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Weekly Top 10
1. Scott Pilgrims vol 6 Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni) $11.99
2. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion) $29.95
3. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00
4. Henry and Glenn Forever Perfect Bound Deluxe New Edition (Microcosm) $6.00
5. Black Carrot #15 Free Sandwich Zinewich by DF $5.00
6. Debbie’s Story by Kelly Froh $2.00
7. Doris #27 by Cindy $2.50
8. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
9. Meanwhile 3856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga (Abrams) $15.95
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Dead Advice
Do you hope to someday send a message to your loved ones from BEEEEEEYOOOOOOND THE GRAAAAAAAVE? Do you wish that day could be today without the hassle of dying? Well, here’s a neat little project by Chicagoan Felix Jung we thought our death-obsessed friends might be interested in:
DEAD ADVICE, a website that acts as a repository for ruminations on life by folks pretending to be dead. Check it out, either as one hoping to consume faux-posthumous wisdom, or as one wishing to contribute your own ultimate hindsight.
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New Stuff This Week
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Zines
Little Brother #2 $4.00 – Arty little anthology of writing and art. Comes with 2 simple yet compelling postcards. Unless they fall out on our shelves. In which case, you have to buy something else and find these random postcards in them.
Overtime Hour 14 Route 28 by Mickey Burriss $2.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #46 Sum 10 $1.50
Moral Guidance by Leisge $4.00
Drawing Down the Moon by Dennis Polames $4.00
Dog Faced #9 by Alice Wynne $1.00
Its Curtains #3 $2.00
Reality Mom vol 7 #3 by Corbin Lewars $3.00
Me and You #1 $1.00
Succumb To Scum vol 1 #2 $3.00
Welcome to Bend #2 Jun 10 by Laura Walker $2.00
Handbook vol 4 #3 2010 $6.00 – The sultry and seductive men between the pages of this sexy zine!Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Mustaches For Fun and Profit A 24 Hour Comic by BT Livermore $4.00 – So cute! A glossery of illustrated mustaches.
B Is For Beard also by BT Livermore (Banner Year Press) $20.00 – Sort of like the above, but bigger. Jut like beards to mustaches! And this one was some kind of huge school project. And! ZZ Top is in it!
Neonomicon #1 by Alan Moore (Boom) $3.99
CBGB #1 $3.99 – Yes, as in the club.
Weird Schmeird #0 Conversations in Your Neighborhood – Fun Book Toy Thing Turn Off Your TV by Cecil Ryan Smith $7.00
Two Eyes of the Beautiful A Grotesque Horror Manga – Based On Umezuo Kazuos Blood Baptism by Cecil Ryan Smith $5.00
Double by Sarah Welch $7.00
Gutter by Sarah Welch $7.00
Cheapest Sobs by Kelly Froh $1.00
Debbies Story by Kelly Froh $2.00
Eyeball Comix #1: First Issue Horror Special $5.00 – with Paul Arserott, Rob Amos, Barry Cook and more.Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Light of Thy Countenance by Alan Moore and others (Avatar) $7.99
Hypothetical Lizard TPB by Alan Moore and others (Avatar) $14.99
Cats Are Weird and More Observations: A Cat Book by Jeffrey Brown (Quirk) $12.95 – Makes a nice companion book to his other cat-related material.
Chew vol 1 TPB Tasters Choice by var. (Image) $9.99
Tekkon Kinkreet Black and White by Taiyo Matsumoto (Viz) $29.95
RASL Pocket Book 1 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $17.95
The Troll King by Kolbeinn Karlsson (Top Shelf) $14.95 – Part of this summer’s comics Swedish invasion!
Mome vol 19 Sum 10 (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – This issue features The Partridge in the Pear Tree (Shaun Patridge), Josh Simmons, Olivier Schrauwen, Gilbert Hernandez, D.J. Bryant, Tim Lane, Conor O’Keefe, Robert Goodin, and T. Edward Bak.
Dar vols 1 and 2 A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary by Erika Moen $10.00 and $15.00 respectively – Deeply personal story about life, the things we do, the mistakes and triumphs that we have in our daily lives, the things we don’t do for whatever reason.
Moomin vol 5 by Tove Jansson (D+Q) $19.95 – Not a hippo!DIY, How-to & Food And Drugs
Creative Inc: The Ultimate Guide to Running A Successful Freelance Business by var. (Chronicle) $16.95
Home Economics: Vintage Advice and Practical Science for the 21st Century Household by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz (Quirk) $14.95 – If you weren’t paying attention in junior high when they forced you to take home ec.
Fishers of Men: The Gospel of An Ayahuasca Vision Quest by Adam Elenbaas (Tarcher) $24.95
Little Book of Shocking Food Facts by var. (Fiell) $14.95
Art Books
Outermost: The Art and Life of Jack Gaughan by Luis Ortiz (Nonstop Press) $39.95 – Science fiction and fantasy collide in this Hugo Award winner’s illustrations.
Pens Are My Friends by Jon Burgerman (IDN) $55.00 -Though known for his colourful work in drawing and print, animation and toy design, Jon Burgerman retains a British sense of self-deprecation, humour and anxiety in his aesthetic. He regularly exhibits and publishes in venues around the globe, while making sure his pop-influenced characters find their way onto bags, books, mobile phones, lunch boxes, and Frisbees, to name a few. The book includes a poster, mini-sketch book and DVD and packed with animated goodies, documentary stuff and things to beautify your computer. And um, a sick bag.
Donald Baechler & Wes Lang: Skulls and Shit (Ajax Press) $39.95 – In the Spring of 2006, the influential Stockholm gallery and social space, Loyal, exhibited drawings, collages and paintings by the emerging New York City painter Wes Lang alongside works by his similarly skeletally-obsessed mentor and friend, Donald Baechler. The two artists have been friends since the early 1990s, and there are many overlaps, echoes and rhymes in their work. Skulls and Shit collects reproductions from the exhibition, where every piece featured a skull or skeleton, photo documentation and edited transcripts from free-wheeling conversations between the artists and their gallerists/publishers, as well as revealing anecdotal writings about the artists’ everyday lives by the Swedish screenwriter and cinematographer, Fredrik Wenzel. Also includes documentation Lang giving Baechler his first tattoo.
What Do You Love IDN 15th Anniversary Edition $59.95
Invisible Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes by Trevor Paglen (Aperture)$49.95 – With an Essay By Rebecca Solnit. First photographic monograph for this guy who explores the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies—the ‘black world’—for the last eight years, publishing, speaking, and making astonishing photographs.
Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s by Rian Hughes (Fiell) $45.00
Custom Lettering of the 60s and 70s by Rian Hughes(Fiell) $45.00 – If only it came with a CD so you could use them. They’re so cool.
Know Your Rodent by Ziggy Hanaor and Thibaud Herem (Cicada) $13.99 – Strangely compelling and cool, we bet even for someone who is freaked out by rodents.
Awdrey Gore Legacy by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $14.95
Utter Zoo by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $14.95
Fiction/Poetry Books
Anatomy of a Cratedigger chap book by Eric Evans $5.00
Contention: A Sara Grey Tale by Aaron Brownell $20.95Steampunk/Speculative Fiction
Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader by Mike Ashley (Nonstop) $15.95
Grandville: A Detective Inspector Lebrock of Scotland Yard Scientific Romance by Brian Talbot (Dark Horse) $17.95Outer Limits/Mayhem Books
Suburban Knights: A Return to the Middle Ages by EF Kitchen (PowerHouse) $35.00 – Yes, these folks really get into dressing up like that. This book is more artsy tribute than mockery. With telling quotes. Chain mail your penpals about it while wearing chainmail.Magazines/Literary Journals
Juxtapoz #115 Aug 10 $5.99
Bust Aug Sept 10 $4.99
In These Times Aug 10 $3.50
Yeti #9 $11.95 – New issue of this indie music journal.
Hi Fructose #16 $6.95
Razorcake #57 $4.00
Tape Op #78 $4.95
Ready Made #48 Aug Sep 10 $4.99
Nexus vol 17 #3 $5.95
Maximumrocknroll #327 Aug 10 $4.00
Harpers Magazine Aug 10 $6.99
Sovereign #14 Aug 10 $3.95
Make vol 23 $14.99
Skunk vol 6 #3 $5.99
Girls and Corpses #4 Sum 10 $8.99
Urban Garden #11 Jul Aug 10 $5.95
Radical Philosophy #162 $13.00
Front #143 Jul 10 $9.99
Eye Spy #68 $6.50
Dissent Sum 10 $10.00
Race & Class vol 52 #1 $18.00
Granta #111 Sum 10 Going Back $16.99
Golden Handcuffs Review vol 1 #13 $9.95
IdN vol 17 #3 $17.50
IDN Extra 03 Society6 $25.00
ASR #54 Sum 10 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
Tattoo Energy #65 $6.99
Ugly Things #30 $8.95
Monster Children #27 $9.00
Shindig vol 2 #17 Jul Aug 10 $9.99
Eyemazing 2010 #2 $19.99
Creative Review Jul 10 $14.99
True Crime Summer Special 10 $10.99
Upping The Anti vol 10 $10.00Music Books
Arcana V Music Magic and Mysticism, edited by John Zorn (Hips Road)$39.95 – This special edition of John Zorn’s much acclaimed Arcana series focuses on the magical aspects of the act of making music, illuminating the sympathies between music and the esoteric tradition with the help of today’s finest experimental musicians and occultists. Among these are William Breeze, Gavin Bryars, Steve Coleman, Alvin Curran, Frank Denyer, Jeremy Folgel, Fred Frith, Sharon Gannon, Peter Garland, Genesis P-Orridge, Terry Riley, Peter Lamborn Wilson and more.
Trapped in a Scene UK Hardcore 1985-1989: Frontline Reports From the Hardcore Punk Underground by Ian Glasper (Cherry Red) $24.95
Sonic Youth Sensational Fix (Koning) $85.00 – This comprehensive 784-page volume includes two 7-inch records with unpublished songs by each member, and ephemera that includes album covers, band portraits and documentary photos, many of which have never been published before.Also!
Beautiful Losers DVD Make Something From Nothing – The documentary that told the story of California street/lowbrow art culture as it was remembered by the artists and gallery owner that experienced it. Starring: Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Ed Templeton, Aaron Rose, Margaret Kilgallen (in footage from before she passed away), Barry McGee, Thomas Campbell, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Geoff McFetridge, Stephen Powers & Deanna Templeton. $29.99
Everything Is Terrible 2 Tokyo Drift DVD $20.00 – Oh snap! New one from those found footage websiteers of http://www.everythingisterrible.com/. Don’t miss them on their Quest For the Magick Crystal tour, coming to a theater near you this summer.
Sexy Book of Sexy Sex by var. (Chronicle) $24.95
Book of Unnecessary Quotation Marks: A Celebration of Creative Punctuation by Bethany Keeley (Chronicle) $14.95 – “Insert” “a” “joke” “here.”
Night of the Living Trekkies by var. (Quirk) $14.95 – The zombie mash-up craze continues.New to our website this week!:
But here are just a few!:
Breathers Book 5 by Justin Madson $6.00
Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00
Core of Caligula Episodes 1 through 4 by CF (Picturebox) $2.00
Dan Gleasons Big Book of Short Stories and Dogs by Dan Gleason $2.00
Ganzfeld #7 ed. by Ben Jones and Dan Nadel (Picturebox) $30.00
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Author Kyle Smith Reads from His New Novel 85A
Kyle Smith will read from his Chicago-set coming-of-age novel out this summer from Bascom Hill Publishing Group. Set in late 1980s Chicago, 85A follows its half Johnny Rotten, half Holden Caulfield antihero, Seamus O’Grady, through a watershed day in his adolescent life. As a gay teen from a conservative Catholic home—in one of the most racist neighborhoods of a notoriously segregated city—Seamus begins to seek his niche in 1980s Chicago’s multicultural punk and bohemian circles.
Originally from Chicago, Smith infuses 85A with the rich detail of his own experiences with the Chicago punk scene as his protagonist struggles with universal themes of identity, rebellion and belonging. Today, Smith lives in Brooklyn, New York and regularly contributes to Edge, The Brooklyn Rail, and WhiteHot Magazine.
“Like Holden [Caulfield], Seamus serves as an important reminder of the universal urge to self-define in a world hostile to anyone who dares to be different.” – Edge on the Net
“[Seamus’] treatment at the hands of his family and his teachers is heart-wrenching.” – Booklist
For more information, visit: http://85anovel.com/events.htm
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Aaron Renier Signs THE UNSINKABLE WALKER BEAN
Adventure on the high seas! A cursed skull! Fearsome pirates! Wicked sea-witches! And almost certain peril! Boy inventor Walker Bean and his scruffy new friends must summon their courage to face the direst scourges of the sea in this all-new graphic novel by Aaron Renier. For this signing, Quimby’s presents a unique event with Aaron, with a signing followed by piratical interactive drawing activities.
“So beautiful are the drawings that I can smell the sea salt and feel the spray as giant creatures of the deep draw near the ocean’s surface. Outrageous and wonderful!” – Jeff Smith, creator of Bone
“Aaron’s work makes me feel ten years old again. He makes me want to whip up a root beer float, climb into a pirate-ship-playhouse, slap on a record of sea chanteys and read Walker Bean over and over. The guys’a bit of a mad genius.” – Lane Smith, illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man
“The Unsinkable Walker Bean is gorgeous. Jump feet first into this rip-roaring, wild-eyed, high-sea adventure story. Join up with a young, pudgy, bespectacled hero, a brave powder monkey, a terrifying girl with the best red pigtails since Pippi Longstocking, and two seriously revolting sea witches. Be prepared. You’re going to love it.” — Brian Selznick, creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret
For more info: http://aaronrenier.com/
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Zines On Toast Show at Quimby's
An evening of entertainment and information with zine writers from the UK (Rumlad, Last Hours, Hey Monkey Riot and Morgenmuffel) on tour with Portland’s Alex Wrekk (Brainscan zine and Stolen Sharpie Revolution). Join them for accounts of UK zine culture including stories from Alex’s trip to the UK last year, plus tales of the London zine symposium, vegan mass catering, UK social centres, revolution, punk rock, anarchy and more! For more info: http://zinesontoast.org
Alex Wrekk “Author of the popular how-to guide of zine-making, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, over fifteen years of zine-making under her belt, and the most intimate details of her life photocopied, stapled, and mailed around the world, this is a woman committed to taking her experiences in life and putting them on display in a way that is not for ratings or profit. Rather, she does it for the love of writing, creating, and sharing.” (Feminist Review) www.smallworldbuttons.com
Isy Morgenmuffel “For the past ten years Morgenmuffel comic zine has been documenting the world that Isy inhabits. A world of riots in the city of London, cooking for hundreds of punks, starting housing co-ops, local social centres, or simply hanging out with friends and drinking. Through it all Isy’s love of life, and humour, is at the heart of the stories.” (Last Hours) www.morgenmuffel.co.uk
Edd Baldry, a radical illustrator and editor of Last Hours, and creator of Hey Monkey Riot: “Edd’s perhaps one of the few people drawing autobio comics who actually does interesting stuff, … with an angle on activism which is celebratory rather than polemical, yet also unafraid to point out absurdities.” (Lucid Frenzy) www.eddbaldry.co.uk
Steve Larder “Rum Lad is part comic, part scene report, part diary but all with a subtle positivity that works to remind you that being a punk is fucking awesome.” (Pete Willis) www.stevelarder.co.uk
Tom Fiction and Natalie of Last Hours magazine and resource for creative resistance, and the London Zine Symposium, an annual event now in its 6th year. www.lasthours.org.uk
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Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers
1. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 ed. by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion Points) $29.95 – Touch and Go binds together all 22 issues and peppers it with essays a bit of commentary and notation. Tesco Vee and Steve Miller were at Quimby’s this past weekend signing copies of this collected edition. Tesco’s charmingly tattooed son came, and while here Tesco fielded a phone call from his daughter who had just in a fist fight. Ah, the next generation makes itself known.
2. Pizza Time by Joe Vermilyea (Koyama Press) $5.00 – This amazing atomic ninja turtle meltdown with extra cheese includes a breakdown of Krang’s perverse relationship with his android body and putty portraits of Bebop and Rocksteady. Turdle Power! -EF
3. Al Burian Goes To Hell by Al Burian (Migraine) $6.00 – We just learned that this periodical is actually an unauthorized bootleg of one of Al’s college assignments from many years ago and have opted not to sell it anymore. For more information, see Al’s blog.
4. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00 – Essays on admiration from my favorite catty bachelor. John Waters, I love you. -EF
5. Why Be Something That You’re Not Detroit Hardcore 1979 to 1985 by Tony Rettman (Revelation) $16.00 – chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties.
6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95
7. Stories vol 3: Catch Me If You Can by Martin Cendreda $3.00 – Eloquently drawn Giving-Tree-esque twists and turns of children growing and parents giving. -EF
8. The First Line vol 12 #2 $3.009. Core of Caligula Episodes 1 through 4 by CF (Picturebox)$2.00 – Cinematically paced and mostly outside the Darger-ian territories of Powr Mastrs, CF’s Core of Caligula slips in and out keeping its tape player close and its psychic mis-steps closer.-EF
10. Limbs of the Megalith by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug)$2.00 – Fraught focus on the myth-adventures of humanity and its xenophobic whims- Espey’s packed pages time travel from the city to the country, the beast to the chair, death to the rabbit hole and back again with a fluid language of modern hyroglyphics. -EF
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Dan Gleason’s Big Book of Short Stories and Dogs by Dan Gleason $2.00 – Life is better with more Dan Gleason, one of our fave local weirdos.
Your Secretary #2 Heaven Street Split by var. $2.00
Coming Envelope #1 Sum 10 ed. by $7.00 – by Malcolm Sutton, Sheila Heti and more.
Show Me The Money #32 $2.50
Truckface #13 by LB $3.00 – Trials and tribulations of a local high school teacher. Recommended for teachers, students and those who just want a good read.
CK Mazigine #1: Groovy Colorful Cloth Patches by Corrine Kennedy $1.00
Nuthing Sacred #8 $6.00
Matter #2 Mar 10 $6.00
Stalwarts of Despondence by Ryan Lowry $4.00
Serial Killers Unite #2 $2.00Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Al Burian Goes To Hell by Al Burian (Migraine) $6.00 – Burian braves the nine circles (propelled forth mostly by a primal desire for free snacks) in a vision of hell that looks not-so-vaguely like his favorite foil: the North Amerikkkan Shitscape.-EF
Core of Caligula Episodes 1 through 4 by CF (Picturebox) $2.00
Cold Heat Special #4 by Jim Rugg (Picturebox) $3.00
Breathers Book 0 and Breathers Book 5 by Justin Madson, $2.00 and $6.00 respectively.
Pood #1 $4.00 – A wonderous newsprint collection of mini comix.
Candy or Medicine vol 10 $1.00
Various mini comix titles from Josh Blair!
Freddy More Stories by Melissa Mendes $5.00
Stories vol 3 Catch Me If You Can by Martin Cendreda $3.00 – Too cute!
B One 3 Pack Comics for Broken Hearts by Bobgar Ornelas $5.00Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Ganzfeld #7 by Ben Jones and Dan Nadel (Picturebox) $30.00
Catalog No 439: Burlesque Paraphernalia And Side Degree Specialties and Costumes, ed. by David Copperfield (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Fractured Fables HC (Image) $29.99
Playwright by Eddie Campbell and Daren White (Top Shelf) $14.95
One Man Show by Don Wood $10.00Art Books
Xylor Jane (Picturebox) $20.00
Three Ladies Beside the Sea by Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey (NYRB) $14.95
Don’t Hold Your Breath: Nothing New From Brian Ewing (Dark Horse) $22.99 – Gig posters from the popular lowbrow artist.
David Choe (Chronicle) $45.00 – Art monograph from this popular lowbrow and graphic novel artist.Fiction/Poetry Books
Alternative Hero by Tim Thornton (Vintage) $15.95 – A failed fanzine writer stalks his favorite rock star long after his star has faded.
One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau (ECW) $14.95
1925 Whitley Notes from Hollywood 1989-2009 by Jay Sosnicki $12.00Steampunk/Speculative Fiction
Steamed: A Steampunk Romance by Katie MacAlister (Signet) $7.99 – Brass-goggled, bodice-ripping and everything in-between.
Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino (Quake) $13.99Outer Limits/Mayhem Books
There Were Giants Upon the Earth – Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA by Zecharia Sitchin (Bear & Co.) $24.00
Straight From the Fridge Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Decharne (No Exit) $24.95 – More Entries! More Pictures! More Juice! More Jive! Hotter Than a Two Dollar Pistol! This Baby Will Fry Your Wig!Magazines/Literary Journals
Meatpaper #12 Sum 10 $7.95 – Meat art and culture.
Print Aug 10 $15.95 – Print is not dead.
XLR8R #134 $4.99
Inventory vol 1 #2 – As requested by Quimby’s customers. Culture, craft and commentary.
My Sex – Gender Sexuality Identity $.50
Concisely Magazine of Short Prose #3 by Daniel Copulsky $3.00
Fifth Estate vol 45 #2 #383 Sum 10 $4.00
Wallpaper Aug 10 $9.50
True Crime Jul 10 $8.99
Wire Jul 10 #317 $10.99
Scootering #289 $8.99
Fortean Times #264 Aug 10 $11.99Music Books
Talking To Girls About Duran: One Mans Quest For True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield (Dutton) $25.99 – Memoir as told through the author’s experience with popular music. From the author of Love Is a Mix Tape.
Independence Days: The Story of UK Independent Record Labels by Alex Ogg (Cherry Red) $24.95
Death to Trad Rock by John Robb (Cherry Red) $24.95
You’re Wondering Now The Specials From Conception to Reunion by Paul Williams (Cherry Red) $24.95
On The Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer by Rohan Kriwaczek (Overlook) $24.95Also!
Beaufort Diaries by T. Cooper and Alex Petrowsky (Melville) $15.95
Not For Toursits Guide to Chicago 2010
Word Plaques by Proceeds Donated In Memory of Chicago Artist Flo McGarrell to Haiti $2.00 – A Chicago art teacher worked with his students to screenprint words like Change, Love, Pride, and Liberty to raise money for Haiti victims.
Whats Your Poo Telling You? Activity Book: A Poopourri of Activities (Chronicle) $9.95 – Still milking the shit out of this one. Er, uh, yeah.And for sale on Tuesday, July 20th!: Scott Pilgrims vol 6 Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni) $11.99!
New to our website this week!:
Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post Punk and Hardcore Reader by Norman Brannon (Revelation) $15.00
Barefoot and in the Kitchen #4 Vegan Recipes $3.00 – Vegan Recipes! Vegan Recipes! Vegan Recipes! In handy zine format! Eat Up!!!!
Bottlenecks by Jesse Harold $6.00 – Raggertagger misfit youth scraping knees and scrapping school, weaseling through a world of crabgrassyhiding spots and crumblng parentals. Subtle build, nice release. -EF
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Dialogue Regarding the Genesis of the Zinewich
Actual transcript as pasted in from the Quimby’s e-mail:
From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:37:38 -0600
To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>
Subject: A question about the new issue of Black Carrot
Quimbys,
Soon enough, I will have a new issue (#15) of my zine Black Carrot. A zine
I have long enjoyed selling at Quimbys. This issue of Black Carrot, will
come with a sandwich. I am not kidding. Would this affect in any way
selling it at Quimbys? I mean you can keep the sandwiches in a cooler,
and eat a few if you wanted.. Anyways, share with me your thoughts.
xo,
dave
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com> wrote:
Hi Dave,
Liz Mason here. A sandwich! You are insane. Can I post your e-mail on our
blog?
Child, tell me more about your crazy sandwich zine. Specifically, what would
be on this sandwich? I like this idea more and more by the second.
Specifically, I like the idea of the zine being the meat, sandwhiched
in-between 2 slices of bread.
Liz
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Quimby’s Bookstore
> From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:54:40 -0600
> To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>
> Subject: Re: A question about the new issue of Black Carrot
>
> Liz,
> Feel free to post that anywhere. Build up a bit of hype for Black Carrot
> #15? It is hard to explain with email, but I guess I will stop into Quimbys
> this week and just show you what I am talking about? It is quite possibly
> the best idea I have had this week. Zinewich!
> -dave
Dave,
This is insanity. I eagerly anticipate your arrival of the zinewich! I’m starving.
Liz
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Quimby’s Bookstore
Actual transcript as pasted in from the Quimby’s e-mail:From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:37:38 -0600To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>Subject: A question about the new issue of Black CarrotQuimbys,Soon enough, I will have a new issue (#15) of my zine Black Carrot. A zineI have long enjoyed selling at Quimbys. This issue of Black Carrot, willcome with a sandwich. I am not kidding. Would this affect in any wayselling it at Quimbys? I mean you can keep the sandwiches in a cooler,and eat a few if you wanted.. Anyways, share with me your thoughts.xo,daveOn Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com> wrote:Hi Dave,Liz Mason here. A sandwich! You are insane. Can I post your e-mail on ourblog?Child, tell me more about your crazy sandwich zine. Specifically, what wouldbe on this sandwich? I like this idea more and more by the second.Specifically, I like the idea of the zine being the meat, sandwhichedin-between 2 slices of bread.Liz—Quimby’s Bookstore> From: dave <tacolove@gmail.com>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:54:40 -0600> To: Quimby’s Bookstore <info@quimbys.com>> Subject: Re: A question about the new issue of Black Carrot>> Liz,> Feel free to post that anywhere. Build up a bit of hype for Black Carrot> #15? It is hard to explain with email, but I guess I will stop into Quimbys> this week and just show you what I am talking about? It is quite possibly> the best idea I have had this week. Zinewich!> -daveDave,This is insanity. I eagerly anticipate your arrival of the zinewich! I’m starving.Liz—Quimby’s Bookstor -
Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers
1. The Believer #73 2010 Music Issue $12.00
2. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 by var. $29.95 (Bazillion Points) – If ever you needed a collected volume of zines, this may be it. Rough and wild midwest punk rock reporting and tons of tons of record reviews, Touch and Go the zine was opinionated, irreverent, and balls-to-the-walls funny. Bazillion Points has really gone berzerker lately too, churning out some of the sickest most creative and in-depth volumes of hardcore, punk and metal scene archiving I’ve ever seen. Touch and Go binds together all 22 issues and peppers it with essays a bit of commentary and notation. Bawdy and engaging, I can’t take my eyes off it, but it’s so jam-packed I have no doubt it’ll take me a year or two to read everything. -EF3. Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC (Chronicle) $16.95 – A lush little volume of cheeky bike-ography coming into reality from the blogosphere.
4. Down and Derby – The Insiders Guide to Roller Derby by var. (Soft Skull) $14.95 – This insider’s derby guide is an intro, a love letter and a cheeky, dishy guide to the fierce world of rollin’. It almost makes me want to kiss my teeth goodbye and strap a pair on. -EF
5. Craphound #4 Clowns Devils and Bait $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
6. End of the City – A Book of Afterwards by Oso Arcilla $4.00 – Nice, poignant poetry, like a tidy apartment or a freshly baked good, touching on a little of everything. An especilly good one is about chilly pumpkin guts and another treat weaves about the rough edges of a drunken romancing, full of fine moments, pauses, twists. -EF
7. Crap Hound #7 Church and State Part One $12.00
8. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – AVAILABLE ONLY AT QUIMBY’S!
9. Hot Damn and Hell Yeah: Recipes for Hungry Banditos, Dirty South Cook Book by Ryan Splint $7.00
10. Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Pantheon) $19.95
Also! Join us tonight at the Holiday Club at 7pm as Quimby’s co-sponsors Dating For Nerds Singles Trivia Night! 4000 North Sheridan Road. For more info: http://nerdsatheart.com
