Pitchfork weekend is upon us. Well, need an AIR-CONDITIONED respite? Why not join us here? We have some very exciting new things, including a new issue of 8 Track Mind, a Cometbus comp, two steampunk art books (how splendid!), a Tao Lin book, new ishes of Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose and more.
ZINES & ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection Collects by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) $12.00 Collects highlights from #44 to #48 including Lanky, Back to the Land and more.
8 Track Mind #101 Zines Vs Blogs by Russ Forster $3.00 – First issue in TEN YEARS! 2011 has truly become The Revenge of Print. Now where’s your zine?
Syndicate Product #18.2 Syndicate Consumption Second Quarter Apr-Jun by AJ Michel $1.00 – A truly entertaining overview of what master zinester AJ has been reading and enjoying. Always a compelling read.
Paper Radio #6 Formerly Signals A Radio and Media Zine by DJ Frederick $3.00
Comic Bible vol 4 #1 $10.00
Man Meat by Susie Swanton $1.00
I Dont Understand Farming #6 and I Dont Understand Farming #7 $.75 each
Niente $3.00
Uptown Problems #2 $4.00
Atlas #1 and Atlas #2 $3.00 each
Sob Story #9 $4.00
COMICS & MINI COMIX!
2012 by Sam Gaskin (Secret Acres) $7.00
Thirteen Steps of Getting Dumped by DGW Hedges and Otto Splotch $5.00
Melted Shelter by Otto Splotch $8.00
Death of Elijah Lovejoy by Noah Van Sciver $5.00
RASL #11 by Jeff Smith (Cartoon) $3.50
GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies vol 1 by Fiffe Michel (Image) $18.99
Classic Next Men vol 1 by John Byrne (IDW) $24.99
Incognito TPB Bad Influences by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Icon) $17.99
Jack of Fables vol 9 The End TPB by Bill Willingham and var. (Vertigo) $17.99
New X Men TPB Book 3 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99
ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism by Jay Stongman (Korero) $35.00
Art of Steampunk: Extraordinary Devices and Ingenious Contraptions from the Leading Artists of the Steampunk Movement by Art Donovan (Fox Chapel) $19.95
Kicks Japan by Manami Okazaki and Geoff Johnson (MBP) $30.00
FICTION!
You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am by Tao Lin (Action) $14.00
Dance With Dragons HC by George RR Martin (Three Rivers Press) $35.00 – Song of Ice and Fire Book five.
Johannes Cabal: The Detective by Jonathan L. Howard (Anchor) $14.95
Midnight Movie by Tobe Hooper and Alan Goldsher (Three Rivers Press) $14.00 – Local writer Goldsher with the creator of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I Knew You’d Be Lovely by Alethea Black (Broadway) $14.00
Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime From Tin House (Tin House) $18.95
American Gods 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (Morrow) $26.99
Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images and Stories From Top Authors and Artists by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (Harper) $22.99
Johnny Too Bad by Heather Augustyn and Carrie Coslov $15.00 – Augustyn is also the author of the comprhensive book Ska: An Oral History. One might say Johnny Too Bad is a book of historical fiction based in the birthplace of ska.
LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
Camera Obscura vol 3 Sum Fall 11 $12.95
Gathering of Tribes #13 $12.95
Ninth Letter vol 8 #1 $14.95
MUSIC BOOKS!
Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters ed. by Paul JR Maher (Chicago Review Press) $19.95
CHILDRENS!
Symphony City by Amy Martin (McSweeneys) $17.95
Beyond Stolen: Flames Forbidden Fruit and Telephone Booths- Our Own Myths Our Own Futures by students at June Jordan School for Equity (826) $22.00
MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
Sinister Forces Book 2: A Warm Gun – A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda (Trine) $24.95 – Now in soft cover.
Celebrity Comics Babble: 34 Stars In Their Own Words by Mary Ann Pierro $18.95 – From Comic Bible Magazine.
Shock Value: How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares Conquered Hollywood by Jason Zinoman (Penguin) $25.95
Muldoon: A True Chicago Ghost Story – Tales of a Forgotten Rectory by R. and D. Facchini (Lake Claremont) $15.00
Near West Side Stories: Struggles For Community in Chicagos Maxwell Street Neighborhood by Carolyn Eastwood $17.95
Politics of Place: A History of Zoning In Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $19.95
Sports Traveler Chicago by var. (Lake Claremont) $15.95
On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department by Daniel P. Smith (Lake Claremont) $17.95
POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
People Wasn’t Made to Burn: The True Story of Race Murder and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen (Lake Claremont) $22.95
Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin (Pathfinder) $24.95
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg (Pathfinder) $14.95
Sexism and Science by Evelyn Reed (Pathfinder) $20.00
Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of Brian S. Wilson (PM Press) $20.00 – Autobiography of an activist who lost both his legs courtesy of a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action. Chomsky said that this memoir “should be read and pondered, and its lessons should be taken to heart by those who hope to create a more decent world.”
MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #127 Aug 11 $5.99
Hi Fructose #20 $6.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #2 $6.25
Fortean Times #277 Aug 11 $11.99
Yeti #11 $11.95
True Crime Jul 11 $8.99
True Crime Summer Special 11 20 All True Murder Stories $6.99
Namaste vol 12 #2 $9.99
Open Minds Aug Sep 11 $6.50
True Detective Jul 11 $4.99
Art of Mary Jane Jul 11 $6.99
Scootering #301 $8.99
Dazed & Confused #99 Jul 11 $9.99
Horror Hound #30 Jul Aug 11 $6.99
Wire #329 Jul 11 $10.99
Classic Rock #160 Sum 11 $11.99
Black Velvet #69 $6.25
Hip Mama #49 $5.95
Radical Philosophy #168 $13.00
Dissent Sum 11 $10.00
Bound By Ink vol 1 #6 $7.99
Tattoo Life #71 $6.99
Tattoo Scout #24 $9.60
SEX & SEXY!
Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir by Sheila McClear $14.95
Filament vol 3 #1 $12.50
Front #157 $9.99
