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Weekly Top 10

1. The Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – 194p, color, no ads! 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

2. Serial Killers Unite #9 $2.00 – Another dose of letters from incarcerated serial killers: sex rants from The Clairemont Killer, Cleophus Prince Jr, biblical advice from The Zodiac Copycat Killer, Heriberto Seda, a holiday card from The Spokane Killer, Robert Lee Yates Jr, specifics from Roy Norris, more bonkers Disney sex art from Jeremy Jones. Yes, of course it’s creepy.

3. Juxtapoz #134 Mar 12 $5.99

4. Alone Forever by Liz Prince $4.00

5. Monocle vol 5 #50 Feb 12 $10.00

6. Exxxtinction: 1st Known Circle Jirk by Sy Loady $3.00 – Fuckasoreass Triceratopz.

7. Boneshaker #43-100 A Bicycling Almanac (Wolverine Farm Publishing) $8.00

8. Call Of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by HP Lovecraft (Penguin) $17.00

9. Dazed & Confused vol 3 #6 Feb 12 $9.99

10. Super Friends #1 $3.00 – Beautiful assembly of found photos from a job at the thrift store. Butts, mutts and classic cuts!

New Stuff This Week

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.

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Weekly Top 10

1. Soup and Bread Cookbook: Building Community One Pot at a Time $20.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out for the event for this wonderful Soup and Bread Cookbook, compiled by Martha Bayne from the Hideout’s weekly winter soup nights of the same name.

2. Kramers Ergot #8 ed. by Sammy Harkham and Dan Nadel (Picturebox) $32.95 – This latest Kramer’s anthology feels a little bit like cocaine and a reptile tank. The contemporary comics contributions are bookended by Robert Beatty’s retro-digital airbrush wizardry and bisected by higloss cgi still lives by Takeshi Murata. Then there’s a mouthwash Preface by Ian Svenonius’ space cowboy essay “Notes On Camp, Part 2”. Followed by some great cartoonists paring it down and playing it cinematic and cool – CF’s Hunger-ish scenario, Harkham’s Kubrick’s cube, Ben Jones gives us a long yarn in a dental floss line, Frank Santoro and Dash Shaw do a foggy bit about sexual predator entrapment hued in Cold Heat pervert-purples. Johnny Ryan delivers a space carnage ramble, Chris Cilla does some smut with David Heatly flavor overtones. Tim Hensley does Svenonius’ essay one better in a single panel National Lampoon sort of gag. Despite a icy hands-off feel to much of book there’s still a pulpy heart beating here-Gabrielle Bell nails down something sinister in pastel California colors. Leon Sadler is at the best I’ve ever seen him here – grungy characters in a feral bizarro smurfville. I may be biased, but I’m especially partial to the converging and diverging paralell multiverses of Anya Davidson’s brutal “Barbarian Bitch” which I think acts as a great counterweight to the book’s closer, a 40-page reprint of Penthouse’s “Wicked Wanda” that’s a (yes) campy  combo like if you remade “The Mouse That Roared” with the plotline of Hothead Paisan. -EF

3. Monocle vol 5 #50 Feb 12 $10.00

4. Adbusters Mar Apr 12 #100 vol 20 #2 $8.95

5. Juxtapoz #134 Mar 12 $5.99

6. Dazed & Confused vol 3 #6 Feb 12 $9.99

7. Mono Kultur #30 Win 11 12 Chris Ware: A Sense of Thereness $15.00 – Well, yes…..Surprising, compelling interview zine import with Mr. Ware.

8. Raw Deal #13 – Formerly “Loitering Is Good”, “Raw Deal” picks up in the West Oakland trainyards, an ode to California’s sun-drenched post-industrial shitscape. Partially about acclaimating to a job as a rookie brakeman for the Southern Pacific Rail, RD#13 incoroporates plenty of curmudgeonly appreciation for the yards’ old-timers and lots of salty anectdotes of train history. With a palpable sense of love-hate for West Coast wastelands, the segway gets made to the obsessive neccessity of punk botany. Like a beligerent Johnny Bad Appleseed, the heart of this issue is an account of cultivating rare trees, seed smuggling, survival and botanical accountability, renegade urban improvement, and the deep feeling of connection once you set your sights on an ecosystem as the big picture. Written with a ton of passion and a little swagger, it’s a little similar to Erick “Iggy Scam” Lyle’s personal-is-political-is-punk writing, totally badass and hungry to get at the core of it. Best two bucks yer going to spend all day.  -EF

9. Bikenomics How Bicycling Will Save the Economy if We Let It by Elly Blue $5.50

10. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek by Joshua Chapman $1.00 – I mean, why stop with Season One, right? -EF

New Stuff This Week

 

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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Weekly Top 10

1. Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Semiotexte)- An eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord.

2. Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Two by Joshua Chapman $1.00

3. Hi-Fructose #22 $6.95

4. Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions by Corinne Mucha (Retrofit) $5.00

5. New Adventures of Beastlord by Chris Kuzma $4.00

6. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Marra Benjamin $3.00

7. Apartamento #8 $19.95

8. Eye of the Majestic Creature by Leslie Stein $4.00 – Hot on the heels of the EOTMC collection Fantagraphics releaed this Spring comes a brand new issue of one of my favorite minicomics, Eye of the Majestic Creature. This time, things take a turn for the worse: even deceptively happy-go-lucky elements like LarryBear’s anthropomorphic guitarfriend Marshmallow are getting drunk a little to much. Stein sets Larry’s New York life of arbitrary retail and sand counting to the grim realist prose of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. It’s a bit of heartwrench punctuated with Stein’s unflappable dark humor, bleaker certainly but still brilliant. -EF

9. 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
10. Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of Doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement.