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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities

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Chicago's 1st Manga Shop! 🌈Proudly Queer-Owned & Arab-Owned Manga • Manhwa • Danmei • Comics • Crafts • RPGs • Games • Curiosities (Posts, comments, and bizarre opinions about popular media are by Ryvre/@NikaRiots)

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hello Bluesky! We're Goblin Market, a queer-owned and Arab-owned #indiebookstore in Chicago.

We specialize in manga, graphic novels, comics, danmei, indie rpgs, and nerdy crafts. Hi new friends!

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 17h

Vol 1 of Galaxy: the Prettiest Star was so good! Peorders are open for volume 2.

goblinmkt.com/manga-and-gr...

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 19h

See you tomorrow for brunch and banned books! 📚🥞💋

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 7d

What pairs better than brunch and books? Saturday, Oct 11 is Let Freedom Read Day and Lincoln Ave Brunch Fest! Three Avenues Bookshop and Goblin Market are teaming up to help our community fight book bans.

“What if we kissed at the Brunch Fest Banned Book Reading Tent.” Event graphic with stacked books on a library-shelf background. Text: “Saturday, October 11, 10am–2pm.” Logos for Goblin Market and Three Avenues Bookshop.

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 1d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 1d

Banned and challenged audio books. I focused on graphic novels and manga on the other list, and this one is mostly fiction. libro.fm/playlists/10...

Banned & Challenged Books Playlist on Libro.fm

A very long, and yet incredibly incomplete list of books that were banned and challenged in the the last three years. Sources: the ALA, PEN America, E.K. and S.K v. Department of Defense Education A...

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 1d

A curated but very incomplete list of banned or challenged books. I was going to make a top 20 list, but then I started combing through databases, and there are so many! 😭 This is just a small selection of books banned or challenged in the last couple years.

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Banned & Challenged Books

A very long, and yet incredibly incomplete list of books that were banned and challenged in the the last three years.

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 1d

Don's pick of the week is Mary Sue #1 by Meghan Fitzmartin & Lisa Sterle. We're loving the homage variant covers on each issue!

Don Alsafi holding two copies of Mary Sue at Goblin Market

Variant cover of Mary Sue #1 by Jenny Frison

Variant cover of Mary Sue #1 by Paulina Ganucheau. The cover is an homage to Twilight

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 4d

Brunch Fest is this Saturday, 10am-2pm! Come by for free brunch samples, and swing by our Banned Book Reading Tent. 📚🥞

We're closing at 5pm after Brunch Fest to host Dungeons and Derby, a fundraiser for the Windy City Rollers.

A hand holds a flyer in front of a street scene in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. The flyer advertises “Lincoln Brunch Fest,” scheduled for Saturday, October 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Lincoln Art District, presented by the Lakeview Special Service Area 27. The event will take place on Lincoln Avenue from Diversey to Wellington. Behind the flyer, the “Left Coast Food + Juice” restaurant sign is visible, with tree-lined sidewalks, cars, and a traffic light at the intersection of George, Lakewood, and Lincoln Avenue in the background.

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 6d

The Artistic Alphabet Mafia is the organizer behind the Care Cubbies. Check them out at carecubby.net for more Care Cubby locations in Chicago.

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 6d

Donations happily accepted! We'd really like to add some menstrual products, pet food, rapid covid tests, and at-home flu tests.

And we're on the look out for cute little baskets to keep things neat and organized.

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 6d

Right now, the Care Cubby is stocked with Narcan, drug testing strips, pregnancy tests, sexual health items, kn95 masks, pain killer, ear plugs, hand sanitizer, and pet treats.

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 6d

Have you noticed this new friend in our Art & Community space? It's a Care Cubby stocked to help you care for yourself and your community!

Our Care Cubby was made by the @trashgoblins.bsky.social, because goblins believe in mutual aid. 💚

A wooden chest decorated as a Dungeons & Dragons-style “mimic,” with teeth, eyes, a red tongue, and a green dragon head on the front. The chest is open, showing a teeth and a hint of a tongue. Under the chest, there are shelves stocked with Narcan boxes, harm reduction supplies, and other small items.

Two boxes of Narcan nasal spray (naloxone HCl 4mg) on a shelf. The boxes contain two single-dose nasal spray devices for emergency treatment of opioid overdose.

A close-up of a basket with packets labeled “WiseBatch Harm Reduction,” containing individually wrapped test strips. Signs indicate three types: benzodiazepine, xylazine, and fentanyl single-use test strips.

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 7d

Spooky windows are almost done! 🎃

An artist with short blonde hair paints Halloween window art at dusk, seen through a shop’s glass with street reflections

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 7d

Stop by our Banned Book Reading Tent (~2860 N Lincoln Ave) during Brunch Fest to relax with a banned book and learn how you can fight book bans.

Library-shelf background with a tall stack of books at right. Large text: “There were over 10,000 attempts to ban or censor books in school libraries last year. Censorship has increased dramatically in 2025.”

Library-shelf background with the line: “Book bans overwhelmingly target books featuring people of color and LGBTQ+ people.” Jacket images shown: All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, and Flamer by Mike Curato.

Text on a bookshelf background: “Three Avenues Bookshop & Goblin Market are teaming up to bring Freedom to Read Day to Lincoln Ave. Stop by our Banned Book Reading Tent during Lincoln Ave Brunch Fest to relax with a banned book and discover ways to fight book bans. Banned Book Story Time! 1:30 pm, A Big Mooncake for Little Star.”

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 7d

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 7d

It's October 3rd.

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 8d

Critical Role Campaign 4 is starting now!!!

A group of people in the Goblin Market art & community space

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 8d

Our windows are getting a spooky makeover! 👻

A photo taken from inside a shop of a person painting a ghost on the outside of the window

Goblin Market's storefront. A woman in a white skirt and grey top is painting a ghost and clouds on the window, and paint bottles are lined up on the windowsill

Goblin Market's storefront. A woman in a white skirt and grey top is painting a ghost and clouds on the window. There is a ladder and paint bottles are lined up on the windowsill

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 9d

Two picks from Don this week:
The Author Immortal #1 by Frank J. Barbiere & Morgan Beem — A washed-up writer wakes up inside the fantasy series he loved as a kid.

The Last Day of H.P. Lovecraft #1 by Romuald Giulivo & Jakub Rebelka — A surreal, haunting take on Lovecraft’s final hours.

Don Alsafi of Goblin Market holding two comics

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 9d

Calling all Critters! Join us tomorrow for nerdy crafts and the launch of Critical Role campaign 4! criticalrolewatchparty.eventbrite.com

A blindfolded man with fangs and a city coming out of his head and the words Critical Role Campaign 4

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 10d

This sticker by @thesadsquatch.bsky.social is calling to me today.

A hand holding a sticker with a possum and the words Trans Rights or I Bites

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 12d

Bsky is my favorite social media platform (other than our store discord), so I made you guys a coupon code. 🖤 Use the code "skeets" for 30% off craft kits.

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 12d

Nerdy crafts start at 7pm, including our most popular craft kit--mimic dice boxes!

A mimic from D&D painted up in rainbow colors and surrounded by dice

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 12d

Join us this Thursday for nerdy crafts and the launch of Critical Role campaign 4! criticalrolewatchparty.eventbrite.com

Critical Role Campaign 4 Watch Party + Nerdy Crafts

Watch Critical Role Campaign 4 with us! Crafts at 7, stream at 9, snacks, costumes, and good vibes ‘til 11!

criticalrolewatchparty.eventbrite.com

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Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 13d

It's great having an offsite event that's close enough to use a wagon instead of renting a car!

Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social · 13d

That's a wrap on our first Boozy Book Fair! Thanks so much to @beermiscuous.bsky.social and to everyone who stopped by. 💖

Daniel outside Beermiscuous, a bat with a lot open sign in the window. Daniel is standing next to a fully loaded wagon

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