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1. Touch and Go The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 79-83 ed. by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson (Bazillion Points) $29.95 – Touch and Go binds together all 22 issues and peppers it with essays a bit of commentary and notation. Tesco Vee and Steve Miller were at Quimby’s this past weekend signing copies of this collected edition. Tesco’s charmingly tattooed son came, and while here Tesco fielded a phone call from his daughter who had just in a fist fight. Ah, the next generation makes itself known.

2. Pizza Time by Joe Vermilyea (Koyama Press) $5.00 – This amazing atomic ninja turtle meltdown with extra cheese includes a breakdown of Krang’s perverse relationship with his android body and putty portraits of Bebop and Rocksteady. Turdle Power! -EF

3. Al Burian Goes To Hell by Al Burian (Migraine) $6.00 – We just learned that this periodical is actually an unauthorized bootleg of one of Al’s college assignments from many years ago and have opted not to sell it anymore. For more information, see Al’s blog.

4. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00 – Essays on admiration from my favorite catty bachelor. John Waters, I love you. -EF

5. Why Be Something That You’re Not Detroit Hardcore 1979 to 1985 by Tony Rettman (Revelation) $16.00 – chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties.

6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.95

7. Stories vol 3: Catch Me If You Can by Martin Cendreda $3.00 – Eloquently drawn Giving-Tree-esque twists and turns of children growing and parents giving. -EF
8. The First Line vol 12 #2 $3.00

9. Core of Caligula Episodes 1 through 4 by CF (Picturebox)$2.00 – Cinematically paced and mostly outside the Darger-ian territories of Powr Mastrs, CF’s Core of Caligula slips in and out keeping its tape player close and its psychic mis-steps closer.-EF

10. Limbs of the Megalith by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug)$2.00 – Fraught focus on the myth-adventures of humanity and its xenophobic whims- Espey’s packed pages time travel from the city to the country, the beast to the chair, death to the rabbit hole and back again with a fluid language of modern hyroglyphics. -EF

Sonja Ahlers

The lovely artist Sonja Ahlers (left) came through Quimby’s this spring. She presented her wonderful art book The Selves (Drawn & Quarterly).

Here’s this week’s top 10:

1. Lose #1 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Klassick Komicks going through DeForge’s leperous Canadian meat grinder and fine line work going gleefully awry. Seriously, do not miss out on this one. -EF
2. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? Well, I predict you will fall madly in love with Corinne’s amazing new mini-comic, Is It the Future Yet?, which she made ‘specially for Quimby’s! I see you laughing out loud at the fresh psychic hijinx and time-travel schemes that grace every delightful page. I can see your love for this comic growing rich, deep, and strong and you will find it brings you much good luck and happiness as years go by…Yes, my friend, the future looks very bright indeed!
3. Lose #2 by Michael Deforge $5.00 – Bacterial throwdown-throwup in this new beautifully drawn book mostly about -what else- deadly festering horse parasites. Love it. -EF
4. Paul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher (Gallery) $15.00
5. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Teachers College Press) $15.95 – William Ayers is a school reform activist, Distinguished Professor, and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ryan Alexander-Tanner is an art teacher and a Xeric Award-winning comic artist.
6. Hypertheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99
7. Taffy Hips #7 by Zara Messano and Gil Gentile $3.00 – Yow- Good to get these newsprint hips, a nice pure comics section shakedown with Margaret Powers, Gil Gentile, Jaime Kanzler, Pat Aulisio, Patrick Kain, Zoe Kraus, Katja Tukiainen, Austin English, Zara Messano, Jon Chandler, Ian Harker, Jose-Luis Olivares, Melissa Mendes, Chuck Forsman, Zak M, Blaise Larmee, Cella Costanza and Jack Rohman. -EF
8. Flesh and Bone by Julia Gfrorer (Sparkplug)$6.00
9. Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, Second Edition by Nicolas Collins (Routledge)$34.95
10. Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC (Chronicle) $16.95

1. To Teach: The Journey In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner (TCP) $15.95

2.Henry And Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado $4.00

3.Big Questions #14 Title and Deed by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $7.95

4. Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00

5. Is It the Future Yet by Corrine Mucha $3.00

6. Wilson by Dan Clowes (D+Q) $21.95

7. Cometbus #52: The Spirit of Saint Louis by Aaron Cometbus $3.00

8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

9. Hypertheticals 50 Questions for Insane Conversations Card Set by Chuck Klosterman (Potter Style) $14.99

10. Role Models by John Waters (FSG) $25.00 – Essays on admiration from my favorite catty bachelor. John Waters, I love you. -EF