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Edie Fake Celebrates the Release of Gaylord Phoenix
Eight years in the making , Gaylord Phoenix collects all of Edie Fake’s raunchy queer comics serial in one volume. Perverse and surreal , Gaylord Phoenix follows the danger-fraught journeys of the Gaylord Phoenix, a creature willing to sacrifice anything for lost love and hidden memories. In an ever-shifting landscape full of ever-shifting genders, Gaylord Phoenix plunges head-first into a realm full of murderous psychedelic smut and intense magical beauty.
Shenanigans are planned for one fun and epic release night at Quimby’s. Fake will be on hand to crack bad jokes and sign books, along with homemade penis-shaped cookies and special limited-edition mix tapes and objets-de-arte available for free with each Gaylord book and comic purchase.
Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 2002 and has since clocked time in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Baltimore. He’s received a Critical Fierceness Grant for queer art and was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists. His drawings have been included in Hot and Cold, Creative Time Comics, and LTTR. Gaylord is his first full-length book. Currently, he lives in Chicago where he works as a minicomics sommelier for Quimby’s Books.
For more info: www.ediefake.com
Thurs, December 9th, 2010 7pm
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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.
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New Stuff, Including Our Website Update!
Have you noticed some amazing changes on quimbys.com? No? Go to quimbys.com and hit your “refresh” button. Now do you see any changes? Think they look awesome? We do too. And there’s more to come. There will be kinks along the way as more changes go up. We hope you like it as much as we do!
Also! For the second time in Quimby’s recorded history, someone bought $6.66 worth of merchandise. Here is what the number of the beast will buy you:
Anyway, here’s new stuff for this week:
ZINES!
Nnnnnnnnnn Yes vol 1 #1 $10.00 – A seven-person dispicable draw off hurtling our way from South Korea. Cut-ups, cut-opens, cut-outs, “we let our dicks and persnalities hang out.” Work by Jeff Conricode, Dillon Turner, Patrick Hansor, Morgan Dale Tepsic, Eli Taylor, Chris Elizondo, Jesse Douglas
Underground by Scott and Jen Webel $10.00 – Published by Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, this zine is a lovingly illustrated catalogue of the Museum’s 2010 Underground exhibit, which takes the theme, as usual, to delightfully eccentric extremes. Practically perfect in every way, this concept allows for the full on display and linkage of Kidney Stones, Trilobytes and Blue Jeans From the Russian Black Market, as well as many more of your very favorite things. If you really want to rave in the cave, this zine pairs excellently with Underneath Providence and Muddy -EFSome Scraps #4 Always on Mine The Final Chapter by Jordan Rutherford $.99
Sutdio Sweet Studio #1 by Tuesday Bassen $7.00
Engines of Fortitude #1 by Moore Allen Keating and Bill Tucker $3.50COMICS & MINICOMICS!
You Don’t Get There From Here #16 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Daily diary comics in a Porcellin-ian vein, this issue is maybe both the wordiest issue and also the one with the most visual variations in style and content. McNinch faces numerous rattlesnakes and a mountain lion, goes to San Diego Comic Con and drinks well. Also, the accupuncture seems to be working, this issue’s a solid upper. -EF
Devastator #1 by Geoffrey Golden (Devastator) $7.95
Neonomicon #2 by Alan Moore etc. (Boom) $3.99
My Life as a Smut Peddler #1 and #2 by E Charles Connell and Jim Kidonakis #1 is $2.00 and #2 is $3.00
My Ghost Came As a Mexican by Jim Kidonakis $5.00
Full On and Proper Sap Tastic Voyage by Jim Kidonakis $2.00
Silk Lady Squirm Demon by Ryan Orlak and Jim Kidonakis $1.00
Its Dream Time, Snoop Doggy Dogg: A Collection of Celebrity Studded Dreams by JT Yost (Birdcage) $4.00
Pelage Fauve Tirage $5.00
Fsshmrwl Baouarf by Simon Bossé $5.00 – The biggest little zine we’ve got! Each page is a shenanigan-fueled 3-layer silkscreen print from the Bébête-o-sphere. You really can’t go wrong with the Mille Putois. -EF
Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EFVortex #2 by Don Robinson $5.20
Zombies Attack by Don Robinson $3.50GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Best American Comics 2010, ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, with guest editor Neil Gaiman (Houghton) $23.00
Palookaville #20 by Seth (D&Q) $19.95 – Single issue in book form.
Four Color Fear Forgotten: Horror Comics of the 1950s by Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fire and Water: Bill Everett The Sub Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Sanctuary by Nate Neal (Verso) $22.99
14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography by Tetsu Saiwai (Penguin) $15.00
Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula BY Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Plume) $16.00
Yearbooks by Nicholas Breutzman,Shaun Feltz, and Raighne Hogan $13.00
Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal by Marek Bennett $10.00
Bebete by Simon Bosse and Putois Mille $15.00
Spirits of St. Louis: 13 Tales of Terror From the Gateway City $9.99
Walking Dead: The Covers by Krikman, etc. (Image) $24.99
De Tales: Stories From Urban Brazil by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse) $19.99
Digested #2 by Bobby N. $9.95
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 7: Twilight by var. (Dark Horse) $16.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 3 HC by Philip K Dick etc. (Boom) $24.99
Bear Nuts vol 1: The Book of Prozac by Alison Action (DMF) $18.99FICTION!
What Is All This: Uncollected Stories HC by Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fortunes of Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld (Norton) $13.95
The Bicycle Diaries SC by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.00
To Slow Down The Time Stories by Matthew Allard and Ian Dingman $20.00
Transubstantiate by Richard Thomas (Otherworld) $14.95 – Come see Richard Thomas read from this disturbing futuristic vision of terror and beauty at Quimbys on Sat, Oct 16th, with Otherworld authors including Laura Griffith, David Rosenstein and Nik Korpon.
Remember by Lynn Griffith (Otherworld) $14.95
Price of Life by Greg McCarty (Otherworld) $19.95
Silk Worm by David Rosenstein (Otherworld) $14.95
Elegy Written on a Crowded Street by Peter Plate (Seven Stories) $13.95
Entangled the Eater of Souls by Graham Hancock (Disinfo) $16.95
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Small Beer Press) $16.00
My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me – Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin) $17.00 – With stories from Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, Neil Gaiman, Shelley Jackson and more.ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Roosevelt by Jose Roosevelt (Fantasmus) $59.95
Art Toys by Brian McCarty (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
Rubber Duck by Karen Hsiao (Baby Tattoo) $35.00
Quadrant Fantasy (Fantasmus)$19.95
Tokyo Underground 2: Toy and Design Culture in Tokyo by var. (Super 7) $19.95
Drawings From The Gulag by Danzig Baldaev (Fuel) $32.95 – Brutal. Completely brutal.
Indie Craft by Jo Waterhouse (Abrams) $19.95
Stickers From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art by DB Burkeman and Monica LoCascio (Rizzoli) $35.00
Muralismo Morte: The Rebirth of Muralism In Contemporary Urban Art (From Here) $34.95
SABE: Fys Crew by Sabe (From Here) $14.95
Ghost: Ris Crew by Ghost (From Here) $14.95
Jepsy: The Real Deal by Jepsy (From Here) $14.95
Sten and Lex (Drago) $33.00
Wizards and Dragons Tattoo Flash CD Rom and Book Electronic Clip Art (Dover) $19.95 – 119 Royalty Free Designs
Classic Tattoo Designs CD Rom and Book Full Color Electronic Designs (Dover) $19.95 – 230 Royalty Free Designs, in Color and Black and White for Mac and WindowsMAGAZINES!
Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
ArtForum Oct 10 $10.00
High Times Dec 10 $5.99
BlackBook #79 Oct 10 $4.50
Fader #70 Oct Nov 10 $5.99
Mojo #204 Nov 10 $9.99
LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
Journal of Ordinary Thought Sum 10 $10.00
Creative Nonfiction #39 Fall 10 $10.00
The Believer #75 Oct 10 $8.00
Effigy #8 by Matt Whispers $4.00
The Toucan #8 Fall 2010 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00CHILDRENS!
Mud Pies and Other Recipes by var. (NYRB) $14.95
Alternative ABCs by 13thfloor (Ammo) $14.95
Color Me Graffiti: How to Color Like the Masters a Coloring Book for Creative Kid (From Here) $8.95
MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (Knopf) $26.95
Occult America: White House, Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons and the Secret Mystic by Hitch Horowitz (Bantam) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
World Gnosis the Coming Gnostic Civilization by Mark Amaru Pinkham (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Funk and Soul Covers by Joaquim Paulo and Julius Wiedemann (Taschen) $39.99 – As in album covers. Not like a book of pictures of people covering funk and soul songs. Which would be hilarious.
Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the Smiths by Simon Goddard (Plume) $30.00
Bowie, A Biography by Marc Spitz (Three Rivers) $17.00 – In soft cover.
Touchable Sound A Collection of 7 Inch Records From the USA by var. (Sound Screen) $45.00
American Hardcore: A Tribal History Second Edition by Steven Blush (Feral House) $22.95 – Don’t miss Stephen Blush here at Quimby’s on Dec 3rd. Stay tuned for more details!
Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You & Your Grandma Can Understand (Abrams) $12.95HUMOR!
100 Facts About Pandas by var. (Penguin) $13.00MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
Animalisticus Fantasticus: 600 Amazing and True Facts About Animals (Nicotext) $9.95
Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams by var. (Coffee House) $22.00POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Freefall America Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy by Jospeh E Stiglitz (Norton) $16.95 – now in soft cover.
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali (Verso) $16.95SEX & SEXY!
Straight To Hell #67 by Billy Miller $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories – Feels like heaven to me. -EF
Private 1980 to 1989 Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine (Taschen) $39.99 – 5 volume box set collection.
Kinky Nature (Goliath) $24.95
Pissy Pussy Girls by Gordon Denman (Adventures Unlimited) $59.00
50 Years of the Playboy Bunny by Hugh M. Hefner etc. (Chronicle) $35.00
Coley – Eros vol 40: Running Wild Book 3 Hard Throb (Eros) $19.95Other Stuff!
Grime Time Keychain Bottle Opener $1.50
Funkyfonic Cassette Tape Speaker $15.00
Uncle Archies Box O’Fun $13.00 – 25 Fabulous Prizes in Each Box!
Smells Like Teen Spirit 7 inch by Woody Sullender (Dead CEO) $6.00 – This clear 7″ lathe-cut record, pressed as part of a limited edition series of only 100, was cut one at a time by Peter King in New Zealand. It contains “erased” versions of two Nirvana songs, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Polly.” Both songs were run through a series of band-pass filters, which removes most of the frequency spectrum from an audio recording. “Polly” was erased based on the principle melody of the classic murder ballad. -
2011: The Revenge of Print
We’re tired of all the END OF PAPER, the END OF PUBLISHING AS WE KNOW IT stories. We’ve been hearing and reading about it ever since we’ve been open (which is going on almost 20 years now).So for 2011, we’re throwing a challenge out there. If you’ve ever made a zine or mini comic MAKE ONE MORE ISSUE. Come on, you’ve got one more in you! Maybe you were thinking in the back of your head you’d do another issue one day. Now is the time.
Join the group for discussion and more plans. This is just the beginning.
Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to help sponsor this challenge with our friends at Atomic Books in Baltimore, Xerography Debt and Zine World.
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Pawn Works Sticker Machine Debuts at Quimby's!
Nicholas Marzullo, owner of the West Side’s Pawn Works gallery and creator of the Pawn Works Sticker Club with New York based partner Seth Mooney, have developed an artist network program using sticker vending machines as the conduit. “We align the images we select with our own history as lifelong street- and graffiti-art aficionados,” he says. ” We believe the sticker is true to the accessibility and visceral nature of street/low-brow art. While it appeals to an age submerged in kitsch, the medium and the vending machines offer ways to deconstruct our childhoods and make the art of established artists from around the world accessible in a cool, cheap way.”
Just a few of the artists participating include: C215, a prolific Paris-based stencil artist and muralist whose splashes of color and meticulous representation of social outcasts, British luminary Eelus, whose dark sense of humor and surreal images bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Banksy, Chicago’s Joe Padilla, as well as The Grocer, who is an an enigmatic street artist with his bold images of, appropriately enough, produce, help make the city Chicago an even bigger component to the project.
Machines can also be found in various venues in New York City such as Brooklynite Gallery.
For more info: www.pawnworkschicago.com
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Quimby's Makes the Top 10 Stores on Flavorwire!
Props to Flavorwire.com readers and staff for mentioning Quimby’s as one of their favorite indie shops around the country! And we didn’t even know they were taking this picture. Read about it here!
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New Stuff This Week
We have almost 100 new items this week, and this is only a sampling! But first, we found this sad little gummi bear right outside of the store, just laying there, all sad and lonely. Won’t you come say hi?
ZINES!
Meat #1 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
Attitude Dancer – An Advanced Coloring Book by REAS (Iconoclast) $6.00
Gold Friend by Misaki Kawai (Iconoclast) $16.00
Architecture of a Nameless World by Matt Leines (Nieves) $10.00
Mystery & Adventure Series Review #43 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
Abort #23 Summer 2010 121 Gigawatts $3.00
Dirt Palace 10 Year Anniversary Zine – Bienvenue $10.00
Prison for Bitches by Ryan Sands and Michael Deforge $10.00 – A zine dedicated to Lady Gaga, with contributions from such artsty folks as Kupperman, Johnny Ryan, Lisa Hanawalt and more. A true fanzine made by Gaga monsters!COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Feedback #8 $2.00
So Buttons #3 Presents So Horrorble $5.00 – A collection featuring all sorts of artists, ed. by Jonathan Michael Baylis. And! Some sinister sea lions!!!
Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00 – Right to the point.
Neely Covers Comics To Give You The Creeps Collectors Edition by Tom Neely $6.00
Buzzpop #4 Jun 10 by Matt Chicorel (Night Light Comics) $4.00
Dinosaur Time Okay #1 Sep 10 by Matt Chic (Night Light Comics) $2.00
CBGB #3 (Boom) $3.99GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Prison Pit Book 2 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99 – Just as grody as ever. And you will like it.
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 3 by the Hernandez Brothers (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada and Jamar Nicholas (Beacon) $14.00
Bound and Gagged #1 (I Will Destroy You) $10.00 – Featuring lots of alternative comics superstars like Deitch, Espy, Kaz, Nilsen, Porcellino, Reklaw and more!
Girl Genius vol 9 Heirs of the Storm by Phil and Kaja Foglio (Airship) $22.95
Too Soon Famous Infamous Faces 1995-2010 by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Jacobson and Colon (HW) $16.95
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Street Art Doodle Book Outside the Lines by Dave the Chimp (Laurence) $19.95
Modern Patterns of Japan Sweet and Nostalgic Paper Kimono and Old Clothing by Yonagadou (PIE Books) $19.95 – Seals with beach balls! Pudgy gnomes! Pointy cute things! I heart rags. -LM
Threadless: Ten Years on TShirts from the Worlds Most Inspiring Online Design Community by Jake Nickell (Abrams) $22.50
Creative Characters: The Myfonts Interviews vol 1 ed. by Jan Middendorp (Bis) $32.00 – Featuring the first two years of Myfonts’ popular series of monthly type designer interviews.
I Am Plastic Too: The Next Generation of Designer Toys ed. by Budnitz and Kidrobot (Abrams) $45.00
Picture Book Mini Edition Contemporary Illustration by Angus Hyland (Laurence) $16.95
Nobodys Fool by Yoshitomo Nara (Abrams) $60.00 – Remember all those fun shirts and ashtrays a few years ago with white doggies and little girls with big eyes? There might have been some swears too. That guy. People LOVE him. But! This book is a little spendy for us, so that means that we only have ONE copy. Come and get it!
Adios III ed. by Konsta Ojala $35.00FICTION!
Diary of an Innocent by Tony Duvert (Semiotext(e)) $17.95DIY & CONSUMPTION (Um, Consumption As In Food and Drugs)
Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution by Eden Deborah Tull (Process) $17.95
Drinkology: The Art and Science of the Coctail by var. (STC) $22.50 – Revised and updated.MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99
Maximumrocknroll #330 Fall 10 $4.99
Wire #319 Sep 10 $10.99
A bunch of tattoo mags!
Extra vol 23 #9 Sep 10 $4.95
Radical Philosophy #163 $13.00
XLR8R #135 $4.99
Ready Made #49 Oct Nov 10 $4.99
Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #4 Fall 10 $15.00
Skunk vol 6 #4 $5.99
Cemetery Dance #64 $5.00
True Crime Sep 10 $8.99
Dwell Oct 10 $5.99
IdN vol 17 #4 $17.50
Wallpaper Oct 10 $9.50LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
Avery Anthology #6 $10.00
Brothers Love by Ronald Merritt $15.00MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects by John Tingley (Princeton) $24.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Toy Instruments: Design Nostalgia Music by Eric Schneider and DJ Spooky (MB) $19.95 – Eye candy for you circuit benders.POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Anti American Manifesto by Ted Rall (Seven Stories) $15.95
Last Genet: A Writer in Revolt by Hadrien Laroche (Arsenal) $22.95SEX & SEXY!
OP Original Plumbing #4 Trans Male Quarterly The Workin Stiff Issue $8.00
Alt #2 $9.95
Sweets Magazine vol 3 #14 $5.99
Von Gutenberg #3 $19.99
Teens At Play: Naughty Naughty by Rebecca (Eros) $9.95
Love Selection TPB by Kisaragi Gunma (Dark Horse) $18.99
International Homosexual Conspiracy by Larry Bob Roberts (Manic D) $14.95 – From the creator of Holy Titclamps. -
Chicago AD (After Daley) Group Formed at Quimby's
William Upski Wimsatt (Bomb the Suburbs, No More Prisons), was here at Quimby’s the other night discussing his new book Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Supermovement. His timing could not have been more appropriate to be back in Chicago. Everyone’s buzzing about the news that Mayor Richard Daley will be retiring, and wondering what happens next. Over 50 people came together here at Quimby’s to start creating a vision for the city’s future. To keep up with/join their continuing conversation, join the new Chicago A. D. (After Daley) Facebook page.
For more info: billywimsatt.wordpress.com
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New Stuff This Week
Finally! Our AC is fixed. Just in time for it to sound like the apocalypse with the Air and Water Show in Chicago.
Here’s New Stuff!
ZINES!
People I’ve Slept With #2 by Hannah Miller $4.00
Still Warm #1 The Post Incubation Issue by Hannah Miller and Frankie Pan $5.00
Bangor Photo Zine by Sarah Sorg $7.50
Broken Pencil: Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts #48 DIY Issue $5.95
Various zines from Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd!!: Fliptard #1 When You Work Together It Works $4.00, Beauty Across America $5.00, Vegas Pack: 2 Mini Zines From The Nostalgic Memories Series $5.00, Butts And Crotches $3.00, Disneyland Deaths $2.00, Hero Land #s 1-6 $4.00 each, Erric Parris World #1 Bands Fashion Gangs $5.00
Serial Killers Unite #3 $1.00
Unedited Repititions by Leslie Everhart $4.80
Uh Yeah $86 27 Open Close $5.65
Video Game Trick and Two Pots 4.23 Lideo Rideo $5.65
Cat Cat Cat $25 00 Blur Vision Is Only One of the Signs $5.65
Put a Egg On It Tasty Zine #2 Sum 10 by Ralph McGinnis and Sarah Keough $5.00 – When you up and get over your omnivore’s dilemma, Put A Egg On It will be right here waiting for you! Issue #2 is a brassy ode to hearty comfort food including a write up of one of my favorite diners, the Haven Brother’s Food Truck. Plenty of beyond delishus looking photos of homemade lasagne and beef stew all lit up brighter with saucy illustrations by Aaron Renier, who’s some kinda genius when it comes to drawing faces on okra. Double Yum. -EF
South Side Chicago Anti Racist Action July 31 2010 Zine $2.00 – If you wanna kick some Nazi ass, this zine is namin’ names.
COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #13 $3.99
Heavy Metal Sep 10 $6.95
Spider Who Had Arachnophopia by Xenia O’Keefe James $2.00
Lake Shore Drive by Riverser $3.00
To All the Good People I’ll Never Be Friends With $1.00
I Don’t Understand Farming #2 $.50
Into The Woods by Lisa Cline $1.00
Call All My Dawgs #5 by Sam Gaskin $2.00
Big Title #1: A Comic About Pro Wrestling by Alec Lewellyn $4.00
Reach #1 by Ron DelVillano $.75 – For any person who wishes giant tentacles would swoop up from the earth and violently terminate obnoxious assholes, this mini goes out to you, my friend! -EF
You Don’t Get There From Here #15 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Back for more? Plenty of YDGTFH core concepts here, especially running in the hills and fighting the blues. I’m seeing a lot more acupuncture sneeking in too, and if you ever want to think about all the the great foods of Los Angeles you miss, this issue might rekindle a few old flames. -EF
Big Sexy (Trees & Hills Comic Group) $6.00 – A True Porn-style anthology minicomic that takes time to indulge in some flights of fancy as well.
Shelter: A Trees and Hills Anthology (Trees & Hills Comic Group) $4.00
Play A Trees and Hills Anthology (Trees & Hills Comic Group) $5.00
Seeds an Anthology of Comics About Food (Trees & Hills Comic Group) $5.00
Morgenmuffel #17 Late 08 Cartoons and Rants by Isy $2.00 – A nice comic book account of a British radical vegan anarchist traipsing the US West Coast, hugging redwoods and figuring out biscuits and gravy. -EF
Rum Muffel A Rumlad Morgenmuffel Collaboration $2.00
Animania #1 by Monica Ray $2.00FICTION!
Stories from the Asphalt by John Sparger $12.95
Letters to Emma Bowlcut by Bill Callahan (Drag City) $12.98 – Fiction from former Chicagoan also known as the band Smog.
I Remember by Joe Brainard (Granary) $14.95 – Out of print for a decade, these are memoirs of the artist and writer who died of AIDS.
Code Name Kalistrat: Secrets Of The Rosenberg Spy Case by Arno Baker (Enigma) $15.00 – Historical fiction of the Cold War espionage thriller sort.
It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice (Riverhead) $15.00 – “One can accept, reluctantly, Pernice’s apparently inexhaustible ability to knock out brilliant three-minute pop songs-Just about any Pernice Brothers record contains half a dozen tunes comparable to Elvis Costello’s best work. But now it turns out he can write fiction too, and so envy and bitterness become unavoidable.” -Nick Hornby, The Believer
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers (Picador) $15.00 – This book is the fictioanal story of a Chicago-based creative non-fiction writer, once pursued by NPR talk shiw hosts, is washed up and lonely. And he’s only in his early thirties. He takes a writing class teaching gig and is taken with a woman who may possess a gene that makes her insanely happy. I would like to read this. Book group anyone? -LM
Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell (Holt) $15.00
Sporeville: The Wellborn Conspiracy by Paul Marlowe (Sybertooth) $10.95 – OK, so this novel is a little older but we just got it in. It falls into the “new weird”, a.k.a. speculative fiction genre. For fans of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Gothic literature, science fiction, fantasy and history. What’s in it? Sleepwalkers, mushrooms, jars of eyes. Maybe some werewolves too. -LMGRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Pariah by Bob Fingerman (Tor) $14.95 – Zombies in NYC. More text than usual for this artist.
Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails by Otto Messmer, ed. by Craig Yoe (IDW) $34.99
Big Book O’Ditko by Steve Ditko (Pure Imagination) $25.00
Another Suburban Romance TPB by Alan Moore etc. (Avatar) $2.00 – Because Alan Moore is so suburban.
Unwritten vol 2: Inside Man TPB by Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo) $12.99
Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier (First Second) $13.99 – Don’t miss Aaron Renier’s event here at Quimby’s to celebrate the release of this wonderful book on Thursday, August 26th, 7pm!
John Stanley Library – Nancy HC vol 2 by John Stanley (D+Q) $29.95 – Nancy, the world’s weirdest looking little kid, is once again put at the mercy of John Stanley’s whimsical whims. It seems no matter how much Aunt Fritzi chides her, the kid just can’t help bustin’ out the hijinx all over the place. -EF
Eden by Pablo Holmberg (D+Q) $16.95
Tank Girl Skidmarks TPB by Alan Martin etc. (Titan) $16.95
Brain Camp: A Summer at Camp Fielding Will Really Change You by Susan Kim etc. (First Second) $16.99
Indoor Voice by Jillian Tamaki (D+Q) $19.95 – Part of Drawn and Quarterly’s Petit Livre book series. Gestural and inky, Tamaki dissects some of her illustration process and throws in some nice comics to boot.
War Is Boring: Bored Stiff Scared to Death in the Worlds Worst War Zones by David Axe and Matt Bors (New American Library) $12.95ART BOOKS!
Weirdo Noir Gothic and Dark Lowbrow Art, ed. by Matt Dukes Jordan (Chronicle) $24.95 – Now in soft cover for an affordable price.
Made For Skate: The Illustrated History of Skateboard Footwear by var. (FauxAmi) $29.95 – Now in soft cover.
Blackbook Sessions #4 Stylefile Sketches Scribbles FullColorBlackBookStyles (Publikat) $24.95 – New volume of this street art publication.
Photobooth Dogs by Cameron Woo (Chronicle) $14.95 – Exactly what the name says. And some of the dogs are tiny!
There Are Many of Us: A Companion to the Short Film I’m Here by Spike Jonze (McSweeneys) $35.00 – Includes the complete thirty minute film and soundtrack plus bonus materials, DVD and CD.
Drawings by Marcel Dzama, From The Bernardi Collection (DAP) $35.00 – An old book, but one that we are glad to finally get of this playful artist. -LM
Cemetery of Reason by Ed Templeton (SMAK) $39.95 – The next art book from this skater-artist-photographer.
Diaries of a Young Artist by Ellen Altfest, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (Darte) $15.00
Glastonbury Another Stage by Venetia Dearden (Kehrer) $50.00MAGAZINES!
Eye Magazine #76 Sum 10 $30.00
Swallow Magazine The Trans-Siberian Issue $25.00
Fortean Times #265 Sep 10 $11.99
Taps paraMagazine vol 6 #4 $5.95
High Times Oct 10 $5.99
Scootering #290 $8.99
Hyphen #21 Fall 10 $4.95
Whore Magazine #1 Sum 10 $12.00
Dazed & Confused #88 Aug 10 $9.95
Wire #318 Aug 10 $10.99
Ghetto Blaster #25 $3.95
Under the Radar #32 $4.99
Mojo #202 Sep 10 $9.99
Green Teacher #89 Sum 10 $7.95
Against the Current #147 $5.00
Tattoo Life #65 $6.99
Urban Ink #54 $8.99
Rebel Ink Magazine Sep 10 $5.99LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
McSweeneys #35 $20.00 – By now, you should know the drill. This issue with a color portfolio and captivating cover by Jordan Crane.
Electric Literature #4 $9.95
Plat Journal #0.5 Spr 10 by Sarah Whiting $8.00
Flaneur Foundry Arts Journal #2 Spr Sum Sleep Prngrphr by Alexandra Lukens $20.00
Dragon Well by Sandy McCord $12.00
I Sense the Dimming 22 Ways to Kill Your God by James R. Onofrey $1.00
NIV 39 and 27 by Nicholas Alexander Hayes $10.00
MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
Speed Speed Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine by Mick Farren (Feral House) $12.95 – Hey! Buddy! Why do I seem wired to you? What’s your social security number? Why do you want to know mine?! Why officer, was I speeding? Do I look like I’m sweating? Because I don’t really feel like I’m sweating. But you think I look like I’m sweating?! Wait! What was that? Do you hear something? -LM
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician by Michelle Williams (Soft Skull) $14.95
Beauty In Decay: Urban Exploration (Gingko) $34.95
Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, The Definitive Biography by Richard Kaczynski (North Atlantic) $29.95
Girls of Murder City Fame Lust and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry (Viking) $25.95
Toilets Of The World by var. (Merrell) $9.95
Grimm Reader: Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm, ed. by Maria Tatar (Norton) $16.95
UFOs: Generals Pilots and Government Officials Go On The Record by Leslie Kean (Harmony) $25.99MUSIC BOOKS!
Totally Wired: Post Punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds (Soft Skull) $16.95 – From the author of Rip it Up and Start Again.
DIY & FOOD!
Geometry of Pasta by var. (Quirk) $24.95 – Now that’s one arty cookbook. Almost as if design book publisher DGV did a book about pasta.MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade by Spring (FSG) $32.50
Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life In The Void by Mary Roach, author of Stiff.POLITCS & REVOLUTION!
Paradoxes of Utopia Anarchist Culture and Politics In Buenos Aires 1890 to 1910 by Juan Suriano (AK) $18.95
Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition by Koyla Abramsky (AK) $24.00
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach (Holt) $18.00
Moving Politics: Emotion and Act Ups Fight Against AIDS by Deborah Gould (University of Chicago) $38.33
I’ve Got The Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Missisippi Freedom by Charles Payne (Univ Calif) $43.25CHILDREN’S BOOKS!
Balloon Toons Super Crazy Cat Dance by Aron Nels Steinke (Blue Apple) $10.99
Bone Tall Tales by Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski (Scholastic) $10.99
Adventures in Cartooning Activity Book: Center For Cartoon Studies Presents Let’s Make Comics Together – Draw Here Cool by James Sturm etc. (First Second) $7.99SEX & SEXY!
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by var. (Seal) $16.95
Sex, Sin and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex From Celibacy to Polyamory and Eve by Brad Warner (New World Library) $14.95
For Lonely Adults Only #8 Sum 10 $8.00
Spank #16 Homo Art Zine $6.50
Front #144 Sum 10 $9.99OTHER STUFF!
Big Penis Diary 2011 Taschen Calendar $15.99 – Get yer 2011 er, ON. Ha ha ha. Time is popping up on you. Er, yeah.
Mountz Magnetic Ninja Toys $5.00 – More DiiLeets/Leets erasers.
Beci Orpin Journal Love Tree Birds Owl Hearts and Beci Orpin Journal Blindfold Girl Birds Guides (Gingko) $7.50 – Blank journals with art that looks part Nikki McClure, part Tara McPherson. We don’t sell a lot of notebooks, but this one is really cool and nice. -
New Stuff This Week
The well-dressed Lord Baron Joseph C.R. Vourteque IV stopped by Quimby’s to promote CLOCKWORK VAUDEVILLE IV – The Summer Spectacular at EXIT NIGHTCLUB – 1315 W. North Ave, on Saturday, July 17, 10pm. Quimby’s will be there with a cigertte girl-style collection of absinthe-flavered items, and the word on the street is that there will be DJs, a magician, and a hypnotist. Well, I do say! For more info, see www.steampunkchicago.com/
Zines
Jacmel Working Group: Stories from Haiti After the Jan 2010 Earthquake by Jeanne Ivy $2.00 – This zine is an extrordinary record of two months of life and work after the earthquake wrecked havoc. Made in the memory of two amazing activist-powerhouses who died during the quake: Magalie Marcelin and Flo McGarrell, the zine celebrates to their lives and projects while also reporting on rebuilding efforts based in Jacmel. Ivy Jeanne, Jerry Gildea and Waffle bring us firsthand accounts of Haitian organizing and activism, the under-reported 3-day weekend of remembrance that the nation observed a month after the disaster, and a lot of ways to connect to and assist Haiti’s recovery efforts. This zine is powerful and empowering, resourceful and eye-opening. Click on the cover below for a physical record of the Jacmel Working Group blog.
Inner Swine vol 16 #1 and #2 by Jeff Somers $2.00
Stitching Together by Ed Choy Moorman $3.00
Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – Wonderful first zine from a Chicago local. Recommended.
Whaddafug #5 by Anthony Abelaye $2.00
Wanna Play A Game #1 by Crew Games $1.00 – Is the title stolen from “War Games”? Just askin’.
Bones I Saw Something This Morning by Sean Hernandez $3.00Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Adventrues in Service, Featuring Hobbeson and Chives Crimefighting Butlers in Love – Thrilling Morsels Snatched from the Jaws of Drama by Matt Fagan $2.00 – From local comics and Meniscus zine superstar. Always entertaining.
Philip K Dicks Electric Ant #4 by PKD, etc. (Marvel) $3.99
Mass #3 by Nevada Hill $5.00
Coordinates by Beth Hetland $8.00Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Skin Horse vol 1 by var. $13.99
Parade of Pleasure by Geoffrey Wagner (Pure Imagination) $25.00
BB Wolf and the Three LPs by JD Arnold and Richard Koslowski (Top Shelf) $12.95
Stick Figure Hamlet by Dan Carroll $18.00 – Yes, for real. Infinitely more entertaining than using Cliff Notes.
DIY, How-to & Food
Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening by var. (Black Dog) $24.95
Make These Toys by Heather Swain (Perigree) $13.95
Bricks: For Young Adults, Cancer Awareness and Resource Guide $5.00Fiction/Poetry Books
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) $24.00 – In multiple O. Henry Prize–winner Doerr’s book of short stories, the presence and persistence of memory thematically binds stories set apart by vast distances of time and space. The title story finds a South African woman at the end of her life, taking part in a procedure that records her memories on cassettes; meanwhile, a pair of thieves rifles through the recordings, hoping to discover a secret her husband took to his grave.
Shiny Shiny by Michael O’Flaherty $16.95Steampunk/Speculative Fiction
Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben Winters (Quirk) $12.95 – Are we done with this mashy uppy Victorian literature mixed with monsters and robots business? Apparently not. The guy behind Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is back with Android Karenina, the love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.Outer Limits/Mayhem Books
Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations and Beings From Other Worlds by Jerome Clark (Visible Ink) $24.95
Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo: Sideshow Freaks Jaggers and Blade Box Queens by AW Stencell (ECW) $22.95Magazines/Literary Journals
Believer #73 2010: Music Issue $12.00
High Times Sep 10 $5.99
Mojo #201 Aug 10 $9.99
Bizarre #164 Jul 10 $10.50
Dumbo Feather #23 Fall 10 Pass It On $19.99
Kaiserin #8: Magazine for boys with problems $22.99
Monocle vol 4 #35 Jul Aug 10 $10.00
Apartamento #5 $19.95Chap Books
Hornet Homily by Patrick Culliton $8.00
Toucan #7 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00Music Books
KrautRock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy by Nikos Kotsopoulos (Black Dog) $29.95Sexy Stuff
Pornsaints Catalog www.pornsaints.org by F. DIsa $4.00
Filament vol 2 #1 issue #5 $12.50Essays/Criticism/Cultural Commentary
We the Dreamers: Young Authors Explore the American Dream by The John O’Connell High School and Daniel Alarcon (826 Books) $18.00
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson by Anita Thompson and Christopher Hitchens (Da Capo) $18.00
I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand Up Comedys Golden Era by William Knoedelseder (Public Affairs) $14.95
The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture by Nathan Rabin (Scribner) $15.00 – From one of the writers of The Onion. Now in soft cover.
Also! Stuff That Can/Can’t Be Fit In Any Categorey Exactly But Are Awesome:
Silly Stickers by Koyama Press $10.00
All My Friends Are Dead by var. (Chronicle) $9.95 – Hilarious. And sad. So sad. But hilarious!
365 Sketches: A Comedy Sketch A Day For One Year by Joe Jones $40.00 – Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s on Saturday, August 21st at 7pm featuring the author and some of Chicago’s finest comedic actors performing monologues from 365. What’s this all about? On January 19, 2009, Chicago teacher and playwright Joe Janes decided to write a comedy sketch a day for a year. He did that. When he was done, Don Hall of the WNEP Theater Foundation decided to produce them. All of them. In June of 2010, Don and Joe gathered together over 200 Chicago actors and directors and over eleven nights presented 26 shows each featuring two weeks worth of sketches (although one has 15 scenes). Yep. Crazy. All 365 comedy sketches are collected in this book along with a complete list of directors and actors from the Strawdog shows. Joe teaches comedy writing at The Second City and Columbia College. For more info: 365sketchesbyjoejanes.blogspot.com/Bear in Underwear by Todd Doodler (Blue Apple) $12.99 – We don’t order a lot of kids books. This one was irresistable. And you will think so too, no matter how old you are.
