Category: regular weekly post

  • New Stuff This Week

    Highlights this week include multiple screen-printed titles from Koyama Press, the new Paul Hornschemeier book, an art anthology of Art about William Shatner, a Zap exhibition show catalog, a folded print from Anders Nilsen, a DVD and a book about Chicago street art (from 2 different people) and more. Tonight at 7pm: Margaret Hicks discusses her book Chicago Comedy A Fairly Serious History.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Roctober #49 $4.00
    Ghost Pine – All Stories True by Jeff Miller (Invisible) $16.95 – Thirteen years Compiling the best of Jeff’s long-running zine of thirteen years, from his youth in suburban Ottawa in the late 1990s, to travels across Canada and North America and his current home in Montreal.

    Taking the Lane vol 1 Sharing the Road with Boys and Taking the Lane vol 2 Revolutions Every Damn Day by Elly Blue $3.00 each separately
    Homobody #6 Where Qweer Is the New Qool by Rio $2.00

    Lou Reeder/You Cant Put Your Arms Around a Memory Split Zine by Corina Fastwolf and Matt Monochrome $3.00 – Music-theme split zine with the funniest titles in the store. Open it up to the centerfold and- what have we here- OH MAN! ITS A HOMEMADE VIOLENT FEMMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE!!! What else could you possibly need to know about this? -EF

    Menstruation Sensation – A Practical Guide to Navigation the World of 21st Century by Alyssa Beers $3.00
    Sugar Needle #35 by Corina Fastwolf $2.00
    She Must Be Having a Bad Day – The Cult of the Female Food Service Worker $2.00
    Railroad Semantics #4 Fall 10 by Aaron Dactyl $6.00 – Thick zine of heavy trampin’.

    Simple History – Latin American Independence 1810 to 1824 by J. Gerlach $2.50
    Sowing and Dawning #3 by Rick Visser $4.00
    Gutter Slug #2 by Emily $3.50
    Cyberpunk Apocalypse #3 The Man Hates Us $6.00
    Patient Files #3 Confidential HAY $3.00
    Educating For Freedom by Cindy Milstein $4.00
    Asexy Life On Asexuality and Challenging Heteronormativity $1.50
    Abolish Restaurants by Prole.info (PM Press) $5.95 – Yeah, fuck those people eating their food and other people serving them food. Fuck those guys. Ha ha. No really, this is a worker’s critique of the food industry. And on a totally unrelated note, it has really good design layout, and is almost like an illustrated Fast Food Nation.
    High and Outside by Adam Hartnett and Scott Rideout $4.00
    In Light of What’s Happening It Happened #1 Comic and Mixtape by Sean Cason $6.00
    Without Words Without Kneeling – The First Six Issues by Tomas Moniz $6.00 – The first volume collection.

    Without Words Without Kneeling #7 – A Serialized Zine Novella by Tomas Moniz $2.00
    She Is Restless vol 1 Fracture by Rebbeca Mir $3.00
    She Is Restless vol 2 Waves by Rebbeca Mir $4.00
    Lover by Devan E Bennett $5.00
    Sumerr Whatever #1 $1.00
    Grey Supreme #1 by Mark Laliberte $13.00
    Your Secretary #6 Lake Effect #1 Split by Jami Sailor $2.00
    Terrarvm #1 by Michael Max McCleod $12.50
    Eat Zine #1-#3 $6.00 each
    Contemporary Dude Theory 2nd Edition by various $8.00 – Very sociologyish. (And interesting.) Perhaps consider this as a companion volume to N+1’s “What Was the Hipster”?
    Ospreys #16 Obscure Finale $10.00
    Bizarrism #11 by Chris Mikul $6.00 – A low-fi somewhat Fortean zine devoted to weirdos through history. VERY interesting.

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    The Game by Anders Nilsen $9.00 – This double-sided poster by local comics superstar Anders Nilsen comes with trading cards, each package has a different one. This print is composed of three panels in an issue of Kramers Ergot, but this edition comes with a fourth page. We are one of the only places you can get this. And it conveniently comes folded and encased in plastic wrap so you you don’t have to carry it home in a big tube.
    Amazing things from Gabrielle Bell!: Diary Minneapolis California New York What The Manifestation ($40.00), LA Diary ($4.00)
    Lose #3 by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – Another issue from a title that often makes our top ten bestseller list. Come see for yourself why.
    Noah Novella The Peoples History of Noah VanSciver, Selection of Autobiographical Comics $4.00
    Not My Small Diary #16 You Are Here by Delaine $6.00 – Double volume anthology, always high quality mini strips. They go fast!
    Monster Party by Chris Eliopoulos (Koyama) $5.00
    Cat Rackham Loses It by Steve Wolfhard (Koyama) $5.00
    Suicide Girls Comic #2 by various (IDW) $3.99 – Chicks with tattoos and piercings fighting crime. If you can’t afford to subscribe to their website maybe you’ll spend $3.99 on a comic about fictional crime fighting. And boobs.
    Nobrow #5 $17.50
    Comics Youth #1 by Blaise Larmee $2.00
    Welcome to Nursing Hell #1 $4.00
    Just So You Know #2 by Joey Alison Sayers $5.00
    Middle School by Monica Gallagher $2.50
    Silent Type 2 $5.00
    Booty #23 $3.00
    Poseur #5 by Nat Hoonsan $4.00

    Dark Tomato #1 by Sakura Maku (Domino Books) $5.00 – Strange events in the life of one of New York’s finest subway drivers, slips through a dream reality and hangs out in a teacup…Maku’s vibrant, boney, wire-haired characters look like amazing teenage fan art for the Rolling Stones collaged with scraps from the best fabric store ever. They move through patterned space with a fluid float that builds language the from scratch both linguistically and graphically. The debut title from Austin English’s new publishing project Domino Books, this comic is a real power. -EF

    Francisco by Gina Wynbrandt $3.50
    Vestiges Creator Showcase Series 1 by Patrick Godfrey $3.95
    Corndog Creator Showcase Series 1 by Meg Gandy $4.95
    Howl Before Sunset Creator Showcase Series 1 by Mariya Pantyukhina $2.95
    Drip Drip Drip Creator Showcase Series 1 by Gandy Rawn $3.95
    Booyah the Oblitorator Creator Showcase Series 1 by James Callahan $4.95
    Viande Est Mauvaise Creator Showcase Series 1 by Tom Batten and Matt Deans $3.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Zap Masters of Psychedelic Art 1965-1974 ed. by Gary Panter $35.00 – Exhibition catalog from the Zap retrospective show at Andrew Edlin Gallery, curated by Gary Panter. This book features work from a variety of underground artists like R Crumb, S Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso and more!
    Chicago Street Art $15.00 Text by Joseph J Depre and photos by Oscar Arriola, Chris Diers, Thomas Fennell IV and Patrick Hershberger. A love letter of sorts to Chicago and its many street artists, photos published here so that when the art gets graffiti blasted they’ve been documented somewhere. With work by such artists as Tiptoe, Artillery, The Viking and more. Traverlers, fuck bringing home a snowglobe from the souvenir stand. Get this book instead.
    The Shatner Show ed. by Janine Vangool and Glen Dresser (Uppercase) $20.00 – An anthology of art about Mr. Shatner. Yes, for real. Various artists.
    Collection a Day – 365 Curated Collections by Lisa Congdon (Uppercase) $35.00 – Tiny collections of tiny items, arranged delicately, each day a new collection of quirky little ephemera. The cutest OCD thing ever. The book comes in beautiful tin box so you can keep the book in pristine condition while you go wipe off all your doorknobs.
    In Search of Cold Places by Rebecca Mir $12.00
    Constructive Abandonment by Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber (D&Q) $15.95
    Wonderwear #5 Night Knight In Pig In a Wet Blanket Down Boy by Douglas Nelson $3.90

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Life With Mr Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier (Villard) $22.00 – Local comics artist and friend of Quimby’s! A hardcover beauty.
    Root Rot (Koyama) $12.00
    Centifolia Sketchbook Illustrations vol 1 and vol 2 by Stuart Immonen (Adhouse) $19.95 each separately
    Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs (Adhouse) $9.95
    DV8 TPB Gods and Monsters by Brian Wood and Rebekah Isaacs (DC) $17.99

    FICTION!
    Weeding the Seed of Deceit by Rebekah Mercuri $17.95
    Smythology by Jeremy Tarr and Katy Smail (Big Head) $25.99

    DIY
    Winds From Below Radical Community – Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by The Team Colors Collective $6.00
    Self-defense for Radicals – A to Z Guide For Subversive Struggle by Mickey Z and Richard Cole (PM Press) $4.95
    Nontoxic Housecleaning by Raleigh Briggs $1.50
    Rough DIY Zine On Developing B and W Film $2.00 – This is a handy-dandy guide/starter/reminder on basic balck and white film processing. Simple, fun and explained well. Although digital photo may be convenient and immediate, a pitch black room full of chemicals rarely disappoints. -EF

    Play It Make It – A Tiny Book of DIY Games by Rio $1.00 – DIY Apples to Apples and more. Super good ideas.
    So Raw its Downright Filthy a Raw Vegan Cookbook by Joshua Ploeg (Microcosm) $4.00 – Amazing new recipes from the author of In Search of Lost Taste. Delicious, and with flavors and food ideas you wouldn’t expect.

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Overtime Hour 19 The List bt TD Corum $2.00
    Ghosts and Doppelgangers by Brad Liening $13.00
    Reasons to Leave the Slaughter by Ben Clark (Write Bloody) $15.00
    Left Having by Jesse Seldess $14.95
    Hannah Weiner’s Open House by Hannah Weiner $14.95
    Literary Review vol 54 #3 Spr 11 $8.00
    Eat The Wolf Poems by Xavier M. $.50
    What Are They Doing in Heaven Today #1 $.25

    MAGAZINES!
    Bitch #51 $5.95
    Uppercase #9 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
    Worn #11 Fashion Journal $6.00
    Bust Jun Jul 11 $4.99
    Z Magazine Jun 11 $4.95

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander by Marie Kangor-Born (Chicago Punx Pix) $22.00 – Missed last night’s release event here? Here’s your chance to snap one up!

    SEX & SEXY!
    Empower Yr Sexy Self  – A Workbook by Cheyenne Neckmonster/The Wrench Collective $1.50 – A get-it-started zine workthrough about body image, sensuality, sex, gender and identity. Nice n’ concise. -EF

    Adult Themes Rated XXX by Chantel G. $2.00
    Attitude #205 Sum 11 $10.99
    Inked Jun 11 $6.99

    OTHER STUFF!
    Matt Bergstrom’s 3d View Master Reel and Zines! $10.00 each, from the American Ruins series, including: Brachs Candy Factory, Washburne Trade School and The Michael Reese Hospital. From the artist behind the Build Your Own Chicago (and New York) Cards.
    Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches by Ekaterina Smirnova (MBP) $17.95
    Comptons Cafeteria Riot Poster San Francisco 1966 $12.00 – Celebrate peoples history with this poster by Andre Perez.
    Punk Rock Saved My Life sticker $1.00
    Every Damn Day DVD A Sampling of Chicago Street Art and Graffiti $12.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    Once again, the Chester Brown book tops the list for bestsellers here. Dan Gleason’s new best of book is next, and would you believe, he’s on a greatest hits volume 3! Thanks to everybody that came out for his release event here at Quimby’s this past weekend.

    1. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

    2. Dear Sweetness – Dan Gleason’s Greatest Hits vol 3 $8.95 – It is once again time to bathe in the Living Light that is Dan Gleason. His generosity, wit, craftsmanship and sexual potency know no boundaries. His greatest hits are perhaps best likened to the secret treasures of the Vatican. Where there was one set of footsteps, my child, that is where Dan Gleason carried you. -EF

    3. Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00

    4. Boys Club #1 by Matt Furie (Buenaventura Press) $5.00 – A collection of Matt Furie’s latest mini-comics featuring teenage monsters Andy, Brett, Landwolf and Pepe: drinkin;, stinkin; and never thinkin’.

    5. Diamond Comics #6 $4.00

    6. AdBusters #95 vol 19 #3 May Jun 11 $8.95

    7. Ready Made #53 Jun Jul 11 $4.95

    8. Big Hands #8 by Aaron Smith $3.00 – How can you love a zine that’s tackling just about basically everything mediocre and obnoxious? In Big Hands #8 Aaron picks apart cubicle jobs, prowling around on Facebook, couples, dropping dollars at the club, the movie Juno, cliche party drama, and lord have mercy, that Black Eyed Peas song “I Gotta Feeling”, offering up a cultural critique that’s flexible and relevant without being bitchy or pre-determined. It’s like that phenomena where you hate the movie but love the Anthony Lane film review.

    9. New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00 – Beastlord tackles social anxiety disorder leaving friends, syntax and party planning decimated in his wake. Also a nice little Wog comic too. Drawings that leave you wishing you had lotsa weird muscles or at least more lovely lady lumps. -EF

    10. Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #5 Prince $3.00 – That’s right, you heard me right: Prince. Sixteen artists take that iconic ‘do and turn it into a symbol. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    So far the world hasn’t ended. So guess that means you’ll have to come in to look at new stuff and then in about an hour Dan Gleason will be here to celebrate the release of ‘Dear Sweetness – Dan Gleason’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 3’ and will feature the Great Mike McPadden (aka El McBeardo), noted diarist Grace LaPeruto, Gabriel Wallace, author of the Great Sheboygan Panty Raid of 18977, Gregory Jacobsen – he of the long flowing locks- and the late Marc Arcuri. See you at 7pm!

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Zine World A Readers Guide to the Underground #30 $4.00
    Deutschland 77 by Kaitlin Kostus $4.00
    Resist Rebel Defy by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
    Manifesto to the Industrial Workers of the World by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
    Manifesto de los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo Trabajadores Las Prisiones by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
    Death Posture by Terrence Hannum and Scott Treleaven $20.00
    Ablation by Terrence Hannum $15.00
    Hilltown Experiment by Dr. Sarah Ingersoll $4.00
    Spuzzed Out Bastard Son of the Sun by Jack Mulkern $4.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Masked Owls by Marian Runk $2.00
    Leanne composition norcom by Marian Runk $5.00
    New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00
    From Light to Light #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
    Tales From the Salmon #1 by Aland D. Caesar $6.00
    Class Reunion #4 by Charlie Newton $2.50
    Gang Bang Bong #2 by Ginette Lapalme and Ines Estrada $10.00 – Want a tremendous 100% solid anthology of experimental comics? GANG BANG BONG!!!! It’s like if Gary Panter raised 33 feral children, each one with a different diet of psychotropic drugs and B vitamins. Standout moments in a pile of great are Ana Albero’s cafeteria blues, Johnny Negron’s horny porny kool squirts, Abraham Díaz’s rat face dumpty chaos, and Aisha Franz’s fryin’ lion. There’s more too, like new work from house favorites Mickey Zacchilli. Michael DeForge, Lizz Hickey, Aidan Koch and Austin English. I’m more than happy to vouch for this one. -EF

    Black Mass #5 by Kyle Patrick $5.00 – The build up to The Big Punk Off continues in furious dripper dropper style as Patrick Kyle’s Black Mass rages on. This issue is full of unsane ramble-ly tangents, which is the bloody beating spaghetti sauce heart of the series. The punks bicker over toilet lager, Bizarro Turdswallo sux a soul, Dingball flashes back to the charmed 40 that changed his game and Turdswallo Junior sorta undorks. Meanwhile, Turdswallo Proper gets his mojo back and thee punx swarm. There’s secrets, mutiny, goofy murder, shapes with no scientific name, fucked up drawings of the Crass logo, and maybe someone has some weed, too. On top of that, the plot is both funny and cohesive and the dialogue is so clowny, its fresh again. It’s tops, get all of theeze. -EF

    Roots #1 by Alison Vellas $3.50
    Stranger Two Stranger #1 May 11 by R. Hendricks $1.25
    Layers #1 by Paul Walker $3.00
    Tiny Bangs #1 by Olivia Horvath $5.00
    Writing For Change May 11 $3.00
    Alien Invasion #1 by Lauren Albert $5.00
    Hattie et Millie #1 by Calvin Wong $2.00
    Magus Pi #1 Root Ritual of the Goman by Randall Wayne Parker $2.50
    Pick Me Up #1 by SWSS $3.00
    Morning Song by Laura Terry $3.00
    Heartbreak for Beginners by Laura Terry $4.00
    Cat Came Back by Tim Stout and Laura Terry $2.00
    BFF Best Friends Forever Ever Comic by Laura Terry $4.00
    Impulse Sack $2.00
    Poseur #5 by Nat Hoonsan $4.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Bay Area Graffiti 80s-90s Early Bombing by Sfaustina and Jocelyn Superstar (MBP) $50.00
    Letter Fountain: The Anatomy of Type – Ultimate Typeface Reference Guide (Taschen) $69.99

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Take a Joke vol 3 of The Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Forget Sorrow an Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang (Norton) – With a lilting voice and a strongly etched fairy tale hand, writer/artist Yang weaves a riveting true-life tale of ancestral jealousies and familial woes from her father’s recollections of growing up in China.
    Approximate Continuum Comics by Lewis Trondheim (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Liars Kiss by Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano (Top Shelf) $14.95
    Yeah TPB by Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez (Norton) $19.99
    Comics Comics Cartoons Drawn by Your Favorite Comedians, ed. by Erich Beasley (MBP) $14.95 – With original illustrations from the likes of Jeff Garlin, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Robert Smigel, Molly Shannon, Eugene Mirman, Jim Breuer, Max Brooks, Rob Cantrell, Julia Sweeney, Monty Pythons Terry Jones, and many, many more, this book is sure to appeal to fans of comedy and celebrity alike.

    FICTION!
    Embassytown by China Mieville (Del Ray) $26.00
    Lake by Banana Yoshimoto (Melville House) $23.95
    God Machine by Robert Fisher $10.00

    DIY
    Practical Pyromaniac: Build Fire Tornadoes One Candlepower Engines, Great Balls of Fire and More Incendiary Devices by William Gurstelle (Chicago Rev Press) $16.95
    Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches and More from Your Old Electronics by Ed Sobey (Chicago Rev Press) $16.95
    Herbal Remedies for Winter Wellness by Olivia Horvath $1.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Criminal Class Review vol 4 #1 $12.00
    Toucan #11 Spr 11 $3.00
    Feathertale Review #7 $10.00
    Hobart #12 $10.00
    Let by Sarah R Louden $18.95
    Perfect Distance From the Sun vol 1 #1 Spr 11 by Ryan Buell, Dan Warner, Franz Hilarius $3.00
    Fjords vol 1 #1 Arts and Literary Review $10.00
    Six By Six #23 We Were All Great in the Observatory $5.00
    Poems By Hillary Basile $1.00
    Overtime Hour 19 The List by TD Corum $2.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Fortean Times #275 Jun 11 $11.99
    3×3 vol 6 #1 #16 3X3 vol 5 #3 The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $16.00
    Skeptic vol 16 #3 $6.95
    Tattoo Revue #153 $6.99
    Gothic Beauty #33 $6.95
    Best of Skunk vol 3 $6.99
    BlackBook #84 May 11 $4.50
    Ready Made #53 Jun Jul 11 $4.99
    Classic Rock #158 Jun 11 $11.99
    Tape Op #83 May Jun 11 $4.95
    Filter #44 $5.95
    Under the Radar #36 $5.99
    Razorcake #62 $4.00
    Hyphen #23 Spr 11 $4.95
    Harpers Magazine Jun 11 $6.99
    Selvedge #40 May Jun 11 $24.95
    Tattoo Scout #23 $9.60

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson (Riverhead) $25.95
    Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History by M. Hicks (History Press) $19.99 – This book follows the evolution of the “Chicago Style of Comedy” from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the 50’s, and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Don’t miss author Margaret Hicks here at Quimby’s on Sat 5/28, 7pm!

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Visions For Chicago: A Highly Politicized Public Art Project ed. by Dan Tucker, With Contributions From 100 Chicagoans (Green Lantern Press) $10.00

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Journey To A Plugged In State Of Mind Electronic Music: 100 Years Of Experimention And Exploitation by Dave Henderson (Cherry Red) $22.95 – This book explores the long and exhaustive legacy and unearths the greatest albums, experiences and tunes from over a century of electronic sound. From anarchic sound art manifestos of the early 1900s to the three minute radio-friendly hits of the late Twentieth Century, via tape manipulations, WWII surplus gadgetry, synthetic versions of the Beat les and the development and domination of the synthesiser, the sequencer and their descendants which form the basic building blocks of much of the music we listen to today.


    OTHER STUFF!
    Comptons Cafeteria Riot San Francisco 1966 Celebrate Peoples History Poster by Andre Perez $12.00
    Abracadabra vol 1 Box of Cards – A Response in Illustration of Ballards Rhymed Answers to Bellamys Century of Charades by Jay Krevens $12.00
    Demongun #4 May 11 Video Edition by Bernie Mcgovern $15.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    Thanks to Jerianne Thompson of Zine World for these Revenge of Print stamps!

    1. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95 – Chester Brown did a pretty great thing with this book, one of the most anticipated graphic novels pretty much ever. I think it’s about time more johns speak out publicly about their involvement and investment in sex economies. In Paying For It, Brown presents an especially crisp libertarian-flavor case in favor of decriminalized sex work. There’s also sort of a nice journey of personal growth in here too where, through the course of the book, he goes from completely trashing and dismissing the idea of “romantic love” to finding his own weird and wonderful variation of it (thanks to his john-dom).Here in Chicago, aldermen are currently trying to get batshit-crazy anti-prostitution laws on the books, so, you know, speaking up about the destigmatizing and decriminalizing of sex work truly matters. Brown’s frank and shame-free stance is loud and clear and his cartooning style is built primarily around building his case. At times, the dialogue gets so loaded it’s almost polemic but the characters are all fleshed out enough that it sways more toward Fun Home-style self-analytical autobio. Also, there’s this tricky issue where he draws all the women he pays with the same faceless anonymity. Initially, this seemed troublesome, but I think that here Brown is showing us physical anonymity while letting the dialogue convey some of the subtler levels of involvement that make each of his encounters unique. When I think of great writing and art by sex workers, johns are often afforded a similar style of anonymity, making Brown’s approach just seem like common courtesy from the other side of the coin. -EF

    2.The Believer #80 May 11 $8.00

    3. Diamond Comics #6 (Floating World) $4.00

    4. Kus #5 Baltic Comics Magazine

    5. Rigor Mortis vol 4 by Davida Gypsy Breier $3.50 – The classic horror review zine with MAD drawing chops! Much like Robin Bougie’s Cinema Sewer, Rigor Mortis is oozing outrageous content out every orifice. Built on an open artery of monster flick reviews with special features on sexual subversion and queer subtext in early horror cinema, this is like sweetened condensed homebrew Fangoria . -EF

    6. Ultraviolet Catastrophe by Andrea Walls $5.00 – “Ultraviolet Catastrophe is a chapbook excerpted from a larger work-in-progress, The Black Body Curve, a full-length collection of poetry in which the author considers the events of May 13, 1985, the day the city of Philadelphia, under the leadership of its first Black Mayor, dropped a C-4 explosive into the roof of 6221 Osage Avenue, a row-home known to be occupied by men, women and children, ultimately killing 11 people including 5 children and destroying 61 homes leaving 250 citizens homeless. The author tries to answer the question, how did this happen? How did issues of race, rhetoric and geography collide with the city’s history to inform the catastrophic conflict with the MOVE Organization and the residents of Osage Avenue?”

    7. Boneshaker Magazine #4 $9.00

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

    9. Monocle vol 5 #43 May 11 $10.00

    10. List #12: Goodbye Baltimore $3.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Haymarket 1886:2011 by AREA Chicago $5.00 – Featuring contributions by and about: 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. Jerry Mead-Lucero, Sam Mitrani, alternative Haymarket monument proposals, Samuel Barnett, Lucy Parsons, teaching and learning about Haymarket and more.
    Rigor Mortis vol 4 $3.50
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 3 by Hannah Waldron (Little Otsu) $6.95
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 4 by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $6.95
    How I Quit School #2 $3.00
    Monsters Rock Tattoos #1 Jan 11 by Kione Kochi $4.00 – Zine and temporary tattoo pack.
    Broken Pencil #51 $5.95
    Bite Sized Wisdom by E. Jason Gremley $5.00
    NBB by various $5.00
    Dear Sweetness Dan Gleasons Greatest Hits vol 3 by Dan Gleason $8.95 – Don’t miss Dan and friends here at Quimby’s for this release event 5/21!
    Stupor Treasury of True Stories by Steve Hughes $14.95
    Esoterra: The Journal of Extreme Culture by Chad Hensley (Creation) $24.95

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Magic Hedge And Other Stories #1 Magic Moments by Marian Runk $10.00
    Foie Gras #3 by Edie Fake and Joy of Cooking $2.00
    RASL #10 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50
    New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00
    From Light to Light #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
    Tales From the Salmon #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
    Poison the Cure #3 by Jad Ziade and Alex Cahill $11.00
    Post Age by Sua You $4.00
    Asian Mysticism Mar 11 by Sua You $4.00
    Trapped by Sophie Yanow $5.00
    Vsnqst by Sophie Yanow $5.00
    Solo #1 by Waxwing $4.00
    Class Reunion #4 by Charlie Newton $2.50
    Silver Surfer #1 Battl for Good N Evil by Waxwing Get Rad $5.00
    Squirm: A Story of Love Hope Betrayal or Just a Choose Your Own Adventure… by Lauren Luciano $2.50
    Sorry Ice Monster The Weather Is Warm by Dustin Williams $8.00
    Diamond Comics #6 (Floating World) $4.00
    In The Parlor Room by Jeremy Sorese $10.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Sailor Jerry Tattoo Drawings (Hardy Mark) $30.00 – Them kids can’t get enough o’ that flash tattoo style. Here’s more!
    Corn Liquor vol 1 and Other Pictures – Mostly Inspired by Nelson Algrens A Walk on the Wild Side by John Minkoff $9.00
    Big Bad City by Slinkachu (Lebowski Publishing) $25.95
    I Am Not of This Planet the Art of Gary Edson Arlington by Gary Edson Arlington (Last Gasp) $14.95
    Rockin’: The Rockabilly Scene by Andrew Shaylor and Jerry Chatabox (Merrell) $50.00 – Swingin’ photobook for those interested in rockabilly.
    History of American Graffiti by Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon (Harper) $40.00
    Are You Reading Me by Laser (Lebowski) $25.95 – Coll graff book with an introduction by King Adz.
    Vhils Selected Works 2005-2010 by Alexandre Farto (Lebowski) $25.95
    Stencil King: The Dutch Godfather of Stencil Graffiti by Hugo Kaagman (Lebowski) $25.95

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Bat Boy: The Complete Weekly World News Comic Strips by Peter Bagge (IDW) $17.99
    Batman and Robin: Batman and Robin Must Die Deluxe Edition HC by Grant Morrison etc. (DC) $24.99
    The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On the Media by Brooke Gladstone, illustrated by Josh Neufeld, Randy Jones and Susann Ferris-Jones (Norton) $23.95 – Interesting deconstruction of media, public radio style.
    Pinocchio by Winshluss (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Not your grandparents’ Pinnocchio.

    FICTION!
    The Meowmorphosis by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook (Quirk) $12.95 – Not a bug. A cute kitty.

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #125 Jun 11 $5.99
    High Times Ju1 11 $5.99
    Wire #327 May 11 $10.99

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin by James Sullivan (Da Capo) $16.00
    Oops: The Text Messages You Wish You Never Sent (Nicotext) $9.95
    In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Crown) $26.00 – From the author of Devil in the White City.

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism–The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by by Christopher Hitchens, Windsor Mann and Martin Amis (Da Capo) $17.00
    The Feminist Promise 1792 to the Present by Christine Stansell (Modern Library) $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
    A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski (Beacon) $27.95
    Sea In Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout by Carl Safina (Crown) $25.00
    The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Andrea Smith (South End) $16.00
    Killing Game by Gary and Eric Webb (Seven Stories) $19.95
    This is Not a Program by Tiqqun (Semiotexte) $13.95

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Heartbeat And a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears by Antonino Dambrosio (Nation) $16.99
    Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young (Faber) $25.00
    Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica by Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth about Led Zep.

    OTHER STUFF!
    All sortsa Moleskine planners and journals. Planners for 2012 are hitting our shelves now. Lined, dated, blank, week-at-a-glance, month-at-a-glance, 18-month starting this coming summer, 12-month starting next year, soft cover, hard cover, smaller or bigger — you name it, we got it.
    Alpine Songs Weekly Planner by Lart C Berliner (Little Otsu) $16.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    Peel back the lid! It’s so nice out, so you should totally take your classes outside. Or ditch work early and come to Quimby’s and play with some of our toys and read some zines.

    1. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95 – Don’t miss Chester Brown this comiong Wednesday (May 11th) at 7pm!
    2. Black Eye #1 ed. by Ryan Standfest $14.95 – Crazy comics anthology that provoked a reaction from authorities at the U.S. Canada border!
    3. Mojo #211 June 11 $9.99
    4. Bizarre #175 May 11 $10.50
    5. Monocle vol 5 #43 May 11 $10.00
    6. Believer #80 May 11 $8.00
    7. Uptown Problems #1 Win 10 $4.00 – From the tender side of twenty comes a tell-it-like-it’s-been “aborted journal of radical self help” ladelled out in snippets with the bitterness and bravado of a washed up child actor. -EF
    8. Nurse Nurse #6 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
    9. Doris #28 by Cindy C. $2.00 – This issue of Doris talks about rural living, defining collective goals, miniature horses, the impact “Roots” had on conversations about racism in the predominantly white suburb she grew up in, as well as a personal account of her own awareness of racism. Cindy also spends some time here reflecting on her memories of Samantha Jane Dorsett and punk sobriety.
    10. When the Crash Meets Something Solid #7 Widowmaker by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Well, well, well. You may have noticed we skipped last week’s new stuff posting because one of us was on vacation. Well, we’re back. So it’s a huge list, since there’s 2 weeks worth of stuff listed. And today being Geekoween Trick Or Treat — oops, no that’s Free Comic Book Day — we have some free comics left here for you. Get ’em while they’re hot! And at 7pm tonight Trubble Club is drawing you. Yes you!

    …New Stuff This Week!

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Brilliant Mistake #3 by Carrie $1.00 – School’s out and Brilliant Mistake goes on the road, misses home, has fucked up shoes and, uh, calls it quits?
    Archive vol 3 #1 – Mei Mei Little Gray – Newsletter From the Green Lantern $2.00
    ASCII Emu Oil Shampoo by Caroline Picard (Green Lantern Press) $4.00
    Zaborski #2-#5 $2.00 each
    Curdled Milk by Robin Hustle $3.00
    Mammal Magazine #3 a Paralyzing Journey Into the Realm of FEAR $10.00
    Pool Boy Magazine #1 Win 10 $10.00
    Proof I Exist #13.5 – Almost Attack of the Bear by Billy $.50
    Chicago Streetstyle Scene $10.00
    Adita #00  by Adita $.50
    Dinner by Billy McCall $3.00
    Oh So Big #1 by Paula Gillen $20.00
    Acksore #1 by Ack and Eyesore $12.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #7 Widowmaker by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    So Me and You Are Reading This Zine #6 May 11 by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
    Likes Dislikes #2 by Lacey Prpic Hedtke $2.00
    Excitement and Adventure by Lacey $14.00
    Lover by Devan Elyse Bennett $2.50
    Adventures of the Lesbian Hausfrau #4 Highlights for Kidlike Adults by Devan Bennett $1.50
    I Was Born But #2 the Weird Issue Are you Hexperienced by Emily Nilsson (Sparkplug) $2.50
    Dodgem Logic #8 Spr 11 $7.00 – Alan Moore’s little zine. How cute!
    Xerography Debt #28 $3.00 – A review zine with perzine tendencies.
    Flush an Epically Shitty Zine by Nicki Yowell $3.00
    Slice of Life My Pizza Memories by Nickie Yowell $3.00
    Day Trips #1 Two Stories by Grace Tran $3.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    You Don’t Get There From Here #18 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
    Black Eye #1 by Ryan Standfest with Onsmith, Paul Nudd, Ivan Brunetti and more! $14.95
    Lemon Styles by David King (Sparkplug) $9.00
    Disgusting Room by Austin English (Sparkplug) $6.00
    Bad Breath Comics #3 by Josh Juresko $2.00
    Happy Hour in America #2 by Timothy Lane (Spit and a Half) $3.95
    Gutter by Isabella Rotman and Peter Hanlon $5.00
    RASL #10 by Jeff Smith $3.50
    Doppelganger by Tom Neely $4.00
    Behemoth #1 by var.$2.00
    Stranger Knights #1 by var. $5.00
    Class Reunion #3 by CE Newton $2.50
    Little Frownys Day $4.00
    Everything Dies #6 by Box Brown $5.00
    Sequential Vacation #1 The Robbery by Sar Shahar $4.00
    Colibri #2 $6.00
    Zinc Comics Presents Jake Wilde Annual by Brian Payne $2.00
    Spots – A Caterpillar Tale by Katherine Roy $5.00
    Egypt – A Collection of Sketches Drawings and Comics by Katherine Roy $5.00
    Lemon Accordion Silkscreened Zine by Jen Tong $15.00
    Legend of Amos Moses #1 by Sydney Fletcher $5.00
    Have You Ever Heard of Patrice Lumumba? Of Course You Haven’t by Danielle Chenette $3.00
    Cartoon Picayune #1 by Joshua Kramer $3.00
    Nurse Nurse #6 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Estrus Comics #7 Misc by MariNaomi (Sparkplu) $4.00
    Reich #8 by Elijah J Brubaker $4.00
    Thank You NASA #2 Intern Reverse Cowbell by Simon Hunt $5.00
    Spuds Malone  #2 Private Eye by Rv Xen $2.50
    Sunny Place Yeon Kim Ji $2.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Moving Toward One Screen by Bryce Wilner $9.00
    It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image and Text Work by Women Artists and Writers ed. by Natalie Kraft (Siglio) $45.00
    Byproduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices by Marisa Jahn (YYZ) $29.95
    Art Work: Seeing Inside the Crative Process by Ivan Vartanian (Chronicle) $24.95
    Paper Cutting: Contemporary Artists Timeless Craft ed. by Laura Heyenga, Rob Ryan and Natalie Avella (Chronicle) $27.50
    Beautiful Struggle Art of Dzine by Dzine (DGV) $60.00 – The work of Dzine, who was born in Chicago as Carlos Rolon in 1970, alludes to Latin American Kustom Kulture and aesthetics from ghetto to baroque.
    Behind the Zines Self Publishing Culture by R. Klanten and M. Hubner (DGV) $60.00
    Street Art: The Best Urban Art from Around the World ed. by KET (MO) $15.95
    Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art by Maximiliano Ruiz (DGV) $55.00
    3D Street Art (Tectum) $39.95
    Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden (Viking) $35.00 – From the author of Transit Maps of the World.

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Paying For It a Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95 – Don’t miss Chester Brown here at Quimby’s on 5/11, 7pm!
    Eye of the Majestic Creature by Leslie Stein (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Bat Boy The Complete Weekly World News Comic Strips by Peter Bagge (IDW) $17.99
    The Next Day by John Porcellino,Paul Peterson by Jason Gilmore (Pop Sandbox) $16.95 – Meditative comics about ending one’s life.
    Ruts and Gullies: Nine Days in Saint Petersburg by Girard Philippe (Conundrum) $17.00
    Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $24.95
    Deliriums Party: A Little Endless Storybook by Jill Thompson (Vertigo) $14.99
    Creating Comics: 47 Master Artists Reveal the Techniques and Inspiration Behind Their Comic Genius ed. by Judith Salavetz (Rockport) $30.00
    Plane Story by Kevin Sacco (IDW) $19.99
    Supersized Strange Tales From a Fast Food Culture by Morgan Spurlock (Dark Horse) $12.99
    Dragon Puncher by James Kolchalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
    Johnny Boo And the Mean Little Boy (Top Shelf) $9.95
    Animal Crackers by Gene Luen Yang (SLG) $14.95
    Hello Do You Work Here? Real Stories Submitted By Real People (Alterna) $7.99
    Japan As Viewed by 17 Creators (Fanfare) $25.00
    Y the Last Man vol 5 Deluxe Edition by Brian K. Vaughan etc. (Vertigo) $29.99
    Remake Special by Lamar Abrams (Adhouse) $9.95
    Runaways vol 2: Teenage Wasteland by Brian K. Vaughan etc. (Vertigo) $9.99
    Genius Isolated the Life and Art of Alex Toth by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell (IDW) $49.99
    Whale by Aidan Koch $10.00
    Gay Genius ed. by Annie Murphy $20.00 – Nice anthology with an Edie Fake cover!
    DMZ vol 10 Collective Punishment TPB by Brian Wood (Vertigo) $14.99

    DIY
    Making It Radical: Home Ec for a Post Consumer World by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen (Rodale) $19.99
    Vintage Craft Workshop: Fresh Takes on Twenty Four Classic Projects from the 60s by Cathy Callahan – Cathy of California and Meiko Takechi Arquillos (Chronicle) $19.95
    Where To Bike: Chicago Best Biking in City and Suburbs by Greg Borzo $24.95
    Lost Crafts: Rediscovering Traditional Skills by Una McGovern (Chambers) $16.95 – Now in a petite soft cover.
    Love My Bike by Matthew Finkle and Brittain Sullivan (Chronicle) $16.95

    FICTION!
    Slow Fade by Rudolph Wurlitzer, Will Oldham and DV Devincentis (Drag City) $22.99 – Part audiobook, part art book.
    Mutation of Fortune by Erica Adams (Green Lantern Press) $20.00
    The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop and Dan Bapst (ECW) $14.95
    Moment in the Sun by John Sayles (McSweeneys) $29.00
    Life After Sleep by Mark R. Brand (CCLap) – The first book from publisher Chicago Center For Literature and Photography. It’s a science fiction novella available in both print ($20) or USB bookcard playable in a variety of devices including Ipods, phones, Kindles and more ($13). The future is now!
    You Can Make Him Like You by Ben Tanzer $12.00
    Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (Random) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Imperial Bedrooms by Brett Easton Ellis (Vintage) $14.95 – Now in soft cover.

    CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS
    Logan Square Literary Review #6 Spr 11 $5.00
    Explosion Proof Magazine #1 Premier Issue $11.00
    McSweeneys #37 $25.00
    The Believer #80 May 11 $8.00
    Muted Lines From Someone Else’s Memory by Seth Berg $12.00
    Ultraviolet Catastrophe by Andrea Walls $5.00
    Before OnStar by Sarah Carson $5.00
    About the Author by Larry O. Dean $6.00
    The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You Is a Robot by J. Bradley $7.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Materiel #02 $8.00 – From the editors of Proximity, Lumpen, Select and more. That’s the Public Media Institute to you.
    True Crime Apr 11 $8.99
    Bizarre #175 May 11 $10.50
    Burlesque Bible vol 1 $16.95
    Open Minds Jun Jul 11 $6.50
    Taps paraMagazine vol 7 #3 May Jun 11 $5.95
    Fantastic Man #13 $12.99
    Treating Yourself #28 $7.99
    Art of Mary Jane May 11 $6.99
    Paper May 11 vol 27 #7 $4.00
    Carson #1 $7.99
    Famous Monsters Underground Jun Jul 11 $7.99
    Mojo #211 June 11 $9.99
    Wax Poetics #46  $9.99
    Z Magazine May 11 $4.95
    Monocle vol 5 #43 May 11 $10.00
    In These Times May 11 $3.50
    Progressive May 11 $4.95
    Against the Current #152 May Jun 11 $5.00
    GLQ vol 17 #2 #3 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2011 $12.00
    Class Struggle #70 $3.00

    CHILDRENS!
    Moomin vol 6 by Lars Jansson (D&Q) $19.95 – We can’t sell you this book until 5/10! But it’s napping and reading for you to come in and pick it up.
    Great Wave Inspired by Hokusai by Veronique Massenot by Bruno Pilorget (Prestel) $14.95
    Benny and Penny In Toy Breaker by Geoffrey Hayes (Toon Books) $12.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh Eating Murderers by Dee Christopher Berry (Ulysses) $14.95
    Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $15.00 – Now in soft cover!
    Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder and the Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier by Lael Morgan (Chicago Review Press) $24.95
    Old Man and the Swamp: A True Story About My Weird Dad a Bunch of Snakes and One Ridiculous Road Trip by Kohn Sellers (Simon) $14.00
    Hoboes, Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West by Mark Wyman (Hill & Wang) $16.00
    Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt (Norton) $26.95
    Hit The Ground Stumbling by Nate Gangelhoff $12.00
    Dead Funny: Humor In Hitlers Germany by Rudolph Herzog (Melville) $26.00
    Acrocanthosaurus – The Bones of Contention by Russell Ferrell $13.95
    Oldest Chicago David Anthony Witter (Lake Claremont) $16.95 – Get your local old timey on.
    The Beat Cops Guide to Chicago Eats by Sgt David J Haynes and Christopher Garlington  (Lake Claremont) $15.95 – Don’t miss the authors here on June 14th!

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Manifesto of Real Democracy: The Guide to Liberty Equality and Survival by Democrates $12.00
    Work: Capitalism Economics Resistance by Crimethinc (Crimethinc) $11.95
    Damned Fools in Utopia and Other Writings on Anarchism and War Resistance by Nicolas Walter (PM Press) $22.95
    CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #6 The Life of Lee Harvey Oswald
    End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X (Arcade) $12.95
    Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins (Routledge) $29.95
    Workers Write: Tales from the Courtroom $8.00

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Skull Orchard Revisited: Art, Words, and Music by Jon Langford with David Langford and photographs by Denis Langford (Verse) $19.95 – BOOK + CD PACKAGE. Jon Langford is best known for the music he creates with the Mekons and the Waco Brothers, but he’s gained increasing acclaim for his visual art, too, over the past decade. Nashville Radio, his first book+CD of paintings, writing, and music (Verse Chorus Press, 2005) was a sprawling, jam-packed collection full of punk energy. For this book, Langford has created a highly personal portrait of Wales, where he was born and raised. It incorporates a CD featuring Langford’s rare album “Skull Orchard,” originally released in 1998 on a label that promptly went bankrupt, and revamped and extended with live material (and a Welsh male voice choir) for this edition. The songs’ lyrics, at once autobiographical and fanciful, are illustrated in a series of “word paintings” scattered throughout the book, which also includes an A to Z of Welsh culture and history (personal and general), thematically related etchings and paintings, family photographs, and Langford’s first published fiction, a dystopian fable about a whale and a dolphin.
    Talking To Girls About Duran Duran: One Mans Quest For True Love and a Cooler by Rob Sheffield (Plume) $15.00 – Now in soft cover. From the author of Love Is a Mix Tape.
    Johnny Cash’s American Recordings by Tony Tost (Continuum) $12.95 – From the 33 1/3 series, where writers write about important records.
    Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese by Hank Shteamer (Continuum) $12.95 – Also from the 33 1/3 series.
    Taking Punk to the Masses From Nowhere to Nevermind: A Visual History From the Permanent Collection of Experience Music Project by Jacob McMurray (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Wild About You the Sixties: Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand by Ian D. Marks, Iain McIntyre and Ian McFarlane (Verse) $29.95
    Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop by Simon Reynolds (Soft Skull) $16.95 – From the author of Rip It Up an Start Again.
    Feed Back: The Velvet Underground Legend Truth by Ignacio Julia (DAP) $39.95

    SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
    One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History by Larry Flynt and Eisenbach David PhD (Palgrave) $25.00
    Dirty Scrap Book Activities for Adults (Tectum) $19.95
    Fukitor #6 $10.00 – Dirty and sexy and scary. A comic!
    Satanic Terror #1 $10.00 -Ditto!
    Attitude #204 May 11 $10.99
    Girls Like Us vol 2 #2 $12.00
    Rebel Ink Magazine May Jun 11 $5.99
    Tattoo Spirit #50 $8.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    One of us little mice went out of town last week. Did you miss us nibbling at you about the weekly top 10 or new stuff? Well, we’re back in full force! Will you be here this Thursday (April 7th) to see  J. Bradley read from The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You is a Robot? Or perhaps you’ll be here this Saturday (April 7th) for Free Comic Book Day? See you then!

    1. Maximumrocknroll #336 May 11 $4.00
    2. Hi Fructose #19 $6.95
    3. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (Little Brown) $27.99
    4. Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream #2 by Laura Park $3.00 – At SBX 2008, Ms Park received the “Outstanding Artist” Ignatz award… read this comic and find out why!
    5. If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter (Sarabande) $15.95
    6. So This Is What It’s Come To: A Comic Zine About the Trials and Tribulations of OK A by Liz Prince $3.00
    7.  Doris #28 by Cindy C. $2.00 – This issue of Doris talks about rural living, defining collective goals, miniature horses, the impact “Roots” had on conversations about racism in the predominantly white suburb she grew up in, as well as a personal account of her own awareness of racism. Cindy also spends some time here reflecting on her memories of Samantha Jane Dorsett and punk sobriety.
    8. Ugly Things #31 $8.95
    9. Mister Wonderful: A Love Story Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $19.95 – Just down the block from Enid Coleslaw’s house, abrasive middle-aged losers are attempting to blind date each other. Mister Wonderful collects Clowes’ New York Times serial plus 40 pages of new material, driving the Wilson bus further down Pathetic Reality Road straight toward the glimmer of hope in our watery blue eyes…
    10. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yeah yeah, New Stuff is getting posted a day earlier than usual. Now you can plan your weekend early, around what you’re going to come in and buy.

    One thing’s for sure, tomorrow night (Sat 4/23) Dr. Chris Smit, who wrote the book The Exile of Britney Spears: A Tale of 21st Century Consumption (Intellect/University of Chicago Press), will be here at 7pm. Just in time for Britney Spears’ new album, Dr. Smit’s book illustrates the American popular culture’s thirst for—and complicity in—celebrity disgrace. And oh yeah, how we consume culture and puke it out when we’re done. Click here for more info about this event.

    Among other new things we received this week are The Point #4, Spr 11. Click here or the image below to see the feature about Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library. Some of the other features include: • White Boys, Hip Hop, Jay Electronica • Steroids, Baseball, America • Porn as a Way of Life • Sarah Palin’s Alaska • J.M. Coetzee’s Problem With Authority • Chicago’s Political Theater • What is Sport For?

     

    So here’s this week’s new stuff:

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Famous Forgeries by Eric William Pierson (Drippy Bone Books) $5.00
    PopNihil #3 Stop Me If You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before by Matthew Moyer and Jason Brown $2.00
    Because We Can’t Fight the Bulldozer Alone by Dan Sully Sullivan $6.00
    Memories – Darkwater Press Memorized Enforced $4.00
    Prince Zine by Joshua James Amberson and Carman Rachel Lee $5.00
    Readin and Fightin #2 Insisting on Literature by Women of Color by Camille $1.50

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Hate Annual #9 by Peter Baggue (Fantagraphics) $4.95
    Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00 – Seasonal #1 is a roundabout romance in a Utah megastore….all emotional-cleanup-in-aisle-9-style. -EF
    BAM Big Apple Monsters #1 by Jon and Dan Cottle $4.00
    Scenic Byways Welcome to Falling Rock National Park by Josh Shalek $9.00
    Freaks by Tony Rabit $1.00
    Time: An Anthology of Comics About Food (Trees and Hills) $5.00 – Includes a Free Calendar!

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    The New Gypsies by Iain McKell (Prestel) $39.95 – As in for real, young folks doing the nomadic thing.
    New Club Kids: London Party Fashion in the Noughties by Oggy Yordanov (Prestel) $24.95 – As in for real, young folks doing the club kid thing.
    Boutique London: A History Kings Road to Carnaby Street by Richard Lester (ACC) $49.95 – One of our customers suggested we get this. Here it is!
    What’s Weird by David Barnes $50.00Hyperacticitypography From A to Z (DGV) $29.90

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Klondike by Zach Worton (Fantagraphics) $24.95
    Sweet Tooth TPB vol 2 In Captivity by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo) $12.99
    Orc Stain TPB vol 1 by James Stokoe (Image) $17.99

    FICTION!
    Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (Anchor) $15.00 – Short stories, now in soft cover.

    CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS
    Spoken Nerd Revolution by Shappy Seasholtz (Penmanship) $15.00 – Collecting Shappy’s work from the past gazillion years, finally in one nice volume! Hilarious of course. What would you expect from a former Quimby’s and Chicago Comics employee? Only the best.
    Verse vol 27 #1 $7.00
    Pain Needs To Remember by Stevie Edwards $12.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Tiki Magazine vol 7 #1 Spr 11 $5.99
    Fortean Times #274 Jun 11 $11.99
    True Detective Apr 11 $4.99
    Passenger Magazine #1 $5.00
    Make vol 26 $14.99 – As in the craft mag, not the lit journal.
    Dot Connector #13 2011 Double Issue $7.95
    Skeptical Inquirer May Jun 11 vol 35 #3 $4.95
    Wallpaper May 11 $10.00
    Dwell May 11 $5.99
    Modern Drunkard #56 $4.95
    Treats Magazine #1 $20.00
    Fangoria #303 $8.99
    Wire #326 Apr11 $10.99
    Black Velvet #68 $6.25
    Maximumrocknroll #336 May 11 $4.00
    XLR8R #138 $6.99
    Harpers Magazine May 11 $6.99
    Race & Class vol 52 #4 $18.00
    Earth First vol 31 #2 30th Anniversary $6.50 – Happy Earth Day!
    Urban Ink #19 $8.99
    Bound By Ink vol 1 #5 $7.99

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    The Wilder Life: My Adventures In the Lost World of Little House On the Prairie by Wendy McClure

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    33 1/3 Series: Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine By Daphne Carr (Continumm) $12.95 – In ten raw, heartbreaking oral histories woven through the book, fans living in the post-industrial Midwest discuss the successes and failures of the American dream as they are articulated in Nine Inch Nails’ music. Read an excerpt at the 33third blog.
    33 1/3 Series: Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk by Rob Trucks (Continuum) $12.95

    SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
    Blow Job vol 3 an Erotic Collection by Johnny Murdoc $8.00 – Home grown erotica! With sexy pictures too.
    Big Penis Book 3D by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – Comes with 3D glasses!
    Big Book of Breasts 3D by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – Also with 3D glasses.
    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.”
    Sweets Magazine vol 4 #16 $5.99 – Ooo la la! Sweet!

    OTHER STUFF!
    I Love To Floss Blank Notebook by Blaire Miltenberger $12.00

  • Weekly Top 10 and an Attempt to Play A Portion of All Four Discs of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka at Once

    A children’s book made #1 this week?! That’s crazy. But true.

    Also! Here’s footage from an event here at Quimby’s for the Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about albums of the past 40 years. This event on 9/17/11 featured NIU prof Joe Bonomo who did a book about AC/DC’s Highway to Hell, Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork Media Scott Plagenhoef who did a book about Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister, and managing editor of Pitchfork Mark Richardson who did a book about the Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka. The footage below is of Mark Richardson reading from his book and then attempt to sequence the four CDs of the album to play simultaneously. Click on the image below and go watch it on YouTube.

    Mark Richardson reads from his book The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka
    Click on the picture to watch Mark Richardson discuss and play part of The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka

     

    1. Counting In The Studio by Cecilia Pinto and Megan Williamson  $10.00 – This attempt to show the process of creative expression to young readers. A dog lives with an artist who has also depicted her own studio in the book. Inside the studio it is possible to stare out windows just like those in the book. The studio, at the back of the artist’s home, is nestled on a side street in a Chicago neighborhood. The artist and the writer met at the studio to talk about the project before and after making their own separate work. The dog was always present and lent his inestimable support even when napping on the comfy, pillow-strewn chaise lounge which is up against a wall with drawings on it, just like in the book.

    2. Spoken Nerd Revolution by Shappy Seasholtz (Penmanship) $15.00

    3. Mister Wonderful: A Love Story by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $19.95

    4. Gentlewoman #3 Spr Sum 11 $10.95

    5. 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.

    6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00

    7. OP Original Plumbing #6 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The theme this round is “Schooled”, highlighting a twin commitment to both the “It Gets Better” and the “Make It Better” campaigns targeted at queer youth.

    8. 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

    9. Hi Fructose #19 $6.95

    10. Hot Teen Slut by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody) $15.00