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  • Kate Gavino Reads From SANPAKU in Discussion with Michi Trota at Quimby’s, Thurs, 8/23

    In Kate Gavino’s new book SANPAKU (BOOM! Studios), the author gives voice to the insecurities that haunt teens of all cultures through the lens of her own Catholic, Filipino background. This powerful coming-of-age story about challenging the world around you stars a young woman named Marceline who’s fascinated with the Japanese idea of Sanpaku—the belief that seeing the white above or below the iris of your eyes is a bad omen. But it’s everywhere Marcine looks—her grandmother has it, some classmates at Catholic school have it, JFK had it…even Marcine might suffer from this odd condition. Eating a strict macrobiotic diet and meditating is supposed to help, but no matter how much Marcine wants it to, it can’t save her grandmother’s life or make her days at school any easier.

    “[Marcine’s] cynical yet naive worldview provides a deadpan humor to a unique coming-of-age story,” raved Publishers Weekly about SANPAKU.

    The work of Kate Gavino has been featured in Rookie Magazine, The Rumpus, Hello Giggles, Buzzfeed, Bustle, The Boston Globe Mashable and more. Her novel Last Night’s Reading drew universal praise as a “love letter to the literary world” (Boston Globe).

    Kate Gavino will be in discussion with Michi Trota.

    Michi Trota (see below) is a Chicago-based Filipina American freelance writer/editor, communications & content development manager, community organizer, and firespinning geek who collects projects like the Dominion conquers quadrants. She’s the Managing Editor of the Hugo Award-winning and World Fantasy Award finalist Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, a two-time Hugo Award winner, and the first Filipina to win a Hugo Award. She’s also President of the Chicago Nerd Social Club Board of Organizers; a board member for the Chicago Full Moon Jams Foundation; and a resident fire performer/object manipulation artist with the Raks Geek performance troupe. Michi was featured in the 2016 Chicago Reader People Issue, and was also a featured essayist in Invisible: An Anthology of Representation in SF/F (edited by Jim C. Hines).

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    Thursday, August 23, 7pm – Free Event

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Black Metal Coloring Book (Feral House) $15.95 – Includes art by Quimby’s employee Corinne Halbert, as well as Gaye Black (bassist of the early British punk band The Adverts), Savage Pencil, Mike Diana, Billy Chainsaw, Jason Atomic (creator of Satanic Mojo Comics), Anthony Ausgang, Anna Piera Di Silvestre, Paul “Mutartis” Boswell, Dennis Franklin, Nico de la Mort, Andrew Labanaris, Rachael Gater, Laughing Indio and more.

    Zines

    How to Escape Duct Tape $1

    Pathways in Education: Ashburn $5

    Dine Our Survival Is Bound to Them by Katherine Smith Yinisheye $5.53

    Tongues Process Zine 1 by Anders Nilsen $5

    The Smudge vol 2 #7 by Clay Hickson & friends (Tan n Loose Press) $5

    Flesh World #1 by Izzy Strazzabosco $2

    The Rad Cat Dictionary of Fuck by Sage Liskey $6 – Fuck as a verb? A noun? Fucking educate yerself!

    Zeta Reticuli Incident by Lisa Glenn Armstrong $5

    Key Phrases: A Spanish Lesson from Duolingo by Adán De La Garza $10

    Zine About Humans and the Environment by Andrew Harlan & friends $7

    Homicide Wicker Park: 12 Homicides 2001-2016, Police Reports and Photographs by Sam Logan $15

    Noice issue 010 Minimal Comic Play by Colin Czerwinski $20

    Rebel City Los Angeles Spring 2018/Guide 6 by Llano Del Rio Collective $10

    Comics & Minis

    Future #1 & #2 by Tommi Musturi $6 each

    Laskimooses #42 Kappaleiden Kokoomus by Matti Hagelberg $7

    Sunlight and Honesty by Elle $13

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest #1 by Alan Moore $4.99

    Fiends #4 Sum 18 by Tim Tyler $10

    Concerted Efforts by Mohar Kalra $5

    Migraine by Woshibai $7

    Two Stories by Gantea $7

    Electrocat and Lightning Dog by Bu Er Miao (Paradise Systems) $15

    This is Still America #2 & #3 by George $5 each

    Graphic Novels

    Dork by Evan Dorkin $19.99 – Featuring most of the Dork comic run as well as the 2012 full-color House of Fun special, along with rarities, extras, a cover gallery, and a newly drawn introduction.

    Shit Is Real by Aisha Franz (D+Q) $24.95 – A broken-hearted woman drifts into depression as she occupies her traveling neighbor’s apartment.

    100 Demon Dialogues by Lucy Bellwood $14.99 – From overcoming self-doubt to prioritizing self-care, Bellwood and her demon embody a hilarious and relatable partnership that will resonate with people from all walks of life.

    Stuff From Peow Studio Press: Dark Angels of Darkness by Al Golfa $26 + Dust Pam by Thu Tran $13.50 + Ripples: A Detectives Diary by Wai Wai Pang $16 +  Rule Break by Anna Syvertsson $12 + Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte $26

    Art, Design & Photo Books

    Warrr2k / Work 2014-17 by Alexander Heir (Sacred Bones) $35 – Complete work to date of punk and metal artist Alexander Heir, expanding upon war, police brutality, political corruption, and death as his canon of punk subject matter, and this latest work brings sci-fi and psychedelia influences into the fold.

    Under the Skin: Tattoo Culture and Style by Sendpoints (Gingko Press) $45 – An excellent intro to the history and craft of tattoo, featuring international cultural history, 6 major styles, 37+ artists.

    The Beat Scene: Photographs by Burt Glinn by Jack Kerouac (Reel Art Pr) $39.95

    The Tennis Manifesto by Warren Harris & Olena Prysiazhniuk $19.99

    Politics & Revolution Books

    The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein (Haymarket) $9.95

    The Essential Žižek: Living in the End Times $24.95 + First As Tragedy, Then As Farce $17.95

    Film & Music Books

    This Is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby by James Munn (Reel Art Pr) $49.95

    Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music by Michael Robbins $16

    Desperately Seeking Bowie by Castello-cortes (Gingko Press) $16.95

    Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh $27

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art by Peter Lamont / Jim Steinmeyer $28

    Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker (Repeater) $17.95 – Traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude.

    Fiction

    Reincarnation Blues: A Novel by Michael Poore $16 – The oldest soul in history falls in love with the woman who incarnates death. They follow each other in a variety of chronologies and it’s epic and compelling. Now in soft cover.

    The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane: The Long Lost Rock N’ Roll Detective Stories by Rex Weiner $16.95 – From CBGBs, the Mudd Club and Tier 3 in NYC to the Starwood, Zero Zero and Cuckoo’s Nest in LA, Ford Fairlane takes you back to a sexy, violent and explosively creative time and place that live on in rock n’ roll legend, brought authentically to life in these hardboiled stories.

    Hits & Misses: Stories by Simon Rich $25 – Former SNL writer does hilarious short stories inspired by Hollywood experience.

    The Cloven by Brian Catling $16.95 – Final installment in the Vorrh Trilogy.

    Born to Be Weird: A Collection of Demented Fantasy & Horror by Set Sytes (Microcosm) $12.95

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh $26

    Suicide Club: A Novel About Living by Rachel Heng $27

    Destiny of I Am The Crossing by Julie Pacheco $19.95

    Magazines
    Tape Op #126 $5.95
    Uppercase #38 $18
    The Baffler #40 $14
    Harness Magazine #2 $6.99
    Tom Tom Magazine #34 $10

    Chap Books & Lit Journals

    Abrupt Reflections by JAGQ $10

    Taddle Creek #41 $6.95

    Mystery and Adventure Series Review #52 by Fred Woodworth $3

    Ratking Frame 00 $10

  • Christopher Schreck and Casey Hudetz Preview Art Damaged 8/11

    In their forthcoming book Art Damaged, Christopher Schreck and Casey Hudetz offer a sweeping study of the methods and motivations behind acts of art vandalism. Combining in-depth analysis with dynamic imagery, Art Damaged guides readers through stories of exhibited artworks being damaged, defaced, dismembered, and destroyed for reasons ranging from the political to the personal, from artistic expression to pure accident.

    For their talk at Quimby’s, Schreck and Hudetz will recount a choice selection of incidents, using witness accounts, forensic photographs, and surveillance footage to depict a series of events whose varied, often sensational circumstances suggest a larger underlying narrative regarding art’s position in modern society.

    Christopher Schreck is a writer and editor whose work has been featured in such publications as Aperture, Cura, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Office, and Sex. He has served as an editor at Kaleidoscope magazine since 2013. After years spent teaching, writing, producing short films and traveling the world, Casey Hudetz has decided to pursue a career in user experience design. His love of history, art, and well-told stories drew him to writing this book which will be released in 2019.

    For more info, visit artdamagedbook.com.

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    Sat, Aug 11th, 7pm. Free Event.

  • Nate Powell Discusses Come Again on 8/9

    Nate Powell’s new graphic novel Come Again (Top Shelf) is a demon-filled 1970’s Ozark fairy tale, following two families pursuing elusive dreams in their dried-up hippie community. Under impossibly close scrutiny they carve out space for their secrets, while deep within the hills something monstrous stirs, ready to feast on village whispers. Come Again explores questions of changing ideals, privacy, love, parenthood, and the horror of casualness in the face of crisis. Powell will deliver a multimedia presentation exploring the book’s themes, influences, and creative development, followed by audience questions and a book signing.

    “With his work on Swallow Me Whole and March, Nate established himself as one of the premier talents in comics, but Come Again is his finest work yet. Profoundly moving, intimate, and haunting, this book will resonate with you for a long, long time.” – Jeff Lemire

    In 2016, Nate Powell became the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award for his work on the March trilogy, chronicling civil rights icon John Lewis’ experiences in the movement. His work includes Eisner Award-winning Swallow Me Whole, Any Empire, You Don’t Say, The Silence Of Our Friends, and Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, on The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.

    For more info: seemybrotherdance.org

    Thurs, August 9th, 7pm – Free Event

    Here’s the Facebook invite for this event.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Dark Tourism by Rebecca Bathory (Carpet Bombing Culture) $45 – Photo collection of places associated with death and tragedy around the world. Creepily compelling.

    Zines

    Lazy Diana #4 A Punk Pagan Zine by Kelci Crawford $3

    Professional Amateur Business Cards by Paul Shortt $5

    Fixer Eraser #5 by Jonas $3

    What Problems Can Artist Publishers Solve? by Marc Fischer $6

    Library Excavations #9 Chicago’s Filed Artists $6

    Mura Press #1 $10

    Proof I Exist #28 by Billy McCall $2

    Black Bean Zine #2 $5

    Rumors and Hope by Aaron Krach $6

    Inktober 16 by Nicolette Baltad $3

    Comics

    Splendid Eye by Kera Ling $8

    The Kurdles Adventure Magazine #1 $10 – All ages/kids mag from Fantagraphics! This issue: Robert Goodin, Cathy Malkasian & more!

    I Spy by Alli Katz $6

    New Wave Comics Presents #4-#6 $1.50 each

    Lemmy #1-#4 by Sam Logan $1 each

    Graphic Novels

    Little Stranger by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $21.95 – Have you ever gotten turned on while stuffing a turkey? Get a Little Stranger!

    In the Future We are Dead by Eva Müller (Birdcage Bottom Books) $15

    Politics & Revolution

    Artivism by Poch Arcadi / Daniela Poch (Carpet Bombing Culture) $34.95 – Art as the megaphone of the unfairness.

    How the World Swung to the Right: Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions by Francois Cusset (Semiotexte) $14.95

    Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone $21.95

    Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics by Erin McHugh $15.95

    D.I.Y. Resistance: 36 Ways to Fight Back! by Anthony Alvarado $14.95 – Shares the successful actions people’s movements use to defeat tyrants, including defending free speech, looking after the community, fighting racism and misogyny, organizing, protesting, networking, and publishing.

    Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present by Philip S. Foner (Haymarket) $25

    Outer Limits

    The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes by Nina Barrett $35 – A history of Chicago’s infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, told chiefly through a rare collection of carefully arranged primary source material, including confessions, court transcripts, psychological reports, evidence photos, and more.

    Music Books

    What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography by Bruce Dickinson $17.99 – From Iron Maiden lead singer. Details include: schoolboy misbehaviour, handbanging injuries, becoming a pilot. What you want in a rock’n’roll memoir minus the drugs (except for the beer).

    Mods: A Way of Life by Patrick Potter (Carpet Bombing Culture) $24.95

    Food

    Paleo for Unicorns by Amy Subach (Microcosm) $14.95 – Eat the patriarchy!

    Fiction

    Comemadre by Roque Larraquy (Coffee House Press) $16.95 – Full of vulgarity, excess, and discomfort: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and man-eating plants. Darkly funny, smart, and engrossing.

    Magazines

    The Internationalist #52 $1

    Lit Journals

    Sinister Wisdom Multicultural Lesbian Lit & Art Journal #109 $14

    Sexxxy

    Meat #27 $14

    Elska #18 Los Angeles $18.50

  • In Brooklyn? Check out July Quimby's Bookstore NYC events!

    You know there’s a Quimby’s in Brooklyn, right? Quimby’s Bookstore NYC is at 536 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn. Check out some events there this July!

    July 8th, 5-8pm – Third Anthropomorphic Insect Diorama Workshop/Anthropomorphic Beetle Diorama Class
    ** TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE** (so they know how many beetles to bring!)
    Rhinoceros beetles: nature’s tiny giants. Adorable, with their giant heads and tiny legs, and wonderful antler-like protrusions. If you think they would be even more adorable drinking tiny beers and holding tiny fishing poles, this is the perfect class for you!Students will learn to make–and leave with their own!–shadowbox dioramas featuring carefully positioned beetles doing nearly anything you can imagine. An assortment of miniature furniture, paper, paints, and foods will be made available to decorate your habitat, but students are STRONGLY encouraged to bring any dollhouse props they would like to use. 1:18 scale is generally best. Beetles stand about 3″ when posed upright like people. Each student will receive one beetle and one shadowbox in addition to materials as mentioned above and all supplies needed to pose and attach the shadowbox items. Daisy Tainton was Senior Insect Preparator at the American Museum of Natural History, then became a curatorial assistant, and has been working with insects professionally for several years. Eventually her fascination with insects and love of miniature items naturally came together, resulting in cute and ridiculous museum-inspired yet utterly unrealistic dioramas. Beetles at the dentist? Beetles eating pie and knitting sweaters? Even beetles on the toilet? Why not?
    July 14th 2-7pm – Quimby’s NYC at the Pete’s Candy Zine Fest
    July 22nd, 7pm- International Zine Month Zinester Reading, readers TBA

    More info at @quimbysnyc at quimbysnyc.com

    These events are at Quimby’s Bookstore NYC, not the Quimby’s in Chicago!

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    In/visibility: Perspectives on Queer Utility Passing and Drawing Blurry Lines vol 1 $5

    Zines & Zine-Related Books

    Lady Parts #5 by Amelia Hruby $3

    You’re Here, What Now? The Awesome Guide to Visiting Pilsen and Little Village by Yolocalli Arts Reach $2

    Black Metal of the Americas Is Dead: Pentacle of the Moon by Ed $5

    Why We Vote and How by Bronwyn Mauldin $7

    Zisk #29 by Mike Faloon $3

    Wishes by Georges Perec (Wakefield Press) $17.95 – A paean to the pun by this member of Oulipo. Perec sent out new year’s wishes from 1970 until he died in 1982. This volume collects all 10 pamphlets.

    Mantid Mania #2 Femme Fatale by Mike Smith $5

    Hall Pass #3 by Mr. Rizzo $5

    Don’t Quit Your Day Job by Joseph Wilcox $3

    Mapping Out Utopia #2 Boston 1970s Boston Area Counterculture $11 & #3 $8.50

    Graphic Novels

    Poochytown by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Frank forms a new friendship and journeys to the farthest reaches of the Unifactor.

    Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – A sea nymph is cast out and finds her own way in this debut graphic novel. With loving nods to the Bronte sisters, David Bowie, and the Beatles.

    Beanworld Omnibus 1 by Larry Marder (Dark Horse) $24.99 – Collects Beanworld issues #1-#21.

    A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, art by Rafael Albuquerque (Dark Horse) $17.99 – A supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.

    Memoirs

    The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir by Graham Caveney $28 – Caveney reconciles his past and present in 1970s in the north of England, having armed himself against the confusing nature of adolescence with a thick accent, a copy of Kafka, and a record collection including the likes of the Buzzcocks and Joy Division.

    Music Books

    We Are the Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered by Mark Andersen / Ralph Heibutzki (Akashic) $18.95 – An impassioned history of the final, turbulent years of The Clash. $18.95

    Fiction

    I Will Burn You Down by Michael Allen Rose $12

    Magazines
    Got a Girl Crush #6 + #7 $15 each
    Maximumrocknroll #422 July 2018 $4.99
    Hi Fructose #48 $8.95
    The Sick Muse #10 $12

    Lit Journals
    The First Line vol 20 #2 $4
    Sheriff Nottingham #14 Twilight Zone $10
    After Hours #36 Sum 18 Journal of Chicago Writing and Art $10

    For the Kiddies

    The Little World of Humongo Bongo by George A. Romero $16.99 – Kids book by the director Night of the Living Dead.

    Bubble by Geneviève Castrée (D+Q) $12.95 – Artist and musician Geneviève Castrée’s last work before she passed to pancreatic cancer, as one final gift for her two-year-old daughter.

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  • Holiday Hours

    Yes, we’re open on the 4th of July, but only from noon to 5pm. Drop by and say hello!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Welcome to Venice Rxcx by Ric Clayton (Kill Your Idols) $45 – Book featuring the work of the guy who does the art work for the Suicidal Tendencies, lots of like-minded bands, LA skate graphics n more. All I wanted was a Pepsi, but I got this book instead. -Liz M.

    Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music by David Hollander (Anthology Project) $55 – A deep dive into the music used during heyday of low-budget TV and scrappy genre filmmaking, when producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Featuring histories, interviews, & visuals. Even George A. Romero used library music in Night of the Living Dead, which is why he wrote the intro to this examination of this unique genre at the nexus of art and commerce.

    Zines

    Riot Grrrl Reviews #2 June 18 by Jolie Ruin $2

    New titles from Chicago print artist Keith Herzik

    Interim by Kayle Karbowski $20

    alchemy zines by Brian Cotnoir

    Just Encased #2 Curated by Danielle Susi $7

    Comics & Minis

    My Green Tessellated Boudoir Winter by Krystal DiFronzo $15

    Like a Garment That Gapes by Jameson Skelton Doody $5

    New titles by H Tweedell

    Graphic Novels

    Dull Margaret by Jim Broadbent & Dix (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Jim Broadbent, the British actor who is in, like everything, from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones (?!), collaborated with the Guardian cartoonist Dix in this book, inspired by the Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Dulle Griet (1561) painting (aka “Mad Meg”) of a woman with a sword in one hand in front of the mouth of hell.

    Father by Gabriel M. Howell $20

    Eric by Tom Manning $24.99

    Let’s Make Comics: An Activity Book to Create, Write, and Draw Your Own Cartoons by Jess Smart Smiley $12.99

    Luisa, Now and Then by Carole Maurel (Humanoids) $29.95 – At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self.

    Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco (Self Made Hero) $24.99

    Art & Design

    The Design of Dissent: Greed, Nationalism, Alternative Facts, and the Resistance by Milton Glaser / Mirko Ilic $25

    Skin & Ink: Illustrating the Modern Tattoo by Sandu (Gingko Press) $39.95

    Far Fetched Inversosimilie by Jesse Jacobs (Tabularasa Edizioni) $36

    The Creature Garden: An Illustrator’s Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna by Harry Goldhawk / Zanna Goldhawk $25

    Politics & Revolution

    90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow $16.99 – Examines the history of women in the 1990s, during which American society grew increasingly hostile to women who dared to speak up.

    Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society by Thomas Frank $25 – The founding editor of The Baffler and acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal presents a collection of scathing interlocking essays denouncing the four-decade economic battle in America that has culminated in today’s devastating levels of financial inequality.

    Outer Limits

    Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-day Use of Psychedelic Plants & Substances by Cody Johnson $24.99

    Film & Music Books

    Room to Dream by David Lynch / Kristine McKenna $32 – Part memoir-part bio, McKenna talks to people in Lynch’s life, they talk smack about him and then he refutes it! What an idea! – Liz M.

    The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s by Greg Prato $22.95

    Sex Guides & Culture

    Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) by Sophie Lucido Johnson $16.99

    Magazines
    Lacunae vol 1 An Undergraduate Journal for Queer of Color Critique $12
    RFD #174 Sum 18 Amuse Us $11.95
    Fortean Times #367 $12.50
    Mojo #296 $11.25
    Shock Cinema #54 $5

    Lit Journals & Chap Books
    Staind vol 2 The Shame Issue $15
    Swiping Right and Other Regrets by Noelle Pouzar $12
    Tilde # 1 $7
    Submerging #3 Where Are We In the Story $6

    …and as usual, much, much more!