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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of August 17th, 2008 – August 23rd, 2008
1. Cometbus #51: Loneliness of the Electra Menorah by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. Doris #26 $2.00
3. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
4. Mostly True by Bill Daniel $8.00
5. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
6. N Plus 1 Pamphlet Series #2: What We Should Have Known Two Discussions $9.00
7. Adbusters #79 $8.95
8. Wax Poetics #30 $9.99
9. Save My Life by Cody Hudson (Upper Playground) $19.95
10. Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00 -
Joe Meno and Arthur Nersesian
Joe Meno with Arthur Nersesian at Quimby’s!
Join authors Joe Meno and Arthur Nersesian as the read signs copies of their newest books
Demons in the Spring is a collection of twenty short stories by Joe Meno with illustrations by twenty artists from the fine art, graphic art, and comic book worlds–including Charles Burns, Archer Prewitt, Ivan Brunetti, Jay Ryan, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Geoff McFedtridge, Kelsey Brookes, Kim Hiorthoy, Caroline Hwang, Rachell Sumpter, KOZYNDAN, Evan Hecox, and Cody Hudson.Oddly modern moments which occur in the most familiar of public places, from offices to airports to schools to zoos to emergency rooms: a young girl who refuses to go anywhere unless she’s dressed as a ghost; a bank robbery in Stockholm gone terribly wrong; a teacher who’s become enamored with the students in his school’s Model United Nations club; a couple affected by a strange malady–a miniature city which has begun to develop in the young woman’s chest, these inventive stories are hilarious, heartbreaking, and unusual. While many of them have never been previously published, others have been featured in the likes of LIT, Other Voices, Swink, TriQuarterly, and McSweeney’s.
Joe Meno is the best-selling author of the novels Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender As Hellfire. He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago
Arthur Nersesian will also be on hand to read from his newest book The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Swing Voter of Staten Island–the first two installments in Nersesian’s series of novels offering an alternate history of New York: The Five Books of Moses.Robert Moses was responsible for creating contemporary New York’s infrastructure, but he did so at the cost of destroying neighborhoods. In this novel, Robert has looted his brother Paul’s share of the Moses family fortune, repeatedly blocked his attempts at gaining public office, thwarted his career in the private sector, and set in motion events that will decimate Paul’s home life. Paul Moses’s deep-seated rage metamorphoses into an act of terrorism committed against his brother and against a city that he once cherished.
Although it can be read as a stand-alone novel about Robert and Paul Moses, The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx is also a memory play that follows Uli Sarkisian–the hero of The Swing Voter of Staten Island–en route to solving a massive historical crime, while desperately struggling to escape from becoming another one of its victims.
Arthur Nersesian is the author of eight novels, including the smash hit The Fuck-Up (more than 100,00 copies sold), Chinese Takeout (HarperCollins), Manhattan Loverboy (Akashic), Suicide Casanova (Akashic), dogrun (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster), and Unlubricated (HarperCollins), and, most recently, The Swing Voter of Staten Island, the first volume in The Five Books of Moses series. He lives in New York City.
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Sin: A Deadly Anthology Release Event at Quimby’s!
Join us for a release party and reading for Sin: A Deadly Anthology, by The Chicago Contingent. Five authors will read excerpts from their stories in the anthology and each author will also ask some sort of literary or Chicago trivia question with correct answers garnering audience members some fabulous prizes.
SIN is the first of a new anthology series delving into man’s battle with right and wrong. It is an exciting collection of original short stories by The Chicago Contingent, an ensemble of Chicago’s top popular fiction authors, including Marcus Sakey, Patricia Rosemoor, Marc Paoletti, A.C. Frieden, Julia Borcherts, Dana Kaye, Jamie Freveletti, Ric Hess and others. Stories range from crime mysteries to fantasy to noir and inspire the reader to question where they’d draw the line when the circumstances go beyond the impossible.
The Performers:
A.C. Frieden is an author and lawyer living in Chicago. Born in Africa and raised in Europe and Asia, he carries his global experiences into his novels. His background as a molecular biologist, attorney, private pilot , martial artist and army sniper comes together in Tranquility Denied, his latest spy thriller set in Moscow and New Orleans, cities where he studied law. In addition, his non-fiction works have appeared in professional publications in the U.S. and Europe, including the National Law Journal, BNA periodicals and IICLE books. He teaches arts and media law at Columbia College Chicago and serves as senior intellectual property counsel with a large U.S. corporation.Julia Borcherts is the co-founder of and regular performer at the Reading Under the Influence monthly literary series. She has also been a featured reader at 2nd Story, The Parlor Reading Series, Printer’s Row Book Fair and many other events and venues. Her freelance work has appeared in Time Out Chicago, Metromix, Red Eye, Chicago Fighting Arts, Not For Tourists Chicago, ChicagoBoxing.com, The Golden Gloves program and other publications. She is the recipient of a first-prize award from the Columbia University (New York) Scholastic Press Association and teaches fiction workshops at Columbia College Chicago.
Alverne De’Jesus Ball has a BFA in Fiction Writing and is pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He has taught comic book writing at Noble Charter High School in Chicago and is currently an editor at McGraw-Hill. Alverne’s work has been published in the literary magazine Annalemma, The Columbia Chronicle and online at Brokenfrontier.com. He received first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Creative Writing Competition for his graphic story Virgin Wolf. He also received Weisman Scholarships for his graphic stories R-Squared, Geddeon and Zulu.
Jamie Freveletti is a trial attorney, martial artist and runner. After law school, she lived in Geneva, Switzerland while obtaining a diploma in International Studies. Back in Chicago, she represented clients in areas ranging from class actions for mass salmonella poisoning to securities fraud. Her debut thriller, Running from the Devil, will be released by Harper Collins/William Morrow in winter, 2009.Dana Kaye is a novelist, freelance writer and book critic living in Chicago. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. There she studied under well-known authors such as Patricia Rosemoor and Joe Meno, and found her love of writing crime fiction. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, Curve Magazine, Crimespree Magazine and the Windy City Times.
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Danica Novgorodoff signs Slow Storm
With commanding landscapes and a lyrical rhythm of prose, SLOW STORM is the first full length graphic novel from 2007 Eisner nominee Danica Novgorodoff, and introduces an exciting new talent in comics.
SLOW STORM tells the emotional story of two individuals brought together by loss and loneliness. On the day after the Kentucky Derby, tornado season descends on Oldham County. With yesterday’s results still resonating, lightning strikes and sets a barn ablaze. In its embers, a poignant but fleeting relationship is kindled between forlorn firefighter Ursa Crain, an out-of-place woman struggling to fit into her small Kentucky community, and Rafi, a Mexican immigrant wondering whether his American dream will ever be fulfilled.
By turns violent and poetic, magical and mundane, SLOW STORM follows the flight of a young illegal both enchanted and disappointed by America, and a woman with dark clouds looming above and within her. Their interaction, though passing, evokes powerful imagery of homeland and family, and leaves the reader questioning his own sense of these values.
This compelling story explores the heart-wrenching struggle of immigration, an outsider’s difficulties to find her place in the world, and the power created when unexpected relationships find us. SLOW STORM’s poignant themes, accompanied by Novgorodoff’s lush watercolor washes and masterful linework, tell an emotionally-charged tale of homesickness and horses, storms and saints.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Danica Novgorodoff studied painting and photography at Yale University and cowherding in the Andes Mountains. She has worked as a horse trainer in Virginia, an English teacher in Ecuador, and assistant to photographer Sally Mann, and an artist review writer for galleries in Chelsea and SoHo, New York. In 2006 she won the Isotope Award for her mini-comic A Late Freeze and in 2007 was nominated for an Eisner Award. She currently lives in New York City, where she works as a designer for First Second. -
New Stuff Aug 23rd 2008
Everybody recovered from lugging huge piles of free swag out of Printers Ball last night? Good! Sidewalk sale going on today in the hood, come browse the table or better yet come hang out inside we got the AC bumpin’!!!!!!!
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Best American Comics Submissions!
The editors of The Best American Comics are soliciting submissions for their series! Maybe, if you send your comics to them, you’ll get lucky! Here is their request!
Dear cartoonist, editor, publisher, or other individual involved in comics in some other capacity,
We are the series editors for the Best American Comics. We are sending you this mail to let you know (or remind you) about what the Best American Comics is and how to submit your comics.
What is The Best American Comics?
It’s an annual anthology of the best comics short stories and (excerpts of) graphic novels by North American authors each year, published by Houghton Mifflin. It is part of the prestigious Best American series, which also includes The Best American Short Stories, Essays, Non-Required Reading, and so on.Eligibility
The author must be North American (i.e. from Canada, United States, or Mexico). Work published between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008 is eligible for the 2009 volume. The 2010 volume will cover work published from 9/1/08 – 8/31/09, and so on. Individual issues, collections, original graphic novels, and self-published comics (including mini-comics) are eligible for consideration. We must see your comics in order to consider them! Please send one copy of each book you publish to us. Please clearly label each book submitted with contact information and date of publication. Comics published on-line must be submitted in the form of print-outs.How does it work?
The series editors (that’s us) are responsible for collecting, reviewing, and selecting semi-finalists from all comics published by North American authors in a given year. Each year the editorial team (ourselves and Houghton Mifflin in-house editor Anjali Singh) select an established comics author to act as guest editor. The guest editor is responsible for choosing among the semi-finalists (and adding to the list if he or she sees fit) to create the list of works for inclusion in the book. If your work is on the final list, you will be contacted by us in October or November for permission.Send Us Your Comics!
We hope you will put the Best American Comics on your finished book mailing list and automatically send in anything that might be eligible. Keep in mind that even if you miss one year’s deadline a book will be eligible for the following year’s volume.Note that the publishing deadline for the 2009 volume is coming up at the end of this month. We will only accept books for this volume until mid-September so send your books in sooner rather than later!
Please send your books to us at the address below. If you have questions don’t hesitate to e-mail us at either jabel@jessicaabel.com or matt@mattmadden.com
Feel free to forward this message to anyone you know that is involved in comics, especially small or self-publishers.
yours,
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
Mail all your eligible comics to:
Jessica Abel & Matt Madden
Series Editors
The Best American Comics
Houghton Mifflin
215 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003 -
Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of August 10th, 2008 – August 16th, 2008
1. Bust Aug/Sep 08 $4.99
2. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
3. Doris #26 $2.00
4. Handbook vol 2 #3 2008 $6.00
5. Adbusters #79 $8.95
6. Bizarre #139 Aug 08 $9.50
7. Mojo Sep 08 $9.99
8. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Scribner) $14.00
9. Burn Collector Collected Stories 1-9 by Al Burian $13.00
10. Dishwasher: One Mans Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan (Harper Collins) $13.95 -
New Stuff 8/17/08
Well the jets are screaming overhead and the hood is kinda dead. So today is the ideal day to make a trip over and check out all the new hotness! From the new Joe Meno book to the naughty new issue of Fag School, we’re keeping it summer all the way.
New Stuff Aug 16th 2008
Zines
Shadow #53 $1.00
Hip Mama #40 $3.95
Gothic Beauty #26 $4.95
Maximumrocknroll #304 $4.00
Gothic & Lolita Bible #28 $25.99
Tiki Magazine Sum 08 vol 4 #2 $4.99
Cosmode Book 4 $23.99 Patterns for lolita looks
Wire Aug 08 #294 $10.99
Stop Smiling #36 $5.95 Expat issueComics & Graphic Novels
Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics $17.95
Walking Dead #51 $2.99
Testament vol 4 Exodus by Douglas Rushkoff $14.99
From The Shadow of the Northern Lights $19.95 Anthology of Swedish ComicsNew Books
Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno $27.50 With tons of artist in the mix!
Fancy Action Now $30.00 Art of Team Macho! This is AWESOME!
Stickerbomb $24.95
Vegan Lunch Box $19.95 The onslaught of vegan books continues
Letters To A Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol $12.95
Bob Marley $19.95 Conquering Lion of Reggae
Speaking Treason Fluently by Tim Wise $16.95
Down Thunder Road $19.95 Making of Bruce Springsteen
Love All the People The Essential Bill Hicks $16.95 New Expanded Edition
Creative Time $35.00 33 Years of Public Art In New York City
Ask Click And Clack $16.95
Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum $16.00
Partisanas $21.95 Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism 1936-45
Abortion & Life by Jennifer Baumgardner $16.95
Porn and Erotica
Fag School #3 $3.50 Brontz drops another bomb, with bonus DVD
AG #86 Super Erotic Anthology Comic $4.99
Honeybee Whispers $19.95 Manga porn time again.
Bears Gay Erotic Stories $14.95 Furry, burly and ready to go!
Tasting Him $14.95
Tasting Her $14.95
Backdraft Fireman Erotica $14.95 Poles greased and ready to go
Sexy Picture Puzzles $12.95
Gifts and Stuff
Art of Modern Rock 2009 Calendar $15.99 -
Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of August 3rd, 2008 – August 9th, 2008
1. The Erotic Harry Potter #1 by Ravenna Tan $7.00
2. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
3. Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00
4. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (Little Brown & Co.) $25.99
5. Roy Orbison in Clingfilm: A Novel by Ulrich Haarburste $10.00
6. Save My Life by Cody Hudson (Upper Playground) $19.95
7. Mostly True: The Wests Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine $8.00
8. Crap Hound #7 Church and State Part One $12.00
9. No Regrets: Best Worst and Most Fucking Ridiculous Tattoos Ever by Aviva Yael and PM Chen (Grand Central) $16.99
10. Juxtapoz #91 Aug 08 $4.99 -
Bob Calhoun & Floyd Webb at Quimby’s!
Join us for a night delving into the continuing Count Dante phenomenon. Filmmaker Floyd Webb will discuss his film and the Count Dante legend and then introduce Bob Calhoun, who will read from his punk wrestling memoir and sign copies of his book Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling after a Q&A.
BOB CALHOUN is the author of Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling. In the mid 1990s, San Francisco rocker Bob Calhoun took the name of Chicago comic book kung fu huckster Count Dante and joined the punk rock wrestling troupe Incredibly Strange Wrestling (ISW). ISW emerged from the back alleys and seedy clubs of San Francisco’s South of Market scene to headline the historic Fillmore and barnstorm North America on the Van’s Warped Tour. At the height of its popularity, Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong and Metallica’s James Hetfield could be seen tossing tortillas (which the promoters supplied) at ringside with the rest of the hell heads, boozehounds and tattooed party girls that made up ISW’s rabid following. It’s a story of urban misfits risking their necks for local celebrity in one of America’s most famous cities all told against the backdrop of the dot com boom and bust and an increasingly corporate entertainment industry.
FLOYD WEBB: Director and producer of the documentary film “The Search For Count Dante.” From Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta and raised on Chicago’s Southside, Floyd Webb’s background includes global work in cinema, photojournalism, publishing and advertising. He has found all of these experiences useful as a convergent worker, designer and consultant for the Internet.
After a 10 year career as a photojournalist Floyd was founder and creative director of the Blacklight Festival of International Black Cinema. From 1984-1995 the festival was one of the most critically acclaimed festivals of it’s kind during that period.
Floyd was an associate producer of the award winning Julie Dash Film, Daughters of the Dust(US 1992), and developed the Geechee Girls Multimedia website in 1995. He works as a consultant in film programming and online issues for The Raindance Festival of Independent Cinema in London and The Black Filmmaker Magazine Film Festival in London.
