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  • New Stuff This Week

    There Was A Light: The Cosmic History of Chris Bell and the Rise of BIG STAR by Rich Tupica (Hozac Books) $37.99 – 400+ pages, stocked with a wealth of previously-unseen color photos, personal ephemera from the Bell family’s archive, as well as everything Ardent Studios could jam in, plus Bell’s childhood bands, his post-Big Star solo work & more!

    Zines

    Men Who Memorize #1 & #2 $5 each

    How to Uncover SELF In Chaotic Times by Lauren Maxwell $12

    Meal Based Artist Residency Program by Marc Fischer (Public Collectors) $8 – Marc takes visiting artists to Joong Boo Market in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood. Here they share their reflections.

    Affinity by David Meehan $10

    Razorblades and Aspirin #4 by M. Thorn $8

    Transhumanist Street Style Look Book by Peter J. $8

    Comics & Minis

    Nude Beach by Eloise Grills $8

    Saliva Tide by Hawkins $8

    Claw the Terrible Beautiful Claw by Marc Pearson $8

    Humboldt by Grant Musser $2

    Cotards Joke by Jonas $1

    Hoody #3 Robot City $10

    Grixly #44 by Nate Mcdonough $2

    Draw by Night June 2018 by Steph Neary $2

    Snack Time by Ally Lasser $4

    Graphic Novels

    Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt (D+Q) $22.95 – Half dog, half coyote, all cowgirl, on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs. And also, there are homemade crop tops.

    The Agency by Katie Skelly (Fantagraphics Underground) $25 – A collection strange and arcane medical images collected as a webcomic: horny skeletons, yonic portals, thrill-seeking vegetation, and multitudinous wry glances and stammered phrases!

    Fang vol 1 Moon Light Snack by Marc Palm $7.99

    Pivot by Jaime Dear $20

    Politics, Revolution & Help

    Resist!: How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance by Michael Segalov $19.99

    Ways of Being: Advice for Artists by Artists by James Cahill $15.99

    Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin by Larry Hancock (OR Books) $17.95

    Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change by Michael M. Hughes $15.99

    Art Books

    Fully Coherent Plan: For a New and Better Society by David Shrigley $24

    Outer Limits

    Paranormal Parasites: The Voracious Appetites of Soul-sucking Supernatural Entities by Nick Redfern $16.99

    Fiction

    Surrealists and Outsiders 2018: I Wagered Deep on the Run of Six Rats to See Which Would Catch the First Fire, ed by RW Spryszak $10 – Fiction and poetry anthology.

    Book Smarts and Tender Hearts: A Novel by Shelley Pearson $12.99 – Hannah discovers zines at 16 and makes some new friends who help her figure out how to balance her book smarts and her heart.

    New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, editor James Thomas $15.95 – 35 stories by 89 authors of microfiction, stories of no more than 300 words.

    Notes from the Fog: Stories by Ben Marcus $26.95

    Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey $26

    Murder Romance and Two Shootings by Todd Allen Smith $15

    Magazines

    Maximumrocknroll #424 $4.99
    Jacobin #30 $12.95
    Raw Vision #98 $14
    Mojo #298 $11.25

    Lit Journals & Chap Books

    Windowcat #2 $5

    McSweeney’s 53: Includes 8 Inflatable Balloons $28 – Yes, there’s a book but there’s also stories printed on the balloons you have to blow up to read.

     

     

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    Zines

    Basic Paper Airplane #12 Interview Issue by Joshua Amberson $3

    2 Brian Cotnoir titles, $10 each: The Alchemical Wedding & On the Homunculus

    Rejected Zine #1 by Troy Kody Cunio $3

    Pfff by Chad Cook $5

    Lana Del Rey Is That Bitch: A Zine by Mattie Ganson $2.50

    Zines/Comics from Sara McHenry: Hard to Love #7 & #8 $3 each

    Comics

    Cloud by Tom McHenry $5

    Politics, Revolution & Current Events

    Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance by Michelle Akanji / Friedrich Von Borries (Lars Muller Publishers) $29.95 – Signs, photos, art, text and more from the last 50 years of protest.

    From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States, Revised and Updated by Priscilla Murolo / A. B. Chitty, with illustrations by Joe Sacco $19.99

    Art Books

    Off the Wall: Art of the Absurd by Victionary $34.95 – Talking pets, repurposed pop-culture icons & more from 20+ artists.

    Local Interest

    Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins / A. Brad Schwartz $29.99

    Mayhem

    Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky $17

    The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court by Patricia Barnes-Svarney / Thomas E. Svarney $21.95

    Fiction

    Eat Only When You’re Hungry by Lindsay Hunter $16

    The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas $15.95 – Hilarious stories of a dog who simply won’t stop howling on social media, a very bad date that births an unforgettable meme and more!

    Micro Novels by Tory Seller $14.99

    Magazines

    AdBusters #139 $14.95

    Shots #140 $8.25

    Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals

    Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez (Haymarket) $16

    Android Poet American Tongue by Troy Kody Cunio $4

    Time Snail by Brian Cotnoir $5

    Secrets of Daydreaming by Nathaniel Bek $12

    I Come From There by Joy Stokes $9.99

    Chicago Review vol 61 #3 and 61 #4 $15

    Kids Stuff

    3×4 by Ivan Brunetti (Toon Books) $12.95

  • New Stuff This Week

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    Rally 2019 Nikki Mcclure Calendar: Share the Future $18

    Zines

    KerBloom #133 by Artnoose $2

    Mentor: A Zine About Female Role Models by Monica Johnson and Michelle M. Murphy $10

    Caboose #10 The Searching Issue by Liz Mason $4

    Smudge vol 2 #8 by Clay Hickson & friends $5

    Big Pharma Gets Stoned: An Art and Smart Zine $7

    Bookstores and Baseball 10th Inning $5

    Inkgoober vol 2 by Anna Lisa Schneider $15

    Black Bean Zine #3 Is It Dark Is it Light Does it Matter by Simone Simone $5

    Thank You for your Cooperation #2 Verhoeven Zine $8

    Mono Rot #3 Susan Okla Drawings & #4 Bill Fick Prints (Rotland Press) $6 each

    Screentime by Brendt Rioux $12

    Vinyl Vagabonds #9 $8

    Vinyl Vagabonds Presents Reggie The Lovable Record Slob $5

    Strangers by Arfil Pajarillaga $5

    Comics

    American Flytrap #1 The Post Truth Issue 2017 & #2 the Gun Issue 2018 (Rotland Press) $10 each

    Withered Memories by Urooj Shakeel $10

    Daygloayhole Quarterly #2 by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket) $6

    Graphic Novels

    Look Back and Laugh: Journal Comics by Liz Prince (Top Shelf) $19.99

    Constant Companion: A Noah Van Sciver Sketchbook (Fantagraphics Underground) $25 – Sketchbooks created between 2013 and 2017.

    Sanpaku by Kate Gavino $24.99 – Don’t miss the author event here for this book on Thurs, August 23rd!

    Love and Rockets vol 14: Three Sisters by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $19.99

    Retreat by Jaakko Pallasvuo (2d Cloud) $19.95

    Petey & Pussy: Puppy Love by John Kerschbaum (Fantagraphics) $19.99

    The Arab of the Future 3: A Graphic Memoir: A Childhood in the Middle East, (1985-1987) by Riad Sattouf $27

    Politics & Revolution Books

    I Am Action: Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles by Praxedis G. Guerrero (AK Press) $15 – A collection of writings from Mexico’s firebrand revolutionary. Available in English for the first time.

    Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by Kaelyn Rich $14.99

    Art Books

    Dark and Fetish Art by Kaoru Arakawa (PIE International Books) $49.95

    Improper Cross-Stitch: 35+ Properly Naughty Patterns by Haley Pierson-cox $19.99

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Ingratitude by Peter Sotos (Nine-Banded Books) $30

    Music, Film & TV Books

    Twin Peaks and Philosophy: That’s Damn Fine Philosophy! ed. by Richard Greene $19.95

    The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities by Wayne Kramer $28

    MDC Al Schvitz: Double Life in Double Time by Alan Schultz (Manic D Press) $16.95 – Memoir written in prison from the drummer from MDC.

    Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge by Becky Aikman $18

    Fiction

    A Short Film About Disappointment by Joshua Mattson $25 – A jaded film critic peppers his reviews with disclosures from his own life, from his dream of making a film without mainstream commercialism to his feud with a vending-machine tycoon.

    Perfect Conditions by Vanessa Blakeslee (Curbside Splendor) $16.95

    Metabolize If Able a Novel by Clay Ad (Monster House Press) $14

    Essays

    Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen $16

    After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus (Semiotexte) $16.95 – Now in soft cover.

    The Best of Royko: The Tribune Years by Mike Royko $28

    Idiophone by Amy Fusselman $16.95

    Magazines

    Wire #414 $10.99

    Illustoria #7 $16

    Critical Mass vol 1 #17 & #18 $8 each

    Lit Journals & Poetry

    The Chicago Review vol 61 #3 and 61 #4 $15

    Visions of Mundane Madness by Dwiputri Pertiwi $20

    Black Glitter by Bree Jo Ann (Monster House Press) $12

    Raffish #1 $8

  • New Stuff This Week

    False Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans and Crazes of All Time by S. D. Tucker $22.95 – From the idea of ‘vegetable-money’ which rotted away in order to discourage the hoarding of coins and capital to the optimistic notion that it might be possible to destroy the North Korean economy with chocolate biscuits, from a madman’s quest to abolish charity to the US presidential candidate who accepted tax advice from outer space, this book tells the story of some of the loopiest monetary ideas of all time.

    Zines

    Fifty Four Hits From Hell by Blake Edwards (Public Collectors) $4

    East Village Inky #59 Rides Again Melonfarmers – Print Is Not Dead by Ayun Halliday $3

    Places and Spaces by Milo Krim $6

    A Heart that Comes True – a Suicide Awareness and Prevention Zine by Nyxia Grey $5

    Worst Behavior – Like a Lighthouse Two on Creativity and Trauma by Annie Mok for Rookie Mag $10

    A Vagina is Not…/A Penis is Not… by Abner Oaken and B Worden $7

    Pocket Book of Shadows #1 Leo Edition $8

    Some Heartbreak Days by Carmen Ribaudo $4

    Zine #2049.42 by Colton Walworth III $3.50

    Try Hard, Dont Bitch by Syd Webb $5

    Communicating Vessels #29 by Anthony Walent $3.50

    Tell Me I Look Handsome by H Schenck $15

    Chizza #1 Celebrating Pizza $5.50

    Famous Cats Passed: Stories of Some of Life’s Greatest Companions by Joseph Carlough $1.50

    Comics & Minis

    Stripburger #71 $10

    2 comics from Lucy Knisley! $5 each
    You Are Zero Years Old: A Zine for Babies & Look at My Cute Cub: Cartoons on Parenting

    True Stories #3 by Derf $5.99

    Alternative Reality #4 by Lawson Chambers $5

    Madame de Sade by Patrick Walwoth $5

    Fifty Feet of Rope #1 $5

    Not Really An Emotion by Kevin Marshall $4

    Graphic Novels

    Come Again by Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $24.99 – Love, mystery and unraveling on a 70s commune in the Ozarks with this Powell’s first solo graphic novel in seven years! Don’t miss him here at Quimby’s on Aug 9th!

    Lawns by Alex Nall (Kilgore) $10

    Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies, anthology compiled by Quincy Saul (PM Press) $15.95

    Garlandia by Jerry Kramsky and Lorenzo Mattotti (Fantagraphics) $39.99

    Ghost Script by Jules Feiffer $26.95

    Mooz Boosh by Sam Spina $10

    Sweaty Palms vol 1 An Anthology About Anxiety by Sage Coffey & Liz Enright $25

    I Rene Tardi Prisoner of War in Stalag 11B GN $29.99

    Politics & Revolution

    Letters to a Young Feminist by Phyllis Chesler $14.99 – Words from the legendary feminist leader.

    On the Fly!: Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879–1941 by Iain Mcintyre (PM Press) $27.95 – Dozens of stories, poems, songs, stories, and articles produced by hoboes to create an insider history of the subculture. Adrenaline-charged tales of train hopping, scams, and political agitation are combined with humorous and satirical songs, razor sharp reportage and unique insights.

    Art Books

    Carve!: A Book on Wood, Knives and Axes by Hannes Dahlrot / Henrik Francke (Gingko Press) $29.95

    Outer Limits

    Murder by Numbers: Fascinating Figures Behind the World’s Worst Crimes by James Moore $24.95 – What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the chilling case of the Zodiac killer? Revealing insights!

    Music Books

    The Other Night at Quinn’s: New Adventures in the Sonic Underground by Mike Faloon (Gorsky Press) $13.95 – Editor of the zine Zisk writes a compelling portrait of a music scene surrounding a NY bar’s experimental jazz night.

    Kyary Pamyu Artworks 2011-2016 by Steve Nakamura (Seibundo) $47 – Bizarre but absolutely kawaii – this book is a visual chronicle of J-pop icon Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. CD jacket designs with interpretation of Kyary’s world view described by her art director.

    Fiction

    Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine: Stories by Kevin Wilson $26.99

    All Internal by Terence Hannum $11.99

    Magazines

    Fool #7 The Political Issue $29.99

    Bust #112 $6.99

    She Shreds #15 $10

    Drift vol 7 San Francisco $24

    Mojo #297 $11.25

    Wire #413 $10.99

    Ambrosia vol 5 San Francisco Bay Area $19

    BCC MEN #1 $15

    Lit Journals & Poetry

    The Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #38 $5

    The Believer #119 $12

    Motley Magazine #2 & #4 $5 each

    Aquamarine Soul Whispers by CJ Wilkens $16

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Black Metal Coloring Book (Feral House) $15.95 – Includes art by Quimby’s employee Corinne Halbert, as well as Gaye Black (bassist of the early British punk band The Adverts), Savage Pencil, Mike Diana, Billy Chainsaw, Jason Atomic (creator of Satanic Mojo Comics), Anthony Ausgang, Anna Piera Di Silvestre, Paul “Mutartis” Boswell, Dennis Franklin, Nico de la Mort, Andrew Labanaris, Rachael Gater, Laughing Indio and more.

    Zines

    How to Escape Duct Tape $1

    Pathways in Education: Ashburn $5

    Dine Our Survival Is Bound to Them by Katherine Smith Yinisheye $5.53

    Tongues Process Zine 1 by Anders Nilsen $5

    The Smudge vol 2 #7 by Clay Hickson & friends (Tan n Loose Press) $5

    Flesh World #1 by Izzy Strazzabosco $2

    The Rad Cat Dictionary of Fuck by Sage Liskey $6 – Fuck as a verb? A noun? Fucking educate yerself!

    Zeta Reticuli Incident by Lisa Glenn Armstrong $5

    Key Phrases: A Spanish Lesson from Duolingo by Adán De La Garza $10

    Zine About Humans and the Environment by Andrew Harlan & friends $7

    Homicide Wicker Park: 12 Homicides 2001-2016, Police Reports and Photographs by Sam Logan $15

    Noice issue 010 Minimal Comic Play by Colin Czerwinski $20

    Rebel City Los Angeles Spring 2018/Guide 6 by Llano Del Rio Collective $10

    Comics & Minis

    Future #1 & #2 by Tommi Musturi $6 each

    Laskimooses #42 Kappaleiden Kokoomus by Matti Hagelberg $7

    Sunlight and Honesty by Elle $13

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest #1 by Alan Moore $4.99

    Fiends #4 Sum 18 by Tim Tyler $10

    Concerted Efforts by Mohar Kalra $5

    Migraine by Woshibai $7

    Two Stories by Gantea $7

    Electrocat and Lightning Dog by Bu Er Miao (Paradise Systems) $15

    This is Still America #2 & #3 by George $5 each

    Graphic Novels

    Dork by Evan Dorkin $19.99 – Featuring most of the Dork comic run as well as the 2012 full-color House of Fun special, along with rarities, extras, a cover gallery, and a newly drawn introduction.

    Shit Is Real by Aisha Franz (D+Q) $24.95 – A broken-hearted woman drifts into depression as she occupies her traveling neighbor’s apartment.

    100 Demon Dialogues by Lucy Bellwood $14.99 – From overcoming self-doubt to prioritizing self-care, Bellwood and her demon embody a hilarious and relatable partnership that will resonate with people from all walks of life.

    Stuff From Peow Studio Press: Dark Angels of Darkness by Al Golfa $26 + Dust Pam by Thu Tran $13.50 + Ripples: A Detectives Diary by Wai Wai Pang $16 +  Rule Break by Anna Syvertsson $12 + Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte $26

    Art, Design & Photo Books

    Warrr2k / Work 2014-17 by Alexander Heir (Sacred Bones) $35 – Complete work to date of punk and metal artist Alexander Heir, expanding upon war, police brutality, political corruption, and death as his canon of punk subject matter, and this latest work brings sci-fi and psychedelia influences into the fold.

    Under the Skin: Tattoo Culture and Style by Sendpoints (Gingko Press) $45 – An excellent intro to the history and craft of tattoo, featuring international cultural history, 6 major styles, 37+ artists.

    The Beat Scene: Photographs by Burt Glinn by Jack Kerouac (Reel Art Pr) $39.95

    The Tennis Manifesto by Warren Harris & Olena Prysiazhniuk $19.99

    Politics & Revolution Books

    The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein (Haymarket) $9.95

    The Essential Žižek: Living in the End Times $24.95 + First As Tragedy, Then As Farce $17.95

    Film & Music Books

    This Is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby by James Munn (Reel Art Pr) $49.95

    Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music by Michael Robbins $16

    Desperately Seeking Bowie by Castello-cortes (Gingko Press) $16.95

    Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh $27

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art by Peter Lamont / Jim Steinmeyer $28

    Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker (Repeater) $17.95 – Traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude.

    Fiction

    Reincarnation Blues: A Novel by Michael Poore $16 – The oldest soul in history falls in love with the woman who incarnates death. They follow each other in a variety of chronologies and it’s epic and compelling. Now in soft cover.

    The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane: The Long Lost Rock N’ Roll Detective Stories by Rex Weiner $16.95 – From CBGBs, the Mudd Club and Tier 3 in NYC to the Starwood, Zero Zero and Cuckoo’s Nest in LA, Ford Fairlane takes you back to a sexy, violent and explosively creative time and place that live on in rock n’ roll legend, brought authentically to life in these hardboiled stories.

    Hits & Misses: Stories by Simon Rich $25 – Former SNL writer does hilarious short stories inspired by Hollywood experience.

    The Cloven by Brian Catling $16.95 – Final installment in the Vorrh Trilogy.

    Born to Be Weird: A Collection of Demented Fantasy & Horror by Set Sytes (Microcosm) $12.95

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh $26

    Suicide Club: A Novel About Living by Rachel Heng $27

    Destiny of I Am The Crossing by Julie Pacheco $19.95

    Magazines
    Tape Op #126 $5.95
    Uppercase #38 $18
    The Baffler #40 $14
    Harness Magazine #2 $6.99
    Tom Tom Magazine #34 $10

    Chap Books & Lit Journals

    Abrupt Reflections by JAGQ $10

    Taddle Creek #41 $6.95

    Mystery and Adventure Series Review #52 by Fred Woodworth $3

    Ratking Frame 00 $10

  • New Stuff This Week

    Dark Tourism by Rebecca Bathory (Carpet Bombing Culture) $45 – Photo collection of places associated with death and tragedy around the world. Creepily compelling.

    Zines

    Lazy Diana #4 A Punk Pagan Zine by Kelci Crawford $3

    Professional Amateur Business Cards by Paul Shortt $5

    Fixer Eraser #5 by Jonas $3

    What Problems Can Artist Publishers Solve? by Marc Fischer $6

    Library Excavations #9 Chicago’s Filed Artists $6

    Mura Press #1 $10

    Proof I Exist #28 by Billy McCall $2

    Black Bean Zine #2 $5

    Rumors and Hope by Aaron Krach $6

    Inktober 16 by Nicolette Baltad $3

    Comics

    Splendid Eye by Kera Ling $8

    The Kurdles Adventure Magazine #1 $10 – All ages/kids mag from Fantagraphics! This issue: Robert Goodin, Cathy Malkasian & more!

    I Spy by Alli Katz $6

    New Wave Comics Presents #4-#6 $1.50 each

    Lemmy #1-#4 by Sam Logan $1 each

    Graphic Novels

    Little Stranger by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $21.95 – Have you ever gotten turned on while stuffing a turkey? Get a Little Stranger!

    In the Future We are Dead by Eva Müller (Birdcage Bottom Books) $15

    Politics & Revolution

    Artivism by Poch Arcadi / Daniela Poch (Carpet Bombing Culture) $34.95 – Art as the megaphone of the unfairness.

    How the World Swung to the Right: Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions by Francois Cusset (Semiotexte) $14.95

    Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey R. Stone $21.95

    Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics by Erin McHugh $15.95

    D.I.Y. Resistance: 36 Ways to Fight Back! by Anthony Alvarado $14.95 – Shares the successful actions people’s movements use to defeat tyrants, including defending free speech, looking after the community, fighting racism and misogyny, organizing, protesting, networking, and publishing.

    Women and the American Labor Movement: From the First Trade Unions to the Present by Philip S. Foner (Haymarket) $25

    Outer Limits

    The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes by Nina Barrett $35 – A history of Chicago’s infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, told chiefly through a rare collection of carefully arranged primary source material, including confessions, court transcripts, psychological reports, evidence photos, and more.

    Music Books

    What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography by Bruce Dickinson $17.99 – From Iron Maiden lead singer. Details include: schoolboy misbehaviour, handbanging injuries, becoming a pilot. What you want in a rock’n’roll memoir minus the drugs (except for the beer).

    Mods: A Way of Life by Patrick Potter (Carpet Bombing Culture) $24.95

    Food

    Paleo for Unicorns by Amy Subach (Microcosm) $14.95 – Eat the patriarchy!

    Fiction

    Comemadre by Roque Larraquy (Coffee House Press) $16.95 – Full of vulgarity, excess, and discomfort: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and man-eating plants. Darkly funny, smart, and engrossing.

    Magazines

    The Internationalist #52 $1

    Lit Journals

    Sinister Wisdom Multicultural Lesbian Lit & Art Journal #109 $14

    Sexxxy

    Meat #27 $14

    Elska #18 Los Angeles $18.50

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    In/visibility: Perspectives on Queer Utility Passing and Drawing Blurry Lines vol 1 $5

    Zines & Zine-Related Books

    Lady Parts #5 by Amelia Hruby $3

    You’re Here, What Now? The Awesome Guide to Visiting Pilsen and Little Village by Yolocalli Arts Reach $2

    Black Metal of the Americas Is Dead: Pentacle of the Moon by Ed $5

    Why We Vote and How by Bronwyn Mauldin $7

    Zisk #29 by Mike Faloon $3

    Wishes by Georges Perec (Wakefield Press) $17.95 – A paean to the pun by this member of Oulipo. Perec sent out new year’s wishes from 1970 until he died in 1982. This volume collects all 10 pamphlets.

    Mantid Mania #2 Femme Fatale by Mike Smith $5

    Hall Pass #3 by Mr. Rizzo $5

    Don’t Quit Your Day Job by Joseph Wilcox $3

    Mapping Out Utopia #2 Boston 1970s Boston Area Counterculture $11 & #3 $8.50

    Graphic Novels

    Poochytown by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Frank forms a new friendship and journeys to the farthest reaches of the Unifactor.

    Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – A sea nymph is cast out and finds her own way in this debut graphic novel. With loving nods to the Bronte sisters, David Bowie, and the Beatles.

    Beanworld Omnibus 1 by Larry Marder (Dark Horse) $24.99 – Collects Beanworld issues #1-#21.

    A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, art by Rafael Albuquerque (Dark Horse) $17.99 – A supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.

    Memoirs

    The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir by Graham Caveney $28 – Caveney reconciles his past and present in 1970s in the north of England, having armed himself against the confusing nature of adolescence with a thick accent, a copy of Kafka, and a record collection including the likes of the Buzzcocks and Joy Division.

    Music Books

    We Are the Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered by Mark Andersen / Ralph Heibutzki (Akashic) $18.95 – An impassioned history of the final, turbulent years of The Clash. $18.95

    Fiction

    I Will Burn You Down by Michael Allen Rose $12

    Magazines
    Got a Girl Crush #6 + #7 $15 each
    Maximumrocknroll #422 July 2018 $4.99
    Hi Fructose #48 $8.95
    The Sick Muse #10 $12

    Lit Journals
    The First Line vol 20 #2 $4
    Sheriff Nottingham #14 Twilight Zone $10
    After Hours #36 Sum 18 Journal of Chicago Writing and Art $10

    For the Kiddies

    The Little World of Humongo Bongo by George A. Romero $16.99 – Kids book by the director Night of the Living Dead.

    Bubble by Geneviève Castrée (D+Q) $12.95 – Artist and musician Geneviève Castrée’s last work before she passed to pancreatic cancer, as one final gift for her two-year-old daughter.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Welcome to Venice Rxcx by Ric Clayton (Kill Your Idols) $45 – Book featuring the work of the guy who does the art work for the Suicidal Tendencies, lots of like-minded bands, LA skate graphics n more. All I wanted was a Pepsi, but I got this book instead. -Liz M.

    Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music by David Hollander (Anthology Project) $55 – A deep dive into the music used during heyday of low-budget TV and scrappy genre filmmaking, when producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Featuring histories, interviews, & visuals. Even George A. Romero used library music in Night of the Living Dead, which is why he wrote the intro to this examination of this unique genre at the nexus of art and commerce.

    Zines

    Riot Grrrl Reviews #2 June 18 by Jolie Ruin $2

    New titles from Chicago print artist Keith Herzik

    Interim by Kayle Karbowski $20

    alchemy zines by Brian Cotnoir

    Just Encased #2 Curated by Danielle Susi $7

    Comics & Minis

    My Green Tessellated Boudoir Winter by Krystal DiFronzo $15

    Like a Garment That Gapes by Jameson Skelton Doody $5

    New titles by H Tweedell

    Graphic Novels

    Dull Margaret by Jim Broadbent & Dix (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – Jim Broadbent, the British actor who is in, like everything, from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones (?!), collaborated with the Guardian cartoonist Dix in this book, inspired by the Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Dulle Griet (1561) painting (aka “Mad Meg”) of a woman with a sword in one hand in front of the mouth of hell.

    Father by Gabriel M. Howell $20

    Eric by Tom Manning $24.99

    Let’s Make Comics: An Activity Book to Create, Write, and Draw Your Own Cartoons by Jess Smart Smiley $12.99

    Luisa, Now and Then by Carole Maurel (Humanoids) $29.95 – At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self.

    Out in the Open by Jesús Carrasco (Self Made Hero) $24.99

    Art & Design

    The Design of Dissent: Greed, Nationalism, Alternative Facts, and the Resistance by Milton Glaser / Mirko Ilic $25

    Skin & Ink: Illustrating the Modern Tattoo by Sandu (Gingko Press) $39.95

    Far Fetched Inversosimilie by Jesse Jacobs (Tabularasa Edizioni) $36

    The Creature Garden: An Illustrator’s Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna by Harry Goldhawk / Zanna Goldhawk $25

    Politics & Revolution

    90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow $16.99 – Examines the history of women in the 1990s, during which American society grew increasingly hostile to women who dared to speak up.

    Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society by Thomas Frank $25 – The founding editor of The Baffler and acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal presents a collection of scathing interlocking essays denouncing the four-decade economic battle in America that has culminated in today’s devastating levels of financial inequality.

    Outer Limits

    Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-day Use of Psychedelic Plants & Substances by Cody Johnson $24.99

    Film & Music Books

    Room to Dream by David Lynch / Kristine McKenna $32 – Part memoir-part bio, McKenna talks to people in Lynch’s life, they talk smack about him and then he refutes it! What an idea! – Liz M.

    The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s by Greg Prato $22.95

    Sex Guides & Culture

    Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) by Sophie Lucido Johnson $16.99

    Magazines
    Lacunae vol 1 An Undergraduate Journal for Queer of Color Critique $12
    RFD #174 Sum 18 Amuse Us $11.95
    Fortean Times #367 $12.50
    Mojo #296 $11.25
    Shock Cinema #54 $5

    Lit Journals & Chap Books
    Staind vol 2 The Shame Issue $15
    Swiping Right and Other Regrets by Noelle Pouzar $12
    Tilde # 1 $7
    Submerging #3 Where Are We In the Story $6

    …and as usual, much, much more!

  • New Stuff This Week

    The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery by Rex Sorgatz $19.99 – Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag Operations, Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, Kayfabe, Laugh Tracks, Milli Vanilli, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Photoshopping, Potemkin Villages, Rachel Dolezal, Strategery, Truthiness, and the Uncanny Valley.

    Zines

    KerBloom #132 May Jun 18 by Artnoose $2

    National Teenset Outsider #35 $1

    Skating with Shes and Hers: April to June 2017: Volume 1 by Amelia Bjesse-Puffin $6 – Photos and interviews with women, nonbinary and gender fluid folks that skate.

    Smudge vol 2 #6 by Clay Hickson $5

    Do You Have the Time by McKenzie Carlock $7.95

    Working: Makin’ Paper Without Losing Your Mind or Selling Your Soul by Faith G. Harper, PhD (Microcosm) $4

    Lover – A Zine by Katie Wright $5

    Crown Jewel of the Caucusus by Benjamin Kraco $10

    Incognito #1 by Rachel Orr $10

    Beauty of Rat Dreams: A Fold Out Zine About Radiators Worms and Hidden Layers by Jam $1

    zines/comics by M Sabine Rear: Bending Spoons: A Field Guide to Ableist Microaggressions $3, Women Artists Zine $6, Reverse Flaneur $10 & more!

    Comics & Minis

    Samurai Corpse #1 by Rainier Flores $2

    Paintings by Keiler Roberts $5

    Demons by Emily Hutchings $6

    Would’ve Been Could’ve Been Should’ve Been Never Was and Never Will Be by Yewon Kwon $20

    Graphic Novels

    Fab4 Mania: A Beatles Obsession and the Concert of a Lifetime by Carol Tyler (fantagraphics) $29.95

    Fukushima Devil Fish by Katsumata Susumu (Breakdown Press) $34.99

    Then It Was Dark: A Paranormal Anthology by Sarah Benkin $22

    The Strange by Jérôme Ruillier (D+Q) $21.95

    Hellboy 1: The Complete Short Stories by Mike Mignola $24.99 – 16 standalone stories that can be read in any order.

    George Orwell Illustrated by David Smith & illustrated by Mike Mosher (Haymarket) $17

    Politics & Revolution

    A Nation Unmade by War by Tom Engelhardt $15.95 – Writings from TomDispatch.com.

    Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship by Tariq Ali $19.95

    Music & TV Books

    Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers $18.99

    Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons by Mike Reiss $27.99

    I’ve Got Something to Say by Danko Jones (Feral House) $19.95 – In-your-face collection of 10 years of onstage and backstage by Canadian garage rocker Danko Jones.

    Stuff That Helps

    The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick: Your Guide to Crafting Charms, Rituals, and Spells from the Natural World by Judy Ann Nock $16.99

    Food

    Spam: The Cookbook by Marguerite Patten $9.99

    Fiction & Lit

    We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill $26.99

    The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing by Charles Bukowski (City Lights) $15.95 – Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man.

    Sex Culture

    Modern Whore by Andrea Werhun $30

    Magazines
    Frankie #83 $15.95
    Wire #412 $10.99
    Gather Journal vol 7 #13 $19.99
    Kilter Magazine #13 2018 $5
    Lit Journals & Chap Books
    Little Star #7 $14.95
    Growing by Bridget Johnson $3.50

    For the Kiddies

    AlphaBots by Impossible Winterbourne $19.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Zines

    Revering Individual Posessions #2 by Elizabeth S. Tieri $1

    Bound Struggles #7 by Chicago Books to Women In Prison $10

    Sick, Sad World Zine: A Tribute to Daria by Rosmund and Megan $5

    Meanwhile #4 Mythical Creatures & #5 Whats Your Sign $5 each

    Death Lick by Corinne Halbert $12 – Full color reproductions on heavy glossy paper of 19 erotic horror paintings, limited edition of 50.

    Heuksando by Lila Lee $10

    Good Day Mi Lady: A Ren Faire Zine by Megan Kirby $5

    Contrived Critters by Aim Ren $2

    Her by Talie M. Zrihen $2

    Unguarded Conversations With Museum Guards at AIC by Shannon Hebert Waldman $5

    Mineralis by Patricia Cram $10

    Various Small Geological Controversies photo zine by Bill Daniel $12

    Wiggly World by Michael R. Heck $10

    Cognitive Dissonance for Beginners by Lita $4

    For Everard vol 7 Tony From the Bronx $5

    Annapolis photo zine by Philip Tomaru $20

    Mainland by Lila Lee $16

    Yolanda #2 Thigh Times Enterprises $5

    Comics & Minis

    You Don’t Get There From Here #47 by Carrie McNinch $3

    Short Gay Stories by HP Lehkonen $12

    Our Friends the Bees by Rachel Bard $5

    Infinite Wheat Paste #5 by Pidge $5

    Finder Pink Year by Nou 2017 $4

    Slithering Sleep by Danielle Burton $16

    Orbiters Prism by Drew Miller (Neoglyphic Media) $5

    Can’t Breathe Without Air by Angela Chen $6

    Poor Thing #1 by Drew Miller (Neoglyphic Media) $8

    Humorous Faces of Funny Cases #3 by Cynthia T. Navarro (Tiny Splendor) $12

    Dump by Matthew Carrigan $10

    Island on Fire by Yishu Wang $8

    Lingering Light: A Prequel of the Setting Sun BBB x Maki $6

    Seeker #1-#5 by Liz Valasco $5 each

    Loops by Alyssa Nelson $4

    I’m Trying by Angela Chen $4

    Ley Lines: Weird Territory by Evan Dahm $6

    Beef Jams Tournament Edition $7

    Millennials #1-#3 by Lorenzo Ghetti & Claudia Nuke Razzoli $5 each

    Manzone by Ugo Schiesaro $8

    King Cat #78 by John Porcellino $5

    Ikea by Fine OK Press $5

    Ooze by Ali Burke and Tara Hamilton $5

    At the Top of Fuller Canyon by Andrew Alexander $5

    Grievin of Mt Privado Part 1 by Andrew Alexander $10 – Teen secrets, sleuthing and reefer abound when a murdered pet rocks a small town in this expressionist noir.

    Visions by Evan M. Cohen $20

    Twilight of the Bat by Josh Simmons $10 – Unauthorized Batman comics by Josh Simmons and friends.

    Mundane Magic by Andrew Lamb Schultz (Cold Cube Press) $15

    Bursting Spicy Metal #1 by Kelly Bjork (Cold Cube Press) $15

    Sticky Sweets by Ross Jackson $10

    Thirty Miles of Crazy #1-#6 by Karl Christian Krumpholz $5 each

    But Is It Comic Aht #1 by Domino Books $5

    Graphic Novels

    Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams $24 – Features a wealth of Nobrow contributors past and present as well as a glimpse into the future of comics and illustration!

    The Complete Future Shocks vol 1 by Alan Moore & Peter Milligan $25 – This first volume of Tharg’s Future Shocks takes us back to the earliest days of the one-off, twist ending, sci-fi thrills strip from the pages of 2000 AD, showcasing talents of Alan Moore and friends.

    Instinct For Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Jeff Wilson, Illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia $13.95

    Inside Moebius Part 2 (Dark Horse) $39.99

    Marta by Alison Burke DuPey $12

    Welcome to Slimecity by Jared Gattis $12

    Fiction

    Ayiti by Roxane Gay $16

    Fight No More: Stories by Lydia Millet $24.95

    Food

    Superiority Burger Cookbook: The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious by Brooks Headley $39.95

    Stuff That Helps

    A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson $7.99

    On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness by Roman Muradov $12.95

    How to Deal With Anxiety an Activity Book by Eugenia Viti $7

    Bio, Memoirs & Media

    All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Irmin Schmidt with Rob Young $29.95 – Part band bio, part symposium of the legendary german experimental rock band CAN from founding member Schmidt with journalist Young.

    Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life With My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel $28

    Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs by Peter Coviello $16

    Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos $32 – A biography of the photographer nicknamed after the Ouija board due to his uncanny ability to arrive at a crime scene mere moments after law enforcement, reveals a man now known as an innovator, pioneer and master crime-scene photographer.

    TRI-X-NOISE – Photographs 1981-2016 by Bill Daniel $20 – From master railroad and freight tag historian behind the Mostly True: The West’s Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine and the filmmaker of “Who is Bozo Texino?” TRI-X-NOISE includes three decades of subterranean countercultural hijinks recorded on black and white film. Beginning with early the 80s Texas skatepunk scene, the book is a sprawling visual journal of a life lived on the road and after dark. Punk shows high and low, crusty experimental cinemas, freight train adventures, Mission School graffiti, impossibly obscure house shows, and art exhibits in the shadowy margins. It’s a mash up of subcultural documentation, from San Francisco to Shreveport, from Texas to Braddock Pennsylvania, a flash-lit scrapbook of an invisible vanguard, all shot on Tri-X film. Including: Butthole Surfers, Big Boys, Black Flag, City Museum, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Misfits, David Yow and more.

    Magazines

    Even #10 $18

    Lula #25 $15.99

    Man About Town #22 $29.99

    Palmss #3 by Chinwe Okona $10

    Nostalgia Digest Sum 18 $4.50

    Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

    The Believer #119 $12

    The Literary Review vol 61 #1 Chemistry $15

    Spent Seasons Poetry by Liza Edwards Levin $3

    Year of the Dogs: Poetry and Illustrations by Anita Olivia Koester by Anita Olivia Koester $3

    If You Are Unable to Help Just Say So by Jennifer Williams $15

    Brick #101 $16

    Gathering Views by Jack C. Buck $15

    For the Kiddies

    Furqan’s First Flat Top, El primer corte de mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo $15.95

    Other Stuff

    Baphomet Babe sticker by Corinne Halbert $3