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  • 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 issue

    Comics & 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 Comics

    New 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

    Tomago! Liz\'s cat!

    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.

    http://beerbloodandcornmeal.com

    http://thesearchforcountdante.com

  • 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.