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New Stuff This Week
Used Records and Tapes #1 by Chris Auman & Mike Dixon $7
Dykes and Queers In Different Dimensions #2 by Ana Norell $15
Library Excavations #11 Defense Drama by Marc Fischer $6
Plant Petter by Jaclyn Wright $16
If You Feel Sad Feel the Sad by Elwing Suong Gonzalez $8
Let It Sink #10 $3
KerBloom #144 May & Jun 20 $2
Bubbles #7 an Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8
Looking Inward: A Guide to Introversion by Erika Sjule $5
Standstill by Olivia Fredricks $15
Magical Character Rabbit by Kinoko Evans (Study Group) $5.95
I Know What I Look Like by Veronica Timble $5
Hollow Press Stuff: Tribae the Cascade by Luca Brandi $16 – Hospital Train by Daisuke Ichiba $16 – Industrial Revolution and World War by Shintaro Kago $22 – Linchetto by Mat Brinkman $26 – Drippin by Laurence Engraver $13 – Chain by Paolo Massagli $7 – Plutonium by Gabriel Delmas $7 – Day of the Flying Head issues #2 & #4 by Shintaro Kago $12 – Four Comic by Paolo Massagli $13 – Baby In the Boneyard by Jesse Jacobs $16 – Outeroticspace by David Genchi & Miguel Angel Martin $13 – Xuwwuu: A Furvert Fairytale by Gabriel Delmas $12
Pre-Order! Seeds and Stems by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Comes with Signed Bookplate (while supplies last), To Celebrate Simon Hanselmann virtual event Thurs, 8/13!
Constitution Illustrated by Robert Sikoryak (D&Q) $14.95
Prison Pit: The Complete Collection by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Sky Is Blue With a Single Cloud by Kuniko Tsurita (D&Q) $29.95
Toybox Americana: Characters Met Along the Way by Tim Lane (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Nymph by Leila Marzocchi (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Peter Kuper $15.95
Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca (Fantagraphics) $21.99
Now vol 9 Fantagraphics Comics Anthology (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Tender Is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica $16
Shock Cinema #58 $5
The Internationalist #60 winter $1
Longest Day of the Year by Michael Tuberdyke $4
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Quimby's and Fantagraphics Present Simon Hanselmann Livestream to Celebrate Seeds and Stems In Conversation With Bianca Xunise 8/13
Quimby’s is proud to team up with Fantagraphics to bring you a livestream of Simon Hanselmann talking about Seeds and Stems, live from the Quimby’s Facebook Page on Thursday, August 13th at 7:30PM CST. No RSVP necessary! You can pre-order the book from quimbys.com now, and it will ship when the books arrive.
Seeds and Stems is a spectacular omnibus of never-before-collected Megg, Mogg & Owl shorts, and more!
Since 2014, Simon Hanselmann has established himself as one of the first rank storytellers of our time with his four graphic novels about the funny and poignant lives of Megg, Mogg and Owl: Megahex (2014), Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam (2016), One More Year (2017), and Bad Gateway (2019). Hanselmann’s cast of characters, the depressive Megg (a green-skinned witch), her abusive boyfriend, Mogg (an actual cat), their submissive roommate, Owl (a vaguely humanoid owl), and the self-destructively hedonistic Werewolf Jones (half human, half wolf), brilliantly exist within the archetypes of the multi-camera sitcom, yet their stories brim with exceptional pathos and insight.
In early 2016, Hanselmann moved to the USA from Australia and began producing xeroxed zines at a steady clip as a means to survive. Runs of 300 to 500 copies, sold online, with hand-painted covers, custom stamps and hologram security stickers. Usually created under duress, these zines often possessed an air of desperate urgency. Small explosions of concentrated, manic creativity harnessed as product. Seeds and Stems collects all of these out of print, self-published stories produced by the artist between 2016 through 2019, along with a generous smattering of rarities from various anthologies and magazines. Megg and Mogg and friends explore the worlds of lucid dreaming, banking scams, cinema, mixed drinks, alien invasion, and budget vasectomies in this varied collection of rare and often experimental Megg and Mogg adventures, designed and curated entirely by the artist. To capture the authentically seedy look of a prescription bottle, Hanselmann’s hand-painted cover is wrapped in a transparent orange acetate jacket.
“Hilarious, upsetting, and thoroughly brilliant, this collection proves once and for all that there’s not another living cartoonist as brazenly funny or unflinchingly weird or insightful about mental illness as Hanselmann.” -Library Journal (starred review)
Simon Hanselmann was born in 1981 in Launceston, Tasmania. His New York Times best-selling Megg & Mogg series has been translated into thirteen languages,
nominated for multiple Ignatz and Eisner awards, and won “Best Series” at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018. He currently lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife
and a rotating cast of small animals.
Simon Hanselmann will be in conversation with friend of Quimby’s Bookstore and Ignatz winner Bianca Xunise, whose works have been published by The Washington Post, Riot Fest, Vogue, The Nib and more. Follow Bianca at biancaxunise.com & Twitter + Instagram: @biancaxunise.
For more info:
Where to Pre-Order the Book.
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Moomin Arcana by Erin Watson $6
Zines by Hybachi Lemar: Factories the Fields and the Firearms to Defend Them $3.50, Anarchism and Ancient Egyptian Kemetic Knowledge $6.50
Graphic Novels
Moms by Yeong-shin Ma (D&Q) $29.95
The Cloven: Book One by Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth (Fantagraphics) $24.99
One Story by Gipi (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Art Books
Car Ma by Alison Mosshart (Third Man Books) $30
Politics & Revolution Books
Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey (AK Press) $13
Essays
Reports from Hell by Chas Smith $27
Fiction
Ak47 by Chrisx $20
Magazines
Horror Hound #83 summer $6.99
Poetry
Great Balls of Doubt: Poems and Prose Poems by Mark Terrill, illustrated by Jon Langford (Verse Chorus Press) $14
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Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: Animals Shall Inherit the Earth Edition 8/25
Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: Animals Shall Inherit the Earth Edition
7 p.m. CST Tuesday, August 25 on Zoom
Free!
From zine cats to amphibious water dogs (also known as axolotls), many of us create zines with animals by our sides or in our minds. This month at Zine Club Chicago Online: Animals Shall Inherit the Earth Edition, we’ll be discussing self-published works about the panoply of animals that share our planet. Grab your favorite titles, BYOS(nacks)/BYOP(ets), and join us on Zoom for a great conversation!
** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5pm CST Tuesday, Aug. 25th. You’ll get an email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers and created our logo and created this badass website for sharing zines we’ve discussed at Zine Club. Thank you to Corinne Halbert of Quimby’s for suggesting this month’s theme!
More info at Instagram: @zineclubchicago.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/285561552752019/
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Zines by Martin Sammy Gardea: Phone Book $12, Silver Lining $5, Message Delivered vol 3 $5, Electric Chairs $5, Couch Sofa $5
Fluke Fanzine #18 $4
Safe and Taken Care Of by Lily Hicks $4
Comics & Minis
New Wave Comics Presents #14 Featuring Deadbolt and Black Specter by David and Reginald Wayne Soileau $1.50
Quantum Man #1 by David Soileau and Reginald Soileau $2
Graphic Novels
Timewise by Kevin Krull $7
Art & Design
Celebrate Peoples History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution edited by Josh MacPhee (Feminist Press) 28.95
Politics & Revolution & The World Being Generally Fucked Up
Earth A.D. The Poisoning of The American Landscape and the Communities that Fought Back by Michael Lee Nirenberg (Process) $22.95
Food & Drugs!
All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote by Laura Kumin $28.95
Healing with Cannabis: The Evolution of the Endocannabinoid System and How Cannabinoids Help Relieve PTSD, Pain, MS, Anxiety, and More by Cheryl Pellerin $24.99
Chap Books
Overtime Hour #56 Strikes by Angela Belcher Epps (Blue Cubicle Press) $2
Ground Is Uneven #1 by Adam Kaz $6
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New Stuff This Week
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Zines
Preorder Crap Hound Black Cats 2020 ($6) and Additions 2020 ($20)
Shit’s Fucked, Still: Another Positivity Guide by Gina Sarti $3
Broken Pencil #88 Bodyhacking $7.95
Homespun Holler various issues (find April here) $2 each
Mixtape #4 by Molly Growler $8
Mexico Lindo Y Querido by Matt Tucker (Dirty Art Press) $12
An Antidote Reflections on Queer Shame by Rena Newman $10
Mystery and Adventure Series Review #55 by Fred Woodworth $3
Comics & Minis
Issues of Mini Kus $6:
#87 Violent Delights by Hetamoe
#88 Crime at Babel by Martins Zutis
#89 Egle and the Snake by Joana Estrela
#90 Banal Complications by Marc BellS! Baltic Comics Magazine #38 Imperfect Shapes by Amy Lockhart, Weng Pixin and Jan Soeken $14.95
Sick Tats Flash Quaranzine (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $10
You Don’t Get There From Here #54 by Carrie McNinch $4
Rimeski Comics #7 $3
Graphic Novels
“And Now, Sir Is THIS Your Missing Gonad?” by Jim Woodring $21.99
Stuck Rubber Baby 25th Anniversary Edition by Howard Cruse $24.99
One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks $14.99
Politics, Revolution, Essay
My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You by Aleksandar Hemon $18
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank $26.99
Hip Lit
A Set of Lines by S. D. Stewart $13.95
Wallop: A Novel by Nathaniel Kennon Perkins (House of Vlad Productions) $12.95
Bad Poet: Poems by Brian Alan Ellis (House of Vlad) $12.95
It’s Not Unhealthy to Fear the Sunrise by Keaton Goodman $7
Magazines & Journals
The Baffler #52 $14
n+1 #37 $14.95
In These Times august $4.95
Shots #148 $10
Offscreen #23 The Human Side of Technology $20
The First Line vol 22 #2 summer $6
Film & Music Books
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters $18 – Now in soft cover.
Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz $29.99
Niche: A Memoir in Pastiche by Momus $28
Outer Limits
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy (The Essential Wisdom Library) by Three Initiates $14.99
Fuck Like a Goddess: Heal Yourself. Reclaim Your Voice. Stand in Your Power. by Alexandra Roxo $18
The Bloom Book: A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance by Heidi Smith (Sounds True) $23.99
Other Stuff
Wine Ghost Vinyl Figure Created by Sage Coffey $30.50
New Holographic Stickers by Corinne “Hate Baby” Halbert $3 each
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New Stuff This Week
We live-stream new stuff on Saturdays at 11:30am.
Zines
History of Some Cases of Rape: A Pressing Concern Book Mark by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Pressing Concern) $7
Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine #7 Gods of the Afternoon $15
Exploding the Tangerine: A Shy Person’s Guide to Battle Magic by Clint Marsh and Oliver Bly $6
Bucktown Blocks: A Set of Five Neighborhood Story Cube Dice by Bizarre Bucktown $6
Comics & Minis
Blind by Evan M. Cohen $15
Love Is In the Air by Tony Blando & friends $5
Ants Follow by Megan Dwyer $10
Tallest of Tales by Megan Dwyer $12
Beetle Book by Megan Dwyer $10
Graphic Novels
Grip by Lale Westvind (Perfectly Acceptable) $30
Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist PRE-ORDER by Adrian Tomine (D+Q) $29.99
Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability by A. Andrews $9.99
Child Star by Brian Box Brown $19.99
Outer Limits
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Sideshow and Other Carnival Curiosities $29.99
The Serial Killer Cookbook: True Crime Trivia and Disturbingly Delicious Last Meals from Death Row’s Most Infamous Killers and Murderers by Ashley Lecker $17.95
Essays
All Hack by D Samarov $20
Magazines
VegNews #123 the Summer Issue $9.99
Lit Journals
Iowa Review vol 50 #1 Spr 2020 $8.95
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Old Chicago vol 1 Street Portraits of Older People by Sam Logan $7
Essential Oils: Destroy the Patriarchy Remedies Formulated for Modern Women (& 1000-Year-Old Witches) by Eryn Nicole O’Neal $4.95
It’s Going to be Anarchy: Anarchist Analyses of the Coronavirus Pandemic by Jim Donaghey $4.95
Speaking of Trains: A Glossary of Modern-Day Hobo and Railroad Worker Slang by Brakeshoe $7.95
How to Resist Amazon: Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Danny Caine $1
My Personal History of Race Part 2 by LM Hage $6
Mini Movie Marathon Drag 201 by Anna Jo Beck $2
Comics & Minis
Psychodrama Illustrated #2 by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $4.99
Long Gone #3 by Samuel Benson $5
Graphic Novels
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco $29.99
Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy by George O’Connor and Daniel G. Newman $28.99
Eight-Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Art Books
Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions $34.99
Stuff From Amphetamine Sulphate:
Invisibility: A Manifesto by Audrey Szasz $10
Alone by Thomas Moore $20
Magician by Christopher Zeischegg $20
Civil War: Special Edition by Simon Morris, with a New Intro by Gabrielle Losoncy $15Fiction
Little Brother & Homeland by Corey Doctorow $18.99
Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson $12.99
Vernon Subutex 2: A Novel by Virginie Despentes $17
Outer Limits
Conscience of an Agnostic by Robert K. Cooper $4.95
Magazines
Adbusters #150 $14.95
Coffee People Zine #8 & #9 $15 each
Skeptic vol 25 #2 $6.95
Chap Books
Traces by Robert Balun $10
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