Category: new stuff

  • Weekly Top 10

    I Like Your Work debuts in our Weekly Top 10 at #7.

    1. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel $22.00
    2. Mash Tun #1 Craft Beer Journal $8.00
    3. Is It the Future Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00
    4. Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue $12.00
    5. Bust Magazine Jun/Jul 12 $5.99
    6. Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle) $14.95
    7.  I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette (for more info, see above)
    8. Words One Hundred Stories #1 by Re Harris $2.50 – Flash fiction of ripped sleeves, torn hair, broken hearts and wrecked heels.
    9. First Sign of Anything by Kevin Hooyman $10.00
    10.  Graze #1 Spr 12 by Cyndi Fecher and Brian J Solem $10.00 – Fooding pursuits near and far, gourmand reporting and lit.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Limited Edition Echo Cut Up Drawings From Black Hole  by Charles Burns $30.00. And if you hustle now, we have an even more limited edition version with one of Mr. Burns’ original pencil sketches tucked inside for $125.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    World in Darkness World in Bloom $1.50
    Reckless Chants #17 Formerly Sad and Beautiful World Just One More Beer… $2.50
    Duped #1 The New Age by Scrappy Dobbins $3.00
    Cloud Factory #3 March 2012 by Ryan Homsley and Laura Walker $3.00
    Gather by Todd Freeman (Artist Publications Editions) $12.00
    Tributaries #1 by JC $2.00
    Brooklyn to Mars #1 $8.00

    Comics & Comix
    Benjamin Marra comics: Lincoln Washington Free Man #1, American Psycho Drawings Newsprint (for reals, crazy)
    Squa Tront #13 The EC Comics Magazine (Fantagraphics) $9.99
    Now In Lemon $5.50
    Do Not Cross #1 by John Gregg $4.00
    EJ Barnes comics: Birds of the Baltic: An Ornithological Travelogue Drowned Town, Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed by (with Jonathon Swift), Carolines Catalog: Historical Comic Book, How Dear To Me Is Sleep a 24 Hour Comic
    Feedback #11 by John Isaacson $2.00 – John goes to see bands play and does awesome comics about the shows.

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Days of Destruction Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco (Nation Books) $28.00
    Angelman Fallen Angel by (Nicolas) Mahler (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Channel Zero Complete Collection by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (AIT) $19.99
    Zombies: T by Craig Yoe et al. (IDW) $24.99
    Boy Who Made Silence vol 1 by Joshau Hagler  (Markosia) $22.99
    Fables Deluxe Edition Book 5 by Bill Willingham et al. (Vertigo) $29.99
    Graphic Canon vol 1 Worlds Great Literature as Comics and Visuals by Russ Kick et al. (Seven Stories) $34.95
    Batman Death by Design by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor (DC) $24.99
    Monsieur Jean – The Singles Theory by Dupuy and Berberian (Humanoids) $24.95
    Kick Ass 2 by Mark Millar and John Romits Jr. (Marvel) $24.99

    Art & Design Books
    Super iam8bit: More Art Inspired By Classic Video Games of the 80s by Jon M. Gibson et al. (iam8bit) $24.95
    You Animal You by Charlotte Cory (Black Dog) $29.95
    Some really great street art books: Glorious vol 3 Kings of Green vol 1 #1 (Whole Train Press) $29.95, Eloquent Vandals History of Nuart Norway $39.95, Street Art Norway Deluxe $29.95
    Destroying Everything Seems Like the Only Option by Ricky Adam (HLP) $39.95

    Sex & Sexy
    Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography by Robert Rosen (Headpress) $19.95
    Themed erotica short story books for $15.95 each!: Bound By Lust: Romantic Stories of Submission and Sensuality, Suite Encounters: Hotel Sex Stories, Girl Fever 69 Stories of Sudden Sex for Lesbians

    DIY and FOOD and DRUGS
    Growing Things: A Guide For Beginning Gardeners by Joshua James Amberson et al. $3.50
    Time to Eat Cake by Students of 826 et al. (McSweeneys) $12.00 – Little book thingy about cake written by little kids.
    Music Books
    Punkademics: The Basement Show In the Ivory Tower by Zack Furness (Minor Compositions) $20.00
    Howlin’ Wind: Pub Rock and the Birth of New Wave by John Blaney (Soundcheck) $29.95

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    Enigma of Cranial Deformation: Elongated Skulls of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress $19.95
    Conspiracy Cinema: Propaganda, Politics, and Paranoia by David Ray Carter (Headpress) $19.95
    Against Their Will Sadistic Kidnappers and the Courageous Stories of Their Innocent Victims by Nigel Cawthorne $14.95
    Saucers snd Swastikas and Psyops: A History of a Breakaway Civilization, Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations by Joseph P. Farrell $19.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Me the People: One Man’s Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America by Kevin Bleyer $26.00
    Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the Peoples Historian $19.95
    Occupy by Noam Chomsky – part of the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series (Zuccotti) $9.95

    Fiction
    Mammoth Book of Steampunk: 30 Extraordinary Tales $13.95

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Fragile Acts by Allan Peterson (McSweeneys) $18.00
    Planets Gourds and Traveling Staffs by Maya Odim $10.00
    Flash Card Fiction #2 by Thomas Fricilone and Shawn Rosenblatt $3.00
    I Love Science by Shanny Jean Maney (Write Bloody) $15.00 – From co-founder of The Encyclopedia Show.
    Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox $8.00 – A short encyclopedia, full of entries that waver between fiction and memoir. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark future. Gift shops are burned down, rebuilt, burned down once again. Entries end, almost inevitably, not on what we know, but on what we cannot know.

    Magazines
    Bitch #55 $5.95
    Wallpaper Jun 12 $10.00
    Cabinet #45 Games $12.00
    True Crime May 12 $8.99
    Ponystep #3 $34.99
    Murder Most Foul #84 $9.99
    Fortean Times #288 Jul 12 $11.99
    Pinstriping #32 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    BlackBook #92 Jun Jul 12 $4.95
    Worn #14 $8.00
    Shock Cinema #42 $5.00
    Mojo #223 Jun 12 $9.99
    Decibel #93 Jul 12 $4.95
    Monocle vol 6 #54 Jun 12 $12.00
    Z Magazine Jun 12 $4.95
    Evolved #1 $6.99 – New tattoo  mag.

    Other Stuff
    2013 Moleskine Small Monthly Notebook Diary Planner Soft Cover $14.95

    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.

  • A Couplaweeks a'New Stuff

    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.

  • New Stuff This Week

    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.

  • New Stuff This Week

    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.

  • New Stuff This Week


    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

  • New Stuff This Week

    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

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Baffler #19 $10.00 – WHAT? A new Baffler? For reals! Features include Thomas Frank on making a career out of mistakes, Barbara Ehrenreich on animal spirits, David Graeber on flying cars, Rick Perlstein on Ronald Reagan, and more.

    Zines
    xXXXx vol 1 Straight Edge Erotic Fiction by Artnoose $5.00 – I’m going to repeat myself and re-state that the title of this zine is straight-up brilliant. Smut’s not half bad either. -EF

    World’s First Anarchist Manifesto by Anselme Bellegarrigue $4.00
    Judas Goat #53 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
    Funny Animal Stories by Anne Elizabeth Moore $1.00
    Waves by Kriss Stress $4.00
    Zines by Rachel Swanson: 42 Percent is not Passing or How Sex Ed in America is Failing $2.00, Masturbation A Guide to Female Pleasure its not just for boys $2.00, Twilight the Greatest Accidental Horror Story of our Times $3.00
    Not Invented Here #1 by Alexander Stewart $4.00
    Give ’em Hell/Oblivion Split Zine by Michael Heck, Melissa Kagerer  $7.00
    No Loot No Job Portrait Collection by Michael Heck $6.00
    High and Low: Daniel Meet Santa Claus $1.50
    Kurt Mitchell zines: Tao of Stubbie Pencil, Surreal Tao of Stubbie Pencil $9.95 each
    Expect Anything Fear Nothing the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia… $30.00

    Comics and Comix
    Trubble Club #5 $8.00 – On newsprint! And it’s beauoooootiful, by the local based T-Club all stars. Pump up the comics jam. -LM…And from Edie: Mi Familia! The cartoonist cabal is back for more with this deluxxx edition full color comics offering, silkscreen print and possibly stickers (Thanks Post Family!)! Trubble from: Nate Beaty, Grant Reynolds, Laura Park, Jeremy Tinder, Aaron Renier, Rachel Niffenegger, Bernie McGovern, Lilli Carré, Corinne Mucha, Jeffery Brown, Lucy Knisley, Becca Taylor, Jose Garibaldi, Joshua Cotter, Joe Tallarico, Onsmith, Lyra Hill, Sam Sharpe and Carrie Vinarsky with assists from Ezra Clayton Daniels, Craig Thompson, Thorne Brandt, Erika Moen, Antoine Dode and Alec Longstreth. KAPOW! -EF
    Spot of Noir by Lilli Carre $4.00
    Hipster Holocaust #2 Two Fisted Tales of Urban Edgyness by Ernest J. Ramon, Sarah Howell Morton, Leda Zawacki et al. $7.00
    Laskimooses #1 and #2 Maailman Kirkas Aamunkoitto by Herra Matti Hagelbergin $7.00 each
    Happiness Machines a New Comic From the Chronicle of Fortune by Caroline Picard $4.00
    various Familiar Faces Comics by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner $5.00 each
    various comics by Rachel N. Swanson: Oregon Trail Zombie Edition  $3.00, Thunder Snow issues #1-#4 $2.00 each
    6 In a Rut – philanthropy is so rewarding by Frank Aggro $3.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Krazy and Ignatz 1922-1924 At Last My Drim of Life Has Come True by George Herriman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
    Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller  by Jospeh Lambert (Hyperion) $17.99
    DMZ vol 11 Free States Rising TPB by Brian Wood et al. (Vertigo) $19.99
    Rachel Rising vol 1 Shadow of Death TPB by Terry Moore (Abstract) $16.99
    Black Charity by Bal Speer (Archaia) $19.95

    Art & Design Books
    Portrait of a Young Man Trying to Draw by William Schaff (Lamano 21) $30.00
    Ryan Trecartin Any (Rizzoli) $45.00
    Susie Says by Gina Garan and Justin vivian Bond (PowerHouse) $19.95
    Pen and Ink: A Collection of Editorial Illustrations by Kurt Mitchell $9.95
    Capturing Beauty With Your Camera: 10 Tips To Taking Better Photographs by James K. Kropp $25.00
    Alice in Wonderland Giant Poster and Coloring Book: 12 Prints to Frame to Color by Sir John Tenniel and Lewis Caroll (Abrams) $12.95

    Fiction
    Suddenly a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (FSG) $14.00
    Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson $26.95
    Golem by Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus) $11.99
    Scratched From Dreams: A Collection of Short Stories by Kurt Mitchell et al. $9.95

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Another Chicago Magazine #50.2 $12.00
    Oyez Review #39 $5.00
    Paris Review #200 $15.00
    Bomb #119 Spr 12 $7.95
    Foxglove by Erica Schreiner $3.00

    DIY
    Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook More Than 50 Irresistible Recipes…by The Editors of High Times Magazine et al. (Chronicle) $18.95
    Marijuana: Let’s Grow a Pound: A Day by Day Guide to Growing More Than You Can Smoke by SeeMoreBuds (Quick) $19.95
    Tasting Beer: An Insiders Guide to the Worlds Greatest Drink by Randy Mosher (Storey) $16.95 – From the author of Radical Brewing.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur’an by Michael Muhammad Knight (Soft Skull) $15.95 – When Michael Muhammad Knight sets out to write the definitive biography of his “Anarcho-Sufi” hero and mentor, writer Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey), he makes a startling discovery that changes everything. At the same time that he grows disillusioned with his idol, Knight finds that his own books have led to American Muslim youths making a countercultural idol of him, placing him on the same pedestal that he had given Wilson. In an attempt to forge his own path, Knight pledges himself to an Iranian Sufi order that Wilson had almost joined, attempts to write the Great American Queer Islamo-Futurist Novel, and even creates his own mosque in the wilderness of West Virginia. He also employs the “cut-up” writing method of Bey’s friend, the late William S. Burroughs, to the Qur’an, subjecting Islam’s holiest scripture to literary experimentation. William S. Burroughs vs. the Qur’an is the struggle of a hero-worshiper without heroes and the meeting of religious and artistic paths, the quest of a writer as spiritual seeker.
    Body Art 3 from the makers of Bizarre Magazine (Titan) $16.95

    Music Books
    Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground by Rob Jovanovic $26.99
    Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone (Abrams) $24.95
    Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form by Anna Anthropy $14.95 -“Anna Anthropy is an independent videogame designer and critic, and a key personality in the ongoing paradigm shift that is slowly changing the way videogames are understood, by creators and players, and by the wider culture.” —Patrick Alexander, Eegra.com

    Magazines
    Hi Fructose #23 $6.95
    Bust Apr May 12 $5.99
    Bizarre #186 Mar 12 $10.50
    Fortean Times #286 May 12 $11.99
    Wallpaper Apr 12 $10.00
    IdN vol 19 #1 $19.95
    World Explorer vol 6 #3 $8.95
    Open Minds Apr May 12 $6.95
    Flaunt #120 $10.95
    Sneaker Freaker #23 $14.50
    Skunk vol 7 #7 $5.99
    Skateboarder vol 22 #2 $5.99
    Paper Apr 12 $4.00
    Fangoria #312 $9.99
    Meatpaper #17 Spr 12 $7.95
    Decibel #91 May 12 $4.95
    Mojo #221 Apr 12 $9.99
    Harpers Magazine Apr 12 $6.99
    In These Times Apr 12 $3.50
    Z Magazine Apr 12 $4.95
    Inked Apr 12 #44 $6.99
    Skin and Ink Jun Jul 12 #136 $8.99
    Rebel Ink Magazine May Jun 12 $5.99
    Tattoo Revolution Apr 12 $11.75

    Sex & Sexy
    Heroes With Hardons: Big Book of Class Comics ed. by Patrick Fillion (Bruno Gmunder) $43.99

    Other Stuff
    Eyeball Lunch Bag $13.50 – Probably this bag is what the Residents take their lunch in.
    Steampunk Sleep Mask $4.50 – Brass goggles for brass giggling.
    Roller Girl Candy Cigarettes $2.00 – Orange flavored. For your fave derby grrrl.
    Crime Scene Sandwich Bags $4.50 – Ziplocked. To quarantine your lunch from greedy co-workers.

    Meat Fancy Foil Decorative Aluminum Wrap, Butchers Choice  $4.00

    Cola Flavored Mustache Lollipop $3.00
    More Moleskine journals, various permutations and prices: lined, unlined, red, black, soft cover, hard cover, date books, etc.
    Inflatable Unicorn Horn $6.99
    Inflatable Tentacle Arm $12.00
    Roctober #50 Skateboard Deck $65.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out to the event for the release of Roctober #50 last night!

    Everything we list on our blog is available at our brick and mortar store. But not everything we sell at the brick and mortar store is available from our webstore. Go to  quimbys.com/store to see what is new in our webstore!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Tonight is going to be great! We’re having an event with Zak Sally (Sammy the Mouse), Dale “Tooth” Flattum and John Porcellino (King-Cat Comics). It starts at 7pm. Click here for more info.


    Anyway, New Stuff This Week!
    The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Alvin Buenaventura (Abrams) $40.00 – Don’t miss Dan Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura signing this book here on May 17th!

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Roctober #50 $5.00 – Don’t miss the release event for this zine (this year makes its 20th anniversary!) here on March 30th.
    Enchante – Short Stories by Dan Gleason $2.00
    Strictly 228 the Old New York Zine $12.00
    My Aim Is True #5 Pieces #6.5 by Carrie $2.00
    Hawklog Green Pamphlet by Leon Sadler et al. (Picturebox) $5.00
    Zine World: A Readers Guide to the Underground #30.5 $1.50 – Supplement between #30 and #31 of this popular zine review resource.
    Going All City a Coloring Book by Cat Action $15.00
    Snot Rocket City #1 by Margot, Taylor, Cory & Jeff $2.00
    Eat Zine #4 by Jazz Robinson & Dan Varenka $6.50
    Dirty Hands #2 by David Alvarado $4.00
    19 Keep Hoping Machine Running #3 $5.00
    Dear Shane I Tried to Kill Myself by Jazz $5.00
    Kathleen by Ben Austin et al. $2.00

    Comics & Comix
    Comics by Juliacks: Invisible Forces Nakymattomia Voimia $15.00, Swell Part One Openfaced Sandwich $10.00
    Birthday Boy Comics #1 Harbringers of Fun by Eric Scheidt & Matthew Koerber $6.00
    Broken Hearts Comic by Kathryn Keister $2.00
    Backed Up Comics – Notes Lists Comics Observations by Ryan Ehresman $5.00
    Backed Up Comics – Portraits of Mohamed Illustrations 2009-2012 $4.00
    Travel Drawings 2010 by T. Grabil $3.00
    Comics by Alex Schubert: Blobby Boys #1 July $7.00, Dudes: Kansas City Mo $3.00
    Comics by Jackie Barry: This is The Sea $5.00, In His Time: A Quick Visual Biography of Ernie Hemingway $20.00, Lesbian Sex $5.00, Dogs I’ve Loved $5.00

    Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
    Dolls Weekly and the Crawlee Things by Rory Hayes (Picturebox) $30.00
    Simon Collection 2001-2011 by Tyrell Cannon $22.00
    The Sincerest Form of Parody: Best 1950s Mad Inspired Satirical Comics by Jay Lynch, John Benson (Fantagraphics) $24.99
    Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson by Will Bingley et al. (Abrams) $17.95
    Ichiro by Ryan Inzana (Houghton) $19.99
    Astonishing X-Men: Ultimate Collection vol 2 by Joss Whedon et al. (Marvel) $29.99

    Art & Design
    Garbage Pail Kids by The Topps Company Inc. (Abrams) $19.95 – This exciting follow up to Wacky Packages includes spectacular artwork and over-the-top satire, featuring inspired collaborations between avant-garde cartoonists and humorists including Art Spiegelman (who wrote the intro), Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay Lynch. All 206 rare and hard-to-find images from Series 1 through 5 are collected in an innovative package, along with a special set of four limited-edition, previously unreleased bonus stickers.

    Fiction
    Heretic by Miguel Conner $9.99

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    DIY Magic by Anthony Alvarado (Floating World) $13.95
    Black Wings of Cthulhu: Twenty One Tales of Lovecraftian Horror by ST Joshi (Titan) $14.95
    Seeking Truth While Sifting Through: A Global Practice by HermanSJr. $7.99
    Voices of Gnosticism by Miguel Conner $17.95

    Music Books
    The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by RJ Smith (Gotham) $27.50
    Megadeth: Another Time A Different Place by Bill Hale (PowerHouse) $19.95

    Magazines
    Girls and Corpses #6 Spr 12 $8.95
    Dapper Dan #5 Spr Sum 12 $10.99
    Chicago IRL #3 Spr 12 $11.00
    Razorcake #67 $4.00

    Everything we list on our blog is available at our brick and mortar store. But not everything we sell at the brick and mortar store is available from our webstore. Click here to see what is new in our webstore!

  • New Stuff This Week (and Last Week)

    Look what happens when we skip a week of posting new stuff! We come back stronger the next week. On top of that, Chicago hosted both the AWP writers conference and also Chicago Zine Fest, both events one weekend apart,  so that means tons of people brought in their zines, comics and lit journals to consign while they were here. That’s 304 new items, and no, we’re not listing them ALL here. Just come in and check it out for yourself! What you say, you were here a couple weeks ago? Well guess what? It’s almost a brand new store since then.

    Cinema Sewer #25 $4.00 – highlights (and lowlights) of the Nazispoitation movies, daredevil documentaries of the 1970s, The Legend of the Orgasm Bike, illustrated reviews and more.

    Zines & Zine-Related Books
    Syndicate Product #19 Detritus Fragments and Scraps by AJ Michel $3.00 – Somehow hot on the heels of issue #20, Syndicate Product #19 collects a hodge podge of reviews and miscellany from Bacon Bits to Military Surplus Stores. Plus a really amazing picture of a sign at a so-called dollar store. -EF

    Alamo Igloo #1 by Keith Herzik $5.00 – Keep your eyes Iglooed to these tubes – this baked alaska comes Alamo-ed and Herzik’s on fire. -EF

    Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment by Paper Monument/Project Projects $15.00
    Make Your Own Zine Kit – Sweater Vest Not Included by Don $2.00
    Mend My Dress: Collected Zines 2005-2007 by Neely Bat Chestnut & Colleen Weber Borst $13.00
    Butch Nor Femme #3 Curioddity #4 by Lynn Monsoon/Curiouser Jane $3.00
    Piscean Footnotes #01 by Lynne $2.50
    Curioddity #3 Curiouser Jane $2.00
    Wish You Were Me by Myriam Gurba (Future Tense Books) $5.00 – bizarre and uproarious follow-up to her award-winning first novella and story collection, Dahlia Season.

    Ventriloquism by Prathna Lor $5.00
    What Is This? A Poster. A Book: About Impostition & Pagination, About Type Rules and Typefaces by Carol Sogard and Dan Evans $4.00 – A perfect gift for someone starting art school or someone needing a quick and easy design primer. Help with learning about gutter area, creep allowance, trim area and more. Folds out into a poster suitable for hanging (and looking awesome).
    Kramer Sutra by Chelsea Martin $5.00 – NOT the Karma Sutra. The KRAMER Sutra. As in Kramer from Seinfeld.
    Spartan Holiday #1 Shanghai Pictorial by DB Dowd $12.95
    Ugly  No 1 #3 Mar 12 a Collection of Visual Crap by Matt Soria $4.00
    Culture Slut #25 by Amber Forrester Nov 11 $2.00
    As Boredom Sets In Win 12 Interviews with Sucked Dry and Birth Deformities $2.50
    Lil Cat Willow $10.00
    Little Otsu Living Things vol 7 featuring the work of Liam Stevens (Little Otsu) $6.95
    Night Home by Becca Stadtlander (Little Otsu) $6.00
    Hook Ups by Dan Boulton $3.00
    Over and Out #2 by Brad Westcott $5.00
    Tropical History $4.00
    Whoosh Zine For Whale Lovers #3 by Katherina $3.00
    Our Moon Field Guide and Audio Companion by Ethan Krause $5.00
    Seven Sexual Things That Everyone Failed to Mention by Leah Scotia Thomas $2.00
    Tiger Girl Photo Zine $4.00
    Proof I Exist #14 Learning to Deal by Billy $1.00 and #15 $3.00 – See pictures CZF as well as of Billy hosting the Zine Fest Olympics on Flickr last weekend.
    Last Night at the Casino #2 Mar 12: Ever Wonder Wha Its Like to be a Casino Dealer Here Let me Tell Ya by Billy $2.00
    Cops – The Good The Bad and the Unintentionally Hilarious by Billy et al. $1.00
    All I Want Is Everything #2 by Caitlin $2.50, #3 $3.00, I Was a Teenage Mormon $3.00
    Adita #20 Zine Library $1.00
    Guide to Dating Gangsters vol 1 by Vice Versa $3.50
    Insubordination Fest Zine 11 by Danny Nuthin $2.00
    Travel On #3 Year In Minnesota by David Solomon $2.00
    Words One Hundred Stories #1 by Re Harris $2.50
    Feel Better #1 a Zine About Self Love by Marlee Grace $6.00
    Great Stuff with Lilli and Alexander by S. Morean $6.00
    xXXXx vol 2 Straight Edge Erotic Fiction by Artnoose $5.00
    Empty Orchestra #1 $2.00
    Miss Sequential #3 by Marissa Falco $4.00
    List #15 On My Own by Ramsey Everydaypants $4.00
    Shit Progressives Dont Want To Hear #1  Journal of Unpopular Opinions by var. $1.50
    Not Queer as in Radical but Lesbian as in Fuck You by Rachel $1.00
    Motor City Kitty #15 by Bri $1.00
    Nailbiter #2 An Anxiety Zine $17.00
    Scabs and Other Hurts by Marta Chudolinska $4.00
    Obsesser #2 Motel by Jessica Bublitz $2.00
    Teach These Kids a Lesson #1 Tales of Inner City Education  by Corey Plagiatist $2.00
    Art Zine Chicago vol 1 #1 Mar 12 by Daniel Teafoe $20.00
    Cheer the Eff Up #2 by Jonas $3.00
    Upskirt Dirty Unfeminist Secrets $5.00
    Feeling Words a Pocket Zine of Emotions by Teresa Cheng $3.00
    Craft Leftovers vol 4 #1 by Kristin Roach $5.00
    Brainscan #29 No More Coffee #4 by Alex Wrekk and Ben Spies $3.00
    Clothing I’ve Accidentally Accumulated by Sarah Creagen $1.00
    Notes and Bolts #2.5 Scribbles and Scratches vol 1 by Kris Stress $2.50
    Paper Houses #2 Southern Subcultural Snippets and Horror Rock Rookies by Kris Stress $3.00
    Discomfort #1 by Davegunn $1.50
    Pigeon Life: A Discomfort Guide to Hitchhiking and Recreational Homelessness by Dave Gunn $3.00
    Bake and Destroy Everyone Around You by Kara $1.50
    Smash the Pastryarcy by Kara Comegys $1.50
    Cutty Kings vol 1 BEL $6.00
    We Are Confused – Ghosts Talk Love by Georgi $1.00
    Cave Girl $1.00
    Girls Who Like Girls a Miniscule Zine of Epic Proportions #3 by Bill Stenross $1.00

    Comics & Comix
    Corporeal Breach #1 by Chris Day $7.00 – Much like Terrence Hannum’s gothic artists’ zines, Chris Day is tackling comics with a leather glove and pared-down pungency. Mixing some of the experimental flavors that Jason Overby dishes out with a cinematic peek through the budoir keyhole, Day has Sex and Death riding high on the tight crop, page after page. -EF

    Wolfman Chicago Dreams of Dirt by Nate Beaty $3.00 – Nate is awesome, and his work is really great! Also, do you like our website? Because he redid it and it’s the greatest ever.
    Army of Lovers Will Be Beaten Book 6 by Bernie McGovern $6.00
    All About Crystals by Chris Hatherill et al. (Landfill Editions) $8.50
    Yule Bringer #1 by Adam Higton (Landfill Editions) $6.00
    Yule Bringer Foxgloves Christmas by Adam Higton (Landfill Editions) $8.50
    Puppy Teeth #2 by Kevin Czapiewski and Liz Suburbia $10.00
    Nog Nu: The Protector of the Pyramides, The T. Monster Cometh by Onli, Woods and St. Pierre (Onli) $5.00
    Vajazzlin #1 by Molly Colleen O’Connell $4.00
    Violence Valley #1 by Jesse McManus (Floating World) $8.00
    4 Square #3 by var. $1.50
    Roxie and Moxie #1 Tummy Trouble by J. Wisneski $1.00
    Unusual Adventure #2 by Robert Calzone $4.00
    Gehenna #1  $3.00
    various issues of Our Ever Improving Living Room by Kevin Budnik
    Mister Bear #1 by Gaby Billings $2.00
    Sy Loady titles: Pretty Glitti Ponies, Track Ponies and more.
    Rainbow in the Dark #1 $3.00
    Flat Mountain Chronicles vol 3 and vol 4 (Drawings and Comics Press) $3.00 each
    Comics For Something #1 by Drew Damron $2.00
    various AWESOME things from Marissa Falco: Miss Sequential #4: Outgoing My Life In Mail $4.00, Miss Sequential #5 Sketchbook etc.
    Mia Protasi by Matt Czap $1.00
    various Liz Suburbia titles: Cyanide Milkshake #2 and #3 etc.
    Waffle: A Sexy Little Comic For Girls and Boys  by Kevin Czapiewski $5.00
    Peehole #8 by Jim Donaldson $3.00
    Toasty Cats #1-#6 by Magda Boreysza various prices
    various Christopher Green titles including Undermind #1, Multitudes of Me What He Saw One Minute Prior to Birth, etc.
    Behold #1 CAL: Cavalier About Love, Behold #2 Live a Wasted Life by Alex Major $3.00 each
    One Less Lonely Girl by Gina Wynbrandt $3.00
    Fifty Flip Experiment #15 Mar 12 $4.00
    Nick Meccia titles: One of Only Two Such Occasions, Sleep Is For The Dead etc.
    Nothing Lasts Forever by Bill Stenross $1.00
    Festival of Demons #1 by Melinda Andrea $3.00

    Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
    Sammy The Mouse Book 1 TPB by Zak Sally (Lamano 21) $14.00 – Don’t miss Zak Sally here at 7pm on Fri, March 23rd with John Porcellino and Dale Flattum!

    Our Ever Improving Living Room Book Diary Comic 2010-2011  by Kevin Budnik $15.00
    King City Cat Master Comix by Brandon Graham (Image) $19.99
    Hellboy vol 12 Storm and the Fury by Mike Mignola et al. (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Blue by Pat Grant (Top Shelf) $14.95
    Complete Crumb Comics vol 1 Early Years of Bitter Struggle by R. Crumb (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Back in print, and in affordable soft cover.
    EmiTown a Sketch Diary vol 2 by Emi Lenox (Image) $24.99
    At the Mountains of Madness, Illustrated Graphic Novel by HP Lovecraft et al. (Sterling) $14.95
    Birthday Surprise by Kevin Czapiewski $10.00
    Lucy the Dreamer by John Akre $10.00
    Back and Forth Linocuts Graphic Novel by Marta Chudolinska $20.00
    Womanthology Heroic, Created by Over 150 Women (IDW) $50.00
    Crossed vol 3 Psychopath by David Lapham (Avatar) $19.99

    Art & Design Books?
    Bunny In the Moon: The Art of Tara McPherson vol 3 (Dark Horse) $23.99
    Object 5 by Kilian Eng (Floating World) $20.00
    Art As Politics: The Future of Art and Community by Adam Krause (New Compass) $14.95
    Buzzwords: Interviews With Buzz Spector (Sara Ranchouse Publishing) $35.00
    Reduce Waste #1: Don’t Design Waste by Carol Sogard $5.00

    Fiction
    Get Real by Spencer Compton $10.00
    Fifteen Views of Orlando by Nathan Holic et al. $15.00
    To Build a Fire by Jack London, with illustration by Michael C. Hsiung (Scout) $4.00
    Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, with illustration by Tom Neely (Scout) $4.00
    Young Goodman Brown and the Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustration by Zack Soto (Scout) $4.00
    Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, with illustration by Aaron Renier (Scout) $4.00
    Eves Diary by Mark Twain, with illustration by Meg Hunt (Scout) $4.00
    Gift of the Magi and Other Stories by O. Henry and illustration by Burt Kate Bingaman (Scout) $4.00
    Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and a Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce and illustration by Francois Vigneault (Scout) $4.00
    Game of Groans: A Sonnet of Slush and Soot by George RR Washington $9.99 – Don’t miss the author event for this book here on 3/27 at 7pm.

    Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
    I Remember by Shane Allison (Future Tense Books) $12.00 – “Shane Allison taps directly into memory, like a faucet pushed into a maple tree to procure the sweet syrup. Sexy things, embarrassing things, the ugly and the fraught, the things of the child and the things of the man, all pour out in profusion. His testimony–of bullying, racism, and casual homophobia, but also the best rimjob he ever had–has the power to dismantle centuries of chains, the crippling superego.” –Kevin Killian

    Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made by David Hughes (Titan) $15.95
    Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward (Simon) $16.00
    American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare the Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott (Random) $17.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Everything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea Martin $11.00
    Legs Get Led Astray by Chloe Caldwell (Future Tense Books) $13.50 – provocative collection of essays that vividly rockets the reader through one young woman’s life.
    Grey Album on the Blackness of Blackness by  Kevin Young (Graywolf) $25.00
    How to Piss In Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood by Gavin McInnes (Scribner) $24.00
    Care to Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: The Believer Book of Advice by various (Vintage) $14.95

    Politics & Revolution
    Making The Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance by Noam Chomsky (Citylights) $16.95
    Love and Struggle: My Life in the SDS the Weather Underground and Beyond by David Gilbert and Riley Boots (PM) $22.00
    Arab Melancholia by Abdellah Taia (Semiotexte) $14.95

    Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
    Panic Kit by Laura A. Lionello $13.00
    Love Poem for the Everyday by Michael Haeflinger $7.00
    Fire is Breathing on Me by Mat Gould $7.00
    Watching it Burn by Mike Meraz $7.00
    Skinning the Hero – Amongst Barbarians and Degenerates by Justin Reynolds $7.00
    This Just This by Justin Reynolds $7.00
    It Will Be The Lion by Mat Gould $7.00
    Things I Say To Pirates on Nights When I Miss You by Keely Hyslop $12.00
    Ninth Letter vol 8 #2 $14.95
    The Chicago Review vol 56 #4 $10.00
    Deadline Annualis #2  $14.00
    The Believer #88 2012 Film Issue $12.00 – As usual, the film edition comes with a DVD.
    Fjords vol 1 #3 $10.00
    Sinister Wisdom #85 Win 12 $6.00
    Charting the Interstate by Alfred Planco $2.00

    Music Books
    Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds (Soft Skull) $21.95
    Panic On the Streets: The Smiths and Morrissey Location Guide by P. Gatenby (Titan) $12.95

    Childrens Books
    Steampunk: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, ed. by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (Candlewick) $22.99 – A young adult anthology, perhaps for middle school kids who have considering adding gears to their bikes?

    Central Park Peacock by Alfred Planco and Olivia Pettengill $8.00
    The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, With Moskowitz the Awesome Dog by Michael Chabon (Harper) $17.99

    Magazines
    Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue $12.00
    Juxtapoz #135 Apr 12 $5.99
    Nobrow #6 $24.00
    Tape Op #88 Mar Apr 12 $4.95
    Fortean Times #285 $11.99
    ID Magazine Pre Spr 12 #317 $12.00
    High Times May 12 $5.99
    Wire #337 Mar 12 $9.99
    Creative Review Feb 12 $14.99
    Dwell Apr 12 $5.99
    ArtForum Mar 12 $10.00
    Shots #115 Spr 12 $6.50
    Pin Up America Mar Apr 12 #8 $5.99
    Blood and Thunder #19, Womens Roller Derby Magazine $5.99
    Gastronomica vol 12 #1 $12.99
    Laphams Quarterly vol 5 #2 Spr 12 $15.00
    Dazed & Confused vol 3 #7 Mar 12 $9.99
    Decibel #90 Apr 12 $4.95
    Filter Good Music Guide Mar Apr 12 $2.99
    Under the Radar #40 $5.99
    Maximumrocknroll #347 Apr 12 $4.00
    Chips and Beer #2 $7.00
    Magnet #85 $4.99
    Z Magazine Mar 12 $4.95
    Class Struggle #73 $3.00
    Radical Philosophy #172 $13.00
    Against the Current #157 Mar Apr 12 $5.00
    Tattoo Revolution Mar 12 $11.75
    Tabu Tattoo #47 $7.99

    ?Sex & Sexy
    Bottoms Up – Spanking Good Stories ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis) $15.95
    Some Handy Tips From From Your Friendly Sex Toy Consultant – Kiss N Tell, We Have Everything You Need For a Hot Night Out Here I Am Down Here $10.00
    Meat #6 by Adrian Lourie $18.00

    Other Stuff
    Copy Scams Tape $3.00 – Brainscan zine and Stolen Sharpie Revolution writer/publisher Alex Wrekk and friends started a band. And they sing about zines. What’s not to love about that? Low-fi analog technology (read: cassette tape) to appeal to your old school aesthetic.

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