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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Scene History Series vol 1: Punk In NYCs Lower East Side 1981-1991 by Ben Nadler (Microcosm) $4.95
How to Talk to Your Cat About Abstinence presented by The American Association of Patriots $2.00 – The third in the red, white & blue Cat Talk trilogy has arrived, in virginal white, to instruct Concerned Patriots in how to properly steer their growing cats away from the path of sin and licentuousness and into the loving hands of American Jesus. Because no one wants a slatternly cat. Let a promise ring be your flea collar! -GS
I Dont Know How To Help You by Jessie Duke (Pioneers) $5.00
Margin Creep #4 $6.00
Every Day Failures #1 a Punk Stuck In Suburbia by Sarah B. $4.00
Buffy the Anarcho Syndicalist by Tom Sutton $2.00
Simple Steps to a Life Less Shitty Second Edition by Adam Gnade (Pioneers Press) $5.00
Country Grind Quarterly #5 Win 15 $2.00
Wittgenstein Is by Abigail Ham $2.00
And I Am the Angriest Girl by Yewon Kwon $5.00
Deep Breathing by Julianna Green $5.00
Speak Out: A Zine Exploring Gendered Violence, by Julia Fogelson and Mary Mykhaylova, courtesy of Speak Out Santa Cruz $3.00
Spectacle, issues #1-#4 by Marta Chudolinska $4.00 each
New CrimethInc zines! $4.00 each: Self as Other Reflections on Self Care, Accounting For Ourselves Breaking the Impasse Around Assault and Abuse in Anarchist Scenes
Comics & Minis
Ink For Beginners a Comic Guide To Getting Tattooed by Kate Leth $4.00
Quite the Drop by Christopher GreenDesigner Original by Sean Christensen $3.00
Chase Scenes Gridlords Anthology $10.00 – Entirely comprised of moments within the chase. Work by Yumi Sakugawa, Andrice Arp, Theo Ellsworth & more.
Eggshell Sword Raymond Ray by M. Pearson $3.00What I Have Been Doing by Andrice Arp $5.00
Sex Magic by Hawkins $5.00
Anchored by Ariel Chan $3.50Persistence by Yewon Kwon $5.00
Super Hero Kim #1 by Richard Larios $3.00
Running Habit by R. Burns $3.00
S #21 Baltic Comics Magazine $12.00
Mini Kus #33 BFF by Marie Jacotey $5.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty?five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels by Tom Devlin (D&Q) $49.95 – 800 page baby featuring new work by Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Michael DeForge, Tom Gauld, Miriam Katin, Rutu Modan, James Sturm, Jillian Tamaki, Yoshihiro Tatsumi alongside rare and never-before-seen work from Guy Delisle, Debbie Drechsler, Julie Doucet, John Porcellino, Art Spiegelman, and Adrian Tomine, and a cover by Tom Gauld. Editor Tom Devlin digs into the company archives for rare photographs, correspondence, and comics; assembles biographies, personal reminiscences, and interviews with key D+Q staff; and curates essays by Margaret Atwood, Sheila Heti, Jonathan Lethem, Deb Olin Unferth, Heather O’Neill, Lemony Snicket, Chris Ware, and noted comics scholars.
The Oven by Sophie Goldstein (Adhouse) $12.95 – The story of a young couple getting more than they bargained for looking for an anti-government paradise. Don’t miss Sophie Goldstein here at Quimby’s on 7/10!The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History by Jon Morris $24.95
An Entity Observes All Things by Box Brown (Retrofit Comics) $12.00
Sea Urchin by Laura Knetzger (Retrofit Comics) $8.00
Advice Comics #1 $20.00 – Risographed anthology.
Art & Design
The Ghosts of Ellis Island (Damiani) $39.95 – Maus Artist Art Spiegelman collaborates with photographer JR, illustrating on photographs of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital.
What’s Your Story? True Experiences From Complete Strangers by Brandon Doman $29.99
One Thing Leads To Another: The Posters and Art of Dan Stiles (PowerHouse) $24.95
Snake Eyes: A Nicolas Cage Activity Book by Haunt Me Studio (Belly Kids) $12.00
BA. KU. Kult Skating Dark Rituals by by Anthony Tafuro, Deer Man of Dark Woods; Deep Leviathon Dweller (PowerHouse) $40.00 – Barrier Kult. They’re an assembly of incognito professional skateboarders that ritualize their skill on concrete barriers in Vancouver. The team is promoted by and has worked with countless bands in the black metal/noise community and feels that the genre has been able to loan the group its face and image.
Fiction
Strange Bodies: A Novel by Marcel Theroux $16.00 – From the author of Far North.
Only Words That Are Worth Remembering by Jeffrey Rotter $26.00
Music & Entertainment Media Books
Making a Scene: New York Hardcore in Photos, Lyrics & Commentary Revisited by Bri Hurley and Chris Daily (Buttergoose Press) $18.00
Take the Manic Ride: The Photography and Artwork of Fred Hammer (Rev Records) $14.00 – Over 200 photographs by Nardcore legend and hardcore/punk photographer Fred Hammer. Bands include Bl’ast!, Bad Religion, Gorilla Biscuits, The Rival Mob, Ceremony, Youth Of Today, Bold, Negative Approach, 7 Seconds, Agnostic Front, Terror, RKL, Strife, Floorpunch, Underdog, Sick Of It All, Converge, Cro-Mags, Youth Brigade, Adolescents, Good Riddance, Dr. Know, Stalag 13, Ill Repute, Agression, Nails, Danzig and more. Includes free 18″ x 24″ poster and sticker.
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records by Amanda Petrusich $16.00
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris $15.99
Funny on Purpose: The Definitive Guide to an Unpredictable Career in Comedy: Standup + Improv + Sketch + TV + Writing + Directing + YouTube by Joe Randazzo (Chronicle) $18.95
DIY
Geek Knits: Over 30 Projects for Fantasy Fanatics, Science Fiction Fiends, and Knitting Nerds JOAN OF DARK aka Toni Carr $21.99
Food
Soy Not Oi vol 2 With Over 200 Original Vegan Recipes by the Hippycore Krew (Culture At All Costs Publishing) $20.00 – Cast off the chains of corporate food dependency! Twenty-five years after the publication of the original Soy Not Oi, the Hippycore Krew returns with a second volume featuring a worldwide cast of contributors! Over two hundred original vegan recipes, and suggested musical accompaniments.
Magazines
Juxtapoz #174 Jul 15 $6.99
Apartamento #15 $19.95
The Great Discontent #3 Possibility Issue $25.00
Kenzine vol 3 $35.00
Offscreen #11 $22.00
Highsnobiety #10 Spr Sum 15 $19.99
High Times Jul Aug 15 $5.99
Gather #7 Sum 15 Spectrum $19.99
Smith Journal #14 $20.50
AdBusters Jul Aug 15 $12.95
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #32 Jun 15 $5.00
Overtime #36 Along the Water Line by Tom Wayman $2.00
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CAKE Chicago Alternative Comics Expo & CAKE Satellite Events Thurs-Sun, 6/4-6/7
If you haven’t been living under a rock then you know CAKE is this weekend. Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor. The tabling exhibition is at The Center on Halsted (3656 N. Halsted Ave) 6/6 & 6/7, but did you know there are other CAKE-related events going on around town? Here was a most recent missive from the folks at CAKE HQ that we thought it helpful to repost here!
The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo is this Saturday and Sunday, June 6 & 7! We can’t wait! Before the weekend get’s started, we wanted to share some more information about the exciting weekend ahead.
SigningsFor information about signings for Special Guests, Publishers, and CAKE poster artist Ivan Brunetti, visit www.cakechicago.com/2015-expo/signing-schedules
Satellite Events
Thursday, June 4:
Visiting Artist Lecture: Dash Shaw at the DePaul School of Cinematic Arts, 14 E Jackson Blvd #LL105 at 6pm
How to Draw Comics The Ladydrawers’ Way featuring Femicomix Finland at Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N Clark St at 6pm
Comic Reading at the Archer Ballroom 3012 S. Archer Ave 3rd floor at 7PM featuring readings by Lale Westvind, Blaise Larmee, Anna Haifisch, Andy Burkholder, Sarah Ferrick, Lane Milburn, Gina Wynbrandt, Krystal DiFronzo, Paul Nudd, and David Alvarado. Hosted by Nick Jackson.
Friday, June 5:
Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez Signing at Graham Crackers Comics, 77 E Madison St from 6-8pm
CAKE Presents: Eleanor Davis, John Porcellino & Keiler Roberts panel moderated by Hillary Chute at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W North Ave at 7pm
Andy Burkholder’s Qviet Book Release/Exhibition at Learning Machine Gallery, 3145 Morgan at 7pm
CAKE Weekend Kickoff Concert, featuring CAKE exhibitors sound projects, 3012 S. Archer Ave 3rd floor at 8PM
CAKE Afterparty
Saturday, June 6:CAKE is hosting two Saturday after parties in the same building!
Enter through the 4th floor entrance for both parties, a $5 donation supports the bands & the Observatory, an independently run music space.
8pm – late The Observatory, 3036 N. Lincoln, 4th floor. CAKE will be hosting a night of musical performances after the first day of exhibition. Bring some cash, there will be a bar. Performers include: Ambergris featuring Matt Thurber, Traducer featuring Lane Milburn, Pet Theories featuring Brian Cremins, and Naff Whiff featuring Eddy Rivera.
8pm – midnight: 3036 N Lincoln, 3rd floor. For exhibitors looking for a quiet place to meet up, join us on the 3rd floor (below The Observatory) for a Drink & Draw sponsored by Print Ninja. Snacks will be provided by CAKE; BYOB, or purchase drinks at The Observatory and bring them downstairs to the drink & draw. To get to the Drink & Draw space, go to the 4th floor after party and go down the back stairwell to the 3rd floor (the same stairwell that allows rooftop access).
CAKE Minicomic Incentive Punchcard
We are so excited to have our punchcard incentive back this year- As if buying mini comics wasn’t reward enough!
When you buy a mini-comic you support a fantastic self-publishing artist! We will be handing out incentive punchcards to all of our exhibitors at the beginning of the day Saturday.
Spend $8- $15- Get a free CAKE 2015 poster!
Spend $15- $25- Get a free CAKE 2015 poster, and an assortment of 5 1-inch CAKE buttons, provided by CAKE sponsor Busy Beaver Buttons!
Spend over $25- Get an assortment of 5 1-inch CAKE buttons, and a CAKE 2015 screenprinted poster printed by Steve Walters of Screwball Press!
Thank you Mike Freiheit for the wonderful punchcard design!
The Fourth Annual Chicago Alternative Comics Expo will take place on Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7, 2015 at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted Ave.For more info: cakechicago.com
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New Stuff This Week
Signal: 04: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture by Alec Dunn and Josh MacPhee (PM Press) $14.95 – The 4th volume of the ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Readers will be inspired by not only fine and graphic arts but also political posters, comics, zines, murals, street art, art collectives, documentation of performances, and articles on the often-overlooked but essential roles all of these have played in struggles around the world. Highlights of the fourth volume of Signal include Lincoln Cushing’s discussion of the Bay Area Peace Navy’s large-scale visual interventions; Tennessee Watson’s project made in response to the violence in Juárez; New Zealand’s Kotare Trust Poster Archive; the early years of West Germany’s militant counterculture; an interview with Max Karl Winkler, book cover designer for Three Continents Press; and the history of Toronto’s Punchclock Print Collective.Zines
Pieces #12 On Travel by Nichole Baiel $4.00
Such a Happy Mess #2 by Elliott Junkyard $2.00Put a Egg On It #10 Sum 15 $10.00
Zines by Sarah McNeil $2-$3: Make an 8 Page Zine, Sleep, Using Gocco, Pasta Maker Printing Press, Summer Goals List
Comics & Minis
Frontier #7 Jillian Tamaki $8.00
Sandman Overture #5 of 6 by Neiil Gaiman $3.99
Deep Space House Plant by Ashley Ronning $10.00
It’s Always Tea Time with Vampire Kitty and Space Bat $4.00
Heavy Soda by Harley Jones (Caldera Press) $12.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Dodd Skalle Investigations vol 1 The Simian Case by John Ingle $16.00
Exquisite Corpse by Penelope Bagieu $19.99
Louise Brooks Detective by Rick Geary $15.99
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson $17.99
Infinite Bowman by Pat Auslisio (Hic and Hoc) $15.00
Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War by Ari Y. Kelman & Jonathan Fetter-Vorm $26.00
Lady Justice vol 1 TPB Complete Comics by Neil Gaiman & friends $14.99
Art & Design
Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell & Leela Cornman (PM Press) $12.95
Fiction
Sisters Of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, ed. by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (PM Press) $15.95 – Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas. Work by writers such as Carol Emshwiller, Ursula K. Le Guin, Angela Carter, Octavia Butler, Eileen Gunn, James Tiptree Jr. & more.
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon $26.00 – The story of a screenwriter stuck in a rut until a series of events propel him to write a screenplay, Zombie Wars, about a zombie apocalypse.
New World by Eli Horowitz & Chris Adrian $24.00 – A story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory.
American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen $15.00 – In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchen’s American Innovations, a young woman’s furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer like none other today.
My Struggle Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard $16.00 – The American public has spoken, and what they want is six volumes of a diary written by a Norwegian man born in 1968. This is the first volume.
Humor
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman $26.95 – The star of Parks and Rec highlights twenty-one figures from our nation’s history.
Mayhem, Outer Limits & Essays
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Leftists Paperback by John L. Potash (PM Press) $24.95
The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti (Treasury of XXth Century Murder) by Rick Geary (NBM) $9.99
Monster Hunters: On the Trail with Ghost Hunters, Bigfooters, Ufologists, and Other Paranormal Investigators by Tea Krulos (Chicago Review Press) $16.95
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters $15.00 – Now in soft cover.
Yeah Science, Bitch!
Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home by Chris Woodford $27.00
Politics & Revolution
No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms ed. by Barry Maxwell & Raymond Craib (PM Press/Institute for Comparative Modernities) $27.95 – Looks at geographical and political peripheries on anarchism. Includes contributions by Gavin Arnall, Mohammed Bamyeh, Bruno Bosteels, Raymond Craib, Silvia Rivera & more.
Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports by Gabriel Kuhn (PM Press) $14.95
Kids Books
Beautiful Birds by E Walker and J Roussen (Flying Eye) $19.95
Magazines
Make vol 45 $9.99
Freshly Inked Jul 15 $6.99
Grand Circus #1 Spr Sum Launch Issue $14.99
Frank 151 #59 $10.00
Cinema Retro vol 11 #32 $11.99
Horror Hound #53 May Jun 15 $6.99
Relix Jun 15 $6.99
Mojo #257 Jun 15 $10.50
Raw Vision #85 $14.00
Tattoo Black and Grey Special #13 $9.99
Psychic News May 15 $10.99
Other Stuff
“Eleanor and Claude” Print by Emily Winfield Martin $18.00
Out on June 2nd!Intimacy Idiot by Isaac Oliver $24.00
Judge This by Chip Kidd $16.99 – From the design of your morning paper to the subway ticket machine to the books you browse to the smartphone you use to the packaging for the chocolate bar you buy as an afternoon treat, Kidd reveals the hidden secrets behind each of the design choices, with a healthy dose of humor, expertise, and of course, judgment as he goes.
Thank You, Goodnight by Andy Abramowitz $26.00 – Nick Hornby meets Almost Famous in this side-splittingly funny coming-of-middle-age debut novel about the lead singer of a one-hit wonder 90s band who tries for one more swing at the fences.
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CAKE Announces Programming Lineup
The Fourth Annual Chicago Alternative Comics Expo will take place on Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7, 2015 at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted Ave. The programming that will accompany the tabling has been announced. All panels take place at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre on the third floor of the Center on Halsted. All workshops take place in the board room on the second floor of the Center on Halsted.For detailed information about our programming, please visit cakechicago.com and cakechicago.com/2015-expo/workshops/
Saturday
Panels
11:30am – 12:30pm The Golden Age(s) of Comics- Jillian Tamaki, Dash Shaw, and Sam Sharpe, moderated by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. This panel and Jillian Tamaki’s appearance are sponsored by Print Ninja. Dash Shaw appears courtesy of the DePaul School of Cinematic Arts.
1:00 – 2:00pm What I Do Is Secret- Zak Sally and Mickey Zacchilli, moderated by Jake Austen. This panel is sponsored by The Center for Cartoon Studies.3:00 – 4:00pm Comic Books and Speculative Fiction- Eleanor Davis, Lale Westvind, and Tom Kaczynski moderated by Ytasha Womack. Lale Westvind appears courtesy of Busy Beaver Button Company.
Workshops
11:30am – 12:00pm Where Do You (Yes,You) Get Your Ideas From?- with ChiPRC/Transit Residency Artist Roman Muradov
12:30 – 1:30pm From Panels to Pixels: Making Comics Look Great on Digital Devices- with Beck Kramer
2:00 – 3:00pm Jaime Hernandez Inks Live! in conversation with Tom Spurgeon
3:15 – 4:00pm ChiPRC presents:The Doodle Dash- drawing competion with judges Johnny Misfit, Zak Sally and Corinne Mucha.
Sunday
Panels
11:30am – 12:30pm A Conversation with the Hernandez Brothers- with Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, moderated by Caitlin McGurk. This panel is sponsored by Comix Revolution. The Hernandez Brothers appear courtesy of Graham Crackers Comics and Fantagraphics Books.
1:00 – 2:00pm The Honest Truth- Derf Backderf, Sarah Becan, and Keiler Roberts, moderated by Amy Peltz. Keiler Roberts appears courtesy of First Aid Comics.
2:30 – 4:00pm Eyeworks- curated by Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart, Q&A after the screening with Dash Shaw, Lale Westvind, Scott Roberts, and Jenna Caravello. This panel is sponsored by the DePaul School of Cinematic Arts.
Workshops
11:30am – 12:30pm Printmaking for All Ages- with Anya Davidson This workshop is sponsored by Spudnik Press.
1:00 – 2:00pm Infinite Corpse Jam Comics- with Jeremy Tinder and Aaron Renier. This workshop is sponsored by Rotofugi.
2:30 – 3:45pm The Regionalism Experiment with Ben Passmore, Leigh Luna, Isabella Rotman, Anuj Shrestha, and Mickey Zacchilli, moderated by Brian Cremins and Amara Leipzig.
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New Stuff This Week
Optic Nerve #14 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $6.95 – Optic Nerve 14 brings Adrian Tomine’s multifaceted, expressive cartooning to a new peak with two stories and a bonus autobiographical strip. “Killing and Dying” is about a father’s struggles to be supportive: it centers on parenthood, mortality, and stand-up comedy. “Intruders” depicts a man obsessively trying to find his way back to a former life by revisiting places he once knew.
The Bloodiest Thing That Ever Happened In Front Of A Camera: Conservative Politics, ‘Porno Chic’ and Snuff by Stephen Milligen (HeadPress) $21.95 – In the early 1970s, outrageous claims were made of a new blood-spattered cinematic extreme. This was the legend of the ‘snuff movie’, which promoted the inhuman notion that a woman had been murdered to satisfy the sexual appetite of a jaded public. The story was produced by a kind of madness incarnate, but it reflected the desperation of America in cultural turmoil. ‘Snuff’ was a backlash against the naïve liberalism of the counterculture, embraced by people who preferred to believe the worst about their society. Once unleashed the concept was embraced and manipulated by the tabloid media and a variety of political and social crusaders, each using it to further their own cause. Brutal, evil, ghastly beyond belief, snuff became an iconic urban legend. This book is the true, startling and hideously exploitative history of that legend and how it was created.
slanfZines
Black Metal of the Americas vol 8 by Ed and Patrick $5.00
Your Table is Ready: Tips for Having a Supercool Tabling Experience by Nyxia Grey $1.00
Booya Moon Purple Myrtle #9 Split $5.00 – Partially a Stephen King Fanzine.
Vulture Voyeurism Screenshots from the Mitt Romney Campaign Website $10.00 – Taken on election night november 7th, 2012.
Frightened by the Eye of Horus by Tricycle Red Projects $3.00
Surgical Ampitheater #2 by M Chandelier $5.00
Ima Eat You Apr 15 by Dawn Graham $2.00
Mechanical Yammering #1 Practical Guide for Digital Life by Nicky Martin $2.00
Godzilla Grrl vol 1 by Monstrochika $6.00
Comics & Minis
Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Riley $7.95
Golemchik by William Exley (Nobrow) $5.95
One Dot by Tony Kinnard $6.00
Hunter by Joe Sparrow (Nobrow) $5.95
Vacancy by Jen Lee $5.95 (Nobrow) $5.95
Whimsical Delusions by Garrett Leo Augustyn $8.00
Eat to Survive Flyers N Stuff 2013-2015 by Jeff Mahannah $4.00
Old Timey Hockey Tales vol 1 by Robert Ullman & Jeffrey Brown $6.00
Jelly Jar #1 by Sandra Mazuera $3.00
Revenger #1 Cages by Charles Forsman (Oily Comics) $5.00
Snake Church #1 by Eric Reyes $5.00
Not On My Watch: A Bystander’s Handbook for the Prevention of Sexual Violence by Isabella Rotman $5.00
Adventure by Mike Freiheit $4.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Spectators by Victor Hussenot (Nobrow) $22.95
Don’t Get Eaten By Anything a Collection Of the Dailies 2011-2013 by Dakota McFadzean (Conundrum) $25.00
Mr. Smiley by Tony Kinnard $15.00
Apocalyptigirl an Aria For the End Times by Andrew MacLean $9.99
East of West vol 1 by Jonathan Hickman $9.99
Fables Deluxe Edition Book 10 by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $29.99
Ex Machina Book 5 by Brian K. Vaughan & Tony Harris (Vertigo) $19.99
Art & Design
Slang Aesthetics by Robt. Williams (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
Rock On by Alex Diamond $25.00Dare to Be Stupid the Poster Art of Ryan Duggan Drug Factory Press 2006-2014 (HoZac Books) $28.85
Atom Bomb Bikini: The Lurid Art of Robert Ullman $16.00
Jason D’Aquino’s Circus ABC by Jason D’Aquino $12.95
Custom Tattoo 101 Over 1000 Stencils and Tattoos For Customizing Your Own Unique Tattoo by Tattoofinder (Race point) $25.00
Fiction
Make Something Up Stories You Cant Unread by Chuck Palahniuk $26.95
Exigencies by Richard Thomas and Chuck Wendig (Dark House) $15.95
The Essential Ginsberg, ed. by Michael Schumacher $17.99
Loving Day by Mat Johnson $26.00
Mayhem & Outer Limits
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis by the Moors Murderer, intro by Colin Wilson and afterward by Peter Sotos (Feral House) $23.95 – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley’s spree of torture, sexual abuse, and murder of children in the 1960s was one of the most appalling series of crimes ever committed in England, and remains almost daily fixated upon by the tabloid press. In The Gates of Janus, Ian Brady himself allows us a glimpse into the mind of a murderer as he analyzes a dozen other serial crimes and killers.
Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies by Mike Bara (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95 – Did ancient “visitors”?of extraterrestrial origin?come to Earth long ago and lift the human race out of the ashes of a great global catastrophe around 10,500 BC? Were the science and secrets that they taught the ancients intended to be a guide for all humanity to the present era of change and upheaval we are experiencing? Was this crucial information about our future and our true past usurped by secretive, small cabals, some with bad intent and some with altruistic designs, who have held these secrets over the millennia to the present day?
Music Books
What Else Is In the Teaches Of Peaches by Peaches and Holger Talinski (Akashic) $27.95
Wailing of A Town: An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk and More 1977-1985 by Criag Ibarra $20.00Rise of the Super Furry Animals by Ric Rawlins $16.99
Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) by Jon Fine $27.95 – By the guitarist from Bitch Magnet, Coptic Light and Don Caballero.
Essays
Bad Kid: A Memoir by David Crabb $14.99 – Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas.
Gnarr: How I Became the Mayor Of a Large City In Iceland and Changed the World by Jon Gnarr $16.95
I Can’t Find It vol 1 $12.00
Film
The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer’s Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead by Adam Rockoff $24.00
Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness: An Illustrated History of Drugs in the Movies 1894-1978 by Michael Starks $19.95
Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero & Susanna Sparrow $16.00 – The novel of the classic horror film, with an introduction by Simon Pegg.Food
Tiki Drinks: Tropical Cocktails for the Modern Bar by Robert Sharp and Nicole Weston $19.95
Will Travel For Vegan Food by Kristin M. Lajeunesse $19.95
Sweet Mary Jane: 75 Delicious Cannabis-Infused High-End Desserts by Karin Lazarus $25.00
DIY
Compost City: Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living by Rebecca Louie $16.00
Magazines
Bust Jun Jul 15 vol 93 $5.99
True Crime May 15 $8.99
Sumzine #3 Raw $20.00
Puss Puss #2 $24.95
Tape Op #107 May Jun 15 $4.95
Razorcake #86 $4.00
Wire May 15 #375 $9.99
Harpers Magazine Jun 15 $6.99
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Opaque vol 1 #1 $5.00
Sheriff Nottinghams Holiday Herald vol 1 #2 $10.00
Kids Books
Girl At the Bottom of the Sea by Michelle Tea and Amanda Verwey (McSweeneys) $19.95
Long Tail Kitty Come Out and Play by Lark Pien (Blue Apple) $17.99
Hungry Roscoe by David J Plant (Flying Eye) $17.95
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New Stuff These Past Few Days
Cut Out and Keep: Around the USA In Fifty Craft Projects by Cat Morely & Tom Waddington (Laurence King) $24.95 – Hey! We’re mentioned in this book!
Zines
Plantzine: A Collaborative Zine $4.00
About My Disappearance #4 by Dave $1.00
Comics & MinisTen Minicomics vol 3 by Alex Nall $5.00
DIY & How-To
3D Bubble Writer: A Crazy Craft Book by Linda Scott $16.95
Food & Drugs
The Geeky Chef Cookbook: Real-Life Recipes for Your Favorite Fantasy Foods – Unofficial Recipes from Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and more by Cassandra Reeder (Race Point) $21.99
Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana by Dan Michaels & Erik Christiansen $30.00
Mayhem
LAPD ’53 by James Ellroy & Glynn Martin for the Los Angeles Police Museum $24.95 – More than 80 duotone photos from the LAPD archives of 1953 in crazy ass true crime photos, plus text to illuminate.
Magazines
Lucky Peach #15 Plant Kingdom $12.00
Maximumrocknroll #385 Jun 15 $4.99
MAPS vol 25 #1 Special Edition Bulletin Psychedelics and Policy Spr 15 $8.95
Flaunt #141 The Elixir Issue $15.95
Sneaker Freaker #32 $12.95
Scootering #347 May 15 $10.50
Fuel #19 $14.95
Wherever #5 An Out of Place Journal $15.00
Monocle vol 9 #83 May 15 $12.00
Film Comment May Jun 15 vol 51 #3 $5.95
Millennium Film Journal #61 MFJ $12.00
Screem #30 $8.95
DOA #6 Ultimate Death Metal Magazine $6.66
Vive Le Rock #26 $9.99
Radical Philosophy #191 May Jun 15 $13.00
Opiate vol 1 Spr 15 $10.00
TSQ vol 2 #1 Feb 15 Transgender Studies Quarterly $12.00
Lit Mags
Granta #131 Spr 15 The Map is Not the Territory $16.99
For even more stuff from the past week and a half, click here.
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New Stuff This Week
CAKE Digest 2015 $10.00, ed. by Paul Nudd. with all sortsa folks like Onsmith, Lale Westvind, Krystal DiFronzo, Keith Herzik and more!
Zines
SO MUCH NEW STUFF since Chicago Zine Fest was this past weekend & all the scrappy zinesters were in town! Thanks to everybody who came by & said hi!!
Masculinities: Interviews by Cindy Crabb $4.00 – Interviews with Shane Parish, Brontez & more!Gnostic Unified Liberation Front by Lane Williams $1.00
Rainy Day Activity Books: Twin Peaks and X-Files $4.00 each
The Corrections: Jonathan Franzen by Taylor (Pegacorn Press) $5.00 – On Franzen’s book. Not like, the book itself. Only 150 made!
East Village Inky #55 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Wure by Zachary Bizzarro $5.00
Mineshaft #31 Spr 15 by Everett Rand $9.00 – Crumb, Spiegelman, Billy Childish and more!
Dark Matter Collected – Daily Drawings January and February 2015 by Michael R. Heck $8.00
Astronomy Tales and Truths by Elena Franck $10.00
Deafula #8 by Kerri Radley $3.00 – The relationships issue.
This Will Help by Leah Wellbaum $10.00 – Photo zine about dolls!
Asswipe #5-#7 by Vanessa Asswipe $2.00 each
Rad Rag Your Flow is Fly by Nyxia Grey $3.00
Did That Hurt? Self-Advocacy for a Safe and Awesome Tattoo Experience by Nyxia Grey $4.00 – Created by a couple that owns a tattoo shop!
Girls Bathroom by Caroline Tompkins $7.00
Astronomicon by Steve Rogers, King Felix & Captain America $3.00
Basements and Living Rooms, issues #4 & #5 $3.00 each – About DIY music, house shows & DIY festivals.
Cheap Toys #16 $2.00
Poop Matters #1 by Shira Mario $3.00
Gnawbone vol 3 by Mooncasket $5.00
Clumsy #8 by Kara Comegys $1.50
Year Of the Scape Goat by Morgan Claire Sirene $5.00
What To Keep What to Give Away #2 $3.00
Hoax #9 Feminisms and Embodiments by Rachel $3.50
Pander Mafia Twenty Year Anniversary Tribute Zine by Mimi $5.00
Haay Hottie Consent Communication and Boundary Setting in Party Spaces by Rachel $1.00
From the Punked Out Files of the Queer Zine Archive Project $5.00 – Stuff from the QZAP Zinesters Residence Program.
Rumpy Pumpy #3 by Milo $3.00
Us Amazonians: A Kristy MacColl Fanzine $3.00
Dig Deep #7 Tongueswell #3 split by Heather & Jen $2.00
I Have Nothing Special to Draw #3 $2.00
Cretins of Distortion #6 $4.00
Srviv #2 by Jonas, with work from Adam Gnade, Rust Belt Jessie & John Jughead Pierson & more $3.00
Hex Key #2 $2.00
Motor City Kitty #24-#26 $2.00-$3.00
Radical Domesticity #5 Food and Friends $3.00
Skinned Heart #6 by Nicole Gomez $3.00
Hard To Look At by Emma Karin Eriksson $3.00 – Zine about acne.
O Avalanche #4 Cybernetic Revolt and Communicating by Wheelhouse $3.00
Why You Will Live vol 1 Why You Will Die vol 1 $3.00
BFF Big Fat Femme by Lauren Melissa $3.00 – Also don’t miss by Melissa a few other new titles including Fat In Public $3.00 & Oh It Aches and Tears: Real Talk on Pet Death and Getting Through $3.00
Plus various Cometbus restocks!!!
Comics & Minis
Sleazy Slice #8 by Robin Bougie $6.00
Black Mountain Crab Apples by Henry Guerra $8.00
Golden Age Of Souvenirs by John Orth (Pegacorn Press) $6.00
Primordial Cooch by Caroline Paquita (Pegacorn Press) $6.00
Fluke Fanzine #12 Presents Loisada by Bobby Madness $5.00
Many Mysteries of Inspector Scrambles by Katari Sporring $2.00
Perfidia #1 by Xin Xu $5.00
Dream Lifes and Dust Collectors by Mary Ruth Butterworth $2.00
Weak Chin #1 Comics Feb 15 by Steve Schaberg $3.00
Return of the Panty Beast by Gabi Mendez $5.00
What to Wear While Swimming and Bathing: A Western Historical Overview by Erin Dreis $5.00 – Also by this artist with Victoria Harley: How to Sanctify Human Remains $5.00 – Cool illustrations of and facts about ossuaries!
Life Is Posers vol 3 a Hard Days Oi $5.00
Transparent Metaphor Comics by Kat Tuesday $5.00
We Are Not Who We Are: An X-Files Fanzine $8.00
Any Other Time #2 by Nick Kuntz $2.00
Storm Signal #1 by Mike Madsen $5.00
Within the Woods by Elyah Oster-Bainnson $7.00
Monster City #1 Phantom & #2 Dreamer by Timothy Compton & Aaron Nicholson $5.00 each
Helper Bot, various issues by Jeff Gibbons $6.00 each
Ei Muistikuvaa I Don’t Remember by Bendik Kaltenborn $12.00
Orbiters Prism by Drew Miller (Neoglyphic Media) $5.00
Love Wins #12 aka Spider Palace by Jazor Spark (Neoglyphic Media) $1.00
Field Guide to the Leafy Seadragonish by Shin Yin Khor (Sawdust Press/Center For Otherworld Science) $4.00
Potluck Battle anthology $5.95
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce (Fantagraphics) $29.99
AAMA vol 3 the Desert of Mirrors by Frederik Peeters (Self-Made Hero) $19.95
Trash Market by Tadao Tsuge (D&AQ) $22.95
Hasty Pastry vol 1 by Ali Cantarella $20.00
Impressions by Aiden Koch $15.00
Adventure Time Sugary Shorts vol 2 Mathematical Edition by Pendleton Ward $24.99
Fiction
Familiar vol 1 One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski $25.00
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami $15.95 – Now in soft cover.
The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato $16.95
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry $26.99
Confabulist by Steven Galloway $16.00
Almost Crimson by Dasha Kelly $15.95
How Some Abuelitas Keep Their Chicana Granddaughters Still While Painting Their Portraits In Winter, Short Stories by Myriam Gurba (Manic D Press) $15.95
Music Books
First Collection of Criticism by A Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Harper (Featherproof) $17.95 – Don’t miss Jessica Harper here at Quimby’s on 5/29!
Sex Guides/Culture & Erotica
Love Not Given Lightly: Profiles From the Edge of Sex by Tina Horn $14.95
Come to My Brother by Danny Wylde & Christopher Zeischegg $14.95
Cement by Jesse Clark $5.00
Lonesome Cowboy #1 Sean by Johnny Murdoc $12.00
Spunk #10 $9.00
Humor
Boo by Neil Smith $14.95
George Washington Is Cash Money: A No Bullshit Guide To the United Myths of America by Cory O’Brien $14.95
Mayhem
Crack, Rap and Murder:: The Cocaine Dreams of Alpo and Rich Porter Hip-Hop Folklore from the Streets of Harlem by Seth Ferranti $15.00 – From the Street Legends series.
Most Dangerous Animal of All: Seaching for my Father Finding the Zodiac Killer by Gary L. Stewart and Susan Mustafa $15.99
DIY
Life Hacks: Helpful Hints to Make Life Easier, More Than 130 Amazing Hacks by D
an Marshall $15.99Politics & Revolution
When the Word Becomes Flesh Language and Human Nature by Paolo Virno (Semiotexte) $17.95
Militant Anti Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance by M. Testa (AK Press) $18.95
Magazines
Juxtapoz #173 Jun 15 $6.99
Super Market #5 Representation Invisibility $14.00
Man About Town #16 Spr Sum 15 $19.99
High Times Jul 15 $5.99
Cereal vol 9 Travel and Lifestyle $27.95
Dazed and Confused vol 4 Sum 15 $10.95
Tank Moto #6 $15.00
Fader #97 Apr May 15 $5.99
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Armchair Shotgun #5 $12.00
Chicago Review vol 59 #1 #1 $18.00
Evolution of the Skeletal Bird by Jenna Citrus $15.00
Ladies Night In by Caroline Tompkins $7.00
Homo Ludens by May Jernigan $5.00
Other Stuff
Cards Against Humanity First Expansion Pack $10.00 – The people have spoken: the resounding cry is that they want is Expansion Packs for Cards Against Humanity.
“Cosmic” Lined Notebook $12.00
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CAKE Presents . . . A Conversation with Eleanor Davis, John Porcellino, and Keiler Roberts Moderated by Hillary Chute 6/5
What better way to usher in CAKE weekend than a conversation with three of the most innovative cartoonists working today? If there’s a graphic narratives supergroup—the Emerson, Lake, & Palmer of American indie comics—this is it.Eleanor Davis’s Fantagraphics collection How to Be Happy was just nominated for a 2015 Eisner Award. Keiler Roberts’s series Powdered Milk is a consistently stunning example of why so many of us fell in love with autobiographical comics in the first place. John Porcellino’s The Hospital Suite was one of the most critically acclaimed comics of 2014. With King-Cat Comics and Stories now 25 years old and going stronger than ever, John remains one of the guiding lights of the indie comics scene and for CAKE itself. Hillary Chute, comics scholar extraordinaire, author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics and Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists, will moderate this exciting roundtable.
Please join us for a rocking, inspiring kick-off event for CAKE 2015! For more information on this event & on the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, visit cakechicago.com . CAKE is June 6th-June 7th. Quimby’s is proud to be a co-sponsor.
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Friday, June 5th, 7pm – Free Event!
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New Stuff This Week
ZinesPWF Pro Wrestling Feelings #1 $3.00
Somnambulist #25 The PI Story by Martha Grover $4.00 – What its really like to be a private investigator. FOR REAL.
Satori Original Screenplay by Erica Schreiner $10.00
KerBloom #113 Mar Apr 15 by Artnoose $2.00
Everyday Magic #2 Between $3.00
Publishing Zines for Prisoners: An Interview with Anthony Rayson (Temporary Services) $5.00
Resist #48 Minneapolis from the Saddle A Winter Cycling Journal by Mat Resist $6.00
Comics & Minis
Smoker Girl #1 by Alexander Ryu $5.00
Pure Extravagance Shit I Bought with My Tip Money by Chloe Wilson $6.00 – See a variety of stuff by Chloe Wilson here!
Nordhouse by Erik Schneider (Easy Press) $5.00 – Erik Schneider documents a camping trip he and two friends take away from the city. Alcohol and the wonders of the cosmos set the trio in a pretty good head space. Erik’s designy figure work is juxtaposed nicely against a sketchy pencil rendering of the wilderness that surrounds them. -NB
You Gotta Have Art by David F. Toste $12.00
Three by Gabrielle Howell $10.00
Ozman: Harpocrates by André Freitas & Paulo Cesar Santos $5.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Super Mutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki (D& Q) $22.95
Black River by Josh Simmons (Fantagraphics) $18.99
Fables vol 21 TPB Happily Ever After by Bill Willingham & friends $17.99
Walking Dead vol 23 TPB Whispers into Screams by Robert Kirkman & friends $14.99
Team Adventure Kids: Jumpy Jackie’s First Day of School by Kevin J. Dill & Zayha $12.95
321 Fast Comics $24.99
Art & Design Books
Queer Geographies: Beirut, Tijuana, Copenhagen by various $21.95 – A collaborative work of artists, activists, and scholars, showcases the work of queer art installations in these three very different cities throughout the 2000s.
Fiction
Adjacent by Christopher Priest $14.95
Vorrh by B. Catling $15.95
City Chicken by Todd Miller $10.00
Music Books
Anger Is An Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon $28.99
Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America by Michaelangelo Matos $25.99
Mayhem
The Dope Game – Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason by Seth Ferranti $15.00 – Fat Cat and Pappy Mason are the most infamous and legendary figures out of New York’s crack era. A time that massively influenced rap culture and led to the ghetto icons becoming mythical figures in hip-hop’s lyrical lore. Not only did the street stars inspire rappers like Run DMC, LL Cool J and 50 Cent with their styles, attitudes and swagger, they set the tone for a generation of hustlers, gun thugs and drug barons, who tried to live up to the hype and standard of violence these street legends set, with their vicious and brutal foray into the drug game that transformed the black underworld as Uzi-toting drug thugs in bulletproof vests, Timberlands and BMW’s became the norm. This book details Fat Cat and Pappy Mason’s story chronicling their rise and fall in the annals of gangster lore. Both drug lords are imprisoned for life, due to their crimes and exploits, but their legends live on in hip-hop and popular culture. Written by noted true crime historian, Seth Ferranti.
Kids Books
Orpheus in the Underworld: A TOON Graphic Hardcover by Yvan Pommaux $16.95
Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure: A TOON Graphic by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez $16.95
Magazines
Mash Tun #6 Craft Beer Journal $10.00 – Hoppy days are here again! Mash Tun is full of craft beer inspiration, history and interviews! Raise a glass to a heady read. -NB
Unsung Magazine #1 Fall Win 14 Femmes Special Edition, ed. by Emily Ornberg & Jim DeRogatis $10.00 – How artistic expressions from counter cultures such as webcam models and lesbian rappers are assaulting the norm.
Headmaster #7 the Field Trip Issue $20.00
Backwoodsman vol 36 #3 May Jun 15 $4.95
Inventory #12 Spr Sum 15 $20.00
Neural #50 $7.99
Frankie #64 $19.25
Toilet Paper April 1987 $19.00
Maximumrocknroll #384 May 15 $4.99
Shindig #46 $12.99
Decibel #128 Jun 15 $5.99
Skeptical Inquirer vol 39 #3 May Jun 15 $5.99
Fantastic Man #21 Spr Sum 15 $14.99
Dear Dave #19 $15.00
Cannabis Now #14 $7.99
Rock A Rolla #54 Feb Mar 15 $9.95
Under the Radar #53 Apr May 15 $5.99
Psychic News Apr 15 $10.99
Tattoo Energy #94 $9.99
On sale later this week (the 5th):
The Sketchbook Project: World Tour by Steven Peterman & Sara Elands Peterman $30.00
Stickerbomb Skateboard: 150 Classic Skateboard Stickers, Peelable Stickers From Girl, Santa Cruz, Real, Alien Workshop and Toy Machine (Laurence King) $24.95
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Jessica Hopper Reads From The First Collection of Criticism By a Living Female Rock Critic 5/29
Featherproof is proud to announce the publication of legendary rock critic Jessica Hopper’s newest book, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, in Spring 2015.
Jessica Hopper’s music criticism has earned her a reputation as one of the firebrands of the form, a keen observer and fearless critic not just of music, but the culture around it, revealing new truths that often challenge us to consider what it is to be a fan.
With this premiere volume, spanning from her punk fanzine roots to her landmark piece on R. Kelly’s past, The First Collection leaves no doubt why the New York Times has called Hopper’s work “influential.” Not merely a selection of two decades of Hopper’s most engaging, thoughtful and humorous writing, this book serves as a document of the last 20 years of American music making and the shifting landscape of music consumption.
Through this vast range of album reviews, essays, columns, interviews, and oral histories, Hopper chronicles what it is to be truly obsessed with music, the ideas in songs and albums, how fantasies of artists become complicated by real life, and just what happens when you follow that obsession into muddy festival fields, dank basements, corporate offices or court records.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY A LIVING FEMALE ROCK CRITIC BY JESSICA HOPPER
“Jessica Hopper’s criticsm is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large.” —Annie Clark, St. Vincent
“In this crucial book, Hopper schools us all on the art of criticism. You’ll be reminded, as I was, why you care to read and write about (and listen to!) music to begin with. Hopper’s relationship with music is a joy to behold.” —Tavi Gevinson, Editor-in-Chief, Rookie
“I read Hopper’s book with a sense of bewildered gratitude. She concedes nothing to the idea that it is dumb to care so much. The excitement in her work is that these things are worth scrapping about.” —Rob Sheffield, author of Love is a Mixtape
About Jessica Hopper:
Jessica Hopper’s music criticism has been included in Best Music Writing 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2011. Her first book, The Girls Guide to Rocking, was named one of 2009’s Notable Books for Young Readers by the American Library Associa- tion. She is Senior Editor at Pitchfork and the Editor-in-Chief of The Pitchfork Review. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two young sons.
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