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Weekly Top 10

Published on January 3, 2012 0 Comments

Happy 2012! Here’s last weeks bestsellers.

1. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95 – I’m sorry, these comics are going to thrizzle you whether you wanna be thrizzled or not. -EF

2.  Best American Comics 2011 ed. by Alison Bechdel et al. (HM) $25.00 – Showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors.

3. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00

4. Juxtapoz #132 Jan 12 $5.99

5. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

6. So This Is What Its Come To: A Comic Zine About the Trials and Tribulations of OK Cupid by Liz Prince, Leslie Perrine, Kettner and Ramsey Everydaypants $3.00

7. The Death Ray by Dan Clowes (D&Q) $19.95 – Coming-of-age-as-comic-book-parable-told-as-comic-book. Another Clowes mindfuck, conveniently in gorgeous hardcover. -EF

8. Girls On Girls #1 Zine and CD: Girls Singing Songs About Girls by Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman $5.00

9. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95

10. The Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season One by Joshua Chapman $2.00 – Liz got so nerded up about this one she entered it into our database as “Field Guide to the Aliens of TNG S1″ so when I looked up simply “Star Trek” it was not to be found because I had failed to enter the correct nerd code. I imagine this will provoke a similar reaction in some of you and you will rip into this reprint of 7th Grader Joshua Chapman’s obsessive cataloguing of the “Next Gen” alien species, complete with pictures and a star rating system. -EF

Weekly Top 10

Published on December 20, 2011 0 Comments

1. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine $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

2. Notes for a People’s Atlas (AREA Chicago) $8.00 – Notes on a People’s Atlas is a compelling project summary of AREA Chicago’s year-long autonomous mapping project. The gathering of how we chart our lives into physical space relfects the absorbtion of the political into the personal and vice versa, shaping an amorphous picture of a physical plane. Compelling and well-explained, “Notes” offers some amazing modes of mapping, Chicago-centric but extending itself worldwide. -EF

3.   Grantland Quarterly vol 1 (McSweeneys) $25.00 – Sports journal from Eggers & Co. More copies on the way!

4.   S #9 Baltic Comics Magazine $8.00

5. The Post-It Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon Embarrassing Mishaps and Eve by Arthur Jones and friends (Plume) $15.00

6.  Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

7. Everybody Dies: A Children’s Book for Grown Ups (Don’t Feel Bad) $by Ken Tanaka $10.00

8. Crap Hound #8 Superstition by Sean Tejaratchi (Show & Tell) $12.00 – This issue meditates on such things as black cats, butterflies, knots, candles…All with a wonderful “Fair Use” collage-y awesomeness.

9. Milk and Cheese Dairy: Products Gone Bad (They Hate What You Hate And They Hate You) by Evan Dorkin (Dark Horse) $19.99 – This Everything-Milk-and-Cheese lux hardcover collection has even got our resident vegan Neil stoked -EF

10. Cartoonshow #1 You Will All Die In Pain by Derek M. Ballard (Drippy Bone) $6.00 – Shit, this comic came outta left field and hit me upside the head as I was leaning in for more pretzels. Freak publishers Drippy Bone Books and freak publishee Derek M Ballard flow together into one pastel future pornscape of the third mind. Stain your purity panties and give it a go, so glad this is happening. -EF

Weekly Top 10

Published on December 13, 2011 0 Comments

A lot of this stuff is not on our website (ones that are have links). Guess you’ll just have to come in to see ‘em.

1. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00 – Come n’ get it.

2. Butt #29 $9.90

3. Abuela Y Los Dead Mexicans #1 by David Ortega $6.00
4. Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes (Akashic) $14.95
5. Paris Review #199 $12.00
6. 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

7.  S #9 Baltic Comics Magazine (Kus) $9.50 – As pictured above.

8. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – The hit of the season.

9. Bitch #53 $5.95

10. Go For Broke #2 Klimbing Kilimanjaro $2.50

Weekly Top 10

Published on December 6, 2011 0 Comments

1. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot $12.00 – Sweet Spot. Come n’ get it.

2. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine $9.90

3. 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

4. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00

5. Book of Whale Insults (Blue Q) $3.99

6. Notes For A Peoples Atlas: People Making Maps of Their Cities by AREA Chicago $8.00 – This multi-city community mapping project started in Chicago in 2005, and has since expanded to a number of cities ranging from Zagreb to Greencastle, Indiana (USA). The project was initiated by AREA-Chicago, a magazine about art, research, education and activism in Chicago. The book and a website (peoplesatlas.com) document this project by presenting the maps collected in each city along with commentary by leading thinkers dealing with art, urban space, cartography and definitions of place.Featuring Mapping Projects from: Chicago, IL; Zagreb, Croatia; Syracuse, NY; Greencastle, IN; Portland, OR; Granada, Spain; Waterville, ME; Chisinau, Moldova; New York City, NY; Detroit, MI; Boston, MA; Pilsen; Chicago; Santiago, Chile; London, ON, Canada; Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Ukraine (Uzhgorod, Donetsk, Kherson, Simferopol, Vinnytsia); Gary, IN; and Valparasio, Chile.

7. Miami You’ve Got Style: A Little Golden Girls Book by Scott and Zach $13.00 – Epic quest through fashion policing every Golden Girls episode ever….it’s a media meltdown in lilac and mauve. -EF

8. Logan Square Literary Review #5 Win 11 $5.00 – This issue of the Logan Square is full up of milkyfoodyicebox double entendre: soliciting gay refrigerator sperm, simmering dr.pepper for orgasmic cookery, peeky toe crab benedict….and a few other nice things that maybe aren’t like that at all. -EF 9. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – 10. Maximumrocknroll #343 Dec 11 $4.00

Weekly Top 10

Published on November 29, 2011 0 Comments

New Boyd Rice book in the house, debuting at the Top 10 this week. -Cassee Kasem

1. Slingshot 2012 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00

2. Slingshot 2012 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – The planner with a daily dose of radical history, infoshop contact list, useful essays, menstrual calendar, address book, everything basically.  If you have color preferences, list a couple in your order notes!

3. Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00

4. Biggest Mistake of Your Life – Wondering If You Are Making - Love Is Not Constantly by Sarah Miller $5.00 – Brilliantly styled as a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

5.  Adbusters Jan 2012 $8.95

6. Regional #3 An Examination of American Cuisine by Cassie Tompkins and Emily Gelsomin $8.50

7. My Aim Is True by Carrie $1.00

8. Brilliant Mistake #3 by Carrie $1.00

9. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00

10. Twilight Man by Boyd Rice and Nina Antonia (Heartworm) $15.00 – “Heartworm Press and 23WLVS are proud to present the new 100-page memoir by Boyd Rice, which follows Rice through San Francisco’s darkest crevices during his time as a responder for the Twilight Alarm Company. Preface by Nina Antonia, author of Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood.