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New Stuff This Week

New stuff this week! #quimbys #quimbysbookstore #quimbysbookstorechicago #newstuff

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You Don’t Get There From Here #43 by Carrie McNinch $3.00

*ZINES*

Alamo Igloo #30 Stereo Sniffers by Keith Herzik 2017 $7.00

KerBloom #126 May Jun 17 by Artnoose $2.00

New Morality Zine #4 Bane by Nick Acosta $10.00

Sub/Verse #8 Frankie Cosmos by Chloe Graham $5.00

Jarry Magazine: A Queer Food Journal, various issues $20.00 each

Pulp Friction by Kurt Isensee $10.99 – A coloring book mash-up, combining characters from one of America’s greatest directors, with one of America’s greatest decades. Twenty 9″x12″ illustrations.

Zines by Megan Kirby:
Baby They Dont Know About Us $5.00
I Hope the Smoking Mans in This One by Megan Kirby $5.00 – The zine is out there!

Abstract Door #7 by Vicky Lim $2.00

*COMICS*

Corridors by Lane Milburn $5.00

Comics by Krystal DiFronzo:
Belly Is The Bitchery Within $10.00
Tongue Breaks by Krystal DiFronzo $14.00

Orbiting by Penina Gal $12.00

Seed by Andy Hood $5.00

GIRLS by Jenn Woodall $12.00 – Full color illustrations of badass women from a variety of backgrounds.

Fiends #3 Sum 17 by Tim Tyler $10.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

The Story of Jezebel and Her Turbulence with the Prophets of Israel by Elijah Brubaker (Uncivilized) $19.95 – The Old Testament as filtered through Comedy Central. From the author of the comic Reich.

Mirror Mirror 2, edited by Julia Gfrörer and Sean T. Collins (2dcloud) $39.95 – Annual anthology, this volume featuring Clive Barker, Simon Hanselmann, Lala Albert, Heather Benjamin & more!

Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge: A Nestor Burma Mystery by Jacques Tardi and Léo Malet (Fantagraphics) $19.99

True Swamp 2: Anywhere But In . . .by Jon Lewis (Uncivilized) $22.95 – The continuing misadventures Lenny the Frog.

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights) $14.95 – Writings, radio speeches and more from the late 1990s, pre-dating the Black Lives Matter movement. A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history.

Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak (MIT Press) $12.95 – Oh those lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their first political awakenings!

*ART & DESIGN*

Yakuza Tattoo by Andreas Johansson (Dokument Press) $34.95 – A unique insight into the full body tattoos of dragons, fish and gods that form the identity of the Japanese Mafia.

SHAG: The Collected Works by Josh “SHAG” Agle (AMMO Books) $39.95 – Midcentury modern culture! Mythical creatures! Martinis! A fairly comprehensive monograph detailing the career of one of the biggest names in lowbrow art. Includes a peek into his studio!

The Art of Writing Your Name: Urban Calligraphy and Beyond by Christian Hundertmark and Patrick Hartl $39.95 – Graffiti fanatics, hand lettering fans, street art junkies, calligraphy lovers, and type enthusiasts all have something to learn from this book.

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (AMMO Books) $39.95 – 30 contemporary queer culture artists remixing binaries with fiber craft.

*FICTION*

Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers $16.95 – Family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America. Now in soft cover!

*ESSAYS*

Being A Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Chalres Foster $16.00

Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) by David Sedaris $28.00

*MUSIC, TV & FILM BOOKS*

Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever: The Completely Ridiculous Edition by Tom Neely & Friends (Microcosm) $25.95 – Still milkin’ it! Hardcover cover collecting four serialized comics, adds even more never-before-published pages than previous collective edition. Also in stock, the Henry & Glenn Adult Activity and Coloring Book $12.95

Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999 by Amanda Reyes (Headpress) $23.95 – Telefilms made for the small screen served as an intro to horror film genres and tropes like sinister cults, women in prison, haunted houses and even animals in revolt. They were also a place to address serious contemporary issues – drugs, prostitution, sexual violence and justice. When the Movie of the Week ruled the airwaves!

Fucking Innocent: The Early Films of Wes Anderson by John Andrew Fredrick $15.95 – Specifically looking at Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tennenbaums.

Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge by Becky Aikman $28.00

*OUTER LIMITS*

The Anti-Gravity Files: A Compilation of Patents and Reports (Lost Science) by David Hatcher Childress (Adventures Unlimited) $22.00

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies $40.00 – Richly illustrated exploration of witches and magical beliefs/practices, trials, depictions, history, cinematic portrayals & more!

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert $14.95 – This reprint of Leary’s and Ram Dass’ classic celebrates the current psychedelic consciousness renaissance.

The Book of the Un: Friends of Smiley: dissertations from dystopia by Chicken John Rinaldi (Last Gasp) $25.00 – A fun dissertation that includes stories, analogies, calls to action, irreverent examples and how-to instructions of how things actually work… or don’t, from this NYC punk/SF organizer/performer.

*SEXXXY*

The Explorer’s Guide to Planet Orgasm: for every body by Annie Sprinkle PhD and Yu Dori (Greenery Press) $13.95

Elska #12 Brussels Belgium $18.50

The Twisted Adult Coloring Book by Magnus Frederiksen (Last Gasp) $12.95

*MAGAZINES*

Monocle #105 Jul Aug 17 $12.00

RFD #170 Sum 17 Helping Youth $11.95

*LIT JOURNALS*

The Chicago Review vol 60 #3 The Infrarrealistas $15.00

Holiday Hours July 4th! Closing at 5pm!

We’ll be open noon to 5pm on Tuesday, July 4th. Enjoy!

Offsite: Summer Wicker Park Book Swap at the Wicker Park Farmers Market

Jul ’17
23
9:00 am

From 8am-2pm once a month on selected Sundays! Bring a book! Leave a book! Enjoy a book! At Wicker Park, 1425 N. Damen Ave. Sunday, July 23rd, 9am-1am!

At the end of the summer, the books that remain will be donated to Open Books to aid in their continual creation and support of literacy programs in Chicago.

Here’s the Facebook event invite for it.

See you there!

We Make Zines Relaunched!

We Make Zines is helpful community for zine makers and readers that has relaunched with a wonderful updated site. Make an account, make friends, get inspired with ink on paper. Make a profile, list your zineography, post images of zines, partake in the forums, find other zine writers, read about new releases, read reviews from your favorite zine writers and leave comments about the zine you just read on the actual zinesters profile. Use it to connect, report, review and talk about new stuff. There’s even a Zine Making 101 section! Find it at wemakezines.com.

New Stuff This Week

New stuff this week! #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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*ZINES*

Butch Nor Femme #11 $2.00

Divide and Conquer or Divide and Subdivide? How Not to Refight the First International (PM Press Pamphlet Series) $5.95

Art History Coloring Books by Maddie Stratton $15.00 each

Happy Tapir #3 A Cup of Holiday Fear by Johnny Masiulewicz $3.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Strange Adventures of Bone Boy #3-#5 by Joe Haines $5.00 each

Human Cannonball by Rick Schlaack $3.00

Tales to Befuddle: A Comics Anthology $5.00

To Those in Glass Houses, Pallor Pink vol 3 Anthology $12.00

Sleeping Dog by Yewon Kwon $5.00

Grown – A Comic Strip by J. Spencer Howland $5.00

Midwestern Cuban Comics #10 by Odin Cabal $7.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS ESSAYS*

A New Low by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Collects 10+ years of transgressive cartoons originally featured in Vice magazine. Skewers Bill Cosby, Two and a Half Men, Wall Street, and so much more. Full-color!

An Apple and An Adventure by Martin Cendreda $14.99

In the Pines: Five Murder Ballads by Erik Kriek (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Zanardi by Andrea Pazienza (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – The Italian “Crumb” portrays a lost generation of late 1970s/early 1980s teenagers coping with family problems, school, sex, and drugs.

Kitaro and The Great Tanuki War by Shigeru Mizuki (D+Q) $12.95

Adventure Time Comics vol 2 by Pendleton Ward and friends $14.99

The Many Lives of Catwoman: The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale by Tim Hanley (Chicago Review Press) $18.99

Everything I Needed to Know About Life I Learned from Marvel Comics by Joe Muszynski $10.00

*ART BOOKS*

KOLORSTORM: The Art of Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro by Louie Gasparro $34.99 – “Graffantasy” from NYC-based artist and heavy metal drummer: tags, wall pieces, paintings and illustrations, model trains, jackets, and more.

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein (Haymarket) $16.95 – From No Logo and Shock Doctrine writer, about Trump as a logical extension of the most dangerous trends of the past half-century—the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say “no.” We need a credible and inspiring “yes,” a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the caring world we need.

Out of the Ruins: The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces by Robert H. Haworth and John M. Elmore (PM Press) $24.95

Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter (AK Press) $18.95

Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red, ed. by Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, and David Berry (PM Press) $26.95

Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society by Michael Albert (PM Press) $20.00

*OUTER LIMITS*

The Nebulae: Political Murder Investigators Stumble Upon the NWO’s Absolute Power by Walter J. Baeyens (Trine Day) $19.95 – Providing deep insights into the unseen but real forces that shape the course of history, this investigation exposes a cabal which controls most of the money transfers worldwide as well as the highest political authorities.

Legacy of the Yosemite Mafia: The Ranger Image and Noble Cause Corruption in the National Park Service by Paul D. Berkowitz (Trine Day) $19.95

Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume III: Espionage, Templars and Satanism in the Shadows of the Vatican by Leo Lyon Zagami (Trine Day) $17.95

*MUSIC BOOKS*

Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr $17.99 – Now in paperback!

England’s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground by David Keenan (Strange Attractor Press) $33.95 – Back in print! Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with members of the seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, England’s Hidden Reverse illuminates a shadowy but deeply influential underground scene. Together these artists and their many associates accented peculiarities of Englishness through the links and affinities they forged with earlier generations of the island’s marginals and outsiders, such as playwright Joe Orton, writers like the decadent Count Eric Stenbock, ecstatic mystic novelist Arthur Machen and occult figures like Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley.

*MAGS*

Maximumrocknroll #410 Jul 17 $4.99

Fortean Times #354 Jun 17 $12.50

Cabinet #62 Milk $12.00

Chap #92 Sum 17 $7.75 – One shalt always doff one’s cap!

Laphams Quarterly vol 10 #3 Sum 17 $18.00

XY Sex Panic Magazine #51 Sum 117 $9.99

Shock Cinema #52 $5.00

Skeptic vol 22 #2 17 $6.95

Skeptical Inquirer vol 41 #4 Jul Aug 17 $5.99

Nexus vol 24 #4 Jul Aug 17 $6.95

Harpers Magazine Jul 17 $6.99

Nostalgia Digest Sum 17 $4.50

Radical History Review #128 May 17 $14.00

Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #70 Sum 17 $5.00

Illustoria #4 Grow Issue Stories Comics and DIY $14.00

Wire #400 Jul 17 $10.99

Mojo #284 July 17 $10.99