Comics of Chris Ware: Drawings is a Way of Thinking by David Ball and Martha Kuhlman (University of Mississippi) $28.00 – Maybe you’ve heard of Chris Ware? With contributions by David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, Jacob Brogan, Isaac Cates, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Shawn Gilmore, Matt Godbey, Jeet Heer, Martha B. Kuhlman, Katherine Roeder, Peter R. Sattler, Marc Singer, Benjamin Widiss, and Daniel Worden.”
Judas Goat Quarterly #45 Spr 10 $1.50 – 45 issues and still goin’ strong here in the city of big shoulders.
Dont Forget a God Damn Thing by Chelsea Dirck $3.00
Effigy #6 by Matt Whispers $3.00 – chap book.
Raving 89 by Neville Watson and Gavin Watson (DJHistory) $29.95 – Photos from the raves of 1989. Because people always look the best when they’re sweaty and peeking on ecstacy.
London Club by Nicole Trevillian (Charta) $29.95
Young Girls Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments by Pierre Louys, translated by Longnecker Geoffrey (Wakefield) $12.95 – Disturbing. Yet compelling. A fine combination.
Rock Music Writings by Dan Graham (Primary Information) $18.00
Shots #107 Spring 10 $5.95
Tag a Novelette by Jay Carlson $6.00 – fiction.
Other Side of Me by Michael Solomon $17.95 – Also fiction.
Rad Dad #17 by Tomas Moniz $3.00 – His biggest issue yet. All kinds of writing on anarchy and parenting.
Rain by Jarod Rosello $2.00 – If you want to convince your parents you should get a puppy, this is what you need to give them.
Make #9 Spr Sum 10 $10.00 – There’s a witch in the club! -This Myth, Magic and Ritual Issue does not dissapoint. Chicago-based Make Magazine continues to raise the bar on creative fiction, nonfiction, and depiction this time with a spirit slant.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #10 by Philip K. Dick with Jonathan Lethem and Tony Parker (Boom) $3.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 2 HC by by Philip K. Dick with Tony Parker (Boom) $24.99
RASL #7 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50
Shindig vol 2 #15 Mar Apr 10 $9.99
Time Out Chicago Apr 10 $2.99
Creeper HC by Steve Ditko (DC) $39.99
Roadside America: Architectural Relics From a Vanishing Past by John Margolies (Taschen) $39.99
Arty Party by Sara Drake and James Payne $4.00 – Art history yuks and guffaws!
Desperate But Not Serious by Nicholas Peterson $3.00 – No, not an Adam Ant fanzine. What it is though, is a zine of crazy drawings of animals lamenting their state of affairs, or alternately for example, a camel, just resting. Other animals pontificate their place in the world elsewhere in this collection of detailed black and white drawings. Is this something in the independent publishing zeitgeist? “Big Questions” by Anders Nilsen, “Sad Animals” by Adam Meuse, and now this recent addition to the genre. The genre of what, you inquire? Why the “animals tackling big issues and maybe being a little sad” genre.
Skate Trips From Hell vol 1 #1 by Lou Shields $3.00 – new mini comic. It’s sk8 or die for real here as a free-form road trip goes endless-bummer-zombie-warfare-panic-in-Detroit style ultimately fullfilling the promise and potential of the tour-journal genre.
Detective Stories by Anne Elizabeth Moore $1.00 – Murder and mayhem dug up from cultural critic Anne Elizabeth Moore’s (of Unmarketable fame) grade school forensic files. Proves that gritty realism and suspicious conclusions are at their surreal-pychic best when written by a crime-obsessed fifth grader. As performed at a recent Chicago production of “Mortified.” Hilarious!
By Hand The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art by Shu Hung and var. (Princeton) $24.95
Library Book by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Princeton) $30.00 – Librarians! Get yer nerd on here. Helpful ideas for shelfing your books in an artsy art-book format.
Selby is in Your Place by Todd Selby (Abrams) $35.00
Meanwhile 3856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga (Abrams) $15.95
Art of Jaime Hernandez The Secrets of Life and Death, ed. by Todd Hignite (Abrams) $40.00 – With an intro by Alison Bechdel.
Art in Time Unkown Comic Book Adventures 1940 to 1980 HC by Dan Nadel (Abrams) $40.00
Walt and Skeezix vol 4 HC by Frank King (DQ) $39.95
Everyone You Know Is Currently Dead by Louis M. Schmidt $3.00 – zine.
Tears in the Fence #51 $8.00 – lit journal.
Was That Supposed To Be Funny? by Lauren Barnett $4.00 – From the artist of the awesomely-titled “I’d Sure Like Some Fucking Pancakes.” Comics based on second-grade journal entries full of hermit crabs and Supermodel Presidents.
Nutted 8 Static Cautionary Tales by Dustin Harbin $3.00 – mini comic.
Sneaker Freaker #17 $12.50
Psychedelic Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s by var. (MIT) $29.99 – Ready to move on to something past your fractals?
Fortean Times #260 May 10 $11.99 – Would be a nice way to complement the title above.
Look at this Fucking Hipster by Joe Mande (St Martins) $11.99 – Not that much different from the fashiobaly unfashionable “douchebag” trend.
Booth: Actor Lover Idealist Assassin by CC Colbert and Tanitoc (First Second) $19.99
Organ Haus Drawings #2 Weird Jesus Mtn Dew Reptoids $3.00 – Doesn’t the name alone pull you in? The theory behind this art zine is that the aliens are living in the dumpster behind Family Dollar.
Freedom Goes Freedom Comes A Reflection on Protest 10 Years After Seattle by Josh Redd Sanchez Josh $3.00 – zine
Nachbar Innen Eine Murmel Comics Anthologie #31 Herbst 09 $2.00 – mini comic.
History of Flying Vaginas by Kristie Alshaibi and Usama Alshaibi $15.00 – zine
Seattle Review vol 2 #2 and #3 $10.00 – As per customer request.
True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary by var. (Skyhorse) $12.95
New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson (Thames) $40.00
It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $24.99
High Soft Lisp by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $16.99
I want them all ……………….