November Is Here! How did that happen?
It’s almost that time of year again, when all the good little girls and boys anxiously wait to find their stockings filled the brim with zines, books and oddities. In honor of all things bright and cheery, this year Quimby’s is giving a special gift to you: Quimbas. Yes, that’s right, Christmas with a "Quimb". And what could possibly be in store? Each week all November and December we’re giving a special gift to our little Quimblings, including a 2014 calendar sale at the end of November (details below)! After all, you’ve been so very good this year! Stay tuned for more merry making in December. To bypass announcements and event listings to get to a list of some notable new titles, scroll down to where it says "New Stuff."
Quimby's Holiday Hours
Wed, Nov 27th noon-5
Thurs, Nov 28th CLOSED
Tues, Dec 24th 11-5
Wed, Dec 25th CLOSED
Tues, Dec 31st noon-5pm
Wed, Jan 1st CLOSED
Also! Starting Fri, Nov 29th, until Tues, Dec 24th, Quimby's will be open at 11am every day.
CAKE applications are still open, until Dec 15th
November is National Novel Writing Month
Ready to Write a Novel? Why not come in and check out some of our blank journals and writing prompts?
Quimby's Bookstore Events
In Gene Gregorits’ latest, Fishhook (Monastrell Books), we experience the notorious cult writer and well-known Facebook abuser’s oftentimes hazardous day-to-day life with both humor and a terrifying clinical detachment. Fishhook is the first book of its kind: a literary anthology comprised entirely of status updates. Writer/performer Alan Hoffman joins. To honor of Gregoritis’ "love" for Facebook, we're celebrating Quimbas by giving away FREE GRAB BAGS to any customer who can prove that they shared that evening's event and tagged Quimby’s Bookstore on Facebook. Social media: truly the gift that keeps on giving. Please note: customers must be in the store at the Gregorits in-store appearance to pick up their grab bags.
This idiosyncratic full-length graphic novel published by Picturebox tells the story of Oola, a high school student with an unusual connection to the supernatural. Quimby’s weekly holiday season gift to you is that we're offering a candy cane with a special Krampus mystery missive wrapped on that sweet treat!
This ground-breaking new handbook guides readers through how to win at everything (actually, more like dozens of things) — even things that aren’t competitive, and that you can’t or shouldn’t try to win at, such as eye exams, puberty and apologizing. Quimby's provides copies of How to Win at Everything for purchase.
Novak and friends celebrate Noise, the underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects. It first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulated on tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. Novak, who draws on more than a decade of fieldwork, traces the “cultural feedback” that generated Noise in circulation between Japan and the United States. He will illustrate his talk with rare videos. Local noise artists Roth Mobot and Peter Speer also perform.
Got a jam-packed schedule of eating, drinking and merriment? Well, fine friend, you’ll surely want to take advantage of our sale on 2014 planners from November 25 through December 1! Take 14% off any planner to help kick your 14th year of the new millennium. *Damn Fine Print: Customer must be present in the store for this discount, and mail orders are not eligible for discount. Customers may not put calendars on hold.
Early Warning
Fri, Dec 6th, 6-10pm - Celebrate Krampusnacht with GlitterGuts (arty Chicago photographers with a loyal following) here at Quimby's. Get your picture taken with the Krampus, known to punish children during the Yule season for their misbehavior. Creep out friends and family with photos of you getting reprimanded by this traditional Germanic holiday beast. We're here to help!
New Stuff
Here's a list of just a few of the noteworthy new items we've received in the past month (but by no means everything). For frequent updates about noteworthy new items in our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave, see quimbys.com/blog. To see which of these items are available for purchase on quimbys.com, see quimbys.com/store.
Zines
8 Track Mind #102 Analog Resurgence Sum 13 by Russ Forster $3.00
zines from Carrie: My Aim Is True #9 Scary Stuff $2.00, Happy Fuck You Split Zine $1.00
Georgi and the Haunted Minivan #5 My Summer With Smokey $1.50
Cheap Toys #13 $2.00 - Going on summer-for-winter zine tour in Australia, and the questions of capitalist participation, residual colonialism, punk academia and negotiated practicalities.
Basic Paper Airplane #7 by Joshua James $2.00
Zisk #23 $2.00
Atomic Elbow: A Professional Wrestling Fanzine issues #5-#7 $5.00 each
Jungleland #1 A Springzine by Matthias Scherer $4.00 – As in Bruce Springsteen.
Taken For a Ride: My Night in the Cash Cab – Essays on Game Shows as Seen From Both Sides of the Screen ed. by Matt Carman $3.00
After Hours: Cats I Know by Kaori Mitsushima $12.00
Audre Lorde – From the Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 5 #1 by Eloisa Aquino (B and D Press) $6.00
Cinema Sewer vol 4 by Robin Bougie (Fab) $24.95 – The Adults Only Guide to Historys Sickest and Sexiest Movies.”…engorged versions of CS #21-23 plus over 80 pages of spankin’ new smut-centric cinephilia.”-EF
Work Sucks #2 The Pizza Years by Snick $3.00
Untitled Edie Fake Silkscreened Head Zine $6.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #59 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
East Village Inky #53 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Little Otsu Living Things vol 9 by Martine Workman (Little Otsu) $6.95
Little Otsu Living Things vol 10 by Joohee Yoon (Little Otsu) $6.95
Disposable Camera/You by Vanessa Berry and Luke You $3.00 - Very Special Split Zine Dedicated to the Housemartins.
Comics & Comix
Clutch #25 Invincible Summer #22 by Clutch McBastard and Nicole G. Georges (Tugboat Press) $2.00
Speak Up David Wojnarowicz – A Role Model For the Unheard by Katari Sporrong $10.00
Teen Creeps issues #2 & #3 by Charles Forsman (Oily Comics) $1.00 each
Word and Voice #7 by Aaron Cockle (Oily Comics) $1.00
Lou #17 by Melissa Mendes (Oily Comics) $1.00
Rave #1 by Jessica Campbell (Oily Comics) $1.00
Palookaville #21 by Seth (D&Q) $21.95
new comics from Patrick Kyle! Special Friend #1 $10.00, Fffpt $5.00
Structures 24 through 34 by Michael DeForge $5.00 – Calligraphic hoo-ha from the polished greenhouse of doodads; cascading shape charades.
Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream Autoptic Mini by Laura Park (Uncivilized Books) $4.00
Animal Sex Collected by Isabella Rotman $9.00 - Under one cover now are all 4 issues of Rotman's fantastic Animal Sex Comics: #1: You Might Not Want To Know, #2: Bugs and Slugs, #3: Under the Sea, and a 4th issue I hadn't seen yet, "The Big Gay Animal Tour."
S #14 Baltic Comics Magazine $12.00
Mini Kus issues #14-#17, variety of artists $5.00 each
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
R. Crumb – The Weirdo Years 1981-’93 (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Widely considered to be some of his best work ever. Weirdo was a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb in 1981, which ran for 28 issues.
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme by Joe Sacco and Adam Hochschild $35.00
Ballad by Blexbolex (Enchanted Lion) $22.95
Impossible Tales Steve Ditko Archives vol 4 (Fantagraphics) $39.95
The Secret History of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin Goodmans Empire (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Love and Rockets New Stories vol 6 by Hernandez Bros (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Treasury of Minicomics vol 1 (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Best American Comics 2013 ed. by Jeff Smith, Jessica Abel & Matt Madden $25.00
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge (D&Q) $21.95
Battling Boy by Paul Pope (First Second) $15.99
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 vol 4 Welcome to the Team by Joss Whedon et al. (Dark Horse) $17.99
Dimethyltryptamine by John Campbell $15.00 – DMT to you and me. From the artist of Pictures For Sad Children.
Freud by Corinne Maier and Anne Simon (Nobrow) $19.75
Iron Bound by Brendan Leach (Secret Acres) $21.95
Maria M. Book One by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Rage of Poseidon by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $29.95
The Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor vol 2: The UK $12.00
Art Books
The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen ed. by Noel Daniel (Taschen) $39.99 – beautiful artwork from the 1840s to the 1980s by such artist greats as Kay Nielsen, the beloved Arthur Rackham and more.
Big Book of Bode Tattoos by Mark and Vaughan Bode (Last Gasp) $29.95
Great Showdowns: The Return by Scott C. $14.95
Sunday Night Movies by Leanne Shapton (D&Q) $19.95
Sticker Bomb XL by SRK $29.95 – Stickerbomb XL is filled with an amazing collection of more than 350 specially-commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators, and graffiti writers from around the world.
Star Trek Original Topps Trading Card Series (Topps) $19.95-This is a book, but it does come with a few cards!
Hi-Fructose Collected Edition vol 3 ed. by Annie Owens (Last Gasp) $39.95 – Compiles and expands original material from issues 9-12 of the best-selling magazine Hi-Fructose.
Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod by Brian Kesinger (Baby Tatoo) $29.95
Nordic Tattooing by Jon Nordstrom $65.00
Beatbox: A Drum machine Obsession by Joe Mansfield (Get on Down) $49.95 - A beauty of a book, over 75 images of drum machines. Comes with a download code for some beats!
Ryan McGinness: Sketchbook Selections 2000-2012 (Gingko Press) $39.95
Fiction
Circle by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys/Random House) $27.95
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon $28.95
We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut $12.99
USA Noir: The Best of the Akashic Noir Series ed. by Johnny Temple (Akashic) $16.95
Heart of Darkness, Illustrated by Joseph Conrad and Matt Kish (Tin House) $24.95
Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk $24.95
Alternative Histories of the World by Matthew Buchholz $25.00
Cazzarola!: Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy by Norman Nawrocki (PM Press) $18.00 – Cazzarola! spans 130 years in the life of the Discordias, a fictionalized family of Italian anarchists.
End of Love by Marcos Giralt Torrente (McSweeneys) $22.00
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson $16.00
A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. Martin $9.99 - One of the Game of Thrones books in cheapo soft cover.
Happy Mutant Baby Pills by Jerry Stahl (Harper) $14.99
Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, & Misc
Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton $16.00
PUNK 45: The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80 ed. by Jon Savage and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Books) $39.95
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould $16.95 – Now in soft cover.
How Music Works by David Byrne (McSweeneys) $20.00 – Revised and Updated edition.
This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits by James Greene Jr. $14.95
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy -A Very Oral History ed. by Yael Kohen $16.00
Slimed: An Oral History of Nickelodean’s Golden Age ed. by Mathew Klickstein $20.00
The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz $40.00
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood by Greg Merritt (Chicago Review Press) $29.95
In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran by John Taylor $17.00
Steampunk Magic: Working Magic Aboard the Airship by Gypsey Elaine Teague (Weiser) $16.95
How To Rap 2 Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques by Paul Edwards $12.95
Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Joseph P. Farrell (Feral House) $19.95
The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic by Peter Levenda (Ibis) $35.00
Invisibility: Mastering the Art of Vanishing by Steve Richard (Weiser) $14.95
Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music by Rickey Vincent $19.95
You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse by Sherwin Tjia (Conundrum) $18.00
Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal vol 2 $19.95
Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals by Steve Young and Sport Murphy $39.95
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack $16.95
Self-Portrait of a Chicken: Young Man For Rent by David Henry Sterry (Soft Skull) $15.95
Create Your Own Religion: A How To Book Without Instructions by Daniele Bolelli (Disinformation) $19.95
Lord of Garbage by Kim Fowley (Kicks Books) $13.95 - The first of a three book series about the life and times of a two-bit music biz hustler.
Politics & Revolution
What Will It Take To Make A Woman President? Conversations about Women Leadership and Power by Marianne Schnall (Seal) $17.00
Mayor One Percent: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s Ninety Nine Percent by Kari Lydersen (Haymarket) $16.00
Living Spirit of Revolt: The Infrapolitics of Anarchism by Ziga Vodovnik (PM Press) $18.95
Peoples History of the US Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on their Experience of War from American Revolution to Afghanistan ed. by Michael A. Bellesiles (New Press) $19.95
Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals 2006-2013 by Janet Hamlin (Fantagraphics) $28.99
Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook (PM Press) $12.95
Food & Drugs
Viva La Pizza: The Art of the Pizza Box by Sam Wiener $22.95
Cannabis Indica vol 3 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner (Green Candy Press) $20.00
Weed Runners: Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America’s Medical Marijuana Trade by Nicholas Schou (Chicago Review Press) $16.95
Cannabis Insanity: Cool Coloring Book by Re (Last Gasp) $9.95 – 20 Cool Images to Color.
Sex & Sexy
Big Book of Orgasms – 69 Sexy Stories ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis) $15.95
Kinky Bondage Obsession – Best of Bondagecafe ed. by Jim Weathers (Goliath) $39.95
Wild Lolitas by Mikhail Paramonov (Goliath) $34.95
Meat #10 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
Meat SF by Adrian Lourie $20.00 – The San Francisco Treat!
Sirens: The Pinup Art of David Wright $34.95
The Posh Girls Guide to Play Fantasy Role Play and Sensual Bondage – Because Little Black Handcuffs Go With Everything by Alexis Lass $16.00
Spank #18 Homo Art Zine $6.50
Magazines
RFD #155 Fall 13 $9.95 – The James Broughton Issue
Proximity #11 The Art and Food Issue $11.99
Image Structure by Sonnenzimmer [Nick Butcher & Nadine Nakanishi] (Club Club) $25.00
Make vol 36 $14.99
Cannabis Now Magazine #8 $7.99
Maximumrocknroll #366 Nov 13 $4.00
Gratuitous Type #C Color: A Pamphlet of Typographic Smut $18.00
Uppercase #19 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
Juxtapoz #154 Nov 13 $5.99
Fantastic Man #18 Fall Win 13 $14.99
Hello Mr #2 About Men Who Date Men $20.00
Wire Oct 13 #356 $11.25
Cabinet #50 Money $12.00
Randy #4 $8.00
Hi Fructose #29 $7.95
Tom Tom Magazine #15 Magazine For Female Drummers $6.00
Bizarre #206 Nov 13 $10.50
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 30 #3 $6.95
Gentlewoman #8 Fall Win 13 $14.99
AdBusters Nov Dec 13 $12.95
Poetry, Lit Mags, Lit Journals, Chap Books
The Year of No Mistakes by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody) $15.00
Midwestern Gothic #11 $12.00
Granta #125 Fall 13 After the War $16.99
The Believer #102 Oct 13 $8.00
McSweeneys #44 $26.00
Cityside Coochie Coo by Shaina Hoffman $2.00
Kids Stuff
The Goods vol 1 Games and Activities for Big Kids, Little Kids and Medium Sized Kids by the folks of McSweeneys (Big Picture Press) $22.99
Slovenly Betsy: The American Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman and Walter Hayn $12.99
Pippi Fixes Everything: Pippi Longstocking Comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman (D&Q) $14.95
The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents: Adventures in Cartooning, Characters in Action by James Sturn et al. (First Second) $9.99
Windows Reflect Everything: Stories from Chicago Students by 826CHI, Students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy & Students at Golder College Prep $15.00
Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists (First Second) $19.99 – Featuring such artists as Craig Thompson, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Vanessa Davis and more.
Moomin and the Comet by Tove Jansson (D&Q) $9.95
Moomin and the Sea by Tove Jansson (D&Q) $9.95
Other Stuff
Hollywood Said No Audio CD: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, Abandoned Darlings by Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Brian Posehn & Friends $40.00 – Bob and Dave and friends do the voices. Remember the videotape they threw in the air in that one episode of Mr. Show? It’s as if someone found the tape. And made audio. With the voices of Bob and David and friends. FOR THREE UNABRIDGED HOURS. We do also have the book ($17) but the CDs are hilarious because Bob and Dave and friends read it, and seriously, it sounds like you're watching the audio on Mr. Show.
Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 Card Pack 10 Sticker Cards Brand New Series $2.99
Bob Dobbs Messenger Bag $12.00 – Pack up your goods in this Church of the Subgenius bag before the pleasure saucers arrive (again).
Krampus Gift Wrap $4.00
Foodie Bandages $6.00
Bacon Lollipop $4.00
Meat Parade Metal Lunch Box $15.00
Edward Gorey Sticker Book $7.95 – Featuring more than 150 reusable stickers.
Tons of wrapping paper! Holidays are comin’ up faster than ya think!
Tiny Size Author-Illustrator Starter-Kit – Contains Five Completely Blank Little Books to be Filled by You (McSweeneys) $19.95
Annual Weekly Planner vol 8 by Lizzy Stewart (Little Otsu) $18.00 – Fill in your own dates and customize it as you need to.
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