Afterparty: A Novella by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Sonnenzimmer) $15.00 – In the not-too-distant future, a full third of the US population will have autoimmune disorders—horrible, vindictive diseases that needlessly attack separate systems of the body and cause pain, disfiguration, and eventually death for many sufferers. They also presage a genetic mutation, however, that allows a segment of the world’s current inhabitants to survive the Überflu of 2017, a rapidly mutating virus now at work overcoming eradication by your soaps and detergents, antibiotics, and high-end medicines. Science calls it the bacterial apocalypse, and when the world as we know it comes to an end, only the sick will survive in a deeply flawed utopia. Written by journalist, artist and Quimby’s ally Anne Elizabeth Moore. Published by another Quimby’s ally, Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi at Chicago print studio Sonnenzimmer.
Other Nick Butcher titles from Sonnenzimmer:
Banana in Public $25.00
I’m the Only Stranger That I Know Still Lifes from the Animated Short $25.00
Simultaneous Sonnenzimmer Seripop $20.00
Chicago USA $15.00
*ZINES*
zines by Carrie Mercer:
Bookstore Thief #3 $3.00
Migraineur $3.00
Judas Goat Quarterly #68 Win 15 $1.50
Safe Home by Sarah Rose $2.50
Completely Ridiculous by Woodie Borre $3.00
August Nation #1 by August Bernadicou $3.25
Last Slice #1 $1.00 and Last Slice #2 by Stan Zenkov $5.00 – Creepy and provocative drawings that are reminiscent of German Expressionism. When you’re stalked by naked ladies with knives, bear people and the Grim Reaper, you better enjoy that last slice of pizza before you die. -CH
*COMICS & MINIS*
Mineshaft #32 Win 16 by Everett Rand & friends $9.00 – Anthological comic with beautiful front cover by Christoph Mueller. Plus work from: R. Crumb, Bill Griffith, Mary Fleener, Laure Boin, David Collier, Christoph Mueller, J.D. Wilkes, John Broadley, Frank Stack, Fly, Robert Armstrong, Aaron Lange, Karl Stevens, Pat Moriarity, Fiona Smyth, Noah Van Sciver, Aleksandar Zograf, William Crook Jr., & Jay Lynch!
Mean Girls Club by Ryan Heshka (Nobrow) $5.95
Remarkable Wizard Flipbook by John Maggie $6.00
El Mano #1 Versus Sasquatch Bandidos by Kirt Burdick $5.00
Aliens Who Are Heros #1 by William Dekoker $6.00
You Don’t Get There From Here #35 & #36 by Carrie McNinch $3.00 each
Magma Dynamic Conflagration #10 $20.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS*
A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano (Vertical) $18.95
Bernie by Ted Rall (Seven Stories) $16.95
SWORDS OF GLASS by Sylviane Corgiat &Laura Zuccheri (Humanoids Publishing) $19.95
*ART & DESIGN*
Street Scenes by Guy Colwell (Fantagraphics Underground) $35.00 – Guy Colwell, the seminal underground cartoonist who created Inner City Romance, has been constructing social realist pen and ink drawings for nearly half a century. Street Scenes collects his most moving drawings focusing on both the vile decay and inspirational vibrancy of city life in a series of 36 stand-alone plates. Each portfolio is signed and numbered.
Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter by Derek Van Gieson (Fantagraphics Underground) $30.00 – Part fine-art book, part travelogue documenting the author’s turbulent and fruitful period of time spent in New York City. Through drawings, paintings, photography, and short fiction, Van Gieson delivers an intense experience wrought with heartbreak, joy, destruction, perseverance, and whimsy. Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter echoes influences of seminal artists like George Grosz and Richard Brautigan through its unique ability to entertain and engross.
Ink Nymphs Los Angeles by Nelson Blanton (Schiffer) $34.99
Bombshell: The Pin-Up Art of John Gladman (Schiffer) $34.99 – Modern flair mixed with vintage themes honoring the classic era of the mid-twentieth century.
*FICTION*
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
This Census-Taker by China Mieville $24.00
Deep Sea Divers Syndrome by Serge Brussolo $24.95
Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce $16.00
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas $17.00
Mistress Bunny by Michael Penkas $15.00
American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis $24.00
*ESSAYS*
Art Of Neil Gaiman: The Story of a Writer by Haley Campbell $19.99 – With Handwritten Notes, Drawings, Manuscripts & Personal Photographs.
*MUSIC-RELATED BOOKS*
Heavy: A Memoir of Wyoming, Bmx, Drugs, and Heavy Fucking Music by J. J. Anselmi (Barnacle Books) $15.95 – In twenty heavy chapters, this book chronicles Anselmi’s experiences growing up as a straight edge, BMX-riding metal head in Rock Springs, Wyoming, a place with one of the highest per capita suicide rates in the United States. His grandpa was a well-known businessman and politician in the area, and was featured in a 1977 60 Minutes episode for his alleged connections to organized crime. This is only the beginning of Anselmi’s heavy saga, and it interweaves all of the social and personal history one might expect from a story like this—including Black Sabbath, Pantera, and Metallica logo tattoos, explorations in LSD, metal and BMX culture, self-loathing and sobriety, and—finally—a very unique perspective on what it means to live in a heavy fucking world.
*FOOD BOOKS*
The Mocktail Manual: Over 90 Delicious Non-Alcoholic Drinks by Fern Green $15.95
*MAGAZINES*
Bust #97 Feb Mar 2016 $5.99
Juxtapoz #181 Feb 2016 $6.99
Uppercase #28 For the Creative and Curious $18.00
RFD #164 Win 2015/2016 $9.95
Frankie #68 $14.95
Spaces by Frankie Magazine #3 $28.99
Moire issues #1-#3 $10.00 each
Majestic Disorder #6 $18.99
Black Flash vol 33 #1 $8.00
Dissent Win 16 $10.00
Shindig #52 Zombies $12.99
Make vol 49 $9.99
Grunge n Art #4 Out of Control Contrast Between Elegance and Grunge $21.95 – Yes, this is a thing.
Four and Sons #4 Down $19.99 – Fashion and dogs. Not as fashion FOR dogs but fashion AND dogs.
Rock A Rolla #57 Oct Nov 15 $9.95
*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
Make #16 Archive: The Value of Whats Forgotten Win 15 16 $12.00 – Stories, poems, essays, conversations and visual art oriented around concepts of memory, preservation, photo negatives and negative hands, disappearing/reappearing faces, letters sent and never received, lost and recovered traces; in short, the archive (or its simulacrum).
Heck #1 $10.00
Notes on Young by Allison Shyer $10.00
The Iowa Review vol 45 #3 Win 2015/2016 $8.95
Midwestern Gothic #20 Win 16 $12.00
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis and Frank Barat (Haymarket) $15.95
*TRAVEL*
Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan $16.95
*SEXY*
Penthouse Variations on Kink by Penthouse Variations (Cleis) $15.95 – As in tales of couple-friendly kink from the magazine Penthouse Variations.
Carnal Anomaly: Transhuman Form and Flesh by Maxwell Lander (ThreeL Media) $35.00 – What if the human body were an artifice, an artifact, or a tool? With the aid of dramatic lighting, striking contrasts of color, and provocative poses, these brilliant color photographs re-envision the human body through stunning portrayals of fetish, BDSM, and body modification.
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