Category: top ten

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

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

1. Henry and Glenn Forever Deluxe New Edition by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF

2. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell) $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

3. Cats Are Weird and More Observations: A Cat Book by Jeffrey Brown (Quirk) $12.95 – If you’re a cat person you’re in good company: Art Bell, William Burroughs and now Jeffrey Brown.

4. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
5. Rigor Mortis vol 3 $3.50
6. Zisk #19 Fall 10 $2.00
7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
8. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus $14.99 – The last great underground cultural movement of the pre-Internet age, Riot Grrrl revolutionized girlhood itself. In the early 1990s, young women were realizing that the equality they’d been promised was still elusive, and a newly resurgent right wing was turning feminism into the ultimate dirty word. Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s with Jessica Harper, author of Girls Guide to Rocking on Oct 23rd, 7pm.
9. 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

10. Boneshaker Magazine #2 $8.00

1. Peters Muscle by Michael DeForge $1.00
2. Believer #74 Sep 10 $8.00
3. Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99
4. Giant Robot #67 $4.99
5. Bicycle Diaries (soft cover) by David Byrne (Penguin)
6. Beautiful Decay Book 4 Exquisite Corpse $20.00 – The Beautiful/Decay takes on the human body, in all its swollen blood-filled suck-sack glory. Local Swamplord Rachel Niffenegger has a throbbing, gristly portfolio in here that pretty much qualifies as a biohazard, and there’s some nice work from paper-powered Karen Sargysan and some of those hypnotic Leigh Bowery manuevers Nick Cave’s been pulling these days.

7. Doris #15 DIY Antidepression Guide by Cindy Crabb $2.00
8. Shiny Shiny by Michael O’Flaherty $16.95
9. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $20.00
10. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

1. Richard Yates by Tao Lin (Melville) $14.95

2. Friends Make the Best Medicine by The Icarus Project $2.50

3. Juxtapoz #117 Oct 10 $5.99

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

5. Cabinet #38 Islands $12.00 – No man is an island, but this issue of Cabinet may be.

6. 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 *Heartmending *Listy, yet non-hierarchical *Best one yet.

7. Proximity #7 A Catalog of Strategies $12.00 – 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

8. Prison Pit Book 2 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99

9. If Youre Feeling Sinister by Scott Plagenhoef (Continuum) $12.95 – If You’re Feeling Sinister includes interviews with band members, producers, management, and a range of fans, and provides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves, over the space of a decade, from an underground, slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group.

10. Maximumrocknroll #330 Fall 10 $4.00

1. Please Dont Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on my Generation by William Upski Wimsatt (Akashic) $14.95 – Whoa whoa whoa- what was that title again? Well, hear him out on this. It’s about growing up, getting organized and a critical approach to choosing your battles. The writing’s still fiesty, hyper and determined and this time round W.U.W. is laying out why you don’t have to bomb the suburbs to get shit done, and where direct action can work. This is far more of a well-considered re-examination than some saucy 180-degree betrayal of his previous books. Just as long as the next one isn’t called “Please, More Prisons” -EF
2. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Bacterial throwdown-throwup in this new beautifully drawn book mostly about -what else- deadly festering horse parasites. Love it. -EF
3. V Magazine #66 Fall Preview 10 $6.50
4. Boys Club #3 by Matt Furie $4.95
5. Bizarre #166 Sep 10 $10.50
6. Make Your Place:Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by var. (Microcosm) $7.00
7. Brilliant Mistake #1 $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
8. Tip of the Iceberg by Laura Szumowski $8.00 – A very complete and fun illustrated guide to the clitoris.
9. Jin & Jam #1 by Hellen Jo (Sparkplug) $5.00 – Jin and Jam is a head-on collision of California 2 Cool 4 School and Tekkon Kinkreet. -Yeah, it really is that good. Hellen Jo’s drawings are perfect and her action-packed San Jose misfit tween girl rampage fights dirty the whole way through. It’s an impeccable tornado of an issue and if you come out with a black eye and gum in your hair, you’ll consider yourself lucky. -EF
10. Bomb The Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt (Soft Skull Press) $13.95