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The well-dressed Lord Baron Joseph C.R. Vourteque IV stopped by Quimby’s to promote CLOCKWORK VAUDEVILLE IV – The Summer Spectacular at EXIT NIGHTCLUB – 1315 W. North Ave, on Saturday, July 17, 10pm. Quimby’s will be there with a cigertte girl-style collection of absinthe-flavered items, and the word on the street is that there will be DJs, a magician, and a hypnotist. Well, I do say! For more info, see www.steampunkchicago.com/

Zines
Jacmel Working Group: Stories from Haiti After the Jan 2010 Earthquake by Jeanne Ivy $2.00 – This zine is an extrordinary record of two months of life and work after the earthquake wrecked havoc. Made in the memory of two amazing activist-powerhouses who died during the quake: Magalie Marcelin and Flo McGarrell, the zine celebrates to their lives and projects while also reporting on rebuilding efforts based in Jacmel. Ivy Jeanne, Jerry Gildea and Waffle bring us firsthand accounts of Haitian organizing and activism, the under-reported 3-day weekend of remembrance that the nation observed a month after the disaster, and a lot of ways to connect to and assist Haiti’s recovery efforts. This zine is powerful and empowering, resourceful and eye-opening. Click on the cover below for a physical record of the Jacmel Working Group blog.

Inner Swine vol 16 #1 and #2 by Jeff Somers $2.00
Stitching Together by Ed Choy Moorman $3.00
Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – Wonderful first zine from a Chicago local. Recommended.
Whaddafug #5 by Anthony Abelaye $2.00
Wanna Play A Game #1 by Crew Games $1.00 – Is the title stolen from “War Games”? Just askin’.
Bones I Saw Something This Morning by Sean Hernandez $3.00

Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Adventrues in Service, Featuring Hobbeson and Chives Crimefighting Butlers in Love – Thrilling Morsels Snatched from the Jaws of Drama by Matt Fagan $2.00 – From local comics and Meniscus zine superstar. Always entertaining.
Philip K Dicks Electric Ant #4 by PKD, etc. (Marvel) $3.99
Mass #3 by Nevada Hill $5.00
Coordinates by Beth Hetland $8.00

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Skin Horse vol 1 by var. $13.99
Parade of Pleasure by Geoffrey Wagner (Pure Imagination) $25.00
BB Wolf and the Three LPs by JD Arnold and Richard Koslowski (Top Shelf) $12.95
Stick Figure Hamlet by Dan Carroll $18.00 – Yes, for real. Infinitely more entertaining than using Cliff Notes.

DIY, How-to & Food
Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening by var. (Black Dog) $24.95
Make These Toys by Heather Swain (Perigree) $13.95
Bricks: For Young Adults, Cancer Awareness and Resource Guide $5.00

Fiction/Poetry Books
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) $24.00 – In multiple O. Henry Prize–winner Doerr’s book of short stories, the presence and persistence of memory thematically binds stories set apart by vast distances of time and space. The title story finds a South African woman at the end of her life, taking part in a procedure that records her memories on cassettes; meanwhile, a pair of thieves rifles through the recordings, hoping to discover a secret her husband took to his grave.
Shiny Shiny by Michael O’Flaherty $16.95

Steampunk/Speculative Fiction
Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben Winters (Quirk) $12.95 – Are we done with this mashy uppy Victorian literature mixed with monsters and robots business? Apparently not. The guy behind Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is back with Android Karenina, the love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.

Outer Limits/Mayhem Books
Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations and Beings From Other Worlds by Jerome Clark (Visible Ink) $24.95
Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo: Sideshow Freaks Jaggers and Blade Box Queens by AW Stencell (ECW) $22.95

Magazines/Literary Journals
Believer #73 2010: Music Issue $12.00
High Times Sep 10 $5.99
Mojo #201 Aug 10 $9.99
Bizarre #164 Jul 10 $10.50
Dumbo Feather #23 Fall 10 Pass It On $19.99
Kaiserin #8: Magazine for boys with problems $22.99
Monocle vol 4 #35 Jul Aug 10 $10.00
Apartamento #5 $19.95

Chap Books
Hornet Homily by Patrick Culliton $8.00
Toucan #7 by Liz Baudler and Laura Rynberg $3.00

Music Books
KrautRock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy by Nikos Kotsopoulos (Black Dog) $29.95

Sexy Stuff
Pornsaints Catalog www.pornsaints.org by F. DIsa $4.00
Filament vol 2 #1 issue #5 $12.50

Essays/Criticism/Cultural Commentary
We the Dreamers: Young Authors Explore the American Dream by The John O’Connell High School and Daniel Alarcon (826 Books) $18.00
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson by Anita Thompson and Christopher Hitchens (Da Capo) $18.00
I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand Up Comedys Golden Era by William Knoedelseder (Public Affairs) $14.95
The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture by Nathan Rabin (Scribner) $15.00 – From one of the writers of The Onion. Now in soft cover.

Also! Stuff That Can/Can’t Be Fit In Any Categorey Exactly But Are Awesome:
Silly Stickers by Koyama Press $10.00
All My Friends Are Dead by var. (Chronicle) $9.95 – Hilarious. And sad. So sad. But hilarious!
365 Sketches: A Comedy Sketch A Day For One Year by Joe Jones $40.00 – Don’t miss his event here at Quimby’s on Saturday, August 21st at 7pm featuring the author and some of Chicago’s finest comedic actors performing monologues from 365. What’s this all about? On January 19, 2009, Chicago teacher and playwright Joe Janes decided to write a comedy sketch a day for a year. He did that. When he was done, Don Hall of the WNEP Theater Foundation decided to produce them. All of them. In June of 2010, Don and Joe gathered together over 200 Chicago actors and directors and over eleven nights presented 26 shows each featuring two weeks worth of sketches (although one has 15 scenes). Yep. Crazy. All 365 comedy sketches are collected in this book along with a complete list of directors and actors from the Strawdog shows. Joe teaches comedy writing at The Second City and Columbia College. For more info: 365sketchesbyjoejanes.blogspot.com/

Bear in Underwear by Todd Doodler (Blue Apple) $12.99 – We don’t order a lot of kids books. This one was irresistable. And you will think so too, no matter how old you are.

Major excitement as we prepare for Dan Clowes to arrive here in an hour! He’ll be here signing his new book Wilson. And the snacks we bought from the grocery store were rung up by a dude working, Wilson was his name. Weird!

Zines

Serial Killers Unite #1 by S K U $2.00 – Serial Killers Unite is a super interesting zine that starts to live up to its sensational name. This debut issue hinges on real letter excerpts from correspondence with serial killer Harrison Graham, who left his 6 victims’ corpses rotting in his living room. The author also puts out there that there’s tons more serial killer letters where that came from, just in case you’re interested. Reading through a few pages of sick fuck writing like this makes me glad some other weirdo is keeping these archives so I don’t have to. -EF

NUMBx #1 (Bukowski Ironhide Poe and More) $2.00
Parts for Making a Fence a Booklet for Creating the Illusion of a Backyard Anywhere There’s a Wall by Gary Kachadourian $3.00 – This is the guy who does amazing black and white patterns of grass, plants and the like. Now he’s got all these other wonderful patterns! Decorate in style.
Brief Survey of Video Game Landscapes by Gary Kachadourian $1.50
Drawings From a Heroic Fantasy World by Gary Kachadourian $1.50
Motors Revised 05/28/10 192 illustrations by Gary Kachadourian $2.50
Welcome to Bend Basic No Frills Edition Population 80995 by Laura Walker $1.50
MAP (Manual of Architechtural Possibilities) #2: Quarantine $6.50
Carousel of Progress by Max G. Morton $8.34 – From the author of such titles as 23, Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse, Looking For Magic and more! Also, see his new titles Knights In Satans Service, also a strangely-priced $8.34.
Portage vol 1 #1 Jun 10 by var. $5.00
Scheming As Always – Hungry as Always $2.00
Watch the Closing Doors #51 by Fred Argoff $2.50

Comics/Comix/Mini Comics
Long Distant Grunts by Josh Doster $6.00
Shaman Man #1 Dairy Aisle by Brett Muller $2.00
Shaman Man #2 Dewey Decimal System by Brett Muller $2.00
Bottle of Rum by Melanie Carson $3.00
Persimmon The Loneliest Little Unicorn by Melanie Carson $2.00
Phi I Dont Actually Own a Persian Rug GG Allen $4.00
Life As Art by Matt Bloomstrand $1.00
Herman The Manatee vol 3 Goes to Jail by Jason Viola $3.00
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagrphics) $4.95 – For schizzle.
Wowee Zonk #2 by var. $3.00
Black Mass #’s 1-3 by Kyle Patrick (prices of each range from $3.00 to $4.00)
Video Tonfa Feedback #7 Split $2.00
Killing Time Before the Party Comics About Playing in a Band by People Who Play ed. by Justin Melkmann (Melkmann Comics) $3.00 – Exactly what you want it to be. With contributions from lots of artists.
Attack of the Zombie Soy Bot #7 and #8 $1.00 and $2.00 respectively.
No More Fall by Lisa Cline $3.00
Chronicles of Edgebright & Leofwyn #1 the Gift by Jim Terry $3.00

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks
Neil Young’s Greendale by var. (Vertigo) $19.99 – Yes, as in a hardcover graphic novel of Neil Young’s Greendale, a concept album and film the musician released in 2003. Yup.
Moving Pictures by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf) $14.95
Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics, ed. by Craig Yoe (IDW) $34.99
Doom Patrol vol 1 We Who Are About To Die by Keith Giffen and Matthew Clark (DC) $14.99
Hellboy vol 10 The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola (DArk Horse) $17.99
Temperance by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) $22.99
How I Made it to Eighteen A Mostly True Story by Tracy White (Roaring Brook) $16.99
To Teach: The Journey In Comics (see DIY above)
When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons From The Comic Book Project by Michael Bitz (see DIY above)

DIY, How-to & Food
To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers, illustrated by Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95 – Event here with both author and artist June 19th!
When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons From The Comic Book Project by Michael Bitz (Teachers College Press) $23.95
Barolo by Matthew Gavin Frank $24.95 – The author learned how to be a chef in Italy. While living in nothing but a tent. Here are his adventures.
How to Recycle Paper by Sean Hernandez $1.00 – A nice 10-step how-to zine of basic papermaking. Sean’s drawing style reminds me a bit of Lynda Barry’s here- full of grit and dustballs and perfect for illusrating messy crafts projects.

Fiction
Doorway Unto Darkness by Owen Keehnen $15.00
Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello $15.00

Steampunk, Speculative and Science Fiction
Metatropolis ed. by Scalzi John $24.99 – Welcome to the dawn of uncivilization. Anthology of stories from today’s cutting-edge science-fiction writers, about those who live for technology battling those who would die rather than embrace it.
Hylozoic by Rudy Rucker (Tor) $15.99

Art & Design Books
Fatal Distraction by Sonja Ahlers (Insomniac Press) $16.95 – Pop culture-influenced collage. Like My Little Pony goes to hell.
Typeforce: The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars Feb Mar 10 by var. $9.95 – From the annual show of this title at Bridgeport’s Co-Prosperity Sphere. Getchyr font on.

Outer Limits
2012: Science or Superstition DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Cult of the Suicide Bomber: Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer Uncovers the Mystery of This Weapon of Terror DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Cult of the Suicide Bomber 2: Inside the Hidden World of Women and the Western Suicide Bombers DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Search of the Great Beast: Aleister Crowley The Wickedest Man In the World DVD (Disinformation) $19.98
Tattoo Machine: Tall tales True Stories and My Life In Ink by Jeff Johnson $15.00

Magazines/Literary Journals
Exquisite Corpse Annual, Journal of Letters and Life #2 2010 by Andrei Codrescu $19.99
Kilter Journal of Gothic Art Chicago #8 Sum 10 $5.00
Tokion vol 3 #5 $6.99
High Times Aug 10 $5.99
Signal to Noise #58 Sum 10 $4.95
Green Teacher #88 Spr 10 $7.95
Versal #8 $15.00

Poetry/Chap Books
Sagittarius Agitprop by Matthew Gavin Frank $14.00

Music Books/DVD
Cover Story vol 2 Obscure and Outrageous Album Art, curated by Wax Poetics (PowerHouse) $24.95
RIP: A Remix Manifesto (Disinformation) DVD by Brett Gaylor $19.98 – About mashup music culture.

Sexy
OP Original Plumbing #3 Trans Male Quarterly Health and Safer Sex Issue $8.00

Also:
Gadabout Traveling Film Festival DVD Five Years of Driving Around and Breaking DVD $10.00
Shelter Offset Print by Jennie Smith (Little Otsu) $10.00
First Gear DVD An Introduction To Bike Safety by The Bicycle Transportation Alliance $25.00
I Love Public Transportation Button $1.50

Not New This Week But New to Our Website For Purchase:

Cinema Sewer #23 $4.00 – Cinema Sewer is the direct heir and foremost survivor of decades of mayhem-trash-film fanzines and Robin Bougie has proven time and again that there’s still meatballs to be pulled out of the gravy. His tastes are extreme but also interestingly ecclectic, and this issue includes a rundown of his favorite noir films and a review of a Betty Dobson feminist masturbation video along with plenty of <dare-I-say> thoughtful reviews of rare smut and grindcore. -EF

New Fuck You Adventures in Lesbian Reading $13.95 – This amazing, badass, randy and rowdy lesbian literature anthology came out in the dirty, dirty 90’s and features amazing poems and prose by Sapphire and Laurie Weeks.  Semiotext sez: “Currently in its 4th printing, this LAMBDA-award winning anthology crosses all boundaries of taste and style, to bring together stories by writers as diverse as Sapphire, Joan Larkin, Linda Yablonsky, Honor Moore, Carmelita Tropicana, Dodie Bellamy, and Laurie Weeks. The book’s thirty-nine contributors cover virtually the entire range that lesbians do: having a baby, buying heroin, watching a parent die, walking a dog. But unlike other lesbian anthologies that either exclude or fetishize sexuality, sex in The New Fuck You erupts as anarchically as it does in life, rejecting all “thematic consistency” and drawing from the new capitals of de-centered America, from DC riot grrls to Sin City, Louisiana, to white-girl flashbacks into a black reformatory in Ohio. More brawl than mall, this compilation asserts a new form of female underground culture that is as formless, interesting and as surprising as lesbian life today.”