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  • New Stuff This Week

    Shiver: Selected Stories by Junji Ito $22.99

    Zines

    Hello I am Nice LOL Because I Have to be Right $10

    Life is Disappointing #4 $8

    Testify: Tell Your Government What You Think by Bronwyn Mauldin $7

    Sub/Verse #9 Pool Holograph $5

    These Things Might Help: A Self Care Zine by Lois De Silva $5

    Terrible Stories From Kelly McClure $5

    Green Things: A Friendly Botanical Field Guide to Southwest Ohio and Beyond by T. Pierson $5

    Gut Buster vol 0 (Night Watch Studios) $10

    Comics

    Rough by Caroline Cash $1.50

    Shawarma Chameleon by Matthew Thurber $15

    Laskimooses #39 Matti Hagelberg $7

    Jets and Sprites by Steve Schaberg $12

    I Made This Comic to Explain My Autistic Behaviour by Elyssa Saldana $3

    3mm Bleed: A Graphic Design Drama by Fredrik Rysjedal $12

    Graphic Novels

    Comics for Choice by Hazel Newlevant & friends $25 – Anthology of comics about abortion. Contains comics from cartoonists like Sophia Foster-Dimino, Leah Hayes, Anna Bongiovanni and more.

    Red Winter by Anneli Furmark $21.95

    Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City by Olivier Balez and Pierre Christin $15.95

    Only the End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman $19.99

    Ben Katchor: Conversations edited by Ian Gordon (University Press Of Mississippi) $50

    Fiction

    Lovers and Neighbors by SB Gamble $15.99

    Poetry

    Stars at Naught by Owen Patterson $9.95

    Mags

    Bust #109 Feb Mar 18 $6.99

    Maximumrocknroll #417 Feb 18 Year End Top Ten Issue $4.99

    Record Culture Magazine #4 $20

    Smith Journal #24 $17.99

    Ed Magazine #1 Architecture of Architecture $24

  • Tommi Parrish at Quimby's for The Lie and How We Told It 2/6

    Cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor Tommi Parrish stops at Quimby’s with The Lie and How We Told It, a book that has received praise from NPR, Paste Magazine, Sequential State, and others.

    Tommi Parrish is a cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor from Melbourne, currently based in Montreal. Their work has appeared in various anthologies, magazines, mini comics, gallery shows in New York, Argentina, and throughout Australia, the online column Advicecomics and they were previously an art editor of the Australian literary journal The Lifted Brow. Their previous publications include Perfect Hair (2dcloud) and Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty (Perfectly Acceptable Press).

    About The Lie: 

    After a chance encounter, two formerly close friends try to salvage whatever is left of their decaying relationship. They are in for an awkward, painful night that leaves them feeling lonelier, more uncertain, and more estranged than ever before. Parrish’s first graphic novel for Fantagraphics is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s ever-prevalent themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.

    Parrish makes emotionally loaded painted comics about everyday relationships, doubts, and anxieties. The psychological acuity in the work pairs perfectly to the graphic style. The Lie and How We Told It is a remarkably resonant work from an exciting new voice in contemporary graphic novels. 

    Don’t miss Tommi here on Tuesday, Feb 6th, 7pm.

    Here’s the event invite for this on Facebook.

  • Zizobotchi Rises at Quimby's: Selected Readings from Volume 2 on Friday, March 2nd

    Join us for a night of selected readings from Zizobotchi Papers: volume 2, fall, 2017.

    Zizobotchi Papers is a literary journal dedicated to the novella. Think double feature, with a paperback spine instead of a marquee.

    Jeff Phillips will read from his latest novella, God’s Least Likely to Succeed, about the derailing of a secret agent’s first day on the job by an ancient cult’s infiltration of their operation.

    Erin Makowski will read from Dan MacRae’s latest novella, The Dollmaker’s Grin, where an altercation changes a shuttle bus driver’s life, for better, and for much much worse.

    Copies of the book will be for sale for $13.

    Find out more about Zizobotchi Papers on the web at Zizobotchi.com

    Jeff Phillips is a washed up varsity cross country skier and storefront theatre method actor. For two years he was co-host of The Liquid Burning, an apocalypse themed reading series, and for just shy of three years, he co-hosted the Chicago reading series Pungent Parlour. His short fiction has appeared in Seeding Meat, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Metazen, Chicago Literati, and Literary Orphans. He is the co-founder of Zizobotchi Papers, a literary journal dedicated to the novella and a regular contributor of short stories and essays at the site Drinkers With Writing Problems. You can find him on Twitter as @TheIglooOven or at theotherauthorjeffphillips.com

    Erin Makowski has been acting and singing since her childhood. Her first production was as Gretel in ‘The Sound of Music’. Most of her younger years were spent in the Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso going from the high seas in ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ to a little maid in school in Mikado. After her early schooling in the theater Erin received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College right here in Chicago. Erin has worked with many companies in town, played extras on TV and sung her heart out for Cabaret audiences.

    Fri, March 2nd, 7pm – Free Event

    Click here to see the Facebook invite for this event.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines

    Letters From My Exes #1 by Tiffany $2 – You’d publish letters from your ex you met at the three-day Phish festival if they were shitty enough, wouldn’t you? Or if they detailed a personal drug history? Tiffany would. The best part: the e-mail that shuts down the correspondence with “This is Mauro’s wife..we have two kids and live in brooklyn..do you know this?” A peek inside something I feel like I shouldn’t be spying on but I can’t resist. -LM

    You Must Always Have a Secret Plan #8 $3

    Homesick #1 by Amy Madden $3

    Smudge vol 2 #1 by Clay Hickson & friends (Tan n Loose) $5 – In this issue: Buttons for a Reasonable Tax Code by Christen Carter, Hockey With Horsepower by Ryan Filchak, On The Grid with Joe Winer, Dilute Your Brand by Eva Claycomb, In Praise Of: Breakfast by Liana Jegers and much more!

    Hey Lady #8 Vandana Shiva by Regina Schilling & friends $5 – A zine where every issue collects original art by different artists devoted to a particular woman. This issue is about environmental activist and thinker Vandana Shiva. Comes with a button! Cardboard cover, color xerox inside. -LM

    Comics & Minis

    And I Shall Sing Beautifully by Krystal DiFronzo $12 – An awesome collection of drawings and collages featuring a cut-out wraparound cover. Merges ancient art motifs with diaristic reflections. A really engaging art object! -Lane

    Pallor Pink Anthology vol 4 Cheers Celebration of Artists of Color $15 – An anthology of comics, art, and writing by young artists of color. Moving and personal material with an emphasis on memoir. Features a full-page foldout comic strip: “Drag But Make it About Race”. Beautifully printed in two-color risograph by Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane

    Cherry Slimeade #1 $5

    Graphic Novels

    The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    Kitaro The Vampire Slayer by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $12.95

    Politics & Revolution

    When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors $24.99 – With a foreword by Angela Davis.

    Art Books

    Sad Stuff On the Street by Greg Larson and Sloane Crosley (ammo) $14.99 – A sometimes humorous, yet often sad tribute to the untold stories of detritus found on the streets of cities around the world. Featuring photographs and short essays from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amy Sedaris, Salman Rushdie, Miranda July, Michael Chabon, Ben Gibbard, Jesse Eisenberg, and by other sad stuff spotters across the globe, this collection chronicles the cast-offs of our daily lives and speculates on their origin and on their demise.

    Space Colonies: A Galactic Freeman’s Journal by Fabian Reimann (Spector Books) $15 – A visionary assemblage of historical, present-day and speculative material on space colonies, inspired by the culture of the Whole Earth Catalog.

    Health

    Mine! A Planned Parenthood Comics Anthology (ComicMix) $24.95 – A celebration of liberty and freedom for all benefitting Planned Parenthood.

    When Walls Become Bridges: A Journey of Discovery to Heal and Conquer Hatred by Stuart Lewis $16.99

    Book for Hard Times: Meditations and Comfort $1

    Sage Liskey stuff: How to Trim Weed Fast $12, Your Highest Form One Minute Happiness $2.50, Soulular Potential the Order Radical Cats $2.50

    Millennial’s Guide to Fighting Fascism $4

    Organizing Without Organizations: Guide for People Taking Action Without Institutions $4

    Humor

    Trump’s ABC by Ann Telnaes (Fantagraphics) $12.99

    Mags

    Video Game Art Reader #1 $20 – The VGA Reader is a peer-reviewed journal for video game audiences and video game practitioners interested in the history, theory, and criticism of video games, explored through the lens of art history and visual culture. Its primary aim is to facilitate conversation and exploration of video game art, documenting and disseminating discourse about the far-reaching influence of video games on history, society, and culture.

    The Exhibist Magazine: Contemporary Art From Turkey, issues #12 & #13, $10 each

    Frankie #80 $15.95

    Tape Op #123 $6.95

    Mojo Feb 2018 $10.99

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

    Slightly Foxed: The Real Readers Quarterly Winter 2017 $18

    Tethers by The Broken Nose Collective $15

    The Doctor Series by Sean Flaherty $20 – A series of poems about a late poet’s experience with cancer.

    Lantern #1 Jan 2018 (Entropic Press) $4 – New local lit journal with a zine format.

    Other

    More stickers by Corinne “Hate Baby” Halbert $3

    Cinema Sewer Enamel Pin $8

  • New Stuff This Week

    The F***ing History of Swearing by Anna Maria Kiosse (Bis) $22.50 – Stylish, beautifully illustrated book recounts the complete history of swearing, detailing extraordinary and interesting information on this beautifully offensive topic.

    Zines

    Dry Spells by Veronica Graham by VA Graham $15

    Living Southerners #6 by J Wu $3

    Delta Dawn #1 by Erin Quinlan $3.25

    Ugly Girl Gang #4 by Tuesday Bassen $10

    Lost Cat Please Call Me $8

    Comics & Minis

    Forever and Everything #2 by Kyle $7

    Grixly #42 Lil Puppy Dog by Nate McDonough $2

    Lighthouse by Rohan McDonald $12

    Super Old School Trolls vol 3 by Ben Marcus & friends $13

    Ashcan Arcana: An Illustrated Essay on Working In the Service Industry and Living in America…by Jason Lee $5

    Wolverton Thief of Impossible Objects by Michael Stark & friends $4.99

    Tales From the Hyperverse by William Cardini (Retrofit) $8

    Worms With Eyes and a Mouth #1 by Jarad Solomon $5

    Graphic Novels

    Today Will be Better by David Alvarado $10

    Someone More Powerful by Rohan McDonald $20

    Politics, Revolution & Current Events

    Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (City Lights Open Media) $16.95

    New Territory #5 Brave New World $15

    The Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff $30

    Fiction

    Infinite Future: A Novel by Tim Wirkus $28

    Timing the Infinite by Nathaniel Schmeling $15

    Afterlives: A Novel by Thomas Pierce $27

    Palaces by Simon Jacobs (Two Dollar Radio) $15.99

    Recipe for Hate (The X Gang) by Warren Kinsella $14.99 – Coming of age novel by bass player from SFH and editor of the blog The War Room.

    Humor

    Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher’s Guide to Relationships by Julia Edelman, illustrations by Hallie Bateman $12.95 – What would Kant’s sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder?

    Food

    Chocolatology: Chocolate’s Fantastical Lore, Bittersweet History, & Delicious (Vegan) Recipes by Darin Wick & Angel York, illustrations by Cat Callaway (Microcosm) $16.95

    Sexxxy

    Elska #15 Bogota Colombia $18.50

    Big Girls by Dan Dandrea $2 – 50 Foot woman erotica comic!

    Mags
    Reflekt Style Anthology #15 Realness $13
    Pine Magazine #2 Love $24
    Uppercase #36 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $18
    Wire #407 $10.99
    Fortean Times Jan 2018 $12.50
    Man About Town #21 $29.99
    True Detective Jan 2018 $9.99

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    Sinister Wisdom #107 A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal by JP Howard & friends $14

    Bring Back Myspace by Elyse Fischground $4

    The Chicago Review vol 60 #4 $15

  • New Stuff This Week

    Lunch time! #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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    Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt $16.95

    ZINES

    Xerography Debt #42: The Review Zine With Perzine Tendencies by Davida Breier & friends $4 – By zinesters for zinesters! And those with zine interests!

    Owning the Means of Production: Pocket Lessons for Your Own Worker Co-op! by Allen Killian-Moore $6 – If you are interested in starting a worker-cooperative, the blue-prints are laid out here by the creator of Jefferson People’s House.

    “A” is for Aspergers: A Personal Glossary of a Spectrumy Life by Partly Robot $3

    To Ruin & Redeem: How To Build a Constructive Mindset in Prison by Justin M. Curtis $4

    A Friendly Felon’s Guide to Life After a Felony by Aza Enigma $4

    Ghost Glove Effect at the Spidecky Roadhouse by Sam Weiss $8

    Purplizer by John Cates $20

    Moment In Time: A Photozine Calendar by Nick Acosta New Morality Zine $12

    COMICS & MINIS

    So Much to Do by Will Hockstein $5

    Grid #1 & #2 by Kelsey Short $5 each

    Floor Troll by MS Harkness $4 – Hilarious auto-bio account about being the owner of a particularly grumpy purebred Persian Cat. ~CH

    Go Fuck Myself Part 2 The Fuckening by Mke Freiheit $6

    Garbage Can Faerie by Wure (Bred Press) $10 – Crude digital drawings of an adorable and mischievous kewpie baby who is soaking wet and has messy hair. ~CH

    GRAPHIC NOVELS

    R. Crumb: Bible of Filth $35 – Originally published in France in 1986, the first edition of this book was never distributed in the states, because it was too dirty. This revised and expanded English edition has an added 100+ pages including work since the original. Printed to look like a bible, bound in leather, with gold debossing and edging.

    Prize Fighter by MS Harkness $13 – A collection of the mini comics by Harkness from May 2015, August 2015, and October 2015.

    The Battle of Churubusco: American Rebels in the Mexican-American War by Andrea Ferraris (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – A soldier under fire faces a crisis of conscience in this remarkable work of historical graphic fiction.

    POLITICS, REVOLUTION & RESISTANCE

    Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up by Interference Archive $15

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS

    The Propaganda Front: Postcards From the Era of World Wars by Anna Jozefacka, Lynda Klich, Juliana Kreinik & Benjamin Weiss $45 – Persuasion on a postcard: propaganda from all sides of the 20th century’s world wars. The more than 350 cards reproduced in full color in this book advocate for political causes and celebrate war efforts on all sides of the major conflicts of their time.

    ESSAYS

    Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative Formalism from the Stanford Literary Lab by Franco Moretti $21.20 – Scholars used computers to map out two centuries of books and it led to witty and profound results about things like the “loudness” of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak & other nerdy but interesting points of literary scholarship.

    MAGS
    The Believer #117 $12
    Tom Tom Magazine #32 Sex and Love $10
    Flat Out Architecture Magazine issues #1 & #2 $20 each

    LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    The First Line vol 19 #4 $4
    The Last Line #4 $3
    Rusted Radishes #6 Underground Beirut $15
    Diary of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Kathryn Wlak $5
    Raffish #0 $7

  • New Stuff This Week

    Cold? C’mere n stand undrrrr these vents at Quimby’s! Open til 10 tonight!

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    Tonight we close at 10. We also close the vents at 10.

    Tomorrow (New Years Eve) we close at 5pm and will be closed on New Years Day the entire day. So will the vents.

    New stuff here now!:

    *ZINES*

    KerBloom #129 Nov Dec 17 by Artnoose $2

    Sentientmoss #1 by Mosser $15

    Jean and Kate Get Busy by Jesse Harrod $10

    *COMICS*

    Comics by by Al “Burn Collector” Burian: Utopia: A Tribute to Jack Chick $1, Draw Yourself Drawing $8

    Kutul Magazine #6 by Joos Halbertsma & friends $10

    Comics Skool USA by Kevin Huizenga, various issues $5 each

    Infinite Wheat Paste #3 by Pidse Carlisle $5

    Frowny Frown by Aaron Novik $8

    Full Moon by Rebecca Baruc $3

    Comics by Crippa Almquist, $5 each: Splat, You Can Do What You Want, and more

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Now 2: The New Comics Anthology (Fantagraphics) $9.99 – Showcases a cover by painter Christian Rex Van Minnen, as well as 120 pages of all new short fiction by international talent, including: South American cartoonists Ariel Lopez V. and Fabio Zimbres; Spanish cartoonist Conxita Herrero; acclaimed cartoonist and filmmaker Dash Shaw; Canadian artist and musician Nick Thorburn (of the bands Unicorns and Islands); Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi; plus new work by Sammy Harkham (Crickets), Joshua Cotter (Skyscrapers of the Midwest, Nod Away), Graham Chaffee (Good Dog, To Have and To Hold), Anuj Strestha, Andrice Arp, Joseph Remnant, and other surprises!

    Slasher by Charles Forsman (Floating World) $14.95

    It Don’t Come Easy by Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy (D&Q) $22.95

    Saga vol 8 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $14.99

    R. CRUMB: From the Underground to GENESIS by R. Crumb $49.99 – Show catalog from The Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris retrospective exhibition, including Crumb’s comics and sketchbook drawings spanning nearly five decades.

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

    Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981 by Philip S. Foner (Haymarket) $22

    *MAYHEM n OUTER LIMITS*

    Psychedelia and Other Colours by Rob Chapman $24.95 – A seminal book on Psychedelia, that explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD.

    *MAGS*
    Hi Fructose #46 $7.95
    Offscreen #18 $20
    RFD #172 $11.95

     

  • January Newsletter Out Now!

     

    The Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter for January 2018 is available for viewing: Announcements, Events, New Stuff & more! Click here to see it, and don’t forget to sign up to get it in your inbox every month!

  • New Stuff This Week

    Holiday Hours!
    Sat 12/23: open until 10pm
    Sun 12/24: noon to 7pm
    12/25:  CLOSED
    Sun, 12/31: noon-5pm
    Mon 1/1: CLOSED

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    Here’s New Stuff!

    Deviant Desires: A Tour of the Erotic Edge, Incredibly Strange Sex, Expanded Edition by Katharine Gates (PowerHouse Books) $29.95 – Yale-trained gonzo anthropologist Katharine Gates has now fully updated and revised her pioneering 2000 work, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, into this expanded edition which features over a thousand illustrations (mostly in color, new for this edition), interviews from around the world, both fun and serious discussion, and even some tips and suggestions. And what a tour! Within these pages Gates proves there’s ALWAYS new information about sex and desire, because human adaptability and creativity ever combine to discover new frontiers of pleasure, whether by imagining ourselves superheroes or tiny or giants, or simply stuffing party balloons down our pants. Now with more trample and crush, cannibal play, quicksand and male pregnancy!

    *ZINES*

    Eat #8 by Dan Varenka $6

    Learn Arabic in 25 Years #3 The Alphabet by Zora O’Neill $4

    Apex Nocturne Dream Journal Entries by Brian Uhl $18

    David Bowie Color Your Own Poster Set by Lauren B. $20

    Bad Poetry #1 by Kayson Spinazzola $2

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    Devil Stole a Shooting Star by Michaela Washington $6.66

    Somersault by Thayer Nicholas Granstorm Bray $15

    Feels Better Here by Candice Ploy Goodman $10

    Doodlr by Siu Lee $8

    Wonderful World of Tank Girl #2 The Importance of Being Tank Girl $3.99

    Two Rivers by Kayson Spinazzola $4

    *GRAPHIC NOVELS*

    Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty by Tommi Parrish (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $20 – A stunning lyrical meditation on love and family in our real life dystopian present. Featuring a small 12-page book-within-the-book, it’s a stunning collaboration between rising star Tommi Parrish and the reliably great Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane

    Senses by Dr Matteo Farinella (Nobrow) $22.95

    *POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

    Subversive: Interviews with Radicals By Brian Whitney (Headpress) $21.99

    *ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

    Cafe Avatar by Sonnenzimmer (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $25 – This lovely volume presents an essay interleaved with gorgeous illustrations from writer/artist team Sonnenzimmer. The text likens humanity’s relationship to images and graphics to the use of camouflage and pattern in the natural world. Published by Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane

    *LOCAL INTEREST*

    Stories of a Chicago Police Officer by Murphy $20.99 – Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you don’t find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? It’s against rules but we can’t allow the children’s last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his hand or is that a cell phone? It’s too dark, but the call was a man with a gun! If you’re right you’re a hero. If you’re wrong you go to the morgue. These decisions are made on a daily basis if you are a Chicago Police Officer.

    *MAGS*
    Forecast #7 2018 $18
    Tapas 2017 $30
    Fortean Times Dec 2017 $12.50
    Plant Based #3 $9.99
    Murder Most Foul #106 $10.99
    True Crime Winter Special Win 2018 $12.99
    Anorak #44 $12.25
    Dazed and Confused Win 2017 $12.99
    Mojo Jan 18 $10.99
    Harpers Jan 18 $6.99

    *LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
    McSweeneys #51 $26
    Lady Parts #4 by Amelia Hruby $3
    Brain Fever #3 Fall 17 Edited by Mike Goodman $12

    *SEXXXY*

    Meat #25 $22

    *OTHER STUFF*

    Blank journals of varying sizes, shapes, styles and colors by Red Shorts Bindery!

  • New Stuff This Week

    2 new Johnny Sampson thingies! Christmastime: A Love Story Greeting Card $4, Sticker: Lance from his “Creative Differences” strip $3

    *ZINES*

    Crap Hound #9 Sex and Kitchen Gadgets by Sean Tejaratchi $15 – “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness!

    Against Amazon: Seven Arguments One Manifesto by Jorge Carrion $5

    I Had My Time of the Month on Your Face and Made America Great Again $2

    Did I Wake Up With a Headache or Wake up Because of My Headache? by Madeline Veitch $4

    Abandoned Signs by Temporary Services $7 – A melancholic tale of ruin and neglect. Happy holidays!

    stuff from Megan Kirby:
    Every Time Mini $1
    issues Meanwhile: #1 Apartments, #2 Beach, #3 Internet $5 each

    *COMICS & MINIS*

    Love and Rockets Comics vol 4 #4 $4.99

    Anna Sellheim comics, various prices, including There For Us with Tillie Walden $5

    Barely Legal #3 Holiday Edition by Hannah Chavez $3

    *ART & DESIGN*

    Madman’s Eye: The Art of Mac Blackout (Hozac Books) $32 – Around Chicago, his art has become inescapable, always peeking out from a storefront, a doorway, an alley, or one of his beloved garbage cans, his aesthetic has become an unofficial pock mark on the face of the city. As his direction has drifted across so many projects over the years, he’s gone from respected graffiti artist, into the world of fine art, and into pen & ink, collage, & multi-media painting. Not to mention his numerous world-renowned punk bands, Functional Blackouts, Daily Void, Mickey, New Rose Alliance, and his solo material with Mac Blackout Band, Mac has always been at the center of a rogue nervous system that needed to come to life on it’s own in the form of his art.

    *MUSIC BOOKS*

    Punk Women vols 1 and 2 by David Ensminger (Left of the Dial Books) $10 each – Get volume 2 here! — An incredible array of powerful, potent, and and particularly inventive women, from off-the-radar local acts to legacy bands of all stripes, from first wave punk to melodicore and garage rock. It includes profiles of many, but it also features several women discussing their own lives, histories, and band anecdotes.

    *MUCKRAKING*

    Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson: An Inquiry into the Life & Death of the Master of Gonzo by Warren Hinckle & friends (Last Gasp) $39.95 – Candid memories and appreciations by many of his closest friends and co-conspirators. Contains: transcripts of his rants and idiosyncratic phone messages, The Gonzo Master’s Midnight Faxes, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, and a humungous introduction (a book in itself!) by Warren Hinckle III.

    *FICTION*

    The Brunist Day of Wrath by Robert Coover (Dzanc) $18.95

    *MAGS*
    Wire #406 $10.99
    Shock Cinema #53 $5
    Modern Farmer #18 $7.99
    Little White Lies #72 $12.99

    *OTHER STUFF*

    Various Field Notes restocks and some new stuff, including the “Haxley” Jay Ryan edition $12.95

    Ball Gag Nun Enamel Pin by Corinne Halbert $8