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New Stuff This Week
Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design by Victionary $35.00 – Macabre aesthetics, nightmare visions, unexplainable tableaus. Artists include: Alex Garant, Anton Semenov, Dan Hillier, Daniel Martin Diaz, Elisa Ancori, Evelyn Bencicova, Fiona Roberts, Fuco Ueda, Hannes Hummel, Januz Miralles, Johnson Tsang, Katy Horan, Kim Simonsson, Leta Sobierajski, Lola Dupre, Nicoletta Ceccoli and many more.
*ZINES*
Judas Goat Quarterly #69 Spr 16 $1.50
Not Like You Zine #6 $5.00
Happy Tapir #1 First Apartment by Johnny Masiulewicz $3.00
Unwatchabulls 1999-2004 by Baw Cutler $3.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Lands Have Mercy by Jason Murphy $7.00
Local teacher Dan Adams brought in his class of 9-12-year-olds who all made comics. Awesome titles include:
Zombie Apokalips
Immigrant Youth Justice League
What to Do When Your Bored
Narwhal
World of Mine Craft
Fred Hampton: The Loudest Boy In the World
Call of Duty: Black Ops Top Five Moments to Rage Quit
Epic Super Hero Fails
Best Soccer Game of my LifeThe 3 headed Golem Part 1 by Tom Davis $6.00
Laskimooses #29 Peruspinnan Mustaus $7.00
Islands Comic by Evah Fan $8.00
Vortex Man #1 Scortched Earth $6.00
Wow by Caroline Cash $9.00 – The hand behind Mr. Blob pens a millennial Ghost World tracking two girls abusing social media on the periphery of the archetypal Party That Sucks. Cash gives you your money’s worth of drama in just 8 pages. Stylistically it’s a little like if Jeffy from The Family Circus grew up and took his adderall habit to art school. And that’s just splendid. ~GS
Heavy Blanket #1 by Cory Feder $10.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Megg and Mogg In Amsterdam and Other Stories by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Don’t Come in Here by Patrick Kyle (Koyama Press) $15.00
Rules For Dating My Daughter: The Modern Father’s Guide to Good Parenting by Mike Dawson (Uncivilized) $15.95
After Comes Nothing by Aiden Koch (Koyama Press) $20.00
Peplum by Blutch $24.95
Gorgeous by Cathy G. Johnson (Koyama Press) $10.00
Night Air by Ben Sears (Koyama) $12.00
What is Obscenity?: The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her Pussy by Rokudenashiko (Koyama Press) $20.00 – Rokudenashiko (“good-for-nothing girl”) is a Japanese artist. She is known for her series of decorated vulva moulds, or “Decoman,” a portmanteau of decorated and manko, slang for vagina. Distributing a 3D scan of her genitalia to crowdfunding supporters led to her arrest for alleged violation of Japanese obscenity laws.
Why Would You Do That? by Andrea Tsurumi (Hic & Hoc) $10.00 – Poodles, brassieres, sports fans, pie, the Civil War!
The Flash by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar $19.99
Providence Act 1 by Alan Moore etc (Avatar) $19.99
Johnny Boo Goes Like This by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $9.99
*ART & DESIGN*
Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman $24.95
Jean Cocteau Coloring Book (Arsenal Pulp Press) $12.95
Thin Slices of Anxiety: Observations and Advice to Ease a Worried Mind by Catherine Lepage $14.95
*FICTION*
Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread by Chuck Palahniuk $15.00
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet $25.95
Gonzo Girl by Cheryl Della Pietra $16.00
Join by Steve Toutonghi $27.00 – What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That’s the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies.
The English Assassin Book 3 of the Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock $9.95 – Back in print! MM’s third book in the Cornelius series from the late 60s, of the drug-taking, physics-doing, sex-experimenting weirdo Jerry Cornelius. Bond but as an assassin, part-Buckaroo Banzai, 100% rock star. Recommended. -LM
*FILM & MUSIC BOOKS*
MDC: Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption by Dave Dictor (Manic D Press) $15.95 – Memoir from singer, lyricist, and founding member of legendary American punk band MDC (Millions of Dead Cops).
Video Tonfa by Tim Goodyear (Floating World Comics) $24.95 – In 2009, Tim Goodyear turned his sketchbook into a journal of the movies he watched, focusing on VHS & DVD for an eclectic & personal film history. For each video he redrew the original box art & substituted the text with his own reflections. Video Tonfa is more than a book of movie reviews, it’s a chronic memoir of over 300 video visitations.
*FOOD*
The Starving Artist Cookbook by Sara Zin $22.95
*SEX GUIDES & CULTURE*
Truth, Justice, and the American Whore by Siouxsie Q (Three L) $18.95 – Podcaster and SF Weekly columnist stating opinions that your mother likely won’t approve, constructing arguments that will make you blush.
The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!) by Anna Pulley, watercolor illustrations by Kelsey Beyer (Flatiron) $14.99 – Learn about all the aspects involved in girl-on-girl action as fed through the lens of two things the internet approves of: cats and things described in three lines or less.
*SCIENCE!*
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond by Christophe Galfard (Flatiron Books) $27.99 – A cosmic yet friendly tour from the Big Bang to black holes.
Things to Make and do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker $16.00
Farmageddon: The True Cost Cheap Meat by P. Lymbery etc. $19.99
The Human Side of Science: Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and Other Personal Stories Behind Science’s Big Ideas by Arthur W. Wiggins etc., illustrated by Sidney Harris $25.00
*ESSAYS*
Telling: A Memoir by Zoe Zolbrod (Curbside Splendor) $16.95
Failed It!: How to turn mistakes into ideas and other advice for successfully screwing up by Erik Kessels (Phaidon) $12.95 – Over 150 visual examples drawn from Kessels personal collection of artworks and found photographs, along with tips, quotes, anecdotes and wisdom for celebrating with failure.
The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen (Grove) $16.00 – A twenty-year veteran of the tech industry traces the technological and economic history of the internet from its founding in the 1960s through the rise of the big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity, and investigates how the internet is reconfiguring our world—often at great cost.
Books from Blue Heron Press, $12.99 each
Rigger: A Memoir from High School to High Steel by Larry James Neff
Like A Dog: A Memoir by Vincent Francone
Sharing Lessons Learned While Seeking the Spotlight by Lynnie GodfreyThe Miles Between Me by Toni Nealie (Curbside Splendor) $16.95
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot $24.95
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Jael Silliman etc. (Haymarket) $19.00
Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle by Kelly Fritsch etc (AK Press) $22.95 – With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, Keywords for Radicals explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term’s contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it. Contributors include Patrick Bond, Silvia Federici, John Bellamy Foster, Joy James, Ilan Pappé, Justin Podur, Nina Power, Mab Segrest, and more.
Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics by Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters for America $15.00
*MAGAZINES*
Mojo #270 May 16 the Stones $10.99
Frankie #70 $14.95
Gayletter #4 $20.00
*CHAP BOOKS & LIT JOURNALS*
The End is Near by Adam Michael Krause $10.00 – Is the world really ending now? Or has it always been? This pocket-sized pamphlet compiles eschatological ejaculations throughout Western history, cumulatively begging the question of whether, amid all this [very real] environmental panic, our prophesies of doom are finally coming true, or just getting in line with centuries of cultural product. Sharp, portable and gussied up in letterpress; it’s even footnoted so you know it’s Real. ~GS
The Literary Review vol 59 #1 Win 16 Fight $10.00
*KIDS BOOKS*
Professor Astro Cat’s Atomic Adventure by Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman (Nobrow Press) $24.00 – Class is in session, and the subject is physics. Your teacher? Why, he’s the smartest cat in the galaxy!
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New Stuff This Week
Maximum Rocknroll #396 May 16 The Zines Issue $4.99 – Over a dozen features on zines! Including but not limited to: anthology As You Were, Emmy Ramone talks about their zines Cretins of Distortion and the Mental Whiff (digging at the roots of human expression through punk in the Midwest and beyond), NUTS! fanzine, Fluke fanzine celebrates its 25th anniversary, Burn Collector’s Al Burian talks about his music and his move to Berlin, Not Shit, a skate fanzine dedicated to the punk/DIY approach, folks behind No Shame, a distro that highlights work by people of color, write about eight of their favorite zines, an interview highlighting the Finnish Fanzine Archive, & more!!!!*ZINES*
Bland #4 by Rod Binnion $4.00
Humonculus #2 by Paul Walker $3.00
Feelings, a Black and white xerox edition by Robin Hustle $4.00 – Associative visual study featuring hands, wigs, chains, storefronts and iconic movie scenes splashed with text. Created by activist, artist and writer Robin Hustle. Sharp, clever and playfully abstract. Back in stock after a long absence as a nice b&w edition.
Low Bar by Madeline Hester $11.00
Sub/Verse #5 Mar Apr 16 by Chloe Graham $5.00 – Personal musings on Sleater-Kinney, Patti Smith and more.
*COMICS & MINIS*
Comics from MC Harkness:
Dean Ambrose: Bigfoot Hunter $4.00
Kourtney Kardashian’s Guide on How to Eat a Kit-Kat $2.00Werewolf Hunter #1 by Peter Faecke $5.00 – A collection of golden age comics redrawn by Peter Faecke with original Werewolf Hunter splash pages from 1941 written by Armand Weygand and drawn by Gustav Schotter, George Tuska and Saul Rosen.
Commuter Naps by Theora Kvitka $7.00 – Drawings of people in states of sleep on public trans — snoozin’ on the train, planking on the bus, dropped over a stop sign off their high wheel. Don’t sleep on this! -LM
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and Religious Obedience in the Bible by Chester Brown (D&Q) $21.95 – Sex work enthusiast/advocate Chester Brown’s retelling in comics form of nine biblical stories regarding prostitution.
Hellboy in Mexico by Mike Mignola & friends $19.99
Those Dark New Hampshire Woods by Desmond Reed $12.00
The Tipping Point: Slightly Oversized Edition (Humanoids) $29.95 – From slice-of-life tales and science-fiction adventures, to amusing asides and fantastical fables, witness these major (and minor) changes and evolution through the eyes of these visionaries from the worlds of manga, bande dessinée, and comics. With work from John Cassaday, Emmanuel Lepage, Bob Fingerman, Eddie Campbell, Taiy Matsumoto, Boulet, Atsushi Kaneko, Naoki Urasawa, Bastien Vivès, Frederik Peeters, Keiichi Koike, Paul Pope, Katsuya Terada.
I Am a Hero vol 1 Omnibus by Kengo Hanazawa $19.99
Rat Queens vol 3 Demons by Wiebe Kurtis, Tess Fowler & friends $14.99
Irmina by Barbara Yelin (SelfMadeHero) $24.95 – A tale of multi-cultural romance and correspondance in 1930s London.
An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar by Reinhard Kleist (SelfMadeHero) $22.95 – Follows the Somalian athlete’s second attempt to represent her country at the London Olympics.
*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*
Vintage Tattoo Flash: 100 Years of Traditional Tattoos by Jonathan Shaw (PowerHouse) $60.00 – Over 300 pieces of flash, entirely unpublished sheets of original work from the likes of Bob Shaw, Zeke Owens, Holt + Rowe, Ted Inman, Ace Harlyn, Ed Smith, Colonel Todd, the Moskowitz brothers, and many, many others relatively known and unknown.
GG Allin Coloring Book by Nicole Jakus $8.00 – Never before have I seen GG Allin looking so adorable. In this, very much for adults coloring book, you can have fun going outside the lines because GG would have wanted it that way. Our favorite rock and roll menace to society parodied in Marilyn Monroe’s infamous dress being blown around might be my favorite. -CH
Cat Compendium: The Worlds of Louis Wain $18.95
Inked by Lola Mars (Summersdale Publishers Ltd ) $16.95
*MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS*
Black Cats and Evil Eyes: A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions by Chloe Rhodes (Michael OMara Books Limited) $13.95
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir by Lita Ford $26.99 – Heavy metal’s leading female rocker bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs and lows of her trailblazing career.
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Cruz Gonzales (PM Press) $15.95 – Memoir from Xicana drummer and lyrics writer from 90s female hardcore feminist band Spitboy. Fully illustrated with rare photos and flyers from the punk rock underground, this fast-paced, first-person recollection is populated by scenesters and musical allies from the time including Econochrist, Paxston Quiggly, Neurosis, Los Crudos, Aaron Cometbus, Pete the Roadie, Green Day, Fugazi, and Kamala and the Karnivores.
Johnny Marr: The Smiths & the Art of Gun-Slinging by Richard Carman (Music Press Books) $14.95
*FICTION*
The Bed Moved by Rebecca Schiff $24.95 – Collection of short stories: a cash-strapped pot grower to a “clothing optional resort”, a nerdy high-schooler has her first sexual experience at Geology Camp, a college student on the night of her father’s funeral watches a video of her bat mitzvah and more.
Lurid and Cute by Adam Thirlwell $18.00 – A sweet and well-to-do narrator descents into deceit with an orgy, a brothel, and a series of firearms disputes.
Robert Bloch’s Psycho: Sanitarium by Chet Williamson $24.99 – Sequel to Robert Bloch’s masterpiece, Psycho (as in, the book the classic movie was based on). Bloch, the original author of Psycho, wrote a follow up novel 23 later, which revealed that Norman had been in a mental institution the entire time. In that sequel, Norman quickly escapes the sanitarium and goes on a killing spree in Hollywood. But what happened in that asylum during those two decades? Until now, no one has known. That’s where this novel picks up.
The Blondes: A Novel by Emily Schultz $16.00 – An epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, all of whom must go to great lengths to conceal their blondeness.
*EATING & CRYING BOOKS*
Dimly Lit Meals For One by Tom Kennedy $18.95
*ESSAYS*
You’re Better Than Me: A Memoir by Bonnie McFarlane $15.99
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier $15.00 – Computer scientist, programmer, musician, pioneer in digital media, and father of virtual reality technology offers a critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse.
*MAGAZINES*
Wire #386 Apr 16 $9.99
Four Two Nine #7 $12.99
Tabu Tattoo #59 $7.99
Cemetery Dance #73 $9.95
2600 the Hacker Quarterly vol 33 #1 Spr 16 $6.95
Dissent Spr 16 $10.00
Race and Class vol 57 #4 Apr Jun 16 $8.00
THC The Hemp Connoisseur Spr 16 $6.99
Atlantis Rising #117 May Jun 16 $6.95
Fate #729 $5.95
Delayed Gratification #21 $20.00
Horror Hound #58 Mar Apr 16 The Ring $6.99
Shindig #54 The Band $12.99
*CHAP BOOKS & POETRY*
Secret of Navigation by Miles Liss $8.00
On Cats by Charles Bukowski $25.99 – Yup. Bukowski loved cats.
*ESSAYS*
You Are a Complete Disappointment: A Triumphant Memoir of Failed Expectations by Mike Edison $17.95 – Don’t miss Mike Edison here at Quimby’s to celebrate this new book on Fri, June 3rd! ‘You are a complete disappointment.’ On his deathbed, Mike Edison’s father gasped those words to his son – and that was just the beginning of his devastating salvo. For anyone who has ever suffered from parental bullying, this often-hilarious, yet intensely heartbreaking, memoir from the former ‘High Times’ publisher will provide both solace and laughter.
*SCIENCE! aka DESTROYING OURSELVES*
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 by J. R. McNeill & Peter Engelke (Harvard U Press/Belknap Press) $19.95
Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott $12.95 – Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us.
Back in stock! And you can order it on our website!!!
Quimby the Mouse Wooden Toy by Chris Ware $39.95 – “Quimby the Mouse” originally found expression within the pages of the periodical The ACME Novelty Library. This wood, wire, cloth and rope approximation of F.C. Ware’s creation is now ready to be added to your collection. Packaged in a colorful, hand-designed preprinted cardboard container, including a 32-page hardcover book written and drawn, by Mr. Ware, the whole setup is rounded off with a perfect-scale replica bonus of Quimby the Mouse’s long lost love, “Sparky the Cat.” Sure to be coveted by collectors and fans alike, place your orders now for this little memento of pre-21st century nostalgia.
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New Stuff This Week
Issues of Hey Lady by Regina Schilling, $8.00 each: #1 Yoko Ono, #2 Michelle Nichols, #3 Candy Darling
*ZINES*
KerBloom #119 Mar Apr 16 by Artnoose $2.00
Flotation Device #14 by Keith Helt $2.00
Vinyl Vagabonds #6 $6.00 and #7 $7.00 by Eric Gordon
Bathroom Selfies From the Road #1 by Sarah Szumanski Jahn $5.00
Serio #7 Social Justice Zine Based In Chicago Lucy Stoole Chicago Drag $5.00
Hal and Ida in Israel #1 $2.00
Bookstores and Baseball: 8th Inning by David LaBounty $5.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
new minis from Krystal DiFronzo, $4.00 each:
Even A Worm Will Turn
Homo Sapiens Non Urinat in VentumFight by Gabrielle Howell $3.00
Yolo Flor y Nata Split Comic by Teresa Ferreiro & Roberta Vazquez $9.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Kramers Ergot #9 ed. by Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics) $45.00
ITDN 10 Comics by Andrew Burkholder (2D Cloud) $22.95 – The second collection of avant-garde comics from Chicago’s Andy Burkholder interrogates the notion of the artist as an aesthetic chameleon.
Incomplete Works by Dylan Horrocks (Alternative Comics) $19.99
Josh Simmon’s Jessica Farms vols 1 and 2 (Fantagraphics) $16.99 each – Serialized adventure-horror-macabre of a Midwestern farmhouse, a life-spanning comics project in which Josh Simmons drew one page every month for the past 16 years, starting in January 2000—and will continue this project for 50 years in total, releasing 96-page increments every 8 years until he amasses a 600-page body of work.
Nameless City by Erin Faith Hicks $14.99
Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan by Bryan Doerries $19.95
*ART & DESIGN*
An Unreliable History of Tattoos by Paul Thomas (Nobrow) $19.95 – “A gonzo view of tats through the ages: mostly British, frequently profane, replete with extravagantly inked caricatures.” -Kirkus Reviews
Make Your Mark: New Urban Artists by Tristan Manco $45.00
*FICTION*
Dead Letters: An Anthology of The Undelivered, The Missing, The Returned ed. by Conrad Williams $14.95 – Features new stories from the masters of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction, each inspired by object from the Dead Letters Office.
American People vol 1 Search For My Heart by Larry Kramer $20.00
*ESSAYS*
I Know What I’m Doing ?? and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life by Jen Kirkman $24.00
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, ed. by Meghan Daum $16.00 – Contributors include Lionel Shriver, Sigrid Nunez, Kate Christensen, Elliott Holt, Geoff Dyer, and Tim Kreider, among others.
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America $26.00
The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice by Samuel Farber (Haymarket) $16.95
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies) by Paul Le Blanc (Haymarket) $17.00
*FOOD BOOKS*
The Wurst of Lucky Peach: A Treasury of Encased Meat by Chris Ying and the Editors of Lucky Peach $26.00
*DRUUUUUUGS*
Weed: The User’s Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana by David Schmader $18.95
Dreamland: The True Tale of Americas Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones $18.00
*SCIENCE!*
What’s It Like in Space? Stories from Astronauts by Ariel Waldman $14.95
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow $27.99 – Yes, this is more a music bok anything else. Don’t be fooled!
Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride $28.00
*MAGAZINES*
Juxtapoz #184 May 16 $6.99
True Crime, Spring Special Spr 16 20 All True Murder Cases $12.99
Rock A Rolla #58 Mar Apr 16 Sun 0))) $9.95
Uncut Ultimate Music Guide: The Beach Boys $14.99
AdBusters #125 vol 24 #3 May June 16 Post West $14.95
*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
Midwestern Gothic #21 Spr 16 $12.00
Not Now More Work from Cliff Weber $4.00
*KIDS BOOKS*
Waiting for High Tide by Nikki McClure $19.95
The Real Poop on Pigeons by Kevin McCloskey (Toon) $12.95
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New Stuff This Week
Self Care by Mallory VanMeeter $5.00*ZINES*
Suburban Blight #12 Spr 16 by Stephanie B. $2.00
Call for Participants by Roddy $3.00
Monster Nerd zines by Anthony Miller, $5.00 each:
#1 The Creature From the Black Lagoon Issue
#2 The Wolf Man IssueSomnambulist #26 Two Friends Talk about their Cities by Martha Grover $5.00
Otra Vez In Harlem by Gaspard Ajoupa Imbert $5.00
Blink Ink #22 Cities by Jesse Anger & friends $5.00
Collection of Expressions #2 $5.00
zines by Austin Smith $3.00 each:
Acid Kat #15 Fanzine
Acid Kat #16 Special Spooky Issue*COMICS & MINIS*
Comics from Dan Zettwoch:
Redbird #3 Hi Tech Comics $5.00
Redbird #4 Dec 2015 $3.00Grixly #35 $3.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Nocturnal Last City by Emily Chu $25.00
Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy Bastian $19.99
Walking Dead vol 25 No Turning Back by R. Kirkman and friends $14.99
Paper Girls TPB vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan $9.99
Adventure Time with Fiona and Cake by Natasha Allegri $19.99
*ART & DESIGN*
The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3 by James Edward Deeds Jr. $29.95 – Arresting drawings by made by one inmate, made as a gift for his mother, accidentally discarded in 1970, then found again by an art collector who put them in a book. None of these existed in the actual mid-twentieth-century landscape of Deeds’s own life that he drew (an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, antique cars, fantastic boats and trains, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture), but rather were representations of his inner world—an artist’s poignant tribute to a faded past.
Working Women: The New Pin-Up: Temporary Tattoos by Bill Presing $12.95 – From from fighter pilots to boxers to astronauts!
The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts by Maja Säfström $14.99
*FICTION*
Little Mook and Dwarf Longnose by Wilhelm Hauff, Illustrated by Boris Pak (Godine) $19.95 – Short stories, peopled with a vivid assortment of dwarves, evil witches, enchanted swans, and devious princes. But rather than rehashing Brothers Grimm, Hauff creates a place where the morals are less than clear-cut. gnomish, innocent orphans with neglectful parents, a cruel witch’s curse, an enchanted goose and more.
Books by Matt Lang (Clawfoot Press):
Fernweh $15.00
McKean County and Other Stories $12.00Void by George Perec (Verba Mundi) $17.95
Weirdly, 2 different books about waxing nostalgic about New York:
Sundays on the Phone to Monday by Christine Reilly $25.00 – The Middlesteins meets The Virgin Suicides in this arresting family love story about the eccentric yet tightknit Simone family, coping with tragedy during 90s New York.
Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss $26.00 – An intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.It’s Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories by Janice Eidus and John Kastan (Godine) $16.95
Husbands and Lap Dogs Breathe Their Last: A Cummings Flynn Wanamaker Mystery (Mainly Murder Press) by David Steven Rappoport $15.95
*ESSAYS*
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder $15.99
The Call of the Primes: Surprising Patterns, Peculiar Puzzles, and Other Marvels of Mathematics by Owen O’Shea (Prometheus Books) $19.00
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics by Erin McHugh $26.95
*SCIENCE!*
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery $16.00
*MAGAZINES*
RFD #165 Spr 16 $9.95
Monocle vol 10 #92 Apr 16 $12.00
True Crime Mar 16 Slaughter in the Sex Dungeon $9.99
Wax Poetics #64 Spr 16 $1.19
*CHAP BOOKS*
Stories I Could Tell You at the End of the Day by Nathan Dragon $5.00
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New Stuff This Week
The Pirate Book: Read Me by Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska $11.00*ZINES*
Inner Seoul by Jae Hyun Ha $2.00
Remedy Quarterly #20 Try $12.00
Lazy Mom #5 Easy Come $10.00
Dead Wrestlers #1 Murder Mishaps and Misfortune by Aaron Weber $3.00
Alamo Igloo zines by Keith Herzik
Leg and Boob DNA Gel Part 2 $8.00
Dog Bone Snake Skull Chicago $7.00Pickle Pickle #2 The Peculiar Pickle Mini Zine $2.50
*COMICS & MINIS*
Mystery Minicomic Anthology by various $5.00
Baby Weight by Gabrielle Howell $2.00
Better Late Than Never by Jesse Hedman $2.00
Teenaged Trash Party by Barbara Guttman $5.00
Too Much Fun by Logan Kruidenier $8.00
Lazy Sundae by Nolan J. Downs $5.00
Screwing With You vol 1 by Zoe N. Sugg $5.00
Pack Yr Bags by Ian McDuffie $1.00
More Things in Heaven and Earth #1 by Kat Tusday $5.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS*
Carpet Sweeper Tales by Julie Doucet (D&Q) $15.95
Agony Book by Mark Beyer $15.95
Mirror Mirror #1 (2d Cloud) $27.95 – Comics anthology of things horror and gothic. Edited by Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. With work from Clive Barker, Heather Benjamin, Al Columbia, Dame Darcy and more.
Space: An Eschew Collection by Robert Sergel (Secret Acres) $15.00
Gulag Casual: Five Stories by Austin English (2d Cloud) $24.95
Care of Birds by F.S. Lobo (MMMNNNRRRG) $17.00
Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers by Hazel Newlevant and Sophie Yanow (Alternative Comics) $20.00
Big Planet Comics Blue Anthology (Retrofit) $5.00 – An anthology from the Washington DC comic book store Big Planet Comics. Includes work by: Saman Bemel-Benrud, Box Brown, Mark Burrier, Jensine Eckwall, Robin Ha, Angelica Hatke, Andy K, Nick Liappis, Jared Morgan, Ben Sears, Matt Baker and SUPERWAXX.
*FICTION*
The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls, ed. by Ellen Datlow (Tor) $16.99 – Stories about dolls. Not creepy or anything hahahaha.
2 books by Matt Lang (Clawfoot Press)
McKean County and Other Stories $12.00
Fernweh $15.00Bardo or Not Bardo by Antoine Volodine (Open Letter) $13.95
*MAYHEM*
Serial Killers and Psychopaths: True-Life Cases that Shocked the World by C. Greig & J. Marlowe $16.95
Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck by Peter Manseau (Melville House) $22.95
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson $17.00
*ESSAYS*
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters An Essay SC by Dan Fox (Coffee House Press) $15.95
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Earth Wants You by Reverend Billy $13.95
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore $27.99
*MUSIC BOOKS*
I Live Inside HC Memoirs of A Babe in Toyland by Michelle Leon $19.95
*HUMOR*
Why the Long Joke? by James Thomas $22.99 – Inside: “Edgar Allan Poe Goes to a Music Festival,” “How to Tell If You’re Dead” & more.
*SEXXXY*
Whistle #17 Modern Pin Up Mag $10.00
Meat #20 $20.00
*MAGAZINES*
Hi Fructose #39 New Contemporary Art Magazine $7.95
Howler #10 Spr 16 Of Gods and Ten $15.00
Mojo #269 Apr 16 Iggy Pop His Life and Rebirth $10.99
Laphams Quarterly vol 9 #2 Spr 16 Disaster $17.00
Tom Tom Magazine #25 Health $6.00
Skeptic vol 21 #1 16 $6.95
High Times Best of #80 2016 Your Guide to Hydro $6.99
Ghetto Blaster #43 $4.50
Maximumrocknroll #395 Apr 16 $4.99
Creative Quarterly #41 $9.00
Gentlewoman #13 Spr Sum 16 Kirsten $15.99
Tape Op #112 Mar Apr 16 $4.95
Razorcake #91 $4.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
The Paris Review #216 $20.00
*CHILDRENS*
Hilda & The Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye) $10.99
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New Stuff This Week
Jaywalker by Lisa Carver, with illustrations by Dame Darcy $15.00 – Flash fiction by famed Rollerderby zinester, with illustrations by exquisite Meatcake artist Dame Darcy.
*ZINES & ZINE-RELATED*
East Village Inky #56 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Pagan Kennedy’s Living a Handbook for Maturing Hipsters by Pagan Kennedy (Santa Fe Writers Project) $15.95 – 90s clasic back in print from the zinester, writer and non-conformist.
Notes on Staying Soft by Rosie Accola $5.00
Living Southerners Feb 16 $2.00
Zines by Billy Roberts $3.00 each:
Last Night at the Casino #11 Feb 16
Good Place to Start #1 – Wanna learn about world music? Well here’s a good place to start.*COMICS & MINIS*
2 new amazing comics from Carrie McNinch:
You Dont Get There From Here #37 $3.00 – Daily diary comics about Carrie’s quiet adventure of life in LA and a side trip to Japan. From the thoughtful and compelling mind of someone who loves music, reading and cats, and who can draw the way all zinesters wish they could.
Excerpts From Seven Non-Fiction Books I Read $3.00 – Includes excerpts from books by Marky Ramone, Viv Albertine, Kim Gordon and more! And those drawings!
Upgrade by Lily Reeves $5.00
Science Ghost #3 by Carlos Aguilar $5.00
Just Another Caturday #1 by Jennifer Lewis $3.00
various Kelci Crawford comics:
Prologues a Compilation $3.00
Duck for Dinner $1.00
and more!2 new by Robin Bougie delicacies!:
Cinema Sewer #29 $5.00
Sugar Spread vol 1 #1 A Big Coloring Book $10.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
The Complete Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, And Other Horror Stories by Guido Crepax (Fantagraphics) $75.00 – Collection of work from this erotic Eurocartoonist, known for his work in the 60s and 70s. This book features lit by Stoker, Mary Shelley, unpublished works of Crepax’s famed Valentina stories and more.
Dirty Hands: Collected Works by David Alvarado $15.00
Complete Chi’s Sweet Home Part 2 by Konami Kanata $24.95
Amadeo & Maladeo: A Musical by R. O. Blechman (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Full-color fable-like graphic novel, the story of two musician Mozart-esque half brothers cycle through rags and riches.
The Beauty vol 1 by Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley $9.99 – What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease?
Adventure Time vol 8 $14.99
Goodnight Punpun vol 1 by Inio Asano $24.99
Humans vol 2 Humans Till Death by Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller $15.99
Nameless by Grant Morrison & friends $24.99
The Glorkian Warrior and the Mustache of Destiny by James Kochalka $14.99
*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*
Art of the Mural vol 1 Contemporary International Urban Art by Shane Pomajambo (Schiffer) $34.99 – 400+ examples by 50 full-time muralists from 6 continents. Edited by the creative director of DC-based Art Whino Gallery.
*WEIRDO*
Future Esoteric: Unseen Realms, Second Edition by Brad Olsen (Consortium of Collective Consciousness) $17.95
Confessions of an Illuminati: The Whole Truth about the Illuminati and the New World Order by Leo Lyon Zagami (CCCP Publishing) $17.95
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood by Greg Merritt $19.99
Aliens Among Us: Exploring Past and Present by Barry Strohm $19.99 – You guys, they’re everywhere at every time ever. It’s amazing!
Little Gray Bastards: The Incessant Alien Presence by Jordan Hofer & David Barker $16.99 – You guys, they’re everywhere at every time ever. It’s terrifying!
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story by Dave Thompson $16.99
Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters ed. by Nick Soulsby $28.95
*ESSAYS*
Notes on My Dunce Cap by Jesse Ball (Pioneer Works Press) $22.00 – A text for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms and for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration.
*FICTION*
I Am Because You Are, ed. by Pippa Goldschmidt and Tania Hershman (Freight books) $14.95 – “Timely” collection of new fiction (and some non-fiction) from novelists and science writers, all inspired by the theme of Theory of Relativity.
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture by Franklin Rosemont (PM Press) $29.95 – Reprint of the classic, originally published by Chicago rebels Kerr Publishing.
Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed by Mitchell Abidor (PM Press) $14.95
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank $27.00 – Founding editor of The Baffler discusses the form of corporate and cultural elitism that has largely eclipsed the Democrat party’s old working-class commitment.
*HUMOR*
F in Exams: Complete Failure Edition $19.95
*FOOD BOOKS*
Deceptive Desserts: A Lady’s Guide to Baking Bad! by Christine McConnell $29.95 – Christine McConnell, the Queen of Creepy Cookies, shares recipes and photographs how to take bake with inspiration from the likes of Tim Burton, Wes Craven, Alfred Hitchcock, and Vincent Price, mixed with in a dash of Stepford Wife.
Sweet as Sin: The Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America’s Favorite Pleasure by Susan Benjamin $18.00
*MAGAZINES*
Bust #98 Apr May 16 $5.99
Harpers Apr 16 $6.99
Make vol 50 $9.99
Fields Magazine #5 Spr 16 $12.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
First Line vol 18 #1 Spr 16 $4.00
Black Fox Literary Magazine #13 $14.00
Coming out this week!
The Imitation Game: Alan Turner Decoded by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis (Abrams ComicArts) $24.95
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New Stuff This Week
Frontier #11 by Eleanor Davis (Youth In Decline) $8.40 – The newest issue, now available! “BDSM” is a fresh new comic by Eleanor Davis, about the interactions of two adult film actresses on and off camera. A modern SM dating story tackling the complex, intersectional relationships between friends and lovers, feminism and kink, and projection and consumption.
Filmme Fatales #7 $16.00 – Seventh issue of the quarterly zine about the places where film and feminism intersect. Essays, criticism, ideas, jokes, pictures and more. Inside this issue, devoted to the concept of “space”: a lament about the fates of lesbian movie characters, a tribute to the house from Dogs in Space, a taxonomy of the spaces Andie inhabits in Pretty in Pink, the next filmmaker who is inevitably due to experience a Sofia Coppola-style Tumblr resurgence, psychics and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, an examination of James Cameron’s reputation as a feminist filmmaker and more.
*ZINES*
Radical Domesticity #6 by Emma Karin Eriksson $3.00
PWF Pro Wrestling Feelings #3 $5.00
Jibb Wibbles #1 by Jason Mamarella $6.00
Fat Babes #2 The Fatshion Edition $6.00
Forniphilia by Michael Shallow $7.00
Boot Boyz Biz Group 2 Catalog Feb 2016 $1.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Power Button by Zack Soto (Study Group) $4.95
Super Sikh #3 Al Amok is Not Amused by various $3.99
Mr Blob #1 by Caroline Cash $7.00
Nerd Jam #4 by Olivier Wilkie $8.00
Give Thanks by Philip Weiss $2.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
5,000 Kilometers Per Second by Manuele Fior (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Octopus Pie vol 1 by Meredith Gran $14.99
Paracuellos by Carlos Giménez (IDW) $24.99 – An autobiographical account of the plight of children in post-World War II Fascist Spain.
Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads: A Graphic Novel by Nick Hayes (Abrams) $24.95
Delilah Drik and the Kings Shilling by Tony Cliff $17.99
*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*
100 Years of Tattoos by David McComb $29.95
Vans: Off the Wall: Stories of Sole from Vans Originals, 50th Anniversary Edition by Doug Palladini (Abrams) $30.00
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Lost Rockers: Broken Dreams and Crashed Careers by Steven Blush, Paul Rachman & Tony Mann (powerHouse Books) $27.50 – About the musicians who at one point in time were on the verge of success but who never quite “made it.”
Never Known Questions: Five Decades of The Residents by Ian Shirley (Cherry Red Books) $22.95 – Answers such Residential questions as: Were they really Talking Heads and Brian Eno in disguise? What is a Cryptic Corporation? Who was Nigel Senada? Did they really forget about recording an album? How’s Randy doing now? And what kind of a band sells a fridge full of records for $100,000 anyway?
Pickman’s Model: A Weird Tale by Nick Blinko & H.P. Lovecraft (Crna Hronika) $40.00 – “Pickman’s Model” is an elegant short story by H.P. Lovecraft, originally published in Weird Tales in 1927. Nick Blinko’s starkly managed minutia serves as wonderful accompaniment to the story of the deranged artist who paints from dread-inspiring life.
*FICTION*
Knockout: Stories Knock Out by John Jodzio (Soft Skull) $15.95
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen $18.00 – A tech mogul hires a ghostwriter for his memoirs, which leads him on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond, initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication.
*ESSAYS*
The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits $15.00 – Rereading her childhood diaries, Heidi Julavits (founding editor of The Believer magazine) hoped to find incontrovertible proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, they “revealed me to possess the mind of a phobic tax auditor.” Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life—now as an adult. A meditation on time and self, faith and fate, art and ambition.
Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds by Reiner Stach $27.95 – Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka.
On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980 by Michel Foucault $22.00
*SCIENCE!*
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe $24.00
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks $17.95
Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie $22.95
The Undersea Network by Nicole Starosielski $25.95 – Hey! The internet isn’t made out of satellites! It’s made out of tubes underwater!
*RADICAL PARENTING*
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, ed by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens & Mai’a Williams (PM Press) $17.95 – Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation.
*MAGAZINES*
The Baffler #30 $14.00
Modern Farmer #11 Spr 16 $7.99
Kinfolk vol 19 The Adrenaline Issue $18.00
Relix #270 Mar 16 $6.99
Wire #385 Mar 16 $9.99
Shots #131 $7.25
Film Comment Mar Apr 16 vol 52 #2 $5.95
Clever Root Win Spr 16 vol 1 #2 $10.00
Mass Appeal #56 $9.99
Cineaste vol 41 #2 $8.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
Granta #134 Win 16 No Mans Land $16.99
Girls Our Age #1 Pilot Issue 2016 $12.00
*SEXXXY STUFF*
Cold Meat Zine, ed. by Caroline Paquita (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – These works were compiled to highlight some of the best examples of BDSM fetish art, from the collection of Cold Meat, a print connoisseur based in San Francisco, California. Ranging roughly from 1900-1970, a majority of these images were originally published in underground fetish digests, flagellation novels, chapbooks, and illicit magazines of the time.
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New Stuff This Week
POSE (Gingko Press) $49.95 – The first book of modern pop artist POSE’s work chronicles an eye-popping collection of street art, murals, collaborations, and gallery work. It features 50+ paintings and sculptures as well as an intimate look inside the artist’s studio. POSE has been applauded for his ability to take seemingly “everyday” and disposable items and re-introduce them into the world as carriers of a much deeper meaning. Edition is limited to 1500 copies and includes limited prints, including a hand-pulled 1 color “Color Study” screen print signed by the artist.
*ZINES*
Zine of the West by Victoria Harley & friends $4.00
Pizza Libs #2 by Johnny Misfit & friends $2.00
New Morality Zine #3 by Nick Acosta $9.00
I Enjoy Being a Girl, Mostly by Gemma Correll $5.00
Wasted Pages Writing Workshop Winter 15-16 $2.00
Atomic Elbow #13 by Robert Newsome $5.00 – Scott “Star of Savage” Holland is back, and this time he’s got a great interview with former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Adam “Scrap Iron” Pearce! Speaking of NWA champions, there’s a lengthy examination of the 1985 NWA Battle of the Belts. This show took place during an actual hurricane! Plus much more!
Leg Drop Digest (Devastator Press) $5.00
Tardis Beat $7.00 – Doctor Who spoof: “Daleks Who Dare to Steal Your Heart,” “4th Doctor Dishes on Fab Scarf!” and more. How can you resist this?:
Purple Sweatpants and Other Recipes by Aaron Romine $10.00 – “No one simply makes an artist’s [cook]book by accident, anymore than they ride 14 hours through the central highlands balanced upright on a surplus .50 caliber ammo can over the scalding sheetmetal housing of an ancient 6-71 inline diesel engine by accident. A collection of recipes and photographs gathered over 20 years working, travelling and eating my way around Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.” -Aaron Romine
Local Poster Sounds and Vision Lyon 2010-2015 $8.00
Groovedge Biatch, Hot Work by Mascara $6.00 – This guy who owns a store in France called Groovedge Biatch dropped off some risograph zines like this one and other things with titles like “La Descente Lyl Clft” and “Bei Da Jing 2k15 Design by Studio H13.” Tres mystérieux!
Heavy Metals #1 by Leanna Perry $5.00
Food Boys $2.00
Smile Book $2.00
Witness: A Mad Max Fanzine by Colleen Frakes & friends $2.00 – Yeah, yeah, you’re a cool kid and you didn’t watch the Oscars. But you might have seen Mad Max. So did these 12 artists who contributed comics, pin-ups, and prose to this fanzine edited by Colleen Frakes. Work from: Anne Thalheimer, Denis St. john, Rachel Foss, Cody Pickrodt and more. -LM
Retrospect: A Tazewell’s Favorite Eccentric Zinethology by Sarah Sawyers-Lovett (Mend My Dress Press) $15.50
Sweet Treats: A Tasty Activity Zine by Ali Prince $2.00
Fold out writing prompt maps from artist Shaun Levin $6.99 each:
Writing Art: A Writing Map
How to Write a Story
City of Inspiration Writing Map
Café Writing Map*COMICS & MINIS*
Men are From Mars, Women Need to Stay off that Space Dick by Janelle Hessig $4.00
Meaning of Life by Anja Wicki (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $10.00
new issues of Laskimooses $7.00 each
#27 Todistusten Antaminen
#28 Viitoittamaton Vayla $7.00Declaration Daddies Pornography for Patriots $10.00
Foots by Zibits $3.00
Street Dawgz by Lizz Lunney $5.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Patience by Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Don’t miss Daniel Clowes here at Quimby’s March 30th to sign this indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story, Clowes’ first all new, original graphic novel in over a half-decade!
Lucky Penny by Ananth Hirsh & Yuko Ota (Oni) $19.99
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew $30.00 – Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art styles and forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself.
*ART & DESIGN*
Shrine by Faye Megan Orlove 2013-2014 (Don Giovanni Records) $12.99 – Art and ideas about idolatry, worship, and pop culture.
*FICTION*
The Sellout by Paul Beatty $16.00 – A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett $16.00 – Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he’s been transformed into a white man.
Mrs. Houdini: A Novel by Victoria Kelly $26.00 – Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to speak to his beloved wife Bess from beyond the grave using a coded message known only to the two of them. When a widowed Bess begins seeing this code in seemingly impossible places, it becomes clear that Harry has an urgent message to convey. Unlocking the puzzle will set Bess on a course back through the pair’s extraordinary romance, which swept the illusionist and his bride from the beaches of Coney Island, to the palaces of Budapest, to the back lots of Hollywood. When the mystery finally leads Bess to the doorstep of a mysterious young photographer, she realizes that her husband’s magic may have been more than just illusion.
Prodigals: Stories by Greg Jackson $25.00 – A filmmaker escapes New York, accompanied by a woman who may be his therapist. A dilettantish banker sees his ambitions laid bare when he comes under the influence of two strange sisters. A group of friends gathers in the California desert for one last bacchanal. Quests for meaning and authenticity in lives spoiled by self-knowledge and haunted by spiritual longing.
*MUSIC BOOKS*
How to Ru(i)n a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records by Larry Livermore (Don Giovanni Records) $14.99 – Don’t miss Larry Livermore at Quimby’s to talk about this book about the spectacular rise and ignominious collapse of Lookout Records, the iconic label he co-founded in 1987 and which helped launch the careers of Green Day, Operation Ivy, Screeching Weasel, and a host of other artists.
*ESSAYS*
Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing $26.00
Horror of Philosophy series by Eugene Thacker (Zero+ Publishing):
vol 1: In the Dust of This Planet $19.95 – Supernatural horror defined as the thought of the unthinkable.
vol 2: Starry Speculative Corpse Horror $18.95 – Philosophy meets horror against the backdrop of an indifferent, unhuman cosmos.
vol 3: Tentacles Longer Than Night $18.95 – Systematic, comprehensive exploration of the links between philosophy, religion, and the horror genre.Madonnaland And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom by Alina Simone (U of Texas Press) $16.95 – In the spirit of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love, Madonnaland takes us on a revelatory road trip through the quirky hinterlands of celebrity and fandom and the quest to make music that matters in the face of relentless commercialism.
Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom’s, which I know sounds weird) by Michael Ian Black $24.99
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell $25.00 – A spirited account of the existentialism movement and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it.
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOSKS*
Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism by Benjamin Noys (Zero+) $14.95 – Against the need for speed, Malign Velocities tracks acceleration as the symptom of the ongoing crises of capitalism.
*MAGAZINES*
Bitch #70 Spr 16 Anniversary Issue 20 Years $6.95
Juxtapoz #183 Apr 16 $6.99
Fader #102 Feb Mar 16 $6.99
Far Ride vol 4 Documenting Cycling Journeys Around the World $18.00
Monocle vol 10 #91 Mar 16 $12.00
Vive Le Rock #33 1976 Punk 40th Anniversary $10.99
True Crime Feb 16 Facebook Feud Turns to Double Murder $9.99
*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
Conium Review vol 4 $12.00
Opaque #3 Magic $7.00
Good Morning vol 4 #3 $6.00
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New Stuff This Week
Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Volume I by Arkady Bronnikov, Damon Murray & Stephen Sorrell (Fuel) $32.95 – 180+ photos of Russian criminal tattoos and official police papers from the collection of Arkady Bronnikov, regarded as Russia’s foremost authority on criminal tattoo iconography. Bronnikov worked as a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs from the 60-80s. With the help of the tattoos, Bronnikov regularly helped to solve criminal cases across Russia to identify culprits and corpses. Another volume of his collection to follow!
*ZINES*
Thrift: Shopping Second Hand to Supplement an Intentional Wardrobe $5.00
How Not 2 Run 4 President $2.00
Berniemania by Bae Cutler $7.00
Gender is Extraordinary Written by Alex Barnawell $7.00
Sounds of the Dark #4 by Bethany Clark $3.50
Small Beer by Liana Jegers (Tan N Loose) $10.00 – Selections from Liana’s recent train trip though Europe. Highlights include beer, candy, and churches.
Going Nowhere Sketchbooks 2013-2015 by Clay Hickson (Tan N Loose) $8.00 – Clay Hickson’s sketchbook drawings from 2013-2015. It’s packed with playful, fun filled renderings of quirky domestic interiors, pretty ladies, inanimate objects and household items. -CH
Overtime Hour 39 Leaf Blower by Thom Schramm $2.00
Basic Recon Skills (Pioneers Press) $4.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Apple and An Adventure by Martin Cendreda $12.00 – A-Z story about a girl and her triceratops.
Sunday Styles by Ana Benaroya (Tan N Loose) $10.00 – “Love is in the air…can you smell it? From high school sweethearts to Yale graduates, this zine will educate every crevice of your body. It’s the summer of love…it’s a winter wonderland…it’s…livin’ la vida loca!” -Ana Benaroya
Defender by C. Cooper $2.00
Flirting With Death by Gabrielle Howell $1.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
The Complete Wimmen’s Comix (Fantagraphcis) $100.00 – In the late ’60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium — but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen’s Comix. Within two years the Wimmen’s Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading public, and would go on to publish some of the most talented women cartoonists in America — Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Dori Seda, Phoebe Gloeckner, and many others. In its twenty-year run, the women of Wimmen’s tackled subjects the guys wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole: abortion, menstruation, masturbation, castration, lesbians, witches, murderesses, and feminists. Most issues of Wimmen’s Comix have been long out of print, so it’s about time these pioneering cartoonists’ work received their due. Presented as a gorgeous two-volume slipcased set, The Complete Wimmen’s Comix includes the ground-breaking 1970 one-shot, It Ain’t Me, Babe, the very first all-woman comic book ever published. Edited with an introduction by Trina Robbins.
Big Kids by Michael DeForge (D+Q) $16.95 – Teenage misfits and adolescent rabble-rousing take center stage in this dark coming-of-age tale.
Founding Fathers Funnies by Peter Bagge (Dark Horse) $14.99
You Can Change Your Mind by Rachel Howe (Tan N Loose) $15.00
Kill Your Boyfriend by Grant Morrison and friends $19.99
SNOWPIERCER vol 3 Terminus by Oliver Bocquet $29.99
Kaijumax Season One by Zander Cannon
*FICTION*
Cocaine by Pitigrilli, illustrations by Jim Osborn (Ronin Publishing) $16.95 – Reprint of intoxicating fiction about pixie dust, published a year before Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend.
Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly $26.00Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem $15.00
The Velocipede Races by Emily June Street (Elly Blue Publishing) $ 9.95 – Feminist YA steampunk bicycle racing novel.
Adios Cowboy by Olja Savicevic (McSweeney’s) $15.00
Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters (Dark House Press) $15.95
*ESSAYS*
My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions by Leonard Pitt (Soft Skull) $16.95 – A misfit from Detroit studied mime and philosophy in the Paris in the 60s. Here’s his story.
Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century by Kate Eichhorn (MIT Press) $26.95 – The Xerox machine revolutionized things! Like zines! Heres’s a book about it!
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber (Melville House) $16.95
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books) $15.99 – Cult hit back in print! Solnit reminds us how the activism of the past five decades affects new grounds for political engagement in the present.
*DIY & FOOD*
The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Vegetable Garden or Farm by Annie Novak $23.00
Mama Tried: Traditional Italian Cooking for the Screwed, Crude, Vegan, and Tattooed by Cecilia Granata (Microcosm) $11.95
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr $27.50
*SEXXXY*
Objects of Desire: A Showcase of Modern Erotic Products $34.99
Elska #3 Reykjavik Iceland & Elska #4 Lisbon Portugal $18.50 each
Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer: Selected and Introduced by Jonathan Lethem (Pharos) $16.95
Kuntalini – Badlands Unlimited New Lovers #7 by Tamara Faith Berger (Badlands Unlimited LLC) $12.95
*MAGS*
Maximumrocknroll #394 March 16 $4.99
Mojo #268 Mar 16 Bowie Starman Hero Genius $10.99
AdBusters #124 vol 24 #2 Mar Apr 16 Spooky $12.95
Boneshaker Magazine #17 $18.95
Skeptical Inquirer vol 40 #2 Biological Race and Human Diversity $5.99
Tattoo Society #52 $7.99
Atlantis Rising #116 $6.95
Tattoo Energy #99 $9.99
Mother Jones Apr 16 $6.99
American Atheist 1st Quarter 16 $4.95
Neural #52 $7.99
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New Stuff This Week
Zap Comix #16 It’s the Human Condition (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – The final, previously-only-available-in-a limited/collector’s-edition issue of the the most important comic book series of all time! This blowout issue not only includes work by all eight Zap artists (plus a collaboration with cartoonist Aline Kominsky), but also three double-page jams by the group. Plus: Zap’s first-and-only color section, featuring comics by R. Crumb and Gilbert Shelton (his final Zap Wonder Wart-hog episode, no less). Paul Mavrides provides an alternately embellished version of Gilbert Shelton’s and his Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers episode, “Phineas Becomes a Suicide Bomber” (originally inked in the Complete Zap by Shelton).
Skeletor’s Guide to Self-Care by Skeletor (Eternia Press) $8.00 – The He-Man villain’s philosophy on self-care, radical mental health, and battling depression. From cutting toxic personalities out of your life (read: He-Man, Orko, Teela, etc) to learning the joys of being single, Skeletor gives the goods on finding a happy, satisfied, balanced life for yourself.
*ZINES*
Sorrows of Dan Gleason #57 by Dan Gleason, with illustrations to Luke Smarto $3.00
Just Call Me Joe by Jeremy M. Brownlowe (Pioneers Press) $4.00
Science and Such by D.W.G. Wilkerson (Pioneers Press) $6.00
Basic Recon Skills (Pioneers Press) $4.00
Social Anxiety by Chris Horner $5.00 – Photo zine!
Biff Boff Bam Sock #6 Hoja De Trampas by Anna Jo Beck $6.00 – A reference guide for Spanish grammar! Si!
KerBloom #118 Jan Feb 16 by Artnoose $2.00
Semen Leather #3 Fiction $5.00
Hardcore Architecture: Grace Ambrose Maximumrocknroll $5.00
12 Contributors 5 Publications 5 Years (Temporary Services) $7.00 -It’s all right there on the cover — Temporary Services is up to their usual tricks, documenting the simultaneous rise & fall of print media with their patented, and risographed, meta-narrative edge. ~GS
Dog Zine #1 Guest Artist Peter Smyth $5.00 – For the love of Dog! Pallor Pink picks up the scent of comics artists and zine types and puts their paws together to muse artistically upon the splendor of our furry tongue-lolling pals. So smooth but so ruff! Cover sharply done up by in-house favorites Perfectly Acceptable. ~GS
Ack Ack Ack #4 by Matt Foster $5.00 – A succinct photozine taking halftone all the way, chronicling the spasmodics of today’s LA punk scene. Good sharp pics, crucial strainings, eardrum-approvedTM. ~GS
*COMICS & MINIS*
Cyanide Milkshake #7 by Liz Suburbia $2.00
Ley Lines For Lives by Andrew White $5.00
Ley Lines Poems to the Sea by Erin Curry $5.00
comics from Miranda Harmon:
Inter-Galactic Dance Party $3.00
The Haunted Ring $4.00
Possum Girl $4.00We Are Gonna Be Friends by Cathy Hannah $5.00
Time Depression and a Genius by Ryan Burns $3.00
Still Guilty by Erik Schneider $2.00
Unsolved Mysteries by Chloe Wilson $2.00
Grubby Plops and Piles by Alicia Obermeyer $3.00
Transformer #2 Yr Deth Trip by Josh Bayer $5.00
Comic Guide to Brewing by Lara Antal $7.00
Corpus Corpus #666 by Paul Nudd & friends $22.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS*
Jonny Negron Selected Works 2012-2013 (Floating World) $12.00
In The Sounds and Seas vol 3 by Marnie Galloway $12.95
Revenger vol 1 Children of the Damned by Charles Forsman (Bergen Street Press) $14.95
Fieldhouse: Based On a True Story by Scott Novosel and Sam Sharpe $24.99 – Based on the true story of a Kansas Walk-on, with art by Chicago local comics artist Sam Sharpe.
Macabre Magazine vols #1-4 The Shocking Story of Harold Pepper In Missing Parts by Donald H Herion Jr $7.95 – Over 100 pages of horror and suspense.
Dream Fuse by Xin Xu $7.00
Bug Boys by Laura Knetzger $12.99
Belushi: On A Mission from God by Alberto Schiavone & Matteo Manera $18.95
*ART & DESIGN*
Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition by Yates McKee $26.95
*FICTION*
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link $16.00
Oshiro Maru by Donald Herion Jr. $9.95
Surveys by Natasha Stagg (Semiotext[e]) $15.95 – Fame! Be careful what you wish for! An on-line romance turns into internet stardom in this tale of modern romance. But what happens after the whirlwind parties and sponsored events, when an internet buzz turns into buzz-kill?
2 books of fiction by Amiri Baraka from Akashic Books, $15.95 each:
System of Dante’s Hell
Tales – Short Stories*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Haymarket Books) $17.95
*ESSAYS*
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell $16.00 – Now in soft cover!
Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger’s by Joe Biel (Microcosm) $14.95
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright (PublicAffairs) $26.99
*HUMOR*
How’s Everything Going? Not Good by John Michael Frank $21.95 – A very messy David Shrigley meets something else entirely. We promise you’ll like it. Or we’ll eat this pizza. Mmmmm pizza.
*MAGAZINES*
Lucky Peach #18 Spr 16 $12.00
No Friends #2 Win 15 $6.50 – No Friends, no problem. Chicago’s own HearattaCk/MRR-style newsprint P.A.F. scene mag enters its terrible twos with an orthodoxy of band interviews, record reviews, zine reviews, and a clear red flexidisc. Also a lot of opinions about The Scene. Includes interviews with W. Kamau Bell and The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst, whoa. ~GS
Wire #384 Feb 16 $9.99
Purple Fashion vol 3 #25 Spr Sum 16 $40.00
Smith Journal #17 $17.99
Frankie #69 $14.95
Sub/Verse #4 Jan Feb 16 $5.00
Mojo #267 Feb 16 The Sex Pistols $10.50
Wire #383 Jan 16 2015 Rewind $9.99
Cabinet #58 Summer 15 Theft $12.00
True Crime Jan 16 $9.99 Featuring Britain’s Godfather Darby Sabini
Monocle vol 9 #90 Feb 16 $12.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
New Pop Lit #1 $10.00
Wax Paper vol 1 #2 Win 15 $3.00
The Point #11 Win 16 $12.00 – Theme this issue: What is protest for?
