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Weekly Top 10

Published on February 7, 2012 0 Comments

1. Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotexte)- An eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord.

2. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman $1.00

3. Hi-Fructose #22 $6.95

4. Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00

5. New Adventures of Beastlord by Chris Kuzma $4.00

6. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Marra Benjamin $3.00

7. Apartamento #8 $19.95

8. Eye of the Majestic Creature by Leslie Stein $4.00 – Hot on the heels of the EOTMC collection Fantagraphics releaed this Spring comes a brand new issue of one of my favorite minicomics, Eye of the Majestic Creature. This time, things take a turn for the worse: even deceptively happy-go-lucky elements like LarryBear’s anthropomorphic guitarfriend Marshmallow are getting drunk a little to much. Stein sets Larry’s New York life of arbitrary retail and sand counting to the grim realist prose of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. It’s a bit of heartwrench punctuated with Stein’s unflappable dark humor, bleaker certainly but still brilliant. -EF

9. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90- Good gawd, after a two year hiatus we are back in the pink. This may be the last time Butt goes to print, but it’s hardly a bitter end- this issue serves it extra long and thick. Obscene yet classy homoerotic art? Check. Juicy interviews with a whole gamut of gays? Check. John Waters? Check. Cool, let’s party like its 1999. -EF
10. Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of Doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement.

Weekly Top 10

Published on January 31, 2012 0 Comments

1. The Point #5 Spr 12 Symposium: What is the Left For $12.00 – Chicago-based philosphy/criticism/literary journal.

2. 1-800-MICE by Matthew Thurber (Picturebox) $22.95 – 1-800-MICE is Matthew Thurber’s comic book anthropological study of the imaginary city of Volcano Park: a cross between Thomas Pynchon, Robert Altman and J.R.R. Tolkien. Over the course of the story we meet Peace Punk, a punker on the verge of a bourgeois lifestyle; Tom Chief, a beat cop with an identity crisis; and Groomfiend, a daffy creature who leads the narrative. The serial has earned Thurber rave reviews from, among others, cartoonist Ben Katchor, who writes: “Matthew Thurber has singlehandedly revived the Surrealist program of revolutionary politics through dreamwork. What more can you ask for in a comic-book?” This edition collects five issues of 1-800-MICE, plus 48 pages of new material.

3. Hi Fructose #22 $6.95 – For lovers of Juxtapoz.

4. 1Q84 HC by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) $30.50 – The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.”

5. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF

6. My Aim Is True #4 by Carrie $1.00 – Winter reviews and recipes, talking about loving yrself and fat femininity, sex toy stories, cursive typewriter cut-n-paste school.

7. Remedy Quarterly #7 Heritage $7.50 – Inside you’ll find an interview with Patrick Martins from Heritage Foods USA (and Heritage Radio Network and the new Heritage Meat Shop) that will leave you inspired. Allison Kave of First Prize Pies fame shares her recipe for Bourbon Ginger Pecan Pie (yup, you read it right) and a story about finding inspiration in your kitchen, Erin Wengrovius whipped up a lovely illustrated recipe for us, and Zara Gonzalez Hoang gives us a peek into her Puerto Rican Christmas. Plus you’ll find even more stories, recipes, and tips inside.

8. The Femicide Machine (Semiotexte intervention ) by Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez (Semiotexte) $12.95 – “In Ciudad Juárez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomolous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus that didn’t just create the conditions for the murders of dozens of women and little girls, but developed the institutions that guaranteed impunity for those crimes and even legalized them. A lawless city sponsored by a state in crisis. The facts speak for themselves.” This title is Semiotext(e) Intervention Series #11.

9. Handbook vol 6 #1 2012 by by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – Another meaty issue of this cock-fueled nouveau physique rag. -EF

10. Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 2012 $4.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on January 25, 2012 0 Comments

1. Femme a Barbe vol 2 by by J. Bee $2.00 – True tangles of bearded ladies, gender reformations, hirsute identity and all permutations of feminine stubble, well worth a thorough comb-through. -EF

2. King Cat #72 by John Porcellino $3.00 – Porcellino feels out the fall apart as life unravels…and unravels some more….the first half of this issue travels through some solitudes and stillnesses. An LSD story rustles the banches a little and punctuates a South Beloit diary. Also squirrely letters and bat dancers. Understated, quietly eloquent comics… but you already knew that, right? -EF

3. Monkey In the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00 – Mucha’s got this special brand of world-enhancing “deductive reasoning” paired with an uncanny untuition – part clown, part private eye, thoroughly entertaining. -EF

4. Gary Book 2 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00

5. Maximumrocknroll #345 Feb 12 $4.00

6. Food Stamp Foodie #1 A Mini Zine of Inexpensive Vegan Cookery by Virginia $2.00

7. Truckface #15 by LB $3.00

8. Bitch #53 $5.95

9. Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

10. Grantland Quarterly vol 1 $25.00 – Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

Weekly Top 10

Published on January 17, 2012 0 Comments

1. Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50 – A magazine I simultaneously have to look at but can’t.

2. Shit I Didnt Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50 – Compelling footnotes to various friends and relations, “Shit I Didn’t Tell You” is exactly that. It’s a nice checkup about sorting out how feelings get felt and life gets lived. -EF

3. Exxxtinction by Sy Loady $3.00 – Fuckasoreass Triceratopz.

4.   Show Me The Money #36 $2.50

5.   Hi Fructose #22 $6.95

6.   Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

7.   Truckface #15 by LB $3.00 – Third year teaching high school English for CPS starts with LB hacking up a foreboding bloody clotball snotball. Truckface continues to be an annual report of both teaching and being taught- moving through all the drama, anger, goofiness and apathy and learning how to learn from it all. -EF

8.   More Pictures About Feminism by Brad Troemel $10.00

9.   Judas Goat Quarterly #51 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

10. Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 (Study Group Books) – I imagine the rousing success of last year’s fantastic Study Group 12 anthology (#4) has spurred Study Group Magazine into existence. Like Austin English’s Windy Corner before it, SGM #1 is a full-up ideosyncratic combo platter of comics, interviews and examinations. Articles on Eleanor Davis, Brecht Evens and Craig Thompson and a hearty sampling of comics and illustration from Jennifer Parks, Daria Tessler, Aidan Koch, David King, Malachi Ward, Chris Cilla, T Alixopulos, Zack Soto, Jonny Negron and Michael DeForge. Amen. -EF

Weekly Top 10 and 2011 Revenge of Print List

Published on January 11, 2012 0 Comments

Before last week’s bestsellers, we just wanted to say we are really excited by everyone who participated in the 2011 Revenge of Print! Click here to download a list. Then print it out and fold it pamphlet style.

1. Henry and Glenn Forever Sticker Funbag by Igloo Tornado $5.00

2. Suspect Device #1 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $6.00 – A turd in the hand is worth two in the Bushmiller….Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez assemble quite the goon squad to take old Nancy out for a night on the town. -EF – Work from: Jon Vermilea, Dane Martin, Elizabeth Bethea, Lizz Hickey, Nikki Burch, Brendan Leach, B Florio with M Note, Josh Burggraf, Jimmy Giegerich, J Hessig, Scalzo, M Sgier, Marina Gargarina, Leroy, V Kerlow, Sam Henderson, Anne Emond, Pat Aulisio, Tom Hart, Jude Killroy and Box Brown.

3. Hound and the Musch by Scott Roberts $6.00

4. Under the Radar #39 $5.99

5. Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga $7.95 – The lucid insanity of insomnia fuels Huizenga’s understated formalist finesse. Glenn Ganges, suburban everyman, falls prey to a eye-pleasing array of graphic tricks and a 1 a.m. sense of humor that would keep me up at night thinking about it too. -EF

6. Bad Day #12 – a culture magazine.
7. Du Manger En Canne by R. Suicide $5.00 – loppy botulistic potted meat from the Mille Putois Laboratory, getting busy making it’s own gravy.

8. Grantland #1 $25.00 – Well, finally we got a few of these in for long enough that I can put them up on the webstore. Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

9. Hark A Vagrant by Kate Beaton $19.95

10. My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00