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    Home 2014 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

    Zines
    Za The Pizza Zine #2 by Nicki Yowell $4.00 – Hot N’ Ready Pizza Bachelors, pie-ku poems, pizza-wine pairings? ‘Za #2 has got it all, extra cheese.
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    Mend My Dress #11 A Book of Days by Neelybat Chestnut $2.00 – Made For the 24 Hour Zine Thing July 27th, 2013.
    One Night at the Jackson Stop by Sean Linn $3.00
    Clocktower Nine #2 by Danny $2.50
    Letter To My Younger Self by Erin Leslie $3.00
    Uncharted Waters #1 Goodbye High School Sweetheart by Miss C. Bean $3.00
    Pilsen On the 4th of July by Rick Majewski $6.00

    Comics & Comix
    Wet Cough by Michael DeForge $6.00 – A beautiful fully-silkscreened wordless presto-chango comic fresh from DeForge and printed by the genius squeegees at Mille Putois!!
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    Big In Japan: An Illustrated Travel Diary by Moogs Kewell $6.00
    Idyll Of The White Lotus $7.00 – An anthology of comics from Ron Regé Jr.’s Cartoon Utopia Summer Comics Camp at SAW. Centered on visions from Mabel Collins’ novel of the same name, eleven plugged-in comics with standout work from Amy Peltz and James McShane.
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    Flower Flies by Kaitlin Smrcina $3.00
    Echo Island #1 by Anderes Holm and John Lawlor $6.99
    Creepy Comics #13 The Finest in Illustrated Horror Unsweet Thirteen with Josh Simmons, Peter Bagge ane more. $4.99
    Powdered Milk issues #9-#11 by Keiler Roberts $2.00 each
    Tale of Heroism issues #1 and #2 by Adam Matthew Ink Roob $5.00 each
    Peehole #11 Amazing Stories for the Easily Amazed by Jim Donaldson $3.00
    Galactic Breakdown #5 Part 1 by Keenan Marshall Keller (DrippyBone) $8.00
    Spills #1 by Kristine Conroy $3.00
    Parfreys Glen by Scott Roberts $5.00

    Graphic Novels & trade Paperbacks
    Marvel 1602 10th Anniversary Hard cover Edition by Neil Gaiman et al. (Marvel) $29.99
    Summertimeby Gina Sialiano $15.00
    Nudnik Revealed: The History of Americas Lost Loveable Loser by Gene Deitch (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Willow Wonderland by Jeff Parker et al. (Drk Horse) $17.99 – Linked to the Buffy season 9 adventures.
    Chew vol 7 TPB Bad Apples by John Layman et al. $12.99
    Turd A Day  by Joshua Wysocki $10.00
    I Am My Own Stereotype the My Small Diary Collection vol 1 by Delaine $8.00

    Childrens
    Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework by Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler (Toon Books) $4.99
    Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever by Jay Lynch and Dean Haspiel (Toon Books) $4.99

    Fiction
    Pulpit vs the Hole by Jay Shearer $8.00
    Clockwork Man by EV Odle (HiLo) $13.95
    In Case We Die by Danny Bland (Fantagrphics) $26.99
    Hard Times Blues by Elwin Cotman $12.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out to this splendid event last night!

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
    Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and the People Who Play It by David M. Ewalt $26.00
    Dying for the Truth: Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War by the Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco (Feral House) $24.95

    Magazines
    Frankie #54 $13.95
    Capricious #14 $25.00
    Interzone #247 $9.99
    Murder Most Foul #89 $9.99
    True Crime Aug 13 $8.99
    Sneaker Freaker #27 $14.95
    Cosplay USA Sum 13 $5.99
    Paper Sep 13 vol 30 #1 $4.00
    Wire Aug 13 #354 $11.25
    Maximumrocknroll #364 Sep 13 $4.00
    Shindig #34 $12.99
    Filter Good Music Guide Aug Sep 13 $2.99
    Shadow #54 $1.00
    Harpers Magazine Sep 13 $6.99
    Transformation #86 $12.50
    Skin and Ink Nov 13 #147 $8.99
    Fool #3 Food Insanity Brilliance and Love $19.95 – Fool was named best food magazine in the world this year…or something absurdly prominent like that….and it’s really no lie, this thing is solidly written and stylishly presented awesomeness for those interested in eating and curious about living. Glad it made the journey from Sweden to join us at the Quimbystore! -EF
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    Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
    Images a Collection of Poetry vol 1 by Maurice D. Waddell $11.95
    Donsongs an Anthology of Literary Sound vol 2  by Maurice D. Waddell $12.95
    Barge Journal #2 $7.00
    Literary Review vol 56 #2 Early Sum 13 Scenester $8.00
    Cobblers Story: The Cobblers Second Tale The Bikers Tale The Hero by Michael Paul Lopez $3.00
    Overtime Hour 29 Twenty First Floor by Miha Mazzini $2.00

    Notable Restocks & Reprints
    Open the Door How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeneys) $16.00
    Anna and Froga I Dunno What Do You Want To Do by Anouk Ricard (D&Q) $14.95
    Rule Is to Break: A Childs Guide to Anarchy by John and Jana (Manic D Presss) $14.95
    The Guide To Getting It On by Paul Joannides $28.95
    In Memorariam to Identity by Kathy Acker $13.00

    Other Stuff
    Spray Can Light Up LED Keychain $6.00
    Bike Snob Blank Journal $12.95
    Cone of Shame Light Up LED Keychain $6.00
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  • Off-Site: Audrey Petty, Editor of High Rise Stories, at the Hull-House 9/24, in conversation with WBEZ's Natalie Moore

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    Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and The Public Square presents, author and WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore in conversation with Audrey Petty, compiler and editor of HIGH RISE STORIES: VOICES FROM CHICAGO PUBLIC HOUSING.

    Cabrini-Green. Robert Taylor Homes. Stateway Gardens. Ida B. Wells and Harold Ickes. Imposing structures that dominated the landscape of the city and the lives of residents in the second half of the 20th century in Chicago. In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.

    About the editor:
    Audrey Petty is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Ford Foundation grantee, her work has been featured in Colorlines, StoryQuarterly, and Saveur, among many others.

    For more info: http://voiceofwitness.org

    Join us Tues, Sept 24th from 7-9pm at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (800 S. Halsted St.) as we provide this title for event attendees.

    *Please note: this event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at 800 S. Halsted St., Chicago IL 60607

    About the book, among the narrators:
    DONNELL, who was initiated into gang life at the age of twelve. A former resident of Rockwell Gardens, Donnell recounts growing up in an environment where daily life involved selling drugs, fighting rival gangs, and navigating encounters with a corrupt and often violent police force, as well as his efforts to turn his life around after incarceration.

    SABRINA, whose sister was shot in the head in their Cabrini-Green apartment when she was caught in the middle of a turf-related shooting. Because ambulances refused to come to Cabrini-Green, and the elevators were out of order, Sabrina’s father and her then-pregnant mother had to carry her sister down thirteen flights of stairs to rush her to the hospital.

    DOLORES, who, at the age of 82, was hastily displaced from her home in Cabrini-Green after 53 years and forced to leave many of her belongings behind. Dolores depicts her community’s evolution over five decades, including her leadership in resident government, and her husband’s mentoring of youth through a Drum and Bugle Corps.

    CHANDRA, whose son’s felony conviction bars him from entering the grounds of Chandra’s home in Orchard Park. Chicago Housing Authority rules demand that Chandra report him to the police if she sees him on the property, or face eviction herself.

    Advance praise for High Rise Stories:

    “The importance of this book cannot be overstated. High Rise Stories is essential reading for anyone interested in fair housing. The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for our country’s most marginalized voices, opening critically needed space in the national conversation on housing reform.” —Van Jones, Former Special Advisor to the Obama White House, author of Rebuild the Dream and The Green Collar Economy

    “A hard look at the consequences of poverty and flawed concepts of public housing and urban renewal.” — Kirkus Review

    “The[se] stories demand attention…though nearly all of the high-rises themselves have been torn down over the last decade, the problems discussed in th[is] book remain.” —Publisher’s Weekly

    “A powerful and authentic work. High-Rise Stories captures the vibrant sense of community and home, as well as the challenges, that existed for those who lived in Chicago’s public housing developments, through a series of searing first person narratives. An important book and a very moving read.” —Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps

    “Although Chicago demolished almost all of its public housing towers over the last few years, the “projects” live on in infamy. Cabrini-Green, Henry Horner, Robert Taylor–these were the imagined wastelands of the inner-city’s decay, the proper names of urban catastrophe. Employing the intimate interview style of Studs Terkel, High-Rise Stories allows real residents of public housing to speak in their own voices. Their gripping life stories are at once harrowing and inspiring, and give the lie to the myth that the projects were a monolithic hell, the people there mere victims or victimizers. The book is important reading for anyone hoping to understand Chicago in all its workings.” —Ben Austen, The Last Tower

    ‘Whatever else might be said about Chicago’s Plan for Transformation, it has proved a stunningly effective disappearing act. The city did not merely demolish its high-rise public housing developments; it erased them, without regard for the identities, attachments, and histories of those for whom these communities were home. High-Rise Stories is a major act of recovery and rescue. Bypassing the official narrative of enlightened urban “transformation”—as well as the social scientific folklore and magical thinking about “mixed income communities” deployed to support it—Audrey Petty has done something radical: she has simply and deeply listened to residents. Her book is an extended act of neighborly hospitality. Each of the voices she has assembled is distinct. Taken together, they evoke a lost world and speak to a future in which all have an equal right to the city.” —Jamie Kalven

  • Joe Janes and Friends Present Staged Readings From Seven Deadly Plays 9/21

    playsIn Joe Janes’s new book Seven Deadly Plays, he assembles seven plays he wrote that are set in dangerous places in and around Chicago. All the plays were written in one week and then presented at Strawdog Theatre in the summer of 2012. The locations include a speedboat on Lake Michigan, an urban farm in Englewood, the abandoned Damen Silos, a haunted cemetery, a fun house, up in a big tree and Lower Wacker. The approach was similar to how many 24-Hour projects are constructed. Directors and casts were predetermined. Janes visited each site and then wrote a play that day which was submitted to the director and actors the following morning. The first group had six days to prep their play. The last group had the day of opening night to get ready.  The result was a dynamic mix of comedy and drama in some very unusual settings.

    “silly, bizarre, violent, and provocative…the pieces showcase Janes’s willingness to take risks of all kinds.” – Chicago Reader on 50 Plays

    Joe Janes is an Emmy award winning writer and former stand-up who teaches comedy writing at The Second City and Columbia College. He has written for Jellyvision’s “You Don’t Know Jack” and SNL’s “Weekend Update.” He has written three books: 365 Sketches, 50 Plays and Seven Deadly Plays. His full-length plays include Metaluna and the Science of the Mind Revue, A Hard Day’s Journey Into Night and Always Never. He writes regularly for WNEP Theatre and Robot vs Dinosaur. He has been a director for Second City for over ten years including directing the national touring company and Second City main stages in Las Vegas and Detroit.

    For more info: joejanes.blogspot.com or e-mail joejanes1065(at)gmail(dot)com

    Saturday, September 21st, 7pm – Free Event

     

     

  • New Stuff This Week

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    Yes, but do you have the new issue of Vice?

    Apology #2 Sum 13 $18.00
    Arthur #35 Aug 13 $5.00
    N Plus 1 #17 Fall 13

    Zines
    Cheer The Eff Up #5 by Jonas $3.00
    Artificial Landscapes by Katie Shlon $10.00
    Rochester Teenset Outsider #25 $1.00
    Under the Radar: Notes From the Wild Mushroom Trade by Olivier Matthon (Pioneers Press) $5.00
    Xerography Debt #33 (Microcosm) $4.00 – The review zine with perzine tendencies.
    Oatmeal Tears #1 and #2 by Tim Miller $2.00 each
    Spunk #9 by Aaron Tilford $9.00
    Sick Sunny: My Journey to a Gluten Free Lifestyle by Brijid Somaodji Landis & Rebecca M. Zec (Microcosm) $3.00
    Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: 13 Images of Food Drama by Automne Zingg (Microcosm) $6.00
    Crawl #7 Tips Tricks Traps $3.95
    Recoup #1 Music Magazine $9.00
    City For Sale $10.00
    Proof I Exist #16 Jun 13 by Billy $2.00 – Billy of Loop Distro stranded us in Chicago to go be a dealer. And by that, we mean a card dealer in New Mexico.

    Comics & Comix
    All Star Motherfuckin Roids by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $6.00
    Laskimooses #12 Eri Huonoja Enteita by Herra Matt Hagelbergin $7.00
    Sin #1 The Beating of the Drums by AJ Fulcher and Jospeh Canave $4.00
    Justice Angel vol 1 #1 A New Hero For Justice in New York by Tiffany Dang, Valerie Boris and Caleb Meeker $4.99
    Beatrice by Brett Manning $5.00
    Eve and Eve #1 an Alt Universe by Caitlin Yates $7.00
    Mysticism of Work $2.00
    Jelly and Toast issues #1-#3 Tim Miller $2.00 each
    Cartoonshow #2 Your Daughters Will Bear Our Children by Derek M. Ballard (Drippy Bone Books) $6.00
    Galactic Breakdown #5 part 2 by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $8.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Children of Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Collects issues 1 – 3 of the New Tales of Old Palomar Ignatz Series.
    Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories (EC Comics Library Collection) by Al Feldstein (Fantagraphics) $28.99
    Sunday Comics by Gahan Wilson (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    March Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $14.95
    Smile by Raina Telgemeier $10.99
    Girl Genius vol 2 Agatha Heterodyne and the Airship City by Phil & Kaja Foglio (Airship Entertainment) $22.95 – Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance, and Mad Science.
    One Trick Rip Off and Deep Cuts by Paul Pope $19.99 – Now in trade paperback.
    Map of Days by Robert Hunter (Nobrow) $18.95
    Biografiktion by Ana Albero, Till Hafenbrak et al. (Nobrow) $29.00

    Art & Design
    Burgermat Show Poster and Recipe Book (Nobrow) $24.95
    World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter $35.00
    Pigs Disco by Stuar t Griffiths $30.95
    Stages of Decay of Julia Solis (Prestel) $34.95 – More ruin porn. Add to your collection.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
    The Classic Book of Rude Jokes: Crass Humor for the Discriminating Jokester by Scott McNeely $10.95
    God Is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell and Shannan Wheeler (Top Shelf) $19.95
    Twisted Toonage: The Fluffer Handbook – Warning Deliciously Offensive by April Goldenberg $5.00
    Electrified Sheep: Chimpanzee Butlers and Monkey Maids, Adventures in Self-Surgery Glass Eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon and More Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese $15.99
    The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by Peter Doggett $16.99
    Places Weve Been: Field Reports From Travelers Under 35 by Asha Veal Brisebois $17.95
    The Happy Atheist by PZ Meyers $24.00
    My 1980s and Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum $16.00
    The Culinary Cyclist: A Cookbook and Companion for the Good Life by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall (Elly Blue Publishing) $9.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency by Kristian Williams, Will Munger and Glavin Lara Messersmith (AK Press) $21.00

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    Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana Medical Recreational & Scientific by Martin A. Lee $18.00 – Now in soft cover.

    Fiction
    One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin (McSweeneys) $22.00
    Steel Tsar: Nomad of the Time Streams Novel 3 by Michael Moorcock $9.95 – In this version of history the Axis and the Allies teamed up against Japan. We always need Moor Cock in our our lives. (See what I did there? -Liz).
    Collection Short Fiction From the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Leger $19.95
    His Wife Leaves Him by Steve Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Kids Stuff
    Patrick Eats His Peas and Other Stories by Geoffrey Hayes (Toon) $12.95
    Ottos Backwards Day by Frank Cammuso and Jay Lynch (Toon) $12.95

    Magazines
    Got a Girl Crush #2 $15.00
    Love Magazine #10 $17.99
    Little White Lies #48 $12.99

    Other Stuff & Notable Restocks
    Turntable Kitchen Timer $14.00 – Be a mixmaster food general.
    Restock of blank journals from Buy Olympia, artists like Nikki McClure & Eloise Renouf.
    Everyday Magic 2014 Calendar by Apak (Little Otsu) $14.00
    Panda Critter Hub 3 Port USB & Squirrel Critter Hub 3 Port USB $20.00 each.
    Tons of new cards and postcards, plus a restock of Dark & Somber Black Metal Greeting cards.
    various issues of Caboose.
    Let Gluten Freedom Ring: Vegan Gluten Free Recipe Zine by Adam Gnade $4.00
    Scam #9 Fall 12 Damaged: The Story of Black Flag’s Classic First Album by Erick Lyle $3.00
    Do It Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin Sad by Adam Gnade $6.00
    Henry and Glenn Forever Sticker Funbag $5.00
    Support Independent Publishing Sticker $1.00
    Reading is Sexy Button $1.50
    What Would Devo Do Sticker $1.00
    Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander by Marie Kanger Born $22.00

  • David Moscovich You Are Make Very Important Bathtime Release Event With Eckhard Gerdes 9/13

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    David Moscovich’s new book, You Are Make Very Important Bathtime (JEF Books Publishing), is about an expatriate in a foreign land and his failure to navigate the awkward seas of extreme culture clash. Set in Southern Japan, it is a celebration of the beauty of misunderstanding and the inadvertent poetry of bad grammar.

    “A wild and enlivening collection of stories that capture the comedy, chaos and uncertainty of living as an alien in a place just beyond one’s understanding. Moscovich is a daring writer, and this book, both preposterous and beautiful, is an unusual demonstration of talent.”

    -Michael Thomsen, author of Levitate The Primate

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    David Moscovich writes flash fiction and performs his texts both live and on the radio, fragmenting, ricocheting, and refurnishing language until it meets its own devolution. He lives with chronic insomnia in New York City and runs Louffa Press, a micro-press dedicated to printing innovative fiction.

    Also reading: novelist Eckhard Gerdes read from his first published book of poetry, 23 Skidoo! 23 Form-Fitting Poems (Finishing Line Press) and from his short novella The Sylvia Plath Cookbook (published by Sugar Glider Press in Queensland, Australia).  Eckhard Gerdes is the author of 14 published novels, including My Landlady the Lobotomist and Hugh Moore.  He lives in Geneva, Illinois, and is the publisher of the Journal of Experimental Fiction and JEF Books.

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    For more info:

    http://davidmoscovich.com/

    http://www.eckhardgerdes.com/

    egerdes(at)experimentalfiction(dot)com

    Friday, September 13, 7pm – Free Event

    Light refreshments will be served

  • Maureen Foley Reads, with Mark R. Brand and Mason Johnson 9/5

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    Join the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography as Quimby’s showcases three of MMMarvelous writers at Quimby’s on Thursday, September 5th. Local authors Mark R. Brand and Mason Johnson will be reading from their new books, the respective Long Live Us and Sad Robot Stories; and headlining the evening will be California author Maureen Foley, in town to promote her female relationship dramedy Women Float. All three authors will be available for signing books afterwards. We hope you will be able to join us for this MMMost enjoyable evening!

    Maureen Foley is a writer and artist who lives on an avocado ranch by the sea in Southern California with her daughter, stepson and husband, writer James Claffey. Her writing has appeared in Wired, Caesura, The New York Times, Santa Barbara Magazine, Skanky Possum and elsewhere.  [maureenfoley.com]

    Mason Johnson is a writer from Chicago who currently works full time writing and editing articles for CBS. Also, he pets all the cats. [themasonjohnson.com]

    Mark R. Brand is the author of the novels Red Ivy Afternoon (2006), Life After Sleep (2011), and The Damnation of Memory (2011), as well as the editor of the 2009 anthology Thank You, Death Robot. He is a two-time Independent Publisher Book Award winner and is the creator and host of the video podcast series Breakfast With the Author. [vinniethevole.com]

    For more info, visit cclapcenter.com or write cclapcenter(at)gmail(dot)com

  • New Stuff This Week

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    Violence, erotica and horror were popular even in 19th century Japan, as evidenced by the Ukiyo-E art-form. These mass produced “images from the floating world” include weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque, demonic ghosts and monsters. Stock up on these art books while they’re still in stock and in print. We suggest these titles published by Shinbaku Books: Outlaw Swords of Death: Warrior & Hero Designs 1825-45 By Utagawa Kuniyoshi $39.95 Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-E: Sex, Blood, Demons, Monsters, Ghosts, Tattoo $39.95 Night Parade of Hell: Creatures Bizarre Demonic Art by Kawanabe Kyosai $34.95

    Zines
    Cervical Mucus and Your Fertility by Kione $1.50
    Impractical Cartography #1 Buffalo NY $15.00
    Pride Inside Zine From Queer Folks Incarcerated in Illinois, issues #1 and #2 $6.00 each
    I Hate Mondays #3 Chicago $2.00
    Cheap and Easy #1 by Hutch Hutchinson $10.00
    Two Girls One Brain $1.00

    Comics & Comix
    Crass Sophisticate #31 The Poo Is True $3.00
    various comics by Chris Uphues, various prices
    Laudanum Thief vol 1 by Mason Dickerson $5.00
    Wolves in Sheeps Clothing vol 1 by Chris Rietman and and April Guinn (Broken Teeth Dreaming) $5.00
    Lower East Side Story issues #1-3 by Pete Friedrich $4.75 each

    Graphic Novel & Trade Paperbacks
    Fashion Beast by Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren et al. $24.99
    Fagin the Jew: A Reinvention of Dickenss Classic Character by Will Eisner (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Crossed vol 6 by Garth Ennis et al. $24.99
    Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America with Pete Friedrich, Jessica Abel, Peter Kuper, Phoebe Gloeckner, Martin Cendreda, Gilbert Hernandez and more $22.95

    Art & Design
    Incurable Disorder by Elizabeth McGrath (Last Gasp) $39.95 – For fans of lowbrow art like Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, and Camille Rose Garcia.
    First Ten Years of Needles and Pens by Andrew Scott Martin $12.00 – People ask us if there are other stores we would suggest for cool reading material. Why yes! Have you been to Needles and Pens in San Francisco? Well here’s an oral and pictoral history that proves they’ve been around for at least 10 years. P.S. We do also have some links about Quimby’s-ish stores on our newly updated links page.
    Nice Coffee Time by Liz Clayton (Tiny Person) $14.95 – An art boook dedicated to the nectar of the caffeine gods.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
    The Secret Origins of the Crass Symbol by Dave King $12.00
    Animals Talking In All Caps: It’s Just What It Sounds Like by Justin Valmassoi $15.00 – From the author of Rosario Dawson loves me zine.
    Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman $15.95 – Hey have you heard the news? Scientologists are crazy! Now in soft cover.
    Constantine Affliction: A Pimm & Skye Adventure by Aaron T. Payton (Night Shade) $14.99
    American Indian Medicine Dreambook by Brad Steiger $19.95
    Midwest Hauntings by Lee Prosser $14.99 – Planning your next road trip? Perhaps we might suggest these sites? We also just got in a Ghost Hunters Tool Kit you can bring with you.
    Turn Around, Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke by Rob Sheffield $25.99 – From the author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.

    DIY
    Bake and Destroy: Good Food For Bad Vegans by Natalie Slater $19.99
    Kids Stuff
    Anna and Froga: I Dunno What Do You Want To Do by Anouk Ricard (D+Q) $14.95
    Squirrel We Call Sneakers by Shawn Rainbolt et al. $5.99
    True Adventures of Foamy and Leafy by Pete Friedrich $2.75

    Fiction
    Scarce Resources: 18 Weird Stories by Brendan Detzner $10.00
    Elect H Mouse State Judge by Nelly Reifler $11.00
    Terminal Atrocity Zone by J.G. Ballard, ed. by Candice Black (Sun Vision) $15.95

    Sex & Sexy
    Baby Got Back: Anal Erotica ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel $15.95
    Down and Dirty: 69 Super Sexy Short Shorts ed. by Alison Tyler $15.95
    High Octane Heroes: Erotic Romance for Women ed. by Delilah Devlin $15.95

    Magazines
    Zingmagazine #23 $30.00
    Juxtapoz #152 Sep 13 $5.99
    Design Bureau Aug 13 $8.00
    American Atheist 3rd Quarter 13 $4.95
    Neural #45 $8.00
    Bizarre #204 Sep 13 $10.50
    Skunk vol 9 #2 $5.99
    High Times Oct 13 $5.99
    Color Skateboards Sum 13 vol 11 #2 $7.99
    Pinstriping #39 Kustom Graphics Magazine Aug Sep 13 $10.00
    Howler #3 Sum 13 $15.00
    Maximumrocknroll #363 Aug 13 $4.00
    Monocle Mediterraneo #7 Sum 13 $8.00
    ASR #60 Sum 13 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
    Progressive Aug 13 $4.95
    AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95
    AdBusters Sep Oct 13 $12.95

    Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
    N+1 #17 Fall 13 $13.95
    Camera Obscura vol 6 Spr 13 $12.95
    Greenwoman vol 3 #1 Sum Fall 13 $5.95
    Specimen Magazine #6 $6.00

    Other Stuff
    The Mermaid Tarot Deck by Dame Darcy $40.00 – The mostest beautiful tarot deck ever from the artist of Meatcake. Sea-shantirifc!

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    The Believer Box of Bad Advice Game: Mixed-up Advice From Messed Up People $14.95 – Everybody’s favorite clever McSweeneyNPRians are here: Eggers, Sedaris – you get the idea.
    Crickettes Bacon and Cheese $2.50 – You know how all the former vegetarians say that what called them back to meat was bacon? What about pig-flavored crickets? Also Salt’N’Vinegar flavor available. Eat up!
    Blood Red Soap $1.25 – Wanna freak your guests out? This soap looks normal until you use it, then it turns red. Bwahahahaha.
    Scorpion Suckers $3.99 – People love the look of bugs in amber. That shit sells. What about making it look like amber but have it be sugar? And edible. Eat your words, people! In a variety of delicious flavors: apple, banana, blueberry and strawberry.

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  • Peter Bagge Presents Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story 10/19

    WOMANREBEL.tour.WEB-quimbysOn Saturday, October 19th at 7:00pm, join Quimby’s and Drawn & Quarterly for an evening with cartoonist Peter Bagge to celebrate the launch of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, a dazzling, accessible biography of the activist, educator, nurse, mother, and protofeminist who founded Planned Parenthood. Bagge will be presenting a slideshow focusing on Sanger’s social and political activism and how Woman Rebel came together, sharing original sample pages from his book.

    Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story presents the life of the outspoken, driven Margaret Sanger from her birth in the late nineteenth century to her death after the invention of the birth control pill. Balancing humor and respect, Bagge makes Sanger whole and human, showing how her flaws fueled her fiery activism just as much as her compassionate nature did. Sanger’s legacy is still incredibly relevant, important, and inspiring.

    About Peter Bagge:

    Peter Bagge was born on December 11th, 1957, and raised in Peekskill, New York, about 40 miles north of New York City. While enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1977, Bagge discovered underground comics, and the work of R. Crumb in particular turned what had initially been only a vague interest in cartooning into a passion.

    In the early ’80s Bagge co-published three issues of COMICAL FUNNIES (1980-81), a New York-based comic tabloid which saw the debut of Bagge’s dysfunctional suburban family, The Bradleys. Bagge broke into R. Crumb’s legendary magazine, WEIRDO, and Bagge took over as managing editor of that magazine from 1983 to 1986.

    Bagge started his own comic book series, NEAT STUFF, for Fantagraphics Books, producing 15 issues from 1985 to ’89. Buddy Bradley, the Bradleys’ alienated and pessimistic teenage son, emerged as Neat Stuff’s most engaging and fully-realized character. In 1990, NEAT STUFF evolved into a new title, HATE, which exclusively followed the foibles of the semi-autobiographical Buddy Bradley. Hate became the voice of the twenty-nothing slackers as well as being hailed by critics for its brilliant characterization in its complete chronicle of the 1990s. HATE and Buddy Bradley continue to appear in print, albeit less frequently, under the title HATE ANNUAL.

    Since 1999, Bagge has worked on many other comic-related projects, including writing an all ages comic book for DC called YEAH! (drawn by Gilbert Hernandez). as well as the short lived humor series SWEATSHOP, also for DC. He also wrote and drew a one-shot satire of Spider-Man for Marvel, and has done the same with Marvel’s The Hulk, though the later title has yet to be scheduled for release. Other projects include a 2 year stint writing and drawing a weekly comic strip about Bat Boy for THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, and a series of illustrated essays for the now defunct website Suck.com, which led to his becoming a current regular features contributor to the political and social commentary magazine REASON. Also, comic APOCALYPSE NERD was collected into a graphic novel, published Dark Horse.

    Bagge’s exaggerated and distinctively in-your-face illustration style has also appeared on many record and CD covers, and in magazines as far ranging as HUSTLER, MAD and the OXFORD AMERICAN. He’s also had a hand in several animation projects, most notably the online Rock & Roll Dad cartoon series he co-created with Dana Gould for Icebox.com.

  • Quimby’s Welcomes Black & Brown Press’ On Struggling Issue #3 with Guest Readers Stephanie Camba, Jonas Cannon and Mercedez Gonzalez

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    In the latest issue of On Struggling by the Brown & Proud Press, the theme of bodies is explored through a collaboration of short stories, poetry, comics and drawings. Receiving submissions from across the country, this zine exemplifies the complexities of body issues for people of color, covering topics such as self-hatred and skin color, chronic pain/illness, fatphobia, colonialism and assimilation, sexual abuse, and more. With the goal of reaching out to people of color with similar issues, the zine juxtaposes stories of struggle with stories of survival, including Ode to Survival in this Great Wide World by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, and Historically Struggling Bodies of POC and Even More Work to be Holistic Allies by Mika Munoz.

    “We believe sharing these stories with and amongst other people of color helps to dismantle the isolation and shame that white supremacy [colonialism, capitalism] creates, and replaces them with support, strength, and communities of care” – Monica Trinidad, co-founder of Brown & Proud Press

    As well as being sold at Quimby’s in Chicago and Bluestockings in New York, On Struggling is also distributed through Brown Recluse Zine Distro (Seattle), twelveohtwo Distro (Toronto), and No Shame Distro (New Brunswick), and archived with POC Zine Project and the University of Chicago library. Brown & Proud Press was also recently invited to participate in the Zine Pavilion section of the American Library Association’s 2013 Conference, highlighting the noteworthiness of self-published works.

    For more info visit: onstruggling.tumblr.com or email brownandproudpress(at)gmail(dot)com

    Friday, September 6th, 7pm – Free Event

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  • New Stuff This Week

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    Optic Nerve #13 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95

    Zines & Zine-Related
    Meta Zine: It’s a Zine About Zines by Davida Gypsy Brier $2.00 – A primer of sorts from the editor of Xerography Debt.
    Brooklyn to Mars #4 by Markus Almond $8.00
    My Heart is the Worst Kind of Weapon by Amber Pitt $5.00
    Unfinished Lives by Elliott Junkyard $8.00
    I Mirage/My Mirage #1 a Zine About Body Image – Jonas of Shut the Eff Up zine made 2 zine anthologies of different zinesters talking about body image.  There’s also My Mirage I Mirage #2 a Zine About Body Image, because not everything would fit in one. It’s a double one-shot. Both are $3.00 each.
    KerBloom #102 May Jun 13 by Artnoose $2.00
    Very Very Edge by Alexander Stewart $4.00
    Subp-A-Roht issues #1 and #2 by Logan Bay $2.00 each
    Onsmith and Nudd Sac #1 by Paul Nudd and Jeremy Onsmith $20.00
    Nudd Public Library vol 1 by Paul Nudd $5.00 – Paul Nudd’s illustrations that he offers as his take on book covers. How appropriate to be selling it here. Gleepy gloppy gloopy!
    Vinyl Vagabonds issues #2-#4 by Sara and Eric Gordon $4.00 each
    Acid Kat issues #7 and #8 $3.00 each

    Comics & Comix
    Black Eye #2 by Ryan Standfest (Rotland Press) $15.95
    Lyra Hill comics: Possession Scenes #1 The Exorcist and Possession Scenes #2 Twin Peaks Episode 14 Lonely Souls $2.00 each, also Copulate $6.00
    Jijijiji Mena Comics No I Do Not Imaging the After Life $6.00
    Adventures of Vampire Kitty and Space Bat by Elliott Junkyard $5.00
    Sanpaku #1 by Zoe Burke $5.00
    Sky in Stereo #2 by Mardou $6.00
    Thai Comic Horrors vol 2 by Logan Bay $3.00
    Fall to the Tower by Ben Bertin $3.00
    Eye In the Sky by Carrie Vinarsky $6.00
    Klaus #1 by Richard Short $6.00
    Runx Tales #3 by Matt Runkle $8.00
    We Are Not White Lesbians by Nia King $5.00
    Connecting by Nick Jankowski $3.00
    Sauce #1 by Ben Bertin et al. $6.00
    222 N Hillcrest by Rachel and Lorraine Swanson $2.00
    Seasonal #3 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $4.00
    Cosmouse #1 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
    Be the Love #2 by Jon Drawdoer $2.00
    Andrew Jackson Throws a Punch an Inaugural Brawl by Andrea Tsurumi $10.00
    Beach Girls Plus Dweeb by Box Brown et al. (Retrofit Comics) $6.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell (Top Shelf) $19.95
    Sammy The Mouse Book 2 TPB by Zak Sally (Uncivilized) $15.00
    Creepy Presents Steve Ditko $19.99
    Last of the Mohicans: Ten Cent Manga by Shigeru Sugiura et al. (Picturebox) $22.95
    Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull (Fantagraphics) $22.99
    Incidents in the Night Book 1 by David B. et al. (Uncivilized) $19.00
    Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 1934 to 1972 by Willard Mullin et al. (Fantagraphics) $35.00
    Amazing Facts and Beyond With Leon Beyond: The USS Catastrophe Library of Knowledge Encyclopedia Graphic Almanac Humor by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch (Uncivilized) $24.95
    Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $24.95
    Over the Wall by PEter Wartman (Uncivilized) $14.95
    Fiction
    Momo by Michael Ende with illustrations by Marcel Dazama (McSweeney’s) $22.00
    Static Station Lullaby by Amber Pitt $10.00
    William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher $14.95
    Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff $26.95
    Welcome to Weltschmerz: A Bedroom Theater Memoir by Gabriel Chad Boyer $16.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
    Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders $26.99
    Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein’s True Creator by Scott Douglas de Hart (Feral House) $16.95
    Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn $27.50
    Young Lovecraft vol 3 by Bartolo Torres and Jose Oliver $19.95
    Rocks Off: 50 Tracks that Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones by Bill Janovitz $25.99
    What You Want Is In The Limo: On the Road with Led Zepplin, Alice Cooper and the Who in 1973, The Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born by Michael Walker $26.00
    Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Follow For Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes by Roy Christopher $14.95 – Featuring interviews with the lieks of  DJ Spooky, Philip K. Dick, Douglas Rushkoff, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Shepard Fairey, Dalek and more.
    Eat a Bug Cookbook Revised by David George Gordon $16.99  – Real recipes. For real, for real.
    Entheogens and the Developement of Culture: Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience by John A. Rush $27.95

    Politics & Revolution
    The Afghanistan Picture Show or How I Saved the World by William T. Vollmann $16.95
    Jobs With Justice: 25 Years 25 Voices by Eric Larson et al. (PM Press) $15.95

    Magazines
    The Baffler #23 $12.00
    Uppercase #18 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
    Incite issues #1-#3 Journal of Experimental Media $12.00 each
    Made Quarterly Edition 2 $20.00
    Toilet Paper Jun 13 $19.00
    Dwell Sep 13 $5.99
    True Crime Jul 13 $8.99
    Flaunt #128 $10.95
    Boneshaker Magazine #12 $12.00
    Smith Journal #7 $17.99
    Vaga #4 $15.00
    Black Velvet #77 $9.00
    Razorcake #75 $4.00
    Mojo #237 Aug 13 $9.99
    Vinyl Riot #5 Sum 13 $13.99
    Decibel #107 Sep 13 $4.95
    Tattoo Collection #57

    Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
    Boss by Victoria Chang (McSweeneys) $20.00
    Necropastoral by Joyelle McSweeney $12.00
    Core Sample by Gordon Massman $12.00
    Midwestern Gothic #10 $12.00
    Overtakelessness by Quick Dan Beachy $12.00
    Conium Review vol 2 #2 Fall 13 $12.00

    Sex & Sexy
    Teens At Play: End of Innocence by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99

    Other Stuff
    Gravy Candy $6.00 – 12 pieces individually wrapped in a funny, fun tin. Tastes like, you guessed it.
    Be Nice Or Leave Pencil Case $5.00
    I Want Free Shit To Not Cost Anything Wet Wipes $4.00
    Control Panel Zipper Pouch $6.00
    Hey Bitches: I Was Just Thinking About You Wanna Bake Some Brownies Gum $1.40
    Maybe You Touched Your Genitals Liquid Soap $9.50 – Fresh Meadow Scent!
    Thanks For Holding Back My Hair Hand Sanitizer $5.50 – Kills Germs on Contact For Really Good Friends!
    Random Crap From Here and There Pocket Box  $6.00
    Family Drugs Cigar Box $15.00
    Coffee The Last Cheap Drug Coin Purse $4.00
    Build Your Own Wurlington Press Postcard: The Farnsworth House $2.00