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  • Top Ten

    For the Week of May 17th-May 23rd, 2009

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    Thanks to our patient customers on Friday night when we went without our phone line for the night. We can’t imagine why we would have electrical problems what with the tangle of cords in the place. Can you tell we fixed it?
    1. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
    2. Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
    3. The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
    4. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
    5. Trubble Club vol 3 $3.00
    6. Match #107 by Fred Woodworth $3.00
    7. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
    8. Shortcomings (soft cover) Adrian Tomine (Drawn+Quarterly) $14.95
    9. Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice For Midwives and Herbalists by Catherine Marie Jeunet $5.00
    10. Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 4 Time of Your Life (Dark Horse) $15.95

  • New Stuff and Memorial Day Hours

    Just a reminder! Quimby’s will be open on Monday, May 25th, Memorial Day, but only with abbreviated hours. That day we will be open from noon to 5pm.


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    Trubble Club vol 3 $3.00 – New comic from comics superstars who did our last window display! If we house the comic here. does that make Quimby’s a Club House?

    Youll Never Know vol 1 A Good and Decent Man by C. Tyler (Dark Horse) $24.99

    Decal art (Idea) from a whole variety of cool artists, including: Royal Art Lodge, David Bromley, David Shrigley and more! Transfer it onto your Trapper Keeper! $9.50 each

    Urinal Gum vol 8 $2.00

    Hyphen #17 Spr 08 $4.95

    Black Carrot #14 $3.00

    Squish The Fish by Kevin Brady $3.00 – mini comic

    Cabinet #33 Deception $12.00

    Kilobyte Couture Geek Chic Jewelry to Make From Easy to Find Computer Components by (Watson) $18.95

    Please Step Back by Ben Greenman (Melville) $16.95

    Best of Simon and Kirby, edited by Steve Saffel (Titan) $39.95 – As in comics dudes Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, aka “comics’ Lennon/McCartney dream duo,” as the Library Journal says.

    Tank Girl vol 1 and 2 by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin (Titan) $14.95 each – back in print!

    Leftovers Again by Robin Hustle $3.00 – New zine from local sex activist.

    Tape Op #71 $4.50

    The Peep Diaries: How Were Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki (Citylights) $17.95 – He’s doing an event here on June 25th!

    Love and Obstacles by Aleksander Hemon (Riverhead) $25.95 – New fiction from local M. Genius Grant (TM) writer.

    Pork Chop Robinson #7 $3.00

    The Comedians May 09 $4.50

  • Bob Odenkirk Signs Here!

    BOB ODENKIRK COMES TO QUIMBY’S TO SIGN COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS© BOOK-ON-TAPE CD
    (With Possible Special Funny Guest!)

    With the belief that “true creativity comes from simple formulas and the memorization of data,” COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS© BOOKON-TAPE CD! is nothing short of an indispensable audio guide on how to be funny. Prof. Eric Hoffman & Dr. Gary Rudoren first reduced comedy to an easy-to-follow manual in the McSweeney’s humor bible COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS©, and now, for the first time ever, their work has been lovingly adapted to the medium of sound with the help of the brightest stars in the comedy galaxy. Would you like to make your co-workers laugh but have zero sense of humor? No problem! Take a tour of comedy history as you discover the power of such tried-and-true humor staples such as; “#-14-Catch Phrases,” “#16-Clowns,” “#86-Novelty Items,” “#24-Cursing,” “63-Jews & Their Idiosyncracies,” “#95-Pathos,” “#144-The Double Take,” “#82-Movie Spoofs,” “#101-Pie In The Face” and much, much more!

    Guest readers featured on the CD include: Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Zach Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt, Andy Kindler, Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Walsh, McSweeney’s founder Dave Eggers and many more!

    The question isn’t, “Can I live without this book-on-tape CD?”
    The question is, “How have I lived this long without it?”
    Executive producer by Bob Odenkirk (of “Mr. Show fame) will be on hand to sign copies of the CD with a special guest!

    For more info on the CD: www.astrecords.com

    This event is free.

  • ARCHER PREWITT SIGNS WORK ON PAPER

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    Multi-talented Chicago artist Archer Prewitt (The Sea and Cake, The Coctails) signs his new book, Work On Paper!

    Not many people will know that the author of crazy and perverted comic, Sof’ Boy, is the same man who drew the beautiful and delicate nymph-like girl from the artists’ own music album, Wilderness. But look carefully and you will notice that the most intricately drawn fine lines and dots are mutual features of much of his work; the same organic, subtle, sophisticated and tender sensibility shine through in all of Archer Prewitt’s creations and never ceases to charm us.

    This book collects 32 of selected works from a group of minimal drawings he has been working on for almost 20 years.

    Foreword by Jim Harris (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).

    Work On Paper (PressPop)
    Hardcover, 48 pgs, color, deboss stamping on front cover
    Japanese/English
    Size: 8 inches x 8 inches
    For more info: http://www.presspop.com

    FREE

  • Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 10th-May 16th, 2009

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    1.    Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
    2.    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith (Quirk) $12.95
    3.    Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around by Cheryl Wagner (Citadel) $14.95
    4.    Proximity #4 $12.00
    5.    Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
    6.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
    7.    Juxtapoz #100 May 09 $5.99
    8.    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
    9.    The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
    10.  The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper (Chicago Review Press) $11.95

  • New Stuff!

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    Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90

    Luba by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Compiles various pieces of Luba’s comics in a handy tomb.

    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910  by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95

    Cabinet #33 Deception $12.00

    Comics Journal #297 Apr 09 $11.99

    Connective Tissue by Bob Fingerman (Fantagraphics) $22.99

    Make vol 18 $14.99

    Gothic Beauty #28 $5.95

    Maximumrocknroll #313 $4.00

    Hoboking A Hobo Odyssey by Peter Hillstrom $3.50 – new mini comic

    For Lonely Adults Only #4 Spr 09 $5.00 – Lo-fi sexy mag

    Spread vol 4 #4 $5.95

    Smut Vol 2 from Nerve.com (Chronicle) $14.95

    Proximity #4 $12.00 – Don’t miss this one!

    Overqualified by Joey Comeau (ECW) $14.95 – Cooler than letters to a nut. Reading here June 27th

    Perverts Guide To Cinema Parts 1, 2, 3 with Slavog Zizek DVD $29.99

    Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Collection 1-3 by Bernie McGovern $20.00 – Beuatifully bound comics

    32 Stories Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics by Adrian Tomine (D+Q) $19.95 – He’ll be here with comics artist Seth on June 10th!

    Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples by Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas (Chronicle) $40.00

    Paper Tiger Television Presents: Infiltrating the Underground The Corporatization of Radical Culture DVD with Anne Elizabeth Moore $25.00

    Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 4 Time of Your Life by Joss Whedon and friends (Dark Horse) $15.95 – Buffy lives, yo.

    Free Range Chicken by Simon Rich (Random) $13.00 – Hilarious stories from the author of Ant Farm.

    Bizarre #149 $10.50

    Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot (Scribner) $25.00

    Please Step Back by Ben Greenman (melville) $16.95

    Kilobyte Couture: Geek Chic Jewelry to Make From Easy to Find Computer Components (Watson) $18.95

    The Match #107 $3.00 – Still keepin’ strong in 3 digits.

    Cloud & Ashes Three Winters Tales by Greer Gilman (Small Beer) $26.00

    Captive Audience by Dave Reidy (Ig) $14.95 – Short stories from a Chicago local. And he’ll be reading here at Quimby’s July 15th. Stay tuned for more info!

    Green Zone by Barry Sanders (AK) $14.95

    Young Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff (Seven) $19.95

    The Believer #62 $8.00

    High Times Jul 09 $5.99

    Nexus vol 16 #3 May Jun 09 $5.9

    In Praise of Indecency by Paul Krassner (Cleis) $12.95

    Zombie Holocaust: How The Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture by David Flint (Plexus) $19.95

    Dissection by John Harley Warner and James M Edmonson (Blast) $50.00 – Photos of what else? Dead bodies! Buy with the Zo,bie Holocaust book for a delicious experience!

    Osama Van Halen by Michael Muhammad Knight (Ulysses) $14.95

  • Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of May 3rd – May 9th, 2009

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    1.    The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno (W.W. Norton) $24.95
    2.    Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition by Nic Collins (Routledge) $34.95
    3.    The Chair by Peter Simeti, Kevin Christianson and Erin Korut (Alterna Co) $13.95
    4.    Wholphin #8 (McSweeney’s) $19.95
    5.    Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $12.95
    6.    Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.95
    7.    Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
    8.    Cinema Sewer #22 $7.00
    9.    Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk
    10.  Pygmy by Chuch Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95

  • Drawn + Quarterly Artists Adrian Tomine and Seth at Quimby's

    Please join Quimby’s and Drawn & Quarterly at an event with Optic Nerve cartoonist Adrian Tomine and Palooka-Ville cartoonist Seth. The two New Yorker illustrators will be celebrating their own new releases – Tomine’s new editions of Shortcomings and 32 stories and Seth’s new graphic novel George Sprott 1894-1975 as well as the releases of the books they have edited and designed – Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life (edited and designed by Tomine) and The Collected Doug: Canada’s Master Cartoonist (edited and designed by Seth). The two authors will be in conversation, take questions from the audience and will sign books.

    This event is free!

  • TEMPORARY CHANGE OF QUIMBY'S ON FRI., MAY 15TH & MON., MAY 25th

    Just so ya’ll know, we will open 2 hours later on Friday, May 15th so that we’re opening at 2pm instead of the regular Friday opening time at noon and we’ll close at 5pm on Memorial Day, Mon., May 25th instead of the regular 9pm on Mondays.

  • New Stuff As of 5/9/09

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    Last Saturday (5/2/09) Nic Collins was here to celebrate the release of the second edition of his book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking Second Edition, screening some of the DVD that comes with the new edition. The picture above features a member of the CSO performing. That is, the Chicago Symphhacking Orchestra, which treated audience members to circuit-bending awesomeness! For more photos of the event, go here.

    New stuff follows:

    Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Litte Otsu) $12.95 – New graphic novel from the local comics superstar of The Lagoon fame.

    Rumblings #2 by “Kevin H.” $3.00 Mini-comic by someone named “Kevin H” who has the same illustration style as Kevin Huizenga. Coincidence? I mean, we’re just sayin’.

    On Tender Hooks The Art of Isabel Samaras (Chronicle) $35.00 – humerous and bizarre Ron English-inspired lowbrow art.

    Tokion #68 $6.99

    Rolling Thunder #7 Spr 09 $6.00

    Gullible #29 $3.00

    Workers Write vol 5 Tales From the Couch $8.00

    Tiki Magazine vol 5 #1 $4.99

    Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians by Julie Schaper and Steven Horwitz (Melville) $16.95 – As reviewed in Time Out.

    Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday) $24.95 – New hardcover from the author of Fight Club.

    Mind Mapping A Travel Guide $5.00 – New mini comic!

    18 month Moleskine Calendar journals! In different sizes and textures. they start in July 2009 and go through December 2010! $10.95-$18.95.

    Sublime Stitching Stichable Stationary by Jenny Hart (Chronicle) $14.95

    Big Stars Radio City 33 1/3 Series by Bruce Eaton (Continuum) $10.95

    Minus Times #29 $15.00 – Yes! For real! A new issue of Drag City’s version of the Believer. Typed on a typewriter or font that looks like a typewriter? That is the question.

    Try State #1 Spr 09 $12.00 – Cut’n’paste naughtiness. For lovers of the masculine physique.

    Adult Crash Book and 7 inch Photographs by Dave Brown (Six Feet Under Records) $15.00

    Gigantic #1 $3.00 – New lit journal.

    Show Me the Money #29 $2.50

    Giant Robot #59 $4.99

    Burning Man Live 13 Years of Piss Clear Black Rock Citys Alternative Newspaper by Adrian Roberts (Re/Search) $24.99

    Gearhead #18 $4.95

    Maximumrocknroll #312 $4.00

    Bizarre #148 $10.50

    Fortean Times #247 May 09 $11.99

    Requiem For a Paper Bag Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost by Davy Rothbart and various others (Fireside) $15.99 – Edited by the editor of FOUND Magazine

    Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine (Drawn+Quarterly) $14.95 – Now in soft cover! Stay tuned for more details about an event here at Quimby’s in June 09 with Adrian Tomine and Seth (Palookaville)!

    33 1/3 Series: Lets Talk About Love by Celine Dion: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson (Continuum) $12.95

    Mystery Theater Episode #1 The Human Brain by Julia Wertz $3.00 – New mini comic from the creator of Fart Party.