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Quimby’s turns 30 this year and we have all sorts of anniversary merch! Quimby’s 30th Anniversary T-shirt by Caroline Cash! $18.99 + Four Inch Quimby’s Logo Sticker, logo designed by Chris Ware $3

 

Other Notables!

Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Mel Stringer goodies!!! Stickers, lip balm (!), pins and more!

Zines

Slide the Bomb by Keith Herzik $10

Cave Man Noise #4 $5

Drifting Cry Room #55 $3

Do You Like Scary Movies #3 by Ronnie $5

Pretty Girl by Carta Monir $3

Werewolves of Wall Street by Watt $8

Leave Us Alone No Pigs in Our Clubs $3

Comics

Spiny Orb Weaver #3 by Neil Brideau, Buttercup, Remus Jackson and Jamila Rowser (Radiator) $10

Montana Diary by Whit Taylor (Silver Sprocket) $5

Comics by Kassandra Davis: Manic Queen of Depression #1 ($5) & Do You Remember the First Time ($10)

That Ol English #1 by CM Campbell $7

Cosmic Burnout #3 by Sheridactyl $15

Dailies #3 by Athena Naylor $10

Graphic Novels

The Butchery by Bastien Vivès (Fantagraphics) $19.99

D+Q reprints of Wendy and Wendys Revenge $22.95 each

Art Books

Letters to Chicago, 2nd edition by Sir Charles (Almighty and Insane) $20

Politics & Revolution

Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy by Eleanor C. Whitney (Microcosm) $14.95

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s by John Potash (Microcosm) $18.95

Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism by Silvia Federici (PM Press) $15

When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance by Rebecca Subar & illustrated by Rosi Greenberg (PM Press) $20

Signal 07: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture by Alec Dunn and Josh MacPhee (PM Press) $14.95

A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete by Geo Maher (Verso) $26.95

Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $27.95

I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse … by A. M. Gittlitz (Pluto Press) $23.95

The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank $18

DIY Books

Monthly Magickal Record: A 31-Day Spell Journal for Modern Witches by Kelly Cree & Jessica Mullen (School of Life Design/Microcosm) $14.95

Mayhem Books

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HELL II: The Conquest of Heaven A Demonic History of the Future Concerning the Celestial Realm and the Angelic Race Which Infests It by Martin Olson, Tony Millionaire and Mahendra Singh (Feral House) $24.95

Music Books

Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Jim Ruland $17.99

Food & Drugs Books

Unique Eats and Eateries of Chicago by Matt Kirouac (Reedy Press) $20.95

Extreme Cuisine the Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat by Jerry Hopkins (Tuttle) $8.99

The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley $26.95

Magazines

Shindig #117 july $13.99

Jacobin #42 summer $12.95

Harpers september $7.99

Shots #152 summer $10

Poetry

Standing on the Verge of Getting It On and Maggot Brain by Adrian Matejka and Nicholas Galanin (Third Man Books) $16.95

American Luc Bat For My Mother by Joshua Nguyen $4.99

Republic of Gum by Jacob Stovall $10

Notebooks

Field Notes – Letterpress-style notebooks $12.95, Assorted role playing game notebooks $16.95 each

 

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Sticker & patches from Arcane Bullshit, Saenz & more!

Zines

Behind the Zines #12 August 2021 A Zine About Zines edited by Billy McCall $3

Walt Loved Zines #4 by Lynne Monsoon $4

East Village Inky #64 by Ayun Halliday $3

Three By Five Series Abstract #1 vol 1 by Jonah Bitautas $7

zines by by Jamie Kadas, $10 each: Fat Chick’s Guide to Embracing Your Beauty & Fat Chick’s Attempt at Managing Anxiety

Junk Drawer #12 Mask Zine by Eric Bartholomew $2

Electric Word Life Writing on Prince 2016-2021 by Jack Riedy $20

Comics & Minis

Bubbles #11 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga by Brian Baynes & friends $8

Its Okay To Be Sad by Kevin Budnik, various issues $4

Big Arm NRG Go #1 Round 1 by Chuck Kaslow $8

Tin Crown: Free Couch by Bobby Sims $10

Good Lord My Daughter’s a Radical! by Flynn Kinney $3

2 comics by Madeleine Aguilar: Here I Am Where Are You $8, Interior Exterior $5

Cankor Anamnesis #1 by Matthew Allison $5

Quarantine Funnies: Jokes For Shut Ins and Kids by Damon Charles Bishop $4.50

Graphic Novels

Sensor by Junji Ito $19.99

DIY

It’s Your Funeral!: Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime Before It’s Too Late by Kathy Benjamin $16.99

Fiction

Unreliable Narrator Meets The Public Domain by Jesse Mack $5

Magazines

In These Times august $4.95

Raw Vision summer $16

ID Magazine june $13.99

RFD #186 summer $11.95

The Progressive aug-sept $5.95

Mother Jones october $8.99

For the Kiddies

Bug Club by Elise Gravel (D+Q) $17.95

Chap Books

Shitty Breakup Poetry by Al Nelson $5

 

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Zine

Alaska by P. Timer $15

Stuff from Fluke Publishing: Off Into Nowhere: The Limo Zine Anthology by Matt Limo & friends $2 + Embrace the Hate $2

No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws, Support Hose Years Three & Four $10

International Whores Day Zine by Kinky Out $10

zines by Jilly Foo: Big Spike and Mighty Moe vs the Golden Wasteland $6, Tiny Zines $5

Seasons 1 & 2: Twin Peaks and Seinfeld mashups by Kristen Morrison (iS Press) $10 each

Welcome to Chili’s #2 $15

Clearline #2 $20 & #3 $25

Comics & Minis

F #1 Comic by Kevin Huizenga $8

Comics by Orr: Burrow $7, Lunch Rush $6

Solar Grid #4 by Ganzeer (Radix Meda) $12

OBL-V-OUS #2 & #3 Bad Art for Bad People by Mae Luxe $10 each

Graphic Novels

Farewell Brindavoine by Tardi (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Music Books

Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 by Alan Licht (Blank Forms Editions) $25

Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them by Tom Gatti $22

Hallucinations from Hell: Confessions of an Angry Samoan by Dr. Gregg H. Turner, Gary Panter, Dave Lebow and Mindy Turner (Rare Bird books) $24

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir by Kathy Valentine (U of Chicago Press) $18.95

You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike $31

Film Books

Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre As Political Satire by Martin Harris (Headpress) $22.95

Politics & Revolution

Making Revolution: My Life In the Black Panther Party by Field Marshall Don Cox (Heyday) $16

DIY(ish)

Zener Cards by Pierluca Zizzi (Llewellyn) $19.95

Oh Hell No: And Other Ways To Set Some Damn Boundaries by Dani Katz & Sara Ahmed $14.95

Chilling Cocktails: Classic Cocktails With a Horrifying Twist by Jason Ward $12.99

Fiction

Trip City by Trevor Miller (Velocity Press) $20

ELPASO: A Punk Story by Benjamin Villegas (Deep Vellum Publishing) $15.95

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime) $27.95

Skateboarding

The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life by Kyle Beachy $27

Magazines

Adbusters #156 sept/oct $14.95

New Noise Magazine #58 $4.99

The Monthly Review july/aug $14

Mojo #333 aug $11.99

Kinfolk #40 $18

Cinema Scope #87 summer $5.95

Ugly Things #57 $9.95

Lit Journals & Chap Books

Bridge vol 21 #1 $35

Searching For Love, Finding a City Poems by EA Gregor $20

Chinatown Romeo – Poems by Michael Chang $10

Saudade A Love $5

Sex Guides & Culture

Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide by Maria Conejo and Zoe Mendelson $28

Other Stuff

Fancy Fauna themed Notecards $15.95, Notebook Set $14.95, Graphite Pencils $14.95

Last Call, Cats Playing Cards by Arna Miller Ravi Zupa $14.95

Murder of Crows Journal by Corrado Roi (Llewellyn) $13.95

Llewellyn’s Witches’ Spell-A-Day Almanac 2022 $13.99 + Llewellyn’s Witches Datebook 2022 $13.99

Stickers by Sarah Mirk!

 

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Stickers, pins patches! From Siobhan Gallagher, John F. Malta, Band of Weirdos, Secret Headquarters, Silver Sprocket, GodBlessGenerica and more!

Zines

Punkgirldiaries Blogzine #7 $17

Visitor In Myself #8 by Nichole $2

Hong Kong 2019-2021 by Ho Tam $8

From Elvis In Porthcawl by Abby Kearney and Daniel McMillen $7.50

New Frontiers by John F. Malta $10

Comics

Comics by Siobhan Gallagher $10-$15: Contain Yourself #3, Gag Reflects, Gross Girls Club

Plus postcards too!

Backed Up Salvage Job (2nd edition) by Ryan Ehresman $3

Graphic Novels

Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980-2020 by Jaime Hernandez and Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, illustrated by John Jennings $16.99 Now in soft cover.

Politics & Revolution

2 books by Paulo Freire! Pedagogy of the Heart, Pedagogy of Hope $24.95 each

Fiction

New Teeth: Stories by Simon Rich $27

Detective Detective by David McCoubrey $20

I Hold a Wolf By The Ears: Stories by Laura Van Den Berg $17

Music Books

Heavy Duty: Days and Nights In Judas Priest by K.K. Downing $17.99

Humor? Or something?

Subpar Parks: America’s Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share $22

Food Books

Collected Coffee Bags by Andrew Barton $16

Outer Limits

Hekate: Goddess of Witches by Courtney Weber $16.95

Magazines

Upping The Anti #22 Journal of Theory and Action $13

Wire #449 july $12.50

Shindig #116 june $13.99

Port #28 spring summer $27.99

Fantastic Man #33 spring summer $20

Lit Journals & Poetry

Chicago Review vol 64 #1-3 $20

How Do I Get to the Cloud by Irene Doukas Behrman $12

Kids Stuff

The Penguin Cafe at the Edge of the World by Nurit Zarchi, illustrated by Anat Warshavsky (Fantagraphics) $14.99

Wake Up, Sleepyhead! by Levin Kipnis, illustrated by Noam Weiner (Fantagraphics) $14.99

 

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Punk Rock jigsaw puzzles from Anarcho Puzzles, $30 each:
Subhumans: The Day the Country Died
Crass Gig Poster, Nottingham 1984

Bandanas from PM Press, $20 each: Abolish the Police + No More Deaths

Zines

New Half Letter Press stuff by Marc Fischer:
Library Excavations #13 Indoor Dining $6
Our COVID-19 High School Remote Learning After School Art Sketchbook $5

Love N Miss You Too #2 by Emma Roffey $20

The Toll by Christopher Bevard $6

Onion Train by Kimberly Swamp $5

Lessons Learned the Hard Way by Heather Anacker $4

New Zines from Rena Newman:
142 Jewish Writing Prompts $5
Butchfag: Reflections on Queer Shame $7
On the Grind Transmasc Guide to Grindr $8

Hallogallo #2 by Kai Slater $3

National Knitting Night by Michelle Yacht $1

Henry Gerber by Jeremy Sorese $5

Broken Pencil #92 UFO Zines $7.95

Comics & Minis

Bianca Xunise comics!
Keep Out Diary Comics #1 & #2 $17.50 each

Multiple new zines from Mel Stringer: Flowery issues #25-#29 $7.50 each

Crusher Loves Bleeder / Bleeder Loves Crusher #2 $10

Selfie Shtick by Frederick $15

Moral Fiber #16 & #17 by Chris Pernula $2 each

Multiple comics by Jep:
Square Head $8
Jep Comix #10 Climate Grief $8

Blark, I Don’t Want to Seem Annoying on the Internet #1 by Mark Conway $5

Solar Grid #3 by Ganzeer (Radix Media) $12

One Self Not Self #1 $5

OBL V OUS #1 by Mae Luxe $10

Graphic Novels

Celestia by Manuele Fior (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Pond Life by H. Goodspeed (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $30

Everyone Is Tulip by Nicole Goux, Illustrated by Dave Baker and Ellie Hall $19.99

Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History by Koni Benson, illustrated by André Trantraal, Nathan Trantraal and more (PM Press) $20

Political Books

The Abolition of Prison by Jacques Lesage de La Haye (AK Press) $14

Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet by Selma James (PM Press) $17

Essays

One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin $19.95

Outer Limits

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey $18

Fiction

Mercury Retrograde: A Novel by Emily Segal (Deluge Books) $18

Sic: The Empty Chair Chronicles by Walter Falk $13

Film

Once Upon a Time In Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino $9.99

Poetry & Lit Journals

Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Named Their Dogs Zeus by Lannie Stabile $12.99

Black Venus Fly Trap: Poems by Jeanetta Rich $1

The First Line vol 23 #2 summer $6

Music

Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story by Stephen Davis $30

Magazines

The Baffler #58 july august $14

Horror Hound #89 $6.99

Monocle #145 july $17

Uppercase #50 $18

Kids Stuff

Big Day on Site by Adam Sienkiewicz $10

 

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Zines

How to Draw a Snake Eating its Own Ponytail Zine and Tattoo $7

Ars Goetiamon Gotta Summon Them All Terri by Jo Frew $5

ZINEFOREST CAFE by Megan Kirby and Jon Mastantuono $10

Popular Pandemics Spring 2026 $10

Stone Fruit issues #3 & #4 Zine About Queerness and Religion $12

I Believe You by Karina Killjoy $10

Open Waters by Laura Citino $10

20×12 Chicago Zine #2 $5

Atlantic Altar Zine Kit (Curandera Press) $8

Excerpts from the Prayer Box No More Lazy Lover Altar (Curandera Press) $6

Comics & Minis

Boffo Quarterly #2 by Mosher $7

Long Gone #4 by Samuel Benson $5

Bad God #1 by Hink $15

BuriDemon by Kasey Iris $48

Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear #1 by Alex Nall $5

Graphic Novel

Factory Summers by Guy Delisle (D+Q) $22.95

Dear Rachel Whitlock by Rae Whitlock $12

Let’s Not Talk Anymore by Weng Pixin (D+Q) $24.95

The Pleasure of the Text by Sami Alwani (Conundrum) $20

Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike by the Stanford Graphic Novel Project (Haymarket) $17.95

Art Books

Another History of Art by Anita Kunz (Fantagraphics) $24.95

Stick and Skate, with 140 Skateboard Stickers by Stickerbomb $24.95

Politics

Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat (PM Press) $17

The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change by Noam Chomsky, Interviews with and C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket) $16.95

Red Nation: Rising From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation by Nick Estes (PM Press) $17.95

When We Are Human by John Zerzan (Feral House) $14.95

Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction by Jeremy Brecher (PM Press) $26.95

Representing Radicals: A Guide for Lawyers and Movements by Tilted Scales Collective (AK Press) $12

Music Books

Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge $28

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History, edited by Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser, Anna Joy Springer and Liam Warfield (PM Press) $18

The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook by Cynthia Kaufman (PM Press) $16.95

Fiction

Works of Guillaume Dustan vol 1 Novels In My Room, I’m Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me, edited by Thomas Clerc (Semiotext[e]) $17.95

Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh $16

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey by Zack Carlson, Annie Choi and Joseph A. Ziemba (Fantagraphics) $34.95

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell $27.99

Occult Botany by Paul Sedir $50

Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work by Brian Cotnoir (Weiser) $16.95

Manifestation Magic: 21 Rituals, Spells, and Amulets for Abundance, Prosperity, and Wealth by Elhoim Leafar (Weiser) $18.95

Essays

Best Letters From Asian Americans in the Arts by K Ho and Daisy Nam (N+1) $23

Sweet Dreams by Pamela Sneed $15

Of Color: Essays by Jaswinder Bolina (McSweeneys) $18

Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation by Kimberly Dark (AK) $18

Women on Waves: A Cultural History of Surfing: From Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champions by Jim Kempton $29.95

Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos $28.95

Weirdest Maths: At the Frontiers of Reason by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee $17.95

Food

Let’s Make Dumplings!: A Comic Book Cookbook by Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan $19.99

Humor

Space Nomads: Set a Course for Mars : Chasing the Arts, Sciences, and Technology for Human Transformation by Camomile Hixon $24.99

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

McSweeneys #63 $26

Zombie Apocalypse Now the Walking Dead #264 Belladonna $5

Brief History of Burning by Cait Okane $16

Strong Off the Shelf #1 by Lemmy Yaakova $20

Halcyonic by Margaux Wilhite $13

Halcyon by Madeline Blair $11.49

Sexxxy

Wear Leather Worship Satan by Carlos Deth $15

Elska #33 Sao Paulo Brazil $20

 

 

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Quimby’s Postcard by Jessi Zabarsky $2

Zines

Burf Quimby’s Pub Quiz Zines #1-#7 $6 each

We’ll Never Have Paris #18 2021 Blue $7

Touring America Fall in New England $2

Katabasis $3

Partial Nudity $8

Rat Boys by Allie Mahai $10

Survive with Dag Banners $2

Baby Teef #1 by Venus Tapang $3

Choose Your Own Consensual Adventure: A Step by Step Guide to Making Sure All the Sex You Initiate Is Consensual and Safer by Nicole Mazzeo $7.50

Comics & Minis

Lavender Scare by Arantza Pena Popo $15

Comics/zines from Drew Morrison: Brokenland #1-#3 $3.99 each, Mostly Heads the Sketchbook vol 1 $5.99

Marceline’s Alley Stories by Cecilia Schmitt $12

Blood Truckers by Lauren Ramsey $7

Smoking Gun by Teddie Bernard $8

Graphic Novels

Now vol 10 (Fantagraphics) $12.99

City of Belgium by Brecht Evens $29.95

Politics & Revolution

Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice by Michael Beyea Reagan $18

Culture Strike: Art and Museums In an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich $26.95

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser $21

Pop Culture

It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! by Tom Scharpling $27

Fiction

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel by Rivka Galchen $27

Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani $17

Outer Limits

Serial Killer Trivia: Cold Cases: Fascinating Facts and Chilling Details from the Creepiest Unsolved Murders Ever by Michelle Kaminsky $15.95

Druuuuuugs

Encyclo-Weedia: 420 Smokes: The Ultimate Stoner Lifestyle Guide by Jack Kapos $19.99

Magazines

Adbusters #155 july/aug $14.95

Incoming and Outgoing #2 $7