Category: new stuff

The first day of tabling for CAKE (The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) at 1104 S. Wabash was awesome! If you couldn’t make it today, don’t fret! Tabling continues tomorrow (Sunday the 17th). Many of the comics artists who are at CAKE have new things they’re showing off, such as Josh Kramer’s The Cartoon Picayune #3 as pictured above.

For more info see www.cakechicago.com

Zines and Zine-Related Books
Craft Leftovers: various different issues, a really fun little renegade crafty zine that could also be happy under the DIY heading.
Animal Shelter #2 Spr 12 Art Sex Literature (Semiotexte) $15.00

Comics and Comix
Overboard by Laura Terry $8.50
Cousin Harold #1 by Dennmann $5.00
Harvest Branches by JD Lee $5.00
Coin Op #3: Coin Op #3 Municipal Parking and Waterfall and #4 Deep End by Peter and Maria Hoey $10.00 each
In The Sounds and Seas vol 2 by Marnie Galloway $15.00
Hodge Podge Anthology #1 by Ryan Ruiz and Kennifer Qian et al. $4.20 (dude)
Inside the Slow Spiral by Jon Allen $6.00
Day of the Gibcats #1 by Katherine Verhoeven $8.00
Dangerous Cooking #1 by Verwho $10.00
Spaz #5 Stories by Emi Gennis $2.00
Two beautiful Mille Putois titles: La Vie Magnifique Sous L’eau by Joel Vaudreuil ($5.00) and Bowling For Souls ($10.00) by various artists including Marc Bell, Jay Stephens. Archer Prewitt, Jessica Abel, James Kochalka and more.

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
July Diary by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized) $6.00
Gloriana by Kevin Huizenga (D&Q) $19.95 – Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of mundane interactions and existential dissections of the units that construct our lives. Thanks to everybody who came out last night for the Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch event!
Klaus by Robert Short (Nobrow) $19.95
New York Mon Amour by Jacques Tardi et al. (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Furry Trap Horror Stories 2004-2011 Adults Only by Josh Simmons (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Seven Soldiers of Victory vol 2 SC by Grant Morrison $29.99
Books by Jon Allen: Nine Short Works, Vacationland Chapter 1

Fiction
Hologram For the King by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys) $25.00 – We can’t actually sell these books to you until the on-sale date, which is June 19th. They’re tucked away until then!
Office Girl by Joe Meno $15.95
Stranger on Lesbos by Valerie Taylor $13.95
The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman $14.99
Nervous System: A Dewey Decimal Novel by Nathan Larson $15.95

Art & Design Books
Quodlibet by Sebastian Gievert & Katja Spitzer  (Nobrow Press) $19.95
Space Between Selected Writings on Art Michael Bracewell (Riding House) $35.00
Forty Deuce: The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth 1983-1984 $39.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Dyn-o-mite: Good Times Bad Times Our Times by Jimmie Walker $25.00
The Mammoth Book of Gangs: The Fascinating Inside Story of 34 Notorious Gangs by James Morton $13.95
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror by Paul Kane $13.95
Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos In Her Own Words $16.95
Weirdest and Wackiest World Records from Absolutely Bizarre to Downright Shocking by Tony Lyons $14.95
Weird-O-Pedia Ultimate Book of Surprising Strange Incredibly Bizarre Facts by Alex Palmer $12.95
Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator by Joseph Scott Morgan (Feral House) $18.95
Graveyards of Chicago: People History Art and Lore of Cook County Cemetaries by Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski $15.00

Politics & Revolution
Imperiled: Life Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe (Anarchist Interventions 04) by Castro Javier Sethness (AK) $12.00
Militarism and Anti-Militarism by Karl Liebknecht (Black Rose) $19.99

DIY
The Ultimate Self Sufficiency Handbook: The Complete Guide to Baking Crafts Gardening etc. by Abigail R. Gehring $14.95

Magazines
Bizarre #189 Jun 12 $10.50
Adbusters Jul Aug 12 #102 vol 20 #4 $8.95
Shots #116 Sum 12 $6.95
High Times Aug 12 $5.99
Dazed and Confused vol 3 #10 Jun 12 $9.99
Paper Sum 12 $4.00
Whore Magazine #3 Sum 2012 $12.00
ArtForum Sum 12 $10.00
Magnet #88 $4.99
Wax Poetics #51 $11.99
The Fifth Estate vol 47 #2 #387 Sum 12 $4.00
RFD #150 Sum 12: Radical Faerie Digest $9.95
Tattoo Revolution Jun 12 $11.75

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
The Believer #90 $8.00
Curbside Splendor #3 Spr 12 $8.00
Brick #89 Sum 12 A Literary Journal $15.00

How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Resurrection by David F. Dufty – Popular science approach to explaining cutting-edge technology in robotics and artificial intelligence, written by a researcher at the University of Memphis Institute of Intelligent Systems who was present when a fully functional head of the android replica of Philip K. Dick android was being built.

Zines and Zine-Related Books
Our Inalienable Rights by Dan Gleason and Theresa Currie $2.00 – Here cums Dan Gleason again, makin’ us all Gleaful!

More zines from Carrie – My Aim Is True #6 – You Are Not Alone – Internet Dating Can Be Kind of Icky, Dear Mom I’m Not Gay I Ain’t Straight Either Though Love, Carrie.
Kiss off #14 $2.00
Snapshots by Marc Calvary $1.00
Roll by Sarah Sorg $3.00

Comics & Comix
Sonatina Comics #1 by Aidan Koch, Andy Burkholder, Blaise Larmee et al. $10.00
Pie #1 a Cryptic Pilgrimage to the Nucleus of Joy by Steven Cerio $2.95
Laskimooses #3 Kiertavat Pelko Ja Kauhu by Herra Matti Hagelbergin $7.00
Laskimooses #4 Paiva Tahraa Aamun by Herra Matti Hagelbergin $7.00
From Me To Thee by Sandra Sierra $4.00
So Buttons #4 Most Exciting Autobiographical Minicomic by Jonathan Baylis et al. $6.00
So Buttons MoCCA Edition Teeth of a Terrier by Jonathan Baylis et al. $1.00
Melinderly #1 by Melinda Tracy Boyce $12.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Birdseye Bristoe: An Inventions and How To Book by Dan Zettwoch (D&Q) $19.95 – Don’t miss Dan Zettwoch here at Quimby’s with Kevin Huizenga on June 15th.
City Troll by Aaron Whitaker $15.00
Mr. Twee Deedle: The Forgotten Fantasy Masterpiece Raggedy Anns Sprightly Cousin by Johnny Gruelle and Rick Marschall (Fantagraphics) $75.00
Ed the Happy Clown: A Graphic Novel by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95
DMZ vol 12 Five Nations of New York TPB by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli $14.99
Koma by Pierre Wazem (Humanoids) $29.95
Walking Dead TPB vol 16 A Larger World by Robert Kirkman $14.99
Flex Mentallo – Man of Muscle Mystery Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely $22.99
Chew vol 4 TPB Flambe by John Layman and Rob Guillory $12.99

Art & Design
Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes by Michael Cho (D&Q) $19.95
Art of Molly Crabapple vol 1 Week In Hell (IDW) $9.99

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
New Poems in Georgia Font by Caleb Bouchard $5.00
Cuntfessions Trans Queer Poems by h Melt $5.00
Rattling Wall #1 Spr 11 and Rattling Wall #2 Win 12 $18.95 each
Willow Springs #70 $10.00
Memoir #10 Prose Poetry Photography and More $12.00
Coffin Factory #3 $9.00
Creative Nonfiction #44 Spr 12 $10.00
Verse vol 28 #1 #2 $8.00

Sex & Sexy
Motel Fetish by Chas Ray Krider $17.99

Fiction
Soul of a Whore and Purvis Two Plays in Verse by Denis Johnson $20.00
Eat Hell by Joseph Mattson $5.00
Resistance by G D Brennan III $18.26

Music Books
Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock by Jesse Jarnow $18.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Nerd Do Well: A Small Boys Journey to Becoming a Big Kid by Simon Pegg $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency by Parmy Olson $26.99

Politics & Revolution
Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties by Bill Zimmerman $16.95

Magazines
Juxtapoz #138 Jul 12 $5.99
Raw Vision #75 $14.00
Nico #6 2012: Confessions Eroticism in Media $34.99
Skateboarders Journal vol 1 #2 Spr Sum $8.95
Taproot #2 $9.00 – New ad-free quarterly magazine celebrating local living through writing, photography and the arts, both fine and domestic.
Big Takeover #70 $5.99
Chips and Beer #3 $7.00
Under the Radar #41 $5.99
Ugly Things #33 $9.95
Maximumrocknroll #349 Jun 12 $4.00
Hip Mama #52 $5.95
Radical History Review Spr 12 $14.00
In These Times Jun 12 $3.50
Travel Naturally #83 $9.95
Tattoo Nature Special #7 From Tattoo Life $9.99
Xalt vol 1 #2 $5.95

The Lowbrow Reader by Jay Ruttenberg (Drag City) $19.95- Writings and Drawings from the World Reknowned Comedy Journal. Its eight issues have featured contributions from David Berman, Shelley Berman, Neil Michael Hagerty, Lee Hazlewood, Gilbert Rogin, and other kind souls moonlighting from the hallowed worlds of rock music, fiction, journalism, cartooning, and television.

Did you miss the past two weeks of weekly new stuff updates? Well we’ve been budy little busybodies with both the Version Pop Up shop in Bridgeport the second weekend Of May and then the Comics Philosophy and Practice Conference in Hyde Park. Thanks to everybody that came out to both of these weekend long events! And! We now have the Comics conference posters available on our website, for mail order, designed by Chris Ware in both a larger size and a smaller size. And for the low, low price of $30.00 each!

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season Four by Joshua Chapman $1.00
The Book of the Zine Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People Before Marriage by Bryce Galloway and Friends (Clouds) $29.95 – Pages from issues 1 through 37.
Tales From the Combat Zone Workers Write $10.00 – Bonus Overtime Hour 10 The Home Front by Paul Silverman.
OLD ISSUES OF ROLLERDERBY by LISA CARVER!
With an E #2 Vegan Dining in Walt Disney World /Butch nor Femme Withane by Lynne Monsoon $1.50
View of Outer Space From an Aquarium: From opening at Famous Accountants $2.00
Badlands Gazette Imp of the Perverse $2.00
Head Shot vol 1 by Gibson Culbreth and friends $3.00
Fact and Folklore vol 1 Insect Orders and their Mythologies Lepidoptera Coleopte by Julia Spagnuolo $2.00
My Friends by Maria Raquel Cochez $5.00
5 x 8 Zine #1 by Scott Blake $5.00
Thoughts and Other Stuff #2 Seen and Heard $1.50
Ilse Content #11 by Alexis Wolf and Rose Oliveira $3.50
Capitalism and its Discontents by Anne Elizabeth Moore $10.00
Metatron #2 May 12 $4.50
Imperfection is Perfection $2.00
Hysteria #1 $1.00
Unconventional Route #1 by Stella Rae $3.00 – Flood stories and miscellany done with cozy cut-n-paste collage.

Tips for Aliens – A Guide For the Interstellar Traveler Hand Gestures by Kailey Stevens $2.00
With Boys #2 Mementoes by Tim Johnson $5.00
Does Not Equal Happy Days $5.00
Every Thug Is a Lady – Adventures Without Gender by Julia Eff $4.00
Taking the Lane vol  6 Lines on the Map by Elly Blue $3.00
Fire and Ice Warm Cool and Spicy Vegan Recipes from Hot and Soul by Joshua Ploeg (Cantankerous) $4.35
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #8 Win 11 12 Grassroots Modernism $20.00
We Only See The Sky As It Was by Gregg Evans $6.00
Mint Milk #1 by Erica Parott $6.00
Kriss Stress zines: Margin Walker #2 $2.00, Paper Houses #4 Southern Subcultural Snippets Part 3 $3.00
O Public Art Project by Scott Blake $2.00
Stupor Washed in Dirt by Steve Hughes $2.00
Smoke Oracles Scrying the Divine a Book of Automatic Paintings by Johnny Decker Miller $6.50
Filth #6 Spr 12 $4.00
Groovy Pickle #2 by Pamela Larson $2.00
Disappearing #1 by Gloria Cristina $4.00
Dust Moats by Jesse Smith $3.00
FAQNP #4: Queer Nerd Publication, Science Fiction and Fantasy Issue by Raymond Cha $10.00
Remedy Quarterly #9 Escape $7.50
Scuzz Report #2 by Ben Mister $8.00
Marc Clavary titles, each $1.00: Undercover Ablutions, Thin White Duke and the Beatle a Childrens Story, Chinatown and more.
Range RAD 0001 Local Distant Fringe by Radius $5.00
Occupy Voice #1 $5.00
Overtime Hour 24 Peddling Souls by Cassondra Windwalker $2.00
Class Struggle #74 by Spark $3.00 $3.00

Comics and Comix
Reset #2 of 4 by Peter Bagge $3.50
Goat Fuck Your Self #1 by Jack Mulkern $10.00 – From the satanic shit spires of the Goat Fucker publishing empire slithers Mulkern’s high-casualty chromaTroma  solo comic crudscrawl. -EF   –  BEST. NAME. FOR. A. COMIC. EVER. -LM
Tales of the Night Watchman vol 1 #1 by Dave Kelly and Lara Antal $5.00
Chrome and Dust Chapter 1 by Ed Siemienkowicz $6.00
Love Story #1 by Sarah Howell $4.00
Showman: The Bret Braddock Adventures #2 Overtime Approved by David Blumenstein $10.00
Handball Heaven by Ben Hutchings $5.00
Comics by Mike Hawkings: Introduction to Frosnall Graaf #1 – Please Allow Us Brief Dominion Of Your Heart and Mind and Night Out In Frosnall Graaf #2 and more.
Inurrectos by Dave Ortega $6.00
Veggie Dog Saturn #6 by Jason Young $3.00
More Liz Prints comics!! Each $5.00: Four Squares #3 Mundane Gore Squares (with Maris Wicks, Tim Finn, Joe Quinone), Alone Forever #2, I Swallowed the Key to My Heart #3 Truer Than True Tales of Strange Romance
Everythingness by Neil Fitzpatrick $5.00
Bowman #2 2016 Apr 12 by Pat Aulisio $5.00
Majnuna $1.00
Pointless Adventures of Kid Man #1 by Bob Pierce $1.00
Humans Are the Weirdest by Jen Breach $3.00
Comics by Andrew Fulton, various prices: Beach Balloon, I Will Beat You at Mario Kart and You Will Cry Romance in Three Laps, Mad Bonaz 4 Lyfe and more.
Corey The Dweller In The Hollow by Michael Hawkins $8.00
Bird Brain Comix #1  $4.00
Daddy Lightning by Tom Hart (Retrofit Comics) $6.00 –  Hart plays it fast and loose with this beach-bound poopy-baby quest. Drawn with relaxed flair – a little like maakies or old school simpsons in the cavalier slapstick and general heart. -EF
Carbirish the Time We Met the Slenderman by Ben Fetters $4.00
Rat Hex #1 by Jesse McManus, Michael Deforge et al. $10.00 – Mad infestation from the driptone pestilence machine Space Face Books…unleashing a plague of surreal comics vermin from Michael DeForge, Robert Beatty, Jesse McManus, Clint Colburn and Matt Lock. No joke this ‘thology is ratty as hell -adventures in liquid and muscles and liquid muscles and and yr gunna love it. -EF

Anna May Wong Chinese American Movie Star by Julia Von De Bur $4.00
Sweet Summer by Robnoxious $4.35
Comics from Rachel Swanson: Everybody Loves Comics a Comics Anthology, Royal Rejects and more.
Zegas #2 by Michel Fiffe $12.00
Boots and Sandal #1 by A. Tarun $3.00
End of The Fucking World Parts 6 and 7 by Charles Forsman $1.00 each
Lou #2 and #3 by Melissa Mendes $1.00 each
Moose issues #1-#6 by Max De Radrigues $1.00 each
Rebel Rebel #1 by MJ Robinson $2.00
Vortex #2 by William Cardini $6.00
(Creative Woes Presents) Fresh Pressed and Ready to be Dressed by Alexandra Martin  and Marc Sciandra $3.50

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00
Year of the Beasts by Cecil Castellucci and NAte POwell $16.99
Idyll by Amber Albrecht (D&Q) $19.95
Silence by Bruce Mutard $10.00
Vampires Nee Love Too Carpe Noctem by Brian Cattapan $13.00
Complete Talamaroo by Alabaster $15.00 – All of Alabaster’s grumpy, humpy Talamaroo comics under one Talamaroof – everything about this book is ideal. Three mini comics and a new adventure and bound up in a killer Leif-Goldberg flavored wraparound silkscreened cover! The best! -EF

Lars The Last Viking Goes to the End of the World by Matt Taylor $10.00
Sensitive Creatures by Mandy Ord $10.00
Trials of Francis Bear by Gregory Mackay $15.00
Nonnonba by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $26.95
Interiorae TPB by Gabriella Giandelli (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Mysterious Traveler The Steve Ditko Archives vol 3 (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Space Ducks #1 An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness by Daniel Johnston $19.99
Mastering Comics – Drawing Words and Writing Pictures Continued by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden $34.99
Ojitos Borrosos by Ines Estrada $10.00 – A simply killer collection of Inés Estrada’s amazing comics – charmed and pervy and smart and totally unpredictable….I can’t say enough good things about these except that you will love them. Reading them is like drinking your favorite juice and listening to your favorite record on a really nice day. In fact, if you did that AND read these comics all at once you’d probably send yourself into a self-perpetuating orgasm vortex. Ojitos collects a lot of odds and ends – minis and anthologies and one-pagees, and orders them up well with english translation for gringos like me. Get this get this get this. -EF
Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $16.95 – In soft cover.
Me Likes You Very Much by Lauren Barnett $14.00 – Are you planning your August calendar yet? Well you better save the date: Lauren Barnett and friends will be here Quimby’s on August 18th! More info as the date comes closer. Want to make sure you always get our monthly e-mail updates about events, see the box at quimbys.com  to sign up to make sure.
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Babys in Black Astrid Kirchnerr Stuart Sutclilffe and the Beatles by Arne Bellstorf $24.95
Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $16.95 – In soft cover.
Goodbye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $16.95 – In soft cover.
Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle (D&Q) $14.95
Crogans Loyalty the Crogan Adventures Book 3 by Chris Schweizer $14.99
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Library Edition HC vol 1 by Joss Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan and more.
Comic Book History of Comics $21.99
Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations Part One 1783-1953 by Jean Pierre Filiu and David B. $24.95
First Sign of Anything by Kevin Hooyman $10.00 – It looks beaaauuutiful.

Art & Design Books
Brain Activity by David Shrigley et al. $40.00
I Like Your Work Art and Etiquette (nplusone) Paper Monument $8.00
People I’ve Never Met and Conversations I’ve Never Had  by Nick White (Nobrow) $18.00
Mengeles Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics by K. Thomas et al. $19.95
Design Act Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today Critical Roles… by Magnus Ericson $24.95
Presidential Campaign Posters From the Library of Congress $40.00
Buenos Aires Street Art by G. Dobleg $25.00
All City Writers by Andrea Caputo $49.95
Draw Me a House: Architectural Ideas Inspiration and Colouring… by Thibaud Herem $20.00

Fiction
Loom of Ruin  by Sam McPheeters $16.00
Healers Legacy by Sharon Skinner $16.99
Rare Earth by Paul Mason (OR Books) $15.00
Further Interpretations of Real Life Events by Kevin Moffet $14.99
A bunch of Philip K. Dick reprints! (Counter Clock World, Man Who Japed, etc.)
Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley $17.95
Walking to Hollywood Memories of Before the Fall by Will Self (Grove) $15.00
Orientation and Other Stories  by Daniel Orozco $13.00
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano $9.95 – Now in soft cover.
Railsea by China Mieville $18.00

Sex and Sexy
Tokyo Lucky Hole 25th Anniversary Edition by Araki (Taschen) $14.99
Kink #16 vol 1 2012 by Paco Y Manolo $29.99 – Glossy and imported, for your viewing pleasure.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Pure Filth by Jamie Gillis and Peter Sotos (Feral House) $69.00
It Chooses You by Miranda July (McSweeneys) $24.00
Tasteful Nudes and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation by Dave Hill $24.99
Bike Tribes: Field Guide to North American Cyclists Bicycling by Mike Magnuson and Danica Novgorodoff $18.99
Popular Crime Reflections on the Celebration of Violence by Bill James $17.00
Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories All Star Cast of Literary Legends by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer $29.99
Cryptoscatology Conspiracy Theory as Art Form by Guffey Robert $19.95
The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, Other Obstacles on the Path by Bike Snob NYC $16.95
Brightest Thing in the World 3 Lectures from the Institute of Failure by Matthew Goulish (Green Lantern) $12.00
Future Primitive Revisited by John Zerzan (Feral House) $15.00
Like A Fat Kid Love Cake by Casey Droege $18.00
White Elephants on Yard Sales Relationships and Finding What Was Missing by Katie Heagele (Microcosm) $7.95
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen $26.00
This is How – Help for the Self in Overcoming Shyness…by Augusten Burroughs $24.99

Politics & Revolution
The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post 911 Torture Program by Larry Siems (OR) $22.00
Hopeless – Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank (AK) $16.95
Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement by various (PM Press) $19.95
Historic Unfulfilled Promise by Howard Zinn (Citylights) $16.95
Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourmer Truth Organization 1969-1986 (AK) $19.95

Music Books
The Clash – The Music That Matters Complete Guide to their Music Timeline by Tony Fletcher $14.95
The Talking Heads’ Fear of Music, of Continuum’s 33 1/3 Series by Jonathan Lethem $12.95
The Official Book of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Lists by Judy McGuire and Cliff Mott  $16.95

DIY and FOOD and DRUGS
At Home on the Range by Elizabeth Gilbert and Margaret Yardley Potter (McSweeneys) $24.00 – Cookbook presented by Gilbert’s great grandmother.
New American Vegan by Vincent J. Guihan (PM Press) $17.95
Barefoot and In the Kitchen Vegan Recipes For You by Ashley Rowe (Microcosm) $8.95
The Ultimate Guide to Permaculture, Green Homes, Edible Plant… by N. Faires $16.95
The Bike Owners Handbook by P. Drinkell $14.95
Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History of Candy by Kate Hopkins $25.99

Magazines
Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal Lumpen-based beer rag, crafted in Chicago. Aren’t we funny? Rag, you know like, what you clean a bar with? But also another name for a magazine? And crafted? As in, craft beer but then also this mag is crafted in Chicago? Hello? Hello? Where are you going? Are my jokes that bad? -LM
Juxtapoz #137 Jun 12 $5.99
Bust Jun Jul 12 $5.99
Mother Earth News #252 Jun Jul 12 $5.99 – This mag was DIY before the term DIY existed.
Apartamento #9 $19.95
Bizarre #188 May 12 $10.50
Tape Op #89 May Jun 12 $4.95
IdN vol 19 #2 $19.95
ArtForum May 12 $10.00
White Fungus #12 $9.99
Dwell Jun 12 $5.99
Skeptic vol 17 #2 $6.95
Flaunt #121 $10.95
Open Minds Jun Jul 12 $6.50
VMan #26 Sum 12 $5.95
High Times Jul 12 $5.99
Skunk vol 7 #8 $5.99
Treating Yourself #34 $7.99
Blood and Thunder – Womens Roller Derby Magazine #20 $5.99
Paper May 12 $4.00
BlackBook #91 Apr May 12 $4.95
Treats Magazine #3 $20.00
Time Out Chicago Kids Jun Jul 12 $2.99
Fader #79 Apr May 12 $5.99
Filter #48 $5.95
Gastronomica vol 12 #2 $12.99
Horror Hound #35 May Jun 12 $6.99
Wire #339 May 12 $9.99
Razorcake #68 $4.00
unFLOP Paper #3 $49.95 – A unisex, bi annual magazine in English, that investigates, critically, contemporary culture. We only have one! Want more info about it? Check out info about it on their website here then come to Quimby’s and pick it up!
Hyphen #25 Spr 12 $7.95
Z Magazine May 12 $4.95
Against the Current #158 May Jun 12 $5.00
The Progressive Jun 12 $4.95
Harpers Magazine Jun 12 $6.99
Amass #43 $4.95
Fat Magazine #2 B Reinvention $14.99
Vinyl Riot #4 Spr 12 $13.00
Skin and Ink Aug 12 #137 $6.99

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
The Believer #89 $8.00
Parody vol 1 #1 $5.00
Verse vol 27 #2 #3 $6.00
Two With Water #2 May 12 $8.00
N1FR the N Plus 1 Film Review Supplement Spr 12

Childrens Books
Middle School Get Me Out of Here by James Patterson et al., featuring illustrations by Laura Park $15.99

Other Stuff
Comics Philosophy and Practice Conference posters, designed by Chris Ware: larger size and smaller size. $30.00 each.

2013 Moleskines are out. Check out our variety of styles, sizees and colors. We also have some 18 months ones that start in July 2012 and end at the end of 2013.

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

Of Intercourse and Intracourse: Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere by Johannes Grenzfurthner , Guenther Friesinger  and Daniel Fabry (Re/Search) $29.99 – An Anthology of the Arse Elektronika colloquium which explores technology as it is used in regards to erotic human relations: biotechnology, body modification, trans-species and extraterrestrial pornography, tantric sex, polyamory + technology, Burroughs, biometrics and more. Ed by members of monochrom, an art-technology-philosophy collective, an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism.

Zines
Metal and Meat Within the Chicago Underground $2.50 – OMG. The guys who do “Goat Fucker” get together and grill meat, smoke stuff and talk about metal. Awesome representative quote: “Gorick brings the 6.66 lbs of thin 4-Day marinate bag of steak.”
How to Be a Good Zine Citizen by Carrie and Liz Mason $1.00 – Self-publisher’s ettiquette guide. Please? Thank you.
Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks? by Milo $2.00 – An alphabet book for activists! By Milo from QZAP!
Salvager Kathy #1 $1.00 – A Chicago-based volunteer at an arts organization that works with the developmentally disabled made a zine describing her life-changing experiences working with her clients. They inspire and teach her to cope with her own pain, illustrating the necessity in recognizing that the line between “normal” and “disabled” can be fuzzy indeed. Recommended reading.
Graze #1 Spr 12 by Cyndi Fecher Brian J. Solem $10.00 – Self-described as “A food-oriented lit mag dedicated to the food on your mind and the thoughts in your wake.” Katrina discomfort food, stinky cheese of Cambodia and more.

Comics and Comix
Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #1 by Igloo Tornado (Tom Neely, Ed Luce and Benjamin Marra) $5.00 – All new material about the love adventures of Rollins and Danzig, with their satanic neighbors Hall and Oates. Will it continue to be funny if it comes out regularly? We shall see.
Powdered Milk #6 by Keilor Roberts $9.00
Dope Mouthfeel #2 $4.00
Kraft Dinner by Julie Sabo $3.00
Demon Dust #9 Spr 12 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Over Burden by Nick Rohr, Sam Daley and Tim Abel $2.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Fallen Words: Eight Moral Comedies by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q) $19.95
Tanpopo by Camilla Derrico $24.99
Batman and Robin TPB vol 3 Batman Must Die by Grant Morrison et al. (DC) $17.99

Fiction
Boarded Windows by Dylan Hicks (Coffee House Press) $16.00 – Don’t miss author and musician Dylan Hicks here at Quimby’s on May 24th as he reads from this book about a record store clerk in 90s Minneapolis, as well as a musical performance of some of the songs from the soundtrack.
Company You Keep by Neil Gordon $14.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Hot Art Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman (Tin House) $16.95
Hilaretic: Church Reviews and Other Religious Writings by Dan Kelly $15.00 – Anybody who has been following the history of Quimby’s since its opening in 1991 will remember Dan Kelly of the zine Cop Porn.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Broadway) $16.00 – From the author of Devil In the White City. Now in soft cover.
Snow White by The Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia $14.99
Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces by Cory MacLauchlin $26.00
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson $16.00

Politics & Revolution
Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy by Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Autonomedia) $18.00

Childrens Books
Arctic Bears Chase by Steve Fiffer and Keiler Roberts $9.00
Ambitions Not An Awful Word by Zack Zage and Adam Watkins $16.95

Magazines
The Burlesque Bible vol 3 $16.95
Wallpaper May 12 $10.00
Backwoodsman vol 33 #3 May Jun 12 $4.95 – Get off my land!
Fortean Times #287 Jun 12 $11.99 – There are aliens on my land!
Plastik #15 $16.99
State vol 1 Voicings Articulations Utterances $14.00
Our Tattoos vol 2 $9.99
Stone Roses NME Uncut Special Collectors Magazine $12.99
Conduit #23 Night Light, Words and Visions for Minds on Fire $10.00
Mojo #222 May 12 $9.99
Monocle vol 6 #53 May 12 $12.00
Tattoo Revolution May 12 $11.75

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Gay Thurber Almanac of Careless Dignity and Criminal Intent by Alex  Marino and Meghan Plunkett $15.00
Journal of Ordinary Thought win 12  $10.00
Bad Attitude Poems $12.00

Sex and Sexy
Little Book of Big Penis ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $9.99 – Now in a smaller and more afforable format. The book that is. Insert joke here.
Little Book of Big Breasts ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $9.99 – Ditto.

Other Stuff
Hot Ten Dollar Bag $10.00 – Weirdo bag of fun from the local collaborative artists Greg and Fake, the guys behind the popular “existential superhero” cardboard art that you may have seen here.

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

This week we got in all sorts of high weirdness books: Atlantis! Extra-Planetary genetics! Alien-Human Contact! Psychedelia! Technogaianism! Prehistoric Technologies! Secrets of Time Travel! And oh yeah, The Ultimate Guide to Kink.

Zines 101: An Intro to Zines by Carrie $1.00 – Starter culture for self-publishing from one of Chicago’s top zinester/zine teacher (could we dub that zinecher?). History, layout, distribution, motivation. -EF

Zines & Zine-Related
Regional #5:  An Examination of American Cuisine, The Potato Chip Issue by Cassie Tompkins & Lauren Schultz $8.50

Muse The News The Noose #9 Three Stories Too by John Wawrzaszek $1.00
Ssex Bbox #1 Jul 11 Genderly Phrased Sexuality Out of the Box  $8.00
Ssex Bbox #2 Spr 12 It’s Complicated Sexuality Out of the Box  $8.00
Put a Egg On It #5 Spr 12 $7.00

Comics and Comix
S #10 Baltic Comics Magazine $10.00
Tom Kaczynski mini Comix: Structures 1 through 11 by  (Uncivilized) $4.00, Cartoon Dialectics vol 1 and vol 2 $5.00 each – Investigative journalismilicious!
Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #7 Loretta Lynn $3.00
Pterodactyl Hunters in the Guilded City by Brendan Leach (Top Shelf) $9.95
True Swamp vol 3 #1 and #2 $4.00 each
Optik Noize #2-#4 by Matthew McDaniel, varying prices
Station In Life #2 Mar 12 by Delia Jean Hickey $3.99
Boyfriend Comics #3 Parents and Pets by Thom Jay $2.00
Featherweight by Julia Von De Bur $7.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
The Influencing Machine Brooke Gladstone On the Media by Brooke Gladstone, illustrated by Josh Neufield $16.95 – Now in soft cover, from co-host of On the Media and the artist of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.
Jerusalem Chronicles from the Holy City by Guy Delisle (D&Q) $24.95
Kiki De Montparnasse by Catel $24.95
Black Orchid Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean $24.99

Art & Design
Open Spaces: A Visual Memoir of Daily Inspiration by Cathie Bleck (Murphy Design) $30.00 -Celebrates the passionate work of scratchboard artist Cathie Bleck. Recognized throughout the country, Cathie introduces a new collection that features her fluid and multi-dimensional style of story telling. Forthcoming interview with her will be in an issue of Juxtapoz.

Sticker Bomb Letters 600 Peelable Stickers Inside $17.95
Skateboard Stickers by Mark Munson et al. $16.95
Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community Based Graphic Design by Andrew Shea $24.95
Graff Wars: Graffiti Inspired by the Star Wars Universe $39.95

Fiction
Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy Interpreter, the Worlds Most Estimable Magician by Gerald Kolpan $25.95
Discussions in the Wilderness by Egan Click $10.00
Greek Myths Deluxe Edition by Robert Graves $25.00
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach $14.99 – Now in soft cover.
My Only Wife by Jac Jemc $15.95
Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing (McSweeneys) $24.00
Emmaus by Alessandro Baricco (McSweeneys) $22.00
Middle Stories by Shelia Heti (McSweeneys) $13.00 – Reprinting in time for this classic’s ten year anniversary.
Book of Harold: The Illegitimate Son of God by Owen Egerton (Soft Skull) $14.95
Very Minor Prophet: The Gospel According to Joseph Patrick Booker by James Bernard Frost $19.95 – As interpreted by his faithful scribe Barth Flynn.
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac $23.00 – Jack Kerouac’s “lost” novel.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds: The Bhagavad Gita as Psychedelic Guide by Scott Teitsworth $16.95
Infamous Players a Tale of Movies the Mob and Sex by Peter Bart $15.00
Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
Lost Book of Enki Memoirs  and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial God by Zecharia Sitchin $16.00
Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization $18.00
The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited by Laird Scranton $15.00
Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien-Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness by Thomas James Streicher Ph.D. and Stanley Krippner Ph.D $16.00
Atlantis beneath the Ice: The Fate of the Lost Continent by Rand Flem-Ath, Rose Flem-Ath and John Anthony West $16.00
The Giza Prophecy the Orion Code and the Secret Teachings of the Pyramids by Scott Creighton and Gary Osburn $20.00
Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee $16.95 – Revised and updated.
A World of Curiosities: Surprising, Interesting, and Downright Unbelievable Facts from Every Nation on the Planet by John Oldale $16.00
More Studs Terkel Books: Chicago $19.95, Race How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (20th Anniversary ed) $17.95
Magic Hours Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bisell (Believer Books) $14.00
The Hidden Treasure National Library of Medicine by Michael Sappol et al. $50.00

Hexen 2039: New Military Occult Technologies for Psychological Warfare: A Rosalind Brodsky Research Programme by Suzanne Treister (Black Dog) $29.95 – imagined new technologies for psychological warfare through investigating links between the occult and the military in relation to histories of witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing and behaviour control experiments of the U.S. Army.

Hexen 2.0 by Suzanne Treister (Black Dog) $29.95 – The sequel to Hexan 2039, this book specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a general science of the workings of the human mind. The project simultaneously looks at diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to advances in technology including the claims of Anarcho-Primitivism and Post Leftism, Theodore Kaczynski/The Unabomber, Technogaianism and Transhumanism, and traces precursory ideas such as those of Thoreau, Warren, Heidegger and Adorno in relation to visions of utopic and dystopic futures from science-fiction literature and film. We also have these as a set of tarot cards!

Brief History of Bad Medicine: True Stories of Weird Medicine and Dangerous Doctor by Robert Youngston and Ian Schott $13.95 –
From quack cures to infamous doctors, the history of medicine is littered with bad mistakes and unexpected discoveries. This insightful introduction uncovers the stories of Typhiod Mary, Sigmund Freud’s misuse of cocaine, why some drugs are worse than diseases, and more.
Slingshot to the Juggernaut: Total Resistance to Secrecy and War is Total Love for the Truth by Sander Hicks (Soft Skull) $15.95 – Weaving evidence with anecdote, this book is an inspiring ride into the 9/11 cover-up and the revolutionary possibilities it inadvertently created.

Politics & Revolution
Saving Remnant Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds by Martin Duberman $19.95
Evil Axis of Finance the US Japan China Stranglehold on the Global Future by Richard Westra (Clarity) $24.95
A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word by Julie Zeilinger $16.00 – FBomb blog creator Julie Zeilinger debunks these (and other) myths about modern youth in this book, about feminism for young women in their teens and twenties, written by one of their peers.

DIY
Marijuana Pest and Disease Control How to Protect your Plants and Win Back… by Ed Rosenthal $24.95
Cannabis Sativa vol 1 the Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner et al. $20.00
Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, Psychoactive Sacramentals, Human Transformation by Thomas B. Roberts et al. $18.95
Seven Secrets of Time Travel: Mystic Voyages of the Energy Body by Von Braschler $14.95
The Brokeass Gourmet Cookbook Recipes to Keep your Taste Buds Happy and Your Wallet by Gabi Moskowitz $16.95 – 3 words: veggie spring rolls.
The Pocket Guide to Plants and Gardening by Elizabeth McCorquodale $14.95

Magazines
Design Bureau May Jun 12 $8.00
UFO Magazine #158 vol 24 #5 $5.99
Skeptical Inquirer May Jun 12 vol 36 #3 $4.95
Pin Up America May Jun 12 #9 $5.99
Maximumrocknroll #348 May 12 $4.00
Filter Good Music Guide Apr May Jun 12 $2.99
In These Times May 12 $3.50
GLQ vol 18 #2 #3 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
The Progressive May 12 $4.95
Tattoo #274 Jun 12 $8.99

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
McSweeney’s #40 $28.00
Logan Square Literary Review #10 Spr 12 $7.00
Granta #119 Spr 12 Britain $16.99
Love and Index by Rebecca Lindenberg (McSweeneys) $18.00
Midwestern Gothic Literary Journal #5 Spr 12 $12.00
Normal School vol 5 #1 $5.00

Sex & Sexy
Cruising Gay Erotic Stories by Shane Allison $14.95
Curvy Girls, Erotica for Women by Rachel Kramer Bussel et al. $17.00
Going Down Oral Sex Stories by Rachel Kramer Bussel et al. $14.95
Harder She Comes Butch Femme Erotica by DL King $14.95
Lustfully Ever After Fairy Tale Erotic Romance by Kristina Wright $14.95
Say Please Lesbian BDSM Erotica by Sinclair Sexsmith $14.95
Soft Candy: The Girls of Danni Shinya Luo (Last Gasp) $24.95
Upskirt Voyeur: The Sexy World of Japanese Girls (Edition Reuss) $59.95
Big Sex Little Death by Susie Bright $17.00 – Memoir by this famous sex worker activist.
How to be Kinkier: More Adventures in Adult Playtime by Morpheous $25.00
Mind Blowing Sex: A Womans Guide by Diana Cage $16.00
Ultimate Guide to Kink, BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge by Tristan Taormino $19.95
Goliath Wallpaper of Fame #2 Classic Male Nudes 9 posters by Walter Kundzicz, plus autobiography by artist and life size poster $24.95
Alt #4 $9.95

Other Stuff
Crap Hound Gift Wrap Poster (Show & Tell Press) $3.50 per sheet – Sure, you can wrap presents with it, but I’m buying it to hang up in my home. Craphound wallpaper!!! Good luck/supersition -themed. One with purple background and one with sea green.
Yummy Pockets Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich and Yummy Pockets Potato Chips-$7.00 each Warning: These fabric containers look good enough to eat! Giggles expected.
Make Your Own Robot $24.95 – Fifteen different punch out robot templates designed by Roger Fawcett-Tang, twelve of which have been illustrated and customized by a different trend-setting artist.
More Moleskine planners.

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store and mail order them for prompt home delivery.

Grantland Quarterly vol 2 (McSweeneys) $25.00 – Issue 2 has a dust jacket that unfolds to reveal a double-sided poster with an intricate, gorgeous piece of original art on one side, and, on the reverse, a reprint of the rare 1970s poster of George “The Ice Man” Gervin. Issue 2 also includes: Bill Simmons writing about the career of Eddie Murphy, an interview with Don DeLillo about Underworld on the 60th anniversary of the Shot Heard ‘Round the World, and more.

Zines
Kriss Stress cranks out zines a mile a minute! And they’re always awesome. Where does he find the time? Two new titles: Paper Houses #3: Southern Subcultural Snippets and Horror Rock Rookies Pt II $3.00 and Margin Walker #1 $2.00 – Stay tuned, Kriss will probably be here in the next three minutes with another zine.
Junk Drawer #6 Landscape by Eric Bartholomew $3.00 – Eric is a Chicago gem on the independent publishing circuit, and he’s often seen slithering into zine readings and events. His zine is like Cabinet meets Infiltration. This issue (sub)subtitled “Parts of Old Buildings Abandoned Train Lines and Other Odds and Ends in the City.”
Moon Tour Zine #1 2012 by Brad Westcott & Jeremy Tubbs, with Moontour DVD Mark It Dude $15.00
Vitals – Feast of Violet by Allen Taylor $5.00
Bookstores and Baseball 3rd Inning $4.00 -From the folks who publish The First Line.
Alamo Igloo #3 by Keith Herzik $5.00 – Keith H. is one of the energizer bunnies of the local screenprinting scene, still cranking out his zine-comic fountains of weirdo-ness.
Childhood Consent and Commercial Sex – Straddling the Line, White Slaves, Trafficked Women and Other Victims Border by Robin Hustle $2.00

Comics and Comix
Suspect Device #2 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $13.00 – Where do you go once you’ve riffed Nancy into oblivion? How about grafting on some early era-Garfield to your frankenstein monster? That’s what Suspect Device has done and, trust me, the carnage is extreme. Two or three times as big as issue #1, with color and hella roidal muscles, this is one drawing game that’s developed rabies and is having babies. -EF

Reset #1 of 4 by Peter Baggue (Dark Horse) $3.50
Castle Waiting #16 by Linda Medley (Fantagraphics) $3.95
Dogcrime by Belxbolex (Nobrow) $11.00
I Wanna Be Your Dog by Cassie J. Sneider $1.50 – Cassie has a pug! And she made a hilarious comic about it!
Boyfriend Comics #1 the Movie Issue and #2 The Issues Issue by Thom Jay $2.00 each

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95 – Don’t miss Jeffrey Brown here at Quimby’s on Free Comic Book Day, May 5th!
Cleveland by Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant (Top Shelf) $21.99
Folly: The Consequences of Indiscretion by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99 – Hans’ Giger-esque weirdo mini-comics are compiled here. Some in black and white, some in color. All biotechfreaky, and sort of Victorian. What time is tea? With the robots? -LM

Cruisin’ With the Hound the Life and Times of Fred Toote by Spain Rodriguez (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Popeye vol 5 Me Lil Sweepea by EC Segar (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Dunwich Horror TPB by HP Lovecraft (IDW) $17.99

DIY
Heart of Darkness: Underground Botanists Outlaw Farmers and the Race for the Cannabis Cup by Mark Haskell Smith (Broadway) $14.00 – “Witty, civilized and intelligent narcotourism.” -Kirkus Reviews
Get Your Pitchfork On: The Real Dirt on Country Living by Kristy Athens $19.95 – The next book in the Process Self-Reliance Series.
Tiny World Terrariums: Step by Step Guide to Easily Contained Life by Michelle Inciarrano et al. $19.95
How to Reimagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practicle Visionaries by Anthony Weston (New Society) $11.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Dads Are the Original Hipsters by Brad Getty (Chronicle) $12.95
This Means War! A Zombies Vs Robots Anthology $17.99 – Bolts Bullets Brains! This anthology takes IDW’s splatterific Zombie vs Robots comic book series, created by writer Chris Ryall and artist Ashley Wood, and expands it in ways that will redefine both zombie and robot fiction. A shambling cohort of top horror and fantasy writers including Jesse Bullington, Nancy Collins, Lincoln Crisler, Brea Grant and more. For fans of WW Z and Robopocalypse.
Steampunk Coloring and Activity Book by Phoebe Longhi (Manic D) $11.95 – With a distinctly manga-angle. Includes a word search too. Can you find the monocle? Har.
Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation, ed. by Alfred F. Young et al. (Vintage) $16.95 – Stories of individuals and groups who exemplified the radical ideals of the American Revolution more in keeping with our own values today.
Young Lovecraft vol 2 by Jose Oliver and Bartolo Torres (Kettle Drummer) $19.95 – The web comic that took Spain by storm makes its English language debut in this hilarious graphic novel. Oliver and Torres explore the childhood of H.P. Lovecraft, the great genius of literary terror who gave us the cycle of the Myths of Cthulu, and forever changed the landscape modern horror. Join the young Lovecraft on his macabre and comical adventures.

Music Books
Letters to Kurt by Eric Erlandson (Akashic) $17.95 – A poetic elegy for Kurt Cobain from a guy that was in Hole. I’m curious to hear from someone who reads this to tell me this: shall I read this cynically or not? -LM
Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ by Mark Katz (Oxford U) $24.95 – Based on extensive interviews with practicing DJs, historical research, and his own personal experience, Katz presents a history of hip-hop from the point of view of the people who invented the genre. Here, DJs step up to discuss a wide range of topics, including the transformation of the turntable from a playback device to an instrument in its own right, the highly charged competitive DJ battles, the game-changing introduction of digital technology, and the complex politics of race and gender in the DJ scene.

Fiction
Finding the Moon in Sugar by Gint Aras $14.95
2 JG Ballard titles: High Rise and Drought
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson (Vintage) $15.95 – Now in soft cover.
Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson $9.99 – Now in cheaper mass market paperback.
Titles by Helen Bradley Hall: Baby Robbers, Chocolate Mama

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Snowflake New Poems Different Streets Newer Poems by Eileen Myles (Wave) $20.00
Iowa Review vol 42 #1 Spr 12 $9.95
Distance #1 Concerns Beginnings $20.00
Criminal Class Review vol 5 $12.00 – Work by Flynn O’Brien, Hugh Fox, Ryan Mattern, Joseph M. Gant, Brett Spencer, George Moore and more.

Sex & Sexy
Tom Poulton: Secret Art of an English Gentleman by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $17.99 – 25 Anniversary Edition with Reversible Panic Jacket

Politics & Revolution
The Case For Sanctions Against Israel ed. by Audrea Lim. (Verso) $14.95 – With contributions from Naomi Klein, Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca O’Brien and more.
Mobilizing the Green Imagination: An Exuberant Manifesto by Weston Anthony (New Society) $14.95
Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara, The Story of a Great Legend and Love by Aleida March (Ocean) $18.95 – by Che’s widow.
Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt by Tom Wicker (Haymarket) $18.00

Magazines
Dwell May 12 $5.99
True Crime Apr 12 $8.99
Make vol 30 $14.99
Another Man #14 Spr Sum 12 $14.99
High Times Jun 12 $5.99
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #8 Apr12 $9.99
Big Cheese #142 Jan 12 $7.99
Magnet #86 $4.99
Wire #338 Apr 12 $9.99
Black Velvet #72 $7.00
Signal to Noise #63 Spr 12 $4.95
Adbusters May Jun 12 #101 vol 20 #3 $8.95
Harpers Magazine May 12 $6.99
Inked May 12 #45 $6.99

Childrens Books
Shark King by R. Kikuo Johnson (Toon) $12.95
Seriously Just Go To Sleep by Adam Mansbach et al. (Akashic) $15.95 – The clean version of the parody of the, oh whatever. It’s meta.

Other Stuff
Black Metal Greeting Cards (Dark Somber Greetings) $3.00 – To be seen to be believed.

The things listed in this list are at our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave. Occassionally we make some of it available for mail order on our website, but we curate what we put up there. To see which new items are on our website, see quimbys.com/store

Typeforce 2 The Annual Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars $20.00 – A veritable font of design wizardry -EF

Miss me last week? Well that’s because I went out of town. But now I’m back, to tell you about TWO WEEKS worth of new stuff! Spend your tax refund here, perhaps on -LM

Zines
Burn Collector #16 by Al Burian (Paquita Press) $5.00 – It’s always a joy to see another installment of Al’s adventures, especially since we see him less and less in Chicago due to his relocation in Berlin. There’s plenty of flash rant-style review pieces (an Iron Maiden concert for one), books he’s read (a YA novel!), and also his comics. Like the last issue of BC there’s also some interviews too, like Tim Remis from Sweet Cobra (and of lesser-known Soviet folk singer fame), as well as Sascha Scatter of The Icarus Project. Published by Caroline Pequita’s art-freaker publishing house Pegacorn Press in Brooklyn.
Zines 101 An Intro to Zines by Carrie $1.00 – As in the Carrie of My Aim Is True and Brilliant Mistake. Carrie is also responsible for getting a variety of her students to sell their zines here. Passing it along to the next zinester generation!
The Match #110 Spr 12 $3.00
Roam #3 2012 for the Life of Little Things $1.00
9 to 5 #1 by Tom Callahan $8.00
Infect With Intellect #1 Apr 12 $2.00
Anarchist Panther vol 1 #3 Good Readings Zine Spring into Summer 01 by Firestarter Press $3.00
Skulk #1 by Your Secretary $1.00 – Made during the Quimby’s 24 Hour Zine Challenge this past January.
Interview Clothes a Paper Doll Zine by Jami Sailor and Jenna B. $1.00
These Boots by KE Bleier $3.00
Seesaw Fidgets by Evah Fan $5.00
Ugly  No 1 #4 Apr 12 a Collection of Stuff and Stuff by Matt Soria $4.00
Gems #1 Interview Zine Featuring Sic Alps Kraftwerk and Geneva Jacuzzi by Mike S and Byron Browne $4.00
Cloud Factory #2 by Ryan Homsley and Laura Walker $3.00
Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation, Season Three by Joshua Chapman $1.00
Collection of Jars #1 by Zach Hamilton et al. $4.00
Railroad Semantics #1 Eugene Protland Pocatello and Back by Aaron Dactyl $7.95
Anarchism Marxism and Hope for the Future by Noam Chomsky and the Red and Black Revolution (Microcosm) $1.65
Taking the Lane vol  5 Our Bodies Our Bikes by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $3.00
Hurt Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy by Kristian Williams (Microcosm) $6.95
Fireweed: A Zine of Grassroots Radical Herbalism and Wild Foods Connecting with Kids and Family Life by Jess (Microcosm) $3.80
KerBloom #95 Mar Apr 12 by Artnoose $2.00 – Comepelling reading about the author’s story to finding the right baby daddy for her fading fertility.
Number 4 Privet Drive by Paul Schwartz $1.00
Fag School #4 New Fiction Johnny, Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger, Join the Professionals by Brontez (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – One half fiction, the other half interviews with activists, photographers, Michelle Tea, Tobi Vail, the DJ Robot Hustle and more.

Comics and Comix
Wigstaff by Ruby Thorkelson $2.00 – Hairy trickster born of bakers!

Spitting Anorexic by Eamon Espey and Andrew Liang $2.00
SF Supplementary File #2C by Ryan Cecil Smith $6.00
Has Anyone Ever Told You That You Look Like Buddy Holly? by Lee Bretschneider $4.00
More Comics by Michael Deforge, various prices: Kid Mafia #1 (of moles and bullies!), Incinerator (a beagle’s offspring!), Open Country #1 and #2 (psychic travel!).
Sky In Stereo by Mardou $5.00
Archer by Nate Doyle $5.00
Bicycle Propaganda by Tom Lechner $2.00
Tales of Inertia #1-#3 by Tom Lechner $4.00 each
Wuvable Oaf Gory Details – Official Handbook to the Oafiverse by Ed Luce $6.00
Mad Soul #1 by Bobby Madness (Sparkplug) $3.50
Crass Sophisticate #28 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $2.00
Xerox Candy Bar #19 XCB Newspaper Edition Mar 12 $3.00
Reeds In The Wind Cambodian Life Under the Khmer Rouge by Danielle Chenette $4.00
Spinadoodles #2 The Second Year May 1 2010 to June 24 2011 Daily Sketchbook comic by Sam Spina $7.00
Grandma Stories a sort of 24 Hour Comic by Sam Spina $3.00
Stranger Two Stranger #3 Apr 12 – Actual Stories of Craigslist Missed Connections by R. Hendricks $2.00
Natural World #3 by Damien Jay $4.00
Teenaged Terror issues #4-#6 $4.00 each
Here Comic by Eroyn Franklin (Sparkplug) $7.00
Survivalist by Box Brown $7.99
1999  by Box Brown $5.00
Bellanova Redstar Space Girl 4199 #379 at the Edge of the Universe by Lee Bretchneider et al. $3.99
Howdy Pardner Small Activity Comic by Andrew Brandou (Robot) $2.00
Grump Toast #1 and #2 by Ben Horak $5.00 each
End of The Fucking World Parts 4 and 5 by Charles Forsman $1.00 each
Eat To Survive Spr 12 by Jeff Mahannah $3.00
Lou #1 by Melissa Mendes $1.00
Bonnie N Collide Nine to Five #1-#5 Even Rollergrils Have Day Jobs by Monica Gallagher (various different prices)
Fugue #1 and #2 a Family in Three Parts by Beth Hetland $6.00 each
Comics by Nils Balls: Now Playing In Hell $1.50, Sketchbook Drawings Sketchball $4.00, Joseph UPMC a Production of SkeletonBalls Comics $6.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Unterzakhn by Leela Corman (Schocken) $24.95
Books by Monica Gallagher: Gods and Undergrads Books 1 and 2 and Boobage (various prices)
Fight a Chapter Book by San Spina $5.00
Curse of the Masking Tape Mummy Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer (Dark Horse) $14.95
Joe Golem and the Drowning City – An Illustrated Novel by Mike Mignola et al. (SMP) $25.99
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book 1 TPB by Alan Moore et al. (Vertigo) $19.99
American Barbarian HC by Tom Scioli (Adhouse) $19.95
100 Bullets HC Book 2 by Brian Azzarello (Vertigo) $49.99
Pete and Miriam and Rich Tommaso (Boom) $14.99
Lovecraft Anthology vol 1 Graphic Collection of Short Stories by HP Lovecraft (Self Made Hero) $19.95
Holiday Funeral by Nick Mullins $10.95

Art & Design Books
Mark Whalen: Human Development (Zero) $45.00
Amalgamate: The Art Design and Exploration of Blaine Fontana (Zero) $45.00
Now and Then: The Cabinet Card Paintings by Alex Gross (Gingko) $14.95
De Nada: The Art of Jeral Tidwell (Presto) $34.99
Physical Impossibility of Remembering Last New Years for Ross Turning Us…by Gregg Evans $5.00
Abstract City HC by Christoph Niemann (Abrams) $24.95
Fuse Collection #1 through 20 From Invention to Antimatter Twenty Years of Fuse by Neville Brody et al. (Taschen) $59.99
Making Wet the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing by Leonard Koren (Imperfect) $39.00

Fiction
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard (Norton) $24.95
Cambridge Street by John Michael Manship $8.99
Ataraxia Boom Boom by Michael Nolan $12.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants by David Rees (Melville) $19.95 – Remember Get Your War On and My Fighting Technique is Unstoppable? This is his new John-Hodgmanish book, about sharpening pencils.

All My Friends Are Still Dead by Avery Monsen et al. (Chronicle) $9.95 – Second book  in the series of a top selling humor book about punnishly showing angst over dead comrads.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) $25.95
Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure (Riverhead) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
New Literary History of America ed by Greil Marcus et al. (Harvard) $24.95 – Now in soft cover.
So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Travelers Guide to Time Travel by Phil Hornshaw et al. (Berkley) $15.00 – All wibbly wobbly timey wimey.

Magazines
Proximity #9 Grassroots Planning and Placemaking Objects Spr 12 vol 4 #1 $11.99
Juxtapoz #136 May 12 $5.99
ArtForum Apr 12 $10.00
Koshka #2 Homesick and Hungry by Kaitlin Kostus $4.00
True Crime Mar 12 $8.99
True Crime Spring Special 12 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
Dot Connector #15 $7.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 29 #1 $6.25
Pinstriping #31 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
various older Lumpens!
BlackBook #90 Mar 12 $4.95
Acne Paper Spr 12 $17.99
Tiki Magazine vol 8 #1 Spr Sum 12 $6.99
Ghetto Blaster #31 $7.00
Tattoo Flash #113 May 12 $7.99
Make Shift #11 Spr Sum 12 $6.95
Makeshift #2 Win 12 Journal of Hidden Creativity $10.00 (2 different mags with the same name, for real. When thinking up a name for your mag, how about do a simple google search? Just musing…)
Paleo Magazine Apr May 12 $5.99 – For those leading a paleo lifestyle. Are you into digesting your food with rocks in a gizzard? Perhaps this is the magazine for you.

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Pageboy Magazine 4 12 $10.00
Ecotone #13 $12.95
Slake Los Angeles #4 2012 Dirt $18.00
Ghetto Blaster #31 $3.95
Pocho Love by Pablo Ramirez $10.00
D: A Novella Deluxe Collectors Edition by Ronald Jones $19.95

Childrens & Radical Parenting Books
Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood by Barbara Almond (U of Calif) $19.95
Piranha Pancakes: A Buncha Silly Comics and Stories by Ray Fresen $9.95
Adventures of Tintin Young Readers Editions by Herge: Shooting Star (with 20 extra bonus pages), Crab with the Golden Claws $8.99 each

Sex & Sexy
Thickness #2 by Angie Wang et al. $10.00 – Hot ‘n slimey crypto-beast on humanoid-beast action. Eagerly anticipated sophmore release for this sexy anthological comic. Works from Lisa Hanawalt, Michael DeForge, Jilian Tamaki and more.
Fukitor #7 $10.00
OP Original Plumbing #9 Trans Male Quarterly $8.00 – The Entertainment Issue. Features with Silas Howard, trans on film, Black Cracker, Schmekel, Geo Wyeth and more.
Handbook vol 6 #2 2012 $6.00 – Starring three previously featured nude guys from past issues.

DIY
Homesweet Homegrown How to Grow Make and Store Food No Matter Where You Live by Robyn Jasko et al. (Microcosm) $9.95
Cannibal Kitchen: A Horror Lovers Cookbook Over 90 Amazing Recipes Each With a Horrific Twist by Shannon Rullo $25.00
Cats Claw Herbal #1 DIY Medicinal Skin Care Stories Instructions…(Micorcosm) $1.10

Other Stuff
Skate Boarding Coloring Book by Magnus Frederiksen (Dokument) $9.95
Steampunk Tarot Card Set by Barbara Moore (Llewellyn) $28.95