Weekly Top 10

Published on March 6, 2012 0 Comments


This issue of Lucky Peach debuts at #10 this week.

1. Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – 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.

2. Doris #29 $2.00

3. Monocle vol 6 #51 Mar 12 $10.00

4. The Plot #1 A Monster in the Forbidden Forest by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Fantastical coming-of-age story in mini comic form by a Quimby’s employee and comics sommelier!

5. Being a 13 Year Old Girl #1 by Liv Love $1.00 – Chicago youths represent!

6. Halfsteps and Cloudfang by Daniela Olszewska $4.00

7. Girls On Girls #1: Girls Singing Songs About Girls Zine and CD $5.00 by Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman – Amara Leipzig and Isabella Rotman assemble a cover album and cutes ha-hoots liner notes zine that’s all women singing songs originally written by men about women. Gender theory via aural pleasuring. -EF

8. The First Line vol 13 #4 $3.00- The first lineof every piece in this issue is “It Had Been a Long Year.”

9. Maximumrocknroll #346 Mar 12 $4.00 – Still going strong! The zine that will still be here after the apocalypse.

10. Lucky Peach #3 Cooks and Chefs Issue $12.00 – The much anticipated third issue of McSweeney’s food mag.

New Stuff This Week

Published on March 2, 2012 0 Comments

 _________ by Lisa Carver $20.00 – Lisa (as in Suckdog, Rollerderby and so on) took up painting while at the same time exercising her sexual abuse demons and meditates on the long term effects, in this powerful, haunting self-published book, not currently available through very many distribution channels. This material is so raw that she didn’t even give the book a name.

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Doris #29 $2.00
Bound to Struggle vol 5 Praxis Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet by Simon Strikeback $5.00
Dwelling Portably #5 $4.00 – So packed with DIY health/sustainability (etc.) info that the articles start on the cover.
Bamboozled: The Joey Torrey Story by Joey Torrey $5.00 – The story of a boxer on his way to success when he was recruited to “clean up” the boxing industry, whereupon he was “rewarded” with maximum security prison.
Its Down to This #1 A Response to Sexual Violence Abuse and Accountability, Reflections Stories Experiences Critiques and Ideas on Community and Collective ed. by Claire Urb $3.00
Entropy Zine by Peregrine $5.00
Shotgun Seamstress #6 by Osa $3.00
When Language Runs Dry #4: A Zine For People With Chonic Pain and Their Allies ed. by Meredith and Claire $4.00
Nicey Hatey #1 by Dari $.50
Get Fit for the Pit #1: A Zine on Taking Back Our Health and Fitness $2.00 – Zinesters share their adventures with attempting to stay fit and how it plays out in thier own indep publishing peer spheres. What hooked me? The subtitle of this piece: “An Aging Punk Slob Takes Up Running.” I will be buying this TONIGHT and reading it the minute I get home. -LM
Joyland Retro vol 1 #1 Selections From Joyland Magazine 2012 $6.00
Simple History Series: Nez Perce Indians by J. Gerlach $3.00
MFB #1 by Francois Brunet $15.00
Hip Mama #51 $5.95
Bitch #54 $5.95
Paper Houses #1 Essays and Elongated Patches of Syllables Pronouns Conjunctions by Kriss Stress $3.00
Avocado #1 by Mellie Manfredi $2.00
Remedy Quarterly #8 Adventure $7.50
Prison Industrial Complex Is by The Chicago PIC Teaching Collective, Project NIA and Billy Dee $5.00

Comics & Comix
You Dont Get There From Here #22 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
Kisses by Jason Wyatt Frederick $2.00
Cheech Wizard vol 3 by Vaughn Bode (Last Gasp) $4.95
Kim Gee Comics #6 by Kim Gee $5.00
Dope Mouthfeel #1 by Steve Schaberg $3.00
Anna Moriarty titles: Art Bitch vol 1 $3.00, Shelf Life issues #1-#3 $5.00 each

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Glitz 2 Go Collected Comics by Diane Noomin (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Art & Design Books
Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present by Art Hazelwood (Freedom Press) $25.95
Pages From Books vol 1 by Jay Howell $12.00
How and Nosm -The Brazil Diaries (From Here to Fame) $14.95
Zebster Aka Zeb Roc Ski by Zebster $14.95

Fiction
Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski and Rob Funderburk $14.99
Threats by Amelia Gray (FSG) $14.00
Fires of Our Own Choosing by Eugene Cross (Dzanc) $15.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Rub Out The Words: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1959-1974 ed. by Bill Morgan (Harper) $35.00
UFOs: Myths Conspiracies and Realities by John B. Alexander PhD (Thomas Dunne) $16.99 – Now in soft cover.

DIY
Composting by Bob Flowerdew (Skyhorse) $14.95

Politics & Revolution
Administration of Fear by Paul Virilio (Semitexte) $12.95

Magazines
Maximumrocknroll #346 Mar 12 $4.00
SteamPunk Magazine #8 Lifestyle Mad Science Theory and Fiction $8.00
Purple Fashion vol 3 #17 $45.00
Headmaster #3 $20.00
Color Ink Book vol 14 DIY Art Periodical $10.00
Infamous #6 $6.99
HotShoe Feb Mar 12 $12.00
Backwoodsman vol 33 #2 Mar Apr 12 $4.95
Pop Magazine #26 Spr Sum 12 $14.95
Gothic Beauty #35 $6.95
Lovecat #4 $8.00
Treating Yourself #33 $7.99
Skunk vol 7 #6 $5.99
Boneshaker Magazine #8 $10.00
Pinstriping #30 Justom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Skateboard Mag #97 $3.99
Fangoria #311 $9.99
Filter #47 $5.95
Fader #78 Feb Mar 12 $5.99
Monocle vol 6 #51 Mar 12 $10.00
ASR #57 Win 12 Anarcho Syndicalist Review $5.00
In These Times Mar 12 $3.50

Literary Journals, Poetry & Chap Books
Bad Version vol 1 #2 by The Icarus Project win 12 $9.00
Rock and Sling vol 7 #1 Win Spr 12 $10.00
Public Space #15 $12.00
Camera Obscura vol 4 Spr 12 $12.95
Hobart #13 $11.95
American Short Fiction vol 15 #54 Spr 12 $10.00
Skeptical Inquirer Mar Apr 12 vol 36 #2 $4.95

Sex & Sexy
Beneath Contempt and Happy To Be There: The Fighting Life of Porn King Al Goldstein (Headpress) $19.95
Oh My Comix #3 $4.00
RFD #149 Spr 12 $9.95
Travel Naturally #82 $9.95
Sleazy Slice #5 by Robin Bougie $6.00 – Holy Moly, this is for sure the most solid issue yet of Robin Bougie’s cum-drenched comics anthology/cesspool. Bougie and Maxine Frank follow up their absurdly amazing story in Maximum Superexcitement #3 with a sex control megabattle of giant naked ladies (there’s an abridged version of this in Oh My Comics #3, btw). Then Karl Wills dicks around with Jessica the junkie schoolgirl and the team of Steve Carter and Antoinette Ryder blow your mind to the Mad Maximum in a post-apocalyptic Down-Under hellhole orgy. Then John Howard does a smash bang job in “Leather Whore” of visualizing Andrea Dworkin’s writing on porn. Jason “Fukitor” Karns draws an expectedly nasty, surprisingly undersexed, corndog-fixated shortie called “Carnie Tramp” and the curtains close on a gallery of Tom Crites’ pinups for the demonically possessed. Nicely arranged and surely deranged, bang for yr buck, hun. -EF

Other Stuff
A bunch of different Field Notes blank books, a variety of sizes/colors/styles $9.95

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George R.R. Washington Presents A Game of Groans 3/27

Published on February 29, 2012 0 Comments
Mar ’12
27
7:00 pm

A GAME OF GROANS
A Sonnet of Slush and Soot By George R.R. Washington

It’s the story fans of George R.R. Martin’s series A Song of Fire and Ice know and love—well, sort of. In the wayward world of GEORGE R.R. WASHINGTON’s A GAME OF GROANS:  A Sonnet of Slush and Soot (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin; 1-250-01126-4; March 27, 2012; Trade Paperback Original; $9.99) seasons can last decades. And trouble is brewing. The warmth is returning, and in the thawing tundra of the North of Summerseve, something wicked is coming. A GAME OF GROANS  is the story of the Barkers of Summerseve, headed by Lord Headcase Barker and Lady Gateway Bully Barker, and their children including Allbran, Bobb, Malia, Sasha, and of course, bastard Juan Nieve (all followed by their pet direpandas, natch).

The Barkers are a family unit as hard and unforgiving as the pronunciation of “Daenerys Targaryen” and nothing will be the same after a visit from King Bobbert Baronme and the royal family. Swooping from this land of sweater weather to a balmy kingdom of equestrian delights and outdoor fornication, here is an epic of novella proportions. Amid plots and counterplots, wizards and warriors, poor reception and no wireless, the future of the Barkers, their BFFs, and their enemies dangles in the balance, as each strives to star in that funniest of concepts: a parody of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones

GEORGE R.R. WASHINGTON is the author of many novels. As a writer-producer, he has worked on The Outer Limits, Teen Wolf, and many other films and pilots that are currently stored in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. He lives with the lovely Natalie in Chicago, Illinois.

Tues, March 27th, 7pm

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Call for Best American Comics

Published on February 29, 2012 0 Comments

A word from Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, the series editors of The Best American Comics for comics artists and publishers!

Hi everyone,

This is a note to remind you that we are, as always, collecting submissions for the Best American Comics. Great stuff comes out all year round and we want to get our hands on it as soon as possible. In addition, it makes our guest editors’ jobs much more manageable if we can supply them with a large batch of excellent booty by mid-summer.

So please submit your books published since September 1 of 2011 for Best American Comics 2013. If you don’t publish books, we’ve put you on our reminder list because we know you know people who do, and we hope you’ll pass on this reminder to them. Especially when it comics to minis, webcomics, and very small press, we need your help to make sure we’re seeing what’s great out there in the comics world.

How to submit:
Mail one copy of each of your books to us at the address below. Please make sure to attach your contact information and the RELEASE DATE. If it’s not inside the book, stick a post-it on the cover with that info.

For more details on the submissions process and rules, look here: http://www.hmhbooks.com/bestamerican/comics/contacts.html

BAC11, under guest editor Alison Bechdel, has been one of our most popular volumes yet and I’m pleased to be able to announce to you “officially” the the guest editor for BAC12 is none other than Françoise Mouly! (As for BAC13, you’ll just have to wait and see…)

Looking ahead, Jessica and Matt will both be at MoCCA Fest  and will have a table where you can drop books off if you don’t see us walking the floor. Matt will also be at TCAF the following weekend. We look forward to seeing you.

thanks and get in touch if you have any questions,

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
Series Editors
The Best American Comics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
215 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003

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Weekly Top 10

Published on February 28, 2012 0 Comments

1. The Chicagoan #1 $19.95 – 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.

2. Inside Pee-Wees Playhouse: The Untold Unauthorized and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenemenon by Caseen Gaines (ECW) $19.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out to this event this past Friday. We were told Large Marge sent them. The word of the day was AWESOME.

3. Notes For A Peoples Atlas: People Making Maps of Their Cities (AREA Chicago) $8.00

4. Truckface #15 $3.00 – Third year teaching high school English for CPS starts with LB hacking up a foreboding bloody clotball snotball. Truckface continues to be an annual report of both teaching and being taught- moving through all the drama, anger, goofiness and apathy and learning how to learn from it all. -EF

5. Mono Kultur #30 Win 11/12: Chris Ware a Sense of Thereness –  Well, yes…..Surprising, compelling interview zine import with Mr. Ware. 24p, red and black ink, color cover, 6″x8″

6. Gangsta Rap Posse #2 by Benjamin Marra (Traditional Comics) – You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

7. Chameleon #2 by Jesse Balmer and Jonny Negron $10.00 – Rage exercises and messy ends. Jesse Balmer gives us a dirty line to feline mind control, Jon Boam does a room study that reminds me of Luke Ramsey’s Islands’ Fold books, Patrick Kyle sends us to the trollverse and keeps us there, Uno Moralez keeps it pixelatin’, Roman Muradov works some stylish melancholy into his piece on sheltering umbrellas- it reminds me a little of Laura Park’s work for Mome- Jonny Negron drafts a great, gritty street fight and Zejian Shen takes the cake with a nocturnal mission – her drawing of a pool of virgin blood is maybe my favorite thing in this book that’s already all-thriller, no-filler. Look straight into these eyes, kiddies. -EF

8. Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95

9. Bust Feb Mar 12 $5.99

10. Giant Robot #65 $4.99