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New Stuff This Week

Published on March 2, 2012 0 Comments

 _________ by Lisa Carver $20.00 – Lisa (as in Suckdog, Rollerderby and so on) took up painting while at the same time exercising her sexual abuse demons and meditates on the long term effects, in this powerful, haunting self-published book, not currently available through very many distribution channels. This material is so raw that she didn’t even give the book a name.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Doris #29 $2.00
Bound to Struggle vol 5 Praxis Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet by Simon Strikeback $5.00
Dwelling Portably #5 $4.00 – So packed with DIY health/sustainability (etc.) info that the articles start on the cover.
Bamboozled: The Joey Torrey Story by Joey Torrey $5.00 – The story of a boxer on his way to success when he was recruited to “clean up” the boxing industry, whereupon he was “rewarded” with maximum security prison.
Its Down to This #1 A Response to Sexual Violence Abuse and Accountability, Reflections Stories Experiences Critiques and Ideas on Community and Collective ed. by Claire Urb $3.00
Entropy Zine by Peregrine $5.00
Shotgun Seamstress #6 by Osa $3.00
When Language Runs Dry #4: A Zine For People With Chonic Pain and Their Allies ed. by Meredith and Claire $4.00
Nicey Hatey #1 by Dari $.50
Get Fit for the Pit #1: A Zine on Taking Back Our Health and Fitness $2.00 – Zinesters share their adventures with attempting to stay fit and how it plays out in thier own indep publishing peer spheres. What hooked me? The subtitle of this piece: “An Aging Punk Slob Takes Up Running.” I will be buying this TONIGHT and reading it the minute I get home. -LM
Joyland Retro vol 1 #1 Selections From Joyland Magazine 2012 $6.00
Simple History Series: Nez Perce Indians by J. Gerlach $3.00
MFB #1 by Francois Brunet $15.00
Hip Mama #51 $5.95
Bitch #54 $5.95
Paper Houses #1 Essays and Elongated Patches of Syllables Pronouns Conjunctions by Kriss Stress $3.00
Avocado #1 by Mellie Manfredi $2.00
Remedy Quarterly #8 Adventure $7.50
Prison Industrial Complex Is by The Chicago PIC Teaching Collective, Project NIA and Billy Dee $5.00

Comics & Comix
You Dont Get There From Here #22 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Kisses by Jason Wyatt Frederick $2.00
Cheech Wizard vol 3 by Vaughn Bode (Last Gasp) $4.95
Kim Gee Comics #6 by Kim Gee $5.00
Dope Mouthfeel #1 by Steve Schaberg $3.00
Anna Moriarty titles: Art Bitch vol 1 $3.00, Shelf Life issues #1-#3 $5.00 each

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Glitz 2 Go Collected Comics by Diane Noomin (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Art & Design Books
Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present by Art Hazelwood (Freedom Press) $25.95
Pages From Books vol 1 by Jay Howell $12.00
How and Nosm -The Brazil Diaries (From Here to Fame) $14.95
Zebster Aka Zeb Roc Ski by Zebster $14.95

Fiction
Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski and Rob Funderburk $14.99
Threats by Amelia Gray (FSG) $14.00
Fires of Our Own Choosing by Eugene Cross (Dzanc) $15.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Rub Out The Words: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1959-1974 ed. by Bill Morgan (Harper) $35.00
UFOs: Myths Conspiracies and Realities by John B. Alexander PhD (Thomas Dunne) $16.99 – Now in soft cover.

DIY
Composting by Bob Flowerdew (Skyhorse) $14.95

Politics & Revolution
Administration of Fear by Paul Virilio (Semitexte) $12.95

Magazines
Maximumrocknroll #346 Mar 12 $4.00
SteamPunk Magazine #8 Lifestyle Mad Science Theory and Fiction $8.00
Purple Fashion vol 3 #17 $45.00
Headmaster #3 $20.00
Color Ink Book vol 14 DIY Art Periodical $10.00
Infamous #6 $6.99
HotShoe Feb Mar 12 $12.00
Backwoodsman vol 33 #2 Mar Apr 12 $4.95
Pop Magazine #26 Spr Sum 12 $14.95
Gothic Beauty #35 $6.95
Lovecat #4 $8.00
Treating Yourself #33 $7.99
Skunk vol 7 #6 $5.99
Boneshaker Magazine #8 $10.00
Pinstriping #30 Justom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Skateboard Mag #97 $3.99
Fangoria #311 $9.99
Filter #47 $5.95
Fader #78 Feb Mar 12 $5.99
Monocle vol 6 #51 Mar 12 $10.00
ASR #57 Win 12 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
In These Times Mar 12 $3.50

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Bad Version vol 1 #2 by The Icarus Project win 12 $9.00
Rock and Sling vol 7 #1 Win Spr 12 $10.00
Public Space #15 $12.00
Camera Obscura vol 4 Spr 12 $12.95
Hobart #13 $11.95
American Short Fiction vol 15 #54 Spr 12 $10.00
Skeptical Inquirer Mar Apr 12 vol 36 #2 $4.95

Sex & Sexy
Beneath Contempt and Happy To Be There: The Fighting Life of Porn King Al Goldstein (Headpress) $19.95
Oh My Comix #3 $4.00
RFD #149 Spr 12 $9.95
Travel Naturally #82 $9.95
Sleazy Slice #5 by Robin Bougie $6.00 – Holy Moly, this is for sure the most solid issue yet of Robin Bougie’s cum-drenched comics anthology/cesspool. Bougie and Maxine Frank follow up their absurdly amazing story in Maximum Superexcitement #3 with a sex control megabattle of giant naked ladies (there’s an abridged version of this in Oh My Comics #3, btw). Then Karl Wills dicks around with Jessica the junkie schoolgirl and the team of Steve Carter and Antoinette Ryder blow your mind to the Mad Maximum in a post-apocalyptic Down-Under hellhole orgy. Then John Howard does a smash bang job in “Leather Whore” of visualizing Andrea Dworkin’s writing on porn. Jason “Fukitor” Karns draws an expectedly nasty, surprisingly undersexed, corndog-fixated shortie called “Carnie Tramp” and the curtains close on a gallery of Tom Crites’ pinups for the demonically possessed. Nicely arranged and surely deranged, bang for yr buck, hun. -EF

Other Stuff
A bunch of different Field Notes blank books, a variety of sizes/colors/styles $9.95

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New Stuff This Week

Published on February 25, 2012 0 Comments

Zingmagazine #22 $30.00 – WHAT? Five years after Zingmagazine #21, the 15th anniversary special, Zing #22 just decides to stroll in the door? One of the best art magazines -uh- ever, this issue is extra beefy, with an emphasis on curated collaboration and cross-reference, artists projects and over 300 pages it’s the magazine that reads like a show catalogue. 300+, 8.5″x11″ color. With CD!

Zines and Zine-Related Books
Brainscan #27 Ten Stories by Alex Wrekk $1.00
East Village Inky #49 by Ayun Halliday $3.00
Domesticated #1 $20.00
Hell House by Nick Hoffman $7.00 – Grunge club monster drawings, haunted surfboards, amatuer hour bewitcheries, mummy maps and pyramid power with audio accompaniment for yer seance hangover. C’mon, everyday is Halloween, right? -EF

Mental The Gorgeous Attitude Novel $5.00
Circles Cycles Circuits by Dunja Jankovic $12.00
Floating Thoughts and Other Miscellaneous Stuff $1.00
Every Reason #8 $1.00
Importance of Writing Things Down #1: Anti Dentities in Theory and Practice 95 04 by Matt Davis $3.00
More zines by Carrie: I Made This Zine At Work, It’s No Secret You Are Beautiful, both $1.00 each
Maximum Rad: The Iconic Covers of Thrasher Magazine by Thrasher Magazine $35.00
Thirty years’ worth! Totally maximum rad. Not to be confused with totally minimum rad.
Note and Bolts #2 A Programme of Pizza Pedantics $4.50 – Local food, art and culture zine.
Zines by kids!: Compiled Thoughts of a Teenager by Faye Adams $1.50, Unlong This is Short I Bet You Have No Life This is Hard To Read by Ima Doof $1.00, Being A 13 Year Old Girl #1 by Liv Love $1.00, Cest La Vie #2 by Imogen R. Hansen $1.50

Comics & Comix
Demon Dust #8 win 12 by Bernie Mcgovern $2.00 – Formally known as Demongun. This issue, the cosmos as reflected in personal decisions.
Naked Heroes #1 by Benjamin Marra $1.00
Pocket Full of Coffee by Joe Decie $5.00
Sodom by Susan Sarandon $4.00 – Life and death in the mousetroshpere from the the celebrity artists at Waxwing studios. -EF

Unwelcome Guests 2 Stories by Brad Gottschalk $3.50
Spuzz #2 Enter the Tube by Jack Mulkern $4.00
You Are What You Sing by Alexis Vert $1.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass by Susan E. Kirtley (UPressMiss) $25.00
Nature of the Beast by Adam Mansbach et al. (Soft Skull) $23.95 – From author of Go the Fuck to Sleep.
Downsized by Matt Howarth (Adhouse) $6.95
Too Much Coffee Man: Cutie Island by Shannon Wheeler (Boom) $17.99
Long Day of Mr James Teacher by Harvey James $7.99
Black Dynamite #1 by Brian Ash $5.95

Art & Design Books
Tooth: Graphic Art of Dale Flattum (La Mano Press) $20.00 – Don’t miss Dale Flattum here with Zak Sally and John Porcellino on 3/23. showcases 25 years of his graphic art. It includes 250 page volume mixes posters, illustrations & propaganda into a semi autobiographical history, as told through a Xerox machine. *It also includes a CD of music pulled from the author’s shady nine year musical past in the bands Steel Pole Bath Tub, Milk Cult, The Nein, and Agent Nova. (The CD also includes the unreleased Novex second album.)
Zoostalgia: Saudade of the Gigatherid by Manvir Singh $9.95 – Signh continues the exploration of genetic abberance begun in The Evolutionist’s Doodlebook, this time an adventure into extinction – the factual made pleasingly cartoon-ual for easy digestion.

Fiction
Taste of Penny by Jeff Parker (Dzanc) $16.95 – Don’t miss Jeff Parker here at Quimby’s on 3/1 with Eugene Cross, Kevin Chong and Megan Stielstra, presented by Hosted by Joyland co-founder Brian Joseph Davis and Dzanc co-publisher Dan Wickett. We also have Beauty Plus Pity by Kevin Cong (Arsenal) $16.95 who is reading.
Hot Pink by Adam Levin (McSweeneys) $22.00 – New book of short stories from the Chicago-based author of The Instructions. It’s hilarious, tender, quirky and entertaining. He’ll be reading here at Quimby’s on 3/13 with Tim Kinsella, author of The Karaoke Singers Guide to Self Defense and member of such bands as Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc.
Pandora 2011 Accounts of the Cursed Shopping Center by Ivan Borodin $9.00
Haunting of Laurilee Inn by TrishAnn Williams $12.95
The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier (Vintage) $15.00- Human wounds and suffering emit visible life. Now in soft cover!

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Anobium vol 2 Win 12 $10.00 – Featuring new writing by R.A. Allen, David Applebaum, Annah Browning, Rance Denton, Vernon Frazer, Roxane Gay, Benjamin Goluboff, John Gosslee, Jonathan Greenhause, Jac Jemc, Jeffrey Maclachlan, Kristine Ong Muslim, D.E. Steward, Graham Tugwell. Also features a curatorial section with selections from Derek Sanchez-Hoeksema, Blaster “Al” Ackerman, Patrick Somerville, Jesse Ball. Cover by Jacob van Loon and artwork by Ivan de Monbrison.

After Hours #24 Win 12 $8.00
Brick #88 Win 12 $15.00
Wax Poetics #50 $11.99
Wilt/I Thought I Was Your Favorite by Emily Schikora and Elizabeth Lanell (Habit 2012) $10.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society: A Visual Guide by Craig Heimbichner and Adam Parfrey (Feral House) $29.95 – “Secret society historian Craig Heimbichner follows the Middle Path to wisdom. He stays awake when we are all asleep. He works the graveyard shift in the secret lodge. He break-dances with the skeletons in the closet. He does the hokey-pokey with his whole body in. He shakes it all about. He turns himself around. And he tells us what “IT” is all about.” – Joan d’Arc in Paranoia The Conspiracy Reader.

The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and the Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Gorilla Convict Publications) $19.95 – Seth Ferranti’s Street Legends series. Ferranti himself wound up at the wrong end of the DEA and has been incarcerated since 1993, so he’s met more than a few fat cat criminals and their associates.

Music Books
Madonna and Me Women Writers on the Queen of Pop ed. by Laura Barcella and Jessica Valenti (Soft Skull) $16.95
The Sex Pistols: The Graphic Novel bY J. McCarthy and S. Parkhouse (Omnibus) $15.95
Listen Whitey: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 by Pat Thomas (Fantagraphics) $39.99 – Noted music producer and scholar Pat Thomas spent five years researching this book. Featured: Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, the forgotten history of  Motown’s Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum and more.

Childrens Books
Chick and Chickie Play All Day a Toon Book by Claude Ponti $12.95
Zig and Wikki in The Cow a Toon Book by Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler (Toon) $12.95

Magazines
Murder Most Foul #83 $9.99
Paper Spr 12 vol 28 #5 $4.00
Harpers Magazine Mar 12 $6.99
Tattoo Society #32 $7.99

Sex & Sexy
Doktor Mentor – The Disturbingly Perverted Diary of the Jail Babe Surgeon – We just got issues of #3 thorugh #5. $9.95 each.
Bettie Page In Danger #1 and #2 $9.95 each. Both come with 3D glasses!
Hot Moms vol 2 TPB by Rebecca (Eros) $18.99
House Wives At Play Kidnapped by Rebecca (Eros) $9.99

Everything we list on our blog is available at our store. But not everything is available on our website. Click here to see what is new in our webstore!

New Stuff This Week

Published on February 18, 2012 0 Comments

The Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – This issue marks the public (re)launch of The Chicagoan, a 194-page magazine with articles, artwork and photographs, and no advertising, with arts, culture, innovators and history of Chicago and its surroundings. Originally it was a magazine modeled after the New Yorker, and was published from June 1926 until April 1935. Right now it’s only in a few locations in Chicago. We just got another stack of them after selling double digits in less than a week. Better hustle!

Zines & Zine-Related Books
19 Keep Hoping Machine Running by Julia #1 ($4.00), #2 ($5.00)
Cloud Factory #1 by Ryan Homsley and Laura Walker $4.00
One More For the People: A Somnambulist Collection by Martha Grover $16.00
Paint and Prints Crafty and Thrifty Fashions by M. Miller $10.00
KerBloom #94 Jan Feb 12 by Artnoose $2.00
Good News #1 – Brick Wall Breaks Silence…$3.00
Weirdo Du Jour by Krystle Ratticus $2.50 – A Chicago greasy spoon update, complete with coffee cup rim stain. Let’s hear it for diners!
Rumlad #5 by Steve Larder $5.00

Comics & Comix
Eyeball Comix #3 $7.50
Robbie and Bobby TPB #1 by Jason Poland $15.00
various Caitlin Cass’ Great Moments in Western Civilization
Art Appreciation vol 1 Old Guitarist by Kirsten Valentine $2.00
Three Brews vol 1 Meet the Brews by Karen Tinney $5.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Is That All There Is by Joost Swarte (Fantagraphics) $35.00
Amazing Mysteries the Bill Everett Archives vol 1 by Bill Everett and Blake Bell (Fantagraphics) $39.99
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (Abrams) $17.95 – A fancy reissue but now with extra material. Derf was sort of friends with Dahmer in high school. An intimate look. Edie wrote a nice review of it on our website which you can read here (and order the book too).

Regular Man TPB by Dina Kelberman $15.00
Goliath by Tom Gauld (D&Q) $19.95
Shuteye: Six Tales of Dreams and Dreamers by Sarah Becan $20.00 – We backed this on Kickstarter. Now we are excited to show you what we spent our bucks on! It’s a beauty.
Astonishing X-Men Ultimate Collection vol 1 by Joss Whedon et. al (Marvel) $29.99 – Collects issues #1-#12.
Madwoman of the Sacred Heart by Jodorowsky and Moebius (Humanoids) $24.95
Kolor Klimax Nordic Comics Now (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Art & Design Books
Madness by Anna Rae Landsman $45.00

Fiction
Stone Animals by Kelly Link (Madras Press) $9.00 – This special edition of Kelly Link’s ‘Stone Animals’ comes with a letterpressed cover (in blue or brown) and interior illustrations by a number of authors, artists, critics, and fans, including Lisa Brown, Lilli Carré, Anthony Doerr, Lev Grossman, Daniel Handler, Paul Hornschemeier, Ursula K. Le Guin, Laura Miller, Audrey Niffenegger, Tao Nyeu, Arthur Phillips, and Lane Smith.”

Man Who Danced With Dolls by Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams $7.00
Tales Told In Oz by Gregory Macguire (Madras) $8.00 – As in, from the guy who wrote the original book of Wicked, but this small 5″x5″ novella is a fundrasier, on a small independent publisher.

Human Soul As a Rube Goldberg Device by Kevin Brockmeier (Madras) $8.00 – From the author of the amazing Brief History Of The Dead and View From The Seventh Layer.

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Six Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm, with illustrations by David Hockney $25.00
I Am The Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton in Five Easy Lessons by Luca Rastello $13.00 – Perhaps this belongs in the DIY section? Har.
Mammoth Book of Conspiracies by Jon E. Lewis $13.95
Yeah No Totally by Lisa Wells $10.00
Revolution: The Year I Fell In Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas by Deb Olin Unferth (SMP) $14.99 – When the hard cover of this book came out, Deb Olin Unferth did a reading here at Quimby’s. She was hilarious and poetic, and you can watch a short clip of it here on You Tube. Now this book is in soft cover.
The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers and the Coming Cashless Society by David Wolman (Da Capo) $25.00 – What would be awesome is if you came in right now and bought this book and paid with cash. But we will accept your so called “credit card” too.

DIY
Ageplay From Diapers to Diplomas by Paul Rulof $19.95

Music Books
Muses Go To School: Inspiring Stories About the Importance of Arts In Education by Herbert Kohl et. al (New Press) $26.95

Magazines
The Believer #87 Feb 12 Mouthcrop $8.00
Bizarre #185 Mar 12 $10.50
True Crime Feb 12 $8.99
High Times Apr 12 $5.99
ArtForum Feb 12 $10.00
Art Es #47 International Contemporary Art $10.00
Wire #336 Feb 12 $9.99
Magnet #84 $4.99
Tattoo Revolution Feb 12 #14 $11.75
Inked Mar 12 #43 $6.99

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Gigantic Sequins vol 3 #1 $5.00
Closer to the Earth Poems by Lynn Fitzgerald $8.00
Overtime Hour 23 – A Days Wages and the Old System and the New by Mark W. Jones $2.00
Poems For Paper by Vincent O’Brien $5.00

Other Stuff
Everything Is Terrible Presents: Doggie Woggiez Poochie Woochiez DVD $20.00 – More edited found footage craziness from those weirdo WIT allstar kids, a group known for making piles of Jerry McGuire VHS tapes in the window of Odd Obsessions. We are SUPER EXCITED that they have something new. I know what I’m doing this weekend.

Schizcago DVD $30 – The Chicago-based director dropped these DVDs off yesterday and recorded a special message that talks to you when you open the box, each box has a different recording…Because the box is a circuit bent instrument with a knob to control the pitch where can record whatever you want over it. And then there’s the DVD containing a romantic-comedyesque movie.

Everything we list on our blog is available at our store. But not everything is available on our website. Click here to see what is new in our webstore!

New Stuff This Week

Published on February 10, 2012 0 Comments

 

We’re excited to have mono.kultur #30 – Chris Ware: A Sense of Thereness, Winter 2011/12 $15.00 – Interview by Urs Bellermann, artwork by Chris Ware.

Zines
Big Hands #9 by Aaron Lake Smith $4.00 – The first line I read of this zine when I randomly opened to a page in the middle of it had me hooked: “Overnight they had to drag an employee out of the plant after a vat of chemicals boiled over on top of him.” -LM
Bestiary Captain Birthday Press by Michelle Yacht $3.00
Amazing Women #6 by Devan Elyse Bennett $2.50
Moms Mabley A Life by Devan Elyse Bennett $1.50
Goat Fucker #2 $6.00 – This second issue of GF is more zine-y than the first issue, which was more comics heavy. Text about occulty stuff, and would be a good companion zine to go with The Current. -LM
Ugly  No 1 #2 Feb 12 A Collection of Drawings and Crap by Matt Soria $4.00 – Attractive humour pamphlet with Shriglesque overtones. -EF
Broken Pencil #54 $5.95
Super Friends #1 $3.00 – Featuring found notes and pictures in the tradition of FOUND mag. Always interesting, no matter who is publishing it. It makes you want to hold on to or burn any evidence of photos you’re in or your early published work (read: notes you wrote in junior high). -LM
Moral Fiber #2 and #4 by Chris Pernula $2.00 each – Clever pictures, quotes, drawings and what have you. David Shrigley meets street art, with some Fly-ish portrait renderings. Very funny. And snarky. Just the way I like it. -LM
Suitable 4 Framin #8 Win 11 $5.00
Oh My Word Picture That #1 by Kriss Stress $2.00
Meanwhile by Sydney Paula Benjamin Smith $2.00
The Inner Swine vol 17 #3 and #4 by Jeff Somers $2.00

Comics & Comix
Berlin #18 by Jason Lutes (D&Q) $4.95
Chameleon #2 2011 by Jesse Balmer et. al $10.00
Peehole #7 by Jim Donaldson $3.00 – Worlds collide! Welcome to the life of blood-drenched, skull-kissing, pantsless peacenik Danziggy! File this one next to Henry and Glenn Forever on your Danzig Humor Zeitgeist Shelf. -EF

Wecome Fever Its Me the Magic #2 by Keenan Marshall Keller (DrippyBone) $4.00
Galactic Breakdown #4  by Keenan Marshall Keller (DrippyBone) $8.00
Brendan Wells Presents: Mickey Comics #2 Fantasia by Walt Disney Jr. $3.00 – Mickey drinks, Mickey swears, Mickey admits that Fantasia is boring. Isn’t this way more interesting than the movie? – LM
Free Dog Food #2 Jan by Brendan Wells et. al $3.00
Station In Life #1 Dec 11 by Delia Jean Hickey $3.99
Vortex #1 by William Cardini $5.00 – The narrative of a primordeal blobby, swampy Paul Nudd-like goo, at once escaping and merging, in the “Hyperverse.”

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Chairs Hiatus by Matthew Bogart $9.00
Athos in America by Jason (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Preacher Book Three HC by Garth Ennis et. al (Vertigo) $39.99
Jinchalo by Matthew Forsythe (D&Q) $17.95
Batman Time and the Batman TPB by Grant Morrison et. al (DC) $14.99
Batman and Robin Batman Reborn  by Grant Morrison et. al (DC) $14.99
One Model Nation by C. Allbritton Taylor and Courtney Taylor (Titan) $24.95 – This is the epic journey of art noise band One Model Nation, the final dark days of the Baader-Meinoff Gang, and the band’s mysterious disappearance only months later. It’s by Courtney Taylor, from the band The Dandy Warhols and Jim Rugg, the co-writer and artist of Street Angel.
The Saga of the Swamp Thing HC Book Five by Alan Moore et. al (Vertigo) $29.99

Art & Design Books
Bellas Pockets by Lisa Bauso (Read Leaf) $19.95
The Delusional Story of the Jonathan LeVine Gallery by Caleb Neelon (Gingko) $34.95
Every Man Is My Enemy: Skinner (Gingko) $29.95 – Influenced by 80s pop culture, human struggle, myths and violence, dungeons and dragons, and the heavy metal gods, Skinner’s mind is one full of mayhem fueled by a calculated chaos. His work has been featured in many publications, including Blisss, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose, and Beautiful / Decay. This is just one of the many images in this book.

Closer by Soren Solkaer Starbird (Gingko) $35.00 – Amazing photographs of many of the world’s leading musicians from this Danish photographer: Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, The White Stripes, Kate Nash, Metallica, Damon Albarn and more.
We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project by Workhorse and PAC (Rizzoli) $35.00 – From early 2009 to mid-2010, the Underbelly Project was the world’s best-kept urban art secret. This is the only book documenting the project, during which the world’s leading urban artists, such as Swoon, Faile, Revok, and Lister, made late-night trips to an abandoned New York City subway station, painting night after night to transform the space into the largest underground art gallery in the world.

DIY
Seed to Weed: A Pot Enthusiasts Guide to Growing Marijuana by Chris Stone $13.99
Sillk Screen Basics: A Complete How To Handbook by Claire  Dalquie et. al $24.95

Fiction
The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith $23.99 – The tale of fascination with a random event sets into motion a madcap caper that will bring together an eccentric mathematician, last heard of investigating the physics of free will, a lovelorn Cambridge postgraduate and more.
Moment in the Sun by John Sayles (McSweeneys) $18.00
Simple Machine Like the Lever by Evan P Schneider $14.00
Node by Tito Perdue $12.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us by Andreas Kluth (Riverhead) $26.95
Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett $24.95 – Before Jules Verne’s flying machines and H. G. Wells’s spaceships, there was Frank Reade, globe-trotting inventor and original steampunk hero. Frank Reade magazines were the world’s first science fiction periodicals, enthralling millions of readers with tales of fantastic inventions and adventures. Now many of the spectacular images from the vintage dime novel series are being reprinted for the first time in more than a century, along with excerpts from the action-packed stories.

The Electric Information Age Book: Mcluhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback by Jeffrey Schnapp and Adam Michaels $22.95 – Zinesters take note! There’s a cultural cut and paste in the house.
Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast Got Its Crunch by Marty Gitlin $19.95

Magazines
Juxtapoz #134 Mar 12 $5.99
Wholphin #15 DVD $19.95
Zingmagazine #22 $30.00
There Magazine #13 $15.00
Eyemazing 2011 #4 $35.00
Mermaids and Mythology #2 $8.99
Tattoo Revue #157 $7.99
Witches and Pagans #24 $6.00
Skeptic vol 17 #1 $6.95
Mojo #220 Mar 12 $9.99
Record Collector Feb 12 $10.50
Mixmag #249 Feb 12 $10.50
Uncut Mar 12 #178 $9.99
Adbusters Mar Apr 12 #100 vol 20 #2 $8.95
In These Times Feb 12 $3.50
The Progressive Feb 12 $4.95
Radical History Review Win 12 $14.00
Tattoo #272 Apr 12 $6.99
Tattoo Savage Apr 12 #119 $7.99
Xalt vol 1 #1 $5.95 – A new tattoo and body art mag
Rebel Ink Magazine Mar 12 $5.99.

Literary Journals, Chap Books and Poetry
N Plus 1 #13 Win 12 $13.95
Creative Nonfiction #43 Fall Win 11
Elephant #9 Win 11 $19.99
PEN America #15 $10.00
Coffin Factory #2 $9.00
Pank #6 $15.00
IdN vol 18 #6 $17.95

Other Stuff
Beci Orpin Blank Notebooks: Lost Girl, Bear Magic $7.95 each
Free Wheelin Loony by Sid Yiddish $10.00

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New Stuff This Week

Published on February 3, 2012 0 Comments

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