New Stuff This Week

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Zines

The Wonder of It All #12 $3

Postcards from Irving #4 $2

Horror Macaroni #4 $5

zines by Erin Dorney: How to Bathroom, Accept Reject and more.

Molotov College Zine Edition an RPG by WH Arthur $15

Self Harm – A Zine about NSSI by Sharaya O $3

Comics

Smoke Signal #41 Keiichi Tanaami (Desert Island) $12

Glass Chamber #0 by Tia Roxae $5

Delia by Quinn Thomson $5

By the Moonlight by Mae Lyne $15

Comics by Carmen Johns $10 each: Diva World #1 + #2, How to Lose a Friend In Seventh 7th Grade #1-#3

Comics by Clara Brubaker $10 each: In Between Some Thoughts on Place, Bein’ Weird With Plants
Plus Sticker Sheets: Native Wildflowers of Illinois $12, Moths of North America $15

Graphic Novels

Dear Mini vol 1 A Graphic Memoir by Natalie Norris $29.99

The Comics Journal #309 $16.99

The Planetoid And Other Stories by Joe Orlando + Al Feldstein (Fantagraphics) $35

Big Ugly by Ellice Weaver (Avery Hill) $19.95

Film & Music Books

Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 by Chris Alexander $27.95

Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood – The Official Biography (Revised and Updated Edition) by Nina Antonia $24.95

Book of Days by Patti Smith $28.99

Outer Limits Stuff

Hellebore magazine: A Summoning of Ancient Terrors, issues #1-#9, $15 each
+
The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland, edited by Maria J. Perez Cuervo $34.95

Fiction Books

New Directions Storybook series:
Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg $18.95
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls $18.95

Lapvona: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh $18

Stray Dogs by Richard John Parfitt (Third Man Books) $16.95

Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink vol 1 the Opal and Other Stories $13.99

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

East Village Inky #68 by Ayun Halliday $3

Affordable Housing In Avondale by Marc Fischer (Half Letter Press) $6

Scenes From the L #2 Drawings CTA by R. Hendricks $3

Marionette Lines: A Family History of Patriarchy and Puppetry by Mandy Shunnarah $6

zines by Eli Bishop: Nine Faces of Nothing Depression Comics, Spinnerrackreverie Comic Covers Redrawn Wrong, San Francisco Neo Futurists Chapbook #7 2022 Selected Plays From The Infinite Wrench by the San Francisco Neo-Futurists

Alarming Mutations by Jason White $10

Teen Beat #1 Assorted Collages by Telly $3

Cuties: A Zine by Matteo Montero Murillo & friends $1

These Are All Inadequate issues #5 & #6 $3 each

Unusual Places of the Chicago Suburbs #1 Cemetery at the Mall by Eric Kammerer $4

Memoirs of a Baby Bootblack #0 & #1 by Lore $1 each

Comics

You Don’t Get There From Here issues #57 & #58 by Carrie McNinch $4 each

Hobo Law #1 Spr 23 by Pat Rooks $6

TSA PSA by Issa Saldana $2

Dailies #4 Quarantine and Beyond 2020-2022 by Athena Naylor $15

Puddles issues #3-#5

Graphic Novels

Jacob Newman’s Coffee Table Book $24.99

Minami’s Lover by Shungiku Uchida (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Politics & Revolution Books

Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay 1956-76 by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis (AK Press) $23

Fiction

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean $17.99

Chicago Stories by Joe Carducci (Redoubt Press) $19.95

Eyes and the Impossible (Knopf Edition) by Dave Eggers $18.99

Unreliable Narrator Meets the Public Domain vs the Public Domain vs Jesus H Christ by Jesse Mack $5.99

Magazines & Lit Journals

The Grind #3 Perspectives on Stripping From the Dancers Themselves $10

Portable Gray vol 6 #1 Spring 2023 $15

Qwerty Quarterly: The Official Publication of Qwertyfest MKE #1 We Built Milwaukee on Beer and Typewriters by Molly Snyder and Tea Krulos $5

Antigravity June 2023 vol 21 #6 $10

DIY Books

2 books by Sage Liskey:
You’re a Snarky Darkness: Illustrated Poems for Radical Empowerment $15
Radical Self-Care: Inclusive Tools for Overcoming PTSD, Heartbreak, Conflict, Anger, Discrimination, Addiction, Anxiety, and Other Trapped Emotions (illustrated by Tara Chavez) $24

 

billy woods & m. musgrove sign A is for Anarchist: An ABC for Activists 7/29

Published on June 22, 2023 0 Comments
Jul ’23
29
2:00 pm

A is for Anarchist: An ABC for Activists is a a sardonic spin on the ABC book, a sharp knife in a drawer full of safety scissors.

Wryly written by critically acclaimed rapper billy woods and sublimely illustrated by artist m. musgrove, A is for Anarchist upends the traditional ABC format with earnestness that belies its irreverence. Anarchist takes modest ideas, like E is for Energy and G is for Ghosts, and flips them into incisive commentary on modern life and the state of the world. Also, it has to be the only alphabet book with annotated footnotes and a Nas reference.

woods is a writer, rapper, and father who needed something cool to read to his children. The child of a Jamaican intellectual and a Zimbabwean revolutionary, woods’s childhood spent between the U.S., Africa, and the West Indies leaves its imprint on all his work.

musgrove is a Brooklyn-based painter, illustrator, and amateur animator. She is inspired by Wimmen’s Comix, William Morris, and tumult.

billy woods & m. musgrove

sign A Is For Anarchist

Quimby’s Bookstore

1854 W. North Ave, Chicago

Sat, July 29th, 2pm

Facebook event invite here.

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

Portland Rappers #1 by Ross Jackson $5

Zines by Rowan Rohwer:
Aromantic Semantics: a Cottage Zine
Notesapp Entries That I Wrote While Under the Influence #1
Genderventures: A Zine Where I Contemplate Gender for However Many Pages This Is
& more.

Even the Introverts Are Out Here: Six Ways to Get Involved by Jamie Kadas $1

Comics

Vacuum Decay #6 A Horror Anthology by Harry Nordlinger & friends $10

Flowery isues #50-#52 by Mel Stringer $10 each

Comics by Jake Slingland, $5 each: Funland (with Midjourney), Habitat (with Dream Misa Kabashima)

Comics by Matt MacFarland & friends: Scenes From a Marriage, My Troubles with Crumb & more.

Gutter Presents Noir: A Collection of Thrilling and Comedic Graphic Stories by Meg Scribner & friends $12

No More Than 10% by Laurel Hauge $12

Playtape by Ana Two $8

Play for Keeps #1 by Fox Graham $5

Elizas Wish by Tiff Zhang $4

Chained Male by Connor Tapscott $5

Drawing Bridges by Eva Carrillo $10

Comics by Clint Williams:
QPs and the Magic Fruit
Netar Aquatic World Builder #1
Vile Shift Horror Anthology
& more.

Comique #2 $2

Comics by AnneMarie Rogers $6 each: Diver: A Pearl, Groundskeepers

Enjoy the Cake by Jamie Kadas $7

Graphic Novels & Related

Live Rock vol 1 Aquarium Life by Ross Jackson $20

Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix by Brian Doherty $18

Vessel by Henry Fernau $15

LSBN by Emma Jayne (Silver Sprocket) $14.99

Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket) $24.99

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham $17.99

Art & Design Books

Welcome to the Peculiar Antique Shop: The Art of Makura Kurama $29.99

20th Century Alcohol and Tobacco Ads: One Hundred Years of Stimulating Ads by Jim Heimann and Steven Heller (Taschen) $30

Politics & Revolution Books

Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor $19.95

Essays & Some Other Stuff

Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris $29.99

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton $28.99

Pregnancy Test by Karen Weingarten (Object Lessons Series) $14.95

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw $17

Boom Chicago Presents: The 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History edited by Andrew Moskos and Pep Rosenfeld $20

Music & Film Books

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne $32

Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion by Steve Turner & Adem Tepedelen $27.95

More 33 1/3 books:
Dance-Punk (33 1/3 Genre Series) by Larissa Wodtke, Living Colour’s Time’s Up by Kimberly Mack
BBC Radiophonic’s Workshop: A Retrospective by William L. Weir,
Madvillain’s Madvillainy by Will Hagle Madvillain
ESG’s Come Away With ESG by Cheri Percy

BFI Film Classics:
Lost In Translation by Suzanne Ferriss
Eraserhead by Claire Henry

Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head by Alex Wheatle $28.95

Fiction & Poetry

City of Unspeakable Fear by Jean Ray $15.95

Tisa: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani $36.95

Girls They Write Songs About: A Novel by Carlene Bauer $19

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various new Tom of Finland books!

Off-Site: Quimby’s at Shred the Shed Portable Gray Release Celebration at the Salt Shed, 6/21

Published on June 14, 2023 0 Comments
Jun ’23
21
4:00 pm

The Salt Shed presents Shred the Shed, their four day skatepark pop-up coming June 21-24, four days of DJs, food and drink vendors, guest skaters, and a skatepark designed and built by Chicago artist and skater Juan Chavez. It kicks off National Go Skate Day (June 21) with a Portable Gray release celebration, which Quimby’s will be there to sell, as well as other relevant items from 4pm to 9pm.

What does this UChicago Press arts & ideas journal have to do with skateboarding, you ask? This spring issue of Portable Gray is the Family Issue, and Brent Heyl of the Empty Bottle and The Salt Shed appears in the issue with his brother Shane (a professional skateboarder).

In addition to the skateboard park, music and refreshments, Bad at Sports will be streaming conversations with contributors to this issue.

The Fairgrounds will be open to all to come and skate, though they require participants to sign a waiver (and if you’re under 18, your parent/guardian must sign a waiver). RSVP at this link.

We hope to see you there! 

The Salt Shed is accepting donations at this event to donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund, which you can donate to online here, and donations will be accepted on site as well.

(very sick drawing by @agrapedope!)