Category: regular weekly post

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Highlights this week include multiple screen-printed titles from Koyama Press, the new Paul Hornschemeier book, an art anthology of Art about William Shatner, a Zap exhibition show catalog, a folded print from Anders Nilsen, a DVD and a book about Chicago street art (from 2 different people) and more. Tonight at 7pm: Margaret Hicks discusses her book Chicago Comedy A Fairly Serious History.

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Roctober #49 $4.00
Ghost Pine – All Stories True by Jeff Miller (Invisible) $16.95 – Thirteen years Compiling the best of Jeff’s long-running zine of thirteen years, from his youth in suburban Ottawa in the late 1990s, to travels across Canada and North America and his current home in Montreal.

Taking the Lane vol 1 Sharing the Road with Boys and Taking the Lane vol 2 Revolutions Every Damn Day by Elly Blue $3.00 each separately
Homobody #6 Where Qweer Is the New Qool by Rio $2.00

Lou Reeder/You Cant Put Your Arms Around a Memory Split Zine by Corina Fastwolf and Matt Monochrome $3.00 – Music-theme split zine with the funniest titles in the store. Open it up to the centerfold and- what have we here- OH MAN! ITS A HOMEMADE VIOLENT FEMMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE!!! What else could you possibly need to know about this? -EF

Menstruation Sensation – A Practical Guide to Navigation the World of 21st Century by Alyssa Beers $3.00
Sugar Needle #35 by Corina Fastwolf $2.00
She Must Be Having a Bad Day – The Cult of the Female Food Service Worker $2.00
Railroad Semantics #4 Fall 10 by Aaron Dactyl $6.00 – Thick zine of heavy trampin’.

Simple History – Latin American Independence 1810 to 1824 by J. Gerlach $2.50
Sowing and Dawning #3 by Rick Visser $4.00
Gutter Slug #2 by Emily $3.50
Cyberpunk Apocalypse #3 The Man Hates Us $6.00
Patient Files #3 Confidential HAY $3.00
Educating For Freedom by Cindy Milstein $4.00
Asexy Life On Asexuality and Challenging Heteronormativity $1.50
Abolish Restaurants by Prole.info (PM Press) $5.95 – Yeah, fuck those people eating their food and other people serving them food. Fuck those guys. Ha ha. No really, this is a worker’s critique of the food industry. And on a totally unrelated note, it has really good design layout, and is almost like an illustrated Fast Food Nation.
High and Outside by Adam Hartnett and Scott Rideout $4.00
In Light of What’s Happening It Happened #1 Comic and Mixtape by Sean Cason $6.00
Without Words Without Kneeling – The First Six Issues by Tomas Moniz $6.00 – The first volume collection.

Without Words Without Kneeling #7 – A Serialized Zine Novella by Tomas Moniz $2.00
She Is Restless vol 1 Fracture by Rebbeca Mir $3.00
She Is Restless vol 2 Waves by Rebbeca Mir $4.00
Lover by Devan E Bennett $5.00
Sumerr Whatever #1 $1.00
Grey Supreme #1 by Mark Laliberte $13.00
Your Secretary #6 Lake Effect #1 Split by Jami Sailor $2.00
Terrarvm #1 by Michael Max McCleod $12.50
Eat Zine #1-#3 $6.00 each
Contemporary Dude Theory 2nd Edition by various $8.00 – Very sociologyish. (And interesting.) Perhaps consider this as a companion volume to N+1’s “What Was the Hipster”?
Ospreys #16 Obscure Finale $10.00
Bizarrism #11 by Chris Mikul $6.00 – A low-fi somewhat Fortean zine devoted to weirdos through history. VERY interesting.

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
The Game by Anders Nilsen $9.00 – This double-sided poster by local comics superstar Anders Nilsen comes with trading cards, each package has a different one. This print is composed of three panels in an issue of Kramers Ergot, but this edition comes with a fourth page. We are one of the only places you can get this. And it conveniently comes folded and encased in plastic wrap so you you don’t have to carry it home in a big tube.
Amazing things from Gabrielle Bell!: Diary Minneapolis California New York What The Manifestation ($40.00), LA Diary ($4.00)
Lose #3 by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – Another issue from a title that often makes our top ten bestseller list. Come see for yourself why.
Noah Novella The Peoples History of Noah VanSciver, Selection of Autobiographical Comics $4.00
Not My Small Diary #16 You Are Here by Delaine $6.00 – Double volume anthology, always high quality mini strips. They go fast!
Monster Party by Chris Eliopoulos (Koyama) $5.00
Cat Rackham Loses It by Steve Wolfhard (Koyama) $5.00
Suicide Girls Comic #2 by various (IDW) $3.99 – Chicks with tattoos and piercings fighting crime. If you can’t afford to subscribe to their website maybe you’ll spend $3.99 on a comic about fictional crime fighting. And boobs.
Nobrow #5 $17.50
Comics Youth #1 by Blaise Larmee $2.00
Welcome to Nursing Hell #1 $4.00
Just So You Know #2 by Joey Alison Sayers $5.00
Middle School by Monica Gallagher $2.50
Silent Type 2 $5.00
Booty #23 $3.00
Poseur #5 by Nat Hoonsan $4.00

Dark Tomato #1 by Sakura Maku (Domino Books) $5.00 – Strange events in the life of one of New York’s finest subway drivers, slips through a dream reality and hangs out in a teacup…Maku’s vibrant, boney, wire-haired characters look like amazing teenage fan art for the Rolling Stones collaged with scraps from the best fabric store ever. They move through patterned space with a fluid float that builds language the from scratch both linguistically and graphically. The debut title from Austin English’s new publishing project Domino Books, this comic is a real power. -EF

Francisco by Gina Wynbrandt $3.50
Vestiges Creator Showcase Series 1 by Patrick Godfrey $3.95
Corndog Creator Showcase Series 1 by Meg Gandy $4.95
Howl Before Sunset Creator Showcase Series 1 by Mariya Pantyukhina $2.95
Drip Drip Drip Creator Showcase Series 1 by Gandy Rawn $3.95
Booyah the Oblitorator Creator Showcase Series 1 by James Callahan $4.95
Viande Est Mauvaise Creator Showcase Series 1 by Tom Batten and Matt Deans $3.95

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Zap Masters of Psychedelic Art 1965-1974 ed. by Gary Panter $35.00 – Exhibition catalog from the Zap retrospective show at Andrew Edlin Gallery, curated by Gary Panter. This book features work from a variety of underground artists like R Crumb, S Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso and more!
Chicago Street Art $15.00 Text by Joseph J Depre and photos by Oscar Arriola, Chris Diers, Thomas Fennell IV and Patrick Hershberger. A love letter of sorts to Chicago and its many street artists, photos published here so that when the art gets graffiti blasted they’ve been documented somewhere. With work by such artists as Tiptoe, Artillery, The Viking and more. Traverlers, fuck bringing home a snowglobe from the souvenir stand. Get this book instead.
The Shatner Show ed. by Janine Vangool and Glen Dresser (Uppercase) $20.00 – An anthology of art about Mr. Shatner. Yes, for real. Various artists.
Collection a Day – 365 Curated Collections by Lisa Congdon (Uppercase) $35.00 – Tiny collections of tiny items, arranged delicately, each day a new collection of quirky little ephemera. The cutest OCD thing ever. The book comes in beautiful tin box so you can keep the book in pristine condition while you go wipe off all your doorknobs.
In Search of Cold Places by Rebecca Mir $12.00
Constructive Abandonment by Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber (D&Q) $15.95
Wonderwear #5 Night Knight In Pig In a Wet Blanket Down Boy by Douglas Nelson $3.90

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Life With Mr Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier (Villard) $22.00 – Local comics artist and friend of Quimby’s! A hardcover beauty.
Root Rot (Koyama) $12.00
Centifolia Sketchbook Illustrations vol 1 and vol 2 by Stuart Immonen (Adhouse) $19.95 each separately
Even the Giants by Jesse Jacobs (Adhouse) $9.95
DV8 TPB Gods and Monsters by Brian Wood and Rebekah Isaacs (DC) $17.99

FICTION!
Weeding the Seed of Deceit by Rebekah Mercuri $17.95
Smythology by Jeremy Tarr and Katy Smail (Big Head) $25.99

DIY
Winds From Below Radical Community – Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by The Team Colors Collective $6.00
Self-defense for Radicals – A to Z Guide For Subversive Struggle by Mickey Z and Richard Cole (PM Press) $4.95
Nontoxic Housecleaning by Raleigh Briggs $1.50
Rough DIY Zine On Developing B and W Film $2.00 – This is a handy-dandy guide/starter/reminder on basic balck and white film processing. Simple, fun and explained well. Although digital photo may be convenient and immediate, a pitch black room full of chemicals rarely disappoints. -EF

Play It Make It – A Tiny Book of DIY Games by Rio $1.00 – DIY Apples to Apples and more. Super good ideas.
So Raw its Downright Filthy a Raw Vegan Cookbook by Joshua Ploeg (Microcosm) $4.00 – Amazing new recipes from the author of In Search of Lost Taste. Delicious, and with flavors and food ideas you wouldn’t expect.

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Overtime Hour 19 The List bt TD Corum $2.00
Ghosts and Doppelgangers by Brad Liening $13.00
Reasons to Leave the Slaughter by Ben Clark (Write Bloody) $15.00
Left Having by Jesse Seldess $14.95
Hannah Weiner’s Open House by Hannah Weiner $14.95
Literary Review vol 54 #3 Spr 11 $8.00
Eat The Wolf Poems by Xavier M. $.50
What Are They Doing in Heaven Today #1 $.25

MAGAZINES!
Bitch #51 $5.95
Uppercase #9 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00
Worn #11 Fashion Journal $6.00
Bust Jun Jul 11 $4.99
Z Magazine Jun 11 $4.95

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander by Marie Kangor-Born (Chicago Punx Pix) $22.00 – Missed last night’s release event here? Here’s your chance to snap one up!

SEX & SEXY!
Empower Yr Sexy Self  – A Workbook by Cheyenne Neckmonster/The Wrench Collective $1.50 – A get-it-started zine workthrough about body image, sensuality, sex, gender and identity. Nice n’ concise. -EF

Adult Themes Rated XXX by Chantel G. $2.00
Attitude #205 Sum 11 $10.99
Inked Jun 11 $6.99

OTHER STUFF!
Matt Bergstrom’s 3d View Master Reel and Zines! $10.00 each, from the American Ruins series, including: Brachs Candy Factory, Washburne Trade School and The Michael Reese Hospital. From the artist behind the Build Your Own Chicago (and New York) Cards.
Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches by Ekaterina Smirnova (MBP) $17.95
Comptons Cafeteria Riot Poster San Francisco 1966 $12.00 – Celebrate peoples history with this poster by Andre Perez.
Punk Rock Saved My Life sticker $1.00
Every Damn Day DVD A Sampling of Chicago Street Art and Graffiti $12.00

So far the world hasn’t ended. So guess that means you’ll have to come in to look at new stuff and then in about an hour Dan Gleason will be here to celebrate the release of ‘Dear Sweetness – Dan Gleason’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 3’ and will feature the Great Mike McPadden (aka El McBeardo), noted diarist Grace LaPeruto, Gabriel Wallace, author of the Great Sheboygan Panty Raid of 18977, Gregory Jacobsen – he of the long flowing locks- and the late Marc Arcuri. See you at 7pm!

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Zine World A Readers Guide to the Underground #30 $4.00
Deutschland 77 by Kaitlin Kostus $4.00
Resist Rebel Defy by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
Manifesto to the Industrial Workers of the World by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
Manifesto de los Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo Trabajadores Las Prisiones by Hybachi LeMar $1.00
Death Posture by Terrence Hannum and Scott Treleaven $20.00
Ablation by Terrence Hannum $15.00
Hilltown Experiment by Dr. Sarah Ingersoll $4.00
Spuzzed Out Bastard Son of the Sun by Jack Mulkern $4.00

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Masked Owls by Marian Runk $2.00
Leanne composition norcom by Marian Runk $5.00
New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00
From Light to Light #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
Tales From the Salmon #1 by Aland D. Caesar $6.00
Class Reunion #4 by Charlie Newton $2.50
Gang Bang Bong #2 by Ginette Lapalme and Ines Estrada $10.00 – Want a tremendous 100% solid anthology of experimental comics? GANG BANG BONG!!!! It’s like if Gary Panter raised 33 feral children, each one with a different diet of psychotropic drugs and B vitamins. Standout moments in a pile of great are Ana Albero’s cafeteria blues, Johnny Negron’s horny porny kool squirts, Abraham Díaz’s rat face dumpty chaos, and Aisha Franz’s fryin’ lion. There’s more too, like new work from house favorites Mickey Zacchilli. Michael DeForge, Lizz Hickey, Aidan Koch and Austin English. I’m more than happy to vouch for this one. -EF

Black Mass #5 by Kyle Patrick $5.00 – The build up to The Big Punk Off continues in furious dripper dropper style as Patrick Kyle’s Black Mass rages on. This issue is full of unsane ramble-ly tangents, which is the bloody beating spaghetti sauce heart of the series. The punks bicker over toilet lager, Bizarro Turdswallo sux a soul, Dingball flashes back to the charmed 40 that changed his game and Turdswallo Junior sorta undorks. Meanwhile, Turdswallo Proper gets his mojo back and thee punx swarm. There’s secrets, mutiny, goofy murder, shapes with no scientific name, fucked up drawings of the Crass logo, and maybe someone has some weed, too. On top of that, the plot is both funny and cohesive and the dialogue is so clowny, its fresh again. It’s tops, get all of theeze. -EF

Roots #1 by Alison Vellas $3.50
Stranger Two Stranger #1 May 11 by R. Hendricks $1.25
Layers #1 by Paul Walker $3.00
Tiny Bangs #1 by Olivia Horvath $5.00
Writing For Change May 11 $3.00
Alien Invasion #1 by Lauren Albert $5.00
Hattie et Millie #1 by Calvin Wong $2.00
Magus Pi #1 Root Ritual of the Goman by Randall Wayne Parker $2.50
Pick Me Up #1 by SWSS $3.00
Morning Song by Laura Terry $3.00
Heartbreak for Beginners by Laura Terry $4.00
Cat Came Back by Tim Stout and Laura Terry $2.00
BFF Best Friends Forever Ever Comic by Laura Terry $4.00
Impulse Sack $2.00
Poseur #5 by Nat Hoonsan $4.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Bay Area Graffiti 80s-90s Early Bombing by Sfaustina and Jocelyn Superstar (MBP) $50.00
Letter Fountain: The Anatomy of Type – Ultimate Typeface Reference Guide (Taschen) $69.99

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Take a Joke vol 3 of The Collected Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Forget Sorrow an Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang (Norton) – With a lilting voice and a strongly etched fairy tale hand, writer/artist Yang weaves a riveting true-life tale of ancestral jealousies and familial woes from her father’s recollections of growing up in China.
Approximate Continuum Comics by Lewis Trondheim (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Liars Kiss by Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano (Top Shelf) $14.95
Yeah TPB by Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez (Norton) $19.99
Comics Comics Cartoons Drawn by Your Favorite Comedians, ed. by Erich Beasley (MBP) $14.95 – With original illustrations from the likes of Jeff Garlin, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Robert Smigel, Molly Shannon, Eugene Mirman, Jim Breuer, Max Brooks, Rob Cantrell, Julia Sweeney, Monty Pythons Terry Jones, and many, many more, this book is sure to appeal to fans of comedy and celebrity alike.

FICTION!
Embassytown by China Mieville (Del Ray) $26.00
Lake by Banana Yoshimoto (Melville House) $23.95
God Machine by Robert Fisher $10.00

DIY
Practical Pyromaniac: Build Fire Tornadoes One Candlepower Engines, Great Balls of Fire and More Incendiary Devices by William Gurstelle (Chicago Rev Press) $16.95
Unscrewed: Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches and More from Your Old Electronics by Ed Sobey (Chicago Rev Press) $16.95
Herbal Remedies for Winter Wellness by Olivia Horvath $1.00

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Criminal Class Review vol 4 #1 $12.00
Toucan #11 Spr 11 $3.00
Feathertale Review #7 $10.00
Hobart #12 $10.00
Let by Sarah R Louden $18.95
Perfect Distance From the Sun vol 1 #1 Spr 11 by Ryan Buell, Dan Warner, Franz Hilarius $3.00
Fjords vol 1 #1 Arts and Literary Review $10.00
Six By Six #23 We Were All Great in the Observatory $5.00
Poems By Hillary Basile $1.00
Overtime Hour 19 The List by TD Corum $2.00

MAGAZINES!
Fortean Times #275 Jun 11 $11.99
3×3 vol 6 #1 #16 3X3 vol 5 #3 The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration $16.00
Skeptic vol 16 #3 $6.95
Tattoo Revue #153 $6.99
Gothic Beauty #33 $6.95
Best of Skunk vol 3 $6.99
BlackBook #84 May 11 $4.50
Ready Made #53 Jun Jul 11 $4.99
Classic Rock #158 Jun 11 $11.99
Tape Op #83 May Jun 11 $4.95
Filter #44 $5.95
Under the Radar #36 $5.99
Razorcake #62 $4.00
Hyphen #23 Spr 11 $4.95
Harpers Magazine Jun 11 $6.99
Selvedge #40 May Jun 11 $24.95
Tattoo Scout #23 $9.60

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson (Riverhead) $25.95
Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History by M. Hicks (History Press) $19.99 – This book follows the evolution of the “Chicago Style of Comedy” from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the 50’s, and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Don’t miss author Margaret Hicks here at Quimby’s on Sat 5/28, 7pm!

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
Visions For Chicago: A Highly Politicized Public Art Project ed. by Dan Tucker, With Contributions From 100 Chicagoans (Green Lantern Press) $10.00

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Journey To A Plugged In State Of Mind Electronic Music: 100 Years Of Experimention And Exploitation by Dave Henderson (Cherry Red) $22.95 – This book explores the long and exhaustive legacy and unearths the greatest albums, experiences and tunes from over a century of electronic sound. From anarchic sound art manifestos of the early 1900s to the three minute radio-friendly hits of the late Twentieth Century, via tape manipulations, WWII surplus gadgetry, synthetic versions of the Beat les and the development and domination of the synthesiser, the sequencer and their descendants which form the basic building blocks of much of the music we listen to today.

OTHER STUFF!
Comptons Cafeteria Riot San Francisco 1966 Celebrate Peoples History Poster by Andre Perez $12.00
Abracadabra vol 1 Box of Cards – A Response in Illustration of Ballards Rhymed Answers to Bellamys Century of Charades by Jay Krevens $12.00
Demongun #4 May 11 Video Edition by Bernie Mcgovern $15.00

ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Haymarket 1886:2011 by AREA Chicago $5.00 – Featuring contributions by and about: Penelope Rosemont, David Roediger, Alma Washington, the history of Haymarket walking tours, Euan Hague, Paul Buhle, Peter Chanthasena and Anh Nguyen, the Haymarket Historic Landmark District, Paul Durica, the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, reflections on Haymarket from the shadow of September 11, Holly Nelson, May Day, the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, Josefa Mellor and Nick Naber, 134 years of social struggle in Pilsen, Teko Sãso, Anthony Rayson. Jerry Mead-Lucero, Sam Mitrani, alternative Haymarket monument proposals, Samuel Barnett, Lucy Parsons, teaching and learning about Haymarket and more.
Rigor Mortis vol 4 $3.50
Little Otsu Living Things vol 3 by Hannah Waldron (Little Otsu) $6.95
Little Otsu Living Things vol 4 by Lilli Carre (Little Otsu) $6.95
How I Quit School #2 $3.00
Monsters Rock Tattoos #1 Jan 11 by Kione Kochi $4.00 – Zine and temporary tattoo pack.
Broken Pencil #51 $5.95
Bite Sized Wisdom by E. Jason Gremley $5.00
NBB by various $5.00
Dear Sweetness Dan Gleasons Greatest Hits vol 3 by Dan Gleason $8.95 – Don’t miss Dan and friends here at Quimby’s for this release event 5/21!
Stupor Treasury of True Stories by Steve Hughes $14.95
Esoterra: The Journal of Extreme Culture by Chad Hensley (Creation) $24.95

COMICS & MINI COMIX!
Magic Hedge And Other Stories #1 Magic Moments by Marian Runk $10.00
Foie Gras #3 by Edie Fake and Joy of Cooking $2.00
RASL #10 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50
New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00
From Light to Light #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
Tales From the Salmon #1 by Alan D. Caear $6.00
Poison the Cure #3 by Jad Ziade and Alex Cahill $11.00
Post Age by Sua You $4.00
Asian Mysticism Mar 11 by Sua You $4.00
Trapped by Sophie Yanow $5.00
Vsnqst by Sophie Yanow $5.00
Solo #1 by Waxwing $4.00
Class Reunion #4 by Charlie Newton $2.50
Silver Surfer #1 Battl for Good N Evil by Waxwing Get Rad $5.00
Squirm: A Story of Love Hope Betrayal or Just a Choose Your Own Adventure… by Lauren Luciano $2.50
Sorry Ice Monster The Weather Is Warm by Dustin Williams $8.00
Diamond Comics #6 (Floating World) $4.00
In The Parlor Room by Jeremy Sorese $10.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Sailor Jerry Tattoo Drawings (Hardy Mark) $30.00 – Them kids can’t get enough o’ that flash tattoo style. Here’s more!
Corn Liquor vol 1 and Other Pictures – Mostly Inspired by Nelson Algrens A Walk on the Wild Side by John Minkoff $9.00
Big Bad City by Slinkachu (Lebowski Publishing) $25.95
I Am Not of This Planet the Art of Gary Edson Arlington by Gary Edson Arlington (Last Gasp) $14.95
Rockin’: The Rockabilly Scene by Andrew Shaylor and Jerry Chatabox (Merrell) $50.00 – Swingin’ photobook for those interested in rockabilly.
History of American Graffiti by Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon (Harper) $40.00
Are You Reading Me by Laser (Lebowski) $25.95 – Coll graff book with an introduction by King Adz.
Vhils Selected Works 2005-2010 by Alexandre Farto (Lebowski) $25.95
Stencil King: The Dutch Godfather of Stencil Graffiti by Hugo Kaagman (Lebowski) $25.95

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Bat Boy: The Complete Weekly World News Comic Strips by Peter Bagge (IDW) $17.99
Batman and Robin: Batman and Robin Must Die Deluxe Edition HC by Grant Morrison etc. (DC) $24.99
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On the Media by Brooke Gladstone, illustrated by Josh Neufeld, Randy Jones and Susann Ferris-Jones (Norton) $23.95 – Interesting deconstruction of media, public radio style.
Pinocchio by Winshluss (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Not your grandparents’ Pinnocchio.

FICTION!
The Meowmorphosis by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook (Quirk) $12.95 – Not a bug. A cute kitty.

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #125 Jun 11 $5.99
High Times Ju1 11 $5.99
Wire #327 May 11 $10.99

MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin by James Sullivan (Da Capo) $16.00
Oops: The Text Messages You Wish You Never Sent (Nicotext) $9.95
In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Crown) $26.00 – From the author of Devil in the White City.

POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism–The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by by Christopher Hitchens, Windsor Mann and Martin Amis (Da Capo) $17.00
The Feminist Promise 1792 to the Present by Christine Stansell (Modern Library) $18.00 – Now in soft cover.
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski (Beacon) $27.95
Sea In Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout by Carl Safina (Crown) $25.00
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Andrea Smith (South End) $16.00
Killing Game by Gary and Eric Webb (Seven Stories) $19.95
This is Not a Program by Tiqqun (Semiotexte) $13.95

MUSIC BOOKS OR BOOKS WRITTEN BY MUSIC PEOPLE!
Heartbeat And a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears by Antonino Dambrosio (Nation) $16.99
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young (Faber) $25.00
Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica by Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth about Led Zep.

OTHER STUFF!
All sortsa Moleskine planners and journals. Planners for 2012 are hitting our shelves now. Lined, dated, blank, week-at-a-glance, month-at-a-glance, 18-month starting this coming summer, 12-month starting next year, soft cover, hard cover, smaller or bigger — you name it, we got it.
Alpine Songs Weekly Planner by Lart C Berliner (Little Otsu) $16.00