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  • New Stuff This Week

    Tonight (Fri the 3rd) is Punk Rock Karaoke at The Beauty Bar, a fundraiser for the Chicago Zine Fest. See you there!

    Zines
    Rad Dad #21 Occupy by Tomas Moniz $4.00
    On Being Hard Femme #1 by Jackie Wang $1.20 – Wang presents a great little zine about identity, toughness, bike grease femininity and lace trimmed queerness and making up definitions as you go along. -EF
    Xerography Debt #30 $4.00
    Railroad Semantics #5 2011 by Aaron Dactyl $6.50 – Absolutely, positively, without a doubt, obsessed with the rails. Another huge, densely packed issue, plenty of nice spreads of train tags and built around a winding travelogue taking us down the line from one notable stop to the next.

    Want What You Got 2012 by Ana Norell $1.00
    Travel On #1 and #2 by David Solomon $2.00 each – Solomon writes about his icoloclastic sentiments and what he’s trying to iconoclash with. Conversations about scars, letters about love, essays about collecting one’s own ephemera. -EF

    Ways of the Two Spirits #1 Jan 12 by Devan Elyse Bennett $3.00 – Part One in a series of a five zine series of Queer History Trans Traditions.
    Notes and Bolts #1 A Compendium of Music Food and Art by Kris Stress et al. $4.50
    Thought Catalog 2011 by Emily Kozik $5.00
    Light in the Dark With the Neon Arms BY Sonor On $10.00
    Pigeon to the Phoenix $5.00
    Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman, English grade 8 April 13 1991 $1.00

    Comics & Comix
    Nix Comics Quarterly #4 $5.00
    Richie Rich: Poor Little Rich Boy by Sonor On $20.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by R. Crumb (Fatagraphics) $19.99
    Action, Mystery, Thrills: Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933- 1945 (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Young Romance: The Best of Simon and Kirbys Romance Comics (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Rat Catcher by Andy Diggler et al. (Vertigo) $12.99
    Unspent Love or Things I Wish I Told You by Shannon Gerard (Conundrum) $20.00
    Hermoddities by Temple Bates (Conundrum) $20.00
    Colliers Popular Press – David Collier’s 30 Years On the Newsstand by David Collier (Conundrum) $20.00

    Art & Design Books
    Lisa Anne Auerbach Umma Porjects July 11 – Oct 11 99 by Lisa Anne Auerbach et al. (University of Michigan Museum of Art) $7.00 – I love this phase from the introduction: “she probes the possibilities of craft and advocates for the leftist reclaimation of homemaking.”

    Inklings by Vida Simon $20.00
    Don’t Get Lonely Dont Get Lost by Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum) $25.00 – Sensitive, minimal and compelling. By the artist of Something to Pet the Cat About.
    Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art ed. by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel (Damiani) $39.95

    DIY
    Mend It Better – Creative Patching Darning and Stitching by Kristin M. Roach (Scholastic) $18.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Grey Gardens by Sara and Rebekah Maysles (FNP) $45.00
    Queer Spirits by AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs $34.95

    Poltics & Revolution
    Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics by Deric Shannon et al. (AK) $21.00
    Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists by Janina Ciezadlo, Penny Rosemont et al. (Kerr) $17.00

    Fiction
    Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano (ND) $13.95 – Now in soft cover.
    Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill (Harper) $13.99
    Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic ed by Jimenez Eduardo Mayo (SB) $16.00
    Embassytown SC by China Mieville (Del Ray) $16.00

    Magazines
    Cabinet #44 24 Hours $12.00
    Apartamento #8 $19.95
    Yeti #12 $14.95
    Artbox #18 $10.99
    Toilet Paper #3 Jun 11 $12.00
    Toilet Paper #4 Nov 11 $12.00
    Dwell Mar 12 $5.99
    Wallpaper Feb 12 $10.00
    Sovereign #32 Feb 12 $3.95
    Flaunt #119 $10.95

    Sex & Sexy
    Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots  – Flaming Challenges… by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (AK) $17.95
    Luscious: Stories of Anal Eroticism ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $15.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines
    Butch Nor Femme #5 $1.50 – BNF#5 is a result of Quimby’s first 24-hour zine challenge and it reads a little like an appendix/companion piece to some of Lynne’s previous writing – a Disney World scene report (see BNF#4/Curioddity #2 split), some wedding reflections (riffing on “with an e”), and looking at how 2011 felt in regards to zines, projects and sexuality. Piscean footnotes that hold their own.-EF
    Besieged: A Dedication to Palestine by Students for Justice in Palestine $7.00
    Angry Violist #4 Adventures in Alternative String Playing $2.00
    Serial Killers Unite #9 $2.00
    Number 7 #1.1-1.3 by Meredith Carey et al. $1.00 each
    You Only Live Twice #1 by K.E. Bleier $2.00
    Flying Into The Chandelier $2.00
    Manor House Quarterly  Fall 11  #2 1877 $10.00
    Ugly #1 Jan 12 a Collection of Drawings and Ideas by Matt Soria $2.00

    Comics & Comix
    Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by by Benjamin Marra $3.00 – You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

    Night Business #4 by Benjamin Marra $3.00 – Gritty city vigilante shit, up to your knees in the eel tank. -EF

    Elsewhere $5.00 – Comes with CD
    Joking Victim #0 They Never Knew What Hit ‘Em by Matt Wyatt $5.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    ADD Adolescent Demo Division by Douglas Rushkoff et al. (Vertigo) $24.99
    Sweet Tooth TPB vol 4 Endangered Species by Jeff Lemire et al. (Vertigo) $16.99

    Art & Design Books
    Ron English’s Stickable Art Offenses by Ron English (Last Gasp) $24.95

    Fiction
    The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus $25.95
    The Catastrophone Orchestra (Combustion) $8.00 – Scrappy steampunk adventures.
    Autobiography of Jenny X Mischief and Mayhem by Lisa Dierbeck (OR) $16.00
    The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto $15.95 – Now in soft cover.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia by Glenn Mitchell $19.95
    Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: The Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles by Julio Cortazar et al. (Archipelag) $20.00

    Music Books
    Building a Better Robot: 10 Years of the Mr Roboto Project by Mulkerin et al. $20.00 – Comes with DVD.

    Politics & Revolution
    The Femicide Machine (Semiotexte intervention ) by Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez (Semiotexte) $12.95 – “In Ciudad Juárez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomolous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn’t just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guaranteed impunity for those crimes and even legalized them. A lawless city sponsored by a state in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.” This title is Semiotext(e) Intervention Series #11.

    Against Equality: Dont Ask to Fight Their Wars by Ryan Conrad $10.00 – “The second “Against Equality” anthology gathers together pieces by contemporary radical voices critical of the mainstream gay community’s uncritical approach to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. It features an introduction by the inimitable Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and essays by writers of our digital archives on LGBT investments in militarism. This archival anthology asks why the historically left/ radical anti-war critique of war does not extend to DADT and the issue of queers in the military.

    Undressing the Academy (Or the Student Handjob) by The University for Strategic Optimism (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia) $8.00
    Practicing Feminist Mothering by Fiona Joy Green (Arbeiter Ring) $21.95
    Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent by Rohan Quinby  (Arbeiter Ring) $19.95
    This Time We Went Too Far by Norman G. Finkelstein (OR) $15.00
    Who Killed Che: How the CIA Got Away With Murder by Michael Ratner et al. (OR) $16.00

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    Gethsemane an Epic Poem About Us by R. Douglas Jacobs $19.95

    Magazines
    Fortean Times #284 Mar 12 $11.99
    Tape Op #87 Jan Feb 12 $4.95
    Color Skateboards vol 9 #6 Special Culture Edition $7.99
    Creative Review Jan 12 $14.99

    Childrens Books
    My Silly Monkeys by Michelle Marchand et al. $7.00

    Other Stuff
    Jello Biafra Bobble Head $19.95 – Yes, for real.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Femme a Barbe vol 2 by by J. Bee $2.00 – True tangles of bearded ladies, gender reformations, hirsute identity and all permutations of feminine stubble, well worth a thorough comb-through. -EF

    2. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF

    3. Monkey In the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00 – Mucha’s got this special brand of world-enhancing “deductive reasoning” paired with an uncanny untuition – part clown, part private eye, thoroughly entertaining. -EF

    4. Gary Book 2 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00

    5. Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00

    6. Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia $2.00

    7. Truckface #15 by LB $3.00

    8. Bitch #53 $5.95

    9. Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

    10. Grantland Quarterly vol 1 $25.00 – Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Chromazoid $20.00 -This in full-color underground comics chromatic explosion is a BRAND SPANKING NEW publication. It has comics  ready to vibrate your looking balls by such folks as Ben Bertin, Bill Cleveland, Ian McDuffie, Jeremy Tinder, Lale Westvind, Lisa Cline, Lyra Hill, Nick Jackson and Robert Calzone. It comes complete with a cutting edge CASSETTE MIX TAPE featuring WEIRDOS, musicians and drop outs from AROUND THE COUNTRY. We backed it on Kickstarter and now is your chance to see what we spend our money on. And don’t miss the release party for it at The Happy Dog Gallery tomorrow, Sat, Jan 21st at the Happy Dog Gallery (more info below).

    The Point Magazine #5 Spr 12: Symposium: What is the Left for? $12.00 – In this Issue: Funny Girls by Jessica Weisberg, On Tiger Moms by Julie Park, Toward A Social Socialism by Erik Olin Wright, Freeing the Market by William Davies, Anti-Politics by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Not Even Past by Brickey LeQuire, Sizing Up Oprah by Timothy Aubry, Coming to Terms by Jon Baskin, An Interview with Bill Ayers by The Editors, Libya and the Left by Michael Berube.

    Zines
    Notes on Eric by Jon  $3.00 – A heartwarming eulogy for a friend passed. At turns hilarious and then sad and then uplifting. Thumbs up! -LM Wilhelm Scream by Jeremy Behreandt $5.00 Black Carrot #16 by Dave $2.00 Congo: A European Invention by J. Gerlach $4.00 – Part of the Simple History Series Uptown Problems #3 by Nick Clemente $5.00 Wild Glass Look Back #1  by R. Clint Colburn $10.00

    Comics & Comix
    Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions by Corrine Mucha $5.00 Second Chances #1 by Eric Rivera $12.00 – A halfway house, some small time crooks, summoning satan. All sort of shenanagans. -LM Underground #1  by Cliodhna $4.00 comics by Neil Devlin $3.00 Issues of Kuti #2-#9 $3-$4 each various mini comix from Aron Nels Steinke, including issues of Big Plans and Super Crazy Cat Dance and Super Duper Dog Park. Ariadne auf Naxos #1 and #2 by Julia Gforer $5.00 each- Have TARDIS will travel. -LM SF Supplimentary File #2A and #2B by Ryan Cecil Smith $4.00 each – Newsprint manga adventures in SPAAAAAAAAAACe. Phase 7 #009 by Alec Longstreth $5.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Lost and Found Comics 1969-2003 by Bill Griffith (Fantagraphics) $35.00 Lodger by Karl Stevens $19.95 Guilty $9.95 by Karl Stevens $9.95 Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres (Avatar) $17.99 Silence of Our Friends: The Civil Rights Stuggle Was Never Black and White by Long & Demonakos, art by Nate Powell (First Sec) $16.99

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    UFO Strange Space on Earth by Paul Whitehead and George Wingfield $12.00 Graphic Designer A Cautionary Tale by Neil Devlin $7.99 Poised to Pummel: An Unauthorized Illustrated Biography of Bruce Lee by Aaron Block and John Marcoux $12.95 Sugarbabe Controversial: The Real Story of a Woman in Search of a Sugar Daddy by Holly Hill $16.95 Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall $14.95 – Now in soft cover. The Existentialist’s Guide to Death the Universe and Nothingness by Gary Cox (Continuum) $19.99 Reality Hunger SC A Manifesto by David Shields (Vintage) $15.00 Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker (Soft Skull) $14.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Marable Manning $18.00 It Started In Wisconsin: Dispatches From the Front Lines Of the New Labor Protest by Mari Jo and Paul Buhle et al. (Verso) $14.95

    Music Books
    Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis and Nona Willis Aronowitz (U of Minn) $22.95

    Childrens
    Adventures of Tintin by Herge, Young Readers Editions: Black Island, King Ottokars Sceptre, both editions $8.99 each, and both contain over 20 pages of bonus material each!

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #133 Feb 12 $5.99 Bust Feb Mar 12 $5.99 Clutter #16 Like Toys Love Clutter $9.99 Print vol 66 #1 Feb 12 Power Issue $12.95 Capricious #12 $17.00 True Crime Jan 12 $8.99 Harpers Magazine Feb 12 $6.99 Make vol 29 $14.99 Caduceus #82 $8.99 Open Minds Feb Mar 12 $6.50 Cemetery Dance #65 $5.00 High Times Mar 12 $5.99 Skunk vol 7 #5 $5.99 Fangoria #310 $9.99 Horror Hound #33 Jan Feb 12 $6.99 Granta #118 Win 12 Exit Strategies $16.99 Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00 Black Velvet #70 $7.00 Boston Review Jan Feb 12 $6.95 Razorcake #66 $4.00 Radical Philosophy #171 $13.00 Amass #42 $4.95 Against the Current #156 Jan Feb 12 $5.00 Tattoo Scout #27 $9.60 Tattoo Collection #48 $6.99 Inked Feb 12 $6.99 Tattoo #271 Mar 12 $7.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    Willow Springs #69 $10.00 Barrelhouse #10 $9.00 Pleiades vol 32 #1 $9.00 Conium Review Spr 12 $.10 WomenArts vol 2 #1 Win 12 $10.00 Literary Review vol 55 #1 Fall Win 11 $8.00 Six By Six #25 $5.00

    Sex & Sexy
    Handbook vol 6 #1 2012 $6.00 Investigating Sex Surrealist Discussions by Jose Pierre (Verso) $19.95 Front #164 $9.99 Von Gutenberg #6 $19.00 Mate Win 12 $9.99

    Other Stuff
    Good Old Neon Classic Chicago Signs, a 2012 Calendar by Nick Freeman $5.00

    …And new to our website: tons of Tape Op and Punk Planet back issues! See quimbys.com/store for which ones.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50 – A magazine I simultaneously have to look at but can’t.

    2. Shit I Didnt Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50 – Compelling footnotes to various friends and relations, “Shit I Didn’t Tell You” is exactly that. It’s a nice checkup about sorting out how feelings get felt and life gets lived. -EF

    3. Exxxtinction by Sy Loady $3.00 – Fuckasoreass Triceratopz.

    4.   Show Me The Money #36 $2.50

    5.   Hi Fructose #22 $6.95

    6.   Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

    7.   Truckface #15 by LB $3.00 – Third year teaching high school English for CPS starts with LB hacking up a foreboding bloody clotball snotball. Truckface continues to be an annual report of both teaching and being taught- moving through all the drama, anger, goofiness and apathy and learning how to learn from it all. -EF

    8.   More Pictures About Feminism by Brad Troemel $10.00

    9.   Judas Goat Quarterly #51 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

    10. Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 (Study Group Books) – I imagine the rousing success of last year’s fantastic Study Group 12 anthology (#4) has spurred Study Group Magazine into existence. Like Austin English’s Windy Corner before it, SGM #1 is a full-up ideosyncratic combo platter of comics, interviews and examinations. Articles on Eleanor Davis, Brecht Evens and Craig Thompson and a hearty sampling of comics and illustration from Jennifer Parks, Daria Tessler, Aidan Koch, David King, Malachi Ward, Chris Cilla, T Alixopulos, Zack Soto, Jonny Negron and Michael DeForge. Amen. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Kramers Ergot #8 ed. by Sammy Harkham (Picturebox) $32.95 – A brutally effective anthology as an argument about the medium in the form of new work by: Anya Davidson, Leon Sadler, Ben Jones, CF, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Kevin Huizenga, Takeshi Murata, Robert Beatty, Chris Cilla, Gabrielle Bell, Frank Santoro & Dash Shaw, Gary Panter. 40-page reprint of “Wicked Wanda”, of the 1970s. Essay by Ian Svenonius.

    Zines
    Syndicate Product #18.4 by AJ Michel $1.00 – A list of much of the media consumed by Our Lady of Zine Awesomeness, A.J. Michel. I always look forward to her concise life-lessony responses to the media she consumes, and often she gets me into new things. Even better than Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” column in The Believer. Books, movies, TV shows, music, comics, magazines and more.
    My Aim Is True #4 by Carrie $1.00 – Carrie has done it again. Another awesome zine that’s hard to put down. Wise conclusions and compelling reading about stuff like self-image, sex and more. And of course, her crafty cut and paste aesthetic is neato. -LM
    Death Ritual #2 by George DeMoura $9.00 – New Age found footage and unlocked trunknecks on the crawl. -EF
    Fragments of Spring #2 by Marissa F $2.00
    Regional #4 An Examination of American Cuisine by Cassie Tompkins $8.50 – This issue: chili, chile, chilli. Comes with a cracker! The kind you eat, not the, um, forget it. Just get this zine, do the delicious sounding recipe in it and then fold it out to make a really cool piece of artwork to hang! -LM
    Last Night at the Casino Jan 12 Journal Entries From a Zinester Turned Dealer by Billy $2.00
    Hound and the Musch by Scott Roberts $6.00

    Comics and Comix
    Death Ritual #1 by George DeMoura $8.00
    Spider Monkey #1 by Jesse McManus and Austin English $5.00
    Here I Am – A Loud Knock at the Door – Who Could That Be nu Austin English $3.00
    Lobster King – Partone 2010 Approved by the Authority by Clara Bessijelle $5.00
    Comic Collection of 3 Stories by Clara Bessijelle $5.00 – Bessijelle’s got one of my favorite drawing lines- bold, detailed, funny and sensitive. Her comics look like collaged pencil sketches made from photo collages accompanied by a sinister formal comic timing that reminds me of Edward Gorey’s work without resembling it visually. This collection of 3 steel-eyed short ones runs like a tour 3 elaborately wallpapered parlors each with their own magic and secrets. -EF

    Art & Design Books
    Tattoo Parlour Artists From the World of Tattoo (Outre Gallery) $19.95 – With art from artists such as Angelique Houtkamp, Mike Giant & more.
    Anatomy of Sorrow by Daniel Martin Diaz (La Luz) $35.00
    Koretsky: The Soviet Photo Poster 1930 1984 by Erika Wolf (New Press) $60.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Tintin and Snowy Big Activity Book $19.95
    Habibi Signed, Bookplate Edition by Criag Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00
    Tank Girl – Bad Wind Rising HC by Rufus Dayglo & Alan Martin $19.95
    Monster Truck Automobiles Monsters and Mayhem by Shakey Kane (Wishbone) $14.99
    Annotated Sandman vol 1 by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo)  $49.99 – Sandman  issues 1 through 20.
    Preacher Book Six HC by Ennis and Dillon (Vertigo) $39.99
    Monster Mess by Lewis Trondheim $9.99

    Fiction
    Harolds Horrible Life by Billy McCall $18.00
    Vicky Swanky is a Beauty by Diane Williams (McSweeneys) $20.00
    Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton $16.00
    Fourth Fog by Chris Daniels $15.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Anarchist Interventions 03: Decolonizing Anarchism by Maia Ramnath (AK) $16.00
    Take Back Your Government: Citizens Guide to Grassroots Change by Morgan Carroll $19.95
    Intimate Wars: Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion From the Back Alley to the Board Room by Merle Hoffman $18.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    More Far Out Adventures Further Strange Adventures From the Pages of World Explorer by David Hatcher Childress (Adv Unlmtd) $25.00
    The Onion’s Love Sex and other Natural Disasters Relationship Reporting from Americas Finest $12.95
    End of War by John Horgan (McSweeneys) $22.00
    Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scott Bowers & Lionel Friedberg (Grove) $25.00

    Music Books
    Murder In the Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter by Harald Oimoen & Brian Lew (Bazillion Points) $39.95
    Bad As Me by Tom Waits (Anti Inc) $24.98
    The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty $16.00
    Bad Idea: I’m About To Do True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgement… by Chris Gethard (Da Capo) $16.00

    Magazines
    Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50
    Record Collector Jan 12 $10.50
    Uncut Feb 12 #177 $9.99
    Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    Barge Journal #1 $5.50

    Sex & Sexy
    Pornhounds #2 by Sharon Lintz et al. $5.00 – Horny hounds! Alternative comics artists do porn.

    Other Stuff
    TATTOO SPECIAL 1: Goliath Wallpaper Of Fame (Prints & Poster) by Charles Gatewood (Goliath) – Nine prints plus one large poster in a portfolio. Charles Gatewood pulls out his camera and shoots his subjects, from William S. Burroughs to drunken revelers and modern blood drinkers, like a war photographer. Goliath Wallpaper of Fame is a unique poster book magazine with large-scale prints of outstanding photographs by different artists. Issue 01, themed Tattoo, features Gatewood’s work, including a life-size portrait of Sailor Sid and nine other wall-sized images. A detailed interview and a biography included.

  • Weekly Top 10 and 2011 Revenge of Print List

    Before last week’s bestsellers, we just wanted to say we are really excited by everyone who participated in the 2011 Revenge of Print! Click here to download a list. Then print it out and fold it pamphlet style.

    1. Henry and Glenn Forever Sticker Funbag by Igloo Tornado $5.00

    2. Suspect Device #1 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $6.00 – A turd in the hand is worth two in the Bushmiller….Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez assemble quite the goon squad to take old Nancy out for a night on the town. -EF – Work from: Jon Vermilea, Dane Martin, Elizabeth Bethea, Lizz Hickey, Nikki Burch, Brendan Leach, B Florio with M Note, Josh Burggraf, Jimmy Giegerich, J Hessig, Scalzo, M Sgier, Marina Gargarina, Leroy, V Kerlow, Sam Henderson, Anne Emond, Pat Aulisio, Tom Hart, Jude Killroy and Box Brown.

    3. Hound and the Musch by Scott Roberts $6.00

    4. Under the Radar #39 $5.99

    5. Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga $7.95 – The lucid insanity of insomnia fuels Huizenga’s understated formalist finesse. Glenn Ganges, suburban everyman, falls prey to a eye-pleasing array of graphic tricks and a 1 a.m. sense of humor that would keep me up at night thinking about it too. -EF

    6. Bad Day #12 – a culture magazine.
    7. Du Manger En Canne by R. Suicide $5.00 – loppy botulistic potted meat from the Mille Putois Laboratory, getting busy making it’s own gravy.

    8. Grantland #1 $25.00 – Well, finally we got a few of these in for long enough that I can put them up on the webstore. Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

    9. Hark A Vagrant by Kate Beaton $19.95

    10. My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Free Ice Cream and Other Cartoons You Could Have Drawn by Sam Henderson (Wow Cool) $3.00 – The cartoonist who gets our vote for “Most Likely to Make You Laugh Aloud Even If You’re By Yourself” is back with his first comic since Magic Whistle #11 in 2008. Hurrah!

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Curioddity #2 Movie Reviews of All 51 Disney Animated Films in 160 Characters…by Curiouser Jane $2.00
    Caboose #8 reDraft Picks by Liz Mason $1.00 – As in like, this stuff was originally on my blog. And then I picked those pieces to be the ones I’d put in this zine. And then I redrafted them, just for you. You want to read this. Correction: I want you to want to read this. -LM
    Boob Lightening by Cooper Lee Hilfman Whittlesey  $4.00
    Zines by Emily Larned: Muffin Bones #20 or Basil is Dying $2.00, Wanna Trade $2.00
    Show Me The Money #36 $2.50
    Unholy Bow by Terence Hannum $10.00
    Idiotas Nouveau by Oceguera Fancisco Cornero $3.00
    Chomp #1 $9.00
    Learning to Surf #1 by Mike Faloon $3.00
    KerBloom #93 Nov Dec 11 by Artnoose $2.00
    Are Snakes Necessary by Matthew Thurber & IMA Pelican $6.00
    Indigo #18 by Michelle Aiello $4.00
    Mish Libs #1 Original Word Games by Michelle Aiello $2.00
    Truckface #15 by LB $3.00 – She teaches during the year and zines during the summer. Always compelling.

    Comics & Comix
    Gaylord Phoenix #6 by Edie Fake $4.00 – A new issue from one-third of the Quimby’s staff!
    Curio Cabinet #5 Nov 11 by John Brodowski (Secret Acres) $8.00
    Rom #1 by Josh Bayer $5.00
    Suspect Device #1 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $6.00
    Naughty Han Song by Jim Stoten (Landfill) $12.00
    Some Approaching End by Jaakko Pallasvuo $15.00
    Suburban Blight #10 $1.00
    Total Screen by Henry James Glover $4.00
    Moxie Morons by Talya Modlin $7.00
    Ain’t Say Who by Talya Modlin $5.00
    Mad Monk The Rise to Power and Death of Rasputin by Talya Modlin $5.00
    Car Bren by Carrie Bren $4.00
    Thinger Dingers  by JT Yost (Birdcage) $3.00
    Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 by Zack Soto $12.00
    Ghost Attack #1, #4 and Fall 2009 by Zack Soto $5.00 each
    Unforgiving Blade of Conon #1 by Josh Bayer et al. $4.00
    Mini Kus #5 Future Is Now by Leo Kivro et al. $3.00
    End of The Fucking World Part 3 by Charles Forsman $1.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Pippas Arctic Adventure the Blue X Affair by Pippa Wolfie $7.00
    Green Monk by Brandon Dayton $5.99
    Aftershock Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan by Adam ED Pasion $10.00 – Work from Noah Van Sciver, Ben Snakepit and more.
    Regalia by Eliza Frye $25.00
    Avoid Disappointment and Future Regret by Swanson & Behr $12.00

    Art & Design Books
    Typo Graphy Sketch Books by Heller et al. (Princeton Arch) $40.00

    Childrens Books
    Keep Our Secrets by Jordan Crane (McSweeneys) $15.95 – To be read in a whisper. For best results read with a hairdryer and adult supervision. Heat affected

    DIY
    Marijuana Made Simple: A Beginners Guide to Growing Like a Pro by Mediman (Green candy) $18.00
    Medical Marijuana 101 by Martin, Rosenthal et al. (Quick) $14.95
    Essential Urban Farmer by Carptener & Rosenthal (Penguin) $25.00

    Fiction
    Party Wolves In My Skull by Michael Allen Rose (Eraserhead) $16.58 – Part of the New Bizarro Author Series. Local author.
    Blueprint of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot (BC) $14.00
    My Fathers House by Ben Tanzer $9.95
    While Mortals Sleep SC by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial) $16.00
    Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne (Random) $25.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Build Your Own President 2012: 1000 Possibilities No Real Solutions by Swanson & Behr $12.00
    My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla (Penguin) $15.00 – He was a genius. And sort of bat shit crazy too.

    Politics & Revolution
    Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank (Metropolit) $25.00

    Music Books
    Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside and Outside of ACDC by Mark Evans (Bazillion Points0 $19.95
    Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World by Jon Szwed (Penguin) $20.00

    Magazines
    Fortean Times #283 Feb 12 $11.99
    Backwoodsman vol 33 #1 Jan Feb 12 $4.95
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #4 $6.25
    Dwell Feb 12 $5.99
    Sneaker Freaker #22 $14.50
    COG Magazine #11 $6.00
    Pin Up America Jan 12 #7 $5.99
    ArtForum Jan 12 $10.00
    Hi Fructose #22 $6.95
    Raw Vision #74 $14.00
    Decibel #88 Feb 12 $4.95
    Dazed & Confused vol 3 #5 Jan 12 $9.99
    Wire #335 Jan 12 $10.99
    Mojo Specials: The Smiths, The Stone Roses and 100 Greatest British Indie Records of All Time $12.50
    Ghetto Blaster #30 $3.95
    The Fifth Estate vol 47 #1 #386 Spr 12 $4.00
    Monocle Alpino #4 Win 11 12 $8.00
    Z Magazine Jan 12 $4.95
    In These Times Jan 12 $3.50
    Dissent Win 12 $10.00

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    The Believer #86 Jan 12 Bishopric $8.00
    Monster Hands by Xavier M. and Sara Drake $1.00
    Madison Review vol 33 #1 Fall 11 $8.00
    Fourteen Hills vol 18 #1 2012 $9.00
    Feathertale Review #8 $10.00
    Bomb #118 Win 12 $7.95
    Charleston #1 selected poems and writings by Thomas Fricilone $1.00

    Sex & Sexy
    B Magazine #1 $8.99
    All American Guys #2 $9.99 – Hey dude. You’re not talking about soccer practice at all, are you?

  • Weekly Top 10

    Happy 2012! Here’s last weeks bestsellers.

    1. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95 – I’m sorry, these comics are going to thrizzle you whether you wanna be thrizzled or not. -EF

    2.  Best American Comics 2011 ed. by Alison Bechdel et al. (HM) $25.00 – Showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors.

    3. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00

    4. Juxtapoz #132 Jan 12 $5.99

    5. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

    6. So This Is What Its Come To: A Comic Zine About the Trials and Tribulations of OK Cupid by Liz Prince, Leslie Perrine, Kettner and Ramsey Everydaypants $3.00

    7. 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. -EF

    8. Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD: Girls Singing Songs About Girls by Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman $5.00

    9. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95

    10. The Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season One by Joshua Chapman $2.00 – Liz got so nerded up about this one she entered it into our database as “Field Guide to the Aliens of TNG S1” so when I looked up simply “Star Trek” it was not to be found because I had failed to enter the correct nerd code. I imagine this will provoke a similar reaction in some of you and you will rip into this reprint of 7th Grader Joshua Chapman’s obsessive cataloguing of the “Next Gen” alien species, complete with pictures and a star rating system. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yes! We’re open until 5pm tonight (Sat 24th)! We’ll be closed Sun the 25th.

    Raw Power #1 King Size by Josh Bayer (Retrofit) $6.50


    Zines
    Curse Journal #1 by Dave $1.00 – Dave of “On Subbing” fame spent a period of time trying not to swear. Fuck yeahBecause I Got High #1 A True Story of Cannabis and Consequences by Mia Beatrice $2.00  *  Nazi Knife #7bis Posters November 1965-April 1986 by Lawrence Weiner et al. (Picturebox) $7.50  *  Fields of Darkness Blue by Tilly Pelczar $2.75  *  Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD by Amara Leipzig $5.00 – Girls singing about songs about girls. And a lot of those songs, written by men.  *  Remedy Quarterly #7 Heritage $7.50  *  Legends of the Silver Screen #2 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year John Waters by Owen Ashworth $3.00  *  Story of Attica #1 by The NIA PRoject et al. $3.00 – A quick primer on the Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971.  *  Miklat Miklat #1 A Transformative Justice Zine by Lewis Wallace $3.00 – Companion to the art installation at The Dirtstar 2011 National Queer Arts Festival.

    Comics and Comix
    Kicksville Confidential #1 Torrid Tales From the Wild World of Norton Records by Avi Spivak $5.00  *  Jason Conquers America by Jason, Mike Allred, Kim Deitch et al. (Fantagraphics) $4.99 – Ten Years and Counting Unpublished Strips tributes two interviews and a checklist.  *  Zombies Vs Robots Warbot Treasury Edition #1 by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood (IDW) $9.99  *  Mould Map #2 $30.00  *  Weird Magazine #1 Dec 11 by Noel Freibert $12.00  *  Ha Ha Book vol 1 by Write Right $3.00  *  Xerox Candy Bar, Editors Edition, Childrens Bedtime Stories, No Smut by Carter Lodwick, Talya Modlin, Sean Hernandez, Ian Endsley et al. $10.00  *  Like a Staple to the Cheek: The Schmidtsting Pain Index, Buzz Off by Krystal DiFronzo $3.00  *  Vessel by Emma Rand $4.00  *  World is Mine by Paul Walker $5.00  *  Say Yes #1 A Guide to Sexual Selection by Isabella Rotman $1.00  *  Demongun #6 Jul 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00  *  Giving Up The Violin by Abraham Lampert $2.00  *  Chubasco #1 by Alli Berry $5.00  *  Attack Of The Zombie Soy Bot #11 $2.00  *  Du Manger En Canne by R. Suicide and W. Parano $5.00  *  Pic Nic by Gigi Perron (Putois) $5.00  *  Rub the Blood #1 by Pat Aulisio and Ian Harker $5.00

    Art & Design
    Beautiful Decay Book 7 Class Clowns $20.00

    DIY
    Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life by Julia Rothman (Storey) $16.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    100 Cult Films by Mathijs & Mendik (Palgrave) $20.00
    Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (Littlebrown) $13.99 – Now in soft cover.
    Thats Amore: Letters of Love by Trudy Gordon $10.00

    Fiction
    Through Bruised Eyes by Mike Tunno $5.00
    Revelation by Colin Winnette $15.00
    RounHeah Book 1 a Novel Comic by Michael D. Moore $15.95
    Last Interview and Other Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (MH) $15.95
    Pick a Plot Book 1 You Are A Cat by Sherwin Tiji (Conundrum) – You make the choices that pick the plot. Choose your own cat adventure.

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Health Care Reform by JOnathan Gruber (HW) $13.99
    Tinas Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap and Mari Araki (HM) $18.95
    Streakers by Nick Maandag (Mean Dog) $7.00
    Primahood Featuring Mamapants by Tyler Cohen $6.50

    Music Books
    Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973-1977 by Mike Kelley, Dan Nadel and Nicole Rudnick (Picturebox) $34.95
    Golfwang by Odd Future (Picturebox) $29.95

    Magazines
    California Printmaker Journal of the California Society of Printmakers $10.00 – Printeresting!
    Maximumrocknroll #344 Jan 11 $4.00
    idpure #27 $16.95
    Creative Review Dec 11 $14.99
    Passenger Magazine Special $5.00
    True Crime Dec 11 $8.99
    Skeptical Inquirer Jan Feb 12 vol 36 #1 $4.95
    Neural #40 $8.00
    Flaunt #118 $10.95
    Perfect Magazine #22 Fall 11 Win 12 $10.99
    Man About Town #9 Fall Win 11 $15.99
    Dear Dave Magazine #10 $15.00
    Best of Skunk vol 4 $6.99
    Boneshaker Magazine #7 $10.00
    Mental Floss vol 11 #1 Jan Feb 12 $5.99
    Laphams Quarterly vol 5 #1 Win 12 $15.00
    Kill Screen #5 Close Your Eyes its the Sound Issue $15.00
    Shock Cinema #41 $5.00
    Fangoria #309 $9.99
    Green Woman Magazine Win 11 Spr 12 $5.95
    Harpers Magazine Jan 12 $6.99
    RFD #148 Win 11 $9.95
    Tattoo Society #31 $7.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    First Line vol 13 #4 $3.00 – The line each story in this issue starts with is “It Had Been a Long Year.”
    Iowa Review vol 41 #3 win 12 $9.95

    Other Stuff
    Henry and Glen Forever Sticker Funbag by Igloo Tornado $5.00
    A whole buncha awesome handmade journals from Thayer Bray and his Red Shorts Bindery. In different sizes, shapes and prices.