Weekly Top 10

Published on January 17, 2012 0 Comments

1. Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50 – A magazine I simultaneously have to look at but can’t.

2. Shit I Didnt Tell You #1 by Lynne $1.50 – Compelling footnotes to various friends and relations, “Shit I Didn’t Tell You” is exactly that. It’s a nice checkup about sorting out how feelings get felt and life gets lived. -EF

3. Exxxtinction by Sy Loady $3.00 – Fuckasoreass Triceratopz.

4.   Show Me The Money #36 $2.50

5.   Hi Fructose #22 $6.95

6.   Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

7.   Truckface #15 by LB $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

8.   More Pictures About Feminism by Brad Troemel $10.00

9.   Judas Goat Quarterly #51 by Grant Schreiber $1.50

10. Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 (Study Group Books) – I imagine the rousing success of last year’s fantastic Study Group 12 anthology (#4) has spurred Study Group Magazine into existence. Like Austin English’s Windy Corner before it, SGM #1 is a full-up ideosyncratic combo platter of comics, interviews and examinations. Articles on Eleanor Davis, Brecht Evens and Craig Thompson and a hearty sampling of comics and illustration from Jennifer Parks, Daria Tessler, Aidan Koch, David King, Malachi Ward, Chris Cilla, T Alixopulos, Zack Soto, Jonny Negron and Michael DeForge. Amen. -EF

New Stuff This Week

Published on January 13, 2012 0 Comments

Kramers Ergot #8 ed. by Sammy Harkham (Picturebox) $32.95 – A brutally effective anthology as an argument about the medium in the form of new work by: Anya Davidson, Leon Sadler, Ben Jones, CF, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Kevin Huizenga, Takeshi Murata, Robert Beatty, Chris Cilla, Gabrielle Bell, Frank Santoro & Dash Shaw, Gary Panter. 40-page reprint of “Wicked Wanda”, of the 1970s. Essay by Ian Svenonius.

Zines
Syndicate Product #18.4 by AJ Michel $1.00 – A list of much of the media consumed by Our Lady of Zine Awesomeness, A.J. Michel. I always look forward to her concise life-lessony responses to the media she consumes, and often she gets me into new things. Even better than Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” column in The Believer. Books, movies, TV shows, music, comics, magazines and more.
My Aim Is True #4 by Carrie $1.00 – Carrie has done it again. Another awesome zine that’s hard to put down. Wise conclusions and compelling reading about stuff like self-image, sex and more. And of course, her crafty cut and paste aesthetic is neato. -LM
Death Ritual #2 by George DeMoura $9.00 – New Age found footage and unlocked trunknecks on the crawl. -EF
Fragments of Spring #2 by Marissa F $2.00
Regional #4 An Examination of American Cuisine by Cassie Tompkins $8.50 – This issue: chili, chile, chilli. Comes with a cracker! The kind you eat, not the, um, forget it. Just get this zine, do the delicious sounding recipe in it and then fold it out to make a really cool piece of artwork to hang! -LM
Last Night at the Casino Jan 12 Journal Entries From a Zinester Turned Dealer by Billy $2.00
Hound and the Musch by Scott Roberts $6.00

Comics and Comix
Death Ritual #1 by George DeMoura $8.00
Spider Monkey #1 by Jesse McManus and Austin English $5.00
Here I Am – A Loud Knock at the Door – Who Could That Be nu Austin English $3.00
Lobster King – Partone 2010 Approved by the Authority by Clara Bessijelle $5.00
Comic Collection of 3 Stories by Clara Bessijelle $5.00 – Bessijelle’s got one of my favorite drawing lines- bold, detailed, funny and sensitive. Her comics look like collaged pencil sketches made from photo collages accompanied by a sinister formal comic timing that reminds me of Edward Gorey’s work without resembling it visually. This collection of 3 steel-eyed short ones runs like a tour 3 elaborately wallpapered parlors each with their own magic and secrets. -EF

Art & Design Books
Tattoo Parlour Artists From the World of Tattoo (Outre Gallery) $19.95 – With art from artists such as Angelique Houtkamp, Mike Giant & more.
Anatomy of Sorrow by Daniel Martin Diaz (La Luz) $35.00
Koretsky: The Soviet Photo Poster 1930 1984 by Erika Wolf (New Press) $60.00

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks
Tintin and Snowy Big Activity Book $19.95
Habibi Signed, Bookplate Edition by Criag Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00
Tank Girl – Bad Wind Rising HC by Rufus Dayglo & Alan Martin $19.95
Monster Truck Automobiles Monsters and Mayhem by Shakey Kane (Wishbone) $14.99
Annotated Sandman vol 1 by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo)  $49.99 – Sandman  issues 1 through 20.
Preacher Book Six HC by Ennis and Dillon (Vertigo) $39.99
Monster Mess by Lewis Trondheim $9.99

Fiction
Harolds Horrible Life by Billy McCall $18.00
Vicky Swanky is a Beauty by Diane Williams (McSweeneys) $20.00
Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton $16.00
Fourth Fog by Chris Daniels $15.95

Politics & Revolution
Anarchist Interventions 03: Decolonizing Anarchism by Maia Ramnath (AK) $16.00
Take Back Your Government: Citizens Guide to Grassroots Change by Morgan Carroll $19.95
Intimate Wars: Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion From the Back Alley to the Board Room by Merle Hoffman $18.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
More Far Out Adventures Further Strange Adventures From the Pages of World Explorer by David Hatcher Childress (Adv Unlmtd) $25.00
The Onion’s Love Sex and other Natural Disasters Relationship Reporting from Americas Finest $12.95
End of War by John Horgan (McSweeneys) $22.00
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scott Bowers & Lionel Friedberg (Grove) $25.00

Music Books
Murder In the Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter by Harald Oimoen & Brian Lew (Bazillion Points) $39.95
Bad As Me by Tom Waits (Anti Inc) $24.98
The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty $16.00
Bad Idea: I’m About To Do True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgement… by Chris Gethard (Da Capo) $16.00

Magazines
Bizarre #184 Feb 12 $10.50
Record Collector Jan 12 $10.50
Uncut Feb 12 #177 $9.99
Mojo #219 Feb 12 $9.99

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
Barge Journal #1 $5.50

Sex & Sexy
Pornhounds #2 by Sharon Lintz et al. $5.00 – Horny hounds! Alternative comics artists do porn.

Other Stuff
TATTOO SPECIAL 1: Goliath Wallpaper Of Fame (Prints & Poster) by Charles Gatewood (Goliath) – Nine prints plus one large poster in a portfolio. Charles Gatewood pulls out his camera and shoots his subjects, from William S. Burroughs to drunken revelers and modern blood drinkers, like a war photographer. Goliath Wallpaper of Fame is a unique poster book magazine with large-scale prints of outstanding photographs by different artists. Issue 01, themed Tattoo, features Gatewood’s work, including a life-size portrait of Sailor Sid and nine other wall-sized images. A detailed interview and a biography included.

Martha Bayne Discusses The Soup & Bread Cookbook 2/9

Published on January 12, 2012 0 Comments
Feb ’12
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7:00 pm

Everybody loves soup. But why?

 

Sure, it’s nutritious, affordable, and infinitely variable. Soup can be a rustic meal in a bowl or a dainty palate cleanser. It can showcase the pure flavors of fresh spring peas or provide a last-ditch use for tired celery and the stalest bread. From borscht to pozole to udon, it’s the hallmark of home cooking across cultures. It soothes the sick, it nourishes the poor–and it can trick children into eating their veggies. And, alone among foods, a pot of soup can be a powerful tool to both draw people together and help them to reach out to others.

 

The Soup & Bread Cookbook, inspired by author Martha Bayne’s Soup & Bread series at Chicago’s Hideout, aims to explore this social role of soup, in the midst of a collection of terrific, affordable recipes from food activists, chefs, and others, providing a quirky exploration of the cultural history of soup–and its natural ally, bread–as a tool for both building community and fostering social justice.

 

The social functions of soup don’t stop at the soup kitchen door. Everyone’s familiar with the “stone soup” fable — the tale of a hungry town that feeds itself when every citizen contributes something to the pot. But have you heard about Re-Thinking Soup, a weekly free soup lunch started in Chicago by Sam Kass, the Obamas’ personal chef? Or about Empty Bowl, a nationwide grassroots effort to raise money for hunger relief by partnering with local arts groups?

 

Soup has a powerful effect on how people gather, eat, and share. A few years ago in Seattle, Knox Gardner had a brainstorm. Eating your way through a pot of soup day after day can get boring–why not get together and swap some with friends? The idea took off like chicken and noodles, and now neighbors across the country are getting together regularly for home-based “soup swaps,” with a date at the end of January annually designated (by soupswap.com) as National Soup Swap Day.

 

In Chicago, the arts collective InCUBATE uses soup as a microfunding tool. Each month since the Sunday Soup project launched in 2007, the group hosts a casual soup dinner for members and likeminded friends; the proceeds to go fund a different art project each month. And of course, soup can be a political statement: The radical volunteers of Food Not Bombs have been providing free vegetarian soup to the hungry as a protest against war and social injustice since 1980.

 

These are just a few examples of the stories Bayne wraps around a collection of delicious, accessible and tested soup recipes, the diversity of which epitomizes the wide-ranging potential of soup as a community building tool. “Celebrity” chef contributors share the pages with food activists, farmers, writers, soup geeks, and regular folks involved in grassroots food projects around the country.

For more info: soupandbread.net

One of the top ten essential cookbooks for fall 2011.
-Time Out Chicago

Beautifully written, generous and honest, the book looks at community building through lenses as various and diverse as the country has to offer. Bayne finds people of many kinds – immigrants, nuns, urban farmers, artists and activists – each using soup to bring people together and knit up what has become unraveled.

-Eiren Caffall, Tikkun Daily

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Weekly Top 10 and 2011 Revenge of Print List

Published on January 11, 2012 0 Comments

Before last week’s bestsellers, we just wanted to say we are really excited by everyone who participated in the 2011 Revenge of Print! Click here to download a list. Then print it out and fold it pamphlet style.

1. Henry and Glenn Forever Sticker Funbag by Igloo Tornado $5.00

2. Suspect Device #1 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $6.00 – A turd in the hand is worth two in the Bushmiller….Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez assemble quite the goon squad to take old Nancy out for a night on the town. -EF – Work from: Jon Vermilea, Dane Martin, Elizabeth Bethea, Lizz Hickey, Nikki Burch, Brendan Leach, B Florio with M Note, Josh Burggraf, Jimmy Giegerich, J Hessig, Scalzo, M Sgier, Marina Gargarina, Leroy, V Kerlow, Sam Henderson, Anne Emond, Pat Aulisio, Tom Hart, Jude Killroy and Box Brown.

3. Hound and the Musch by Scott Roberts $6.00

4. Under the Radar #39 $5.99

5. Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga $7.95 – The lucid insanity of insomnia fuels Huizenga’s understated formalist finesse. Glenn Ganges, suburban everyman, falls prey to a eye-pleasing array of graphic tricks and a 1 a.m. sense of humor that would keep me up at night thinking about it too. -EF

6. Bad Day #12 – a culture magazine.
7. Du Manger En Canne by R. Suicide $5.00 – loppy botulistic potted meat from the Mille Putois Laboratory, getting busy making it’s own gravy.

8. Grantland #1 $25.00 – Well, finally we got a few of these in for long enough that I can put them up on the webstore. Grantland #1 is the McSweeney’s launch of a physical sports magazine geared for folks who like multiform sports, McSweeney’s writers and blogs you can hold. You know who you are. -EF

9. Hark A Vagrant by Kate Beaton $19.95

10. My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00

New Stuff This Week

Published on January 5, 2012 0 Comments

Free Ice Cream and Other Cartoons You Could Have Drawn by Sam Henderson (Wow Cool) $3.00 – The cartoonist who gets our vote for “Most Likely to Make You Laugh Aloud Even If You’re By Yourself” is back with his first comic since Magic Whistle #11 in 2008. Hurrah!

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Curioddity #2 Movie Reviews of All 51 Disney Animated Films in 160 Characters…by Curiouser Jane $2.00
Caboose #8 reDraft Picks by Liz Mason $1.00 – As in like, this stuff was originally on my blog. And then I picked those pieces to be the ones I’d put in this zine. And then I redrafted them, just for you. You want to read this. Correction: I want you to want to read this. -LM
Boob Lightening by Cooper Lee Hilfman Whittlesey  $4.00
Zines by Emily Larned: Muffin Bones #20 or Basil is Dying $2.00, Wanna Trade $2.00
Show Me The Money #36 $2.50
Unholy Bow by Terence Hannum $10.00
Idiotas Nouveau by Oceguera Fancisco Cornero $3.00
Chomp #1 $9.00
Learning to Surf #1 by Mike Faloon $3.00
KerBloom #93 Nov Dec 11 by Artnoose $2.00
Are Snakes Necessary by Matthew Thurber & IMA Pelican $6.00
Indigo #18 by Michelle Aiello $4.00
Mish Libs #1 Original Word Games by Michelle Aiello $2.00
Truckface #15 by LB $3.00 – She teaches during the year and zines during the summer. Always compelling.

Comics & Comix
Gaylord Phoenix #6 by Edie Fake $4.00 – A new issue from one-third of the Quimby’s staff!
Curio Cabinet #5 Nov 11 by John Brodowski (Secret Acres) $8.00
Rom #1 by Josh Bayer $5.00
Suspect Device #1 by Josh Bayer and Edwin Vazquez $6.00
Naughty Han Song by Jim Stoten (Landfill) $12.00
Some Approaching End by Jaakko Pallasvuo $15.00
Suburban Blight #10 $1.00
Total Screen by Henry James Glover $4.00
Moxie Morons by Talya Modlin $7.00
Ain’t Say Who by Talya Modlin $5.00
Mad Monk The Rise to Power and Death of Rasputin by Talya Modlin $5.00
Car Bren by Carrie Bren $4.00
Thinger Dingers  by JT Yost (Birdcage) $3.00
Study Group Magazine #1 win 12 by Zack Soto $12.00
Ghost Attack #1, #4 and Fall 2009 by Zack Soto $5.00 each
Unforgiving Blade of Conon #1 by Josh Bayer et al. $4.00
Mini Kus #5 Future Is Now by Leo Kivro et al. $3.00
End of The Fucking World Part 3 by Charles Forsman $1.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Pippas Arctic Adventure the Blue X Affair by Pippa Wolfie $7.00
Green Monk by Brandon Dayton $5.99
Aftershock Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan by Adam ED Pasion $10.00 – Work from Noah Van Sciver, Ben Snakepit and more.
Regalia by Eliza Frye $25.00
Avoid Disappointment and Future Regret by Swanson & Behr $12.00

Art & Design Books
Typo Graphy Sketch Books by Heller et al. (Princeton Arch) $40.00

Childrens Books
Keep Our Secrets by Jordan Crane (McSweeneys) $15.95 – To be read in a whisper. For best results read with a hairdryer and adult supervision. Heat affected

DIY
Marijuana Made Simple: A Beginners Guide to Growing Like a Pro by Mediman (Green candy) $18.00
Medical Marijuana 101 by Martin, Rosenthal et al. (Quick) $14.95
Essential Urban Farmer by Carptener & Rosenthal (Penguin) $25.00

Fiction
Party Wolves In My Skull by Michael Allen Rose (Eraserhead) $16.58 – Part of the New Bizarro Author Series. Local author.
Blueprint of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot (BC) $14.00
My Fathers House by Ben Tanzer $9.95
While Mortals Sleep SC by Kurt Vonnegut (Dial) $16.00
Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne (Random) $25.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs & Misc
Build Your Own President 2012: 1000 Possibilities No Real Solutions by Swanson & Behr $12.00
My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla (Penguin) $15.00 – He was a genius. And sort of bat shit crazy too.

Politics & Revolution
Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank (Metropolit) $25.00

Music Books
Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside and Outside of ACDC by Mark Evans (Bazillion Points0 $19.95
Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World by Jon Szwed (Penguin) $20.00

Magazines
Fortean Times #283 Feb 12 $11.99
Backwoodsman vol 33 #1 Jan Feb 12 $4.95
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 28 #4 $6.25
Dwell Feb 12 $5.99
Sneaker Freaker #22 $14.50
COG Magazine #11 $6.00
Pin Up America Jan 12 #7 $5.99
ArtForum Jan 12 $10.00
Hi Fructose #22 $6.95
Raw Vision #74 $14.00
Decibel #88 Feb 12 $4.95
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #5 Jan 12 $9.99
Wire #335 Jan 12 $10.99
Mojo Specials: The Smiths, The Stone Roses and 100 Greatest British Indie Records of All Time $12.50
Ghetto Blaster #30 $3.95
The Fifth Estate vol 47 #1 #386 Spr 12 $4.00
Monocle Alpino #4 Win 11 12 $8.00
Z Magazine Jan 12 $4.95
In These Times Jan 12 $3.50
Dissent Win 12 $10.00

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
The Believer #86 Jan 12 Bishopric $8.00
Monster Hands by Xavier M. and Sara Drake $1.00
Madison Review vol 33 #1 Fall 11 $8.00
Fourteen Hills vol 18 #1 2012 $9.00
Feathertale Review #8 $10.00
Bomb #118 Win 12 $7.95
Charleston #1 selected poems and writings by Thomas Fricilone $1.00

Sex & Sexy
B Magazine #1 $8.99
All American Guys #2 $9.99 – Hey dude. You’re not talking about soccer practice at all, are you?