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Take Heaven everywhere you go!
We Had a great time celebrating Katie Skelly and her new release of Heaven!
alongside a copy of heaven, you can now snag a keychain to take heaven everywhere you go!
Approx 2.25" high. Metal. Enamel. Glitter. 3D.
Analog Outlaw Flyer
Dave will be Back at Analog Outlaw this Saturday, June 27th, with a table piled high with all the weird shit you felt self conscious about buying in the shop. Weirdos unite! Normal people also welcome.
Banner Image for Katie Skelly’s Heaven Book Launch at Secret headquarters, July 17 at 5 PM.
Join us to celebrate shop-favorite Katie Skelly and her new release of Heaven! Previously self published, and now collected in a gorgeous hardcover published by Fantagraphics. If you see the sign it was meant to be, this is your sign to step into Heaven.
Minnesota Street Project Foundation Presents San Francisco Art Book Fair 2026
If you missed out on LA Art Book Fair, now is your chance to get in on the action in San Francisco. Small press, Underground, Obscurities, and Ephemera all within your grasp. The list of vendors is staggering, come celebrate 10 years of SFABF with Dave and David in San Francisco, July 23 - 26!
Crickets Tote Bag Designed by Sammy Harkham
Secret Headquarters has made a lot of cool stuff recently. Terror House zines by Sammy Harkham! Crickets tote bag! New shirts, SHQ Secret Fantasy Swap Meet or even Darthman, in 2 colorways. If you haven‘t stopped by to check out are new merch what are you even doing?! We miss you!
We’re here with another round of recommendations, this time from our fearless leader, Dave!
Dave with Hobtown postcard
Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer
Saucer is the third book in the dreamiest mystery series you'll ever read! Kris and Alex stepped away from traditional storytelling and dropped us into a tale that I'm pretty sure can be read in any order ya like. I think they're pushing us away from classic "question and answer" in the most challenging and surreal way. Or maybe I was just a little confused.
Crickets #9 by Sammy Harkham
I'm pretty biased when it comes to Sammy. He's the youngest old guy you'll ever meet. So much so, that when he actually gets old I'm pretty sure he'll become one of those guys that can just grunt and speak volumes if you have the right ears for it. Right now he makes incredible comics that aren't for everyone, but if they're for you, you're stoked.
Lézards Rêveurs by Moebius
This book contains two unpublished sketchbooks by the undisputed line-master Moebius! What more could I possibly say? If that's not automatically lighting a hot fire inside you, then maybe you should take a look at it!
The Seasons by Rick Remender and Paul Azaceta
A nailed mix of writing and art that just runs from page to page! I'd love to see it as one long sideways scroll. It's almost like a Rube Goldberg device that tells an epic mystery story. So much fun!
Turd Book #7 by Cesar Massturd
Cesar draws like that kid in school who just raged all over the paper while you were trying to shade that one eye just right. His life explodes into every notebook! It can be tough to look at, but keep flipping through and you'll be dumped directly into a kind of hell, but like a really great hell. Like a hell learning experience.
This guy! This book! I wonder if his parents read his comics. They're gnarly nuts! Ugh, I love and am also just so repulsed by every line. Watching people's faces when they see the art for the first time is the funnest.
SHQ crew back with more recs!
Chris! With Books!
Cornelius by Marc Torices
This book is pure cartooning elegance, weaving disparate art styles into a fever dream, dark-as-a-bottomless-pit comedy. Cornelius is "spoiled and immature, unable to deal with life as an adult. Someone feverishly feigning emotional stability while actually being driven by pure and simple desperation." Cornelius is an asshole. Cornelius is a coward. Cornelius is pathetic and pitiable. Cornelius is also a dog. Cornelius for president, or at least a nomination for a Nobel Prize.
Saga De Xam by Nicolas Devil & Jean Rollin
In Jean Rollin's 1979 film Fascination, the maids call their chateau a "universe of madness and death", an apt description of his own decade earlier book Saga de Xam. In its first English translation ever, heroine Saga escapes her war-riddled planet like a Kal-El with boobs, and proceeds to hop time through some of the most brutal (trigger warnings galore) and horny moments of Planet Earth. Equal parts Belladonna of Sadness, Barbarella and Ottinger's Madame X, Rollin forges his fantastique, feminist, sapphic priorities, but the true star is Nicolas Devil's art, a cannonball of psychedelic expression which feels as if Sun Ra's cosmic music is pouring through Devil's pen.
Them Shaped Clouds by Max Huffman
Max Huffman's Dogtangle is terrific but three cheers for this riso mini-masterpiece from Cram Books. Collecting a handful of shorties, this banger combines Huffman's slacker wit with his angular-Hirschfeld, cubist naughty aughties Cartoon Network on acid style. This all with colors that would make the Las Vegas Boneyard blush.
Buff Soul by Moa Romanova
If JD Pinkus is the wise sage in your tale of youthful folly, you've already succeeded. Taking the EP (On Tour, published by Peow) and expanding it into a full length album, Buff Soul stirs all the feelings of wild salad days, ignoring your bodily well-being and balancing the teetering scale of new adulthood, where none of it matters and at the same time, all of it matters. It made me exclaim aloud "oh to be young again!", followed by the sobering realization that I was never punk, and have lived an uneventful, nerdy, little life.
Miss Ruki by Fumiko Takano
Illuminating, light-hearted, slice of life comics of a working girl in late 80s consumer culture Japan. Miss Ruki brought me cozy comfort on the same level of Taniguchi's Walking Man with a touch of the tangible realness of Matsumoto's Tokyo These Days. Basically Cathy except less nervous sweating and acks.
Spy Seal: The Corten Steel Phoenix by Rich Tommaso
God bless Rich Tommaso and those Dawn of the Dead Mall weirdos at Floating World for reprinting one of the most criminally underrated comics of the last decade. Perfect for Tintin fans if you hate cultural appropriation. Perfect for Bond fans if you hate sexism and racism. Perfect for Usagi fans if you hate rabbits. Plainly, a perfect book.
Me! With Tongues!
Tongues winds its way through my life in a way that almost feels like something cosmic. Having read the gorgeous, self-published volumes, I was prepared to take the journey again, even though it's heavier now. It's hard to describe how much this book feels alive, from the paneling to the lore, no detail too small. The interior of the book may not change with each reading but walking the path will forge us anew.
Also check out the Tongues Process Zine we published with Anders. Perfect for the Nilsen super fan!
Interior art for Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson
“Now I realize you're at least as crazy as me.” As someone who has cried in public and plans to continue that trend, I must recommend Baby Blue. Sometimes even therapy can be used as a bludgeon to make us feel better and return to being a good consumer instead of looking at the root causes of our depression, the unjust world. This is taken to the extreme when Betty gets picked up by the pigs for crying in public and daring to ask the internet what's wrong. Well, there's nothing wrong with your anxiety, except the way of the world, so let's change it together.
Drome is a gift from the gods.
Phenomenal art with unique paneling. Can we end the cycle of violence or are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? To meet the gods, you simply walk until you can walk no more. If you are into Lonergan’s style also check out his work on Man’s Best with shop favorite writer Pornsak Pichetshote, we have copies!
Out of Alcatraz
This one is a bit different than my usual style, but I’ve loved Christopher Cantwell since Halt and Catch Fire and I can’t get enough. Combining True Crime with speculative fiction, Out of Alcatraz shows what possibly could have happened to the real life escapees from their infamous island incarceration. Great action and rising tension, plus it’s so fun to see 1960s California in Tyler Crook’s style. Can we truly find freedom or are we just trading one prison cell for another of our own making?
The Ultimates Fix The World
With the way things are going recently, it’s surprising to see Disney put out some of the most anti-fascist mass media since Andor. If you haven’t checked out Deniz Camp’s other comics (why haven’t you read Assorted Crisis Events yet?!) then The Ultimates is a great place to start. The Maker is up to some shit (when is he not?) and the Ultimates are here to save the day, but can they? This book hits more like the X-Men than the Avengers, challenging the status quo in a universe stacked against them. fuck the status quo!
Print from Goes Like This by Jordan Crane
Many of you know Keeping Two is my all time favorite graphic novel, but the Goes Like This collection cements Jordan Crane as my favorite artist. Spanning genres, the way he crafts quiet moments between characters that are exploding with emotional intimacy is unparalleled. I've long admired the “At Night One Day” print and reading the full story of “One Day” feels like a missing piece of me has been returned. Such a simple story with such big feelings, but I guess that's life captured the way only Jordan can do it.
This collection also comes with a risograph print signed by Jordan while they last!