We sure do love sweets! CAKE is next weekend! Opening night event here at Quimby’s Fri 6/9 with Gabrielle Bell, Emil Ferris, Lucy Knisley and C. Spike Trotman, tabling exhibition Sat 6/10 and Sun 6/11 at the Center on Halsted. More info at cakechicago.com. CAKE window, by Corinne Halbert.

new stuff this week!:

*ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS*

Dum Ditty Dum #1 Oct 28 1977 & #2 March 24 1987, $5.00 each – Rando dates picked — musical history of those dates elaborated.

Books Kill Buildings Internet Capital Selves by Other Forms $5.00

Would be Saboteurs Take Heed #3 by Audrey Chan $8.00

Dope by Adam Gondek $12.00

Other Side of White Walls: A Collaborative Zine by Paige Landesberg & friends $8.00

Pool Zine by Rohan McDonald $15.00 – Human essence scattered into fractals of matter. Moving apart, separating, convulsing, only to join back together again. Can you lift the block from the bottom of the pool? ~CH

Countersignals vol 1 Militant Print Counter signals by Jack H. Fischer $15.00

*COMICS*

Trash Babies by Steffany Bankenbusch, Robin Franklin and Michelle Wanhala $6.00 – A spunky girl finds a mystical slice of pizza and befriends an even pluckier opossum. Join them on their trash alley adventures! ~CH

Excerps by Logan Kruidenier $8.00

Fae Archaic #6 Two Fold Preview by Kurt Burdick $4.00

Window UFO by Alex Ross Williams $8.00

2 Kriota Willberg comics:
At Least We Have Our Health: Gag Cartoons About Science History and Bioethics $4.00
Anatomical Triangles of the Neck: A Selection of Love Stories $3.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours by Alex Nall $12.00 – CZF organizer’s graphic novel about Mister Rogers!

The Casebook of Rabbit Black vol 1 by Kate Sherron $14.99

LOST ANGELS: Volume One: Paradise High by Chris Anderson and Dan Panosian $19.99

Bitch Planet Volume 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick & friends

Canopy by Karine Bernadou (Retrofit) $15.00

Sound of Snow Falling by Maggie Umber (2dcloud) $22.95 – A paint and paper documentary, observing great horned owls in their natural habitat.

Lennon: The New York Years by David Foenkinos, Corbeyran and Horne

*ART & DESIGN*

Planet of the Apes: The Original Topps Trading Card Series by by The Topps Company & Gary Gerani $24.95

Muhammad Ali: The Greatest Coloring Book of All Time, ed. by Darius James (Feral House) $15.95

Fantasy Babes: A Gamer Glam Coloring Book by Sephanie A. Quinn $7.99

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Demagoguery and Democracy by Patricia Roberts-Miller $9.95

*OUTER LIMITS*

Alien World Order: The Reptilian Plan to Divide and Conquer the Human Race by Len Kasten $18.00

Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang by Max Décharné $26.95

*MAGAZINES*

Razorcake #98 Mikey Erg $4.00

Maximumrocknroll #409 Jun 17 $4.99

GLQ vol 23 #3 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 2017 $12.00

Record Collector #5 Serious About Music: 1967 the Year Rock Freaked Out $11.50

The Big Takeover #80 $5.99

Murder Most Foul #104 Worlds Number One True Crime Quarterly $10.99

Monocle #104 Jun 17 Boop Boop $12.00

Transformation #101 Aubrey Kate Triple Threat $12.50

TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly vol 4 #2 May 2017 $12.00

Juxtapoz #198 Jul 17 $6.99

Cinema Retro vol 13 #38 2017 $11.99

Wired UK Jun 17 $7.99

New Noise Magazine #32 Flatliners $4.99

Maegu #1 $24.99

True Crime Detective Monthly May 17 $9.99

*OTHER STUFF*

Blank Books made by Josh Doster, various prices!

New stuff! #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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*ZINES*

New Keith Herzik zines $4-$5:
Dudes Little Dudes 2016
Whiz Paddle
Alamo Igloo #29 2017

How to Not Give Up by Mary Marge Locker $1.00

Soda Killers #14 $5.00

Hot Tag #1-#3 by Dan Nelson $3.00

You Are What You Eat by Emeline Mele $10.00

Fabulous Fat Femme Coloring Book by Bianca Alba $12.00

Windows by Philip Tomaru $10.00

Pain You Can Choose by Woodie Borre $5.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

We Are Not Alone Beings and Creatures from Somewhere Else by Brett Manning $20.00

Soft Reset by Kaitlin Kostus $5.00

Kitty’s Guide to Chicago Coffee #2 by Patrick Cheng $2.00

comics by Liz Walker:
Things That Make Me Anxious $2.00
Why Narwhals Make Great Pets $2.00
2016 the Best and the Worst of Each Damn Week $6.00

comics by by Tedd Anderson, $2.00 each:
How to Draw Your Sadness
Gracious People You Feel and It’s OK
Sundial Awhile
various issues of both Campaign Slogans & Little Monsters

Bath Manager #2 by Morgan Vessel $3.00

One Alien Featuring Niall Horan by Paloma Hayes Bohanan $5.00

comics by Rosalarian:
Dirty Deeds $6.00
You Do Something to Me $5.00
Object of Affection: A Sexy Retelling of the Pygmalion Myth $4.00
Change of Plans $4.00
Moral Dilemma $5.00
& more!

Tweak by Veronica Englund $5.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Sunburning by Keiler Roberts (Koyama) $12.00

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Graphic Medicine) by MK Czerwiec $29.95 – Don’t miss Nurse-cartoonist MK Czerwiec reading from Taking Turns at Quimby’s on May 25th! More info here.

Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized) $25.95 – See the artist here at Quimby’s on the Friday night of CAKE!

C. Spike Trotman books:
Yes, Roya, illustrated by Emilee Denich $15.00 – BDSM erotic graphic novel created by and for women, featuring a three-way femdom relationship.
Smut Peddler Presents: My Monster Boyfriend, ed. by C. Spike Trotman (Iron Circus) $30.00 – Ten tales of fantastic fornication, written and illustrated by some of the most talented women in comics.
& more! See the artist here at Quimby’s on the Friday night of CAKE!

Boundless by Jillian Tamaki (D&Q) $24.95 – Don’t miss Jillian Tamaki here at Quimby’s on June 23rd to celebrate the release of this exquisite book about a weirdo “mirror” Facebook, in conversation with artist Jessica Campbell. More info here!

Resurrection Perverts: Hunters Point by Danny Hellman (Dirty Danny Press) $15.99 – In a near-future world porn publisher Harry Homburg clings to the hope that exclusive photos of a US President caught in flagrante delicto will save his crumbling business. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans for him. He will travel beyond the boundaries of our world, to a strange place where the rules of existence are subject to the whims of unseen entities. This biting social satire is presented in vivid full color, one scene per page, like a series of smartphone screens.

Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi $16.99

*ART & DESIGN*

The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett $35.00

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics by Sean Wilentz $16.95

Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence by Melvin Goodman (City Lights) $19.95

*ESSAYS*

2 Chuck Klosterman titles:
X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century $27.00
But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past $16.00 – Now in soft cover.

*FICTION*

Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country: And Other Stories by Chavisa Woods $23.95

Arrows by Erica Schreiner and Nyssa Frank $15.00

*MUSIC-RELATED BOOK*

Mutant Rocker: The Art of Randy Biscuit Turner vol 1 by David Ensminger $11.00 – Work by the lead singer for the Austin punk band Big Boys.

*MAGAZINES*

Tape Op #119 ay Jun 17 $4.95

Palmss #2 $20.00

Monocle #103 May 17 Where Can I Call Home $12.00

Shindig #66 The Creation $12.99

Make vol 57 Jun Jul 17 All Hands on Boards $9.99

Jacobin #25 Spr 17 $12.95

Fader #109 May Jun 17 $6.99

National Green Pages 2017 $9.95

Horror Hound #65 May Jun 17 $6.99

Cherry Bombe #9 $20.00

Girls and Corpses vol 11 Spr 17 $8.95

*CHAP BOOKS*

Overtime: Hour 44 Ropes and Ladders by William Hart $2.00

Submerging by Brett Essler & friends $4.00