Weekly Top 10

Some older stuff made its way onto the Top 10 this week. Interesting.

1. Post-It Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon Embarrassing Mishaps and Everyday Adventure illustrations by Arthur Jones, with stories by Chuck Klosterman, John Hodgeman, David Rakoff and more (Plume) $15.00. When Arthur Jones cocreated a reading series centered around ubiquitous Post-Its(r), the series struck a chord. It grew in popularity and was ultimately featured on a This American Life live simulcast broadcast across the nation. Inspired by the series and spanning a wide and weird range of topics from an A-list roster of contributors, Post-It Note Diaries captures everyday occurrences from a job interview gone hilariously awry and a nude run-in with a neighbor to hair-raising events like an overnight encounter at Nicholas Cage’s house (it’s not what you think!), and nearly drowning while trying to paddle across the East River in a homemade canoe. Post-It Note Diaries is perfect for NPR addicts and fans of unique graphic favorites like Postsecret and Blankets. Thanks to everybody that came out to this event on Saturday at the Hideout with Arthur Jones, Staree Kine and David Wilcox!

2. Logan Square Literary Review #8 $5.00- Loads of Loganics! Poetry, prose, recipes, a profile of Red Gate Studio and painting portfolio from Aaron Delahanty. Congrats to all who came out for this release event last week.

3. Twenty Dollar Twenty Minute Meals by Caroline Wright $17.50 – Wright approaches food with a clear understanding of intuitive preparation and hearty flavorfulness. Low on procedure and casual about measurement, $20/20min reads less like a cook book and more like a spell book for approachable kitchen magic. -EF

4. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00 – World’s best Fair Use clip arty collagey stuff.

5. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – We can barely keep this one on the shelves!

6. Found Magazine #7 $5.00 – And not even the most recent FOUND. How did it make it onto th Top 10 this week? Amazing.

7. Start Your Own Haunted House: Delve Into Controlled Terror $1.98 – Written by the creative mastermind of a local haunted house here in Chicago. There’s the description of walking through it, how they did it, and even a mask! DIY indeed.

8. Tales of The Leather Nun by Dave Sheridan, Jaxon, R. Crumb and more (Last Gasp) $2.95 – We just got in a mega stash of older underground comix, some dirtier than others. Quick! Get over here before we run out!

9. Kim Gee Comics #3 by Kim Gee $5.00

10. Sorry Partner All The Trees Are Chopped by Dustin Williams $8.00 – Somewhere between a Shel Silverstein story and a Jeremy Tinder drawing rests this latest fully silkscreened comic from Dustin Williams. Lovely two-color design throughout, looking rad in plaid. -EF