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RIP Underground Comics Legend Jay Lynch
Quimby’s gives best wishes to the survivors, fans, friends and family of underground comics legend Jay Lynch, who passed away at age 72. His legacy includes such titles as Bijou Funnies, Nard ‘n’ Pat, Phoebe & the Pigeon People, Arcade, as well as illustration for Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids, but he also did illustrations for The Realist, as he reminisced about in the zine we published about Quimby’s (Ever Evolving Bastion of Freakdom: A Quimby’s Bookstore History In Words and Pictures):
“Paul Krassner, who founded The Realist in 1958, was doing a book signing in the store. I stopped by to say hello, since I did many a cartoon for The Realist in the early 60s. I saw Paul staring in awe at the shelves stacked with every “alternative” publication that exists. All of these zines in one place isn’t something that you see every day-and Krassner was nonplussed at the sight. “What have we begat?” he said to me in a concerned tone.”
Jay’s presence at signings at Quimby’s, as well as his contribution to the world of underground comics and his legacy as contributor to the origins of the store will be missed.
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New Stuff This Week
S #27 Baltic Comics Magazine Jan 17 (kus) $12.00. Also, issues of Mini Kus $5.00: #47 Sutrama by Daniel Lima, #48 by Olive Booger, #49 Call Of Cthulhu by Martin Lacko and H.P. Lovecraft, #50 by Mathilde Van Gheluwe, Brume by Amanda Baeza $18.00*ZINES*
New Territory #4 Coexisting by Tina Casagrand $15.00
How to Quantum Leap $5.00
Surviving: Getting Through the Shit Life Throws at You by Faith G. Harper $3.00
Great and Terrible Golden Age #3 Movies of the 1930s by Emily Alden Foster $5.00
Why I Got My Breast Reduction $3.00
Okay Fine, Here’s What To Do Zine: A Guide for Post 2016 Election $2.00
Black Lives Matter: A Guide for White People Who Want to Help Dismantle White Supremacy by Spiderweb Salon $2.00
Fight Normalization $2.00
Heavy Whisper #2 by Corinne Halbert $5.00 – Illustrated vintage erotica, the second installment of Halbert’s bondage drawing zine.
Composite Internet Boyfriend by Jaime Raybin $5.00
Indestructible: Growing Up Queer, Cuban, and Punk in Miami by Cristy C. Road $9.95 – Back in print!
How To Recognize Voter Suppression by Bronwyn Mauldin $7.00
Homeworld #2 by Elora Powell $1.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Warpwish Comix #1 Very Special Inaugural Issue by Nathan Ward $5.00 – Filled to the brim with deep-space and earth-based tales of gummy-terraforming, dog-stabbing, wormhole-diving, hair-follicle-lumberjacking, junkyard-tresspassing, amateur-radio-violating, smegma-rioting, and much much more.
All Time Comics Crime Destroyer #1 by Josh Bayer, Benjamin Marra and Herb Trimpe (Fantagraphics) $4.99 – Blind Justice! Bullwhip! Crime Destroyer! Each issue of ALL TIME COMICS features a mash up of new cartoonists and classic comic book creators collaborating with writer Josh Bayer to unleash superhero stories that no other publisher would dare to publish.
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Simply Samuel by Tommi Musturi (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Next adventure of Samuel, a pale ghost-like character who wanders through a colorful world from this Finnish artist and co-founder of Huuda Huuda comics.
*ART BOOKS*
Limestone by Matt Christy $22.00
*MUSIC BOOKS*
The Prodigal Rogerson: The Tragic, Hilarious, and Possibly Apocryphal Story of Circle Jerks Bassist Roger Rogerson in the Golden Age of LA Punk, 1979-1996 (Scene History) by J. Hunter Bennett (Microcosm) $7.95
Electri_City: The Dusseldorf School of Electronic Music by Rudie Esch $27.95 – The myths and realities of the bands emerging from the artistic backdrop of a wealthy German post WWII modernistic city, and explores the emergence of the electronic scene that spawned bands like Kraftwerk, NEU!, DAF, and Die Krupps.
There Is No Substitute: A Tribute to Keith Moon by Ian Snowball $40.00
*OUTER LIMITS*
Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals by Nick Redfern (Visible Ink) $19.95
Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses by John Dvorak $27.95
Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist by Jonathan Shaw $21.95 – If truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then, as Shaw’s friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once told him, much of this book would have to be lived before it could be written.
*MAGAZINES*
The Baffler #34 Spr 17 Snare of Preparation $14.00
Juxtapoz #195 Apr 17 $6.99
Vive Le Rock #42 Punk’s Unsung Heroes $11.99
Fader #108 Mar Apr 17 Sex Issue $6.99
Bitch #74 Spr 17 $6.95
Mojo #280 Mar 17 Ray Davies $10.99
*SEXXXY*
Elska #10 Mumbai India $18.50
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New Stuff This Week
*ZINES*The Utter Failure of Dan Gleason $3.00
Club Night Club by Leanna Perry $9.00
Half Cup by Emily Schulert $5.00
Schmalz: Writing About Jewish Food and Diaspora by Isaac Brosilow $3.00
Airplane Food #3 by Tyler Callich $5.00
*COMICS*
Lazy Diana #1 A Punk Pagan Zine by Kelci Crawford $3.00
Hi There by JJ McLuckie $5.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Literally Everything Is Outside of my Comfort Zone vol 1 by Tony Breed $12.00
Snotgirl vol 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley $9.99
Long Term Pariah by Yewon Kwon $20.00
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Against the Fascist Creep by Alexander Reid Ross (AK Press) $16.95 – As the election of Donald Trump shows, fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” permutations is alive and well in the United States. A terrifying tour of the history and influence of the forces that helped bring the forty-fifth president to power, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names. It traces today’s often-disguised forms of rightwing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both mainstream and left-wing institutions in order to win elections, take political power, and create a new racist and authoritarian society.
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket) $14.95 – Essays From the Author of Men Explain Things to Me.
*MUSIC*
Smoke Snort Swallow Shoot: Legendary Binges, Lost Weekends, and Other Feats of Rock ‘n’ Roll Incoherence by Jacob Hoye (Lesser Gods) $18.00
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen In the Age of Plenty by Ben Ratliff $16.00
*MAGAZINES*
Lucky Peach #22 Spr 17 The Chicken Issue $12.00
True Crime Feb 17 How Many More Victims $9.99
Wicked Vision Magazine vol 4 Jan Mar 17 $18.00
Uncut Ultimate Music Guide #1 2017 Leonard Cohen $14.95
*LIT JOURNALS*
Make X Literary Magazine A Decade of Literary Art $30.00
Girls Our Age #2 2017 $12.00
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New Stuff This Week
Thanks to everybody that came out for the Black Eye #3 release event!
*ZINES & ZINE-RELATED*
Hey Lady #7 Sylvia Rivera by Regina Schilling $12.00 – Issue 7 of HEY LADY features Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002). She was a crucial voice for PoC, transgender and low income communities throughout her life. With her best friend and fellow activist, Marsha P. Johnson, she founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) providing shleter to young homeless trans women of color. A veteran of the Stonewall Uprising, she consistently participated in protests, riots, and marches. With her determination to fight for visibility, she brought transgender people to the forefront of the LGBTQ community.
Things That Help: Healing Our Lives Through Feminism, Anarchism, Punk, & Adventure by Cindy Crabb $16.95
Suckdog: A Ruckus by Lisa Carver $24.95 – Richly detailed historical account including interviews, personal notes, photographs, song lyrics and ephemera of Lisa Carver’s notorious underground band Suckdog, 1987-2017. Fascinating stories are abounding involving GG Allin, El Duce of the Mentors and a slew of other infamous rock and roll icons. Other key players include Psycodrama, Jean-Louis Costes, Fantagraphics cartoonist Dame Darcy and Bill Callahan. A must read for those obsessed with abrasive underground music, performance art, fanzines or the 90’s. ~CH
Zine Pack Made At CHIPRC 3rd Anniversary July 16 $2.00 – When the Chicago Publishers Resource Center turned 3 there was a karaoke and zine-making party. Reading this is like being there.
Airplane Food #3 Unfold It and Read the Marks by Tyler Callich $5.00
Pops Parents on Parenting #2 by Jonas $2.00
Confessions Zine by Charlene Herrera $1.00
Fucking Ocean Part 2 by Leah Willbaum $10.00
Light Is a Better God #4-6 by Alex Norelli $10.00 each
New Morality Zine #0 by Nick Acosta $5.00
Beginning of End Of by John D Whitlock $10.00
Fuck You Pay Me a Quick and Dirty Instruction Manual $5.00
Shadowself-Nothing Matters-Everything Matters More split by Matthew Scherer & Claire Mesesan $9.00
Dual Individual by Joseph J. Mora $2.00
Zeromile #10 by Peter Bergman $12.00
Impractical Mushroom Foragers Handbook by Joe DeGeorge $4.00
Hot Sex On a Friday by Aaron Manczyk $2.50
Trump Reminds Me of My Rape $5.00
zines by Joseph Carlough:
Orchard Found Poems and Articles on Apples and the History of the Carlough Surname $1.00
Georgia the Cat by Joseph Carlough $7.00
…& more!zines by Sage Liskey:
Surviving Collapse of Society Skills to Know and Careers to Pursue $4
Community How To (Fifth Year Edition)$4
Truthagandist Primer Effective Information Distribution for Activists $3
You Are a Great and Powerful Wizard An Overview of Human Magic and Spell Casting $4*COMICS & MINIS*
No Limits Allowed: Based on a Story by Robert Anton Wilson by Al Burian and Oska Wald $5.00 – Based on a story by Robert Anton Wilson, this Risographed mini will have you pondering whether bestiality is AOK. Go on a mystical journey as Dr. Dashwood explains the mysteries of the universe filled with tantric and taboo sex acts that can lead to veritable super hero man gods. ~CH
Sharkman #2 vs. the Illuminati by Leo Mancini $5.00 – Conspiracies! Cryptids! Radioactive mutants! This comic serves up your favorite genre tropes with offbeat wit and charming art. Featuring a cameo appearance by Edward Snowden.
Beasts Of Heaven Collection #1 & #2 by Samuel Locke Ward $6.00 each
John John and Georgie by Veronica Englund $10.00
Where Could I Go by Robert Zertuche $6.00
Wac Donald’s: The Golden Tits of America $4.00
Tat Rat #7 by Cameron Forsley $5.00
2 Frogs On A Log by Alex Ross Williams $6.00 – Two strangers become fast friends in this fun pastoral adventure. Rendered in lovely yellows, blues, and greens. Created for the 2016 Comics Workbook Composition Competition.
Posion Circus: A Nerd Jams Story by Olivier Wilkie $5.00
That Time I Met Bill Clinton and He Stole My Favorite Pen by Rachel Scheer $4.00
Yoga Diary One by Rachel Scheer $3.00
Beguiling Bunnies by Rachel Bard $5.00
Ley Lines Poems the Letting Go by Kevin Czap $6.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Don’t miss Emil Ferris here at Quimby’s March 4th!
Wilson by Daniel Clowes (D&Q) $15.95 – Now in soft cover!
Pretending Is Lying by Dominique Goblet $24.95
Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis (D&Q) $16.95
Excavation by Max Andersson (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Epilogue Diary by Kevin Budnik (1% Press) $10.00
Starseeds by Charles Glaubitz (Fantagraphics) $29.99
The Can Opener’s Daughter by Rob Davis $19.95
Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie by Nejib $22.95
Demon vol 2 by Jason Shiga $19.99
Isnana Were Spider Werespider vol 1 Forgotten Stories $19.95
Chester Five Thousand 5000 XYV Book Two Isabelle and George $14.95
Not Waving But Drawing Dark Thoughts Lightly Rendered by John Cuneo (Fantagraphics) $25.00
Farmer Neds Comics Barn by Gerald Jablonski (Fantagraphics Underground) $30.00
You Might Be An Artist If by Lauren Purje $19.99
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Direct Action: A Short History of a Catastrophe by L.A. Kauffman (Verso) $17.95 – As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today. This deeply researched account, twenty-five years in the making, traces the evolution of disruptive protest since the Sixties to tell a larger story about the reshaping of the American left. Kauffman, a longtime grassroots organizer, examines how movements from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics to catalyze change despite long odds.
We the People: Stories From the Community Rights Movement in the United States by Thomas Linzey and Anneke Campbell (PM Press) $14.95
We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism In Twenty First Century America by Martinez, Meyer & Carter $29.95
Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy by Sheldon Whitehouse and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett $27.95
*MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS BOOKS*
Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nations Leaders by Brady Carlson $15.95
Killing God’s Enemies: The Crazy War Against Jews, African-Americans and the U.S. Government by John Lee Brook (Trine Day) $19.95
Ancient Gods: Lost Histories, Hidden Truths, and the Conspiracy of Silence by William Willis (VISIBLE INK PRESS) $19.95
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilisation by Graham Hancock $17.99 – Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods, bringing new evidence supporting Hancock’s thesis that a global cataclysm wiped out a great global civilization.
Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep by Marah J. Hardt $16.99
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Jaguar Ride: Memoirs of an Electric Eel by Brian McMahon $34.99 – Founding member of the Cleveland proto punk legends the ELECTRIC EELS, BRIAN MCMAHON has unleashed his story, finally available in print. The very first BOOK covering the synthesis of these cretins of the pre-punk underworld is now available, written by founding guitarist and author of such acerbic classics as “Accident,” “Cold Meat,” “Splitterty Splat,” “Sewercide,” “Safety Week,” “Jaguar Ride,” and last but not least, “Agitated.”
Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays by Joe Bonomo (Soft Skull Press) $16.95
Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook $35.00
*FICTION*
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman $25.95 – Gaiman’s take!
Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology ed. by Ellen Datlow $25.95 – Avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists.
Zodiac: A Novel by Sam Wilson $25.95 – A series of uniquely brutal murders targets victims from totally different walks of life. In a society divided according to Zodiac signs, those differences are cast at birth and binding for life. All eyes are on detective Jerome Burton and astrological profiler Lindi Childs?divided in their beliefs over whether the answer is written in the stars, but united in their conviction that there is an ingenious serial killer executing a grand plan.
4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster $32.50
Bricks That Built Houses: A Novel by Kate Tempest $16.00 – From British poet and rapper. Now in soft cover.
I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow (Featherproof Press) $15.95
*MAGAZINES*
Juxtapoz #194 Mar 17 $6.99
Bust #103 Feb Mar 17 $6.99
Maximumrocknroll #406 Mar 17 $4.99
AdBusters #130 vol 25 #2 Mar Apr 17 $14.95
Cinema Retro vol 13 #37 2017 $11.99
Raw Vision #92 Win 16 17 $14.00
Razorcake #96 Pedal Strike $4.00
Cannabis Now #24 100 Best Dispensaries $7.99
Shindig #63 The Kinks $12.99
DOA #8 Ultimate Death Metal Magazine $6.66
Jacobin #24 Win 17 $12.95
Monocle vol 10 #100 Feb 17 $12.00
Frankie #75 $17.50
Atlantis Rising #122 Mar Apr 17 $6.95
Cabinet #61 Calendars $12.00
*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
Feel Better Poems by Rosie Accola $10.00
Overtime Hour 43 Still Wet With Dishwaster by Tom Fitts $2.00
Paper Darts vol 6 $15.00
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Jillian Tamaki Launches Boundless at Quimby’s, In Conversation With Jessica Campbell 6/23
In Jillian Tamaki’s new book Boundless (Drawn & Quarterly), Jenny becomes obsessed with a strange “mirror Facebook,” which presents an alternate, possibly better, version of herself. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser, and as she drinks away to nothingness, the world around her recedes as well. The animals of the city briefly open their minds to us, and we see the world as they do. A mysterious music file surfaces on the internet and forms the basis of a utopian society—or is it a cult? Boundless is at once fantastical and realist, playfully hinting at possible transcendence: from one’s culture, one’s relationship, oneself. This collection of short stories is a showcase for the masterful blend of emotion and humor of award-winning cartoonist Jillian Tamaki.
“Jillian Tamaki seems capable of drawing anything, in any style, and making it appear effortless. Her writing could be described in the same way, and it’s thrilling to see those twin skills of hers united in service of these daring, unpredictable, and quietly strange stories.”—Adrian Tomine, cartoonist of Killing and Dying
Jillian Tamaki is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Toronto. She is the co-creator along with her cousin Mariko Tamaki of the graphic novel Skim, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Their second graphic novel This One Summer earned a Governor General’s Award and a Caldecott Honor. Tamaki’s first collection of her own comics was the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award-winning, SuperMutant Magic Academy.
This event will feature Jillian Tamaki in conversation with Jessica Campbell, the artist of Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists!
Jessica Campbell is from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and is an enthusiast of jokes, painting and comics. She completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was the recipient of the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship, and also a comics instructor. She has exhibited work in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Greece, and was selected as one of NewCity’s 2015 breakout artists. She is a member of the Chicago-based comics collective Trubble Club and has published comics with micro press Oily Comics, and contributed to Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels.
Invite your friends with the Facebook invite here!
For more info:
jilliantamaki.com/illustration
Contact JULIA POHL-MIRANDA and SRUTI ISLAM
publicity(at)drawnandquarterly(dot)com / 514.279.2221 ext 225Friday, June 23rd, 7pm. Free event!
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“Too Much Fun Too” Comic Release with Logan Kruidenier and Live Musical Performance 3/10
Logan Kruidenier’s experimental comic “Too Much Fun Too,” continues the mythological story of a tree-thing’s attempts to befriend and spend meaningful time with a turnip that it dug up. This work considers the nature of masochistic, repetitive routines, envious desperation and a scattered mentality. Kruidenier loves creating work that deals with the universal, yet extremely personal theme of relationships between living beings, objects and media. TMFT also features a great poem by New York based writer and performer Connor Bush. Logan Kruidenier has drawn major influence from artists such as Michael DeForge, Taiyo Matsumoto, Olivier Schrauwen, and video games such as Bioshock and the Super Smash Bros series.
“Niiiiiccccceeeee.” – Connor Bush, writer and performer.
The work of Logan Kruidenier has been featured in such places as: The Chicago Publisher’s Resource Center, Meathaus, Quimby’s Bookstore, the Mott St. Restaurant, the Beguiling, The Toronto Alternative Comics Festival, Ada Books and Desert Island Comics.
For more info visit: logankruidenier.com
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Friday, March 10th 7pm Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Mineshaft #34 $9.00 – 52 page anthology from the depths with beautiful front cover art & design by Robert Crumb! Excerpts from R. Crumb’s Dream Diary and R. Crumb’s Sketchbook art! Billy Childish poetry Special Centerfold section “if theyve got what you want theyve got you”! “Springtime for Hitler in America” by J.R. Helton! Bill Griffith’s Romance 6 “ZIPPY” Comics! John Porcellino! Jim Blanchard! Noah Van Sciver! Nina Bunjevac! Mary Fleener! David Collier! And more!
*Zines*
Library Excavations #5 A Handbook of Library Ideas by Dale E. Schaffer (Half Letter Press) $6.00
Egoist #1 On Sexual Assault by Olive Panter $4.00 – Heart Breakingly Compelling.
La Croix Water zine by Russell Jaffe $10.00
*Comics & Minis*
Love and Rockets Magazine #1 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $4.99 – The new Love and Rockets marks Gilbert and Jaime’s return to the “floppy” format for the first time in a decade. 32 pgs! On Jaime’s side: What do you do when none of your old punk friends want to be punk any more? And just who does the evil Princess Animus think she is? (Hint: She doesn’t know, she has amnesia.) On Gilbert’s side: Family drama takes center stage when a Fritz discovers a grandchild she didn’t know existed! Old fans and new fans are sure to enjoy the most diverse cast of characters in comics, including Maggie, Hopey, Pipo, Fritz, Tonta, Baby, and many more! Plus other surprises! Grrrowl!
You Don’t Get There From Here #41 by Carrie McNinch $3.00 – More awesome and compelling journal comics from long time mini-comicser.
Work In Progress #2 by August LeRoi $7.00
Center For Otherworld Science #4 by Shing Yin Khor (Sawdust Press) $8.00
Faraway Beach by Nathan Cowdry $5.00 – This mini-comic ages like a fine wine with a full pervy base accompanied by notes of complex emotion, lolz and fragile egos. The author seems sexually obsessed and much of the story revolves around the male gaze, however the objects of desire are much more than just that. There’s a possible dog murder, rejection of pubic grooming and several sexy ladies holding large guns, giving them a feminist touch. Gorgeous drawings and solid story telling make this gem a must read. NSFW. ~CH
*Graphic Novels*
Yours by Sarah Ferrick (2dCloud) $23.95 – A lyrical, sensual collection of work that plays with comics’ conventions of repetition and pattern. From a Chicago local.
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Shane Oakley & Nick Filardi (Dark Horse Comics) $17.99 – Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author’s pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write fiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to the death, and his sinister butler.
Extended Play by Jake Terrell (2dCloud) $18.95 – Comics with a loose, confident line, often focusing on a youth-centric cast of characters written into magical realist or measured fantastical narratives. From Brooklyn-based artist.
*Art & Design Books*
See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990 by by Prudence Stevenson etc. (Four Corners Books) $45.99 – A feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Details the group’s history up until the closure of the workshop in 1990, and with a foreword by celebrated feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham.
*Fiction*Eisentein’s Monster by AV Bach $18.00
*Essays*
All Tomorrow’s Parties A Memoir: by Rob Spillman $16.00 – Now in soft cover! A colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist’s life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin.
*Magazines*
MaximumRocknRoll #405 Feb 17 $4.99
Mojo #279 Black Sabbath $10.99
True Crime Jan 17 $9.99
Inked #82 Pinup Issue Feb 17 $6.99
Under the Radar #59 Dec 16 $5.99
Dissent Win 17 $10.00
THC the Hemp Connoisseur Win 17 $6.99
ASR #69 Win 17 Trumpocalypse $5.00
Rethinking Schools vol 31 #2 Win 16 17 $5.95
*Poetry*
Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan $16.00
*SeXXXY*
Spunk #11 $10.00
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Emil Ferris Debuts Her Graphic Novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics Books) is a murder mystery, a family drama, a sweeping historical epic, and a psychological thriller about monsters, real and imagined, within and without. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while we get to watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around her unfold. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a revelatory work of striking originality and will undoubtedly be greeted as the debut graphic novel of the year.
“Absolutely astonishing” – Chris Ware, Building Stories
“No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferris …it threatens not merely to exceed established standards of excellence, but to set new ones.” — Sam Thielman, The Guardian
Emil Ferris grew up Chicago during the turbulent 1960s, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute. This is her first graphic novel
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For more info: Pederson(at)fantagraphics(dot)com
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New Stuff This Week
*ZINES*
How to Plan For Action: A Protest Prep Zine by Sarah Friedman $1.00
How Not to Kill Yourself Zine: A Survival Guide For Imaginative Pessimists by by Set Sytes $4.00
Conspiracy Fun Book Learn Real Historical Facts About the Dark Underworld of Oppression and Murder That School “forgot” to Teach You! by Joseph E. Green $4.00
Grief and Other Things Men Gave Me by Jane Belinda $6.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #72 Win 16 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
Coup #1 Collection of Unfinished Projects Angle $10.00
The Lowbrow Reader #10 $4.00 – Illustrations by David Berman, Drew Friedman, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jeffrey Lewis. Lowbrow hero Amy Heckerling spills the beans on Joseph Goebbels’s secret diary. (Her article is pretty timely—sad!) The Velvet Underground’s connection to the diabolic Steve Urkel is explored. Mel Brooks is discussed. What’s not to love?
Borderless #2 Passport $15.00
Xerography Debt #40 $4.00 – The review zine with perzine tendencies!
Pedal By Pedal: A Zine About Women Over Forty Who Ride Bicycles: vol 1 by Julie Brooks $5.00Going Places #2 Powow Country $3.00
10 Hot Sax Positions by Joe Degeorge Sax Machine $2.50
Lizard People: Dear Reader: A DIY Guide to Searching For Weird Shit by Julia Eff $2.00
Curio: A Book of Paper Toys by Anna Jo Beck $10.00 – Curio: A Book of Paper Toys is a collection over 20 paper toys. A lithographed and hand bound artist book in an edition of 30.
The Cool Teen’s Guide To Fingering by infoTEENment $2.00
The Cool Teen’s Guide To The Mall by infoTEENment $2.00
Seeing and Believing by Maureen Ohara Ure $24.00
In Flight Safety $10.00
Brutal by Nathan Pearce $2.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Unquotable Trump #1 by R. Sikoryak $4.00 – Collects the first 16 covers posted on the unquotabletrump.tumblr.com page. All Trump dialogue from the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond. Drawn by R. Sikoryak.
Possession Scenes Collected #1-#5 by Lyra Hill $10.00
Monstrum Ingenium Myth Series #1 by Rodger Binyone $5.00
Halvin and Cobbes by Jared Solomon $8.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
2 books by Tillie Walden:
The End of Summer $18.00
I Love This Part $12.00Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann (D+Q) $22.95
Zonzo by Joan Cornella (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – 50 all-new strips of smiling psychopaths!
Dept. H vol 1 by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse) $19.99
*ART BOOKS*
Biomech Visions by Andres Hurtado (Last Gasp) $29.00
*MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS*
Practical Spellcraft: A First Course in Magic by Leanna Greenaway $16.95
Shamanic Graffiti: 100,000 Years of Drugs, 100 Years of Prohibition by Frank Ogden, Marcus Ashley Rummery (Trine Day) $19.95 – Freud said dreams were the “royal road” to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedelic experience, but Frank Ogden shepherded over a thousand people’s experiences. What is presented is the howling unconscious released from the normal chemical constraints that restrict it. Written in the simple, but vivid style Frank popularized in his bestselling, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read, Shamanic Graffiti presents an alternative history of the brain and it’s functions: shamanism. Giving real world examples, the book finishes-up by exploring the theories of two pre-eminent psychedelic theoreticians, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Stan Grof and looks at the future of psychedelic drugs.
Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film by Jay Dyer (Trine Day) $19.95 – Sample quote, accompanied by a picture of Elliot from E.T. on his bike in front of the moon, “Elliot has all the power of a male witch. Is he a moonchild?”
Rivals of the Ripper: Unsolved Murders of Women In Late Victorian London by Jan Bondeson $35.00
Legends: Murder, Lies and Cover-Ups: Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, JFK and Michael Jackson: Who Killed Them and Why They Didn’t Have to Die by David Gardner $14.95
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation by Peter Gelderloos (AK Press) $16.00
Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture by Julius Deutsch (PM Press) $14.95
*MAGS*
Tape Op #117 Jan Feb 17 $4.95
Majestic Disorder #8 $18.99
Vive Le Rock #41 Iggy Pop and The Damned $10.50
Harpers Magazine Feb 17 $6.99
Make vol 55 Feb Mar 17 $9.99
Four Two Nine #9 $12.99
Four and Sons #6 Dogs and Culture Collide Fall Win 16 $19.99
*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
Parody vol 5 #2 $5.00 – The Weird Al of Lit Journals!
The Chicago Review vol 60 #2 Helen Adam and Her Circle $15.00
Sail On Silver Girl by Katryn Macko $5.00
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New Stuff This Week
Brain Frame Yearbook 2011-2014
*ZINES*
American Dream #3 $3.00
As You Were #1 by Bill Brown $3.00
Soda Killers #13 $5.00
*COMICS*
Mike Pence’s Worst Nightmare by Ally Whitelaw & Becca Regan $4.00
Houses Giant Sized First Issue by Matthew Schmid $5.00
Verdict #1 by Kwame Teague $5.00
Lucky #1 a Gangster Comic by Christian Cipollini $5.00
Laskimooses #33 Maakausien Hamarassa $7.00
True Adventures of Jep Comix #6 Summer 16 by Jep $4.00
*MAYHEM*
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal $40.00 – The art of brainscans!
Explorations in Awareness: Finding God by Meditating with Entheogens by John W. Aiken $17.95
*MUSIC & FILM BOOKS*
Headliners by Jamel Hewitt $20.00
The Official Making of Big Trouble in Little China by Tara Bennett $39.99
Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones $26.99
*FICTION*
Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen Dovey $18.00
Zeke Stage One by Ward J. Pyle $13.95
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
Culture As Weapon: The Art of Influence In Everyday Life by Nato Thompson (Melville House) $24.99
*MAGAZINES*
Uppercase #32 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious
Wire #395 Jan 17 Peter Brotzmann $10.99
*LIT JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY*
The First Line vol 18 #4 Win 16 $4.00
The Last Line #3 Win 16 $3.00
Book of Days by Jason Triefenbach $3.00
Revise the Psalm Work: Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks by Qraysh Ali Lansana (Curbside Splendor) $24.95
*POLITICAL BOOKS*
Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals by Jonathan Smucker (AK Press) $16.95