January News!
Here's your monthly newsletter of Quimby news!
Hell yeah the holidays are over. Burn off those holiday snacks you were shoveling in your mouth so that you didn't have to talk to anybody at the family gathering and stop by Quimby's!
Don't Miss Our Favorite Event of the Year!!!
QUIMBY'S 2016 ZLUMBER PARTY 1/30-1/31
Hey zinesters and comics artists! Come to our Zine Slumber Party (Zlumber Party, geddit? Gosh we’re clever.) This is the fifth year in a row we’re inviting you to come in and spend the night with us working on your zine, because we’ve had so much fun doing it in the past. Get here at 9:30 on Sat, Jan 30th (the store closes at 10pm). Then spend the night here! Stay until 6am Sun, Jan 31st! (And yes, you can leave whenever you want before then if you want or need to.) So bring yer jammies and a sleeping bag, then leave in the morning with what you’ve been workin’ on! There will be snacks! And coffee!
What: Zlumber Party 2016!
When: Sat, Jan 30th, 9:30pm – Sun, Jan 31st, 6am
Where: Here at Quimby’s Bookstore at 1854 W. North Ave.
RSVP: Give us a holler so we have a head count: info(at)quimbys(dot)com or call 773-342-0910.
More info/helpful hints: quimbys.com
New Stuff at Quimby's (Just a Sampling)
New stuff posted (almost) weekly at quimbys.com/blog
To see a curated blend of some of this new stuff available to order from our website, see quimbys.com/store
*ZINES*
Communicating Vessels #26 by Anthony Walent $3.50 - Take a hard-left turn through the latter-day Luddite Alexandria of Tuscon (not Tucson), which has been quietly nurturing a revolution of digital refusal, documenting the decline of culture with blood-and-sweat traditional printmaking and trenchant polemic, preserving whatever scraps of history it can snatch from the ravenous backhoe of Progress. Includes a personal narrative of the author's own experiences as a young printer in the midst of the craft's social & economic requiem at the hands of computers and general societal malaise. ~GS
Last Night at the Casino #10 Dec 15 $3.00
Zines from the blog ourlittlesomething.tmblr.com & Self-Publishers of Chicago:
Terrific Trees of the USA by Victoria Harley, Katrina Eresman, Erin Dreis $7.00
Sea by Victoria Harley & Katrina Eresman $3.00
Price Gun Warriors by by Victoria Harley, Ed Blair, Jeff Phillips, Oats Redding, Liz Mason & more $3.00
Serio #6 Social Justice Zine Based In Chicago $5.00
Arid #1 A Zine about Sobriety and the Interior by E. Marie $2.00
Punk Rock Glee Club #1 by Liz Mason $2.00 – Zine about an a capella punk band Blue Ribbon Glee Club that does covers of bands like Fugazi and the Buzzcocks. But it’s also a meditation on creativity, group artistic collaboration and performing. By the zinester who does Caboose.
Zines from Dinosaur Press by Claire Siepser:
Lies We Tell Ourselves $6.00
Lies Our Parents Told Us Or $6.00
Lies We Told Our Parents Or $6.00
...and more
Pill Magazine #1 $5.00 – Thoughtful zine about abortion, what to expect when you’re not expecting.
KerBloom #117 Nov Dec 15 by Artnoose $2.00
Fallopian Falafel various issues $2.50 each – Hebraic feminists unite!
*COMICS & MINIS*
Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream #4 by Laura Park (Uncivilized Books) $5.00 – Laura Park is back, blessin’ us & stressin’ us with her famed linework and strained lifework. It’s a style as Chicago as Al’s Beef, and every bit as well-rendered. Grab one before they fade back into the mystic. ~GS
Smoke Signal #23 $5.00 – Derf Backderf cover, work by Al Columbia inside!
Issues of Frontier (from Youth In Decline) $8.40 each:
#8 by Anna Deflorian
#9 by Becca Tobin
#10 by Michael DeForge
As You Were #4 a Punk Comix Anthology (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $10.00
Comics by Eroyn Franklin:
Bikram Addict $3.00
Vantage #2 $5.00
Comics by Isabella Rotman:
Feel Small $4.00
Siren School $5.00
Burn Your Demons $6.00
Ten Minicomics vol 4 by Alex Nall $5.00
Life’s Too Short, Trubble Club Presents $5.00 - The Trubble Club supergroup returns to throttle lobes in a post-sanity food-based animal sitcom jam. Fully risographed, in living color & to die for. With death stalking your every step, you can't afford not to laugh at good comics today! ~GS
Structures 46-56 by Kevin Huizenga (Uncivilized Books) $5.00 – The fifth volume in the Structures series. Kevin Huizenga presents a number of otherworldly structural narratives. Complete with interactive audio / motion cues! 2-color Risograph cover.
Revenger #6 $8.00
Meow de Vivre by Penina Gal $5.00
Xerox Candy Bar XCB Anime Issue #27 $3.00
Prometheus Eternal by Grant Morrison & Farel Dalrymple (Locust Moon Press) $5.99
The Social Discipline Reader by Ian Sundahl (DOMINO) $5.00 – Collects best of material from Social Discipline #1-8, and would be at home as a obscure men’s magazine insert or as contemporary naturalistic storytelling/pseudo-autobiography. 40 newsprint pages.
Lapis Lazuli Labyrinth by Yumi Sakugawa (Sparkplug) $5.00 – A minicomic sharing the importance of remembering small details, no matter how seemingly useless.
A Wretch Like Me: Sad/Black/Ugly/Queer by Ebin Lee (Sparkplug) $6.00 – Portland artist describes the book as “A Wretch Like Me is my visual journal of Depression/Anxiety/ and Body Dysphoria.” Book #5 in the Sparkplug Minis Series.
Incubation – Charles Burns’ Sketchbook $9.95
Fight Club 2 #8 by Chuck Palahniuk and friends $3.99
Gleaming Corridor #1 by Ben Sears $10.00
Listen to Your Third Eye by Brett Manning & friends $10.00
Twilight Children #3 by Gilbert Hernandez $4.99
*GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS*
COPRA TPB ROUND THREE vol 3 by Michel Fiffe (BERGEN STREET PRESS) $19.95
SCALPED HC BOOK 3 DELUXE EDITION by Jason Aaron & friends $29.99
Test Tube by Carlos Gonzalos (Floating World Comics) $14.95
Strange Sports Stories: Get Your Head in the Game by Paul Pope, CM Punk & Gilbert Hernandez (Vertigo) $14.99
*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*
Skullture: Skulls in Contemporary Visual Culture (Gingko Press) $39.95
Forms of Rockin': Graffiti Letters and Popular Culture by Anssi Arte (Dokument Press) $29.95
Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances, ed. by Aay Preston Myint $35.00
Juxtapoz: Wild (Gingko Press) $29.95
Stay Melty Buff Monster (Gingko Press) $29.95
Store Front II A History Preserved, The Disappearing Face of New York (Gingko Press) $65.00
TF at 1: Ten Years of Quartersnacks by Quartersnacks (PowerHouse) $29.95 – Best and worst from the NY skateboarding web site, along with new interviews, and documentation of the spots, the videos, the shops and more.
*MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS*
Sharon Tate: A Life by Ed Sanders (DaCapo) $25.99
Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends by Lauren Haisch & Wendy Sherman $19.95
Robot Zombies: Transhumanism and the Robot Revolution by Xaviant Haze & Estrella Eguino (Adventures Unlimited) $16.95
*MUSIC BOOKS*
My Kind of Sound: The Secret History of Chicago Music by Steve Krakow (Curbside Splendor) $24.95
Unprepared To Die: America’s Greatest Murder Ballads And The True Crime Stories That Inspired Them by Paul Slade (Soundcheck Books) $21.95
Confessions Of A Heretic: The Sacred And The Profane by Adam Nergal Darski, with Mark Eglinton (Jawbone Press) $19.95 - Memoir of the front man from Polish heavy-metal group Behemoth.
*ESSAYS*
Book of My Lives by Aleksander Hemon $16.00
*POLITICS & REVOLTION BOOKS*
Living Anarchism, Jose Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho Syndincalist Movement by Christ Ealham $20.00
*SEXXXY*
Meat #19 $20.00
*MAGAZINES*
The Pitchfork Review #8 Fall 15 $19.95
Vive Le Rock #31 The Clash, Jello Biafra $10.99
Mojo #266 Jan 16 Bowie Now $10.99
*LIT JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY*
What Communion Has, The Light with Darkness by ZL Melton (Godhead Publishing) $6.00
Remains by Jesús Castillo (McSweeneys) $20.00
The First Line vol 17 #4 Win 15 $4.00
The Last Line #2 Win 15 $3.00
*OTHER ARTY STUFF*
Leif Goldberg 2016 Echo Collector calendar $20
Other News!
Don't miss the Chicago Zine Fest Pizza Jam on Jan 12th at Dimo's Wicker Park 6-10pm! Quimby's is a co-sponsor of CZF, which will be the weekend of April 30th, 2016. chicagozinefest.org
Help support The Chicago Publishers Resource Center (CHIPRC), a nonprofit organization that serves and celebrates Chicago’s zine community. They have open studio hours on Sundays from 12-5! Drop by to use the workspace and materials for your projects. Check them out at 858 N. Ashland. More info: chiprc.org
Quimby's is also a co-sponsor of CAKE, The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (June 11th and 12th, 2016). Special guests include Sammy Harkham, Laura Park, Leslie Stein and more! More info: cakechicago.com
Want stuff we don't have? Want a special order? Don't shop Amazon, shop QUIMAZON!
You don't have to go to online big box stores like Amazon to get special orders or even stuff we don't carry like DVDs, downloads and textbooks. Instead, consider ordering from a wholesale distributor we hooked up with, which we enjoy calling Quimazon (geddit?!). They can ship items from their warehouse to you directly. You can get up to 25% off on many items, and you can ship it wherever you want for cheap. We get a small kickback for directing you to them. They carry a wide variety of fiction, graphic novels, poetry, art and design books, screenplays, textbooks, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, downloads, ebooks, calendars, e-books, audio books, notebooks, stationary, New York Times Bestsellers, downloads and more. Might we suggest Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering by Steven H. Strogatz, which includes analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition, first-order differential equations and more?!
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