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  • Weekly Top 10

    Jessica Campbell’s My Sincerest Apologies is at #5 this week.

    1. Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln by Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – The debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows the twentysomething Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before becoming our most beloved president.

    2. King Cat #73 by John Pocellino $3.00 – Porcellino goes cuckoo for cuckoo birds, plus cats at the movies, plus a South Beloit Top 36, plus a recurring spermophile theme.

    3. Juxtapoz #141 Oct 12 $5.99

    4. Neil Hamburger Comics Digest by Gregg Turkington $6.00

    5. My Sincerest Apologies by Jessica Campbell (Oily Comics) $1.00 – You’ll be truly sorry if you miss this lil’ gem!

    6. OK Cupid Messages I Have Not Responded To by Delphine Beidient $4.00 – Oh-kay OK Cupid…these unresponded messages are like forensic evidence to reverse engineer Bedient’s dating profile. There’s a lot here, and it’s all pretty much different angles on goofy and polite. I hope this gets followed up by a zine of things Bedient has written on the OKC – I think therein may lay the meat of the matter. -EF

    7. No Better Than Apples #8 $3.00 – Health, pinecones, rock camp, singularity, and self-knowledge.

    8. I Swallowed the Key to My Heart #2 by Liz Prince $6.00 – How do you outfox the fox? This Liz Prince series is all about players gettin’ played, Boston style.

    9. Bitch #56 $5.95

    10. Laphams Quarterly vol 5 #4 Fall 12 $15.00

  • New Stuff This Week


    Temporary Services 7 Offset Poster Booklets:Set includes 7  11″ X 17″ color offset poster booklets from 2005-2012 that includes Prisoners’ Inventions (2005), Product Placements (2005), Supermax Subscriptions (2012) and more. $7.00

    Zines
    Black Thorns in the White Cube Catalogue, curated by Amelia Ishmael $20.00 – Exhibition catalog from an exhibit of the same name, demonstrating the instersection of contemporary artists who are bilingual, speaking both Black Metal and Art History fluently. Features nine artists from four countries, including Alexander Binder, Vincent Como, Chicago’s own Terence Hannum and more.
    This Is A Sketchbook #1 by Peregrine Angthius $10.00
    (Subculture Clash Presents) Storylings: Short, Short Fiction, Essays and Things $1.50
    Nazi Knife #8 $23.00

    Comics & Comix
    The Plot #2 Your Curiosity Will Get You Killed by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Shhhhh don’t tell Neil we told you this, but if you come in and buy this comic, maybe if you ask him all nice-like he’ll sign it for you, because he’s going to be super duper famous because his comics are awesome and then you’ll be really glad you had him sign it.
    King Cat #73 by John Porcellino (Spit and a Half) $3.00 – John’s cuckoo for cuckoo birds in this issue, among other topics. Thanks to everybody who came out for the release event here earlier this week for KC #73, along with Noah Van Sciver and his graphic novel Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln!
    Buzz #4 Joke Comics by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – Charming and hilarious pieces from local Quimby’s fave.
    Red Rum #0 Black and White Nightmare by Scott Wygmans $10.00
    Ocean Marauders by Alejandro Rosado $5.00
    Fatima #4 of 4 the Blood Spinners by Gilbert Hernandez $3.99
    Dope Mouthfeel #3 by Steve Schaberg $4.00
    Heyday Comics #1-#4 by Daniel Elissi $3.00 each
    Subculture Clash Black White and Grey All Over $2.00
    Seasonal vol 2 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $5.00
    JRH Jr. A Young Man in Japan – Tales of an LDS Mission 1961-1963 by Jim Howell and Sarah Morton $3.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Everything Together Collected Stories by Sammy Harkham (Picturebox) $19.95 – Collected short fiction pieces.
    Neil Hamburger Comics Digest by Gregg Turkington $6.00
    Mark Twain Was Right: The 2001 Cincinnati Riots by Dan P. Moore (Microcosm) $8.95
    Dark Country by Thomas Ott, Tab Murphy and Thomas Jane (Raw Studio) $24.99
    100 Bullets HC Book 3 by Brian Azzarello et al. $49.99
    Blonde Woman by Aidan Koch $18.00

    Art & Design
    Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs. The Art of William S. Burroughs $60.00 – Exhibition catalog in both German and English that featured countercultural icon Burroughs’s cut-ups in such different media as text-image collages, photo-montages, audio-tape experiments and film, together with the legendary shotgun paintings.
    Negron by jonny negron (Picturebox) $19.95

    Fiction
    Books published by The Chicago Center For Literature and Photography: Solo Down by Lauryn Allison Lewis,Get Up Tim by Sally Weigel, Have You Seen Me by Katherine Scott Nelson, all books $20.00 each
    2 Davis Schneiderman books: Drain ($15.00) and Blank ($10.00)
    Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad by Derrick Jemsen and Stephanie McMillan (PM Press) $14.95
    Return by Roberto Bolano $14.95 – Now in soft cover.

    DIY
    Action Professor Know It All’s Illustrated Guide to Film and Video Making by Bill Brown (Microcosm) $11.95 – by Bill “Dream Whip” Brown.
    Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices by William Gurstelle $16.95 – Expanded and Even More Explosive 2nd Edition. THANK GOD.
    You Are Awesome: 21 Crafts to Make You Happy by Abbey Hendrickson (Cicada) $15.95 – Vintage inspired pennants!Valentine medals! Ribbon chalkboards! Obligatory bird craft!
    Unsinkable: How to Build Plywood Pontoons & Longtail Boat Motors Out of Scrap by Robnoxious (Microcosm) $7.95

    Music Books
    I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons $27.99
    Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk by Sam Sutherland $22.95
    Punk: An Aesthetic by Johan Kugelberg, Jon Savage and William Gibson $55.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Ghosts of Northern Illinois by Stephen Osborne (Schiffer) $16.99 – There are a host of ghostly tales and legends surrounding Chicago, Rockford, Dekalb, Dixon, Byron, and other cities in towns in the Prairie State! In Ghosts of Northern Illinois, meet the spirit of a woman who was brutally murdered in the 1940s. Shiver as you learn about a blue figure that runs down the alley adjacent to the Biograph Theater, then falls to the ground and disappears. Encounter a phantom jogger, the Madonna of Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, and the mysterious scent of perfume at the Coronado Theater. Come and visit Willow Creek Farm, one of the top-ten haunted houses in Illinois, where over 30 spirits have been detected! Think Illinois looks calm and peaceful? Think again!

    Politics & Revolution
    It’s Not About Religion by Gregory Harms (Perceval) $11.00 – When the Middle East is covered on the news or depicted in film, what is shown is a region defined almost exclusively by violence, chaos, and extremism, and a common question often arises in response: Does religion have anything to do with it? This book is a constellation of history and culture that will hopefully help move the conversation of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in a more grounded and precise direction. Thanks to everybody that came out for this event with Mr. Harms last week!
    Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank $16.00 – Now in soft cover. Don’t miss Thomas “The Baffler” Frank here at Quimby’s on October 23rd.
    Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem (PM Press) $20.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law (PM Press) $20.00
    Basics From the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian $10.00

    Children, Radical Parenting and Allies
    Adventures In Cartooning Christmas Special by James Sturm et al. (First Second) $9.99
    Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities by Victoria Law and China Martens (PM Press) $17.95 – Collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. It focuses on issues affecting children and caregivers within the larger framework of social justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation. Contributors include: Ramsey “List” Beyer, Jessica Hoffman, Heather Jackson, Rahula Janowski, London Pro-Feminist Men’s Group, Tomas “Rad Dad” Moniz, Coleen Murphy and more.

    Magazines
    Subconscious Restaurant by Ron Hanson $10.00 – New publication produced by White Fungus and The Physics Room, connecting New Zealand artists working in sound, and Taiwan.
    True Crime Sep 12 $8.99
    Purple Fashion vol 3 #18 $50.00
    Dossier #10 $15.00
    Mother Earth News #254 Oct Nov 12 $5.99
    Razorcake #70 $4.00
    Magnet #91 $4.99
    If If If Magazine #1 $6.00 – Swarming collage and prose, rich color, nice layout, cool reaches but also deeply pixelated on the visual end and my eyes just wanna focus. Work from Matthew Koons, Stephana Tyler, Colin Wynnette, Shane Wright, Jarrett Hayman, PW Hofstad, Isabel Borczuch. -EF

    Class Struggle #75 Aug Sep 12 by Spark $3.00
    Harpers Magazine Oct 12 $6.99
    Inked Oct 12 #49 $6.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    The First Line vol 14 #3 Fall 12 $3.00 – The first line of all the offerings in this issue is “A light snow was falling as Charlie Reardon left the diner and made his way down Madison Street.”

    Sex & Sexy
    Catalog #1 by Goodyn Green $20.00
    Bend Over Magazine #7 Sum/Fall 2012 $12.00 – Feminism sexuality and queer art.

    Other Stuff
    Snail Watering Can $11.00 – Waaaaaaaateeeeeeeer yooooooooour plaaaaaaaaants reaaaaaaaaalllly slowwwwwwwwllllllly.
    Slingshot Ballpoint Pen $5.00 – Use this catapult pen with a built in rubberband for annoying fellow classmates, co-workers or family members. Also! Pair it with the Slingshot Planners which will be coming in in October. Insert joke here!
    Best Love Song Ever Cassette Tape Coin Purse $6.00
    Jack the Ripper Lavatory Mist $12.00
    “Yummy Pharmaceuticals That Will Please You” Petite Cigar Box $11.00
    Poison “Danger – Toxic” Pocket Cigarette Box $6.00
    Bicycles Messenger Bag $19.00
    Peregrine Angthius Sticker Pack $5.00
    Cycling Shorts DVD Short Documentaries About Bicycles $14.95

    Noteworthy Restocks
    Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon $27.99
    Adventures of Venus by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $9.99
    Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00
    Cheer the Eff Up issues #1-#3 by Jonas
    Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton $19.95
    Scenes From an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine $9.95
    Seth by Christopher Schulz $10.00

    The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

  • A Night of Ritual Filth: Adam Parfrey & Peter Sotos at Quimby's 10/17

    Adam Parfrey Presents Ritual America & Peter Sotos Discusses Pure Filth

    ADAM PARFREY presents the strange history of secret societies in America in a slide show.

    “Adam Parfrey is one of the nation’s most provocative publishers.”—Seattle Weekly

    Based in Port Townsend, Feral House and Process Media are two of the most adventurous, often surprising publishers in the U.S., with a bent for revealing the otherwise obscured, undisclosed or under-documented. Adam Parfrey, himself a writer but also the publisher of both these presses, comes to Quimby’s, to talk and show images from his own new book, Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society: A Visual Guide (Feral House)  co-authored with Craig Heimbichner. Ritual America illuminates the context and preponderance of American males who belonged to fraternal orders and the place of things today in new ways.”

    Ritual America won a silver medal from the IPPY awards for American history.

    For more info: feralhouse.com/ritual-america/

    PETER SOTOS describes his collaborative effort with “Gonzo” porn maven Jamie Gillis.

    Jamie Gillis appeared in over one hundred films, and as such was a primary performer in pornography’s “Golden Age.” Gillis is also known for inventing the “Gonzo” genre of pornography, played out in the film Boogie Nights by Burt Reynolds’ character.

    Pure Filth appears as transcripts from the films Jamie produced during these early years of radical and highly personal pornography.

    Extreme novelist Peter Sotos was a good friend of Jamie Gillis, and Sotos’ unusual perspective makes this volume possible.

    Wednesday, October 17th, 7pm – Free Event


  • Weekly Top 10

    The most recent issue of Juxtapoz is at #3 this week. Halloween is only 42 days away!

    Congratz to the recipients of the 2012 Ignatz Awards, which were announced at SPX, the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Md. this past weekend. Current Chicago local Corinne Mucha won Outstanding Mini-Comic for The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions (Retrofit Comics) and former Chicago local Anders Nilsen won Outstanding Graphic Novel for Big Questions by (Drawn & Quarterly)!

    1. Rookie Yearbook One ed. by Tavi Gevinson (D&Q) $29.95 – Collection from rookiemag.com. You know who’s cool? Teenage Girls, that’s who. Tavi “Style Rookie” Gevinson and her online magazine Rookie embody this radness to a T -written largely by and for girls it’s fun, critical, smart, shameless, pretty and goofy while being wholeheartedly feminist and deleriously stylish. Very awesome. -EF

    2. Sweetmeats #1 by Edie Fake $2.00 – This is the story I did for Max Morris’ awesome anthology Vacuum Horror last winter, reprinted as a little mini so I have something to offer when folks wanna trade zines. -EF

    3. Juxtapoz #141 Oct 12 $5.99

    4. Dazed & Confused vol 3 #13 Sep 12 $9.99

    5. Year One by Ramsey Beyer $14.00 – Ramsey of “List” zine and “Everydaypants” comic unleashes her first book – diary comics detailing the her move from Chicago to Philadelphia, filled with reconnection, introspection and romantic complication.

    6. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts) $17.95 – Backderf puts together a memoir of high school in the washed out suburban seventies when he was classmates and comrades with grisly serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

    7. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz $26.95

    8. Adbusters Sep Oct 12 #103 $8.95

    9. Illustrated Press Chicago by Darryl Holliday and EN Rodriguez $12.00

    10. CAKE Book 2012 $15.00 – This was pretty much the icing on the first Chicago Alternative Comics Expo: a bizarro ‘thology/look book/rogues’ gallery of modern graphic magic: 52 layers, lovingly assembled by Andy “whutta weirdo” Burkholder. Wanna slice of this? Yeah you do. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

     

    Burgermancer #1 The Burger Lovers Magazine Aug Sep 12 by Jason Fischer $4.00 – With comics, interviews and more. Now that’s a tasty burger.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Zisk #21 Fall 12 by Mike Faloon and friends $2.00 – The Baseball Magazine for Poeple Who Hate Baseball Magazines.
    Rookie Yearbook One ed. by Tavi Gevinson (D&Q) $29.95 – Collection from rookiemag.com. You know who’s cool? Teenage Girls, that’s who. Tavi “Style Rookie” Gevinson and her online magazine Rookie embody this radness to a T -written largely by and for girls it’s fun, critical, smart, shameless, pretty and goofy while being wholeheartedly feminist and deleriously stylish. Very awesome. -EF
    Three Sites by Emily Kozik $2.50
    Ugly No 1 #8 Aug 12 a Collection of Drawings and Ideas by Matt Soria $2.00
    PRISM Index #2 $25.00

    Comics and Comix
    You Dont Get There From Here #23 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
    Demon Dust #10 Sep 12 by Bernie McGovern $2.00 – I think this issue is about particles of dust being made from broken down cells of dead people and things, but I could be wrong here….McGovern’s prodding some sort of atomic obscurity, in any case. -EF
    Captcha #5 and #6 by Jojo Sheroow $5.00 each
    Flocks Chapter 1 A Paradox of Faith by L. Nichols $5.00
    Marvel Comics Presents #6 Rom and Friends by Josh Bayer and friends (DrippyBone Books) $8.00
    Marvel Premiere #28 The Legion of Monsters (DrippyBone Books) $2.00
    Cosmic Bummer Funnies #1 $8.00
    Line Land #1 $8.00
    Zebratron #3 $3.00
    Black Mansion #1 by Christopher Graybill $2.00
    Casualty of Tour #1 by Aaron Amodt $3.00
    Infinite Jest Tijuana Bible by Drawdoer Jones $3.00
    2005 a Fragment of the Larger Work by Sean ABT Christensen (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Small Noises by Sarah Glidden (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Dear Dear by Eroyn Franklin (Sparkplug) $6.00
    Party Plans #1 by Zejian Shen $8.00
    You Are Destined For Darker Things #1 by Nick Wortham $2.00
    Habitat #2 by Dunja Jankovic $9.00
    Bye Bye A True Story Told In Allegory by JM Hanson $6.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Year One by Ramsey Beyer $14.00 – Ramsey of “List” zine and “Everydaypants” comic unleashes her first book – diary comics detailing the her move from Chicago to Philadelphia, filled with reconnection, introspection and romantic complication.

    Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln by Noah Van Scriver (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Don’t miss Noah here with John Porcellino on Wednesday! (Sept 19th)
    Unfamiliar Path by Brian and Roger Boss $15.00
    Illustrated Press Chicago by Darryl Holliday and EN Rodriguez $12.00
    Bulletproof Coffin vol 2 TPB Disinterred by David Hine and Shaky Kane $17.99
    The Cavalier Mr. Thompson: A Sam Hill Novel: Sams Early Days 1924 by Rich Tommaso $16.99
    Crossed Wish You Were Here vol 1 TPB by Simon Spurrier and Javier Barreno $19.99
    Is That All There Is by Joost Swarte (Fantagraphics) $25.00
    Love and Rockets New Stories vol 5 by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $14.99
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Library Edition HC vol 2 by Joss Whedon et al. (Dark Horse) $29.99
    Detained by Eroyn Franklin (Sparkplug) $16.00

    Art & Design
    Sticker Bomb Monsters 250 Peelable Stickers Inside by Studio Rarekwai $17.95 – Created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, including: Vladimir Stankovic, Alex Young, Iain Burke, Johnny Ryan, Ronzo and Sunil Pawar.

    Pop Psychedelic Designed & edited by BigBros Workshop $39.95 – A massive, comprehensive graphic design collection exploding with a blend of psychedelic and pop imagery. This is a fantastic sourcebook featuring dozens of contemporary artists, illustrators & designers.

    You Are So Loved $12.95 – Optimism from a mix of artists, including Enormouschampion, Katie Daisy, Jen Renninger, Dallas Clayton, Lisa Congdon, and Jessica Hische.

    2 Mike Perry books (th guy who does a lot of those handwrite-y font books): Coloring Book By Mike Perry and You $9.95 and Type Wall Decals 200 Peel and Stick Letters $24.95

    Fiction
    Telegraph Ave by Michael Chabon $27.99
    This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz  $26.95
    Laura Lamont’s Life In Pictures by Emma Straub $26.95

    Sex and Sexy
    Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf $27.99
    Chomp #2 by Mitsu Sucks $9.00 – Queer skater art rag ships out from Japan. Portfolios from Ken Kagami, Artrash Graphic, Ai Ezaki and Mitsuru Saigusa, interviews and a secret sealed smut compartment.
    Pinups #16 Jeff by Christopher Schulz $14.00 – Fun in the sun, Jeff on the rocks. Although it sounds excessive I will always advocate that you pick up two copies of this fine publication: one to keep intact and another one to dissassemble and properly reconstitute as a giant wall-sized nude poster.

    Travel Naturally #84 $9.95
    Wild Boys: Gay Erotic Fiction ed. by Richard Labonte $15.95
    RFD #151 Fall 12  $9.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    F for Effort: More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers by Richard Benson $9.95
    Tokyo Grindhouse vol 1 $24.95 – Between 1970 and 1974, numerous Japanese film companies – in particular Nikkatsu and Toei – produced dozens of films in a new sub-genre which combined action, sex, violence and crime, and was dominated by ruthless and deadly delinquent females. This sub-genre, which Toei would eventually dominate and define, is now known as pinky violence. With such series as Girl Boss, Girls’ High School Terror, and Female Prisoner: Scorpion, as well as individual films like Ranking Boss Rock and Criminal Women: Killing Melody, Toei created a cinematic world filled with nudity, sex, cat-fights, torture, rape and revenge, and peopled by very, very bad girls – renegade cops, girl gang leaders, rebel highschool girls, female convicts – who stripped off their clothes as readily as they pulled out a gun or a knife. TOKYO GRINDHOUSE Volume One is the first English-language book publication devoted to this brief but highly influential 70s movie craze for sexy bad girl action, whose themes have more recently been echoed and revived in films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill and Death Proof. The book contains an extensive introductory history by Jack Hunter, as well as illustrated sections on all the main pinky violence series and one-offs. It is printed in full-colour throughout, with over 140 rare images of film posters and publicity shots, plus nude glamour galleries of leading pinky violence stars Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto.

    Politics & Revolution
    The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek  $14.95

    DIY
    Indie Rock Button Factory: Everything You Need to Create 25 Fabric Covered Pins by the Yellow Bird Project $18.95

    Childrens Books
    Stella’s Big Wish by Leslie Perrine $7.00 – Leslie’s first book is a big-sized version of a kinship story for small folk. Illustrated ulta-cute style with extra twinkle twinkle. -EF

    Secret of the Stone Frog: A Toon Graphic Novel by David Nytra $14.95

    Magazines
    ArtForum International Sep 12 $10.00
    Shots #117 $6.95
    Raw Vision #76 $14.00
    Headmaster #4 $20.00
    Skeptic vol 17 #3 $6.95
    Fortean Times #292 $11.99
    Many of Them #2 Days of Being Wild $45.00
    Flaunt #123 $10.95
    Treating Yourself #36 $7.99
    Color Skateboards vol 10 #3 $7.99
    BlackBook Oct Nov 12 $4.95
    Taproot #3 $9.00
    Laphams Quarterly vol 5 #4 Fall 12 $15.00
    Dazed & Confused vol 3 #13 Sep 12 $9.99
    Horror Hound #37 Sep Oct 12 $6.99
    Bomb #121 Fall 12 $7.95
    The Cure and The Story of Alternative 80s Metal Hammer Classic Rock Special Fall  Win 12 $14.99
    Tape Op #91 Sep Oct 12 $4.95
    Against the Current #160 Sep Oct 12 $5.00
    GLQ vol 18 #4 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
    Tattoo Collection #52 $6.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    The Believer #92 $8.00

    Other Stuff
    Aleister Crowley 2012 Commemorative Coin Set $10.00 – The front of the coin features the embossed AC2012 design with the bust of Aleister Crowley. The reverse is stamped with the Mark of the Beast and the traditional greetings of Thelemites, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” and “Love is the law, love under will.” These are verses from the principal holy book of Thelema, Liber AL vel Legis: The Book of the Law. “A handsomely minted set of coins that I shall look forward to spending whenever the age of Horus finally arrives. Wonderful little things that would adorn anyone’s altar.” –Alan Moore. Sold in sets of 10 for $10.00 or singularly for $1.00 each. Front and back as pictured below.

    Floating Eyeballs! Only $1.50 each! Cheap!
    Balloons that say “Happy Fucking Birthday”!
    “Silence of the Lambs” in Your Pocket Key Chain, comes with Hannibal Lecter quotes from the movie. Freak the people the fuck out with your tiny crazy noise machine. Having a friend for dinner? Fava beans anyone? $10.00, just in time for freaky Halloweenness!
    Get your Moomin on with these Moomin-themed items: Journal $9.95, Notecard Set $14.95, Sticky Notes $9.95
    Pop Out Snake in Mixed Nuts Can $3.30 – Fancy some nuts? Or a snake?

    Notable Restocks
    Cinema Sewer vol 3 by Robin Bougie $19.95
    Hot Dog Beach #1 by Lale Westvind $7.00
    various issues of Weirdo and Zap!

     

  • Chris Ware Celebrates Building Stories 10/14

    It’s here: the new graphic novel by Chris Ware, BUILDING STORIES. It imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other’s company another minute; and the building’s landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. Taking advantage of the absolute latest advances in wood pulp technology, BUILDING STORIES is a book with no deliberate beginning nor end, the scope, ambition, artistry and emotional prevarication beyond anything yet seen from this artist or in this medium, probably for good reason.

     

    “One of our favorite graphic novelists of all time….Ware’s gorgeous, complex treasure chest of a book—actually 14 separate printed works that can be read in any order—tells the complex, interconnected story of a lonely woman and the building she inhabits, and demands to be handled with care, each component studied and cradled and touched. You might be touched, too.”

    —Flavorwire

     

    “Ware provides one of the year’s best arguments for the survival of print…the spectacular, breathtaking visual splendor make this one of the year’s standout graphic novels.”

    —Publishers Weekly, starred review

     

    “A treasure trove of graphic artworks—they’re too complex to be called comics—from Ware, master of angst, alienation, sci-fi and the crowded street…A dazzling document.”

    —Kirkus, starred review

     

    “Ware has been consistently pushing the boundaries for what the comics format can look like and accomplish as a storytelling medium…More than anything, though, this graphic novel mimics the kaleidoscopic nature of memory itself—fleeting, contradictory, anchored to a few significant moments, and a heavier burden by the day. In terms of pure artistic innovation, Ware is in a stratosphere all his own.”—Booklist, starred review

     

    Chris Ware’s Building Stories is the rarest kind of brilliance; it is simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, shockingly intimate and deeply insightful. There isn’t a graphic artist alive or dead who has used the form this wonderfully to convey the passage of time, loneliness, longing, frustration or bliss.  It is the reader’s choice where and how to begin this monumental work—the only regret you will have in starting it is knowing that it will end.—J. J. Abrams

     

    “Building Stories is the graphic novel of the season or perhaps the year, a story that must be experienced rather than read…Ware takes visual storytelling to a new level of both beauty and despair in a work people will be talking about for a long time.” –Publishers Weekly Fall Announcement

     

    About the author:

    CHRIS WARE’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the “100 Best Books of the Decade” by The Times (London) in 2009.  A contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker (where some of the pages of this book first appeared), his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.

     

    For more info: www.pantheonbooks.com

    www.facebook.com/pantheonbooks

    For publicity inquiries: Michiko Clark <MiClark@randomhouse.com>

    Sun, Oct 14th, 5pm – Free Event

  • Weekly Top 10

    Nobrow #7 is at #3 this week.

    1. OK Cupid Messages I Have Not Responded To by Delphine Bedient $4.00

    2. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek the Next Generation, Seasons #6 and #7 by Joshua Chapman $2.00

    3. Nobrow #7 (NoBrow Press) $24.00 – “Is this our ‘Brave New World’? Have we yet to enter into it? Or are we on the brink of discovering a world entirely separate from ours: alien, parallel, internal? Inspired by the eponymous dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1931, Nobrow 7 asks 15 internationally renowned cartoonists, each contributing 4 page visual narratives, and 30 star illustrators to interpret the theme ‘Brave New World’. 45 Creative visionaries take on the theme to produce cutting edge comics and illustration in this fantastic large format anthology that has taken the illustration and comics world by storm.

    4. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Benjamin Marra (American Tradition Comics) $2.00

    5. King City Cat Master Comix by Brandon Graham $19.99

    6. Womanimalistic #2 Coochie Party by Caroline Paquita (Pegacorn Press) $3.00 – Vaginal dreamsicles dancing on the labial plane. Paquita makes you wild for the cooch style- as if you weren’t already- this new comic/zine/suitetreat has itself seriously plugged into the feminist power grid. -EF

    7. Baffler #20 – Contributors include Thomas Frank, Jed Perl, Steve Almond, Chris Lehmann, Jim Newell, Eugenia Williamson, Heather Havrilesky, Kim Phillips-Fein, Emma Garman, Chris Bray, Matt Hinton, Will Boisvert, Seth Colter Walls, Tod Mesirow, David D’Arcy, and The Homeless Economist, who has a timely suggestion: “Green Gallows for the Wall Street Bankers.

    8. S #9 Baltic Comics Magazine $10.00

    9. Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs (Adhouse) $9.95

    10. Fuck Yeah I Can Be Sentmental: Foster James’ Little Book of I Love Yous by Patrick Gill $1.00 – A love letter to the love letter.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Best Game Ever Card Game $8.00 – It’s a card game about zines! By Billy “Proof I Exist” the Bunny and and AJ Hermz. Also this week we received Billy’s Last Night at the Casino #3 Jun 12.
    I Don’t Know Anything About This But $3.00

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Unapologetic #3 The Journal of Irresponsible Gender by Anne Tagonist $2.00 – From a transsexual punk persepctive.
    Bound to Struggle vol 3 Language Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet $3.00
    Suitable 4 Framin #9 Sum 12 $5.00
    Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Seasons #6 and #7 by Joshua Chapman $2.00
    Fakeizm #1 by Tone $10.00
    Backstage Past #1-#3: True Stories of Rock Encounters by MC Orly $3.00 each
    No Better Than Apples #8 $3.00
    Happy and Crotch vol 1 #1 by Alicia Obermeyer $1.50
    Wenn Man Den Kleinen Finger Dem Teufel Zeigt So Nimmt Double Zine $12.00
    Offline #2 by Emily Haasch and Darrin Higgins $5.00
    Printed Blog #8 Deja Vu Issue $3.00
    Cherrypepper #5 Marc Calvary $20.00 – Remember that zine from the early oughts about pin-up style porny pictures of girls in Eugene, Oregon? Lucky you, now there’s this box set contains 6 zines a polaroid and a sticker.

    Comics & Comix
    Lou #6 by Melissa Mendes $1.00
    Moose #9 and #10 by Max deRadigues $1.00 each
    All sorts of awesomeness from Oily Comics, including:
    Malichi Ward In Conversation with Sean Ford Jun Jul 12 by Sean Ford, Malichi Ward and Melissa Mendes, Word and Voice #1 July 2012 by Aaron Cockle, Close Your Eyes When You Let Go #1 (of 3) by James Hindle, End of the Fucking World #10 by Charles Forsman, Dont Stop Me Now #1 and #2 by Gariet Cowin
    Daucus Carota #2 $5.00
    Laskimooses #5 Alustavia Tieoja & Laskimooses #6 Eksytyksen Tiella by Herra Matti Hagelbergin $6.00 each – Hagelberg’s game-changing scratch builds the world and his sick/stick story stagger makes it a punker place to be.-EF

    Graphic Novels and Tradepaperbacks
    Crackle of the Frost by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Comics Sketchbooks: Private Worlds of Todays Most Creative Talents by Steven Heller $44.95
    Aya: Life In Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (D&Q) $24.95 – Collects three books in the Aya series.
    Scalped vol 8 You Gotta Sin to Get Saved TPB by Jason Aaron et al. $17.99
    Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly $16.99
    Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis $19.99

    Art & Design
    Pataphysics: A Useless Guide by Andrew Hugill (Semiotexte) $24.95

    Fiction
    Skagboys by Irvine Welsh $26.95

    Music Books
    Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy by Will Oldham and Alan Licht $16.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics by Eusi Kwayana $20.00
    Occupy Nation: The Roots the Spirit and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street by Todd Gitlin $12.99
    Making of the Indebted Man (Semiotexte intervention series #13) by Maurizio Lazzarato $13.95

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #141 Oct 12 $5.99
    Pop Magazine #27 Fall Win 12 $14.99
    High Times Nov 12 $5.99
    Gastronomica vol 12 #3 $12.99
    Wax Poetics #52 $11.99
    SSLM vol 14 Aug 12 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00

    Other Stuff
    Little Pack of Scraps by Echo $3.00 – Twelve pieces of mostly vintage ephemera. Might I suggest pairing up a package with one of our fine grab bags that you can only purchase in the store and not on our website? A fine choice. -LM
    Magic Guillotines and Magic Drawers $5.00 each – Startle and stun or baffle and bamboozle with simple step-by-step instructions to help you master the magic in minutes!
    Vintage replicas of winding tin toys in various shapes and sizes and prices. A pecking chicken! A monkey on a tricycle! A robot on a bike! UFOs!

    Tricerachops Meat Chart Mug by Jay Jay Burridge $10.00
    Wild Bunch Woodland Paper Clips $6.00

    Restocks!
    The usual whole mass of Vertigo graphic novels (Watchmen, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, 100 Bullets, Grant Morrison titles), Dal Tokyo by Gary Panter, Ubik by PK Dick, One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry, issues of Ganges by Kevin Huizenga, Housewives at Play: Original Recipe, Walking Dead graphic novels, Monologues For Calculating The Density Of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen, issues of Papercutter, Pictures For Sad Children by John Campbell, Complete Ouija Interviews by Sarah Becan, Liz Prince minis, Meat Cake collected by Dame Darcy, issues of Berlin by Jason Lutes, OP Original Plumbing issues #5-#8, Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, Love and Rockets New Stories vol 4 by Jaime Hernandez, Milk and Cheese Dairy Products Gone Bad by Evan Dorkin and more!

    The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. By This You Shall Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press) $15.00 – So outrageously good I just can’t hardly stand it. -EF (I agree. -LM)

    2. Fix Your Clothes by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm Publishing) $5.00 – Briggs’ latest zine is a practical guide to mending and maintaining fabric, covering the basics of sewing, patching, darning, buttons and zippers, hemming and waterproofing. Like “How to Make Soap Without Burning Your Face Off” and “Make Your Place” the writing is clear, concise, scrappy and handy. -EF

    3. How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz $1.00 – Where’s your Emily Post? Upstanding citi-zines My Aim Is True’s Carrie and Caboose’s Liz Mason sit down and try to teach you kids some manners with their self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.

    4. Tales of Woodsman Pete With Full Particulars by Lille Carré (Top Shelf) $7.00

    5. Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99

    6. Paper Sep 12 $4.00

    7. Bust Aug/Sep 12 $5.99

    8. Publick Occurances #13 by Danny Martin $2.00

    9. Sex Gender Identity Orientation and Discrimination by Dan Copulsky $.25

    10. Fuck Yeah I Can Be Sentmental: Foster James Little Book of I Love Yous by Patrick Gill $1.00 – A love letter to the love letter.

  • New Stuff This Week and Holiday Hours

    Quimby’s will be open on Monday, September 3, 2012 from noon to 5pm. Come buy the new issue of Tiki Magazine then sit back and pour yourself a mai tai at home!

    Tiki Magazine vol 8 #2 Fall Win 12/13 $6.99 – Celebrating the “Island” Lifestyle. This issue starts off with a beautiful cover by mosaic artists Maggie Rickard and Mark Bloom, better known as Velvet Glass. Other great features include famed carver Leroy Schmaltz, poet Don Blanding, comic book series the Neon Tiki Tribe, Disneyland Tiki bar Trader Sam’s…. and much,much more. With 66 pages of everything tiki.

    Zines & Zine-Related Book
    Paradox Lost #1  by Maxwell Stern and Timothy Dilich $7.00
    Activities by Megan Hopkins $12.00
    OK Cupid Messages I Have Not Responded To by Delphine Bedient $4.00
    Abservd Magazine vol 1 #2 $5.95
    Show Me The Money #37 by Tony Hunnicutt $2.50
    Remedy Quarterly #10 Discovery $7.50 – Food n’ kitchen journal of personal essays and eating well.

    KerBloom #97 Jul Aug 12 $2.00 – Artnoose writes a time capsule letterzine to new baby Bernard, frank and smart.

    Comics & Comix
    What It Is Comic  by Dawn Wing $7.00
    comics by Hazel Nowlevant: Ci Vediamo and Curio vol 1 Experimental Issue
    In Situ #1 and #2 by Sophie Yanow
    Garage by Roope Eronen $5.00
    Comics by Amanda Vahamaki: Maestro, In The Garden  $8.75 each
    Crass Sophisticate #29 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $2.00 – Oh Shit, is that Anthony Bourdain porking Lady Superdawg on the cover of the latest Crass Sophisticate? Josh and Justin maintain their reputation for utter mayhem and dubious taste with this latest “Kill the Pigs” installment of Crass Sophisticate  that drags the manic cousins through the garden and comes to a shocking  conclusion that has to be read to be believed. -EF

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Dal Tokyo HC by Gary Panter (Fantagraphics) $35.00
    One Soul by Ray Fawkes $24.99
    Supernatural Dogs of Edinburgh by Brian Wood and Grant Bond $14.99
    Heartless by Nina Bunjevac (Conundrum) $20.00
    After School Special by Dave Kiersh $15.00
    Homer – The Odyssey by Seymour Chwast $20.00

    Fiction
    Commodity a Love Story Told in Receipts by Caitlin R. Warner $12.00
    Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson $16.00 – Yes, THAT William Gibson. Now in soft cover.
    Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus (Semiotexte) $17.95
    First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon (Arsenal) $14.95
    The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides $16.00 – From the author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Now in soft cover.
    Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of Singularity Posthumanity and Awkward Social Situation by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross $24.99
    J and L Illustrated #3 $20.00 – J & L Books’ acclaimed J & L Illustrated series presents handsomely designed paperback volumes of fiction and art at an affordable price. Shout magazine wrote of the first volume, published in 2002: “This impressive collection of illustrations and fiction makes sense of the world like good liquor should.” Edited by writer Paul Maliszewski (author of Prayer and Parable and Fakers), this third volume of J & L Illustrated is comprised of 13 short stories by authors Amie Barrodale, Scott Bradfield, Stephen Dixon, Steve Featherstone, William H. Gass, Michael Martone, Joseph McElroy, Elizabeth Miller, Robert Nedelkoff, Hasanthikia Sirisena, Steve Stern, Mike Topp and Xiaoda Xiao. The Paris-based artist Shoboshobo provides accompanying drawings.

    Sex & Sexy
    Thrones of Desire Erotic Tales of Swords Mist and Fire by Mitzi Szerto (Cleis) $15.95
    Sexytime: Post Porn Rise of the Pornoisseur by Jacques Boyreau and Peter Van Horne (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    B Magazine #2 $8.99

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road by Michelle Tea $16.95
    100 Whores: Memoirs of a John by Dementiuk Mykola $15.00
    One Thousand Mustaches: A Cultural History of the Mo by Allan Peterkin (Arsenal) $12.95 – Both a lighthearted cultural history and an earnest style manual.
    My Heart Is an Idiot by Davy Rothbart $25.00 – Essays by the founder of FOUND Magazine and This American Life contributor.

    Politics & Revolution
    Occupying Language: Secret Rendezvous With History and the Present by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini (Zuccotti Park Press) $9.95 – From the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series.
    Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters by Victoria Bassetti $17.95

    DIY
    Recycled Home: Transform Your Home Using Salvaged Materials by Rebecca Proctor $19.95
    Cannabis Indica vol 2 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner $20.00

    Music Books
    The Indie Cred Test (Orange Second Edition) by Henry H. Owings $19.00
    Jagger: Rebel Rock Star Rambler Rogue by Marc Spitz $16.00
    Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett by Rob Chapman $20.00
    Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness – an overview in an in-depth reader format, bridging the gap between conventional accounts of the scene and the new pan-academic focus on Black Metal as a conduit for socio-cultural expression.  by Louis Pattison, Nick Richardson, Brandon Stosuy (Black Dog Publishing) $29.95
    Gainsbourg: The Biography by Gilles Verlant $24.95

    Magazines
    Bitch #56 $5.95
    Design Bureau Sep Oct 12 $8.00
    Wallpaper Sep 12 $10.00
    Backwoodsman vol 33 #5 Sep Oct 12 $4.95
    Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 12 vol 36 #5 $4.95
    Sovereign #39 Sep 12 $3.95
    Heroes and Desperados 2012 $8.95
    Pacific Standard Sep Oct 12 $5.99
    Bizarre #192 Sep 12 $10.50
    Pigeons and Peacocks #5 $13.99
    Gothic Beauty #37 $6.95
    Skunk vol 8 #2 $5.99
    Pin Up America Sep Oct #11 $5.99
    Decades #1: Beet Stain $15.00
    Lab Magazine #6 $9.99
    Under the Radar #42 $5.99
    Filter #49 $5.95
    Mojo #226 Sep 12 $9.99
    Big Cheese #147 $7.99
    Decibel #96 Oct 12 $4.95
    Monocle vol 6 #56 Sep 12 $12.00
    In These Times Sep 12 $3.50
    Empirical Sep 12 $6.99
    Reason Oct 12 $3.95
    Z Magazine Sep 12 $4.95
    Tattoo Revolution Sep 12 $11.75

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Golden Handcuffs Review vol 1 #15 $12.00

    Childrens
    Benny and Penny in Lights Out by Geoffrey Hayes $12.95

    The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.