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  • New Stuff This Week

    Did you miss us? We skipped a week of posting new stuff on the blog and the website because one third of the staff (um, 1 of 3 people) was on vacation. Enjoy a longer than usual list! Stay tuned as we curate which of these items will be available for order on our website. You can always call and ask us to put things on hold as well at 773-342-0910.

    Here’s something cool we got in, before we launch into all the new stuff:

    Get In If You Want To Live – 19 Stories 19 Artists (Paper Darts Press) $15.00 – From the author of 2010’s If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. Each of hs stories in the collection is accompanied by a specially curated illustration from hand-selected artists such as Jennifer Davis, Andres Guzman, Laura Andrews, AMTK, Kylo Moonguts and many, many more.

    anyway…

    ZINES
    Leg and Boob DNA Gel by Keith G. Herzik $5.00 – Local screenprinting mad genius.
    Grand Mystery by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
    Poems and Parables by Devan Bennett $1.50
    Raw Deal #13 Loitering Is Good $2.00
    KerBloom #92 Sep Oct 11 by Artnoose $2.00
    Volume #1 Fall 2011 Vuu Collective by Margo Dooney  $20.00
    Meat #5 by Adrian Lourie  $20.00
    Or Let It Sink #5 by Jim $1.00
    Brainscan #28 It’s Complicated by Alex Wrekk $2.00
    Meta #1 by Marissa Falco $4.00
    Indifferentspace by Jay Kervens $6.00
    Connections by Lisa Romero (Parking Block Publishing) $4.00
    Wherever God Strikes Me Down by Jeremy Tubbs (Parking Block Publishing) $4.00
    Bend Over Magazine #6 $12.00
    Broken Pencil #53 $5.95
    Hyphen #24 Win 11 $4.95

    COMICS & COMIX
    Happy Hour in America #3 by Timothy Lane $5.00
    Squeaky Noises by Cara Bean $5.00
    Battle Kittens the Art of R. Dart $6.00
    Shuteye #6 Fetch by Sarah Becan $5.00
    Amy in the Spring of 1990 by Colin Ryono and MIke Skryzynski $5.00
    Pd Indigest by Roman Muradov $6.00
    Impressions of Impressions of Africa: A 24 Hour Comic Book Day Comic Book by Roman Muradov $3.00
    Plus One by Joakim Ojanen $6.00
    Kuben by Joakim Ojanen $8.00
    Doodles In a Dark Time by Hanna Andersson $8.00
    Free Dog Food #1 Oct 11 by Donald Jess Bandy and Brendan Richardson Wells $3.00
    San Diego Diary by Gabrielle Bell $4.00
    Colibri #3 $6.00
    Brainclouds by Charlie Newton $4.00
    Mishy Gosh #2 by Rosie Shipman $4.00
    Viewotron #1 by Sam Sharpe and David Goodrich $5.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS + TRADE PAPERBACKS
    R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection by R. Crumb (WWN) $27.95 – A landmark work that pays splendid homage to a forgotten era of seminal American music. Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn’t resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers-particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s-since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb went on to draw hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. So remarkable were Crumb’s artistic interpretations of these old 78 rpm singles that the art itself proved influential in their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s. Including such classics as Truckin’ My Blues Away, Harmonica Blues, and Please Warm My Weiner, Crumb’s opus also features more recent covers done for CDs. 450 four-color illustrations.
    Everything vol 1 Comics from Around 1978-1981 Collected and Uncollected by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95
    The Extraordinary Adventures of Adéle Blanc-Sec vol 2 The Mad Scientist/Mummies On Parade by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $24.99
    Dragon Puncher Island by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95
    Joe the Barbarian Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $29.99
    Hellboy House of the Living Dead HC by Mile Mignola and Richard Corben (Dark Horse) $14.99
    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus Edition HC by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Vertigo) $49.99
    Adventures of Herge by Jose Louis Bocquet et al. (D&Q) $19.95
    Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 6 HC by Alan Moore et al. (Vertigo) $24.99
    Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz TPB by Frank L. Baum et al. (Marvel) $24.99
    New X Men TPB vol 7 by Grant Morrison et al. (Marvel) $14.99

    ART + DESIGN BOOKS
    Gig Posters vol 2 ed. by Clay Hayes (Quirk) $40.00 – Includes 101 Ready to Frame Posters originally featured on gigposters.com. Designers include: The Bubble Process, The Bungaloo, Chicken Billy, Clint Wilson, Clinton Reno, The Comet Substance, Concepcion Studios, The Half and Half, Hatch Show Print and more.
    Blue Collar White Collar by Sterling Hunter (Adhouse) $24.95
    New York City Graffiti – The Destiny Children (Schiffer) $50.00

    MUSIC BOOKS
    I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum (Penguin) $29.99
    Gig Posters vol 2! Look in art and design books for description.
    Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip Hop by Dan Charnas (New American Library) $16.00
    Everything Is an Afterthought: Life and Writings of Paul Nelson by Kevin Avery (Fantagraphics) $29.99
    Beck by Autumn De Wilde (Chronicle) $35.00
    Decoded by Jay-Z (Spiegel) $25.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Love Goes To Buildings on Fire – Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes (Faber) $30.00
    How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks by Dave Tompkins (Melville House/Stop Smiling) $25.95 – Now in soft cover.
    Rocket In my Pocket: The Hipster’s Guide To Rockabilly Music by Max Decharne (Serpant) $18.95
    Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music ed. by Chris Force et al. (Alarm Press) $40.00 – Almost 400 pages of full-color artwork that explores the synesthsic experince of where art and music meet.

    DIY + DRUUUUUUGS
    Dr. Seymour Kindbud’s Stoner Snacks, Mad Marijuana Munchies, Baked and Fried (CH Press) $12.95 – More than 100 recipes.
    The Speed Chronicles by Joseph Mattson and friends (Akashic) $15.95 – Pieces about the aforementioned drug. Pieces by William Vollman, Sherman Alexie and more.
    Boneshaker #43-200 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00
    On Food and Cooking Science and Lore of the Kitchen Completely Revised/Updated by Harold McGee (Scribner) $40.00
    Firewalkers Madness Beauty and Mystery – Radically Rethinking Mental Illness by VOCAL $15.00

    SEX + SEXY
    Do It Yourself 25th Anniversary Special by Uwe Ommer (Taschen) $14.99
    Classic Modern Pinups by Alvarado (Schiffer) $34.99
    Halsted Plays Himself William E. Jones (Semiot) $24.95
    Hot Moms #15 $4.95

    MISCREANTS & MAYHEM & MISC
    Elf Girl by Rev. Jen (Gallery) $15.00
    Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson (Simon) $32.50
    Propaganda and the Holy Writ of The Process Church of the Final Judgment: Including The Gods on War, Read by Timothy Wyllie, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lydia Lynch, and Adam Parfrey by Malachi McCormick et al. (Feral House) $50.00 – The celebrated thematic magazines of the notorious Process Church of the Final Judgment cult were created to be hawked on the street in order to raise money and attract like-minded adherents to their unorthodox Gnostic theology. Printed in order of their first appearance, the Sex, Fear, and Death issues are here reproduced in their entirety in a handsome clothbound book. The magazines reproduced in this book are lionized as being decades ahead of their time in terms of the sophistication of its art and design. The cult was also attacked for including in its Death issue a contribution by Charles Manson. This inclusion led the dark-robed cult to be characterized as a sinister death cult. This book provides an introduction by Adam Parfrey, and by the magazine’s original art director, Timothy Wyllie. Adam Parfrey contextualizes the meanings and impact of the magazines on the world at large.
    That Is All by John Hodgman (Penguin) $25.00 – The third in the Complete World Knowledge series (The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require) by the “Resident Expert” from The Daily Show. Oh yeah, and he’s the PC on the Mac commercials.
    Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt (Simon) $14.00 – Now in soft cover!
    The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science (Vintage) $16.00
    Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions by Julia Suits (Perigree) $15.95 – The Curious World of the DeMoulin Brothers and their Fraternal Lodge, Prank Machines, Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to Electric Carpets…
    The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney (Morrow) $25.99
    Good the Bad and the Godawful – 21st Century Movie Reviews by Kurt Loder (SMP) $21.99
    American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures
    of North America by Colin Woodard (Viking) $30.00
    Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy Imploded and How by John Perkins (Crown) $14.00
    The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level in Real Life (Berk) $24.95 – Developing a system, blog, and podcasts, Hardwick shares hard-earned wisdom about turning seeming weakness into world-dominating strengths in this hilarious self-help book.

    POLITICS + REVOLUTION
    Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve) $30.00
    Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop it by Lawrence Lessig (Twelve) $12.99
    Ai Weiweis Blog Writings Interviews and Digital Rants 2006 to 2009 (MIT) $24.95
    Autonomy Solidarity Possibility the Colin Ward Reader (AK) $21.95
    Rude Pundits Almanack (O/R) $17.00
    In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster the Fate of the Gulf… by Peter Lehner et al. (O/R) $16.00

    FICTION
    The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman (Scriber) $25.00 – Second novel of fiction from pop culture expert of Fargo Rock City fame. He’s on public radio every two seconds talking about it, hypnotising you with his articulate witticisms…You WILL buy this book, you WILL buy this book. -LM
    The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick, ed. by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem (Houghton) $40.00 – Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. This book is Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work. It documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called “2-3-74,” a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe “transformed into information.” In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work.

    The Petting Zoo by Jim Carroll (Penguin) $16.00
    Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper (Harper) $14.99
    The Cradle by Patrick Somerville (BB) $13.99 – Now in soft cover.
    Adults by Alison Espach (Simon) $15.00
    Family Fang by Kevin Wilson (Ecco) $23.99
    Inferno – A Poets Novel by Eileen Myles (O/R Books) $16.00
    A Greater Monster by David David Katzman (Bedhead) $17.95 – Trippy new fiction by the author of Death By Zamboni with interior art by comics/tattoo artist Caitlin McKay. This book is a 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. Thanks to everybody that came to last night’s event.

    And So It Goes Kurt Vonnegut – A Life by Charles J. Shielfs (Holt) $30.00
    Ecstacy of Influence Nonfictions Etc. by Jonathan Lethem (DD) $27.95
    Rich People Things by Chris Lehman (O/R Books) $16.00
    Windy City Queer LGBTQ Dispatches From the Third Coast by Kathie Bergquist (U of Q P) $24.95

    POETRY + CHAP BOOKS + LIT JOURNALS
    Ladies and Gentlemen by Michael Robins $14.00
    The Believer #85 Nov/Dec 11 $10.00
    Slice Fall 11 Win 12 #9 $8.00
    Gigantic Sequins 2.2 $5.00
    Nuance 2011 Literary Arts Magazine $7.00
    Journal of Ordinary Thought Sum 11 $10.00
    Six By Six #24 I Mean This Thing $5.00

    MAGAZINES
    Juxtapoz #131 Dec 11 $5.99
    Fortean Times #281 Dec 11 $11.99
    Mojo #217 Dec 11 $9.99
    Mojo 60s #2 Special Edition $12.50
    Uncut Dec 11 #175 $9.99
    Tattoo Revue #156 $7.99
    Open Minds Dec 11 Jan 12 $6.50
    Frieze #142 Oct 11 $10.00
    ArtForum Nov 11 $10.00
    Design Bureau Nov Dec 11 $8.00
    UFO Magazine #157 vol 24 #4 $5.99
    Skateboarder vol 21 #6 $5.99
    Paper Nov 11 vol 28 #3 $4.00
    Dazed & Confused vol 3 #3 Nov 11 $9.99
    Monocle vol 5 #48 Nov 11 $10.00
    In These Times Nov 11 $3.50
    Against the Current #155 Nov Dec 11 $5.00
    Tattoo Society #30 $7.99

    OTHER STUFF
    More Moleskine Notebooks  and Planners in an array of styles, sizes, colors and prices.
    Nudie Ladies 2012 Ladies of Lore by Flannery Cashill $3.00
    Greg and Fake Necklace Man Charm $6.66
    Vinyl Frontier DVD by Daniel Zana $20.00

  • Quimby's Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers

    1. Hi Fructose #21 $6.95

    2. 2012 Slingshot Small (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  Perfect-bound pocket size.

    3. 2012 Slingshot Large (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically. This large size is spiral-bound.

    4. Everything vol 1 Comics from Around 1978 to 1981 Collected and Uncollected by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $24.95

    5. AdBusters #98 Nov Dec 11 $8.95

    6. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00

    7. East Village Inky #48 by Ayun Halliday $3.00 – First ever E.V.Inky Music Issue: Rundgren, Rundgren and then a trickle more of Rundgren! Also, get into the heads of what New York teenagers are listening to.

    8. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – We can barely keep this one on the shelves!

    9. Bring Me the Tongue – Poems by Chris Salib $4.00 – Way with words, feels like powder pigment, tarantulas and late summer crabgrass.

    10. Fauna by Leda Zawacki $3.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    Some older stuff made its way onto the Top 10 this week. Interesting.

    1. Post-It Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon Embarrassing Mishaps and Everyday Adventure illustrations by Arthur Jones, with stories by Chuck Klosterman, John Hodgeman, David Rakoff and more (Plume) $15.00. When Arthur Jones cocreated a reading series centered around ubiquitous Post-Its(r), the series struck a chord. It grew in popularity and was ultimately featured on a This American Life live simulcast broadcast across the nation. Inspired by the series and spanning a wide and weird range of topics from an A-list roster of contributors, Post-It Note Diaries captures everyday occurrences from a job interview gone hilariously awry and a nude run-in with a neighbor to hair-raising events like an overnight encounter at Nicholas Cage’s house (it’s not what you think!), and nearly drowning while trying to paddle across the East River in a homemade canoe. Post-It Note Diaries is perfect for NPR addicts and fans of unique graphic favorites like Postsecret and Blankets. Thanks to everybody that came out to this event on Saturday at the Hideout with Arthur Jones, Staree Kine and David Wilcox!

    2. Logan Square Literary Review #8 $5.00- Loads of Loganics! Poetry, prose, recipes, a profile of Red Gate Studio and painting portfolio from Aaron Delahanty. Congrats to all who came out for this release event last week.

    3. Twenty Dollar Twenty Minute Meals by Caroline Wright $17.50 – Wright approaches food with a clear understanding of intuitive preparation and hearty flavorfulness. Low on procedure and casual about measurement, $20/20min reads less like a cook book and more like a spell book for approachable kitchen magic. -EF

    4. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00 – World’s best Fair Use clip arty collagey stuff.

    5. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – We can barely keep this one on the shelves!

    6. Found Magazine #7 $5.00 – And not even the most recent FOUND. How did it make it onto th Top 10 this week? Amazing.

    7. Start Your Own Haunted House: Delve Into Controlled Terror $1.98 – Written by the creative mastermind of a local haunted house here in Chicago. There’s the description of walking through it, how they did it, and even a mask! DIY indeed.

    8. Tales of The Leather Nun by Dave Sheridan, Jaxon, R. Crumb and more (Last Gasp) $2.95 – We just got in a mega stash of older underground comix, some dirtier than others. Quick! Get over here before we run out!

    9. Kim Gee Comics #3 by Kim Gee $5.00

    10. Sorry Partner All The Trees Are Chopped by Dustin Williams $8.00 – Somewhere between a Shel Silverstein story and a Jeremy Tinder drawing rests this latest fully silkscreened comic from Dustin Williams. Lovely two-color design throughout, looking rad in plaid. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    A shout out to Carrie of My Aim Is True and Brilliant Mistake zines who dropped off cookies and candy to keep us in a delicious haze of a sugar high. Thanks, Carrie!

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Telegram Maam #23 Stealing Violets Sep 11 by Maranda Elizabeth $3.00 – Maranda gets to spend some time in a hospital program and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, as opposed to prior BiPolar diagnoses that now feel ill-fitting. The zine examines what it all means to ever chase elusive wellness and cope with one’s own terms of tenuous sobriety. Also, writing on what it is to redefine one’s gender without changing one’s self, and the power of reaching in and being your own therapist in moments of crisis. -EF

    Flying Saucers Rock ‘n’ Roll: Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock ‘n’ Soul Eccentrics (Refiguring American Music) by Jake Austen (Duke University Press) $24.95 – A best of Roctober anthology!


    Mental Floss: The Book Only the Greatest Lists in the History of Listory (Harper) $17.99
    Fun In The End Times by Natty Soltesz $2.00
    Happiness of Dirt by Aozora Brockman $5.00
    Or Let It Sink Octobered by James Joyce $1.00 – Spooky zinester tales of spooky halloweenie spookiness. Contributors include: Dave Roche, Leslie Perrine, Xavier Malsonado and more.
    Start Your Own Haunted House: Delve Into Controlled Terror $1.98 – Written by the creative mastermind of a local haunted house here in Chicago. There’s the description of walking through it, how they did it, and even a mask! DIY indeed.
    Actual Bird Song Field Guide and Audio Companion by Neil Gravander etc. $5.00
    Bag of Rad Zine (Pizza Vultures) by Morgan Inez Smith and Ben Chlapek $10.00
    New Planes Public Press #2 $5.00
    My Aim Is True #3 $1.00
    Sassyfrass Circus #7 by J. Bee $2.00
    Femme a Barbe vol 3 by Jenna Brager $2.00
    Relevance of Anarchism on Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (See Sharp) $2.00

    Comics & Comix
    Smoke Signal #10 Sept 11 $3.00 – with comics from Matthew Thurber, Kaz, Noah Van Sciver and more. Newsprint action published by our buddy Gabe at Desert Island in Brooklyn.
    Hoody #1 A Hip Hop Comic Graph Novel by by Joel CRAVE Maxime Jr. $5.00 – Bouncing through a chromosplash cityscape of graffitipsychedelia, Hoody’s an all-blue Vaughn Bodian anti-hero on a trail of pig roasting secret clues. Wild motions that sometimes remind me of Bernie McGovern’s “Army of Lovers” comics. -EF


    Oh Goodie #2 Working Man by SP Burke $2.99
    Midwestern Cuban Comics vol 1 #1 by Odin Cabal $5.00
    Animal Sex #2 Bugs and Slugs by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – The first was such a hit that we imagine you’ll love this one as well.
    Exquisite Corpse Collection #1 Aug 11 by various $4.99
    Abuela Y Los Dead Mexicans #1 $6.00
    Heaven All Day by John Martz (Adhouse) $4.00
    Tank Girl Carioca #1 by McMahon and Martin (Titan) $5.99
    A buncha old comics from Last Gasp: Slow Death, Clowns, Demented Pervert, Commies From Mars #4, Forbidden Knowledge Comics, Wimmens Comix  – This is where a bunch the classic underground folks got their start with these goodies. Phoebe Gloeckner, Roberta Gregory, Lynda Barry, Crumb and more!
    Demongun #7 Oct 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00 – McGovern’s sobriety comic monthly commemorates triumph through some tough struggles, slips into a quarterly schedule and weird cgi photocollage. -EF

    WWI by Raymond B. Biesinger (Mille Putois) $5.00 – Screenprinted beauty.
    Comics by Lizz Lunney: Big Cat Parade, At The Planetarium, Dust Leopards in Leotards Flip Comic, Cat Hearts Peanut Butter and Marshmallows Split Comic, Tubetastic Unicorns and Werewolves (price varies $5.00-$10.00)
    Islands by Brendan Monroe $6.00
    Everything Unseen Parts 1, 2 and 3 by Drew Beckmeyer (Revival House) $12.00 – And we have Everything Unseen Parts 4 and 5 too. ($14.00)
    Today Today and Better Better Set by David Alvarado $7.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Gary Book 2 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00 – The second installment of Cannon’s brutal graphic narrative loosely wound on the story of the Green River Killer.  Deftly drawn with a flavor of fluid storytelling that maps a life warped by unchecked sociopathic murder yet tethered to society. -EF

    Someday Funnies: 129 Original Comic Strips About the 1960s by Choquette, Greenfield and Heer (Abrams) $55.00
    Oh Goodie #1 Introduce Yourself by SP Burke $14.99
    Government Issue: Comics For the People 1940-2000s by Richard Graham (Abrams) $29.95
    Important Comics Are Bad by Dina Kelberman $14.00
    De Profundis by James Jarvis (Picturebox) $19.95
    Color Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama (Picturebox) $35.00
    Steve Ditko: Angry Apes N Leapin Lizards (PI) $25.00
    Bone 20th Anniversary Edition: Full Color, One Volume Edition by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $150.00 – We’d be happy to order this for you!
    Bizarro Heroes Special Humor Lovers Edition by Dan Piraro (Last Gasp) $11.95

    Art & Design Books
    Juxtapoz Illustration 2 (Gingko) $29.95
    Graffiti and Street Art by Anna Waclawek (T&H) $19.95
    Overkill: The Art of Tomer Hanuka (UP) $29.95
    On Marvellous Things Heard by Gretchen E. Henderson (Green Lantern Press) $12.00

    Art Deco Postcards by Patricia Bayer (T&H) $27.95
    Art Prophets: Artists, Dealers and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World by Richard Polsky (Other) $24.95
    Sailor Jerry Treasure Chest (HM) $30.00
    Inspirational Moustache (Cicada) $9.95
    Folk Art Tattoo Flash  (HM) $30.00
    Unventions: Every Invention Has an Equal and Opposite Unvention by Cleon Daniel (Carpet Bombing Culture) $16.95
    Schwarz Auf Weiss vol 2 by Style Needs No Color (From Here) $29.90 – Style Needs No Color works on the notion that excessive colors and flashy techniques should not be used to repair a weak foundation. They believe that artwork should be able to stand alone without unnecessary distractions and therefore SNNC artists restrict their palette to black and white. In the follow-up release to their successful first book, Schwarz auf Weiss II, you can see the stark beauty and striking simplicity of this idea in action.
    Shit London Snapshots of a City on the Edge by Patrick Dalton (Portico) $14.95
    Color Me Graffiti 2: How to Color Like the Masters a Coloring Book for Creative  (From Here) $8.95

    Fiction
    Sunset Park by Paul Auster (Picador) $15.00
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – This book is so popular that even before we got it in people were reserving copies. More are on the way, but e-mail us at info@quimbys.com if you want us to add you to the list of reserved copies when they get here.
    Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka ed. by John Kessel and Patrick kelly James (Tachyon) $15.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Muckracking and Misc
    Christmas Exposed: Holiday Coverage From Americas Finest News Source by The Onion (Quirk) $12.95
    Microwave Experiment: A Story of Government Testing on a United States Customs Officer by Mary Efrosini Gregory (Tachyon) $14.95
    UFO Conspiracy by Carmen McLaren (Schiffer) $29.99
    Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Criclons and Alternative Theories of Everything by Margaret Werthem (Walker) $27.00
    Pulphead by John Keremiah Sullivan (FSG) $16.00
    Schotts Quintessential Miscellany by Ben Schott (Bloomsbury) $16.00
    How to Be An Existentialist Or How to Get Real Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses by Gary Cox (Continuum) $14.95
    Common As Air by Lewis Hyde (FSG) $16.00

    Poltics and Revolution
    Lives On the Left: A Group Portrait by Francis Mulhern (Verso) $24.95
    Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of Historys 100  Worst Atrocities by Matthew White (Norton) $35.00
    Bolobolo 30th Anniversary Edition by PM (Autonomedia) $11.95

    DIY
    Soup and Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time by Martha Baynes (Surrey) $20.95 – As in the Soup and Bread series at the Hideout!
    Mycophilia Revelations From the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone (Rodale) $25.99
    Have Yourself a Very Vintage Christmas: Crafts, Decorating, Tips, and Recipes From the 20s-60s by Susan Waggoner (STC) $19.95 – Includes instructions for 50 craft projects.
    State of Craft by Victoria Woodcock (Cicada) $19.95
    Books about Chicago food from G. Bradeley  Publishers such as Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History and Polish Chicago: Our History Our Recipes.

    Music Books
    33 1/3 Series: Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace by Aaron Cohen (Continuum) $12.95
    Listen to This y Alex Ross (Picador) $18.00
    Album Cover Art of Studio One Records: Right Around the World Todays Sounds  Today(Soul Jazz) $49.95

    Childrens Books
    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Harper) $12.99 – A new  edition.

    Magazines
    Autocult #1 (OLUM Occidental Lodge of Underground Motoring) $12.00 – From their website about the first issue of this magazine: “And when we say ‘culture,’ we don’t mean ‘kulture.’ Kulture was first widely used back in 1993 when the Kustom Kulture exhibit toured the country and dropped an A-bomb on the hot rod scene of the era. But by 2011, it’s turned into a four-letter word, just like ‘rat rod.’ No, when we use the word culture to describe what we do here, we use it in the context of ‘cultural anthropology.’ That sounds better to us. And when we use the phrase ‘rat rod,’ we’re talking about the first wave of revolution twenty years ago that took the hot rod out of the exclusionary realm of high-end street rod shops and put it back in the home garage, where it all started. ”

    Pinstriping #28 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    Afterall  #28 Fall Win 11 $10.00
    Burlesque Bible vol 2 $16.95
    Backwoodsman vol 32 #6 Nov Dec 11 $4.95
    Skeptical Inquirer Nov Dec 11 vol 35 #6 $4.95
    Color Skateboards vol 9 #4 $7.99
    Skateboard Mag #93 $3.99
    Pin Up America Nov 11 #6 $5.99
    BlackBook #88 Nov 11 $4.95
    Fangoria #308 $9.99
    Maximumrocknroll #342 Nov 11 $4.00
    Under the Radar #38 $5.99
    Ugly Things #32 $8.95
    Z Magazine Nov 11 $4.95
    The Progressive Nov 11 $4.95
    Tattoo Revolution Nov 11 $11.75

    Chap Books and Literary Journals
    The Handshake #2 $8.00 – Chicago-based mag harkening back to the New Journalism that captured the American readership back in 1960s, dedicated to publishing conversations, interviews, experimental essays, short fiction, and photographic travelogues.

    Wholphin #14 DVD (McSweeneys) $19.95
    Public Space #14 $12.00
    Granta #117 Fall 11 Horror $16.99
    Lana Turner #4 $12.00
    Urban Confustions #1
    Long Sexy Boring True Short… by Stephanie Dunn $10.00

    Sex & Sexy
    The Great American Pin Up by Charles G. Martignette (Taschen) $19.99
    A buncha older dirty porn comics: Young Lust, Tales of The Leather Nun, Pandoras Box Comix, White Whore Funnies, Junque Land, Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge Girl Blimp: Urban Tales Poetry NonFiction Art from Women Across Cities of the World $12.00

    Other Stuff
    Sinsemilla Sinsations Postcards Cannabis Inspired Art Spanning Four Decades by Pat Ryan (Last Gasp) $12.95
    Rockeys 6 Key Caps (Gama Go) $6.00 – To rock it in your pocket.

  • Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers

    1. 2012 Slingshot Large (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically. This large size is spiral-bound.

    2. 2012 Slingshot Small (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  Perfect-bound pocket size.

    3. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95 – 1. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95 – Two pitch-perfect stories of rejection, imperfection, and relationship drama, each ending on a surprisingly uplifting note. “Hortisculpture” pushes Tomine into a stylistic camp with Sammy Harkham, Jordan Crane, Chuck Forsman and Kevin Huizenga – perhaps more than ever before. The story works with a “Chalky White”-ish suburban everyman and his tempered ambitions, but camps up the visual style into a Marmaduke-y newspaper strip aesthetic. The effect is similar to the trickiness of his wedding planning comics. The second half is a repolishing of his “Amber Sweet” college girl mistaken for porn star plot. Plus we get a glimpse into Tomine’s sad-sack mailbox, and some self-aware griping about putting out comics issue by issue.  -EF

    4.  The Death Ray by Dan Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – 2. The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book. Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover.

    5.  Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics) $7.95 – From the author of Curses and Supermonster. The adventues of Glenn Ganges continues.

    6.   My Aim is True #1 by Carrie $1.00 – My Aim Is True continues where Carrie’s perzine Brilliant Mistake ends (note the matching Elvis Costello titles). Funny musings on feeling guilty and not feeling guilty, book reviews, crushings and Truma Capote. -EF

    7. Big Questions Extras Outtakes and Random Scraps Book Tour Zine Thing by Anders Nilsen $5.00 – Hey,  just in case the nearly 600 pages of collected Big Questions and accompanying adenda wasn’t enough for you, here’s another  24 pages of formative doodles, unpublished sketches, alternate draftings and bookplate designs! Eat until you’re full my completist friend! -EF

    8. Savages Rab City $1.00 – Folds out to reveal 3 different drawings.

    9. Wanderlust Herbal $2.00 – Scrapper witch Violet lays out a dense herbalist guide to 19 good friends in the plant kingdom….who they are what they do, and how you find ’em when you’re crawling around in the world. -EF

    10. Butch Nor Femme #2 by Lynne $1.50 – Butch Nor Femme #2 begins and ends with sharp essays/musings about self-definition, assumption and gender labelling, tethered directly to the title. These bookend more laid back reports from a trip to Michigan and quitting the Facebook, thinking about internet socializer frameworks. Bright Queer Focus, Hella Articulated. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Slingshot 2012 Planners are here! $6.00 for pocket-sized small ones and $12.00 for the larger spiral-bound edition. In a variety of colors. Get organized for 2012 with the help of Berkeley’s Slingshot anarchist collective.

    Zines
    East Village Inky #48 by Ayun Haliday $3.00 – The all music issue!
    Your Secretary #1 Playing Victim #3 by Jami Sailor $1.00
    Norent #1 a Guide to Life and Such by Sn@cki $8.00
    Legends of the Silver Screen #1 by Owen Ashworth $3.00
    Biking-related zines from Elyse Bennett Devan (from Microcosm): How Do You Bring the Souls of Black Folk Up From Slavery $1.75 Fascinating History of Nail Polish $1.50 Natalie and the Virgin a Tragic Tale of Love From the Annals of Time $2.00
    Dirty Love and Fiberglass Smiles #4 Memphis A Rewriting of the Crew Change by Rust $10.00
    2011 Twin Cities Zine Fest Encyclopedia $5.00
    Hack This Zine #12 Spr 11 Exploit Code Not People by hackbloc $2.00
    Transmissions From the Emperors Heavenly Ford vol 1 Notes on Life as an American by Thomas Kenning (Microcosm) $4.00
    Taking the Lane vol 3 Unsung Heroes by Elly Blue $3.00
    Taking the Lane vol 4 Sexy on the Inside by Elly Blue $3.00
    Bikenomics: How Bicycling Will Save the Economy if We Let It by Elly Blue $5.00
    Hack Sketches From a Chicago Cab by Dmitry Samarov $16.00

    Comics & Comix
    Monster Dudes #1 written by Dave Scheidt and drawn by Matt “Meniscus” Fagan $3.99 – Made by our buddies down the street at Brainstorm! Hilarous and charming. Well, what did you expect?
    Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics) $7.95 – The fourth issue of Kevin H.’s Glenn Ganges series, drawn with appetizing minimalism, written with mystical mind expansion. How is that possible? It just is. Part of Fantagraphics’ Ignatz series.
    Crass Sophisticate #27 $2.00
    Feedback #10 by John Isaacson $2.00 – Another stellar issue from John “DIY Screenprinting” Isaacson about shows he goes to. And he goes to a lot! How does he find time to do comics about them?
    Short Stories of Lives Cut Short by Mitch Munster and Bryan Kotwica $5.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Neonomicon TPB by Alan Moore (Avatar) $19.99 – Issues collected in one volume of Moore’s Lovecraftian epic series.
    Walking Dead Survivors Guide by Robert Kirkman etc. (Vertigo) $12.99
    Unwritten vol 4 Leviathan TPB by Mike Carey (Vertigo) $14.99
    Underwire by Jennifer Hayden (Top Shelf) $9.95

    Art Books
    Print and Pattern vol 2 by Bowie Style (Laurence King) $29.95
    A to Z of Visual Ideas How to Solve and Creative Brief by John Ingledew (Laurence) $30.00
    DIY Furniture: A Step By Step Guide 30 Unique Projects from Designer Makers by C. Stuart (Laurence) $24.95

    Fiction
    Damned by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 – New book from the author of Fight Club. Here’s what the internet has to say about it: “Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned. She died, goes to Hell and is joined by characters that are not unlike the characters in the Breakfast Club. They go on a quest to confront Satan in his citadel. Coming of age book? Like maybe the same way Dead Like Me was a coming of age TV show? We shall see.

    Dear Sun I am Real by SG Rainbolt $8.99
    Facts of Winter by Paul Poissel (McSweeneys) $13.00 – New soft cover edition.
    Mid Life by Bojan Pavlovic $9.95 – From the publishers of The First Line lit journal.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, mEssays
    Tylenol Mafia Marketing Murder and Johnson and Johnson by Scott Bartz $18.00
    50 Funniest American Writers by Andy Borowitz (Penguin) $27.95
    Why Am I a Five Percenter by Michael Muhammad Knight (Tarcher) $14.95 – Misrepresented in the media as a black parallel to the Hell’s Angels, portrayed as everything from a vicious street gang to quasi- Islamic revolutionaries, The Five Percenters are a movement that began as a breakaway sect from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1960s Harlem and went on to impact the formation of hip-hop. References to Five Percent language and ideas are found in the lyrics of wide-ranging artists, such as Nas, Rakim, the Wu-Tang Clan, and even Jay-Z.
    Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers – An American Tale of Sex by Mike Edison (Soft Skull) $15.95 – wild and uncompromising history of four infamous magazines and the outlaws behind them, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! is the first book to rip the sheet off of the sleazy myth-making machine of Hugh Hefner and Playboy, and reveal the doomed history of Hefner’s arch rival, Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, whose messiah complex and heedless spending — on a legendary flop of a movie paid for with bags of cash, a porn magazine for women, and a pie-in-the sky scheme for a portable nuclear reactor —fueled the greatest riches to rags story ever told. From the writer of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go.

    Politics & Revolution
    Inside This Place Not Of It: Narratives From Womens Prisons ed by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi (McSweeneys) $16.00 – People in U.S. prisons are routinely subjected to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. While this has been documented in male prisons, women in prison often suffer in relative anonymity. Women Inside addresses this critical social justice issue, empowering incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women to share the stories that have previously been silenced. Among the narrators include a woman sterlized without her consent and a woman undergoing toxic treatment for a HIV positive diagnoses she didn’t have and more. Part of the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness Series.

    Magazines
    Bizarre #181 Nov 11 $10.50
    Wallpaper Nov 11 $10.00
    True Crime Oct 11 $8.99
    Make vol 28 $14.99 – Not the lit journal, but the DIY project mag.
    Gentlewoman #4 Fall Win 11 $12.99
    Another Man #13 Fall Win 11 $14.99
    Color Skateboards vol 9 #3 $7.99
    Harpers Magazine Nov 11 $6.99
    Wire #332 Oct 11 $10.99
    Perspectives on Anarchist Theory vol 13 #1 a Movement by The Insititute For Anarchist Studies (Microcosm) $6.00 – With contributions from folks like Josh MacPhee, Chris Borte and more.
    Inked Nov 11 $7.99

    Music Books
    Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family Disco and Destiny by Nile Rodgers (Spiegal) $27.00 – By the architect of the “Chic Sound” that dominated the late seventies, but was also a hitmaker in the 80s for artists like David Bowie, INXS, Duran Duran, Madonna, and more.

    Sex & Sexy
    Handbook vol 5 #4 2011 The Masked Issue $6.00
    Model Men Gay Erotic Stories by N. Placky (Cleis) $14.95
    Women in Lust Erotic Stories by RK Bussel (Cleis) $14.95
    Ellen Von Unwerth Fraulein (Taschen) $69.99
    Big Book of Pussy ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $59.99 – Editor Dian Hanson delves into the historical significance of this humble os, to show how the yoni has been coveted, feared, reviled, and worshipped by civilizations worldwide, from New Guinea to old Ireland. The text is supported by playful photographs of women exposing their vulvas, from 1900 to the present day, images both naturally furry and stylishly groomed. Interviews with Vanessa del Rio, squirter Flower Tucci, vaginal performance artist Mouse the singular Buck Angel and more.

    Other Stuff
    More Moleskine blank journals and 2012 planners. In a variety of sizes, colors, lined, unlined, week at a glance, day at a glance etc.
    2 new Build Your Own Postcards from Matt Bergstrom (artist of the Build Your Own Chicago and New York Postcards): *Build Your Own San Francisco Postcard and Build Your Own St. Louis Postcard. $2.00 each

  • Craig Thompson Celebrates Habibi 11/17

    Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi (Pantheon Books) tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, circumstance, and love. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world fueled by fear and greed.  At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance; a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and the magic of storytelling.

    “Habibi is a remarkable feat of research, care, and black ink, and a reminder that all “People of the book,” despite the division of their individual traditions, share a mosaic of stories.”—Zadie Smith, Harper’s Magazine

    “A fantastical love story of a harem girl and the slave boy she rescues, inspired by the Arabian Nights, ancient calligraphy, and modern environmental catastrophe.”—Dan Kois, New York Magazine

    Craig Thompson is the award-winning author of the graphic novels Blankets  and Good-bye, Chunky Rice.

    For more info:
    http://www.facebook.com/CraigThompsonAuthor
    www.pantheonbooks.com

     

     

     

     

    Click here to download a copy of the press release for this event.

  • Quimby's Backs Chromazoid Comics Anthology & Mix Tape Kickstarter Project. So should you.

    We backed the Chromazoid Comics Anthology & Mix Tape Kickstarter project by Lale Westvind in Harlem, NY. It’s a book with color comics by nine FRESH Comics by Nine FRESH Artists, handpicked, like flowers, IN VIBRANT COLOR! Each comic is totally unique in its aesthetic and medium. The artists are Ben Bertin, Robert Calzone, William Cleveland, Lisa Cline, Lyra Hill, Nick Jackson, Ian McDuffie, Jeremy Tinder and Lale Westvind.

    Editor Lale Westvind says, “The Mix Tape that comes with the book is an eclectic mix of genres and styles, with songs and sounds influenced and inspired directly by the comics in the book. I made this book to showcase friends and peers of mine that I thought were making incredible work and wild music, stuff that would look and sound even better if PRINTED IN COLOR and ON TAPE and COMBINED! Kickstarter donations fund the expensive color printing of these books and tapes, then we get to carry the chromazoids all over the u.s. to get our work seen, read and heard.”

    For more info:
    Chromazoid on Kickstarter
    Chromazoid Blog (to see comics pages from the book and links to the individual artists’ websites)

  • Chicago Zine Fest Fundraiser 10/24

     

    ZINE READING FUNDRAISER!
    An evening of zine and comics readings
    at The Moving Castle
    Monday, October 24, 7:30pm
    3317 N Kedzie

    Readers include:
    Ben Spies (no more coffee zine)
    Corinne Mucha (Is it the future yet?)
    Dave Roche (On Subbing)
    Sarah Palin/aka C-Span (Jayonce fan fiction)
    Marian Runk (Inbox)
    Ben Bertin (MIOK)
    suggested donation $3 – $5

    Chicago Zine Fest will be March 9th-10th, 2012 at places around town, including Columbia’s Conaway Center. More info at chicagozinefest.org

  • Weekly Top 10 Quimby Bestsellers


    Before we jump into this weeks Top 10, just a note to let you know we will be tabling at The MDW Fair this coming weekend (Oct 21st-23rd). This fair showcases solo and duo exhibitions curated by small not-for-profits, artist-run spaces, independent galleries, collectives and curators from around the country and a whole lot more. The fair starts on Fri the 21st, but we’ll be tabling on Sat/Sun. For more info: mdwfair.org

    That makes a full month that Optic Nerve #12 has been in the top 10, slowly but surely moving up from where it debuted at #3, then hanging out at #2 for a few weeks, and then this week #1. A bunch of the usual suspects (Bust, Hi-Fructose) but then some that I don’t think have been on our top 10: Likes Dislikes and Piano Rats. Congrats small publishers!

    1. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95 – Two pitch-perfect stories of rejection, imperfection, and relationship drama, each ending on a surprisingly uplifting note. “Hortisculpture” pushes Tomine into a stylistic camp with Sammy Harkham, Jordan Crane, Chuck Forsman and Kevin Huizenga – perhaps more than ever before. The story works with a “Chalky White”-ish suburban everyman and his tempered ambitions, but camps up the visual style into a Marmaduke-y newspaper strip aesthetic. The effect is similar to the trickiness of his wedding planning comics. The second half is a repolishing of his “Amber Sweet” college girl mistaken for porn star plot. Plus we get a glimpse into Tomine’s sad-sack mailbox, and some self-aware griping about putting out comics issue by issue.  -EF

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

    3. Bust Oct Nov 11 $4.99

    4. Hi Fructose #21 $6.95

    5. The Logan Square Literary Review #8 Fall 11 $5.00 – Don’t miss the release event here at Quimby’s Fri 10/28 for this issue Halloween weekend with the Logan Square Literary Review Reads: Halloween Edition! Grab your pumpkin beers and trick-or-treat bags and prepare yourself for the spooky, scary and creepy as read by: Lara Levitan, Michael McCauley, Alicia Hilton and others!

    6. Likes Dislikes #1 by Lacey Hedtke $2.00 – As per the Microcosm website: A great little slice of personality from Lacey’s via her extensive lists of likes and dislikes. Some highlights include: Likes: “The thought that Aliens and Humans might someday become one.” “What Illegal things arose out of prohibition” “talking about conspiracies” Dislikes: “Having to break into a place you have the key to.” “Realizing you like your boyfriend’s friends more than you like him” “Playing with silly putty after someone with warts” “Undressing a man only to find he has creepy underwear” With things like this, we get a gradual growing depth into what Lacey is all about and even her seeming contradictions. We smile at shared feeling and cringe at a horrible experience we haven’t yet lived through.

    7. Everything Dies #7 by Box Brown (Microcosm) $5.00 – “Issue seven is a comic retelling of the pan-cultural “flood myth.” Here we see Sumerian wind god Enlil (a total badass jerk  a la an evil pro-wrestler) setting out to destroy the newly-created people of the Earth. The “Noah” of this polytheistic ark story is King Ziasudra, and his trajectory and fate are much different than the Christian Biblical version. Beautifully drawn and deep-packed with “the things that make you go hmm,”  Everything Dies will keep you reassessing who we are and what we’ve built our shared narrative from.” – Microcosm Synopsis

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

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

    10. Piano Rats by Franki Elliot (Curbside Splendor) $10.00 – Elliot’s poems dissect the 9,000 year gap between the breakfast and the bus ride, the eons between bodies and the slick sopes of memory.  -EF

    Want your zine, comic or book to be in the top 10 and get some exposure? Tell your friends to come in and get it.