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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Revering Individual Posessions #2 by Elizabeth S. Tieri $1
Bound Struggles #7 by Chicago Books to Women In Prison $10
Sick, Sad World Zine: A Tribute to Daria by Rosmund and Megan $5
Meanwhile #4 Mythical Creatures & #5 Whats Your Sign $5 each
Death Lick by Corinne Halbert $12 – Full color reproductions on heavy glossy paper of 19 erotic horror paintings, limited edition of 50.
Heuksando by Lila Lee $10
Good Day Mi Lady: A Ren Faire Zine by Megan Kirby $5
Contrived Critters by Aim Ren $2
Her by Talie M. Zrihen $2
Unguarded Conversations With Museum Guards at AIC by Shannon Hebert Waldman $5
Mineralis by Patricia Cram $10
Various Small Geological Controversies photo zine by Bill Daniel $12
Wiggly World by Michael R. Heck $10
Cognitive Dissonance for Beginners by Lita $4
For Everard vol 7 Tony From the Bronx $5
Annapolis photo zine by Philip Tomaru $20
Mainland by Lila Lee $16
Yolanda #2 Thigh Times Enterprises $5
Comics & Minis
You Don’t Get There From Here #47 by Carrie McNinch $3
Short Gay Stories by HP Lehkonen $12
Our Friends the Bees by Rachel Bard $5
Infinite Wheat Paste #5 by Pidge $5
Finder Pink Year by Nou 2017 $4
Slithering Sleep by Danielle Burton $16
Orbiters Prism by Drew Miller (Neoglyphic Media) $5
Can’t Breathe Without Air by Angela Chen $6
Poor Thing #1 by Drew Miller (Neoglyphic Media) $8
Humorous Faces of Funny Cases #3 by Cynthia T. Navarro (Tiny Splendor) $12
Dump by Matthew Carrigan $10
Island on Fire by Yishu Wang $8
Lingering Light: A Prequel of the Setting Sun BBB x Maki $6
Seeker #1-#5 by Liz Valasco $5 each
Loops by Alyssa Nelson $4
I’m Trying by Angela Chen $4
Ley Lines: Weird Territory by Evan Dahm $6
Beef Jams Tournament Edition $7
Millennials #1-#3 by Lorenzo Ghetti & Claudia Nuke Razzoli $5 each
Manzone by Ugo Schiesaro $8
King Cat #78 by John Porcellino $5
Ikea by Fine OK Press $5
Ooze by Ali Burke and Tara Hamilton $5
At the Top of Fuller Canyon by Andrew Alexander $5
Grievin of Mt Privado Part 1 by Andrew Alexander $10 – Teen secrets, sleuthing and reefer abound when a murdered pet rocks a small town in this expressionist noir.
Visions by Evan M. Cohen $20
Twilight of the Bat by Josh Simmons $10 – Unauthorized Batman comics by Josh Simmons and friends.
Mundane Magic by Andrew Lamb Schultz (Cold Cube Press) $15
Bursting Spicy Metal #1 by Kelly Bjork (Cold Cube Press) $15
Sticky Sweets by Ross Jackson $10
Thirty Miles of Crazy #1-#6 by Karl Christian Krumpholz $5 each
But Is It Comic Aht #1 by Domino Books $5
Graphic Novels
Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams $24 – Features a wealth of Nobrow contributors past and present as well as a glimpse into the future of comics and illustration!
The Complete Future Shocks vol 1 by Alan Moore & Peter Milligan $25 – This first volume of Tharg’s Future Shocks takes us back to the earliest days of the one-off, twist ending, sci-fi thrills strip from the pages of 2000 AD, showcasing talents of Alan Moore and friends.
Instinct For Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Jeff Wilson, Illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia $13.95
Inside Moebius Part 2 (Dark Horse) $39.99
Marta by Alison Burke DuPey $12
Welcome to Slimecity by Jared Gattis $12
Fiction
Ayiti by Roxane Gay $16
Fight No More: Stories by Lydia Millet $24.95
Food
Superiority Burger Cookbook: The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious by Brooks Headley $39.95
Stuff That Helps
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson $7.99
On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness by Roman Muradov $12.95
How to Deal With Anxiety an Activity Book by Eugenia Viti $7
Bio, Memoirs & Media
All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Irmin Schmidt with Rob Young $29.95 – Part band bio, part symposium of the legendary german experimental rock band CAN from founding member Schmidt with journalist Young.
Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life With My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel $28
Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs by Peter Coviello $16
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos $32 – A biography of the photographer nicknamed after the Ouija board due to his uncanny ability to arrive at a crime scene mere moments after law enforcement, reveals a man now known as an innovator, pioneer and master crime-scene photographer.
TRI-X-NOISE – Photographs 1981-2016 by Bill Daniel $20 – From master railroad and freight tag historian behind the Mostly True: The West’s Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine and the filmmaker of “Who is Bozo Texino?” TRI-X-NOISE includes three decades of subterranean countercultural hijinks recorded on black and white film. Beginning with early the 80s Texas skatepunk scene, the book is a sprawling visual journal of a life lived on the road and after dark. Punk shows high and low, crusty experimental cinemas, freight train adventures, Mission School graffiti, impossibly obscure house shows, and art exhibits in the shadowy margins. It’s a mash up of subcultural documentation, from San Francisco to Shreveport, from Texas to Braddock Pennsylvania, a flash-lit scrapbook of an invisible vanguard, all shot on Tri-X film. Including: Butthole Surfers, Big Boys, Black Flag, City Museum, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Misfits, David Yow and more.
Magazines
Even #10 $18
Lula #25 $15.99
Man About Town #22 $29.99
Palmss #3 by Chinwe Okona $10
Nostalgia Digest Sum 18 $4.50
Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
The Believer #119 $12
The Literary Review vol 61 #1 Chemistry $15
Spent Seasons Poetry by Liza Edwards Levin $3
Year of the Dogs: Poetry and Illustrations by Anita Olivia Koester by Anita Olivia Koester $3
If You Are Unable to Help Just Say So by Jennifer Williams $15
Brick #101 $16
Gathering Views by Jack C. Buck $15
For the Kiddies
Furqan’s First Flat Top, El primer corte de mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo $15.95
Other Stuff
Baphomet Babe sticker by Corinne Halbert $3
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Quimby's Offsite at the Hideout: Brooks Headley In Conversation with Steve Albini About the Superiority Burger Cookbook
Author Headley Brooks and his pal musician/producer Steve Albini will be in-conversation for this talk + signing event.
Brooks wrote The Superiority Burger Cookbook based on the veggie burgers he sells in the NY restaurant of the same name. Before that he played drums in lots of bands like Universal Order of Armageddon, Born Against, (Young) Pioneers and others.
Producer and Chicago musician Steve Albini runs his production studio Electrical Audio, was in bands like Shellac and Big Black, and publishes a food blog WhatIMadeHeatherForDinner.SteveAlbiniCooks.com
Quimby’s will be selling books at the Hideout on Wed, June 27th, 6pm-7:30pm. The Hideout is at 1354 W. Wabansia Ave, Chicago. 21+, free event. This event is NOT at Quimby’s.
Here’s the Facebook event invite for this event.
SUPERIORITY BURGER COOKBOOK
The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious
by Brooks Headley
“Brooks Headley makes the best veggie burger I’ve ever had.” — David Chang
“[Headley’s] punk ethos and deadpan humor make for some of the best cookbook
reading ever. . . Vegans—no, humans—rejoice.” — Bon Appétit
“No one has done more to make vegetarian and vegan fast food cool and
craveable than Brooks Headley.”— New York magazine
“Superiority Burger is the most radical restaurant in New York. . . the vegetarian cooking of Mr. Headley and his crew, served in paper boats and cartons, is surprising,
fun and truly creative.” — Pete Wells, New York Times
“What makes Superiority Burger a sensation is bigger than the food. It’s the understated yet lengthy creation of a singular vision, a place that evokes memory and comfort yet pushes food to a happier, more enticing place with considerable wit and verve.”
— Washington Post
In 2015, James Beard Award-winning chef Brooks Headley exiled himself from the fine-dining realm to sell six dollar veggie burgers in a 300-square-foot space in Manhattan’s East Village, aptly named “Superiority Burger.” A cozy counter hang-out filled with affordable, innovative food, Superiority Burger is a protest against the idea that extraordinary fare is the exclusive domain of the elite. Inciting a civilized vegetable revolution, Headley and his crew have rewritten the rules of non-meat cookery.
Now, fans can feast on Superiority Burger’s blueprint for rebel compassion and culinary sophistication with SUPERIORITY BURGER COOKBOOK: The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious [W. W. Norton & Company; June 5, 2018; $29.95 hardcover]. With more than 90 mouth-watering recipes, SUPERIORITY BURGER COOKBOOK lays bare the secrets of America’s most talked-about vegetarian restaurant, in recipes as simple as they are irresistible. Divided into five flavorful sections—Sandwiches, Cool Salads, Warm Vegetables, Soups and Stews, and Sweets—the book includes restaurant favorites like the Sloppy Dave, Burnt Broccoli Salad, Potato Coconut Soup, Tahini Ranch Romaine Salad, Seared Polenta with Maple Olive Oil, and, of course, the now legendary Superiority Burger.
With recipes for a coterie of other delights—fresh, vegetarian, accidently vegan, and always incredible—SUPERIORITY BURGER COOKBOOK is a must-read for home cooks who want something delicious, new, and imminently within their reach. A home-friendly primer on meatless American cooking made delicious, SUPERIORITY BURGER COOKBOOK will be drooled over by vegetarians, vegans and steadfast carnivores alike.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brooks Headley, chef-owner of Superiority Burger, was named best pastry chef in the country in 2013 by the James Beard Foundation. His previous cookbook, Fancy Desserts, won the Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks from Food52. He lives in New York City.
TITLE: Superiority Burger Cookbook
SUBTITLE: The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious
AUTHOR: Brooks Headley
PUBLICATION DATE: June 5, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-393-25398-6
PRICE: $29.95
PAGES: 224
Praise for Brooks Headley’s Fancy Desserts:
“A cupcake primer this is not. The punk rocker turned pastry chef at NYC’s Del Posto has delivered a hilarious page-turner.” —Bon Appétit
“The most entertaining cookbook in memory. . . A game changer.”—Anthony Bourdain
“When was the last time a cake recipe made you weep with laughter? Exactly. Brooks Headley—punk dude, vegetarian sympathizer, stealth genius, hero to all in the New York pastry world— has created something entirely new. It’s a cookable memoir about his life in music and food (i.e., lots of time in basements), but not the kind they’ll make a cute movie out of.” — Christine Muhlke, Bon Appétit
“A visceral and attitudinal and gustatory joy-ride, an exhilarating few laps around a 4-star kitchen in a beat up obscure punk rocker’s tour van. And Brooks Headley is as devoted to the sweet joy as he is to the hard ride of excellence in the pastry kitchen.”
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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June Quimby's Bookstore News!
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Carnivore #1 Jun 2018 $5
Folrath pt 2 by Zak Sally $9
Yolanda #2 Thigh Times Enterprises $5
Mysterious Characters of Mars by Ed Blair $3 – Ed’s favorite Mountain Goat recordings!
Venus by Anneli Sanaye Henriksson $2
Buffet Life #1 A Zine About all you Care to Eat by Kristopher Pollard & friends $9
Words that Form Sentences That Almost Represent Ideas by Rob Steinberg $4
Comics & Minis
CAKE Digest 2018 Anthology – Edited by Chicago artist JJ McLuckie, this year’s edition is a 24-pager printed in blue riso. Some really cool contributions here from locals and not-so-locals showing a diverse spectrum of work: diary comics, surreal jokes and gags, art comics and design work. -Lane
White Supremacists Are Human Farts by Jenny Schmid and Sinee (Uncivilized) $8
Pump Station: A Zine About One Woman’s Experiences Breastfeeding and Pumping by Allison H. Lowe Fotos & Adam Fotos $3
Jump vol 1 Stories and Art by Caroline Cash $15
Coin Op #7 Doppler Issue $19.95
Morsel by James Stanton (Silver Sprocket) $5
M.S. Harkness, $4 each: Normal Girl, Savage Journey to the Heart of an Anime Convention
What a Irregular Jargon Zine by Adeleido Olea $2
Field Guide to Domestic Insects — first Edition by Lucie Van Der Elst $12
Ukraine Diaries by Nick Jackson $20
Graphic Novels
Weaver Festival Phenomenon by Ron Rege Jr. $20
A Western World by Michael Deforge (Koyama Press) $22.95 – Strange stories!
Everything Is Really Hard Today by Kevin Budnik (Tinto Press) $12
The Clandestinauts by Tim Sievert (Uncivilized Books) $17.95
Winter’s Cosmos by Michael Comeau (Koyama Press) $20
Somnambulance by Fiona Smyth (Koyama Press) $29.95
RM by Josh Bayer (Tinto Press) $14
Art Books
Rockabilly Psychobilly: An Art Anthology by Jamie Kendall (Schiffer) $34.99
Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora by Jessica Nydia Pabón-colón (New York Univ Pr) $30
Politics & Revolution
Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope edited by Chandra Talpade Mohanty & Linda E. Carty (Haymarket) $18
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoe Samudzi & William C. Anderson (AK Press) $16
Music Books
The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel $17.95
POC History vol 1 #4 People of Color Then and Now and Art by Vital Vessel $10.99
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Justice Howard’s Voodoo: Conjure and Sacrifice by Justice Howard & Voodoo Queen Bloody Mary $24.99 – Peer behind the curtain and journey into Voodoo’s hidden world.
Fiction
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal $27
Magazines
Bitch #79 $7.95
Juxtapoz #206 Sum 18 $9.99
Bust #111 $6.99
Raw Vision #97 Spr 18 $14
Jacobin #29 $12.95
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Lyrics and Poetry #1 A Journal of Songwriting as Prose $10
Every Circle is a Moon Complete Poems of Wyatt Red $7
Fields Magazine #9 Spr Sum 18 $16
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New Stuff This Week
Zines & Zine-Related
Fixer Eraser #3 and #4 by Jonas $3 each
from Scott Miller: Strange Tapes #1 $7 – Film oddities zine! & Printsploitation #4 $10 – with contributions from Corinne Halbert, Putrid and more!
Sticker Collection Logan Square 2018 $1
Shira Mario #5 $2
Scurvy – A Zine by Zack Bly $2
My Complicated Relationship With Food vol 4 Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths $1
It Only Gets Worse From Here: Fifteen Uninspirational Messages to Ruin Your Day by Zachary Auburn $2
Myth or Maybe a Lie About my Father by Margarita Kruchinskaya $10
Fairy Tales for Cynical Girls vol 4 by K8 $2
This is Not Happening the X Files Zine by Lynne Monsoon $12
Fat Sweaty Guyz: A Fanzine by Chris Davis $3
Rumpy Pumpy #6 by Milo $3
uplifting zines from Chris Davis, $3 each: People I’ve Met and Hated, All the Cusses From My Older Sister Kate’s Copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, Creepy Craigslist: A Journey into Private Lives Compiled & more
Kimchi Babe #1 & #2 The Mixtape by Kimchi Babe $4 each
TMRWLND issues #1-#3 $15 each
Vacation – A Sketchbook Zine by Cam del Rosario $8
Living Southerners #7 by J Wu $3
Twist: A Brief History of the Song and Dance by Billy Roberts $1
Whipper Snapper Nerd: Selections from the Zine, featuring Artists of Creativity Explored, edited by Harrell Fletcher & Elizabeth Meyer (Manic D Press) $15.95 – Collects all 8 issues of this San Francisco zine from the 90s, each devoted to a different artist.
Comics & Minis
No Cops by Alisha Rae $5
Outo Queer Identities by HP Lehkonen $10
Sporgo #3 $5
Love and Rockets Magazine #5 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $5.99
Italian American Mushroom and Plumbing Enthusiast #1 & #2 by Blake Sims $2 each
Bluescale by Kaitlin Kostus $7
Rabbit Who Fights #3 by Tim Hamilton $6
Grow by JJ McLuckie $10
Unplug by Steve Schaberg $5
Awkwardly Long Book of Auto Bio Comics About Being an Anxiety Ridden Depressed Person $5
Simple Things by H. Goodspeed (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $10
Dust Bunnies by Thomas H. Boeing $7
Lips: Family of Ursel Belgium by Jason Lips $3
Watch Dog #2 by Saxon Kotowski $5 each
Spirit Prison Fanzine by Dylan Chadwick $8
Bad Day by Ryan Consbruck $7
Laskimooses #41 by Taivaan Lapset & Tohori Matti Hagelbergin $7
Butter Fingers by Emeline Mele $10
Hypochondria by Erika $3.50
Minor Leagues #5 by Simon Moreton $6
Out of the Deep: A Comic Anthology, ed. by Melissa Sayen $15
Graphic Novels
Tinderella by M.S. Harkness (Kilgore) $12 – Don’t miss M.S. Harkness at the CAKE Kick-off Event here at Quimby’s next Friday!
Lempo by Sara Valta $17
XTC69 by Jessica Campbell (Koyama) $12 – Explorers from an all-women planet have found men to breed with, but have they found studs or duds?
Prison Pit vol 6 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $14.99
The Ideal Copy by Ben Sears (Koyama) $12
The Troublemakers by Baron Yoshimoto (Retrofit Comics) $20
Winner by Karl Stevens (Retroit) $18 – Contemplations and sci-fi fantasies of a museum security guard.
2 Cow House Press titles: Point of You Where Do You Want to Be by Nathaniel Osollo $10, Wicked and The Tired: A Comic Anthology of Surreal Horror and the Anxiety of Living, edited by Sheika Lugtu $15
Coin-op Comics Anthology 1997-2017 by Maria & Peter Hoey (Top Shelf) $29.99
Hasib & the Queen of Serpents: A Thousand and One Nights Tale by David B. (NBM) $24.99
Grip vol 1 by Lale Westvind (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $25
Politics & Revolution
Modern Science and Anarchy by Peter Kropotkin (AK Press) $28 – Assembled in English for the first time, an unabridged gem from anarchism’s famous theorist.
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment, ed. by Angela J. Davis $16 – A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.
Hard to Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up by Kelli María Korducki $14.95 – From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution.
Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great by Charlie Leduff $27
State of Exception by Chase Carter $15
Art Books
The Mermaid Handbook: An Alluring Treasury of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects by Carolyn Turgeon $35 – Brrrring! Brrrring! The phone’s ringin’! Siren calling! Illustrated and packed with lore, legends, facts and trivia, beautiful illustrations, and numerous step-by-step projects and recipes.
Music Books
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine $24.95 – Follow-up to memoir from member of the Slits, touching on the death of her mother, ageing, feminism and other conundrums that characterize the 21st century life.
Austin Punk Invasion by David Ensminger (Left of the Dial Books) $10 – A survey of Austin’s first wave punk and hardcore eras.
Outer Limits & Mayhem
Torture: Persuasion at Its Most Gruesome by Geoffrey Abbott $13.95 – A classic account of the history of torture, from chilli powder punishment to needles under nails, with a style both chilling and full of dark humor.
Psychedelic Revolutionaries: LSD and the Birth of Hallucinogenic Research by P. W. Barber $27.95 – Recounting research on hallucinogenic drug treatments during the 1950s and 60s, this book shows how public fears, stoked by partisan politics, can hold back scientific advancements.
The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals by Aaron Mahnke $28.99 – Lavishly illustrated accounts of history’s most despicable people ever to walk the earth, including serial killers, desperate criminals, and socially mobile people with a much darker double-life. Courtesy of the producer of the podcast Lore.
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern by Richard Munson $26.95
Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult by Chris Bennett (Trine Day) $34.95 – Cannabis and other psychoactive plants held an important role in the Occult arts of Alchemy and Magic, as well as being used in ritual initiations of certain secret societies. Could cannabis have been the Holy Grail?
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan $28 – “Mental travelogue” of research done via both research and participatory journalism. That means he was dosing, dude.
Humor
Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman $16
Essays
Status Quont by Katilyn Pulcher $15
2 David Sedaris titles: Calypso $28 + Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) $17.99
Fiction
Death and Facebook by Iphgenia Baal (We Heard You Like Books) $15.95 – a true account of a dysfunctional love affair that ends in disaster, posthumously pieced together from threads from Facebook and other social media.
Cocktails
Cocktails Across America: A Postcard View of Cocktail Culture in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s by Diane Lapis & Anne Peck-davis $24.95
The Cocktail Book by The British Library Board $12.95 – Reprint of the book from 1900, with early recipes for the Whisky Sour, Mint Julep, Manhattan, and many more.
Magazines
Soiled #7 Animatescrapers $15
Apartamento #21 $24
Mojo #295 $11.25
Tape Op #125 $5.95
Wire #411 $10.99
Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
You Are Coming Going by Keith Helt $2
Brain Fever #4 Spring 18 Edited by Mike Goodman $12
Long Day Press Journal #2 $8
Overtime Hour 48 Graveyard by Kyle Bilinski $2
Always Crashing vol 1 $12
Sex & Gender Culture Studies & Guides
The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century by Jim Elledge (Chicago Review) $29.99
Women’s Health Vagina University: A Complete Owner’s Manual from Sex and Periods to Health and Body Image…And Everything in Between by Sheila Curry Oakes $16.99
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New Stuff This Week
Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin $24 – the story of a cleaning lady, an addict, a psychic
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber $27 – An anthropologist’s powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir by Michael Kupperman $25 – The story of the author’s race to understand his father’s past.Zines
On the Art of Failure by Gabrielle Welsh $10
En3my 1550 N Milwaukee Ave Third FL, Edited by Amelia Ishmael and J. Soliday $5
Fluke Fanzine #15 with Adam Smith, Gary Floyd, Ian McKaye $4
zines by Faith G. Harper PhD (Microcosm Publishing) $3:
Sexing Yourself For Your Own Pleasure
Unfuck Your Adulting: Give Yourself Permission, Carry Your Own Baggage, Don’t Be a Dick Make Decisions and Other Life SkillsHow Not to Get Arrested At a Demonstration $3 – By The Times Up Environmental Organization with illustrations by Fly.
Don’t Be Retarded #1: Autistic Pride In a Neurophobic World (Microcosm Publishing) $5
CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #8 Intro to the MLK and RFK Assassination… by Joseph E. Green (Microcosm Publishing) $4
Heartburn: A Drawing Zine by Caroline Cash $5
Smudge vol 2 #5 by Clay Hickson $5
Yo Miss #6 Changes, Vengeance, Trump and the Eumenides by Lisa Wilde $4
Amerizine Lol IDK $5
Mother Nature Is a Lesbian $10
Cat Party #2 Stories and Comics About Our Favorite Cats by Katie Haegele $3
Mind the Gender Cycling Gap by Tiffany F. Lam $4
Aversion: A Zine of Therapeutic Vignettes Chapter 2 Canine by Aaron Eischeid $5
Comics & Minis
Diary Comics 2018-2019 by Lane Milburn $4 – Join me as I read articles on my phone, despair over climate change, fret about my artwork, and record my dreams. This is a sampling of diary comic strips I started posting on Instagram in the summer of 2017. -Lane
Visualizing by Lane Milburn $6 – A man and woman on an interstellar voyage awaken from sleep. They “visualize” their dreams for each other, using holograms to show their fragmented knowledge of the past and their apocalyptic visions of the future. Black and white interior with risograph covers printed by Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane
Cartoon Dialectics vol 3 by Tom Kaczynski & Clara Jetsmark (Uncivilized) $6
I’m So Punk #2 by Caroline Cash $5
Graveless by S.E. Stohler $5
3005 by Fushuheng, illustrating the song by Childish Gambino $6
Nouvelles #2 by outsidewolves $3
by Meghan Turbitt: Your Pal $5 & Turbz: How to Eat Chips $5
Astray #1 a Series of Starts by Daniel McCloskey $4.50
Fae Archaic #8 The Final Issue by Kurt Burdick $10
Real Deal #8 Psyops by Lawrence Rawdog Hubbard (Fantagraphics) $8
Graphic Novels
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (D&Q) $27.95 – Don’t miss Nick Drnaso at Quimby’s on Thurs, May 24th to release this book about the aftermath of a disaster about a missing woman, the videotape that surfaces and the conspiracy theorists that interpret events to fit their own narratives.
Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – Don’t miss Georgia Webber here at Quimby’s on Thurs, May 31st to celebrate this book about coping with challenges that come with voicelessness. Her raw cartooning style, occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles, splotches of ink, and overlapping montages, perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety. But her ordeal ultimately becomes a hopeful story. Throughout, she learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life by Ellen Forney (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – In a follow-up to the 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, the author presents a survival guide for people with bipolar disorder that is filled with tips, tricks and tools.
Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel (D&Q) $17.95 – A whimsical look at mushroom hunting.
Animus by Antoine Revoy $16.99 – Two friends resolve to investigate the paranormal forces in their quiet Kyoto neighborhood.
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (Abrams) $17.99
Cautionary Tales of Childhood by Bee Lavender $5
Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn by Ryan Heshka (Nobrow) $20.95
Art Books
The Classic Bicycle Coloring Book by Taliah Lempert (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Trump / Russia: A Definitive History by Seth Hettena $27.99
May Day Manifesto 1968, edited Raymond Williams $17.95 – Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto that brought together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Iris Murdoch, Terry Eagleton, Ralph Miliband, and R. D. Laing.
1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation by Charles Kaiser (Grove Press) $18
Fiction
Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations, edited by Sarah Cleave (Deep Vellum Pub) $14.95 – Work by writers from the seven nations included in Trump’s original “Muslim travel ban.”
Empire of the Senseless, 30th Anniversary Edition by Kathy Acker $16 – Two terrorists (one part human/part robot, the other a pirate) in a dystopian Paris search for a mysterious drug that maintains one’s ability to love, in Acker’s “twisted re-creation of quest sagas and Bildungsroman and TV sitcoms.”
How to Set Yourself on Fire by Julia Dixon Evans (Dzanc) $16.95
The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink (Soft Skull) $16.95
Spring by Karl Ove Knausgaard $27
Mayhem & Outer Limits
The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder by Nikki Meredith $26 – From a journalist that visted Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel in prison to see how they changed in their incarceration for the murders they committed on the orders of Charles Manson.
The Book of Highs: 255 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs by Edward Rosenfeld $17.95
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander $20
The Witch’s Spellbook: Enchantments, Incantations, and Rituals from Around the World by Sarah Bartlett $19.99
Century of Moon Phases Pacific Standard Time 2001-2100 by Sage Liskey $11
Essays & Interviews
Thank You For Asking Me That Question: Collected Interviews by Wilfred Brandt $25
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats, by Allen Ginsberg and edited by Bill Morgan (Grove Press) $20 – Based on Ginsberg’s lectures!
Humor
How to Be Cool: The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S*** by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (Icon) $14.95 – Well, we guess cool CAN be taught.
Music & Film Books
The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles by Francoise Hardy (Feral House) $24.95 – Beautiful 1960s “Yé-Yé” chanteuse Françoise Hardy shares her iconic life and memories in this brutally honest memoir of love, loss, and wisdom.
Creative Quest by Questlove $27.99 – Co-founder of The Roots offers a guide to creativity composed of creative philosophies, stories, inspiration, and advice.Cathode Love: an Irregular Collection of Irregular Pleasures by Matthew Brendan Clark $15
It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls by Adam Nayman (ECW) $12.95 – Now updated with a bonus interview with director Paul Verhoeven.
Photo Books
Hollywood Beach Beauties: Sea Sirens, Sun Goddesses, and Summer Style 1930-1970 by David Wills $30
Projections In the Last Greenhouse by Roxana Azar $12.50
Magazines
True Detective May 18 $9.99
Internationalist #51 $1
Offscreen #19 The Human Side of Technology $20
Disruptor #5 $5
Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan (O/R Books) $14.95
Bride by Andy Hood $8
Wolfman New Life Quarterly #2 Spr 18 by Jacob Kahn $12
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Adam Parfrey R.I.P.
With deep sadness we learned that landmark publisher Adam Parfrey of Feral House has passed on May 10th (as reported by the FH Facebook page). FH has always been the resource for underground, extreme and forbidden knowledge, and helped give voice to the voiceless. Without FH we would not be the store that we are. Deepest condolences to all in the Parfrey Feral House family.
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New Stuff This Week
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
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!
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Offsite: CAKE – The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, First Weekend in June
Quimby’s Bookstore is proud to co-sponsor the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE] is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers.
Don’t miss the opening night of CAKE with a kick-off party here at Quimby’s on Fri, June 1st at 7pm, featuring an Uncivilized Books Showcase. The tabling exhibition on Sat, June 2nd and Sun, June 3rd at the Center on Halsted (3656 N Halsted Ave) from 11-6, with panels, workshops and more!
Special Guests include:
Tony Breed
Eddie Campbell
Nick Drnaso
Nicole Hollander
Audrey Niffenegger
Mimi Pond
Fiona Smyth
Carol Tyler
Georgia Webber
Jim Woodring
Gina Wynbrandt
Bianca XuniseFor more info about exhibitors and the programming of the events, see cakechicago.com.
CAKE art by Johnny Sampson.
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Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) Kick-off at Quimby's: 5 Cartoonists 1 City: Minneapolis Showcase
This year’s CAKE Kick-off event is a spotlight on one of the Midwest’s greatest comics presses, Uncivilized Books. Come to hear Zak Sally read from his new memoir book cataloguing the 80’s & 90’s music scene! Tom Kaczynski read new comics on immigration & nostalgia! M.S. Harkness will read from Tinderella, an autobiographical comic about online dating, living poor and being a dumb 20-something! Jenny Schmid read White Supremacists are Human Farts, a comic created with her 10 year old adopted daughter! Tim Sievert read from The Clandestinauts, his new comic based on RPG campaigns, a queasy mix of violent and clever, flying by the seat of your pants storytelling!
The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers.
For more info:
Friday, June 1, 2018, 7pm – Free Event
Facebook Event Invite For This Event.
