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Zines

2 Public Collectors/Half Letter Press Titles! CB Radio Postcard People $7, Johnnie Anderson's Botany and Zoology Drawings $13

Draculas Dumpster #3 Wild World of Color $9.75

Zines by by S. Hansen: Staying Resilient As a Working Artist: Advice From the Field $4, Tools at the Queer Press $4, Average Person to Zinester Pipeline: The Seven Phases I Passed Through to Become a Zinester in Just a Year $5 & more.

zines by Yhasmin: YHVSM #1 & #2 $5 each, Body $8

Friday Aug 2nd $3

One Skate Beyond #1 Chicago Edition by Buster Wawrzaszek $3

Sk8 Movie Watchlist by Johnny Misfit $2

Klaus-o-graphic issues #6 & #8 by K. Klaus $2

Thirteen Facts, multiple issues, $2 each about topics like Dracula, Vampira, Vincent Price & more.

Rate of Decay #10 $2

Zines by Karina Hagelin: Femme Filth #5 $10, What is Suicide Prevention? Or How to Create a World Worth Living In $6

Why Do Honeybees Kill if It Kills Them? Reflections on Evolutionary Selection for the Instinct to Self Destruct by Dalia Silverstein $6

1438 #2 Midwest Jungle, Techno and Rave Culture by Ripe Productions and Aria Pedraz $15

Better Homes and Dykes vol 1 #4 by Elli and S. $20

Comics

I Hope This Finds You #15 Diary Comics by Kevin Budnik $6

Shadow Banshee Periodical #1 Pontificating Amongst Nature by Nadia Stodder $7

Whoopsie Doodle - Short Comics by Kat Tuesday $10

Gallant Valor #1 by Dylan Sparks $20

Graphic Novels

OUT LATER THIS WEEK! Acme Novelty Datebook vol 3 by Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly) $49.95

Brian Blomerth's Lilly Wave: Visual Biography of the Infamous Ketamine Researcher John C. Lilly $35

Kids Are Still Weird and More: Observations From Parenthood by Jeffrey Brown $9.99

My Time Machine by Carol Lay (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Longboxes by Nate McDonough $20

Parasyte vol 8 Full Color Collection by Hitoshi Iwaaki $19.99

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: High Times and Misdemeanors by Gilbert Shelton & Dave Sheridan (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Jessica Farm by Josh Simmons (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Art Books

Profane Creations: The Metal Art of Mark Rudolph $49.99

Politics & Revolution Books

Palestine in a World on Fire: A Global Conversation by Katherine Natanel & Ilan Pappé (Haymarket Books) $17.95

Music Books

Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival by Mark Guarino $20

The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando Jr. $30

Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore $20

In Defense of Ska: Expanded 2nd Edition by Aaron Carnes $24.95

Fiction

Gigantvm Penisivm: A Tale of Demonic Possession by Jose Elvin Bueno $18.95

Chap Books & Lit Journals

I Almost Had It by Sophie Potocsnak $6

Sinister Wisdom #134 $16

Chicago Review vol 67 #2-#4 $24.99

Sexxxy

Drawings of Rainier Flores Side B (Rainstrike Comics) $5

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Five Things From the Archive

I was looking for something and poking around in our archives (or perhaps I should say "archives" since it's really just boxes, shelves and file cabinets bursting with ephemera) and fell upon some real fun stuff. Quimby's has such a rich legacy of weirdness and a lot of folks have come through here, either as employees, consignors, shoppers, event performers or friends. Here's a few choice things I pulled for you today.   Shoplifters will be damned to hell. Who made this sign? …

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Zine Club Chicago: Food Zines Edition with Sarah Becan, Nov 23rd

Zine Club Chicago: Food Zines Edition with Sarah Becan Sat, November 23rd, 3pm In-Person Event! Quimby's Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave What better way to celebrate a season of harvest with an artist who draws food? Chicago-based superstar Sarah Becan has been on the scene for years, and we've always been fans of her work. We invited her to Quimby's to talk about her culinary comics that she's done, spanning from from mini-comics and webcomics, through restaurant work to publishing. …

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