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  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Femme a Barbe vol 2 by by J. Bee $2.00 – True tangles of bearded ladies, gender reformations, hirsute identity and all permutations of feminine stubble, well worth a thorough comb-through. -EF

    2. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF

    3. Monkey In the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00 – Mucha’s got this special brand of world-enhancing “deductive reasoning” paired with an uncanny untuition – part clown, part private eye, thoroughly entertaining. -EF

    4. Gary Book 2 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00

    5. Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00

    6. Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia $2.00

    7. Truckface #15 by LB $3.00

    8. Bitch #53 $5.95

    9. Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

    10. Grantland Quarterly vol 1 $25.00 – Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

  • Vittorio Carli Reads A Passion For Apathy, with Friends 2/11

    Vittorio Carli Reads A Passion For Apathy,
    with Vince Bruckert, Dave Gecic,  Lynn Fitzgerald, Bradley Lastname, and other special guests

    In A Passion For Apathy, (published by Press of the Third Mind), Vittorio Carli experiments with many types of genres, and his poems were primarily influenced and informed by beat writings, dada, children’s literature, formalist verse, absurdism, fluxus, and surrealism.

    “I need to make it clear that this relatively small (68 pages) collection is in no way narrow or repetitious, either stylistically or thematically. Far from it; There is free verse, rhyming verse (where Carli shows the least originality and strength), language poetry, story-poems, repetitive poems, and even a bit of vispo, and the ending poem of the book: “Theological Parody” is something else again, and well worth a few careful reads. Poet–publisher Bradley Lastname and Press of the 3rd Mind continue to be at the forefront of the small and independent press…” -Joey Madia in New Mystic Reviews

    “A book by Vito Carli is long overdue. He is an ever changing fixture on the Chicago poetry scene, and seeing his work on the page, (mostly for the first time) does not pin him down in any one genre.  He is a constant experimenter, and seeing his poetry in print gives the reader a far greater appreciation for the nuances in his work.” -Dave Gecic (publisher of Pudd’nhead Books)

    Vittorio Carli’s poems have been published in Best of Chicago Poetry, Online! the Chicago Poetry Renaissance, Café Review, Rambunctious Review, Polvo, The American Dissident, Dissent, Struggle: The Journal of Revolutionary Literature, Mind in Motion, Alphabeat Press, Alternative Press, Poems of the World, Religious Humanism, The World Salad Anthology, and The Anti Mensch. Vittorio has done music, art and film reviews for The Star newspapers, The Southtown Star, Chicago Artists News, the Daily Herald, “Letter eX,” “Dialogue,” and reelmoviecritic.com. He currently does film commentary on WZRD (88.3 FM) on Sundays at 3:30, and he writes a poetry blog at www.examiner.com.

    For more info: carlivit@gmail.com      artinterviews.com     bradleylastname.com    bankley.org.uk/Artist-Carolyn-Curtis-Magri

    Sat, February 11th, 7pm

  • New Stuff This Week

    Chromazoid $20.00 -This in full-color underground comics chromatic explosion is a BRAND SPANKING NEW publication. It has comics  ready to vibrate your looking balls by such folks as Ben Bertin, Bill Cleveland, Ian McDuffie, Jeremy Tinder, Lale Westvind, Lisa Cline, Lyra Hill, Nick Jackson and Robert Calzone. It comes complete with a cutting edge CASSETTE MIX TAPE featuring WEIRDOS, musicians and drop outs from AROUND THE COUNTRY. We backed it on Kickstarter and now is your chance to see what we spend our money on. And don’t miss the release party for it at The Happy Dog Gallery tomorrow, Sat, Jan 21st at the Happy Dog Gallery (more info below).

    The Point Magazine #5 Spr 12: Symposium: What is the Left for? $12.00 – In this Issue: Funny Girls by Jessica Weisberg, On Tiger Moms by Julie Park, Toward A Social Socialism by Erik Olin Wright, Freeing the Market by William Davies, Anti-Politics by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Not Even Past by Brickey LeQuire, Sizing Up Oprah by Timothy Aubry, Coming to Terms by Jon Baskin, An Interview with Bill Ayers by The Editors, Libya and the Left by Michael Berube.

    Zines
    Notes on Eric by Jon  $3.00 – A heartwarming eulogy for a friend passed. At turns hilarious and then sad and then uplifting. Thumbs up! -LM Wilhelm Scream by Jeremy Behreandt $5.00 Black Carrot #16 by Dave $2.00 Congo: A European Invention by J. Gerlach $4.00 – Part of the Simple History Series Uptown Problems #3 by Nick Clemente $5.00 Wild Glass Look Back #1  by R. Clint Colburn $10.00

    Comics & Comix
    Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions by Corrine Mucha $5.00 Second Chances #1 by Eric Rivera $12.00 – A halfway house, some small time crooks, summoning satan. All sort of shenanagans. -LM Underground #1  by Cliodhna $4.00 comics by Neil Devlin $3.00 Issues of Kuti #2-#9 $3-$4 each various mini comix from Aron Nels Steinke, including issues of Big Plans and Super Crazy Cat Dance and Super Duper Dog Park. Ariadne auf Naxos #1 and #2 by Julia Gforer $5.00 each- Have TARDIS will travel. -LM SF Supplimentary File #2A and #2B by Ryan Cecil Smith $4.00 each – Newsprint manga adventures in SPAAAAAAAAAACe. Phase 7 #009 by Alec Longstreth $5.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Lost and Found Comics 1969-2003 by Bill Griffith (Fantagraphics) $35.00 Lodger by Karl Stevens $19.95 Guilty $9.95 by Karl Stevens $9.95 Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres (Avatar) $17.99 Silence of Our Friends: The Civil Rights Stuggle Was Never Black and White by Long & Demonakos, art by Nate Powell (First Sec) $16.99

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    UFO Strange Space on Earth by Paul Whitehead and George Wingfield $12.00 Graphic Designer A Cautionary Tale by Neil Devlin $7.99 Poised to Pummel: An Unauthorized Illustrated Biography of Bruce Lee by Aaron Block and John Marcoux $12.95 Sugarbabe Controversial: The Real Story of a Woman in Search of a Sugar Daddy by Holly Hill $16.95 Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Pershall $14.95 – Now in soft cover. The Existentialist’s Guide to Death the Universe and Nothingness by Gary Cox (Continuum) $19.99 Reality Hunger SC A Manifesto by David Shields (Vintage) $15.00 Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker (Soft Skull) $14.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Marable Manning $18.00 It Started In Wisconsin: Dispatches From the Front Lines Of the New Labor Protest by Mari Jo and Paul Buhle et al. (Verso) $14.95

    Music Books
    Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis and Nona Willis Aronowitz (U of Minn) $22.95

    Childrens
    Adventures of Tintin by Herge, Young Readers Editions: Black Island, King Ottokars Sceptre, both editions $8.99 each, and both contain over 20 pages of bonus material each!

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #133 Feb 12 $5.99 Bust Feb Mar 12 $5.99 Clutter #16 Like Toys Love Clutter $9.99 Print vol 66 #1 Feb 12 Power Issue $12.95 Capricious #12 $17.00 True Crime Jan 12 $8.99 Harpers Magazine Feb 12 $6.99 Make vol 29 $14.99 Caduceus #82 $8.99 Open Minds Feb Mar 12 $6.50 Cemetery Dance #65 $5.00 High Times Mar 12 $5.99 Skunk vol 7 #5 $5.99 Fangoria #310 $9.99 Horror Hound #33 Jan Feb 12 $6.99 Granta #118 Win 12 Exit Strategies $16.99 Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00 Black Velvet #70 $7.00 Boston Review Jan Feb 12 $6.95 Razorcake #66 $4.00 Radical Philosophy #171 $13.00 Amass #42 $4.95 Against the Current #156 Jan Feb 12 $5.00 Tattoo Scout #27 $9.60 Tattoo Collection #48 $6.99 Inked Feb 12 $6.99 Tattoo #271 Mar 12 $7.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    Willow Springs #69 $10.00 Barrelhouse #10 $9.00 Pleiades vol 32 #1 $9.00 Conium Review Spr 12 $.10 WomenArts vol 2 #1 Win 12 $10.00 Literary Review vol 55 #1 Fall Win 11 $8.00 Six By Six #25 $5.00

    Sex & Sexy
    Handbook vol 6 #1 2012 $6.00 Investigating Sex Surrealist Discussions by Jose Pierre (Verso) $19.95 Front #164 $9.99 Von Gutenberg #6 $19.00 Mate Win 12 $9.99

    Other Stuff
    Good Old Neon Classic Chicago Signs, a 2012 Calendar by Nick Freeman $5.00

    …And new to our website: tons of Tape Op and Punk Planet back issues! See quimbys.com/store for which ones.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50 – A magazine I simultaneously have to look at but can’t.

    2. Shit I Didnt Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50 – Compelling footnotes to various friends and relations, “Shit I Didn’t Tell You” is exactly that. It’s a nice checkup about sorting out how feelings get felt and life gets lived. -EF

    3. Exxxtinction by Sy Loady $3.00 – Fuckasoreass Triceratopz.

    4.   Show Me The Money #36 $2.50

    5.   Hi Fructose #22 $6.95

    6.   Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

    7.   Truckface #15 by LB $3.00 – Third year teaching high school English for CPS starts with LB hacking up a foreboding bloody clotball snotball. Truckface continues to be an annual report of both teaching and being taught- moving through all the drama, anger, goofiness and apathy and learning how to learn from it all. -EF

    8.   More Pictures About Feminism by Brad Troemel $10.00

    9.   Judas Goat Quarterly #51 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

    10. Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 (Study Group Books) – I imagine the rousing success of last year’s fantastic Study Group 12 anthology (#4) has spurred Study Group Magazine into existence. Like Austin English’s Windy Corner before it, SGM #1 is a full-up ideosyncratic combo platter of comics, interviews and examinations. Articles on Eleanor Davis, Brecht Evens and Craig Thompson and a hearty sampling of comics and illustration from Jennifer Parks, Daria Tessler, Aidan Koch, David King, Malachi Ward, Chris Cilla, T Alixopulos, Zack Soto, Jonny Negron and Michael DeForge. Amen. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Kramers Ergot #8 ed. by Sammy Harkham (Picturebox) $32.95 – A brutally effective anthology as an argument about the medium in the form of new work by: Anya Davidson, Leon Sadler, Ben Jones, CF, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Kevin Huizenga, Takeshi Murata, Robert Beatty, Chris Cilla, Gabrielle Bell, Frank Santoro & Dash Shaw, Gary Panter. 40-page reprint of “Wicked Wanda”, of the 1970s. Essay by Ian Svenonius.

    Zines
    Syndicate Product #18.4 by AJ Michel $1.00 – A list of much of the media consumed by Our Lady of Zine Awesomeness, A.J. Michel. I always look forward to her concise life-lessony responses to the media she consumes, and often she gets me into new things. Even better than Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” column in The Believer. Books, movies, TV shows, music, comics, magazines and more.
    My Aim Is True #4 by Carrie $1.00 – Carrie has done it again. Another awesome zine that’s hard to put down. Wise conclusions and compelling reading about stuff like self-image, sex and more. And of course, her crafty cut and paste aesthetic is neato. -LM
    Death Ritual #2 by George DeMoura $9.00 – New Age found footage and unlocked trunknecks on the crawl. -EF
    Fragments of Spring #2 by Marissa F $2.00
    Regional #4 An Examination of American Cuisine by Cassie Tompkins $8.50 – This issue: chili, chile, chilli. Comes with a cracker! The kind you eat, not the, um, forget it. Just get this zine, do the delicious sounding recipe in it and then fold it out to make a really cool piece of artwork to hang! -LM
    Last Night at the Casino Jan 12 Journal Entries From a Zinester Turned Dealer by Billy $2.00
    Hound and the Musch by Scott Roberts $6.00

    Comics and Comix
    Death Ritual #1 by George DeMoura $8.00
    Spider Monkey #1 by Jesse McManus and Austin English $5.00
    Here I Am – A Loud Knock at the Door – Who Could That Be nu Austin English $3.00
    Lobster King – Partone 2010 Approved by the Authority by Clara Bessijelle $5.00
    Comic Collection of 3 Stories by Clara Bessijelle $5.00 – Bessijelle’s got one of my favorite drawing lines- bold, detailed, funny and sensitive. Her comics look like collaged pencil sketches made from photo collages accompanied by a sinister formal comic timing that reminds me of Edward Gorey’s work without resembling it visually. This collection of 3 steel-eyed short ones runs like a tour 3 elaborately wallpapered parlors each with their own magic and secrets. -EF

    Art & Design Books
    Tattoo Parlour Artists From the World of Tattoo (Outre Gallery) $19.95 – With art from artists such as Angelique Houtkamp, Mike Giant & more.
    Anatomy of Sorrow by Daniel Martin Diaz (La Luz) $35.00
    Koretsky: The Soviet Photo Poster 1930 1984 by Erika Wolf (New Press) $60.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Tintin and Snowy Big Activity Book $19.95
    Habibi Signed, Bookplate Edition by Criag Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00
    Tank Girl – Bad Wind Rising HC by Rufus Dayglo & Alan Martin $19.95
    Monster Truck Automobiles Monsters and Mayhem by Shakey Kane (Wishbone) $14.99
    Annotated Sandman vol 1 by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo)  $49.99 – Sandman  issues 1 through 20.
    Preacher Book Six HC by Ennis and Dillon (Vertigo) $39.99
    Monster Mess by Lewis Trondheim $9.99

    Fiction
    Harolds Horrible Life by Billy McCall $18.00
    Vicky Swanky is a Beauty by Diane Williams (McSweeneys) $20.00
    Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton $16.00
    Fourth Fog by Chris Daniels $15.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Anarchist Interventions 03: Decolonizing Anarchism by Maia Ramnath (AK) $16.00
    Take Back Your Government: Citizens Guide to Grassroots Change by Morgan Carroll $19.95
    Intimate Wars: Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion From the Back Alley to the Board Room by Merle Hoffman $18.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    More Far Out Adventures Further Strange Adventures From the Pages of World Explorer by David Hatcher Childress (Adv Unlmtd) $25.00
    The Onion’s Love Sex and other Natural Disasters Relationship Reporting from Americas Finest $12.95
    End of War by John Horgan (McSweeneys) $22.00
    Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scott Bowers & Lionel Friedberg (Grove) $25.00

    Music Books
    Murder In the Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter by Harald Oimoen & Brian Lew (Bazillion Points) $39.95
    Bad As Me by Tom Waits (Anti Inc) $24.98
    The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty $16.00
    Bad Idea: I’m About To Do True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgement… by Chris Gethard (Da Capo) $16.00

    Magazines
    Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50
    Record Collector Jan 12 $10.50
    Uncut Feb 12 #177 $9.99
    Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    Barge Journal #1 $5.50

    Sex & Sexy
    Pornhounds #2 by Sharon Lintz et al. $5.00 – Horny hounds! Alternative comics artists do porn.

    Other Stuff
    TATTOO SPECIAL 1: Goliath Wallpaper Of Fame (Prints & Poster) by Charles Gatewood (Goliath) – Nine prints plus one large poster in a portfolio. Charles Gatewood pulls out his camera and shoots his subjects, from William S. Burroughs to drunken revelers and modern blood drinkers, like a war photographer. Goliath Wallpaper of Fame is a unique poster book magazine with large-scale prints of outstanding photographs by different artists. Issue 01, themed Tattoo, features Gatewood’s work, including a life-size portrait of Sailor Sid and nine other wall-sized images. A detailed interview and a biography included.

  • Martha Bayne Discusses The Soup & Bread Cookbook 2/9

    Everybody loves soup. But why?

     

    Sure, it’s nutritious, affordable, and infinitely variable. Soup can be a rustic meal in a bowl or a dainty palate cleanser. It can showcase the pure flavors of fresh spring peas or provide a last-ditch use for tired celery and the stalest bread. From borscht to pozole to udon, it’s the hallmark of home cooking across cultures. It soothes the sick, it nourishes the poor–and it can trick children into eating their veggies. And, alone among foods, a pot of soup can be a powerful tool to both draw people together and help them to reach out to others.

     

    The Soup & Bread Cookbook, inspired by author Martha Bayne’s Soup & Bread series at Chicago’s Hideout, aims to explore this social role of soup, in the midst of a collection of terrific, affordable recipes from food activists, chefs, and others, providing a quirky exploration of the cultural history of soup–and its natural ally, bread–as a tool for both building community and fostering social justice.

     

    The social functions of soup don’t stop at the soup kitchen door. Everyone’s familiar with the “stone soup” fable — the tale of a hungry town that feeds itself when every citizen contributes something to the pot. But have you heard about Re-Thinking Soup, a weekly free soup lunch started in Chicago by Sam Kass, the Obamas’ personal chef? Or about Empty Bowl, a nationwide grassroots effort to raise money for hunger relief by partnering with local arts groups?

     

    Soup has a powerful effect on how people gather, eat, and share. A few years ago in Seattle, Knox Gardner had a brainstorm. Eating your way through a pot of soup day after day can get boring–why not get together and swap some with friends? The idea took off like chicken and noodles, and now neighbors across the country are getting together regularly for home-based “soup swaps,” with a date at the end of January annually designated (by soupswap.com) as National Soup Swap Day.

     

    In Chicago, the arts collective InCUBATE uses soup as a microfunding tool. Each month since the Sunday Soup project launched in 2007, the group hosts a casual soup dinner for members and likeminded friends; the proceeds to go fund a different art project each month. And of course, soup can be a political statement: The radical volunteers of Food Not Bombs have been providing free vegetarian soup to the hungry as a protest against war and social injustice since 1980.

     

    These are just a few examples of the stories Bayne wraps around a collection of delicious, accessible and tested soup recipes, the diversity of which epitomizes the wide-ranging potential of soup as a community building tool. “Celebrity” chef contributors share the pages with food activists, farmers, writers, soup geeks, and regular folks involved in grassroots food projects around the country.

    For more info: soupandbread.net

    One of the top ten essential cookbooks for fall 2011.
    -Time Out Chicago

    Beautifully written, generous and honest, the book looks at community building through lenses as various and diverse as the country has to offer. Bayne finds people of many kinds – immigrants, nuns, urban farmers, artists and activists – each using soup to bring people together and knit up what has become unraveled.

    -Eiren Caffall, Tikkun Daily

  • Weekly Top 10 and 2011 Revenge of Print List

    Before last week’s bestsellers, we just wanted to say we are really excited by everyone who participated in the 2011 Revenge of Print! Click here to download a list. Then print it out and fold it pamphlet style.

    1. Henry and Glenn Forever Sticker Funbag by Igloo Tornado $5.00

    2. Suspect Device #1 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $6.00 – A turd in the hand is worth two in the Bushmiller….Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez assemble quite the goon squad to take old Nancy out for a night on the town. -EF – Work from: Jon Vermilea, Dane Martin, Elizabeth Bethea, Lizz Hickey, Nikki Burch, Brendan Leach, B Florio with M Note, Josh Burggraf, Jimmy Giegerich, J Hessig, Scalzo, M Sgier, Marina Gargarina, Leroy, V Kerlow, Sam Henderson, Anne Emond, Pat Aulisio, Tom Hart, Jude Killroy and Box Brown.

    3. Hound and the Musch by Scott Roberts $6.00

    4. Under the Radar #39 $5.99

    5. Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga $7.95 – The lucid insanity of insomnia fuels Huizenga’s understated formalist finesse. Glenn Ganges, suburban everyman, falls prey to a eye-pleasing array of graphic tricks and a 1 a.m. sense of humor that would keep me up at night thinking about it too. -EF

    6. Bad Day #12 – a culture magazine.
    7. Du Manger En Canne by R. Suicide $5.00 – loppy botulistic potted meat from the Mille Putois Laboratory, getting busy making it’s own gravy.

    8. Grantland #1 $25.00 – Well, finally we got a few of these in for long enough that I can put them up on the webstore. Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

    9. Hark A Vagrant by Kate Beaton $19.95

    10. My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Free Ice Cream and Other Cartoons You Could Have Drawn by Sam Henderson (Wow Cool) $3.00 – The cartoonist who gets our vote for “Most Likely to Make You Laugh Aloud Even If You’re By Yourself” is back with his first comic since Magic Whistle #11 in 2008. Hurrah!

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Curioddity #2 Movie Reviews of All 51 Disney Animated Films in 160 Characters…by Curiouser Jane $2.00
    Caboose #8 reDraft Picks by Liz Mason $1.00 – As in like, this stuff was originally on my blog. And then I picked those pieces to be the ones I’d put in this zine. And then I redrafted them, just for you. You want to read this. Correction: I want you to want to read this. -LM
    Boob Lightening by Cooper Lee Hilfman Whittlesey  $4.00
    Zines by Emily Larned: Muffin Bones #20 or Basil is Dying $2.00, Wanna Trade $2.00
    Show Me The Money #36 $2.50
    Unholy Bow by Terence Hannum $10.00
    Idiotas Nouveau by Oceguera Fancisco Cornero $3.00
    Chomp #1 $9.00
    Learning to Surf #1 by Mike Faloon $3.00
    KerBloom #93 Nov Dec 11 by Artnoose $2.00
    Are Snakes Necessary by Matthew Thurber & IMA Pelican $6.00
    Indigo #18 by Michelle Aiello $4.00
    Mish Libs #1 Original Word Games by Michelle Aiello $2.00
    Truckface #15 by LB $3.00 – She teaches during the year and zines during the summer. Always compelling.

    Comics & Comix
    Gaylord Phoenix #6 by Edie Fake $4.00 – A new issue from one-third of the Quimby’s staff!
    Curio Cabinet #5 Nov 11 by John Brodowski (Secret Acres) $8.00
    Rom #1 by Josh Bayer $5.00
    Suspect Device #1 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $6.00
    Naughty Han Song by Jim Stoten (Landfill) $12.00
    Some Approaching End by Jaakko Pallasvuo $15.00
    Suburban Blight #10 $1.00
    Total Screen by Henry James Glover $4.00
    Moxie Morons by Talya Modlin $7.00
    Ain’t Say Who by Talya Modlin $5.00
    Mad Monk The Rise to Power and Death of Rasputin by Talya Modlin $5.00
    Car Bren by Carrie Bren $4.00
    Thinger Dingers  by JT Yost (Birdcage) $3.00
    Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 by Zack Soto $12.00
    Ghost Attack #1, #4 and Fall 2009 by Zack Soto $5.00 each
    Unforgiving Blade of Conon #1 by Josh Bayer et al. $4.00
    Mini Kus #5 Future Is Now by Leo Kivro et al. $3.00
    End of The Fucking World Part 3 by Charles Forsman $1.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Pippas Arctic Adventure the Blue X Affair by Pippa Wolfie $7.00
    Green Monk by Brandon Dayton $5.99
    Aftershock Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan by Adam ED Pasion $10.00 – Work from Noah Van Sciver, Ben Snakepit and more.
    Regalia by Eliza Frye $25.00
    Avoid Disappointment and Future Regret by Swanson & Behr $12.00

    Art & Design Books
    Typo Graphy Sketch Books by Heller et al. (Princeton Arch) $40.00

    Childrens Books
    Keep Our Secrets by Jordan Crane (McSweeneys) $15.95 – To be read in a whisper. For best results read with a hairdryer and adult supervision. Heat affected

    DIY
    Marijuana Made Simple: A Beginners Guide to Growing Like a Pro by Mediman (Green candy) $18.00
    Medical Marijuana 101 by Martin, Rosenthal et al. (Quick) $14.95
    Essential Urban Farmer by Carptener & Rosenthal (Penguin) $25.00

    Fiction
    Party Wolves In My Skull by Michael Allen Rose (Eraserhead) $16.58 – Part of the New Bizarro Author Series. Local author.
    Blueprint of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot (BC) $14.00
    My Fathers House by Ben Tanzer $9.95
    While Mortals Sleep SC by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial) $16.00
    Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne (Random) $25.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Build Your Own President 2012: 1000 Possibilities No Real Solutions by Swanson & Behr $12.00
    My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla (Penguin) $15.00 – He was a genius. And sort of bat shit crazy too.

    Politics & Revolution
    Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank (Metropolit) $25.00

    Music Books
    Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside and Outside of ACDC by Mark Evans (Bazillion Points0 $19.95
    Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World by Jon Szwed (Penguin) $20.00

    Magazines
    Fortean Times #283 Feb 12 $11.99
    Backwoodsman vol 33 #1 Jan Feb 12 $4.95
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #4 $6.25
    Dwell Feb 12 $5.99
    Sneaker Freaker #22 $14.50
    COG Magazine #11 $6.00
    Pin Up America Jan 12 #7 $5.99
    ArtForum Jan 12 $10.00
    Hi Fructose #22 $6.95
    Raw Vision #74 $14.00
    Decibel #88 Feb 12 $4.95
    Dazed & Confused vol 3 #5 Jan 12 $9.99
    Wire #335 Jan 12 $10.99
    Mojo Specials: The Smiths, The Stone Roses and 100 Greatest British Indie Records of All Time $12.50
    Ghetto Blaster #30 $3.95
    The Fifth Estate vol 47 #1 #386 Spr 12 $4.00
    Monocle Alpino #4 Win 11 12 $8.00
    Z Magazine Jan 12 $4.95
    In These Times Jan 12 $3.50
    Dissent Win 12 $10.00

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
    The Believer #86 Jan 12 Bishopric $8.00
    Monster Hands by Xavier M. and Sara Drake $1.00
    Madison Review vol 33 #1 Fall 11 $8.00
    Fourteen Hills vol 18 #1 2012 $9.00
    Feathertale Review #8 $10.00
    Bomb #118 Win 12 $7.95
    Charleston #1 selected poems and writings by Thomas Fricilone $1.00

    Sex & Sexy
    B Magazine #1 $8.99
    All American Guys #2 $9.99 – Hey dude. You’re not talking about soccer practice at all, are you?

  • DB Burkeman and Martha Cooper at The Maxwell Colette Gallery For "STUCK UP"

    Maxwell Colette Gallery invites you Saturday, January 21st from 1pm – 3pm for a special book-signing event with DB Burkeman and Martha Cooper. This event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition STUCK UP: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers. This museum-quality traveling exhibition comes from Burkeman’s extensive personal collection and is featured in his book Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art.

    Note this event is not at Quimby’s. It’s at the Maxwell Colette Gallery at 908 N. Ashland Avenue in Chicago. For more information go to www.maxwellcolette.com or email gallery@maxwellcolette.com.

    The book will be available for advance purchase here at Quimby’s Bookstore or you may purchase a copy of the book at the event. Limited quantities of the book are available though. If you are unable to purchase a book in advance, you may RSVP prior to the event to request a book reservation. Please send reservation requests, including your name and contact information, to gallery@maxwellcolette.com.

    Here’s more info about the show itself that’s at the gallery from the gallery’s website:

    STUCK UP: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers.
    January 20, 2012 – March 3, 2012
    Opening Reception: Friday, January 20th from 6pm – 10pm.
    Book Signing: Saturday, January 21st from 1pm – 3pm.

    Maxwell Colette Gallery and DB Burkeman are excited to present STUCK UP: A Selected History of Alternative & Pop Culture Told Through Stickers. This museum-quality traveling exhibition, curated by Burkeman from his extensive personal collection, provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore the expanding role that stickers have played in popular culture over the past four decades. ‘STUCK UP…’ features stickers from Street Art legends (Banksy, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, KAWS), and internationally lauded contemporary artists (Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Tom Sachs) shown side by side with anonymous stickers peeled from the streets of NYC.

    On Friday, January 20th Maxwell Colette Gallery and DB Burkeman will host the exhibition’s opening reception from 6pm – 10pm. Then on Saturday, January 21st the gallery will host a book signing from 1pm – 3pm featuring DB Burkeman and the celebrated photographer, author, and self- described sticker thief Martha Cooper. Concurrent with these happenings, the gallery will present a selection of new sticker-based collage work from the ever-talented Chris Mendoza, and will showcase an incarnation of ‘Slap Happy’, the charity sticker invitational that made its debut as a part of SCOPE 2011 in Miami. This will be the only place outside of that art fair where the limited edition stickers and signed black books from the project will be available to view and purchase in person.

    Maxwell Colette Gallery
    908 N Ashland Ave | Chicago, IL | 60622
    312.496.3153

  • Weekly Top 10

    Happy 2012! Here’s last weeks bestsellers.

    1. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95 – I’m sorry, these comics are going to thrizzle you whether you wanna be thrizzled or not. -EF

    2.  Best American Comics 2011 ed. by Alison Bechdel et al. (HM) $25.00 – Showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors.

    3. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00

    4. Juxtapoz #132 Jan 12 $5.99

    5. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

    6. So This Is What Its Come To: A Comic Zine About the Trials and Tribulations of OK Cupid by Liz Prince, Leslie Perrine, Kettner and Ramsey Everydaypants $3.00

    7. The Death Ray by Dan Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book. Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover. -EF

    8. Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD: Girls Singing Songs About Girls by Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman $5.00

    9. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95

    10. The Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season One by Joshua Chapman $2.00 – Liz got so nerded up about this one she entered it into our database as “Field Guide to the Aliens of TNG S1” so when I looked up simply “Star Trek” it was not to be found because I had failed to enter the correct nerd code. I imagine this will provoke a similar reaction in some of you and you will rip into this reprint of 7th Grader Joshua Chapman’s obsessive cataloguing of the “Next Gen” alien species, complete with pictures and a star rating system. -EF