New Stuff This Week
Tonight (Fri the 3rd) is Punk Rock Karaoke at The Beauty Bar, a fundraiser for the Chicago Zine Fest. See you there!
Zines
Rad Dad #21 Occupy by Tomas Moniz $4.00
On Being Hard Femme #1 by Jackie Wang $1.20 - Wang presents a great little zine about identity, toughness, bike grease femininity and lace trimmed queerness and making up definitions as you go along. -EF
Xerography Debt #30 $4.00
Railroad Semantics #5 2011 by Aaron Dactyl $6.50 - Absolutely, positively, without a doubt, obsessed with the rails. Another huge, densely packed issue, plenty of nice spreads of train tags and built around a winding travelogue taking us down the line from one notable stop to the next.
Want What You Got 2012 by Ana Norell $1.00
Travel On #1 and #2 by David Solomon $2.00 each - Solomon writes about his icoloclastic sentiments and what he's trying to iconoclash with. Conversations about scars, letters about love, essays about collecting one's own ephemera. -EF
Ways of the Two Spirits #1 Jan 12 by Devan Elyse Bennett $3.00 - Part One in a series of a five zine series of Queer History Trans Traditions.
Notes and Bolts #1 A Compendium of Music Food and Art by Kris Stress et al. $4.50
Thought Catalog 2011 by Emily Kozik $5.00
Light in the Dark With the Neon Arms BY Sonor On $10.00
Pigeon to the Phoenix $5.00
Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman, English grade 8 April 13 1991 $1.00
Comics & Comix
Nix Comics Quarterly #4 $5.00
Richie Rich: Poor Little Rich Boy by Sonor On $20.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by R. Crumb (Fatagraphics) $19.99
Action, Mystery, Thrills: Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933- 1945 (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Young Romance: The Best of Simon and Kirbys Romance Comics (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Rat Catcher by Andy Diggler et al. (Vertigo) $12.99
Unspent Love or Things I Wish I Told You by Shannon Gerard (Conundrum) $20.00
Hermoddities by Temple Bates (Conundrum) $20.00
Colliers Popular Press - David Collier's 30 Years On the Newsstand by David Collier (Conundrum) $20.00
Art & Design Books
Lisa Anne Auerbach Umma Porjects July 11 - Oct 11 99 by Lisa Anne Auerbach et al. (University of Michigan Museum of Art) $7.00 - I love this phase from the introduction: "she probes the possibilities of craft and advocates for the leftist reclaimation of homemaking."
Inklings by Vida Simon $20.00
Don't Get Lonely Dont Get Lost by Elisabeth Belliveau (Conundrum) $25.00 - Sensitive, minimal and compelling. By the artist of Something to Pet the Cat About.
Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art ed. by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel (Damiani) $39.95
DIY
Mend It Better - Creative Patching Darning and Stitching by Kristin M. Roach (Scholastic) $18.95
Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Grey Gardens by Sara and Rebekah Maysles (FNP) $45.00
Queer Spirits by AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs $34.95
Poltics & Revolution
Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics by Deric Shannon et al. (AK) $21.00
Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists by Janina Ciezadlo, Penny Rosemont et al. (Kerr) $17.00
Fiction
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano (ND) $13.95 - Now in soft cover.
Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill (Harper) $13.99
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic ed by Jimenez Eduardo Mayo (SB) $16.00
Embassytown SC by China Mieville (Del Ray) $16.00
Magazines
Cabinet #44 24 Hours $12.00
Apartamento #8 $19.95
Yeti #12 $14.95
Artbox #18 $10.99
Toilet Paper #3 Jun 11 $12.00
Toilet Paper #4 Nov 11 $12.00
Dwell Mar 12 $5.99
Wallpaper Feb 12 $10.00
Sovereign #32 Feb 12 $3.95
Flaunt #119 $10.95
Sex & Sexy
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots - Flaming Challenges... by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (AK) $17.95
Luscious: Stories of Anal Eroticism ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $15.95
