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Draw Stronger: Self-Care For Cartoonists and Other Visual Artists by Kriota Willberg (Uncivilized Books) $16.95 – Understand repetitive drawing injuries from the perspective of a committed drawer: explore R.I.C.E. Therapy, avoid worsening your injuries, preventive tips, and more!

Zines

Skyking Skyking Do Not Answer #1 A Zine on the Paranormal $3.50 – Like a zinester Fortean times!

Circus Drawing Zine $5

Cuba Cultura by Ricardo Montana $10

Comics

DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket) $6

Peehole #16 Mythological Pals $3

Graphic Novels

The New World: Comics from Mauretania by Chris Reynolds $34.95 – A surreal vision of a post-alien-invasion Earth where human beings still have to deal with quotidien frustrations, ennui, and understanding their place in the world.

Young Frances by Hartley Lin (Adhouse) $19.99 – First collection from Pope Hats, a study of work chaos and close friendships over time.

Showtime by Antoine Cossé (Breakdown Press) $22.50

All Summer Long by Hope Larson $12.99

Politics, Revolution, Activism & Essay

Wars and Capital by Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotext(e)) $27.95 – A critique of capital through the lens of war, and a critique of war through the lens of the revolution of 1968.

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, ed. by Roxanne Gay $16.99

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie $8.95

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea $18.95 – Tea’s first-ever collection of journalistic writing, turning investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career?memoir?and considers the price that art demands be paid from life.

Vintage & Retro

The Little Book of Bettie: Taking a Page from the Queen of Pinups by Tori Rodriguez $22.49 – A lifestyle guide inspired by the Queen of Pinups — Bettie Page, advice on fashion, makeup, fitness, and more!

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill $16.99 – Featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, learn all about the arsenic in your face cream and the pot of cold pee that sits under your bed.

Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear by Kat Jungnickel $29.95 – An illustrated history of the evolution of British women’s cycle wear.

Outer Limits

The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments by Dr. Lynne Kelly $16.95

Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change by Tao Lin $16 – Tao Lin discovered the work of Terence McKenna and wrote a kind of a gonzo memoir/journalistic exposé a la The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, asking questions about why we create art and perception and all the stuff you ask when you get into psychotropic drugs and go on pilgrimages.

Get Baked: Space cakes, pot brownies and other tasty cannabis creations by Dane Noon $9.99

Okay! Sounds good to me ?? #stoned #getbaked #quimbys #weed #marijuana

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Fiction

Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami $16

Zodiac: A Novel by Sam Wilson $15.95 – In a volatile society ruled and divided by its citizens’ zodiac signs, a serial killer is on the loose: is it a misguided revolution or something more sinister?

Mister Memory: A Novel by Marcus Sedgwick $15.95 – In Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, a man with a perfect memory murders his wife. A dazzling psychological puzzle that reveals the strange connection between memory and fate. Now in soft cover.

Magazines

The Baffler #39 $14

Fortean Times #365 $12.50

Lit Journals & Chap Books

N+1 #31 Spr 18 Out There $14.95

The Point #16 $14.99

Born High by E.E. Greer $5

Sexxxy

Elska #17 Perth Australia $18.50

Other Stuff

New sticker and patches from Gatosaurio, with such artists as Abraham Diaz, Inechi, Michael DeForge, Tara Booth!

Got a ton of awesome stickers and patches in from @inechi__!! ? @michael.deforge @simon.hanselmann @tarabooth and #abrahamdiaz ?????? #inésestrada #stickers #patches #gatosaurio #quimbys

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Meet David, our first stamp recipient on the #MyChicagoBookstore crawl for #IndependentBookstoreDay today! Visit ten stores today, get 10% off for the rest of the year at all participating  bookstores. Visit 15, get 15%. Your first stop is the place to pick up your passport and make your required $25 purchase, so come here first and say hi! #CHIBD18 @chibookstore #bookstoreday @indiebookstoreday #quimbys #quimbysbookstore #quimbysbookstorechicago More info at quimbys.com/blog

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

Zines

Brush Master – Deeply Rooted, Featuring Jasper Mississippi Travis $10 – An epic collaboration honoring the work of the Indianapolis sign painter known as the Brush Master!

Library Excavations #8 Therapy Art by Marc Fischer (Half Letter Press) $6

Cuspian #2 by Jami Sailor $4

Highlights from the End Drawings and Collage By Ben Chlaplek $15

Nightmares to Dreams by Jessica and Maria Tapia $3

Muff #1 In the New Age $10

5to9zine #2 $5

Comics

All Girl Band by Flannery Cashill $7

Pneuma In the Land of Limbic Dead by Julia Hornedo $5

Everything About the Fridge by Shuheng Fu $8

Sorry You Couldn’t Make It by Jayme Brodie $5

Graphic Novels

Now vol 3 The New Comics Anthology, ed. by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) $9.99 – Featuring 100+ full color pages of short comics fiction from established and up-and-coming artists from around the globe such as Anna Haifisch, Ben Passmore, Eleanor Davis & more. Cover by Al Columbia.

It’s Cold in the River at Night by Alex Potts (Avery Hil) $12.99

Carnet De Voyage: A Travel Diary, New Expanded Edition by Craig Thompson (D&Q) $21.95

Fiction

Adjustment Day: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk $26.95 – People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.

A Secret Histroy of Witches: A Novel by Louisa Morgan $15.99

Beautiful Music by Michael Zadoorian (Akashic) $16.95

Politics & Revolution

Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History by Brandon Weber (Haymarket) $19.95

Kinda Essay-ish

Philosophical Beer: Philosophy from Plotinus to Paglia in the form of an IPA by Aaron Wooten $12.99 – The history of philosophy through the eyes of beer.

Rebel Publisher: Grove Press and the Revolution of the Word by Loren Glass $13.95

Music & Film Books

Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones $16.99

Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story by Chris Nashawaty $26.99

The Mixtape of My Life: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir by Robert K. Elder $14.99 – Don’t miss Robert K. Elder sharing this book here at Quimby’s on Thurs, Mat 10th! More info about the event here!

Magazines

Little White Lies #74 Mar Apr 18 $12.99

AdBusters #137 $14.95

Common Literary Journal #15 $14

Poetry, Lit Journals, Chap Books

How to Love the Empty Air by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (Write Bloody Publishing) $15

The Chicago Review vol 61 #2 $15

Ima Badass by Hadass Bar Lev $1.50

Diary of a Filthy Woman by Noor Hindi $8

Sinister Wisdom #108 A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal $18.95

Dave Sheridan: Life With Dealer McDope, The Leather Nun, And The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Dave Sheridan and Mark Burstein (Fantagraphics Underground) $35 – Dave Sheridan collects the best of the legendary underground cartoonist’s tripped-out comic strip hilarity. It includes Sheridan’s solo comics, many reprinted for the very first time, and his collaborations with Fred Schrier and Gilbert Shelton (who writes the foreword), along with his record covers, beer labels, and advertisements for more…cough, cough…organic products. The book includes a biography and reminiscences from fellow artists, friends, and family members.

Zines

Mineshaft #35 $9 – Mineshaft #35 is now available! This is the Jay Lynch Memorial issue with new work by Jay and front cover art and design by Robert Crumb. And more!!!

Work in Progress by Dan Gleason $3 – He might be a work in progress but by God, what a piece of work. – M.C.

Junk Drawer #10 Guide to Time Travel $5

KerBloom #131 Mar Apr 18 by Artnoose $2

Loud and Queer: Queer Voices of Now, various issues $10 each

zines by Kara Comegys: Plump Up For Hibernation #3 A Vegan Bears Baking Guide $5, Clumsy #11 $3 & more!

Smudge vol 2 #4 by Clay Hickson $5

Portion of the Lincoln Highway Through Illinois by Jessica Brewer Prugh $8

Rain Drops and Broken Hearts by Leanna Perry $15

Comics & Minis

Wakaikami by Kyle Arends $3

Quarter Vomit Version 2.0 by Otto Splotch $10

Patchwork by Steve Schaberg $8

Graphic Novels

Land Of The Sons by Gipi (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Two brothers try to discover the secret of their father’s diary.

Blackbird Days by Manuele Fior (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Fior showcases his versatility and mastery of the form in this collection of short literary comics fiction.

Die Laughing by Andre Franquin (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – A collection of visual gags and gag-inducing visuals by a trailblazer of Belgian comics.

Godhead vol 1 by Ho Che Anderson (fantagraphics) $24.99 – Chaos ensues after a powerful corporation creates a device to communicate with God. Is this humanity’s salvation or the equivalent of a Doomsday machine?

Art & Design Books

Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America by Bonnie Siegler $17.95 – 240 images from British rule and women’s suffrage to the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War; from women’s equality and Black Lives Matter to the actions of our forty-fifth president and the Women’s March and more!

The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women’s Liberation by Bonnie J. Morris and D-M Withers $34.95 – Collection of essays, oral histories, and illustrations depicting the feminist revolution.

Love Sucks: The Truth About Romance From the World’s Greatest Cynics, Written by Daria Summers, Illustrated by Emma Munger $12.95

Politics & Revolution

A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good by Emma Gray $16.99 – Executive Women’s Editor at HuffPost interweaves personal experience and journalism to offer how to info on choosing good media sources, instructions on getting involved, how to creat female centric work spaces, how to stay involved without exhaustion, numbers to call, orgs to contact, scripts for reaching out as well as interviews with activists.

Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series) $16.95 – An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today’s hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.

Music & Film Books

More 33 1/3 books! $14.95 each:
Fugazi’s In on the Kill Taker by Joe Gross – Features new interviews with all four members of Fugazi and members of their creative community.
Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy by Ronen Givony – Touches on issues such as toxic authenticity, the question of “selling out,” and asks whether we today are enriched or impoverished by that debate becoming obsolete.
Lou Reed’s Transformer by Ezra Furman – Explores Reed’s and Transformer’s unstable identities, and the secrets the songs challenge us to uncover.

That Movie Book: Awesome, Weird and Wonderful Flicks for Every Weekend of Your Year by Marc Fennell $19.99 – From the very funny film critic on triple j, chat show The Circle & reporter on ABC1’s Hungry Beast! 260 movies to fill every weekend of the year, each with a theme – a genre, filmmaker, actor or trend. Disney’s most racist characters! The many disturbing faces of Santa! You get the idea.

Runnin’ with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen by Noel Monk (with Joe Layden) $19.99 – By Noel Monk, the manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom.

Fiction

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland $17.99 – Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world “jams” the “frequencies” used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.

Census by Jesse Ball $25.99

Guardian Angels and Other Monsters by Daniel H. Wilson $16 – Stories that explore complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life.

Books by by Brian Alan Ellis (House of Vlad) $10-$12: Something To Do With Self Hate, Drunken Heap of Trouble Every Week: The First Three Books

Outer Limits

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara $27.99 – An account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeDiary.com website and featuring an afterword by her husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, traces the rapes and murders of dozens of victims and the author’s determined efforts to help identify the killer and bring him to justice.

Acid West: Essays by Joshua Wheeler $17 – A trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbelly.

Magazines
Another Man #26 $18.50
Tom Tom Magazine #33 $10
Mojo #294 $11.25

Chap Books & Poetry

Your Glass Head Against the Brick Parade of Now What’s a Beautiful Nice Poem by Sam Pink (House of Vlad) $10 – You might have thought you didn’t like poetry but you’ll like Sam Pink: thoughtful musings, wistful superheroes, different types of eye contact and the grace of the beat-down. At turns elegant and hilarious. -LM

Survival Guide 2018 by R. Browning $25

New stuff from @goblinko in stock now! #patches #stickers #wrappingpaper #goblinko #quimbysbookstore #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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Goblinko patches, stickers & wrapping paper!

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein $26.99 – Remember Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction? Pankhurst is like that. But before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.

Zines

Chickfactor #18 $15 – Issue #18 is here of the legendary indie nerd fanzine edited by Gail O’Hara, who cofounded CF with Pam Berry in 1992 (yes, Belle & Sebastian wrote a song about it). This issue features big, fun interviews with Kendra Smith, The Softies, Alvvays, Lindy Morrison & Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens), Girl Ray, Frances McKee (the Vaselines), Gerard Love (Teenage Fanclub, Lightships), Governess, Marisa Anderson, Tanita Tikaram, A Jukebox Jury with Kathy Foster, Rebecca Cole & Joanna Bolme; and the usual polls, loads of reviews & other stuff!

Awesome Things #2 by Liz Mason $3 – A continuation of the list all things awesome: Einstein-Rosen bridges, loop libraries, nudging the cat’s belly so it pendulum swings, or co-worker quotes like, “That guy seems like a warlock. Not like a cool warlock. Like an alcoholic warlock.”

Old Haunts #1 by Dan B $2

Chomp #5 A Hard Man is Good to Find $15

Inspect Connection $5

Trauma Is Really Strange by Steve Haines, art by Sophie Standing $13

Rick Astley Zine by Allison Felus $3 – Allison decontructs “Never Gonna Give You Up” and the Stock Aitken Waterman production team behind a few of Astley’s hits, and includes a testament in personal defense of his oeuvre (for the first two albums anyway). Rickroll this zine into your life. You had to know someone was going to make that joke, right? -LM

Punk Around #1 Nizhny Life $3

Comics & Minis

Moonlight by Cole Johnson $5 – Delicious fragments and tidbits of an artist’s life, or anyone’s life really. Each strip possesses a magical, pensive nostalgia full of familiarity and mystery all at once. It’s easy to get swept away in the dreamlike narratives Johnson weaves for us. ~CH

Revolution Channel #1 Towers on the Moon by Erik Thompson $10

Phantasmagoria by Rafael Huerta $10

Black Bean Zine #0 by Simone Simone $1

Malcolm-10 by Turtel Onli $2

Migratory Patterns by Kane Shirley $10

Exes #1 Comics by Dave K and Cole J $2

Isle of Flotsam #2 by Caleb $3

Moments of Adventure #1 & #2 by Colin Mathieson $4.95 each

Just Encased vol 1 $7

Graphic Novels

R. Crumb Sketchbook Jan 1975-Dec 1982 (Taschen) $40 – Combines volumes 5 and 6 from the second R. Crumb Sketchbook boxed set. 444 pages about his move to CA, his marriage to Aline, birth of his daughter, further adventures of Mr. Natural, mischievous Snoids, Arcade comics strips and more!

The Art of Edena by Moebius (Dark Horse) $34.99 – A companion to the World of Edena graphic novel, this collects four fantastic Edena-related short stories and a motherlode of Moebius illustrations.

Big Planet Comics Red anthology (Big Planet/Retrofit) $6 – Anthology featuring artists from or working in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia, such as Robin Ha, Jared Morgan & more.

The Hookah Girl: And Other True Stories by Marguerite Dabaie (Rosarium Publishing) $6.95 – Semi-autobio of a childhood as a Christian Palestinian in America.

Dark Garbage by Jon Michael Frank $15

Forward by Lisa Maas (Arsenal Pulp) $18.95 – Two women, both of whom are unable to move “forward” and put the pieces of their lives back together.

Prisoner 155 Simon Radowitzky by Agustin Comotto (AK Press) $ 26 – The first English-language book devoted solely to the Ukranian expat, assassin, prisoner, and Spanish Revolution veteran, who died a factory worker in Mexico City.

Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: The Stone Cold Age 2 by Jeffrey Brown $7.99 – Paleo pranks between neanderthal siblings!

The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York by Peter J. Tomasi $24.99 – Would you jump off a bridge if we told you to? Perhaps the Brooklyn Bridge? Would you buy this book about the making of it?

Algeria Is Beautiful Like America by Olivia Burton $24.99

Politics & Revolution Books

May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France by Mitchell Abidor (AK Press) $20

Outer Limits

How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide by Stephen Wildish $14.95 – Fuck yeah! This visual guide to this fine art employs quick-read charts, diagrams, explications and strategies while offering guidance, history and etymology, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more.

Fiction

The Disco Days Trilogy books by by David F. Ross – Adventures about music in Scotland in the 80s and 90s.

Lit Journals & Poetry

McSweeney’s 52: In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement edited by Nyuol Lueth Tong $26

Breakbeat Poets vol 2: Black Girl Magic edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds & Jamila Woods (Haymarket) $19.95 – Anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #37 $5 – New issue of the occasional outburst of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and chocolate.

Paper Darts vol 7 $20

Mags
RFD #173 Spr 18 First Time $11.95
Taproot #26 Heal $12

Local Interest

West by Southwest to Stickney: Draining the Central Area and Exorcising Clout by Richard Lanyom (Lake Claremont Press) $21.95

Pansy Beat by Michael Economy & friends (KrimsKrams Island LLC ) $35 . . Pansy Beat was a short-lived fanzine published by Michael Economy in New York from 1989 to 1990, totaling five quarterly issues. Each issue’s 50-some black-and-white pages documented the exuberant downtown gay and drag club scene of that era and included one free condom. The zine offered a glimpse into an exhilarating alternative universe during the darkest years of the AIDS crisis. Interviews profiled downtown personalities on the verge of global stardom, many still working to this day. Artists such as Lady Bunny, Billy Erb, Connie Fleming, Kenny Kenny, Lady Miss Kier and Larry Tee first shared their memorable selves in print on the pages of Pansy Beat. The zine also featured interviews with Edwige Belmore, Leigh Bowery and Quentin Crisp. This book celebrates Pansy Beat’s brief but influential life, including a reprinting of all five issues in their original format, previously unseen photographs by staff photographer Michael Fazakerley, new full-color artwork by some of the original contributors, plus new essays and interviews. . . #pansybeat #fanzine #zinecollection #quimbys #quimbysbookstore #quimbysbookstorechicago

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Pansy Beat by Michael Economy & friends (KrimsKrams Island LLC ) $35

Reefer Madness, edited by Crag Yoe (Dark Horse) $19.99 – Degradation! Crime! Madness! Hysteria surrounded marijuana as a perceived gateway drug from the 1930’s to the 1950’s and beyond. Adventure Comics, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and works by Frank Frazetta, Jerry Robinson, Jack Kirby, and many more, reveal the social reaction to this era of “Reefer Madness”. Like the anti-drug propaganda film, these stories range from comically misinformed to soberly concerned about the influence of Mary Jane on the youth of America. Eisner and Harvey Award winner Craig Yoe brings us his newest collection of wacky, wild, and culturally relevant comics. See how marijuana was perceived in the days of ignorance before it was legalized by the visionary people of Oregon, Washington, and Colorado! See marijuana demonized as a “Satan’s cigarettes” in 1950’s comics!

Zines

Pound the Pavement #18 God Bless Graffiti Coalition by Josh MacPhee and Daniel Tucker $6 – Essays and information on the legality/criminality of graffiti, Graffiti as civic engagement & more!

Penises Are Confusing #36 $2.50

Welcome to Magnum Pleasure #7 $2.50

Mantid Mania #1 Origins by Mike Smith $5

Dave Zine #14 Davezine the Bad Roommates Issue by David G. Cookson $4

Comics & Minis

Laskimooses #40 Here Comes Trouble by Tohori Matti Hagelbergin $7

Three Loops by JJ McLuckie $10

Star Beasts #1 The Mighty Menace by Stephanie Young & Allison Lassiter $7

Graphic Novels

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket) $20

Head Lopper Volume 2: Head Lopper and the Crimson Tower by Andrew MacLean & friends $16.99

Copra Round 5 by Michel Fiffe (Bergen Street Press) $21.95

Paper Girls Volume 4 by Brian K Vaughan & friends $14.99

Stripburger #70 Twenty Five Years $10

Art & Design

Metamorphosis by Tavar Zawacki (Urban Spree Books) $39.95 – He took the world by storm with his iconic ABOVE arrow icon, painting in over 100 different cities spanning 50 countries across the globe.

Desperately Seeking Banksy by Ian Castello-Cortes (Gingko Press) $16.95 – Streamlined for the casual Banksy fan. Features 2017s Bridge Farm Primary School and The Walled Off Hotel, as well as up-to-the-minute artwork selection.

Skateboarding Is Not a Fashion: The Illustrated History of Skateboard Apparel by Jurgen Blumlein, Dirk Vogel & Cap10 (Gingko Press) $59.95 – Neither it is a crime! Hang Ten, Jams, Vans, Jimmy’Z — it’s all here. Original commentary from designers, company founders, and pro skateboarders who have defined skateboarding’s look for entire generations. Comments from Stacy Peralta, Lance Mountain, Tony Alva, Steve Caballero, and many more, talking about safety gear ranging from helmets to kneepads and gloves, not to mention accessories such as bags.

Handstyle Lettering: From Calligraphy to Typography by Victionary (Gingko Press) $35

Blank State: An Architectural Coloring Book by Fundamental.berlin (Gingko Press) $14.95

Store Front II (Mini): A History Preserved: The Disappearing Face of New York by Karla L Murray and James T Murray (Gingko Press) $29.95

Mayhem & Outer Limits

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn $17

The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching $29.95 – This richly illustrated book shows a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases. A cartographical beauty!

Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence by Nick Caruso & Dani Rabaiotti, illustrated by Ethan Kocak $15

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves by Benjamin K. Bergen $16.99

Secret Chicago: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure by Jessica Mlinaric (Reedy Press) $20.95

A People’s History of Civilization by John Zerzan (Feral House) $13 – Essays ranging from the beginning of civilization to today’s general crisis.

Magazines

True Detective Mar 18 $9.99
Fortean Times #364 $12.50
Earth First vol 37 #4 $6.95

Sexxxy

Meat #26 $14

UFO Presences by Javier Arcenillas (Editorial RM) $35 UFO Presences explores the places where UFO sightings have taken place across America: in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and of course the infamous Area 51, along South Central Nevada’s State Route 375?the so-called Extraterrestrial Highway, where so many travelers have reported UFO observations and other bizarre alien activities. Spanish photographer Javier Arcenillas (born 1973) has diligently photographed these locations, and sequenced them in this book as a visual road trip, mixing his photographs with news clippings and other relevant ephemera. . . #quimbysbookstorechicago #ufopresences #quimbys #quimbysbookstore #photobook #outerlimits

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UFO Presences by Javier Arcenillas (Editorial RM) $35

Zines

Client and Co-Conspirator: A Dialogue Between Two Sex Worker Advocacy Activists $3

No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws, Support Hose Year One $5

Pussweek #3 by Bexy McFly $11.99 – By cats for cats!

Suitable 4 Framin #12 Jan 18 All Oakland Issue $10 – Graffiti zine.

Everything’s Fine Chinatown by Iqvinder Singh $10

Hard to Love #6 Lung Static by Sara McHenry $3

How I Became a Butterfly by Nathan Margoni $5

Happy Tapir #4 Tom Cruise and Jim Harbaugh Had Sex In My Second Apartment by Johnny Masiulewicz $3

Lane With by Michael Solomon $12

tracts from PM Press, various prices:
Young CLR James: A Graphic Novelette by Paul Buhle
Events and Victims by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Edited by Jon Curley
Heart X-Rays: A Modern Epic Poem by Marcus Colasurdo

Comics & Minis

Cool Girls Doing Things by Caroline Cash $5

Dentures in the Sink #1 by Sofia Diaz $7.50

Infinite Wheat Paste #4 by Pidge & Chase Hutchison $5

Crackle vol 1 by Phillip Maira $3.50

Isle of Flotsam #1 by Caleb $3

Agency by Tom McHenry $5

Graphic Novels

Flayed Corpse And Other Stories by Josh Simmons & friends (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Brutal, deeply unsettling, and often hilarious stories from a master of modern horror comics. Also collects collaborations with artists like Anders Nilsen, Tara Booth, Eroyn Franklin & more!

Kaleidoscope City by Marcellus Hall (Bittersweet Editions) $14.99

Glass Walker by Antoinette Lavin $15

Blazing Combat (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Expanded edition reprint of the all-star war-comics anthology featuring all of Frank Frazetta’s painted covers and exclusive interviews with Archie Goodwin and publisher James Warren. Plus work by John Severin, Alex Toth, Wallace Wood and many more.

ISNXO by Ivan Gugel Dawson $15

Art Books

Signal 06 A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, edited by Alec Dunn & Josh MacPhee $14.95 – International subversive graphic design edited by Justseeds folks.

We Are Not Alone vol II Beings and Creatures from Somewhere Else by Brett Manning $20

New stuff this week! #quimbysbookstorechicago #quimbysbookstore #quimbys #NewStuff

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Politics, Revolution & Current Events

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale by Matt Hern and Am Johal with Joe Sacco (MIT Press) $19.95

Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky, Edited by Davor Džalto (PM Press) $19.95

Fiction

The Scooter Chronicles: A Southern California Modyssey by Shahriar Fouladi $19.99

Atheist In the Attic by Samuel R. Delaney (PM Press) $14

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang $28.95

Insects: An Edible Field Guide by Stefan Gates $16.95

Spring has Spring! #quimbysbookstore #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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Music Books

My Ramones: Photographs by Danny Fields (Reel Art Press) $39.95 – 200+ photographs from 1975-1977 taken by manager Danny “pulse of the underground” Fields.

Magazines

Bust #110 $6.99

Hiss Mag #2 $20

Chap Books

Overtime Hour 47: The Death of DemiVer Data Services by Julie McNeely-Kirwan (Blue Cubicle Press) $2 – Georgia, a “good child”-type employee, has just discovered the truth about the company she works for.

Impressions In the Language of a Lanterns Wick by Jake Syersak (Ghost Proposal) $7

Fallout by Jose Nateras $5

The Clown Egg Registry by Luke Stephenson and Helen Champion $16.95 – For more than 70 years, Clowns International—the oldest established clowning organization—has been painting the faces of its members on eggs. This mesmerizing volume collects more than 150 of these portraits, from 1946 to the modern day! Step right up!

Zines

Fixer Eraser #2 by Jonas $3 – Thoughtful thoughts from local zine celeb Jonas.

Reasons to Live by Bex Shea $1

Well Never Have Paris #15 America True Stories $6

Bald People Against by Nathan Margoni $5

Glou Glou Magazine #1 $12 -Arty n conversational zine about wine.

Two Fisted Librarians vol 8 #1 $4

Comics

Helio Press, a whole mess of awesome risographed stuff like these, including work by Ashley Ronning!

Berlin #22 by Jason Lutes (D&Q) $5.95 – Final issue of this 20 year saga!

Baby Wave Karaoke by Nicole Michael Brunel Couvilllon $5

Three Days in Paradise by Michael Wynne $10

Florence by Rachel Bard $5

Tales From the Wolf Bus by Allie Allan D. Caesar $7

Fizzle #1 by Whit Taylor $6

Frankie Comics #1 through #4 SPX Special by Rachel Dukes

Graphic Novels

Gwar: Orgasmageddon by Matt Miner & friends $17.99 – Banished to the past by the cold and calculating Mr. Perfect, the heroes of GWAR trample through time like a deranged Bill and Ted on bath salts – antics ensue!

Politics & Revolution

POST-TRUTH: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It by Evan Davis $26.99

Art Books

Deep Mapping by Brett Bloom and Nuno Sacramento (Breakdown Break Down Press) $8 – SELF-NAVIGATION NOW! Don’t map your shit like an old fuddy duddy! Use your own contradicting narrative! -LM

Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters by Princeton Architectural Press $25 – Nearly 300 designers from around the world answered the call to create this collection of 50 tear-out posters for people who want to make their voices heard in a time of unprecedented uncertainty and apprehension.

Outer Limits

Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall and Peter Névraumont $27.99 – Loch Ness, Ponzi schemes, spirit photographers and more, from a team that includes a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History.

My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt $16 – After inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and ‘80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir.

Film, Music & Media Books

Black Aesthetic #2 by Zoe Samudzi (Wolfman Books) $12

Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel, Drummer of Hole $27

Magazines

Gentlewoman #17 $15.99

Mojo #293 $11.25

Monocle #111 $12

Maximumrocknroll #419 $4.99

Lit Journals & Chap Books

The Believer #117 $12

First Line vol 20 #1 $4

Wolfman New Life Quarterly by Jacob Kahn $12

Sex Guides & Culture

The Wonder Down Under: The Insider’s Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Nina Brochmann & Ellen Støkken Dahl $26.99

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Why Art? by Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – Davis unpacks critical and positive concepts of art, whether it’s indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil or expressive. Her book is a work of art unto itself, with a sense of humor and a thirst for challenging preconceptions of art.

Zines

PWF Pro Wrestling Feelings #6 $5

Pizza Fried Chicken and Ice Cream $7

The Match #117 by Fred Woodworth $3

Brown and Proud Press titles, $5 each:
Cuentos De Gringolandia: Stories From the Other Side: Xicx Zine
Home Zine by Monica Trinidad and friends
On Struggling: Relationships

Don’t Piss Down My Back and Tell Me It’s Raining by Julia Eff $3

Splash: An Homage to WET, The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing by Joyce S. Lee $10

Urban Guerrilla Zine #20 $10

Cold Rocks – A Foldout Mini Zine of Snow Crystals by Jam $1

Not So Nostalgic Collaborative Zine: Drawings, Writings, Sharings 2017 $10

Cold Soaked High and Guilty $10

Chicken Butt Conversations on Comedy by Ashley Belanger $5

Sample by Lola Dement Myers $12

Fairy Tales for Cynical Girls vol 3 by K8 $2

Conjure: Zines As Ritual Magick by Nyxia Grey $5

Comics & Minis

Peer by Kevin Budnik $7

Grace Jerry Jessica and Me #2 by Derek Marks $6

Teachers Pet the House On Horse Mountain $10

New Wave Comics Outcasts #1-#3 by David Soileau $2.50 each

One Thousand Pounds of Wind by Andy Rench $7

Pig Pet by Margot Ferrick $7

Mirror Swimmer by Marieke McClendon $7

Electricity Is Her Element by Kathleen Kralowec $8

Marjorie #2 $3

Book of Days Daze by EA Bethea $6

Hell Hol High Speed Castration by Jack Mulkern $5

Arid Chasm by Priscilla Genet $3

Graphic Novels

From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino (D&Q) $22.95 – Don’t miss John’s event here for this book on Fri, March 16th!

Mudbite by Dave Cooper (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – First new graphic novel by cult cartoonist and fan favorite Dave Cooper in more than 15 years! A suite of stories about brain-damaged Amazons, black shiny eels, and much more.

Von Spatz by Anna Haifisch (D&Q) $16.95 – Walt Disney recovers at rehab. There he meets Tomi Ungerer and Saul Steinberg, and together, they embark on a regimen of relaxation and art therapy, a hilarious, heartwarming absurdist tale.

Mechaboys by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $19.99 – Superbad meets Transformers in James Kochalka’s next great graphic novel, with a genuine high-school sweetness mixed in with robot action, comedy, and plenty of fistfights.

We Ate Wonder Bread by Nicole Hollander (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Memoir by longtime syndicated cartoonist’s (Sylvia) mid-century Chicago childhood, a chronicle of a Chicago community that has since disappeared into an expressway.

The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by Jaime Hernandez (TOON Books) $9.99

The Fuzzy Princess Volume 2 by Charles Brubaker $10.99

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu $17.99

Dalston Monsterzz by Dilraj Mann (Nowbrow) $19.95

Art Books

Hand Poked No Electricity: Stick and Poke Tattoo Culture by Sarah Lu (Carpet Bombing Culture) $19.95 – Not only an artists handbook but a resource book, a history book and a visual feast of everything single color.

Yokai Wonderland: More from Yumoto Koichi Collection: Supernatural Beings in Japanese Art by Koichi Yumoto (PIE International) $39.95

Gorey’s Worlds by Erin Monroe & friends $35 – An exploration of the artistic and cultural influences that shaped writer and illustrator Edward Gorey.

Politics & Revolution

Spinfluence: The Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses (Carpet Bombing Culture) $24.95 – Infographic-designy heavy book banned in several countries, now out with an updated “Fake News” edition for interested in how to exploit people for profit or power. Covering fun techniques and tactics such as emotional hijacking, brainwashing and hysteria harnessing.

Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love by Houria Bouteldja (Semiotext(e)/Intervention Series) $14.95 – A scathing critique of the Left from an indigenous anti-colonial perspective.

Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country by Steve Almond $16.95

Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang (MIT Press) $13.95

Outer Limits

Under an Ionized Sky: From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown by Elana Freeland (Feral House) $19.95

Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World’s Most Poisonous Plants by Elizabeth A Dauncey and Sonny Larsson $29.95

Fiction

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg $17 – A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien.

Lake Claremont Press titles:
Graffiti Palace: A Novel by A. G. Lombardo $27 – Debut novel retelling The Odyssey during the 1965 Watts Riots.
The Right Thing to Do at the Time by Dov Zeller $12.95
Book of Hats a Novel by Dov Zeller $13.95

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell (McSweeney’s) $18

Freedom City by Philip Becnel $15 – Don’t miss the author here on June 22nd!

Music & Film Books

Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang by Lamont “U-God” Hawkins $27 – The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historic rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont “U-God” Hawkins.

From the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader by Ed Halter and Barney Rosset (Seven Stories Press) $29.95 – Writing on the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Warhol, and others and offers incisive essays and interviews from the late 1950s to early 1970s. Articles explore politics, revolution, and the cinema; underground and experimental film, pornography, and censorship; and the rise of independent film against the dominance of Hollywood.

The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus $26.99 – GDT paired up with Chicago-based YA author for this must-read novel.

Essays

The This Handbook Will Change Your Life series Books ($10 each):
Apart of the This Blog Will Change Your Life cultural and lifestyle empire. The Handbooks are brimming with esoterica and ephemera, with humor and science, personal stories and tips.
Volume 001 – TACOS by Cyn Vargas
Volume 002 – DEBT by Christopher Bowen

The Infernal Library: On Dictators, The Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy by Daniel Kalder $32

Magazines

Bitch #78 $7.95
The Baffler #38 $14
Wicked Vision Magazine vol 9 $18
Wire #409 $10.99
Raw Vision #96 $14
Davis Magazine Jan Feb 18 $4.99

Lit Journals, Poetry & Chap Books

After Hours Journal of Chicago Writing and Art #35 $10

Windowcat #1 Poetry Etc by Jake Ayres $5

Transmission of Let Arms: Selection of Poems by Theo Rodino $3

Extreme Music and Non Music As It Relates to Sloth $3

Yoni Wolf Dream Poems by Jonathan Wolf $7

Peoples Elbow by Rax King $10

Sobotka Literary Magazine #6 $10

Sexxxy

Phile #2 The International Journal of Desire and Curiosity $20

Elska #16 Cape Town South Africa $18.50

The Clitoral Truth, 2nd Edition: About Pleasure, Orgasm, Female Ejaculation, the G-Spot, and Masturbation by Rebecca Chalker, Illustrated by Fish (Seven Stories Press) $18.95

Sought vol 1 Pizza $15