New Stuff This Week

Feminist Advice From the City of Big Shoulders. Yessssss. #quimbysbookstorechicago #quimbys #chicago #feminist

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Feminist Advice From the City of Broad Shoulders ed. by Jessica Caponigro $20.00 – A collection of essays from Chicago that address feminism and equality. With Essays from Meredith Adams-Smart, Soheila Azadi, Charlene Carruthers, Jessica Caponigro, Leslie Deckard, Sarah Frier, Chiara Galimberti, Scott Hunter, Tanuja Jagernauth, Sharlene King, Stephanie Graham and Maya Mackrandilal, Jennifer Reeder, Jes Skolnik, Vanessa Sheridan, Sydney Stoudmire, Christen Thomas, Benita Ulisano, and Latham Zearfross.

*ZINES*

KerBloom #124 Jan Feb 17 by Artnoose $2.00

Double Exposures Womens March $2.00

I Think There Is a Human City Growing In My Stomach by Duncan Figurski $2.50

Good Days Gone Cold Days by Sarah LaPonte and Helen Jones $12.00

Incandescent #10 & #11 A Color Film Zine $14.00 each

Happy Tapir #2 A Summer of Five Almost Deaths by Johnny Masiulewicz $3.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Too Much Fun Too by Logan Kruidenier $10.00 – Thanks to everybody that came out for this raucous event!

Thanks, Logan Kruidenier, for a freaky time! #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago #logankruidenier #toomuchfun

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Comics by Inechi Ines Estrada Gatosaurio:
Southwest Roadtrip $6.00
Alienation #2 & #3 $10.00 each

Fae Archaic #5 To My Dear Lucifene by Kurt Burdick $4.00

Wait It Gets Worse #1 & #2 by Gideon Kendall and Doug Latino $5.00 each

Laskimooses #34 Sytykkeiden Kokoaminen $7.00

Goddamn Motherfuckers by Hans Nissen $3.00

Well #2 by Martin Kralovec $2.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Micheal Deforge (D&Q) $21.95 – Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world. Don’t miss Michael DeForge here on 3/25 with Sadie Dupuis to celebrate the release of this graphic novel with a celebratory lo-fi comics night!

Terms and Conditions by R. Sikoryak (D&Q) $14.99 – I-Tunes terms and conditions but as comics parodies. Started as a mini and is now a book. Each page features an avatar of Apple cofounder and legendary visionary Steve Jobs juxtaposed with a different classic strip such as Mort Walker’s Beatle Bailey, or a contemporary graphic novel such as Craig Thompson’s Blankets or Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Totally unauthorized. Totally hilarious.

Impatience by Inechi Ines Estrada $24.00

California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before the Mamas and the Papas by Pénélope Bagieu $24.99

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank $17.00 – From founding editor of The Baffler, about how the American Democratic Party has changed to support elitism in the form of a professional class instead of the working class.

Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era by Daniel Levitin $16.00

*FICTION*

Chicago: A Novel by Brian Doyle $16.00

Hourglass Factory: A Novel by Lucy Ribchester (Pegasus Books) $15.95 – Tomboy Frankie George is sent to interview trapeze artist Ebony Diamond, who disappears. Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks, society columnists, corset fetishists, suffragettes and circus freaks. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what goes on behind the doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory?

*OUTER LIMITS*

The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White $17.99 – The years since the financial crash have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of modern civilization will go unfulfilled. From sigil magic to working with spiritual allies, The Chaos Protocols helps you act on the unwavering belief that your life should matter and you’re not going to let something as trifling as the apocalypse get in the way of it.

Spiritual Alchemy: Scrying, Spirit Communication, and Alchemical Wisdom by Donald Tyson and Jenny Tyson $19.99

*ESSAYS*

All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O’Neill $25.00

*FOOD*

Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste by Tom Nealo $30.00 – Revolution! Gluttony! Cannibalism! The gloriously illustrated (120 full color illustrations, many from the collection of the British Library) history of food, including mythical origin stories, unusual recipes and more!

Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts by Amy Bizzarri (History Press) $21.99

*MAGAZINES*

VMan #37 Spr Sum 17 $6.95

Monocle #101 Mar 17 10th Anniversary Special $12.00

Wire #397 March 17 Aine O’Dwyer $10.99

*LIT JOURNALS*

Sheriff Nottingham’s Holiday Herald #9 vol 3 #1 Fat Tuesday $10.00

*OTHER STUFF*

Gatosaurio & friends stickers! by Ines Estrada, Heather Benjamin, Wakana Yamazaki, Koyamori, Simon Hanselmann & more $9.00 each – New and restocks! And did we mention we got some patches too? $6.00 each.

RIP Underground Comics Legend Jay Lynch

Quimby’s gives best wishes to the survivors, fans, friends and family of underground comics legend Jay Lynch, who passed away at age 72. His legacy includes such titles as Bijou Funnies, Nard ‘n’ Pat, Phoebe & the Pigeon People, Arcade, as well as illustration for Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids, but he also did illustrations for The Realist, as he reminisced about in the zine we published about Quimby’s (Ever Evolving Bastion of Freakdom: A Quimby’s Bookstore History In Words and Pictures):

“Paul Krassner, who founded The Realist in 1958, was doing a book signing in the store. I stopped by to say hello, since I did many a cartoon for The Realist in the early 60s. I saw Paul staring in awe at the shelves stacked with every “alternative” publication that exists. All of these zines in one place isn’t something that you see every day-and Krassner was nonplussed at the sight. “What have we begat?” he said to me in a concerned tone.”

Jay’s presence at signings at Quimby’s, as well as his contribution to the world of underground comics and his legacy as contributor to the origins of the store will be missed.

New Stuff This Week


S #27 Baltic Comics Magazine Jan 17 (kus) $12.00. Also, issues of Mini Kus $5.00: #47 Sutrama by Daniel Lima, #48 by Olive Booger, #49 Call Of Cthulhu by Martin Lacko and H.P. Lovecraft, #50 by Mathilde Van GheluweBrume by Amanda Baeza $18.00

*ZINES*

New Territory #4 Coexisting by Tina Casagrand $15.00

How to Quantum Leap $5.00

Surviving: Getting Through the Shit Life Throws at You by Faith G. Harper $3.00

Great and Terrible Golden Age #3 Movies of the 1930s by Emily Alden Foster $5.00

Why I Got My Breast Reduction $3.00

Okay Fine, Here’s What To Do Zine: A Guide for Post 2016 Election $2.00

Black Lives Matter: A Guide for White People Who Want to Help Dismantle White Supremacy by Spiderweb Salon $2.00

Fight Normalization $2.00

Heavy Whisper #2 by Corinne Halbert $5.00 – Illustrated vintage erotica, the second installment of Halbert’s bondage drawing zine.

Composite Internet Boyfriend by Jaime Raybin $5.00

Indestructible: Growing Up Queer, Cuban, and Punk in Miami by Cristy C. Road $9.95 – Back in print!

How To Recognize Voter Suppression by Bronwyn Mauldin $7.00

Homeworld #2 by Elora Powell $1.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Warpwish Comix #1 Very Special Inaugural Issue by Nathan Ward $5.00 – Filled to the brim with deep-space and earth-based tales of gummy-terraforming, dog-stabbing, wormhole-diving, hair-follicle-lumberjacking, junkyard-tresspassing, amateur-radio-violating, smegma-rioting, and much much more.

All Time Comics Crime Destroyer #1 by Josh Bayer, Benjamin Marra and Herb Trimpe (Fantagraphics) $4.99 – Blind Justice! Bullwhip! Crime Destroyer! Each issue of ALL TIME COMICS features a mash up of new cartoonists and classic comic book creators collaborating with writer Josh Bayer to unleash superhero stories that no other publisher would dare to publish.

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Simply Samuel by Tommi Musturi (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Next adventure of Samuel, a pale ghost-like character who wanders through a colorful world from this Finnish artist and co-founder of Huuda Huuda comics.

*ART BOOKS*

Limestone by Matt Christy $22.00

*MUSIC BOOKS*

The Prodigal Rogerson: The Tragic, Hilarious, and Possibly Apocryphal Story of Circle Jerks Bassist Roger Rogerson in the Golden Age of LA Punk, 1979-1996 (Scene History) by J. Hunter Bennett (Microcosm) $7.95

Electri_City: The Dusseldorf School of Electronic Music by Rudie Esch $27.95 – The myths and realities of the bands emerging from the artistic backdrop of a wealthy German post WWII modernistic city, and explores the emergence of the electronic scene that spawned bands like Kraftwerk, NEU!, DAF, and Die Krupps.

There Is No Substitute: A Tribute to Keith Moon by Ian Snowball $40.00

*OUTER LIMITS*

Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals by Nick Redfern (Visible Ink) $19.95

Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses by John Dvorak $27.95

Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist by Jonathan Shaw $21.95 – If truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then, as Shaw’s friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once told him, much of this book would have to be lived before it could be written.

*MAGAZINES*

The Baffler #34 Spr 17 Snare of Preparation $14.00

Juxtapoz #195 Apr 17 $6.99

Vive Le Rock #42 Punk’s Unsung Heroes $11.99

Fader #108 Mar Apr 17 Sex Issue $6.99

Bitch #74 Spr 17 $6.95

Mojo #280 Mar 17 Ray Davies $10.99

*SEXXXY*

Elska #10 Mumbai India $18.50

New Stuff This Week


*ZINES*

The Utter Failure of Dan Gleason $3.00

Club Night Club by Leanna Perry $9.00

Half Cup by Emily Schulert $5.00

Schmalz: Writing About Jewish Food and Diaspora by Isaac Brosilow $3.00

Airplane Food #3 by Tyler Callich $5.00

*COMICS*

Lazy Diana #1 A Punk Pagan Zine by Kelci Crawford $3.00

Hi There by JJ McLuckie $5.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Literally Everything Is Outside of my Comfort Zone vol 1 by Tony Breed $12.00

Snotgirl vol 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley $9.99

Long Term Pariah by Yewon Kwon $20.00

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Against the Fascist Creep by Alexander Reid Ross (AK Press) $16.95 – As the election of Donald Trump shows, fascism in all its white nationalist and “alt-right” permutations is alive and well in the United States. A terrifying tour of the history and influence of the forces that helped bring the forty-fifth president to power, Against the Fascist Creep maps the connections and names the names. It traces today’s often-disguised forms of rightwing extremism through the decades and across the globe to show how infiltration is a conscious and clandestine program for neofascist groups that seek to co-opt and undermine both mainstream and left-wing institutions in order to win elections, take political power, and create a new racist and authoritarian society.

The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket) $14.95 – Essays From the Author of Men Explain Things to Me.

*MUSIC*

Smoke Snort Swallow Shoot: Legendary Binges, Lost Weekends, and Other Feats of Rock ‘n’ Roll Incoherence by Jacob Hoye (Lesser Gods) $18.00

Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen In the Age of Plenty by Ben Ratliff $16.00

*MAGAZINES*

Lucky Peach #22 Spr 17 The Chicken Issue $12.00

True Crime Feb 17 How Many More Victims $9.99

Wicked Vision Magazine vol 4 Jan Mar 17 $18.00

Uncut Ultimate Music Guide #1 2017 Leonard Cohen $14.95

*LIT JOURNALS*

Make X Literary Magazine A Decade of Literary Art $30.00

Girls Our Age #2 2017 $12.00

New Stuff This Week

Thanks to everybody that came out for the Black Eye #3 release event!

*ZINES & ZINE-RELATED*

Hey Lady #7 Sylvia Rivera by Regina Schilling $12.00 – Issue 7 of HEY LADY features Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002). She was a crucial voice for PoC, transgender and low income communities throughout her life. With her best friend and fellow activist, Marsha P. Johnson, she founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) providing shleter to young homeless trans women of color. A veteran of the Stonewall Uprising, she consistently participated in protests, riots, and marches. With her determination to fight for visibility, she brought transgender people to the forefront of the LGBTQ community.

Things That Help: Healing Our Lives Through Feminism, Anarchism, Punk, & Adventure by Cindy Crabb $16.95

Suckdog: A Ruckus by Lisa Carver $24.95 – Richly detailed historical account including interviews, personal notes, photographs, song lyrics and ephemera of Lisa Carver’s notorious underground band Suckdog, 1987-2017. Fascinating stories are abounding involving GG Allin, El Duce of the Mentors and a slew of other infamous rock and roll icons. Other key players include Psycodrama, Jean-Louis Costes, Fantagraphics cartoonist Dame Darcy and Bill Callahan. A must read for those obsessed with abrasive underground music, performance art, fanzines or the 90’s. ~CH

Zine Pack Made At CHIPRC 3rd Anniversary July 16 $2.00 – When the Chicago Publishers Resource Center turned 3 there was a karaoke and zine-making party. Reading this is like being there.

Airplane Food #3 Unfold It and Read the Marks by Tyler Callich $5.00

Pops Parents on Parenting #2 by Jonas $2.00

Confessions Zine by Charlene Herrera $1.00

Fucking Ocean Part 2 by Leah Willbaum $10.00

Light Is a Better God #4-6 by Alex Norelli $10.00 each

New Morality Zine #0 by Nick Acosta $5.00

Beginning of End Of by John D Whitlock $10.00

Fuck You Pay Me a Quick and Dirty Instruction Manual $5.00

Shadowself-Nothing Matters-Everything Matters More split by Matthew Scherer & Claire Mesesan $9.00

Dual Individual by Joseph J. Mora $2.00

Zeromile #10 by Peter Bergman $12.00

Impractical Mushroom Foragers Handbook by Joe DeGeorge $4.00

Hot Sex On a Friday by Aaron Manczyk $2.50

Trump Reminds Me of My Rape $5.00

zines by Joseph Carlough:
Orchard Found Poems and Articles on Apples and the History of the Carlough Surname $1.00
Georgia the Cat by Joseph Carlough $7.00
…& more!

zines by Sage Liskey:
Surviving Collapse of Society Skills to Know and Careers to Pursue $4
Community How To (Fifth Year Edition)$4
Truthagandist Primer Effective Information Distribution for Activists $3
You Are a Great and Powerful Wizard An Overview of Human Magic and Spell Casting $4

*COMICS & MINIS*

No Limits Allowed: Based on a Story by Robert Anton Wilson by Al Burian and Oska Wald $5.00 – Based on a story by Robert Anton Wilson, this Risographed mini will have you pondering whether bestiality is AOK. Go on a mystical journey as Dr. Dashwood explains the mysteries of the universe filled with tantric and taboo sex acts that can lead to veritable super hero man gods. ~CH

Sharkman #2 vs. the Illuminati by Leo Mancini $5.00 – Conspiracies! Cryptids! Radioactive mutants! This comic serves up your favorite genre tropes with offbeat wit and charming art. Featuring a cameo appearance by Edward Snowden.

Beasts Of Heaven Collection #1 & #2 by Samuel Locke Ward $6.00 each

John John and Georgie by Veronica Englund $10.00

Where Could I Go by Robert Zertuche $6.00

Wac Donald’s: The Golden Tits of America $4.00

Tat Rat #7 by Cameron Forsley $5.00

2 Frogs On A Log by Alex Ross Williams $6.00 – Two strangers become fast friends in this fun pastoral adventure. Rendered in lovely yellows, blues, and greens. Created for the 2016 Comics Workbook Composition Competition.

Posion Circus: A Nerd Jams Story by Olivier Wilkie $5.00

That Time I Met Bill Clinton and He Stole My Favorite Pen by Rachel Scheer $4.00

Yoga Diary One by Rachel Scheer $3.00

Beguiling Bunnies by Rachel Bard $5.00

Ley Lines Poems the Letting Go by Kevin Czap $6.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Don’t miss Emil Ferris here at Quimby’s March 4th!

Wilson by Daniel Clowes (D&Q) $15.95 – Now in soft cover!

Pretending Is Lying by Dominique Goblet $24.95

Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis (D&Q) $16.95

Excavation by Max Andersson (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Epilogue Diary by Kevin Budnik (1% Press) $10.00

Starseeds by Charles Glaubitz (Fantagraphics) $29.99

The Can Opener’s Daughter by Rob Davis $19.95

Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie by Nejib $22.95

Demon vol 2 by Jason Shiga $19.99

Isnana Were Spider Werespider vol 1 Forgotten Stories $19.95

Chester Five Thousand 5000 XYV Book Two Isabelle and George $14.95

Not Waving But Drawing Dark Thoughts Lightly Rendered by John Cuneo (Fantagraphics) $25.00

Farmer Neds Comics Barn by Gerald Jablonski (Fantagraphics Underground) $30.00

You Might Be An Artist If by Lauren Purje $19.99

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Direct Action: A Short History of a Catastrophe by L.A. Kauffman (Verso) $17.95 – As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today. This deeply researched account, twenty-five years in the making, traces the evolution of disruptive protest since the Sixties to tell a larger story about the reshaping of the American left. Kauffman, a longtime grassroots organizer, examines how movements from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics to catalyze change despite long odds.

We the People: Stories From the Community Rights Movement in the United States by Thomas Linzey and Anneke Campbell (PM Press) $14.95

We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism In Twenty First Century America by Martinez, Meyer & Carter $29.95

Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy by Sheldon Whitehouse and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett $27.95

*MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS BOOKS*

Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nations Leaders by Brady Carlson $15.95

Killing God’s Enemies: The Crazy War Against Jews, African-Americans and the U.S. Government by John Lee Brook (Trine Day) $19.95

Ancient Gods: Lost Histories, Hidden Truths, and the Conspiracy of Silence by William Willis (VISIBLE INK PRESS) $19.95

Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilisation by Graham Hancock $17.99 – Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods, bringing new evidence supporting Hancock’s thesis that a global cataclysm wiped out a great global civilization.

Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep by Marah J. Hardt $16.99

*MUSIC BOOKS*

Jaguar Ride: Memoirs of an Electric Eel by Brian McMahon $34.99 – Founding member of the Cleveland proto punk legends the ELECTRIC EELS, BRIAN MCMAHON has unleashed his story, finally available in print. The very first BOOK covering the synthesis of these cretins of the pre-punk underworld is now available, written by founding guitarist and author of such acerbic classics as “Accident,” “Cold Meat,” “Splitterty Splat,” “Sewercide,” “Safety Week,” “Jaguar Ride,” and last but not least, “Agitated.”

Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays by Joe Bonomo (Soft Skull Press) $16.95

Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook $35.00

*FICTION*

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman $25.95 – Gaiman’s take!

Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology ed. by Ellen Datlow $25.95 – Avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists.

Zodiac: A Novel by Sam Wilson $25.95 – A series of uniquely brutal murders targets victims from totally different walks of life. In a society divided according to Zodiac signs, those differences are cast at birth and binding for life. All eyes are on detective Jerome Burton and astrological profiler Lindi Childs?divided in their beliefs over whether the answer is written in the stars, but united in their conviction that there is an ingenious serial killer executing a grand plan.

4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster $32.50

Bricks That Built Houses: A Novel by Kate Tempest $16.00 – From British poet and rapper. Now in soft cover.

I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow (Featherproof Press) $15.95

*MAGAZINES*

Juxtapoz #194 Mar 17 $6.99

Bust #103 Feb Mar 17 $6.99

Maximumrocknroll #406 Mar 17 $4.99

AdBusters #130 vol 25 #2 Mar Apr 17 $14.95

Cinema Retro vol 13 #37 2017 $11.99

Raw Vision #92 Win 16 17 $14.00

Razorcake #96 Pedal Strike $4.00

Cannabis Now #24 100 Best Dispensaries $7.99

Shindig #63 The Kinks $12.99

DOA #8 Ultimate Death Metal Magazine $6.66

Jacobin #24 Win 17 $12.95

Monocle vol 10 #100 Feb 17 $12.00

Frankie #75 $17.50

Atlantis Rising #122 Mar Apr 17 $6.95

Cabinet #61 Calendars $12.00

*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*

Feel Better Poems by Rosie Accola $10.00

Overtime Hour 43 Still Wet With Dishwaster by Tom Fitts $2.00

Paper Darts vol 6 $15.00