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  • Announcing Anobium

    Anobium: Volume 1, due July 31st, is the first literary biannual from Chicago’s Anobium Books. It features new writing from local and international names and artwork from Jacob van Loon. It will also feature work from Jonathan Greenhause, Rich Ives, Stephanie Plenner, Joe Meno, and a fancy-dancy handful of other spectacular folks. We’ll have it here when it comes out, but until then for more info see anobiumlit.com

  • Weekly Top 10

    Here’s the topsellers. But first, a reminder about our event this coming Saturday (July 23rd) at 7 pm, we’re excited to welcome Cassie J. Sneider with Dave Roche and Danny ‘Ratso’ Rathbun, which should be hilarious and fun. See our event calendar for more info.

    Weekly Top 10

    1. Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) $12.00 – Collects highlights from #44 to #48. including tales from the Dead End, Lanky, and the Back to the Land series.

    2. Logan Square Literary Review #7 Sum 11 $5.00 – Fiction from Ray Cline and Evan Seeder, photos from April Lynn, poetry from Alicia Hilton and Brandon Holmquesta bike comic, a profile on the Logan Square CROP project and a recipe for kroppkakor.

    3. Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00

    4. Roctober #49 $4.00

    5. Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00

    6. Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

    7. 8-Track Mind #101 Zines vs Blogs ed. by F.R. Russ Forster $3.00 – WELCOME BACK 8-TRACK MIND!!!! Holy Moly! After a 10-year hiatus 8-Track Mind heeds the call of the Revenge of Print and pulls a fresh new issue out of the oven! Man, this was the zine that I remember reading way-back-when that REALLY made me think, “Woah, you really can make a great zine about ANYTHING.” Truly. This issue goes light on the 8-trackology but stays true to its analog-obsessed roots with a well-rounded symposium all about “Zines Versus Blogs”. -EF — Contributors: Chris Barrows, Peter Bergman, Joe Carducci, Kim Cooper, Brendan DeVallance, Tony DuShane, Sam Green, Lance Laurie, Alison Levy, Tom Lynch, Danny Plotnick, Dan Sutherland, V Vale and Lucien Williams.

    8. Your Secretary #10 Dig Deep #3 by Jami Sailor and Heather C. $2.00 –  Library-themed librarian zine split. Heather gushes about working the Young Adult program and Jami gives a run down of Library School field work and public library porn use. Something to definitely check out! -EF

    9. Hobo Magazine #13 $15.00

    10. Yeti #11 $11.95 – Another great issue of Yeti – a cd of exclusive tracks and a thick journal of comics, interviews, photos and art. Always a stunner. This issue: ON THE CD: all rare/unreleased music –a dozen tracks that are as long as their respective track numbers, so that track 12 is 12 minutes long and track 4 is 4 minutes long and you probably don’t need any more examples than that. The result is a 78-minute-long disc featuring Snake Hole, Sloppy Heads, Johnita and Joyce Collins, Atole, Gospel Creators, White Rainbow, The Dirashi Tribe, Roy Montgomery, Golden Retriever, Oneida, Phill Niblock, and Happy New Year. INSIDE THE BOOK: .interviews with Phill Niblock, Roy Montgomery, and Brian Chippendale; photography by Olivia Wyatt and Megan Holmes; art by Marcellus Hall and Victor Kerlow; an archival interview with Joe Brainard by Anne Waldman; fiction by Kimberly Parko and R. Foggo; rare May ’68 posters from Grenoble, and the Skaters.

  • David Shrigley comes to Quimby's 9/20!

    David Shrigley – Live and in person! 9/20 7pm at Quimby’s

    and 9/21 at Columbia College

    WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? The Essential David Shrigley

    “David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.” -Dave Eggers

    “With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I’ve never known—and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I’m laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me.” -Miranda July

    David Shrigley is the rare artist that can comfortably walk the fine line between pop culture and high art. While he’s animated videos for musicians such as Blur and Bonny Prince Billy, his work can also be seen in world renowned museums such as MoMA and the Tate Modern, and his highly distinctive style has been on display in galleries in New York, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, and beyond. He is also clearly a madman.

    The aptly named WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING: The Essential David Shrigley [W. W. Norton & Company; October 24th, 2011; $35.00 hardcover] is an outrageous compilation of his illustrations, comics, photography and sculpture. His crude drawings and unexpected compositions are at once childish and clever, and each depiction oddly sincere. They capture the morbid humor of Edward Gorey, the absurdity of a Monty Python sketch, and the peculiar perspective of a Charles Addams cartoon. In short, this beautiful, full color collection is an indispensible introduction to one of contemporary art’s most fascinating and provocative minds.

    The pieces in this book are an eclectic and encompassing representation of Shirgley’s interest in the surreal. From a photograph of a hot dog (affixed with googly eyes and tucked comfortably into bed) to childlike drawings of humanity’s most grotesque members (a man drinking a goblet of blood, captioned simply with “CHEERS!”) this book is a both a celebration of condemnation of humanity’s most base urges, fears, and delights.

    WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? is remarkably bold, and Shrigley leaves no topic untouched. Through colorful commentary, he explores everything from clowns to caffeine, sexuality to God, and all the delightfully inappropriate bits in between. You would be hard-pressed to find, in any other work of art, a match to Shrigley’s satirical brilliance. As Will Self points out in the introduction, “Shrigley’s photographic works suggest the refined eye of someone sent back from the future beyond the looming apocalypse, charged with assembling images that, while ostensibly of the mundane, nonetheless explain how it came to pass that humanity destroyed itself.” By turns unsettling, moving, and gut-wrenchingly funny, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? is a revealing glimpse into an offbeat, darkly comedic, and utterly hilarious artistic mind. For more info: davidshrigley.com/

    Also, click here for a hilarious animated video abut the book!

    Tues, Sept 20th, 7pm here at Quimby’s Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave., Chicago

    Wed, Sep 21st , 6:30pm – 9:30pm at Columbia College Chicago – Stage Two 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor — Quimby’s will  be there to sell books!

    These events are co-sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore, Columbia College and AIGA Chicago.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Pitchfork weekend is upon us. Well, need an AIR-CONDITIONED respite? Why not join us here? We have some very exciting new things, including a new issue of 8 Track Mind, a Cometbus comp, two steampunk art books (how splendid!), a Tao Lin book, new ishes of Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose and more.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection Collects by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) $12.00 Collects highlights from #44 to #48 including Lanky, Back to the Land and more.
    8 Track Mind #101 Zines Vs Blogs by Russ Forster $3.00 – First issue in TEN YEARS! 2011 has truly become The Revenge of Print. Now where’s your zine?
    Syndicate Product #18.2 Syndicate Consumption Second Quarter Apr-Jun by AJ Michel $1.00 – A truly entertaining overview of what master zinester AJ has been reading and enjoying. Always a compelling read.
    Paper Radio #6 Formerly Signals A Radio and Media Zine by DJ Frederick $3.00
    Comic Bible vol 4 #1 $10.00
    Man Meat by Susie Swanton $1.00
    I Dont Understand Farming #6 and I Dont Understand Farming #7 $.75 each
    Niente $3.00
    Uptown Problems #2 $4.00
    Atlas #1 and Atlas #2 $3.00 each
    Sob Story #9 $4.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    2012 by Sam Gaskin (Secret Acres) $7.00
    Thirteen Steps of Getting Dumped by DGW Hedges and Otto Splotch $5.00
    Melted Shelter by Otto Splotch $8.00
    Death of Elijah Lovejoy by Noah Van Sciver $5.00
    RASL #11 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies vol 1 by Fiffe Michel (Image) $18.99
    Classic Next Men vol 1 by John Byrne (IDW) $24.99
    Incognito TPB Bad Influences by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Icon) $17.99
    Jack of Fables vol 9 The End TPB by Bill Willingham and var. (Vertigo) $17.99
    New X Men TPB Book 3 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism by Jay Stongman (Korero) $35.00
    Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions from the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement by Art Donovan (Fox Chapel) $19.95
    Kicks Japan by Manami Okazaki and Geoff Johnson (MBP) $30.00

    FICTION!
    You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am by Tao Lin (Action) $14.00
    Dance With Dragons HC by George RR Martin (Three Rivers Press) $35.00 – Song of Ice and Fire Book five.
    Johannes Cabal: The Detective by Jonathan L. Howard (Anchor) $14.95
    Midnight Movie by Tobe Hooper and Alan Goldsher (Three Rivers Press) $14.00 – Local writer Goldsher with the creator of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
    I Knew You’d Be Lovely by Alethea Black (Broadway) $14.00
    Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime From Tin House (Tin House) $18.95
    American Gods 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (Morrow) $26.99
    Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images and Stories From Top Authors and Artists by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Harper) $22.99
    Johnny Too Bad by Heather Augustyn and Carrie Coslov $15.00 – Augustyn is also the author of the comprhensive book Ska: An Oral History. One might say Johnny Too Bad is a book of historical fiction based in the birthplace of ska.

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Camera Obscura vol 3 Sum Fall 11 $12.95
    Gathering of Tribes #13 $12.95
    Ninth Letter vol 8 #1 $14.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters ed. by Paul JR Maher (Chicago Review Press) $19.95

    CHILDRENS!
    Symphony City by Amy Martin (McSweeneys) $17.95
    Beyond Stolen: Flames Forbidden Fruit and Telephone Booths- Our Own Myths Our Own Futures by students at June Jordan School for Equity (826) $22.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Sinister Forces Book 2: A Warm Gun – A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda (Trine) $24.95 – Now in soft cover.
    Celebrity Comics Babble: 34 Stars In Their Own Words by Mary Ann Pierro $18.95 – From Comic Bible Magazine.
    Shock Value: How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares Conquered Hollywood by Jason Zinoman (Penguin) $25.95
    Muldoon: A True Chicago Ghost Story – Tales of a Forgotten Rectory by R. and D. Facchini (Lake Claremont) $15.00
    Near West Side Stories: Struggles For Community in Chicagos Maxwell Street Neighborhood by Carolyn Eastwood $17.95
    Politics of Place: A History of Zoning In Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $19.95
    Sports Traveler Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $15.95
    On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department by Daniel P. Smith (Lake Claremont) $17.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    People Wasn’t Made to Burn: The True Story of Race Murder and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen (Lake Claremont) $22.95
    Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin (Pathfinder) $24.95
    Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg (Pathfinder) $14.95
    Sexism and Science by Evelyn Reed (Pathfinder) $20.00
    Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of Brian S. Wilson (PM Press) $20.00 – Autobiography of an activist who lost both his legs courtesy of a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action. Chomsky said that this memoir “should be read and pondered, and its lessons should be taken to heart by those who hope to create a more decent world.”

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #127 Aug 11 $5.99
    Hi Fructose #20 $6.95
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #2 $6.25
    Fortean Times #277 Aug 11 $11.99
    Yeti #11 $11.95
    True Crime Jul 11 $8.99
    True Crime Summer Special 11 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
    Namaste vol 12 #2 $9.99
    Open Minds Aug Sep 11 $6.50
    True Detective Jul 11 $4.99
    Art of Mary Jane Jul 11 $6.99
    Scootering #301 $8.99
    Dazed & Confused #99 Jul 11 $9.99
    Horror Hound #30 Jul Aug 11 $6.99
    Wire #329 Jul 11 $10.99
    Classic Rock #160 Sum 11 $11.99
    Black Velvet #69 $6.25
    Hip Mama #49 $5.95
    Radical Philosophy #168 $13.00
    Dissent Sum 11 $10.00
    Bound By Ink vol 1 #6 $7.99
    Tattoo Life #71 $6.99
    Tattoo Scout #24 $9.60

    SEX & SEXY!
    Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir by Sheila McClear $14.95
    Filament vol 3 #1 $12.50
    Front #157 $9.99

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G.Warrior (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – The greatest heavy metal story ever told—the complete tale of a life lived for metal. Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, METALION includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer Mag—Slayer 1 through Slayer XX, plus the precursor Live Wire zine—spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life’s story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to metal party beast to world-weary metal survivor. The book also features over 100 rare photographs, including two color sections and a portrait gallery of photographs taken by Kristiansen himself. For twenty-five years, Norway’s Slayer Mag published the gospel of black metal and death metal, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and relentless offbeat humor. With this anthology/memoir, editor Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen unfolds the extreme highs and lows of a life lived for heavy metal. Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Mag quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of Slayer Mag exploded along with the extreme metal underground, and as black metal rose to prominence in Norway in the 1990s, Slayer Mag remained the final word on the moods and motivations of those dark times. Expertly edited by friend and peer Tara G. Warrior. Thanks to everybody that came out for this amazing event last week!

    2. Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #3 Sum 11 $15.00

    3. Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00

    4. Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00

    5. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00

    6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00 – Jenna and Jami are like a zine archivist Dream Team getting into a lot of crooks and nannies and doing it all in a zine. It’s a tricky topic…how and why do you archive media that often openly flaunts itself as underground, anti-establishment and anti-catagorization. They interview Milo Miller from the Queer Zine Archive Project, Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines, Adela C Licona author of Zines In the Third Space and Teal Triggs, author of the controversial “Fanzines” coffee table book that glossed over many issues of author consent and compensation. Jenna “Lower East Side Librarian” Freedman rounds out the issue with a breakdown of what seperates zines from blogs.
    7. Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

    8. Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00

    9. Paying For It a Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

    10. Your Secretary #6 Lake Effect #1 Split by Jami Sailor  and K $2.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Countdown 2.5 hours from this very moment: Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior Discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries.

    ZINES!
    Purple Faced Man by John Minkoff $3.00
    Refresh by Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay and Laura Parnes $5.00
    Peehole #4 and Peehole #5: Weird Dreams by Jim Donaldson $2.00 each
    You Made Devotion A Virtue #2 Sad Eyed Girl $2.00
    Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00
    Atlas of Childhood #2: Zine About Childrens Books by Celia C Perez $2.00
    I Dreamed I was Assertive #13 $2.00
    Travesty #1 Musings On Being a Transvestite Metalhead Oct 09 $2.00 and #2 is $1.00
    Blue Floral Gusset $1.00
    All I Want Is Everything #1 by Caitlin Constantine $3.00
    Strange Thoughts Drawings and Things by Marta Chudolinska $15.00
    Dark Matter Dunkle Materie $20.00
    Untitled Hands: Fired This Is It Searching For Bullet Holes by Marta Chudolinska $5.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Plaid #2 (Sensational Second Issue) by Josh Lees $2.00
    Plaid #3 (Thrashin Third Issue) by Josh Lees $2.00
    Summer Daze #1 by Marta Chudolinska $4.00
    Sad Luck #1 by Marta Chudolinska $10.00
    Story of Your Life #1 by Marta Chudolinska $2.50

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Kick Ass TPB by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. (Marvel) $19.99 – Back in print.
    Revolver TPB by Matt Kindt (Vertigo) $19.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Henry at Home $20.00

    DIY BOOKS!
    Elements of Fucking Style: A Helpful Parody by Chris Baker and Jacob Hansen (SMP) $9.99
    Mushrooms, Myth, and Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe by Ruck, Hoffman + (Citylights) $23.95

    FICTION!
    Astounding The Amazing and The Unkown by Paul Malmont (Simon) $26.00 – From the author of Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.
    True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies (Faber) $14.00
    Jack Daniels Sessions EP: A Collection of Fantasies by Elwin Cotman $12.00
    30 Under 30 An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by var. (Starcheron) $20.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Logan Square Literary Review #7 Sum 11 $5.00
    Versal #9 $14.95
    Chapbook by Charles JR Bane AND Isabelle Pruneau $14.99
    Cousin Corinnes Reminder #3 $14.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons, Concerning the Planet Earth amd the Human Race Which Infests It by Martin Olson, Tony Millionnaire, and Mahendra Singh (Feral House) $19.95
    Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live Work and Play in the City by Shelia Heti and Misha Glouberman (Faber) $13.00 – Misha Glouberman’s friend and collaborator, Sheila Heti, wanted her next book to be a compilation of everything Misha knew. Together, they made a list of subjects. As Misha talked, Sheila typed. He talked about games, relationships, cities, negotiation, improvisation, Casablanca, conferences, and making friends. His subjects ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. But sometimes what had seemed trivial began to seem important—and what had seemed important began to seem less so. Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting easier? What can spam tell us about the world?
    Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day? One Geezers Handbook for Survival by Larry McCoy $14.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    People Wasn’t Made to Burn: The True Story of Race Murder and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen (Haymarket) $22.95
    Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage by Ryan Conrad and Yasmin Nair (Against Equality Press) $8.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Blood and Thunder #17 Womens Roller Derby Magazine $5.99
    High Times Sep 11 $5.99
    Diner Journal #18 Sum 11 $9.00
    Reed Pages #00 $12.00
    Reed Pages #01 $15.00
    Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Thickness #1 ed. by Katie Skelly $10.00 – With contributions from Ryan Sands. Michael Deforge and more.

  • Weekly Top 10

    Just a heads up, we’ve got 3 events happening this week that we’re excited about, each of them starting at 7pm:

    Wed, July 6th Orderly Disorder: Zinester Librarians in Circulation Tour featuring the Fly Away Zine Mobile
    Fri, July 8th 7:00 pm Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior Discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries
    Sat, July 9th Heather Augustyn Reads From Ska: An Oral History

    Top 10

    1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – McSweeneys food rag.
    2. Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00 – By mini-comics superstar.

    3 Mental Health Cookbook: Creating Connection With Foods and Herbs by H. Finn Cunningham (Needles and Pens) $7.00 – Starter guide to all sorts of diy holistic food practices.

    4. Handbook vol 5 #2 2011 by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – The sensitive side of Trevor Wayne , the business side of Ty, Will and Mike and some nice articles about sexual versatility and “post-gay.”

    5. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

    6. Make Comics About an Intimate Act by var. $7.00

    7. Take a Joke vol 3 of The Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $18.99 – “Johnny Ryan’s transgressive masterpiece Prison Pit has been the talk of altcomics circles since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before Prison Pit, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humor anthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Correctness), Angry Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects many of the best stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice magazine, to which Ryan has contributed for years.

    8. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $15.00

    9. Bitch #51 $5.95

    10. Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yes, we will be open on Monday, July 4th, but we will have limited holiday hours from noon to 5pm.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    ITDN #1 A Poetic Conception of Reality: Group Publishing Publish Equilibrium Our Universe Six Artist Worker and ITDN #2 Fuck This Gags Fury $5.00 each – The art film that reads like a comic that reads like a video game, set in a bunker with lots of nudity. -EF

    Butch Nor Femme #1 $1.50
    Shit I Didn’t Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50
    Don’t Be a Dick Paul Brown (Doris Distro) $1.00
    When Language Runs Dry #1: A Zine For People With Chronic Pain and Their Allies by Claire and Meredith (Doris Distro) $3.50
    FAQNP #2 Queer Nerd Travel Guide May 11 (Queer Nerd Publication) $7.00
    Fluke Fanzine #9 20th Anniversary $2.00
    Whitey On The Moon Book 2 by Joey Parlett $10.00
    Chicken Livers and Jojos May 11: Drawings and Riff Raff #1 $2.00
    Demongun #5 Jun 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
    STOP #3 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $3.00
    I Was a Teenage Zine Fiend #1 $1.00
    In Case of Drought Read This #1 and #2 $1.00 each – From kids at 826CHI!
    HyenaZine (Zine Hyenaxena) #2 and #3 by Hyena Xena $3.00 each
    Idiots Books zine volumes by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, priced $5.00-$10.00: vol 12 Last Day, vol 28 Babies Ruin Everything, vol 29 Home Was an Epic Poet, vol 30 Inconclusive Passage In the Life of Bushy Washington
    My Day On, Under and Around the St Johns Bridge with CD by Nate Orton, James Yeary and Justin Glenn Smith $6.00
    My Day #17 Walking from Hillsboro to Forest Grove Ore by Nate Orton and James Yeary $3.00
    Motor City Kitty #17 by Bri Z $1.00
    Cheap Toys #6 and #7 by Gizmo $1.50 each
    Dream Weavers $10.00
    It’s Curtains #8 $2.00
    You Made Devotion A Virtue #3 Be My Baby by Devan Ballbuster Bennett $2.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #8 Something Very Ugly by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    Everything Quantizes #2 by Katherine Brideau $3.00
    All Things Are Eagles #1 by Mike Mellenthin $1.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Various issues of Dogshed by Andy Burkholder $2.00-$3.00 – Wait? Why did you come here ANY WAY? Breakdown BrakeUp blind line leading the dog blind til it’s too tired…you look tired, so you should try. I know your trying to understand, but sometimes the comics justs gets weirds. -EF



    Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00
    This Isn’t Working: Comics About Ex Boyfriends $3.00 – Featuring Cara Bean, Caitlin Plovnick, Robyn Chapman, Liz Prince and more!
    Make Comics About an Intimate Act $7.00 – Featuring Adriana Yugovich, Joseph Lambert, Robyn Chapman, Wicks Maris, Nate Beaty and more!
    Galactic Breakdown #3 by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $8.00
    In The Sounds and Seas vol 1 by Marnie Galloway $15.00
    Flight of Forfeition – An Adventure… by Chris Monday $4.00
    All Wet by Ian Endsley $3.00
    Catholic Tastes IDTN Group by Darla Marx $1.00
    Werewolf Horror Mask $4.00
    You Okay Buddy $1.00
    Absolute Loneliness various issues by Johns $1.00 each
    Phil’s Adventures: #1 Featuring Land That Time Forgot and Mummie Alive, #2 Featuring Grey Lady Blues and Underneath the Water, #3 Featuring Some Reservations and Out In the Cold, all by by SA Winchell and $5.00 each
    Tenebrous $1.50
    Lords ov thee Black Sun #0 by Michael Miles $5.00 – That’s some crazy looking satan-y black metal shit.
    All Aboard by Max Mose $4.00
    Benol The Huckster by Max Mose $5.00
    Calamity of Challenge #127 by Matthew Allison $6.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Incal Classic Collection by Alexandro Jodorowsky (Author), Moebius (Illustrator) (Humanoids, Inc.) $44.95 – Jean Giraud, more well known under his artist alias Moebius, comes forth with an artistic vision that still stands the test of time, The Incal. The Incal was responsible for introducing the Jodoverse world, the one in which all of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s science section sagas were all based in. Filled with surreal imagery, futuristic concepts that melt together with primitive societal conditions that run through the full gamut of historical perspectives. Centered around a Light Incal which gives powers sought by many corrupt groups. With an intro by Brian Michael Bendis.


    Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme (Top Shelf) $29.95 – Art in a sort f even lower-fi version of Chester Brown.
    Go Fish – How to Win Contempt and Influence People by Mr. Fish (Akashic) $18.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Utopie Texts and Projects 1967-1978 by Craig Buckley by Jean Louis Violeau (Semiotexte) $26.95
    Fragile Bodies by Stephanie Greenquist by Emily Steigerwaid $11.95
    Awful Resilient by Alex Pardee (Gingko) $29.95
    Suggestivism: Artists Works Interviews and Studio Portraits (Gingko) $34.95
    Las Vegas Underfoot Photo Book by Gordon Meyer and Gale Meyer $15.95
    Type Image by Barbara Brownie (Gingko) $39.95
    International Topsprayer by Moses, Taps, Sprayer (Publikat) $39.95

    FICTION!
    How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Vintage) $14.95 – Humerous yet compelling in it’s gimmicktry:. The fictinal story of the fictional family you might fictionally know. Now in soft cover. -LM
    The Instructions by Adam Levine (McSweeneys) $18.00 – Now in soft cover. This awkward Jewish child might be the messiah. Maybe. Or not…? A funny book that’s several inches thick, but with crazy book paper technology that means it’s made of some sort of weight of paper that this soft cover book is only $18.00.
    Peace Love and Petrol Bombs by DD Johnston (AK) $14.95
    NVSQVAM Nowhere by Ann Sterzinger $13.00
    Supernatural Noir ed. by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse) $19.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    The Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00 – Come’n’geddit while we got it. The annual Music Issue always goes fast!
    Village on Horseback Prose and Verse 2003-2008 by Jesse Ball (Milkweed) $18.00
    Knock #14 $9.00
    Barrelhouse #9 $9.00
    Creative Nonfiction #41 Spr 11 $10.00
    Bomb #116 Sum 11 $7.95
    Madman #1 by Prachi Gangwani $5.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Fine Fine Music by Cassie J. Snyder (Raw Art) $15.00 – With the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider brings her stories about growing up in the early eighties to Quimby’s on July 23rd. These stories that include Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not and locals waxing Camaros to Foreigner on cassette will leave you laughing and wanting more. Don’t miss her here, joined by Dave “On Subbing” Roche.


    Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (HM) $28.00
    225 Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by The New York Neo-Futurists (Hope) $16.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Ours To Master and To Own: Workers Control From the Commune To the Present by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket) $19.00

    DIY!
    CIA Lockpicking Manual by The Central Intelligence Agency (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Author Illustrator Starter Kit  – Contains Three Completely Blank Books (McSweeneys) $13.95

    MUSIC-RELATED!
    See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad (LB&C) $24.99 – Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould teams up with the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life to give his account of personal history as one of the most revered figures of punk.
    Talk Minus Action Equals Zero: An Illustrated History of DOA by Joe Keithley (Arsenal) $27.95
    White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay (Verso) $24.95 – “From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.”
    33 1/3 Series: Television’s Marquee Moon by Bryan Waterman (Continuum) $12.95 – From the series that deconstructs popula and/or important albums, written by musicians, critics and uber fans.
    33 1/3 Series: Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me (Continuum) $12.95
    Jerry Lee Lewis Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo (Continuum) $19.95
    Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s by Paul Hegerty and Martin Halliwell (Continuum) $24.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – First issue of McSweeneys food rag everyone’s all on about. The Ramen issue. Don’t want to ever miss an issue? Ask about the Quimby’s Subscription Service!
    Wholphin #13 $19.95
    Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50
    Boneshaker Magazine #5 $9.00
    True Crime Jun 11 $8.99
    Dwell Jul Aug 11 $5.99
    UFO Magazine #156 vol 24 #3 $5.99
    Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 11 vol 35 #4 $4.95
    Neural #39 $8.00
    Tattoo Revue #154 $6.99
    Antenna Sum 11 $4.99
    Goth Loli vol 16 $21.80
    Maps vol 21 #1 $8.95
    Treating Yourself #29 $7.99
    Fangoria #305 $8.99
    Skateboard Mag #89 $3.99
    BlackBook #85 Jun Jul 11 $4.50
    Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00
    In These Times Jul 11 $3.50
    ASR #56 Sum 11 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
    Urban Ink #20 $8.99
    Inked Girls May Jul Aug 11 $7.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    We Need a Horse by Sheila Heti and Clare Rojas (McSweeneys) $16.95
    Here Comes the Cat by Frank Asch (McSweeneys) $12.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Dictionary of Semenyms 10th Edition – 1383 Synonyms for Semen by Cecil Goran $15.00 – With examples of usage from erotic literature.

    OTHER STUFF!
    Charley Harper ABC Nesting Blocks (Ammo) $24.95
    Sharkula Diarrhea of a Madman DVD by Joshua Conro $15.00 – First documentary feature-length film by filmmaker and Quimby’s buddy Joshua Conro.
    Cory Doctorows Makers Tile Game by Idiots Books $12.00

  • Hear Ye: Webzine Opportunity

    Also, here’s more info from the publisher:

    DUM DUM, a literary and journalistic webzine launching this September, is inviting artists to GET DUM and experiment with the publication’s identity. Submit your illustrations, photography, typography, and design ideas for the DUM DUM masthead by August 1, 2011. Mastheads must be restricted to the shape of a square (12 inches at 300dpi), and include the word DUM DUM (either upper or lower case, up to you!). Submissions will be featured live on the website on a revolving basis, and eventually used for the zine’s various printed media after the publication crosses over from the Web. All submissions will be credited and will include a link to the artist’s website. Please see flyer for more categories and ideas!

    All other submissions (writing, mixtapes, etc) are due August 1st to be considered for the first issue, but we accept submissions on a rolling basis as well!

  • Cassie J. Sneider Reads From Fine Fine Music with Dave Roche and Danny ‘Ratso’ Rathbun 7/23

    FINE FINE MUSIC is a collection of stories about the other side of rock and roll and coming of age in the land that time forgot. Lake Ronkonkoma is stuck in 1981, an alcoholic blackout of unnatually tan people waxing their Camaros to Foreigner on cassette and knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not. From an internship making Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, and a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider delivers her tales of growing up in a land of fist-pumping Snookies with the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk.

    Cassie J. Sneider grew up in the murky depths of Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, a town with a haunted lake, a trailer park, and a record store. She put 240,000 miles on a Toyota Echo doing readings all over the country. Cassie J. Sneider collects 8-tracks and new friends. You can catch her on the Sister Spit 2012 national tour. For more info: cassiejsneider.blogspot.com

    Dave Roche is the zinester behind such titles as On Subbing and About My Disappearance. He is a Quimby’s favorite.

    And now, one more name has been added! It’s Danny “Ratso” Rathbun, who writes about openly and honestly about failed relationships, drugs and depression, but always with a wink and a smile. He runs a number of tongue and cheek columns like, ‘Drunken Letters to Abstract Concepts’, ‘Copyrighted Material Used Without Permission’, and ‘Punk rock trading cards’, that have drawn comparisons to Mad Magazine. Ratso’s work has been printed in over twenty different newspapers around Virginia, including The Virginia Gazette, The Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily, and others.  He is a regular contributor to Grassroots magazine, and the Commonwealth Times.  He publishes the zine Don’t Tread on Me, regularly performs standup comedy and gives readings across the state of Virginia, and is currently on a nationwide tour, doing readings across the country. For more info:  dtmzine.blogspot.com

    Sat, July 23rd, 7pm