Plastik #15 $16.99

    5. Hark: A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95

    6. Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi $12.00 – A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

    7. A Greater Monster by David David Katzman and Caitlin Drake McCay (Bedhead) $17.95

    8. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura and Daniel Clowes (Abrams) $40.00 – Buenaventura’s assembled a lush monograph on the wild life and secret files of one of Quimby’s favorite Ink Studs. -EF And! Don’t miss Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura siging here this Thursday, May 17th at 7pm!

    9. Fader #79 Apr May 12 $5.99

    10. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    Fag School #4  enters the topsellers this week at #10.

    1. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for Free Comic Book Day to see Jeffrey Brown. We still have a few copies of his mini comic that he made specifically for that day. Don’t miss your chance to get this one.

    2. Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $5.00 – For real. New material that’s not in the “Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition.” And it’s numbered #1, so we expect more issues. Stay tuned for more adventures.

    3. Monocle vol 6 #53 May 12 $12.00

    4. Maximumrocknroll #348 May 12 $4.00

    5. Handbook vol 6 #2 2012 $6.00 – As if Handbook needed a greatest hits, here’s volume 6, issue 2 delivering second dates with 3 of HB’s hawtest, surrounded by erotical essays and gaynotes of current concern. -EF

    6. Cave Girl by Ireal $1.00 – Unfoldable stories of Cave Girl living, a lot about mushroom hunting, musings on bears and beasts, spiders too. -EF

    7. How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz $1.00 – Manners with their self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.

    8. Shut Up And Love The Rain by Robnoxious (Microcosm) $4.00 – “Robnoxious takes us along his path from early sexual exploration to his current sex-positive, constantly-deprogramming, uber-healthy queerness! Rob’s writing and comics show us that experimentation should start early, that guilty pleasures needn’t be guilty, and that talking it over and being honest with each other will lead to nothin’ but good. There’s hilarious, illuminating essays, intimate accounts of relationships outside the margins, and a touching, inspiring interview with Rob’s parents after his father came out as transgendered.”

    9. Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs by The Icarus Project $6.00

    10. Fag School #4 New Fiction – Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger by Brontez (Paquita Press) $5.00 – Fag School is in session and I suggest you try to handle the full course load. This zine is fucking brilliant and amazing – always has been, and I think it might always will be. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Of Intercourse and Intracourse: Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere by Johannes Grenzfurthner , Guenther Friesinger  and Daniel Fabry (Re/Search) $29.99 – An Anthology of the Arse Elektronika colloquium which explores technology as it is used in regards to erotic human relations: biotechnology, body modification, trans-species and extraterrestrial pornography, tantric sex, polyamory + technology, Burroughs, biometrics and more. Ed by members of monochrom, an art-technology-philosophy collective, an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism.

    Zines
    Metal and Meat Within the Chicago Underground $2.50 – OMG. The guys who do “Goat Fucker” get together and grill meat, smoke stuff and talk about metal. Awesome representative quote: “Gorick brings the 6.66 lbs of thin 4-Day marinate bag of steak.”
    How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz Mason $1.00 – Self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.
    Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks? by Milo $2.00 – An alphabet book for activists! By Milo from QZAP!
    Salvager Kathy #1 $1.00 – A Chicago-based volunteer at an arts organization that works with the developmentally disabled made a zine describing her life-changing experiences working with her clients. They inspire and teach her to cope with her own pain, illustrating the necessity in recognizing that the line between “normal” and “disabled” can be fuzzy indeed. Recommended reading.
    Graze #1 Spr 12 by Cyndi Fecher Brian J. Solem $10.00 – Self-described as “A food-oriented lit mag dedicated to the food on your mind and the thoughts in your wake.” Katrina discomfort food, stinky cheese of Cambodia and more.

    Comics and Comix
    Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado (Tom Neely, Ed Luce and Benjamin Marra) $5.00 – All new material about the love adventures of Rollins and Danzig, with their satanic neighbors Hall and Oates. Will it continue to be funny if it comes out regularly? We shall see.
    Powdered Milk #6 by Keilor Roberts $9.00
    Dope Mouthfeel #2 $4.00
    Kraft Dinner by Julie Sabo $3.00
    Demon Dust #9 Spr 12 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
    Over Burden by Nick Rohr, Sam Daley and Tim Abel $2.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Fallen Words: Eight Moral Comedies by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $19.95
    Tanpopo by Camilla Derrico $24.99
    Batman and Robin TPB vol 3 Batman Must Die by Grant Morrison et al. (DC) $17.99

    Fiction
    Boarded Windows by Dylan Hicks (Coffee House Press) $16.00 – Don’t miss author and musician Dylan Hicks here at Quimby’s on May 24th as he reads from this book about a record store clerk in 90s Minneapolis, as well as a musical performance of some of the songs from the soundtrack.
    Company You Keep by Neil Gordon $14.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Hot Art Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman (Tin House) $16.95
    Hilaretic: Church Reviews and Other Religious Writings by Dan Kelly $15.00 – Anybody who has been following the history of Quimby’s since its opening in 1991 will remember Dan Kelly of the zine Cop Porn.
    In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Broadway) $16.00 – From the author of Devil In the White City. Now in soft cover.
    Snow White by The Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia $14.99
    Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces by Cory MacLauchlin $26.00
    The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson $16.00

    Politics & Revolution
    Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy by Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Autonomedia) $18.00

    Childrens Books
    Arctic Bears Chase by Steve Fiffer and Keiler Roberts $9.00
    Ambitions Not An Awful Word by Zack Zage and Adam Watkins $16.95

    Magazines
    The Burlesque Bible vol 3 $16.95
    Wallpaper May 12 $10.00
    Backwoodsman vol 33 #3 May Jun 12 $4.95 – Get off my land!
    Fortean Times #287 Jun 12 $11.99 – There are aliens on my land!
    Plastik #15 $16.99
    State vol 1 Voicings Articulations Utterances $14.00
    Our Tattoos vol 2 $9.99
    Stone Roses NME Uncut Special Collectors Magazine $12.99
    Conduit #23 Night Light, Words and Visions for Minds on Fire $10.00
    Mojo #222 May 12 $9.99
    Monocle vol 6 #53 May 12 $12.00
    Tattoo Revolution May 12 $11.75

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Gay Thurber Almanac of Careless Dignity and Criminal Intent by Alex  Marino and Meghan Plunkett $15.00
    Journal of Ordinary Thought win 12  $10.00
    Bad Attitude Poems $12.00

    Sex and Sexy
    Little Book of Big Penis ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $9.99 – Now in a smaller and more afforable format. The book that is. Insert joke here.
    Little Book of Big Breasts ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $9.99 – Ditto.

    Other Stuff
    Hot Ten Dollar Bag $10.00 – Weirdo bag of fun from the local collaborative artists Greg and Fake, the guys behind the popular “existential superhero” cardboard art that you may have seen here.

    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

    Eat Zine #4 makes the top 10 this week at #4.

    1. Burn Collector #16 by Al Burian (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – It’s always a joy to see another installment of Al’s adventures, especially since we see him less and less in Chicago due to his relocation in Berlin. There’s plenty of flash rant-style review pieces (an Iron Maiden concert for one), books he’s read (a YA novel!), and also his comics. Like the last issue of BC there’s also some interviews too, like Tim Remis from Sweet Cobra (and of lesser-known Soviet folk singer fame), as well as Sascha Scatter of The Icarus Project. Published by Caroline Pequita’s art-freaker publishing house Pegacorn Press in Brooklyn. -LM

    2. The Monster That Ate the Stars by Souther Salazar $1.00

    3. Thickness #2 by Angie Wang et al. $10.00 – Hot ‘n slimey crypto-beast on humanoid-beast action. Eagerly anticipated sophmore release for this sexy anthological comic. Works from Lisa Hanawalt, Michael DeForge, Jilian Tamaki and more.

    4. Eat Zine #4 by Jazz Robinson and Dan Varenka $6.50 – Ecclectic/eccentric food zine with  a down to earth approach, a goofy sense of humor and a crafty eye for special effects. Standouts of this issue include the street tag AGAVE, weed butter chicken livers, banana origami, and a recipe for chocolate maple bourbon bacon cupcakes. Lucky Peach totally owes these guys a cheeky move or two. -EF

    5. Enchante: Short Stories by Dan Gleason $2.00 – Most recent endeavor from lovable local weirdo.

    6. Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press)$12.00 – This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

    7. Roctober #50 ed. by Jake Austen $5.00 – Roctober is 20 years old! This is issue #50! I love this magazine!!!!! LOVE THIS MAGAZINE! Let’s have a party.  -EF

    8. Crap Hound #5 Hands Hearts Eyes  by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press)$12.00

    9. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Three by Joshua Chapman $1.00 –  Although the “school project” alibi is wearing a little thin on this educational zine series, the nerdery aboard this enterprise holds strong and is remarkably entertaining. Makes me wish I knew more Star Trek things to crack puns about.-EF

    10. 8 Track Mind #101 Zines by F.R. Russ Forster $3.00 – This issue goes light on the 8-trackology but stays true to its analog-obsessed roots with a well-rounded symposium all about “Zines Versus Blogs”. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    This week we got in all sorts of high weirdness books: Atlantis! Extra-Planetary genetics! Alien-Human Contact! Psychedelia! Technogaianism! Prehistoric Technologies! Secrets of Time Travel! And oh yeah, The Ultimate Guide to Kink.

    Zines 101: An Intro to Zines by Carrie $1.00 – Starter culture for self-publishing from one of Chicago’s top zinester/zine teacher (could we dub that zinecher?). History, layout, distribution, motivation. -EF

    Zines & Zine-Related
    Regional #5:  An Examination of American Cuisine, The Potato Chip Issue by Cassie Tompkins & Lauren Schultz $8.50

    Muse The News The Noose #9 Three Stories Too by John Wawrzaszek $1.00
    Ssex Bbox #1 Jul 11 Genderly Phrased Sexuality Out of the Box  $8.00
    Ssex Bbox #2 Spr 12 It’s Complicated Sexuality Out of the Box  $8.00
    Put a Egg On It #5 Spr 12 $7.00

    Comics and Comix
    S #10 Baltic Comics Magazine $10.00
    Tom Kaczynski mini Comix: Structures 1 through 11 by  (Uncivilized) $4.00, Cartoon Dialectics vol 1 and vol 2 $5.00 each – Investigative journalismilicious!
    Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #7 Loretta Lynn $3.00
    Pterodactyl Hunters in the Guilded City by Brendan Leach (Top Shelf) $9.95
    True Swamp vol 3 #1 and #2 $4.00 each
    Optik Noize #2-#4 by Matthew McDaniel, varying prices
    Station In Life #2 Mar 12 by Delia Jean Hickey $3.99
    Boyfriend Comics #3 Parents and Pets by Thom Jay $2.00
    Featherweight by Julia Von De Bur $7.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    The Influencing Machine Brooke Gladstone On the Media by Brooke Gladstone, illustrated by Josh Neufield $16.95 – Now in soft cover, from co-host of On the Media and the artist of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.
    Jerusalem Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle (D&Q) $24.95
    Kiki De Montparnasse by Catel $24.95
    Black Orchid Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean $24.99

    Art & Design
    Open Spaces: A Visual Memoir of Daily Inspiration by Cathie Bleck (Murphy Design) $30.00 -Celebrates the passionate work of scratchboard artist Cathie Bleck. Recognized throughout the country, Cathie introduces a new collection that features her fluid and multi-dimensional style of story telling. Forthcoming interview with her will be in an issue of Juxtapoz.

    Sticker Bomb Letters 600 Peelable Stickers Inside $17.95
    Skateboard Stickers by Mark Munson et al. $16.95
    Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community Based Graphic Design by Andrew Shea $24.95
    Graff Wars: Graffiti Inspired by the Star Wars Universe $39.95

    Fiction
    Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy Interpreter, the Worlds Most Estimable Magician by Gerald Kolpan $25.95
    Discussions in the Wilderness by Egan Click $10.00
    Greek Myths Deluxe Edition by Robert Graves $25.00
    The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach $14.99 – Now in soft cover.
    My Only Wife by Jac Jemc $15.95
    Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing (McSweeneys) $24.00
    Emmaus by Alessandro Baricco (McSweeneys) $22.00
    Middle Stories by Shelia Heti (McSweeneys) $13.00 – Reprinting in time for this classic’s ten year anniversary.
    Book of Harold: The Illegitimate Son of God by Owen Egerton (Soft Skull) $14.95
    Very Minor Prophet: The Gospel According to Joseph Patrick Booker by James Bernard Frost $19.95 – As interpreted by his faithful scribe Barth Flynn.
    The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac $23.00 – Jack Kerouac’s “lost” novel.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds: The Bhagavad Gita as Psychedelic Guide by Scott Teitsworth $16.95
    Infamous Players a Tale of Movies the Mob and Sex by Peter Bart $15.00
    Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Lost Book of Enki Memoirs  and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial God by Zecharia Sitchin $16.00
    Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization $18.00
    The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited by Laird Scranton $15.00
    Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien-Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness by Thomas James Streicher Ph.D. and Stanley Krippner Ph.D $16.00
    Atlantis beneath the Ice: The Fate of the Lost Continent by Rand Flem-Ath, Rose Flem-Ath and John Anthony West $16.00
    The Giza Prophecy the Orion Code and the Secret Teachings of the Pyramids by Scott Creighton and Gary Osburn $20.00
    Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee $16.95 – Revised and updated.
    A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable Facts from Every Nation on the Planet by John Oldale $16.00
    More Studs Terkel Books: Chicago $19.95, Race How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (20th Anniversary ed) $17.95
    Magic Hours Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bisell (Believer Books) $14.00
    The Hidden Treasure National Library of Medicine by Michael Sappol et al. $50.00

    Hexen 2039: New Military Occult Technologies for Psychological Warfare: A Rosalind Brodsky Research Programme
    by Suzanne Treister (Black Dog) $29.95 – imagined new technologies for psychological warfare through investigating links between the occult and the military in relation to histories of witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing and behaviour control experiments of the U.S. Army.

    Hexen 2.0 by Suzanne Treister (Black Dog) $29.95 – The sequel to Hexan 2039, this book specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a general science of the workings of the human mind. The project simultaneously looks at diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to advances in technology including the claims of Anarcho-Primitivism and Post Leftism, Theodore Kaczynski/The Unabomber, Technogaianism and Transhumanism, and traces precursory ideas such as those of Thoreau, Warren, Heidegger and Adorno in relation to visions of utopic and dystopic futures from science-fiction literature and film. We also have these as a set of tarot cards!

    Brief History of Bad Medicine: True Stories of Weird Medicine and Dangerous Doctor by Robert Youngston and Ian Schott $13.95 –
    From quack cures to infamous doctors, the history of medicine is littered with bad mistakes and unexpected discoveries. This insightful introduction uncovers the stories of Typhiod Mary, Sigmund Freud’s misuse of cocaine, why some drugs are worse than diseases, and more.
    Slingshot to the Juggernaut: Total Resistance to Secrecy and War is Total Love for the Truth by Sander Hicks (Soft Skull) $15.95 – Weaving evidence with anecdote, this book is an inspiring ride into the 9/11 cover-up and the revolutionary possibilities it inadvertently created.

    Politics & Revolution
    Saving Remnant Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds by Martin Duberman $19.95
    Evil Axis of Finance the US Japan China Stranglehold on the Global Future by Richard Westra (Clarity) $24.95
    A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word by Julie Zeilinger $16.00 – FBomb blog creator Julie Zeilinger debunks these (and other) myths about modern youth in this book, about feminism for young women in their teens and twenties, written by one of their peers.

    DIY
    Marijuana Pest and Disease Control How to Protect your Plants and Win Back… by Ed Rosenthal $24.95
    Cannabis Sativa vol 1 the Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner et al. $20.00
    Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, Psychoactive Sacramentals, Human Transformation by Thomas B. Roberts et al. $18.95
    Seven Secrets of Time Travel: Mystic Voyages of the Energy Body by Von Braschler $14.95
    The Brokeass Gourmet Cookbook Recipes to Keep your Taste Buds Happy and Your Wallet by Gabi Moskowitz $16.95 – 3 words: veggie spring rolls.
    The Pocket Guide to Plants and Gardening by Elizabeth McCorquodale $14.95

    Magazines
    Design Bureau May Jun 12 $8.00
    UFO Magazine #158 vol 24 #5 $5.99
    Skeptical Inquirer May Jun 12 vol 36 #3 $4.95
    Pin Up America May Jun 12 #9 $5.99
    Maximumrocknroll #348 May 12 $4.00
    Filter Good Music Guide Apr May Jun 12 $2.99
    In These Times May 12 $3.50
    GLQ vol 18 #2 #3 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
    The Progressive May 12 $4.95
    Tattoo #274 Jun 12 $8.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    McSweeney’s #40 $28.00
    Logan Square Literary Review #10 Spr 12 $7.00
    Granta #119 Spr 12 Britain $16.99
    Love and Index by Rebecca Lindenberg (McSweeneys) $18.00
    Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal #5 Spr 12 $12.00
    Normal School vol 5 #1 $5.00

    Sex & Sexy
    Cruising Gay Erotic Stories by Shane Allison $14.95
    Curvy Girls, Erotica for Women by Rachel Kramer Bussel et al. $17.00
    Going Down Oral Sex Stories by Rachel Kramer Bussel et al. $14.95
    Harder She Comes Butch Femme Erotica by DL King $14.95
    Lustfully Ever After Fairy Tale Erotic Romance by Kristina Wright $14.95
    Say Please Lesbian BDSM Erotica by Sinclair Sexsmith $14.95
    Soft Candy: The Girls of Danni Shinya Luo (Last Gasp) $24.95
    Upskirt Voyeur: The Sexy World of Japanese Girls (Edition Reuss) $59.95
    Big Sex Little Death by Susie Bright $17.00 – Memoir by this famous sex worker activist.
    How to be Kinkier: More Adventures in Adult Playtime by Morpheous $25.00
    Mind Blowing Sex: A Womans Guide by Diana Cage $16.00
    Ultimate Guide to Kink, BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge by Tristan Taormino $19.95
    Goliath Wallpaper of Fame #2 Classic Male Nudes 9 posters by Walter Kundzicz, plus autobiography by artist and life size poster $24.95
    Alt #4 $9.95

    Other Stuff
    Crap Hound Gift Wrap Poster (Show & Tell Press) $3.50 per sheet – Sure, you can wrap presents with it, but I’m buying it to hang up in my home. Craphound wallpaper!!! Good luck/supersition -themed. One with purple background and one with sea green.
    Yummy Pockets Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich and Yummy Pockets Potato Chips-$7.00 each Warning: These fabric containers look good enough to eat! Giggles expected.
    Make Your Own Robot $24.95 – Fifteen different punch out robot templates designed by Roger Fawcett-Tang, twelve of which have been illustrated and customized by a different trend-setting artist.
    More Moleskine planners.

    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

    1. Open Country #2 by Michael Deforge $3.00

    2. Open Country #1 by Michael Deforge $3.00 – DeForge sets some bodydrama into motion with the first installment of Open Country – The homebrew scifi premise here is youths messing around with psychic projections, avataring themselves into a fleshribbon realm where physical and mental integrity show some fraying around the edges. -EF

    3. Twenty Million (20,000,000) by by Isabella Rotman $6.00 – A surreallist tale about pale white space snakes on a survivalist quest through a deadly darkness in search of some giant lifesaving “egg” or whatnot.  Where people come up with these crazy ideas is beyond me. -EF

    4. Thickness #2 by Angie Wang et al. $10.00 – Hot ‘n slimey crypto-beast on humanoid-beast action. Eagerly anticipated sophmore release for this sexy anthological comic. Works from Lisa Hanawalt, Michael DeForge, Jilian Tamaki and more.

    5. Kid Mafia #1 by Michael Deforge $3.00 – “That special time between the end of high school and the beginning of college… depicted by Michael DeForge, so it’s a complete fucking nightmare, OK?! With bonus skateboard action. Part one of an ongoing series. Features 2 bonus “Military Prison” strips.” – from wowcool.com

    6. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Three by Joshua Chapman $1.00 – Although the “school project” alibi is wearing a little thin on this educational zine series, the nerdery aboard this enterprise holds strong and is remarkably entertaining. Makes me wish I knew more Star Trek things to crack puns about.-EF

    7. Brainscan #29/No More Coffee #4 (split zine) by Alex Wrekk and Ben Spies $3.00

    8. Chicago IRL #3 Spr 12 $11.00 – Chicago’s homegrown queer art rag, issue #3 and going strong!

    9. The Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – Joining the literary-minded ranks of n+1, The Paris Review, The Believer and Lapham’s Quarterly, and doing it with Midwestern flair, The Chicagoan ressurects a long defunct jazz-age magazine and focuses in on non-profit production, local distribution and general excellence in writing and design. The debut issue is a stunner, a cohesive and relevant blend of fiction, history, innovation, interviews and a 50-page oral history of Siskel and Ebert. -EF

    10. Burn Collector #16 by Al Burian (Paquita Press) $5.00 – It’s always a joy to see another installment of Al’s adventures, especially since we see him less and less in Chicago due to his relocation in Berlin. There’s plenty of flash rant-style review pieces (an Iron Maiden concert for one), books he’s read (a YA novel!), and also his comics. Like the last issue of BC there’s also some interviews too, like Tim Remis from Sweet Cobra (and of lesser-known Soviet folk singer fame), as well as Sascha Scatter of The Icarus Project. Published by Caroline Pequita’s art-freaker publishing house Pegacorn Press in Brooklyn. -LM