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Weekly Top 10
Just a heads up, we’ve got 3 events happening this week that we’re excited about, each of them starting at 7pm:
Wed, July 6th Orderly Disorder: Zinester Librarians in Circulation Tour featuring the Fly Away Zine Mobile
Fri, July 8th 7:00 pm Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior Discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries
Sat, July 9th Heather Augustyn Reads From Ska: An Oral HistoryTop 10
1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – McSweeneys food rag.
2. Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00 – By mini-comics superstar.3 Mental Health Cookbook: Creating Connection With Foods and Herbs by H. Finn Cunningham (Needles and Pens) $7.00 – Starter guide to all sorts of diy holistic food practices.
4. Handbook vol 5 #2 2011 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – The sensitive side of Trevor Wayne , the business side of Ty, Will and Mike and some nice articles about sexual versatility and “post-gay.”
5. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF
6. Make Comics About an Intimate Act by var. $7.00
7. Take a Joke vol 3 of The Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $18.99 – “Johnny Ryan’s transgressive masterpiece Prison Pit has been the talk of altcomics circles since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before Prison Pit, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humor anthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Correctness), Angry Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects many of the best stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice magazine, to which Ryan has contributed for years.
8. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $15.00
9. Bitch #51 $5.95
10. Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50
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New Stuff This Week
Yes, we will be open on Monday, July 4th, but we will have limited holiday hours from noon to 5pm.
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
ITDN #1 A Poetic Conception of Reality: Group Publishing Publish Equilibrium Our Universe Six Artist Worker and ITDN #2 Fuck This Gags Fury $5.00 each – The art film that reads like a comic that reads like a video game, set in a bunker with lots of nudity. -EF
Butch Nor Femme #1 $1.50
Shit I Didn’t Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50
Don’t Be a Dick Paul Brown (Doris Distro) $1.00
When Language Runs Dry #1: A Zine For People With Chronic Pain and Their Allies by Claire and Meredith (Doris Distro) $3.50
FAQNP #2 Queer Nerd Travel Guide May 11 (Queer Nerd Publication) $7.00
Fluke Fanzine #9 20th Anniversary $2.00
Whitey On The Moon Book 2 by Joey Parlett $10.00
Chicken Livers and Jojos May 11: Drawings and Riff Raff #1 $2.00
Demongun #5 Jun 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
STOP #3 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $3.00
I Was a Teenage Zine Fiend #1 $1.00
In Case of Drought Read This #1 and #2 $1.00 each – From kids at 826CHI!
HyenaZine (Zine Hyenaxena) #2 and #3 by Hyena Xena $3.00 each
Idiots Books zine volumes by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, priced $5.00-$10.00: vol 12 Last Day, vol 28 Babies Ruin Everything, vol 29 Home Was an Epic Poet, vol 30 Inconclusive Passage In the Life of Bushy Washington
My Day On, Under and Around the St Johns Bridge with CD by Nate Orton, James Yeary and Justin Glenn Smith $6.00
My Day #17 Walking from Hillsboro to Forest Grove Ore by Nate Orton and James Yeary $3.00
Motor City Kitty #17 by Bri Z $1.00
Cheap Toys #6 and #7 by Gizmo $1.50 each
Dream Weavers $10.00
It’s Curtains #8 $2.00
You Made Devotion A Virtue #3 Be My Baby by Devan Ballbuster Bennett $2.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #8 Something Very Ugly by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Everything Quantizes #2 by Katherine Brideau $3.00
All Things Are Eagles #1 by Mike Mellenthin $1.00COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Various issues of Dogshed by Andy Burkholder $2.00-$3.00 – Wait? Why did you come here ANY WAY? Breakdown BrakeUp blind line leading the dog blind til it’s too tired…you look tired, so you should try. I know your trying to understand, but sometimes the comics justs gets weirds. -EF
Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00
This Isn’t Working: Comics About Ex Boyfriends $3.00 – Featuring Cara Bean, Caitlin Plovnick, Robyn Chapman, Liz Prince and more!
Make Comics About an Intimate Act $7.00 – Featuring Adriana Yugovich, Joseph Lambert, Robyn Chapman, Wicks Maris, Nate Beaty and more!
Galactic Breakdown #3 by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $8.00
In The Sounds and Seas vol 1 by Marnie Galloway $15.00
Flight of Forfeition – An Adventure… by Chris Monday $4.00
All Wet by Ian Endsley $3.00
Catholic Tastes IDTN Group by Darla Marx $1.00
Werewolf Horror Mask $4.00
You Okay Buddy $1.00
Absolute Loneliness various issues by Johns $1.00 each
Phil’s Adventures: #1 Featuring Land That Time Forgot and Mummie Alive, #2 Featuring Grey Lady Blues and Underneath the Water, #3 Featuring Some Reservations and Out In the Cold, all by by SA Winchell and $5.00 each
Tenebrous $1.50
Lords ov thee Black Sun #0 by Michael Miles $5.00 – That’s some crazy looking satan-y black metal shit.
All Aboard by Max Mose $4.00
Benol The Huckster by Max Mose $5.00
Calamity of Challenge #127 by Matthew Allison $6.00GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Incal Classic Collection by Alexandro Jodorowsky (Author), Moebius (Illustrator) (Humanoids, Inc.) $44.95 – Jean Giraud, more well known under his artist alias Moebius, comes forth with an artistic vision that still stands the test of time, The Incal. The Incal was responsible for introducing the Jodoverse world, the one in which all of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s science section sagas were all based in. Filled with surreal imagery, futuristic concepts that melt together with primitive societal conditions that run through the full gamut of historical perspectives. Centered around a Light Incal which gives powers sought by many corrupt groups. With an intro by Brian Michael Bendis.
Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme (Top Shelf) $29.95 – Art in a sort f even lower-fi version of Chester Brown.
Go Fish – How to Win Contempt and Influence People by Mr. Fish (Akashic) $18.95ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Utopie Texts and Projects 1967-1978 by Craig Buckley by Jean Louis Violeau (Semiotexte) $26.95
Fragile Bodies by Stephanie Greenquist by Emily Steigerwaid $11.95
Awful Resilient by Alex Pardee (Gingko) $29.95
Suggestivism: Artists Works Interviews and Studio Portraits (Gingko) $34.95
Las Vegas Underfoot Photo Book by Gordon Meyer and Gale Meyer $15.95
Type Image by Barbara Brownie (Gingko) $39.95
International Topsprayer by Moses, Taps, Sprayer (Publikat) $39.95FICTION!
How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Vintage) $14.95 – Humerous yet compelling in it’s gimmicktry:. The fictinal story of the fictional family you might fictionally know. Now in soft cover. -LM
The Instructions by Adam Levine (McSweeneys) $18.00 – Now in soft cover. This awkward Jewish child might be the messiah. Maybe. Or not…? A funny book that’s several inches thick, but with crazy book paper technology that means it’s made of some sort of weight of paper that this soft cover book is only $18.00.
Peace Love and Petrol Bombs by DD Johnston (AK) $14.95
NVSQVAM Nowhere by Ann Sterzinger $13.00
Supernatural Noir ed. by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse) $19.99LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
The Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00 – Come’n’geddit while we got it. The annual Music Issue always goes fast!
Village on Horseback Prose and Verse 2003-2008 by Jesse Ball (Milkweed) $18.00
Knock #14 $9.00
Barrelhouse #9 $9.00
Creative Nonfiction #41 Spr 11 $10.00
Bomb #116 Sum 11 $7.95
Madman #1 by Prachi Gangwani $5.00MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Fine Fine Music by Cassie J. Snyder (Raw Art) $15.00 – With the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider brings her stories about growing up in the early eighties to Quimby’s on July 23rd. These stories that include Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not and locals waxing Camaros to Foreigner on cassette will leave you laughing and wanting more. Don’t miss her here, joined by Dave “On Subbing” Roche.
Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (HM) $28.00
225 Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by The New York Neo-Futurists (Hope) $16.00POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Ours To Master and To Own: Workers Control From the Commune To the Present by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket) $19.00DIY!
CIA Lockpicking Manual by The Central Intelligence Agency (Skyhorse) $12.95
Author Illustrator Starter Kit – Contains Three Completely Blank Books (McSweeneys) $13.95MUSIC-RELATED!
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad (LB&C) $24.99 – Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould teams up with the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life to give his account of personal history as one of the most revered figures of punk.
Talk Minus Action Equals Zero: An Illustrated History of DOA by Joe Keithley (Arsenal) $27.95
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay (Verso) $24.95 – “From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.”
33 1/3 Series: Television’s Marquee Moon by Bryan Waterman (Continuum) $12.95 – From the series that deconstructs popula and/or important albums, written by musicians, critics and uber fans.
33 1/3 Series: Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me (Continuum) $12.95
Jerry Lee Lewis Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo (Continuum) $19.95
Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s by Paul Hegerty and Martin Halliwell (Continuum) $24.95MAGAZINES!
Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – First issue of McSweeneys food rag everyone’s all on about. The Ramen issue. Don’t want to ever miss an issue? Ask about the Quimby’s Subscription Service!
Wholphin #13 $19.95
Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50
Boneshaker Magazine #5 $9.00
True Crime Jun 11 $8.99
Dwell Jul Aug 11 $5.99
UFO Magazine #156 vol 24 #3 $5.99
Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 11 vol 35 #4 $4.95
Neural #39 $8.00
Tattoo Revue #154 $6.99
Antenna Sum 11 $4.99
Goth Loli vol 16 $21.80
Maps vol 21 #1 $8.95
Treating Yourself #29 $7.99
Fangoria #305 $8.99
Skateboard Mag #89 $3.99
BlackBook #85 Jun Jul 11 $4.50
Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00
In These Times Jul 11 $3.50
ASR #56 Sum 11 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Urban Ink #20 $8.99
Inked Girls May Jul Aug 11 $7.99CHILDRENS BOOKS!
We Need a Horse by Sheila Heti and Clare Rojas (McSweeneys) $16.95
Here Comes the Cat by Frank Asch (McSweeneys) $12.95SEX & SEXY!
Dictionary of Semenyms 10th Edition – 1383 Synonyms for Semen by Cecil Goran $15.00 – With examples of usage from erotic literature.OTHER STUFF!
Charley Harper ABC Nesting Blocks (Ammo) $24.95
Sharkula Diarrhea of a Madman DVD by Joshua Conro $15.00 – First documentary feature-length film by filmmaker and Quimby’s buddy Joshua Conro.
Cory Doctorows Makers Tile Game by Idiots Books $12.00 -
Weekly Top 10
Announcement before the week’s bestsellers: the second episode of the official Quimby’s Bookstore Podcast is now up! It features an interview with the authors of The Beat Cop’s Guide to Chicago Eats, Sgt. David J. Haynes and blogger Christopher Garlington. You can find it on I-Tunes and also at quimbys.podbean.com. Don’t forget to subscribe wherever you listen to it so you can receive every episode.
Weekly Top 10
1. Black Eye #1 ed. by Ryan Standfest $14.95 – Black Eye is the comics magazine dedicated to ludicrous violence, unrelenting nihilism and gratuitous gross-out. Chicago heavy-hitters Paul Nudd, Lilli Carré, and Ivan Brunetti get super nasty and Onsmith’s totally tasteless contributions warranted a book seizure at the Canadian border. The scandal doesn’t end there either…Stéphane Blanquet, Jeet Heer, Al Columbia, Kaz, Michael Kupperman, Tom Neely and Brecht Evans are all at work causing some internal bleeding on this one. A real bad egg if you ask me. -EF …And thanks to everybody that came out for the signing for this anthology on this past Saturday!
2. Linework #2 Comics and Graphics Anthology Spr 11 $10.00
3. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.
4. Bust Jun Jul 11 $4.99
5. Sock #1 Adult Stories and Imagery Comics Anthology by Conor Stechshulte $8.00
6. Roots #1 by Alison Vellas $3.50 – Meat your maker. Nicely plotted comic about a stubborn generational battle betwixt an old-world bubbe, and her righteous vegetarion whippersnapper grandaughter. Taking on the stickiness of negotiation between tradition and food politics, Vellas does a nice job of catering to both sides. -EF
7. SF #1 by Ryan Cecil Smith (Closed Caption Comics) $5.00 – Ryan Cecil Smith’s new serial “SF” gives classic sci-fi comics an impish, homespun twist while still staying true to form. Introducing the space-scientist-fighter crew of the S.F.S.F.S.F. and the hapless orphan earthling Hupa Dupa, Smith balances straight up expository scripting with satisfying bursts of rough-and-tumble action. Humor gets played fast-and-loose here giving the tight storytelling a breezy edge and lending a weird wit to the crisp Tintin-flavored schemes. –EF
8. So Nervous #1 by Corinne Mucha and Heather Radke $3.00 – Worrisome!
9. Weird Schmeird #0 Conversations in Your Neighborhood by Ryan Cecil Smith $7.00 – A fun book-toy-thing!
10. Woman House by Esther Pearl Watson $5.00
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New Stuff This Week
Hey Revenge of Print fans! Sara Drake will be here doing comics and independent publishing workshops from 1:45 to 4:45 today! Click here for more info. 1:45 comics making demo, 3:00 self-publishing demo, 4:45 comics drawing workshop. Come on over! The water’s fine!
Today’s pick:
Empty the Sun: A Novel by Joseph Mattson with Soundtrack by Six Organs of Admittance (Ben Chasny and Steve Ruecker) (Barnacle) $18.00 – Book with CD. Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers — everywhere at once, stinging, dark and beautiful. Empty the Sun will take you to some strange places, but the trip is amazing. Mattson has written a truly inventive and vivid novel. -Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Destroy All Monsters Magazine $30.00 – It was a zine! No, a band! A zine, a band! Both?! Tomato, tomahto, let’s call it an art collective and be done with the debate. Shake?
Bathing Salts by Keith G. Herzik $5.00 – Crazy screenprinting master Herzik leaves us another artifact from his lab.
South Side Chicago Anti Racist Action #2 May Day Edition $2.00
Amazing Women #3 by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
You Made Devotion A Virtue #1 An Epic Tale of Phil Spector Modern Day Bluebeard – American Nightmare is His Wet Dream by Devan Elyse Bennett $2.00
Everything Good and Beautiful by Bucket Siler and Frey Anya $5.00
God Save the Zine #5 and #6 by Harrison Rosenberg $3.00COMICS & MINI COMIX!
You Dont Get There From Here #19 Carrie McNinch $2.00
So Nervous #1 by Corinne Mucha and Heather Radke $3.00 – Heather writes material about anxiety which then inspires Corinne to do related comics. A fascinating collaboration!
Shirtlifter #4 by Steve Macisaac and friends (Drawn Out) $12.95
Suicide Girls Comic #3 $3.99 – Chicks with tattoos and big boobies save the world!
Kids Comics Anthology ed. by Jose Luis Olivares $8.00 – Featuring such folks as Nate Beaty, David Libens, Alex Kim and more.
Sock #1 Adult Stories and Imagery ed. by Conor Stechshulte $8.00 – Featuring such folks as CF, Sam Gaskin and more.
Mindful Eating #1 by Drew Damron $2.00 – Drawn during the month of April 2010.
Powdered Milk #5 by Keiler Roberts $2.50
SF #1 by Ryan Cecil Smith
M. Sauter’s Guide to Douchebaggery #3 by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00 – Each issue a consistent seller here. What is that saying?
Vicki Stowe Brewmaster by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00
Comics by Kevin Ulrich ($1.00 each) Boot #1: Bunnies Rocks Unicorns, Boot #2: Starring Ted the Unicorn and Boot #3: With Exclusive Centerfold ComicGRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Meatfist and Gronk Collected Fud and Bud Burgy $5.00
Continuity Guy Chrono Chaos by Klonowski and Burgy $5.00
Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944-1949: The First Female Superhero Created and Drawn by a Woman Cartoonist by Tarpe Mills (IDW) $49.99
Chester 5000 XYV by Jess Fink (Top Shelf) $14.95
Art of Doug Sneyd: Collection of Playboy Cartoons BY Doug Sneyd (Dark Horse) $39.99 – With a forward by Hugh Hefner.ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Back In the Days Remix 10th Anniversary Edition by Jamel Shabazz (PowerHouse) $35.00 – Reprint of this amazing photo collection of B-boys and girls.
Power to the Imagination Artists Posters and Politics by Jurgen Doring (U of Chicago) $29.95
I Should Be In Charge by Bob and Roberta Smith (Black Dog) $49.95
Medium Religion Faith Geopolitics Art ed. by Boris Groys and Peter Weidel $46.00 – Art that questions religion, machines that “analyze” the bible. A hefty, er, tomb.
Red Maze by Stanley Donwood $59.95 – Follows the red maze of curated ephemera. Like “The Shining,” but um, not a hedge maze. With art. In a red maze.
Paul Madonna Album 01 Paul Madonna $24.95 – Comics artist Paul Madonna came in on the sly to sign a few copies of his books while he was in town, and he brought an awesome oversized show catalog of sorts, featuring, among other things, the finger monster toys we sell here too.
Chicano Graffiti and Murals The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada by Sojin Kim $30.00DIY!
Apocalypse Cakes Recipes For the End by Shannon O’Malley and Keith Wilson (Running Press) $14.00
Mental Health Cookbook Creating Connection With Foods and Herbs (Needles and Pens) by H Finn Cunningham $7.00FICTION!
Hundred Brothers by Donald Antrim $15.00
Ladies Man by Richard Price (Picador) $15.00
Lightning by Jean Echenoz (New Press) $19.95
Stories ed. by Neil Gaiman (Harper) $16.99 – Experimental fiction from the likes of Peter Straub and Chuck Pahlahnuik ed. by Mr. Sandman Neverwhere.
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen (Grand Central) $14.99
Vacant Lot by Oliver Rohe (Counterpoint) $18.00LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Through My Eyes: The Way I See Things and the Things I Saw by Eva Pilch $25.00
Always Messing With Them Boys Poems Jessica Helen Lopez $10.00
They Dont Make Memories Like That Anymore by Katrina K. Guarascio $10.00MAGAZINES!
Handshake #1 $8.00 – New Chicago-based mag, debut issue. Interviews with blue collar folks and places you might proudly recognize. We look forward to more issues!
Shots #112 sum 11 $ $6.50
Shock Cinema #40
Wax Poetics #47 $9.99
Fader #74 Jun Jul 11 $5.99
Tattoo Society #28CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter (McSweeneys) $22.00MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior (Bazillion) $39.95 – Don’t miss Jon and Tara here at Quimby’s on July 8th, 7pm. The pair will recount some of the hilarious and the tragic episodes contained in the book, and discuss a dedication to self-publishing spawned from the darkest excesses of metal.
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of The Punk and Hardcore Generation (UPM) $35.00 – Pretty awesome.POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Mayor Culpa: 1989-2011 Gone But Not Forgiven – The Unofficial Farewell Tribute to Mayor Richard M. Daley As Told Through His Long-Lost Campaign Memorabilia by Mark Weinberg $12.95 – Collection of Daley administration ephemera, hilarious yet telling satire Onion-style. The cover graphics of Daley looking like Mr. Burns is worth the cover price alone. From an art standpoint, the design of the book and the graphics are top notch. Small print run, independently published, and home-grown of course, here in the city with big shoulders. A must!
The People’s History of Poverty In America by Stephen Pimpare (New Press) $21.95SEX & SEXY!
SPS #8 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00 – Oh don’t cry, sad little orifice dripping with goo. Your time will cum.
OP Original Plumbing #7 Trans Male Quarterly Green Issue by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos $8.00
Hot Jocks Gay Erotic Stories by Richard Labonte (Cleis) $14.95
Brief Encounters 69 Hot Gay Shorts by Shane Allison (Cleis) $15.95
Angels Misfits by Gary Cook $32.95 – Photos in the vein of Suicidegirls but done desktop publishing style.
Crazy weird porny 3D stuff that comes with 3D glasses, in various prices: Larry Ferguson photography, 3D and Naughty A Sensual Collection of Pin Up Photography In Amazing 3D, Bottoms Up A Cocktail of Risque Recipes and Vintage Vixens, Vavoom #1 Fast Girls, Shh Presents Special Editions ($10.00 each) Hanna Hilton, Shh Presents Courtney Taylor, Kelley Jean
Doktor Mentor #1 and #2 $9.95 each – The booth across from us at C2E2 had the Nawdy Nurse, The Jail Babe Surgeon and other sexy names. This is something they publish. From the same consignor as the 3D stuff above. Also we have a DVD of these shenanagins for $20.00
Candie Land #2 $9.95OTHER STUFF!
Embrace A Pregnancy Journal by Nikki McClure (Sasquatch) $16.95
Tree of Life Postcard Print by Mark Ryden $5.00 – WHAT?! Five BUCKS FOR A MARK RYDEN PRINT? Better get your paws on this soon before it flies outta here.
Onsmith/Paul Nudd Letterpress For Black Eye #1 Signing $15.00 – This was made exclusively for signings for the dark comics humor anthology Black Eye that was here last night, by sontributors Onsmith and Nudd, letterpress printed by local printer Rohner.
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Weekly Top 10
1. Chicago Street Art ed. by Joseph J. Depre and Oscar Arriola $15.00
2. Lose #3 by Michael Deforge (Koyama) $5.00
3. Comic Nurse by MK Czerwiec $25.00
4. Fear of Failure Episode #1 Featuring Doctor Lois Pritchard by Thom Ferrier $5.00
5. Maximumrocknroll #338 Jul 11 $4.00
6. Cornish Legend by Gould S. Baring $.10
7. Cabinet #41 Infrastructure $12.00 – Tweakier than the New Yorker, weirder than Harper’s, subtler than McSweeney’s, Cabinet remains the smart shining star of the NPR media spectrum. -EF
8. Rad Dad #19 by Tomas Moniz $3.00 – This is the Rad Dad “heavy topics” issue; its pages are concerned with talking to your kids about topics you might shy away from—important issues like racism, sexism, death, domestic violence, police brutality, and environmental crisis.
9. Telegram Maam #20 Sum 10 $3.00
10. Notes On Conflict by Susie Cagle $6.00
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New Stuff This Week
Did you miss us last Saturday? We didn’t post new stuff because we were busy at The Comics and Medicine Conference selling books and hanging out with people like John Porcellino , Scott McCloud and Phoebe Glockner. The New York Times even did a little write up on it, so la la la!
Some super fun stuff in now: Henry “Chunklet” Owings’ Indie Cred Test, hilarious zines and comics from the dynamic duo Esther Pearl-Watson and Mark Todd, a second volume of Liz Baillie’s Freewheel, new graffiti stuff in both book and zine formats. Might we suggest for Father’s Day tomorrow the new issue of Serial Killers Unite? Or perhaps Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag?And finally! What are you doing tonight? Perhaps heading over to Punk Rock Karaoke at The Wicker Park Arts Center at 9pm?
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
What I Did Today – May 5, 2011 $2.00 – Former Chicago-based “Proof I Exist” Billy Da Bunny (We miss you, Billy!) called up some friends and said, “What did you do today? Write me and I’l print it!” Very compelling if we don’t say so ourselves. (We just did.)
East Village Inky #47 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Well Never Have Paris vol 8 Rejection $4.00
Mark #4 by Mark Todd $2.00 – From the funchicken vegas series.
Rumor Disneyland $2.00 – As in things rumored to be in Disneyland. Or possibly things contributors want to be in Disneyland. Hilarious.
Lovecrafts Pillow and Other Strange Stories by Kenneth W Faig JR (Moshassuck Press) $15.00 Spring Bust Mar 11 by Laura Wager $3.00
Welcome to Bend #6 Commute Options for Central Oregon $3.00
Friction #3 by Bostian $3.00
Permanent Vacation #1 Anywhere But Here by Kerry Ann Lee $20.00
Curb Kitchen #1 Spr 11 $3.00 Six Watercolors by Marieke McClendon $15.00
Fresh Kills – A Mindbank Production An Unfinished Experiment in Psychic Phenomonon (Drippy Bone Books) $3.00
Alchemy of Appropriation – The Science of Visual Theft and the New Collage $9.00
Serial Killers Unite #7 $2.00
Bands #1 Albuquerques Only Oct 13 – Subtle First Issue $1.00
Drinking Makes Your Heart Ache More Than It Should by Mandy Beaumont $6.00COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Papercutter #16 (Tugboat Press) $4.00 – Always high quality anthology showcasing new and awesome mini-comics artists. This time around: Joey Alison Sayers, Liz Prince, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Greg Means and Nate Beaty.
Woman House by Esther Pearl-Watson $5.00 – Crazy foldy-outy thing! Way cool.
Linework #1 Spr 10 and Linework #2 Spr 11 Comics and Graphics Anthologies $10.00 each Comic Characters by Mark Todd $4.00 – Created in the authors youth.
Pilgrim by Merlock $4.00
I Will Be A Unicorn – Comics That Matter #1 by George Gabe Gonzalez $4.00
Second Chances by Matt Sundstrom $3.00
Concrete Novelty by Thom Ferrier $2.00
Sundays #4 Forever Changes $15.00
Bird by Melissa Mendes $3.00
Snake Oil #6 the Ground is Soft by Chuck Forsman $7.00
Kim Gee Comics #3 $5.00
B One #4 Comics for Broken Hearts by Bobgar Ornelas and Jonathon Westhoff $3.00GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Freewheel vol 2 by Liz Baillie $15.00 – We love Liz Baillie’s work so much that we helped Kickstart her work. Now help us to support her by checking out her work!
Freshman Tales of 9th Grade Obsessions Revelations and Other Nonsense by Corinne Mucha (Zest) $12.99
Remake Graphic Novel by Lamar Abrams (Adhouse) $12.95 – Like a sardonic cross between Astro Boy and Scott Pilgrim, Remake is 144 pages of silly action and crazy nonsense. Meet Max Guy, a robot boy who simply cannot stay out of trouble. Fortunately, he has this gun called the “Max Blaster” that turns things into stuff.
Walking Dead TPB vol 14 No Way Out by Kirkman etc. (Image) $14.99
Shots in the Dark: An Ink and Drink Comics Crime Anthology $11.99 – 21 stories in tribute to St. Louis
Hellboy vol 4 HC by Mike Minola (Dark Horse) $49.99 Proof vol 6 Endangered TPB – Death stalks Proof and the entire team of Lodge agents. Monsters take over Little Tokyo and at least one of Proof’s friends doesn’t make it out alive. The final turning point in the Proof saga.
Preacher Book Four by Garth Ennis (Vertigo) $39.99
New X-Men by Grant Morrison GN TP Book 2 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99
Sweet Tooth TPB vol 3 Animal Armies by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo) $14.99
Lost In a Mind Field: Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses by Neil Phillips $25.00
The Panic Book (Fourth Ed.) by Neil Phillips $20.00
Scars Stories and Other Adventures by MK Czerwiec $17.00
I Am Not These Feet by Kaisa $17.00 – True story about the author and her decision to amputate her feet to get rid of the foot pain.
FRANTIC by Peter Stringham $12.00
Captain Easy vol 2 1936-1937 – Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Soldier of Fortune by Roy Crane (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Wandering Son vol 1 by Shimura Takako (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Who Is Ana Mendieta? by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron (Feminist Press) $18.95
Level Up by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham (First Second) $15.99ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Psycho Dream Factory by Caroline Picard (Holon Press) $22.00 – Each story PSYCHO DREAM FACTORY appropriates celebrity figures like paper dolls in order to enact a new and peculiar drama. Imagine Dr. Dre’s first experience coming on the Burning Man festival! Suppose MJ’s death was only a publicity stunt! What if Woody Allen found a protégé? These are just some of the scenarios you’ll entertain in this delightful volume. Introduction provided by Lily Robert-Foley, with delicious design created and covers printed by Sonnenzimmer and artwork included by the author. This full-color book was made in an edition of 100. Prior to its inclusion in “Happiness Machines” (an exhibit at Roxa Boxen Exhibitions) 25 copies of PSYCHO DREAM FACTORY were placed and left behind (with bar codes) in supermarket checkout aisles in Chicago IL.
From the Platform: Subway Graffiti 1983-1989 by Paul Cavalieri (Schiffer) $34.99
Abegending by Anonymoose E Bardling $12.00 – The release of Abegending, a 153-page ride of prose experimentation filled with sentence fragments, neologisms and quasi-neologisms, syllabic stutterings and ultra-improvisatory ways of covering a page, will mark the debut of Perilous’ Records embrace of not only DIY experimental and indie music…but also DIY prose as well. The release is available in a limited edition of 200 copies.
World Piece: Global Graffiti Drawings by Sacha Jenkins and David Villorente (Prestel) $29.95 Monsters of Art: 20 Years of Havoc by Amber Grunhauser (From Here to Fame) $19.95
Arabic Graffiti by Pascal Zoghbi (From Here to Fame) $34.95FICTION!
Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich (RH) $15.00 – A genial high school loser gets a life-changing makeover after meeting a fabulously wealthy malcontent. First full novel from this writer who has two (HILARIOUS) collections of short stories.
Curfew by Jesse Ball (Vintage) $15.00 – New work from this popular local writer about family, a mysterious kidnapping, and a dangerou voyage.
Hornbuckles Journal – New American Storybook by Gene Lubin $10.00
Millenium People by JG Ballard (Norton) $25.95
Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson (Doubleday) $25.00
Child Garden by Geoff Ryman (Small Beer Press) $16.00 – A future city afflicted with a viral epidemic.
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson (SMP) $15.99 – Now in soft cover. Dont Stop Now by Julie Halpern – On the first day of Lillian’s summer-before-college, she gets a message on her cell from her sort-of friend, Penny. Not only has Penny faked her own kidnapping, but Lil is the only one who Penny told.DIY & HOW-TO!
Generation V: The Complete Guide to Going Being and Staying Vegan as a Teenager by Claire Askew (PM) $14.95
Slippery Tipples: A Guide to Weird and Wonderful Spirits and Liqueurs by Joseph Piercy (History Press) $17.95 – From European favourites such as Mastichato Chios, which saved 2,000 Greeks from a bloody massacre at the hands of vengeful Turks, to legendary drinks such as Amarula, invented by African elephants; from classic cocktail ingredients like Midori, the bright green Japanese melon drink launched at the wrap party for Saturday Night Fever at Studio 54, to student stalwart Jagermeister, dreamt up by a confidant of Herman Goring and hugely popular among senior Nazis, Sippery Tipples tells the stories behind the word’s most extraordinary drinks. Alongside a country-by-country guide to murky and mysterious booze and dozens of cocktail recipes is a series of easy to follow recipes for making your own liqueurs and spirits. If you would like to concoct your own fruit brandies or make a drop of traditional full-strength Pimms then this is the book for you.
Greenblooded an Introduction to Eco Friendly Feminine Hygiene by Cathy Leamy $2.00 Wrongful Convictions – Causes Solutions and How You Can Get Involved by Rachel Schastok $2.50LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
The First Line vol 13 #2 $3.00 The Believer #81 Jun 11 $8.00
Lost Evidents by Daniel Paul Picone $9.99
Somethings Brewing: Selected Work 1998-2010 by Eric P. Johnt Jr $10.00 Lungfull #19 $9.95 Public Space #13 $12.00
Boat Magazine #1 Spr Sum 11 $15.00
Paris Review #197 $12.00
Ecotone #11 $10.95
After Hours #23 Sum 11 $8.00
Armchair Shotgun #2 $10.00
Gigantic #3 $7.00
Trnsfr #4 $10.00
Exact Change Only vol 3 #1 win 11 $10.00
49 Western Chapbook by Matthew S Barton $2.00MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #126 Jul 11 $5.99
Graffiti Blasters #1 Sum 11 (Art G Press) $15.00 – Top-notches and balls-to-the-walls Chicagoeccentricentric graffiti zine goes next-level glossy without forfeiting its hyperquality content density. -EF San Francisco Handstyles*Chicago Old School*Mayor D30*Jurne Tge*Dane Cya*
Survivalist #3 $3.95
ArtForum Jun 11 $10.00
True Detective Jun 11 $4.99
Raw Vision #72 $14.00
Design Bureau Jul Aug 11 $8.00
Wallpaper Jul 11 $10.00
Apartamento #7 $19.95
Color Ink Book vol 10 DIY Art Periodical by The Washburn Brothers $10.00
Fortean Times #276 Jul 11 $11.99
Flaunt #115 $10.95
Lovecat #1 $10.00 – New fashion mag.
Skunk vol 7 #1 $5.99
High Times Aug 11 $5.99
Meatpaper #15 Sum 11 $7.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #3 Sum 11 $15.00
Paper Sum 11 vol 27 #8 $4.00
Zeromile #6 $12.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought spr 11 $10.00
Peeping Tom Digest #2 $22.00
Signal to Noise #62 Sum 11 $4.95
Maximumrocknroll #338 Jul 11 $4.00
Ghetto Blaster #28 $3.95
Wire #328 Jun 11 $10.99
Radical History Review Spr 11 $14.00
Harpers Magazine Jul 11 $6.99
RFD #146 Sum 11 $9.95
Tabu Tattoo #45 $7.99
Freshly Inked vol 1 #2 $6.99CHILDRENS BOOKS!
Counting in the Garden by Emily and Patrick Hruby (Ammo) $14.95
Colors by Charley Harper (Ammo) $9.95MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
The Indie Cred Test: Everything You Need to Know About Knowing Everything You Need to Know by Henry H. Owings $19.98 – From Heny “Chunklet” Owings and friends. Snarky, hilarious and of course, deeply satisfying.
Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag by Stevie Chick (PM) $19.95 – The story of Black Flag from the inside, drawing on exclusive interviews with the group’s members, their contemporaries, and the bands they inspired.
I Mix What I Like – A Mixtape Manifesto by Jared Ball (AK) $14.95 – Jared A. Ball, PhD, (a.k.a. The Funkiest Journalist) is the host of FreeMix Radio, and assistant professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. This book has all sorts of music industry rants but with footnotes and bibiographic info.
Celebrity Vinyl by Tom Hamling (MBP) $19.95 – Now in soft cover! A laugh-riot reminder of what happens when famous people decide to (unsuccessfully) give singing a try. The number of celebrities, and pseudo-celebrities, that have indulged such hubris boggles the mind: Burt Reynolds, Shaquille O’Neal, John Travolta, Eddie Murphy, Leonard Nimoy, Alyssa Milano – the list goes on and on, as do the laughs. Over 100 photographs of the album art that houses these celebrity recordings are paired with gut-punch funny captions.
You Must Go and Win by Alina Simone (Faber) $14.00 – Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet, all the while investigating her Russian roots.
Bob Marley: The Untold Story by Chris Salewicz (Faber) $16.00MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS! Lunatic Express: Discovering the World Via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats and Trains by Carl Hoffman (Broadway) $14.00
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized A City and Sparked The Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown) $26.00
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser (Norton) $26.95
Life Would be Perfect if I Lived In That House by Meghan Daum (Vintage) $14.95
Nerd Do Well: A Small Boys Journey to Becoming a Big Kid by Simon Pegg (Gotham) $27.50 – Memoir from Brit science-fiction superstar.
Sports From Hell: My Search for the Worlds Most Outrageous Competition by Rick Reilly (Random) $14.95
Half a Life by Darin Strauss (Random) $13.00 – A biker accidentally swerved in front of the author’s car and she got killed. It’s haunted him forever. Now in soft cover! OK THX BYE!POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
We Called Each Other Comrade: Charles H. Kerr and Company Radical Publishers by Allen Ruff (PM) $24.95
Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso) $19.95
Anticapitalism by Ezequiel Adamovsky by Unidos Ilustradores (Seven Stories Press) $14.95 Deep Green Resistance by Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen (Seven Stories Press) $22.95
Reviving The Strike: How Working People can Regain Power and Transform America by Joe Burns (IgPublishing) $15.95SEX & SEXY!
Adventures In the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America by Christopher Turner (FSG) $35.00
Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens (Zest) $14.99
Meat #4 by Adrian Lourie $20.00 – American Apparelian sexy photos with guys.
Pinups #14 Jos $14.00OTHER STUFF!
Gender and Comics Potluck 3 Print Set by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Esther Pearl Watson $40.00 – The delightful Esther Pearl Watson and Anne Elizabeth Moore (with assistance from James Payne) have culled thoughts, concerns, complaints, and expletives into a 6-page comics essay providing an occasionally frustrating view of the state of the comics industry, at least where women and trans people are concerned. The full essay, colored with the most delightful pinky mauve, is was in Bitch Magazine.
Harrison Trading Cards by Harrison “God Save the Zine” Rosenberg $2.00
Scumbabies DVD $15.00 – The slapstick horror musical fairytale about love and death. -
Weekly Top 10 and Tonight's Beat Cop's Guide to Eats Event
1. Peoplings Book: Autism Education and the Savage of Aveyron by Courtney Angermeier and Jeff Benham $12.00 – Thanks to the Comics and Medicine Conference this past weekend!
2. Juxtapoz #126 Jul 11 $5.99
3. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95
4. The Beat Cops Guide to Chicago Eats by Sgt David J Haynes and Christopher Garlington (Lake Claremont Press) $15.95 – Don’t miss tonight’s event for this book at 7pm!
5 Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Woodring’s comics continue to be pure magic.
6. Noah Novella by Noah VanSciver (Grimalkin Press) $4.00 – Noah VanSciver does autobio comics by taking us into his personal troll hole, and it’s not such a bad place to be. He’s a hater, for sure. His crabcake one-pagers about growing up poor, awkward and unlucky really do start to have the Crumb-y effect of explaining the chips on his shoulder. He’s got a good drawing sensibility too that just wrings extra angst and neuroses out of the story. I gotta say, his constant pursuit of fame and fortune through making weird comics wears me down stresses me out a little. The comics are good, they’re being published and noticed, and they’re getting better all the time, it might be time to stop sweating the small stuff and just go for it. -EF
7. Play It Make It – A Tiny Book of DIY Games by Rio (Microcosm) $1.00 – Creative DIY gamecrafting is the kind of thing that makes you a hit at bbqs, parties, car trips and anywhere else social boredom may try to strike. Lucky you, this fun one is packed with idears and sized to travel. -EF
8. The Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.009. The First Line vol 13 #2 $3.00
10. Believer #81 Jun 11 $8.00
And here’s more info about tonight’s event for The Beat Cops Guide to Chicago Eats:
Join Sgt. David J. Haynes of the Chicago Police Department, and his partner-in-crime, blogger Christopher Garlington on Tues, June 14th at 7pm as they talk about the places where they take a bite out of crime and also bites out of donuts, polish sausage, fried chicken, enchiladas, and omelettes. Peppered with outrageous stories from working cops, Chicago cop lore, and even a few recipes, The Beat Cop’s Guide To Chicago Eats takes you on a gustatory journey through all five Chicago areas, including some of the toughest neighborhoods in the nation.
Sgt. David J. Biscuit Haynes has spent the past 15 years dodging bullets and chasing down gang bangers on the city’s West Side, running Chicago’s first ever Homeland Security Task Force, and supervising squads in the 19th District at Belmont and Western. Christopher “The Bull” Garlington is a blogger and author, known for his stories of raising highly intelligent (devious) children published on the blog Death by Children. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Another Realm, Bathhouse, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and more. Together Haynes and Garlington have hosted the radio program The Dave & Chris Show! since 2007, during which they cultivate and maintain a long-standing argument about…everything. From politics and video games to the importance of cool nicknames and secret societies, they cover it on their live weekly broadcast from cigar stores, bars, and other manly locales around Chicago. Their show first aired on WJJG and is now broadcast online on blogtalk radio.
The book retails at $15.95 and includes $34 in coupons. It’s like being buddies with your alderman.
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Quimby's Podcast #1 Available Now. And Weekly Top 10
It’s true. We have for you this week’s top 10 but also, the first episode of the Quimby’s podcast that you can download from podbean.com. Eventually it will be on I-Tunes; we’re in the application stage where they listen to it and then (hopefully) approve it. So for now, you can listen to it at podbean and/or download it in some form to listen to it on some device or machine. The first episode features an interview with Margaret Hicks who wrote Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History. We think you will agree that she was extremely charming, if we don’t say so ourselves.In other news, you will see that two artists featured in the first volume of the comics anthology Black Eye have made the top 10 bestsellers this week with their books, both Paul Hornschemeier and Lilli Carré. They will be here to celebrate the release of Black Eye on 6/24 with other contributors Ivan Brunetti, Paul Nudd and Onsmith.
Top 10 This Week
1. Life With Mr Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier (Villard) $22.00 – Life with Mr.Dangerous is a study of modern emotional understanding as tethered to pop culture fandom. Amy Breis, the book’s protagonist, does an awkward job of navigating a life full of seeming dead ends. Her response to reality is constantly informed by her love of a television show, and the show acts as a filter to make the mundane situations more dramatic and interesting.
2. Roctober #49 $4.00
3. Haymarket 1886-2011 by AREA Chicago $5.00 – As part of the 125th commemoration/reenactment of the Haymarket Riots, AREA Chicago has put out Haymarket 1886-2011 a look at the broad and still resonating impact of Haymarket today. Smartly laid out and broad in scope with contributions from: Penelope Rosemont, David Roediger, Alma Washington, the history of Haymarket walking tours, Euan Hague, Paul Buhle, Peter Chanthasena and Anh Nguyen, the Haymarket Historic Landmark District, Paul Durica, the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, reflections on Haymarket from the shadow of September 11, Holly Nelson, May Day, the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, Josefa Mellor and Nick Naber, 134 years of social struggle in Pilsen, Teko Sãso, Anthony Rayson, Josh Otte and Jordon Olson, Jerry Mead-Lucero, Sam Mitrani, alternative Haymarket monument proposals, Samuel Barnett, Lucy Parsons, teaching and learning about Haymarket, Bucky Halker and Nicolas Lampert.
4. Animal Sex – You Might Not Want To Know by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – This mini is so good! It’s a sly and pervy funny-as-shit guide to kinky sex in the animal kingdom. From ungodly long schlongs of Argentine lake ducks to pheromone-fueled Garter Snake fuckballs, Rotman’s bestiary culls the cream of the crop from what sounds like some pretty extensive -uh- “internet research”. -EF
5. Little Otsu Living Things vol 4 Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $6.95
6. East Village Inky #47 $3.00 – Ayun gives us a Mermaid Parade 101 and plenty of scrapper parent scene reportage. Topped with tales of a sourdough starter (you know how New Yorkers like to brag about how cultured they are). -EF
7. Root Rot by Anne Koyama and Michael DeForge, eds. (Koyama Press) $12.00 – Koyama calls the 5-second rule on everything that falls to the forest floor. Root Rot’s an impressive comics-centric Nobrow-like look book of stunners. Moldy mushrooms and tossed moss from t edward bak, JFISH, Mickey Zacchilli, Bob Flynn, Lizz Hickey, Dan Zettwoch, Chris Eliopoulos, Joseph Lambert, Jon Vermilyea, Derek M Ballard, Angie Wang, Greg Pizzoli, Hellen Jo and Ines Estrada with special show-stoppin’ contributions from Robin Nishio and Jesse Jacobs. Let’s go camping, yes? -EF
8. Maximumrocknroll #337 Jun 11 $4.00
9. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF
10. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.
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New Stuff This Week
Thanks to Dave Roche for taking this photo of Luke Sinclair (Platic Knife, You, Sticky) reading here and posting it on Flickr. Took some pictures here at Quimby’s? Tag ’em with Quimby’s Bookstore and/or add them to the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr. If you took a picture you’re particularly proud of let us know and we’ll post it on our blog.
But! So! New Stuff This Week!
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
East Village Inky #47 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Lean Mean Teen Zine Machine #2 and #3 $1.00 each
Vamostja Vampire Monster Ninja $1.00
Talzine #1 A Zine About Taleen – A Zine About Being Armenian by Taleen $2.00
Dining With Words – An Artists Banquet by Caroline Liebman, Taleen Kalenderian and Nicki Yowell $6.00
Faux Cal Point Press vol 1 #1 May 11 $1.00
Filth #1 Jan 11 $2.00 and Filth #2 Spr 11 $3.00
A Day in the Life of Baldwin P Leninforth Ombudsman #1 by Jennifer Shiman $5.00
Pneuma #1 by Tommy Nease $10.00
Holiday Pay #20 Appropriate Attire bt Turner Hilliker $3.00 – We also have several back issues.
Turbochainsaw #6 $7.50
Monsters Rock Apr 11 by Kione Kochi $2.50
Maribooks #1 Bully Power by Maria $1.00
Danielas World #1 by Daniela $1.00
12 Going on 13 $1.00
Your Boss Wants To Instill Confidence – Impar Skills and Ignite Potential by M. Miller $10.00
Bushwick Review #2 by Kristen Felicetti $5.00
How Things Break – A Short Poem by Marissa F $.50
Nature of Love – An Exploration by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
Bound Woman – Meditations On Love and Loneliness $1.50COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin #5 by BT Livermore $4.00
Terrible Beasts $4.00
Elf World vol 2 #2 ed. by Francois Vigneault (Family Style) $7.00 – Fabulous anthology featuring such artists as Horrocks, Tinder and more!
Andromeda #12 by Andy Scott $2.00
Peoplings Ashcan 2011 Autism Education and the Savage of Aveyron by Courtney Angermeier and Jeff Benham $3.00
Nace and Cenu At the Park by Natalie Peary and Jeff Benham $3.00
Feeberts Guest #2 an Ombudsman Tale by Jennifer Shiman $5.00GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Jim Woodring’s second full-length graphic novel, and first starring his signature character Frank that tells the story of what happens when Frank leaves the Unifactor.
Citizen Rex by Mario and Gilbert Hernandez (Dark Horse) $19.99 – This book asks the question “What compels life without a soul?” and is a bizarre, sexy view of the future! This handsome hardcover collection also features a new cover by Gilbert, sketches and behind-the-scenes material from Mario, and a special pinup from third Hernandez brother Jaime.
Isle of 100000 Graves by Jason and Fabien Vehlmann (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – Jason teamed up with Fabien Vehlmann to tell this dark comedy about a treasure map that leads to an island with a terrible secret.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 8 Last Gleaming by Joss Whedon and various (Dark Horse) $16.99
Yesterday and Maybe Tomorrow Too by Jeff Benham and Courtney Angermeier $6.00
Salmonilla Chronicles Collection vol 1 or Patchoulis Allure by Jeff Benham and Martinez Ryk $7.00
Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse) $29.99
Blunderbuss Wanderlust – Being an Account of the Temprol Travels of Colonel Victor by David Shapiro and Christopher Herndon $14.99
Tooth by Cullen Bunn, Shawn Lee and Matt Kindt (Oni) $24.99
Celluloid HC an Erotic Graphic Novel by Dave McKean (Fantagraphics) $35.00 – Dave McKean’s first original graphic novel since his landmark book Cages. And it’s kinda sexy.
Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels by Michael A. Chaney (University of Wisconsin Press) $26.95ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Cellophane House $20.00
Art and Agenda Political Art and Activism (DGV) $68.00FICTION!
Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk (Anchor) $14.95 – Now in soft cover.
Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale (Blind Eye) $12.95
Citrus County by John Brandon (McSweeneys) $14.00 – Now in soft cover.DIY & HOW-TO!
Kid Made Modern: 52 Kid Friendly Projects Inspired by Mid Century Modern Design by Todd Oldham (Ammo) $22.95
We Are Paper Toys by Louis Bou (Collins) $29.99
Pinhole Cameras: A Do It Yourself Guide by Chris Keeney (Princeton) $18.95
Protest Stencil Toolkit by Patrick Thomas (Laurence) $24.95
Psychedelic Explorers Guide: Safe Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys by James Fadiman PhD (Park Street) $18.95LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Granta #115 Spr 11 The F Word $16.99
Conduit #22 $10.00
Issues #5 and #6 of Concisely: Stories Under 500 Words $4.00 each
Theyre at It Again: Stories From Twenty Years of Open City, ed. by Thomas Bellar and Joanna Yas (Open City) $22.95MAGAZINES!
Maximumrocknroll #337 Jun 11 $4.00
Chicago IRL #1 Spr 11 $20.00
AdBusters #96 July Aug 11 $8.95
In These Times Jun 11 $3.50
Cabinet #41 Infrastructure $12.00
Bizarre #176 Jun 11 $10.50
Art of Mary Jane Jun 11 $6.99
Frieze #139 May 11 $10.00
Infamous #4 $6.99
Murder Most Foul #80 $9.99
Monocle vol 5 #44 Jun 11 $10.00
IdN vol 18 #2 $17.50
Fangoria #304 $8.99
True Crime May 11 $8.99
Skateboard Mag #88 $3.99
Pinstriping #26 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Mojo #212 Jul 11 $9.99
Big Takeover #68 $5.99
Tattoo Collection #44 $7.75
Bound By Ink Annual 11 $8.99CHILDRENS BOOKS!
ABC is for Circus by Patrick Hruby (Ammo) $14.95
The Red Shoes by Gloria Flower and Sun Young Yoo (Ammo) $16.95
Terra Tempo Ice Age Cataclysm by David Shapiro, Christopher Herndon and Erica Melville $14.99
City Numbers by Joanne Schwartz and Matt Beam (Groundwood) $18.95
Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn Young Readers Edition by Herge (Littlebrow) $8.99 – Includes bonus source material section.
Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackhams Treasure Young Readers Edition by Herge (Littlebrow) $8.99 – Includes bonus source material section.
Patrick in a Teddy Bears Picnic and Other Stories – A Toon Book by Geoffrey Hayes (Toon Books) $12.95MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Buskers: The On-the-Streets, In-the-Trains, Off-the-Grid Memoir of Two New York City Street Musicians by Heth and Jed Weinstein (Soft Skull) $14.95MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
JFK and UFO: Military Industrial Conspiracy and Cover Up From Maury Island to Dallas by Kenn Thomas (Feral House) $17.95 – Illustrated with rare images, JFK & UFO interconnects the lingering mysteries of America’s most notorious assassination and its weird ufological subculture.
Casebook On the Men in Black by Jim Keith (Adventu) $14.95
Soft Skull’s Deep Focus Series takes a critical and entertaining look at selected films and devotes a slim volume of affordable analysis ($12.95 each) to each film, not unlike Continuum’s 33 1/3 Series, except with movies instead of albums: Heathers by John Ross Bowie and The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training by Josh Wilker
It Was Over When…: Tales of Romantic Dead Ends by Rob K. Elder (Sourcebooks Casablanca) $12.99 – By local journalist Rob K. Elder, who was a staff writer at the Chicago Tribune from 2000-2009. This snapshot of modern romance gone bad is complete with its complexities and contradictions, compiling the best user-submitted stories from ItWasOverWhen.com, a site devoted to lost love, as well as from its companion website (www.itwasoverwhen.com), to create a greatest hits collection of cringe-inducing love schadenfreude.POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark (Verso) $26.95
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs (Univ Calif) $24.95SEX & SEXY!
Pinups #14 $14.00
Afternoon Pleasures: Erotica for Gay Couples by Shane Allison (Cleis) $14.95
Jade Door Erotic Stories from Ancient China by Chaiko, Cheng Cheng, 7th Orange (Eurotica) $17.99
Travel Naturally #79 $9.95OTHER STUFF!
Weirdo bobbleheads: GG Allin 1991 Condensed Carnage Edition Throbblehead $14.95, Keith Morris Statue Aggronautix $19.95, Tesco Vee of the Meatmen Bobblehead Aggronautix Condensed Carnage $19.95, Wendy O Williams Aggronautix Condensed Carnage Bobblehead $19.95 -
Weekly Top 10
1. Confessions of a Chicago Punk by Marie Kanger-Born (Chicago Punx Pix Productions) $22.00 – What? You couldn’t make it to this event last week? We’ve still got a few copies left of this book that compiles stuff from the author’s zine, pictures, recollections and more. Hard to find this one in lotsa other places!
2. Lose #3 by Michael Deforge (Koyama) $5.00
3. The Game by Anders Nilsen $9.00 – Double-sided poster with trading cards, and originally appeared as 3 pages in an issue of Kramers Ergot. This has that plus a fourth page!
4. Diamond Comics #6 by Jason Levian (Floating World) $4.00 – New full color issue of a tip top newsprint ‘thology. Big, big pages from Paul Pope, Farel Dalrymple, Lane Milburn, Lala Albert, Jim Rugg, Zack Soto, Dash Shaw, Stanley Lieber, Sam Hiti, Bendik Kaltenborn and a 4-page sunshine vampire story by Jonny Negron that really sold me on the whole thing. -EF
5. Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99
6. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95
7. Under the Radar #36 $5.99
8. Life With Mr Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier (Villard) $22.00
9. Bitch #51 $5.95
10. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.
