New Stuff This Week

Published on January 13, 2018 0 Comments

The F***ing History of Swearing by Anna Maria Kiosse (Bis) $22.50 – Stylish, beautifully illustrated book recounts the complete history of swearing, detailing extraordinary and interesting information on this beautifully offensive topic.

Zines

Dry Spells by Veronica Graham by VA Graham $15

Living Southerners #6 by J Wu $3

Delta Dawn #1 by Erin Quinlan $3.25

Ugly Girl Gang #4 by Tuesday Bassen $10

Lost Cat Please Call Me $8

Comics & Minis

Forever and Everything #2 by Kyle $7

Grixly #42 Lil Puppy Dog by Nate McDonough $2

Lighthouse by Rohan McDonald $12

Super Old School Trolls vol 3 by Ben Marcus & friends $13

Ashcan Arcana: An Illustrated Essay on Working In the Service Industry and Living in America…by Jason Lee $5

Wolverton Thief of Impossible Objects by Michael Stark & friends $4.99

Tales From the Hyperverse by William Cardini (Retrofit) $8

Worms With Eyes and a Mouth #1 by Jarad Solomon $5

Graphic Novels

Today Will be Better by David Alvarado $10

Someone More Powerful by Rohan McDonald $20

Politics, Revolution & Current Events

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (City Lights Open Media) $16.95

New Territory #5 Brave New World $15

The Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff $30

Fiction

Infinite Future: A Novel by Tim Wirkus $28

Timing the Infinite by Nathaniel Schmeling $15

Afterlives: A Novel by Thomas Pierce $27

Palaces by Simon Jacobs (Two Dollar Radio) $15.99

Recipe for Hate (The X Gang) by Warren Kinsella $14.99 – Coming of age novel by bass player from SFH and editor of the blog The War Room.

Humor

Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher’s Guide to Relationships by Julia Edelman, illustrations by Hallie Bateman $12.95 – What would Kant’s sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder?

Food

Chocolatology: Chocolate’s Fantastical Lore, Bittersweet History, & Delicious (Vegan) Recipes by Darin Wick & Angel York, illustrations by Cat Callaway (Microcosm) $16.95

Sexxxy

Elska #15 Bogota Colombia $18.50

Big Girls by Dan Dandrea $2 – 50 Foot woman erotica comic!

Mags
Reflekt Style Anthology #15 Realness $13
Pine Magazine #2 Love $24
Uppercase #36 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $18
Wire #407 $10.99
Fortean Times Jan 2018 $12.50
Man About Town #21 $29.99
True Detective Jan 2018 $9.99

Lit Journals & Chap Books

Sinister Wisdom #107 A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal by JP Howard & friends $14

Bring Back Myspace by Elyse Fischground $4

The Chicago Review vol 60 #4 $15

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New Stuff This Week

Published on January 6, 2018 0 Comments

Lunch time! #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt $16.95

ZINES

Xerography Debt #42: The Review Zine With Perzine Tendencies by Davida Breier & friends $4 – By zinesters for zinesters! And those with zine interests!

Owning the Means of Production: Pocket Lessons for Your Own Worker Co-op! by Allen Killian-Moore $6 – If you are interested in starting a worker-cooperative, the blue-prints are laid out here by the creator of Jefferson People’s House.

“A” is for Aspergers: A Personal Glossary of a Spectrumy Life by Partly Robot $3

To Ruin & Redeem: How To Build a Constructive Mindset in Prison by Justin M. Curtis $4

A Friendly Felon’s Guide to Life After a Felony by Aza Enigma $4

Ghost Glove Effect at the Spidecky Roadhouse by Sam Weiss $8

Purplizer by John Cates $20

Moment In Time: A Photozine Calendar by Nick Acosta New Morality Zine $12

COMICS & MINIS

So Much to Do by Will Hockstein $5

Grid #1 & #2 by Kelsey Short $5 each

Floor Troll by MS Harkness $4 – Hilarious auto-bio account about being the owner of a particularly grumpy purebred Persian Cat. ~CH

Go Fuck Myself Part 2 The Fuckening by Mke Freiheit $6

Garbage Can Faerie by Wure (Bred Press) $10 – Crude digital drawings of an adorable and mischievous kewpie baby who is soaking wet and has messy hair. ~CH

GRAPHIC NOVELS

R. Crumb: Bible of Filth $35 – Originally published in France in 1986, the first edition of this book was never distributed in the states, because it was too dirty. This revised and expanded English edition has an added 100+ pages including work since the original. Printed to look like a bible, bound in leather, with gold debossing and edging.

Prize Fighter by MS Harkness $13 – A collection of the mini comics by Harkness from May 2015, August 2015, and October 2015.

The Battle of Churubusco: American Rebels in the Mexican-American War by Andrea Ferraris (Fantagraphics) $22.99 – A soldier under fire faces a crisis of conscience in this remarkable work of historical graphic fiction.

POLITICS, REVOLUTION & RESISTANCE

Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up by Interference Archive $15

ART & DESIGN BOOKS

The Propaganda Front: Postcards From the Era of World Wars by Anna Jozefacka, Lynda Klich, Juliana Kreinik & Benjamin Weiss $45 – Persuasion on a postcard: propaganda from all sides of the 20th century’s world wars. The more than 350 cards reproduced in full color in this book advocate for political causes and celebrate war efforts on all sides of the major conflicts of their time.

ESSAYS

Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative Formalism from the Stanford Literary Lab by Franco Moretti $21.20 – Scholars used computers to map out two centuries of books and it led to witty and profound results about things like the “loudness” of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak & other nerdy but interesting points of literary scholarship.

MAGS
The Believer #117 $12
Tom Tom Magazine #32 Sex and Love $10
Flat Out Architecture Magazine issues #1 & #2 $20 each

LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
The First Line vol 19 #4 $4
The Last Line #4 $3
Rusted Radishes #6 Underground Beirut $15
Diary of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Kathryn Wlak $5
Raffish #0 $7

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New Stuff This Week

Published on December 30, 2017 0 Comments

Cold? C’mere n stand undrrrr these vents at Quimby’s! Open til 10 tonight!

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Tonight we close at 10. We also close the vents at 10.

Tomorrow (New Years Eve) we close at 5pm and will be closed on New Years Day the entire day. So will the vents.

New stuff here now!:

*ZINES*

KerBloom #129 Nov Dec 17 by Artnoose $2

Sentientmoss #1 by Mosser $15

Jean and Kate Get Busy by Jesse Harrod $10

*COMICS*

Comics by by Al “Burn Collector” Burian: Utopia: A Tribute to Jack Chick $1, Draw Yourself Drawing $8

Kutul Magazine #6 by Joos Halbertsma & friends $10

Comics Skool USA by Kevin Huizenga, various issues $5 each

Infinite Wheat Paste #3 by Pidse Carlisle $5

Frowny Frown by Aaron Novik $8

Full Moon by Rebecca Baruc $3

Comics by Crippa Almquist, $5 each: Splat, You Can Do What You Want, and more

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Now 2: The New Comics Anthology (Fantagraphics) $9.99 – Showcases a cover by painter Christian Rex Van Minnen, as well as 120 pages of all new short fiction by international talent, including: South American cartoonists Ariel Lopez V. and Fabio Zimbres; Spanish cartoonist Conxita Herrero; acclaimed cartoonist and filmmaker Dash Shaw; Canadian artist and musician Nick Thorburn (of the bands Unicorns and Islands); Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi; plus new work by Sammy Harkham (Crickets), Joshua Cotter (Skyscrapers of the Midwest, Nod Away), Graham Chaffee (Good Dog, To Have and To Hold), Anuj Strestha, Andrice Arp, Joseph Remnant, and other surprises!

Slasher by Charles Forsman (Floating World) $14.95

It Don’t Come Easy by Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy (D&Q) $22.95

Saga vol 8 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $14.99

R. CRUMB: From the Underground to GENESIS by R. Crumb $49.99 – Show catalog from The Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris retrospective exhibition, including Crumb’s comics and sketchbook drawings spanning nearly five decades.

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981 by Philip S. Foner (Haymarket) $22

*MAYHEM n OUTER LIMITS*

Psychedelia and Other Colours by Rob Chapman $24.95 – A seminal book on Psychedelia, that explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD.

*MAGS*
Hi Fructose #46 $7.95
Offscreen #18 $20
RFD #172 $11.95

 

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January Newsletter Out Now!

Published on December 29, 2017 0 Comments

 

The Quimby’s Bookstore Newsletter for January 2018 is available for viewing: Announcements, Events, New Stuff & more! Click here to see it, and don’t forget to sign up to get it in your inbox every month!

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New Stuff This Week

Published on December 23, 2017 0 Comments

Holiday Hours!
Sat 12/23: open until 10pm
Sun 12/24: noon to 7pm
12/25:  CLOSED
Sun, 12/31: noon-5pm
Mon 1/1: CLOSED

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Here’s New Stuff!

Deviant Desires: A Tour of the Erotic Edge, Incredibly Strange Sex, Expanded Edition by Katharine Gates (PowerHouse Books) $29.95 – Yale-trained gonzo anthropologist Katharine Gates has now fully updated and revised her pioneering 2000 work, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, into this expanded edition which features over a thousand illustrations (mostly in color, new for this edition), interviews from around the world, both fun and serious discussion, and even some tips and suggestions. And what a tour! Within these pages Gates proves there’s ALWAYS new information about sex and desire, because human adaptability and creativity ever combine to discover new frontiers of pleasure, whether by imagining ourselves superheroes or tiny or giants, or simply stuffing party balloons down our pants. Now with more trample and crush, cannibal play, quicksand and male pregnancy!

*ZINES*

Eat #8 by Dan Varenka $6

Learn Arabic in 25 Years #3 The Alphabet by Zora O’Neill $4

Apex Nocturne Dream Journal Entries by Brian Uhl $18

David Bowie Color Your Own Poster Set by Lauren B. $20

Bad Poetry #1 by Kayson Spinazzola $2

*COMICS & MINIS*

Devil Stole a Shooting Star by Michaela Washington $6.66

Somersault by Thayer Nicholas Granstorm Bray $15

Feels Better Here by Candice Ploy Goodman $10

Doodlr by Siu Lee $8

Wonderful World of Tank Girl #2 The Importance of Being Tank Girl $3.99

Two Rivers by Kayson Spinazzola $4

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty by Tommi Parrish (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $20 – A stunning lyrical meditation on love and family in our real life dystopian present. Featuring a small 12-page book-within-the-book, it’s a stunning collaboration between rising star Tommi Parrish and the reliably great Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane

Senses by Dr Matteo Farinella (Nobrow) $22.95

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Subversive: Interviews with Radicals By Brian Whitney (Headpress) $21.99

*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

Cafe Avatar by Sonnenzimmer (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $25 – This lovely volume presents an essay interleaved with gorgeous illustrations from writer/artist team Sonnenzimmer. The text likens humanity’s relationship to images and graphics to the use of camouflage and pattern in the natural world. Published by Perfectly Acceptable Press. -Lane

*LOCAL INTEREST*

Stories of a Chicago Police Officer by Murphy $20.99 – Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you don’t find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? It’s against rules but we can’t allow the children’s last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his hand or is that a cell phone? It’s too dark, but the call was a man with a gun! If you’re right you’re a hero. If you’re wrong you go to the morgue. These decisions are made on a daily basis if you are a Chicago Police Officer.

*MAGS*
Forecast #7 2018 $18
Tapas 2017 $30
Fortean Times Dec 2017 $12.50
Plant Based #3 $9.99
Murder Most Foul #106 $10.99
True Crime Winter Special Win 2018 $12.99
Anorak #44 $12.25
Dazed and Confused Win 2017 $12.99
Mojo Jan 18 $10.99
Harpers Jan 18 $6.99

*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*
McSweeneys #51 $26
Lady Parts #4 by Amelia Hruby $3
Brain Fever #3 Fall 17 Edited by Mike Goodman $12

*SEXXXY*

Meat #25 $22

*OTHER STUFF*

Blank journals of varying sizes, shapes, styles and colors by Red Shorts Bindery!

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