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  • New Stuff This Week

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    Holy smokes! Look at this beautiful new Jay Ryan book, Animals and Objects In and Out of Water Posters by Jay Ryan 2005-2008 published by Akashic, for a mere $22.95. Of course, it is as beautiful as you would expect. Don’t miss him here with Paul Hornschemeier on 11/11/09!

    Anyway, this is new stuff for the week of 10/18/09-10/24/09:

    Sex Drugs and Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection by Shana Liebman (Grand Central) $13.99

    Rolling Thunder #8 Fall 09 $6.00 – To get your anarchist hood on.

    Little Black Book of Griselidis: Real Days And Nights Of An Anarchist Whore by Jean-Luc Hennig [Semiotext(e)] $14.95 – To get your anarchist hard on.

    New Stuff From Buenaventura Press:

    Boys Club #3 by Matt Furie $4.95

    Ted Mays Injury #3 $4.95

    Aviatrix #1 by Eric Haven $4.95

    I Want You #1 by Lisa Hanawalt $4.95

    Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt $5.00

    Manifest Decadency by Chris McKay an Alex West $2.00 – Mini comic in just today!

    No More Coffee #2 Stories Etc. Revised and Updated by Ben Spies $2.00

    Briefly The Heart and Other Poems 2006-2009 by Dana Jerman $8.00

    Meatpaper #9 Fall 09 $7.95

    Tattoo Society #18 $7.99

    Juxtapoz #106 Nov 09 $5.99

    Chalo India a New Era of Indian Art (Prestel) $45.00

    Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies (Standard) by Matthew J Gerkin, Christian Kiefer and Pitcher Jefferson $20.00

    Ansel Adams New Landscapes by Luke Strosnider $25.00 – OK so like, there’s this photography thing called a histogram that measures the levels of things in a photo and sometimes if the histogram is perfectly symmetrical, it looks like a mountain, right? So Ansel Adams’ works are perfectly symmetrical in their histograms which mean they’re really boring composed formulaic photos. So like, you know, this is a book of mountanous histograms to show how you know, Ansel Adams is like, y’know, really square. Photography industry humor! Hilarious!

    I’m Drinkin This Mixtape vol 2 by Harrison Martin $6.00 – VHS!

    Ex Machina vol 5 Smoke Smoke by Brian K Vaughan (Wildstorm) $12.99

    Fourth World Omnibus vol 4 by Jack Kirby (DC) $49.99

    Sun Struck by Robert and John Waters (New Horizon) $24.95

    And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Anniversary Edtion by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs (Grove) $14.00

    Uncle Sam by Steve Darnell and Alex Ross (Veritgo) $19.99

    Book About Moomin Mymble and Little My by Tove Janssen (D+Q) $16.95

    Sugar Shock One Shot: Dont be a Viking by Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon (Dark Horse) $3.50

    Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics by Schutz Diana, Brian Azzarello, Ed Brubaker and more (Dark Horse) $12.95

    Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century Selected Poems 1961-1985 by Edward Sanders (Coffee House Press) $20.00

    I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl by Karyna McGlynn (Sarabande) $14.95 – Best name for a book ever.

    Flats Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer (Two Dollar Radio) $17.00

    Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom by Aiden Shaw (Alyson) $15.95

    Zombie Pinup Calendar 2010 $20.00

    Pith Magazine vol 3 #1 Fall 09 $5.00

    Bizarre #155 Oct 09 $10.50

    Urinal Gum #9 $2.00

    The Fixer TPB by Joe Sacco (D+Q) $19.95 – Now in soft cover.

    Liver A Fictional Organ with Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes by Will Self (Bloomsbury) $26.00

    Jack of Fables vol 6 Big Book of War TPB by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $14.99

    Look At The Birdie: Unpublished Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) $27.00

    Outlaws Adventures of Pirates Scoundrels and Other Rebels by Laurent Marechaux (Flammarion) $45.00

    Best of the Yellow Rake Zine by Brian Polk $10.00

    Snitches Get Stitches by Charly The City Mouse Fasano $10.00

    The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders by John Potash, the book $20.00, the DVD $16.00

    Another Chicago Magazine #49 $12.00

    Scientific Method by Jaime Raybin $1.00

    Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist by Haynes Johnson and Harry Katz (WWNorton) $35.00

    Homesteading A Backyard Guide by Gehring (Skyhorse) $24.95 – Growing your own food, canning, keeping chickens, generating your own energy, crafting, herbal medicine…And more!

    Literary Hoaxes an Eye Opening History of Famous Frauds by Melissa Katsoulis (Skyhorse) $22.95

    Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars by Kenneth Hartman (Atlasco) $22.00

    New Retro: Classic Graphics, Todays Designs by Brenda Dermody (Thames) $45.00

    The Unfortunates by BS Johnson (New Directions) $24.95

    VU: The Story of a Magazine by Michel Frizot and Cedric De Veigy (Thames) $75.00

    Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music by Rob Young (Verso) $19.95

    Mome vol 16 Fall 09 (Fantagraphics) $14.99

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Penguin) $16.00 – Lilli Carre did the cover and it looks awesome!

    Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live (Harper) $16.99

    I Am America And So Can You by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central) $15.99 – Now in soft cover.

    Tim Burton (Moma) $19.95 – Show catalog from the Moma exhbit.

    The Philip K Dick Collection: 13 Complete Novels in Three Volumes, Over 2800 Pages, edited by Jonathan Lethem (Library of America) $110.00 – With VALIS, Ubiq, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly and more!

    Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, edited by Ilan Stevans (Library of America) $40.00

    Tao of Wu by RZA (Riverhead) $24.95 – Wisdom from the life and travels of RZA, the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a follow up to The Wu-Tang Manual.

    The Best of Punch Cartoons by Helen Walasek (Overlook) $50.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Busy Beaver Button-O-Matic is back at Quimby's!
    The Busy Beaver Button-O-Matic is back at Quimby's!

    Here are some delightful new items!

    Wild Things FUR COVER by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $28.00 – So plushie it makes our hearts sing.

    Busy Beaver Button Pack: Instant Halloween Costume $5.00

    Eating The Dinosaur HC by Chuck Klosterman (Scriber) $25.00 – New essays from one of our fave cultural critics.

    Wholphin #9 $19.95 – Newest issue of film stuff from the McSweeneys empire.

    Build Your Own New York Postcards $2.00 – From the maker of the Build Your Own Chicago Postcards comes a variety of buildings in New York!

    2010 Calendar of Half Frame Photos by AM Scott $8.00 – Taken with a 1968 Olympus Pen EES 2 Camera in the Land of California. In addition to telling you the date it makes a great poster.

    Map of My Heart John Porcellino (D+Q) $24.95 – Porcellino’s most recent collection of King Cat stuff. Wonderful!

    On Ruby Hill Poems 1997-2002 by John Porcellino $2.00 – Yes, of King Cat fame. Self-published by John himself. He brought some with him for last night’s event he did here. A rare gem!

    Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf (Lyon) $24.95

    Here Come The Regulars: How to Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget by Ian Anderson (Faber) $15.00

    Johnny America #7 $4.00

    Try State #2 Fall 09 $12.00

    Pretentious Record Store Guy #2 by Gabriel Carlos Ruiz $2.99

    Annalemma #5 $10.00

    Art of Osamu Tezuka God of Manga by Hellen McCarthy (Abrams) $40.00

    No Thanks Fuck Everything #3 Punk Fanzine $2.50

    Chaplin The Tramps Odyssey by Simon Louvish

    Hyphen #18 Sum 09 $4.95

    Toads N Chodes #1 $5.00 by Noel Freibert – Mini comic with a hilarious name, we must say.

    Rigor Mortis vol 1 #2 $3.00 – Fresh off the press. Buy it before it starts decaying.

    Duva Diaries Fall 09 The Home Issue $1.00

    Mini comix by Nalleli Sierra, all $1.00: Wishful Thinking #1, Illumine #1, Just Another Day #1

    Scootering #280 $7.99

    Casanova vol 1 Luxuria HC by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba (Image Comics) $24.99

    Absolute Promethea Book #1 by Alan Moore and JH Williams (ABC) $99.99 – Collects the first twelve issues of the consciousness-expanding narrative. Fancy-pantsy!

    That Summertime Sound by Matthew Specktor (MTV) $24.00

    Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists by Rachel Kramer (Cleis) $14.95

    When Ninjas Attack by Sam Kaplan (Ulysses) $12.95 – A survival guide. Yes, really.

    Mister X Condemned TPB by Dean Motter (Dark Horse) $14.95

    Activate Primer 16 Stories by the Premier Webcomics Collective by Dean Haspiel (IDW) $24.99

    Absolute Death by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo) $99.99 – Combines the Death story arc of Gaiman’s Sandman series. Also fancy-pantsy!

    You Are There HC by Jacques Tardi and Claude Forest Jean (Fantagraphics) $26.99 – Ooo la la c’est AWESOME.

    Crestfallen #1 by Sandra Sierra $3.00 – Intricately packaged tiny envelope of mini comics. See it to believe it.

    OP Original Plumbing #1 Trans Male Quarterly The Bedroom Issue $8.00 – This one is gonna be huge.

    Love Songs to the Dead by Jonathan Shaw (Heartworm Press) $12.00

    Skeptic vol 15 #2 $6.95

    Death and Taxes Nov Dec 09 $4.99

    Maximumrocknroll #318 $4.00

    Under the Radar #28 $4.99

    Grafik #177 Sep 09 $19.99

    IDN Extra 01 Cut and Paste: From Sketch to Production $25.00

    IdN vol 16 #4 $17.50

    Best Music Writing 2009, ed. by Griel Marcus (Da Capo) $25.95

    Fader #64 Oct Nov 09 $5.95

  • New Stuff This Week

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    Slingshot 2010 Small Organizer $6.00

    Slingshot 2010 Large Organizer $12.00

    Inventory by Onion AV Club (Scribner) $18.00 – Lists from the Onion. With a forward by Chuck Klosterman.

    Zombies A Record of the Year of Infection: Field Notes by Dr Robert Twombly (Chronicle) $19.95

    Made and Sold Toys Tshirts Prints Zines and Other Stuff by Fl@33 (Laurence) $24.95

    Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design (Laurence) $35.00

    Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga (Abrams) $40.0

    Manhood for Amateurs The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband Father and Son by Michael Chabon (Harper) $25.99

    Postsecret Confessions on Life Death and God by Frank Warren (Morrow) $22.99

    What Is This by Neil Brideau $1.00

    Wax Poetics #37 $9.99

    High Times Dec 09 $5.99

    Hi Fructose #13 $6.95

    3 x 3 vol 5 #1 $16.00

    Another Dinner Is Possible: More Than Just A Vegan Cookbook (AK) $24.95

    Still Brave: Evolution of Black Womens Studies by Stanlie M. James, Foster Francis Smith and Guy Guy-Sheftall (Feminst Press) $22.95

    Nearest Exist May Be Behind Youby Bear S. Bergman (Arsenal Press) $18.95

    Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (AK) $12.00

    Birth And Death Of The Cool by Ted Gioia (Speck) $25.00

    Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates (Andrews McMeel) $12.99

    Valerie Favre Visions (Hatje Cantz) $45.00

    Mojo Nov 09 #192 $9.99

    Tim Burton (Moma) $19.95 – Show catalog from the exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.

    Disco Files 1973 – 78 by Vince Aletti (DJHistory.com) $35.00

    Fortean Times #254 Nov 09 $11.99

    Wire Oct 09 #308 $10.99

    Fantastic Man #10 Fall Win 09 $10.95

    The Believer #66 Oct 09 $8.00

    Hang The DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists by Angus Cargill (Soft Skull) $16.95

    Recorded Attacks Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (Three Rivers) $17.00

    Sheep Cant Fly: Written by the Students of Garfield High School by 826LA (826LA) $15.00

    Fables Book 1 Deluxe Edition by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $29.99

    Vampires Need Love Too #3 by Bill Cattapan $3.00

    Well Never Have Paris vol 5 Sep 09 $4.00

    Road Kill vol 2 #11 $2.00

    Dirty Sanchezs Guide To Buck Nasty Sex by Dirty Sanchez (Ulysses) $10.00

    Judas Goat Quarterly #43 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

    Beast Calendar 2010 $18.00 – Sexy dudes with goofy shapes shaved into their chest hair!

    Doris #27 $2.50

    Harlequin Valentine by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton (Dark Horse) $12.95

    Cancer Vixen a True Story TPB by Marisa Acocella Marchetto (Pantheon) $16.95

    30 Days of Night Collectors Set by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith (IDW) $39.99

    Peter and Max: A Fables Novel by Bill Willingham and Steve Leialoha (Vertigo) $22.99

    Talks Cheap: Lets Race Posts Along the Campaign Trail by Stump Connolly $14.95

    Peoples Park Still Blooming Berkeley CA by Terri Compost (Slingshot Collective) $24.95

    Nobody Uses an Umbrella in Portland Ten Foot Rule Journal Comix by Shawn Granton $2.00

    German Issue Semiotext by Sylvere Lotringer (Sternberg Press) $29.95

    Stories vol 1: The Green Umbrella, The Man In The Mirror, and Expecting by Martin Cendreda – New mini-comix from the artist of Dang and Zurik Robot.

    Church Signs Across America by Pam and Steve Paulson (Overlook) $14.95

    Enemy Within A Short History of Witch Hunting by John Demos (Penguin) $17.00

    There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbors Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and Keith Gessen (Penguin) $15.00

    Ruthless Zine #1 Back to School $7.00

    Kilter #5 Fall 09 $5.00

    Prize Comics #2 $6.00

    Communicating Vessels #21 Fall Winter 2009 2010 $3.50

    After the Honeymoon by Nathan Graziano $15.00

    Holidays and Other Weird Events by Irwin Richman (Schiffer) $24.99 – Greeting cards of all manner of antique ridiculousness. Like a bartending bird wearing a yarmulke that says “Happy Easter.” Really.

    Cross Country by MK Reed $10.00

    Freewheel Chapters 1-3 by Liz Baillie $4.00 each. From the artist of My Brian Hurts.

    Stickers 2: Urban Sticker Art (DGV) $55.00

    Papercraft Design and Art With Paper: Includes Bonus DVD with Animations and DIY Templates (DGV) $65.00

    Buro Destruct 3 (DGV) $60.00

    Handbook vol 3 #4 2009 $6.00

    Graph Out Loud by Graphjam.com (Gotham) $14.00

    Pretentious Record Store Guy #2 by Carlos Gabriel Ruiz $2.99

    HSM Magazine Issue #8 Praha Budapest Wien Bratislava Brno Tokyo Osaka $17.00

    Fifty Flip Experiment #13 Jul Aug Sep 09 $2.00

    Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood Feeding Creatures by Bill Schutt (Three Rivers) $15.00

    The Wordy Shipmates SC by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead) $16.00

  • Top 10

    This is Quimby’s Top 10 Bestsellers for the Week of Sept 20th-Sept 26th, 2009:

    1. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99
    2. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
    3. Butt #26 $9.90
    4. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
    5. Laphams Quarterly vol 2 #4 Medicine $15.00
    6. Tape Op #72 $3.95
    7. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00
    8. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $24.00
    9. Bipedal By Pedal: Experiences & Thoughts around the Critical Mass Bicycle Movement $2.00
    10. Pinups #10 Scott $14.00

  • New Stuff This Week

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    Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (WWNorton) $24.95 – About time!!!

    King Cat #70 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Still goin’ strong!

    Wild Things by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $19.95 – Loosely based on Where the Wild Things Are.

    I Drink For a Reason by David Cross (Grand Central) $23.99

    Plastic Knife #2 $2.00 – Zine from the writer behind the popular free zine You.

    Mineshaft #24 $6.95 – Crumb, both R. and Sophie, plus various other interesting things.

    Hipless Boy: Short Stories by Sully (Conundrum) $19.95 – New graphic novel material, sort of Matt Madden-esque style.

    Monsters by Ken Dahl (Secret Acres) $18.00 – Beautious! Don’t have sex without (reading) it.

    Miss Sequential #1 by Marissa Falco $2.00 – Cutest ziney-mini comic-y thing evah! From the artist of Red-Hooded Sweatshirt. Sort of Missy Kulick-esque.

    Rosario Dawson Loves Me #1 Or I Want to Die Right Now Please by Justin Valmassoi $1.50 – Yes, the time has come. Rosario Dawson fan fiction.

    Tulip Spr/Sum 09 $4.00 – New local literary journal. Jump on it now before it gets the buzz!

    Road Kill vol 1 #10 $2.00

    Gigantic Sequins vol 1 #1 $5.00 – Lit journal. Also hot!

    Laterborn #7 by Jason Martin $2.00 – mini comic.

    Razorcake #52 $4.00

    Two new comic books from George Starr of Snowie fame: Triangle Versus Square ($8.00) and You’re Dead to Me ($6.00)

    Dear Dave Magazine #5 $15.00 – Deluxe fashion mag.

    Lulu Eightball vol 2 by Emily Flake (Atomic) $14.95 – New material from former local illustrator. Hilarious!

    Bust Oct Nov 09 $4.99

    Secret Beach #1 Sep 09 by Liam Warfield $2.00 – New material from the zinester behind War Against the Idiots! Finally!

    Bizarre #154 Sep 09 $10.50

    High Glitz: Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants by Susan Anderson (PowerHouse) $39.95 – That’s some freaky shit

    Preparedness Now: An Emergency Survival Guide by Anton Edwards (Process) $16.95

    2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce (Disinfo) $14.95

    Pictures For Sad Children by John Campbell $15.00 – From local comics artist of Stevie Might Be a Bear.

    Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and illustr. by Brett Helquist (Harper) $14.99

    Sulk #3 by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf) $6.00

    Away We Go Screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida (Vintage) $14.00

    Sound And Fury Art of Henry Darger (Edlin) $40.00

    Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues by Loren Rhoads (Scribner) $14.99 – Material from the editors of the popular outer limits mag Morbid Curiousity.

    Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag (Vintage) $16.00

    1 800 MICE #3 by Matt Thurber $4.00

    Tape Op #73  $4.50

    Comic Diorama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00 – Don’t miss Grant Reynolds here on Oct 6th!

    Best American Comics 2009 ed. by Charles Burns, Jessica Abel and Matt Madden (Houghton Mifflin) $22.00

    Private: The Best of the Revolutionary Swedish Sex Magazine, ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99

  • New Stuff This Week

    One of our customers is trying to grow his own crop circle from a kit he bought here. Wish Gordon Meyer luck!

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    Here is new stuff for the week of 9/12/09-9/19/09:

    McSweeneys #32 $24.00

    Monologuist by Anders Nilsen $10.95 – Ooo la la! Comics and postcards! Hand-packaged.

    Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters (Quirk)$12.95

    Juxtapoz #105 Oct 09 $5.99

    This Is a Comic Book August 1-22 2009 $8.50 – This is a show catalog from a cool exhibit at the Mahan Gallery.

    Independents: A Guide For the Creative Spirit DVD $24.99 – Indie comics peoples! This is a neato thingy.

    N Plus 1 #8 Fall 09 Recessional $13.95

    You Dont Get There From Here #12 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – Reliably high quality comix from the artist behind The Assassin and the Whiner.

    After Hours #19 Sum 09 $8.00 – Local literary journal.

    Miranda #19 $2.00

    The Comedians Sep 09 $4.50

    Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #9 $7.00

    Fast Geek Reader by Charly Fasano $10.00

    No More Bummers #4 $3.00

    The First Line vol 11 #3 $3.00 – The little literary journal that could — still going strong! Every issue contains stories that all start with the same first line.

    Watch the Closing Doors #48 $2.50 – Hip hip hooray for commuter zines!

    Make #8 Sum Fall 09 $10.00 – Chicago-based lit journal.

    Hot Type 30 Sheets of Typo Graphic Fabric Transfers by Macfadden and Thorpe (Chronicle) $12.95

    One Hundred Years of Menswear, ed. by Cally Blackman (Laurence King) $40.00 – These are some slick fashion photos, ladies.

    Graffiti New York by Eric DEAL CIA Felisbret (Abrams) $35.00

    Dreaded Feast: Writers On Enduring The Holidays, ed. by Michelle Clarke and Taylor Pimpton (Abrams) $15.95

    Spirit Animals: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Animal Companions, ed. by Stefanie Iris Weiss (Chronicle) $14.95 – With illustrations from such artists as Clare Rojas, Kyle Field, and more!

    Map As Art Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katherine Harmon (Princeton) $45.00

    Ultraviolet: 69 Blackout Posters From the Aquarian Age and Beyond, ed. Dan Donahue (Abrams) $22.50 – To glow in the dark while you get your Led on.

    How to Be Inappropriate by Daniel Nestor (Soft Skull) $14.95 – Hilarious experimental fiction and non-fiction. Well, er, let’s just put it this way (for example): he reimagines the Terry Gross interview with Gene Simmons on Fresh Air as being with a robot Gene Simmons.

    Special Forces: Gay Military Erotica by Phillip MacKenzie (Cleis) $14.95

    Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Collection by DL King (Cleis) $15.95

    Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames (Vertigo) $14.99 – Now in soft cover.

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

    Black Sabbatical by Brett Eugene Ralph (Sarabande) $14.95

    Last Time As We Are by Taylor Mali (WriteBloody) $22.00

    Adbusters #86 $8.95

    Conspiracy Journal #28 $3.00

    Treating Yourself #18 $7.99

    Earwigs Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends by May R. Berenbaum (Harvard University Press) $23.95

    New Literary History of America, ed. by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Belknap Press) $49.95

    Endless Summer Print, drawn by Eamon Espey (Secret Acres) $10.00

    Pop and Modern Petit Pattern Book (Bug News Network) $38.00 – Coolest clip art ever! In fact, we got a bunch in from this publisher and it blows away that Dover crap!

    Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien (Blue Apple) $14.99 – Goin’ toe to toe for the cuteness title right up there with Jeffrey Brown’s cat drawings. We used to have Lark Pien’s mini comix years ago, and now here’s a collection with some full color awesomeness.

    25000 Years Of Erotic Freedom by Alan Moore (Abrams) $22.50 – A history of erotic art as surveyed by the author of Watchmen and Lost Girls.

    Shoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin (Melville House) $13.00

    Talking Lines: The Graphic Stories of RO Blechman (Drawn & Quarterly) $29.95

    Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, ed. by Dave Eggers (Mariner) $14.00

    Off the Bus And On the Record 22 Candid Interviews By the Teen Journalists of the Rock Star Stories by various teenage reporters (Zest) $18.95

    I’m One 21st Century Mods by Horst A. Friedrichs (Prestel) $35.00 – Photos of mods.

    Illusive Contemporary Illustration Part III (Die Gestalten Verlag) $65.00 – We only got one, so race here to get it!

    Naive: Modernism and Folklore In Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag) $50.00

    We Make Magazines: Inside the Independents by Andrew Losowsky (Mike Koedinger) $50.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Holy smokes! It’s a banner week for awesome new stuff, so hold on tight!

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    Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue ed. by John Freeman (Granta) $16.99 – With cover by Chris Ware and featuring Aleksandar Hemon, Don DeLillo and more!

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    Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00 – This issue is devoted to International Contemporary Photography, featuring artists such as Che Onejoon,Vincent Dermody, Caroline de Vries, Kim Keever, Jaimie Warren, Cassini Probe, Bert Stabler, Karsten Lund, Robby Herbst, Post Typography, Laura Pearson, and more.

    All and Sundry Uncollected Work 2004-2009 by Paul Hornschemeier (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Butt #27 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90 – The Straight Issue!

    Marquis #46 $19.00

    Pop Up City by Cleveland Urban Design $20.00

    Raymond Pettibone Devil Tote Bag $34.00

    Group Work Zine: Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration by Temporary Services $1.50

    Suzann Gage: Temporary Conversations by Temporary Services $3.00

    Reich #6 by Elijah J. Brubaker (Sparkplug) $4.00 – The continuing saga of Wilheim Reich. In comics form!

    Process Recess vol 3 The Hallowed Seam by James Jean (Adhouse) $34.95

    Achewood vol 2 Worst Song Played On Guitar by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $15.95

    Red Monkey Double Happiness Book by Joe Daly (Fantagraphics) $22.99

    The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99

    Grownups Are Dumb No Offense by Alexa Kitchen (Denis Kitchen) $8.99 – By possibly the youngest professional cartoonist in the world!

    The Art of Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics) $39.95

    Inspired Zine Package: Zines from Mark Todd Joel Nakamura and Tim Mantoani (Mark Murphy Design) $12.00 – It’s a beauty! And you can’t get this thing just anywhere. Click on the link above to find out more!

    Pinups #10 Scott $14.00 – Let’s hear it for the boy. Named Scott. Who is naked in these photos.

    John Cage Book of Days 2010 (John Cage Trust) $25.00 – Let John Cage help you to remember the date.

    Giant Robot #61 $4.99

    Love and Rockets New Stories vol 2 by The Hernandez Brothers (Fantagraphics) $14.99

    Sinus Ogynus Doll and Loady McGee Dolls $39.99 – Based on the characters featured in Johnny Ryan’s Angry Youth Comix.

    Censored 2010 by Project Censored (Seven Stories) $19.95

  • New Stuff This Week — Just a Smattering!

    Dear High School Boy by Eryca $1.00 – cute little thingy.

    Never Kneel #1 A Testimony of Personal Enlightenment Through Rejection of Faith by Seth Graham $2.00

    Worst Future Ever #2 The Alienated Virtually Unreal 1990s by JD $1.00

    Garfield In Chains by Ian McDuffie $6.00 – Holy smokes hilarious.

    Fadge 100 Doodles by BT Livermore $9.00 – Attractive comics!

    Blindworms Null 1012 2008 by Paul Nudd $5.00 – And restock of his awesome blobby art zines. And check out DVDs too! One about Keih Herzik and one about Nick Black! $5.00 each.

    Mourning Star vol 2 by Kazimir Strzepek (Bodega) $13.00

    Hungover Gourmet #11 by Dan Tylor $2.00

    Blood and Thunder #12 $5.99

    EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon Massachusetts Ghostly Voices by Michael Markowicz (Schiffer) $19.99

    Paranormal Great Lakes An Illustrated Encyclpoedia by Charles Cassady Jr (Schiffer) $14.99

    Portable Atheist Essential Readings For the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens (New Press) $17.95

    Ink In the Hood Tattoos For Darker Skin by Dragon Randy Holder (Schiffer) $29.99

    Sick a Compilation Zine on Physical Illness edited by Ben Holtzman (Microcosm) $6.00

    Dwelling Portably 1990-1999 by Brett and Holly Davis (Microcosm) $8.00

    Label 228 Street Art Project by Camden Noir (Soft Skull) $24.95

    Spliffigami by Chris Stone (Ten Speed) $12.95

    Ghanavision Hand Painted Film Posters From Ghana (Bongout) $25.00

    Sports Book by Jonas Wood (Picturebox) $20.00 -Some pretty hilarious illustrations of athletes.

    Anxiety and Depression by Scott King (JRP) $15.00

    Pigxote by Harmony Korine (Nieves) $28.00

    Hamburger Eyes #13 $10.00

    Pelu vol 1 Little Fluffy Gigolo by Junko Mizuno (JaPress) $17.95

    Best Erotic Comics 2009 edited by Greta Christina (Last Gasp) $19.95

    Diary of a Catering Whore Years 1-3 by Sean Seamous McWhinny $3.00 for each issue – A comic for anybody in the food service industry.

    Burlesque Poster Design The Art of Tease by Chaz Royal (Korero) $34.95

    Juxtapoz Car Culture (Gingko) $29.95

    Smile Hon Youre in Baltimore #11 by Patrick William Tandy $3.00

    Lesbian Cowboys Erotic Adventures by var. (Cleis) $14.95 – Giddyup!

  • Notable New Stuff

    Lots of metal and noise folks in today for a big fest in town, giving the store a ditch gym to go smoke in the alley vibe. A perfect saturday at Quimby’s!

    Also, awesome events this week! Tomorrow (Sunday) Russell Howze presents Stencil Nation and then on Wednsday is comic artists Adrian Tomine/Seth! For more info about events, go here.

    And a quick reminder: we will open 2 hours later than usual on Tues., June 9th at 2pm instead of noon.

    New Stuff:

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    Whole Death Catalog: Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter (Ballantine) $18.00 – Because you’ll definitely need a guide book where you’re going.

    McSweeneys vol 31 $24.00

    Greetings From The Oceans Sweaty Face 100 McSweeneys Postcards (Chronicle) $19.95 – Comes in a cool recipe box-type recepticle. With such artists as Charles Burns, Marcel Dzama and more!

    Convalescent by Jessica Anthony (McSweeneys) $22.00

    White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day by Day by Richie Unterberger (Jawbone) $29.95

    A whole mess o’ Moleskinne 2010 planners $10.95-$15.95

    Bldg Blog Book by Geoff Manaugh (Chronicle) $29.95

    1000 New Eco Designs And Where To Find Them by Rebecca Proctor (Laurence King) $35.00

    The Ocean TPB by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse (Wildstorm) $19.99

    Side B: Music Lovers Comic Anthology (Poseur Ink) $22.99 – From the editors of the successful Side A: Music Lovers Comic Anthology!

    Uptight #3 by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics) $2.75

    Venus Zine #40 Sum 2009 $4.50

    Grid Index by Carston Nicolai (DGV) $60.00

    Love Sex Fear Death: Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment by Timothy Wyllie and Adam Parfrey (Akashic) $24.95

    Fugue State by Brian Evenson and Zak Sally (Akashic) $14.95

    Will Work For Drugs by Lydia Lunch (Akashic) $15.95

    Show That Smells by Derek McCormack (Akashic) $15.95

    Action Painting: Bringing Art to the Trains/Introduction To the Phenomenon of Painting On Trains (Gingko Press) $39.95

    Part of Rebellion #2 Dave the Chimp ed. by C100 (Publikat) $19.95 – Follow up in the Part of Rebellion graffiti series.

    Big Book of Legs edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $29.99 – She (Dian Hanson, specifically) has got legs and she knows how to use them.

    Extraordinary Records edited by Giorgio Moroder (Taschen) $39.99 – Yes, you read that right. Giorgio Moroder

    Life Inc.: How The World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (Melville) $26.00 – By the author of Media Virus and contributor to Arthur Magazine.

    Blindfold Test by Barry Schechter (Melville) $16.00

    Watch the Closing Doors #47 $2.50

    Nobrow #1 $25.00 – You won’t find this thing just anywhere! This is a wonderful debut issue of an imported British design periodical. It has lots of beautiful blue ink and is almost graphic novel-esque. You have to see it to believe it.

    Plus, these exciting restocks are in!:

    Rocket Science #1 Multi Limbed Anthology $4.00 – mini comix!

    Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer (Soft Skull) $11.95

    Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Cabinet ICONS Edition by Alexander Roob (Taschen) $9.99

    The Zinn Reader by Howard Zinn (Seven Stories Press) $19.95

    Vampire Vultures by John Fahey (Drag City) $17.98

    Tape Op vol 2: The Book About Creative Music Recording (Tape Op) $24.99

    Making Deals #1 and #2 $5.00 each

    Lots of cute mini comix from Missy Kulik, such as Super Paws, Personal Charm, Where’s a Cookie and more! $.75 – $2.00

    Merit Badges $4.00 – By a local individual who prefers to remain anonymous to the public but nonetheless impresses us with die-cut amazingness, with such hilarious sayings as “Born Again Atheist.” Only available in store! And they go fast!

  • New Stuff This Week

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    That’s right, somebody dropped off a donation for Midwest Books to Prisoners in the perfect bag. Appropriately located next to Dangerous Ink. Anyway, lotsa great new stuff this week as usual, as well as some great events planned for June, with just a few of the links below.

    Comedy By the Numbers Book-On-Tape CD: Selections From the McSweeneys Book by Prof. Eric Hoffman and Dr. Gary Rudoren $12.99 – With all manner of cool guest stars reading selections on it, like David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman and more! Don’t miss executive producer Bob Odenkirk signing this CD on June 20th!

    Works On Paper by Archer Prewitt (Presspop) $20.00 – That’s right. He’ll be here signing it June 20th. And yes, you read that correctly. Bob Odenkirk here at 4pm and Archer Prewitt here at 7pm. The same day!!

    George Sprott 1894 – 1975 edited by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95 – Don’t miss Seth with Adrian Tomine at Quimby’s on Wednesday, June 10th!

    Mark Ryden’s Tree Show: 15 Postcards (Porterhouse) $12.95

    Papercut Heart: A Book of Zines by Ian Sullivan Cant (Conundrum) $15.00 – Beautiful and minimal art

    All This Is Mine #12 $5.00

    Because This Is How I Want to Remember You by Jordan A Fu $3.00 – Mini comix from a promising talent new to Quimby’s!

    Killer Marguerite by Megan Milks (Another New Calligraphy) $6.00 – Don’t miss Megan Milks with Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf here at Quimby’s on July 26th!

    Chugtitz #2 $2.00 – Old school cut’n’paste style zine.

    You Don’t Get There From Here #11 by Carrie McNinch $2.00 – As always, the artist behind The Assassin and the Whiner pumps out awesome mini comix.

    Jobjumper by The Whiskey Rebel $15.00 – Yes! You read that right! This second edition revised and expanded of an old classic is here.

    Teeth: I Walked Outside Today and Beast In a Bottle, both by the Bernard St Collective Production $2.00 each – Chap book action.

    Precious Gems: A Compendium of Collectable Correspondence Cards (Koyama Press) $15.00 – Postcard book version of Team Macho art.

    Twenty Reasons Why You Should Eat Magic Mushrooms by Jason Kieffer $1.00 – Can you guess what this comic is about?

    Shoot Your Slut #1 $7.00 – Home made erotic mag $7.00

    Go Get the Money Alamo Igloo 2009 by Keith Herzik $5.00 – Is he famous yet? ‘Cause his silkscreen comix are awesome.

    Ode to Cabernet $4.00 – DIY sommelier!

    Wax Poetics #35 $9.99

    Swallow Presents John Watkiss Sparrow Art Book Series vol 11 (IDW) $11.99

    Giocattoli Per Malinconici Toys For Melancholics by Gabriels (Stamen) $49.95 – For the lovers of the sexy biomechanics in the style of Giger.

    Dirtypilot.com Year One Rewind A Survey of Graffiti Street and Urban Art (Dirty Pilot) $19.95

    Thought Cloud Shrines: Drawings by Theo Ellsworth $5.00 – Delicious screenprinted imaginings.

    Back In the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used To Know How to Do by Michael Powell (Sterling) $7.95

    Dre Day 2009 Burlesque of North America Proudly Presents: Dr Dre Sticker Pack VII $5.00

    Divine Filth by Georges Bataille (Solar) $14.95 – The people have spoken, and they want a reprint of classic erotica fiction.

    Children of the Can 25 Years of Bristol Graffiti by Felix FLX Braun (Tangent) $50.00

    Eroto: To the Prurient Interest The Erotic-Sexual Images of RC Horsch vol II (IMC) $19.95 – Kinky stuff!

    Mysteries vol 7 #1 $6.95

    American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent (Scribner) $14.00

    Melvin Monster vol 1: John Stanley Library (Drawn & Quarterly) $19.95

    Moomin Vol 4: Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip (Drawn & Quarterly) $19.95

    Kev Grey – British tattoo-ish lowbrow artist, imported just for you. Sorta Sailor Jerry, sorta goth, sorta Mitch O’Connell. You won’t find this in many other places! $20.00

    Juxtapoz #101 Jun 09 $5.99

    You’ll Never Know vol 1 A Good and Decent Man by C. Tyler (Dark Horse) $24.99

    Tape Op #71 $4.50

    GlompX with CD $46.00 – Hardcover comics anthology. For lovers of Kramers E.

    Big Book of Legs edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $59.99