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Be Your Own Backing Band by Liz Prince (Silver Sprocket) $10.00 – A collection of comics about life through a punk-rock lens. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, and almost always embarrassing, these autobiographical stories are an essential addition to your LIZ-brary. Hilarious zines by Wizardskull, $10.00 each: Pussy, Gen Xtreme Toon Boners, Slimer Blowing Gum, SeX Files Go Fuck Myself by Mike Freiheit $6.00

*ZINES*

Biff Boff Bam Sock #7 Stuff We Have From Cancer by Anna Jo Beck $5.00 – In the latest issue of Biff Boff Bam Sock, Anna Beck revisits her husband’s (and in many ways her own) recent battle with Cancer. Through a series of ink drawings of medical products, food supplements, and other necessary items which they accrued throughout their year long journey she touches on different aspects of what it was like to care for, and come to terms with this increasingly common struggle. -MC

Fuggles A Beer Zine #3 Win 17 by David Nilsen $3.50

Bookstores and Baseball 9th Inning $7.00 – What started out as a child planning a family vacation has now become a family tradition for David Labounty’s family. In Bookstores and Baseball, the author talks about exactly what it says on the tin. In the 9th Inning David, along with his now college-bound children, visits the renowned book providers, and diamonds of Texas and Alabama. Strap in and join this family tradition, and don’t distract the driver or he’ll turn this car around. -MC

Learn Arabic in 25 Years #1 Inshallah and Beyond Innocuous Arabic by Zora O’Neill $4.00

You Must Always Have a Secret Plan #9 $3.00

*COMICS & MINIS*

Comics from Cole Johnson, $3-$5: Of Course, Twigs and Stones, The Cartoonist, Never In a Million Years, Forgotten Melody At the Edge of Memory, Beige Floral Pattern

Sweet Spot by Amy Peltz $8.00

My Comic Life by Mark McGilberry $1.00

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*

Loose 2016 by Michael Deforge $20.00 – A fantastic collection of sketchbook drawings from 2016.

All Dogs Are Dogs by Michael DeForge $3.00

2 books by Ron Rege Jr.!: What Parsifal Saw (Fantagraphics) $14.99, The Cartoon Utopia (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Double the goodness! Two beautiful new books in by Ron Rege Jr. #comics #ronregejr #fantagraphics #art #graphicnovel

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Audubon, On The Wings Of The World by Fabien Grolleau & Jérémie Royer (Nobrow) $22.95

Saga TPB vol 7 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $14.99

Adventure Time vol 9 Brain Robbers $14.99

Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War, edited by Mark Fertig (Fantagraphics) $29.99 – An oversized compilation of more than 500 stunningly restored comics covers published during World War II. a fascinating look at how legendary creators such as Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Alex Schomburg, Will Eisner, and Lou Fine entertained millions of kids on the home front and buoyed the spirits of GIs fighting overseas by using Adolf Hitler as a punching bag.

*FICTION*

Pain Center: The Novel by David G. Cookson $5.00

Hippies by Gary Gautier $10.99

Placement of Character by Brian Polk $15.00

*MUSIC BOOKS*

Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey by Bob Boilen $16.99

*MAGAZINES*

Hi Fructose #43 New Contemporary Art Magazine $7.95

Tom Tom Magazine #29 Digital Issue $10.00

International Review #158 International Communist Current Spr 17 $3.00

Gentlewoman #15 Spr Sum 17 Sofia Coppola $15.99

Mojo #281 Apr 17 $10.99

Fresh Meat #8 Of The City $15.00

Tapas #11 Spr 17 Kyle McLachlan $19.99

*POETRY & CHAP BOOKS*

On to the Next Dream by Paul Madonna $17.95

The First Line vol 19 #1 Spr 17 $4.00 – In the 58th issue of this literary journal, the premise remains the same: Nine Writers are given the same first line to a story, and the rest is up to them. Seeing way these stories branch out in infinitely disparate ways, even though they stem from the same 14 word sentence is always a treat. Pick a copy of today, and think of what you would do with that first line. -MC

2016 Dollhouse Gig Posters from Starshaped Press. Comes with 12 tiny 2×3 prints, a flexi from John & Marc of the Coctails, Dan Grzeca temp tatts, P22 Analog letterpress print! #starshapedpress #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago

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2016 Dollhouse Gig Posters (Starshaped Press) $85.00 – Tiny gig posters for dollhouses! The idea stems from Starshaped Press wanting to create tiny works of art from the smallest pieces in their metal type collection as well as their longtime passion for music. Operating like an old school record club, subscribers received a new 2×3″ poster each month for a year featuring a different musical style (12 in all). Here’s the reel-shaped box which houses all of the posters.
But wait… there’s more! It includes a flexi disk from John and Mark of The Coctails, temp tatts from Dan Grzeca, and a retro futuristic letterpress print from P22 Analog!

New stuff this week. #newstuff #quimbys #quimbysbookstorechicago #books

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Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock New Wave and Noise in Milwaukee 1964-1984 by Steve Nodine, Eric Beaumont, Clancy Carroll, & Dave Luhrssen $20.00. Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko (N+1) $20.00 – A fixture at Moscow’s protests and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia’s many voiceless citizens. Not content to remain in the capital, she travels the country, visiting schools in dying villages; interviewing sex workers in foundering industrial towns; teaching children at juvenile prisons to draw, all while drawing their stories. Eartha by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics) $29.99

*ZINES*

Light Is a Better God #7 & #8 by Alex Norelli $10.00 each

House of Nicoletti by Franziska Andonopoulos and Michael Morrill $12.00

*COMICS*

Death In Oaxaca #3 Sex and Death in Oaxaca by Steve Lafler $4.99

Tan N Loose Press stuff:
We Are the Cosmos by Gabriel Alcala $10.00
Happy by Jeffrey Cheung $15.00
Fruit Hoops by Leesh Adamerovich $10.00
Vignettes by Clay Hickson $8.00
These Are the Ways in Which I Have Tried to Tell You by Nathaniel Russell $10.00
Lozlifstyle by Lawrence Slater $10.00
Los Angeles Drawings by Liana Jegers $10.00

Chaos Theory by JJ McLuckie $17.00

*ESSAYS*

American Junkie by Tom Hansen (Soft Skull) $16.95 – Should be subtitled Selling Drugs in Seattle. “Heavy like the dark stuff itself.” – Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees.

The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon $17.00

*FICTION*

Mrs. Houdini: A Novel by Victoria Kelly $16.00

*DIY*

Collecting Ourselves: A Cooperative Entrepreneurship Curriculum $20.00

*MAGAZINES*

Tape Op #118 Mar Apr 17 $4.95

RFD #169 Spr 17 Mark Thompson $9.95

Make vol 56 Apr May 17 Don’t Try This At Home $9.99

Shots #135 $7.25

*POETRY & LIT JOURNALS*

A People’s History of Chicago by Kevin Coval (Haymarket) $17.00 – Seventy-seven poems (for the city’s seventy-seven neighborhoods) honoring the everyday lives and enduring resistance of the city’s workers, poor people, and people of color, whose cultural and political revolutions continue to shape the social landscape.

Midwestern Gothic #24 Win 17 $12.00

*SEXXXY*

For Your Eyes Only #1 $15.00