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The Number of the Beast
Here is what you need to spend 666 at Quimby’s to appease the dark lord. And an extra 6 just for funs. Thanks to Don, our customer of the day, who purchased these items. With a credit card. Nice!
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Best Former Webcomic That Turned into a Minicomic That Turned Back into a Webcomic of the Week
Liz Baillie’s minicomic serial, Freewheel, is a fun follow up to her more serious My Brain Hurts, and shows her growing by leaps and bounds in the field of visual storytelling.
Originally a webcomic for Fall of Autumn‘s website, Liz abandoned the digital format in 2008 to stick with her home turf of minicomics. Like so many Democrats before her, Liz has reversed her earlier decision, and is abandoning her print ambitions for the story…for now (if we were of the mind to use emoticon, we’d either be winking at you, or darting our eyes back and forth in a conspicuous manner). Freewheelcomics.com will be updating every Tuesday and Thursday.
Quimby’s has copies of issues one and three, if you’re the type that wants the hard copy before it runs out. We’d carry issue two, but we know you like the hunt.
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Off-Site Event! Dystopias vs. Enchanted Forests at the MCA!
Dystopias vs. Enchanted Forests
at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
220 E. Chicago Ave, in Puck’s Cafe
Quimby’s and the MCA present a night of the Cabinet of Curiosities series, offered the third Tuesday of the month. It’s a curated grab bag of “un-lectures” about a myriad of topics that create a variety show-like evening of artist presentations curated by different groups from around Chicago. Our theme? Dystopias vs. Enchanted Forests. Artists/performers that we’re featuring include Ed Marszewski (Lumpen, Proximity, Co-Prosperity Sphere), Kate Sheehy (puppeteer), Joe Mason (pop culture specialist), Oscar Arriola (street art archiver and documentarian), Jon Resh (Viper Press, Amped) and more!
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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-02
- Quimby's Dec 09 Announcements! http://fb.me/3FBJz9K #
- Dec 09 Quimby's Bookstore Announcements – http://eepurl.com/fwi5 #
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Top 10 Bestsellers Last Week
1. Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00
3. Monsters by Ken Dahl (Secret Acres) $18.00
4. Bizarre #156 Dec 09 $10.50
5. Clothesdick May 77 $3.00
6. Clothesdick vol 2 #3 $3.00
7. Clothesdick vol 1 #7 $3.00
8. Doris #27 $2.50
9. Hot Potatoe by Marc Bell (Drawn+Quarterly) $39.99
10. Monologuist Paper Blog Supplemental and Postcard Set by Anders Nilsen $10.95
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Twitter Updates for 2009-11-30
- Omigosh! FOUND #7 just sauntered into the store, and said "Check out all this crazy stuff people lost!" And we said "OK." #
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Live Comics Action!
If you’re traveling around near the O’Hare branch of the blue line today, make a quick detour at the California Stop. There’s a dude painting a dystopian comic strip on the building across the street on California. I should have gotten his name, that would have made this blog post a lot more interesting. Maybe some sort of link…yeah, that would have been nice. A photo, too. Oh well.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-11-29
- Get the goods! http://quimbys.com/blog/new_stuff/new-stuff-this-week-15/ #
- Get the goods! http://fb.me/3ioamPI #
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New Stuff This Week
Ganges #3 by Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics) $7.95
Paper Politics Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, ed. by Josh MacPhee (PM Press) $24.95 – Former local stencil activist, artist and archiver, Josh MacPhee, his most recent art book
Muck #3 In the Time of Swine Flu zine by Necio $2.00
Homeless Souls chap book by Jake Anderson $18.00
Art XX Radical Arts Magazine #2 $14.00
Logan Square Literary Review #1, ed. by Daniel Majid $5.00
David Novak Bundle: Against Holy War Sonnets Embodiment and Release Souls Refinement Requiem (poetry) $5.00
Hold On To Your Dreams Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene 1973-1992 by Tim Lawrence (Duke University Press) $23.95
Drawing Autism by Jill Mulin (Mark Batty) $34.95
Face Food: Recipies A How-to Guide by Christopher D. Salyers (Mark Batty) $14.95 – Asian food made into cute faces of things. Super cute!
Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1960s Comic, ed. by Daniel Tatarsky (Orion) $19.95
Doris Danger: Giant Monster Adventures by Chris Wisnia (SLG) $9.95
Hot Moms #13 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Two by Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette (Vertigo) $24.99 – Fancy hardcover volume.
Proper Go Well High (graphic novel) by Oliver East (Blank Slate) $19.99
Sparky O’Hare Master Electrician (graphic novel) by Mawil (Reprodukt) $8.99
Magazine The Biography by Helen Chase (Norrthumbria Press) $19.95 – As in, Magazine the band.
How To Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip Hop MC – Advice and Guidance From Exclusive Interviews With More Than 100 Artists by Paul Edwards (Chicago Review Press) $12.95 – Insert funny rhyming witticism here.
Art That Creeps: Gothic Fantasies and the Macabre In Contemporary Art by Yasha Young (Korero) $35.00
Sun King: The Life and Times of Sam Philips the Man Behind Sun Records by Kevin Crouch and Tanja Crouch (Piatkus) $14.95
Frieze #127 Nov Dec 09 (art magazine) $10.00
Shindig vol 2 #13 Nov Dec 09 $9.99
Dangerous Ink #4 $6.00
Tape Op #74 $4.50
Angry Violist zine $2.00
Goodbye For Now Squirrel: A Story of Friendship zine by Leslie Perinne $2.00
Lonely Hippopotomous zine by Leslie Perinne $2.00
Rapture For the Geeks When AI Outsmarts IQ by Richard Dooling (Three Riv) $14.00
Remember the Alamo: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About American History With All the Boring Bits Taken Out by Alison Rattle and Allison Vale (Delacorte) $16.00
Spirit vol 4 by Will Eisner (DC) $19.99
I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir by Mickey Leigh and Legs McNeil (Touchstone) $26.00
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour by David Bianculli (Touchstone) $24.99
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion (photo book) by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris (Scribner) $30.00
Winterings chap book by Jay Krevins $4.00
Powdered Milk #1 mini comic by Keiler Roberts $2.50
Calendar 2010 by Nathan Veach $6.00 – Of Moist Ladies fame.
I Am Alive More Soon Please Stay Tuned zine by Thad Kellstadt and various $4.00
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Top 10 Bestsellers Third Week of November
Nadine Y Nakanishi commands the audience at her release event for Formal Additive Programs. 1. Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00
3. Slingshot 2010 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00
4. Big Questions #13 A House That Floats by Anders Nilsen (Drawn+Quarterly) $9.95
5. Animals and Objects In and Out of Water: Posters by Jay Ryan 2005-2008 (Akashic) $22.95
6. Believer #67 Nov 09 The Art Issue $8.00
7. Mome vol 16 Fall 09 $14.99
8. Adbusters #87 $8.95
9. Bust Dec 09 Jan 10 $4.99
10. Doris #27 $2.50
