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  • Not at Quimby's…But you should go anyway

     

    Tonight: See a rare live appearance of Psychic TV at Reggies Rock Club on Dec 11. This is PTV’s only Midwestern appearance. Show is 17+ with regular and VIP tickets available.

    More info at reggieslive.com/rockclub/
    Tickets at Ticketfly

    This event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at

    REGGIES ROCK CLUB
    2109 South State Street
    Chicago, Illinois 60616
    (312) 949-0121

  • New Stuff This Week

    Worn #13 Fashion Journal
    Zines
    Curioddity #1 Nov 11 by Curioser Jane $2.00
    With an E #1 by Lynne $1.50
    Johnny America #9 $4.00
    Fashion Illustrations by Jame D et al. (Public Collectors) $2.50
    Tag #1 by Mateo and friends $8.50
    Fashion Statement by Bella Dehm (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00
    Letters In Color Are Better and Life In Color Is Better $15.00 each – From niceomestreetart.com
    Good Fine Okay #2 by Marissa F $2.00
    Hip Mama #50 $5.95
    Thoughts and Other Stuff: What Am I Thinking – A Series of Random Thoughts $2.00 – Best title for a zine EVER.

    Comics & Comix
    Occupy Chicago Investigative Portraits: I Cant Make a Change By Myself But If People Have One Mind We Can Change the World by Sharon Rosenweig $7.00
    Occupy Wall Street: Investigative Portraits, Never Take Off Your Button by Sharon Rosenweig $7.00
    Ballad of Little Monster vol 1 by Herve Largeaud $3.99
    Vacuum Horror #1 by Max Morris $8.00 – With work from Leslie Weibeler, Andy Burkholde, David Alvarado, Edie Fake, Anya Davidson, Nick Drnaso, April Camlin, Brett Koontz, Onsmith, Paul Nudd, Joe Tallarico and Dane Martin.
    Ballad of Little Monster vol 1 by Herve Largeaud $3.99
    Cartoonshow #1 You Will All Die In Pain by Derek M. Ballard (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00
    Go Forth  – A Series of Doodles in Book Form by Bort $2.00
    Shitty Titties #2 by Bort $1.00
    Talamaroo issues #1-3 Hungry by Alabaster $6.00 each
    The Iliad By Homer As Interpreted By Keith Schnell $3.00
    Complex #2 by Chris Kuzma $5.00
    Lizz Hickey comics: Leave Jeremy Alone – Finally Invisible, Carol Verse Carol, Danny Deathbed $2.00 each – Hilarious of course.
    Systems of Metric Matter by Keith Jones $2.00
    Lyra Hill comics: Compiled #1, Dock Ellis, Are You Lonesome Tonight – various prices
    Anchovie #1 by James Turek $6.00
    (ku)š Baltic Comics Magazine, various issues, various prices
    Strawberry Creeps By Joe Schorgl $3.00
    Mad Butcher Kingsbury Run  by Joe Schorgl $3.00
    Purpose of A Million Stars by Alexis Vert $1.00
    Food Stamp Foodie #2 by Virginia Paine $2.00
    various issues of Milkyboots by Virginia $2.00-$3.00

    Art & Design Books
    Beautiful Chickens by Aschwanden & Perris (Thomas Dunne) $19.99 – That’s right. Chickens. They’re SOOOOOOO hot.

    Childrens Books
    Moomin and the Birthday Button by Tove Jansson (FSG) $12.99

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Sigh by Marjane Satrapi (Archaia) $10.95
    Mush Sled Dogs With Issues by Glenn Eichler & Joe Infurnari (First Sec) $17.99
    Criminal vol 6 Last of the Innocent by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips (Icon) $14.99
    Bad Doings and Big Ideas Deluxe Edition by Bill Willingham et. al (Vertigo) $49.99
    Most Dangerous Game: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection by Zach Weiner (Breadpig) $18.00
    Fuff #0 Come to my Show Flyer Minicomix 1998 – 2001 by Jeff Lewis $5.00
    Projections: Comics and the History of the Twenty First Century Storytelling by Jared Gardner (Stanford) $24.95

    DIY
    From the Couch to the Kitchen: A Book to Indulge In Food Writing… by The Dorsey High School Students (826) $15.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoir, Misc
    Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace Love and Acid to the World by Nicholas Schou (Thomas Dunne) $15.99 – Just days after California became the first state in the union to ban LSD, the Brotherhood formed a legally registered church in its headquarters at Mystic Arts World on Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, where they sold blankets and other countercultural paraphernalia retrieved through surfing safaris and road trips to exotic locales in Asia and South America. Before long, they also began to sell Afghan hashish, Hawaiian pot (the storied “Maui Wowie”), and eventually Colombian cocaine, much of which the Brotherhood smuggled to California in secret compartments inside surfboards and Volkswagen minibuses driven across the border. This book explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia.
    100 Neo-Futurist Plays From Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind $12.00 – Hilarity, drama, surrealism — the Neo-Futurists are always compelling.
    Learning to Live Finally Last Interview by Jacques Derrida et al. (Melville) $15.95
    Gonzo Republic: Hunter S. Thompson’s America by William Stephenson (Continuum) $27.95

    Lit Journals & Chap Books
    McSweeneys #39 $24.00
    Paris Review #199 $12.00
    Sinister Wisdom #84 Fall 11 $6.00
    New York Tyrant vol 3 #3 $15.00
    Boat Magazine #2 Fall Win 11 $12.00
    Errata by Ingrid Olson $10.00

    Magazines
    Juxtapoz #132 Jan 12 $5.99
    Design Bureau Jan Feb 12 $8.00
    ID Magazine Win 11 $12.00
    High Times Feb 12 $5.99
    Color Skateboards vol 9 #5 $7.99
    Skateboarders Journal vol 1 #1 Win 12 $8.95
    BlackBook #89 Dec 11 $4.95
    Paper Win 11 12 vol 28 #4 $4.00
    Little White Lies #38 $9.99
    Classic Rock #165 Dec 11 $11.99
    Mojo #218 Jan 12 $9.99
    Uncut Jan 12 #176 $9.99
    Wire #334 Dec 11 $10.99
    Fader #77 Dec 11 Jan 12 $5.99
    Monocle vol 5 #49 Dec 11
    GLQ vol 18 #1 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
    In These Times Dec 11 $3.50
    Progressive Dec 11 Jan 12 $4.95
    National Green Pages 2012 $9.95
    Travel Naturally #81 $9.95
    Rebel Ink Magazine Jan 12 $5.99
    Tattoo 1 Tribal #31 $8.50

    Sex & Sexy
    The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City—Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages by Catharine Arnold (SMP) $25.99
    Sad People Sex #10 Drowning In My Own Tears by Heather Benjamin $3.00
    Hatebreed #1: Sexual Menu Fantasy Phone Katebreed by HKB $4.00
    Decathexis #1 by Conor Edmunds $2.00
    Chameleon #1 2011 by Jonny Negron et al. $10.00

    Other Stuff
    Apocalypse Calendar 2012 Wall Calendar $20.00 – Get your Mayan on, with work by a variety of artists, including Jay Ryan.

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – Sweet Spot. Come n’ get it.

    2. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine $9.90

    3. 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

    4. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00

    5. Book of Whale Insults (Blue Q) $3.99

    6. Notes For A Peoples Atlas: People Making Maps of Their Cities by AREA Chicago $8.00 – This multi-city community mapping project started in Chicago in 2005, and has since expanded to a number of cities ranging from Zagreb to Greencastle, Indiana (USA). The project was initiated by AREA-Chicago, a magazine about art, research, education and activism in Chicago. The book and a website (peoplesatlas.com) document this project by presenting the maps collected in each city along with commentary by leading thinkers dealing with art, urban space, cartography and definitions of place.Featuring Mapping Projects from: Chicago, IL; Zagreb, Croatia; Syracuse, NY; Greencastle, IN; Portland, OR; Granada, Spain; Waterville, ME; Chisinau, Moldova; New York City, NY; Detroit, MI; Boston, MA; Pilsen; Chicago; Santiago, Chile; London, ON, Canada; Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Ukraine (Uzhgorod, Donetsk, Kherson, Simferopol, Vinnytsia); Gary, IN; and Valparasio, Chile.

    7. Miami You’ve Got Style: A Little Golden Girls Book by Scott and Zach $13.00 – Epic quest through fashion policing every Golden Girls episode ever….it’s a media meltdown in lilac and mauve. -EF

    8. Logan Square Literary Review #5 Win 11 $5.00 – This issue of the Logan Square is full up of milkyfoodyicebox double entendre: soliciting gay refrigerator sperm, simmering dr.pepper for orgasmic cookery, peeky toe crab benedict….and a few other nice things that maybe aren’t like that at all. -EF 9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – 10. Maximumrocknroll #343 Dec 11 $4.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90 – Yes it’s here!

     
    Zines
    Last Days of Rosehill by Dan Gleason $2.00 – One of our favorite local weirdos with new stuff. Money fueled mayhem and mayhem fueled money. -EF

    Clutch #23 Invincible Summer #20 by Nicole Georges and Clutch McBastard (Tugboat Press) $2.00
    Will by Nichole and Rachael Voorhees $2.00
    Communicating Vessels #23 fall win 11 12 $3.50
    Peehole #6 by Jim Donaldson $3.00
    Clog #1 by Sam McPheeters $5.00 – Short fiction in a quarter-page sized zine.
    Illinois Michigan Canal Channahon Illinois November 6 2011 by M. Miller $10.00
    Classmantic #1 by Elizabeth Amazing $2.00
    Things That Are Fun $1.00
    Hot Mess #1 Suddenly Single by January Kerry $2.00
    Border Lands by Klayr VF $3.00
    Food Friends $.50
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 5 by Apak (Little Otsu) $6.95
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 6 by Becca Stadtlander (Little Otsu) $6.95
    I Like You So Much a Journey in House Chores by Carrie $1.00
    Brilliantly Mad 2o11 $5.00
    Listen to Your Heart #1 Everyday Life of a Seventh Grade Girl $2.00
    Peut Etre #1 Maybe  $1.50
    Symphony To My Ears a Zine $2.00
    Cest La Vie #1 by Imogen R. Hansen  $1.50
    And Yet We Love #1 $1.50

    Comics & Comix
    King Cat #72 by John Porcellino (Spit and a Half) $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

    Wulf #1 Are the Origins of Man in Question by Simon Allen, Nori Retherford and Eaxwing $7.00
    Kim Gee Comics #5 by Kim Gee $5.00
    World War 3 Illustrated #42 Liberation $7.00
    Bad Breath Comics #4 by Josh Juresko $2.00
    Stranger Two Stranger #2 Dec 11: Actual Stories of CraigsList Missed Connections by R. Hendrics $1.25
    Tank Girl Carioca #2 $5.99
    Comics by Anna Haifisch: Buddies issues #1-#5  $3.00 each, or buy the set of 5 zines with the accompanying postcard for $15.00, also Destroy All Lizardmen (with James Turek) #1 $8.00

    Mineshaft #27 Fall 11 $9.00 – More of what R. Crumb dreams about, some of what Mary Fleener writes about, star-studded letters. A giant portfolio from Jim Blanchard, comic from Pat Moriarity. The major highlight, as always, is another amazing comic from Nina Bunjevac. -EF

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Milk and Cheese – Dairy Products Gone Bad – They Hate What You Hate And They Hate You by Evan Dorkin (Dark Horse) $19.99 –  – This Everything-Milk-and-Cheese lux hardcover collection has even got our resident vegan Neil stoked -EF

    Clutch #19 The Lost Years by Clutch McBastard (Tugboat) $8.00
    Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Conetmporary Comics by Marc Singer (U of Minn) $25.00
    Preacher Book Five HC by Grath Ennis and Steve Dillon (Vertigo) $39.99
    Lovecraft Library: Horror Out of Arkham (IDW) $16.99  – A bunch comics artists graphic novelify HP’s stories.
    RASL TPB vol 3 Romance at the Speed of Light by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $15.00
    Breathers TPB by Justin Madson $29.95 – Collects the entire series, breathers #0 through #6. Huzzah!
    Things You Carry by VIncent Stall (2dCloud) $10.00
    Motherlover by Nic Breutzman et al. $10.00
    I Thought You Would Be Funnier by Shannon Wheeler (Boom) $17.99 – Gag strips from the artist behind Too Much Coffee Man.

    Art & Design Books
    Juxtapoz Tattoo 2 (Gingko) $29.95
    Bike Art: Bicycles In Art Around the World by Kiriakos Iosifidis (Gingko) $34.95
    I Hate – The Art Todd Bratrud (MBP) $19.95
    Evolutionists Doodlebook by Manvir Singh $11.99
    Street Photography Now Sophie Howarth  and Stephen McLaren (Thames) $29.95
    Herakut After the Laughter (Publikat) $39.95
    Street Art Cook Book – A guide to Techniques and Materials (soft cover version) by B. Carlsson and L. Hop (Dokument) $19.95

    Music Books
    Woolgathering by Patti Smith (ND) $18.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoir & Misc
    Twilight Man by Boyd Rice and Nina Antonia (Heartworm) $15.00 – A noir memoir about life in 1980’s San Francisco.
    Solace In So Many Words by Ellen Wade Beals $20.00

    Politics & Revolution
    Eyes to the South French Anarchists and Algeria by David Porter (AK) $25.00

    DIY
    Simple Times – Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris $15.99 – Now in soft cover.

    Childrens Books
    Vintage reprints of M. Sasek childrens classics: This Is the Way to the Moon and This Is Israel and (Universe) $17.95  each
    Kings Sixth Finger by Jolby and  Rachel Roellke Coddington (Gingko) $16.95
    Listeners These Train Tracks by Breathe Owl Breathe split book with vinyl record $30.00
    More Tintin books!

    Fiction
    Sudden Flash Youth by Hazuka Christine Perkins , Tom Hazuka and Mark Budman (Persea) $12.95

    Magazines
    Bitch #53 $5.95
    Tape Op #86 Nov Dec 11 $4.95
    Maximumrocknroll #343 Dec 11 $4.00
    Cabinet #43 Forensics $12.00
    IDN Extra 06 Semi Permanent $25.00
    IdN vol 18 #5 $17.50
    ArtForum Dec 11 $10.00
    Girls and Corpses #5 Win 11 $8.95
    Fortean Times #282 Jan 12 $11.99
    Treating Yourself #31 $7.99
    Skunk vol 7 #4 $5.99
    Pinstriping #29 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    Make Ultimate Kit Guide Special Issue $9.99
    Bespoke Magazine vol 1 $22.95
    Slant Magazine #1 $36.00
    Gastronomica vol 11 #4 $12.99
    Decibel #87 Jan 12 $4.95
    Diabolique #7 Nov Dec 11 $9.98
    Big Takeover #69 $5.99
    Filter #46 $5.95
    Z Magazine Dec 11 $4.95
    Uncut – The Clash Ultimate Music Guide $12.50
    Tattoo Scout #26 $9.60
    Skin and Ink Feb 12 $6.99

    Other Stuff
    Masterpiece Studio Paint By Number Kit by Lisa Hanawalt (Chron) $19.95 – Includes 10 Paints, 5 Ready to Paint Art Boards, Paint Brush, Organizer Tray. From the artist of I Want You.
    Paper Lantern Bees and Keys $9.99
    Knitting Is Knotty Magnet $4.00
    Living the High Life Sticky Notes $9.95 – As in the HIGH life.
    More blank journals and blank cards.
    Santa Advent Calendar by Nick Hefele $3.00 – A very naughty Santa. Operative words: drug induced coma.
    And much more gifty stuff for the holidays!

  • Weekly Top 10

    New Boyd Rice book in the house, debuting at the Top 10 this week. -Cassee Kasem

    1. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00

    2. Slingshot 2012 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  If you have color preferences, list a couple in your order notes!

    3. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00

    4. Biggest Mistake of Your Life – Wondering If You Are Making – Love Is Not Constantly by Sarah Miller $5.00 – Brilliantly styled as a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

    5.  Adbusters Jan 2012 $8.95

    6. Regional #3 An Examination of American Cuisine by Cassie Tompkins and Emily Gelsomin $8.50

    7. My Aim Is True by Carrie $1.00

    8. Brilliant Mistake #3 by Carrie $1.00

    9. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00

    10. Twilight Man by Boyd Rice and Nina Antonia (Heartworm) $15.00 – “Heartworm Press and 23WLVS are proud to present the new 100-page memoir by Boyd Rice, which follows Rice through San Francisco’s darkest crevices during his time as a responder for the Twilight Alarm Company. Preface by Nina Antonia, author of Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yes we are open today, 11am-10pm!

    We just got this. Wouldn’t this make a great gift?

    Miami You’ve Got Style: a Little Golden Girls Book by Scott and Zach $13.00 – Commentary about outfits the Golden Girls wore. For real.

    Anyway…

    Zines
    Field Guide to the Aliens of The Next Generation Season One by Joshua Chapman $2.00 – As in Star Trek. Hilarious. You need this.
    Osama Bloodshirt Hummus Wedding #1 $2.00
    Your Secretary #9 Potty Language #1 Split by Jami Sailor and friends.$2.00 – About nannying. A compelling read.
    I’m Dan Gleason Dildock: More Beautiful Short Stories by Dan Gleason $2.00 – One of our fave local weirdos represent.
    Regional #3 An Examination of American Cuisine by Cassie Tompkins $8.50
    Outsider Mistakes #1 In My Lifetime by Eric Knoll $5.00
    Mind Thoughts Collected by Adam J. Kurtz $10.00
    Look In by JR Davidson $2.00

    Comics & Comix
    RAV #5 by Mickey Zacchilli $6.00
    Greatest #1 by Kelly Froh $4.00
    There Is A Error #1 by Kevin Eckert $2.00
    Truth Dart #1 by Kevin Eckert $3.00
    Good Luck #1 and #2 by Joe DeGeorge $4.00 each
    Night on Alcatraz: Chronicles of Fortune Continue by Caroline PIcard (Green Lantern) $3.00
    You Dont Get There From Here #21 $2.00
    Rumbling Chapter 2 by Kevin Huizenga $3.00
    Fact Parader Amazing Facts and Beyond #2 by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch $5.00
    Brain Dump Amazing Facts and Beyond vol 4 by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch $5.00
    Factual Healing Amazing Facts and Learning vol 5 with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch $5.00
    Faded Igloo by Jim Drain (Picturebox) $5.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Sediment Part by C.F. (Picturebox) $29.95

    Art & Design Books
    Frank Peter John Dick by K8 Hardy $25.00
    Yuko Shimizu by Yuko Shimizu (DGV) $30.00
    Iron Beasts Make Great Beauty by Studio on Fire (DGV) $30.00
    Cyclo Id vol 1 by Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai (DGV) $60.00
    Everybody Dies a Childrens Book for Grown Ups by Ken Tanaka $10.00

    Sex Guides & Culture
    Normal Life Administrative Violence Critial Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade (South End) $16.00

    Weirdo and Essays
    I Lucifer Exploring the Archetype and Origins of the Devil by Corvis Nocturnum (Schiffer) $19.99
    UFOs Above the Law True Encounters with Law Enforcement by Soriano & James (Schiffer) $19.99

    Fiction
    Biggest Mistake of Your Life: Wondering If You Are Making… by Sarah Miller $5.00
    Amazing Adult Fantasy by AD Jameson $12.00
    Last Incarnation Book One of the Ascension by JA Giunta $17.99
    Slow Fade by Rudolph Wurlitzer (Drag City) $15.95 – We had the audio book. Now there’s the soft cover.
    Dead Souls a Novel by Nikolai Gogol $12.95

    Music Books
    Book of Ice by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (MBP) $29.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Notes For A Peoples Atlas: People Making Maps of Their Cities by AREA Chicago (AREA) $8.00

    DIY
    Viral Combat Monica Fights the Flu by Clare Rosean et al. $10.00

    Lit Journals
    Chicago IRL #2 Fall 11 $11.00

    Magazines
    Bust Dec 11 Jan 12 $4.99
    Razorcake #65 $4.00
    Wax Poetics #49 $9.99
    Class Struggle #72 by Spark $3.00
    Inked Jan 12 $7.99

    Other Stuff
    Calendario Bestiaro Bestiary Calendar 2011 by Dave Buchen $25.00 – Annual wood cut calendar of Dave Buchen’s Bestiary.
    Switch Pop Working Switchblade Bottle Opener $20.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    But first! A reminder: We’ll be closing tomorrow (Nov 23rd) at 5pm, be closed on Nov 24th and open Nov 25th from noon to 10pm. See you then!

    1. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00

    2. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00

    3. Slingshot 2012 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  If you have color preferences, list a couple in your order notes!

    4. Field Guide to the Aliens of The Next Generation – Season One by Joshua Chapman $2.00 – Yes, you read that right. It’s hilarious. As you would expect.

    5. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00

    6. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95

    7. Punk Planet #46 $3.95 – We’ve got lots of back issues of this one. Come in the store and see for yourself.

    9. Railroad Semantics #4 Fall 10 $6.50

    10. Remedy Quarterly #4 Celebration – Stories of Food Recipes For Feeling Good $7.50

  • New Stuff This Week

    Thanks to everybody who came out for the Craig Thompson event this past week, where he talked about his wonderful graphc novel Habibi, 7 years in the making. Great new stuff this week, including a new issue of Lucky Peach, another Cinema Sewer collection, a memoir from Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Blood and Thunder #18 and more.

    Cinema Sewer vol 3 by Robin Bougie (Fab) $19.95 – If you gotta sin, at least use the sewer. Volume 3 collects the wet creme of issues 17-20 and 80 filthy new pages. Unstoppable outrageous movie raunch! -EF

    Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00

    Zines
    Plug Wiring Diagrams by Mark Pawson $8.00
    Address Is the Art International Postal Art Superstar by Mark Pawson $25.00
    Cursive Is Not Cryptic #1 Envelope by Georgi Johnston  $2.00
    Off the Wagon Again #1: Short Stories Art and Other Awesome Shit by Starky Acid $2.00
    Drastic Frivol #1 Travel by David Bowler & Erik Guttman $2.50
    Cheer the Eff Up #1 $3.00

    Comics & Comix
    Hyperspeed to Nowhere by Lale Westvind $8.00
    And the Birds Flew From the Trees issues #1-#3 by Ian McDuffie $6.00-$8.00 each
    Eat To Survive sum 11 by Jeff Mahannah, Ben Lyon, and Tone $3.00
    Things Things Think About Set $2.00
    Joe the Punker #1-#3 by Starky Acid $2.00 each
    Bowman #1 Nov 11 by Pat Aulisio $5.00
    Bullet Breath #2 by Max Bjornson $1.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Adventures of Tintin In America Young Readers Edition by Herge (LB) $8.99
    Oil and Water by Steve Duin & Shannon Wheeler (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Felix the Cat SC The Great Comic Book Tails by Yoe, Messmer & Oriolo (IDW) $27.99
    Gadabout Time Machine 1050 Users Manual by Hooper Cudworth (Curio) $29.95
    Batman and Robin TPB vol 2 Batman Vs Robin by Grant Morrison et al. (DC) $17.99

    Art & Design
    With the Light of the Truth Straight Edge by Dan Smith (Momento Publishing) $50.00 – A collection of Straight Edge related tattoos and art and profiles of some of the best tattoo artists in the world.

    Fiction
    The Verificationist by David Antrim (Picador) $15.00
    The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano (FSG) $25.00

    Lit Journals & Chap Books
    Curbside Splendor #2 Fall 11 $8.00
    Bad Version vol 1 #1 Fall 11 (The Icarus Project) $9.00
    The Chicago Review vol 56 #2 and #3 $15.00
    Overtime Hour 22 the Mill by Kyle Bilinksi $2.00

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Miscellaniousnessessess
    I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor Some That Might Not Be Funny ed. by Judd Apatow (McSweeneys) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    More Interesting Than Your Teacher by Stuart Wright  $14.95
    Nazi Seance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic In Hitlers Circle by Arthur J. Magida (Palgrave) $26.00 – That’s Erik Jan Hanussen that they’re talking about.
    Estonia: A Ramble Through Periphery by Alexander Theroux  (Fantagrphics) $29.99

    Politics & Revolution
    Vultures Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs Power Pirates and High Finance Carn by Greg Palast (Dutton) $26.95

    Music Books
    The Doors HC A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus (Public Affaires) $21.99
    The Best Music Writing 2011 ed. by Alex Ross and Daphne Carr (Da Capo) $16.00
    This is a Call HC The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan (Da Capo) $26.99
    Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell With Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi and TJ Lammers (Da Capo) $26.00
    Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama by Katrina Vanden Huevel (Nation) $16.99
    Drinking With Strangers: Music Lessons From a Teenage Bullet Belt by Butch Walker and Matt Diehl (WMrw) $25.99
    One Day It’ll Make Sense by Common & Adam Bradley (Back Bay) $25.00
    Life by Keith Richards (Back Bay) $16.99 – Now in soft cover.

    DIY & Food
    Vegan Pie in the Sky by Moskowitz & Romero (Da Capo) $17.00

    Magazines
    Blood and Thunder #18 $5.99 – Womens Roller Derby Magazine
    Bizarre #182 Dec 11 $10.50
    High Times Jan 12 $5.99
    Wallpaper Dec 11 $10.00
    True Crime Nov 11 $8.99
    Murder Most Foul #82 $9.99
    Dwell Dec 11 $5.99
    Worn #12 and #13 Fashion Journal $8.00 each
    Wire #333 Nov 11 $10.99
    The Smiths NME Uncut Special Collectors Magazine $12.99
    Taste Maker #1 $4.00
    Harpers Magazine Dec 11 $6.99
    Adbusters Jan 12 $8.95
    Tattoo Collection #47 $7.75

    Other Stuff
    But Is It Art Button Pack by Mark Pawson $5.00
    Quimby’s t-shirts are back in stock! Come get yours now.

  • Weekly Top 10 and Holiday Hours

    First, here’s Quimby’s Holiday Hours:
    Sat, Dec 24th 11am-5pm
    Sun, Dec 25th CLOSED
    Sat, Dec 31st noon-5pm
    Sun, Jan 1st, 2012 CLOSED

    And now! Here’s the Weekly Top 10

    1. A Greater Monster by David David Katzman, with illustrator Caitlin McKay (Bedhead Books) $17.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this event last week! David David Katzman’s second novel, A Greater Monster (Bedhead Books), is a groundbreaking multimedia work that includes 65 pages of illustrations, numerous graphic design elements, visual text poetry, and links to two websites, one of which features original music composed to mirror events in a scene of the book and another featuring an animated sequence. This story itself is a psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, influenced by Alice in Wonderland, Williams S. Burroughs, and graphic novelist Grant Morrison. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse mirror. A Greater Monster breathes new life into the possibilities of fiction. A buncha pictures in it are drawn by the talented comics and tattoo artist Caitlin McKay. She works at Chicago Comics our sister store!

    2. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Radicalize! Organize!

    3.   Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell Press) A new issue of Crap Hound! This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

    4. Prince Zine by Joshua James Amberson $5.00 – R U Ready 4 This 1? Although Amberson is no fanatical Rainbow Child, there’s more than enough purple passion and royal dedication here to assemble an inspired and juicy analysis of Prince’s dynasty, talent, discography and lifestyle choices. I like most that the zine puts some time and thought into getting behind Prince’s rampant weirdness- it’s not at all some sorry joke at Prince’s expense like that Mirror interview, but it doesn’t exactly let him off the hook either – it’s critical AND playful AND willing to admit that at everyone’s core there IS a huge weirdo. It may also be worthy of note that this zine rolled into Quimby’s on a snowy day in April, so it’s a little cosmic too, y’know? -EF

    5. Juxtapoz #131 Dec 11 $5.99

    6. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – McSweeney’s has a food magazine. What’s next? A McSweeney’s sports magazine? Oh wait, there is a McSweeney’s sports magazine coming out.

    7. Raw Deal #13 $2.00

    8. Monocle vol 5 #48 Nov 11 $2.00

    9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – Don’t miss Craig Thompson here this Thursday 11/17 at 7pm!

    10. 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

  • Chicago Book Expo 2011, November 19 & 20

    Don’t miss this literary spectacle in Uptown, featuring a pop-up bookstore, literary nonprofit fair, a commissioned performance by Joan of Arc, architectural tours, author readings, children’s workshops, panel discussions, and more.Please note, this is NOT at Quimby’s. For places and times, see the image below or click on the info link.

    More info here: chicagowritershouse.org/bookexpo2011.html