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Alamo Igloo by Keith Herzik, issues #24 Manipulative Dig ($5.00) & #25 Herzoc ($7.00)

*ZINES*

Library Excavations #2 The ABC’s of the Chicagos Reader Touring Musicians Publicity Photos Collection by Marc Fischer $6.00

Heaven in the Palm of Your Hand: A Crystal Users Guide by Luke Simon $10.00

Bath Manager #1 by Morgan Vessel $3.00

Judas Goat Quarterly #70 Late Sum 16 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

Sixth Mass Extinction by Ines Estrada (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $15.00

Thrill by Leanna Perry $6.00

Zisk #27 Sum 16 $2.00

Grassroots Media Zine #2 $5.00 and #3 $10.00

Critical Theory Cocktails #3 Powerful drinks that will make you think differently by Aggie Toppins $8.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

comics by Chloe Perkis, $5.00 each:
Hard Thoughts
Goodbye Corpses

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

Line and Hook by Ben Nadler and Alyssa Berg $10.00

Mirror Cave by Erik Ruin and Spires that in the Sunset Rise $10.00

Annihilate by Brandon Daniels and Sam Boven $8.00

Airplane Food #1 by Tyler Callich $5.00

Sec by Sarah Ferrick $5.00

Study Group Magazine #4 ed by Zack Soto & Milo George $15.95 – Adventure calls in this massive tribute to all things fearless and fantastic! Featuring work by Farel Dalrymple, Ed Wheelan, Lark Pien, Noah Van Sciver, Adrea Kalfas, Benjamin Marra, Ian Chachere, Dylan Horrocks, and many more! Includes comics, art, articles, interviews, and a playable board game! Cover art by Levon Jihanian.

Nincompoop #1 by Christoph Mueller $8.00

Laskimooses #30 Helahtaa Kuminen Kannel $7.00

comics by Jesse Hedman:
AFC Special: Legend of Skullfucker Prequel $5.00
High Fantasy $2.00
AFC Special 2016 24-Hour comic $2.00

Circulus by Rupert Bottenberg $7.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Hellbound Lifestyle by Alabaster Pizzo and Kaeleigh Forsyth (Retrofit) $10.00 – Belly laugh funny. Pizzo and Forsyth met when they realized they’d been dating the same person. For a year. And neither of them knew. Now they’re besties. And they make hilarious comics.

Y THE LAST MAN BOOK 5 by Brian K. Vaughan & friends $19.99

Injection TPB vol 2 by Warren Ellis & friends $14.99

CHRONICLES OF HATE vol 2 by Adrian Smith $29.99

HELLBOY AND THE BPRD 1953 by Mike Mignola $19.99

books by Stanley Wany, $15.00 each:
Dreamcave
Agalma

Silent Worlds by Carlos Santos $15.00

*ART & DESIGN*

So You Want to Publish A Magazine by Angharad Lewis $24.95

*FICTION*

Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville $25.00

When Watched: Stories by Leopoldine Core $16.00 – 19 stories in or around NY, populated by sex workers and artists, lovers and friends.

Girls: A Novel by Emma Cline $27.00

Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead $26.95

*MUSIC BOOKS*

Disco Demolition: The Night Disco Died by Dave Hoekstra, Steve Dahl, with a foreward by Bob Odenkirk (Curbside Splendor) $34.95 – To boost attendance at Comiskey Park, the White Sox and Chicago DJ legend Steve Dahl collaborated to host Disco Demolition on July 12, 1979. Admission to the park was ninety-eight cents and a disco record. Records were destroyed on the field between games, declaring absolutely how rock fans felt about disco. Attendance exceeded fifty thousand, far beyond anyone s estimations, and when fans stormed the field for the demolition, chaos ensued.

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde $16.00 – Now in soft cover.

Morrissey and Marr: The Severed Alliance, The 25th Anniversary Edition by Johnny Rogan (Overlook) $21.95

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

The Selected Works Of Voltairine De Cleyre: Poems, Essays, Sketches And Stories, 1885-1911 ed. by Alexander Berkman (AK Press) $16.95 – Writings from a pioneer of women’s liberation and American anarchism.

Chicago Is Not Broke: Funding the City We Deserve by Tom Tresser $12.00

*MAYHEM*

A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans $16.00

*SCIENCE!*

Venomous: How Earths Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox $26.00

*MAGAZINES*

Lucky Peach #20 Fall 16 Cooks and Chefs Three Fine Dining $12.00

Skin Art #166 $7.99

*LIT JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS*

Oyez Review #43 Spr 16 $6.50

Tisty Tosty by Two Tone Jumbo and Freekyboi $2.00

Traveler Livre 1 Le Labyrinthe Cosmique $15.00

*OTHER STUFF*

No Mercy Sticker by Corinne Halbert $3.00

Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support by Cindy Crabb (AK Press) $13.95 – Used to be a zine, now it’s a book! This collection is an indispensable guide to both preventing sexual violence and helping its survivors to heal.

 

The Empty Bottle Chicago: 21+ Years of Music / Friendly / Dancing by John E. Dugan (Curbside Splendor) $34.95 – Featuring a foreword by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats and first hand interviews with members of The Flaming Lips, Interpol, Low, OK Go, Vandermark Five, Girl Talk, The Rapture, Red Red Meat, The Sea and Cake, and more, as well as rarely-seen, full-color photographs and reproductions of original silkscreen gig posters and more.

*ZINES*

zines by by Corinne Halbert:
Honey by Corinne Halbert $5.00
Hate Baby #5 $8.00

Printsploitation by Scott R. Miller $3.00

Dreams in Cryogenic Fugue by Chris Johnson $10.00

various issues of Penises Are Confusing by by Polly and Amanda $2.50 each

Free Ass Mag #2 Free Association Magazine Utopia No Mans Land $15.00

Irrational Neographic #1 2014 by Connor Shea $10.00

zines by Adam Wiesner $3.00 each:
Spy Agent issues #1 and #2
Future Trash #2 by Adam Wiesner

Kayfabe Is Fake a WWE Fanzine $3.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

King Cat #76 Comix and Stories by John Porcellino (Spit & a Half) $5.00

SpaceWorld by Brett Manning $5.00

Donut Dreams by Eric Bartholomew $2.00 – First comics from zinester of Junk Drawer fame.

Total Fuck Up by Johnny Sampson $7.00 – A sympathetic portrait of an unsympathetic character surrounded by other unsympathetic characters, taking place at the County Fair.

Doin Mah Thang How My Cat Died and Other Stories by Gil Rhodes $5.00

Absurdly Yours #1 $2.00

comics by Tate Walker:
Waiting Room $5.00
Channel $7.00
Extract $6.00

zines by Laura Lannes
Bad Boyfriends $10.00
Basil Plant $5.00

Hotel Rompo by Talya Modlin (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $20.00

Sirens Calling by John T. Trigonis & Lauren Clemente $3.99

comics by by Sam Szabo:
Naked Lady #2 $7.00
List of Very Scary Things $3.00

Madam Geneva by Tom O’Brien $3.00

Sun Bakery #2 by Corey Lewis $5.99

Comics by Alisha Davidson:
Quiet Way $5.00
Tiny Bums $5.00
Pluo $8.00

Nothing Doing #1 by Connor Shea $5.00

Draw Blood by Ron Hotz $15.00

Fae Archaic #4 A Real Good Pal O Mine $5.00

Coin Op vol 6 The Last Great Time by Maria & Peter Hoey $19.95

Morphis by Marta Chudolinska $5.00

Cat Food by Amy Peltz $5.00

New Comics #7 by Patrick Kyle $8.00

Green Machine #0 by Amber S. and Jon K $5.00

Hand of Misery #1 a Cahmix Book by Peter Faecke $8.00

Shquirat #1-#3 by Kyle J Osborne $4.00 each

Banchan #2 In Two Pages 7 East Korean Recipes by Robin ha $5.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt (D&Q) $22.95 – Pop culture, relationships, and the animal in all of us!

Ulcera by Puiupo and Adonis Pantazopoulos $8.99

Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist’s Encounter with Margaret Sanger by Sabrina Jones (Soft Skull Press) $19.95 – Jones’s autobiographical sections of Our Lady of Birth Control show her journey into activist art in response to the anti-feminist backlash of the Reagan era. From street theater and protest graphics to alternative comics, her path similarly follows in Margaret’s footsteps, encountering versions of the same adversaries.

Compass South by Hope Larson $17.99 – Twin twelve-year-olds in 1860 NYC go on an epic quest to find their missing father.

Elf Cat in Love by James Kochalka (Retrofit Comics / Big Planet Comics) $15.00

SEX CRIMINALS TPB vol 3 Three the Hard Way by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky & friends $14.99

Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk & friends (Dark Horse) $29.99

How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba & more $17.99

Wits End by Allison Bannister $15.00

*OUTER LIMITS*

Under Spiritual Siege: How Ghosts and Demons Affect Us and How to Combat Them by William Stillman (Schiffer) $14.99

*FICTION*

Familiar vol 3 Honeysuckle and Pain by Mark Z. Danielewski $25.95

A Cure for Suicide: A Novel by Jesse Ball $16.00 – Now in soft cover.

Hang Ups and Hangovers by Kyle Milligan $14.99

In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus ed. by Stephen Jones (Pegasus Press) $27.95 – Here are collected together for the first time twenty-four electrifying tales of cursed creation that are guaranteed to spark your interest?with classics from the pulp magazines by Robert Bloch and Manly Wade Wellman, modern masterpieces from Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, David J. Schow, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, and new contributions from Graham Masterson, Basil Copper, John Brunner, Guy N. Smith, Kim Newman, Paul J. McAuley, Roberta Lannes, Michael Marshall Smith, Daniel Fox, Adrian Cole, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Mooney and Lisa Morton.

Badfish by Sue Rovens $12.00

The Seed Collectors: A Novel by Scarlett Thomas (Soft Skull Press) $26.00 – Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment.

*FILM, TV & MUSIC BOOKS*

The Smiths by Nalinee Darmrong and Andy Bell $45.00 – A photo book of every sulking teenager’s favorite band. Photographer Nalinee Darmrong traveled with and captured the band during its peak years. ALso included: ephemera including original set lists, backstage passes, tickets, and handcrafted promo materials; personal effects such as letters and clothing, and other items.

Stone Male Requiem for the Living Picture by Joe Carducci $29.95

Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle $26.00 – Americans know him as the landlord on The Young Ones and but Brits know him as a lefty-leaning alternative comic.

How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention by Stephen Witt $16.00

*ESSAYS*

How to Ruin Everything: Essays by George Watsky $16.00 – Essays from the absurd (how Watsky became an international ivory smuggler) to the comical (his middle-school rap battle dominance) to the revelatory (his experiences with epilepsy) and more.

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies (Verso Press) $16.95 – Political economist William Davies shows that the science of happiness is less a science than an extension of hyper-capitalism.

Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff (AK Press) $22.00 – Memories of the house painting IWW anarchist rail rider who also translated Mikhail Bakunin’s writings in English.

I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro $26.99

Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Führer by Walter Shapiro $28.00

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari $17.00 – If school were fun! Comedian Ansari collaborated with a sociologist to find how romance happens in our contemporary technology-laden civilization. Now in soft cover.

Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons by Michael Witwer $17.00

Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life: Neil Gaiman!! Jodi Picoult!! Brad Meltzer!! . . . and an All-Star Roster on the Caped Crusaders That Changed Their Lives by Liesa Mignogna $25.99 – Authors share their most hilarious and most heart wrenching experiences with their chosen defender to explain why superheroes matter, what they tell us about who we are, and what they mean for our future.

*MAGAZINES*

High Times Best of #81 16 Top Strains on Earth $6.99

Kilter #11 2016 $5.00

Atlantis Rising #118 Why Is the Martian Sky Blue $6.95

Inked #76 $6.99

Elephant #27 I’m With the Brand $19.99

Cabinet #59 The North $12.00

Little White Lies #65 $12.99

Wire #388 June 16 $9.99

Victory Journal #11 $16.00

Skeptic vol 21 #2 $6.95

Lapham’s Quarterly vol 9 #3 Luck $17.00

Dear Dave Magazine #22 $15.00

Man About Town #18 Spr Sum 16 $19.99

Flaunt #147 The Good Times Issue Spr 16 $15.95

Brownbook #56 Snow An Urban Guide to the Middle East $14.99

*LIT JOURNALS*

Chicago Review Sum Fall 2016 Ed Roberson, Chicago Modernists $15.00

Brick #97 Sum 16 $16.00

*SCIENCE!*

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach $26.95

*KIDS BOOKS*

My Dad Used to Be So Cool by Keith Negley (Nobrow Press) $17.95

*FOOD & DIY*

A Super Upsetting Cookbook about Sandwiches by Tyler Kord $22.99 – A neurotic chef muses on sandwich philosophy, love, self-loathing, pay phones, getting drunk in the shower, Tom Cruise, food ethics, and what it’s like having the names of two different women tattooed on your body. With recipes! And illustrations by William Wegman.

Everybody Is Not Made For This by Crysta Wicks $15.00

A Curious History of Vegetables: Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes by Wolf D. St $22.95

*OTHER STUFF*

Social Justice Kittens Postcards by Sean Tejaratchi (LiartownUSA) $1.50 – Made by the artist behind Crap Hound!

The Denim Delinquent Complete Collection (HoZac) $34.95 – All 8 issues of the ground-breaking 1970s Pre-Punk Fanzine!

*ZINES*

My Mothers Healthy Daughter is Dead by Kristen Leckie $3.00

Sinew that Shrinks #3 by Jenna Brager $3.00

zines from Nia King:
Bollywood Bromance #1 $6.00
Art Life #2 Dont Quit Yr Day Job $5.00
Hari Kondabolu, interviewed by Nia King $3.00

Pitted Peach issues #1 & #2 by Kristen & Maira $3.00/$5.00

Raw Fury #3 & #3.5 by Peter Bergman $15.00/$5.00

Hoax #11 Feminisms and Strategy $3.50

No More Words #1 by Rachel $1.50

Postmodern Anthropology Club by Joseph Wilcox $2.00

No Better Than Apples #11 by Kate Larson $3.00

Cuspian #1 by Jami Sailor $1.00

Vegenaise With a Vengeance by Rudy Ramos $7.00

You’ve Got a Friend In Pennsylvania #10 On Waiting by Sari $2.00

Proof I Exist #24 Short Stories Apr 16 by Billy $3.00

Mechanical Yammering #3 Customer Service by Nick Martin $2.00

We’ve Made A Huge Mistake: A Zine About Driving Across the Country with Everything You Own $2.00

My Complicated Relationship With Food vol 3 Reviews of Some of the Things We Put in Our Mouths $1.00

Field Notes on the American Sasquatch: A Guide by David Norman $2.00

Mend My Dress #14 by Neely Bat Chestnut $2.00

Grime by Jon Keown $10.00

How to Not Give a Fuck About a Thing That Is Not Worth Your Precious Time $2.00

Pissing in a River a Patti Smith Fanzine (S/W Press) $4.00

Going Places: A Native American Education $3.25

Hatching Self-Care Tips for Spring and Summer by Katie Johnson $6.00

Class of Odds by Maxwell Singletary $3.00

Los Angeles 2016 by Adam Jason Cohen $10.00

People Make Plans #3 $2.00

Faint Shaky Stains by Monica Gunderson $3.00

Pretty Much Everything I Eat by Eryca Sender $3.00

Workers Write: Tales From the Construction Site by David LaBounty $10.00

Brooklyn To Mars #10 $7.99

Damaged Mentality #7 $2.25

Terror Squad by Jon Keown $10.00

Airport Travelogue by Norma Krautmeyer $2.00

Mad Libs from CHIPRC (Chicago Publishing Resource Center) $1.00 each:
Jump
2 Phones

*COMICS & MINIS*

You Will Not Be Missed by Kevin Budnik (Tinto Press) $4.00

String of Pearls by Jenna Brager $10.00

Unproductive Now #1 by Helena Danghin $3.00

Futile #4 by Mike Centero $5.00

Eating Shit by Patty Bowman $1.00

Catullus the Poet by R. Sikoryak $3.00

Threats on My Life by Rachael Gressley $10.00

Babby Doll by Chloe Perkis $5.00

Powerman by Box Brown (Kilgore Books0 $7.00

Buy Fuckin Pickles by Michael Ridge $5.00

Earwigs by Emily Dennison $4.00

Wound Care by Subtle Ceiling $3.00

Fractal #1 by Daejuan Jacobs and Buci $3.99

Experts by Sophie Franz $5.00

Copies by Adrienne Bazir $3.00

Various issues of Rotland Dreadfuls! $4.00 each, featuring artists like Sara Drake, R. Sioryak & more!

Comics by Sage Coffey:
If It Were Socially Acceptable $4.00
Punky Doodle Dandy 2013 A Riot On Paper an Anthology of All Things Punk $10.00

Scab County by Carlos Gonzales $5.00

Well by Martin Kravolec $1.00

The World of Occult Wrestling #1 by Robert Young $5.00

Peehole #14 Please Laugh by Jim Donaldson $3.00

Book Thief by Mary Shyne $5.00

Brunch Fight #1 $6.00

Needs More Fire anthology by Carl Bisenius $20.00

Legends of Baseball #4 Oscar Charleston $1.00

Mineshaft #33 Win 16 $9.00

Some Random Guy Falls into An Abstract Nihilistic Misery Hole $3.00

Three Magical Recipes from the Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus, illustrated by Daria Tessler (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $15.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Something New: Tales from A Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley (First Second) $19.99

Turning Japanese a Graphic Memoir by Marinaomi (2D Cloud) $24.95

Bartkira Nuclear Edition (Floating World) $19.99

Ultimate Laugh by Sara Lautman (Tinto) $8.95

Outer Limits: The Steve Ditko Archives vol 6 (Fantagraphics) $39.99

Panther by Brecht Evens (D&Q) $26.95

Blackbird by Pierre Maurel (Conundrum) $17.00

Secretimes by Keith Jones (D&Q) $19.95

Adventure Time vol 7 Four Castles by various $14.99

Munch: Art Masters Series vol 3 by Steffen Kverneland (SelfMadeHero) $24.95

Late Bloomer by Mare Odomo (Retrofit) $10.00

We Stand on Guard by Brian. K. Vaughan $24.99

Wet Moon vol 1 Feeble Wanderings by Sophie Campbell $19.99

Octopus TPB by Leda Zawacki $10.00

Lou by Melissa Mendes $14.95

Wartellas Strip Show: 25 Years of Comix, Controversy and Copyright Infringement by Michael Wartella (Burger Books) $30.00

MINIMUM WAGE TPB vol 2 So Many Bad Decisions by Bob Fingerman $14.99

Shit Out Of Luck by Nicole Rodrigues $4.00

Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson (U of Miss) $35.00

Boke Expressway by Jacob Halton $15.00

*ART & DESIGN BOOKS*

Beyond Duality: The Esoteric Realism of Beny Tchaicovsky (Last Gasp) $39.95

La Catrina & Sugar Skulls vol 2 Gebundene Ausgabe (Kruhm Verlag) $45.00

Sticker Bomb 3 by Studio Rarekwai $24.95 – With over 240 Peelable Stickers!

Penetralia by Gea $25.00

Paul Up North by Michel Rabagliati (Conundrum) $20.00

*FICTION*

Wind / Pinball: Two Early Novels by Haruki Murakami $16.00 – Now in soft cover.

Bricks That Built Houses by Kate Tempest $26.00 – British rapper poet does fiction.

Letters to Kevin by Stephen Dixon (Fantagraphics) $21.99

Albina and the Dog Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Restless Books) $15.99

Metaphysical Ukulele by Sean Carswell (Ig Publishing) $16.95

Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel by Aleksandar Hemon $16.00

Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson $15.99

Locust House by Adam Gnade (Pioneers Press) $15.00

*OUTER LIMITS BOOKS*

American Conspiracy Files: The Stories We Were Never Told by Peter Kross (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95

Coloring Book for Goths: The Worlds Most Depressing Book by Tom Devonald $11.99

The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes by Frank Bures

Zero K by Don Delillo $27.00

*FILM BOOKS*

Flesh and Excess: On Underground Film by Jack Sargeant (Amok Publishing) $19.95

*MUSIC BOOKS*

Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul by Mark Ribowsky $17.95

*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*

From Marx to Gramsci by Paul Le Blanc (Haymarket Books) $22.00

Votes of Confidence A Young Persons Guide to American Elections by Jeff Fleischer $13.99

Cultural Revolution: A Peoples History 1962-1976 by Frank Dikotter $32.00

*SEXXXY STUFF*

Elska #5 Taipei Taiwan $18.50

Spanking for Lovers, Illustrated by Barb by Janet W. Hardy (Greenery Press) $15.95

Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond by Lee Harrington $27.95

*MAGAZINES*

No Friends #3 Spr 16 $6.50

Juxtapoz #185 Jun 16 $6.99

Uppercase #29 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $18.00

Record Culture Magazine $20.00

Ugly Things #41 $9.95

Monocle vol 10 #93 May 16 $12.00

True Crime Apr 16 Posting of a Murder Confession $9.99

Mojo 60s #5 Celebrating Rock’s Decade of Cool $15.99

Record Culture Magazine #1 $20.00

Hello Mr #7 About Men Who Date Men $20.00

Specimen Magazine #3 $6.00

Skeptical Inquirer vol 40 #3 Creators of the Paranormal $5.99

National Green Pages 2016 $9.95

Raw Vision #89 $14.00

*CHAP BOOKS, POETRY & LIT JOURNALS*

Walking Dead Lyric Poems by Dawn Tefft $5.00

Lady Parts #3 by Amelia Hruby $3.00

Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them Or A Sonnet by Emily Carr (McSweeneys) $20.00

N+1 Negation #25 Slow Burn $14.95

Quitter by Trace Ramsey #10 $6.00

Sugar Crash by Mike Tunno $7.00

*KIDS BOOKS*

Johnny Boos Big Boo Box by James Kochalka (Top Shelf) $39.99