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Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $19.95 – Lynda Barry runs a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called Writing the Unthinkable. Syllabus is the first book to make her innovative lesson plans and writing exercises available to the public for home or classroom use. Barry teaches a method of writing that focuses on the relationship between the hand, the brain, and spontaneous images, both written and visual. It has been embraced by people across North America—prison inmates, postal workers, university students, high-school teachers, and hairdressers—for opening pathways to creativity. Collaged texts, ballpoint-pen doodles, and watercolor washes adorn Syllabus’s yellow lined pages, which offer advice on finding a creative voice and using memories to inspire.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Show Me The Money #40 Sum Fall Win 14 $2.50
Hello Kitties – A Zine About Cats by Kendy Paxia $3.00
Vegan Ten by Kendy Paxia $2.50
Drool and Nightmares by John Maggie $4.00
Rookie Yearbook Three by Tavi Gevinson $29.95
Fag Punk #12 $2.00
Thumb Tacks and Razor Blades – Pro Wrestling Fans Confess $2.00
Characters: Fifty Portraits of Contemporary Cartoonists by Jess Rullifson $6.00
Tiny Report Micro Press Yearbook 2013 by Robyn Chapman $3.00
Summer of Shred #4 2014 by Jamie M. Moore $20.00
Punk Royko #1 Fall 14 Media Digest by Nathan Worcester $2.00
Escapist Artist by Jolie Ruin, various issues
How Big It Feels How Little It Is by Danielle O’Malley $10.00
Calque is One Long Live Calque $1.00
Car Scars by Kevin McCaughey $3.00
Western Ave by Sergej Vutuc $10.00

Comics & Minis
Screw Job #1 by Paul Lyons, Mickey Z., Walker Melting, Box Brown, Pat Aulisio, Lale Westvind, Josh Bayer, Blake Sims and Brian Ralph $8.00
Juvenitive #3 by Jason Murphy $4.00
Hero League #1 by David Soileau $4.00
Five Chapters of the Universe by Pascal Saint Clair $3.00
Star Fruit by Gretta Johnson $10.00
Putty Buddies #1 Split Issue by Patrick Kyle and Jason Murphy $5.00
Joshua Max #1 by John Maggie $5.00
No Place Like Gnome by Drew Brockington $2.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Fukitor Book by Jason Karns (Fantagraphics) $30.00
Dogs: An Anthology A Collection of Comics on Our Canine Companions by Jeremy Stoll and friends $9.99
Walking Dead vol 22 A New Beginning by Robert Kirkman and friends $14.99
Earthling by Aisha Franz (D&Q) $19.95
Adventure Time Bitter Sweets by Pendleton Ward and friends $12.99
Grandville Noel: A Detective Inspector Lebrock Of Scotland Yard, Scientific Romance Thriller by bryan Talbot $19.99
Arsene Schrauwen by O. Schrauwen (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Edgar Allan Poe’s Spirits Of the Dead by Richard Corben (Dark Horse) $24.99

Art & Design
Popular Skullture: The Skull Motif In Pulps Paperbacks and Comics, ed. by Monte Beauchamp (Dark Horse) $19.99
Immersive Life Practices (Chicago Social Practice History Series) by Daniel Tucker, Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller (SAIC) $20.00 – Words by and/or about Chicago’s thinkers and makers that have defined the intellectual and creative life of this city.
Fairy Homes and Gardens by Ashley Rooney and Barbara Purchia $24.99 – 30 designers from around the world transform natural settings into enchanting displays, using artificial flowers, fabric, sticks, wire, crystals, berries, acorns, baskets, and polymer clay. Off the hook.
Postcard Book Of Mushrooms (PIE Books) $18.50

Fiction
Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson $25.00
Ugly Girls by Lindsey Hunter $25.00
Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes (Two Dollar Radio) $15.95

Music Books
Autobiography by Morrissey $18.00 – Now in soft cover, although if you want the hard cover we have a few left of those too.
Disco: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records (Soul Jazz Publishing) $49.95
The Annotated Mixtape by Joshua Harmon (Dzanc) $14.95 – A memoir through the lense of record collecting, cross-fades, the 2008 recession, AM radio and more.

Mayhem & Outer Limits
Silent Invasion: The Truth About Alien Abductions and UFOs by Debra S. Marshall $16.99

Humor
The Existential Coloring Book $7.50
The Super Awesome Coloring Book $7.50

Politics & Revolution
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Revisioning American History) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $27.95

Essays
Reading With The Stars: A Celebration of Books and Libraries by Leonard Kniffel $25.00

Film
The Dance of Reality: A Psychomagical Autobiography by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Park Street Press) $24.95

FoodnDrugs
Spirit of Gin: A Stirring Miscellany of the New Gin Revival by Matt Teacher $24.95

Magazines
The Baffler #26 $12.00
Apartamento #14 $19.95
Cannabis Now #12 $7.99
High Times Jan 15 $5.99
Chips and Beer #8 $7.00
Wire #369 Nov 14 $9.99
Decibel #122 Dec 14 $5.99
Shameless Fall 14 $6.95
Radical History Review #119 Spr 14 Global Antiapartheid Movement $14.00
Tattoo Society #46 $7.99

Lit Journals
Fjords vol 2 #4 2014 $10.00
Lana Turner #7 $12.00
Geist #94 Fall 14 $6.95
Pank #10 Spr 14 $10.00

Kids Stuff
Seasons by Blex Bolex $22.95

Other Stuff
Bigfoot Pocket Notebook Blank Journal $7.50
Wasabi Candy Canes $4.50
Lucky Mojo Ginger Candy $6.00
Bigfoot Tiki Mug $16.00
Illuminati Air Freshener Hegemony Scent $3.50
I Love Public Transportation Mug $12.00
Edgar Allen Poe Temporary Tattoos Box $7.00
New gift items! New coin purses! New boxes! New messenger bags! Socks with swears on them!

…And who has soap that says “Heres Your Gift Motherfucker”? We do.

The veil is lowest today. #QuimbysBookstore is open til 10. And we have leftover candy.

A photo posted by Quimbys Bookstore (@quimbysbookstore) on Nov 11, 2014 at 10:58am PDT

 

Zines
My Aim Is True #10 by Carrie Colpitts $2.00
Zit 2012 Amazing True Tales Living with Danger by Lindsey Evans and Alicia Obermeyer $1.00
Gluekit Made Photographs by Gluekit $10.00
Day Trips #3 by Grace Tran $3.00
Abstract Door #4 by Vicky Lim $3.00
Drop Target #6 by Alec Longstreth, Jon Chad, Gabby Schulz and more $5.00 – Pinball wizards unite!
Free Market 2014 by Mary Lucille Miller $10.00
Glass Eye of Doom by Eric Bartholomew $.50
Halfling Zine #3 2014 by Sylvia Kim $7.00
various issues of Uncertainty Principle, various prices
Hello My Name is Bill by Celeste Fichter $5.00
Black Magic by Tim Lahan (Draw Down Books) $6.00
Using They as a Pronoun, It’s Easy as Pie by Carrie Colpitts $1.00
various issues of Filmme Fatales (a quarterly zine about the places where film and feminism intersect) by Brodie Lancaster, various prices

Comics & Minis
Xtra Kinky Kama Sutra $2.00 – I was by myself in the store and laughed aloud when I checked this in. Some traditional Kama Sutra illustrations, but with some, um, additions. But the thing is, the additions are really hilariously serene beasts that remind me of all the stuffed animals I had when I was a kid with those kinda love-y Seussian eyes, looking satisfied, serene, and like they just sat in the pudding. Is that a sea lion in one of them? -LM
Mutual Paradise issues #1-#4 by Lizzee Solomon $8.00 each
Crass Sophisticate #33 by Josh Reinwold & Justin Rosenberg $3.00
Lithology #1 by Bill Rusk $4.00
Daddy by Josh Simmons and James Romberger (Oily Comics) $2.00
Falling For Beginners by Kenan Rubenstein $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Set To Sea by Drew Weing (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Battlepug vol 3 by Mike Norton & Friends (Dark Horse) $14.99
Showa 1944-1953 A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki (D&Q) $24.95
Stray Bullets vol 1 Innocence of Nihilism TPB by David Lapham $19.99
I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached $9.95
True Stories vol 1 by Derf (Alt Comics) $5.99
Preacher Book Six TPB by Garth Ennis (Vertigo) $19.99
100 Bullets Book 1 TPB by Brian Azzarello & friends (Vertigo) $24.99

Art & Design
The Tattooed Lady: A History 2nd ed. by Amelia Klem Osterud $19.95

Mayhem
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found  by Frances Larson $27.95
Earth: An Alien Enterprise: The Shocking Truth Behind the Greatest Cover-Up in Human History by Timothy Good $17.95

Music Books
Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia $40.00 – DEVO ephemera and more.

Humor
Is Your Neighbor a Zombie? Compelling Philosophical Puzzles That Challenge Your Beliefs by Jeremy Stangroom $18.00
A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy by Sarah Lazarovic $18.00

Essays
Deliverance: Writings on Postal Relations by Marc Fischer (Soberscover Press) $10.00
Report From the Interior by Paul Auster $16.00
Missing Pieces by Henri Lefebvre (Semiotext[e]) $13.95

DIY & Food
The Portlandia Cookbook: Cook Like a Local by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein $24.95
Chop, Sizzle, Wow: The Silver Spoon Comic Cookbook by Adriano Rampazzo $19.95

Sexy
Smut Peddler 2014 Edition – A Superior Pronucopia For Classy Dames and the Forward Thinking Gentleman by Spike C. Trotman (Iron Circus) $30.00
Butch and the Beautiful by Mighty Tony $15.00
Untame Worldwide vol 1 2014 by Alessandra DeBenedetti $12.00

Magazines
Bizarre #220 Nov 14 $10.50
Hardcore – The Hardcore Achaeologist vol 1 $10.00 – Featuring Black Flag, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring & more.
Cleaver Quarterly #1 & #2 by Iain Shaw $10.00 each
Backwoodsman vol 35 #6 Nov Dec 14 $4.95
Uncut Ultimate Music Guide Elvis Costello $14.99
Monocle vol 8 #78 Nov 14 $12.00
Mojo #252 Nov 14 $9.99

Lit Mags
The Chicago Review vol 58 #3 #4 $18.00

Kids Books
Sock Monkey: Into the Deep Woods by Tony Millionaire & Matt Danner (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Hansel and Gretel by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti $16.95
Year Of the Beasts by Cecil Castellucci $9.99
Lowriders In Space by Cathy Camper and Raul the Third $9.99 – ¡Ay chihuahua! What will it take to transform a junker into the best lowrider in the universe? Debut illustrator Raul the Third recalls ballpoint-pen-and-Sharpie desk-drawn doodles, while the story is sketched with Spanish, inked with science facts. A glossary at the back provides definitions for Spanish and science terms.

Other Stuff
Cat Eyes Contact Lens Storage Case in Black or Pink $5.00
Hanukkah: Instant Ugly Sweater Set of 5 decorative sweater patches $12.00 – Hanukkah starts Tuesday, December 16!

Art Schooled by Jamie Coe (Nobrow) $22.95 – Daniel Stope is a small-town guy who dreams of becoming an artist. His enrollment at art school and consequent move to the city opens up a world of exciting possibiles. Unsurprisingly, Daniel struggles with his newfound independence – the difficulties of dating and making new friends in the big smoke. Jamie Coe delivers his first full length graphic novel; an observational narrative on his own experience at art school. Coe critiques the extremes of his environment whilst  painting a funny and a colourful portrait of a pivotal time in a young artists’ life. Art Schooled is an incisive and warm graphic novel that  is resolutely contemporary.

Zines
Serial Killers Unite #17 $3.00
Eyesore vol 5 by $3.00
Maximum Tremolo #1 & #2 $2.00 each
Cab Calloway’s Hepsters Dictionary $1.00
Bizarrism #13 by Chris Mikul $8.00

Comics & Minis
Moth Invasion by Carolyn Picard (Green Lantern Press) $2.00
(Psychopathetic Freakazoid Presents) Beb and Peanut in Caught by Will Wisniewski $2.00
Cold Crew Halloween Special 2014 by Patrick Dean $7.95

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Zombre #3 by Ansis Purins $20.00
Speculative Relationships: A Science Fiction Romance Comics Anthology by Tyrell Cannon and friends $15.00

Fiction
Peripheral by William Gibson $28.95
Young Woman In a Garden by Delia Sherman (Small Beer Press) $16.00

Humor
Tween Hobo: Off the Rails by Alena Smith and Kate Harmer $17.99
The Dead Wrestler Elegies by W. Todd Kaneko (Curbside Splendor) $14.95

Essays
Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket) $15.95 – For only a few bucks more than the previous soft cover, you get this nice hardcover updated edition with two new essays.

Magazines
Artdesk #3 $10.00
Super Market #4 Artist Run Art Magazine $14.00
Skeptical Inquirer vol 38 #6 Nov Dec 14 $4.95
True Crime Oct 14 $8.99
Another Man #19 Fall Win 14 $14.99
Mass Appeal #55 $9.99
Jocks And Nerds Fall 14 $18.99
Maximumrocknroll #378 Nov 14 $4.99
Gay and Lesbian Review Nov Dec 14 $5.95
In These Times Nov 14 $3.50
Harpers Magazine Nov 14 $6.99

Lit Mags & Journals
Normal School vol 7 #2 $7.00
Story #1 1A 1B $8.00
Prelude #1 $14.95
Catamaran Literary Reader vol 2 #3 Sum 14 $10.00
Make #15 Fall 14 Misfits $12.00 – Pieces that that illuminate the misfit: the unconventionally lovable; the lonely prick; the light-hearted rebel; and the refused.

Kids Books
Behold the Dinosaurs and Numerous Non Dinosaurian Contemporaries by Dustin Harbin (Nobrow) $24.95

Noise in My Head: Voices from the Ugly Australian Underground by Jimi Kritzler (Hozac Books) $55.95 – The Ugly Australian Underground documents the music, songwriting, aesthetics and struggles of fifty of Australia’s most innovative and significant bands and artists currently at the creative peak of their careers. The book is complimented by previously unpublished photographs of all bands interviewed. The Australian underground scene in the last five years has been heralded not only in Australia but also in Europe, and particularly in America. Known as the ‘Australian Invasion,’ many of the bands interviewed in this book have received a great deal of hype and press in America, with many of the bands signing to American record labels. Bands featured in the book, such as The Drones, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Royal Headache, Uv Race, Circle Pit, HTRK, Lost Animal, Oren Ambarchi, Total Control, Witch Hats, Deaf Wish, Blank Realm, New War, Holy Balm, Fabulous Diamonds, The Garbage and The Flowers, Straight Arrows, xNoBBQx, Naked on the Vague, Kitchen’s Floor and My Disco are all on American record labels, and have toured America at least once. Eddy Current Suppression Ring even lent their song ‘Memory Lane’ to an American telecommunications company advertisement, which was played repeatedly during the Super Bowl. While that may indicate the influence of the band in America at the more mainstream end of the spectrum, at the other end, Eddy Current Suppression Ring are a culturally significant and revered underground band, who play to thousands of people at any given show.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Winners and Losers by Nayef Nebhan $2.00
Quickening #1 by Heidi Burrowes $3.00
My Genderqueer World #1 Ghost Boi Issue by Laramie Moser $5.00
Found Magazine: The Early Years by Davy Rothbart & Friends $14.99 – Collects the first four issues.
Queer Zines #2 by AA Bronson & Philip Aarons (Printed Matter) $25.00
Non Stop Poetry: The Zines of Mark Gonzales by Philip Aarons & Emma Reeves (Printed Matter) $29.95
Victory by Violet Forest $12.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #63 Fall 14 $1.50
In Dimly Lit Spaces $6.00
Put a Egg On It #9 Fall Win 14 $7.00
Escapist Artist #20 Fixer Eraser #0 Split Zine by Jonas & friends! $2.00
Piltdownlad #10 Behind the Wheel a Lyft Drivers Log Part One by Kelly Dessaint and Irina Dessaint $5.00
Subterranean #8 Level 6XZ03188V by Rodger Binyone $20.00
Messages From Your Friends Upon the Announcement of Your Breakup by Amy Burek $1.00
Imaginary Lovers by Briana Hernandez $2.00
James Franco in the Middle by Matthew Scott Gualco $10.00
Street vols 1 & 2 by Alexander Mouton $8.00 each
How Far Close Could Go From Your Hand To Be by Sergej Vutuc $10.00
Cosmic Kid Production $6.00
Slaps Illustrated Sum 14 $20.00 – graf zine.
Srviv  by Jonas and friends $2.00
zines from Billy!!!: Proof I Exist #18 Oct 14, When Two Dicks Touch, Roll Call #1 Oct 14 Albuquerque Graffiti
Former Tumbler by Vincent Fritz $2.50
Blackwax Boulevard  #2 by Dmitri Jackson $5.00

Comics & Minis
City of Whiskey and Fire  by Noah Van Scriver and Daniel Landes $4.99
Contact Codez by Jen Rickert $1.00
Dope Mouthfeel #6 by Steve Schaberg $4.00
Goat Fucker #4 $6.66
Cretin #1 David & Reginald Soileau $5.00
DOA The Death of Carl Alfalfa Switzer by Ted Intorcio (Tinto Press) $5.00
American Nature Presents by Greg & Fake $4.99
Number 2 by Box Brown $6.00
Debbies Inferno by Anne Emond $6.00
Fungus the Unbearable Rot of Being by James Kochalka $12.00
Issues of So Buttons by Jonathan Baylis and friends!
comics from Kevin Hooyman: Conditions on the Ground #11, Freakers #1 and #2
Bablien: A Collection Of Alien Babe Artwork by Brett Manning & Friends $8.00
issues of Trap House by Javier Suarez $7.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Wolverine Old Man Logan by Mark Millar & friends $29.99
In Real Life by Jen Wang & Cory Doctorow $17.99
Adventure Time: The Art of OOO by Chris McDonnell & Guillermo Del Toro $35
Betrayed Confidence Revisited- Edward  Gorey Postcards! $24.95
Action Philosophers: The Tenth Anniversary Uberedition by Fred Van Lente $29.99
Motherless Oven by Rob Davis $19.95
Loiterers by Simon Bosse $18.00

Art Books
The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History by Jenny Volvovski and Julia Rothman $24.95
Flash Temporary Tattoos by James Jean $14.95

Music & Film Books
So This is Permanence: Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian & Deborah Curtis and Jon Savage $40
Special Deluxe a Memoir Of Life and Cars by Neil Young $32.00
Season Of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal $27.95
Orange Is the New Black Presents: The Cookbook $24.95

Bad Asses
Scars & Stripes: The Culture of Modern Roller Derby by Andréanna Seymore and Tim Travaglini $34.99
How I Spent My Permanent Vacation: Another Drunkards Illustrated Guide to New York City Bars by Glenn Werning $16.00

Essays
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart $16.00

Fiction
Ocean At the End Of the Lane by Neil Gaiman $14.99 – Now in soft cover.

Magazines
Fool #5 Food Insanity Brilliance and Love $18.00 – This issue: religion!
Juxtapoz #166 Nov 14 $5.99
2600 the Hacker Quarterly vol 31 #3 Fall 14 $6.95
Atlantis Rising #108 $5.95
Neural #48 $7.99
Gothic Beauty #45 $7.99
Rolla Coaster #13 Fall 14 $8.50
Rock a Rolla #51 Aug Sep 14 $9.95
Fuel #17 Magazine $16.99
Graze #6 $10.00
Hip Mama #56 $5.95
Dazed and Confused vol 4 Win 14 $10.99
Frankie #61 $14.95
Makeshift #10 Field Guide to Hidden Creativity Power Up Issue $15.00
Little White Lies #55 Maps to The Stars $12.99
Camera Obscura #86 Feminism Culture and Media Studies $12.00
Delayed Gratification #15 $20.00
Jacobin Fall 14 #15 #16 $12.95
Skin and Ink Dec 14 #154 $6.99
Fader #94 Oct Nov 14 $5.99

Chap Books & Lit Journals
Expatlitjournal #2 Sum 14 $7.00
Black on Black vol 1 Rough Cuts and Queer Smut by The Lady Ani Ta Butch $1.00

Local Interest
The Neo-Futurists: Body $25.00 – Comprised of essays, interviews, play-text, photographs, illustrations, lists, and collage, the book is a body of work birthed in collaboration with current Neo-Futurists, Neo Alums, and special guests (including interviews with cartoonist and writer Ivan Brunetti and Chicago dancemaker Julia Rhoads of Lucky Plush Productions). Exquisite corpse-style.
Great Chicago Fire of 1871 Postcard Book from the collection of the Chicago Histroy Museum $9.95
White City Postcard Book: Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition of 1893 from the collection of the Chicago Histroy Museum $10.95

Kids Stuff
Charley Harper books!: Whats In The Woods/Whats in the Coral Reef

Other Stuff
Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizers!
Fancy new wrapping paper!!

What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present by Dan Nadel, Dominic Molon, Roger Brown and Robert Cozzolino (RISD Museum of Art/D.A.P) $40.00 – What Nerve! reveals a hidden history of American figurative painting, sculpture and popular imagery. It documents and/or restages four installations, spaces or happenings, in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and Providence, which were crucial to the development of figurative art in the United States. Several of the better-known artists in What Nerve! have been the subject of significant exhibitions or publications, but this is the first major volume to focus on the broader impact of figurative art to connect artists and collectives from different generations and regions of the country. These are: from Chicago, the Hairy Who (James Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, Karl Wirsum); from California, Funk artists (Jeremy Anderson, Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson, Ken Price, Peter Saul, Peter Voulkos, William T. Wiley); from Detroit, Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw); and from Providence, Forcefield (Mat Brinkman, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg, Ara Peterson). Created in collaboration with artists from these groups, the historical moments at the core of What Nerve! are linked by work from six artists who profoundly influenced or were influenced by the groups: William Copley, Jack Kirby, Elizabeth Murray, Gary Panter, Christina Ramberg and H.C. Westermann.

Zines
Heart Seed by Leslie Perrine $4.00
Huffin Textas a Secret History of Dexter Fletcher by Dexter Fletcher $4.50
Quiet Riot AKA The Shy Sober Kid Zine by Riot Brrrl $2.50
Pond Rot #1 (Panoptic Press ) $4.00

Comics & Minis
Lies die Kind by Lilli Loge $9.00
Long Divisions #1 by Paddy Johnston $4.00
Programming with Grawlixes #2 How Grawlixes Structured Comix by Marc Van Elburg $4.00
Press Pot Brew Proper Procedure for the Uninitiated by Chris Sabatini $4.00
Doll Matrix $7.00
Sylvia Leeds the Colonel Throws a Ball by Jessica Campbell and Aaron Renier $5.00
Trubble Club #8 $6.00
From Oily Comics: Dumpling King #5 by Alex Kim, Word and Voice #12 by Aaron Cockle, Bastard #1 by Max De Radigues, Luv Sucker #2 by Charles Forsman, Nu #1  by Sacha Goerg, Missy #2  by Daryl Seitchik

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

Bodblestein by Trubble Club $10.00 – 5,832 possible exquisite corpses generated by the most exquisite of Clubs.
The Best American Comics 2014 ed. by Scott McCloud and Bill Kartalopoulos $25.00 – Hyperbole and a Half, R. Crumb, Michael Deforge, Gilbert Hernandez, Aidan Koch, Raina Telegemeier, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware and more.
Bumf vol 1: I Buggered the Kaiser by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics) $14.99 – New short stories from popular comics journalist.
Blacksad Amarillo by Juan Diaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse) $17.99
Crossed vol 10 Badlands by Garth Ennis & friends $19.99
Minimum Wage Book 1 Focus On the Strange by Bob Fingerman $14.99
Locke and Key TPB vol 6 Alpha and Omega  by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez $24.99
Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins $20.00

Art & Design Books

Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell (Fuel) $32.95 – Ephemera (from cigarette packets to sweet wrappers and children’s toys and stamps) of homeless Soviet dogs sent into space. Beautiful and sometimes even heartbreaking.

Dieselpunk: Retro Futures Of the All-Amercan Art Deco Years by Stefan Paris (Graffito) $35.00 – Thirty different artists time warp the aesthetics of the interwar years in the U.S. Jazz, big band, swing; and glamorous transatlantic travel; as well as true movie stars, Prohibition, radio, skyscrapers, outrageously impressive cars, and serious talk of going to the moon. Think the 20s through the 50s.

Coloring Book Of Unfortunate Situations for Adults by Claire Siepser $14.00
Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them by Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton $22.00
Tattoo by Pascal Bagot, Joe Cummings, Anna Felicity Friedman and Sébastien Galliot (Musée du Quai Branly/Actes Sud) $60.00 – Tattoos from ancient times to the present exploring such Native North American tattoos; American tattooing from the Revolution through the 1980s; Russian criminal tattooing; European sideshow culture; Japan’s tattoo boom during the Edo period; tattooing in the Marquesas Islands, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand; and newly emerging tattoo cultures around the world.

Mayhem
Inheritors Powder: A Tale of Arsenic Murder and the New Forensic Science by Sandra Hempel $15.95
The Penguin Book of Witches, compiled and edited by Katherine Howe $17.00 – Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America.
The Command to Look: A Master Photographer’s Method for Controlling the Human Gaze by William Mortensen, George Dunham, Michael Moynihan and Larry Lytle (Feral House) $20.00 – The Command to Look was one of William Mortensen’s most influential and sought-after books, and has been out of print for fifty years. Reproduced here in full, this book includes an essay by Michael Moynihan on how its images influenced the occult “lesser magic” of the founder of the Church of Satan, Anton Szandor LaVey. The book reproduces fifty-five images of Mortensen’s best work and text by the wittiest and most biting writers on photography of their time.
Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist: And Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History by Robert Damon Schneck $16.95 – The wild and weird side to America’s past: strange creatures, bizarre happenings, fantastical figures, the man who preached good health through blood-drinking, homemade guillotines, magical ape-men on Mt. St. Helens, the origin of evil clowns driving vans and more.

Music & Film Books
Starting at Zero His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix $17.00
Turn Around Bright Eyes: A Karaoke Jounrey of Starting Over Falling In Love  and Finding Your Voice by Rob Sheffield $15.99 – Now in soft cover.
Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller by Chloé Griffin (Bbooks Verlag) $24.95 – Don’t miss author Chloé Griffin talking about this book here at Quimby’s 10/28, featuring a reading, multimedia presentation and conversation between the author and writer Britt Julious. Cookie Mueller was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. She was an actress in John Waters films, then an art critic, writer of hilarious stories and a maven of New York’s downtown art world. This oral history includes interviews with the people who knew her, including John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, Sharon Niesp, Max Mueller, Linda Yablonsky, Richard Hell, Amos Poe and Raymond Foye. The contributors take us from the late-1960s artist communes of Baltimore to 1970s Provincetown and New York, through 1980s Berlin and Positano. There’s artwork, photos and more.

Essays

Honoré de Balzac’s The Physiology of the Employee (Wakefield Press), With caricatures by  Louis Joseph Trimolet. $13.95 – Before there was Kafka, there was this text from 1841. It’s a field guide to the cogs and wheels of bureaucracy, with the various classifications of the office employee, from the Intern to the Clerk (all ten species, from Dapper to Bootlicker to Drudger) to Office Manager, Department Head, Office Boy and Pensioner. Sounds a little too familiar, doesn’t it? Might we suggest this as the perfect graduation gift for the fresh-faced and ambitious college graduate, about to enter the work force, to prepare them for the inevitable stifling disillusion with the world due to oppressive paperwork and soul killing office politics?

Fiction & Books For Fiction Enthusiasts
Bolano: A Biography in Conversations by Monica Maristain (Melville House) $26.95
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer $17.99

Childrens Books
Graveyard Book vol 2 by Neil Gaiman and Craig P. Russell $19.99
Johnny Boo Zooms To the Moon by James Kolchalka (Top Shelf) $9.95

Magazines
Uppercase #23 A Magazine For the Creative and Curious $18.00 – The Calligraphy and Lettering Issue.
Adult #2 Rigor of Beauty $20.00
Tank vol 8 #2 Aut 14 City Limits $21.99
AnOther Magazine #27 Fall Win 14 $14.99
Greenroom #3 Fall 14 $7.00
Wire Oct 14 #368 $9.99
Decibel #121 Nov 14 $5.99
She Shreds #6 Oct 14 The Magazine Dedicated to Women Guitarists $7.00
Paper Magazine Oct 14 vol 31 #2 $5.00
Dirty Queer Magazine #6 $10.00

Lit Journals
Midwestern Gothic #15 Fall 14 $12.00
The Iowa Review vol 44 #2 Fall 14 $9.95

Unicornhole by Kate Lacour $4.00 – Yes, it’s exactly what you think. That is, if you think of unicorn horns are sexy.

 

SLINGSHOTS ARE HERE! 2015 Organizers from the Slingshot Collective in Berkeley, CA are here. Variety of colors, radical history notes for every day, infoshop/radical contact list, suggested radical reading lists, address book/phone number section for all your anarchist friends and even some blank pages for notes.  Pocket size is $6.00, and the large is $12.00.

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Zines
Hundred Million Goons $10.00
Last Night at the Casino #9 Sep 14 $3.00
Racing Form 2015 Aldertrack, Chicagos Aldermanic Election Authority Since 2007 by Michael Kenna and John Coughlin $7.00

Comics & Minis
I’m Working on It by Alex Dahm $2.00
Masterplasty by James Harvey (Vertigo) $5.99
Chieftains Issue #1 Chapter 1 Follow the Ore by Daniel Bernard and Danielle Storey $5.99
Mystery Repeats by Jen Rickert $3.00
Press Pot Brew: Proper Procedure for the Uninitiated by Chris Sabatini $4.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Loverboys by Gilbert Hernandez (Dark Horse) $19.99
Power of Tank Girl $24.99
Happy Stories About Well Adjusted People by Joe Ollmann (Conundrum) $20.00
Black Hand Comics  by Wes Craig $19.99
Fables Deluxe Edition Book 9 HC by Bill Willingham & Friends $29.99
The Man Who Laughs, A Graphic Novel by Victor Hugo, David Hine & Mark Stafford (Self-Made Hero) $19.95 – The inspiration for the Joker!
The Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation TPB by Dan Mishkin & Friends $17.95

Art & Design
Watch Channel 38 Every Night Until Jesus Comes by Ralph Coon $20.00
Toilet Paper Dec 1944 $19.00

Outer Limits
The Book of Immortality: The Science Belief and Magic Behind Living Forever by Adam Leith Gollner $16.00
Marijuana For Everybody: The Definitive Guide to Getting High Feeling Good and Having Fun by Elise McDonough $16.95
The Steampunk Users Manual: An Illustrated Practical and WHimsical Guide to Creating Retro-Futurist Dreams by Jeff VanderMeer $24.95
The Art of Gothic: Music, Fashion, Art, Culture by Natasha Scharf $35.00

Essays
Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie  Jamison (Graywolf) $15.00

Humor
Daily Dishonesty: The Beautiful Little Lies We Tell Ourselves Every Day by Lauren Hom $12.95

Film
Werner Herzog: A Guide For the Perplexed, Conversations with Paul Cronin $40.00

Fiction
Consumed $26.00

Sex & Sexy
Wings of Angels vol 2 A Tribute to the Art of WWII Pinup and Aviation by Malak (Schiffer) $39.99

Magazines
Creative Nonfiction #53 Fall 14 Mistakes $10.00
Tom Tom Magazine #19 In The Studio $6.00
New Asterisk Sep Oct 14 $7.99
Hi-Fructose #33 $7.99
Bizarre #219 Oct 14 $10.50
Fantastic Man #20 Fall Win 14 $14.99
Gentlewoman #10 Fall Win 14 $14.99
Bust Oct Nov 14 vol 89 $5.99
Hypebeast #8 Perspective Issue $12.00
Brown Rice Magazine Fall Win 14 $6.00
Monster Children #44 $11.99
Diabolique #22 Sep Oct 14 $9.98
Cinema Scope #60 $5.95
Cinema Retro vol 10 #30 $11.99
Maximumrocknroll #377 Oct 14 $4.99
Shindig #42 $12.99
Mojo #2251 Oct 14 $9.99
Monocle vol 8 #77 Oct 14 $12.00
AdBusters Nov Dec 14 $12.95
Dissent Fall 14 $10.00
Tattoo Energy #91 $10.99
TSQ vol 1 #1 #3 Aug 14 Transgender Studies Quarterly $12.00
Inked Nov 14 #65 $6.99

Lit Mags & Chap Books
Woman A Timeless Object by Sara Macias and Kim Holland $7.00
Tweeds #2 $15.00
Monday Night #13 $7.00

Kids Stuff
Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman $5.99

I Don’t Hate Your Guts: The Diary of Noah Van Sciver 2014 (2D Cloud) $5.00 – Existential dread, self loathing, a grinding day job…it’s thirty days of Noah Van Sciver’s life told in beautifully drawn diary comics.  Watch as Noah slowly implodes into a tragically self-destruc…WHAT THE?! He gets a girlfriend?!!?!  -NB 

Zines
Communicating Vessels #26 Fall Win 14 15 $3.50
Peanut Gallery Goes to Hell by R Burns $3.00
Liner Notes $6.00
Liner Notes by Emmy Colon $6.00
Against Competition by Marc Fischer & Kione Kochi (Temporary Services) $5.00
UnOther #1 by Gonzalo $7.00
Alamo Igloo #17 by Keith Herzik $5.00
Pineapple Sage by Dalice Malice $2.00
Plastic Knife #12 From Here to There a Split Zine $3.00
Mechanical Yammering #2 The Sound and the Fury of Lists $2.00
You Must Always Have a Secret Plan #3 by Amy Madden $3.00
Horseplay #1 by Diamond Stingily $5.00
Publishing in the Realm of Plant Fibers and Electrons by Marc Fischer & Kione Kochi (Temporary Services) $8.00 – Publishing in the Realm of Plant Fibers and Electrons by Marc Fischer & Kione Kochi $8.00 – How and why y’all should be making your own publications. The Temporary Services kids explain their processes and reasoning behind their small press.  Riso printed at the Publishing Clearing House, a public exhibition of small press printing in downtown Chicago. Put that kindle down, and start the fire of small press publishing in your heart! -NB

Comics & Minis
From Pegacorn Press! Down By the Bay by Aimee Lusty, Other Way #2 by Lale Westvind
Laskimooses #19 Toivonsateen Pilkahous by HerraMatti Hagelbergin $7.00
Fun O Planet #1 Failed Alien by Nathan Ward $5.00
Blackstar #6 by Jeff Zwirek $5.00
Growler Comix #1 The Dust Bunny Demon $2.00
Heart Farts by Cara Bean, Rebecca Viola and Jason Viola $4.00 – This collection of comics is about dreams (specifically about Tom Brady!), bento box lunches, teaching, creativity and pets (cats! dogs!) and more. Cara Bean illustrates her own work that centers around mindful teaching, and Rebecca Viola’s writing about the love of past pets illustrated by husband Jason Viola is compelling and heartful. Thoughtful work. -LM
Peehole #13 Danziggy V BlackAcidDevilsFoodCake by Jim Donaldson $3.00
Comets Comets by Blaise Larmee $5.00
Family Portraits Issues One Through Three by Sam Orchard $10.00 each
WOH Comic by Jen Rickert $1.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Bumperhead by Gilbert Hernandez (D&Q) $21.95
Marx  by Corinne Maier & Anne Simon (Nobrow) $19.95
Hip Hop Family Tree Box Set 1970s thrugh 1981 and 1981 to 1983 by Ed Pisko (Fantagraphics) $59.99 – Collects both the first 2 volumes of Hip Hop Famly History.
Bagnarelli Bianca ed. by Michael Fife $19.95 – Collects Issues 1 through 6 or Compendiums 1 and 2.
Sing No Evil by JP Ahonen and KP Alare $15.95
Fish by Bianca Bagnarelli (Nobrow) $11.00
Rise of Aurora West by Paul Pope and friends (First Second) $9.99 – Another volume of hte Battling Boy series.
Doctors by Dash Shaw (Fantagraphics) $16.99
In a Glass Grotesquely by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Ricky Rouse Has A Gun by Jorg Tittel & John Aggs (Self Made Hero) $24.95

Art & Design
Arttitude vol 2 ed. by Frederic Claquin (Schiffer) $39.99
Step Right Up: Classic American Target and Arcade Forms ed by Richard Tucker and Valerie Tucker (Schiffer) $45.00
Training Days: The Subway Artists Then and Now and Henry Chalfant and Sacha Jenkins $19.95
Graffiti South Africa by Cale Waddacor $45.00
Hello Kitty Nail Art: Step by Step Instructions for Creating 20 Sanrio Themed Characters by Masako Kojima (Abrams) $39.95 – Comes with decals!

Fiction
Desistance by Peter Sotos $25.00
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness  by Ralph Temple (Akashic) $17.95
Kill Manual by Cassandra Troyan (Artifice) $13.95
Does Not Love by James Tadd Adcox (Curbside Splendor) $14.95
Consumed by David Cronenberg $26.00
Different Bed Every Time by Jac Jemc (Dzanc) $14.95
Losing Gainesville by Brian Costello (Curbside Splendor) $15.95
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories ed. by M. Sims $17.00
The New Annotated HP Lovecraft $39.99

Film & Music
The Room: The Definitive Guide by Ryan Finnigan $24.99 – Oh hai, Mark. Includes interviews with the cast and more!
Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie by Gunnar Hansen (Chronicle) $15.95 – Written by the guy who was Leatherface. ow in soft cover, not leather.
Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen $16.99 – Now in soft cover.
Art of Noise: Conversations With Great Songwriters by D. Rachel $22.99

Essays
On the Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC’s Strand Bookstore (World Around Us) by Greg Farrell $12.95
How To Be a Victorian: A Dawn To Dusk Guide To Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman $29.95
Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives by ed. by Nia King $20.00
Happiness: Ten Years of n+1, as selected by by the editors of n+1 $16.00

Politics, Current Events & Revolution
The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising by Patrick Cockburn (OR Books) $15.00

Outer Limits
Ghosts: A Natural History Fifty Years Of Searching For Proof by R Clarke $26.99

Sex & Sexy
Supertrash: Movie Fetish, Hermaphro Chic, 21st Century Anxiety by Jacques Boyreau (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Wings of Angels vol 1 A Tribute to the Art of WWII Pinup and Aviation by Michael Malak $39.99
Perv: The Sexual Deviant In All Of Us by Jesse Bering $16.00
Meat #14 $20.00
OP Original Plumbing #14 Trans Male Quarterly by Amos Mac & Rocco Kayiatos $9.00

Magazines
Offscreen #9 $22.00
Juxtapoz #165 Oct 14  $5.99
True Crime Sep 14 $8.99
VMan #32 Fall Win 14 $6.95
Bad Day #18 $12.00
Dazed and Confused vol 6 Fall 14 $10.99
Dark Side #161 Sep Oct 14 $11.99
Creative Nonfiction #53 Fall 14 $10.00
Razorcake #82 $4.00
RFD #159 Fall 14 40th Anniversary $9.95
Tattoo Collection #64 $7.75

Lit Journals
The First Line vol 16 #3 $3.00

Kids Stuff
Moomin on the Riviera by Toe Jansson (D&Q) $9.95
Zoo Box by Aron Nels Steinke and Cohn Ariel (First Sec) $17.99
Cat Dad King Of the Goblins by Britt Wilson (Koyama) $12.00

Other Stuff
Root Hog or Die DVD a Film About John Porcellino and King-Cat Comics, directed by Dan Stafford $15.00