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  • Top 10 This Week

    1. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

    2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized!

    3. 100 Posters 134 Squirrels, Revised & Updated by Jay Ryan (Akashic) $22.95 – 100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS showcases one of underground poster art’s most prolific and talented practitioners. Featuring an all-new interview with Ryan and an introduction by Chicago Tribune rock critic Greg Kot, and framed by essays from underground luminaries–recording engineer and Shellac guitarist Steve Albini, graphic design iconoclast Art Chantry, and distinguished art and design historian Debra Parr–100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS offers a unique look into Ryan’s approach to poster art.

    4. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot) $6.00

    5. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

    6. Bust Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.99

    7. Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch & Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00 – They don’t make ’em like they used to, that’s for certain. Papa Zettwoch takes us on an exacting tour of life in midcentury Louisville telephone operations, in particular the oracle operators who fiddled with antiquated 8-board switchpanels. Dan lovingly arts up the exacting craft, attention to detail and squirrely diagnostic techniques that existed before everything got replaced with plastic and no one could remember a phone number. -EFhttps://www.quimbys.com/images/teltales1.jpg

    8. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker etc. (Chronicle) $27.50 – “With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this fascinating project is an introduction to the many individuals who are producing sustainable food, challenging public policy, and developing community organizing efforts. With hundreds of photographs and a foreword from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, Farm Together Now will educate, inspire, and cultivate a new wave of modern agrarians.”

    9. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00

    10. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden & Neil Gaiman (HM) $23.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Fabulous new things available this week including new issues of Proximity and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 33 1/3 series books about Radiohead’s Kid A and Slint’s Spiderland, outer limits books about extraterrestrials and Atlantis, and more!

    ZINES!
    Son of Bing Short Stories by Dan Gleason $2.00
    Spacenipple The Strange Retractions of Orbiting by Virginia Visker with help from Josh Doster $6.00 – Weirdo collage.
    Toucan #9 win 10 $3.00
    KerBloom #87 by ArtNoose $2.00
    I Want To Tell You About Some Events by Jarrett Mitchell $6.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #3 A Shotgun Named Ambition by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    Rise and Fall: A Concertina of Life by Micah Lidberg (Adhouse) $16.00
    Letters I Will Never Send To You #6 The Longest August by Morgan Inez $3.00
    Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
    Robert Walser Literary Hero by Brian Allnutt $1.75
    Shiny Things on the Ground #1 by Brandt Schmitz $2.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Banana Slug by Leslie Perrine $2.00
    Milk and Moo BY Yumi Sakugawa (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Study Group 12 #4 (Sparkplug) $20.00 – A great anthology with a ton of artists, edited by Zack Soto. Colorful stories and illustrations from T Edward Bak, Chris Cilla, Farel Dalrymple, Vanessa Davis, Amy Kuttab, Blaise Larmee, Tom Neely and more!Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch and Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Pood #2 $4.00
    Fathers and Wolves #1 by Sophie Goldstein $4.00
    Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00
    C by Lizz Hickey $5.00
    Taffy Hips #8 by Zara Messano by Gil Gentile $8.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (D&Q) $19.95
    Unexplored Worlds Steve Ditko Archives vol 2 (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Graphic Cosmogony: 24 Artists Take on 7 Pages to Tell Their Tales of the Creation (Adhouse) $38.00
    Too Much Crazy by Tom Tomorrow (Soft Skull) $14.95

    DIY & CONSUMPTION!
    Singing To the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan V Beyer (UofNM) $29.99 – Planning a trip?

    FICTION!
    Fiction at Work Biannual Report (Green Lantern)  $10.00
    Fever Chart by Bill Cotter (McSweeney’s) $14.00 – Now in soft cover.

    MAGAZINES!
    Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00
    Yeti #10 $11.95
    Tokion Factory Art of Beauty Issue $3.99
    High Times Feb 11 $5.99
    In These Times Dec 10 $3.50
    Progressive Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.95
    Big Takeover #67 $5.99
    Shindig vol 2 #19 Nov Dec 10 $9.99
    Sneaker Freaker #19 $13.99
    RFD #144 $9.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #26 Dec 10 $5.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Essential Works of Lenin: What Is to be Done and Other Writings (Dover) $12.95
    Signs of Change Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now – Exit Art (Serpents Tale) by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee $28.95
    Outsider: My Quest for Justice by Adam Delgado $10.00

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Cheetah Chrome A Dead Boys Tale from the Front Lines of Punk Rock by Cheetah Chrome (Voyageur) $24.00
    White Bicycles Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd (Serpents Tale) $14.95
    I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil (Touchstone) $15.99 – Now in soft cover.
    Kraftwerk Music Non Stop by Sean Albiez and David Pattie (Continuum) $24.95
    33 1/2 Series: Slint’s Spiderland by Scott Tennent (Continuum) $12.95
    33 1/2 Series: Radiohead’s Kid A by Marvin Lin (Continuum) $12.95

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS
    Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions and Occult Revelations by Joscelyn Godwin (Inner Traditions) $19.95
    Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and The Coming New Race by Len Kasten (Bear) $18.00
    Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (U of NM) $34.95 – Back in stock!
    Bento Bestiary by Ben Newman and Scott Donsaldson (Adhouse) $20.00
    My Year of Flops: One Mans Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure by Nathan Rabin (S&S) $15.00
    Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia (S&S) $24.00

    OTHER STUFF!
    30 Zombie Temporary Tattoos by Mitch O’Connell (Chronicle) $9.95
    LaPorte Indiana DVD $20.00 – You loved the book. Now enjoy the movie!
    Underground Multiplex Mix DVD by Joseph Lewis $15.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. Spiral-bound.

    2. Brilliant Mistake #2 by Carrie $1.00 – Carrie’s second issue lays it bare, rips it raw, burns, shreds and begins to rebuild a devastated heart. Reading Brilliant Mistake #2 cuts to the chase and takes you right there – that place of the furious senselessness of love in tatters – and through reading it you sort out your own wreckage. Trial by fire, and feeling it hard. -EF

    3. Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99

    4. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
    5. Slingshot 2011 Pocket Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. All in perfect-bound pocket-size form.

    6. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

    7. Peters Muscle by Michael Deforge $1.00 – More sick sauce from DeForge, this round is a Freudian take on what gets that Spider Sense a-tingling. -EF

    8. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago By Laura Szumowski $7.95
    9. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

    10. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt  (Pigeon Press) $6.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Ooo la la! So much cool stuff we’re bursting out of our lederhosen. A new issue of Wholphin, Show Me the Money, new comics from Lisa Hanawalt and Matt Furie, the Gaylord Phoenix graphic novel, the new Achewood book and more! Details below.

    ZINES!
    Show Me The Money #33 $2.50 – Still going!
    So Me and You Are Reading This Zine #3 and You’re All Like Whoa This Is Great by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
    Lean Mean Teen Machine #1  $1.00 – A zine by local preteens!
    School #2 Women and Japanese Culture $12.00
    Cryptozoology: A Pragmatists Guide $6.00 – The cutest crptozoology guide you’ll ever read.
    Christmas Dream by C. Uphues $1.00
    Life During Wartime #9 CD Audio Zine: The True Story of Finding a Lost Velvet Underground Acetate At A Yard Sale $5.00
    Tales of the Unexplained by Aaron Manczyk $4.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95
    Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00
    Elf World vol 2 #1 ed. by Francois Vigneault (Family Style) $6.00 – With comics from Grant Reynolds, Alec Longstreth, Dash Shaw, Sammy Harkham and more!
    It’s a Wonderful Strife by Nick Drnaso $5.00
    RASL #9 by Jeff Smith $3.50
    I Don’t Understand Farming #4 $.75
    I Heart Cereal by Tony Rabit $1.00
    Chili Dog Dad by Hazel Newlevant $4.00
    Yellow Comics #1 by Erik Schneider $2.00
    Malaise Trap by Jack Bracken and Reid Psaltis $3.00
    Carry On Carrion – A Crow Funeral by Reid Psaltis $4.00
    Cycling: A Guide to Menstruation by Laura Szumowski $12.95 – Are you there, God? It’s me, a cool comic about getting my period.
    Chronicles of Edgebright and Leofwyn #2 by Jim Terry $3.00
    Lets Fuck Like We Haven’t Been Married For the Last 40 Years by Aaron Manczyk $3.00 – Have you seen that documentary The Lifestyle? This book is sorta a lot like that movie, only less potluck dinners. -EF

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – By or Edie! Maybe if yer nice he’ll sign it for you if he’s working. Celebrate the release of it here at Quimby’s on 12/9 and 7pm!
    Achewood vol 3 A Home For Scared People by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $16.99
    Rise of the American Comics Artist Creators and Contexts by Williams and Lyons (U of Miss) $28.00
    Fables vol 14 Witches by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $17.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Ten x Ten: A Collaboration Between Chicago Bands and Printmakers (Spudnik Press/Homeroom) $30.00 – A suite of ten fine art prints by Chicago artists to accompany ten songs of exclusive tracks by Chicago bands. Includes 10″ x 10″, 3-color prints and a super special secret code to download the songs. Songs by Locks, Max Alexander, The Late Model Races, Strictly Jug Nuts, Sky Event, Netherfriends, Nones, Christine Kick and Jason Adasiewicz. Prints by Dee Clements, Sanya Glisic, Kathleen Judge, Angee Lennard, Onsmith, Colin Palombi, Joey Potts, Grant Reynolds, Tom Smith and Sonnenzimmer. Perhaps this image featuring some of the art will wet yer whistle?

    Fontology Free Fonts Source Book (Promo Press) $34.95
    Private Zone Sketchbook by Stu Mead $40.00

    DIY & CONSUMPTION!
    Soil Mates: Companion Planting For Your Vegetable Garden by Sara Alway (Quirk) $16.95

    FICTION!
    Tales of The Bagman – A New Pulp Hero In Old Chicago by BC Bell $21.95
    City of the Gods – Return of Quetzalcoatl by Patrick Garone $15.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Wax Poetics #44 Nov Dec 10 $9.99
    Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99
    Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
    Fortean Times #269 Jan 11 $11.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    10 Love Poems by Jason Sturner $5.00

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz (PM Press) $10.00
    Struwwelpeter Or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffman (Pavilion) $14.99 – Wanna give your kid some nightmares? Here’s your chance.

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker and Anne Hamersky (Chronicle) $27.50 – Dan Tucker of local free newspaper AREA and friends.
    Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell (Free Press) $27.00
    Blowing Smoke: Why The Right Keeps Serving up Whack Job Fantasies About The Plot by Michael Wolraich (Da Capo) $25.00

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Mosh Potatoes: Recipes Anecdotes and Mayhem From the Heavyweights of Heavy Metal by Steve Seabury (AtriA) $15.00 – Recipes from Zakk Wylde, Lemmy, Guns & Roses, Lamb of God, Moth Eater, Shadows Fall, Anthrax, Testament, Overkill, Pantera and more. Hilarious and delicious. With an introduction by Chef Luke Tobias from Kumas’s Corner here in Chicago!

    MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
    Neo Bohemia: Art and Commerce In the Postindustrial City Second Edition by Richard Lloyd (Routledge) $34.95 – About Wicker Park! Now with updated info. Maybe pair it with the Hipster Mustache ($4.00)and What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation ($10.00). Now with more skinny jeans.

    OTHER STUFF!
    Wholphin #12 DVD $19.95
    Stinckers 3 Pack Stickers by World Famous Cartoonists $3.00 – Stickers by Johnny Ryan, Esther Pearl Watson, MATS!? and more.
    Typewriter Animals Calendar 2011 by Nathan Veach $6.00
    2011 Never Sleeping Calendar Poster Antler Boy by Ben Chlapek $15.00
    Snake Goddess Print by Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi $5.00
    Gift To Winter DVD: The Story of the Winter Solstice Puppet Collective $10.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list…all in perfectbound pocketsize form.

    2. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

    3. Maximumrocknroll #331 Dec 10 $4.00

    4. Diamond Comics #5, ed. by Jason Leivian (Floating World) $3.00 – Full color chaos. Stanley Lieber, Michael DeForge, Benjamin Marra, Cleon Peterson, Pete Toms, Panayiotis Terzis, Derek Ballard and a frantic cover by Skinner. You’ll probably cry if you miss this.

    Diamond Comics #5

    5. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – What do I have to say for myself? This is the pre-history-flashback issue of that homosexual birdman comic I draw. Try it, you just may like it- if you don’t, you know where to find me. -EF

    6. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

    7. Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00

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

    9. Buildings & Bodies by Ryan Dodgson $10.00 – What would your friends look like if they were houses? What would your houses look like if they were your friends? Here’s a version of that being incredibly well-drawn and all taking place in Toronto!

    10. Giant Robot #68 $4.99

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES!Your Secretary #5 The Truth About Your Secretary by Jami Sailor $1.00 – Jami’s ‘betes issue, all about how to be a young queerdo punk with wildly fluctuating glucose and still thrash hard.
    Hang Time $5.00
    Listening to the Lower Frequencies – Parking Block by Tim Pigott $4.00
    Personal Dinner Invitation  – Tomorrow We Will Know With Clarity What We Did Today – Parking Block by Alberto Aguilar $4.00
    Communicating Vessels #22 $3.50
    Ultimate Worrier #2 Twice as Many Colors Twice as Many Pages, Oh Geez – Never Trust Anyone Who Really Enjoyed High School by Ben Chlapek $6.00
    Sex Industry Apologist #1 $3.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Salvaged Parts by Lucy Knisley $10.00
    Floating World Diamond Comics #1-#5 $3.00
    Sunman and the Creation of the Universe #1 by Dustin Williams $8.00
    Buttons by Vince Nigito and Allison Rich $2.00
    Monty Comix by Kayla Escobedo – #1: True Stories, #2: New and Improved, #3: Primitive the Story of a Whale Girl  $5.00 each

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art and Culture by var. (MBP) $45.00
    Special Exits by Joyce Farmer (Fantagraphics) $26.99
    Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant by PKD and var. (Marvel) $24.99
    Chew vol 3 TPB Just Desserts by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image) $12.99
    Ex Machina vol 10 Term Limits by var. (Wildstorm) $14.99
    Do Androids Drean of Electric Sheep  – Dust to Dust vol 1 by PKD etc. (Boom) $9.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Art of Rebellion 3 The Book About Street Art ed. by C100 (Gingko) $29.95
    Open Daybook ed. by David P. Earle (MBP) $45.00 – Each day illustrated by a different artist. You can fill in your schedule or respond artistically. The over 300 contributing artists have all created work especially for this book to be used as a daily journal, sketch book or admired as an art book.
    Everything That Can Happen In a Day by David Horvitz (MBP) $27.95
    Street and Studio From Basquiat to Seripop (Kunst) $55.00
    Monster Revolt: The Art of Dirty Donny (Gingko) $29.95
    Joe Sorren Painting and Sculpture 2004-2010 (Gingko) $29.95
    Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art and Design (Victionary) $29.95
    EMEK The Thinking Mans Poster Artist Collected Works of AaarghT (Gingko) $39.95
    The Cardboard Book (Gingko) $29.95

    DIY & CONSUMPTION!
    Appetite For Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low Fat Vegan Recipes by Isa Chandra Moskowitz (Da Capo) $19.95

    FICTION!
    Feast for Crows by George RR Martin (Bantam) $16.00
    20 Under 40: Stories from the New Yorker ed. by Deborah Treisman (FSG) $16.00
    Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld (Simon) $18.99 – This is the second book of the steampunk series Leviathan.
    Sophomoric Philosophy – A Novel by Victor David Giron $14.99

    MAGAZINES!
    Bitch #49 $5.95
    Giant Robot #68 $4.99
    Bust Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.99
    Randy #1 by AK Burns and Sophie Morner $8.00
    Maximumrocknroll #331 Dec 10 $4.00
    Tape Op #80 Nov Dec 10 $4.95
    Infamous #2 $7.99 – Second issue of the graffiti lifestyle mag.
    IdN vol 17 #5 $17.50
    Dwell Jan 11 $5.99
    Crystal Friends #2 $9.00
    Murder Most Foul #78 $9.99
    True Crime Nov 10 Detective Monthly $8.99
    Sovereign #18 Dec 10 $3.95
    Tattoo 1 Tribal #25 $8.95
    Neural #37 $8.00
    Open Minds Dec 10 Jan 11 $6.50
    Chelsea Fall 10 The Sophomore Issue $15.00
    Shock Cinema #39 $5.00
    Mojo Classic vol 2 #8 Zappa $12.50
    Alarm #38 Invisible $18.00
    Z Magazine Dec 10 $4.95
    National Green Pages 2011 $9.95
    Dissent Fall 10 $10.00
    Bound By Ink vol 1 #3 $7.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    Nuance Literary Arts Magazine $5.00
    Fugue #39 Sum Fall 10 by Ilya Kaminsky and Junot Diaz $8.00
    N Plus 1 #10 Fall 10 Self Improvement #13.95
    Farting Fire by Justin Blackburn $3.00
    Overtime Hour 16 Versions by Pir Rothenberg $2.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom by Nelson Blackstock (Pathfinder) $15.00 – Introduction by Noam Chomsky.
    Piss ‘Em All Off and Other Practices of the Effective Citizen by Don Gordon $14.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    The Best Music Writing 2010 ed. by Ann Powers (Da Capo) $16.95
    Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett by Rob Chapman (Da Capo) $28.00 – With a forward by Graham Coxon.

    MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
    Fate, Time and Language: An Essay on Free Will by David Foster Wallace (Columbia) $19.95
    Weimar Cinema: 1919 to 1933 Daydreams and Nightmares by Kardish (Moma) $39.95
    Not Rocket Science by Prof OddFellow $9.00
    Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas by Craig Conley and Michael Warwick $10.25
    Skeleton Key of Solomon – Unlocking the Secrets of Sigils and Veves by Prof OddFellow $14.50
    Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, The Living Dead and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States by Gary Laderman (New Press) $17.95
    Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation by Ted C. Fishman (Scribner) $27.50

    OTHER STUFF!
    Dirty Bird Bike Jam Pocket Blank Journal (Gama Go) $5.50

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Roctober #48 $4.00 – The world’s best music magazine from the folks behind the world’s best cable-access show. A million zillion pages, b&w with tons of pictures and loads of comics.

    2. Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by R. Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

    3. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – New issue from our very own Edie. Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s to celebrate the release of his Gaylord Phoenix book published by Secret Acres here at Quimby’s on Dec 9th!

    4. 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?

    5. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint by Chris Ware (D&Q) $23.95 – The most recent addition of Chris Ware’s running issues. Interpret issues how you want.

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

    7. Wowee Zonk #3 (Koyama Press) $8.00 – Yo! It’s so good: Michael DeForge, Jan Avendano, Andrei Georgescu, Zach Worton, Ginette Lapalme, Selena Wong, Chris Simonen, Chris Kuzma, Dan Rocca, Patrick Kyle…And everyone really pulled out their A-game here, not a single bad apple in this whole round-up. Insanely beautiful cover art too – what planet are those colors from? -EF

    8. Possum and the Pepper Spray by Pete Hodapp $4.00

    9. Grime Time #3 $8.00

    10. Believer #76 Nov Dec 10 Art Issue $10.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    No More Coffee #3 by Ben Spies $2.00
    Reality Mom vol 7 #4 Fall 10 $3.00
    Map #3 Archive Manual of Architectural Possibilities $6.50
    SunnySide Up #1 $3.00
    Pancakes and a Bottle of Beer by Margot $1.50
    Too Many Words Not Enough Pictures by Margot $1.00
    Chugtits #2 Nape Crown Forehead Belly $1.00
    Zinesters Guide to NYC by Ayun Halliday (Microcosm) $9.99 – The last wholly analog guide to NYC. By the editor of the zine East Village Inky. Everyone’s gotta stop through New York at some point, yes? Let this be your guide – it’s full of delicious suggstions, cheapskate tips, secret spots and homebrewed wisdom of the natives, all delivered with that cheeky disregard for convention and legality that zinesters know and love. -EF
    Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore that Warped Millions of Young Minds by Mike Howlett (Feral House) $32.95
    Finally Never #1 by Aisling $2.00
    48 Bricks by Josh Redd Sanchez $3.00
    Serial Killers Unite #5 $2.00
    Das Rheingold by Angela Roberts $3.00
    Spook #1 by Kirby Childress $5.00
    Homocats #1 Fight the Power by J. Morrison $5.00 – Kitties! Gay kitties! Cutest gay kitties ever.

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Ferocious  Quarterly #1 $12.00
    Baba Yaga and the Wolf by Tin Can Forest, Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk (Koyama Press) $15.00 – The story of Katerina, the journey she takes to the edge of the Underworld to save her husband from a terrible fate, and its gatekeeper, Baba Yaga.
    Nighttimes by Bret Koontz $3.00
    Adventures of Belligerent Joe #1 The Danzig Concert by Joe Wapo $3.50
    Photocopied Hearts #3 Coffee Slows the Pain of Life $2.00
    Nic Fit Comics Presents Meth Mouth #1 by Tavi Lux Veraldi $.50
    Malty Truth #2 aka Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday N Saturday #2 by Tavi Lux Veraldi $.50
    Fruits and Meats #1 Created by Janitors by Carson Bishop and Tavi Lux Veraldi $.50
    Zombre #2 the Magic Forest by Ansis Purins $4.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Gender and Culture Series) by Hillary L. Chute (Columbia University Press) $26.50
    The Littlest Pirate King by David B. and Pierre Mac Orlan (Fantagraphics) $16.99 Ghost pirates roam the Seven Seas in this classic children’s tale, newly adapted by David B., award-winning author of Epileptic from a short story by Pierre Mac Orlan.
    Little Maakies on the Prairie by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Fables Deluxe Edition Book 2 by Billy Willingham (Vertigo) $22.99
    The Little Prince – Adapted From the Book by Antoine De Saint-Exupery by Joann Sfar (HM) $19.99
    Grimms Fairy Tales vol 1 by The Brothers Grimm and Kevin Colden (IDW) $16.99 – New edition carefully revised with illustrations.
    CBGB OMFUG TPB (Boom) $14.99 – Stories about the legendary NY venue.
    Grandville Mon Amour: A Detective Inspector Lebrock of Scotland Yard Scientific Romance Thriller by by Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Grant Morrison’s 18 Days (Dark Horse) $24.99
    On sale date Nov 23rd: Walking Dead TPB vol 13 Too Far Gone by Robert Kirkman (Image) $14.99 – This is red hot! But we can’t sell it to you until Tuesday the 23rd! Reserve your copy now!

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Crossed Diagonals by Bryce Wilner $10.00

    DIY & CONSUMPTION!
    Big Book of Buds vol 4 Marijuana Varieties from the Worlds Great Seed Breeders by Ed Rosenthal (Quick) $24.95
    Simple Times: Crafts For Poor People by Amy Sedaris (Grand Central) $27.99 – Easy to make stuff, and very silly! Got an old rake? Use it to roast sausages in the fireplace! With the usual clever and hilariousness expected from Amy Sedaris.
    How to Cook the Perfect Day by Nikki McClure (Sasquatch) $15.95 – Poetic wood cuts from the famed artist.
    Yuck The Things People Eat by Neil Setchfield (Merell) $16.95 – With pictures! Wann a gross your friends out? Use this book as your guide. With pictures for your pleasure.

    FICTION!
    Datemaker Chronicles by J. Thomas Tucker $6.00
    Sisterhood of the Rose: The Recolections of Celeste Levesque by Jim Marrs (Disinfo) $14.95 – From the author of conspiracy theory books like Rule By Secrecy. Now in soft cover.
    Universe In Miniature In Miniature by Patrick Somerville (Featherproof) $14.95 – New book from this popular local writer.

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #119 Dec 10 $5.99
    Bizarre #169 10 $10.50
    Wallpaper Dec 10 $9.50
    Cabinet #39 Learning $12.00
    Taps paraMagazine vol 6 #6 $5.95
    Blood and Thunder #15 $5.95
    Ready Made #50 Dec10 Jan 11 $4.99
    Razorcake #59 $4.00
    XLR8R #136 $4.99
    Harpers Magazine Dec 10 $6.99
    Adbusters #93 vol 19 #1 Jan Feb 11 $8.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    Sous Les Paves vol 1 #1 Oct 10 $2.00
    Poetry International #15 and 16 Special Double Issue $15.00
    Logan Square Literary Review #4 Fall 10 $5.00
    Literary Review vol 54 #1 Fall 10 $8.00

    CHILDRENS!
    Return of the Dapper Men by Jim McCann and Janet Lee (Archaia) $24.95 – Charming steampunky children’s book, for lads and lasses of all ages.
    Hannukatz Saves Hannukah by Terry Abrahamson $14.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Decoded by Jay-Z (Spiegel) $35.00 – Lyrics, musings, photos and more.
    Death Cab For Cutie by Autumn de Wilde (Chronicle) $29.95 – Autumn de Wilde has been photographing Death Cab for Cutie for many years. Her close connection with the band began while shooting a couple of shows at the tail end of their tour for Transatlantacism. The band invited her to Long View Farm in wintry Massachusetts to document the recording of their album Plans, and a creative collaboration was formed. She continued on tour with them for that record and subsequent recordings and tours. This book collects more than 200 of her best candid on- and off-stage images, along with personal ephemera contributed by the band and conversations that illuminate the photographs and Death Cab’s music.
    From a Basement In Seattle The Poster Art of Brad Klausen (Akashic) $24.95
    I’m In The Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick In White Zombie by Sean Yseult (Underwood) $22.95
    Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal by Jeff Wagner (Bazillion Points) $24.95

    MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
    I Only Mark The Hours That Shine: Little Edie’s 1929 Diary by Eva Beale Eva Marie (Grey Gardens Collections) – Most people know of “Little Edie” through the 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens, by Albert and David Maysles. This book is a transcript of the handwritten diary which she kept at the age of eleven. Limited print run and shipped to Quimby’s directly from the The Grey Gardens Collections, founded by family member Eva Marie Beale!
    The Secret World of Slugs and Snails: Life in the Very Slow Lane by David George Gordon (Sasquatch) $14.95
    Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film by var. (Fantagraphics) $35.00

    SEX & SEXY!
    Pinups #13 Chuck by Christopher Schulz $14.00
    Contemporary Pin-Up Photography by Tom Denlick (Schiffer) $39.99
    Burlesque Exotic Dancers of the 50s and 60s by Judson Rosebush (Schiffer) $24.99
    Rose: Love in Violent Times by Inga Muscio (Seven Stories) $17.95
    Ariane Arborene’s Classic FemDom Stories by Ariane Arborene $15.00 – These include tales of an angry wife cuckolding her husband, forced bi, male sexual service, oral servitude, crossdressing, anal training of the man who needs discipline, forced worship of the female body and other enticing, erotic tales of Female Domination of the submissive man.

  • Weekly Top 10

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

    2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list and more.

    3. ‘Za the Pizza Zine by Nikki Yowell $4.00 – Get a Sloppy Slice of this hot pie!

    4. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Same as the Large Slingshot radical organizer above but in a perfect-bound pocketsize form.

    5. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95 – The newest issue from Chris Ware.
    6. 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?

    7. List #14 Fine For Now by Ramsey $4.00 – Reasons to love the new issue of List: The drawings just keep getting better, highly logical, yet intimately personal, good times, good foods, good dogs, stories broken down and organized into compelling, must-read-more formats, dreams, plans and schemes plotted in charming detail, homemade geography and chronology charts all woven gracefully into list-making and more!

    8. Best American Comics 2010 ed by Abel/Madden/Gaiman (HM) $23.00
    9. Four Squares #2 More Squares by Liz Prince, Maris Wicks, Tim Finn and Joe Quinones $5.00 – July 2008 served four different ways by four comic talents each doing strip-a-days. The weave is really nice here as everyone hops in and out of each other’s strips-sandwiches get invented, neighbors get spied on, raspberries get stolen and Boston gets hotttt.-EF
    10. Ramble On #1 by Calvin Wong (Sparkplug) $3.00

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    NEW STUFF THIS WEEK:

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    FAQNP #2 Computer Camp Fall 10 Queer Nerd Publication $7.00
    JD Samson From the Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 1 #2 2009 (B & D Press) $6.00
    Agggresssive School Book – Trash Garbage Rubbish Zine by Mark Pawson $8.00
    Comunicacion Contaminacion by Mark Pawson $7.50
    Birkensnake #3 $4.00
    And Who Shall I Say Is Calling? by Jasper Sebastian Sturup $8.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #2 Hewers of Water by Gabrielle Congrave $2.00
    ‘ Za the Pizza Zine by Nicki Yowell $4.00
    Schematic Quarterly #3 $2.00
    Dance Your Troubles Away by M. Miller $6.00
    35th and Kind Drive – Bad Ass and Rides of Als Chicago South Side $6.00
    Megaton Medias Modern Man Manual #1 $3.00
    Dumb Magazine #1 Random Music Issue Hot Sum 10 (First Edition) by Noah Lyon $5.00 – From the artist of Retard Riot and the buttons that said, “Retardo Monteblon.” Like a David Shrigley for the mini-comics set.
    Assuming Size #1 Poems $3.00
    No More Coffee #3 by Ben Spies $2.00
    Reality Mom vol 7 #4 Fall 10 by Corbin Lewars $3.00
    Map #3 Manual of Architectural Possibilities – Archive $6.50

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    I Swallowed the Key to My Heart #2 by Liz Prince $6.00
    Four Squares #2 More Squares by Liz Prince etc. $5.00
    Ferocious Quarterly #1 $12.00
    Acmeat 2 Fuckin Symphonies Bongout Colors by Sylvain Gerand $18.00
    Retard Riot #35 by Noah Lyon $2.00
    Love Under the Big Top by Dakota Bardy $4.00
    This Tactile Earth by Patrick Kyle $3.00
    Wowee Zonk #3 (Koyama Press) $8.00 – With Michael Deforge, Jan Avendano, Selena Wong, Patrick Kyle and more.
    You Don’t Get There From Here #17 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
    M. Sauters Guide to Douchebaggery vol 2 $3.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by Sophie Crumb (Norton) $27.95 – Don’t need any introduction here!
    Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00 – The third volume in C.F.’s Dune-like science fiction/fantasy epic.
    What I Did by Jason (Fantagraphics) $24.99
    Castle Waiting vol 2 HC by Linda Medley (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Native Trees of Canada by Leanne Shapton (D+Q) $19.95
    Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec 1: Pterror Over Paris and the Eiffel by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Beautiful. In English. And in color.
    Tonoharu Part Two by Lars Martinson $19.95 – Part 2 of a semiautobiographical look at an American English teacher adjusting to life in rural Japan.
    Will Eisner a Dreamer’s Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher (Bloomsbury) $28.00
    Six Novels In Woodcuts the Collected Works of Americas First Great Graphic Novel by Lynd Ward, ed. by Art Spiegelman (Library of America) $70.00 – Some people argue that this is perhaps the first American graphic novel.

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo E Sex Blood and the Supernatural by Jack Hunter (Shinbaku) $29.95
    God Damn the Sun: A 100 Drawings From Napoleon at the Party by Jasper Sebastian Sturup $30.00
    Dot Dot Dot #20 $16.95
    Noggins by Mark Pawson $16.00
    Dr. Lakra by Dr. Lakra (Kurimanzu) $35.00
    It’s a Boy – It’s a Girl by Kirsten Dietz (Taschen) $29.99 – Pictures of signs that are either female names or male names. Like Alice’s or Bob’s or whomever’s diner. You kind of have to see it. Well, guess you’ll have to come to Quimby’s then.
    Scary Girl HC by Nathan Jurevicius (Last Gasp) $25.00 – A book of the vinyl toy character. Perhaps you bought one of the figures when it was here. Now get the book.
    Kaws by Monica Ramirez-Montagut (Skira) $45.00 – A vibrant look at the celebrated New York-based artist and designer KAWS.
    Hi Fructose Collected Edition vol 2: Under-the-Counter Culture (Last Gasp) $39.95 – This hardcover collect issues 5-8 of the magazine and feature emerging and established artists such as Camille Rose Garcia, Femke Hiemstra, Jordan Crane, Marion Peck, Paul Pope, KRK Ryden and more. Or get the Deluxe Box Set version for $60.00, which comes with prints, stickers and a poster! Scrumptious! This would make a great gift for someone you want to educate on lowbrow art. Or tell your people you want it.
    Typefontbat 134 Fontbats equals 6000 Graphics (BNN) $39.95 – Weirdo fonts. Comes with disc to install ’em on your computer.
    Hand Made Graphics Design and Art (BNN) $55.00
    Playful Type 2: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts (DGV) $60.00 – You know you want it. That’s right.

    DIY & CONSUMPTION
    High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs In History Science and Culture by Mike Jay (Park Street) $19.95
    Religion of Ayahuasca The Teachngs of the Church of Santo Daime by Alex Polari De Alverga (Park Street) $16.95
    The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life: Cruelty Free Crafts, Recipes, Beauty Secrets and More by Melisser Elliott (Skyhorse) $16.95
    Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! by Abigail Gehring (Skyhorse) $24.95
    Punch: The Delights and Dangers of the Flowing Bowl by David Wondrich (Perigree) $23.95 – An anecdotal history of the original monarch of mixed drinks with more than forty historic recipes. Fully annotated and a complete course in the lost art of compounding punch. By the James Beard Award Winning author of Imbibe.

    FICTION!
    Sunset Park by Paul Auster (Holt) $25.00
    Semina #7 Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home (Book Works) $19.95
    Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses ed. by Bill Henderson (Pushcart) $18.95
    Complete Stories of JG Ballard SC (Norton)
    The Petting Zoo by Jim Carroll (Viking) $24.95
    SteampunkD by var. (Daw) $7.99 – An anthology of all-original works of the genre.
    Demon Lover by Dion Fortune (Weiser) $16.95

    MAGAZINES!
    UFO Magazine #154 vol 24 #1 $5.99
    Skunk vol 6 #5 $5.99
    Treating Yourself #25 $7.99
    High Times Jan 11 $5.99
    Gopher Illustrated #1 $16.00
    Make: The Tool Guide Special Issue $9.99
    Wire #321 Nov 10 $10.99
    Ghetto Blaster #26 $3.95
    Against the Current #149 $5.00
    Radical Philosophy #164 $13.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    Slake Los Angeles Sum 10 Still Life A City and Its Stories $18.00
    Coming Envelope #2 Win 10 $10.00
    Concisely #4 Stories Under 500 Words $3.00
    The Believer #76 Nov Dec 10 Art Issue $10.00
    Sous Les Paves vol 1 #1 Oct 10 by Micah Robbins $2.00
    Used To Be annaelresiak $4.00

    CHILDRENS!
    Who Will Comfort Toffle: A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson (DQ) $16.95 – Moomin is not a hippo.

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Sun Ra: Interviews and Essays ed. by John Sinclair (Headpress) $19.95
    Left Handed Blows Writing on Sound 1993 to 2009 by Bruce Russell (Clouds) $25.00
    Tao of Wu by RZA (Riverhead) $15.00
    True Hip Hop by Mike Schreiber (MBP) $14.95 – Some classy photos.

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America Draft Proposal by Revolutionary Communist Party USA $8.00
    The Idea of Communism (Verso) $26.95 – An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism, including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Balso, Bruno Bosteels and more.

    MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
    Cult People: Tales from Hollywoods Exploitation A List by Nicanor Loreti (Headpress) $16.95
    Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetitie For Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh by Chloe Castleden (Skyhorse) $12.95 – Who are you having over for dinner?
    Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock by Vere Chappell (Weiser) $21.95
    The Mystery of U33: Hitler’s Secret Envoy -The Incredible Story of the Mystery Uboats by Nigel Graddon (AdvUnlmtd) $19.95 – From the author of Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
    Armageddon Survival Handbook: How to Prepare Yourself for Any Possible Scenario by Rainer Stahlberg (Skyhorse) $12.95

    ESSAYS & CULTURE!
    Discombobulated Dispatches From the Wrong Side by Simon A Morrison (Headpress) $16.95 – During the course of the many adventures that make up this discordant operetta, Simon Morrison has a gun held to his head by a celebrity gangster, goes raving in Ibiza with a holiday grandmother, is trapped in a gay bar in Leipzig, sings happy birthday to Kylie Minogue, disco dances in a San Franciscan titty bar, is deported from Russia, travels the white heights of the Alps through to the gutters of Brazil, and still picks himself up in time for tea with boy band Take That.
    Poseidons Steed: The Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality by Helen Scales PhD (Gotham) $15.00
    Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the 80s by Richard Rushfield (Gotham) $16.00
    The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide by Richard A. Muller, illustrated by Joey Manfre (Norton) $16.95
    English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison (Norton) $35.00

    SEX & SEXY!
    Best Erotic Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. by Cecilia Tan and Bethany Zaiatz (Circlet) $19.95
    Quaintance: The Art of George Quaintance by Reed Massengill (Taschen) $99.99
    SPS #7 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00
    Naked In the Gallery 2010 by Christian Gfeller $28.00

    OTHER STUFF!
    Hipster Mustache $4.00 – Put it with your trucker hat and blend right in.
    Heart Gelatin Mold Just Like Moms $6.00 – No really. Like a real heart. Say it with love this holidays.
    Calendario Bestiaro Bestiary Calendar 2011 by Dave Buchen $25.00 – Wood block animal screen prints, with a different adorable beast for every month.