Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Wow indy nerds we got a new issues of Berlin and Uptight among other great stuff. Also the New novel by Warren Ellis finally dropped, so it’s about time to get your final summer time read on.
Continue reading ‘New Stuff 8/4/07′
Wow for the first time in a long time, Quimby’s is siting out Wizard World. I’m not sure where people will buy their Housewives at Play or Jack Chick Tracts…our big sellers each year, but it was time for us to move on. So if anybody out then in inter-web land makes it, get us some good shots of people in costumes and make sure to say hi to Lou and Virgil, and Bobby the Brain for us!
| Aug ’07 |
| 11 |
| 7:00 pm |
Douglas Wolk, author of READING COMICS, will be at Quimby’s, Saturday, August 11th, 7:00 pm. As usual, it is a FREE EVENT!
In Douglas Wolk’s READING COMICS: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, fans have a collection of criticism about the artists and writers they admire most: Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), Alan Moore and David Gibbons (Watchmen), Dave Sim (Cerebus), Steve Ditko and Stan Lee (Dr. Strange), Keith Giffen (Legion of Super Heroes), and more; and newcomers have a history of how comics evolved, a diverse list of the comics worth reading, and a context for how to read, consider, and discuss comics.
