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    Zines

    SNAX: A Zine Club Chicago Collab Zine, edited by Rachel Hyman and Liz Mason and Cynthia E. Hanifin $12

    Draculas Dumpster vol 1 #1 This Ain’t No Hula $6.75

    Mythological Encyclopedia 1st edition by Kristel Becares $15.00

    Zines & Comics by Emma B Rosengarten: Muscular I Hardly Know Her $6, Flee $4.00 & more.

    Last Place Chili by Tin Diaz-Rodriguez $2.00

    Unresolved #4 Tehching Hsieh and Donkey Basketball by Eli Schmitt $5.00

    Cephalophore #1 Chicago $5.00

    New Stuff & restocks from Firemotif

    Zines from Catdroool: Twin Peaks Zine, How to Become an Artist, We Deserve Cats, Missed Connections & more $10 each

    Comics & Minis

    Magical Beatdown vol 3 by Jenn Woodall (Silver Sprocket) $9.99

    Flowery #45 by Mel Stringer $7.50

    Detention #2 Maggie a Girl In the Streets by Stephen Crane (Fantagraphics) $20.00

    Sir Alfred #3 by Tim Hensley (Fantagraphics) $20.00

    Anenome by Lindsey Shaw $5.00

    Vacuum Decay #5 by Harry Nordlinger $10.00

    Stay Awake by Alex Strader $9.00

    New issues of New Wave Comics by David & Reginald Wayne Soileau $2.00 each

    Tack #1 Try Again Cool Kid $10.00

    Isidore and Friends vol 1 by Alexi $6.00

    New stuff & restocks from Davidt Dunlop

    New stuff & restocks from Ivy Rose

    Thee Infinite C by Joshua W Cotter $2.00

    Day Dreamers Science $12.00

    ANTICAT dEFY cATEGOREY #1 edited by Duke Pierce Reade $3.00

    Mom and I by M. Elias Hiebert $1.00

    Graphic Novels

    Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish (Fantagraphics) $34.99

    Fax of Life by Dan Rhett $10.00

    Music Books

    Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal by Michael Hann (Bazillion Points) $29.95

    Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of the Music Press by Paul Gorman $34.95

    Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview & Other Conversations $17.99

    The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx $17.99

    Fiction

    How to Forget Almost Everything: A Novel by Joshua James Amberson (Korza Books) $14.00

    XX by Rian Hughes $25.00

    Essay & Memoir

    Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles by Lydia Davis $23

    Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate $18.00

    Science!

    Rude Science: Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the Science No One Ever Talks About by Stefan Gates $16.99

    Drinkin’

    Raising the Bar: A Bottle by Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home by Brett Adams and Jacob Greer $24.95

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

    Merv Zine Rhymes With #1 $5

    Lyrics As Poetry #4 Journal of Songwriting and Prose $20

    Overtime #63 Walkin’ Papers by June Thompson $2.00

    Detroit Lit Mag #3 $3.00

    Poplandia by Andre F. Peltier $10.99

    Magazines

    Kitchen Table Magazine #5 The Roots Issue $20.00

    Tidal Magazine Fall 22 #15 Jessica Henwick $16.00

    Antigravity Oct 22 vol 2 #7 $10.00

    new issues of: Mojo, AnOther Magazine, Skeptical Inquirer, ID, Empire

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    Zines

    Recovering and Creating Memories with My Dead Friends: A Grief Perzine by Red Schulte $7.00

    Space Available $4.00

    new versions of Lucinda J. Williams’ Bookshelf Voyeur

    Silent Command $5.00

    Fluke #19.5 the First Two Years $6.00

    Frightmarish: A Gothic Litzine #2 & #3 $5.00

    Strange Tapes #12 VHS Oddities Unearthed by Scott R $6.00

    East Village Inky #67 by Ayun Halliday $3.00

    New Zines from Jam: California Pollen, I Bought a Panama Hat In Hawaii and I Have No Regrets a Zine From the Overheard Files, $2 each

    Christian New Age Quarterly vol 25 #4 by Catherine Groves $3.50

    various photo books from Liz Potamites $10 each

    various zines from Vanessa X: issues of Gemini Rising and Evening In Venice $5 each

    TV Grime #1 by Luke Geddes $13

    Making Comic Zines by Eddy Atoms $3

    Lanesville Press zines, $10 each

    Moss Piglet, mulitple issues, by John Bloner Jr. $12 each

    Octaggon $4.28

    Jason Triefenbach Music Zines: Quantum Conversation With Lavender Country $10.00, Into Howling $8.00

    Make Up #2 by Holly Jo $5.00

    Cheap Toys #27 A Menagerie of Pet Projects by Giz $2.00

    Coffee People Zine #18 Complex $15.00

    Comics

    Fox Graham Minis: Lucky Edwin #1 & #2, Messenger #1 Binds the Services Together

    Winter Diary by L. Reeves $6.00

    How to Pretend to Be Human by Liv Shyevitch $2

    Armor Up a Comic by Ariel Chan $10.00

    Forgotten Velvet #1 $1

    New Comics by Mae Luxe!

    Be Kind My Neighbor Concept Art Zine by Yugo Limbo 18+ Adults Only $12.00

    Natalie Dupille comics: In Spite of Ourselves $15.00, Fried Bananas: A Travelogue by $12.00

    Escape from Slugville $2.00

    Sparx Megazine #1 Smorgasbord by Edie Quinn $5.00

    Graphic Novels

    Maus Now: Selected Writing edited by Hillary Chute $28.00

    Movements and Moments, edited by Sonja Eismann (D&Q) $29.95

    Day and Age Year Two by Andrew Oh $12.00

    Upside Dawn by Jason (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Sennen by Shanti Rai (Avery Hill) $14.95

    And Life Goes On by Marcus Emdanat $24.00

    Boat Life by Tsuge Tadao (Floating World) $24.95

    Misfortune – A Book of Illustrated Fortune Cookie Messages by Aeon Hand (Microcosm) $16.99

    Yesterday Diary Comix by Brother Malcolm $15.00

    Art Books

    Graffiti Characters For Beginners by Arnd Schallenkammer (Dokument Press) $9.95

    Nuevo Abesedario $10.00

    Revolutionary Women: Fifty Women of Color Who Reinvented the Rules by Ann Shen $24.95

    Art of Feminism: Images That Shaped the Fight For Equality 1857 through 2022 Revised Edition by Reckitt Helena $45

    Kara Walker – October Files #28, edited by Vanina Gere (MIT Press) $24.95

    Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion by Sara Raza (Black Dog Press) $34.95

    Protest Grim Reapers by Marc Fischer (Public Collectors) $10.00

    Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding edited by Betsy Gordon and Jane Rogers $35.00

    Politics & Revolution

    Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer Feminist Theory by Isabell Lorey $26.95

    Afro Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays $18.95

    Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff $15.95

    Anarchic Agreements: A Field Guide to Collective Organizing by Ruth Kinnia Thomas& friends (PM Press) $15.95

    World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete by Geo Maher $19.95

    Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator by David Fenton $35.00

    Our Synthetic Environment by Murray Bookchin $17.95

    Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence by Benjamin S. Case (AK Press) $22.00

    Essay

    Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing In Dystopian Times by Madeline Lane-McKinley $20.00

    You’re Funny for a…Illustrated Guide to Trans Comedians, Non-Binary Comics and Funny Women In the Comedy Scene by Sophia Zarders (Silver Sprocket) $13.99

    Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr $15.99

    Waiting In the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood by Cherrie Moraga (Haymarket) $17.00

    The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar by Ariel Gore (Microcosm) $19.95

    DIY

    This Modern House: Vintage Advice and Practical Science for Happy Home Management, compiled by Jennifer McKnight Trontz $16.99

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Living Thelema: A Practical Guide to Attainment in Aleister Crowleys System of Magick by David Shoemaker $21.95

    The Hidden Language of Symbols by Matthew Wilson $45.00

    Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema by Lon Milo DuQuette $24.95

    Poison Prescriptions: Power Plant Medicine Magic and Ritual by the Seed Sistas $24.95

    How To Study Magic: A Guide to History Lore and Building Your Own Practice by Sarah Lyons and Tobias Gobel $20

    Witch for Every Season by Rachel Patterson $21.99

    Sacred Gender: Create Trans and Nonbinary Spiritual Connections by Ariana Serpentine $16.99

    Spells From Scratch: How to Craft Spells That Work by Phoenix Silverstar $18.99

    Path of the Hedge Witch by Joanna van der Hoeven $19.99

    Sexxxy

    Elska #40 Paris France $20.00

    Music Books

    Needles and Plastic: Flying Nun Records 1981-1988 by Matthew Goody (Third Man Books) $40.00

    My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn $18.00

    Transformer: A Story of Glitter Glam Rock and Loving Lou Reed by Simon Doonan $24.99

    2 music books from Hozac books:
    Guilty: My Life As a Member of the Joneses – A Heroin Addict a Bank Robber and a Federal Inmate by Jeff Drake $26.99
    Kill a Punk For Rock and Roll: Photographs by Marty Perez 1976-2019 $32.99

    Gathering of the Tribe: Companion to Occult Music on Vinyl, multiple volumes (Headpress) $19.95 each

    Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine: Insight Into Primus and the World of Les Claypool by Greg Prato (Akashic) $19.95

    33 1/3 genre books: Death Metal by T. Coles, Trip Hop by RJ Wheaton, $19.95 each

    Druuuuuugs

    Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation In Psychedelic Medicine edited by Alex Belser, Clancy Cavnar, Beatriz C Labate (Synergetic Press) $21.95

    Myocultural Revolution: Transforming Our World with Mushrooms Lichens and Other Fungi by Peter McCoy (Microcosm) $17.95

    Fashion

    Francois Berthoud: Fashion, Fetish and Fantasy, edited by Beda Achermann (Rizzoli) $195.00

    Fiction

    Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami $28.00

    No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai $24.95

    Ballroom for Ghost Dancing by John F. Duffy $12.95

    Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley $15.95

    Perfume Burned His Eyes: A Novel by Michael Imperioli (Akashic) $16.95

    Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca $19.95

    Cialis Verdi Gin Jag by Adam Johnson (Anxiety Press) $14.00

    Lit Journals & Poetry

    Antelope Magazine #2 Code $15.00

    Girls Are Figs by Nicole Kurlich $12.00

    For the Young at Heart

    Waking Beauty or Eleven Times Upon a Time by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books) $19.95

    Other Stuff

    Dearly Beloved Prayer Devotional Candles: Robert Smith, Bowie, Siouxsie, Joe Strummer!

    Sheebie Jeebies 2023 Calendar Nudie Ladies to Peep in the Dark by Flannery Cashill $20.00

    Don Pepino Pizza Sauce Repurposed Soy Wax CANdle $26.00

    New and restock stickers from Mel Stringer!

    Practical Witch’s 2023 Almanac Infinite Spells Volume XXVI by Friday Gladheart (Microcosm) $16.95

     

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    Zines

    Migrations: Voices From the Mediterranean Passage by Cindy Crabb and Chas Ashby $8.00

    Going to California 35MM Photos by Shawn Granton $8.00

    Tarot Moth: Love, Tarot Moth: Luck by Echo $3 each

    The Story of Japanese Writing Condensed by Spencer Lopez $5.00

    Rewound Reviews $6.00

    Summer of Chaos and Beautiful People by Karla Bruciaga $15.00

    Comics

    Wheels Annual #1 by Andy Wieland $5.00

    Deadline Affair by Tero Visio the Advenures of Keno and Palmoral $8.00

    New Old Stock #650A The Illustrated Journal of a Civilized Cyclist by Shawn Granton $6.00

    Fifty Flip Experiment #30 $5.00

    Flowery #44 by Mel Stringer $7.50

    Graphic Novels

    Black Paradox by Junji Ito $19.99

    Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    Street Cop by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman (Isolarii) $19.99

    Music Books

    You’re with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music by Bruce Adams $26.95

    Punk Paradox: A Memoir by Greg Graffin $30

    First 21 How I Became Nikki Sixx $17.99

    Earth Wind and Fire’s Thats the Way of the World by Dwight E. Brooks (33 1/3 vol 168) $14.95

    Outer Limits & Mayhem Books

    Cosmic Dance by Stephen Ellcock $35.00

    More stuff from the British Library, $15.95 each: Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird, Platform Edge Uncanny Tales of the Railways, Night Wire and Other Tales of Weird Media & more!

    Witch of the Woods: Spells, Charms, Divination, Remedies and Folklore by Kiley Mann $21.99

    Local

    Fares: Chicago Taxicab Portraits by Allan Lee Koss $24.99

    Charles R. Child’s Chicago Kenwood and Oakland by Perry Casalino $25.00

    Essay Books

    Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays and Other Pandemoniums by Amy Leach $18.00

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki $21.99

    Towards a Green Democratic Revolution: Left Populism and the Power of Affects by Chantal Mouffeby $16.95

    Fiction

    Splendid Ticket by Bill Cotter (McSweeneys) $26.00

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    McSweeneys #69 $26.00

    Have I Ever Told You by Benji Russelburg a Queer Grief Autobiography $10.00

    More Dream Bindery stuff!

    Candles from Dearly Beloved!: Divine, Nick Cave, Poly Styrene…

    And more!

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    Zines

    KerBloom #158 $2.00

    Women In Print #9 $8.00

    Zine Mercado 2021 $10 and Zine Mercado 2022 $13

    Comics & Minis

    Air Waves Goodbye by Steve Stelling $5.00

    Turtle Boy #5 by Kota and Gen $5.00

    Graphic Novels

    Complete Eightball Issues 1-18 by Daniel Clowes (Book, not the box set) (Fantagraphics) $49.99

    Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Forget Me Not by Gabriel Howell (Secret Acres) $19.95

    Dissolving Classroom by Junji Ito $24.95

    The Man Who Fell to Earth, Based on the Nicholas Roeg/David Bowie Movie $29.99

    The Sculptor by Scott McCloud (First Second) $35.99

    Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism by Jess Ruliffson (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    Music & Film Books

    Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of “Weird Al” Yankovic, 1981–2006 by Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz & “Weird Al” Yankovic (1984 Publishing) $40

    Punk is Dead, Punk is Everything by Bryan Ray Turcotte (Gingko Press) $45.00

    A to Z Great Film Directors by Andy Tuohy with Matt Glasby $22.99

    Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly $18.99

    My Pinup: A Paean to Prince by Hilton Als $19.95

    From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga by by S. H. Fernando Jr. $19.99

    Druuuuuuugs

    Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to the World of Cannabis $9.95

    Politics, Revolution & Essay

    Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An Other World by Subcomandante Marcos & edited by Lightning Collective (PM Press) $16.95

    Daring To Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance In Chicagos Uptown Community by Helen Shiller (Haymarket) $24.95

    Beyond State, Power, and Violence by Abdullah Öcalan (PM Press) $29.95

    Abolition Feminisms vol 2 Feminist Ruptures Against the Carceral State by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers & Brooke Lober (Haymarket) $22.95

    Liberated to the Bone: Histories Bodies Futures by Susan Raffo (AK Press) $22.00

    Does It Hurt by Kaleena Madruga $15.00

    Witchy Shit

    The Book of Seances: A Guide to Divination and Speaking to Spirits by Claire Goodchild $27.00

    Fiction

    Weasels In the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada $13.95

    Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry by Adrienne Maree Brown (AK Press) $17.00

    Magodiz: A Novel by Gabe Calderon (Arsenal Pulp Press) $19.95

    Poetry

    Call Out: A Novel in Rhyme by Cat Fitzpatrick $14.95

    Magazines

    Cinema Retro vol 18 #54 $11.99

    Harpers Magazine Nov 2022 $7.99

    032c #39 Sum 2022 $19.90

    Little White Lies #95 $16.99

    Plus: Stationary from Tuesday Bassen!

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    Zines

    Halloween X A Playlist, 100 Tracks by Burf Quimby  $2.50

    New stuff & retocks from by Jessie Lynn McMains: Every Day Is Halloween   $1.00, Reckless Chants #26  $5.00 & more.

    Possessed #16 The Fanzine For Slackers and Haters $2.50  $3.00

    In Hell, Green Hell an Appreciation of Earth AD  $5.00

    Kitchen Witch Kit by Dame Darcy  $10.00

    Ten Transgender Men and Their Legacies: A Zine by Oliver Grenke  $20.00

    Comics & Minis

    Little Myths by Harper Sims  $10.00

    Haunted #1 Moon by pastelmoonbeamss  $8.00

    Letter to My Birth Mother  $8.00

    Bad Advice Please by Chloe Fulton  $10.00

    Ablaze #48 by Yasmeen Abedifard  $5.00

    West #2 by John Grund (Uncivilized)  $6.99

    Career Shoplifter by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized)  $8.00

    Graphic Novels

    2 books by Keiler Roberts this week, both from Drawn & Quarterly: Joy of Quitting  $24.95, Creepy (with Lee Sensenbrenner)  $16.95

    Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere by Liniers (Fantagraphics)  $24.99

    Tank Girl Colour Classics Trilogy 1988-1995 by Hewlett and Martin  $49.99

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Health Communism by Beatrice Alder Bolton and Artie Vierkant  $24.95

    Art Books

    Get Your Shit Together: by David Shrigley  $35.00

    Posters For the Planet Tear Paste Protest Fifty Reusable and Recyclable Posters  $27.50

    Essay Books

    Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore  $16.95

    Pahrump Report by Lisa Carver  $19.95

    Question Everything: A Stone Reader by Peter Catapano and Simon Critch  $40.00

    Fiction

    The Future Is Female HC vol 2 The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women edited by Lisa Yaszek  $27.95

    Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders  $28.00

    Truth of the Divine: A Novel by Lindsay Ellis  $18.99

    Therapists Gone Wild by Jeff Schneider  $12.95

    Music & Film Books

    The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip Hop by Jonathan Abrams  $35.00

    Music Is History by Questlove  $18.99

    Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir by Kid Congo Powers with Chris Campion  $29.00

    Totem of the Depraved SECOND EDITION by Nick Zedd  $18.00

    Psychiatric Tissues: The History of the Iconic Noise Band Arab on Radar by Jeff Schneider  $18.00

    Magazines

    Upping the Anti #23 Journal of Theory and Action  $15.00

    The Progressive Oct Nov 2022  $5.95

    Mother Jones Dec 2022  $9.99

    RFD #191 Fall 2022  $11.95

    VegNews #132  $9.99

    Zero Tolerance #17  $12.99

    Mojo #347  $12.50

    Heavy Metal #318  $14.99

    Horror Hound #94  $8.99

    In These Times vol 46 #9  $4.95

    Adbusters #163  $14.95

    Harpers Oct 2022  $7.99

    Wire #463 $12.75

    Monocle #157  $14.00

    Shindig #130  $14.75

    Shallot vol 1 #1 Journal of Mental Health Art and Literature  $15.00

    Document Fall 2022  $25.00

    Lit Journals

    Taddle Creek #50 25th Anniversary Final Issue  $7.95

    Detroit Lit Mag #1 & #2  $3.00 each

    Popshot Quarterly #37  $12.99

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    New Slingshot Planners are here!!! There are THREE different sizes now, not just the 2! The spiral binding now comes in 2 sizes! $8-$16.

    Social Justice Kittens 2023 Calendar by LiartownUSA! $20.00

    Arcane Bullshit new stuff and restocks: patches, stickers & more!

    Stickers from Oops All Centipedes!

    New and restock stickers from Heather Anacker!

     

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    Zines

    New zines from Jenna Freedman including Lower East Side Librarian, Grand Juror’s Handbook Lower East Side Librarian Go Downtown & more!

    New stuff and restocks from Crapandemic by Julia Eff and friends! Tell Me Where We Go From Here Thoughts From Adult Emo Kids, Homies: A Track by Track Glimpse at the Power of Wicked Clown Love by Piper Keyer & more!

    Monsterama #3 $20

    Tiny Silly Little Volume Filled With Foolishness and Buffoonery by Dan Gleason $3.00

    Star Vessels Zine by Julia Arrendondo $6.00

    Rot #11 $10.00

    Dykestyles #1 Lesbian Amateur Video by Mony Kaos $10.00

    Pumpkin Patch’s Night of Trouble by Cristina Benavides $5.00

    No Gods, No Mattresses #3 by Enola Dismay $6

    Rozine #2 Jun 22 $3.00

    Comics & Minis

    Flowery #43 by Mel Stringer $7.50

    Knife Rider #1 Mullets Never Die $6.00

    Adventures of Super Band by Julia McBride Menzel $10.99

    Black Dog by H Jones $10.00

    Grixly #57 & #58 $3 each

    Doso the Alien by Kevin Sukho Lee $6.00

    Graphic Novels

    Revenge of the Librarians Cartoons by Tom Gauld (D&Q) $24.95

    M Is For Monster by Talia Dutton $17.99

    Genevieve Castree Complete Works 1981-2016 (D&Q) $99.95

    Onward Towards Our Nobel Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $29.95, plus reprints of Mizuki’s Showa History of Japan vols 1-3.

    Demons Bloodlust by Hyena Hell (Silver Sprocket) $13.99

    Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh $22.00 – Now in soft cover.

    Artist by Yeong-Shin Ma (D&Q) $39.95

    Space Trash vol 1 Jenn Woodall $21.99

    Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver $29.99

    SK8 Dad Summer: Ramps, Rebellion, and Raising a Kid by Brett Hamil (Birdcage Bottom Books) $10.00

    Road House Mini Comic Book #2 by Stephanie Rinker $14.00

    Abysmalation: Collected Short Works by Josh Bayer (Microcosm) $18.00

    Maverix and Lunatix Icons of Underground Comix by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics) $34.99

    Washington White by Adam Griffiths (Secret Acres) $24.95

    Music-Related, Film & TV Books

    Beyond Heaven Chicago House Party Flyers vol 3 1983 – 1992 by Mario “Liv It Up” Luna & Brandon Johnson $20

    Telling Stories: Photographs of The Fall by Kevin Cummins $39.99

    My Life As a Godard Movie by Joanna Walsh $15.95

    Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson $17.99

    Acid For the Children: A Memoir by Flea $18.99

    It Never Ends: A Memoir With Nice Memories by Tom Scharpling $17.00

    We Are the Mutants: The Battle for Hollywood from Rosemary’s Baby to Lethal Weapon by Kelly Roberts & Michael Grasso (Repeater) $14.95

    Sunset Boulevard BFI Film Classics by Steven Cohan $15.95

    Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner $17.99

    Paint By Numbers by Dmitry Samarov $15.00

    Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist by Marc Ribot (Akashic) $16.95

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing by by Charisse Burden-Stelly, Jodi Dean & more $29.95

    No Pasaran, Antifascist Dispatches from a World In Crisis by Shane Burley (AK Press) $25.00

    Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction by Shira Hassan (Haymarket) $24.95

    Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla bergman (AK Press) $20

    Press In Prison: A Practical Abolitionist Guidebook From Scalawag (Haymarket) $15.95

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire by W. Scott Poole $28.00

    The Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith, the Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck by Cat Willett $22.00

    Kraken: The Curious Exciting and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid by Wendy Williams $17.00

    Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know by Ben Bowlin with Matt Frederick and Noel Brown $29.99

    United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by JW Ocker $19.99

    Witchy Shit

    Mastering Magick: Course in Spellcasting for the Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn $18.99

    Visual Alchemy: A Witch’s Guide to Sigils, Art and Magic Laura Tempest Zakroff $19.99

    Fiction

    LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin $17

    Devil House by John Darnielle $19.00 – Now in soft cover.

    If This Book Exists You’re In the Wrong Universe by Jason Pargin $28.99

    Edison In the Hood: A Novel by Nadia Uddin $19.95

    Dinosaurs: A Novel by Lydia Millet $26.95

    Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry, edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli $18.95

    Illuminations: Stories by Alan Moore $30.00

    My Uncle Died and All I Got Was This Robot Island by Graham Reinbold $11.99

    Drinkin’ & Healin’

    Margarita In Retrograde: Cocktails for Every Sign by Vanessa Li and Bowen Goh $19.99

    Unfuck Your Grief: Using Science to Heal Yourself and Support Others by Dr Faith G. Harper $14.95

    Magazines

    Tape Op #151 $5.99

    Uppercase #55 $20

    Lit Journals & Poetry

    The First Line vol 24 #3 Fall 22 $6.00

    Moss Piglet Sep 2022 $12.00

    Sinister Wisdom #126 $14.00

    Keep Your Little Lights Alive: Poems After Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and Others by John Francis Quinonez $17.00

    Sexxxy

    Butt Magazine #31 $15.00

    Astra International Magazine of Literature #2 Filth $19

    Even Cowbots Get Blue Balls (Queering Consent Queer Smutty Stories) by S Park (Microcosm) $9.95

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    Acid Nun by Corinne Halbert (Silver Sprocket) $29.99

    Zines

    This Goth Bitch Halloween Freakout by MV Garcia $6

    At Home #2 and #3 $5 each

    Comics & Minis

    Fungirl: You Are Revolting by Elizabeth Pich (Silver Sprocket) $5.99

    Crickets #8 by Sammy Harkham $10 (Silver Sprocket) $9.99

    Fruiting Bodies by Ashley Robin Franklin

    Gutter Hunter #2 The Adults Only Guide to History’s Wildest Independent Comics by Robin Bougie $13

    Mount Pleasant #1 Delightfully Deranged Art of Robin Bougie (Spread Love Comics) $10

    Graphic Novels

    Prometheite by Ari S. Mulch (Uncivilized) $19.95

    Art Books

    Stickers vol 2 From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art – More Stuck-Up Crap by DB Burkeman $19.98

    Crisis as Form by Peter Osborne $29.95

    The Cute, edited by Sianne Ngai $24.95

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide edited by Joanna Ebenstein $34.95

    Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville $27

    A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes $16.95

    Music & Film Books

    Lyrics by Brian Ferry $29.95 – We have limited copies of signed editions!!

    Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything In Between by Michael Tau (Feral House) $29.95

    Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge $18

    Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image by edited by Erika Balsom & Hila Peleg $39.95

    Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism edited by Roy Christopher (Strange Attractor Press) $21.95

    You’ve Got Red On You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life by Clark Collis $18.99

    Life. Love. Shirts. A Collection of Hardcore Clothing $25

    Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists In Contemporary Horror by Johanna Isaacson $20

    Better Never Than Late: Midwest Hardcore Flyers ad Ephemera 1981-1984 by Tony Rettman & friends (Radio Raheem Records) $29.99

    Druuuuugs

    Are You Too High? A Practical Guide Not Medical Advice by Brian Box Brown, Not a Doctor (NeatoCo) $17.99

    How We Roll: The Art and Culture of Joints, Blunts, and Spliffs by Noah Rubin, illustrated by Tasia Prince $16.95

    Cocktail Botanica: 60+ Drinks Inspired by Nature by Elouise Anders & illustrated by Annabelle Lambie $19.95

    Psyched: Seven Cutting Edge Psychedelics Changing the World by Amanda Siebert $21.95

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies by Leslie Kern $24.95

    Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence by Elsa Dorlin $26.95

    Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong $17

    The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics by Raina Lipsitz $26.95

    The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha $19.95

    Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History by Luke Savage $21.95

    Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis $16.95

    Essay Books

    Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York by Steven Heller $27.50

    Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries $19.95

    The Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers edited Elias Jahshan $19.95

    Fiction

    Love Me Tender by Constance Debre (Semiotext(e)) $17.95

    Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories by Adam Soto $17

    Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamad $13.95

    I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie Lacava $19.95

    Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories by A. S. Byatt $18

    Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead $17

    Several People Are Typing: A Novel by Calvin Kasulke $16

    Arkdust by Alex Smith $15.95

    Magazines

    Lula #31 $24.25

    DIY

    Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues by Kavita Das $19.95

    Magazines

    Broken Pencil #97 $7.95

    Butt Magazine #31 $15

    Lit Journals

    Masks Literary Magazine #3 $10

    The Paris Review #241 $20

    Calendars

    Witches’ Almanac #42 Spring 2023-2024 $15.95

    For the Young at Heart

    The Fairy Atlas: Fairy Folk of the World by Anna Claybourne, illustrated by Asiain Lora Miren $19.99

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    Zines

    Pound the Pavement #28 by Josh MacPhee $12

    Live Wires: On Trauma Head Spaces and Feelings by Kradeelav $9

    Pick Up the Phone: An EP of Music and an Art Zine by a Good Host (aka Joe Carlough) $5

    Shift Meal Hall of Fame: A Retrospective 2012-2022 by Katie Kiesewetter $16

    Tattoo Screams of Love by Cathleen Schandelmeier (Happy Tapir Press) $5

    Bartenders Friend: Whisky & Gin Editions by Hannah Larson $5 each

    Bad Hair Day by Chris Koelling $10

    Leaving Town #1-#3 by Weston Waldman $8 each

    Pink Slip #2 Mind Body and Soul $15

    Venadito #1 & #2 $5 each

    Guadalupe the Space Goddex $5

    Flipped House Banisters by Naa Oyo A Kwate $6

    Daisy Pit #1 Sum 22 by Daisydil $10

    Shrapnel #2 $3

    Pity Party by Carson $2

    Hot Bath Cold Whiskey #0 $4

    Comics & Minis

    Stripburger #79 $12

    Santos Sisters #2 $4.20

    Punx and Bicycles #1 by Joshua Boehm $8

    Pleasure Hex issues #1-#4$9 each

    Town and County Homespun Stories #2 by Alex Nall $8

    Nalls Fair In Love and War by Alex Nall and Hannah Larson $10

    Municipal Threat #2 Original Comix $5

    Comics by Eileen Chavez: Your Inner Landscape $16, Dog World $8

    What Comes After Square One #1 Sep 22 A Liams Crunchy Comix Collection $2

    Grassy Knoll by Harrison Wyrick, Emma Aguilera & more $16

    Quack Magazine #1 Sum 22 edited by G. Balcomb $10

    No Pants Revolution #6 This Isnt Even My Final Form by Andrea Pearson $5

    Comics by Kamilah Jones: Hard Decora #1 the Comic $10, Emptying the Clips #1 ETC (with Monique Guzman) $10

    Crap the Cat #1 by Juan Lara $5

    Hypermutt #4 Disruptor by Max Huffman $4

    Buttermilk and Yoyo by Kirstin Stevens $17

    Message From the Earl $5

    Pearls #1 by Sara Fetherolf and Joshua Boehm $8

    Dusty Petals by Jam $2

    Squish Days of the Grumble $7

    Alien Thoughts #1 by Ari Gomez $10

    Hard Pressed: A Twilight Hours Mystery by Teddie Bernard $15

    Phoney Phacades #1 $20

    Waltzing Carpe Juliette #1 by Mark Ostler $5

    Comics by Charles Glaubitz: Little Miss Jaguar #1 $6, Dark Star I Am the Twilight $15, Rat Nest #1 $10

    Graphic Novels

    The Poe Clan vol 2 by Moto Hagio (Fantagraphics) $39.99

    Red Room: Trigger Warnings by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics) $22.99

    Bowers (Grambo Comics) $5

    Slash Them All by Antoine Maillard (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Books by Christopher Sperandio: Greenie Josephenie, Red White ad Bliew & more $20 each

    Suzanne by Tom Humberstone $24.95

    Art Books

    2 Books from Last Gasp about Robert Williams: Lowbrow Art of Robt Williams $25, Ink, Blood and Linseed Oil: The Collective Writing of Artist Robert Williams $28

    Politics & Revolution

    Politics at a Distance from the State : Radical and African Perspectives by Lucien van der Walt & Kirk Helliker $19.95

    Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, edited by Annie Finch $19.95

    Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria $15.95

    Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planetand What We Can Do About It by Nancy Fraser $24.95

    Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters by David L. Crane & friends $29.95

    Music & Film Books

    Doomed to Fail: The Incredibly Loud History of Doom, Sludge, and Post-metal by J. J. Anselmi $24

    There’s A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of ’60s Counter-Culture by Peter Doggett $18

    33 1/3 vol 167 Britney Spears’s Blackout by Natasha Lasky $14.95

    This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas $28.95

    Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan by Jimmy McDonough $34.95

    Essay Books

    Your Place or Mine?: A 21st Century Essay on Same Sex by Gilles Dauvé (PM Press) $17.95

    Food & Drugs

    Healing Adaptogens: The Definitive Guide to Using Super Herbs and Mushrooms for Your Body’s Restoration, Defense, and Performance by Tero Isokauppila & Danielle Ryan Broida $24.99

    How Veganism Can Save Us by Emma Hakansson $14.99

    Fiction

    A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Leonard Cohen $27

    Random by Penn Jillette (Akashic) $27.95

    Night Shift by Eileen Gunn (PM Press) $15

    Early Light by Osamu Dazai $17.95

    Three Streets by Yoko Tawada $17.95

    How High? — That High by Diane Williams $15

    Tell Me I’m An Artist by Chelsea Martin $27

    Magazines

    Monocle #156 $14

    New Noise Magazine #63 $5.99

    Jacobin #46 $14.95

    International Review #168 $3

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    Mizna vol 22 #2 $12

    After Hours #44 Journal of Chicago Writing and Art $10

    Stone Fruit Girls #1 by Emma Rain Kimball Younger $8

    Mouth That Sucks the Bone by Kamal E. Kimball $8

    Outbreak vol 2 #1 $4

    Birds by Lauren Sims and illustrated by Sophie Minello $5

    For the Young at Heart

    Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories by Elise Gravel $14.99

    Other Stuff

    New candles! New Stickers!

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    Zines

    Eight Track Mind #105 by Russ Forster & friends $4

    Horror Macaroni #3 $5

    Luminescence $4

    zines by Caitlin X. Hall: Nervous Passenger #1 & #2 $4 each, Pirate Scientist: The True Story of William Dampier $2

    Pink Palace by David Hankins $7

    Comics

    Houseplant by Tori Holder $5

    Viewotron #2 by Sam Sharpe and Peach S. Goodrich $9.99

    Graphic Novels

    Neurocomic: A Comic About the Brain by Dr. Matteo Farinella and Dr. Hana Ros (Nobrow) $17.99

    Madwoman of the Sacred Heart by Alejandro Jodorowsky & Moebius $39.99

    Black Star by Eric A. Glover & illustrated by Arielle Jovellanos $18.99

    Politics & Revolution Books

    The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All by Shon Faye $24.95

    And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker $16.95

    The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for a Dignified Life Against Capital by Amaia Pérez Orozco $22

    Notes on Resistance by Noam Chomsky, interviewed by David Barsamain (Haymarket Books) $18.95

    Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen $16.99

    A Participatory Economy by Robin Hahnel (AK Press) $22

    Essay Books

    Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin Keane (Belt Publishing) $28

    Outer Limits & Witchy Shit

    The UFO Hotspot Compendium: All the Places to Visit Before You Die or Are Abducted by Craig Campobasso $18.95

    Hoodoo Herbal: Folk Recipes for Conjure & Spellwork with Herbs, Houseplants, Roots, & Oils by Starr Casas $19.99

    Reclaim Your Dark Goddess: The Alchemy of Transformation by Flavia Kate Peters

    Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets by Adam Selzer $19.95

    Burn a Black Candle: An Italian American Grimoire by Dee Norman $24.95

    Druuuuuuugs

    Weed All About It: A guide to growing, rolling, smoking, and eating your green by Danny Mallo $14.99

    The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley $17.95

    Film Books

    It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese, with contributions from Carmen Maria Machado, Addie Tsai & more.

    Fiction

    Full Immersion by Gemma Amor $15.99

    Sexxxy

    Elska #39 Singapore $20

    Magazines

    Aperture #248 $24.99

    Poetry & Chap Books

    Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis $16

    Pomegranates: A Lil Collection of Poems by Sarah Amiri Arassi $8

    Other Stuff

    Cloth Patches from Neoshiki: LaVeyan Eye, Joy Division, The Clash, Siouxsie and more.

    “Better Than an Old Pillowcase” Homemade and Reversible Trick Or Treat Bags by Julie Halpern $10

    Stickers by Sarah Mirk! $2 each

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    Zines

    Anti Drug Propaganda by Desert Island $20

    Xerography Debt #52 $4.95

    Bubbles #14 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8

    Pencil of the Week #17 $1

    Unfuck Your Burnout – How to Survive Your Overwhelming Life by Dr. Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $5.95

    Touring America North By Pacific Northwest $3

    If I Had a Nickel $1

    DIY Musical Instruments by Kristin M. Roach $3

    View From the Ground From the Archive 2001-2007 by the Invisible Institute $5

    Zines from by Merlin: Sick of It Special Edition Disability Inside Outside Project $5, Gerard Tweets #1 $5, Cripple Punk #1 Accessibility In Local Music $4

    Street Rats #1 by Allan A $7

    zines by Danielle Draik, $10 each: Path, In Waking Moments

    Punching Out Solidarity on the Factory Floor by Martin Glaberman $4.95

    Reglar Wiglar #28 by Christopher Auman $8

    How to Get Your Period a Guide to Performing Menstrual Extraction by Anonymous Healthcare Worker $7.95

    Antigravity – multiple issues $10 each

    Urban Guerrilla Zine #26 $10

    Comics & Minis

    Love and Rockets MAGAZINE #12 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez $4.99

    Future #9 The Exhibition by Tommi Musturi $6

    One Eight Hundred Ghosts by G. Davis Cathcart (Fantagraphics Underground) $14.99

    Sssnakes #4 Comix by Chris Auman $3

    Fledgling Comics by Isabel Garcia Gonzales $5

    Sasa #1 by Onli $5

    Graphic Novels

    Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (D+Q) $39.95

    Living and Dying In America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022 by Steve Brodner (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Drawn For the Rhythmic Zone by Turtel Onli $20

    Nowhere Girl by Magali le Huche (Nobrow) $19.99

    Super Power Comedian Inteviewing Another Super Power Comedian $6

    Outer Limits & Mayhem Books

    Ithell Colquhoun – Genius of the Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale (Strange Attractor Press) $24.95

    Illustrated History of Ghosts by Adam Allsuch Boardman (Nobrow) $19.99

    Witch’s Guide to the Paranormal How to Investigate Communicate an Clear Spirits by Allen J. Cross $16.99

    Werewolf Pack Magick: A Shapeshifter’s Book of Shadows by Denny Sargent $16.99

    Future Is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us Heal Us Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim and Yun Shu $34.95

    Eat Weeds: A Field Guide to Foraging – How to Identify Harvest, Eat and Use Wild Plants by Diego Bonetto $34.95

    Music Books

    Belle and Sebastian – Illustrated Lyrics by Stuart Murdoch and illustrated by Pamela Tait $24.95

    Speak In Tongues: An Oral History of Cleveland’s Infamous DIY Punk Venue by Eric Sandy (Microcosm) $16.95

    Stuff From Weird Punk Books, by Sam Richard and friends:
    Cinema Viscera: An Anthology of Movie Theater Horror $13
    Wallow in Ash and Other Sorrows $13
    Sabbath of the Fox Devils $13
    Beautiful Grotesque Edited $13

    Travel Books

    Hello Cleveland: Things You Should Know About the Most Unique City in the World by Mick Perry and illustrated by Jason Look (Microcosm) $12.95

    Magazines

    Apartamento #29 $35

    Jungle Journal #4 $15

    Juxtapoz #223 $9.99

    Wire #462 $12.75

    Mojo #346 $12.50

    Little White Lies #94 $16.99

    Shindig #129 $14.75

    Skeptical Inquirer vol 46 #5 $5.99

    Lit Journals & Poetry

    McSweeneys #68 $26

    N+1 #43 $14.95

    Manic Depressive Pixie Dream Girl Poems by Katya Zinn $18

    Books from House of Vlad Productions, $13.95 each:
    I Hate You Please Read Me a Book by Joshua Dalton
    Noah Cicero’s Wild Kingdom: An Autobiographical Poetry Adventure
    Hot Young Strs Poems by Sophie Jennis
    Body High by John Lindsey
    Horror Vacui Poems and Other Writings by Shy Watson
    All Must Go Stories by Kevin Sterne

    Other Stuff

    David Bowie Stardust With Mask Stickers by Dearly Beloved $6

    Weiser Tarot $22.95

    Complete Tarot and Oracle Journal $29.95