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New Stuff This Week
Paperback Paradise Bookmarks $1.00Zines
My Brother Aaron #1 $1
Analysis of an Elite American Art Therapy Education in the Trump Era by Alison Dowd $12
Queer Sailors Zines, various issues $3-$9
Save the Phenomena by Bronwyn Mauldin $7
Book of Signs: The Women’s March, January 21, 2017 compiled by Annabel Lee & Lisanne Schloss (Vehicle Editions) $5
Comics & Minis
Flowery by #1 Mel Stringer $6.50
Confronting and Carrying Shadows by Alison Dowd $8
Outer Limits
Ancient Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome by Philip Matyszak $24.95
Essays
Kathy Acker: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Kathy Acker $16.99
Music Books
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib $16.95
Lit Journals
The Paris Review #228 $20
Magazines
Mujeristas Collective Issue #3 Soy Mujerista $16.70
Wire #421 March 2019 $10.99
Skeptical Inquirer vol 43 #2 $5.99
Sex Guides & Culture
Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy by Hallie Lieberman $16.95
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Tarot Readings by Sarah Luczko at Quimby’s April 15th
Quimby’s is proud to welcome back tarot readings by Sarah Luczko. Sarah is a poet, dancer, performance artist, bookstore owner, and Tarot reader. Her readings are down to earth, while still keeping one foot in the other world. Sarah works with querents to produce a reading through collaboration with the cards. She embraces the traveling tradition of party readings. She prefers to read in loud bars, outdoors, in a garden, at art openings, or anywhere away from more traditional settings. Follow Space Oddities bookstore & gallery on Instagram: @5paceoddities
Facebook invite for this event is here.
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New Stuff This Week
Your Focus Chamber Awaits by Sean Christensen and Theo Ellsworth $20
Zines
Plant Parenthood by Heather Anacker and Krista Feld $9.99
Caboose #11 by Liz Mason $4 – Knowledge gained from loss of pets and parents.
Rejected Zine #2 $3
We The Drowned #2 by Jonas $3
Zeromile #11 ($5) & #12 ($10)
Maniac at Large by Corey J. Brewer $15
Sunkissed Moon Is Weak with Gravity by Daniella Thach $10
Bad Shape by Harry Elfenbaum and Wade Howard $20
MisMerchd #1 The Everyday Value Issue by Heather Link Bergman $5
Every Mark I Ever Made by Well Piersol $4
Llill Leftist Leaflets in Little Libraries $5
Slave Nation #1 by Frank Kwiatkowski $5
Raw Fury #5 by Peter Bergman $20
Bad Egg (various issues) $5-$10
Cleft Land #1-#5 $1 each
A is for Asexual $1
Tea and Butterflies #1 & #2 $1 each
Fat Dracula by rlarsen4 $5
Razorblades and Aspirin #5 by M. Thorn $8
Comics
Fine: A Story by M. Centeno $8
Stuff from Cold Cube Press: Endman by Karissa Sakumoto $10 + Behind Is Late by Cynthia Alfonso $20
Stub My Toe by Wade Howard $5
Cheesecake by M. Sabine Rear $8
Vanitas by Bee Ebben $5
Its Ok To Be Sad by Kevin Budnik, various issues $3
Coffee Spoons #4 by Megan Kirby $8
Graphic Novels
Cult of the Ibis by Daria Tessler (Fantagraphics Underground) $29.99
Is This How You See Me by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Don’t miss Jaime here next week, on Monday, March 11th, in convo with Anya Davidson.
This Woman’s Work by Julie Delporte (D+Q) $24.95
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley $19.99
The Perineum Technique by Ruppert / Mulot (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World’s Mightiest Mortal by Chip Kidd / Geoff Spear $24.99
A Fire Story by Brian Fies $24.99
Politics & Revolution Books
She the People: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women’s Equality by Jen Deaderick, illustrated by Rita Sapunor $17.99
Feminism for the 99 Percent: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza / Tithi Bhattacharya / Nancy Fraser (Verso) $12.95
The Women’s Suffrage Movement edited by Sally Roesch Wagner $18
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good edited Adrienne Maree Brown (AK Press) $20
Culture and Resistance: Conversations With Edward W. Said by Edward W. Said / David Barsamian (Haymarket Books) $17.95
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era edited by Jason Baumann $24.95
Art, Design & Photo Books
Dead Skin by Wade Howard $24.99
Song Of Songs illustrated by Samo Frosh $20
Music & Film Books
33 1/3: The Shangri-las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-las by Ada Wolin $14.95
Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story by Chris Nashawaty $17.99
Essays
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Essays by Joel Golby $16
Fiction
Flash and Filigree by Terry Southern $16 – New edition.
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories by Michael Andreasen $17
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi $27
Mayhem & Outer Limits
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara $17.99
Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side by Julia Shaw $24
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek $26
Magazines
Wicked Vision Magazine vol 13 Jan Feb Mar 2019 $18
Bitch #82 $7.95
Create Magazine #13 $15
Murder Most Foul: World’s Number One True Crime Quarterly #111 $10.99
Jacobin #32 $12.95
Nostalgia Digest Spring 2019 $4.50
In These Times March 2019 $4.95
Fortean Times #376 $12.40
Lit Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Overtime Hour 51 How the System Works by Laura Wyckoff $2
Love Calls Out To Love by J Blake Gordon $10
George Oppen Memorial BBQ A poem by Eric Tyler Benick $12
Misrule by Adam Tedesco $10
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March Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter Now Available
The March 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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Tarot Readings by Sarah Luczko at Quimby's March 4th
Quimby’s is proud to welcome tarot readings by Sarah Luczko, poet, dancer, performance artist, bookstore owner (Space Oddities, friend of Quimby’s), and Tarot reader. Her readings are down to earth, while still keeping one foot in the other world. Sarah grants her querents the autonomy and focus to produce their own reading through collaboration in working with the cards. She embraces the traveling tradition of party readings. She prefers to read in loud bars, outdoors, in a garden, at art openings, or anywhere away from more traditional settings. $20 per reading. Follow her on Instagram: @sluczko
Here’s the Facebook invite for this.
Monday, March 4th, 7-9pm
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Jesse Duquette of “The Daily Don” Book Signing on Free Comic Book Day, May 4th
The first Saturday in May is always Free Comic Book Day (yes, we’ll have some free comics all day), and this year Quimby’s also celebrates by welcoming Jesse Duquette of “The Daily Don” — the popular Instagram which is now featured in a book.
“The Daily Don: All The News That Fits Into Tiny, Tiny Hands” (Skyhorse Publishing) collects the best of the first two years of artist Jesse Duquette’s Instagram art project “The Daily Don”, a gallery of cartoons centered around the Trump administration. As soon as the lies began on Day One of Trump’s presidency about crowd sizes at his Inauguration, Duquette decided the best weapon he could employ against the coming madness was his pack of colored pencils. Thus began his semi-monastic regimen of documenting each and every day of this administration’s actions, tweets, scandals, and bizarro cast of characters through satirical cartoons, a healthier outlet for an incredulous and outraged public than, say, depressed drinking or Proud Boy provoking. Duquette’s influences range from Shel Silverstein to Pat Oliphant to Moebius, but the effect is mostly slow motion pen-and-ink waterboarding.
“Anyone who doesn’t follow The Daily Don is missing the point of life in 2018 .” – Laurence Tribe, Author & Professor at Harvard Law School, real smart guy.
Jesse’s work has been featured in such places as: The Globe & Mail, TruthDig, MoveOn.org, and Viceland’s “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold”. He has also been featured on the “CraftSanity” podcast and was the subject of a Snopes article (verified “True”!). Jesse has no degrees or awards to his name but his mother loves him anyways.
Note: Free Comic Book Day goes on all day and we’ll have some, but only as long as supplies last. The Daily Don is not a free comic.
For more info:
dailydondrawings(at)gmail(dot)com
Saturday, May 4th, 7pm – Free Event
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CHIPRC’s Zine Club: Made in Chicago Edition, at Quimby’s! March 26th
In March, our husky, brawling metropolis turns 182, and we’re celebrating by exploring zines made in Chicago! This month at our book club-style event for people who read zines, we’ll be talking about our favorite titles that were created right here in the city that is second to none when it comes to self-publishing. Local zinemakers, please bring one of your own zines to share! 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!
This event will be led by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.
CHIPRC’s Zine Club: Made in Chicago Edition, at Quimby’s!
7 p.m. Tuesday, March 26
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park
Free
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New Stuff This Week
Russian Criminal Playing Cards: Deck of 54 Playing Cards edited by Damon Murray (Fuel) $20
Stuff from Contagion Press!Zines & Zine-Related
Other One by Marie Reichel $18
Glister #1 An Alt Pop Photo Series $15
Melancholy Musings of a Misfit Girl by Tianne Pitz #1 $5
zines from Carrie: IDGAF About Your Diet Deborah by Carrie $2, Surviving High School for Teens Freaks and Other Outlaws $2
Why I Do Not Write Poetry: A Manifesto on Art and Modern Life In Praise of the Open Text by Elizabeth Harper $2
KerBloom #136 Jan Feb 2019 by Artnoose $2
Just Another Asshole No. 6 by Glenn Branca & Barbara Ess $14.95 – Was a seminal and now legendary series of publications that helped define New York’s No Wave community, edited by photographer and musician Barbara Ess from 1978 to 1987.
Freedom of the Presses: Artists’ Books in the Twenty-First Century $25
Radio Luzifer Las Luzes Illuminando La Oscuridad by Luz Magdaleno $5
Exploration In Atrophy by Isabella Aimone 2018 $20
Late to the Party Fall Winter 18 by Erik Jacobson $3
Comics
Follicle by JJ McLuckie $12
So Buttons #9 $5
Scrambled Eggs by Chris Mattei $5
High Maintenance Machine #28 $4
New Wave Comics Presents #9 by David Soileau $1.50
On Struggling Relationships (b+w version) by Brown and Proud Press $5
Searching for Youth by Jake Marrus $6
Smallest Unit of Life Comic by A. Bellstorf $8
Horkin and Henry the Death of a Universe by Spencer Scudder $16
Worlds by Elvis Vasquez and Maddison Chaffer & friends $10
I Loved My Dead Dog by Cameron Feeley $1.50
Delia Awesome #3
Graphic Novels
James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Billie the Bee by Mary Fleener (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Letter to Survivors by Gébé $15.95
Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage by Fabien Grolleau, illustrated by Jérémie Royer (Nobrow) $22.95
Politics & Revolution
The Future Is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women, edited by Mallory Farrugia $24.95
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr $30
Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism the Manifesto Series vol 2 (McSweeneys) $9.99
Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Paul Buhle / Steve Max, illustrated by Noah Van Sciver $19.95
The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs: Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877–1892, edited by Tim Davenport (Haymarket) $36
Art Books
The Art of Kaneoya Sachiko (Iron Circus) $35 – First English translation of an artist inspired by anime and manga from the 50s and 90s, showcasing the monstrous, the romantic, and the mortal suffering of her subjects.
Mayhem
Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma Byrne $15.95
Music & Film Books
Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool: Photographs 1976-1982 (Trapart Books) $39.95 – Punk and industrial culture in late ’70s and early ’80s San Francisco from photographer Ruby Ray, whose photos have appeared in Search & Destroy and RE/Search.
Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin by Samm Deighan (Spectacular Optical) $36.95
Essays
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays by Tim Kreider $16
Fiction
Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten $16
We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill $16.99
Magazines
Oh So Magazine #1 Celebrating the Female Global Skateboarding Community $16
Bust #115 Mar/Apr 2019 $6.99
Little White Lies #78 Jan/Feb 2019 $12.99
Maximumrocknroll #430 Mar 2019 $4.99
Adbusters #142 $10
The Point #18 Winter 19 $14.99 – This issue: Chicago Police Torture
Mojo #304 Mar 2019 $11.25
Harpers Magazine Mar 2019 $6.99
Wire #420 Feb 19 $10.99
Raw Vision #100 $16
The Monthly Review vol 70 #9 Feb 2019 $6
Free Ass Mag #5 $15
Cinema Retro vol 15 #43 $11.99
New Skin Mag #1 $10
Pictures of My Mother Touching Wild Animals by Gwen Bedient $7
Lit Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Granta #146 Politics of Feeling #16.99
Hotel Alexander by Rebekah Morgan $10.95
Creature by Tianne Pitz #3 $5
Bai by Shannon Campbell and Marcello Di Russo $8
From My Lips by Lupita Carrasquillo $15
Sobotka Literary Magazine #7 Winter 19 $10
New titles from Amphetamine Sulphate, $10 each: Sea of Love by Simon Morris – Scum by Alex Binnie – Anatomical Charisma by Sam McKinlay – Granite City Blues by Josh Peterson – Inside the Castle by Josiah Morgan – Small Talk at the Clinic by Thomas Moore – Missing by Josh Peterson…& more.
Other Stuff
Postcards from Paperback Paradise.
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Video Game Art Gallery Celebrates the Release of Issue 2 of the VGA Reader at Quimby's, March 9th
Come join the staff of the Video Game Art Gallery, the editorial board, and their colleagues in celebrating the release of issue 2 of the Video Game Art Reader, a scholarly peer-reviewed art history publication. The VGAR is an attempt to not only deepen the discourse around video games, but to also make it more accessible to the public and inclusive of marginalized voices. The theme for this issue was “survival strategy,” an investigation not just into the defined genre of “survival games,” but the methods by which all games can become tools for conditioning, coping, and creating within the digital world. Issue 2 includes works by Martin Zeilinger writing on the limits of digital performance art, Andrew Bailey examining how exploration of digital spaces can transform understanding of physical ones, Michael Anthony DeAnda investigating the consequences of digital surveillance, Luisa Salvador Dias discussing how video games depict war, Michael Paramo arguing for better representation of queer characters, and Treva Michelle Legassie probing the implications of rendering oneself in a video game. This issue also includes a practitioner statement by Elizabeth LaPensée on her water-protecting side-scroller, Thunderbird Strike, and an interview with the evocative game designer and scholar Anna Anthropy.
The event will begin at 7pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be served. Copies of the latest VGAR will be available for sale, as will the Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition catalogue, also produced by the VGA Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
For more info:
mreed(at)vgagallery(dot)com
Sat, March 9th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Charles R. Childs Panoramas: A Panoramic Construction of the Images of Charles R. Childs by Perry Casalino $20 – From 1907 to 1912, Charles R. Childs produced over 5,400 individual photographic views of Chicago for use as picture postcards. Charles R. Childs Panoramas is a collection of whimsical panoramic views using Childs’ postcards. These constructions give a sense of place never before seen in vintage Chicago photography.
Zines
Trial and Error #6 Pocket Guide to Being Totally Cool $3
Safe Sex Mini Bundle How to talk about STDS with Sexual Partners $1
Hieratic Art or the Alchemy of Talismans by Brian Cotnoir $10
Would Be President by John Dishwasher $5
Lacunae by Lisa Wilde $20
Music Men Ruined For Me by Alison Lang $10
Raise Your Horns $2.50
Xerography Debt #43 and #44 $4 each
Post Modern Romance #1 The View From Marriage $8
BYOC Build Your Own Chimera: A Guide to Creature Invention by Jam $1
Comics & Minis
Every Drop Counts by Tori Holder $5
Duel by Finn Walker $4
Graphic Novels
Nothing Nice to Say: Complete Discography by Mitch Clem (Silver Sprocket) $24.99
Mort Gerberg on the Scene by Mort Gerberg (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Journey Into the Unknown by Randi Drozd $20
Through a Life by Tom Haugomat (Nobrow) $18.95
Politics & Revolution
The Anarchist Encyclopedia edited by Sébastien Faure (AK Press) $22
Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson (Haymarket) $21.95
Don’t Shoot I Want to Live: Gun Violence In America by Tyshondra Barnes $5.99
Art & Design Books
Unnatural Selections: The Artwork of Tiffany Bozic by Tiffany Bozic / Mary Ellen Hannibal (Gingko) $45
Essays
Up Up, Down Down: Essays by Cheston Knapp $16
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith $18
Fiction
Carnivorous Lunar Activities by Max Booth III (Fangoria) $15
I Am God by Giacomo Sartori (Restless) $17.99
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin $16
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño $24
Same Same by Peter Mendelsund $17.95
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Charlie Jane Anders & A. Merc Rustad (One World Classics) $17
Music Books
Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever by Geoff Edgers $27
Consuming
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel Debritto $26.99
Crafts
Paper Animals: Fox, Deer, Meerkat and Bear Family by Paperwolf (Gingko) $24.95
Magazines
Fortean Times #375 $12.40
Horror Hound #75 $6.99
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Bloom Magazine Aug 18 $12
God Made Dirt Dirt Don’t Hurt by B. Traverse $3
Sex Guides & Culture
Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm) $14.95