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I’m passing along info from some folks organizing this thing, so contact them if this is your bag!

-Liz

Hello, makers of small-press media and other amazing things:

I wanted to pass along this call for entries for part of an art exhibition exploring issues of agency and biology. I’m curating the show together with biologist/artist Andrew Yang for Gallery 400, and we’re working to track down as many science-related zines, comics, brochures etc. as we can.

If you or anyone you know is making zines, minicomics, brochures, DVDs, podcasts or anything else small and easily distributable that has to do with sharing/elaborating upon/explaining biological information: i.e. anatomy, bacteria, insects, the mating habits of other organisms, the ocean, plant life, starlings, dna, etc. etc. etc. please check out our official call for entries HERE <http://artscichicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/call-for-biology-zines-comics-etc.html> .

Deadline for materials is August 1st.

You may also be interested in submitting single-page science zine projects to Andy’s Small Science Collective <http://www.andrewyang.com/sscpage.htm> , which publishes and distributes science-related ephemera both online and in paper form across the country. (And yes, you can submit to both things at once).

Please pass this along to anyone doing cool distributable things having to do in some way with biological themes!

If you have any questions about the project, feel free to drop us an e-mail and we’ll be happy to explain further.

Best,

Christa

http://www.christadonner.com

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the Week of Feb 24th, 2008 – Mar 1st, 2008

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1. Juxtapoz #86 Mar 08 $4.99
2. Concrete Bulletproof Invisible and Fried: My Life As A Revolting Cock by Chris Connelly (SAF Publishing) $19.95
3. Straight To Hell #66 by Billy Miller $6.00
4. The Believer #57 $8.00
5. Best Erotic Comics 2008 ed. By Christina Greta (Last Gasp) $19.95
6. Butt #22 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
7. Coffeeshop Crushes #1: Tales of Love and Lust in Coffee Establishments $3.00
8. Stop Smiling #34 $5.95
9. Bust Feb Mar 08 $4.99
10. Beautiful Decay V $6.99

Spring Fever in Wicker Park

Girl Scouts pushing cookies on the corner.  College kid shopping cart races. Some douchebags yelling “fucking hippies” from a speeding SUV. Dear Chicago Winter, I miss you already.

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers for the Week of Feb 17th, 2008 – Feb 23rd, 2008

 You Want a Piece of Me(at)1. Concrete Bulletproof Invisible and Fried: My Life As A Revolting Cock by Chris Connelly (SAF Publishing) $19.95
2. Alternadad by Neal Pollack (Anchor) $14.95
3. Stop Smiling #34 $5.95
4. Venus #34 Win 07 $4.50
5. Juxtapoz #86 Mar 08 $4.99
6. Crap Hound #7: Church & State (Show & Tell) $12.00
7. Straight To Hell #66 by Billy Miller $6.00
8. Craft #6 $14.99
9. 33 1/3 Series: Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Daniel Drew (Continuum) $10.95
10. Mojo Mar 08 $9.50

Oink Oink Comics

Comics With Problems #24

I’m not blogging about the late, lamented torrent tracker.  I’m blogging about something better – a new issue of Ethan Persoff’s Comics With Problems is loose on teh internets. This time, Persoff dusts off “Easy Does It”, a perverse, anthropomorphic slaughterhouse propaganda piece produced by Swift & Company in the days when Back of the Yards had yards to be in back of.  Link to the delicious bacon!