Category: regular weekly post

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Fucussle Blecky Yuckerlla vol 4 A Comic Strip Collection by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraph) $11.99


    2. Brainscan #26 by Alex Wrekk $2.00 – Alex writes about “what the deal is” with her and Microcosm.


    3. Two Eyes of the Beautiful #2: A Grotesque Horror Manga by Ryan Cecil Smith $5.00 – The CCC diaspora is really doing a killer job of working and re-working different flavors of manga, classic horror, and classic horror manga. The results have been solid, and Ryan Cecil Smith’s Two Eyes of the Beautiful (which falls into the “reworked classic horror manga” category) is no exception. What’s it got that you want? Gore! Suspense! Psychic damage! Trust me, books about murdering innocent children for their beauty essence are rarely disappoint. -EF


    4. Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – Michael DeForge continues to wrangle an Elvis Studio sense of drippy design chaos into creepy and beautiful amorphous narratives. This is a comic that’s about a field guide that’s about an oil-skinned mollusc that’s really about cultural displacement, wikipedian information templates and the fetishization/exploitation/commodification of subcultures and identities. Heavy- but full of laffs, in bleedy full color, and with a great slug sex scene to boot. -EF


    5. Manifesti of Radical Literature by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Pressing Concern) $8.00 – This pocket-sized zine is a great introduction to the work of Anne Elizabeth Moore. The Manifesti of Radical Literaure condenses many ideas Moore has previously explored in other works — her critique of culture jamming, copyright laws, advertising, and why everyone should seriously consider self-publishing their own work. What saves this 50-paged effort from feeling redundant is Moore’s charming sense of humor. Grab a copy for yourself and another one to leave at your local library.
    6. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95 – Well, I’ve been mourning the end of Gary Larson’s Far Side for fifteen years, but Lisa Hanawalt’s comics really do helluvalot towards easing that pain. Just as funny, just as bizzarro and as raunchy as she wants to be to boot. -EF
    7. Hi Fructose #18 $6.95
    8. Bust Feb Mar 11 $4.99
    9. Rise and Fall – A Concertina of Life by Micah Lidberg (Adhouse) $16.00
    10. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes $12.00 – BACK IN PRINT! 12 New Pages to seduce you! After the longest wait ever, THE BEST CLIP ART ZINE EVER HAS RETURNED. This picture book for discussion and activity features hands, hearts, and eyes. Get those tattoo guns ready, because you and your loved ones are going to need one once you get through looking through this issue. Amazing.

  • New Stuff

    The Eisner people must regret sending us those stickers.

    New Stuff!

    ZINES!
    Heh Head Corpuscorpus #3 ed. by Paul Nudd $20.00 – Show catalog for the Heads On Poles exhibit at Western Exhibitions (the show being up until Feb 19th). Each artist used the idea of Heads On Poles their own way. Artists include David Shrigley, Onsmith, Lilli Carre, Mike Diana, John Hankiewicz, Keith Herzik and more.
    Nazi Knife #7 by Hendrik Hegray and friends, including CF and Leon Sadler (Picturebox) $5.00
    Brainscan #26 by Alex Wrekk $2.00 – Answers the question, “What’s the Deal With You And Microcosm?” Inquiring minds want to know!
    Uptown Problems #1 Win 10 11 $4.00
    Feel Here Too by Davis Limbach $5.00
    Johnny America #8 $3.00
    Reality Mom vol 8 #1 Win 11 $3.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Two Eyes of the Beautiful #2 A Grotesque Horror Manga Based on Umezu Kazuos Bloo by Ryan Cecil-Smith $5.00
    Phase 7 #008 by Alec Longstreth $4.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS!
    Fucussle Blecky Yuckerlla vol 4 A Comic Strip Collection by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $11.99 – Just to give you an idea, if you’re not familiar with the work of omnipresent Johnny Ryan, words that can also be found on the cover of the book are “Fuck You Ass Hole asshole Fuc U Ss Le FYA.” Just so you know.
    I See The Promised Land by Arthur Flowers and var. (Tara) $16.95 – Modern-day griot Arthur Flowers shares this beautiful graphic novel on Dr. MLK Jr. here at Quimby’s on 2/12.

    Denis Kitchen’s Chipboard Sketchbook (Boom) $19.95 – In 1969, Denis Kitchen founded Kitchen Sink Press and for 30 years published many of the most prominent and innovative creators in the comics field. But he was also underground cartoonist who self-published Mom’s Homemade Comics in 1968. Here’s his sketchbook.
    King of the Flies vol 2 Origin of the World by Mezzo and Pirus (Fantagrphics) $18.99
    Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    BPRD Plague of Frogs HC vol 1 by Mike Mignola and Guy Davis (Dark Horse) $34.99 – From the pages of the popular Hellboy series.

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Before the End by James Kirkpatrick (aka Thesis Sahib) $39.95 – This 60 page hardcover art book comes with a 16 song digital download card and a color 7? record of Thesis Sahib’s music. Once finished downloading the album the download card can be planted to grow wildflowers! Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s on Sat, Feb 19th. Stay tuned for more info.

    FICTION!
    Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami (Norton) $13.95 – Creepy Asian fiction, finally reprinted and translated into English after its original printing in 1994. And there’s a lot of karaoke in it. Does that make it kreepy then?
    Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano (NDP) $14.95 – Now in soft cover, another posthumous reprint.
    Modem Times 2.0 Plus by Michael Moorcock (PM Press) $12.00 – From beloved British science fiction weirdo Moorcock, continuing the ongoing Jerry Cornelius chronicles in the present day.

    MAGAZINES!
    Kill Pretty #1 Magazine of Death 2009 $5.00
    Bizarre #171 Jan 11 $10.50
    Open Minds Feb Mar 11 $6.50
    Make vol 25 $14.99 – As in the DIY makin’ stuff magazine, not the Chicago literary journal.
    Bust Feb Mar 11 $4.99
    Fangoria #300 $8.99
    Creative Nonfiction #40 Win 11 $10.00
    Maximumrocknroll #333 Feb 11 $4.00
    XLR8R #137 $4.99
    Harpers Magazine Feb 11 $6.99
    Against the Current #150 $5.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    Knee Jerk Offline vol 1 MMX $14.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group (PM Press) $15.95 – Chronicling the history of two New York City 60s provocateur groups—Black Mask and Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker—this account complies the complete 10 issues of the newspaper Black Mask; numerous leaflets, articles, and flyers generated by Black Mask; the Up Against the Wall Motherfucker Magazine; and Free Press and more.

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    1000 Indie Posters ed. by John Foster (Rockport) $40.00 – Lotsa bands and lotsa artists. Who do you like? The Melvins? Yeah, there’s a Melvins poster or two. Like posters designed by Nick and Nadine of Sonnenzimmer? Yeah, they’re in there. Small Stakes? Yeah yeah, everybody’s there. Nice and geeky. Just the way you like it.

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY, MEMOIR, MIRTH & (M)OUTER LIMITS!
    Blade Runners, Deer Hunters & Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies by Michael Deeley (Pegasus) $15.95 – The producor of Blade Runner comes clean about working with such stars as Harrison Ford, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman and more. But what should really entice you is his quote “”As Ridley Scott famously said, every movie is like going into battle. But Blade Runner was World War I and II combined.” Now are you interested?
    Loud in the House of Myself Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall (Norton) $24.95
    The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World by James Kakalios (Gotham) $26.00 – From the author of The Physics of Superheroes.

    SEX & SEXY!
    Pleasure Bound Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Deborah Litz (Norton) $27.95
    Josh #3 Fall 10 Remember Me Forget Me $12.00
    Handbook vol 5 #1 2011 $6.00

    OTHER STUFF!
    Allen Ginsberg Toy Vinyl Figure and CD Set (Press Pop) $44.99 – Introducing the 3rd figure from the Great People Series by Archer Prewitt! The Allen Ginsberg Doll, officially approved by the Allen Ginsberg Estate. Comes with fabric cloth jacket, glasses, book, Uncle Tom hat, beaded necklace, and CD with 5 poetry readings and 1 song (all of the recordings are previously unreleased material).
    Limited to 1000 pieces.

  • Weekly Top 10

    We sell all different types of paper here.

    This Week’s Top 10:

    1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00
    2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00
    3. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95 – Well, I’ve been mourning the end of Gary Larson’s Far Side for fifteen years, but Lisa Hanawalt’s comics really do helluvalot towards easing that pain. Just as funny, just as bizzarro and as raunchy as she wants to be to boot. -EF
    4. OP Original Plumbing #5 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The Fashion Issue, and a real dazzler at that.
    5. First Line vol 12 #4 $3.00 – Literary journal where every item in the issue has the same first line, each piece written by somebody else.
    6. Gang Bang Bong #1 ed. by Ginette LaPalme and Ines Estrada $4.00

    7. Boys Club #4 Furie Matt (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
    8. What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation – Nplus1 research branch small books series #3 ed. by var. (Nplus1) $10.00
    9. Explorers Are We #3 Xavier $1.00 – Chap book by a local poet.
    10. Bitch #49 $5.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    We found this hilarious picture posted on Flickr when we did a random search for Quimby’s! If you take a photo at Quimby’s, send us a jpg or link to it and we’ll post it on our blog! This one we found on Karen Foto’s Flickr photostream. If you want to make yourself a contact to Quimby’s on Flickr, click here. Have a photo you took at Quimby’s and want to put it in the public Quimby’s Group? Click here.

    Anyway, good new stuff as usual: a cool zine about after-tattoo care, a cool anthology of contemporary Day of the Dead kustom kulture book, new ish of Juxtapoz, and a whole mess of cute Little Otsu thingies. It’s awfully awesome in here right now!

    ZINES!
    So Me and You Are Reading This Zine #4 and You’re All Like Whoa This Is Great I’m All I Know by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
    Prism Index #1 $25.00
    False Flag (Picturebox) $15.00
    Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #6 Oct Nov 10 (Knockabout) $7.00
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 1 by Lizzy Stewart (Little Otsu) $7.00
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 2 by Jo Dery (Little Otsu) $7.00
    Herbal Healing for Piercings and Tattoos Organic Aftercare for Everyone by Anastasia Weedsmith $3.00
    Proof I Exist #13 by Billy Da Bunny $8.00 – As per Billy’s own review: “Seven awesome, but random, stories from my life, typed out on a computer, then cut n’ pasted all DIY-style.” Yay for Billy! He moved away from Chicago but we are sad to see him leave.

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Mould Map #1 New Comics and Narrative Art Publication (Picturebox) $12.00
    Conversating by Martine Workman $8.00
    Treasures of Sky Mall Your Inflight Shopping Magazine by Emma Correll (Little Otsu) $6.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Monte, King of Atom Age Monster Decals: Secrets of Fifties Vintage Decals Revealed by Bill Selby (Last Gasp) $14.95
    Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami: 14 Films 1975-2009 (Carte Blanche) $35.00 – includes DVD
    Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape by Pedro Alonzo and Alex Baker (Gingko) $29.95 – This show catalog for the exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego documents the historic revolution in visual culture, in which the codes and icons of the everyday found on the streets in graffiti, signage, waste, tattoos, advertising, and graphic design have been used in art. 20 artists from 10 countries including Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Swoon, and more.
    Day of the Dead El Dia de Los Muertos by Dr. Alderete and Antoni Cadafalch (Korero) $35.00 – contemporary graphics inspired by Day of the Dead, including tattoo and kustom art mixed with Hollywood hip and the graphic tags of L.A.’s Latino gangs. Traditional elements of sugar skulls, flowers, and devils taken to the edge.

    BODY MODIFICATION BOOKS!
    Angels Ink From Above by Spider Webb (Schiffer) $35.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Proof vol 5 Blue Fairies TPB by var. (Image) $16.99

    DIY/FOOD & DRUG CONSUMPTION STUFF!
    Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development by Neal M Goldsmith (Healing Arts) $16.95
    Morphine/My Lady Opium Double Book by Claude Farrere and Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest (Harper) $14.99 – A “flip book” featuring two classic novels about drugs, decadence—and Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Morphine is a rollicking novel about a handsome cavalry officer who introduces morphine to the aristocrats of 1889 Paris… and sleeps his way through town; and My Lady Opium, a fevered tour through the romantic and mysterious world of opium at the turn of the 20th century.

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #121 Feb 11 $5.99
    Taps paraMagazine vol 7 #1 Jan Feb 11 $5.95
    High Times Mar 11 $5.99
    Tape Op #81 Jan Feb $4.95
    True Crime Jan 11 $8.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    See You in the AM #1 by Dane Kuttler $4.00
    Stories of Apples and Bellies #2 by Dane Kuttler $5.00
    Explorers Are We #3 by Xavier $1.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments by HP Albarelli (Trine Day) $29.95
    Global Slump by David McNally (PM Press) $17.00

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Bossa Nova and The Rise of Brazilian Music In the 1960s, edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records Publishing) $39.95 – Deluxe hardback 12″ x 12″ book, 200 pages, 100s of stunning absolutely killer Bossa Nova sleeves from Brazil plus loads of historical, cultural and social text as well as biographies on loads of the artists!
    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY, MIRTH & (M)OUTER LIMITS!
    I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor and Some That May Not Be Funny At All by Judd Apatow (McSweeney’s) $25.00
    Why You Should Store Your Farts in a Jar and Other Oddball or Gross Maladies, Afflictions, Remedies, and “Cures” by David Haviland (Tarcher) $12.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Filament vol 2 #3 $12.50

    OTHER STUFF!
    Ancient Documentaries of Southside Park DVD by var. $5.00 – This short film documents with humor the quest – in early 1900s fashion – of world famous archeologist La Stef (Stephanie Sauer) and her local assistant Miss Ella (Ella Diaz, Ph.D.) for the “Ancient Documentaries” of the Royal Chicano Air Force, an artist/activist collective that played a vital role in the Chicano civil rights movement. The two take on the personas of traditional historians in order to play with the presumed authority of such roles and question the cultural narratives they impart.
    Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2011 $21.99
    Little Otsu’s Annual Weekly Planner vol 5 $18.00 – 12 months, 54 weeks, undated, you fill in your own dates. Perfect if you need to go, say April 2011 to April 2012. Hey! You might have an accountant’s schedule. Who are we to judge?

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Hi-Fructose #18 $6.95
    2. 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.
    3. Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11 $4.00
    4. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
    5. Mojo #207 Feb 11 $9.99
    6. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00 – “It all starts with the story I’ve told so many times it’s turned stale and tired from overuse. There I was, dropped off in a city far from home. I didn’t know a soul or have a hope, and so on…”
    7. Serial Killers Unite #5 $2.00
    8. Truckface #13 by LB $3.00- A huge little zine about a nerve-wracking rookie year teaching reading and writing to high school freshmen. This would basically be my nightmare job, and LB minces no words about how impossible, frustrating and life-consuming it can seem- but at the same time, there’s tons of funny shenanigans and the illustrations are beyond good, in a madcap Esther Pearl Watson way. An epic account of struggling through the school year and making out the other end with your sense of the ridiculous and amazing intact. -EF
    9. Crap Hound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.95
    10. True Crime Dec 10 Detective Monthly $8.99

    Wow, they’ll give the Eisner-award to anybody!

  • New Stuff

    ZINES!
    If I Could Live in Hope – Sexual Abuse and Survival by Kisha Hope $3.00
    Mountain Wilds by  Jay Krevens $6.00 – Jay moved to the Portland and just sent us some new scenic love of misty lore and cabin crafts, looming, owling, bear worship and astral travails. Accordian folded booklet has crafts on one side and mountainscape panorama on the reverse. -EF
    Fashionable Activism #1 Hardcore Punk Fanzine by Kevin McCaughey $2.00
    Birdsong #14 $6.00 – The “Anew” issue of this hearty, arty, micropressed, silkscreenized zine.

    Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #3 A Twilight Teeter Into Organic Esoterics $3.00
    Judas Goat Quarterly #48 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
    Public Collectors Paper Blog     – Feeling Emotion in Everyday Life  by Marc Fischer (Temporary Services) There are many types of libraries in the world but none quite like this one.
    Parfait #4 Style Sheet fall 10 by Emily $2.00
    You’re An Angel You lil Devil #4 by Randy Robbins $2.00
    Narcolepsy Press Review #6 $2.00
    We’ll Never Have Paris vol 7 Win 10 Modern Fire $4.00
    Basic Paper Airplane #4 by Joshua $3.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Catalogue de Boulons by Julie Doucet (Mille Putois) $5.00 – 3-color silkscreened artist portfolio. A circus of boulons in all shapes and functions harnessed by Doucet’s legendary homebrew design sensibility. En francais.


    1 800 Mice #5 by Matthew Thurber (Picturebox) $6.00 – Brilliant and brimming with absurdist sex, escalating mayhem and dithering dimensional personalities.
    Rabid Rabbit #12 Goes to Hell $6.00

    Right Thing The Wrong Way: The Story of Highwater Books by Greg Cook and Tom Spurgeon (Bodega) $10.00 – The Catalog to Right Thing The Wrong Way art exhibit at the Fourth Wall Project in Boston MA. This oral history includes work and words by the core artists involved in the development of Highwater Books (Brain Ralph, Megan Kelso, Ron Rege, Jordan Crane, Greg Cook, Jef Czekaj, Marc Bell, Kurt Wolfgang).
    Crickets #3: Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00

    Neonomicon #3 by Alan Moore (Boom) $3.99
    World War 3 Illustrated #41 30th Anniversary Issue $7.00
    Eyeball Comix #2 $7.00 – Carved up, bezerker, infected-wound style comics mayhem from Britain. High-Grade Low-Grade shit. -EF

    Three Stories by Lisa Cline $3.00
    Bubblegum Party by Lee Bretschneider $4.00
    Poseur #4 by Nat Hoonsan $3.00
    Robbie and Bobby #1 A Comic Primer by Jason Poland $5.00
    Candy Gang #4 Dream Nights by Chet Pickens $4.00
    Hoyo de Gusano #1 by Ines Estrada $8.00
    How To Be Lolita     by Jojo $3.00 – Super cute fashion guide. Hint: Dressing Lolita involves lots of bows!
    Takes One to Know One: Douche Bags – A Love Story by Jordan A. Fu $3.00 – Woah, Jordan, that guy’s an asshole.
    Using A Multisensory Environment $8.00
    Kim Gee Comics #1 by Kim Gee $5.00
    Dewey Decimal System Is Decadent and Depraved A 24 Hour Comic by Bill Volk $2.00
    Only Skin #6 by Sean Ford $5.00
    Trigger #2 by Mike Bertino (Revival House) $5.00 – After doing three stories in three styles in the last issue, Bertino does three wildly different narratives here with a more unified look, like he’s been pinning stuff down. A lot of the characters are hapless assholes and it makes me think of what that means for the structure of the stories and the title “Trigger” itself…as in, it’s a comic about the grating destructive aspects but managed with subtlety and craft. The drawing skillz certainly pay the bills and seeing #1 and #2 together is making me think I do like reading about jerks. The plotlines are a Vermilean absurdity of hellbent talking pants, a continuation of the Huizengian suburban snark story of a newbie high school teacher and an outer space colonization story that pulls a little from Matthew Thurber and a lot from Star Trek. -EF

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    This Train an Artists Journal by Tony Fitzpatrick (Firecat Press) $40.00 – Wonderful new print book with the work of the local artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
    Photobooth: The Art of the Automatic Portrait by Raynal Pellicer (Abrams) $35.00 – Edited by the author of Mug Shots, the book featuring celebrity mug shots. Come to Quimby’s for the book Photobooth. Stay to use ours!
    Mascots by Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics) $22.99
    Animal Love Summer by Marion Peck (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Surreal and cute weirdness.
    Juxtapoz Erotica (Gingko) $29.95 – Another addition to the popular Juxtapoz series of art books. This time it’s sexy!
    Barry McGee Damiani DFW THR by Barry McGee (Alleged) $49.95 – New work from this popular lowbow artist.
    Cathexis by Mark McCoy (Teenage Teardrops) $20.00 – Chemical Flesh Fog Photography.

    Concrete Messages: Street Art on the Israeli Plaestinian Separation Barrier by var. (Dokument) $29.95
    Rockin It Suckers: New York Citys Most Wanted Graffiti Vandals by var. (Dokument) $29.95
    Graffiti Coloring Book 2 Characters by Jacob Kimvall $9.95
    Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X: M+M Books No 1 ed. by var. (Actar) $54.95

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    New Character Parade by Johnny Ryan (Pigeon) $12.00 – 120 full-page strips starring 120 ridiculously clever characters including: Stink Saw, Mammuel Clemens, Judge Judy Dredd, Tron of Finland, Sherlock Homeless, Metaliban, Shark Fluffer, Sir Oreo Monocle, The Erotic Art Collecting Squirrel, and Lesbian Spock. New Character Parade is Ryan’s pièce de résistance, shamefully funny!
    Drew Friedmans Sideshow Freaks by Drew Friedman (Blast) $19.95
    Single Match by Oji Suzuki (D+Q) $24.95

    FICTION!
    Hungry Rats by Connor Coyne $16.00 – A teenage girl with a fear of rats tracks a serial killer named the Rat Man. Don’t miss Connor’s event here at Quimby’s on 2/15!
    Forgery by Amira Hanafi (Green Lantern Press) $20.00
    Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse by Lonely Christopher (Akashic) $15.95
    Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman (Madras Press) $8.00 – “A thief charges into a bank with a loaded gun, but he does not ask for money; what he asks for, instead, is the object of greatest significance currently in the possession of each patron. The thief then leaves, and the patrons all survive, but strange things soon begin to happen to them: One survivor’s tattoo jumps off her ankle and chases her around; another wakes up to find that she’s made of candy; and Stacey Hinterland discovers that she’s shrinking, incrementally, a little every day, and nothing that her husband or son do can reverse the process. The Tiny Wife is a fable about losing yourself in circumstances and finding yourself in the the love of another.”


    Moors by Ben Marcus (Madras Press) $7.00
    Peter and Max: A Fables Novel by var. (Vertigo) $14.99 – Now in soft cover. Find it in with the graphic novels even though it’s a novel. It’s a companion to the Fables series.
    Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean (Harper) $10.50 – Now in soft cover.

    MAGAZINES!
    Tattoo Society #25 $7.99
    Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11 $4.00
    Hi Fructose #18 $6.95
    Capricious #11 $17.00
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #4 $6.25
    Fortean Times #270 Feb 11 $11.99
    Gothic Beauty #32 $5.95
    Treating Yourself #26 $7.99
    Boneshaker Magazine #3 $8.00
    Mojo #207 Feb 11 $9.99
    In These Times Jan 11 $3.50
    Yeti #10 (Yeti Publishing) $11.95 – Everything is Terrible, interviews with Jacuzzi Boys and Robert Scott of the Bats, a fiberoptic anatomy lesson from Pavel Tchelitchew, some inky Nick Gazin spot illustrations, a bony brill mickey mouse zine by Cassie Ramone and a drop-dead gorge Memphis Elvis photo portfolio by Ted Barron. Comes with CD.


    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    McSweeneys #36 $26.00
    Make Chicago Literary Magazine #10 Fall Win 10 At Play $12.00
    The Believer #77 Jan 11 $8.00
    Journal of Ordinary Thought Fall 10 $10.00
    Six By Six #22 You Have a Bone (Ugly Duckling Press) $5.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (RH) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance by Jason Hribal (AK) $15.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk by var. (Jawbone) $19.95

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
    Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead by var. (Plexus) $24.95
    Zombie Spaceship Wasteland HC by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $24.00 – Hilarious words from this articulate and witty comedian.
    Zombies History of the United States from the Massacre at Plymouth Rock… by Dr. Worm Miller (Ulysses) $13.95 – If Howard Zinn was a member of the undead, he would have written this book.
    Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore by Gary A. David (Adv Unl) $19.95
    Cosmic Ships, Truth and Lies About UFOs: Other Humanities and Our Future by  Samael Aun Weor (Glorian) $12.95
    Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realms by Shade Rupe (Headpress) $27.95 – 27 candid interviews spanning 24 years conducted by New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural realm he inhabits with his Funeral Party books. Interviews with the smaller half of Penn & Teller, Divine, Crispin Glover, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and more.
    Nomad Codes Adventures in Modern Esoterica by Erik Davis (Yeti Publishing) $17.95 – “Erik Davis explores the codes (spiritual, cultural and embodied) people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world, from Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods to Western occult and esoteric lore, to media technology and psychedelic science. Whether his subject is transvestite Burmese spirit mediums or Ufology, tripster king Terence McKenna or dub maestro Lee Perry, Davis writes with keen yet skeptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit, and unbridled curiosity.”


    SEX & SEXY!
    Teens At Play #4 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
    I Like to Watch: Gay Erotic Stories by Christopher Pierce (Cleis) $14.95
    Love In Abundance: A Counselors Advice on Open Relationships by Kathy Labriola (Greenery) $15.95
    OP Original Plumbing Trans Male Quarterly #5 The Fashion Issue $8.00


    OTHER STUFF!
    2011 Full Metal Rabbit Calendar by Leif Goldberg $24.00 – The annual 12-month 4-color animal of silkscreen ingenuity from Chief Color Doctor and Acting Administrator of the Word Swamp, Leif Goldberg has arrived!

  • Weekly Top 10

    Thanks to everybody who came out for the Mike White event on 12/13/10, talking about  Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection!
    And here’s this week’s top 10 (well, technically, last week, if you want to know the truth, but we post it weekly, so you know, it’s the Weekly Top 10.):
    1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Yes! They are gone. But we do have some other 2011 planners in stock. Stop in and see what we’ve got.
    2. Spotting Dee by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – A beautiful comic!
    3. Is It THE FUTURE Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? This mini-comic was made ‘specially for Quimby’s!
    4. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $24.00 – Yes! Hilarious essays from this comedian.
    5. 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. Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and more!
    6. Cometbus #50 by Aaron Cometbus $2.00
    7. Baba Yaga and the Wolf by Tin Can Forest (Koyama Press) $15.00 – Visually, Baba Yaga and the Wolf is like getting lost deep in the woods as the sun is going down – everything gets extra shadowy and sinister and the pine needles get tangled into dense swirls of threatning demons and implied curses. In contrast, the language is vivid, visceral and crisp, evoking grisly and twisted Eastern European folk lore recounted with passion around a campfire or hearth. The two play nicely off each other, the restraint of the illustrations acting as a springboard for the imagination to conjur the satanic Black Forest chaos hiding in the bushes. -EF
    8.Crickets #3: Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00
    9. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (Drawn and Quarterly) $23.95
    10. Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11

  • Weekly Top 10 & Steven Blush Pics

    If you missed Steven Blush talking about the 2nd edition of his book American Hardcore A Tribal History, then you missed the punk rock professor at his best! We only have a few signed copies left in the store, so you better rush here and get it. Pictures below!

    Here’s the top bestsellers from last week:

    1. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00
    2. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Franceschini, Tucker and Hamersky (Chronicle) $27.50
    3. Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
    4 Snow Yak Show by Mark Ryden (Porterhouse/Last Gasp) $28.00 – What’s Abe Lincoln doing in the Snow Cave of the Ice Princess anyway?
    5. X’ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?
    6. Big Takeover #67 $5.99
    7. Bizarre #170 Dec 10 $10.50
    8. Who Will Comfort Toffle: A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly) $16.95
    9. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.
    10. Doris #27 by Cindy Crabb $2.50

  • Top 10 This Week

    1. Slingshot Small Organizer $6.00 – Get your rad self organized!

    2. Slingshot Large Organizer $12.00

    3. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint (D&Q) $23.95 – A completely wrenching tale of Jordan Lint’s awful life, rendered with Ware’s perfectly rendered tangential velocities that vault us back and forth through memory, fixation, anticipation and communication.

    4. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Abel, Madden and Gaiman (HM) $23.00

    5. The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier (First Second) $13.99 – Does it sound cheesy if I say this book is perfect for kids age 5 to 105? Cause it really is!  The Unsinkable Walker Bean is an unstoppable, rollicking high seas adventure full of codes, inventions, antediluvian intrigues and funny names. There’s this “pure joy of drawing” in Aaron’s work which loads the panels with sly little details and charming gestures -but nothing feels superfulous- even the silliest elements weave themselves into the plot. The story itself, about returning a cursed skull to two giant sea-hag sisters, champions scrapper ingenuity, resourcefulness and teamwork in a way that’s never heavy-handed, it’s just plain cool. Refreshing in a similar way is how Walker Bean’s world escapes simple hero vs. villain dichotomies, giving every character a heart to the point that you’ll even find the fierce, giant mer-witches endearing. The exceptional storytelling is emphasized by Alec Longstreth’s (Phase 7) beautiful color work full of crisp ocean blues, kelp-y ochres and my favorite sorts of pale, sea-sick greens. The book is also completely and solidly kid-friendly and that’s a big part of it’s magic: reading it as an adult stirs up all the youthful thrills and adventures of creative problem-solving. SO GOOD! -EF

    6. Big Questions #15 The Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – The most gorgeous, most finalest one… the Big Questions end times is disruptive, surreal and poetic. Nilsen’s draughtmanship is pure and stunning, where disarmingly simple forms are made perfectly right. If you’ve been keeping time with this series, you’ll certainly be excited by this chapter, and if you’re just catching up, you’ll be dazzled by this near-religious, cryptic conclusions you’ll be catching here. -EF

    7. 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. Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and Javier Rodrigo, Michael Piazza, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Lavie Raven, Lisa Junkin, Jazmen McKinnor, Louise Dreier, Elizabeth Knafo, Caroline Liebman, Alexander Keefe, Daniel Fuller, Dara Greenwald, Jesse Senechal, Rebecca Zorach, Jorge Lucero, Huong Ngo, Paul Mack, Andrew Oesch, InCUBATE, Noah Berlatsky, Sara Black and John Preus, Katie Hargrave, Susannah Kite Strang, Emmy Bright, Zach Cahill, Chris Cronin, Bert Stabler, Erin Elder, and Paul Sargent.

    8 Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris & Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99

    9. Celebrate Peoples History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution by Josh MacPhee (Feminist Press) $24.95 – A beautiful and inspiring book collecting the Justseeds Celebrate Peoples History Posters to date, overwhelming and fantastic! -EF

    10. Manifesti of Radical Literature by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Pressing Concern) $8.00 – This pocket-sized zine is a great introduction to the work of Anne Elizabeth Moore. The Manifesti of Radical Literaure condenses many ideas Moore has previously explored in other works–her critique of culture jamming, copyright laws, advertising, and why everyone should seriously consider self-publishing their own work. What saves this new 50-paged effort from feeling redundant is Moore’s charming sense of humor. Grab a copy for yourself and another one to leave at your local library.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Holiday shopping is in full swing now, but we still set aside a few minutes to tell you about the 60-some new items we got in this week. A new Big Questions from Anders Nilsen for your arty sibling, a new Paul Koob comic about cheese for those who love all things food, and a sexy comic for your ninja nympho roommate. Enjoy!

    ZINES!
    Adderall Photo Zine – Unlimited Edition by TR Ericsson $5.00
    Spacenipple The Strange Retractions of Orbiting by Virginia Visker and Josh Doster $6.00
    Shithead 3 by Josh Doster $20.00
    American Gun Culture Report #3.1 Sum 08 ($3.00) and American Gun Culture Report #4.1 Win Spr 09 ($3.50)
    Letters From the Bottom of the World Sum 10 $.75
    Recinerated Nov 10 Written in Reverse $2.50
    Meat #2 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
    Caboose #7: Britney Spears 101 by Liz Mason $10.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    A B Cheese by Paul Koob $10.00 – Remember Hamster Man? Well, Paul Koob is back! And this time it’s a clever and cute artist book-comic-zine thing about a gazillion different types of cheese. And the alphabet! Perfect for all cheese-a-philes. Delcious!
    Big Questions #15 The Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilen (D&Q) $7.95
    Seraph Manifesto vol 1 #3 by M. Collett by Nick Jones $3.00
    Cage #1 by Max Folsom $5.00
    Thank You NASA #1 Music Recording Comic by Simon Hunt $4.00
    Where Were You Last Night by Elizabeth Valasco  $3.00
    Rex Comic by Hannah Ayers $2.00
    Comics by Nik Havert: Sun and Moon (with Sean Russell) $3.00, Salem AZ #1 Ltd Ed (with Paul Schultz) $5.00 etc.
    Simon LeFag Gay Detective #1 the Case of the Used Condoms by Dave $1.00
    Ninja Girl by Bonesteel $5.00
    Closed Caption Comics #9 $20.00
    Motte and Bailey by Krystal DiFronzo $4.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    L’image Obscene: The Obscene Image Parisian Hospital Break Room Graffiti by ed. by Gilles Tondini (MBP) $34.95
    Graphics Alive vol 2 (Viction:ary) $39.95
    How to Disappear by Moki (Gingko) $29.95
    Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey (Gingko) $29.95 – Yes, he does other things besides Obama and Andre the Giant.

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Madwoman of the Sacred Heart by Jodorowsky and Moebius (Humanoids) $29.95
    Motel Art Improvement Service by Jason Little (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Glamazonia The Uncannny Super Tranny ed. by Justin Hall (Northwest) $24.99

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #119 Dec 10 $5.99
    Bizarre #170 Dec 10 $10.50
    As Loud As Possible #1 $9.00
    Flaunt #112 $8.95
    Oakazine #5 $15.00
    Wallpaper Jan 11 $9.50
    Shots #110 Win 10 $6.50
    Paper Win 10 11 $4.00
    BlackBook #81 Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.50
    Hyphen #22 Win 10 $4.95
    Wire #322 Dec 10 $10.99
    Signal to Noise #60 Win 11 $4.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    First Line vol 12 #4 #3.00
    Annalemma #7 $15.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Thelonious Monk SC the Life and Times of an American Original by Robin DG Kelley (Free Press) $18.00

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
    Ticking is the Bomb SC by Nick Flynn (Norton) $14.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Tentacle Love #1 by Nik Havert and Philo $5.00
    Ninja Nympho Roommate #1 by Nik Havert and Xavier $5.00