Monthly Archive for June, 2025

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New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

Uncertainty Principle #1 by Charlie Danoff $5

Ad-Blockr by Ray Black $5

Ground Up by Margaretha Singleton $5

From the Interference Archive/Josh MacPhee:
Pound the Pavement #36 Transit Type $20
Pound the Pavement #38 House Fighters $8

Comics

If I Had Known…They Would Rob Your Grave This Is What I Would Have Done by Lillie J. Harris $10

Art Books

Comfort of Home: The Freedom of Flight by Max Kauffman $20

Pictures and Words by Rupert Goldsworthy and Mark Stewart $10

Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art by Rian Hughes (Korero Books) $49.99

Politics & Revolution Books

The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis by Gregory Royal Pratt $18.99

Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke by Leigh Claire La Berge $25.95

Music Books

Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World by Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn $30

Radio Birdman: Retaliate First – How One Band Smashed the Rules of Australian Rock n Roll by Murray Engleheart $19.99

On the Records: Notes From the Vinyl Revival by Graham Sharpe $32.99

Labelled With Love: A History of the World In Your Record Collection by Andy Bollen $31.99

Punk Rock In Comics by Nicolas Finet and Thierry Lamy $27.99

Mayhem & Outer Limits Book

Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II Including Sacco and Vanzetti, Black Dahlia, Lovers Lane and Famous Players by Rick Geary $24.99

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell $19.99

Fiction Books

City Beneath Her by Beth Hahn $20.95

From the British Library Tales of the Weird Series, $16.99 each: Deadly Dolls – Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings edited by Elizabeth Dearnley, Human Chord by Algerian Blackwood, Doomed Romances – Strange Tales of Uncanny Love edited by Joanne Ella Parsons, Out of the Past – Tales of Haunting History edited by Aaron Worth, Fear In the Blood – Tales From the Dark Lineages of the Weird edited by Mike Ashley

Add This to the List of Things That You Are: Stories by Chris Fink $16.95

Sexxxy

Pride of Luchadores by Rainier Flores (Rainstrike Comics) $5

Quimby’s Co-Sponsors Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE), at The Irish American Heritage Center, 6/28 + 6/29

Jun
28
11:00 am

Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE), a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers.

Featuring Special Guests!: Angie Hewitt, Caroline Hu, Geneva Bowers, Koreangry, Malachi Ward, Max Huffman

CAKE 2025

Saturday, June 28, 11:00 – 6:00 PM
Sunday, June 29, 11:00 – 5:00 PM

at The Irish American Heritage Center (not at Quimbys!)
4626 N. Knox Ave.
Chicago, IL 60630

Masks strongly encouraged.

More info at cakechicago.com

flyer by former Quimby’s employee Mike Centeno!