The Magic Is Back

Jay Howell is back in the game, Magic The Gathering specifically. A new collection of 5 new cards (and a Bone Miser, classic) is now available through Secret Headquarters. Foil variants randomized in each order, at least one included. The backs of the cards are all blank and sketched by Jay.

Each envelope contains:
1x Agent of Treachery
1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
1x Treasonous Ogre
1x Uncivil Unrest
1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
1 x Bone Miser

Magic the Gathering, the Jay Cards.

Stop by Secret Headquarters to snag your Magic today! If you can’t make it, we have the cards up on our site for purchase.

While you are there, we only have a few sizes left of Jay’s Ghost In the Shell tee left. And don’t forget your copy of Black & White Drawings which we published with Jay, it’s on sale!

Close up of design on the Ghost in the Shell tee.

Mega Art Sale - Final Weekend!

If you’ve stopped by recently you know we are in the middle of a Flat file clean out! Secret Headquarters has a massive collection of art on display right now. Dave has a good eye for art, but there isn’t always a good way to share that art with the world. Well, now you can see the copious collection with your own eyes. Old SHQ art, cool stuff you might have missed, rare photographs, new shit you haven’t seen.

Brinkman!

Ice T, Rakim!

If you have not been by the shop recently then you might have missed out on some good art, but never fear there are a ton of amazing options still for sale. We’ll keep the art up through Sunday the 1st, so please stop by to get your fix!

LA Art Book Fair 2025

Come visit us staring on Thursday at the always mind blowing LA Art Book Fair! 

SHQ is in the 870 building at Table O20. We're releasing two new books (details below 👀)

Thursday, May 15
Opening Night
6–9pm, $30

Friday, May 16
11am–1pm, Preview (registration required)
1–7pm, $5

Saturday, May 17
11am–7pm, $5

Sunday, May 18
11am–1pm, Mask Required Hours (free registration)
1 –5pm, Free

ArtCenter College of Design
South Campus
950 S. Raymond Ave, 870 S. Raymond Ave
Pasadena, CA 91105

THE DOME: Throat Heart Mouth Earth 

A collection of self portraits by Carly Jean Andrews.

Spiral bound and printed in LA.
13 pages
Includes a o/s silkscreened thong!

Published by Secret Headquarters, 2025

Carly will be at the SHQ LAABF table signing on Thursday night from 7-8p and Friday afternoon from 1-2p. 

Can't make it to the Fair? Get yours HERE!

Magic Fun Shop

by Adam Wallacavage

Photographs taken at Magic Fun Shop, Philadelphia, PA between 1995 - 2005.
Design by Clark Allen

Magic Fun Shop collects Adam Wallacavage's photographs made between 1995 and 2005, which provide an indescribable journey inside Philadelphia’s mysterious Magic Fun Shop. The book introduces us to Ed 'Doc' Turner, a hoarder of magic tricks, halloween masks and novelties. Doc maintained his dungeon of boxes, occult supplies, and melting latex for well over 50 years. Aware of the incredible and shocking collection of mystifying curiosities, Wallacavage captures the dusty, idiosyncratic history of Magic Fun Shop with unnerving detail. Each image is a step into a long shuttered world of strange wonders and long forgotten oddities.

Adam Wallacavage is an American artist renowned for his surreal and highly ornate octopus chandeliers. Wallacavage's chandeliers have been showcased in galleries worldwide, including São Paulo, Rome, London, Miami, Los Angeles, Vienna, and New York. Beyond his sculptural work, Wallacavage is also an accomplished photographer with images appearing in Thrasher, Transworld Skateboarding and Slap. His first book, Monster Size Monsters, published by Gingko Press in 2006, documents fifteen years of his photographic work. Magic Fun Shop is his first publication with Secret Headquarters and Apologies Press.

90 Pages
7.25” x 9.3125”
Full color hardcover
Offset printing

Published by Secret Headquarters and Apologies Press, 2025

Snag your magical copy HERE!

A Farewell From Jules

tl;dr: So long and thanks for all the fish!

I started working at SHQ as a 24 year old girl, and I'm leaving a 38 year old dude. Life is wild.

This job has been my dream come true. I've met incredible people and lifelong friends in customers, creators, and coworkers alike. I've watched toddlers who came in with their parents every weekend go off to college and become artists in their own right. I've gotten to raise funds and gather supplies for groups near and dear to my heart like Access Reproductive Justice, Trans Defense Fund LA, Mutual Aid LA, 826LA, LAUSD Homeless Education Office, and more. I've read so, so many amazing comics.

My last day working at SHQ is March 21. Swing by, say hi, I'd love to see you. Catch me thereafter picking up my pull list on Wednesdays (and grabbing a chocolate chip cookie at Proof.)

Be brave, be kind, support your local shop.

3/28 Jordan Crane Signing

It’s your lucky day, a new Jordan Crane collection is coming! Please join Jordan and the SHQ Crew on Friday, March 28th from 5-7p to celebrate the birth of this new book baby.

Preorder your books HERE to either pick up in store at the event or have a signed copy shipped to you afterwards! All copies ordered through SHQ will come with a beautiful exclusive signed book plate (seen below, while supplies last!)