Weekly Top 10

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