1. Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries by Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen and Tara G.Warrior (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – The greatest heavy metal story ever told—the complete tale of a life lived for metal. Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, METALION includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer Mag—Slayer 1 through Slayer XX, plus the precursor Live Wire zine—spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life’s story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal to metal party beast to world-weary metal survivor. The book also features over 100 rare photographs, including two color sections and a portrait gallery of photographs taken by Kristiansen himself. For twenty-five years, Norway’s Slayer Mag published the gospel of black metal and death metal, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and relentless offbeat humor. With this anthology/memoir, editor Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen unfolds the extreme highs and lows of a life lived for heavy metal. Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Mag quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of Slayer Mag exploded along with the extreme metal underground, and as black metal rose to prominence in Norway in the 1990s, Slayer Mag remained the final word on the moods and motivations of those dark times. Expertly edited by friend and peer Tara G. Warrior. Thanks to everybody that came out for this amazing event last week!
2. Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #3 Sum 11 $15.00
3. Five Stories Published on a Printer #1 by Dustin Michael Edward Davenport $2.00
4. Believer #82 Jul Aug 11 Music Issue $12.00
5. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00
6. Archiving the Underground #1 by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00 – Jenna and Jami are like a zine archivist Dream Team getting into a lot of crooks and nannies and doing it all in a zine. It’s a tricky topic…how and why do you archive media that often openly flaunts itself as underground, anti-establishment and anti-catagorization. They interview Milo Miller from the Queer Zine Archive Project, Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines, Adela C Licona author of Zines In the Third Space and Teal Triggs, author of the controversial “Fanzines” coffee table book that glossed over many issues of author consent and compensation. Jenna “Lower East Side Librarian” Freedman rounds out the issue with a breakdown of what seperates zines from blogs.
7. Mojo #213 Aug 11 $9.99
8. Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00
9. Paying For It a Comic Strip Memoir About Being a John by Chester Brown (D&Q) $24.95
10. Your Secretary #6 Lake Effect #1 Split by Jami Sailor and K $2.00
