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  • New Stuff This Week

    Hustle in for a last minute Valentine gift idea. How about this?

    Sex Our Bodies Our Junk by The Association for the Betterment of Sex Headquarters, Mike Sacks and various others (Broadway) $18.99 – And hey! Mike Sacks will be here at Quimby’s to read from his book of humor pieces Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason on March 10th.

    ZINES!
    Brilliant Mistake #4 Your Secretary #8 by Jami Sailor and Carrie $3.00 – What?! You didn’t make it to last night’s release party for this here at Quimby’s? It was awesome. There were cupcakes, stencils, and multiple referances to having your heart broken. Well, if you missed the event you’re in luck. We still have a few of this split-zine to sell you.
    Your Secretary #7 Playing Victim #4 by Jami Sailor $1.00
    One Thirty One #1 $3.00
    Sassyfrass Circus #5 $2.00
    Femme a Barbe vol 2 $2.00
    All Things Ordinary #3 $2.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Uptight #4 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $3.95
    Fascination by Andrew Ek $6.00
    Favorites – A Sappy Autobiographical Story about Susie Cagle’s Shoes by Susie Cagle $2.00 – Read her stuff now so you can say you read it before she got famous, because her work is really great.
    Remainders – This is What Concerns Me Presents by Susie Cagle $3.00
    This is What Concerns Me #1 by Susie Cagle $3.00
    Demongun #1 Feb 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
    This is What Adventure Looks Like by Jarod Rosello $1.00
    Well Dressed Bear Will Develop Intimacy Issues Later in Life by Jarod Rosello $4.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Anthem by Ayn Rand by Charles Santino and Joe Staton (New American Library) $15.00 – This dystopian novella by everyone’s favorite objectivist is a love letter to independence and individuality. No matter what your politics are, the themes in this graphic novel realization of Ayn Rand’s classic are universal.
    Ivy by Sarah Oleksyk (Oni) $19.99
    Tales of a Hippy Kid: Road Trippin’ & Skinny Dippin’ by Jon Kroll and Dave Bohn (Ape) $14.95 – Weed, nudity, hot tub. What else could you possibly need?  Is this like a Hot Tub Time Machine? -LM
    Daytripper TPB by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba (Vertigo) $19.99 – Beautiful work from twin brothers, with moments of life take on entirely new meanings as events from possible pasts or futures cast characters into new lights. Gorgeous cities and landscapes from Brazil across several decades with touches of surrealism. Jeff Smith of Bone blurbed that he couldn’t put this down.
    Bone Quest for the Spark Book 1 by Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski (Scholastic) $10.99
    On The Line: The Complete Strips From the Guardian by Rian Hughes (Image) $12.99
    Midlife by Joe Ollman (D&Q) $19.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Journey is the Destination the Journals of Dan Eldon (Chronicle) $24.95
    Feel the Darkness by Ragnar Persson (Dokument Press) $39.95
    Beer – A Genuine Collection of Cans by Dan Becker and Lance Wilson (Blue Apple) $19.95
    Lex Sten Stencil Poster by Lex Sten (Drago) $29.00

    FICTION!
    The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier (Pantheon) $24.95 – In this wonderful novel by the author of the amazing book Brief History of the Dead, pain manifests itself as visible light after a mysterious event called “the Illumination,” revealing humanity to be mortally wounded. an inspiring take on suffering and the often fleeting nature of connection.
    Fantastic Planet Oms en Serie by Stephen Wul (Creation Oneiros) $14.95 – This French novel written by a dental surgeon in inspired the animated cult film La Plamete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) in 1973, which was smuggled out from behind the Iron Curtain. The last surviving humans are taken from Earth to the wild planet Ygam by the traags, a race of blue- skinned, red- eyed giants. Here they become known as oms, used as lowly servants and regarded as savages. But little by little, led by a young man of superior intelligence named Terr, the oms regain their thirst for liberty and rise up against the draags to affirm their humanity in the face of oppression. Planet of the Apes? But with a different ending? You be the judge.

    MAGAZINES!
    Cabinet #40 Hair $12.00
    Juxtapoz #122 Mar 11 $5.99
    High Times Apr 11 $5.99
    Shindig vol 2 #20 Jan Feb 11 $9.99
    Wire #323 Jan 11 $10.99
    Internationalist #32 Jan Feb 11 $2.00
    Monocle vol 4 #40 Feb 11 $10.00
    AdBusters #94 vol 19 #2 Mar Apr 11 $8.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
    Dead Beat vol 1 by Brian Echon and Pat Walsh Scott $10.00
    Slake Los Angeles 2011 Crossing Over A City and Its Stories $18.00

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Nick Cave – Sinner Saint: The True Confessions Thirty Years of Essential Interviews ed. by Mat Snow (Plexus) $19.95

    MISCREANTS & MAYHEM BOOKS!
    Beautiful on the Outside, Rich on the Inside by Douglas S. Hunter III (Upstate Chamber of Cobras) $20.00 – I think maybe you might need to come read this book right now. So many moons ago we got a book of fiction about wrapping Roy Orbison in Clingfilm. So this book sort of reminds me of that one. Really weird but immediately engaging. It’s about a guy posting a preposterous singles ad on Craigslist about being single and rich that started like this: “I am rich, and when I say rich, I mean I am dictating this to my professional typist while I am sailing to St. Kitts.” All that follows are the responses he’s gotten. And you know how you read something on line and you get sucked in to reading all the comments people make about it under it, and it turns into a big soap opera, people arguing and dialoguing with each other? Well, this reminds me of that too. And you know what else? The logo for the publisher is awesome too, so we’ll paste it in below. And oh! Valentine’s is right around the corner. What better gift to woo a weirdo?
    Late American Novel Writers On the Future of Books ed. by Jeff Marin (Soft Skull) $14.95
    Yellow Kid Weil: The Autobiography of Americas Master Swindler (AK Press) $18.00 – This classic memoir back in print!
    How to Hustle and Win a Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Understanding Supreme $14.95

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS!
    Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives by Orner and Holmes (McSweeneys) $16.00
    Small 911 Flipbook by Scott Blake (small) $5.00 (big) $35.00 – Yes, this is for real.

    SEX & SEXY & SEX CULTURE!
    Single Year by Dawn Mueller $14.00
    Reality Shows by Karen Finley (Feminist Press) $17.95 – With a forword by Kathleen Hanna and an introduction by Ann Pellegrini.
    Gaytimes Magazine #389 Feb 11 $9.95

    OTHER STUFF!
    Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Unabridged Audio CD by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $19.99 – Read by the author. Don’t miss Patton signing at Reckless Records on March 18th. We’ll be there too!

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – Okay, mister, so you’re old friends with Green Day and they ask you to join them on their bonkers tour of China. Of course you’re going to do that. Don’t tell me you’re too punk for your old friends, cause that sounds pretty fucking pretentious. Just join them for a little piece of their crazy-ass ride and see what happens, ‘kay? Oh, wait….you’re not old friends with Green Day? Well, Aaron-Fucking-Cometbus is and was in this very situation and not only did he go on tour with Green Day, he also wrote this huge, funny, frought and generally terrific issue of his zine about corporate tour mayhem and sorting it all out. It’s awesome, in case you needed me to tell you that. -EF

    2. Cursed Pirate Girl TPB by Jeremy A. Bastian (Olympian) $20.00
    3. Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotext[e]) $12.95 – This eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe is written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.”

    4. Handbook vol 5 #1 2011 by by Darren Ackenbauer $6.00 – Super cruisy scene over here.

    5. Boneshaker #43-100: A Bicycling Almanac (Wolverine Farm Publishing) $8.00

    6. Uptown Problems #1 Win 10 11 $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

    7. Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts and Eyes by by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) $12.00

    8.    Maximumrocknroll #333 Feb 11 $4.00

    9.    Phase 7 #008 by Alec Longstreth $4.00

    10. Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk $6.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES!
    Cometbus #54 – In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – Long time friend of Green Day and drummer of Billie Joe’s side band Pinhead Gunpowder, Aaron Cometbus’ new issue is dedicated to Green Day and talks about Aaron’s experiences as he toured with them in Asia in January of 2009.


    Welcome to Bend #5 Winter Blah by Laura Walker $3.00
    It Was So Nice To Meet You $2.00
    Cabin Fever A Mishugas Zine by R. Shipman $3.50
    Negative Capability #5 $5.00

    MINI COMIX!
    Revive #1 by Carlyn Crispell $3.50
    Brothel #1 Queer Etiquette #5 Pony Up or Paws Off These Goods Aint Free $1.50

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Glitch3 Connection Time Out $20.00
    War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication ed. by James Aulich (T&H) $29.95

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Scenes From an Impending Marriage – A Prenuptial Memoir by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $9.95 – From the writer/artist of Optic Nerve, comes the story of the planning  up to the big day.


    Kim Deitch Files: A Selection of Sketchbook Pages From the Archives of the Inter Department Delivery by Kim Deitch (Lamano 21) $45.00 – Limited edition portfolio of the looseleaf ‘story’ pages which serve as Kim’s sketchbook.
    Zita The Spacegirl by Ben Hatke (First Second) $10.99
    Twilight of the Assholes Cartoons and Essays by Tim Kreider (Fantagraphics) $28.99
    Political Machine book 1 The Course of Robot Events by Dan Carroll $12.95
    Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness by Darryl Cunningham (Bloomsbury) $15.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Kaiserin #9 $22.99
    Dwell Mar 11 $5.99
    IDN Extra 04 Most Wanted vol 1 $25.00
    IdN vol 17 #6 $17.50
    True Detective Jan 11 $4.99
    Skeptic vol 16 #2 $6.95
    In These Times Feb 11 $3.50
    Scoot Magazine #59 Dec 10 $5.95
    Cinema Retro vol 7 #19 $11.99
    Mojo #208 Mar 11 $9.99
    Wax Poetics #45 Jan Feb 11 $9.99
    ASR #55 Win 11 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00

    SEX & SEXY!
    Lusty XXXposed Zine #1 Life Beyond the Looking Glass $5.00
    Single Year by Dawn Mueller $14.00
    Front #150 $9.99

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Jin & Jam #1 by Hellen Jo (Sparkplug) $5.00 – Jin and Jam is a head-on collision of California 2 Cool 4 School and Tekkon Kinkreet. -Yeah, it really is that good. Hellen Jo’s drawings are perfect and her action-packed San Jose misfit tween girl rampage fights dirty the whole way through. It’s an impeccable tornado of an issue and if you come out with a black eye and gum in your hair, you’ll consider yourself lucky. -EF

    2. 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

    3. Gothic Beauty #32 $5.95

    4. Ice Haven by Dan Clowes (Pantheon) $16.00 – Same ol’ Haven, now in softcover to match your old Garfield books.

    5. My Every Single Thought – What I Think About Being Single by by Corrine Mucha $5.00 – An exclusive Corrine made for Quimby’s! ‘Cause we’re awesome.

    6. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $20.00 – By the artist who made a bookmark for us once! ‘Cause we’re awesome!

    7. Crickets #3 Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00

    8. Juxtapoz #121 Feb 11 $5.99

    9. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95 – Who has made signs for us! ‘Cause we’re awesome!

    10. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $ 17.95 – Edie works here! ‘Cause we’re awesome!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Another person sent us a scan of the pictures they took in our photobooth! Balthazar, a self-described “Imaginary sailor, pretend photographer” sent it us. Check him out at CallMeBalthazar.com and find out how to request a (dirty) letter & a Polaroid.
    Send us your pictures to info(at)quimbys(dot)com that you’ve taken here and we’ll post ’em!

    NeW sttUf tHiS wEek

    ZINES!
    Boneshaker #43-100 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00
    The Inner Swine vol 16 #3 and #4 by Jeffrey Somers $2.00 – Mr. Somers still publishing and being hilarious.
    Fun Danger Danger Fun #1 by Richard Gin $7.00
    Seize the Essance #1 by Alexander Drake $5.00
    My Dance The Skull #1 by Megan Diddie $5.00
    Dragon Slutz $3.00
    Unicorn Whores $3.00
    Mild Vilnc #01 $2.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #4 the Choke Pear by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    Friction #2 by Justin Bostian $3.00
    No Thoughts #4 $7.00

    ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Smoking Typewriters The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media by John McMillian (Oxford) $27.95 – With a section about zines at the back.

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Notes On Conflict by Susie Cagle (Sparkplug) $6.00 – About the artist’s trip to the Middle East. Thoughtful and compelling.
    Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia (Sparkplug) $2.00
    I Have Something To Tell You #1 by Solomon Kidd $5.00
    Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd #1 A Work of Satire and Fiction by Benjamin Marra (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Cursed Pirate Girl TPB by Jeremy A Bastian (Olympian) $20.00 – Don’t miss the release event for this book at our sister store, Chicago Comics on 2/26!

    Stories I Wish I Could Tell You #2 by Tim Manley $3.00
    Zirp #4 by Till Thomas $7.00
    Nurse Nurse #2 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Attack Of The Zombie Soy Bot $2.00
    Were Going To Do This Arent We $1.00
    Whiskey Jack and Kid Coyote Meet the King of Stink by Shawn Cheng (Sparkplug) $2.00
    Us In A Box by Spovatar WB Phlecender $4.00
    Blindspot #1 by Jospeh Remnant $5.00
    Strange Growths #15 by Jenny Zervakis $3.00
    Kus #8 Comics Anthology $8.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS!

    Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes (Pantheon) $16.00 – Same ol’ Haven, now in softcover to match your old Garfield books.
    AOA vol 1 Daily Diary Comics of Melinda Boyce $18.00 – Collects diary comics from March to August 2009.
    Evolution The Story of Life On Earth by Jay Hosler, Kevin Cannon, Zander Cannon (Hill & Wang) $18.95

    FICTION!

    While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) $27.00 – Unpublished short fiction!
    Sebastian Cross (History is not made without Casualties) by Kevin Lynn Helmick $15.00
    Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge (Small Beer) $16.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Nobrow #2 $17.50
    Cine Qua Non #3 $5.00
    Fortean Times #271 Mar 11 $11.99
    Ready Made #51 Feb Mar 11 $4.99
    Razorcake #60 $4.00
    Z Magazine Feb 11

    LITERARY JOURNALS AND POETRY!
    Believer #78 Feb 11 $8.00
    Small Murders by Carrie McGath $14.00
    Cousin Corinnes Reminder #2 $20.00

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY, MEMOIR, MIRTH & (M)OUTER LIMITS!
    The Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine In the Jazz Age by Deborah Blum (Penguin) $16.00
    Freemasonry: An Introduction by Rivera Marke E Koltko PhD (Tarcher) $11.95
    Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober, ed. by Bucky Sinister (Conari) $14.95 – Sinister goes beyond the 12-steps with stories from the misfits, freaks, and weirdos that have come to recovery from a variety of backgrounds — tattoo artists, bartenders, musicians, flight attendants–to help answer the What Now? question of living sober. Topics include: 10 Things Every New Recovering Addict Should Have; Prayer and the Atheist; Job Interviews; and Ways Addicts Can Be of Service to Normies.”Bucky’s writing is a lifeline for the non-spiritual.” -Patton Oswalt

  • 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!