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  • New Stuff 8/09/08

    Wow what a week. I think Erotic Harry Potter Vol 1 may have out sold Watchmen! Guess we will find out on Monday when Liz does the top ten. Not a lot of new stuff but what we did get is quality. New Doris. New Thomas Frank Book. The second oversized volume of Little Nemo. Wow!!!

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  • Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For The Week of July 27th, 2008 – August 2nd, 2008

    1.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
    2.    Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard by Eddie Campbell and Dan Best (First Second) $16.95
    3.    Juxtapoz #91 Aug 08 $4.99
    4.    Deathbeds by  Wesley Eisold $25.00
    5.    Rock and the Pop Narcotic 3rd Edition: Testament for the Electric Church by Joe Carducci (Redoubt) $29.95
    6.    Ready Made #36 Aug Sep 08 $4.99
    7.    Enter Naomi by Joe Carducci (Redoubt) $24.95
    8.    Bust Aug/Sep 08 $4.99
    9. Cabinet #30 The Underground $12.00
    10. No Regrets: Best Worst and Most Fucking Ridiculous Tattoos Ever by Aviva Yael and PM Chen (Grand Central) $16.99

  • New Stuff Aug 3rd!

    Well the new stuff update is a day late. It was just too wild in here yesterday due to the back to back events featuring Gary Panter, Dr. Revolt, and Joe Carducci. Hell even Roger Gastman was hanging out. Crazy! If you didn’t make it out you truly missed out.

    New Stuff Aug 2nd 2008

    Zines
    Roctober #45 $4.00
    Wholphin #6 $19.95
    Comedians Jul Aug 08 $4.50
    Molten Rectangle #2 Oct 07 $10.00 with DVD
    Girls and Corpses #2 Summer $8.95
    Asian Cult Cinema #59 $6.00
    Tattoo Savage #93 Sep 08 $5.99
    Punk Rock Confidential #14 Sum 08 $3.95
    Radical Philosophy #150 $13.00
    Craft #8 $14.99

    Comics & Graphic Novels
    Mineshaft #22 $6.95
    Pork Chop Robinson #4 $1.00
    Dororo Vol 2 by Osamu Tezuka $13.95
    Little Nemo In Slumberland vol 2 1910-1926 $49.95
    Comic Book Comics #2 Our Artists At War $3.95
    Bear Stories Vol 1 $9.99
    Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner $22.95
    Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner $22.95
    Evil Penguins $10.00 When Cute Penguins Go Bad
    You Don’t Get There From Here #8 $2.00

    New Books
    What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami $21.00
    Workshop of Filthy Creation $19.95 Art of Johnny Ace and Kali Verra
    Robots and Donuts $24.95 Art of Eric Joyner
    Mad Scientist Hall of Fame $14.95
    Over & Over $35.00 Catalog of Hand Drawn Patterns
    Deluxe by Dana Thomas $15.00 How Luxury Lost Its Luster
    Buzzed 3rd Edition Revised and Updated $18.95
    Boring Boring Boring Boring by Zach Plague $14.95
    Suzy Led Zeppelin And Me by Martin Millar $13.95
    How Shall I Live My Life $20.00 On Liberating The Earth From Civilization
    Gangs of New York $15.95 New Edition
    Love in the Time of Fridges by Tim Scott $12.00

    Porn and Erotica
    Erotic Harry Potter #1 $7.00 Hot Slash Fiction
    Leathermen $14.95 Gay Erotic Stories
    Spanked $14.95 Red Cheeked Erotica
    Best Bisexual Womens Erotica $15.95

    Gifts and Stuff
    Weirdo Ohs Killer McBash Model $9.99
    Weird Ohs Digger Model $9.99
    Sketch Books by Darbotz, Esow, Jimi Crayon, Dalek $16.95 each

  • Check out the Printer's Ball!

    That’s Friday, Aug 22nd from 5:30pm-10pm, for free at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave, but you gotta be 21 or over. There’s 100+ literary organizations!  Check out the info: www.printersball.org

  • Adrienne Pine at Quimby’s!

    Anthropologist Adrienne Pine will present Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras. The event highlights links between Mano Dura and mercenaries, the war on terror, IMF and World Bank policy, the prison-industrial complex, Honduran massacres, gangs, and sweatshop labor

    “Honduras is violent.” Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas—violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry—Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic footprint on and ideological domination of the region by the United States, powerfully elucidating the extent of Honduras’s dependence. She provides a historically situated ethnographic analysis of this fraught relationship and the effect it has had on Hondurans’ understanding of who they are. The result is a rich and visceral portrait of a culture buffeted by the forces of globalization and inequality.

    Adrienne Pine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

    “A theoretically cutting edge ethnography of neoliberalism as suffered by most poor people across the globe. Pine creatively links macro-structural forces in Honduras to the everyday life of factory workers, shanty town dwellers, gang kids, alcoholics and crack smokers within the context of globalized consumerism and the history of U.S. domination of Central America.”—Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect

    “Gutsy fieldwork. A compassionate analysis of the links between work, violence, corporate capitalism, American empire, and self-worth. It will make your blood boil.”—Laura Nader, University of California, Berkeley

    “Using largely the voices of others, Pine’s rigorous but sensitive anthropological approach interweaves gangs, work, religion, drink, politics, and even globalization to show clearly how violence pervades the everyday life of many Hondurans. It is a realistic tour de force!”—Dwight B. Heath, Brown University

  • Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of July 20th, 2008 – July 26th, 2008

    1.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
    2.    Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance $2.00
    3.    Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00
    4.    Poo Log a Record Keeper (Chronicle) $9.95
    5.    Hamburger Eyes #12 $10.00
    6.    Bust Aug/Sep 08 $4.99
    7.    Butt #23 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
    8.    Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (Picador) $16.00
    9.    Ready Made #36 Aug Sep 08 $4.99
    10. Little Things: Memoir In Slices by Jeffrey Brown (Touchstone) $14.00

  • Eddie Campbell TONIGHT!!!!

    Join comic artist Eddie Campbell as he signs copies of his new graphic novel THE AMAZING REMARKABLE MONSIEUR LEOTARD (First Second). Tonight MONDAY JULY 28th 7:00PM

    FREE

    Eddie Campbell has earned an international following. For over 25 years, he has blazed a trail in the world of graphic novels, and his work has earned nearly every honor in the field, including the Eisner, Ignatz, and Harvey awards.

    With Alan Moore he created the towering opus From Hell, later adapted by Hollywood. Among the multitude of solo works he has produced, the epic series Bacchus brings the adventures of the Greek god of wine bang up to date, along the way adding such anomalies as the Eyeball Kid to the ancient pantheon. His autobiographical Alec has also garnered praise, notably for the memorable graphic novels Alec: the King Canute Crowd, and Alec: how to be an Artist.

  • Bend Matrix Live at Quimby's

    Dan Layne stopped by the store today and gave a short demonstration on the Bend Matrix. It is some kind of crazy sequencer that sends audio signals out to different speakers. So armed with an array of eight little speakers, a circuit bent drum machine and hand built tonal generator Dan proceeded to rock out the back of the store with crazy tones and cycling beats! Excellent!

    Check out videos of similar Bend Matrix action

  • Guild of Outsider Writers at Quimby’s!

    Join us for a reading by three people associated with the Guild of Outsider Writers.

    The Performers:

    Justin Hyde – Author of Down Where the Hummingbird goes to Die, which won the 2007 Jack Micheline Memorial poetry prize

    David Blaine – Chief Poetry editor, Guild of Outsider Writers

    Pat King – Guild of Outsider Writers founding member and Chief Bad Mojo

    More info at: http://www.outsiderwriters.org/

  • Lloyd Dangle at Quimby’s!

    Lloyd Dangle will perform his 20 Years of Troubletown humorous slide show floor show and sign copies of his book Troubletown Told You So, Comics that Could’ve Saved Us From This Mess.

    Troubletown, by Lloyd Dangle, was first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 1988 and has since grown to become a widely syndicated cartoon feature in alternative newsweeklies and lefty political magazines.

    Lloyd’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in over 100 magazines and newspapers of every type from the crusty corporate mainstream to the bleeding, subcommercial edge. Lloyd’s work has been featured in publications including American Lawyer, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Shape, Sierra, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New York Times, Outside, Time Magazine, Utne Reader, Village Voice and Wired. His drawings also adorn the packaging of Airborne effervescent cold remedy, which the company claims has been one fastest-selling products in retail history.

    Lloyd was also the first cartoonist assigned to cover the Republican National Convention in New York City armed with nothing but a pen and a blank sketchbook, the resulting cartoon was selected for Houghton-Mifflin’s series, The Best American Comics. When not on the road covering bizarre and dangerous political events, he works out of his converted garage in Oakland, California.

    Lloyd Dangle grew up in Michigan and, after getting a BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art, tossed it all out the window to draw cartoons for Michael Moore’s (much praised and reviled) muckraking newspaper, the Michigan Voice. He moved to New York City during the go-go 80’s and worked for several magazines and newspapers, including the Village Voice when it was still at the height of its powers. He landed a cartoon feature at upscale Manhattan, Inc. Magazine, lampooning the high-living antics of Wall Street’s youthful elite (some things are timeless). After landlord larceny caused Dangle’s apartment building to collapse (literally), he moved to San Francisco and secured his well-earned underground hipster cred, roaming the Mission District, and befriending Robert and Aline Crumb, appearing in their classic depressive übercomic, Weirdo.

    He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Hae Yuon Kim, and their son, Oscar.