That’s right! Time Out Chicago did a feature with Neil Brideau, our comics sommelier, in their March 11-17th issue, about zines and the Zine Fest, which is this weekend, Fri 3/12 and Sat 3/13 at various places around Chicago. Click here to read the full article in Time Out Chicago. Click here for more info about this year’s Chicago Zine Fest.
Zines Fer Sale!
Check out these new things before anyone else does. Then take their eyeballs, so they can’t check them out ever!
ZINES
COMICS/COMIX/MINIS
Buffy the Vampire Slayer #32 By Joss Whedon $2.99
Crass Sophisticate #23 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2
Crass Sophisticate #24 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2
Crestfallen #2 by Sandra Sierra $3
Franz Kafka’s Poseidon by Jarod Rosello $4
Stories vol 2 Copy Matthew and Buster Swimming Free Hugs by Martin Cendreda $3
Tales From The Crypt #13 $3.95
Tank Girl Skidmarks #3 by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo $3.99
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
Crogan’s March by Chris Schweizer $14.95
Fables vol 13 the Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, and Mark Buckingham $17.99
Teenage Timberwolves Lust for Lightning by James Havoc & Daniele Serra $14.95
MAGS
Against the Current #144 Jan Feb 10 $5
Altercation #24 $3.95
Car Busters #40 $5
Dwell Mar 10 $5.99
Earth First vol 30 #2 Jan Feb 10 $4.5
Extra Feb 10 vol 23 #2 $3.95
Grafik #181 Jan 10 $19.99
Hails and Horns #16 WIn 09 $4.95
Haunted Times vol 4 #3 Win 10 $6.5
Hip Mama #45 $5.95
In These Times Feb 10 $3.5
Monocle vol 3 #30 Feb 10 $10
Namaste Vol 11 #2 $9.99
Nexus vol 17 #1 Jan Feb 10 $5.95
Progressive Feb 10 $3.95
Tattoo Life #62 $6.99
Tattoo Society #20 $7.99
Time Out Chicago Feb 4 10 $2.99
Trace #86 $5.99
Transworld Skateboarding Mar 10 $3.99
Vman #17 Spr 10 $5.5
Winq Win 10 $7.95
Z Magazine Feb 10 $4.95
LIT JOURNALS
826 Quarterly #10 Sum 09 $15
McSweeneys #33 $16
Pleiades vol 30 #1 $8
FICTION ‘N’ POETRY
Failure By James Greer $15.95
Orange Crush By Simone Muench $14.95
MUCKRAKING, MEMOIRS, AND MISCELLANY
Complaint, From Minor Moans to Principled Protests By Julian Baggini $15.95
Madame Curie Complex, the Hidden History of Women in Science By Julie Des Jardins $16.95
DIY/HOW TO BOOKS
Artist in the Office, How to Creativel Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week By Summer Pierre $13.95
Little Green Book of Absinthe, an Essential Companion with Lore Trivia and Classic Recipes By Paul Owens $18.95
FINE, LOW BROW, AND GRAFITTI fART BOOKS
Cholo Writing, Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles By Francois Chastanet $24.95
Autumns Come Undone By Shag $40
Open Book Drink and Draw Collaborations $24.95
Shadowplay by Mark Wilkinson $39.95
MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS
Strange Case of Dr HH Holmes, World’s Fair Serial Killer by John Borowski $20
Hollow Earth, the Bizarre 60s Classic Back in Print By Raymond Bernard $16.95
Homage to Pan, the Life Art and Sex Magic of Rosaleen Norton By Nevill Drury $24.95
MUSIC
Band Crime Punk77 Revisited, a Photographic Look at the Band Crime and Punk By James Stark $14.95
Radiohead Hysterical and Useless By Martin Clarke $19.95
POLITICS
World Report 2010 By Human Rights Watch $25
PORN BOOKS
Season of Infidelity, BDSM tales From the Classic Master By Oniroku Dan $14.95
Exhibitionism for the Shy, Show Off Dress Up and Talk Hot By Carol Queen $15.95
We’re told that we’re the ony store in Chicago right now to have this!
This issue is The Baffler vol 2 #1, and you can get it here on the web or here in the store!
It features essays by Michael Lind on the emerging American oligarchy; Yves Smith on the mountainous self-regard of the American finance industry; Chris Lehmann on libertarianism’s willful failure to understand the economic crisis; Naomi Klein’s reflections on “branding” in American politics 10 years after her magnum opus, No Logo; Matt Taibbi on the howler of a memoir just published by a certain doltish Midwestern governor; plus ruminations on the ruination of Detroit, a very funny fantasy about rumbling with the personnages of the Western literary canon, and a clever story by Paul Maliszewski.
Peoples! The new Granta is here! It’s Granta #109, the Work issue!
This issue of Granta is The Work Issue. It is edited by John Freeman, and in spite of the fact that it has “Winter 2009″ in the title, it actually is just barely out in 2010 as we post this. We were told that we’re the first store in the U.S. to sell this issue! And after the success of Granta #108 The Chicago Issue, we are proud to be given this honor.
From www.granta.com:
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Industrial Revolution is, for better or for worse, our inclination to define who were are by what we do, and this essential new issue of GRANTA will lay bare the intrinsic link between work and identity.
From the jobless to the workaholics, from the hard work of dying to the landscape work has created out of office parks and suburbs, GRANTA 109 will tell the story of how and why we work in the twenty-first century. Joshua Ferris returns to the mind-numbing world of office work in America in a new piece of fiction, while Steven Hall visits the world’s pre-eminent robot lab to see what machines will do for us next. Caroline Moorehead explores the trafficking of workers into the United Kingdom and Daniel Alarcón infiltrates the world of book pirating in Peru. Salman Rushdie contributes a surprising essay on sloth.
GRANTA 109 gives us a glimpse of ourselves at our most primordial, in a day and age when work has become the most invisible (at least in literature) and yet all-encompassing aspect of human life.
Saturday, February 21st sure was a memorable evening here at Quimby’s. Living Proof zinester Andrew Mall asked his girlfriend to marry him during his reading! And she said yes! Thanks to Aaron Cynic of Diatribe Media and Billy Da Bunny Roberts of Loop Distro for organizing and hosting a good ol’ fashioned Old School Zine Reading featuring Matt Fagan (Meniscus), ReyRey (Stream of Consciousness) and more!
