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New Stuff This Week
Hairdriver by Otto Splotch $10
Zines
We the Drowned #4 by Jonas $3
Breakdown Sonic Meditations Workbooks: Immersive Ecological Entanglement #s 2 & #3 by Brett Bloom & friends $6
Library Excavations #10 Health and Safety by Marc Fischer $6
Courtroom Artist Residency Report by Public Collectors Residencies #9-12 by Marc Fischer & friends $8
Jane: The Legendary Story of the Underground Abortion Service, 1968-1973 by Judith Arcana (Microcosm) $4.95
Behind the Zines July #8 A Zine About Zines by Billy & friends $3
Towards A Less Fucked Up World: Sobriety and Anarchist Struggle by Nick Riotfag EXPANDED EDITION $5
Witches Grimoire by Sabrina Cintron $10
Aftermath Explorations of Loss and Grief by Radix Media $18.95
Mr Foreginger Trilogy by Charles Joseph Smith $5
Sinternet by Julie Herrmann $2
LLiLL – Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries issue #2 by Peter Miles Bergman (is PRESS) $7
Comics & Minis
š! Baltic Comics Magazine issues #34 Redrawing Stories from the Past II & #35 Bonkers $12 each
mini kuš! $5 each: #75 by Alice Socal, #76 by Paula Puiupo, #77 Rebeka Lukosus, #78 by Hironori Kikuchi
Black Bile by Ari S. Mulch (Uncivilized) $6
Introvert Sketchbook Comics and Drawings by Erin Nations $5
Cavern Book by Ari Ganahl $12
comics by November Garcia $8 each: Malarkey #1-$3, Rookie Moves
Trans Girls Hit the Town by Emma Jayne $7
Livewire #0 by David Feaman $4
Graphic Novels
Tonta by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Bad Gateway by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphcis) $29.99
Anthology of Mind by Tommi Musturi (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Empress Cixtisis by Anne Simon (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Phantoms In The Attic by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Jeremiah by Cathy Johnson (Adhouse) $15
The Nib Magazine Issue 4: Scams $14.95
Paper Peril by Jean-Baptiste Bourgois (Fantagraphics Underground) $18
Dream Eater by Emma Jayne $20
Art & Design Books
Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art by Hereward Tilton (Fulgur Press) $49.95
The Infernal Bestiary by Justine Ternel w/ illustrations by Matthieu Hackière (Gingko Press) $35
Sparkling by Chika Takei (Nippan) $50
Be the Change: A Justseeds Coloring Book by Molly Fair (Radix Media) $15
Politics & Revolution
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg $10
All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body edited by Dani Burlison (PM Press) $19.95
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook by Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore (PM Press) 14.95
Godless: 150 Years of Disbelief edited by Chaz Bufe (PM Press) $19.95
New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right by David Renton (Haymarket) $22
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Jean Baudrillard $19.95
Essay Books
Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno $16.99
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe (Chicago Review Press) $16.99
The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage by Jeff Abraham & Burt Kearns (Chicago Review Press) $16.99
Sounds of Infinity by Lee Morgan $24.95
Practical Witches Almanac 2020 vol 13 $12.95
Help
Unfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness by by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm Publishing) $9.95
Music Books
Cassette Cultures: The Past and Present of a Musical Icon by John Z. Komurki (Benteli Verlags) $24.95
Punk Chronicles by David Ensminger $15
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons by Ben Folds $28
Fiction
Watching the Wheels by Simon Morris (Amphetamine Sulphate) $15
Black Card by Chris L. Terry (Catapult) $25
Travel
This Is San Francisco: The Ups Downs Ins and Outs of the City By the Bay by Alexander Barrett (Microcosm) $12.95
Magazines
Horror Hound #78 July August $6.99
Shindig #93 August $13.99
Fortean Times #381 July $12.40
Vive Le Rock #64 Post Punk $12.75
Mojo #309 August $11.99
The Internationalist #56 May June $1
Lit Journals & Chap Books
McSweeney’s #56 $28
Funny Looking Dog Quarterly #2 $10
Berlin Quarterly #10 $20
Delicate Pipes by Erin Dorney $7
Piranahcane Now by Damon Charles Bishop $6.95
After Hours: Journal of Chicago Writing and Art #38 Summer $10
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CHIPRC’s Zine Club: Through the Lens Edition, at Quimby’s!
From vintage daguerreotypes and Polaroids to strips of photo booth selfies and digitally altered images, the pages of zines provide an excellent frame for photographs of all kinds. This month at our book club-style event for people who read zines, we’ll be talking about our favorite titles that focus on photos. Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome to join us for a fun discussion and snacks.
If you’d like to participate in our Mystery Zine Swap, bring a zine (concealed in some way) to trade with someone else on the spot!
CHIPRC’s Zine Club is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.
Tues, Aug 13th, 7pm
Here at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park
Free
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New Stuff This Week
8-Track Mind #104 Summer 2019 $4
Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art and Culture by Jinx and Mr C (Feral House) $22.95 – This book is now in stock but don’t miss the event on August 10th!
Zines
Razorblades and Aspirin #6 by M. Thorn $8
The Match #119 $3
Video Protozoa #2 & #3 $4
Girls Rock Carbondale Camper Zine 2019 $10
Penises Are Confusing with Polly and Amanda, various issues $2.50
Gloss Entertainment #1 $6
Comics
Love and Rockets MAGAZINE #7 by the Hernandez Bros $4.99
No Pants Revolution #1-#4 by Andrea Pearson $5 each
Lost Cat Please Call Me #2 2019 by Jarad Solomon $6
Graphic Novels
Let’s Make Ramen by Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan $19.99
Simon and Louise GN by Max de Radigues (Conundrum) $18
Sim Sim Magica Book 1 by Chu Nap (Peow) $17
My Draw Wings by Shelly Turner $17
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei $19.99
Baaaad Muthaz by Bill Campbell & Damian Duffy, illustrated by David Brame $14.95
Politics & Revolution
About Anarchism by Nicolas Walter (PM Press) $14.95
Art Book
Pope L – One Thing After Another Art Book $18
Fiction
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead $24.95
Magazines
Tape Op #132 $5.99
Dollhouse #2 $15
The Believer #126 The Music Issue $12
Lit Journals & Poetry
Fresh Meat #7 Collage + #10 Towards a Familiar Architecture $25 each
Fear Naught – The Junk Drawer of Poetry by Owen Patterson $9.95
Dropout by Camilo Roldan $17
How to Look Worse and Feel Ordinary – Antipoems for Modernity by Melissa Morano $12.99
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New Stuff This Week
Sold As Blank VHS / Possible Lost Media by Marc Fischer (Public Collectors) $5
Zines
Gray Flag by Chris Auman $4.50
This Bike is a Crack Pipe #3 by Evilyn $7
Walt Loved Zines #1 by Lynne Monsoon $3
Copy and Paste by CZF $2
Duly Noted Smoke Cigarettes Outside by Chloe Topf $5
Drawing zines by Turner Hilliker: Talk, Chatter $5-$9
Comics & Minis
Comics by Allie Trigoso: Poutine, Just Pollies, Be Your Cake and Eat it Too $5-$15
Snakes Sssnakes #1 by Chris Auman $3
Marjorie #4 $3
Sexual Deviance #1 by Jamie $15
Soap Magazine #1 Sum 19 $10
High Maintenance Machine #29 $4
Days Off #2 a Comic Anthology by Turner Hilliker $3
Venus 2 $15
Graphic Novels
How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Kingdom by Jon McNaught (Nobrow) $19.95
Interiors by Sabine Rear $8
Art Books
Juxtapoz: Black & White, edited by Evan Pricco (Gingko/Juxtapoz) $39.95
Original Grin: The Art of Ron English $65
Politics & Revolution
The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain by Sean Michael Wilson & Robert Brown (New Internationalist) $18.95
Fiction
Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country & Other Stories by Chavisa Woods $15.95
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin (plus books 2 Judas Rose and 3 Earthsong in the trilogy) (Feminist Press) $17.95 each
Crash: Deluxe Edition by J. G. Ballard (Rare Bird Books) $30 – Plus other short stories, interviews with Ballard, stuff about a BBC2 film about Ballard & more.
Notes From the Fog: Stories by Ben Marcus $16
Magazines
Protean Magazine vol 1 #1 Pattern Machines $20
Gear Patrol #10 $20
Create Magazine #15 $15
Fortean Times june $12.40
Dazed and Confused summer $13.20
RFD summer $11.95
Shindig #92 $13.99
Monocle july august $17
Wire july $10.99
Pomme Magazine the Internet $15
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Mizna vol 19: #1 The Playing Field $10 & #2 The Palestine Issue $12
Emma by Gabriel Oladipo $10
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July Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter Now Available
The July Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter is available at this link here!
Sign up to get our monthly missive in your e-mail inbox every month at quimbys.com
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Jinx & Mr. C Present: Compliments of Chicagohoodz – Chicago Street Gang Art & Culture
James “Jinx” O’Connor and Damen Corrado’s new book Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art and Culture (Feral House) draws upon the world’s largest collection of Chicago street gang memorabilia and research material to decipher their arcane visual language of the city’s street organizations. This comprehensive survey breaks down and analyzes approximately 700 street gang business cards (“compliment cards”), along with photographic documentation of the lost era of street gang graffiti (“emblems”), gang member portraits, archival photos of varsity-style gang sweaters and patches, drawings, and commentary from gang members and artists such as Robert N. Taylor and Jack Walls.
Through these images Compliments of Chicagohoodz traces the history and development of the neighborhood street gang, from the “social athletic clubs” of the 1950s “greaser” era, through the racially divided 1970s, up to the 1990s and beyond.Former Guardian Angel “Jinx” has spent 30 years combing the streets, researching territories, interviewing and photographing gang members and countless hours conducting research in the Chicago Historical Society and the Harold Washington Library.
Damen Corrado is an artist and filmmaker from the North Side of Chicago.
For more info:
feralhouse.com OR 323-666-3311
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New Stuff This Week
So Real It Hurts by Lydia Lunch $17.95 – The book rejected by 26 American publishers – interviews, rants, etc.
Zines
Queer Sailors #4 $8
Unsolved Cases: A Sketchbook Zine by Carmen Pizarro $4
Comics & Minis
Our Embrace by Kane Shirley $20
Pete and Pratt’s Wacky Western #1 Double Digest $6
Crybaby by Carmen Pizarro $12
It’s Just Another Day by Bluraven Houvener $2
Politics & Revolution
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics by Dan Kaufman $16.95
Outer Limits Books
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol to Ecstasy 5th Edition by Cynthia Kuhn PhD & friends $19.95
Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest by Ryan Thompson and Phil Orr (The Ice Plant) $32.50
The Impostor: A True Story by Javier Cercas $17 – About the revered Spanish Civil War vet and justice crusader who lied about being a Holocaust survivor (and various other fabrications).
Music Books
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs by Jonny Trunk (Four Corners Books) $24.95
Magazines
Uppercase #42 $18
Skeptical Inquirer $5.99
Fader #117 $6.99
The Baffler #46 July August $14
Anorak #49 $13
Puss Puss #9 $16.50
Chap Books
Improvemense $5
For the Kiddies
Stories for Ways and Means by Waxploitation/Jeff Antebi & friends $55 – Collabs between painters/writers/musicians on kids stories. Work by Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Frank Black, Kathleen Hanna, Swoon, James Jean and more. Supports nonprofits like 826.
A Children’s Book of Demons by Aaron Leighton (Koyama) $12
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CHIPRC's Zine Club: International Zine Month Edition on 7/18
July is International Zine Month! CHIPRC’s Zine Club is commemorating this global celebration of self-publishing with an exploration of zines from other countries. Bring your favorite titles from outside the United States and join us for a fun discussion and snacks at Chicago’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are welcome!
* Please note that we’re meeting on a Thursday evening this month. *
Looking for more ways to celebrate #IZF2019? Check out this cool calendar of daily activities created by Alex Wrekk of Portland Button Works and Zine Distro:
https://bit.ly/3019Fd6Since July 18 is IZF’s Zine Trade Day, we’re putting a fun spin on our usual Mystery Zine Swap. Please bring a zine to trade, concealed in some way, and write a one-sentence description (without using the title or zinemaker’s name) on the wrapping. Then we’ll match up folks with the description that appeals most to them. Think of it as speed dating – but for zines and readers. 🙂
More info at quimbys.com. CHIPRC’s Zine Club is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.
Image credit: Alex Wrekk
Thurs, July 18th, 7pm
Free Event
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2280438425604527/
find a bigger pdf of this at https://bit.ly/3019Fd6 
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Stranger Voice: Part of My Trans Experience by Adira Slattery $5
Wasting Away Again: Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Zine by Megan Kirby and Jon Mastantuono $5
2018 Movie Watchlist by Johnny Misfit $3
Chicken Soup For the Oddly Specific Soul: You Are Not Alone by Heather Anacker $4
Get 2 Stepping by Adam Jason Cohen and Mike Gamboa $12
KerBloom #138 May June 19 by Artnoose $2
Broken Pencil #84 $7.95
Crimson Tarboosh by Dan Kelly $3
Wicker Park People by Sam Logan $10
Comics & Minis
You Don’t Get There From Here #50 by Carrie McNinch $4
Silver Wire by Kriota Willberg $10
Fat Farm #1-#3 by Max Airborne $5 each
Comics by Hyena Hell: Quality of Pain $8, True Stories From My Dumb Life #8 & #9 $10 each
Softer Than Sunshine by Harry Nordlinger $6
Shit Stats $2
Graphic Novels
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day by Brian Blomerth $30 – A Visual History if the Worlds First Acid Trip.
Alay-Oop by Gropper William $24.95 – A lost, early classic of the graphic novel, now back in print for the first time since 1930.
Tales From the Rhythmic Zone Onli Studios Collection $20
Art Books
This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community–a Life in Streetwear by Bobby Hundreds $28
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society by by John Law, Kevin Evans & Carrie Galbraith (Last Gasp) $29.95
Politics, Revolution & Essay
Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide by Cass R. Sunstein $16
100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism by Chavisa Woods $14.95
Fiction
We Sold Our Souls: A Novel by Grady Hendrix $14.99
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising: A Novel by Raymond A. Villareal $16.99
Here Is What You Do: Stories by Chris Dennis $16
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring $30
Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald $30 – Lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick.
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are, 25th Anniversary Edition by Bob Frissell $19.95
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum $28
Magazines
Bust July/August $6.99
Hi-Fructose #52 $8.95
Shock Cinema #56 $5
Drift vol 8 London $24
Ambrosia vol 6 London $19
Bowl and Plant #1 The Cannabis Quarterly $10
Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
SPELLS: 21st Century Occult Poetry by Sarah Shin and Rebecca Tamás $19.95
Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art #113 $14
The Paris Review #229 $20
Stuff from Mattieleighx: Kiss Me I Love You Lol, Emoji Dickison by Mattieleighx & more
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New Stuff This Week
A whole bunch of stuff from Wellred Books: Reason in Revolt by Alan Woods and Ted Grant, What Is Marxism by Rob Sewell and Alan Woods, Understanding Marx’s Capital: A Readers Guide by Adam Booth and Rob Sewell & more!
Zines
Mantid Mania #6 Bizarre Mantid by M. Smith $5
Gender Euphoria: A New Collection by Rena Yehuda Newman & friends $10
Selection of Works from Daily Bart $8
Second Glances by Rachel Schafer $15
Diveristy of Tactics #1 Anthony Lupacchino $7
I Bury People For a Living By Lashes $1
ThinkBabyMusic #7 $7
Comics & Minis
Inspector by Liam Cobb (Breakdown) $12.50
Hands by Cecilia Schmitt $10
Static by Nayef Nebhan $4.50
Oska Wald Dean Street Parts #1-#3 by Al Burian $4 each
Love Is the Plug by Andy Leunberger $8
New Wave Comics Samson #2 by David Soileau $2
Monkey Vision Selected Minis and Strips 2017-2015 by Mike Taylor $6
Graphic Novels
The Artist: The Circle of Life by Anna Haifisch (Breakdown) $26.99
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Clayton Daniels and Ben Passmore (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Generous Bosom vols 2 & 3 by Conor Stechschulte (Breakdown) $22.50 each
Art Books
Charles R. Child’s Chicago Garfield Park and Lawndale by Perry Casalino $25
Handmade Blooms: The Floral Art of Norma Gatto by Perry Casalino $10
This Is a Real Photograph: The Life and Work of Photographer Charles R. Childs by Perry Casalino $25
Music Books
I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins by Steve Bergsman (Feral House) $17.95
What About Tomorrow: An Oral History of Russian Punk From the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot by Alexander Herbert (Microcosm) $19.95
Fugazi: Keep Your Eyes Open by Glen E. Friedman (Akashic) $35 – Back in print!
Help
Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health by Reid Chancellor (Microcosm) $14.95
Magazines
Adbusters #144 $14.95
Victory Journal #16 $16
Mojo #308 July $11.99
The Point #19 $14.99
Poetry
Bedtime Stories by Clarisse Casalino $15
Down the Rabbit Hole by Mickie $9.99