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  • 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

  • New Stuff This Week & Old School Ephemera Quimby's Business Card

    Check out this old Quimby’s business card! From the last century! How cool is that?

    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.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. X’ed Out HC 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? It was nice seeing all of you who came out to meet Charles Burns when he was here. Here’s proof he was here!
    2. Exquisite Book 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game by var. (Chronicle) $29.95 – The design dream team behind Also has somehow coordinated 100 of their favorite artists to participate in ten huge fold-out exquisite corpses. It means you get a little bit of everyone, and a whole lot of a whole lot with some amazing inadvertent collaborations erupting. -EF
    3. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – A new issue from our Edie! Don’t miss the book release for his book of the same title Dec 9th!


    4. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95

    5. Straight To Hell #67 $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories – Feels like heaven to me.

    6. Juxtapoz #118 Nov 10 $5.99
    7. Trubble Club vol 4 by Trubble Club $3.00 – A new offer from this local alternative comics collective.
    8. 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

    9. Scam #7 The Return of Miami by by Erick Lyle $3.25 – Back to the weird Miami wildness goes Scam, straight into the Belly of the Basel, back through the Memory Maw of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement protests, and then rounding off the issue with a scene report from Miami’s badass squatters rights movement. Kinda leaves you awestruck, pummelled and breathless. -EF

    10. Brilliant Mistake #2 – 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

  • New Stuff This Week

    We skipped a week of posting new stuff since our monthly e-mail went out last Saturday. Perhaps you didn’t receive it? If so, you can right to quimbys.com and put yourself on the list.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Aaron Hughes by Temporary Services $3.00
    Lowbrow Reader #8 $3.00
    KerBloom #86 Sep Oct 10 by Artnoose $2.00
    Book of Cut and Fold Objects by Gary Kacahdourian $4.00
    East Village Inky #45 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
    Assortment of Poems and Drawings #1 by Paulina Pajak $1.00
    Broken Pencil #49 $5.95
    Bend Over Magazine #4 $10.00
    Soapzine #3 $10.00
    Things That Make Panic Attack Etc.by Samantha Duncan $3.00
    I Had a Great Ride #1 $.50
    Internet by K Abigail Walthausen $5.00
    On The Shoulders of The Bear by Therra Webb $3.00
    So Me and You Are Reading This Zine #2 and You’re All Like Whoa This Is Great by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
    Community in Transition 40 Years of Struggle by The Transgender Oral History Project $3.00
    Roctober #48 $4.00
    Its Curtains #5 $2.00
    Songs of Peace and Food by Michelle Yacht $5.00
    Seripop New Mutantes – Floating World Comics $5.00
    Brilliant Mistake #2 by Carrie $1.00
    Samantha Dorsett Tribute Zine $6.50
    Scam #7 The Return of Miami Spr 10 $3.25
    Guide to Picking Locks #2 by CrimethInc $4.50
    Book Bindery Microcosm Edition by Sarah Royal (Microcosm) $5.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – New issue from our famed Edie Fake! Who will be celebrating the release of his Gaylord Poenix book Dec 9th!
    Trubble Club vol 4 $3.00 – New issue from Chicago’s mini-comics allstars!
    Gaijin Vampire – 48 Days In Tokyo by Asif Gill $3.00
    Night Business #1 by Benjamin Marra (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Look Out Monsters #1 Geoff Grogan $10.00
    Shaky Kanes A Men by Shaky Kane (Wishbone) $5.00
    Berlin #17 by Jason LUtes (D+Q) $4.95
    Summer 2009 Copenhagen – Direktor P Rasmussen Cirkus Variete by Michael Williams (Picturebox) $3.00
    Karate Gods by James Kirkpatrick (Sparkplug) $3.00
    How Dry I Am by Amy Suha Kuttab (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Rambo 3.5 by Jim Rugg (Sparkplug) $2.00
    Wouldbe Bridegrooms by Shawn Cheng
    How Life Became Unbearable by Julia Gfrorer (Sparkplug) $6.00
    Ramble On #1 by Calvin Wong (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Piece Meal #2 by Nate Beaty $4.00
    Choose Your Own Adventure Zombie Apocalypse Edition #1 by Rachel Swanson $2.00
    Legend of Avenger R #1 $4.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Acme Novelty Library #20 by Chris Ware (D+Q) $23.95
    If N Oof BY Brian Chippendale (Picturebox) $29.95
    H Day by Renee French (Picturebox) $30.00
    Toys in the Basement by Stephane Blanquet (Fantagraphics) $14.99
    Bent by Dave Cooper (Skyhorse) $22.99
    Sweeter Side of R Crumb by Robert Crumb (Norton) $17.95 – Soft cover edition now with a new introduction by guess who? R. Crumb.
    Mome vol 20 Fall 10 (Fantagraphics) $14.99
    My New New York Diary a Film Book by Julie Doucet with Michel Gondry (Picturebox) $24.95
    Che Guevara: A Manga Biography by var. (Penguin) $15.00
    Gary Book 1 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00
    Selfish Pigs: Adorably Awful Little Swine by Andy Riley (Three Rivers) $10.00
    Denis Wortmans New York Portrait of the City In the 1930s and 1940s by James Sturm and Brandon Elston (D+Q) $29.95
    Boys vol 7 the Innocents by Garth Ennis (Dynamite) $19.99
    Inkstuds vol 1 Interviews with Cartoonists by Robin McConnell (Conundrum) $20.00
    How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden (Vertigo) $24.99
    Lone Pine by Jed McGowan (Adhouse) $15.00
    Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature Critical Essays on the Form by var. (McFarland) $35.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Celebrate Peoples History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution by Josh MacPhee (Feminist) $24.95 – Don’t miss Josh MacPhee here at Quimby’s on Thurs, Nov 11th! And also, if you’re into that, check out:
    Signal 01: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture by Alex Icky Dunn by Josh MacPhee (PM Press) $14.95
    Self Reliance Library by Temporary Services $4.00
    Don’t Know If You Can Get There From Here $20.00
    Mushroom Collector by Jason Fulford (Soon) $65.00
    Green Patriot Posters Images For a New Activism by var. (Metrop) $30.00
    Festus by Jason Logan (JandL) $30.00
    Why Are You Surprised Im Still Here by Billy Kaufman (Loudmouth Publishing) $29.95 – Photos of homeless people with their hand made cardboard signs.
    Cadence and Slang by Nick Disabato $40.00
    Asian Graphics Now by Wiedemann (Taschen) $39.99
    I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems From the Pentagons Black World by Trevor Paglen (Melville) $16.95 – Now in soft cover.

    DIY & CONSUMPTION
    White Hand Society the Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg (Citylights) $16.95
    Aunt Sandys Medical Marijuana Coolbook Comfort Food For Body and Mind: Official Course Book Oaksterdam University by Sandy Moriarty (Quick) $18.95
    Vegan Cookie Connoisseur: Over 140 Simply Delectable Recipes to Treat the Eyes by Kelly Peloza (Skyhorse) $17.95
    Baked 35 Marijuana Munchies to Make and Bake by var. (Ten Speed) $12.99
    The Black Apple’s Paper Doll Primer: Activities and Amusements for the Curious Paper Artist by Emily Winfield  Martin (Potter) $19.99

    FICTION!
    Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories In 25 Words or Fewer by Robert Swartwood (Norton) $13.95
    Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Picador) $19.00
    Undivided Self HC Selected Stories by Will Self (Bloomsbury) $30.00
    Unwelcome Guest Plus Nin and Nan by Eckhard Gerdes $17.50

    MAGAZINES!
    Raw Vision #70 $14.00
    Fortean Times #268 Dec 10 $11.99
    Girls and Corpses #4 Win 10 $8.95
    True Detective Oct 10 $4.00
    True Crime Oct 10 Detective Monthly $8.99
    Meatpaper #13 Fall 10 $7.99
    Mojo #205 Dec 10 $9.99
    Monocle vol 4 #38 Nov 10 $10.00
    Harpers Magazine Nov 10 $6.99
    In These Times Nov 10 $3.50
    Progressive Nov 10 $4.95
    Z Magazine Nov 10 $4.95
    Jacques Fall 10 $9.00
    Tattoo Society #24 $7.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    Zine Columbia Sum 10 Moustache Safari $10.00
    St Petersburg Review vol 3 $15.00
    Benefactor Sum Fall 10 $10.00
    Six By Six #21 A Man Walks Into a Bar $5.00

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Joy Division by Kevin Cummins (Rizzoli) $45.00
    Ska: An Oral History by Heather Augustyn (McFarland) $58.50
    Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd Dark Globe by Julian Palacios (Plexus) $19.95
    Mr. Manchester and the Factory Girl The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson by Lindsay Reade (Plexus) $19.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Verso Book of Dissent from Spartacus to the Show Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao (Verso) $19.95
    Dancing With Dynamite Social Movement and States In Latin America by Benjamin Dangl (AK) $15.95
    Gaza In Crisis: Reflections On Israel’s War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe (Haymarket) $16.00
    Modern Utopian Alternative Communities of the 60s and 70s – Nick Tosches and the Underground Press Syndicate by var. (Process) $19.95

    MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
    Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (Feral House)$29.95 – According to author Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, “This is the most profound new manual on practical magick, taking it from its Crowleyan empowerment of the Individual to a next level of realization to evolve our species.”
    Upside of Undertaking by Catherine Olen (Schiffer) $12.99
    What To Do When You Meet Cthulhu A Guide to Surviving the Cthulhu Mythos by var. (Elder Sign) $14.95
    Listverse.com’s Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists: Fascinating Facts and Shocking Trivia On Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities History and More by Jamie Frater (Ulysses) $14.95
    Complete Book of Spells Curses and Magical Recipes by Dr. Leonard Ashley RN (Skyhorse) $14.95
    Tattoos Tatouages Tatowierungen Tatoeages by Pat Diman (Booqs) $14.95
    Onion and Philosophy, ed. By Sharon M Kaye (Open Court) $21.95
    Tawdry Knickers and Other Unfortunate Ways to Be Remembered by Alex Novak (Perigree) $13.95
    Cigarette Book the History and Culture of Smoking by var. (Skyhorse) $22.95
    Changing my Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith (Penguin) $16.00

    SEX & SEXY!
    Lickety Split #7 Smut Zine Beyond Human $8.70

    OTHER STUFF!
    Cthulhu Mints $2.50
    Bacon Soap $6.00 – Is this kosher with you if I use it in your shower?

  • Weekly Bestsellers

    1. Xed Out HC 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? And! Don’t miss Charles Burns at Quimby’s on 11/3!

    2. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (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. Ware leaves us all awestruck again and again as his flawless craftsmenship builds a visual narrative that can eviscerate the hidden space between cause and effect in all the little (and big) damages of living. -EF

    3. Scam #7 The Return of Miami Spr 10 $3.25

    4. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer $12.00

    5. Bizarre #168 Nov 10 $10.50

    6. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, edited by Dave Eggers (HM) $14.95

    7. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (LB) $21.95

    8. Make #9 Spr Sum 10

    9.  Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00

    10. Womanimalistic #1

    Edie with Gaylord Phoenix

    Look how proud we are of our Edie here at Quimby’s. He’s with his new book Gaylord Phoenix, published by Secret Acres!

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (Harper) $14.99 – The first history of Riot Grrrl tells the story of a group of extraordinary young women coming of age and coming into their own.
    2. Xed Out HC 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?
    Don’t miss Charles Burns at Quimby’s on 11/3!
    3. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
    4. What Was The Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation, N+1 Small Books Series #3 by the editors of N+1 $10.00 – Chapters including “On Douchebags” and “Williamsburg Year Zero.” Yes, for real.
    5. Bitch #48 $5.95
    6. The Instructions HC by Adam Levin (McSweeneys) $29.00 – Written by a charismatic local writer and a Quimby’s frequent shopper, telling the story of a junior high kid who may or may not be the new messiah.
    7. Henry and Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
    8. Or Let It Sink #4 Halloweened/Dear Jaguar #3 Selected Errors Split Zine by Jim and Vicky $2.00 – A Halloween Special Split. Better than the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
    9. Super Maxi Pad Girl #1 by Daniel Olson and AJ Niehaus $4.00
    10. All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John (Chronicle) $9.95

  • Weekly Top 10 In-store Bestsellers

    1. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
    2. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (HC) $14.99 – Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s on Saturday, 10/23!
    3. Gentlewoman #2 Fall Win 10 $10.95
    4. What Was The Hipster: A Sociological Investigation – N+1 Small Books Series #3 by var. $10.00 – “Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write this history without contempt or nostalgia? Why are we tempted to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster’s “global brand” has just reached its apotheosis? A panel of writers invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster. Their debate took place at the New School University in New York City, and was followed by articles, responses, and essays, all printed here for the first time.”
    5. Fantastic Man #12 $12.99
    6. King Cat #71 by John Porcellino $3.00 – This one’s great. The whole first part is all tales of being over-thirty-and-still-dirty, beater cars, stinky pits, run down shoes and all. Then J.P. up and moves to Florida and there’s a really funny 4-page field guide to all the cray-zay teeming wildlife. -EF
    7. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
    8. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99
    9. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With Almost No Money by Dolly Freed (Tin House) $12.95 – The antidote to being a capitalist pig? Becoming a possum. Dolly Freed wrote this as a sassy and scrappy teenager in the 70s and finally someone had the common sense to reprint it.
    10. The Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00