New Stuff This Week

Published on December 18, 2010 0 Comments

Holiday shopping is in full swing now, but we still set aside a few minutes to tell you about the 60-some new items we got in this week. A new Big Questions from Anders Nilsen for your arty sibling, a new Paul Koob comic about cheese for those who love all things food, and a sexy comic for your ninja nympho roommate. Enjoy!

ZINES!
Adderall Photo Zine – Unlimited Edition by TR Ericsson $5.00
Spacenipple The Strange Retractions of Orbiting by Virginia Visker and Josh Doster $6.00
Shithead 3 by Josh Doster $20.00
American Gun Culture Report #3.1 Sum 08 ($3.00) and American Gun Culture Report #4.1 Win Spr 09 ($3.50)
Letters From the Bottom of the World Sum 10 $.75
Recinerated Nov 10 Written in Reverse $2.50
Meat #2 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
Caboose #7: Britney Spears 101 by Liz Mason $10.00

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
A B Cheese by Paul Koob $10.00 – Remember Hamster Man? Well, Paul Koob is back! And this time it’s a clever and cute artist book-comic-zine thing about a gazillion different types of cheese. And the alphabet! Perfect for all cheese-a-philes. Delcious!
Big Questions #15 The Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilen (D&Q) $7.95
Seraph Manifesto vol 1 #3 by M. Collett by Nick Jones $3.00
Cage #1 by Max Folsom $5.00
Thank You NASA #1 Music Recording Comic by Simon Hunt $4.00
Where Were You Last Night by Elizabeth Valasco  $3.00
Rex Comic by Hannah Ayers $2.00
Comics by Nik Havert: Sun and Moon (with Sean Russell) $3.00, Salem AZ #1 Ltd Ed (with Paul Schultz) $5.00 etc.
Simon LeFag Gay Detective #1 the Case of the Used Condoms by Dave $1.00
Ninja Girl by Bonesteel $5.00
Closed Caption Comics #9 $20.00
Motte and Bailey by Krystal DiFronzo $4.00

ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
L’image Obscene: The Obscene Image Parisian Hospital Break Room Graffiti by ed. by Gilles Tondini (MBP) $34.95
Graphics Alive vol 2 (Viction:ary) $39.95
How to Disappear by Moki (Gingko) $29.95
Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey (Gingko) $29.95 – Yes, he does other things besides Obama and Andre the Giant.

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Madwoman of the Sacred Heart by Jodorowsky and Moebius (Humanoids) $29.95
Motel Art Improvement Service by Jason Little (Dark Horse) $19.99
Glamazonia The Uncannny Super Tranny ed. by Justin Hall (Northwest) $24.99

MAGAZINES!
Juxtapoz #119 Dec 10 $5.99
Bizarre #170 Dec 10 $10.50
As Loud As Possible #1 $9.00
Flaunt #112 $8.95
Oakazine #5 $15.00
Wallpaper Jan 11 $9.50
Shots #110 Win 10 $6.50
Paper Win 10 11 $4.00
BlackBook #81 Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.50
Hyphen #22 Win 10 $4.95
Wire #322 Dec 10 $10.99
Signal to Noise #60 Win 11 $4.95

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
First Line vol 12 #4 #3.00
Annalemma #7 $15.00

POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

MUSIC BOOKS!
Thelonious Monk SC the Life and Times of an American Original by Robin DG Kelley (Free Press) $18.00

MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
Ticking is the Bomb SC by Nick Flynn (Norton) $14.95

SEX & SEXY!
Tentacle Love #1 by Nik Havert and Philo $5.00
Ninja Nympho Roommate #1 by Nik Havert and Xavier $5.00

Top 10 This Week

Published on December 15, 2010 0 Comments

1. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized!

3. 100 Posters 134 Squirrels, Revised & Updated by Jay Ryan (Akashic) $22.95 – 100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS showcases one of underground poster art’s most prolific and talented practitioners. Featuring an all-new interview with Ryan and an introduction by Chicago Tribune rock critic Greg Kot, and framed by essays from underground luminaries–recording engineer and Shellac guitarist Steve Albini, graphic design iconoclast Art Chantry, and distinguished art and design historian Debra Parr–100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS offers a unique look into Ryan’s approach to poster art.

4. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot) $6.00

5. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

6. Bust Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.99

7. Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch & Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00 – They don’t make ’em like they used to, that’s for certain. Papa Zettwoch takes us on an exacting tour of life in midcentury Louisville telephone operations, in particular the oracle operators who fiddled with antiquated 8-board switchpanels. Dan lovingly arts up the exacting craft, attention to detail and squirrely diagnostic techniques that existed before everything got replaced with plastic and no one could remember a phone number. -EFhttps://www.quimbys.com/images/teltales1.jpg

8. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker etc. (Chronicle) $27.50 – “With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this fascinating project is an introduction to the many individuals who are producing sustainable food, challenging public policy, and developing community organizing efforts. With hundreds of photographs and a foreword from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, Farm Together Now will educate, inspire, and cultivate a new wave of modern agrarians.”

9. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00

10. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden & Neil Gaiman (HM) $23.00

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 11, 2010 1 Comment

Fabulous new things available this week including new issues of Proximity and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 33 1/3 series books about Radiohead’s Kid A and Slint’s Spiderland, outer limits books about extraterrestrials and Atlantis, and more!

ZINES!
Son of Bing Short Stories by Dan Gleason $2.00
Spacenipple The Strange Retractions of Orbiting by Virginia Visker with help from Josh Doster $6.00 – Weirdo collage.
Toucan #9 win 10 $3.00
KerBloom #87 by ArtNoose $2.00
I Want To Tell You About Some Events by Jarrett Mitchell $6.00
When the Crash Meets Something Solid #3 A Shotgun Named Ambition by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
Rise and Fall: A Concertina of Life by Micah Lidberg (Adhouse) $16.00
Letters I Will Never Send To You #6 The Longest August by Morgan Inez $3.00
Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
Robert Walser Literary Hero by Brian Allnutt $1.75
Shiny Things on the Ground #1 by Brandt Schmitz $2.00

COMICS & MINICOMICS!
Banana Slug by Leslie Perrine $2.00
Milk and Moo BY Yumi Sakugawa (Sparkplug) $5.00
Study Group 12 #4 (Sparkplug) $20.00 – A great anthology with a ton of artists, edited by Zack Soto. Colorful stories and illustrations from T Edward Bak, Chris Cilla, Farel Dalrymple, Vanessa Davis, Amy Kuttab, Blaise Larmee, Tom Neely and more!Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch and Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00
Pood #2 $4.00
Fathers and Wolves #1 by Sophie Goldstein $4.00
Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00
C by Lizz Hickey $5.00
Taffy Hips #8 by Zara Messano by Gil Gentile $8.00

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (D&Q) $19.95
Unexplored Worlds Steve Ditko Archives vol 2 (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Graphic Cosmogony: 24 Artists Take on 7 Pages to Tell Their Tales of the Creation (Adhouse) $38.00
Too Much Crazy by Tom Tomorrow (Soft Skull) $14.95

DIY & CONSUMPTION!
Singing To the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan V Beyer (UofNM) $29.99 – Planning a trip?

FICTION!
Fiction at Work Biannual Report (Green Lantern)  $10.00
Fever Chart by Bill Cotter (McSweeney’s) $14.00 – Now in soft cover.

MAGAZINES!
Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00
Yeti #10 $11.95
Tokion Factory Art of Beauty Issue $3.99
High Times Feb 11 $5.99
In These Times Dec 10 $3.50
Progressive Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.95
Big Takeover #67 $5.99
Shindig vol 2 #19 Nov Dec 10 $9.99
Sneaker Freaker #19 $13.99
RFD #144 $9.95

LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #26 Dec 10 $5.00

POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
Essential Works of Lenin: What Is to be Done and Other Writings (Dover) $12.95
Signs of Change Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now – Exit Art (Serpents Tale) by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee $28.95
Outsider: My Quest for Justice by Adam Delgado $10.00

MUSIC BOOKS!
Cheetah Chrome A Dead Boys Tale from the Front Lines of Punk Rock by Cheetah Chrome (Voyageur) $24.00
White Bicycles Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd (Serpents Tale) $14.95
I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil (Touchstone) $15.99 – Now in soft cover.
Kraftwerk Music Non Stop by Sean Albiez and David Pattie (Continuum) $24.95
33 1/2 Series: Slint’s Spiderland by Scott Tennent (Continuum) $12.95
33 1/2 Series: Radiohead’s Kid A by Marvin Lin (Continuum) $12.95

MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS
Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions and Occult Revelations by Joscelyn Godwin (Inner Traditions) $19.95
Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and The Coming New Race by Len Kasten (Bear) $18.00
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (U of NM) $34.95 – Back in stock!
Bento Bestiary by Ben Newman and Scott Donsaldson (Adhouse) $20.00
My Year of Flops: One Mans Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure by Nathan Rabin (S&S) $15.00
Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia (S&S) $24.00

OTHER STUFF!
30 Zombie Temporary Tattoos by Mitch O’Connell (Chronicle) $9.95
LaPorte Indiana DVD $20.00 – You loved the book. Now enjoy the movie!
Underground Multiplex Mix DVD by Joseph Lewis $15.00

2011: Revenge of Print Pops Up Elsewhere Too!

Published on December 8, 2010 2 Comments

If you’ve been following our blog you know that 2011 has been declared the Revenge of Print, because we’re all tired of “the end of publishing as we know it” stories. Revenge of Print is a campaign to get as many people as possible to self-publish in 2011. We’ve been seeing it pop up in a whole variety of places, and we stumbled on to some more places too!

Yes, there’s a group for it on Facebook. Yeah, it’s been Tweeted. But it’s also been posted on  Microcosm Publishing’s site. And now there’s a wemakezines group!

Maybe you’ve been putting off another issue of your zine. Perhaps you’ve never printed one. Why not commit? Pledge your allegiance to it Facebook. And yes, the irony of posting it there is not lost on us. But still! Announce it to the world so that you’re forced to zine-i-fy.

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Weekly Top 10

Published on December 7, 2010 0 Comments

1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. Spiral-bound.

2. Brilliant Mistake #2 by Carrie $1.00 – Carrie’s second issue lays it bare, rips it raw, burns, shreds and begins to rebuild a devastated heart. Reading Brilliant Mistake #2 cuts to the chase and takes you right there – that place of the furious senselessness of love in tatters – and through reading it you sort out your own wreckage. Trial by fire, and feeling it hard. -EF

3. Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99

4. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
5. Slingshot 2011 Pocket Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. All in perfect-bound pocket-size form.

6. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

7. Peters Muscle by Michael Deforge $1.00 – More sick sauce from DeForge, this round is a Freudian take on what gets that Spider Sense a-tingling. -EF

8. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago By Laura Szumowski $7.95
9. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

10. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt  (Pigeon Press) $6.95