Category: new stuff

  • New Stuff This Week

    Feminist Advice From the City of Big Shoulders. Yessssss. #quimbysbookstorechicago #quimbys #chicago #feminist

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    Feminist Advice From the City of Broad Shoulders ed. by Jessica Caponigro $20.00 – A collection of essays from Chicago that address feminism and equality. With Essays from Meredith Adams-Smart, Soheila Azadi, Charlene Carruthers, Jessica Caponigro, Leslie Deckard, Sarah Frier, Chiara Galimberti, Scott Hunter, Tanuja Jagernauth, Sharlene King, Stephanie Graham and Maya Mackrandilal, Jennifer Reeder, Jes Skolnik, Vanessa Sheridan, Sydney Stoudmire, Christen Thomas, Benita Ulisano, and Latham Zearfross.

    *ZINES*

    KerBloom #124 Jan Feb 17 by Artnoose $2.00

    Double Exposures Womens March $2.00

    I Think There Is a Human City Growing In My Stomach by Duncan Figurski $2.50

    Good Days Gone Cold Days by Sarah LaPonte and Helen Jones $12.00

    Incandescent #10 & #11 A Color Film Zine $14.00 each

    Happy Tapir #2 A Summer of Five Almost Deaths by Johnny Masiulewicz $3.00

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    Too Much Fun Too by Logan Kruidenier $10.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this raucous event!

    Thanks, Logan Kruidenier, for a freaky time! #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago #logankruidenier #toomuchfun

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    Comics by Inechi Ines Estrada Gatosaurio:
    Southwest Roadtrip $6.00
    Alienation #2 & #3 $10.00 each

    Fae Archaic #5 To My Dear Lucifene by Kurt Burdick $4.00

    Wait It Gets Worse #1 & #2 by Gideon Kendall and Doug Latino $5.00 each

    Laskimooses #34 Sytykkeiden Kokoaminen $7.00

    Goddamn Motherfuckers by Hans Nissen $3.00

    Well #2 by Martin Kralovec $2.00

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Micheal Deforge (D&Q) $21.95 – Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world. Don’t miss Michael DeForge here on 3/25 with Sadie Dupuis to celebrate the release of this graphic novel with a celebratory lo-fi comics night!

    Terms and Conditions by R. Sikoryak (D&Q) $14.99 – I-Tunes terms and conditions but as comics parodies. Started as a mini and is now a book. Each page features an avatar of Apple cofounder and legendary visionary Steve Jobs juxtaposed with a different classic strip such as Mort Walker’s Beatle Bailey, or a contemporary graphic novel such as Craig Thompson’s Blankets or Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Totally unauthorized. Totally hilarious.

    Impatience by Inechi Ines Estrada $24.00

    California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before the Mamas and the Papas by Pénélope Bagieu $24.99

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

    Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank $17.00 – From founding editor of The Baffler, about how the American Democratic Party has changed to support elitism in the form of a professional class instead of the working class.

    Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin $16.00

    *FICTION*

    Chicago: A Novel by Brian Doyle $16.00

    Hourglass Factory: A Novel by Lucy Ribchester (Pegasus Books) $15.95 – Tomboy Frankie George is sent to interview trapeze artist Ebony Diamond, who disappears. Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks, society columnists, corset fetishists, suffragettes and circus freaks. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory?

    *OUTER LIMITS*

    The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White $17.99 – The years since the financial crash have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of modern civilization will go unfulfilled. From sigil magic to working with spiritual allies, The Chaos Protocols helps you act on the unwavering belief that your life should matter and you’re not going to let something as trifling as the apocalypse get in the way of it.

    Spiritual Alchemy: Scrying, Spirit Communication, and Alchemical Wisdom by Donald Tyson and Jenny Tyson $19.99

    *ESSAYS*

    All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O’Neill $25.00

    *FOOD*

    Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste by Tom Nealo $30.00 – Revolution! Gluttony! Cannibalism! The gloriously illustrated (120 full color illustrations, many from the collection of the British Library) history of food, including mythical origin stories, unusual recipes and more!

    Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts by Amy Bizzarri (History Press) $21.99

    *MAGAZINES*

    VMan #37 Spr Sum 17 $6.95

    Monocle #101 Mar 17 10th Anniversary Special $12.00

    Wire #397 March 17 Aine O’Dwyer $10.99

    *LIT JOURNALS*

    Sheriff Nottingham’s Holiday Herald #9 vol 3 #1 Fat Tuesday $10.00

    *OTHER STUFF*

    Gatosaurio & friends stickers! by Ines Estrada, Heather Benjamin, Wakana Yamazaki, Koyamori, Simon Hanselmann & more $9.00 each – New and restocks! And did we mention we got some patches too? $6.00 each.

  • New Stuff This Week


    S #27 Baltic Comics Magazine Jan 17 (kus) $12.00. Also, issues of Mini Kus $5.00: #47 Sutrama by Daniel Lima, #48 by Olive Booger, #49 Call Of Cthulhu by Martin Lacko and H.P. Lovecraft, #50 by Mathilde Van GheluweBrume by Amanda Baeza $18.00

    *ZINES*

    New Territory #4 Coexisting by Tina Casagrand $15.00

    How to Quantum Leap $5.00

    Surviving: Getting Through the Shit Life Throws at You by Faith G. Harper $3.00

    Great and Terrible Golden Age #3 Movies of the 1930s by Emily Alden Foster $5.00

    Why I Got My Breast Reduction $3.00

    Okay Fine, Here’s What To Do Zine: A Guide for Post 2016 Election $2.00

    Black Lives Matter: A Guide for White People Who Want to Help Dismantle White Supremacy by Spiderweb Salon $2.00

    Fight Normalization $2.00

    Heavy Whisper #2 by Corinne Halbert $5.00 – Illustrated vintage erotica, the second installment of Halbert’s bondage drawing zine.

    Composite Internet Boyfriend by Jaime Raybin $5.00

    Indestructible: Growing Up Queer, Cuban, and Punk in Miami by Cristy C. Road $9.95 – Back in print!

    How To Recognize Voter Suppression by Bronwyn Mauldin $7.00

    Homeworld #2 by Elora Powell $1.00

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    Warpwish Comix #1 Very Special Inaugural Issue by Nathan Ward $5.00 – Filled to the brim with deep-space and earth-based tales of gummy-terraforming, dog-stabbing, wormhole-diving, hair-follicle-lumberjacking, junkyard-tresspassing, amateur-radio-violating, smegma-rioting, and much much more.

    All Time Comics Crime Destroyer #1 by Josh Bayer, Benjamin Marra and Herb Trimpe (Fantagraphics) $4.99 – Blind Justice! Bullwhip! Crime Destroyer! Each issue of ALL TIME COMICS features a mash up of new cartoonists and classic comic book creators collaborating with writer Josh Bayer to unleash superhero stories that no other publisher would dare to publish.

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Simply Samuel by Tommi Musturi (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Next adventure of Samuel, a pale ghost-like character who wanders through a colorful world from this Finnish artist and co-founder of Huuda Huuda comics.

    *ART BOOKS*

    Limestone by Matt Christy $22.00

    *MUSIC BOOKS*

    The Prodigal Rogerson: The Tragic, Hilarious, and Possibly Apocryphal Story of Circle Jerks Bassist Roger Rogerson in the Golden Age of LA Punk, 1979-1996 (Scene History) by J. Hunter Bennett (Microcosm) $7.95

    Electri_City: The Dusseldorf School of Electronic Music by Rudie Esch $27.95 – The myths and realities of the bands emerging from the artistic backdrop of a wealthy German post WWII modernistic city, and explores the emergence of the electronic scene that spawned bands like Kraftwerk, NEU!, DAF, and Die Krupps.

    There Is No Substitute: A Tribute to Keith Moon by Ian Snowball $40.00

    *OUTER LIMITS*

    Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals by Nick Redfern (Visible Ink) $19.95

    Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses by John Dvorak $27.95

    Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist by Jonathan Shaw $21.95 – If truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then, as Shaw’s friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once told him, much of this book would have to be lived before it could be written.

    *MAGAZINES*

    The Baffler #34 Spr 17 Snare of Preparation $14.00

    Juxtapoz #195 Apr 17 $6.99

    Vive Le Rock #42 Punk’s Unsung Heroes $11.99

    Fader #108 Mar Apr 17 Sex Issue $6.99

    Bitch #74 Spr 17 $6.95

    Mojo #280 Mar 17 Ray Davies $10.99

    *SEXXXY*

    Elska #10 Mumbai India $18.50

  • New Stuff This Week


    *ZINES*

    The Utter Failure of Dan Gleason $3.00

    Club Night Club by Leanna Perry $9.00

    Half Cup by Emily Schulert $5.00

    Schmalz: Writing About Jewish Food and Diaspora by Isaac Brosilow $3.00

    Airplane Food #3 by Tyler Callich $5.00

    *COMICS*

    Lazy Diana #1 A Punk Pagan Zine by Kelci Crawford $3.00

    Hi There by JJ McLuckie $5.00

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Literally Everything Is Outside of my Comfort Zone vol 1 by Tony Breed $12.00

    Snotgirl vol 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley $9.99

    Long Term Pariah by Yewon Kwon $20.00

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

    Against the Fascist Creep by Alexander Reid Ross (AK Press) $16.95 – As the election of Donald Trump shows, fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” permutations is alive and well in the United States. A terrifying tour of the history and influence of the forces that helped bring the forty-fifth president to power, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names. It traces today’s often-disguised forms of rightwing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both mainstream and left-wing institutions in order to win elections, take political power, and create a new racist and authoritarian society.

    The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket) $14.95 – Essays From the Author of Men Explain Things to Me.

    *MUSIC*

    Smoke Snort Swallow Shoot: Legendary Binges, Lost Weekends, and Other Feats of Rock ‘n’ Roll Incoherence by Jacob Hoye (Lesser Gods) $18.00

    Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen In the Age of Plenty by Ben Ratliff $16.00

    *MAGAZINES*

    Lucky Peach #22 Spr 17 The Chicken Issue $12.00

    True Crime Feb 17 How Many More Victims $9.99

    Wicked Vision Magazine vol 4 Jan Mar 17 $18.00

    Uncut Ultimate Music Guide #1 2017 Leonard Cohen $14.95

    *LIT JOURNALS*

    Make X Literary Magazine A Decade of Literary Art $30.00

    Girls Our Age #2 2017 $12.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Thanks to everybody that came out for the Black Eye #3 release event!

    *ZINES & ZINE-RELATED*

    Hey Lady #7 Sylvia Rivera by Regina Schilling $12.00 – Issue 7 of HEY LADY features Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002). She was a crucial voice for PoC, transgender and low income communities throughout her life. With her best friend and fellow activist, Marsha P. Johnson, she founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) providing shleter to young homeless trans women of color. A veteran of the Stonewall Uprising, she consistently participated in protests, riots, and marches. With her determination to fight for visibility, she brought transgender people to the forefront of the LGBTQ community.

    Things That Help: Healing Our Lives Through Feminism, Anarchism, Punk, & Adventure by Cindy Crabb $16.95

    Suckdog: A Ruckus by Lisa Carver $24.95 – Richly detailed historical account including interviews, personal notes, photographs, song lyrics and ephemera of Lisa Carver’s notorious underground band Suckdog, 1987-2017. Fascinating stories are abounding involving GG Allin, El Duce of the Mentors and a slew of other infamous rock and roll icons. Other key players include Psycodrama, Jean-Louis Costes, Fantagraphics cartoonist Dame Darcy and Bill Callahan. A must read for those obsessed with abrasive underground music, performance art, fanzines or the 90’s. ~CH

    Zine Pack Made At CHIPRC 3rd Anniversary July 16 $2.00 – When the Chicago Publishers Resource Center turned 3 there was a karaoke and zine-making party. Reading this is like being there.

    Airplane Food #3 Unfold It and Read the Marks by Tyler Callich $5.00

    Pops Parents on Parenting #2 by Jonas $2.00

    Confessions Zine by Charlene Herrera $1.00

    Fucking Ocean Part 2 by Leah Willbaum $10.00

    Light Is a Better God #4-6 by Alex Norelli $10.00 each

    New Morality Zine #0 by Nick Acosta $5.00

    Beginning of End Of by John D Whitlock $10.00

    Fuck You Pay Me a Quick and Dirty Instruction Manual $5.00

    Shadowself-Nothing Matters-Everything Matters More split by Matthew Scherer & Claire Mesesan $9.00

    Dual Individual by Joseph J. Mora $2.00

    Zeromile #10 by Peter Bergman $12.00

    Impractical Mushroom Foragers Handbook by Joe DeGeorge $4.00

    Hot Sex On a Friday by Aaron Manczyk $2.50

    Trump Reminds Me of My Rape $5.00

    zines by Joseph Carlough:
    Orchard Found Poems and Articles on Apples and the History of the Carlough Surname $1.00
    Georgia the Cat by Joseph Carlough $7.00
    …& more!

    zines by Sage Liskey:
    Surviving Collapse of Society Skills to Know and Careers to Pursue $4
    Community How To (Fifth Year Edition)$4
    Truthagandist Primer Effective Information Distribution for Activists $3
    You Are a Great and Powerful Wizard An Overview of Human Magic and Spell Casting $4

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    No Limits Allowed: Based on a Story by Robert Anton Wilson by Al Burian and Oska Wald $5.00 – Based on a story by Robert Anton Wilson, this Risographed mini will have you pondering whether bestiality is AOK. Go on a mystical journey as Dr. Dashwood explains the mysteries of the universe filled with tantric and taboo sex acts that can lead to veritable super hero man gods. ~CH

    Sharkman #2 vs. the Illuminati by Leo Mancini $5.00 – Conspiracies! Cryptids! Radioactive mutants! This comic serves up your favorite genre tropes with offbeat wit and charming art. Featuring a cameo appearance by Edward Snowden.

    Beasts Of Heaven Collection #1 & #2 by Samuel Locke Ward $6.00 each

    John John and Georgie by Veronica Englund $10.00

    Where Could I Go by Robert Zertuche $6.00

    Wac Donald’s: The Golden Tits of America $4.00

    Tat Rat #7 by Cameron Forsley $5.00

    2 Frogs On A Log by Alex Ross Williams $6.00 – Two strangers become fast friends in this fun pastoral adventure. Rendered in lovely yellows, blues, and greens. Created for the 2016 Comics Workbook Composition Competition.

    Posion Circus: A Nerd Jams Story by Olivier Wilkie $5.00

    That Time I Met Bill Clinton and He Stole My Favorite Pen by Rachel Scheer $4.00

    Yoga Diary One by Rachel Scheer $3.00

    Beguiling Bunnies by Rachel Bard $5.00

    Ley Lines Poems the Letting Go by Kevin Czap $6.00

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Don’t miss Emil Ferris here at Quimby’s March 4th!

    Wilson by Daniel Clowes (D&Q) $15.95 – Now in soft cover!

    Pretending Is Lying by Dominique Goblet $24.95

    Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis (D&Q) $16.95

    Excavation by Max Andersson (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Epilogue Diary by Kevin Budnik (1% Press) $10.00

    Starseeds by Charles Glaubitz (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    The Can Opener’s Daughter by Rob Davis $19.95

    Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie by Nejib $22.95

    Demon vol 2 by Jason Shiga $19.99

    Isnana Were Spider Werespider vol 1 Forgotten Stories $19.95

    Chester Five Thousand 5000 XYV Book Two Isabelle and George $14.95

    Not Waving But Drawing Dark Thoughts Lightly Rendered by John Cuneo (Fantagraphics) $25.00

    Farmer Neds Comics Barn by Gerald Jablonski (Fantagraphics Underground) $30.00

    You Might Be An Artist If by Lauren Purje $19.99

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

    Direct Action: A Short History of a Catastrophe by L.A. Kauffman (Verso) $17.95 – As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today. This deeply researched account, twenty-five years in the making, traces the evolution of disruptive protest since the Sixties to tell a larger story about the reshaping of the American left. Kauffman, a longtime grassroots organizer, examines how movements from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics to catalyze change despite long odds.

    We the People: Stories From the Community Rights Movement in the United States by Thomas Linzey and Anneke Campbell (PM Press) $14.95

    We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism In Twenty First Century America by Martinez, Meyer & Carter $29.95

    Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy by Sheldon Whitehouse and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett $27.95

    *MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS BOOKS*

    Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nations Leaders by Brady Carlson $15.95

    Killing God’s Enemies: The Crazy War Against Jews, African-Americans and the U.S. Government by John Lee Brook (Trine Day) $19.95

    Ancient Gods: Lost Histories, Hidden Truths, and the Conspiracy of Silence by William Willis (VISIBLE INK PRESS) $19.95

    Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilisation by Graham Hancock $17.99 – Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods, bringing new evidence supporting Hancock’s thesis that a global cataclysm wiped out a great global civilization.

    Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep by Marah J. Hardt $16.99

    *MUSIC BOOKS*

    Jaguar Ride: Memoirs of an Electric Eel by Brian McMahon $34.99 – Founding member of the Cleveland proto punk legends the ELECTRIC EELS, BRIAN MCMAHON has unleashed his story, finally available in print. The very first BOOK covering the synthesis of these cretins of the pre-punk underworld is now available, written by founding guitarist and author of such acerbic classics as “Accident,” “Cold Meat,” “Splitterty Splat,” “Sewercide,” “Safety Week,” “Jaguar Ride,” and last but not least, “Agitated.”

    Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays by Joe Bonomo (Soft Skull Press) $16.95

    Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook $35.00

    *FICTION*

    Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman $25.95 – Gaiman’s take!

    Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology ed. by Ellen Datlow $25.95 – Avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists.

    Zodiac: A Novel by Sam Wilson $25.95 – A series of uniquely brutal murders targets victims from totally different walks of life. In a society divided according to Zodiac signs, those differences are cast at birth and binding for life. All eyes are on detective Jerome Burton and astrological profiler Lindi Childs?divided in their beliefs over whether the answer is written in the stars, but united in their conviction that there is an ingenious serial killer executing a grand plan.

    4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster $32.50

    Bricks That Built Houses: A Novel by Kate Tempest $16.00 – From British poet and rapper. Now in soft cover.

    I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow (Featherproof Press) $15.95

    *MAGAZINES*

    Juxtapoz #194 Mar 17 $6.99

    Bust #103 Feb Mar 17 $6.99

    Maximumrocknroll #406 Mar 17 $4.99

    AdBusters #130 vol 25 #2 Mar Apr 17 $14.95

    Cinema Retro vol 13 #37 2017 $11.99

    Raw Vision #92 Win 16 17 $14.00

    Razorcake #96 Pedal Strike $4.00

    Cannabis Now #24 100 Best Dispensaries $7.99

    Shindig #63 The Kinks $12.99

    DOA #8 Ultimate Death Metal Magazine $6.66

    Jacobin #24 Win 17 $12.95

    Monocle vol 10 #100 Feb 17 $12.00

    Frankie #75 $17.50

    Atlantis Rising #122 Mar Apr 17 $6.95

    Cabinet #61 Calendars $12.00

    *LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*

    Feel Better Poems by Rosie Accola $10.00

    Overtime Hour 43 Still Wet With Dishwaster by Tom Fitts $2.00

    Paper Darts vol 6 $15.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Mineshaft #34 $9.00 – 52 page anthology from the depths with beautiful front cover art & design by Robert Crumb! Excerpts from R. Crumb’s Dream Diary and R. Crumb’s Sketchbook art! Billy Childish poetry Special Centerfold section “if theyve got what you want theyve got you”! “Springtime for Hitler in America” by J.R. Helton! Bill Griffith’s Romance 6 “ZIPPY” Comics! John Porcellino! Jim Blanchard! Noah Van Sciver! Nina Bunjevac! Mary Fleener! David Collier! And more!

    *Zines*

    Library Excavations #5 A Handbook of Library Ideas by Dale E. Schaffer (Half Letter Press) $6.00

    Egoist #1 On Sexual Assault by Olive Panter $4.00 – Heart Breakingly Compelling.

    La Croix Water zine by Russell Jaffe $10.00

    *Comics & Minis*

    Love and Rockets Magazine #1 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $4.99 – The new Love and Rockets marks Gilbert and Jaime’s return to the “floppy” format for the first time in a decade. 32 pgs! On Jaime’s side: What do you do when none of your old punk friends want to be punk any more? And just who does the evil Princess Animus think she is? (Hint: She doesn’t know, she has amnesia.) On Gilbert’s side: Family drama takes center stage when a Fritz discovers a grandchild she didn’t know existed! Old fans and new fans are sure to enjoy the most diverse cast of characters in comics, including Maggie, Hopey, Pipo, Fritz, Tonta, Baby, and many more! Plus other surprises! Grrrowl!

    You Don’t Get There From Here #41 by Carrie McNinch $3.00 – More awesome and compelling journal comics from long time mini-comicser.

    Work In Progress #2 by August LeRoi $7.00

    Center For Otherworld Science #4 by Shing Yin Khor (Sawdust Press) $8.00

    Faraway Beach by Nathan Cowdry $5.00 – This mini-comic ages like a fine wine with a full pervy base accompanied by notes of complex emotion, lolz and fragile egos. The author seems sexually obsessed and much of the story revolves around the male gaze, however the objects of desire are much more than just that. There’s a possible dog murder, rejection of pubic grooming and several sexy ladies holding large guns, giving them a feminist touch. Gorgeous drawings and solid story telling make this gem a must read. NSFW. ~CH

    *Graphic Novels*

    Yours by Sarah Ferrick (2dCloud) $23.95 – A lyrical, sensual collection of work that plays with comics’ conventions of repetition and pattern. From a Chicago local.

    Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Shane Oakley & Nick Filardi (Dark Horse Comics) $17.99 – Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author’s pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write fiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to the death, and his sinister butler.

    Extended Play by Jake Terrell (2dCloud) $18.95 – Comics with a loose, confident line, often focusing on a youth-centric cast of characters written into magical realist or measured fantastical narratives. From Brooklyn-based artist.

    *Art & Design Books*

    See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990 by by Prudence Stevenson etc. (Four Corners Books) $45.99 – A feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Details the group’s history up until the closure of the workshop in 1990, and with a foreword by celebrated feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham.


    *Fiction*

    Eisentein’s Monster by AV Bach $18.00

    *Essays*

    All Tomorrow’s Parties A Memoir: by Rob Spillman $16.00 – Now in soft cover! A colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist’s life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin.

    *Magazines*

    MaximumRocknRoll #405 Feb 17 $4.99

    Mojo #279 Black Sabbath $10.99

    True Crime Jan 17 $9.99

    Inked #82 Pinup Issue Feb 17 $6.99

    Under the Radar #59 Dec 16 $5.99

    Dissent Win 17 $10.00

    THC the Hemp Connoisseur Win 17 $6.99

    ASR #69 Win 17 Trumpocalypse $5.00

    Rethinking Schools vol 31 #2 Win 16 17 $5.95

    *Poetry*

    Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan $16.00

    *SeXXXY*

    Spunk #11 $10.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    *ZINES*

    How to Plan For Action: A Protest Prep Zine by Sarah Friedman $1.00

    How Not to Kill Yourself Zine: A Survival Guide For Imaginative Pessimists by by Set Sytes $4.00

    Conspiracy Fun Book Learn Real Historical Facts About the Dark Underworld of Oppression and Murder That School “forgot” to Teach You! by Joseph E. Green $4.00

    Grief and Other Things Men Gave Me by Jane Belinda $6.00

    Judas Goat Quarterly #72 Win 16 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

    Coup #1 Collection of Unfinished Projects Angle $10.00

    The Lowbrow Reader #10 $4.00 – Illustrations by David Berman, Drew Friedman, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jeffrey Lewis. Lowbrow hero Amy Heckerling spills the beans on Joseph Goebbels’s secret diary. (Her article is pretty timely—sad!) The Velvet Underground’s connection to the diabolic Steve Urkel is explored. Mel Brooks is discussed. What’s not to love?

    Borderless #2 Passport $15.00

    Xerography Debt #40 $4.00 – The review zine with perzine tendencies!


    Pedal By Pedal: A Zine About Women Over Forty Who Ride Bicycles: vol 1 by Julie Brooks $5.00

    Going Places #2 Powow Country $3.00

    10 Hot Sax Positions by Joe Degeorge Sax Machine $2.50

    Lizard People: Dear Reader: A DIY Guide to Searching For Weird Shit by Julia Eff $2.00

    Curio: A Book of Paper Toys by Anna Jo Beck $10.00 – Curio: A Book of Paper Toys is a collection over 20 paper toys. A lithographed and hand bound artist book in an edition of 30.

    The Cool Teen’s Guide To Fingering by infoTEENment $2.00

    The Cool Teen’s Guide To The Mall by infoTEENment $2.00

    Seeing and Believing by Maureen Ohara Ure $24.00

    In Flight Safety $10.00

    Brutal by Nathan Pearce $2.00

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    Unquotable Trump #1 by R. Sikoryak $4.00 – Collects the first 16 covers posted on the unquotabletrump.tumblr.com page. All Trump dialogue from the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond. Drawn by R. Sikoryak.

    Possession Scenes Collected #1-#5 by Lyra Hill $10.00

    Monstrum Ingenium Myth Series #1 by Rodger Binyone $5.00

    Halvin and Cobbes by Jared Solomon $8.00

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    2 books by Tillie Walden:
    The End of Summer $18.00
    I Love This Part $12.00

    Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann (D+Q) $22.95

    Zonzo by Joan Cornella (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – 50 all-new strips of smiling psychopaths!

    Dept. H vol 1 by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse) $19.99

    *ART BOOKS*

    Biomech Visions by Andres Hurtado (Last Gasp) $29.00

    *MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS*

    Practical Spellcraft: A First Course in Magic by Leanna Greenaway $16.95

    Shamanic Graffiti: 100,000 Years of Drugs, 100 Years of Prohibition by Frank Ogden, Marcus Ashley Rummery (Trine Day) $19.95 – Freud said dreams were the “royal road” to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedelic experience, but Frank Ogden shepherded over a thousand people’s experiences. What is presented is the howling unconscious released from the normal chemical constraints that restrict it. Written in the simple, but vivid style Frank popularized in his bestselling, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read, Shamanic Graffiti presents an alternative history of the brain and it’s functions: shamanism. Giving real world examples, the book finishes-up by exploring the theories of two pre-eminent psychedelic theoreticians, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Stan Grof and looks at the future of psychedelic drugs.

    Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film by Jay Dyer (Trine Day) $19.95 – Sample quote, accompanied by a picture of Elliot from E.T. on his bike in front of the moon, “Elliot has all the power of a male witch. Is he a moonchild?”

    Rivals of the Ripper: Unsolved Murders of Women In Late Victorian London by Jan Bondeson $35.00

    Legends: Murder, Lies and Cover-Ups: Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, JFK and Michael Jackson: Who Killed Them and Why They Didn’t Have to Die by David Gardner $14.95

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

    Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation by Peter Gelderloos (AK Press) $16.00

    Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture by Julius Deutsch (PM Press) $14.95

    *MAGS*

    Tape Op #117 Jan Feb 17 $4.95

    Majestic Disorder #8 $18.99

    Vive Le Rock #41 Iggy Pop and The Damned $10.50

    Harpers Magazine Feb 17 $6.99

    Make vol 55 Feb Mar 17 $9.99

    Four Two Nine #9 $12.99

    Four and Sons #6 Dogs and Culture Collide Fall Win 16 $19.99

    *LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*

    Parody vol 5 #2 $5.00 – The Weird Al of Lit Journals!

    The Chicago Review vol 60 #2 Helen Adam and Her Circle $15.00

    Sail On Silver Girl by Katryn Macko $5.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Brain Frame Yearbook 2011-2014. $50 Long live #comics! #brainframe #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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    Brain Frame Yearbook 2011-2014

    *ZINES*

    American Dream #3 $3.00

    As You Were #1 by Bill Brown $3.00

    Soda Killers #13 $5.00

    *COMICS*

    Mike Pence’s Worst Nightmare by Ally Whitelaw & Becca Regan $4.00

    Houses Giant Sized First Issue by Matthew Schmid $5.00

    Verdict #1 by Kwame Teague $5.00

    Lucky #1 a Gangster Comic by Christian Cipollini $5.00

    Laskimooses #33 Maakausien Hamarassa $7.00

    True Adventures of Jep Comix #6 Summer 16 by Jep $4.00

    *MAYHEM*

    The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal $40.00 – The art of brainscans!

    Explorations in Awareness: Finding God by Meditating with Entheogens by John W. Aiken $17.95

    *MUSIC & FILM BOOKS*

    Headliners by Jamel Hewitt $20.00

    The Official Making of Big Trouble in Little China by Tara Bennett $39.99

    Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones $26.99

    *FICTION*

    Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen Dovey $18.00

    Zeke Stage One by Ward J. Pyle $13.95

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*

    Culture As Weapon: The Art of Influence In Everyday Life by Nato Thompson (Melville House) $24.99

    *MAGAZINES*

    Uppercase #32 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious

    Wire #395 Jan 17 Peter Brotzmann $10.99

    *LIT JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY*

    The First Line vol 18 #4 Win 16 $4.00

    The Last Line #3 Win 16 $3.00

    Book of Days by Jason Triefenbach $3.00

    Revise the Psalm Work: Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks by Qraysh Ali Lansana (Curbside Splendor) $24.95

    *POLITICAL BOOKS*

    Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals by Jonathan Smucker (AK Press) $16.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Just in: New David Alvarado comic #quimbysbookstorechicago #comics

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    Life is Beautiful vol 2 Teen Dreams and Other Stories by David Alvarado $10.00

    *ZINES*

    KerBloom #123 Nov Dec 16 by Artnoose $2.00

    Put a Egg On It #13 $8.00

    Disruptor #3 Fall Win 16 Exploring DIY Punk and Hardcore Live From Chicago by Lucas Reif $5.00

    Sick Muse #6 Dec 16 $6.00

    When the Day Is New by Tim Pigott $3.00

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    New stuff, shipment from Birdcage Bottom. #comics #quimbysbookstorechicago

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    As You Were #5 A Punk Comix Anthology: This Job Sucks (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $15.00

    Coffee Spoons #3 by Megan Kirby $4.00

    Air Waves Goodbye by Steve Stelling $4.00

    Spinning A Yarn by Krystal Difronzo $4.00

    Crooked Teeth #6 by Nate Doyle $10.00

    Cyanide Milkshake #8 by Liz Suburbia $3.00

    Wandering Uterus and Contemporary Applications of Ancient Medical Wisdom a Pathology Laffs Minicomic by Kriota Willberg $5.00

    The Black Hood Anthology of Depression and Anxiety $10.00 – This book is determined do for comics about Depression what Black Flag did for songs about depression. 72 pages, with 10 color pieces by artists like John Porcellino, Box Brown, Tara Booth, Noah Van Sciver, Elizabeth Bethea, Josh Simmons, Mike Freiheit, Pat Aulisio, Katie Fricas, Mike (Late Era Clash) Taylor, Hyena Hell, and many others. Includes a one page comic/interview with Dwid Hellion from famed HC band Integrity, and an essay by artist/writer Eve Wood.

    Our Best Shot: Disclosures of Unlawful Compassion in the United States by Avi (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $4.00

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Mimi and the Wolves vols 1-3 by Alabaster. Now in stock! $12.00 each! #witchycute

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    Mimi and the Wolves Act 3 The Howl by Alabaster $12.00

    *POLITICS, REVOLUTION & CURRENT EVENTS BOOKS*

    The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage by John Hughes-Wilson (Pegasus Press) $29.95

    *MAGAZINES*
    Maximumrocknroll #404 Jan 17 $4.99
    Razorcake #95 $4.00
    Juxtapoz #193 Feb 17 $6.99
    Skeptic vol 21 #4 16 $6.95
    Skeptical Inquirer vol 41 #1 Jan Feb 17 $5.99
    2600 the Hacker Quarterly vol 33 #4 Win 2016-2017 $5.95
    The Big Takeover #79 $5.99
    Atlantis Rising #121 Jan Feb 17 $6.95
    Nexus vol 24 #1 Jan Feb 17 $6.95
    Neural #55 $7.99
    Magnet #138 $4.99
    Witches and Pagans #33 $6.95
    Ugly Things #43 $9.95
    Victory Journal #12 $16.00
    Delayed Gratification #24 $20.00
    Fate #730 $5.95
    Tom Tom Magazine #28 $6.00
    Cannabis Now #23 $7.99
    Man About Town #19 Win 2016-2017 $19.99
    Frankie #74 $14.95
    RFD #168 Win 16 Sisters $9.95
    Ghetto Blaster #45 $4.50
    Shindig #61 $12.99

    *CHAP BOOKS, LIT JOURNALS & POETRY*

    Slow Reader Magazine #1 On Haruki Murakami (Madras Press) $8.00 – Collects stories, essays, poems, illustrations, and some in-betweens that center around novelist Haruki Murakami. A poem by Raymond Carver talks of tea with Murakami and getting hit in the ear with a snowball; the Murakami menu from Nodoguro in Portland, Ore., includes Norwegian Wood (seared Japanese eggplant, bonito, ginger, and red miso) and Kafka on the Shore (sea bream sashimi with citrus skin salad and pepper); Aimee Bender writes of what it is to trust an artist, and the experience, when reading Murakami, of having “gone somewhere new, a metaphysical spelunking.” There are also contributions by Jesse Ball, Rivka Galchen, Chris Ware, Yoko Ogawa, Etgar Keret, and others.

    N+1 Deep End #27 No President $14.95

    Brooklyn To Mars #11 $7.99

    Mercenary Girdler by Elizabeth Harper $10.00

    There’s One For That #1 by Orla Foster $3.50

    The Paris Review #219 $20.00

    Fillip Supplement #1 $5.00

    The Iowa Review vol 46 #3 Win 2016-2017 $8.95

    My Nipples and Not Apologizing For Them #1 A Story of Womanhood and Triumph by Annie Baldwin $11.00

    *SEXXXY*

    Elska #9 Yokohama Japan $18.50

  • New Stuff This Week

    Happy new year! Back on to regular hours! Open noon to 9pm today! #quimbys

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    *ZINES*

    Genius Loves Company by Z. Dillon $8.00

    Save The Bees Worx #3 $7.00

    Table Scraps in the Kitchen With the International Pancake Film Festival vol 1 by C. Kuball $12.00

    Occult Digest: A Journal of Esoteric Thought Practice and Expression vol 1 #1 $13.00

    Lightness Awareness Hereness Made At Home by Emma Casey $10.00

    Tributaries #6 an Interesting Case by JC $3.00

    Fuggles A Beer Zine #2 Fall 16 by David Nilsen $3.50

    Glyphs by Turner Hilliker $5.00

    Bitch, I Know You Heard Me: Stories and Pictures About Cat Calling and Unsolicited Attention $8.00

    Ugly Refridgerator: A Non Joke About Art School $1.00

    Somnambulist #28 Stuck by Martha Grover $5.00 – (Pictured below.) All about being stuck – stuck physically, emotionally, spiritually.

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    120 Minutes: The Interview, Sketches vol 2 by Derek Marks $5.00

    Baba Yaga’s House by Krystal Difronzo $5.00

    Thinking of You by Andy Burkholder $5.00

    Don’t Care Where the Past Was by Andy Rench $5.00

    American Steel by Danielle Chenette $5.00

    Animal Hair Museum #2 You Are Only the Sum of Your Influences by Matt W. Haas $3.00

    Days Off #1 by Turner Hilliker $3.00

    Space Center #1 by Rod Binnion $20.00

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Love is Love: A Comic Book Anthology to Benefit the Survivors of the Orlando Pulse Shooting $9.99 – With work by comics names as Grant Morrison, Ed Luce, Jill Thompson & more!

    *ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

    Imprisoned: Drawings from Nazi Concentration Camps by Arturo Benvenuti $29.99

    *MUSIC & MEDIA BOOKS*

    Age of Bowie: How David Bowie Made a World of Difference by Paul Morely $16.00

    Spiders From Mars: My Life With Bowie by Woody Woodmansey 27.99

    Bomb: The Author Interviews by Betsy Sussler $16.00 – Drawing on 30 years of BOMB Magazine.

    Christmas Reference Booklet Movies #1 by J. Brewer $1.00

    *FICTION*

    Meditation as Way of Seeing: Beyond Mega Machine by Peter Bowman $6.50

    *ESSAYS*

    Flowers Among the Carrios: Essays on the Gothic In Contemporary Poetry by James Pate $10.00

    *MAGAZINES*

    Hi Fructose #42 New Contemporary Art Magazine $7.95

    Protest 101 How to Do it and Why You Should by Bronwyn Mauldin $7.00

    *POETRY & CHAP BOOKS*

    Let Them Eat Chaos: A Poem by Kate Tempest $16.00 – New book from British slam poet rapper.

    Everything Smells Like Breast Milk: Poems On Love Baseball and Being a Dad by Lee Kitzis $11.95

    Treefingers by Alida Miranda-Wolff $6.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Holiday hours: Sat Dec 24th 11am to 7pm Sun Dec 25th closed Sat Dec 31st 11am to 5pm Sun Jan 1st closed

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    Holiday hours:
    Sat, Dec 24th 11am-7pm
    Sun, Dec 25th CLOSED
    Sat, Dec 31st 11am-5pm
    Sun, Jan 1st CLOSED

    *ZINES*

    Zines from Interference Archive by Josh MacPhee:
    Lonely Books $10.00
    Libre Shared Struggles Mobile Print Power Interference Document #14 $12.00
    Liberation Support Movement: Building Solidarity with the African Liberation Struggle $6.00

    Wasted Pages Anthology 2016 $2.00 – Work by the many talented folks who participated in the Wasted Pages CHIPRC workshops.
    For more info about Chicago Publishers Resource Center: chiprc.org

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    Comics from Uncivilized Books:
    Get Out Your Hankies by Gabrielle Bell $6.00
    Escape Route by Daniel Zender $5.00
    My Dead Mother by Clara Jetsmark $6.00

    Magic Whistle vol 3 #3 Holiday Issue ed. by edited by Sam Henderson & David Nuss (Alternative Comics) $9.99 – Full color holiday special. Guest artists this issue include Jen Sandwich, Corinne Halbert, Barack Hussein Obama and Yikes creator Steve Weissman and the return to comics of legendary Trailer Trash creator Roy Tompkins Cover art by Drinky Crow creator Tony ‘Maakies’ Millionaire.

    Dad’s Weekend by Pete Toms (Hic & Hoc) $6.00

    Nyx Forms #1 by Rod Binnion $8.00

    Spectacle of Nothing by Kyle Osbourne $3.00

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Black Eye #3 A Shameful Enlightenment by Ryan Standfest (Rotland Press) $15.95 – Final volume of the Ignatz-nominated series, an anthology of humor and despair. 136 pages, 37 international cartoonists. contributors include: Alexis Beauclair, Andy Burkholder, Julia Gfrörer, Anna Haifisch, Corinne Halbert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Paul Nudd, Onsmith, Johnny Sampson & more!

    Chris Ware: Conversations by Jean Braithwaite (U Press of Miss) $40.00

    Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution by Julia Alekseyeva (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95

    Sp4rx by Wren McDonald (Nobrow) $18.95

    Goodnight Punpun vol 4 by Inio Asano $24.99

    Tomie by Junji Ito $34.99

    The Complete Chi’s Sweet Home, 4 by Konami Kanata $24.95

    Walt and Skeezix vol 7 1931-1932 by Frank King (D&Q) $44.95

    *MUSIC BOOKS*


    Total Chaos: The Story of the Stooges by Jeff Gold & Johan Kugelberg (Third Man) $50.00 – Author Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg, noted music historians and collectors, spent two days with Pop at his Miami home, sharing with him their extensive Stooges collection and interviewing the legendary singer. Pop’s candid, bare-all responses left them with the almost unbelievable tale of the band he founded-the alternately tragic and triumphant story of a group who rose from youth, fell prey to drugs, alcohol, and music biz realities, collapsed and nearly 30 years later reformed, recording and touring to great acclaim.

    Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead: Color the Ace of Spades (Feral House Coloring Books for Adults) $15.95

    Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd Dark Globe by Julian Palacios (Plexus) $19.95 – Back in print!

    *MAYHEM*

    The 10 Worst Psychopaths: The Most Depraved Killers In History by Victor McQueen $9.95

    *DRUUUUUUGS*

    A Treasury of Hashish by Alexander Sumach THC (Ronin) $19.95 –  Complete history, from medicine to indulgence. This work of art is entirely hand lettered with a clever drawing, rare photo, or antique map on every page.

    *ESSAYS*

    Fake Missed Connections: Divorce, Online Dating, and Other Failures by Brett Fletcher Lauer (Soft Skull) $16.95 – Now in soft cover.

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTIONS BOOKS*

    Crunk Feminist Collection by Cooper, Boylorn and Morris (Feminist Press) $24.95

    Prison Memoirs of An Anarchist by Alexander Berkman (AK Press) $24.00

    *FICTION*

    Cardinal and Other Stories by Alex Higley $14.99

    Difficult Women by Roxanne Gay $25.00

    *MAGAZINES*

    Harpers Magazine Jan 17 $6.99

    Mojo #278 Kate Bush $10.99

    Boneshaker Magazine #18 $14.95

    True Crime Dec 16 $9.99

    Wire #394 Dec 16 $9.99

    Shock Cinema #51 $5.00

    *LIT JOURNALS*

    Taddle Creek #38 $6.95

    *OTHER STUFF*

    Various handmade blank journals from Jenna Citrus – various prices, various sizes, various shapes.

    Dinky Shrinks by Johnny Sampson, assorted styles $5.00 each