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New Stuff This Week
Chronicles of Fortune by Coco Picard (Radiator Comics) $20.00 – Originally published as a series of minicomics, this quirky and idiosyncratic adventure of Fortuna, the greatest superhero (tragically stricken with ennui), is now collected into a single volume from Radiator Comics! Coco Picard’s The Chronicles of Fortune follows the lives of Fortuna, and her alter-ego, Edith-May as they learn to cope with loss, recruiting a team of friends along the way! Discover a temperamental stove, a nosy mountain, a goofy crocodile, a loner moth, and a singing goldfish as they lead Fortuna on her greatest adventure! At once charming, sad, funny, poignant, and bizarre, The Chronicles of Fortune keeps one foot in mundane reality.
*ZINES*
Moon Archives vol 1 $12.00
Cheap Toys #19 $2.00
Star Spangled Banner by Joseph Wilcox $3.00
Japan Photo Zine $20.00
Field Study: Notes and Findings In the American Southwest $15.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Babybel Wax Bodysuit by Eric Kostiuk Williams (Retrofit) $6.00
Good Guy #1 $4.00
Grixly #38 by Nate McDonough $2.00
Rainpuppy by James O’Boyle $12.00 – This happy little dog travels around much like Mary Poppins and encounters several different species of magical creatures upon the way. ~CH
Death Party by Mony Nunez $5.00
Murder Moon by Kristal DiFronzo $8.00
Curled Up Around A Wound by Opal Pence $12.00
Sweaty vol 1 $12.00
Bull Whip #1 All Time Comics by Josh Bayer and friends (Fantagraphics) $3.99
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
The Artist by Anna Haifisch (Breakdown Press) $19.99 – A hilarious and heart-wrenching comedy exposing the absurdity of the fine art world as experienced by a young artist.
Red Red Rock: And Other Stories by Hayashi Seiichi (Breakdown Press) $26.99 – A definitive, career-spanning collection of stories from one of Japan’s most famous alternative cartoonists, work from 1967 to the early 70s.
*ART & DESIGN*
Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters, edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell (FUEL Publishing) $32.50 – Playful yet sobering posters from the 1960s to ’80s in the Soviet Union, from the publishers of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedias and Soviet Space Dogs.
Stickerbomb Graffiti Journal by SRK $12.99
THE THING Postcard Book: James Franco by James Franco and The Thing Quarterly $14.95 – Are there any hats that James Franco doesn’t wear?
The Box by Brian McMullen $14.95 – Weirdo blank journal that lets you think both in and out of the box for once!
The Tattoo Flash Coloring Book by MEGAMUNDEN $15.99 – Includes a full-color, pull-out gatefold, and two sticker sheets.
*MUSIC & FILM BOOKS*
The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World by Damon Krukowski (New Press) $24.95 – A radical defense of analog craft in the face of the digital hard sell, from former Galaxie 500/current half of Damon & Naomi. Don’t miss Damon here at Quimby’s on 5/2 with Steve Albini and Bob Weston talking about this book!
Prince: the Coloring Book, edited By Darius James (Feral House) $15.95 – If de-elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy…With crayons. Contributing artists include: Tony Millionaire, Corinne Halbert, Casanova Frankenstein, Mica O’Herlihy, and many more.
*FICTION*
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell (McSweeneys) $24.00
*LOCAL INTEREST*
Chicago Monumental by Larry Broutman (Lake Claremont Press) $50.00 – Full-color photographs of over 250 Chicago statues, memorials, fountains, and monuments. Comes with 3D glasses for a special bonus section!
Chicago Unleashed by Larry Broutman (Lake Claremont Press) $29.50 – Whimsical, tongue-in-cheek modified photos that combine wildlife with Chicago landmarks created for a children’s hospital. A real lion posing under the Art Institute lions! Hippos in the Chicago River! Kangaroos at Montrose Beach! You get the idea.
Draining Chicago: The Early City and the North Area by Richard Lanyon (Lake Claremont Press) $21.95 – The complicated, ever-changing, and surprising story of draining Chicago by retired executive director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
*MAGS*
Wire #398 Apr 17 Residents $10.99
AdBusters #131 vol 25 #3 May June 17 $14.95
Uppercase #33 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $18.00
Offscreen #16 The Human Side of Technology $20.00
*CHAP BOOKS & LIT JOURNALS*
Number You Are Trying to Reach by Zachary Zalman Green $12.00
All Will be Fragile by Emily Greer #1 $5.50
Asterisms vol 1 An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Poetry $15.00
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New Stuff This Week
Thanks to the lovely and talented CZF co-organizer and zinester Anna Jo Beck for our rockin’ Chicago Zine Fest window installation!
Cinema Sewer #30 Special 20 Year Anniversary Issue $8.00 – From the words of the publisher himself, Robin Bougie: “Well, this is it! The culmination of 20 years of hard work! Issue thirty of Cinema Sewer magazine! YAY! Here’s to another 20 years (hopefully!) When I started CS at the age of 23, I had no idea what was to come, and it certainly wasn’t anything meant to be permanent. It was just yet another mini-comic series, of which I had done dozens of previously. How time flies, and look at how this sleazy little zine has grown…So, let’s have a look at what’s in this special oversized anniversary issue — the biggest ever issue of CS clocking in at 60 all-new pages! The cover is by Ben Newman — don’t worry folks — she’s 20! It even says right there under her young buttcheeks! ^_^ There are interviews with adult star Porsche Lynn, and Keith Prince (the son of AVON films smut legend Phil Prince), and there are dozens of reviews, articles, and comics about vintage cult cinema! Just a few of the films covered are: The Howling, Freeway, A Gun For Jennifer, Super Lady Cop, Whore, Human Condom Woman, Attack of The Beast Creatures, The Running Man, Blood Of Heroes, Star Crash, The Muthers, and the Playboy Roller Disco and Pajama Party TV special! To top it all off, since this is a very special issue, I’ve done a FULL COLOR over-sized pull-out poster that comes with every issue, which features all the covers from all 30 issues! Hot diggity doggies!” Order it here.
*ZINES*
Schmalz #2 Writing About Jewish Food and Diaspora by Isaac Brosilow $7.00 – Writing About Jewish Food and Diaspora, this issue contains an interview with A, the Secret History of Soviet Matzoh and a recipe for Potato Kugel.
King Dumb Come by Veronica Leto $6.00
I Am Junky Zine $5.00 – Part of an untitled series where the anonymous author uses quotes from their favorite public figures as starting off points for personal essays, this one is dedicated to William S. Burroughs. Love, death, sadness, addiction, pleasure — everything you’d expect from Uncle Bill, proof that his work inspires future generations of writers to mull over the big cut-up questions. -LM
Chew This by Carol Sogard $7.00
Rebel Rain by Veronica Leto $8.00
Crawl by Jesse Fillingham $12.00 – Stunning and exquisitely rendered characters and spaces that create a myth ridden dreamscape. ~CH
Raw, Extremely Necessary Manifesto by Veronica Leto $4.00 – You want your upliftingness to be cool and not cheesy, right? Well here’s your chance to be inspired without all the embarrassment of it feeling all Lifetime channel life-affirming. With quotes commanding the reader to “Protect your passion from all that rat race bullshit, or you will start to shrink small enough to where a few inches of water will threaten your survival” it feels a little bit like reading a punk rock Dale Carnegie. That’s what we all want, right? -LM
*COMICS*
Love and Rockets Magazine #2 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $4.99
Bad Drawings of Garfield #1 by Caroline Cash $5.00 – A cursed image, Garfield might be on drugs and Jon Arbuckle has some pretty heavy revelations about the potential meaning of art. ~CH
Ganges #6 by Kevin Huizenga $8.00 – The Eisner and Harvey nominated and Ignatz winning series is back again. In this mindblowing issue Glenn Ganges’ long battle with insomnia comes to a complicated close. Glenn and his wife Wendy also learn productivity tips from a TED talk in “The 2 Minute Mind”. Every page is a jam-packed jewel retina display of cartooning power.
Work In Progress #3 by August LeRoi $7.00
Thrill Of Living In A Dying Empire #2 by Mission Mini Comix $1.00
How To Talk To Your Doctor About Your Testicles $4.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Run Comics Oct 2013 through April 2016 by Ryan Burns $20.00
I Am a Hero vol 3 Omnibus by Kengo Hanazawa $19.99
Illustra Sean Year #3 by Sean Dempsey $20.00
Lumberjanes vol 6 Sink Or Swim $14.99
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore $17.00 – Now in soft cover.
*OUTER LIMITS & MAYHEM*
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn $28.00
In Our Own Image: Savior Or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence by George Zarkadakis $16.95
*FICTION*
Blood Is Thicker Part One by Silas H. Patterson $16.99
*MAGS*
Maximumrocknroll #407 Apr 2017 $4.99
Juxtapoz #196 May 2017 $6.99
Razorcake #97 Allison Wolfe $4.00
2600 the Hacker Quarterly vol 34 #1 Spr 2017 $6.95
True Crime Mar 2017 $9.99
Shindig #64 Curtis Mayfield $12.99
Nostalgia Digest Spr 2017 William Powell and Myrna Loy $4.50
Skeptic vol 22 #1 2017 $6.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 10 #2 Spr 2017 Discovery $18.00
Rethinking Schools vol 31 #3 Spr 2017 $5.95
High Times Best of #83 2017 Growing Big $6.99
TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly vol 4 #1 Feb 2017 $12.00
Radical History Review #127 Jan 2017 $14.00
Inked #83 Ryan Ashley Apr 2017 $6.99
New Politics vol 16 #2 $7.00
Skeptical Inquirer vol 41 #2 Mar Apr 2017 $5.99
Horror Hound #64 Mar Apr 2017 $6.99
Atlantis Rising #123 Mar Apr 17 $6.95
GLQ vol 23 #2 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Apr 2017 $12.00
Bomb #139 Spr 2017 $10.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
Sobotka Literary Magazine #2 & #3 $10.00 each
Hedgehog Review vol 19 #1 Spr 2017 $12.00
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New Stuff This Week
Be Your Own Backing Band by Liz Prince (Silver Sprocket) $10.00 – A collection of comics about life through a punk-rock lens. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, and almost always embarrassing, these autobiographical stories are an essential addition to your LIZ-brary. Hilarious zines by Wizardskull, $10.00 each: Pussy, Gen Xtreme Toon Boners, Slimer Blowing Gum, SeX Files Go Fuck Myself by Mike Freiheit $6.00
*ZINES*
Biff Boff Bam Sock #7 Stuff We Have From Cancer by Anna Jo Beck $5.00 – In the latest issue of Biff Boff Bam Sock, Anna Beck revisits her husband’s (and in many ways her own) recent battle with Cancer. Through a series of ink drawings of medical products, food supplements, and other necessary items which they accrued throughout their year long journey she touches on different aspects of what it was like to care for, and come to terms with this increasingly common struggle. -MC
Fuggles A Beer Zine #3 Win 17 by David Nilsen $3.50
Bookstores and Baseball 9th Inning $7.00 – What started out as a child planning a family vacation has now become a family tradition for David Labounty’s family. In Bookstores and Baseball, the author talks about exactly what it says on the tin. In the 9th Inning David, along with his now college-bound children, visits the renowned book providers, and diamonds of Texas and Alabama. Strap in and join this family tradition, and don’t distract the driver or he’ll turn this car around. -MC
Learn Arabic in 25 Years #1 Inshallah and Beyond Innocuous Arabic by Zora O’Neill $4.00
You Must Always Have a Secret Plan #9 $3.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Comics from Cole Johnson, $3-$5: Of Course, Twigs and Stones, The Cartoonist, Never In a Million Years, Forgotten Melody At the Edge of Memory, Beige Floral Pattern
Sweet Spot by Amy Peltz $8.00
My Comic Life by Mark McGilberry $1.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Loose 2016 by Michael Deforge $20.00 – A fantastic collection of sketchbook drawings from 2016.
All Dogs Are Dogs by Michael DeForge $3.00
2 books by Ron Rege Jr.!: What Parsifal Saw (Fantagraphics) $14.99, The Cartoon Utopia (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Audubon, On The Wings Of The World by Fabien Grolleau & Jérémie Royer (Nobrow) $22.95
Saga TPB vol 7 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $14.99
Adventure Time vol 9 Brain Robbers $14.99
Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War, edited by Mark Fertig (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – An oversized compilation of more than 500 stunningly restored comics covers published during World War II. a fascinating look at how legendary creators such as Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Alex Schomburg, Will Eisner, and Lou Fine entertained millions of kids on the home front and buoyed the spirits of GIs fighting overseas by using Adolf Hitler as a punching bag.
*FICTION*
Pain Center: The Novel by David G. Cookson $5.00
Hippies by Gary Gautier $10.99
Placement of Character by Brian Polk $15.00
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey by Bob Boilen $16.99
*MAGAZINES*
Hi Fructose #43 New Contemporary Art Magazine $7.95
Tom Tom Magazine #29 Digital Issue $10.00
International Review #158 International Communist Current Spr 17 $3.00
Gentlewoman #15 Spr Sum 17 Sofia Coppola $15.99
Mojo #281 Apr 17 $10.99
Fresh Meat #8 Of The City $15.00
Tapas #11 Spr 17 Kyle McLachlan $19.99
*POETRY & CHAP BOOKS*
On to the Next Dream by Paul Madonna $17.95
The First Line vol 19 #1 Spr 17 $4.00 – In the 58th issue of this literary journal, the premise remains the same: Nine Writers are given the same first line to a story, and the rest is up to them. Seeing way these stories branch out in infinitely disparate ways, even though they stem from the same 14 word sentence is always a treat. Pick a copy of today, and think of what you would do with that first line. -MC
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New Stuff This Week
*ZINES*
Last Night at the Casino #12 Mar 17 by Billy $3.00
Absolute Hyperbole by Elora Williams $20.00
Great Catholics zine #1 by Matt Runkle $10.00
Allergy Season #3 by Tanner Ballengee $5.00
Manic Abstract Photo Zine $6.00
New stuff from Pioneers Press:
Donald Trump Almost Ate My Brain by Kurt Morris $4.00
Are You There Brian, It’s Me Moisturizer: Skincare For Spooky Kids by Julia Eff $3.00
Zine Design: Intro Tips for Comic Zines by Rayne Klar $2.50
Witch Tips For Spells or Whatever by Rayne Klar $5.00
Get Shit Done a Week Long To Do List and Planner $3.00
Gayzette #2 Women Loving Women an MHS GSA zine $3.00
Lady Bits: A Zine for Vagina Havers Anatomy Menstruation Birth Control by Rachel Rolseth $7.50
Endometriosis Its the End of the World As We Know It $2.00
Wherever We End Up a Pioneers Press Exclusive by Billy Roberts $1.00
Hex Your Ex: A Collection of Spells to Get Back At Or With That Fucker $5.00Barely Legal #2 The Daily Drawings of a Law Firms Desk Jockey by Hannah Chavez $3.00 – The second installment! Post-it notes and lined paper filled with perfectly crude ball point pen drawings of melting eyeballs and existential pontifications. Chavez shares darkly humorous vignettes of the crushing monotony of the cubicle workers day to day experience. ~CH
Femme Frick Part 1 the Bare Beginning by Laramie Moser $3.00
Sonic Meditations by Ten Deep Listeners (Temporary Services) $6.00
CHIPRC zines $2.00 each
Spooky Comics #1 by CHIPRC Drink n Draw
Why Bother A CHIPRC Drawing Zine*COMICS*
Sugar Sweet Stars By Yuliya Kholodenko $5.00
Fifty Flip Experiment #19 Mar 17 by Dan Hill $6.00
I’m So Punk a Comic About Shitty Punk Boys by Caroline $4.50
Slang Pictorial #1 & #2 by Nick Prolix $4.99 each
Spectress #0 Preview Issue $3.00
Our Fair City comics, issues #1-#5 $10.00 each
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
A Treasury of XX Century Murder Compendium I: Including The Lindbergh Child, The Axe-Man of New Orleans, and Madison Square Tragedy by Rick Geary $27.99
The Interview by Manuele Fior $24.99 – Weird triangles appear, a group of young cult types, a psychic. What else could you ask for in Italy in the year 2048?
Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story by Peter Bagge $21.95
A Process of Drastically Reducing One’s Expectations by Gabby Schulz $14.99
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui $24.95
White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh, with a Foreward by and Seth Tobocman $19.95
Nat Turner by Kyle Baker $18.95
The Draw Of Sport by Murray Olderman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
*ART & DESIGN*
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto by David Shrigley $35.00
*MAYHEM*
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe $26.99
Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi $26.99
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie by Sean Egan $18.99 – Now in soft cover.
Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles by William McKeen $26.99
Damn Son Where Did You Find This?: A Book about US Hiphop Mixtape Cover Art by Tobias Hansson and Michael Thorsby $40.00
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone $35.00
Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual by Jeremy Brecher (PM Press) $12.95
Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections on Navigating the Climate Crisis (PM Pamphlet) by Joshua Kahn Russell and Hilary Moore
*ESSAYS*
Book of Mutter (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents) by Kate Zambreno $17.95
*MAGAZINES*
Bust #104 Apr May 17 $6.99
*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
Fields Magazine #7 Spr Sum 17 $14.00
Ninth Letter vol 13 #2 Fall Win 16 $14.95
The Point #13 Win 17 Midwestworld A Contry Is A Country $14.99
Sobotka Literary Magazine #5 Fall Win 16 $10.00
Mighty Stranger by Daniel Pujol $10.00
Gutterboy Rides Again by CT McGaha $8.00
*SEXXXY*
Meat Berlin Issue $20.00
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New Stuff This Week
2016 Dollhouse Gig Posters (Starshaped Press) $85.00 – Tiny gig posters for dollhouses! The idea stems from Starshaped Press wanting to create tiny works of art from the smallest pieces in their metal type collection as well as their longtime passion for music. Operating like an old school record club, subscribers received a new 2×3″ poster each month for a year featuring a different musical style (12 in all). Here’s the reel-shaped box which houses all of the posters.
But wait… there’s more! It includes a flexi disk from John and Mark of The Coctails, temp tatts from Dan Grzeca, and a retro futuristic letterpress print from P22 Analog!Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock New Wave and Noise in Milwaukee 1964-1984 by Steve Nodine, Eric Beaumont, Clancy Carroll, & Dave Luhrssen $20.00. Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko (N+1) $20.00 – A fixture at Moscow’s protests and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia’s many voiceless citizens. Not content to remain in the capital, she travels the country, visiting schools in dying villages; interviewing sex workers in foundering industrial towns; teaching children at juvenile prisons to draw, all while drawing their stories. Eartha by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) $29.99
*ZINES*
Light Is a Better God #7 & #8 by Alex Norelli $10.00 each
House of Nicoletti by Franziska Andonopoulos and Michael Morrill $12.00
*COMICS*
Death In Oaxaca #3 Sex and Death in Oaxaca by Steve Lafler $4.99
Tan N Loose Press stuff:
We Are the Cosmos by Gabriel Alcala $10.00
Happy by Jeffrey Cheung $15.00
Fruit Hoops by Leesh Adamerovich $10.00
Vignettes by Clay Hickson $8.00
These Are the Ways in Which I Have Tried to Tell You by Nathaniel Russell $10.00
Lozlifstyle by Lawrence Slater $10.00
Los Angeles Drawings by Liana Jegers $10.00Chaos Theory by JJ McLuckie $17.00
*ESSAYS*
American Junkie by Tom Hansen (Soft Skull) $16.95 – Should be subtitled Selling Drugs in Seattle. “Heavy like the dark stuff itself.” – Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees.
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon $17.00
*FICTION*
Mrs. Houdini: A Novel by Victoria Kelly $16.00
*DIY*
Collecting Ourselves: A Cooperative Entrepreneurship Curriculum $20.00
*MAGAZINES*
Tape Op #118 Mar Apr 17 $4.95
RFD #169 Spr 17 Mark Thompson $9.95
Make vol 56 Apr May 17 Don’t Try This At Home $9.99
Shots #135 $7.25
*POETRY & LIT JOURNALS*
A People’s History of Chicago by Kevin Coval (Haymarket) $17.00 – Seventy-seven poems (for the city’s seventy-seven neighborhoods) honoring the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city’s workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social landscape.
Midwestern Gothic #24 Win 17 $12.00
*SEXXXY*
For Your Eyes Only #1 $15.00
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New Stuff This Week
Feminist Advice From the City of Broad Shoulders ed. by Jessica Caponigro $20.00 – A collection of essays from Chicago that address feminism and equality. With Essays from Meredith Adams-Smart, Soheila Azadi, Charlene Carruthers, Jessica Caponigro, Leslie Deckard, Sarah Frier, Chiara Galimberti, Scott Hunter, Tanuja Jagernauth, Sharlene King, Stephanie Graham and Maya Mackrandilal, Jennifer Reeder, Jes Skolnik, Vanessa Sheridan, Sydney Stoudmire, Christen Thomas, Benita Ulisano, and Latham Zearfross.
*ZINES*
KerBloom #124 Jan Feb 17 by Artnoose $2.00
Double Exposures Womens March $2.00
I Think There Is a Human City Growing In My Stomach by Duncan Figurski $2.50
Good Days Gone Cold Days by Sarah LaPonte and Helen Jones $12.00
Incandescent #10 & #11 A Color Film Zine $14.00 each
Happy Tapir #2 A Summer of Five Almost Deaths by Johnny Masiulewicz $3.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Too Much Fun Too by Logan Kruidenier $10.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this raucous event!
Comics by Inechi Ines Estrada Gatosaurio:
Southwest Roadtrip $6.00
Alienation #2 & #3 $10.00 eachFae Archaic #5 To My Dear Lucifene by Kurt Burdick $4.00
Wait It Gets Worse #1 & #2 by Gideon Kendall and Doug Latino $5.00 each
Laskimooses #34 Sytykkeiden Kokoaminen $7.00
Goddamn Motherfuckers by Hans Nissen $3.00
Well #2 by Martin Kralovec $2.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Micheal Deforge (D&Q) $21.95 – Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world. Don’t miss Michael DeForge here on 3/25 with Sadie Dupuis to celebrate the release of this graphic novel with a celebratory lo-fi comics night!
Terms and Conditions by R. Sikoryak (D&Q) $14.99 – I-Tunes terms and conditions but as comics parodies. Started as a mini and is now a book. Each page features an avatar of Apple cofounder and legendary visionary Steve Jobs juxtaposed with a different classic strip such as Mort Walker’s Beatle Bailey, or a contemporary graphic novel such as Craig Thompson’s Blankets or Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Totally unauthorized. Totally hilarious.
Impatience by Inechi Ines Estrada $24.00
California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before the Mamas and the Papas by Pénélope Bagieu $24.99
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank $17.00 – From founding editor of The Baffler, about how the American Democratic Party has changed to support elitism in the form of a professional class instead of the working class.
Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin $16.00
*FICTION*
Chicago: A Novel by Brian Doyle $16.00
Hourglass Factory: A Novel by Lucy Ribchester (Pegasus Books) $15.95 – Tomboy Frankie George is sent to interview trapeze artist Ebony Diamond, who disappears. Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks, society columnists, corset fetishists, suffragettes and circus freaks. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory?
*OUTER LIMITS*
The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White $17.99 – The years since the financial crash have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of modern civilization will go unfulfilled. From sigil magic to working with spiritual allies, The Chaos Protocols helps you act on the unwavering belief that your life should matter and you’re not going to let something as trifling as the apocalypse get in the way of it.
Spiritual Alchemy: Scrying, Spirit Communication, and Alchemical Wisdom by Donald Tyson and Jenny Tyson $19.99
*ESSAYS*
All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O’Neill $25.00
*FOOD*
Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste by Tom Nealo $30.00 – Revolution! Gluttony! Cannibalism! The gloriously illustrated (120 full color illustrations, many from the collection of the British Library) history of food, including mythical origin stories, unusual recipes and more!
Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts by Amy Bizzarri (History Press) $21.99
*MAGAZINES*
VMan #37 Spr Sum 17 $6.95
Monocle #101 Mar 17 10th Anniversary Special $12.00
Wire #397 March 17 Aine O’Dwyer $10.99
*LIT JOURNALS*
Sheriff Nottingham’s Holiday Herald #9 vol 3 #1 Fat Tuesday $10.00
*OTHER STUFF*
Gatosaurio & friends stickers! by Ines Estrada, Heather Benjamin, Wakana Yamazaki, Koyamori, Simon Hanselmann & more $9.00 each – New and restocks! And did we mention we got some patches too? $6.00 each.
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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
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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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