Category: top ten

1. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95 – We have a few signed copies left from the event on Saturday! Better hustle if ya want one!

2. Henry And Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $4.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

3. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? Well, I predict you will fall madly in love with Corinne’s amazing new mini-comic, Is It the Future Yet?, which she made ‘specially for Quimby’s! I see you laughing out loud at the fresh psychic hijinx and time-travel schemes that grace every delightful page. I can see your love for this comic growing rich, deep, and strong and you will find it brings you much good luck and happiness as years go by…Yes, my friend, the future looks very bright indeed! AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S!

4. To Teach The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Alexander Tanner Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95

This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher. And he’ll be here to talk about this Saturday, June 19th at 7pm! These illustrated stories begin with Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten and follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” Readers meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch as students grow across a year and a lifetime.

5. Mojo #200 Jul 10 $9.99

6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95

7. The Selves by Sonja Ahlers (D+Q) $19.95 – Collageria of of well brushed merkins and precious patchwork womanhood-EF

8. I Was a Teenage Comic Nerd by Liz Prince $3.00 – Everyone has something to be embarrassed about. For Liz Prince, it’s this collection of comics that she worked on during her pre-college years. These early stories include Liz developing crushes on boys, digging quarters out of trashcans, and dealing with insomnia. They’re lighthearted, strangely endearing, and show how far Liz has come from.

9. Proximity #7: A Catalog of Strategies $6.00 – An Art Communi-que on the Communit-tay- Chicago-centric yet limitless in scope, this issue is a Catalog of Strategies, split nicely between a recource/contact directory and focus articles pertaining to group and interventionist art. Useful on all fronts, and tremendously engaging too. -EF

10. Killing Time Before the Party Comics About Playing in a Band by People Who Play ed. by Justim Melkmann (Melkmann Comics) $3.00 – Comics ‘thology about playing in a band by people who play in bands. Posers go home.

While you were crying into your beer and brats at home, upset that your Memorial Day barbeque was rained out, Quimby’s had a blast with Chris Besinger (left), who read from his book The Usual Beast and the bands Group Icky Rats and ONO (right).

Bestsellers last week:

1. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

2. Cinema Sewer #23 by Robin Bougie $4.00 – Cinema Sewer is the direct heir and foremost survivor of decades of mayhem-trash-film fanzines and Robin Bougie has proven time and again that there’s still meatballs to be pulled out of the gravy. His tastes are extreme but also interestingly ecclectic, and this issue includes a rundown of his favorite noir films and a review of a Betty Dobson feminist masturbation video along with plenty of <dare-I-say> thoughtful reviews of rare smut and grindcore. -EF

3. Is It the Future Yet by Corinne Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? Well, I predict you will fall madly in love with Corinne’s amazing new mini-comic, Is It the Future Yet?, which she made ‘specially for Quimby’s! I see you laughing out loud at the fresh psychic hijinx and time-travel schemes that grace every delightful page. I can see your love for this comic growing rich, deep, and strong and you will find it brings you much good luck and happiness as years go by…Yes, my friend, the future looks very bright indeed!

4. Monocle vol 4 #34 Jun 10 $10.00

5. Bust Jun Jul 10 $4.99

6. Bars Across America Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast by John Greenfield $13.00

7. Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky (Haymarket) $16.00 – In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward-in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest “real progress toward freedom and justice.” Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.

8. Giant Robot #65 $4.99

9. Comics Section [from the] San Francisco Panorama of McSweeneys #33 $10.00

10. Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac (Wolverine Farm Publishing) $6.00 – “The Practical Bicyclist’s Handbook” and “Basic Field and Street Manual for Utilitarian Riding.” ‘Tis indeed! The farmer’s almanac for those on bikes, Boneshaker’s a fascinating compiled book of history, wit, wisdom, lore and prediction. Bamboo bikes? The time has come! Vintage posters? Yes please! Full moon forecasting? All there! Although they seem to think that there are noodles in potato salad, on all other counts this is real solid. -EF

We went to pick up books from the Independent Publishers Group warehouse on the south side. They had conveyer belts all over the place. It was like a highway system. We figured they wouldn’t let us take a ride on it, so we took a picture of it to show you how cool it looks.

And here’s this week’s top 10 bestsellers here at Quimby’s:

1. Is It THE FUTURE Yet by Mucha Corinne $3.00 – A Quimbys Bookstore exclusive edition!

2. Blue Yodel No 8 mm by Lamb $2.00 – Images from a reel shooting spree. Shooting film, that is.

3. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell Press) $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

4. Juxtapoz #113 Jun 10  $5.99

5. Giant Robot #65 $4.99

6. Bitch #47 $5.95

7. Squinty #1  by Sua Y00 $5.00

8. Poop by Sam Sharpe $2.00

9. Boneshaker #42-500 A Bicycling Almanac $6.00

10. Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – New comic for local artist superstar.

So a teacher was teaching a class about David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, and the winning essay received a Quimby’s gift certificate. With footnotes. Three footnotes.

This week’s top 10:

1. Henry And Glenn Forever by Tornado Igloo (Tom Neely, Scot Nobles, Gin Stevens ) (Microcosm) $4.00

2. Is It THE FUTURE Yet? by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S!

3. Kinship Structure of Ferns by Lee Relvas $10.00

4. Arty Party by Sara Drake and James Payne $4.00 – Art history yuks and guffaws! 24pp, b&w, 8.5″x11″

5. Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95

6. Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC (Chronicle) $16.95

7. Bust Jun Jul 10 $4.99

8. Ovulation Awareness, Sex Ed and Social Commentary, 2nd ed. by Sam $4.00 – If you or someone you know ovulates you should probably read this fertile feminist DIY health zine.

9. Birthday Bees by Rylan Thompson $10.00

10. Weathercraft by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Down the wormhole we go with Manhog, spiraling through the vaguely Midieval worldspheres of the Unifactor. This new volume is a full force onslaught of Woodring’s glorious geography of constantly shifting torments and delights and its effects are longer lasting than most psychedelic drugs I could compare it to. -EF

1. Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen
2. Butt #28 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
3. O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno
4. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $12.00
5. Weathercraft by Jim Woodring $19.99
6. Youre a Horrible Person But I Like You Believer Book of Advice by var.
7. Bad World Small Things by William Cleveland
8. Gaylord Phoenix #2 by Edie Fake
9. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge
10. How To Make Soap Without Burning your Face Off by Raleigh Briggs

1. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait #12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF

2. Squinty #1 by Sua Yoo $5.00

3. How I Learned to Love You From So Far Away: Stories About Love Technology by Kevin Fanning $3.00

4. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky (Broadway) $16.99

5. Wilson HC by Daniel CLowes (D+Q) $21.95 – I have a strong urge to hate on books all about cruel, petty, delusional, pompous, middle-aged windbags, but that’s what Wilson is about and I don’t hate it at all. It’s truly something special, a cutting collection of vignettes set up like cheap midlife crisis one-liners but woven into something much more complicated. Although the tropes of the book are simple, the corner of hell Clowes has carved out for Wilson is well-suited to the bearded antagonist’s snarky, egotistical banter. Wilson could have easily slipped into super-bleak character indulgences (and occasionally it toes that line) but instead it’s true critiques are subtle and crafty and its dark wit shows you an abyss without pushing you in. In my head, Clowes’ work has always been tied to David Lynch’s films, mostly in the way detached mediocre normalcy is constantly being eroded by deep undercurrents of the bat-shit-craziness of being alive. Here, Clowes has taken his obnoxious, incorrigible scumbag of a character and through some alchemical magic shined that little shit into pure gold.-EF

6. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

7. Snake Pit 2009 by Ben Snakepit (Birdcage Bottom) $6.00 – Another punk rock year down the hatch!

8. Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance (Compiled for the workshop how to love your bike right at the 2003 portland zine symposium) $2.00

9. Introduction to Civil War by Tiqqun (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

10. Juxtapoz #112 May 10 $5.99

1. Wilson HC BY DAN CLOWES (D&Q) $21.95

2. Freewheel vol 1 by Liz Baillie $12.00

3. Proximity #7 $12.00

4. The Point #2 Win 10 $12.00

5. Bars Across America Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast by John Greenfield

6. Detective Stories by Anne Elizabeth Moore $1.00

7. Out Of The Closets And Into The Libraries $2.20

8. Lower East Side Librarian Shout Out 2009 by Jenna Freedman $2.00

9. Wad #44 $15.00

10. Juxtapoz #112 May 10  $5.99

Thanks to everybody who visited our booth shared with Chicago Comics at C2E2!

Top 10 Last Week

1. MadM Signed Out of Our Minds (OOOM) comic by Melissa Auf der Maur $12.00

2. Lose #1 by Michael Deforge $5.00

3. Mojo #198 May 10 $9.99

4. Body World by Dash Shaw (Pantheon) $27.95

5. Snake Pit 2009 by Ben Snakepit (Birdcage Bottom) $6.00

6. Make #9 Spr Sum 10 $10.00

7. Bitch #46 $5.95

8. Beautiful Decay Book 3 The Underdogs $20.00

9. N Plus 1 #9 Spr 10 Bad Money $13.95

10. Pygmy (soft cover) by Chuck Palahniuk (Anchor) $14.95

1. Hi Fructose #15 $6.95

2. Great Perhaps SC by Joe Meno (Norton) $14.95

3. You’re a Horrible Person But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice by var. (Vintage) $13.95

4. Bust Apr May 10 $4.95

5. Hate Annual #8 by Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) $4.95

6. Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00

7. Bizarre #161 $10.50

8. How to Wreck a Nice Beach: Vocoder from World War II to Hip Hop Machine Speaks by Dave Thompkins (Melv House/Stop Smiling) $35.00

9. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace (Broadway) $16.99

10. Return to Sender zine by Morray Brenton Harper $2.00

1. Packingtown Review vol 2 2010 $13.00

2.Comics of Chris Ware Drawings is a Way of Thinking by David Ball & Martha Kuhlman (University Press of Mississippi) $28.00

3. Ready Made #46 Apr May 10 $4.99

4. No Better Than Apples #6 Piecemeal by Kate Larson $2.00

5. Bizarre #153 Aug 09 $10.50

6.  Baffler vol 2 #1 $12.00

7.  The Believer #70 Mar/Apr 10 Film Issue $10.00

8.  McSweeneys #33 Panorama $16.00

9. Laphams Quarterly vol 3 #2 Arts and Letters $15.00

10. Gothic Beauty #30 $5.95