New Stuff This Week

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Issues of Hey Lady by Regina Schilling, $8.00 each: #1 Yoko Ono, #2 Michelle Nichols, #3 Candy Darling

*ZINES*

KerBloom #119 Mar Apr 16 by Artnoose $2.00

Flotation Device #14 by Keith Helt $2.00

Vinyl Vagabonds #6 $6.00 and #7 $7.00 by Eric Gordon

Bathroom Selfies From the Road #1 by Sarah Szumanski Jahn $5.00

Serio #7 Social Justice Zine Based In Chicago Lucy Stoole Chicago Drag $5.00

Hal and Ida in Israel #1 $2.00

Bookstores and Baseball: 8th Inning by David LaBounty $5.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

new minis from Krystal DiFronzo, $4.00 each:
Even A Worm Will Turn
Homo Sapiens Non Urinat in Ventum

Fight by Gabrielle Howell $3.00

Yolo Flor y Nata Split Comic by Teresa Ferreiro & Roberta Vazquez $9.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Kramers Ergot #9 ed. by Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics) $45.00

ITDN 10 Comics by Andrew Burkholder (2D Cloud) $22.95 – The second collection of avant-garde comics from Chicago’s Andy Burkholder interrogates the notion of the artist as an aesthetic chameleon.

Incomplete Works by Dylan Horrocks (Alternative Comics) $19.99

Josh Simmon’s Jessica Farms vols 1 and 2 (Fantagraphics) $16.99 each – Serialized adventure-horror-macabre of a Midwestern farmhouse, a life-spanning comics project in which Josh Simmons drew one page every month for the past 16 years, starting in January 2000—and will continue this project for 50 years in total, releasing 96-page increments every 8 years until he amasses a 600-page body of work.

Nameless City by Erin Faith Hicks $14.99

Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan by Bryan Doerries $19.95

*ART & DESIGN*

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An Unreliable History of Tattoos by Paul Thomas (Nobrow) $19.95 – “A gonzo view of tats through the ages: mostly British, frequently profane, replete with extravagantly inked caricatures.” -Kirkus Reviews

Make Your Mark: New Urban Artists by Tristan Manco $45.00

*FICTION*

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Dead Letters: An Anthology of The Undelivered, The Missing, The Returned ed. by Conrad Williams $14.95 – Features new stories from the masters of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction, each inspired by object from the Dead Letters Office.

American People vol 1 Search For My Heart by Larry Kramer $20.00

*ESSAYS*

I Know What I’m Doing ?? and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life by Jen Kirkman $24.00

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, ed. by Meghan Daum $16.00 – Contributors include Lionel Shriver, Sigrid Nunez, Kate Christensen, Elliott Holt, Geoff Dyer, and Tim Kreider, among others.

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America $26.00

The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice by Samuel Farber (Haymarket) $16.95

A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies) by Paul Le Blanc (Haymarket) $17.00

*FOOD BOOKS*

The Wurst of Lucky Peach: A Treasury of Encased Meat by Chris Ying and the Editors of Lucky Peach $26.00

*DRUUUUUUGS*

Weed: The User’s Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana by David Schmader $18.95

Dreamland: The True Tale of Americas Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones $18.00

*SCIENCE!*

What’s It Like in Space? Stories from Astronauts by Ariel Waldman $14.95

*MUSIC BOOKS*

Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow $27.99 – Yes, this is more a music bok anything else. Don’t be fooled!

Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride $28.00

*MAGAZINES*

Juxtapoz #184 May 16 $6.99

True Crime, Spring Special Spr 16 20 All True Murder Cases $12.99

Rock A Rolla #58 Mar Apr 16 Sun 0))) $9.95

Uncut Ultimate Music Guide: The Beach Boys $14.99

AdBusters #125 vol 24 #3 May June 16 Post West $14.95

*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*

Midwestern Gothic #21 Spr 16 $12.00

Not Now More Work from Cliff Weber $4.00

*KIDS BOOKS*

Waiting for High Tide by Nikki McClure $19.95

The Real Poop on Pigeons by Kevin McCloskey (Toon) $12.95

New Stuff This Week

selfcareSelf Care by Mallory VanMeeter $5.00

*ZINES*

Suburban Blight #12 Spr 16 by Stephanie B. $2.00

Call for Participants by Roddy $3.00

Monster Nerd zines by Anthony Miller, $5.00 each:
#1 The Creature From the Black Lagoon Issue
#2 The Wolf Man Issue

Somnambulist #26 Two Friends Talk about their Cities by Martha Grover $5.00

Otra Vez In Harlem by Gaspard Ajoupa Imbert $5.00

Blink Ink #22 Cities by Jesse Anger & friends $5.00

Collection of Expressions #2 $5.00

zines by Austin Smith $3.00 each:
Acid Kat #15 Fanzine
Acid Kat #16 Special Spooky Issue

*COMICS & MINIS*

Comics from Dan Zettwoch:
Redbird #3 Hi Tech Comics $5.00
Redbird #4 Dec 2015 $3.00

Grixly #35 $3.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Nocturnal Last City by Emily Chu $25.00

Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy Bastian $19.99

Walking Dead vol 25 No Turning Back by R. Kirkman and friends $14.99

Paper Girls TPB vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan $9.99

Adventure Time with Fiona and Cake by Natasha Allegri $19.99

*ART & DESIGN*

The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3 by James Edward Deeds Jr. $29.95 – Arresting drawings by made by one inmate, made as a gift for his mother, accidentally discarded in 1970, then found again by an art collector who put them in a book. None of these existed in the actual mid-twentieth-century landscape of Deeds’s own life that he drew (an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, antique cars, fantastic boats and trains, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture), but rather were representations of his inner world—an artist’s poignant tribute to a faded past.

Working Women: The New Pin-Up: Temporary Tattoos by Bill Presing $12.95 – From from fighter pilots to boxers to astronauts!

The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts by Maja Säfström $14.99

*FICTION*

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Little Mook and Dwarf Longnose by Wilhelm Hauff, Illustrated by Boris Pak (Godine) $19.95 – Short stories, peopled with a vivid assortment of dwarves, evil witches, enchanted swans, and devious princes. But rather than rehashing Brothers Grimm, Hauff creates a place where the morals are less than clear-cut. gnomish, innocent orphans with neglectful parents, a cruel witch’s curse, an enchanted goose and more.

Books by Matt Lang (Clawfoot Press):
Fernweh $15.00
McKean County and Other Stories $12.00

Void by George Perec (Verba Mundi) $17.95

Weirdly, 2 different books about waxing nostalgic about New York:
Sundays on the Phone to Monday by Christine Reilly $25.00 – The Middlesteins meets The Virgin Suicides in this arresting family love story about the eccentric yet tightknit Simone family, coping with tragedy during 90s New York.
Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss $26.00 – An intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.

It’s Only Rock and Roll: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Short Stories by Janice Eidus and John Kastan (Godine) $16.95

Husbands and Lap Dogs Breathe Their Last: A Cummings Flynn Wanamaker Mystery (Mainly Murder Press) by David Steven Rappoport $15.95

*ESSAYS*

So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder $15.99

The Call of the Primes: Surprising Patterns, Peculiar Puzzles, and Other Marvels of Mathematics by Owen O’Shea (Prometheus Books) $19.00

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics by Erin McHugh $26.95

*SCIENCE!*

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery $16.00

*MAGAZINES*

RFD #165 Spr 16 $9.95

Monocle vol 10 #92 Apr 16 $12.00

True Crime Mar 16 Slaughter in the Sex Dungeon $9.99

Wax Poetics #64 Spr 16 $1.19

*CHAP BOOKS*

Stories I Could Tell You at the End of the Day by Nathan Dragon $5.00

New Stuff This Week

piratebookThe Pirate Book: Read Me by Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska $11.00

*ZINES*

Inner Seoul by Jae Hyun Ha $2.00

Remedy Quarterly #20 Try $12.00

Lazy Mom #5 Easy Come $10.00

Dead Wrestlers #1 Murder Mishaps and Misfortune by Aaron Weber $3.00

Alamo Igloo zines by Keith Herzik
Leg and Boob DNA Gel Part 2 $8.00
Dog Bone Snake Skull Chicago $7.00

Pickle Pickle #2 The Peculiar Pickle Mini Zine $2.50

*COMICS & MINIS*

Mystery Minicomic Anthology by various $5.00

Baby Weight by Gabrielle Howell $2.00

Better Late Than Never by Jesse Hedman $2.00

Teenaged Trash Party by Barbara Guttman $5.00

Too Much Fun by Logan Kruidenier $8.00

Lazy Sundae by Nolan J. Downs $5.00

Screwing With You vol 1 by Zoe N. Sugg $5.00

Pack Yr Bags by Ian McDuffie $1.00

More Things in Heaven and Earth #1 by Kat Tusday $5.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS*

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Carpet Sweeper Tales by Julie Doucet (D&Q) $15.95

Agony Book by Mark Beyer $15.95

Mirror Mirror #1 (2d Cloud) $27.95 – Comics anthology of things horror and gothic. Edited by Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. With work from Clive Barker, Heather Benjamin, Al Columbia, Dame Darcy and more.

Space: An Eschew Collection by Robert Sergel (Secret Acres) $15.00

Gulag Casual: Five Stories by Austin English (2d Cloud) $24.95

Care of Birds by F.S. Lobo (MMMNNNRRRG) $17.00

Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers by Hazel Newlevant and Sophie Yanow (Alternative Comics) $20.00

Big Planet Comics Blue Anthology (Retrofit) $5.00 – An anthology from the Washington DC comic book store Big Planet Comics. Includes work by: Saman Bemel-Benrud, Box Brown, Mark Burrier, Jensine Eckwall, Robin Ha, Angelica Hatke, Andy K, Nick Liappis, Jared Morgan, Ben Sears, Matt Baker and SUPERWAXX.

*FICTION*

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The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls, ed. by Ellen Datlow (Tor) $16.99 – Stories about dolls. Not creepy or anything hahahaha.

2 books by Matt Lang (Clawfoot Press)
McKean County and Other Stories $12.00
Fernweh $15.00

Bardo or Not Bardo by Antoine Volodine (Open Letter) $13.95

*MAYHEM*

Serial Killers and Psychopaths: True-Life Cases that Shocked the World by C. Greig & J. Marlowe $16.95

Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck by Peter Manseau (Melville House) $22.95

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson $17.00

*ESSAYS*

Pretentiousness: Why It Matters An Essay SC by Dan Fox (Coffee House Press) $15.95

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

Earth Wants You by Reverend Billy $13.95

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore $27.99

*MUSIC BOOKS*

I Live Inside HC Memoirs of A Babe in Toyland by Michelle Leon $19.95

*HUMOR*

Why the Long Joke? by James Thomas $22.99 – Inside: “Edgar Allan Poe Goes to a Music Festival,” “How to Tell If You’re Dead” & more.

*SEXXXY*

Whistle #17 Modern Pin Up Mag $10.00

Meat #20 $20.00

*MAGAZINES*

Hi Fructose #39 New Contemporary Art Magazine $7.95

Howler #10 Spr 16 Of Gods and Ten $15.00

Mojo #269 Apr 16 Iggy Pop His Life and Rebirth $10.99

Laphams Quarterly vol 9 #2 Spr 16 Disaster $17.00

Tom Tom Magazine #25 Health $6.00

Skeptic vol 21 #1 16 $6.95

High Times Best of #80 2016 Your Guide to Hydro $6.99

Ghetto Blaster #43 $4.50

Maximumrocknroll #395 Apr 16 $4.99

Creative Quarterly #41 $9.00

Gentlewoman #13 Spr Sum 16 Kirsten $15.99

Tape Op #112 Mar Apr 16 $4.95

Razorcake #91 $4.00

*LIT JOURNALS*

The Paris Review #216 $20.00

*CHILDRENS*

Hilda & The Midnight Giant by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye) $10.99

New Stuff This Week

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Jaywalker by Lisa Carver, with illustrations by Dame Darcy $15.00 – Flash fiction by famed Rollerderby zinester, with illustrations by exquisite Meatcake artist Dame Darcy.

*ZINES & ZINE-RELATED*

East Village Inky #56 by Ayun Halliday $3.00

Pagan Kennedy’s Living a Handbook for Maturing Hipsters by Pagan Kennedy (Santa Fe Writers Project) $15.95 – 90s clasic back in print from the zinester, writer and non-conformist.

Notes on Staying Soft by Rosie Accola $5.00

Living Southerners Feb 16 $2.00

Zines by Billy Roberts $3.00 each:
Last Night at the Casino #11 Feb 16
Good Place to Start #1 – Wanna learn about world music? Well here’s a good place to start.

*COMICS & MINIS*

2 new amazing comics from Carrie McNinch:
You Dont Get There From Here #37 $3.00 – Daily diary comics about Carrie’s quiet adventure of life in LA and a side trip to Japan. From the thoughtful and compelling mind of someone who loves music, reading and cats, and who can draw the way all zinesters wish they could.
Excerpts From Seven Non-Fiction Books I Read $3.00 – Includes excerpts from books by Marky Ramone, Viv Albertine, Kim Gordon and more! And those drawings!

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Upgrade by Lily Reeves $5.00

Science Ghost #3 by Carlos Aguilar $5.00

Just Another Caturday #1 by Jennifer Lewis $3.00

various Kelci Crawford comics:
Prologues a Compilation $3.00
Duck for Dinner $1.00
and more!

2 new by Robin Bougie delicacies!:
Cinema Sewer #29 $5.00
Sugar Spread vol 1 #1 A Big Coloring Book $10.00

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*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

The Complete Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, And Other Horror Stories by Guido Crepax (Fantagraphics) $75.00 – Collection of work from this erotic Eurocartoonist, known for his work in the 60s and 70s. This book features lit by Stoker, Mary Shelley, unpublished works of Crepax’s famed Valentina stories and more.

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Dirty Hands: Collected Works by David Alvarado $15.00

Complete Chi’s Sweet Home Part 2 by Konami Kanata $24.95

Amadeo & Maladeo: A Musical by R. O. Blechman (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Full-color fable-like graphic novel, the story of two musician Mozart-esque half brothers cycle through rags and riches.

The Beauty vol 1 by Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley $9.99 – What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease?

Adventure Time vol 8 $14.99

Goodnight Punpun vol 1 by Inio Asano $24.99

Humans vol 2 Humans Till Death by Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller $15.99

Nameless by Grant Morrison & friends $24.99

The Glorkian Warrior and the Mustache of Destiny by James Kochalka $14.99

*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

Art of the Mural vol 1 Contemporary International Urban Art by Shane Pomajambo (Schiffer) $34.99 – 400+ examples by 50 full-time muralists from 6 continents. Edited by the creative director of DC-based Art Whino Gallery.

*WEIRDO*

Future Esoteric: Unseen Realms, Second Edition by Brad Olsen (Consortium of Collective Consciousness) $17.95

Confessions of an Illuminati: The Whole Truth about the Illuminati and the New World Order by Leo Lyon Zagami (CCCP Publishing) $17.95

Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood by Greg Merritt $19.99

Aliens Among Us: Exploring Past and Present by Barry Strohm $19.99 – You guys, they’re everywhere at every time ever. It’s amazing!

Little Gray Bastards: The Incessant Alien Presence by Jordan Hofer & David Barker $16.99 – You guys, they’re everywhere at every time ever. It’s terrifying!

*MUSIC BOOKS*

Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story by Dave Thompson $16.99

Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters ed. by Nick Soulsby $28.95

*ESSAYS*

Notes on My Dunce Cap by Jesse Ball (Pioneer Works Press) $22.00 – A text for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms and for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration.

*FICTION*

I Am Because You Are, ed. by Pippa Goldschmidt and Tania Hershman (Freight books) $14.95 – “Timely” collection of new fiction (and some non-fiction) from novelists and science writers, all inspired by the theme of Theory of Relativity.

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*

Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture by Franklin Rosemont (PM Press) $29.95 – Reprint of the classic, originally published by Chicago rebels Kerr Publishing.

Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed by Mitchell Abidor (PM Press) $14.95

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank $27.00 – Founding editor of The Baffler discusses the form of corporate and cultural elitism that has largely eclipsed the Democrat party’s old working-class commitment.

*HUMOR*

F in Exams: Complete Failure Edition $19.95

*FOOD BOOKS*

Deceptive Desserts: A Lady’s Guide to Baking Bad! by Christine McConnell $29.95 – Christine McConnell, the Queen of Creepy Cookies, shares recipes and photographs how to take bake with inspiration from the likes of Tim Burton, Wes Craven, Alfred Hitchcock, and Vincent Price, mixed with in a dash of Stepford Wife.

Sweet as Sin: The Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America’s Favorite Pleasure by Susan Benjamin $18.00

*MAGAZINES*

Bust #98 Apr May 16 $5.99

Harpers Apr 16 $6.99

Make vol 50 $9.99

Fields Magazine #5 Spr 16 $12.00

*LIT JOURNALS*

First Line vol 18 #1 Spr 16 $4.00

Black Fox Literary Magazine #13 $14.00

Coming out this week!

The Imitation Game: Alan Turner Decoded by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis (Abrams ComicArts) $24.95

Off-Site: Chicago Zine Fest! April 29th and 30th!

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Quimby’s is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Chicago Zine Fest! It’s the weekend of Fri. April 29th (panel, readings, opening festivities) and Sat, April 30th (tabling exhibition at the Plumbers Union Hall1340 W Washington Blvd, from 11am-6pm). More info (who is exhibiting and at what table! totebags! all that stuff!) at ChicagoZineFest.org

Here’s the e-mail courtesy of CZF 2016 Organizers Heather, Johnny, Julie, Alex, Violet & Allison!:

CZF 2016 FRIDAY NIGHT INFO

All Friday night events located at Workshop Chicago (935 W. Chestnut St. #530)

April 29th 6:30 – 8pm, Panel: Permission Not Granted: Women of Color and the Politics of Zines

A discussion sponsored by the University of Chicago Library with Leila Abdelrazaq, Sarah Gonzalez, and Monika Harris. Moderated by Monica Trinidad.

April 29th 8 – 9:30pm, Exhibitor Reading: Readings by Andi Santagata (Sorry Mom Comix), JC (Tributaries), Jonas (Cheer the Eff Up), Marnie Galloway (In the Sounds and Seas), Rachel & Sari (Hoax), Taryn Hipp (Lady Teeth), Tanuja Jagernauth (Brown & Proud Press Collective), and Vicky Lim (Abstract Door).

All events during CZF weekend are free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. The Youth Reading will be held as a workshop on Saturday, April 30 at Plumbers Hall.

Sat, April 30th (tabling exhibition at the Plumbers Union Hall1340 W Washington Blvd, from 11am-6pm).

+ also that day at the same place…

CZF 2016 WORKSHOPS

Peruse our workshop offerings for this year’s zine fest below. We’re excited as always to offer a variety of programming for you and your zine-loving friends!

  • Revolutionary Mothering: from zines to anthologies. Join Mai’a Williams and China Martens, two editors of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front lines – to talk about creating in difficult environments, zines and book anthologies, life, art and revolution. Mama centric, but open to all.
  • Drawing Out the Issues: Comics Journalism. Using our recent series for Truthout, Growing Season, as a basis for discussion—as well as our upcoming book Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking—the Ladydrawers Comics Collective will informally talk participants through the basics of longform, collective, comics journalism investigations.
  • Lumpen Live Taping & Radio Transmission. Live radio segment broadcasting directly from CZF 2016!
  • Youth Reading. Join the youngest members of the zine community while they show us all up with their zine skills.
  • Cute Animal Drawing Workshop. Fun ways to draw cute animals for kids ages 6 to 12. Learn basic skills to create infinite cute animals.
  • Busy Beaver Button Co. Custom button making workshop!

Help make our zine dreams come true!

To all you lovely dreamy zine fans, consider donating to Chicago Zine Fest! We’re a crack team of volunteer organizers who are proud to put together this amazing DIY festival each year. But, it is not a cheap endeavor; from venue fees, to printing costs, to offering stipends to our snazzy invited guests, those $$$ add up. Any little bit you may be able to offer is much appreciated. You can donate to CZF here.

Volunteer with CZF!

Are you interested in volunteering with us? We are always looking for folks who have skills to share. Want to help us design programs, promote workshops, host fundraisers, or help at events? Let us know & send us an email at chicagozinefest@gmail.com!

…and check out that cool art by Erik Rodriguez!