New Stuff This Week

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Zines

More new issues of Says Who from Steven at Quimby’s NYC!

Fan Fiction: A Satire by Tavi Gevinson (Heavy Manners Library) $15

8-Track Mind #106: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes by Russ Forster $5

Anxious Critters #2 by Alex O’Keefe (DnA Artists) $7

Knockoff Nancy by Tony Recktenwald $3

Basic Paper Airplane #15 Zines That Never Existed $5

Digging #19 A Memoir Zine by Rachel Lee Carman $7

In the Driver’s Seat by Adel Souto $8

From Pleasure Pie, $2 each: How to Make a Menstrual Starter Kit, Sustainable Alternatives for Pads and Tampons, Crymax, A Few Things Everyone Should Know About Sex & more.

ANOTHER – various issues by Grace Li $2 each

New titles from April Malig: Moon Sparkle Flower #1 $12, Annoying Baby Dictator and his Hot Gay Bodyguard: Not Really A Patalliro Fanzine $7 & more.

Zines by Tanya Brassie, $15 each: Data Centers, Toxic Lagoons: American’s Superfund Sites – Southern Edition & more.

Book of Exes by Shaun Levin $24.99

Comics

China Julianne’s Travel Sketchbook $10

Stripburger issues #82-84 $12 each

Grahic Novels

Ultra Heaven vol 1 by Keiichi Koike (Last Gasp) $24.95

Comics by Herbie Henderson:
Fat #1-7 Collectors Edition $3.99
Fat #8 $1.99
Fat Annual #1 Jul 24
Bigfoot #1 (with Nikki Giovaccini) $1
Herbie Inc Annual #3 $3.99

DIY Books

Unfuck Your Parenting: How to Raise Feminist, Compassionate, Responsible, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids by Bonnie Scott, Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $17.95

An Urban Field Guide to the Plants, Trees, and Herbs in Your Path by Maggie Herskovits (Microcosm) $14.99

Our Sacred Cycle: A Workbook to Reclaim Your Period from PMS and PMDD by Mary McDonald (Microcosm) $16.99

Music Books

Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers $19.99

Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995 (Last Gasp) edited by Anna Brown $39.95

Fiction

Poor Deer: A Novel by Claire Oshetsky $16.99

Magazines

RFD #200 $11.95

Chap Books

Supersede by Daniel Johnson $5

Gifts for the Music Obsessed

Published on December 15, 2024 0 Comments

What does the Red Devil Lady have in her red-hot little hands? Wicker Park’s most wicked rock chick is showing off some of my personal gift recommendations for folks who are as music obsessed as I am.

In between shows, I love to delve into thoughtful music writing. We’ve got quite a few titles in the shop right now from the stellar and wide-ranging 33 1/3 series, including fresh releases about the Kate Bush album Hounds of Love and Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen. Questlove’s intimate take on how Hip Hop is History is a must-read not only for fans of the genre, but anyone interested in the fascinating ways that music and popular culture build off each other like a pair of spinning turntables.

You can find deep dives of all kinds in our music zines section, too. Here at the Q, we rejoiced when fabled music publication CREEM returned to the scene. We’ve got the two most recent issues of this substantial mag in stock right now. One of the zines I’ve been giving to friends is Forgotten Music Masters Volume 1, a hilarious illustrated history by Chris Auman and Deron Grams. (Check out Used Records and Tapes, the awesome collab zine series that Chris edits, as well!) I’m also really into Lennon McCrea’s monthly perzine-style album review zine, Stacks.

And if your favorite music fanatic likes to wear their impeccable taste on their sleeve (or battle vest or car bumper), we’ve got patches, pins, and stickers galore. I’ve snapped up these particular pieces of flare that pay homage to the Replacements (pin by World Famous Original), my fellow goth ghouls (sticker by local comedian Winslow Dumaine), and the Cure (patch by Neoshiki) as gifts for myself. After all, Robert Smith is my Santa Claus this year.

— C.E. @zineclubchicago

 

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 14, 2024 0 Comments

 

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Zines & Comics

New issues (and restocks) of Says Who from Steven at Quimby’s NYC! $2 each: Octavia Butler, Genesis P Orridge, Steve Albini & more.

From Small Sword Press: Dumbass #1 by Jenn Woodall $2, Guardian Force September 2024 by Kai Lumbang $5, DNA Fireboat by Jon Inaki $7

Reluctant Sadist #8 by Hal Weaver $4

Trickfilm issues #5 & #6 by Charles Brubaker $5 each

No Ordinary Love November 2024 – Wiggle Bird Mailing Club #74 by Kendall Hennessy $10

Hotties on Potties Club by Bianca Brandolino $8

Head Clog #2 by Dan $5

Westside Review Issue #0 Fall 2024 $7

King Bourbon #4 by Steve Gentry $5

Smells Like a Summer Wad by Dean Rank $4

Here’s to the Land: The NC State Toast Fanzine by Erin J. Watson $6

Zines from by Lil Pistons: Smother the Earth – A Snailmate Fanzine, From the Beginning: LGBTQIA+ Building These United States – Military Edition & more.

I Wish I Told You How Much I Miss You by Atlas Sturrock $7

Bottlecaps and Breadcrumbs by Travis Head $10

Homocats Join the Party by J Morrison $15

Images #9 by Lester Bateman $6.15

Graphic Novels

Macanudo: The Way of the Penguin by Liniers (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria & Warren Pleece (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Lauren Ipsum Under Cover by Charles Brubaker (Small Bug Press) $10.99

DIY

An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping edited by Erin Segal, Chris Hoff and Julie Cho (Thick Press) $35

Outer Limits & Mayhem Books

Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown: Jellyboy’s Sideshow Saga, by Eric Broomfield (Outside Talker Press) $24.95

The Rise and Fall of the Sideshow Geek: Snake Eaters, Human Ostriches, & Other Extreme Entertainments by Nathan Wakefield (Outside Talker Press) $24.95

Music Books

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers $35

Fiction

Yr Dead by Sam Sax (McSweeney’s) $26

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix $18

Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt edited by Samantha Rose Hill $26.99

Txt Me Back Okay $2

I Forgot #2 $2

New Note $2

Naked is Normal #1 by Nude Studio $24

Squirrel Haiku Zine: The Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition $5

Moss Piglet December 2024 $15

Big news About Quimby’s!

Published on December 10, 2024 0 Comments

We’ve got some major news to tell you about the future of the store. More information here at Block Club Chicago.

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 7, 2024 0 Comments

 

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Zines

new zines by Jolie Ruin: Slutcake #19 Oct 24 $2, Escapist Artist #74 The Year 2004 $3.50

Things People Said to Me This Year by Echo the Human $1

Swallow Me Whole #1 by Vani $7

Fiji Mermaid – A Monster That Crept Into Our Museums by Allison C. Meier $10

Sideshow Gazette #1 by Outside Talker Press $7.50

How to Be a Sideshow Geek: An Illustrated Guide $7.50

Calm Before the Storm: A Sideshow Tease Featuring Jellyboy the Clown $7.50

On the Shedim by Anastasia (Stormbringer Press) $6

Zines by by Lily Patterson: Baby’s First Zine $4, Spooky Silly Comics for Weirdos Like You $3.50, Signburbia Signs for End Times $6

Comics

You Don’t Get There From Here #66 Diary Comics by Carrie McNinch $4

Freaky #11 This One Goes Up to Eleven edited by Andrew Goldfarb/The Slow Poisoner $5

Ding by Evangeline $3

Graphic Novels

Monday: An Apocryphal Comic Book by Andy Hartzell $29.99

Buzzelli Collected Works vol 3: The Revolt Of The Wretched by Guido Buzzelli $34.99

In the City Part 3 by Karl Christian Krumpholz $16

Art Books

Good Dogs: Canine Companions in Art and Illustration (Victionary) $45

Politics & Revolution Books

A Livable Future is Possible: Confronting the Threats to Our Survival by Noam Chomsky & C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket) $19.95

Music & Film Books

Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl by Jonathan Scott $18

The Monstrous Feminine (Harpy House Press) $20

Essay Books

Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer by Jesper Juul $30

Fiction Books

Dead Girls Don’t Dream by Nino Cipri $19.99

The Case of the Unauthorized Release of Lost Souls by Galicia Midwest $8.99

Poetry

KUMI: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani (Akashic) $36.95

Leaves of Grass: Two Volume Deluxe Collectable Edition Featuring 300 Pages of Writing, Notes, and Ephemera by Walt Whitman, edited by Jesse Nathan (McSweeney’s) $92