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  • Best American Comics Taking Submissions For Future Editions!

    The Best American Comics are accepting submissions for their next volumes! We are pasting in the info they’re sending around if you’re interested! Wanna buy the most recent 2008 edition guest edited by Lynda Barry? Go here!

    Dear cartoonist, editor, publisher, or individual involved in comics some other way,

    Now that Lynda Barry’s spectacular Best American Comics 2008 has hit the stores, we can finally reveal our guest editor for the next (2009) edition: Charles Burns! We’ve just passed the deadline for the Best American Comics 2009, and the selection process is in full swing. We’re thrilled to be working with Charles, and look forward as much as you do to seeing what he chooses as his Best American Comics. If you submitted last year, and your work is selected by Charles, will will be in touch somewhere around December or January.

    Meanwhile…

    We can’t tell you who the guest editor for 2010 will be, but believe us when we say you’ll be excited when you hear. So we need to start receiving all the fantastic books, comics, minis, and webcomics out there for this eligibility year. We know there are all kinds of great comics that came out for SPX or APE. All those books are eligible for the NEXT volume of BAC. This call for entries is to remind you that we accept books ALL YEAR LONG! We send a first batch of comics to the guest editor mid-summer so we really need to have new comics as soon as they come out, not to mention the fact that we have more time and attention to read your books carefully than when we’re swamped at the end of the eligibility year.

    So: Please submit your comics published since September 1 of 2008 for the next Best American Comics. If you don’t publish comics, we’ve put you on our reminder list because we know you know people who do, and we hope you’ll pass on this reminder to them. Especially when it comics to minis, webcomics, and very small press, we need your help to make sure we’re seeing what’s great out there in the comics world.

    thanks!

    Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
    Series Editors
    The Best American Comics
    Houghton Mifflin Company
    215 Park Avenue South
    New York, NY 10003

    How to submit:
    Comics published by North American artists on paper or on the web between Sept 1 2008 and Aug 31 2009 are eligible for BAC 2010.

    Mail one copy of each of your books to us at the above address. Please make sure to attach your contact information and the RELEASE DATE. If it’s not inside the book, stick a post-it on the cover with that info.

    Web comics should be submitted as printouts with publishing dates for EACH STRIP. For ongoing strips we recommend sending a selection of your best material.

    For more details on the submissions process and rules, look here: http://bestamericancomics.com/2007/submissions.php
    (this page will be updated soon for the 2008 volume, but the rules are all there already).

  • Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of October 26th – November 1st, 2008

    1.    United States Constitution Graphic Adaptation by Jonathan Hennessey (Hill&Wang) $16.95
    2.    After 911 Americas War on Terror by Sid Jacobson (Hill&Wang) $16.95
    3.    Acme Novelty Library #19 by Chris Ware (Drawn + Quarterly) $15.95
    4.    Chunklet #20 $9.99
    5.    Public Phenomena by Temporary Services (Temporary Services) $15.00
    6.    Tiny Unicorn by Megan Whitmarsh $1.00
    7.    Juxtapoz #94 Nov 08 $4.99
    8.    Acme #17 by Chris Ware (Drawn + Quarterly)  $16.95
    9.    Forty Four Presidents by Sputnik $1.50
    10.  I Hate Moms Cat by Corinne Mucha $3.00

  • New Stuff November 1st 2008


    Pumpkins have been smashed, eggs have been thrown and all the souls are back in hell. We got a hot wall of remainder books in back tons of deals you have to see to believe, but as always with these hot deals once they are gone, their gone! So don’t sleep in to long today.

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  • Holiday Special: Spend $100 at Quimby's and Get a Free Quimby's Totebag

    That’s right! Between November 28th, 2008 and January 1st, 2009, if you spend $100 at Quimby’s in the store or from our website www.quimbys.com you’ll get a free Quimby’s totebag! These beautiful, 2-sided, heavy cotton (15oz!) bags are made in the USA by Envirotote. Side ‘A’ features Mr. F.C. Ware’s brilliant, iconic logo printed in two colors, while the one-color &‘B’ side shows off our typographical acumen:

    Quimby’s Bookstore
    Books, Comics & Unusual Periodicals
    1854 W North Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60622
    www.quimbys.com
    773-342-0910

    How awesome is that? Please note that the hundred bucks has to be in one shopping experience. But there’s plenty o’good stuff to choose from. This offer only good while supplies last.

  • Thanksgiving Holiday Hours

    Please note Quimby’s will close early on Wed., Nov 26th at 5pm. Also, Quimby’s will be closed on Thanksgiving, Thurs., Nov 27th.

    We will, of course, be open Fri., Nov 28th so you can get your day-after-Thanksgiving-shopping on and burn off some o’those calories.

  • The Museum of Contemporary Art presents: "Saturday Shorts – Zines: The Art of Intervention" With Anne Elizabeth Moore!

    Dive into the world of self publishing with the guidance of artist Anne Elizabeth Moore in this workshop that looks at the powerful intersection between language and art. Participants create, publish, and distribute their own small books based on the structure of Jenny Holzer’s work.
    When: Sat., Nov 1st, 1-4pm
    Where: The Museum of Contemporary Art – NOT AT QUIMBY’S
    How: To register call the MCA Box Office at 312-397-4067. Mention that you got this email from Quimby’s when you call the Box Office and pay only $35 to participate in this workshop (all supplies and museum admission are included).

  • Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of October 19th – October 25th, 2008

    1.    Kilter #1 Fall 08 $3.00
    2.    The Rock Bible Unholy Scripture For Fans & Bands by Henry Owings (Quirk) $15.95
    3.    Chunklet #20 $9.99
    4.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus  #51 $3.00
    5.    Slingshot 2009 Small Organizer $6.00
    6.    Acme Novelty Library #19 by Chris Ware (Drawn + Quarterly) $15.95
    7.    Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream #2 by Laura Park $3.00
    8.    Paper Nov 08 $4.00
    9.    Achewood The Great Outdoor Fight by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $14.95
    10.  Bitch #41 $5.95

  • New Stuff 10/25/08

    Just had a dude ask me if we sold Ron Paul paraphernalia? What Halloween costume is that for? Anyway Henry Owings will be here tonight to make fun of the often over serious business of indie rock. So swing by if you can, last time he brought everybody in attendance milkshakes! For Real! Other than that the fall book onslaught continues, WOW!

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  • Off-site Event: Peter H. Fogtdal Reads The Tsar's Dwarf At Chinaski's

    Peter H. Fogtdal‘s book The Tsar’s Dwarf (Hawthorne Books) is about a Danish dwarf given to Peter the Great as a gift who ends up as a court jester at the Russian court. It’s this author’s first book in English, though he’s had twelve published in Danish.

    Here’s more about the book:

    Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. Against her will, the Tsar takes Soerine to St. Petersburg, where she becomes a jester in his court. There, she lives a life that both compels and repels her. Soerine eventually gives in to the attentions of Lukas, the Tsar’s favorite dwarf, and carves out an existence for herself amidst the squalor and lice-ridden world of dwarfs in the early 18th century. In this inhospitable milieu, Soerine’s intelligence and detached wit provide her some small measure of protection — until disaster strikes in the shape of a priest who wants to “save” her.

    This event will not be at Quimby’s but down the street at Chinaski’s, and Quimby’s will be there selling the book. Chinaski’s is at 1935 N. Damen, just south of Armitage. Starts at 7:30pm.

  • Kristy Bowen reads In the Bird Museum

    Poet and artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of In the Bird Museum (Dusie Press, 2008) and the Fever Almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006), as well as the forthcoming Girl Show (Ghost Road, 2009). She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press & studio, which publishes a chapbook series for women poets, produces the online lit zine wicked alice, and hosts an online shop, dulcet.

    This will be the release event for In the Bird Museum.

    more info at:

    www.kristybowen.net