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Jay Ryan at Quimby's on 12/10!
Quimby’s is proud to welcome Chicago-based poster artist Jay Ryan, celebrating the release of AN UPDATED AND REVISED GREATEST-HITS COLLECTION of Jay Ryan’s first decade of compelling posters, 100 Posters/134 Squirrels. Known for his hand-drawn type, humorous animal subjects, and muted color selections, Jay Ryan has been making screen-printed concert posters in Chicago since 1995. He’s worked for thousands of rock bands, as well as clients like Patagonia clothing, Converse shoes, Burton Snowboards, and the BBC.The work in 100 Posters/134 Squirrels is framed by essays from luminaries in the music, design, and poster worlds–including Steve Albini, Art Chantry, Greg Kot, and Debra Parr. This 2005 debut collection of Jay’s was praised by Chicago media and publications across the globe, including:
“Not only a gorgeous catalog of the artist’s many memorable posters, but a history of sorts of the Chicago underground rock scene in the last 15 years.” –Chicago Sun-Times
“Jay Ryan takes the germ of an idea and makes it uniquely great. His genius is in knowing what matters and what doesn’t . . . His genius is in having the image matter.” –Steve Albini
Since the release of that book, he has honed his craft continuing without the use of computers, and screen-printing the work in his shop called the Bird Machine for bands such as the Melvins, the Shins, Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, Shellac, My Morning Jacket, and hundreds of others. His book, Animals and Objects In and Out of Water, features 120 of Jay Ryan’s favorite pieces of art from the last three years, including text about each of the prints, detail photos (shot at the MCA in Chicago), and original drawings.
For more info: thebirdmachine.com
akashicbooks.com/100posters_reissue.htm
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Weekly Top 10 In-store Bestsellers
1. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
2. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus (HC) $14.99 – Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s on Saturday, 10/23!
3. Gentlewoman #2 Fall Win 10 $10.95
4. What Was The Hipster: A Sociological Investigation – N+1 Small Books Series #3 by var. $10.00 – “Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write this history without contempt or nostalgia? Why are we tempted to declare the neo-hipster moment over, when the hipster’s “global brand” has just reached its apotheosis? A panel of writers invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster. Their debate took place at the New School University in New York City, and was followed by articles, responses, and essays, all printed here for the first time.”
5. Fantastic Man #12 $12.99
6. King Cat #71 by John Porcellino $3.00 – This one’s great. The whole first part is all tales of being over-thirty-and-still-dirty, beater cars, stinky pits, run down shoes and all. Then J.P. up and moves to Florida and there’s a really funny 4-page field guide to all the cray-zay teeming wildlife. -EF
7. Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
8. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris and Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99
9. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With Almost No Money by Dolly Freed (Tin House) $12.95 – The antidote to being a capitalist pig? Becoming a possum. Dolly Freed wrote this as a sassy and scrappy teenager in the 70s and finally someone had the common sense to reprint it.
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Mike White Reads From Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection 12/4
Harangue for Hollywood! From the blighted urban squalor of Detroit—Paris of the Midwest—came enfant terrible Mike White and his mutant publication, Cashiers du Cinemart. For fourteen years and fifteen issues the writers of Cashiers du Cinemart provided a treasure trove of writing on film and popular culture.
This book collects the best articles from the fifteen year history of Cashiers du Cinemart magazine with sections dedicated to Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, Black Shampoo, unproduced screenplays, celebrity interviews, and much more. Everything has been refreshed, polished, and improved for this volume of movie mayhem.
“Obsessive, indulgent, wildly erratic, yet Impossibly Funky still warms my hardened critic’s heart because of the burning passion for movie going of the writer. It’s manifested in the nutty, beyond-left-field takes on popular geeky movies, and, even better, the stretch beyond Lucas and Tarantino to Kenneth Fearing, Travis McGee, and the unheralded comic genius of Canadian cinema, John Paizs. I’ve got to get my butt to Black Shampoo!” – Gerald Peary, critic, The Boston Phoenix
For more info: http://www.impossiblefunky.com
Saturday, December 4th at 7PM
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New Stuff This Week
Hey look. Someone has a restaurant called Quimby’s. Is their food delicious? It better be.
NEW STUFF!
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Truckface #14 by LB $3.00 – LB has been teaching secondary school and has plenty to say about it. Wise and heartfelt.
Drupe Fruits #1 Oct 10 $2.50
Tiptown by Edwin Perry $2.50
The Muse The News The Noose #8 Three Stories by John Wawrzaszek $1.00
Kilter #9 Fall 10 $5.00 – Another issue of the gothtastic Chicago-based zine.
Fanzines: The DIY Revolution by Teal Triggs (Chronicle) $40.00 – Huge and beautiful, with shout outs to some of the zines you may have bought here.
Snake Histories #1 by Priyanka Pandit $10.00
12 Records Ta Shake Your Ass To $2.00
Three Zines #1 and #2 $5.00/$15.00
I Just Dont Know What to Do With Myself: A Series of Rants by Mia Beatrice $1.00
COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Back That Fact Up Amazing Facts and Beyond Collection III by Leon Beyond (aka Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch) $5.00
Ouroboros by Ben Newman (Spiro) $13.50
Abecederia by Blexbolex (Spirow) $16.50
Diary Comics #1 Jan-Jun 10 by Dustin Harbin (Koyama) $6.00
Birds And Wolves Excerpt by Ian McDuffie $3.00
There Is A Mountain Starring Donovan by Joe Schorgl $1.00
Snap Shots by Rhett Brinkley by and Phillip Huddleston $4.00
New Growing Antlers by Michael Inscoe and Phillip Huddleston $4.00
Womanimalistic #1 by Caroline Paquita $5.00
Late Era Clash #22 Featuring Big Baby Man by Mike Taylor by Sam McPheeters $4.00
Ultimate Burnout Dad #1 Oct 10 by var. $2.50
Beer In Blood Out by Tony Rabit $1.00 – Dainty but angry and sad inanimate objects and animals.
Seafaring by Tiffanie Bui by Sophie McMahan $7.00GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco (Metropolit) $23.00 – Now in soft cover.
Duncan the Wonder Dog Show 1 by Adam Hines (Adhouse) $24.95Digested #2 by Bobby N. $5.00 – Bobby N. may be Ken Dahl’s secret Australian identity- there’s a lot of similar style moves and snapping point anxieties here. Finesse in the face of inadequacy?
Hellboy vol 11: Masks and Monsters… by Mike Mignola etc. (Dark Horse) $17.99
Dick Briefers Frankenstein: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics by Craig Yoe (IDW) $21.99
Walking Dead Book Six HC by Kirkman etc. (Image) $39.99 – Collects issues #61-#72 TPB or graphic novel volumes 11 and 12.
Horror: The Horror Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read ed. by var. (Abrams) $29.95FICTION!
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (LB) $21.99STEAMPUNK!
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded ed. by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Tachyon) $14.95 – An anthology with work from William Gibson, Cherie Priest, Stephen Baxter, Margo Lanagan and more.ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Morph Traits by Daniel Higgs by Kyle Ranson (N&P) $18.00
Blab World #1 (Last Gasp) $24.95
Spirit City Toronto by Aaron Leighton (Koyama) $10.00
It Is Folly To Assume My Awesome Lies Dormant the Paintings of the Mincing Mocki by Matt Adrian $39.99
Herve Moran the Genius of French Poster Art (PIE) $35.00
Trespass a History of Uncommissioned Urban Art by var. (Wooster Collective/Taschen) $39.99DIY & CONSUMPTION
The Acid Diaries: A Psychonauts Guide to the History and Use of LSD by Christopher Gray (Holloway) $16.95
The Pot Book A Complete Guide to Cannabis Its Role in Medicine Politics Science and Culture by Julie Holland MD (Park Street) $19.95
Official High Times Pot Smokers Activity Book by Natasha Lewin (Chronicle) $16.95
The Cuter Book by Aranzi Aronzo (Vertical) $14.95 – More intruction for making simple yet adorable felt animals. No sewing machine necessary. Just a few supplies they list in the front. Perfect for folks who less crafting and sewing experience.
The Home Physician – The Classic Edition of 1910, compiled by Rolfe Cobleigh (Burford) $12.95 – Reprinted from the 1910 original. Gives advice on how to handle such maladies as the whooping cough, leprosy, a cocaine habit and consumption. Definitely of interest to those who enjoy tonics, glycerin suppositories and lip salve. But we’re not responsible if you die from some type of poisoning. -LMMAGAZINES!
Maximumrocknroll #330 Part Two Nov 10 $4.00
Dwell Nov 10 $5.99
True Detective Sep 10 $4.99
Fantastic Man #12 $12.99
Gentlewoman #2 Fall Win 10 $10.95
Under the Radar #33 $4.99
Monocle vol 4 #37 Oct 10 $10.00
Social Anarchism #44 $6.00
Radical History Review Fall 10 $14.00
In These Times Oct 10 $3.50
Tabu Tattoo #43 $7.99LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
What Was The Hipster? – A Sociological Investigation: n+1 Research Branch Small Books Series #3 by n+1 etc. $10.00 – A text documenting a symposium discussion about the hipster: what exactly is/was one? Do/did they truly exist? Are there different types? These questions and more are discussed in this intelligent and humerous volume, which is more fun than acadmeic but more academic and self-aware than parody. Engaging. -LMCHILDRENS!
Tales For Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Childrens Literature, ed. by var. (NYU) $24.95MUSIC BOOKS!
Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again by var. (Sterling) $19.95 – A loving look at record stores around the country with the folks who own and run them. And Dusty Groove, one of the coolest record stores ever, which is down the street from us, they’re in it too. Photos, anecdotes, memorabilia, interviews with well-known musicians about their first record store purchases and more.
Malevolent Melody by McBess $23.50
Anthology of Rap ed. by var. (Yale) $35.00MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers Du Cinemart Collection by Mike White etc. (Bear Manor) $24.95 – Don’t miss Mike White here at Quimby’s in December. Stay tuned for more details.
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin and Steve Olson (Harper) $22.99 – Graffin is the lead singer of Bad Religion. He also has a PhD in zoology from Cornell University and teaches evolution at the UCLA. This edition of the book is a signed first edition. Yes, he ties in some Bad Religion lyrics and history into it too. My sixteen year old self would have memorized this and spewed it to people at Denny’s. -LM
Archeology of Violence by Pierre Clastres (Semiot) $15.95
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre (F&F) $15.00
A Book of Jean’s Own by Jean Teasdale (SMP) $14.99 – The Onion presents all new wit, wisdom and wackiness from the Onion’s beloved humor columnist.
Mirror Maze: A Norwegian Mans True Story of Five Years in Mexican Prison During the 1980s by Tom Brungar $12.95
Tinsel: A Search For Americas Christmas Past by Hank Stuever (Mariner) $14.95SEX & SEXY!
Housewives at Play #19 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
OTHER STUFF!
Mini 2011 Caroline Paquita Calendar-Planner/Big 2011 Caroline Paquita Calendar $5.00/$12.00 -
Josh MacPhee Reads From Celebrate People’s History 11/11
Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one hundred posters by over eighty artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History! presents these essential moments—acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles—as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today.
Josh MacPhee, artist and activist, is the founder of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, an organization that promotes radical art forms. He is the author of Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street Stencil (2004) and co-edited Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (2007) and Reproduce and Revolt (2008). MacPhee is also the curator of the printmaking exhibition Paper Politics, which has been on tour in the United States since 2004.
Featured Artists in the book who will be at the event, the list is growing!:
John Jennings
Marc Nelson
Damon Locks is a visual artist and a musician here in Chicago. He performs in both The Eternals and The Exploding Star Orchestra. Always up for a good conversation, he was happy to participate in the Celebrate Peoples History book event at Quimby’s.
André Pérez, Founder of the Transgender Oral History Project, developer of educational materials about trans issues, and organizer with GenderQueer Chicago.
For more info: justseeds.org
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‘Za the Pizza Zine Release and Pizza Party at Quimby’s 11/10
As spicy and sassy as a stick of pepperoni, ‘Za the Pizza Zine is a compilation about, what else, the wonders of pizza. Still, it’s about more than simply reveling in pepperoni prose for creator Nicki Yowell and her baker’s dozen of bi-coastal contributors. The Chicagoans are plenty and include Ramsey Everydaypants of List, Eric Bartholomew of Junk Drawer, gore poet Mason Pierce and Dining with Words’ Caroline Liebman. ‘Za combines fiction, essays, comics, illustration and photography to create an all-out snack time explosion. Come for the reading of eloquent odes to ‘za and stay for the pizza party, featuring actual pizza.For more info: zathepizzazine.wordpress.com
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Weekly Top 10
1. Henry and Glenn Forever Deluxe New Edition by Igloo Tornado (Microcosm) $6.00 – The gay love of Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig? I’d get in that van.-EF
2. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait (Show & Tell) $12.00 – Holy Shit, the Craphound #4 reprint landed and it makes me smile like Ren and dance like Stimpy! Tejaratchi’s obsessive hi-con picture pages are brimming with the sauciest devils, the juciest bait and the most ambiguously legal clowns. Thrilling, terrifying, mind-blowing, hands down one of the world’s greatest zines! – EF
3. Cats Are Weird and More Observations: A Cat Book by Jeffrey Brown (Quirk) $12.95 – If you’re a cat person you’re in good company: Art Bell, William Burroughs and now Jeffrey Brown.
4. Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
5. Rigor Mortis vol 3 $3.50
6. Zisk #19 Fall 10 $2.00
7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
8. Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus $14.99 – The last great underground cultural movement of the pre-Internet age, Riot Grrrl revolutionized girlhood itself. In the early 1990s, young women were realizing that the equality they’d been promised was still elusive, and a newly resurgent right wing was turning feminism into the ultimate dirty word. Don’t miss Sara Marcus here at Quimby’s with Jessica Harper, author of Girls Guide to Rocking on Oct 23rd, 7pm.
9. Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EF10. Boneshaker Magazine #2 $8.00
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New Stuff, Including Our Website Update!
Have you noticed some amazing changes on quimbys.com? No? Go to quimbys.com and hit your “refresh” button. Now do you see any changes? Think they look awesome? We do too. And there’s more to come. There will be kinks along the way as more changes go up. We hope you like it as much as we do!
Also! For the second time in Quimby’s recorded history, someone bought $6.66 worth of merchandise. Here is what the number of the beast will buy you:
Anyway, here’s new stuff for this week:
ZINES!
Nnnnnnnnnn Yes vol 1 #1 $10.00 – A seven-person dispicable draw off hurtling our way from South Korea. Cut-ups, cut-opens, cut-outs, “we let our dicks and persnalities hang out.” Work by Jeff Conricode, Dillon Turner, Patrick Hansor, Morgan Dale Tepsic, Eli Taylor, Chris Elizondo, Jesse Douglas
Underground by Scott and Jen Webel $10.00 – Published by Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, this zine is a lovingly illustrated catalogue of the Museum’s 2010 Underground exhibit, which takes the theme, as usual, to delightfully eccentric extremes. Practically perfect in every way, this concept allows for the full on display and linkage of Kidney Stones, Trilobytes and Blue Jeans From the Russian Black Market, as well as many more of your very favorite things. If you really want to rave in the cave, this zine pairs excellently with Underneath Providence and Muddy -EFSome Scraps #4 Always on Mine The Final Chapter by Jordan Rutherford $.99
Sutdio Sweet Studio #1 by Tuesday Bassen $7.00
Engines of Fortitude #1 by Moore Allen Keating and Bill Tucker $3.50COMICS & MINICOMICS!
You Don’t Get There From Here #16 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Daily diary comics in a Porcellin-ian vein, this issue is maybe both the wordiest issue and also the one with the most visual variations in style and content. McNinch faces numerous rattlesnakes and a mountain lion, goes to San Diego Comic Con and drinks well. Also, the accupuncture seems to be working, this issue’s a solid upper. -EF
Devastator #1 by Geoffrey Golden (Devastator) $7.95
Neonomicon #2 by Alan Moore etc. (Boom) $3.99
My Life as a Smut Peddler #1 and #2 by E Charles Connell and Jim Kidonakis #1 is $2.00 and #2 is $3.00
My Ghost Came As a Mexican by Jim Kidonakis $5.00
Full On and Proper Sap Tastic Voyage by Jim Kidonakis $2.00
Silk Lady Squirm Demon by Ryan Orlak and Jim Kidonakis $1.00
Its Dream Time, Snoop Doggy Dogg: A Collection of Celebrity Studded Dreams by JT Yost (Birdcage) $4.00
Pelage Fauve Tirage $5.00
Fsshmrwl Baouarf by Simon Bossé $5.00 – The biggest little zine we’ve got! Each page is a shenanigan-fueled 3-layer silkscreen print from the Bébête-o-sphere. You really can’t go wrong with the Mille Putois. -EF
Maxims Hot 100 by Michael DeForge and Mille Putois $5.00 – Grills Gone Wild!!! DeForge takes us to the Maxim deli for extra-sloppy she-sandwiches with double mayo. The whole thing is silkscreened in three radiant colors by Mille Putois, which puts out an amazing series of artists books and comics. Eat up. -EFVortex #2 by Don Robinson $5.20
Zombies Attack by Don Robinson $3.50GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Best American Comics 2010, ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, with guest editor Neil Gaiman (Houghton) $23.00
Palookaville #20 by Seth (D&Q) $19.95 – Single issue in book form.
Four Color Fear Forgotten: Horror Comics of the 1950s by Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fire and Water: Bill Everett The Sub Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Sanctuary by Nate Neal (Verso) $22.99
14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography by Tetsu Saiwai (Penguin) $15.00
Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula BY Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon (Plume) $16.00
Yearbooks by Nicholas Breutzman,Shaun Feltz, and Raighne Hogan $13.00
Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal by Marek Bennett $10.00
Bebete by Simon Bosse and Putois Mille $15.00
Spirits of St. Louis: 13 Tales of Terror From the Gateway City $9.99
Walking Dead: The Covers by Krikman, etc. (Image) $24.99
De Tales: Stories From Urban Brazil by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse) $19.99
Digested #2 by Bobby N. $9.95
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 7: Twilight by var. (Dark Horse) $16.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 3 HC by Philip K Dick etc. (Boom) $24.99
Bear Nuts vol 1: The Book of Prozac by Alison Action (DMF) $18.99FICTION!
What Is All This: Uncollected Stories HC by Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fortunes of Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld (Norton) $13.95
The Bicycle Diaries SC by David Byrne (Penguin) $16.00
To Slow Down The Time Stories by Matthew Allard and Ian Dingman $20.00
Transubstantiate by Richard Thomas (Otherworld) $14.95 – Come see Richard Thomas read from this disturbing futuristic vision of terror and beauty at Quimbys on Sat, Oct 16th, with Otherworld authors including Laura Griffith, David Rosenstein and Nik Korpon.
Remember by Lynn Griffith (Otherworld) $14.95
Price of Life by Greg McCarty (Otherworld) $19.95
Silk Worm by David Rosenstein (Otherworld) $14.95
Elegy Written on a Crowded Street by Peter Plate (Seven Stories) $13.95
Entangled the Eater of Souls by Graham Hancock (Disinfo) $16.95
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Small Beer Press) $16.00
My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me – Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin) $17.00 – With stories from Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, Neil Gaiman, Shelley Jackson and more.ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Roosevelt by Jose Roosevelt (Fantasmus) $59.95
Art Toys by Brian McCarty (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
Rubber Duck by Karen Hsiao (Baby Tattoo) $35.00
Quadrant Fantasy (Fantasmus)$19.95
Tokyo Underground 2: Toy and Design Culture in Tokyo by var. (Super 7) $19.95
Drawings From The Gulag by Danzig Baldaev (Fuel) $32.95 – Brutal. Completely brutal.
Indie Craft by Jo Waterhouse (Abrams) $19.95
Stickers From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art by DB Burkeman and Monica LoCascio (Rizzoli) $35.00
Muralismo Morte: The Rebirth of Muralism In Contemporary Urban Art (From Here) $34.95
SABE: Fys Crew by Sabe (From Here) $14.95
Ghost: Ris Crew by Ghost (From Here) $14.95
Jepsy: The Real Deal by Jepsy (From Here) $14.95
Sten and Lex (Drago) $33.00
Wizards and Dragons Tattoo Flash CD Rom and Book Electronic Clip Art (Dover) $19.95 – 119 Royalty Free Designs
Classic Tattoo Designs CD Rom and Book Full Color Electronic Designs (Dover) $19.95 – 230 Royalty Free Designs, in Color and Black and White for Mac and WindowsMAGAZINES!
Hi Fructose #17 $6.95
ArtForum Oct 10 $10.00
High Times Dec 10 $5.99
BlackBook #79 Oct 10 $4.50
Fader #70 Oct Nov 10 $5.99
Mojo #204 Nov 10 $9.99
LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
Journal of Ordinary Thought Sum 10 $10.00
Creative Nonfiction #39 Fall 10 $10.00
The Believer #75 Oct 10 $8.00
Effigy #8 by Matt Whispers $4.00
The Toucan #8 Fall 2010 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00CHILDRENS!
Mud Pies and Other Recipes by var. (NYRB) $14.95
Alternative ABCs by 13thfloor (Ammo) $14.95
Color Me Graffiti: How to Color Like the Masters a Coloring Book for Creative Kid (From Here) $8.95
MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS!
Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (Knopf) $26.95
Occult America: White House, Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons and the Secret Mystic by Hitch Horowitz (Bantam) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
World Gnosis the Coming Gnostic Civilization by Mark Amaru Pinkham (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Funk and Soul Covers by Joaquim Paulo and Julius Wiedemann (Taschen) $39.99 – As in album covers. Not like a book of pictures of people covering funk and soul songs. Which would be hilarious.
Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the Smiths by Simon Goddard (Plume) $30.00
Bowie, A Biography by Marc Spitz (Three Rivers) $17.00 – In soft cover.
Touchable Sound A Collection of 7 Inch Records From the USA by var. (Sound Screen) $45.00
American Hardcore: A Tribal History Second Edition by Steven Blush (Feral House) $22.95 – Don’t miss Stephen Blush here at Quimby’s on Dec 3rd. Stay tuned for more details!
Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You & Your Grandma Can Understand (Abrams) $12.95HUMOR!
100 Facts About Pandas by var. (Penguin) $13.00MUCKRAKING MEMOIRS & MISCELLANY!
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.95
Animalisticus Fantasticus: 600 Amazing and True Facts About Animals (Nicotext) $9.95
Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams by var. (Coffee House) $22.00POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Freefall America Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy by Jospeh E Stiglitz (Norton) $16.95 – now in soft cover.
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali (Verso) $16.95SEX & SEXY!
Straight To Hell #67 by Billy Miller $6.00 – Anonymous reader submitted high-raunch gay sex stories – Feels like heaven to me. -EF
Private 1980 to 1989 Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine (Taschen) $39.99 – 5 volume box set collection.
Kinky Nature (Goliath) $24.95
Pissy Pussy Girls by Gordon Denman (Adventures Unlimited) $59.00
50 Years of the Playboy Bunny by Hugh M. Hefner etc. (Chronicle) $35.00
Coley – Eros vol 40: Running Wild Book 3 Hard Throb (Eros) $19.95Other Stuff!
Grime Time Keychain Bottle Opener $1.50
Funkyfonic Cassette Tape Speaker $15.00
Uncle Archies Box O’Fun $13.00 – 25 Fabulous Prizes in Each Box!
Smells Like Teen Spirit 7 inch by Woody Sullender (Dead CEO) $6.00 – This clear 7″ lathe-cut record, pressed as part of a limited edition series of only 100, was cut one at a time by Peter King in New Zealand. It contains “erased” versions of two Nirvana songs, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Polly.” Both songs were run through a series of band-pass filters, which removes most of the frequency spectrum from an audio recording. “Polly” was erased based on the principle melody of the classic murder ballad. -
2011: The Revenge of Print
We’re tired of all the END OF PAPER, the END OF PUBLISHING AS WE KNOW IT stories. We’ve been hearing and reading about it ever since we’ve been open (which is going on almost 20 years now).So for 2011, we’re throwing a challenge out there. If you’ve ever made a zine or mini comic MAKE ONE MORE ISSUE. Come on, you’ve got one more in you! Maybe you were thinking in the back of your head you’d do another issue one day. Now is the time.
Join the group for discussion and more plans. This is just the beginning.
Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to help sponsor this challenge with our friends at Atomic Books in Baltimore, Xerography Debt and Zine World.
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THE EXQUISITE BOOK Authors and Contributors at Quimby's on 11/5!
EXQUISITE CORPSE [also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse] is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds a composition in sequence…
THE EXQUISITE BOOK
100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game
By Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe
THE EXQUISITE BOOK reinvents the classic surrealist drawing game The Exquisite Corpse for a new artistic generation. In these pages, one-hundred of today’s hottest indie artists each adorn a single page with brand new work, having only seen the page of the artist immediately prior. Each of the book’s ten chapters resides on a ten-page according fold-out that lets you enjoy the artwork in an interconnected stream, as it was originally created by the artists themselves. It includes work from contemporary illustrators, indie artists, and cutting-edge creates such as David Shrigley, Jill Bliss, Jordan Crane and more.
About the Authors: Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe are partners in Also Design, a design firm based out of Chicago and New York that has won several awards, including the ADC Young Guns award. Julia is author of the popular blog BookByItsCover.com, which showcases the design and layout of obscure books.
So far the artists who will be in attendance at this event will be the authors, Anders Nilsen, Lillie Carre, Paul Hornschemeier, Isaac Tobin, Lauren Nassef and Susie Ghahremani.
