Monthly Archive for March, 2022

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Zines

Stapled Spine #10 $5

NXOEED #2 $5

Sharp Needles Mutilate Your Lips by Luke Ipsum $5

Loving Stranger by TJ Walker $15

Comics & Minis

Bubbles #13 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga edited by Brian Baynes $8

Crickets #7 by Sammy Harkham $12

Paul Byerly’s 55th Birthday in a Comic Book by His Daughter $5

Skyline Issue #1 by Chris Resnick $7

Car Fire by Teddie Bernard $8

Midwest Gothic by Margo DeVaughn $15

Barrage by Nicolas Nade $5

Prison by Liva Kandevica $7

Beast by Danielle Chenette $8

Sixty Five Bugs by Dean Sudarsky $5

Musical Pretext for Gestural Adventure by Pia Melissa Laroche $8

Graphic Novels

Mr. Colostomy by Matthew Thurber (D+Q) $24.95

Walk Me to the Corner by Anneli Furmark (Drawn & Quarterly) $29.95

Music Books

Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century by Larry Jaffee $20

Japanthem: Counter-Cultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes by Jillian Marshall $16

Essay & Humor & Memoir

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby $28

Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito $17.99

Sicker in the Head by Judd Apatow $28.99

Sexxxy

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross $30

Magazines

Broken Pencil #94 $7.95

Tape Op #148 $5.99

Kinfolk #43 $18

Mojo #340 $11.99

Harpers Magazine april $7.99

Breathe #44 $13.99

Wire #456 $12.50

Aperture #246 $24.95

Chap Books & Lit Journals

Overtime Hour 61 Soft Places by Michael Snyder (Blue Cubicle Press) $2

The Paris Review #239 $20

Other Stuff

Office Supply-like goodness by Tuesday Bassen: Kickin’ Ass & Takin’ Notes $17.95, Two-Faced Pencils: 10 Graphite & Red Bicolored Pencils $14.95, Bad Dogs Bad Girls Erasers $12.95

RIP Shappy

Fond farewell, dear friend.

 

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Midwest Perzine Fest Online Perzine Reading on April 8!

Apr ’22
8
7:30 pm

This spring, Midwest Perzine Fest is celebrating perzines — and the friendships they help forge — with a virtual event featuring some amazing zinemakers! The Midwest Perzine Fest Online Perzine Reading will be streamed live on Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. Central Time on the MWPZF YouTube channel: tiny.cc/mwpzfyoutube

The readers for the event, who all will be sharing work on the theme of friendship, are Heather Anacker, Nichole Bael, Julie Halpern & Liz Mason, Jessie Lynn McMains, Lynne Monsoon, Red Schulte, and Alisha Walker. The evening’s moderator will be MWPZF founder Jonas.

This event is free! PayPal donations to support MWPZF (which is planning its first in-person Exhibition Day here in Chicago!) are greatly appreciated: midwestperzinefest@gmail.com

This event is sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Poster designed by our Cartoonist-in-Residence Caroline Cash.

Facebook event listing here.

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Zine Stuff

Sidewalk Surfin’ by Jamie Goodsell $15

For Myself – An Egoist Credo by Juno Huxley $5

Zines by Despy Boutris: Self-Portrait as Childhood Photos Missing $6, Poems Abt Lesbian Sex $8

The Great Chicago Fire by Mateo Lee Diaz $.10 (you saw that right, ten cents)

Books about zines, $24.99-$36.99 each: Punkzines by Eddie Piller and Steve Rowland, Modzines: Fanzine Culture Form the Mod Revival by Eddie Piller & Steve Rowland, Best of Jamming: Selections and Stories From the Fanzine that Grew Up by Tony Fletcher, Ripped and Torn 1976-1979: The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK by Tony Drayton

zines by Johnny Gamber, $5 each: Pencil Revolution #26 The Love Issue, Pen Post #7

Play With Me a Puppet Kit by Laurie Berenhaus $10

Means of Otherworldly Communication Telephone Zine by Jakob Vanlammeren $3

Comics & Minis

Ultrasound edited by Rob Schroeder & Conor Stechschulte (Secret Headquarters) $7

Soul Searching by Jade Lejack $24.99

Ghoulish Inspector vols 1-4 by Forbes Crawford Richardsons $6 each

Ghost of Pengerswick Forest by Howard Q. Prysock $5

New issues of It’s Okay to Be Sad (2021-2022) by Kevin Budnik $4-$5

Graphic Novels

My Badly Drawn Life by Gipi $22.99

Now Fantagraphics Comics Anthology vol 11 $12.99

Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse (New expanded edition) by Tom Kaczynski (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Art & Design Books

Flip the Script: Guidebook for Aspiring Vandals and Typographers by Christian P. Acker (Gingko Press) $45

Everything Must Go edited by Jason Fulford $15

Music Books

What I See: The Black Flag Photographs of Glen E. Friedman (Akashic Books) $40

From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson by Paul Morley $27.95

Scene In Between: Tripping Through the Fashions of UK Indie Music 1980-1988 updated edition by Sam Knee $29.95

Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic by John Drumbo French (Last Music Co) $24.99

Bowie Odyssey: 71 by Simon Goddard $19.99

Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone by Michael Bradley $23.99

Politics & Revolution Books

Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives by Donna Murch $18.95

Witchy Shit

The Witch’s Book of Spellcraft: A Practical Guide to Connecting with the Magick of Candles, Crystals, Plants & Herbs by Jason Mankey & friends $24.99

Psychic Skills for Magic & Witchcraft: Developing Your Spirit, Intuition & Clairvoyance $16.99

Essays

The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness by Wendy Syfret $24.95

Fiction

Black Village by Lutz Bassmann $14.95

Devil, Everywhere I Look by Gabriel Chad Boyer $11.95

Magazines

Monocle #151 $14

The Baffler #62 $14

Raw Vision #109 $16

RFD #189 $11.95

Chap Books

from Connie Boje: No Name #27, Pay the Drone

New York by Spot $5

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Zine

Sad Girl Riot – A Zine Diary #3-#5 $3 each

From Billy McCall: Behind the Zines #13 March 22 A Zine About Zines $3, Proof I Exist #38 A Year’s Worth of Movies $3, $2

Freaky 4 Farley #2 The Many Moods of Motern Quarterly – The Dark Years by Leor Galil $7

Pandemic Bird Log Finding Joy in Nature by Linda Suzu Kawano $5

Lil Buddy #2 by Alli Davis $10

Zines by Ahmd Coltrain: Zondr Daily, Welcome to Razland $15/$1

Albuquerque Graffiti #2 $3

Proof I Exist #38 by Billy McCall $2

TEXAN by Clementine Vale $10

Can We Take A Walk? Zine About Mental Health by Arden Allman $4

Sacred Pussy #1 & #2 by Howl Stephens & Ben Joffe $10 each

Guide to Zine Distros Winter 22 by Nonmachinable & Jam Doughty $3

Zines by Bianca Brandolino: Good Omens, Kintsugi by Bianca Brandolino $12 each

Invisible Eye #1 $5

Comics & Minis

Pee Pee Poo Poo #69.5 Secret Thank You Issue by Caroline Cash $2

Trouble Down South by Andrew Oh $8

Comics by H. Jones: Raccoonie, Beak Hell, Way of the World $2-$5

Comics by Lost Fillings: Over the Hill, Things to Remember When Donning PPE for Contract Droplet Isolation, $1 each

Graphic Novels

Tops: The Complete Collection of Charles Biro’s Visionary 1949 Comic Book Series edited by Michael T. Gilbert (Fantagraphics) $49.99

Memories From Limon by Edo Brenes (Nobrow) $19.99

Life of Che: An Impressionistic Biography by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Alberto Breccia & Enrique Breccia (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Animal Stories by Peter & Maria Hoey $19.99

Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington (D+Q) $29.95

Politics & Revolution

The Weight of the Stars: The Life of Anarchist Octavio Alberola by Agustín Comotto (AK Press) $22

Music Books

Bet My Soul on Rock ‘n’ Roll: Diary of a Black Punk Icon by Jean Beauvoir with John Ostrosky $27.99

Nothin’ But a Good Time: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Hair Metal by Justin Quirk (Unbound) $17.95

Essays & Stuff Like That

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk $28

White Magic by Elissa Washuta $17.95

Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner $17.99

How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain by Ryan North $28

Sexxxy

Elska #36 vols 1 & 2 Montreal $20 each

Food n Drugs

Stoner’s Delight: Space Cakes, Pot Brownies and other Tasty Cannabis Creations by Dane Noon & Lex Lucid $12.99

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Money Magic: Practical Wisdom and Empowering Rituals to Heal Your Finances by The Money Witch (Jessica Susannah Karnatz), illustrated by Broobs $19.95

Magazines

Heavy Metal #314 $13.99

Shindig #123 $13.99

Poetry

Montage Through My Eyes Book 1 by ASB $7.99

Other Stuff

Let’s Summon Demons: A Creepy Coloring and Activity Book by Steven Rhodes $12.95

Uzumaki Coloring Book: Selected Art From the Manga by Junji Ito $14.99

Ghoul Power Sticker by Allan Graves $7.50

Last Call Cats Blank Journal $10.95