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  • Quimby's closed for the day, wed 2/2

    Quimby’s will be closed today, Wed, 2/2. Stay home and work on your zine! See you after the blizzard!

  • QUIMBYS IS CLOSING EARLY!

    I don’t know why I was yelling…

    Due to the blizzard, we’re closing at 5pm today, Tuesday, February 1.

    Depending on the weather, we may or may not be open tomorrow (Wednesday, the 2nd, groundhog day).  We encourage you to call ahead at 77-342-0910 to see if we’re open.Have fun in the snow!

  • Quimby's December Events and News

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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

  • 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

  • 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:

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    Anyway, here’s new stuff for this week:

    ZINES!

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    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
    UndergroundUnderground 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 -EF

    Some 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 $3.50

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    ydgtfh16You 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
    FsshmrwlFsshmrwl 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. -EF

    Vortex #2 by Don Robinson $5.20
    Zombies Attack by Don Robinson $3.50

    GRAPHIC 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) $18.99

    FICTION!
    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
    cover_gulagDrawings 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 Windows

    MAGAZINES!
    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 $3.00

    CHILDRENS!
    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) $12.95

    HUMOR!
    100 Facts About Pandas by var. (Penguin) $13.00

    MUCKRAKING 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) $22.00

    POLITICS & 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) $16.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    sth67Straight 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) $19.95

    Other 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

    Revenge of PrintWe’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.

  • 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!

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    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!

  • 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?

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    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) $3.99

    GRAPHIC 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 $35.00

    FICTION!
    Diary of an Innocent by Tony Duvert (Semiotext(e)) $17.95

    DIY & 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 $9.50

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    Avery Anthology #6 $10.00
    Brothers Love by Ronald Merritt $15.00

    MAYHEM & 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) $22.95

    SEX & 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.