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Weekly Top 10

Published on March 14, 2012 0 Comments

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

Weekly Top 10

Published on March 6, 2012 0 Comments


This issue of Lucky Peach debuts at #10 this week.

1. Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – 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.

2. Doris #29 $2.00

3. Monocle vol 6 #51 Mar 12 $10.00

4. The Plot #1 A Monster in the Forbidden Forest by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Fantastical coming-of-age story in mini comic form by a Quimby’s employee and comics sommelier!

5. Being a 13 Year Old Girl #1 by Liv Love $1.00 – Chicago youths represent!

6. Halfsteps and Cloudfang by Daniela Olszewska $4.00

7. Girls On Girls #1: Girls Singing Songs About Girls Zine and CD $5.00 by Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman – Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman assemble a cover album and cutes ha-hoots liner notes zine that’s all women singing songs originally written by men about women. Gender theory via aural pleasuring. -EF

8. The First Line vol 13 #4 $3.00- The first lineof every piece in this issue is “It Had Been a Long Year.”

9. Maximumrocknroll #346 Mar 12 $4.00 – Still going strong! The zine that will still be here after the apocalypse.

10. Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue $12.00 – The much anticipated third issue of McSweeney’s food mag.

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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Weekly Top 10

Published on February 28, 2012 0 Comments

1. The Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – 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.

2. Inside Pee-Wees Playhouse: The Untold Unauthorized and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenemenon by Caseen Gaines (ECW) $19.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out to this event this past Friday. We were told Large Marge sent them. The word of the day was AWESOME.

3. Notes For A Peoples Atlas: People Making Maps of Their Cities (AREA Chicago) $8.00

4. Truckface #15 $3.00 – Third year teaching high school English for CPS starts with LB hacking up a foreboding bloody clotball snotball. Truckface continues to be an annual report of both teaching and being taught- moving through all the drama, anger, goofiness and apathy and learning how to learn from it all. -EF

5. Mono Kultur #30 Win 11/12: Chris Ware a Sense of Thereness –  Well, yes…..Surprising, compelling interview zine import with Mr. Ware. 24p, red and black ink, color cover, 6″x8″

6. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Benjamin Marra (Traditional Comics) – You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

7. Chameleon #2 by Jesse Balmer and Jonny Negron $10.00 – Rage exercises and messy ends. Jesse Balmer gives us a dirty line to feline mind control, Jon Boam does a room study that reminds me of Luke Ramsey’s Islands’ Fold books, Patrick Kyle sends us to the trollverse and keeps us there, Uno Moralez keeps it pixelatin’, Roman Muradov works some stylish melancholy into his piece on sheltering umbrellas- it reminds me a little of Laura Park’s work for Mome- Jonny Negron drafts a great, gritty street fight and Zejian Shen takes the cake with a nocturnal mission – her drawing of a pool of virgin blood is maybe my favorite thing in this book that’s already all-thriller, no-filler. Look straight into these eyes, kiddies. -EF

8. Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95

9. Bust Feb Mar 12 $5.99

10. Giant Robot #65 $4.99

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

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