Weekly Top 10

Once again, the Chester Brown book tops the list for bestsellers here. Dan Gleason’s new best of book is next, and would you believe, he’s on a greatest hits volume 3! Thanks to everybody that came out for his release event here at Quimby’s this past weekend.

1. Paying For It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95

2. Dear Sweetness – Dan Gleason’s Greatest Hits vol 3 $8.95 – It is once again time to bathe in the Living Light that is Dan Gleason. His generosity, wit, craftsmanship and sexual potency know no boundaries. His greatest hits are perhaps best likened to the secret treasures of the Vatican. Where there was one set of footsteps, my child, that is where Dan Gleason carried you. -EF

3. Seasonal #1 by Bobbi Parry and Sarah Morton $7.00

4. Boys Club #1 by Matt Furie (Buenaventura Press) $5.00 – A collection of Matt Furie’s latest mini-comics featuring teenage monsters Andy, Brett, Landwolf and Pepe: drinkin;, stinkin; and never thinkin’.

5. Diamond Comics #6 $4.00

6. AdBusters #95 vol 19 #3 May Jun 11 $8.95

7. Ready Made #53 Jun Jul 11 $4.95

8. Big Hands #8 by Aaron Smith $3.00 – How can you love a zine that’s tackling just about basically everything mediocre and obnoxious? In Big Hands #8 Aaron picks apart cubicle jobs, prowling around on Facebook, couples, dropping dollars at the club, the movie Juno, cliche party drama, and lord have mercy, that Black Eyed Peas song “I Gotta Feeling”, offering up a cultural critique that’s flexible and relevant without being bitchy or pre-determined. It’s like that phenomena where you hate the movie but love the Anthony Lane film review.

9. New Adventures of Beastlord #1 by Chris Kuzma $4.00 – Beastlord tackles social anxiety disorder leaving friends, syntax and party planning decimated in his wake. Also a nice little Wog comic too. Drawings that leave you wishing you had lotsa weird muscles or at least more lovely lady lumps. -EF

10. Famous Hairdos of Popular Music #5 Prince $3.00 – That’s right, you heard me right: Prince. Sixteen artists take that iconic ‘do and turn it into a symbol. -EF