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We are exciting about some of the vintage-inspired swag now in stock. One of our customers and his son bought the marvellous Balloon Modelling Kit which includes a hand pump, 50 modelling balloons, eye stickers and easy to use instructions. Come to our brick and mortar store at 1854 W. North Ave and check it out. It’s $11.00.
This is the cover of Sketch School, which is #8 this week.
1. Doris #29 by Cindy Crabb $2.00 – More mini horse adventures(!), tales of life, grandparents and Girls Rock Camp plus half the issue devoted to a longer personal essay, charmingly titled “How I learned to stop worrying and love being queer.” It’s a new issue of Doris, of course you should read it. -EF
2. Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – Joining the literary-minded ranks of n+1, The Paris Review, The Believer and Lapham’s Quarterly, and doing it with Midwestern flair, The Chicagoan ressurects a long defunct jazz-age magazine and focuses in on non-profit production, local distribution and general excellence in writing and design. The debut issue is a stunner, a cohesive and relevant blend of fiction, history, innovation, interviews and a 50-page oral history of Siskel and Ebert. -EF
3. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00
4. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek The Next Generation Season One $2.00 by Joshua Chapman $2.00
5. Bitch #54 $5.95
6. Butt #29 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90 – Good gawd, after a two year hiatus we are back in the pink. This may be the last time Butt goes to print, but it’s hardly a bitter end- this issue serves it extra long and thick. Obscene yet classy homoerotic art? Check. Juicy interviews with a whole gamut of gays? Check. John Waters? Check. Cool, let’s party like its 1999. -EF
7. Bound to Struggle vol 5 Praxis Strikeback $5.00 – Playing with power and taking it dead serious, Bound to Struggle #5: Praxis is smart writing about consent and non-consent, feminism, kink, identity and control. The six essayists almost read like six different perzines, but combined present a diverse and astute collection of non-formulaic observations on the personal/political process/practice of kink. Bites as hard as you want it to. -EF
8. Sketch School #1 by Carol Sogard $7.00
9. Naughty Hen Song by by Jim Stoten (Landfill Editions) – A nutjob animal band gets its first gig at Froggo’s hypercolor jazz club and they wing it through Stoten’s party platter color palette to play their song about a certain Naughty Hen. Peace planet design in a dreamy homemade world, this is maybe the feel good comic of the year? -EF
10. Cinema Sewer #25 by Robin Bougie
| Mar ’12 |
| 27 |
| 7:00 pm |
A GAME OF GROANS
A Sonnet of Slush and Soot By George R.R. Washington
It’s the story fans of George R.R. Martin’s series A Song of Fire and Ice know and love—well, sort of. In the wayward world of GEORGE R.R. WASHINGTON’s A GAME OF GROANS: A Sonnet of Slush and Soot (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin; 1-250-01126-4; March 27, 2012; Trade Paperback Original; $9.99) seasons can last decades. And trouble is brewing. The warmth is returning, and in the thawing tundra of the North of Summerseve, something wicked is coming. A GAME OF GROANS is the story of the Barkers of Summerseve, headed by Lord Headcase Barker and Lady Gateway Bully Barker, and their children including Allbran, Bobb, Malia, Sasha, and of course, bastard Juan Nieve (all followed by their pet direpandas, natch).
The Barkers are a family unit as hard and unforgiving as the pronunciation of “Daenerys Targaryen” and nothing will be the same after a visit from King Bobbert Baronme and the royal family. Swooping from this land of sweater weather to a balmy kingdom of equestrian delights and outdoor fornication, here is an epic of novella proportions. Amid plots and counterplots, wizards and warriors, poor reception and no wireless, the future of the Barkers, their BFFs, and their enemies dangles in the balance, as each strives to star in that funniest of concepts: a parody of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones
GEORGE R.R. WASHINGTON is the author of many novels. As a writer-producer, he has worked on The Outer Limits, Teen Wolf, and many other films and pilots that are currently stored in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. He lives with the lovely Natalie in Chicago, Illinois.
Tues, March 27th, 7pm
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
Thanks to everybody who came out for the Craig Thompson event this past week, where he talked about his wonderful graphc novel Habibi, 7 years in the making. Great new stuff this week, including a new issue of Lucky Peach, another Cinema Sewer collection, a memoir from Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Blood and Thunder #18 and more.
Cinema Sewer vol 3 by Robin Bougie (Fab) $19.95 – If you gotta sin, at least use the sewer. Volume 3 collects the wet creme of issues 17-20 and 80 filthy new pages. Unstoppable outrageous movie raunch! -EF
Lucky Peach #2 The Sweet Spot (McSweeneys) $12.00
Zines
Plug Wiring Diagrams by Mark Pawson $8.00
Address Is the Art International Postal Art Superstar by Mark Pawson $25.00
Cursive Is Not Cryptic #1 Envelope by Georgi Johnston $2.00
Off the Wagon Again #1: Short Stories Art and Other Awesome Shit by Starky Acid $2.00
Drastic Frivol #1 Travel by David Bowler & Erik Guttman $2.50
Cheer the Eff Up #1 $3.00
Comics & Comix
Hyperspeed to Nowhere by Lale Westvind $8.00
And the Birds Flew From the Trees issues #1-#3 by Ian McDuffie $6.00-$8.00 each
Eat To Survive sum 11 by Jeff Mahannah, Ben Lyon, and Tone $3.00
Things Things Think About Set $2.00
Joe the Punker #1-#3 by Starky Acid $2.00 each
Bowman #1 Nov 11 by Pat Aulisio $5.00
Bullet Breath #2 by Max Bjornson $1.00
Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Adventures of Tintin In America Young Readers Edition by Herge (LB) $8.99
Oil and Water by Steve Duin & Shannon Wheeler (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Felix the Cat SC The Great Comic Book Tails by Yoe, Messmer & Oriolo (IDW) $27.99
Gadabout Time Machine 1050 Users Manual by Hooper Cudworth (Curio) $29.95
Batman and Robin TPB vol 2 Batman Vs Robin by Grant Morrison et al. (DC) $17.99
Art & Design
With the Light of the Truth Straight Edge by Dan Smith (Momento Publishing) $50.00 – A collection of Straight Edge related tattoos and art and profiles of some of the best tattoo artists in the world.
Fiction
The Verificationist by David Antrim (Picador) $15.00
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano (FSG) $25.00
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Curbside Splendor #2 Fall 11 $8.00
Bad Version vol 1 #1 Fall 11 (The Icarus Project) $9.00
The Chicago Review vol 56 #2 and #3 $15.00
Overtime Hour 22 the Mill by Kyle Bilinksi $2.00
Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Miscellaniousnessessess
I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor Some That Might Not Be Funny ed. by Judd Apatow (McSweeneys) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
More Interesting Than Your Teacher by Stuart Wright $14.95
Nazi Seance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic In Hitlers Circle by Arthur J. Magida (Palgrave) $26.00 – That’s Erik Jan Hanussen that they’re talking about.
Estonia: A Ramble Through Periphery by Alexander Theroux (Fantagrphics) $29.99
Politics & Revolution
Vultures Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs Power Pirates and High Finance Carn by Greg Palast (Dutton) $26.95
Music Books
The Doors HC A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus (Public Affaires) $21.99
The Best Music Writing 2011 ed. by Alex Ross and Daphne Carr (Da Capo) $16.00
This is a Call HC The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan (Da Capo) $26.99
Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell With Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi and TJ Lammers (Da Capo) $26.00
Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama by Katrina Vanden Huevel (Nation) $16.99
Drinking With Strangers: Music Lessons From a Teenage Bullet Belt by Butch Walker and Matt Diehl (WMrw) $25.99
One Day It’ll Make Sense by Common & Adam Bradley (Back Bay) $25.00
Life by Keith Richards (Back Bay) $16.99 – Now in soft cover.
DIY & Food
Vegan Pie in the Sky by Moskowitz & Romero (Da Capo) $17.00
Magazines
Blood and Thunder #18 $5.99 – Womens Roller Derby Magazine
Bizarre #182 Dec 11 $10.50
High Times Jan 12 $5.99
Wallpaper Dec 11 $10.00
True Crime Nov 11 $8.99
Murder Most Foul #82 $9.99
Dwell Dec 11 $5.99
Worn #12 and #13 Fashion Journal $8.00 each
Wire #333 Nov 11 $10.99
The Smiths NME Uncut Special Collectors Magazine $12.99
Taste Maker #1 $4.00
Harpers Magazine Dec 11 $6.99
Adbusters Jan 12 $8.95
Tattoo Collection #47 $7.75
Other Stuff
But Is It Art Button Pack by Mark Pawson $5.00
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