Category: new stuff

  • New Stuff This Week

    We’re proud to offer you Leslie Stein’s first new issue of Eye of the Majestic Creature since Fantagraphics published her collection of issues #1-#4.

    In this fifth issue Larrybear has moved back to New York after having lived in the countryside. She finds herself employed at a dress shop run by an absentee boss in the East Village, and living with her old friend Seashell in an infested Brooklyn apartment. Of course, Marshmallow and her anthropomorphic friends are there too, but being magical they are not allowed to leave the house. Not that this stops Marshmallow, who is becoming increasingly depressed and drinking way too much.On a nice winter day, roaming around Manhattan, Larry finds herself drawn to the Visionary Arts Museum, and is amazed to find they are having a retrospective of Victorian Sand Counters. Inspired, Larry begins to count sand seriously, but in a world where this is largely a forgotten art form, where can it possibly take her?

    …and other stuff!

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    Shows I’ve Seen At Metro by Timothy James McPherrin $2.00 – This is adorable.
    Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood by Tomas Moniz and various (PM Press) $15.00
    Darkness to the West by Adam Gnade $2.00
    various issues of High on Burning Photographs $1.00 each
    Anarchism: The Feminist Connection by Peggy Kornegger (Kersplebed) $4.00
    Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, Also Who Was Emma Goldman by Emma Goldman and The Workers Solidarity Movement (Kersplebed) $3.00
    Anarchist Organisation Suggestions and Possibilities by Graham Purchase (AK) $2.50
    Commune In Chiapas Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion (PAGP) $5.00
    Deadly She Wolf: Assassin at Armageddon and Mommas Song by various $20.00
    Down With the Prison Walls a Talk by Iglesias  Martinez Laudelino 3.00
    Guerilla Warfare: A Method by Erenesto Che Guevara $4.00
    Hieroglyphica Anonymous $5.00
    Mamphiles #4 Raising Hell $6.00
    Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman $2.00
    Non Western Anarchisms Rethinking the Global Context by Jason Adams $3.00
    Profit and Exploitation by Peter Kropotkin (Thought Crime Ink) $4.00
    Red Army Faction the Urban Guerilla Concept $5.00
    Relevence of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (Kerr) $4.00
    Return of the Cake Scoffer: Cheap’n’ Easy Vegan Cooking by Ronny $3.50
    Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse by various $7.00
    Zine About Womens Self Defence #1 Fighting Back, Not Taking Shit Being Heard $3.00
    Anarchist Economics an Alternative for the World In Crisis by Abraham Guillen $5.00
    Molten Rectangle #3 Special Family Issue $10.00
    It Should Be Obvious #1 Kelcey Towell  $13.00
    My Aim is True by Carrie $1.00
    Zine Centro $1.00
    Compleat Anglerfish by Michelle Yacht $8.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Three #2 by various $6.25
    Chronicles of Fortune by Caroline Picard $10.00
    Sand Dune #1 Jun Jul 11 Erik Schneider $1.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Big Questions (soft cover veresion) by Anders Brekhus Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Join us and Anders celebrating the release of his magnum opus Big Questions at Lula Cafe on Tuesday, September 30th. This beautiful and minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and over 600 pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. Ask about the fancy $69.95 hardcover version, signed and numbered version.
    Blankets by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf) $39.95 – New deluxe hardcover edition, featuring higher-quality paper, Smyth-sewn bindings, a spot gloss, and a slightly wider trim size.
    Forming vol 1 by Jesse Moynihan (Spiro) $29.95
    Nipper 1965-1966 by Doug Wright (D&Q) $16.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Graffiti Japan by various (MBP) $21.95

    FICTION!
    Machine Man by Max Barry (Vintage) $14.95
    Subversions: Anarchist Short Stories by The Anarchist Writers Bloc (AK) $14.95
    How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher (Melville) $15.00 – Don’t miss Christopher Boucher here at Quimby’s on Wed, Aug 24th at 7pm, joined by Adam Levin, the author of The Instructions.

    Christopher Boucher reads from How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive with Adam Levin (The Instructions) 8/24

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Resonant Space by Devon King $10.00

    DIY!
    In Every Town: An All Ages Music Manualfesto  (All Ages Movement Project) $14.99
    Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer by Erin Mann (Beacon) $15.00
    Bumping Back: An Activist’s Guide To Getting There, Doing the Business & Getting Away with It  by L. Hobley (Niccolo) $24.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Fashion Cats:  Feline Couture from Japans Number 1 Cat Tailor by Takako Iwasa (Vice) $12.00 – Yes, this is for real. Takako Iwasa makes adorable goth-lolita clothes for her Scottish-fold kitties, and it’s so cute you want to cry.
    Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism In Western Civilization by Donald P. Dulchinos (Autonomedia) $17.95
    Year In the Life of A Factory by Maynard Seider (Kerr) $14.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth (Vintage) $15.95 – A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
    Some Mother’s Daughter: Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence by The International Prostitutes Collective (Crossroads) $13.99
    Russian Tragedy by Alexander Berkman (Phoenix) $11.95
    Autobiography of Mother Jones (Kerr) $6.95
    Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Made a Difference by Bob Breving (Kerr) $9.00
    Emergent Publics: An Essay on Social Movements and Democracy by Ian Angus (Arbeiter Ring) $9.95
    Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by various (Falling Wall) $9.99
    Intervention Series 9: Atta by Jarett Kobek (Semio) $12.95
    Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy by Christian Marazzi (Semio) $15.95

    CHILDRENS!
    Secret World of Terijian (Crimethinc) $6.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99
    Fortean Times #278 Sep 11 $11.99
    Under the Influence #9 2011 La Folie Issue $19.50
    Plazm #30 $10.00

    SEX & SEXY!
    Housewives at Play #20 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95

    OTHER STUFF!
    Write Here $8.00 – Nice blank journal made by Cindy Crabb of Doris fame. And P.S.: Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on here Sat, Sep 3rd, 7pm to celebrate her new book, The Encyclopedia of Doris, which brings together the last 10 years of zines and a ton of new writing as well.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Lalapalooza weekend. Grant Park can keep their sweaty and crowded crowds, we’ll just chill here, thanks!

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    Underground Music Fanzines From the Late 1980s-Early 90s by Marc Fischer and Temporary Services (Temporary Services) $5.00 – Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.Cambodian Grrrl: Self Publishing in Phnom Penh by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Cantankerous) $7.95 – Unmarketable author and independent publishing activist tells the story of her experience with a large group of social-justice-minded young women from the impoverished provinces of Cambodia in short essay collections on contemporary media, art, and educational work by, for, and with young women in Southeast Asia. Part memoir, part investigative report, completely compelling.

    Judas Goat Quarterly #50 by Grant Schreiber $1.50 – Fifty issues strong, the feisty old JGQ kicks back in the August heat and ponders the absurdities of our political plight as civil liberties get stripped from us like so much sunburnt skin. -EFPlastic Knife #7 $3.00
    Awesome Future Stories of Victorious Action by Robnoxious $4.00
    Avow #24 by Keith $4.00
    Wild Fermentation Zine: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation by Sandor Katz (Microcosm) $6.00
    Readin and Fightin #3 Mental Health Insisting on Literature by Women of Color by Camille Yarnover $1.50
    Flood #3 Spr 11 and Flood #4 Sum 11 $5.00 each
    Zine by Jessica Ciocci (Picturebox) $8.00
    Filth #3 Sum 11 $3.00
    People I Love Best #4 by Lia Cunningham $2.00
    Zines by Devan Elyse Bennett: Sad Eyed Girl $2.00, Fascinating History of Perfume $1.50
    Stitches In My Head #1 $4.00
    Flermp by James The Stanton $5.00
    DumDum #1 Cities and States: How to Leave Cities by Taleen Kalenderian $3.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Big Top Popaganda #1 by Ron English (Creators Edge) $3.99 – Written and illustrated by the Popagandesque lowbrown artist known for his eerie and artful takes on things All American: Mickey Mouse, McDonalds and other corporate “icons.”
    Suicide Girls Comic #4 by various (inclding Steve Niles) (IDW) $3.99 – Sexy chicks with tatts fightng crime.
    Lane Leson Comics #1 by Lane Nelson $3.00
    Reckless $1.00
    Loner $1.00
    Damen County #1: Thats One Big Hole Minnesota by Russ G. $5.00
    Dead Yeards #1 by Nerd $7.00
    Ziskas Drum vol 1 by Steven Trimmer $5.00
    Stobor Stanton James the Stanton $5.00
    Three #2 by Jennifer Camper and various $6.25

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Tank Takuro: Manga Master Prewar Strips 1934-35 ed. by Gajo Sakamoto (Press Pop) $29.95
    Killing Velazquez Philippe Girard (Conundrum) $20.00
    Jack Kirby Omnibus vol 1 Starring Green Arrow (DC) $49.99
    Marvelous Land of Oz SC by Frank L. Baum (Marvel) $19.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Faces by Glenn Barr (Last Gasp) $15.95
    Art of Sketch Theatre vol 1 (Baby Tattoo) $40.00

    FICTION!
    Cockfighter by Chalres Willeford (Picturebox) $17.95
    Zero History by William Gibson (Berkley) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Steady Work by Lloyd Zimpel $12.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Anobium vol 1 Sum 11 $10.00
    The Toucan #12 Sum 11 $3.00

    DIY!
    The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms In the Quest for Meaning by Simon Powell (Park Street) $18.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    You Don’t Know Shit: A Brilliant Miscellany of All Things Scatalogical by various (SMP) $12.99
    Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture by Stephen H Segal (Quirk) $14.95
    Baffling and Bizarre Inventions by Jim Murphy (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Weird and Wacky Inventions by Jim Murphy (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Barbarian Rites: The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes by Hans Peter Hasenfratz (Inner Traditions) $16.95
    The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by various (Bear & Co.) $15.00
    Scattered Skeletons In our Closet by Karen Mutton (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95 – The rundown on various hominids, skeletons, anomalous skulls and other “things” from our family tree, including hobbits, pygmies, giants and horned people, dolichocephaloids (Coneheads) and more. Heavily illustrated.
    Grid of the Gods: The Aftermath of the Cosmic War and the Physics of the Pyramid (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
    Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field: Gravity and Electro Magnetism Redefined by John Brandenburg PhD (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95
    Dark Star: Hidden History of German Secret Bases, Flying Disks and UBoats (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
    Chicago Italians at Work: Images of America by Peter N. Pero $24.00
    Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood: Images of America by Peter N. Pero $24.00
    Under the Red Velvet Cover: Conquering Victimhood and Breaking the Silence by Grant Garris $14.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    I Love Rock N Roll Except When I Hate It: Extremely Important Stuff About the Songs and Bands You Love/Hate, Love to Hate, Hate to Love by Brian Boone (Perigree) $13.95
    Euro Punk: The Visual Culture of Punk in Europe 1976-1980 (Drago) $55.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols (Nation) $16.99

    MAGAZINES!
    Kill Screen #4 Public Play Issue $15.00 – The video game mag for video game appreciators and also people who don’t get into video games. Very entertaining! We also have these back issues for $15.00 each as well: #2 Back to School Issue and #3 Intimacy Issue.
    Sketch School #1 by Carol Sogard $7.00  – And same with this one.
    Dwell Sep 11 $5.99
    Sneaker Freaker #21 $14.50
    Color Skateboards Collectors Issue 2011 $7.99
    Mojo #214 Sep 11 $9.99
    Tattoo Collection #45 $7.75

    SEX & SEXY!
    Headmaster #1 and #2 $20.00 each – Hot And Haute Fag Art Porn Magascene. -EFThe Pin-Up Art of Humorama ed. by Alex Chun and Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Collects hundreds of racy cartoons from the once-ubiquitous tasteless humor mag, including Dave Berg, Jack Cole, Basil Wolverton and more.
    Latex Fashion Photography: Slick Shiny Sexy (Goliath) $49.95
    Surrealistic Erotic Dreams by Frank C. Hauser (Imaginary) $69.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Some cool stuff this week: A new mini from Alec Longstreth, a new LOEG from Alan Moore, The Comics Journal back in action, a whole mess of awesome stuff from Sparkplug, a book of postcards by local artist Paul Hornschemeier, Adbusters and more.

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    She’s So Unusual #1 by Toots La Rue (Sparkplug) $2.00 – This is a super awesome zine about Cyndi Lauper!
    Franziskas Bike Zine #2 $1.00
    Many Many Make One Bit By Bit #1 by Jim Swill $4.99
    Lair Molt Selected Works 2008-2011 by Brian Uhl (Now Is The Time) $10.00 – 28p, b&w, silkscreen cover, 8.5″x11″, comes with patch, button and key, edition of 250.

    Calypso Zine #2 Featuring Marissa Paternoster Robo Sexism Hairy Pits $2.00
    Faux Cal Point Press vol 1 #2 Jun 11 and #3 Jul 11 $3.00 each

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Phase 7 #016 by Alec Longstreth $5.00
    Drip by C Cilla (Sparkplug) $4.00
    Any Anyway #1 by Darryl Ayo (Sparkplug) $2.00
    In The Tall Grass #3 and #4 by Tessa Brunton $3.00 each
    Too Dark to See by Julia Gfrorer (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Nurse Nurse #7 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Play Overlord by var. (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Inventez des Nouvelles Positions Sexuelles Invent New Sexual Positions by Gwenaelle (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Dream Grant the Church of Awesome Thought by Sean ABT Christensen (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Flesh and Bone – A Colouring Concertina by John Sibbick $18.00
    Big Mother #1 by McBess $30.00
    Fight Comic by Jack Teagle $8.00
    New Ghost by Robert Hunter $11.00
    Badaboom Twist: Comics in English Drawn By a French Speaking Guy Married to an American issues #1-#3 by David Libens $3.00 each

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #2 1969  by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $9.95
    The Comics Journal #301 (Fantagraphics) $30.00 – Yes! Finally a new issue and it looks hot. This volume features a focus on R. Crumb plus an interview with Joe Sacco, a peek into the private sketchbooks of (and accompanying interviews with) Jim Woodring, Tim Hensley, and the novelist Stephen Dixon, a conversation between Mad Fold-Out creator Al Jaffee and Thrizzle auteur Michael Kupperman, and more!
    Band by Mawil (Blank Slate) $12.99
    Snaps by Rebecca Kraatz (Conundrum) $15.00
    Suddenly Something Happened by Jimmy Beaulieu (Conundrum) $20.00
    Collected John G Miller 1990-1999 (Spit and a Half) $20.00
    Setting the Standard 1952-1954 by ALex Toth (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Wormwood Gentleman Corpse HC vol 3 Calamari Rising Deviant Edition by Ben Templesmith (IDW) $24.99
    Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti: Treasury of XXth Century Murder by Rick Geary (NBM) $15.99
    Everything We Miss by Luke Pearson $20.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    So So Heroes 30 Postcards by Paul Hornschemeier (Chronicle) $9.95
    Untitled III This is Street Art (Carpet Bombing Culture) $34.95
    Graffiti Burners ed. by Björn Almqvist (Dokument) $29.95 – The most eye-popping graffiti of today! New times, new ideas. In cities worldwide, graffiti art is constantly being taken to higher levels. The will to burn all resistance, to outdo all the others, brings about unexpected and amazing results. Graffiti Burners shows us how techniques have been refined and letter construction distorted, how colour combinations have blossomed and concepts developed. The competition for mastery is burning hot! In addition to amazing pictorial material, several of the writers talk about their pieces and what burners mean to them. Moreover, they offer tips and guidance to those who want to do a burner of their own. Graffiti Burners offers a unique opportunity to acquaint oneself with the progress of the last few years; to be inspired and impressed. In Graffiti Burners the world’s foremost writers show us their favourite works. In short, the best of the best! Aroe (UK), Bates (DK), Bio (USA), Kacao77 (D), Rime (USA), Scan (CA) and Suiko (JP) are just a few of the contributors to the book.

    Conseil Juridique et Artistique Legal and Artistic Counsel by Audrey Chan $15.00
    Curiosities of Janice Lowry (Grand Cent) $45.00
    Big Poster Book of Hindu Dieties: 12 Removable Prints by Sanjay Patel (Chronicle) $24.95
    Lowrider Coloring Book by Oscar Nilsson (Dokument) $9.95
    OFFF, Year Zero: Artwork and Designs from the OFFF Festival ed. by Rob Chiu (MBP) $60.00 – OFFF is a post-digital culture festival, featuring some of the world’s most relevant contemporary artists, designers, and media mavens. This anual collection features artwork and essays created specifically for the festival and only available in this book. This edition has an exclusive DVD, and every page is die-cut, so the artworks can be hung on the walls. Contributing artists and designers includes Stefan Sagmeister, Rick Poyner, Erik Spiekermann, Keetra Dean Dixon, and Vimeo founder Blake Whitman.

    FICTION!
    Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath And Other Oneiric Works by HP Lovecraft (Creation) $14.95
    Too Young To Fall Asleep by Sally Weigle (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography) $20.00 – Why would a poetry-writing high-school emo girl from suburban Chicago volunteer for the Iraq War? And when both of her legs are blown off in a non-combat IED explosion, how will she ever recover?
    Salt Creek Anthology: A Hyper Fiction Project (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography) by Jason Fisk $20.00 – A couple meet in a mental institution, have six kids, and devolve into violent alcoholism. An elderly Polish woman with Alzheimer’s goes insane in front of our eyes. A frazzled empty-nester has her bruiser son move back in, along with a scheming girlfriend planning a surprise pregnancy to get them both back out. And an abusive, overweight, racist monster of a man psychologically lords over them all, a total of twenty-odd characters all living on the same cul-de-sac in the far rural suburbs of Chicago. This “micro-story” collection breaks these families’ adventures down into a series of 75 linguistic nuggets. Each story is a different piece of paper in a box, and you can read them in any order you want.
    Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding (Ballantine) $16.00
    The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (Ballantine) $16.00 – Back in print! 20th Anniversary edition of this classic text of an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time.
    The Chicago Landmark Project: 12 World Premiere Plays About Chicago Places by var. (Theatre Seven of Chicago) $16.00 – Using distinct locations in zip codes from Rogers Park to the South Side, The Chicago Landmark Project offers twelve diverse snapshots of Chicago life from present day to the distant past.

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Man Who Juggeld His Balls by Aarib Wooten $14.99
    Overtime Hour 20 Above the Line by Suzanne Ushie $2.00

    DIY!
    Psychedelic Shamanism, Updated Edition: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants by Jim DeKorne (North Atlantic Books) $19.95
    Remedy Quarterly #5 Community $7.50

    CHILDRENS!
    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts, with illustrations by Laura Park (Littlebrown) $15.99 – With charming illustrations by local illustrator-comics-Trubble Clubber super-star Laura Park.

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes (Akashic) $14.95
    Girls of Murder City: Fame Lust and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry (Penguin) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow by var. (Prairie) $24.99
    911: The Simple Facts Why the Official Story Can’t Possibly Be True by var. (Soft Skull) $12.00
    Finding My Place: One Man’s Journey From Cleveland to Boston and Beyond by Judah Leblang $15.95
    Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Most Americans Won’t Do by Gabriel Thompson (Nation) $14.99
    Be Honest and Other Advice From Students Across the Country From 826 National by Ninive Calegari (New Press) $25.95
    Page One: Inside the New York Times and the Future of Journalism by David Folkenflik (Public Affairs) $15.99

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Unruly Women: T he Politics of Confinement and Resistance by Karlene Faith (Seven Stories) $19.95
    Weaponizing Anthropology by David Price (AK) $15.95
    Complaints and Distorders (Second Edition) Sexual Politics of Sickness by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English (Feminist Press) $9.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Bizarre #178 Aug 11 $10.50
    AdBusters #97 Sep Oct 11 $8.95
    In These Times Aug 11 $3.50
    World Explorer vol 6 #1 $8.95
    IdN vol 18 #3 $17.50
    Pinstriping #27 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    Wow Magazine #1 $24.99
    Gothic & Lolita Bible #38 $33.00
    Ack Ack Ack #3 by Matt Average $3.00 – Average’s California photo files take you for a ride in their way-back machine: Spazz, Die Monitor Bats, Epileptic Terror Attack, Glass Candy, Tragedy, Reality Crisis, Limp Wrist, Go Go Go Airheart, Red Dons and Life’s Halt.

    Under the Radar #37 $5.99
    Maximumrocknroll #339 Aug 11 $4.00
    Me Magazine #21 Sum 11 $7.50
    Skin and Ink Sep 11 $6.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Sweets Magazine vol 4 #17 $5.99
    Psychopathia Sexualis – Classic Study of Deviant Sex (Complete English Language Translation) by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (Arcade) $16.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Tonight Cassie Sneider reads from Fine Fine Music with the always entertaining Dave Roche and Danny “Ratso” Rathbun at 7pm.

    And now, new stuff this week…

    Look at this cool thing we got this week: The Wolf by Tom Neely. It’s a love story in a painted novel form with horror, lore and werewolves. $25.00

    ZINES!
    Grabbing Good Health By the Balls by var. $7.00
    BETCH Rag #1 and #2 $3.00 each
    various issues of Dont Tread On Me by Ratso $1.00 each
    IAM1 by var. $3.00
    Beast a la Nude Coloring Book Edition $1.25
    Severely Quirky Infomative Prolonged Informational Instructions by var. $6.00
    Damaged Stories of Chicago No Remorse by var. $2.00
    Fresh Sloth Jerkin #1 $2.00
    You Should Do These Things When It’s Hot So We Can Make Money $2.00
    Welcome to the Innovative Future $.01
    Quitter by Rachel Tusler $1.50
    Art of Ash HG #1 by ASH HG $10.00
    Many Many Make One Bit By Bit #1 by Jim Swill (Now Is the Time Publications)  $4.99
    Lair Molt Selected Works 2008 2011 by Brian Uhl (Now Is the Time Publications) $10.00

    COMICS & (MINI) COMIX!
    Issues of Future Funk #0 Exploring the Best of the Black Age of Comics and Beyond $3.00-$5.00
    Lets Go Green in Da City by Turtel Onli $3.00
    Alphabeta Puke: An Alphabetical Treasury for the Hour of Need by var. $1.00
    Red Rogue Classics by Chad Woody $1.00
    Bad Seed #1 by Marcus Howell and Chad Woody $1.00
    Red Rogue Super Special #1 Pick a Path Adventure by var. $2.00
    Farm Break #1 $1.00
    Drama Trauma the Problem with Teen Relationships by var. $2.00
    Rocketbot Demo by Ian Endsley $5.00 – Comes with a CD.
    Small Advices 2010 by Sara Drake $5.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPER BACKS!
    Alan Moore Story Teller by Gary Spencer Millidge (Universe) $45.00
    Will and Joe books (Fantagraphics) $29.99- $39.99
    Gil Jordan Private Detective: Murder by High Tide by M. Tillieux (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Sibyl Anne vs Ratticus by R. Macherot (Fantagraphics) $16.99
    World of Smurfs: A Celebration of Tiny Blue Proportions by Matt Murray (Abrams) $24.95
    Two different authorized adaptions of Ray Bradbury books: Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Martian Chronicles (Hill & Wang) $15.95 – $24.95
    Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes Miraculous Mutants and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human by Grant Morrison (Spiegel) $28.00 – OK, strictly speaking, this is not a graphic novel. But it is by Grant Morrison and is very autobiographical.
    Origins of Team Blanga Heroes of the Black Age by Turtel Onli $15.00 – Includes Blanga Beatz CD Sound Track from Hard Headz.
    Maffilu Chapter 1 Maffilu in the Castle of the Bees by Dafne Nesti $12.99
    Krazy Kat and the Art of George Herriman a Celebration by Craig Yoe and Bill Watterson (Abrams) $29.95
    Seeds by Ross Mackintosh (ComX) $10.99
    Homeland Directive by Robert Venditti and Mike Huddleston (Top Shelf) $14.95

    ART & DESIGN & PHOTO BOOKS!
    Behind Every Curtain by Marcel Dzama (Zwirner) $22.00
    Instead of Eros Avenged by Mark Gonzales (Nieves) $38.00
    I Guess I Shouldn’t be Telling You by Stefan Marx (JRP) $39.95
    Alice Cooper Suzi Simpson by Brian Kennon $18.00
    Remembering 911 by Martha Cooper (MBP) $10.95 – Photographs and words from this hip hop and street art photographer.
    How To Be the Best Bubble Writer In the World Ever ed. by Linda Scott (Laurence King) $14.95 – When we think of bubble writing we think of middle school and note passing. Well, you’re wrong. Street artists use it too.

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Adventures of Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh, Young Readers Edition by Hérge (LB) $8.99

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring (FSG) $18.00
    Retromania: Pop Cultures Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds (Faber) $18.00
    Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want To Fight For by Andrew Laties (Seven Stories) $16.95 – New edition with a foreword by Edward Morrow and an afterword Bill Ayers.
    The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology  by Robert Niemi (Soft Skull) $15.95 – Did you know that less than two weeks after Jack Kerouac reported to the Newport, RI U.S. Naval Training Station (the same month that the German 6th Army was surrendering at Stalingrad), he was discharged, diagnosed with a “Constitutional Psychopathic State, Schizoid Personality”? That just a few months later, William Burroughs moved from Chicago to New York, where he took a small apartment at 69 Bedford Street and began a heroin addiction that was to last until 1956? That meanwhile, Gregory Corso, thirteen and homeless, was being arrested for petty larceny, while Hubert Selby, Jr., fifteen, joined the Merchant Marines? And that the very same year, Allen Ginsberg, a new graduate from Eastside High School in Patterson, New Jersey, began his first semester at Columbia University, where he first made the acquaintance of Herbert Gold and Jack Kerouac? Packed with month-by-month and week-by-week anecdotes, The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology is a meticulous timeline detailing the life events and literary accomplishments of the writers who became known as the Beat Generation. Covering an entire century and then some, this beautifully illustrated volume is certain to be an invaluable resource for anyone curious about the Beat Generation.

    FICTION!
    Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre (Norton) $25.95
    Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham by Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas (Dark Horse) $14.95 – A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill-ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway combines two great flavors of weird: the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H.P. Lovecraft! Horror legend Brian Keene and cult storytelling master Nick Matamas dredge up a tale of drug-fueled eldritch madness from the blackest depths of the American Nightmare. On a freaked-out bus journey to Arkham, Massachusetts and the 1972 Presidential primary, evidence mounts that sinister forces are on the rise, led by the Cult of Cthulhu and its most prominent member – Richard M. Nixon!
    Happily Ever After: Fairytales Retold ed. by John Klima (Night Shade) $16.99 – Over thirty stories by, amongst others, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Charles de Lint,  Kelly Link, Garth Nix and Gregory Maguire.

    POETRY & CHAP BOOKS!
    Twinning by Meg Prichard $4.00
    RSVP by var. $4.00
    Facts of Light by Laura Goldstein $4.00
    Some Were Awake by Connor Stratman  $4.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS!
    Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin From 1917 Writings ed. by Zizek (Verso) $24.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Bust Aug Sep 11 $4.99
    Tape Op #84 Jul Aug 11 $4.95
    Razorcake #63 $4.00
    Wallpaper Aug 11 $10.00
    Cine Qua Non #4 $10.00
    CNTRMTR #1 the Photo Issue $25.00
    Make vol 27 $14.99 – The DIY hacking magazine, not the Chicago-based lit journal.
    Colors #81 Sum 11 $8.95
    Z Magazine Jul Aug 11 $6.95
    Harpers Magazine Aug 11 $6.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Obsessed Erotic Romance for Women ed. by Rachel Kramer Bussel $14.95
    Handbook vol 5 #3 2011 $6.00
    Heat Wave hot hot hot Erotica by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $15.95
    Hot Daddies – Gay Erotic Fiction ed. by Richard Labonte (Cleis) $14.95
    Days of the Cougar: Outrageous Visual Diary of Sexual Adventurer Liz Earls ed. by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $39.99 – This kitty has claws. Through the cougar’s eyes: the road to sexual liberation. ‘My life had become a playground, and it was exactly what I wanted,’ writes photographer Liz Earls in the introduction to this groundbreaking book detailing her transformation from middle-aged, overweight Human Resources director to sexual adventurer, self-portraitist, and unabashed cougar.
    Whip Smart by Melissa Febos (TD) $14.955 – Febos’s candid, hard-slogging debut, now in soft cover, about her four years working as a dominatrix at a midtown Manhattan dungeon cuts a sharp line between prurience and feminist manifesto.
    Ultimate Guide to Orgasm for Women: How to Become Orgasmic For a Lifetime by Mikaya Heart (Cleis) $17.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Pitchfork weekend is upon us. Well, need an AIR-CONDITIONED respite? Why not join us here? We have some very exciting new things, including a new issue of 8 Track Mind, a Cometbus comp, two steampunk art books (how splendid!), a Tao Lin book, new ishes of Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose and more.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection Collects by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) $12.00 Collects highlights from #44 to #48 including Lanky, Back to the Land and more.
    8 Track Mind #101 Zines Vs Blogs by Russ Forster $3.00 – First issue in TEN YEARS! 2011 has truly become The Revenge of Print. Now where’s your zine?
    Syndicate Product #18.2 Syndicate Consumption Second Quarter Apr-Jun by AJ Michel $1.00 – A truly entertaining overview of what master zinester AJ has been reading and enjoying. Always a compelling read.
    Paper Radio #6 Formerly Signals A Radio and Media Zine by DJ Frederick $3.00
    Comic Bible vol 4 #1 $10.00
    Man Meat by Susie Swanton $1.00
    I Dont Understand Farming #6 and I Dont Understand Farming #7 $.75 each
    Niente $3.00
    Uptown Problems #2 $4.00
    Atlas #1 and Atlas #2 $3.00 each
    Sob Story #9 $4.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    2012 by Sam Gaskin (Secret Acres) $7.00
    Thirteen Steps of Getting Dumped by DGW Hedges and Otto Splotch $5.00
    Melted Shelter by Otto Splotch $8.00
    Death of Elijah Lovejoy by Noah Van Sciver $5.00
    RASL #11 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies vol 1 by Fiffe Michel (Image) $18.99
    Classic Next Men vol 1 by John Byrne (IDW) $24.99
    Incognito TPB Bad Influences by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Icon) $17.99
    Jack of Fables vol 9 The End TPB by Bill Willingham and var. (Vertigo) $17.99
    New X Men TPB Book 3 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism by Jay Stongman (Korero) $35.00
    Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions from the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement by Art Donovan (Fox Chapel) $19.95
    Kicks Japan by Manami Okazaki and Geoff Johnson (MBP) $30.00

    FICTION!
    You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am by Tao Lin (Action) $14.00
    Dance With Dragons HC by George RR Martin (Three Rivers Press) $35.00 – Song of Ice and Fire Book five.
    Johannes Cabal: The Detective by Jonathan L. Howard (Anchor) $14.95
    Midnight Movie by Tobe Hooper and Alan Goldsher (Three Rivers Press) $14.00 – Local writer Goldsher with the creator of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
    I Knew You’d Be Lovely by Alethea Black (Broadway) $14.00
    Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime From Tin House (Tin House) $18.95
    American Gods 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (Morrow) $26.99
    Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images and Stories From Top Authors and Artists by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Harper) $22.99
    Johnny Too Bad by Heather Augustyn and Carrie Coslov $15.00 – Augustyn is also the author of the comprhensive book Ska: An Oral History. One might say Johnny Too Bad is a book of historical fiction based in the birthplace of ska.

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Camera Obscura vol 3 Sum Fall 11 $12.95
    Gathering of Tribes #13 $12.95
    Ninth Letter vol 8 #1 $14.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters ed. by Paul JR Maher (Chicago Review Press) $19.95

    CHILDRENS!
    Symphony City by Amy Martin (McSweeneys) $17.95
    Beyond Stolen: Flames Forbidden Fruit and Telephone Booths- Our Own Myths Our Own Futures by students at June Jordan School for Equity (826) $22.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Sinister Forces Book 2: A Warm Gun – A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda (Trine) $24.95 – Now in soft cover.
    Celebrity Comics Babble: 34 Stars In Their Own Words by Mary Ann Pierro $18.95 – From Comic Bible Magazine.
    Shock Value: How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares Conquered Hollywood by Jason Zinoman (Penguin) $25.95
    Muldoon: A True Chicago Ghost Story – Tales of a Forgotten Rectory by R. and D. Facchini (Lake Claremont) $15.00
    Near West Side Stories: Struggles For Community in Chicagos Maxwell Street Neighborhood by Carolyn Eastwood $17.95
    Politics of Place: A History of Zoning In Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $19.95
    Sports Traveler Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $15.95
    On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department by Daniel P. Smith (Lake Claremont) $17.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    People Wasn’t Made to Burn: The True Story of Race Murder and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen (Lake Claremont) $22.95
    Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin (Pathfinder) $24.95
    Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg (Pathfinder) $14.95
    Sexism and Science by Evelyn Reed (Pathfinder) $20.00
    Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of Brian S. Wilson (PM Press) $20.00 – Autobiography of an activist who lost both his legs courtesy of a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action. Chomsky said that this memoir “should be read and pondered, and its lessons should be taken to heart by those who hope to create a more decent world.”

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #127 Aug 11 $5.99
    Hi Fructose #20 $6.95
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #2 $6.25
    Fortean Times #277 Aug 11 $11.99
    Yeti #11 $11.95
    True Crime Jul 11 $8.99
    True Crime Summer Special 11 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
    Namaste vol 12 #2 $9.99
    Open Minds Aug Sep 11 $6.50
    True Detective Jul 11 $4.99
    Art of Mary Jane Jul 11 $6.99
    Scootering #301 $8.99
    Dazed & Confused #99 Jul 11 $9.99
    Horror Hound #30 Jul Aug 11 $6.99
    Wire #329 Jul 11 $10.99
    Classic Rock #160 Sum 11 $11.99
    Black Velvet #69 $6.25
    Hip Mama #49 $5.95
    Radical Philosophy #168 $13.00
    Dissent Sum 11 $10.00
    Bound By Ink vol 1 #6 $7.99
    Tattoo Life #71 $6.99
    Tattoo Scout #24 $9.60

    SEX & SEXY!
    Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir by Sheila McClear $14.95
    Filament vol 3 #1 $12.50
    Front #157 $9.99

  • New Stuff This Week

    Countdown 2.5 hours from this very moment: Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior Discuss METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries.

    ZINES!
    Purple Faced Man by John Minkoff $3.00
    Refresh by Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay and Laura Parnes $5.00
    Peehole #4 and Peehole #5: Weird Dreams by Jim Donaldson $2.00 each
    You Made Devotion A Virtue #2 Sad Eyed Girl $2.00
    Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00
    Atlas of Childhood #2: Zine About Childrens Books by Celia C Perez $2.00
    I Dreamed I was Assertive #13 $2.00
    Travesty #1 Musings On Being a Transvestite Metalhead Oct 09 $2.00 and #2 is $1.00
    Blue Floral Gusset $1.00
    All I Want Is Everything #1 by Caitlin Constantine $3.00
    Strange Thoughts Drawings and Things by Marta Chudolinska $15.00
    Dark Matter Dunkle Materie $20.00
    Untitled Hands: Fired This Is It Searching For Bullet Holes by Marta Chudolinska $5.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Plaid #2 (Sensational Second Issue) by Josh Lees $2.00
    Plaid #3 (Thrashin Third Issue) by Josh Lees $2.00
    Summer Daze #1 by Marta Chudolinska $4.00
    Sad Luck #1 by Marta Chudolinska $10.00
    Story of Your Life #1 by Marta Chudolinska $2.50

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Kick Ass TPB by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. (Marvel) $19.99 – Back in print.
    Revolver TPB by Matt Kindt (Vertigo) $19.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Henry at Home $20.00

    DIY BOOKS!
    Elements of Fucking Style: A Helpful Parody by Chris Baker and Jacob Hansen (SMP) $9.99
    Mushrooms, Myth, and Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe by Ruck, Hoffman + (Citylights) $23.95

    FICTION!
    Astounding The Amazing and The Unkown by Paul Malmont (Simon) $26.00 – From the author of Chinatown Death Cloud Peril.
    True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies (Faber) $14.00
    Jack Daniels Sessions EP: A Collection of Fantasies by Elwin Cotman $12.00
    30 Under 30 An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by var. (Starcheron) $20.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Logan Square Literary Review #7 Sum 11 $5.00
    Versal #9 $14.95
    Chapbook by Charles JR Bane AND Isabelle Pruneau $14.99
    Cousin Corinnes Reminder #3 $14.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons, Concerning the Planet Earth amd the Human Race Which Infests It by Martin Olson, Tony Millionnaire, and Mahendra Singh (Feral House) $19.95
    Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live Work and Play in the City by Shelia Heti and Misha Glouberman (Faber) $13.00 – Misha Glouberman’s friend and collaborator, Sheila Heti, wanted her next book to be a compilation of everything Misha knew. Together, they made a list of subjects. As Misha talked, Sheila typed. He talked about games, relationships, cities, negotiation, improvisation, Casablanca, conferences, and making friends. His subjects ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. But sometimes what had seemed trivial began to seem important—and what had seemed important began to seem less so. Why does a computer last only three years? How often should you see your parents? How should we behave at parties? Is marriage getting easier? What can spam tell us about the world?
    Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day? One Geezers Handbook for Survival by Larry McCoy $14.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    People Wasn’t Made to Burn: The True Story of Race Murder and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen (Haymarket) $22.95
    Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage by Ryan Conrad and Yasmin Nair (Against Equality Press) $8.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Blood and Thunder #17 Womens Roller Derby Magazine $5.99
    High Times Sep 11 $5.99
    Diner Journal #18 Sum 11 $9.00
    Reed Pages #00 $12.00
    Reed Pages #01 $15.00
    Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Thickness #1 ed. by Katie Skelly $10.00 – With contributions from Ryan Sands. Michael Deforge and more.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yes, we will be open on Monday, July 4th, but we will have limited holiday hours from noon to 5pm.

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    ITDN #1 A Poetic Conception of Reality: Group Publishing Publish Equilibrium Our Universe Six Artist Worker and ITDN #2 Fuck This Gags Fury $5.00 each – The art film that reads like a comic that reads like a video game, set in a bunker with lots of nudity. -EF

    Butch Nor Femme #1 $1.50
    Shit I Didn’t Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50
    Don’t Be a Dick Paul Brown (Doris Distro) $1.00
    When Language Runs Dry #1: A Zine For People With Chronic Pain and Their Allies by Claire and Meredith (Doris Distro) $3.50
    FAQNP #2 Queer Nerd Travel Guide May 11 (Queer Nerd Publication) $7.00
    Fluke Fanzine #9 20th Anniversary $2.00
    Whitey On The Moon Book 2 by Joey Parlett $10.00
    Chicken Livers and Jojos May 11: Drawings and Riff Raff #1 $2.00
    Demongun #5 Jun 11 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
    STOP #3 Start Thinking of the Possibilities $3.00
    I Was a Teenage Zine Fiend #1 $1.00
    In Case of Drought Read This #1 and #2 $1.00 each – From kids at 826CHI!
    HyenaZine (Zine Hyenaxena) #2 and #3 by Hyena Xena $3.00 each
    Idiots Books zine volumes by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, priced $5.00-$10.00: vol 12 Last Day, vol 28 Babies Ruin Everything, vol 29 Home Was an Epic Poet, vol 30 Inconclusive Passage In the Life of Bushy Washington
    My Day On, Under and Around the St Johns Bridge with CD by Nate Orton, James Yeary and Justin Glenn Smith $6.00
    My Day #17 Walking from Hillsboro to Forest Grove Ore by Nate Orton and James Yeary $3.00
    Motor City Kitty #17 by Bri Z $1.00
    Cheap Toys #6 and #7 by Gizmo $1.50 each
    Dream Weavers $10.00
    It’s Curtains #8 $2.00
    You Made Devotion A Virtue #3 Be My Baby by Devan Ballbuster Bennett $2.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #8 Something Very Ugly by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    Everything Quantizes #2 by Katherine Brideau $3.00
    All Things Are Eagles #1 by Mike Mellenthin $1.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Various issues of Dogshed by Andy Burkholder $2.00-$3.00 – Wait? Why did you come here ANY WAY? Breakdown BrakeUp blind line leading the dog blind til it’s too tired…you look tired, so you should try. I know your trying to understand, but sometimes the comics justs gets weirds. -EF



    Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00
    This Isn’t Working: Comics About Ex Boyfriends $3.00 – Featuring Cara Bean, Caitlin Plovnick, Robyn Chapman, Liz Prince and more!
    Make Comics About an Intimate Act $7.00 – Featuring Adriana Yugovich, Joseph Lambert, Robyn Chapman, Wicks Maris, Nate Beaty and more!
    Galactic Breakdown #3 by Keenan Marshall Keller (Drippy Bone Books) $8.00
    In The Sounds and Seas vol 1 by Marnie Galloway $15.00
    Flight of Forfeition – An Adventure… by Chris Monday $4.00
    All Wet by Ian Endsley $3.00
    Catholic Tastes IDTN Group by Darla Marx $1.00
    Werewolf Horror Mask $4.00
    You Okay Buddy $1.00
    Absolute Loneliness various issues by Johns $1.00 each
    Phil’s Adventures: #1 Featuring Land That Time Forgot and Mummie Alive, #2 Featuring Grey Lady Blues and Underneath the Water, #3 Featuring Some Reservations and Out In the Cold, all by by SA Winchell and $5.00 each
    Tenebrous $1.50
    Lords ov thee Black Sun #0 by Michael Miles $5.00 – That’s some crazy looking satan-y black metal shit.
    All Aboard by Max Mose $4.00
    Benol The Huckster by Max Mose $5.00
    Calamity of Challenge #127 by Matthew Allison $6.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Incal Classic Collection by Alexandro Jodorowsky (Author), Moebius (Illustrator) (Humanoids, Inc.) $44.95 – Jean Giraud, more well known under his artist alias Moebius, comes forth with an artistic vision that still stands the test of time, The Incal. The Incal was responsible for introducing the Jodoverse world, the one in which all of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s science section sagas were all based in. Filled with surreal imagery, futuristic concepts that melt together with primitive societal conditions that run through the full gamut of historical perspectives. Centered around a Light Incal which gives powers sought by many corrupt groups. With an intro by Brian Michael Bendis.


    Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme (Top Shelf) $29.95 – Art in a sort f even lower-fi version of Chester Brown.
    Go Fish – How to Win Contempt and Influence People by Mr. Fish (Akashic) $18.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Utopie Texts and Projects 1967-1978 by Craig Buckley by Jean Louis Violeau (Semiotexte) $26.95
    Fragile Bodies by Stephanie Greenquist by Emily Steigerwaid $11.95
    Awful Resilient by Alex Pardee (Gingko) $29.95
    Suggestivism: Artists Works Interviews and Studio Portraits (Gingko) $34.95
    Las Vegas Underfoot Photo Book by Gordon Meyer and Gale Meyer $15.95
    Type Image by Barbara Brownie (Gingko) $39.95
    International Topsprayer by Moses, Taps, Sprayer (Publikat) $39.95

    FICTION!
    How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Vintage) $14.95 – Humerous yet compelling in it’s gimmicktry:. The fictinal story of the fictional family you might fictionally know. Now in soft cover. -LM
    The Instructions by Adam Levine (McSweeneys) $18.00 – Now in soft cover. This awkward Jewish child might be the messiah. Maybe. Or not…? A funny book that’s several inches thick, but with crazy book paper technology that means it’s made of some sort of weight of paper that this soft cover book is only $18.00.
    Peace Love and Petrol Bombs by DD Johnston (AK) $14.95
    NVSQVAM Nowhere by Ann Sterzinger $13.00
    Supernatural Noir ed. by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse) $19.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    The Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00 – Come’n’geddit while we got it. The annual Music Issue always goes fast!
    Village on Horseback Prose and Verse 2003-2008 by Jesse Ball (Milkweed) $18.00
    Knock #14 $9.00
    Barrelhouse #9 $9.00
    Creative Nonfiction #41 Spr 11 $10.00
    Bomb #116 Sum 11 $7.95
    Madman #1 by Prachi Gangwani $5.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Fine Fine Music by Cassie J. Snyder (Raw Art) $15.00 – With the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider brings her stories about growing up in the early eighties to Quimby’s on July 23rd. These stories that include Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not and locals waxing Camaros to Foreigner on cassette will leave you laughing and wanting more. Don’t miss her here, joined by Dave “On Subbing” Roche.


    Inside Scientology: The Story of Americas Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (HM) $28.00
    225 Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by The New York Neo-Futurists (Hope) $16.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Ours To Master and To Own: Workers Control From the Commune To the Present by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini (Haymarket) $19.00

    DIY!
    CIA Lockpicking Manual by The Central Intelligence Agency (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Author Illustrator Starter Kit  – Contains Three Completely Blank Books (McSweeneys) $13.95

    MUSIC-RELATED!
    See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad (LB&C) $24.99 – Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould teams up with the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life to give his account of personal history as one of the most revered figures of punk.
    Talk Minus Action Equals Zero: An Illustrated History of DOA by Joe Keithley (Arsenal) $27.95
    White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay (Verso) $24.95 – “From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.”
    33 1/3 Series: Television’s Marquee Moon by Bryan Waterman (Continuum) $12.95 – From the series that deconstructs popula and/or important albums, written by musicians, critics and uber fans.
    33 1/3 Series: Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me (Continuum) $12.95
    Jerry Lee Lewis Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo (Continuum) $19.95
    Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s by Paul Hegerty and Martin Halliwell (Continuum) $24.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – First issue of McSweeneys food rag everyone’s all on about. The Ramen issue. Don’t want to ever miss an issue? Ask about the Quimby’s Subscription Service!
    Wholphin #13 $19.95
    Bizarre #177 Jul 11 $10.50
    Boneshaker Magazine #5 $9.00
    True Crime Jun 11 $8.99
    Dwell Jul Aug 11 $5.99
    UFO Magazine #156 vol 24 #3 $5.99
    Skeptical Inquirer Jul Aug 11 vol 35 #4 $4.95
    Neural #39 $8.00
    Tattoo Revue #154 $6.99
    Antenna Sum 11 $4.99
    Goth Loli vol 16 $21.80
    Maps vol 21 #1 $8.95
    Treating Yourself #29 $7.99
    Fangoria #305 $8.99
    Skateboard Mag #89 $3.99
    BlackBook #85 Jun Jul 11 $4.50
    Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00
    In These Times Jul 11 $3.50
    ASR #56 Sum 11 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
    Urban Ink #20 $8.99
    Inked Girls May Jul Aug 11 $7.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    We Need a Horse by Sheila Heti and Clare Rojas (McSweeneys) $16.95
    Here Comes the Cat by Frank Asch (McSweeneys) $12.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Dictionary of Semenyms 10th Edition – 1383 Synonyms for Semen by Cecil Goran $15.00 – With examples of usage from erotic literature.

    OTHER STUFF!
    Charley Harper ABC Nesting Blocks (Ammo) $24.95
    Sharkula Diarrhea of a Madman DVD by Joshua Conro $15.00 – First documentary feature-length film by filmmaker and Quimby’s buddy Joshua Conro.
    Cory Doctorows Makers Tile Game by Idiots Books $12.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Hey Revenge of Print fans! Sara Drake will be here doing comics and independent publishing workshops from 1:45 to 4:45 today! Click here for more info. 1:45 comics making demo, 3:00 self-publishing demo, 4:45 comics drawing workshop. Come on over! The water’s fine!

    Today’s pick:

    Empty the Sun: A Novel by Joseph Mattson with Soundtrack by Six Organs of Admittance (Ben Chasny and Steve Ruecker) (Barnacle) $18.00 – Book with CD. Joseph Mattson writes like a guitar player with nineteen fingers — everywhere at once, stinging, dark and beautiful. Empty the Sun will take you to some strange places, but the trip is amazing. Mattson has written a truly inventive and vivid novel. -Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    Destroy All Monsters Magazine $30.00 – It was a zine! No, a band! A zine, a band! Both?! Tomato, tomahto, let’s call it an art collective and be done with the debate. Shake?
    Bathing Salts by Keith G. Herzik $5.00 – Crazy screenprinting master Herzik leaves us another artifact from his lab.
    South Side Chicago Anti Racist Action #2 May Day Edition $2.00
    Amazing Women #3 by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
    You Made Devotion A Virtue #1 An Epic Tale of Phil Spector Modern Day Bluebeard – American Nightmare is His Wet Dream by Devan Elyse Bennett $2.00
    Everything Good and Beautiful by Bucket Siler and Frey Anya $5.00
    God Save the Zine #5 and #6 by Harrison Rosenberg $3.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    You Dont Get There From Here #19 Carrie McNinch $2.00
    So Nervous #1 by Corinne Mucha and Heather Radke $3.00 – Heather writes material about anxiety which then inspires Corinne to do related comics. A fascinating collaboration!
    Shirtlifter #4 by Steve Macisaac and friends (Drawn Out) $12.95
    Suicide Girls Comic #3 $3.99 – Chicks with tattoos and big boobies save the world!
    Kids Comics Anthology ed. by Jose Luis Olivares $8.00 – Featuring such folks as Nate Beaty, David Libens, Alex Kim and more.
    Sock  #1 Adult Stories and Imagery ed. by Conor Stechshulte $8.00 – Featuring such folks as CF, Sam Gaskin and more.
    Mindful Eating #1 by Drew Damron $2.00 – Drawn during the month of April 2010.
    Powdered Milk #5 by Keiler Roberts $2.50
    SF #1 by Ryan Cecil Smith
    M. Sauter’s Guide to Douchebaggery #3 by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00 – Each issue a consistent seller here. What is that saying?
    Vicki Stowe Brewmaster by M. Sauter (Sex and Weather Comics) $3.00
    Comics by Kevin Ulrich ($1.00 each) Boot #1: Bunnies Rocks Unicorns, Boot #2: Starring Ted the Unicorn and Boot #3: With Exclusive Centerfold Comic

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Meatfist and Gronk Collected Fud and Bud Burgy $5.00
    Continuity Guy Chrono Chaos by Klonowski and Burgy $5.00
    Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944-1949: The First Female Superhero Created and Drawn by a Woman Cartoonist by Tarpe Mills (IDW) $49.99
    Chester 5000 XYV by Jess Fink (Top Shelf) $14.95
    Art of Doug Sneyd: Collection of Playboy Cartoons BY Doug Sneyd (Dark Horse) $39.99 – With a forward by Hugh Hefner.

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Back In the Days Remix 10th Anniversary Edition by Jamel Shabazz (PowerHouse) $35.00 – Reprint of this amazing photo collection of B-boys and girls.
    Power to the Imagination Artists Posters and Politics by Jurgen Doring (U of Chicago) $29.95
    I Should Be In Charge by Bob and Roberta Smith (Black Dog) $49.95
    Medium Religion Faith Geopolitics Art ed. by Boris Groys  and Peter Weidel $46.00 – Art that questions religion, machines that “analyze” the bible. A hefty, er, tomb.
    Red Maze by Stanley Donwood $59.95 – Follows the red maze of curated ephemera. Like “The Shining,” but um, not a hedge maze. With art. In a red maze.
    Paul Madonna Album 01 Paul Madonna $24.95 – Comics artist Paul Madonna came in on the sly to sign a few copies of his books while he was in town, and he brought an awesome oversized show catalog of sorts, featuring, among other things, the finger monster toys we sell here too.
    Chicano Graffiti and Murals The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada by Sojin Kim $30.00

    DIY!
    Apocalypse Cakes Recipes For the End by Shannon O’Malley and Keith Wilson (Running Press) $14.00
    Mental Health Cookbook Creating Connection With Foods and Herbs (Needles and Pens) by H Finn Cunningham $7.00

    FICTION!
    Hundred Brothers by Donald Antrim $15.00
    Ladies Man by Richard Price (Picador) $15.00
    Lightning by Jean Echenoz (New Press) $19.95
    Stories ed. by Neil Gaiman (Harper) $16.99 – Experimental fiction from the likes of Peter Straub and Chuck Pahlahnuik ed. by Mr. Sandman Neverwhere.
    Star Island by Carl Hiaasen (Grand Central) $14.99
    Vacant Lot by Oliver Rohe (Counterpoint) $18.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Through My Eyes: The Way I See Things and the Things I Saw by Eva Pilch $25.00
    Always Messing With Them Boys Poems Jessica Helen Lopez $10.00
    They Dont Make Memories Like That Anymore by Katrina K. Guarascio $10.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Handshake #1 $8.00 – New Chicago-based mag, debut issue. Interviews with blue collar folks and places you might proudly recognize. We look forward to more issues!
    Shots #112 sum 11 $ $6.50
    Shock Cinema #40
    Wax Poetics #47 $9.99
    Fader #74 Jun Jul 11 $5.99
    Tattoo Society #28

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter (McSweeneys) $22.00

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon Kristiansen and Tara G. Warrior (Bazillion) $39.95 – Don’t miss Jon and Tara here at Quimby’s on July 8th, 7pm. The pair will recount some of the hilarious and the tragic episodes contained in the book, and discuss a dedication to self-publishing spawned from the darkest excesses of metal.
    Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of The Punk and Hardcore Generation (UPM) $35.00 – Pretty awesome.

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Mayor Culpa: 1989-2011 Gone But Not Forgiven – The Unofficial Farewell Tribute to Mayor Richard M. Daley As Told Through His Long-Lost Campaign Memorabilia by Mark Weinberg $12.95 – Collection of Daley administration ephemera, hilarious yet telling satire Onion-style. The cover graphics of Daley looking like Mr. Burns is worth the cover price alone. From an art standpoint, the design of the book and the graphics are top notch. Small print run, independently published, and home-grown of course, here in the city with big shoulders. A must!
    The People’s History of Poverty In America by Stephen Pimpare (New Press) $21.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    SPS #8 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00 – Oh don’t cry, sad little orifice dripping with goo. Your time will cum.
    OP Original Plumbing #7 Trans Male Quarterly Green Issue by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos  $8.00
    Hot Jocks Gay Erotic Stories by Richard Labonte (Cleis) $14.95
    Brief Encounters 69 Hot Gay Shorts by Shane Allison (Cleis) $15.95
    Angels Misfits by Gary Cook $32.95 – Photos in the vein of Suicidegirls but done desktop publishing style.
    Crazy weird porny 3D stuff that comes with 3D glasses, in various prices: Larry Ferguson photography, 3D and Naughty A Sensual Collection of Pin Up Photography In Amazing 3D, Bottoms Up A Cocktail of Risque Recipes and Vintage Vixens, Vavoom #1 Fast Girls, Shh Presents Special Editions ($10.00 each) Hanna Hilton, Shh Presents Courtney Taylor, Kelley Jean
    Doktor Mentor #1 and #2 $9.95 each – The booth across from us at C2E2 had the Nawdy Nurse, The Jail Babe Surgeon and other sexy names. This is something they publish. From the same consignor as the 3D stuff above. Also we have a DVD of these shenanagins for $20.00
    Candie Land #2 $9.95

    OTHER STUFF!
    Embrace A Pregnancy Journal by Nikki McClure (Sasquatch) $16.95
    Tree of Life Postcard Print by Mark Ryden $5.00 – WHAT?! Five BUCKS FOR A MARK RYDEN PRINT? Better get your paws on this soon before it flies outta here.
    Onsmith/Paul Nudd Letterpress For Black Eye #1 Signing $15.00 – This was made exclusively for signings for the dark comics humor anthology Black Eye that was here last night, by sontributors Onsmith and Nudd, letterpress printed by local printer Rohner.
    More Moleskine planners are here. Going into 2012 now!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Did you miss us last Saturday? We didn’t post new stuff because we were busy at The Comics and Medicine Conference selling books and hanging out with people like John Porcellino , Scott McCloud and Phoebe Glockner. The New York Times even did a little write up on it, so la la la!

    Some super fun stuff in now: Henry “Chunklet” Owings’ Indie Cred Test, hilarious zines and comics from the dynamic duo Esther Pearl-Watson and Mark Todd, a second volume of Liz Baillie’s Freewheel, new graffiti stuff in both book and zine formats. Might we suggest for Father’s Day tomorrow the new issue of Serial Killers Unite? Or perhaps Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag?

    And finally! What are you doing tonight? Perhaps heading over to Punk Rock Karaoke at The Wicker Park Arts Center at 9pm?

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    What I Did Today – May 5, 2011 $2.00 – Former Chicago-based “Proof I Exist” Billy Da Bunny (We miss you, Billy!) called up some friends and said, “What did you do today? Write me and I’l print it!” Very compelling if we don’t say so ourselves. (We just did.)
    East Village Inky #47 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
    Well Never Have Paris vol 8 Rejection $4.00
    Mark #4 by Mark Todd $2.00 – From the funchicken vegas series.
    Rumor Disneyland $2.00 – As in things rumored to be in Disneyland. Or possibly things contributors want to be in Disneyland. Hilarious.
    Lovecrafts Pillow and Other Strange Stories by Kenneth W Faig JR (Moshassuck Press) $15.00 Spring Bust Mar 11 by Laura Wager $3.00
    Welcome to Bend #6 Commute Options for Central Oregon $3.00
    Friction #3 by Bostian $3.00
    Permanent Vacation #1 Anywhere But Here by Kerry Ann Lee $20.00
    Curb Kitchen #1 Spr 11 $3.00 Six Watercolors by Marieke McClendon $15.00
    Fresh Kills – A Mindbank Production An Unfinished Experiment in Psychic Phenomonon (Drippy Bone Books) $3.00
    Alchemy of Appropriation – The Science of Visual Theft and the New Collage $9.00
    Serial Killers Unite #7 $2.00
    Bands #1 Albuquerques Only Oct 13 – Subtle First Issue $1.00
    Drinking Makes Your Heart Ache More Than It Should by Mandy Beaumont $6.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Papercutter #16 (Tugboat Press) $4.00 – Always high quality anthology showcasing new and awesome mini-comics artists. This time around: Joey Alison Sayers, Liz Prince, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Greg Means and Nate Beaty.
    Woman House by Esther Pearl-Watson $5.00 – Crazy foldy-outy thing! Way cool.
    Linework #1 Spr 10 and Linework #2 Spr 11 Comics and Graphics Anthologies $10.00 each Comic Characters by Mark Todd $4.00 – Created in the authors youth.
    Pilgrim by Merlock $4.00
    I Will Be A Unicorn – Comics That Matter #1 by George Gabe Gonzalez $4.00
    Second Chances by Matt Sundstrom $3.00
    Concrete Novelty by Thom Ferrier $2.00
    Sundays #4 Forever Changes $15.00
    Bird by Melissa Mendes $3.00
    Snake Oil #6 the Ground is Soft by Chuck Forsman $7.00
    Kim Gee Comics #3 $5.00
    B One #4 Comics for Broken Hearts by Bobgar Ornelas and Jonathon Westhoff $3.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Freewheel vol 2 by Liz Baillie $15.00 – We love Liz Baillie’s work so much that we helped Kickstart her work. Now help us to support her by checking out her work!
    Freshman Tales of 9th Grade Obsessions Revelations and Other Nonsense by Corinne Mucha (Zest) $12.99
    Remake Graphic Novel by Lamar Abrams (Adhouse) $12.95 – Like a sardonic cross between Astro Boy and Scott Pilgrim, Remake is 144 pages of silly action and crazy nonsense. Meet Max Guy, a robot boy who simply cannot stay out of trouble. Fortunately, he has this gun called the “Max Blaster” that turns things into stuff.
    Walking Dead TPB vol 14 No Way Out by Kirkman etc. (Image) $14.99
    Shots in the Dark: An Ink and Drink Comics Crime Anthology $11.99 – 21 stories in tribute to St. Louis
    Hellboy vol 4 HC by Mike Minola (Dark Horse) $49.99 Proof vol 6 Endangered TPB – Death stalks Proof and the entire team of Lodge agents. Monsters take over Little Tokyo and at least one of Proof’s friends doesn’t make it out alive. The final turning point in the Proof saga.
    Preacher Book Four by Garth Ennis (Vertigo) $39.99
    New X-Men by Grant Morrison GN TP Book 2 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99
    Sweet Tooth TPB vol 3 Animal Armies by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo) $14.99
    Lost In a Mind Field: Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses by Neil Phillips $25.00
    The Panic Book (Fourth Ed.) by Neil Phillips $20.00
    Scars Stories and Other Adventures by MK Czerwiec $17.00
    I Am Not These Feet by Kaisa $17.00 – True story about the author and her decision to amputate her feet to get rid of the foot pain.
    FRANTIC by Peter Stringham $12.00
    Captain Easy vol 2 1936-1937 – Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Soldier of Fortune by Roy Crane (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Wandering Son vol 1 by Shimura Takako (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Who Is Ana Mendieta? by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron (Feminist Press) $18.95
    Level Up by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham (First Second) $15.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Psycho Dream Factory by Caroline Picard (Holon Press) $22.00 – Each story PSYCHO DREAM FACTORY appropriates celebrity figures like paper dolls in order to enact a new and peculiar drama. Imagine Dr. Dre’s first experience coming on the Burning Man festival! Suppose MJ’s death was only a publicity stunt! What if Woody Allen found a protégé? These are just some of the scenarios you’ll entertain in this delightful volume. Introduction provided by Lily Robert-Foley, with delicious design created and covers printed by Sonnenzimmer and artwork included by the author. This full-color book was made in an edition of 100. Prior to its inclusion in “Happiness Machines” (an exhibit at Roxa Boxen Exhibitions) 25 copies of PSYCHO DREAM FACTORY were placed and left behind (with bar codes) in supermarket checkout aisles in Chicago IL.
    From the Platform: Subway Graffiti 1983-1989 by Paul Cavalieri (Schiffer) $34.99
    Abegending by Anonymoose E Bardling $12.00 – The release of Abegending, a 153-page ride of prose experimentation filled with sentence fragments, neologisms and quasi-neologisms, syllabic stutterings and ultra-improvisatory ways of covering a page, will mark the debut of Perilous’ Records embrace of not only DIY experimental and indie music…but also DIY prose as well. The release is available in a limited edition of 200 copies.
    World Piece: Global Graffiti Drawings by Sacha Jenkins and David Villorente (Prestel) $29.95 Monsters of Art: 20 Years of Havoc by Amber Grunhauser (From Here to Fame) $19.95
    Arabic Graffiti by Pascal Zoghbi (From Here to Fame) $34.95

    FICTION!
    Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich (RH) $15.00 – A genial high school loser gets a life-changing makeover after meeting a fabulously wealthy malcontent. First full novel from this writer who has two (HILARIOUS) collections of short stories.
    Curfew by Jesse Ball (Vintage) $15.00 – New work from this popular local writer about family, a mysterious kidnapping, and a dangerou voyage.
    Hornbuckles Journal – New American Storybook by Gene Lubin $10.00
    Millenium People by JG Ballard (Norton) $25.95
    Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson (Doubleday) $25.00
    Child Garden by Geoff Ryman (Small Beer Press) $16.00 – A future city afflicted with a viral epidemic.
    The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson (SMP) $15.99 – Now in soft cover. Dont Stop Now by Julie Halpern – On the first day of Lillian’s summer-before-college, she gets a message on her cell from her sort-of friend, Penny. Not only has Penny faked her own kidnapping, but Lil is the only one who Penny told.

    DIY & HOW-TO!
    Generation V: The Complete Guide to Going Being and Staying Vegan as a Teenager by Claire Askew (PM) $14.95
    Slippery Tipples: A Guide to Weird and Wonderful Spirits and Liqueurs by Joseph Piercy (History Press) $17.95 – From European favourites such as Mastichato Chios, which saved 2,000 Greeks from a bloody massacre at the hands of vengeful Turks, to legendary drinks such as Amarula, invented by African elephants; from classic cocktail ingredients like Midori, the bright green Japanese melon drink launched at the wrap party for Saturday Night Fever at Studio 54, to student stalwart Jagermeister, dreamt up by a confidant of Herman Goring and hugely popular among senior Nazis, Sippery Tipples tells the stories behind the word’s most extraordinary drinks. Alongside a country-by-country guide to murky and mysterious booze and dozens of cocktail recipes is a series of easy to follow recipes for making your own liqueurs and spirits. If you would like to concoct your own fruit brandies or make a drop of traditional full-strength Pimms then this is the book for you.
    Greenblooded an Introduction to Eco Friendly Feminine Hygiene by Cathy Leamy $2.00 Wrongful Convictions – Causes Solutions and How You Can Get Involved by Rachel Schastok $2.50

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    The First Line vol 13 #2 $3.00 The Believer #81 Jun 11 $8.00
    Lost Evidents by Daniel Paul Picone $9.99
    Somethings Brewing: Selected Work 1998-2010 by Eric P. Johnt Jr $10.00 Lungfull #19 $9.95 Public Space #13 $12.00
    Boat Magazine #1 Spr Sum 11 $15.00
    Paris Review #197 $12.00
    Ecotone #11 $10.95
    After Hours #23 Sum 11 $8.00
    Armchair Shotgun #2 $10.00
    Gigantic #3 $7.00
    Trnsfr #4 $10.00
    Exact Change Only vol 3 #1 win 11 $10.00
    49 Western Chapbook by Matthew S Barton $2.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #126 Jul 11 $5.99
    Graffiti Blasters #1 Sum 11 (Art G Press) $15.00 – Top-notches and balls-to-the-walls Chicagoeccentricentric graffiti zine goes next-level glossy without forfeiting its hyperquality content density. -EF San Francisco Handstyles*Chicago Old School*Mayor D30*Jurne Tge*Dane Cya*
    Survivalist #3 $3.95
    ArtForum Jun 11 $10.00
    True Detective Jun 11 $4.99
    Raw Vision #72 $14.00
    Design Bureau Jul Aug 11 $8.00
    Wallpaper Jul 11 $10.00
    Apartamento #7 $19.95
    Color Ink Book vol 10 DIY Art Periodical by The Washburn Brothers $10.00
    Fortean Times #276 Jul 11 $11.99
    Flaunt #115 $10.95
    Lovecat #1 $10.00 – New fashion mag.
    Skunk vol 7 #1 $5.99
    High Times Aug 11 $5.99
    Meatpaper #15 Sum 11 $7.95
    Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #3 Sum 11 $15.00
    Paper Sum 11 vol 27 #8 $4.00
    Zeromile #6 $12.00
    Journal of Ordinary Thought spr 11 $10.00
    Peeping Tom Digest #2 $22.00
    Signal to Noise #62 Sum 11 $4.95
    Maximumrocknroll #338 Jul 11 $4.00
    Ghetto Blaster #28 $3.95
    Wire #328 Jun 11 $10.99
    Radical History Review Spr 11 $14.00
    Harpers Magazine Jul 11 $6.99
    RFD #146 Sum 11 $9.95
    Tabu Tattoo #45 $7.99
    Freshly Inked vol 1 #2 $6.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Counting in the Garden by Emily and Patrick Hruby (Ammo) $14.95
    Colors by Charley Harper (Ammo) $9.95

    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    The Indie Cred Test: Everything You Need to Know About Knowing Everything You Need to Know by Henry H. Owings $19.98 – From Heny “Chunklet” Owings and friends. Snarky, hilarious and of course, deeply satisfying.
    Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag by Stevie Chick (PM) $19.95 – The story of Black Flag from the inside, drawing on exclusive interviews with the group’s members, their contemporaries, and the bands they inspired.
    I Mix What I Like – A Mixtape Manifesto by Jared Ball (AK) $14.95 – Jared A. Ball, PhD, (a.k.a. The Funkiest Journalist) is the host of FreeMix Radio, and assistant professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. This book has all sorts of music industry rants but with footnotes and bibiographic info.
    Celebrity Vinyl by Tom Hamling (MBP) $19.95 – Now in soft cover! A laugh-riot reminder of what happens when famous people decide to (unsuccessfully) give singing a try. The number of celebrities, and pseudo-celebrities, that have indulged such hubris boggles the mind: Burt Reynolds, Shaquille O’Neal, John Travolta, Eddie Murphy, Leonard Nimoy, Alyssa Milano – the list goes on and on, as do the laughs. Over 100 photographs of the album art that houses these celebrity recordings are paired with gut-punch funny captions.
    You Must Go and Win by Alina Simone (Faber) $14.00 – Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet, all the while investigating her Russian roots.
    Bob Marley: The Untold Story by Chris Salewicz (Faber) $16.00

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS! Lunatic Express: Discovering the World Via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats and Trains by Carl Hoffman (Broadway) $14.00
    The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized A City and Sparked The Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown) $26.00
    How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser (Norton) $26.95
    Life Would be Perfect if I Lived In That House by Meghan Daum (Vintage) $14.95
    Nerd Do Well: A Small Boys Journey to Becoming a Big Kid by Simon Pegg (Gotham) $27.50 – Memoir from Brit science-fiction superstar.
    Sports From Hell: My Search for the Worlds Most Outrageous Competition by Rick Reilly (Random) $14.95
    Half a Life by Darin Strauss (Random) $13.00 – A biker accidentally swerved in front of the author’s car and she got killed. It’s haunted him forever. Now in soft cover! OK THX BYE!

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    We Called Each Other Comrade: Charles H. Kerr and Company Radical Publishers by Allen Ruff (PM) $24.95
    Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Sheila Rowbotham (Verso) $19.95
    Anticapitalism by Ezequiel Adamovsky by Unidos Ilustradores (Seven Stories Press) $14.95 Deep Green Resistance by Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen (Seven Stories Press) $22.95
    Reviving The Strike: How Working People can Regain Power and Transform America by Joe Burns (IgPublishing) $15.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Adventures In the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America by Christopher Turner (FSG) $35.00
    Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens (Zest) $14.99
    Meat #4 by Adrian Lourie $20.00 – American Apparelian sexy photos with guys.
    Pinups #14 Jos $14.00

    OTHER STUFF!
    Gender and Comics Potluck 3 Print Set by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Esther Pearl Watson $40.00 – The delightful Esther Pearl Watson and Anne Elizabeth Moore (with assistance from James Payne) have culled thoughts, concerns, complaints, and expletives into a 6-page comics essay providing an occasionally frustrating view of the state of the comics industry, at least where women and trans people are concerned. The full essay, colored with the most delightful pinky mauve, is was in Bitch Magazine.
    Harrison Trading Cards by Harrison “God Save the Zine” Rosenberg $2.00
    Scumbabies DVD $15.00 – The slapstick horror musical fairytale about love and death.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Thanks to Dave Roche for taking this photo of Luke Sinclair (Platic Knife, You, Sticky) reading here and posting it on Flickr. Took some pictures here at Quimby’s? Tag ’em with Quimby’s Bookstore and/or add them to the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr. If you took a picture you’re particularly proud of let us know and we’ll post it on our blog.

    But! So! New Stuff This Week!

    ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
    East Village Inky #47 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
    Lean Mean Teen Zine Machine #2 and #3 $1.00 each
    Vamostja Vampire Monster Ninja $1.00
    Talzine #1 A Zine About Taleen – A Zine About Being Armenian by Taleen $2.00
    Dining With Words – An Artists Banquet by Caroline Liebman, Taleen Kalenderian and Nicki Yowell $6.00
    Faux Cal Point Press vol 1 #1 May 11 $1.00
    Filth #1 Jan 11 $2.00 and Filth #2 Spr 11 $3.00
    A Day in the Life of Baldwin P Leninforth Ombudsman #1 by Jennifer Shiman $5.00
    Pneuma #1 by Tommy Nease $10.00
    Holiday Pay #20 Appropriate Attire bt Turner Hilliker $3.00 – We also have several back issues.
    Turbochainsaw #6 $7.50
    Monsters Rock Apr 11 by Kione Kochi $2.50
    Maribooks #1 Bully Power by Maria $1.00
    Danielas World #1 by Daniela $1.00
    12 Going on 13 $1.00
    Your Boss Wants To Instill Confidence – Impar Skills and Ignite Potential by M. Miller $10.00
    Bushwick Review #2 by Kristen Felicetti $5.00
    How Things Break – A Short Poem by Marissa F $.50
    Nature of Love – An Exploration by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
    Bound Woman – Meditations On Love and Loneliness $1.50

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Life & Times of Baby Otto Zeplin #5 by BT Livermore $4.00
    Terrible Beasts $4.00
    Elf World vol 2 #2 ed. by Francois Vigneault (Family Style) $7.00 – Fabulous anthology featuring such artists as Horrocks, Tinder and more!
    Andromeda #12 by Andy Scott $2.00
    Peoplings Ashcan 2011 Autism Education and the Savage of Aveyron by Courtney Angermeier and Jeff Benham $3.00
    Nace and Cenu At the Park by Natalie Peary and Jeff Benham $3.00
    Feeberts Guest #2 an Ombudsman Tale by Jennifer Shiman $5.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Jim Woodring’s second full-length graphic novel, and first starring his signature character Frank that tells the story of what happens when Frank leaves the Unifactor.
    Citizen Rex by Mario and Gilbert Hernandez (Dark Horse) $19.99 – This book asks the question “What compels life without a soul?” and is a bizarre, sexy view of the future! This handsome hardcover collection also features a new cover by Gilbert, sketches and behind-the-scenes material from Mario, and a special pinup from third Hernandez brother Jaime.
    Isle of 100000 Graves by Jason and Fabien Vehlmann (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – Jason teamed up with Fabien Vehlmann to tell this dark comedy about a treasure map that leads to an island with a terrible secret.
    Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 8 Last Gleaming by Joss Whedon and various (Dark Horse) $16.99
    Yesterday and Maybe Tomorrow Too by Jeff Benham and Courtney Angermeier $6.00
    Salmonilla Chronicles Collection vol 1 or Patchoulis Allure by Jeff Benham and Martinez Ryk $7.00
    Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse) $29.99
    Blunderbuss Wanderlust – Being an Account of the Temprol Travels of Colonel Victor by David Shapiro and Christopher Herndon $14.99
    Tooth by Cullen Bunn, Shawn Lee and Matt Kindt (Oni) $24.99
    Celluloid HC an Erotic Graphic Novel by Dave McKean (Fantagraphics) $35.00 – Dave McKean’s first original graphic novel since his landmark book Cages. And it’s kinda sexy.
    Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels by Michael A. Chaney (University of Wisconsin Press) $26.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Cellophane House $20.00
    Art and Agenda Political Art and Activism (DGV) $68.00

    FICTION!
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    Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale (Blind Eye) $12.95
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    We Are Paper Toys by Louis Bou (Collins) $29.99
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    Conduit #22 $10.00
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    In These Times Jun 11 $3.50
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    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
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    The Red Shoes by Gloria Flower and Sun Young Yoo (Ammo) $16.95
    Terra Tempo Ice Age Cataclysm by David Shapiro, Christopher Herndon and Erica Melville $14.99
    City Numbers by Joanne Schwartz and Matt Beam (Groundwood) $18.95
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    MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
    Buskers: The On-the-Streets, In-the-Trains, Off-the-Grid Memoir of Two New York City Street Musicians by Heth and Jed Weinstein (Soft Skull) $14.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
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    Casebook On the Men in Black by Jim Keith (Adventu) $14.95
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    It Was Over When…: Tales of Romantic Dead Ends by Rob K. Elder (Sourcebooks Casablanca) $12.99 – By local journalist Rob K. Elder, who was a staff writer at the Chicago Tribune from 2000-2009. This snapshot of modern romance gone bad is complete with its complexities and contradictions, compiling the best user-submitted stories from ItWasOverWhen.com, a site devoted to lost love, as well as from its companion website (www.itwasoverwhen.com), to create a greatest hits collection of cringe-inducing love schadenfreude.

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark (Verso) $26.95
    The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs (Univ Calif) $24.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Pinups #14 $14.00
    Afternoon Pleasures: Erotica for Gay Couples by Shane Allison (Cleis) $14.95
    Jade Door Erotic Stories from Ancient China by Chaiko, Cheng Cheng, 7th Orange (Eurotica) $17.99
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    OTHER STUFF!
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