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    Zines

    new zines by Joli Ruin: The Escapist Artist #63 March 2021 $1.50, Slutcake #10 March 2021 $2

    Urban Guerrilla Zine #24 $10

    The Papercuts Library #4 Vindication of the United States Postal Service $5.99

    True Ruin #2 Stories from Rock Bottom and Beyond by Michael J. O’Connor $3

    Pencil Revolution #15 by Johnny Gamber PhD $5

    AMOK $1

    Comics & Minis

    Overshadowed By a Castle by Gabe Howell (Bred Press) $15

    Laskimooses #48-#54 $7 each

    Rimeski Comics #15 $3

    Helplessness Blues: An Illustrated Fanzine by EJ Oakley and Yolande Leong $8

    Art Books

    Polaris: The Art of Meyoco by Meyoco (PIE Books) $29.95

    2 “Grown Up Picture Books” by Dickey Nickles: Mr. Williams, and the sequel Lost As Hell $24.99 each

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Revised & Updated) by Elizabeth Kolbert $18

    Magazines

    Coffee People Zine #11 & #12 $15 each

    Hip Lit

    Terminalia by Daniel Menaker $16

    Thunderstorms Were Meant To Be My Friend by 3’yem genesis $12

    JHCP Literary Journal #1-#2 $7 each

    Pest Control Magazine #2 $15

    Overtime Hour 58 Random Uncertainty by Ryan Lowell (Blue Cubicle Press) $2

    Silverfish by Hobie Anthony (Whiskey Tit) $14

    Sexxxy

    Loverlover #1 $3

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    Crap Hound 2021 Suns, Moons and Stars $20

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    Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge (D+Q) $21.95

    Zines

    New titles by Heather Anacker: Embodied Meditation $6, Answer $3.33

    Possessed #10 The Fanzine For Slackers and Haters $2.50

    WAU #1 Weirdos Among Us $5

    Midnight Magazine issues #5-#7 $10 each

    Midnight Tales #3 $7

    Structural Examples by Jason Valenzuela $7

    Stuff from Ope! Publishing: In This Ridgetop Common Wind by Ben Prostine $10, Eight Monsters and the Lilacs Oracle by Curt Meine $8 & more.

    Comics & Minis

    Lil’ Zine of Irrational Fears by Tony Recktenwald $3

    Matchmaker’s Market by Sadan (Paradise Systems) $15

    Galacto Pit Fighter #1 by Kirt Burdick $6

    Part Whole: A Poem by Gian Svenguli $10

    Graphic Novels

    Plague Review Digest 2020 edited by Ryan Standfest with various contributors (Rotland Press) $39.95

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    The Way of the Witch: A Path to Spirituality and Self-Empowerment by Sally Morningstar $19.95

    Quaint Epitaphs by Susan Darling Safford $10

    On the Trail of Bigfoot: Tracking the Enigmatic Giants of the Forest by Mike Dupler $17.95

    Ancient Alien Question, 10th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors by Philip Coppens $21.95

    Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (60th Anniversary Edition): The True Story of the World’s First Documented Alien Abduction by Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden $18.95

    Teen Magick: Witchcraft for a New Generation by Fiona Horne $16.95

    Goddess Book: A Celebration of Witches, Queens, Healers, and Crones by Nancy Blair and Thalia Took $19.95

    Politics & Revolution

    Local Politics Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Making a Difference by Richard Meagher $16

    150 Years of Gynarchy: With Essays by Natalia Stroika and Pearl O’Leslie, edited by Viola Voltairine (Artvamp) $14.99

    Fiction

    Bruised by Tanya Boteju $19.99

    Druuuuuugs

    Merry Jane’s The CBD Solution: Living: CBD and Cannabis for Sleep, Skin, Sex, and Other Daily Rituals by Merry Jane $19.95

    Magazines

    Tape Op #142 april may $5.99

    Victory Journal #18 $24

    Skeptic vol 26 #1 $6.95

    VegNews #126 $9.99

    Aperture #242 spring $24.95

    Harpers Magazine april $7.99

    Little White Lies #88 $12.99

    Outpatient Fire Season 2020 $7.50

    RFD #185 spring $11.95

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    The Quarantine Times 2020 (Public Media Institute/Co-Pro/Lumpen & friends) $45

     

    Zines

    Boffo Quarterly #1 edited by Mosher $7

    Stuff from Purpled Palm Press: Pen Dive #3-#5 by Lou Barrett, The Breakup Book: Essays On Queer Breakups $16, Recording Corona: A Recording of Quarantine Experiences in the Midwest edited by Cordelia Eddy and Elaine Schleiffer $12

    Sound and Vision by Marlon Dionisio $14

    Comics & Minis

    Bad Believer by Alex Strader $6.95

    Comics from Josh Miller: Banana Split and Other Flavorful Tales $10, We’re All Pink On the Inside $10 and more.

    Fabulous T-Babes #1 by Mike Ervin & friends $10

    Comics by Rosa Brodsky, $15 each: Trans Guidance from the Future, Compendium of Horror #1 Sum 2019

    Graphic Novels

    Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Mannie Murphy (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    YOU DIED: An Anthology of the Afterlife by Kel McDonald and Andrea Purcell (Iron Circus) $20

    Scumbag For Hire vol 1 by Keenan Marshall Keller $15

    Politics & Revolution

    Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose (Arsenal Pulp) $19.95

    There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists by Cindy Milstein (AK Press) $19

    Where the Future Came From by Meg Duguid (Soberscove Press) $25

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    Urban Faery Magick: Connecting to the Fae in the Modern World by Tara Sanchez $19.99

    Bicycling for Ladies: The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress by Maria E. Ward (Apollo Publishers) $16.99

    Witch’s Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine by Sandra Lawrence (Welbeck) $19.95

    Fiction

    ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines by Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo (CityLights) $17.95

    Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird by Henry Bartholomew (British Library) $15.95

    Loves Ragged Claw by Gary Gautier $7.92

    Magazines

    The Believer #135 april-may $12

    Distort Delay #3 2020 The Quarantine Issue $6

    The Baffler #56 march-april $14

    The Monthly Review vol 72 #10 $6

    In These Times march $4.95

    Wire #445 march $12.50

    Yes Magazine #97 spring $6.50

    Monocle #141 march $14

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    Zines

    Possessed #8 and #9 The Fanzine For Slackers and Haters $2.50 each

    KerBloom #148 Jan Feb 2021 Home School, Home Stretch by Artnoose $2

    Proof I Exist #34 Jan 2021 by Billy $1

    Documentarian Fall 2020 by Mana Taylor $10

    Mark Boldizsar vol 1 $2

    ABQ Graffiti $1

    Zines by by Nina Katz, $5 each: Found Grocery Lists, Mangiafagoli #1, Plants We Lost In the Divorce #1

    Graphic Novels

    Crumb’s World by R. Crumb with textby Robert Storr (David Zwirner Books) $45

    Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki (D+Q) $24.94

    To Drink and to Eat Vol. 2: More Meals and Mischief from a French Kitchen by Guillaume Long $24.99

    All Time Comics vol 2 Zerosis Deathscape (Floating World) $29.99

    Art Books

    Windy City Leisure: Chicago Social Athletic Clubs of the Early 20th Century by Brandon Johnson (Almighty & Insane) $20

    Politics & Revolution

    Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman $17

    Essay

    We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff $27

    Fiction

    Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino $14.95

    Go Ask Alice 50th Anniversary Edition by Anonymous $11.99

    Chap Books

    Titles from Ursus Americanus Press, $10 each: Reality In Bloom by Annette Covrigarn, Little History of the Panorama by Matthew Cooperman

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    Mushroom Playing Cards $5.95

    Zines

    Popular Pandemics Fall 2023 & Spr 2024 $10 each

    Touring America: Up the Punx $2

    This Is My Dad Oct 20 by Mary Miller & Jan 2021 $5 each

    Tranquil Tank by Gwen Murray $2.50

    Standardized $10

    zines by by JF Gamber:
    Pencil Revolution #14 Big Penicillin Pencil Obituaries Issue $5
    Depression Ain’t the Sads: A Zine About Mental Health $3

    Errorsmith #3 $3

    From Jam Doughty: Snow Breakers $1, Sludgin’ Through the Dream Swamp: Some 2020 Dreams $7

    Gray Flag #2 by Chris Auman $4.50

    Smile by Justin Matthew (Dirty Art Press) $12

    Double Nickels On Evergreen Terrace $5

    Dü It For Her $5

    Comics & Minis

    Spiny Orb Weaver #1 by Miss Jaws, Tana Oshima, Neil Brideau (Radiator) $10

    How Did We Get Here by Sterling Bartlett $7.50

    Crusher Loves Bleeder / Bleeder Loves Crusher Bleeder, Words by Thomas Stemrich and art by Patrick Keck $6

    Rimeski Comics #14 $3

    Sssnakes!!! #3 $3

    Graphic Novels

    Brainfazer by Kevin Barry $15

    Mishima: Manifesto de Lâminas by various (Chili Com Carne) $20

    DJ Nobita: Early Works 2002 split with Apesar de Nao, Estar Estou Muito (Chili Com Carne) $20

    Sbrng Gabba Gang Gabber Reconstruction of the Universe by Riccardo Balli $20

    Nodoa Negra $15

    Thud by Mikael Ross (Fantagraphics) $16.99

    Music

    Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair $18 – Now in soft cover.

    Fiction

    Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories by Kevin Brockmeier $27

    Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester $26.95

    Essay

    Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer $16.99

    Mayhem

    Bobby BlueJacket: The Tribe, The Joint, The Tulsa by Michael P. Daley (First to Knock) $20

    Chap Books

    Overwhelming Tales of the Bizarre and Mundane by Eric T. Roth $5

    Magazines

    Skeptical Inquirer vol 45 #2 march/april $5.99

    Wire #444 february $12.50

    Mother Jones april $8.99

    Bitch #90 $12.95

    Bust #124 spring $7.99

    Juxtapoz #217 $9.99

    Horror Hound #87 $6.99

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    Zine Club Chicago Patch $12

    Zines

    East Village Inky #63 by Ayun Halliday $3

    Movie Watchlist: 20 from 2020 by Johnny Misfit $3

    Types: Considering Queer Elderhoods: A Pressing Concerns Book Mark by Sara Lautman $7

    Punks Around #14 Mental Health $5

    zines from Tom Orr: Reign of Slime, Sinking and I Don’t Know Where Towards, Dopamine Milkshake: Some Works

    Hallogallo #1 by Kai Slater $3

    Overload #1 by Dylan MacDonald $10

    Diary of My Glow Up: A Workbook For Breaking Through Creative Blocks and Glowing Up by Annie Hex $10

    Beyond the Concrete Milkshake: Tactics for Defeating Media Trolls and Grifters by Kit O’Connell $8

    Comics

    Dean Street Parts #6 & #7 by Al Burian and Oska Wald $4 each

    Pisser! by John Sammis $5

    Grixly #51 & #52 by Nate McDonough $3 each

    San Francisco Bay Area Mr. Tech Bro Pageant by Katt Kelly $5

    Knowledge Wisdom and Art by Dedrick $4

    Comics by Karla Paloma: Bambi and Nick, Dildo Fish by Karla Paloma, Burned Meat, Texas Bar

    Outer Limits

    Fractals: On the Edge of Chaos by Oliver Linton $14

    Fiction

    Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters (One World) $27

    Magazines & Lit Journals

    Fantastic Man #32 Fall 2020 Winter 2021 $20

    Harpers Magazine march $7.99

    International Review #165 International Communist Current Winter 2021 $3

    Granta #154 Winter 2021 $19.99

    Iowa Review vol 50 #2 Fall 2020 $8.95

    Shock Cinema #59 $5

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    Zines

    Mini Movie Marathon: 21st Century Huppert by Anna Jo Beck $2

    Cul-de-sac #9 The Food Issue by Liz Mason and Julie Halpern $5

    In Anger and In Grief: Industrial Logging On the Shores of the Salish Sea by Katey Rissi $12

    Stuff by Julia Eff: Suffer AKA Some Shit Abt Stone Sour $2, So You Think Your Cat Has Asthma $3, Zerstoren $3, It’s Time I Had Some Time Alone $2, Nebel $4

    You Inherit the Sins, You Inherit the Flames, You Inherit Your Mother’s 2001 Volkswagen Jetta by Andrea K $2

    Graphic Novels

    Hypnotwist / Scarlet By Starlight by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    Fiction

    Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons by Peter Bebergal (Strange Attractor Press) $19.95

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard $29.95

    Stuff From Amphetamine Sulphate:
    Paresis by Isabelle Nicou $20
    Genesis 0 by Isabelle Nicou $20
    Spring Rain Summer Heat by Josh Peterson $20
    Desperate by Alexandrine Ogundimu $10

     

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    Zines

    Flotation Device #17 by Keith Helt $2

    Parked Cars by Mark Schlosser $13

    Sober Rabbit Coloring Book For Anxious Adults by Whitney Wasson $25

    Yogurt Culture Zine #15 & #16 $10 each

    Space Cats $5

    Infuriating Times #2 Another Big Zine $8

    Before My Eyes: An Instant Film Zine #1 $10

    Realpolitik #1 $5

    Underexposed #4 Kathryn Bigelow by Maddie Weiner $7

    Ready For Take Off With Tiger Moth by Grant Musser $2

    When Your Mom Is First to Go – A Literary Odyssey by Andria Alefhi $6

    Comics

    I Should Be Happy by Tori Holder $5

    Underwater Opera by Chuk Baldok $5

    Momma by Joy Alicia Raines $10

    Moral Fiber #13-$15 by Chris Pernula $2 each

    Comics by Sean Mac

    Brick By Brick by David Craig $15

    Quarantine Diary: The First Three Weeks by Grant Musser $2

    Graphic Novels

    Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus by S. Craig Zahler (Floating World) $15.95

    New D+Q soft cover editions of John Porcellino King-Cat Comics collections: King-Cat Classix, Map of My Heart, Perfect Example

    That Full Moon Feeling by Ashley Robin Franklin (Silver Sprocket) $14.99

    The Grande Odalisque by Jerome Mulot, Florent Ruppert, Bastien Vives (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    NoBody Likes You, Greta Grump by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) $16.99

    Politics & Revolution

    The Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer by Alley Valkyrie and Rhyd Wildermuth (Gods and Radicals) $8

    Health & DIY Books

    When Language Runs Dry by Claire Barrera and Meredith Butner (Mend My Dress Press) $12.99

    Music Books

    Arcana IX: Musicians on Music by John Zorn (Hips Road/Tzadik) $34.99

    Time of Your Life Hardcore, Punk, Indie, Rock and a Life of Well Begun in Milwaukee by Jeff Winkowski $24.99

    Emancipate Yourself: Bob Marley’s Highest Message by John Marcoux & Aaron Block $23.95

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Hidden In Plain Sight: Beyond the X-Files by Richard Sauder PhD $18.95

    Secret Mars: The Alien Connection by M.J. Craig $19.95

    American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky $27

    Fiction

    100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell $15

    Magazines/Lit Journals

    Broken Pencil #90 $7.95

    Cinema Scope #85 $5.95

    Monocle #140 february $14

    Adbusters #153 $14.95

    Jacobin #40 $12.95

    Granta #153 $19.99

    In These Times february $4.95

    The Monthly Review vol 72 #9 $6

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    Zines

    Our Bogeys, Our Shelves, The Magician’s Library as Mentor, Companion and Oracle by Clint Marsh and Jeff Hoke $6

    zines by Evan Fusco: Intermission $14, Catachresis Reader $20, Poetics of the Underneath $16, Army of the Sick $16

    MNRL CVLT Field Report #1 by NXOEED (Fluke Publishing) $4

    2 Brett Bloom goodies:
    Break Down Breakdown Workbook #1 2nd Edition Sonic Meditations Immersive Ecological Entanglement $4
    Two Ponds: Stories From Petroleum Space Time Continuum $6

    Fritkot #2 by Antek $2

    zines about mental health by by J.F. Gamber:
    ADHD Ain’t a Joke $3.50
    OCD Ain’t a Word $2.50
    Pencil Revolution #13 Big Penicillin the Wide Pencil Issue $5

    Comics

    Boutique Mag #4 by Marc Bell (Neoglyphic Media) $5

    Pitiful Life of James Robinson #1 & #2 by Chris Mattei $8 both

    Music Books

    We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America by Kevin Mattson $27.95

    Wendy Carlos: A Biography by Amanda Sewell $34.95

    Year with Swollen Appendices, Brian Eno’s Diary by Brian Eno $26.95

    Essay (Kind of)

    Public Collectors Police Scanner by Marc Fischer (Half Letter Press) $20

    Politics & Revolution Books

    We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival by Natalie West and Tina Horn (Feminist Press) $24.95

    Stuff From GenderFail Press:
    Queer Accomplices: This Is Not Another Photo of the Gay Male Body by Be Oakley 2021 $12
    Stonewall Was A Riot Oct 2020 $16
    GenderFail Reader #3 $16

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Neutron Gun Reloaded: A Gerry Reith Reader $14

    There Is Only One Road and It Goes Everywhere: Journeys to the Land of Hearts Desires by Kathleen Phelan (Feral House) $17.95

    Poetry Books

    Oyster Mountain Poems by Jalal El Kadali (Nine Banded Books) $10

    Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston (Haymarket) $16

    Magazines

    The Believer #134 February / March $12

    Cinema Retro vol 17 #49 $11.99

    The Monthly Review vol 72 #8 January $6

    Harpers Magazine February $7.99

    Welcome to Chili’s vol 1 #1 Journal of Art, Design, Short Narratives and Questions $15

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    Zine

    Sick Of It vol 1 #1 A Disability Inside/Outside Project by Matilda Sabal $3

    Moon Zine by Heather Anacker $6.66

    Sequoia by Tristan Martinez $20

    Comics & Minis

    Things by Madeleine Aguilar $10: Lute Boy in Time, Cute Boy How About the Weather, Portraits of Archer, etc.

    Faceless Nameless by Ben Cherry $5

    Rimeski Comics #13 January 2021 edited by Lucius Wisniewski $3

    Book of Rhymes by Blu Voelker $3

    Rebel Rabble 1 by Flo Pizzarello $3

    Graphic Novels

    Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media – Updated Edition by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld $16.95

    Art Books

    Field Guide to Animal Adaptations by Oscar Hey Fearnside & friends $19.99

    Fiction

    Agency by William Gibson $17

    Outer Limits

    Ancient Egyptian Magic for Modern Witches: Rituals, Meditations, and Magical Tools by Ellen Cannon Reed $18.95

    Chap Books

    Small Talk by KJ Kuhns $4

    Multiple “Drunks” chap book mini-comics by David Hankins $.75

    Magazines

    Gentlewoman #22 Fall / Winter 2021 $17.99

    Tape Op #141 February March 2021 $5.99

    Uppercase #48 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $18

    Wire #443 January 2021 $12.50

    Shots #150 Winter 2021 $10