Tag: bestsellers

Quimby’s shared a booth with Chicago Comics this past weekend for the Windy City Comic Con at the Center on Halsted, 9/18/09 (see below). For more pics, see here.

This is the top 10 bestsellers at Quimby’s for the week of 9/13/09-9/19/09:

1. Too Cool to Be Forgotten by Alex Robinson (Top Shelf) $14.95

2. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00

3. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Houghton Mifflin) $14.00

4. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin) $13.95

5. Alarm #35 $14.00

6. Mojo Oct 09 #191 $9.99

7. Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99

8. Monologuist Paper Blog Supplemental and Postcard Set by Anders Nilsen $10.95

9. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

10. Johnny Boo and the Happy Angels by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.95

This is for the week of 9/6/09-9/12/09

1. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
2. Bitch #44 $5.95
3. Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly) $5.95
4. Sleeper Car by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $6.00
5. Strange Tales #1 (Marvel) $4.99
6. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #1 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $7.95
7. Adbusters #85 $8.95
8. Serious Drawings: H Is For Holly Crap by Marc Johns (TeNeues) $19.95
9. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman (Picturebox) $15.00
10. Butt #27 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals: The Straight Issue $9.90

Look, this guy likes The Coop.

Quimby’s Top 10 For the Week of 8/30/09-9/5/09

1. Juxtapoz #104 Sep 09 $5.99
2. No by Boyd Rice (Heartworm) $14.95
3. Hi-Fructose #12 $6.95
4. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
5. Urb Sum 09 $4.99
6. Capacity by Theo Ellsworth (Secret Acres) $15.00
7. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman (Picturebox) $15.00
8. Beautiful Decay vol 1 Supernaturalism $20.00
9. Art By Tattooists Beyond Flash by Jo Waterhouse ( Laurence King) $19.95
10. Batman Haunted Knight TPB by Loeb & Sale (DC) $14.99

This is the Quimby’s Top 10 for the week of 8/16/09-8/22/09

1. Big Questions #12 A Young Crows Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $5.95
2. Stop Smiling #38 $6.99
3. Everything Is Terrible DVD $20.00
4. Big Questions #6 Anoesia and the Matrideicidic Theophany by Anders Nilsen $6.00
5. Cabinet #34 Testing $12.00
6. Clothesdick vol 2 #3 $3.00
7. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
8. Uptight #3 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $2.75
9. Mixed Reviews by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10.  Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth TPB by Chris Ware (Pantheon) $19.95

1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) $14.00
3. Adbusters #85 $8.95
4. Journalsong #6 $2.50
5. Trubble Club vol 1 $3.00
6. List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00
7. Nine Ways to Disappear by Lilli Carre (Otsu) $12.95
8. FOUND #6 $5.00
9. Wax Poetics #36 $9.99
10. Trubble Club vol 2 $3.00

These are the bestselling readables at Quimby’s for the week of 5/31/09 to 6/6/09

1. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

2. Butt #26 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90

3. Trubble Club #3 $3.00

4. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50

5. I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot Porn Punk Rock Pro Wrestling Talking Apes Evil Bosses Dirty Blues American Heroes and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World by Mike Edison (Faber & Faber) $15.00

6. Rolling Thunder #7 Spr 09 $6.00

7. ReProductive vol 1 by Christa Donner $5.00

8. The Peep Diaries: How Were Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki (Citylights) $17.95

9. Proximity #4 $12.00

10. Stolen Sharpie Revolution vol 2 A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture by Alex Wrekk $6.00

And check this out! One of our customers (who asked to remain anonymous) bought a Build Your Own Chicago Postcard, enlarged it, and then made a huge awesome big Tribune Tower!

Ah, Chicago. City of Big Postcards.