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  • Anne Elizabeth Moore Reads From Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present 9/28

    The city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia hosts public dance lessons most nights on a newly revitalized riverfront directly in front of prime minister Hun Sen’s urban home. Shortly before dusk, much of the city gathers to bust a few Apsara moves and learn a couple choreographed hip- hop steps from a slew of attractive young men at the head of each group. Outside the bustling capital city, the provinces come alive, too, as the nation’s only all-girl political rock group sets up concerts that call into question the international garment trade, traditional gender roles, and agriculture under globalization. Cambodia is changing: not what it once was, not yet what it will be.  Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present provides images of a nation’s people emerging from generations of poverty.

    Following on the heels of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, Anne Elizabeth Moore compiled photographs that document Cambodia’s bustling nightlife, the nation’s emerging middle class, and the ongoing struggle for social justice in the beautiful, war-ravaged land.

    A series of essays complement the imagery, investigating the relationship between public and private space, mourning and memory, tradition and economic development. It is a document of a nation caught between states of being, yet still deeply affecting.

    “Radical” (L.A. Times), “poignant” (Boston Globe), “should not be missed (Time), “a notable underground author” (The Onion), and “brilliant” (Kirkus) are all ways to describe Anne Elizabeth Moore and her writing. The award-winning author and artist has worked for years with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and her newest venture is a compilation of photographs and lyrical essays taking readers to the streets of the country’s capital city, Phnom Penh, and out into the countryside— where few get to travel. Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present released Aug. 28, 2012 from Green Lantern Press.

    Alternating full color and black and white photographs depict Phnom Penh’s bustling nightlife as locals gather to dance on a newly revitalized riverfront directly in front of their prime minister’s urban home, thus forming a portrait of the nation’s emerging middle class. Images from a southern province depict a nation in dialogue with its government, hoping for development that lifts all citizens. A series of essays complement the imagery, investigating the relationship between public and private space, mourning and memory, tradition and an economic development unrivaled in the last 1,200 years.

    “Traditional movements push against young passions,” Moore writes. “Development is fluid and janky. But a generation is learning what comfort feels like, learning what it feels like to have survived. To celebrate, to honor, they dance most nights like they are possessed.”

    Hip Hop Apsara aims to break through the cavalier and hardened consciousness many hold about Cambodian culture and its recent, violent, past under the Khmer Rouge.

    “People seem rooted in this belief that Cambodia’s very far away and very weird,” Moore said. “It is far away, but for 14 million Cambodians, it’s not weird at all – plus it’s a place the US has had a lot of negative influence over. So it seems like we should know something about it, as Americans.”

    A Fulbright scholar, Moore is the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). She was co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series.

    Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, the Truthout columnist behind Ladydrawers: Gender and Comics in the US, and the author of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007, named a Best Book of the Year by Mother Jones) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of the now-defunct Punk Planet, and founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches in the Visual Critical Studies and Art History departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects, and with people of all ages and genders on media and gender justice work in the US. Her journalism focuses on the international garment trade. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, and has been the subject of two documentary films. She has lectured around the world on independent media, globalization, and women’s labor issues. The multi-award-winning author has also written for N+1, Good, Snap Judgment, Bitch, the Progressive, The Onion, Feministing, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. She has appeared on CNN, WNUR, WFMU, WBEZ, Voice of America, and others. Her work with young women in Southeast Asia has been featured in USA Today, Phnom Penh Post, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out Chicago, Make/Shift, Today’s Chicago Woman, Windy City Times, and Print Magazine, and on GritTV, Radio Australia, and NPR’s Worldview. Moore recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and participated in Artisterium, Georgia’s annual art invitational. Her upcoming book, Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present (Green Lantern Press, Aug. 28, 2012), is a lyrical essay in pictures and words exploring the people of Cambodia’s most rampant economic development in at least 1,200 years.

    BOOK DETAILS
    Hardcover, $20 ISBN: 978-1-4507-7526-7 Photo/Essay, 100 pages Green Lantern Press

    For more info:
    AnneElizabethMoore.com
    @superanne
    Publicity: JKSCommunications.com

  • Comics Release Party with John Porcellino and Noah Van Sciver 9/19

    Join John Porcellino and Noah Van Sciver as they celebrate the release of their new projects, King-Cat #73 (self-published) and The Hypo (Fantagraphics).  They’ll be reading from and showing slides of their work, answering questions, and signing books.

    The Hypo, debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows the twenty-something Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before becoming our most beloved president. Lincoln is a rising Whig in the state’s legislature as he arrives in Springfield, IL to practice law. With all of his possessions under his arms in two saddlebags, he is quickly given a place to stay by a womanizing young bachelor who becomes his friend and close confidant. Lincoln builds a life and begins friendships with the town’s top lawyers and politicians. He attends elegant dances and meets an independent-minded young woman from a high-society Kentucky family, and after a brisk courtship, becomes engaged. But, as time passes and uncertainty creeps in, young Lincoln is forced to battle a dark cloud of depression brought on by a chain of defeats and failures culminating into a nervous breakdown that threatens his life and sanity. This cloud of dark depression Lincoln calls “The Hypo.” Dense crosshatching and an attention to detail help bring together this completely original telling of a man driven by an irrepressible desire to pull himself up by his bootstraps, overcome all obstacles, and become the person he strives to be. All the while, unknowingly laying the foundation of character he would use as one of America’s greatest presidents.

    JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, a collection of King-Cat stories about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in 2005, and Perfect Example, first published in 2000, chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix and Map of My Heart, published in 2007/2009, offer a comprehensive overview of the zine’s first sixty-one issues, while Thoreau at Walden (2008) is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals. According to cartoonist Chris Ware, “John Porcellino’s comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive.”

    For more info:

    nvansciver.wordpress.com

    www.king-cat.net

    www.spitandahalf.blogspot.com

    www.johnporcellino.blogspot.com

    Wed, Sept 19th, 7pm, Free Event

  • Weekly Top 10

    Congrats to this week’s winners!

    1. Emotions Are Hard/Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50

    2. Dig Deep #2 by Heather $1.00

    3. Counter Attack #3 by Alisa Harris $3.00

    4. Hypnotic Induction Technique by Grant Reynolds $4.00 – Jeezus, Reynolds… This Technique is a patty melt full of bloody hair and a side of mucus fries. Split down the middle, H.I.T. begins with a medley of shorter pieces so viciously viscously combined it’s hard to tell where the pizza puff ends and the rectum begins, and frankly, why would you want to? Progressively wrapping itself around itself, the wormy mass and thready entrails put their cord through a narrative meat grinder. The resultant chuck and splatter is the perfect segway to “Peeled and Deveined” a prying terrorchase lit by nightmare flashlight. These are under-the-skin stories, the kind that keep you coming back to map the terrain of each page while your subconscious slides under the quicksand surface. Get in a suggestible state and sew this onto your mind.  -EF

    5. Crap Hound #6 by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) $13.00 – This is the fourth-fucking-edition of Crap Hound #6: Death Phones and Scissors and all the bonus material has it busting the staple barrier, so you get all 100 pages previously ever released plus a 16-page addendum. You say addendum, I say amazing. Seriously, if you have eyes you should be looking at this. -EF

    6.   Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95
    7. Office Girl by Joe Meno (Akashic) $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

    8. Lucky Peach #4 Sum 12 American Food Issue $12.00

    9. Cheer the Eff Up #3 by Jonas #3 $1.00

    10. Every Thug Is a Lady Adventures Without Gender by Julia Eff $4.00

    Is it me or is it hilarious the reoccuring “eff” theme of the last two on this list? Dismissed as coincidence! -LM

  • New Stuff This Week

    Index #1 by Caitlin Cass $3.50 – Blank comfort and empty anxieties, in the cards.

    Zines
    Fix Your Clothes by Raleigh Briggs $5.00 – By the author of the smash hit of a DIY book in these parts Make Your Home. Cute and fun, but more importantly helpful.
    The Day I Stopped Being Punk by Siue $2.00
    Paper Radio issues #10-#12 a Media and Radio Zine by DJ Frederick $3.00 each
    Baitline Audiozine $4.00 – From the folks who publish the free, flirty and dirty want ad service broadsheet that one often finds in our free area. Comes with with CD containing interviews and testimonials with satisfied Baitline customers.
    Self-Help Self-Fuck A Tiny Story by BR Coyote $1.50
    The Printed Blog, various issues, various prices
    Loosey Goosey vol II $16.75
    Docs #1 Sum 12 Journal of Microbiology Solutions to Puzzles of the Blood by Dan Dorsey, Geff Stiubhairt, Amanda Dorsey $2.00
    older issues of Publick Occurances (#10 and #11) by Danny Martin $2.00 each

    Comix & Comics
    Jiggy Jiggy Boys #1 $5.00
    Blunt Naked #1 $3.00
    Fatima #3 of 4 the Blood Spinners by Gilbert Hernandez $3.99
    Nobrow #7 $24.00
    Cloaca Crossing Coloring Booklet $4.00
    Gnartoons #1 Apr 12 by James Stanton $6.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    History of Underground Comics (20th Anniversary Edition) by Mark James Estren (Roin Publishing) $29.95
    Fight #2 Graphic Novel by Jack Teagle (Nobrow) $13.95
    Bicycle by Ugo Gattoni (Nobrow) $24.95
    Prophet Volume 1: Remission by Brandon Graham , Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple, Giannis Milogiannis $9.99 – Collects issues #21-#26.

    Art & Design
    Getting Into Face: 52 Mondays Featuring JoJo Baby and Sal-E (Schiffer) $45.00 – Photographer Bernard Colbert rigorously captures Wicker Park-based performance artists (and Quimby’s regulars!) JoJo Baby and Sal-E in genius moments as psychedelic Hindi gods, comic book villains, fantastical creatures, astronauts, and much, much more. Over 100 photos, as featured in the Clive Barker documentary titled JoJo Baby.
    Pictorial Websters:A Pocket Dictionary $12.95
    The Tattoo Project: Body, Art, Image by Vince Hemingson (Schiffer) $45.00 – Here are the final results of The Tattoo Project, works by 11 fine art photographers with a variety of styles who shot portraits of 100 heavily tattooed individuals. The brainchild of photographer Vince Hemingson, the event sequestered models and photographers in Vancouver s Photo Workshop for a multiple-day shoot. Thousands of portraits were produced that aimed to explore who each of the subjects was through their ink and the photographic process. This volume features more than 200 images from the event and truly reflects not only who the subjects are, but who the photographers are as well. From differing approaches to lighting, mood, and color to different methods for engaging the subjects, each of the artists clearly has a unique vision. This is an ideal book for photography and tattoo art students, teachers, and enthusiasts.

    DIY/Food/Drugs
    True Living Organics: Ultimate Guide to Growing All Natural Marijuana Indoors by The Rev (Green Candy Press) $20.00
    Hashish: History, Cultures, Ingredients, Recreation, Medicine,  Hashish Making…$35.95
    Fifty Ways to Cure a Hangover: Weird Wacky and Wonderful Ways for Prevention and Cure by Sharratt Cara Frost and Jason Ford (Chronicle) $5.99

    Fiction
    We Only Know So Much by Elizabeth Crane $14.99
    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn $25.00
    Filling In the Blanks by Anthony Roberts $12.00
    The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (Back Bay) $16.99 – Now in soft cover.
    Between Heaven and Here by Susan Straight (McSweeneys) $24.00

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Haarp Heavy: Anti Authoritarian Rap Poems by Che Christ $20.00
    McSweeneys #41 $27.00
    Exact Change Only Win 2012 and Sum 2012 $10.00 each

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Breaking the Mirror of Heaven: The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval and Ahmed Osman $20.00 – Egyptology conspiracy theory! Exposes the many cycles of monument destruction and cultural suppression in Egypt from antiquity to the present day.
    Wall Street Coloring Book – Now You Can Color and Draw Like the Big Boys $7.99
    Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up ed . by Leah Odze Epstein et al. $16.00 – An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years.
    Truth According to Sally Miller $15.00
    Fast Girl: Don’t Brake Until You See the Face of God And Other Good Advice From the Racetrack by Ingrid Steffensen $16.00
    Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything by Randy Cohen $24.95 – By the entertaining and wise Ethicist from The New York Times.
    Darkest America Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip Hop by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen $26.95 – This book investigates the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a black art form—and embraced it as such. And, as the authors reveal, black minstrelsy remains deeply relevant to popular black entertainment, particularly in the work of contemporary artists like Dave Chappelle, Flavor Flav, Spike Lee, and Lil Wayne. Darkest America explores the origins, heyday, and present-day manifestations of this tradition, exploding the myth that it was a form of entertainment that whites foisted on blacks, and shining a sure-to-be controversial light on how these incendiary performances can be not only demeaning but also, paradoxically, liberating.
    Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures In the Counterculture by Paul Krassner (Soft Skull) $18.95

    Politics & Revolution
    2 Christopher Hitchens Books: Mortality and Arguably: Essays (in soft cover)
    The Man Who Never Died: The Life Times and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by William M. Adler $18.00

    Music Books
    How Music Works by David Byrne (McSweeneys) $32.00
    Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse $27.99

    Childrens Books
    Stories 1234 by Eugéne Ionesco and Etienne Delessert (McSweeneys) $19.95
    Hilda and the Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson (Nobrow) $24.00
    Maya Makes a Mess by Rutu Modan (Toon) $12.95

    Magazines
    Chicago IRL #4 Sum 12 $15.00
    McSweeneys #41 $27.00
    Harpers Magazine Sep 12 $6.99
    Paper Sep 12 $4.00
    Cabinet #46 Punishment $12.00
    Eye Magazine #83 Spr 12 $30.00
    True Crime Aug 12 $8.99
    Murder Most Foul #85 $9.99
    Interzone #241 $8.50
    Fortean Times #291 Sep 12 $11.99
    Press the Fashion vol 2 #1 Fall 12 $9.99
    Brownbook #34 $14.99
    Arise #16 $9.99
    The State vol 2 Sum 12 Speculative Geographies $14.00
    Empire Sep 12 $9.99
    Wire #342 Aug 12 $9.99
    Magnet #90 $4.99
    Clash #76 $8.99
    Uncut Sep 12 #184 $9.99

    Sex & Sexy
    Stepcest Taboo by Evan J. Xavier $9.00

    Other Stuff
    New blank journals and notebooks, such as My Beautiful Life: My Autobiography in Drawings $16.95, Mix Tape Mini Eco Journal Set $9.95, Make Something Good Today Blank Journal by Jen Renninger $9.95
    Two different 2013 Hark a Vagrant Wall Calendars by Kate Beaton: Beethoven Birthday Party and There She Blows Literary (D&Q) $14.95 each

    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.

  • Gregory Harms Reads From It’s Not About Religion 9/15

    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?

    In It’s Not About Religion, Gregory Harms examines a range of topics in an effort to answer the question. As the book’s title indicates, the region’s woes and instability are in fact not caused by biblical or Islamic factors. Harms reveals a list of entirely secular factors and realities as he examines how and why Americans view the Arab Middle East the way they do; the history of European and U.S. involvement in the region; the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism; and how academics and the mass media tend to discuss the region and its inhabitants.

    In roughly one hundred pages, the reader is shown 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.

    “An informative, lively, and humane look at the real sources of conflict and struggle in the [Middle East].” –Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

    GREGORY HARMS is an independent scholar and the author of The Palestine–Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction (3rd ed., 2012) and Straight Power Concepts in the Middle East: US Foreign Policy, Israel, and World History (2010). His articles appear on CounterPunch, Truthout, and Mondoweiss. He has been interviewed on BBC Radio and Chicago Public Radio.

    For more info:
    gregoryharms.com
    percevalpress.com

     

  • CCLaP Performs "Podcast Dreadful"

    Join the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) on Friday, September 21st, as it presents a live-audience episode of its new “Podcast Dreadful” serial literary anthology, at the popular Quimby’s Bookstore in Wicker Park. Known for its annual themed compilation of local short work every fall, this year CCLaP is presenting this work as a free 12-part audiobook at its website cclapcenter.com/dreadful, every Monday in September, October and November; featuring a variety of celebrated authors both locally and across the US, each story in this collection has been written in the style of an old Victorian “penny dreadful,” featuring cliffhangers each week and a dark, strange tone throughout. Episode number 4 will be performed in front of a live audience at the famed indie-lit venue Quimby’s, and will feature not only readings from local authors Davis Schneiderman, Jacob Knabb, Jason Fisk and CCLaP owner Jason Pettus, but also real-time radio-style sound effects by a specially assembled stage crew. Free refreshments will also be served that night, and with other CCLaP merchandise available for purchase.

    For more info: cclapcenter.com/dreadful or write Jason Pettus at cclapcenter@gmail.com

     Fri, Sept 21st, 7pm

  • Weekly Top 10


    Still shot of entries from the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest Olympics “Make a Zine Cover” Competition from opening night. And guess what? Dates have been announced for the next Chicago Zine Fest, which will be March 8th and 9th 2013. For more info, see chicagozinefest.org.

    1. DemonTears by Bernie McGovern (Hic and Hoc) $6.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out for the event with minicomics superstars Bernie McGovern, Lauren Barnett and Neil Fitzpatrick.

    2. Handbook vol 6 #3 2012 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – Steve Cruz, Keith Haring, reader dick, curated mens, elevator porn – a real handfull. -EF

    3. Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99

    4. Uppercase #14 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00

    5. Hypnotic Induction Technique by Grant Reynolds $4.00 – Jeezus, Reynolds… This Technique is a patty melt full of bloody hair and a side of mucus fries. Split down the middle, H.I.T. begins with a medley of shorter pieces so viciously viscously combined it’s hard to tell where the pizza puff ends and the rectum begins, and frankly, why would you want to? Progressively wrapping itself around itself, the wormy mass and thready entrails put their cord through a narrative meat grinder. The resultant chuck and splatter is the perfect segway to “Peeled and Deveined” a prying terrorchase lit by nightmare flashlight. These are under-the-skin stories, the kind that keep you coming back to map the terrain of each page while your subconscious slides under the quicksand surface. Get in a suggestible state and sew this onto your mind.  -EF

    6. Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley (“Pais) and Boo Radley $15.00 – The first magazine by cats for cats. (Recommended reading. -LM)

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

    8. Taking the Lane vol 7 BikeSex $4.00 – Bikesexuals speak out.

    9. Everythingness by Neil Fitzpatrick (Hic and Hoc Press) $5.00

    10. Colors #84  $8.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Thank you to the charming David Rees (who we demand pose in our vintage photobooth in his apron) and for everybody that came to our event this past week (and a special thanks to audience members who participated as pencil sharpening novices). David demonstarted how to do some flashy sharpening moves as well as explained how to start your very own pencil sharpening business. Follow your dreams, kids!

    Handbook for Hot Witches: Illustrated Guide to Magic Love and Creativityby Dame Darcy $15.99 – Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells—voilà!—Handbook for Hot Witches. Ever wondered what your dreams mean? You can look them up here. Want to learn to knit? This book can get you started. With sections on witch holidays, love, crystal ball gazing, meditating, and much more, this fully illustrated guide is the handbook that will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic. What kind of witch are you? Let Dame “Meatcake” Darcy help you figure it out. And here’s an early bird announcement: Dame Darcy will be here at Quimby’s on October 29th to help you get your halloween samhain on.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    We’ll Never Have Paris: Greatest Hits – Literary Journal of Non-Fiction by Andria Alefhi and Jaime Borschuk $7.95
    Butch Nor Femme #6 Your Secretary #12 Split Zine by Lynne and Jami Sailor $1.00
    Tributaries #2 Illinois Withholding Allowance by JC $2.00
    Tributaries #3 On Tricycling History and Endings by JC $3.00
    When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler It’s Because They Think Sardines Will Be Thrown Into the Sea by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera $3.00
    Belmonte (De Francisco Lamb editions) $3.00
    Happie volume 1 by Lamb $10.00
    Alleyways: Eight Stone Press by William P. Tandy $4.00
    D Tuned #1 Jul 12 by Danica Favorito $1.00
    Emotions Are Hard – Crushes: A Not Helpful Guide by Georgi $.50
    Mystery & Adventure Series Review #46 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
    Glance in the Rearview Mirror: Neoliberal Ideology from its Origins… by Toussaint (Haymarket) $4.95
    Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible by Mike Davis (Haymarket Books) $4.95
    Cool Food #1 by Jessalyn Aaland $20.00 – That title’s no lie! Aaland reviews foods and cactuses, puts it out there whut’s rad about eating and hot tips on rad ways to eat the rad things. Blue plate special scrappy friend fun, written with frankjoy and illustrated sticker tripper doodlebugs of broccoli faces and donut buddies.

    Comics & Comix
    Colour Me Busy by Keith Jones (Koyama Press) $5.00
    Everybody Loves Tank Girl #2 Mahfood and Martin $3.99
    Me and You Chapter 3 $4.00
    Bots is Bots #1 by Gregg K $1.00
    Steel Sterling #1 by Michael Rae Grant and Gabriel Winslow Yost $5.00
    Dimensions issues #3 and #4  $15.00 each
    Let’s Do It BY Zejian Shen $3.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books) $24.95
    Comics Class by Matthew Forsythe (Koyama) $5.00
    Tomorrow Never Knows: A Comics History of the Psychedelic Beatles by Sean Ward (Harth Publishing) $12.00
    Economix: How Our Economy Works and Doesnt Work in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin et al. $19.95
    Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics by Margreet de Heer $16.95
    Graphic novels from Matt Dembicki: XOC the Journey of a Great White and District Comics: an Unconventional History of Washington DC
    The Creativity of Ditko by Craig Yoe et al. $39.99
    Two Cats Magazine #1 Win 12 by Paisley and Boo Radley $15.00 – Important news from the perspectives of the two cats: Dust, Inside Utility Closet, plus Catnip Treats. Pressing matters! Inquiring minds are glad to read this because it’s hilarious.

    Art & Design
    Quoteskine vol 1 by Lee Crutchley (Carpet Bombing Culture) $18.95
    Paper Works (Gingko Press) $34.95
    From Ummmm to Der by Thomas Campbell 2009-2011 (Gingko Press) $29.95 – Very pretty monograph of Campbell’s recent work. He was prominently featured in the ground-breaking touring exhibition (2003-2008) “Beautiful Losers” and also the subsequent book and film.

    Drawn By Instinct by Tiffany Bozic $45.00
    Guide to Troubled Birds, Profusely Illustrated by Mincing Mockingbird $13.99
    Wacky Packages Gallery Most Comprehensive Resource Archive Compiled to Date From Two of the Most Knowledgeable Collectors in the Hobby by various (Last Gasp) $15.00
    Idle Hands: The Art of Coop (Baby Tattoo) $50.00
    Blab World #2 by Monté Beauchamp (Last Gasp) $24.95
    Alice by Trevor Brown $70.00
    Rivers Forgotten by Jeremy Kai (Koyama Press) $25.00
    Typoholic by the Victionary Workshop $39.95
    You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat by Banksy $35.00
    Stencil Wars: the Ultimate Book of Star Wars Inspired Street Art $29.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Complex of Carnage: Dario Argento Beneath the Surface by Jack Hunter – From the Cult Movie Files.
    Eccentropedia: The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived by Chris Mikul and Glenn Smith (Headpress) $25.95
    Flesh Ripping Ghouls of London: Murder, Madness and Mayhem from the Penny Bloods by JM Rymer et al (Creation) $14.95
    Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium by Mark Edward (Feral House) $18.95
    The Worlds Weirdest Places by Nick Redfern $15.99

    Music Books
    The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines By Candice Black $14.95

    Fiction
    One in Every Crowd Stories by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press) $15.95
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche $16.95

    Sex & Sexy
    Salome and Under the Hill Forbidden Erotic Classics by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley (Wet Angel) $14.95
    Das Einhorn #3 Aug Sep 12 $6.00

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #140 Sep 12 $5.99
    Bizarre #191 Aug 12 $10.50
    Paleo Magazine Aug Sep 12 $5.99
    High Times Oct 12 $5.99
    Pinstriping #33 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    Mojo #225 Aug 12 $9.99
    Maximumrocknroll #352 Sep 12 $4.00
    Fader #81 Aug Sep 12 $5.99
    WHOA (Whats Happening With Original Artists) Magazine Fall 12 $6.95
    Filter Good Music Guide Aug Sep 12 $2.99
    Cinema Retro #4 Movie Classics Special Edition $15.95
    The Indignados and Occupy Movements Across the World Reader $2.50
    Monocle Mediterraneo #5 Sum 12 $8.00
    ASR #58 Sum 12 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
    Tabu Tattoo #48 $7.99

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal #6 Sum 12 $12.00
    Mudfish #17 $12.00
    American Athiest 2nd and 3rd Quarter 12 $4.95
    Creative Nonfiction #45 Sum 12 $10.00
    Overtime Hour 25 Black Shift by TE Winningham III $2.00

    Other Stuff
    Plastic Crimewave Vinyl (Notes and Bolts Records and Tapes) $5.50 – 7″ of psychedelic goodness! On the A side, Steve a.k.a. Plastic Crimewave croons like Bowie if he were truly in space while Tsuyama from Acid Mothers Temple adds creepy ambience in the background. On the B side, Steve gets hazey as the shoegazey goodness seeps off of the grooves and through the speakers. A solid deal and the first vinyl outing from local zine turned vinyl shiller Notes and Bolts!

    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

     

    Michael the sausage dog took his owners Becky and Ali to Quimby’s and posed with our Cola Flavored Mustache Lollipop. Hot diggity dog!

    1. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams ComicArts)  $17.95 – Thanks to everybody who came to see Derf here this past Thursday.

    2. The Baffler #20 $10.00 –  In this summer issue, decomposing cities that tremble with vibrancy, art museums where cash-and-carry aesthetics is the rule, journalists on the endless education of the president, and imperial foundations and their pet broadcasters on public radio. Where else can you learn why Ira Glass’s This American Life is so damn annoying, or take in the lame, postideological pantomiming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, or admire the performance art of Harvard fraud Adam Wheeler and laugh at the Ivy mothership’s efforts to smite the pretender down?

    3. James Joyce by E. Choy $5.00 – Adaptations of James Joyce classics by Philidelphia-based Ed Choy! Includes Araby, an excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and an assortment of others. Interior pages feature alternating 1-color spreads in purple and Riso-Federal Blue.

    4. 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

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

    6. Maximumrocknroll #351 Aug 12 $4.00

    7. Razorcake #69 $4.00

    8. Duel Citizenship by Jen Twigg $2.00 – D.C./Maryland versus Chicago, but in a lovin’ kinda way. Twigg talks about what it means to feel like you live in a city and what’s great about places.-EF

    9. Office Girl by Joe Meno $15.95 – Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1999?

    10. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 –  All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Rebuttal In Spandex by Morgan Brainchild and David Diarrhea $2.00 – Reports from harms way, long form word play, cuneiform apartment plans and an automatic thought registry. A little treat from Brainchild and Diarrhea. -EF

    Zines
    Zines by Lynne: With an E #3 Looking For a Job, Butch Nor Femme #7 $1.50 each
    Fire Dogs #1 A SPOC Publication (Self-Publisheres of Chicago) $3.00 – Inspired by a book at the Read/Write Library here in Chicago, about the extremely specific topic of Firedogs at different fire stations around Chicago. With contributions from by Nicki Yowell, Grant Reynolds, Eric Bartholomew, Liz Mason Paul Durica and Meghan McGrath $3.00

    Zines from the Trans Oral History Zine Distro including: various issues of Bound to Struggle, Gendrfailz #1 and #2, Vanguard Revisited Fab 11, various prices
    Cheer the Eff Up #3 by Jonas $3.00
    Fibonacci in Biology by Adrian M. Pijoan $4.00
    Never Ain’t Nuthin’ by Benjamin Boyd Austin $1.00 – Cool stuff Benjamin’s never done.

    Comics & Comix
    Tucker Toon #1 by Dustooned $5.00
    Comics by Frederick Noland: Infallible vol 1, Teats on a Boar, Black Sheep #1 and #2 $4.00 each
    Jerrys Journal by Neil Fitzpatrick $5.00
    Buck #1 of 1 by Drawdoer Jones
    Comics by Leda Zewacki: Smoke Signals, My Escape from a Sea Monster Based on a True Story, $3.50 each
    S #11 Baltic Comics Magazine $11.00
    Comics by Adrian Manuel Pijoan Don’t Fear the King Story of Surface to Volume Ratio Size and Shape of Animals, Mexican, various prices
    Space Basket #1 by Jonathan Petersen (Domino Books) $5.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Tell Me More $10.00
    Taxes the Tea Party and Those Revolting Rebels a History in Comics of the American Revolution by Stan Mack $14.99
    Eyes of the Cat by Moebius and Jodorowsky $34.95
    Game For Swallows to Die to Leave to Return by Zeina Abirached $9.95
    Scott Pilgrim vol 1 Color Edition: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley et al. $24.95
    RASL TPB vol 4 Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla by Jeff Smith $19.95

    Art & Design
    Yield to Temptation by Todd James (Picturebox) $20.00
    Art of Molly Crabapple vol 2 Devil in the Details by Molly Crabapple $12.99

    Fiction
    Diving Belles by Lucy Wood $14.95
    Dead Do Not Improve  by Jay Caspian $25.00
    Giving up the Ghost: Story about Friendship 80s Rock Lost Scrap of Paper What It Means to be Haunted by Eric Nuzum $15.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Pyraminds and the Pentagon: The Government’s Top Secret Pursuit of Mystical Relics, Ancient Astronauts and Lost Civilizations by Nick Redfern $15.99
    This Book Is From the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes and Other Adventures In Time Travel by Marie D. Jones and Lassy Flaxman $15.99
    Lords of the Left Hand Path: Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies From the Cult of Set to the Church of Satan by Stephen E Flowers, PhD. $24.95
    Psycho USA Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of by Harold Schechter $20.00
    Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness by Normandi Ellis  $18.00
    Truth by Nina Yau $15.00

    DIY
    Color Me Drunk: A Drinking and Drawing Activity Book: Get Arty While You Party $12.99

    Politics & Revolution
    Territories In Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements by Paul Zibechi (AK) $19.95

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Specimen Magazine #2 $6.00
    Moonseed by Schrreiner $3.00

    Sex & Sexy
    S and M Feminist by Clarise Thom $20.00
    Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser by Clarise Thom $20.00

    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.