New Stuff This Week

Yes! Optic Nerve #12 is here! $5.95

ZINES
Punch Yourself In the Face and Drop Dead by Dimitri Karakostas (No Fun Press) $7.50
Basic Paper Airplane #5 by Joshua James Amberson $3.00
Zisk #20 Fall 11 $2.00
Half Nelson #2 $2.50
Bushwick Review #3 $5.00
Class Struggle #71 Aug Sep 11 $3.00

COMICS & COMIX
The Plot #1 a Monster in the Forbidden Forest by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Charming new comic from Neil, our comics sommalier. He got it all ready for SPX and boy, was it worth it!
Leper by Jeff Zwirek $3.00
Love Pile #1  by Ze San San $8.00
Barefoot On Bumblebees #1 $2.00
Fest #1 by Nicholas Bennett and Christopher Stryker $3.00
You Dont Get There From Here #20 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Jumping Bo: An American Legend by Alex #1 and #2 each $2.00
19 Short Comics by Drewscape $7.00
Boy and the Worm by Drewscape $5.00
Cartoon Picayune #2 Fall 11 by Josh Kramer, James Sturm, and Katherine Roy $4.00
Homos In Herstory 19th Century Edition by Elvis Bakaitis $3.00
Twinks for Sale: A Humble Comics Zine $3.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
Mark Twains Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Michael Kupperman has already indulged his love for Mark Twain in the pages of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, but the recent publication of Twain’s (real) autobiography has inspired the cartoonist to a full-blown book-length master- piece of hilarity.
Readers eager to see how Twain hunted the Yeti (“Come out here and face me, you snow-covered coward!”), met the Six Million Dollar Man, had a love affair with Mamie Eisenhower (“Boy oh boy, this lady was one hot dish”), and accidentally became involved in X-rated films, will devour this tome, which of course is augmented with Kupperman’s hilariously deadpan illustrations. 128 pages of full-color comics.


Prison Pit Book 3 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Armed Garden and Other Stories by David B. (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Man Who Grew His Beard by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Art of Joe Kubert by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Evil Garden by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95
Troop 142 by Mike Dawson (Secret Acres) $20.00
Korgi Book 3 by Christian Slade (Top Shelf) $9.95
Zahras Paradise by Amir and Khalil (First Sec) $19.99
New X-Men TPB vol 5 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
Crossed vol 2 Family Values by David Lapham (Avatar) $19.99
Lost Lions by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
Hip Pocket Sleaze The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Tascen) $39.99 –
Twenty-seven of the famous Grimms’ fairy tales in an all-new translation, containing illustrations by some of the most famous illustrators from the 1820s to the 1950s.
Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00

DIY
Rabbit Food Cookbook: Practical Vegan Recipes Food History and Other Miscellany by Beth A. Barnett (Sasquatch) $21.00
Salad Daze: The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook by Alex Brown etc. (MBP) $25.00
Happy Buds: Marijuana For An Occasion by Ed Rosenthal (Quick) $12.95 Dance, play, chill, snuggle, this book is all about helping readers – whether they are casual or regular users. Select the right varieties for any mood or activity. This book offers expert guidance on marijuana buds that work best for more than 25 occasions, profiling more than 80 varieties of bud. Ed Rosenthal is joined by buds. That is, his friends Anna Foster and Mamakind.

FICTION
Karaoke Singers Guide to Self Defense by Tim Kinsella (Featherproof) $14.95 – Member of Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, Chicago’s own Tim Kinsella’s first novel tells the story of family members that reunite for a funeral, published by local publisher Featherproof.


Sour Candies by Jon Dambacher $19.95
Black Like Us a Century of Lesbian Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction ed. by Devon W. Carbado (Cleis) $24.95
American Wasteland: Bleak Tales On the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 911 ed. by Jason Pettus $20.00

MAGAZINES
Juxtapoz #129 Oct 11 $5.99
Shots #113 Fall 11 $6.50
Wallpaper Oct 11 $10.00
Up Magazine #44 Sum 11 $8.75
Goodfellas #3 $12.00
True Crime Aug 11 $8.99
Romka #5 $12.00
Open Minds Oct Nov 11 $6.50
Skeptic vol 16 #4 $6.95
ID Magazine Pre Fall 11 $12.00
High Times Nov 11 $5.99
Art of Mary Jane #6 $6.99
BlackBook #86 Sep 11 $4.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #4 Fall 11 $15.00
Explosion Proof Magazine #3 Sum 11 $9.00
Creative Nonfiction #42 Sum 11 $10.00
Radical History Review Fall 11 $14.00
Against the Current #156 Sep Oct 11 $5.00

POLITICS & REVOLUTION
Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Weinstein) $25.00
F’em Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls by Jennifer Baumgardner (Seal) $17.00
How the World Works: Four Classic Bestsellers in One Affordable Volume by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian (Soft Skull) $18.00 – Published as four short books in the famous Real Story series—What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good.
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington (Seven Stories) $14.00
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward (Oxford) $11.95
Liberating Society From The State and Other Writings by Erich Musham and Gabriel Kuhn (PM Press) $26.95
Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky by Nicholas Von Hoffman (Nation) $15.99

CHILDRENS
Treehorn Trilogy by Parry Florence Heide and Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $29.95
Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) $29.99 – By the author of Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking by Philipe Coudray (Toon) $12.95

LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
Origin of My Organs Aching: What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Louden $6.95
South Loop Review vol 13 $10.00
First Line vol 13 #3 $3.00
Literary Review vol 54 #4 Sum 11 $8.00
Maximumrocknroll #341 Oct 11 $4.00
Sound Projector #20: Full Colour Edition $39.50, Mono Black and White Edition $12.00
Grow No Moss by Julia Hendrickson $16.00 – Local poet, with screen-printed images done at the local Spudnik Press.
I’m Not Your Fucking Doctor: Medicine Poems by Dustin C. Pickett $10.00

MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
Blood In, Blood Out: Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood by John Lee Brook (Headpress) $19.95
Steampunk Poe by Zdenko Basic and Manuel Sumberac (and oh yeah, Poe) (Running Press) $18.95 – Every Poe story and poems is fully illustrated with steampunk-inspired art—from 1920s aviation gear to elaborate musical instruments—creating a fresh perspective on his work containing bizarre characters of madmen and mystery.
Crap I Bought on EBay: 101 Crazy, Bizarre, Seriously Weird, Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Weinstein) $13.00
Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer (Pomegranate) $35.00
Amsterdamned If You Do: An Anthology About Setting ed. by Traci Kim (CCLaP) $20.00
99 Problems: Essays About Running and Writing by Ben Tanzer (CCLaP) $20.00
Spiritual Snake Oil: Fads and Fallacies in Pop Culture by Chris Edwards (See Sharp) $11.95

SEX & SEXY
Steamlust Stempunk Erotic Romance ed. by Kristina Wright (Cleis) $14.95 – Fetishizing the wardrobe, language, fantasy and rituals of steampunk, editrix extraordinaire Kristina Wright selects erotic stories of shiny brass and crushed velvet; mechanical inventions and romantic conventions; sexual fantasy and kinky fetish.


Take Me There Trans and Genderqueer Erotica ed. by Tristan Taormino (Cleis) $14.95
Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $14.95
Pinups #15 Micka $14.00
Front #159 $9.99

OTHER STUFF
Field Notes Blank Journals $9.95 – Our customers asked us to get these awesome blank books sold in packs of 3. And here they are! Blank, lined and graph styles. Also in other styles like neon colors, balsam fir and Illinois County Fair. They’re movin’ fast!


We Wish You a Crazy Christmas: 30 Oversized Postcards (Darling & Co.) $9.95 – Never to soon to get in the holiday craze.