Category: new stuff

The Miniest Mini Comic by Nick Main.

Zines and Chap Books

Idiot Moron $weepstake$ #2 $5.00

Larissa Meets Bigfoot and Other Stories by Teresa Milbrodt $4.00

I’ll See You In My Dreams Test Everything Zine #3  $10.00

Me Magazine #18 Win 09 $7.50

Uncle Envelope #13 $4.50

This Cook Book is  Made for Jesus by Susan Cianciolo $12.00

School Women and Japanese Culture #1 by Maki Hakui $12.00

Etc #6 Deja Vu – The Final Issue $3.00

KerBloom #81 Nov Dec 09 9 times 9 is eighty one: Artnoose and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Year $2.00

Effigy #4 by Matt Whispers $3.00

Judas Goat Quarterly #44 Win 09 $1.50

Delusions of Grandeur by Francisco Lamb $8.00

Poetry and Fiction

Spiking the Sucker Punch by Robbie Telfer $15.00

Mags and Lit Journals

Gargoyle #55 $15.95

World Explorer vol 5 #5 $6.00

Skeptical Inquirer Jan Feb 10 vol 34 #1 $4.95

Marbles Mudfish Individual Poet Series #6 $10.00

Define the Meaning #9 $4.99

HotShoe Dec Jan 10 $9.50

Grafik #180 Dec 09 $19.99

Eye Spy #65 $6.50

Under the Radar #29 $4.99

Lowbrow Art Books

Conceptual Realism In the Service of the Hypothetical by Robt Williams (Fantagraphics), soft cover $24.99, hard cover $49.99

Graphic Novels

Footnotes In Gaza HC by Joe Sacco (Metropolitan) $29.95

Luke On the Loose by Harry Bliss (Toon Books) $4.99

Unclothed Man In the 35th Century Animation Work and Comic Short Stories by Dash Shaw (Fantagraphics) $19.9

More Than Complete Action Philosophers by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey (Evil Twin) $24.95

Alec: The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf) $35.00

Definitive Prince Valiant Companion by Hal Foster (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Goon vol 6 Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr Wicker $15.95

Comics/Comix/Mini-Comix

Future Space Worship You Illusion by Mark Velard $2.00

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #7 by Philip K. Dick and var. other (Boom) $3.99

Mishy Gosh #1A by Rose Shipman $3.00

Beneath the Foundation by Krystal DiFronzo $4.00

Coin Op #2: 5 Stories by Peter Hoey $10.00

Sexy Stuff

AG #109 Super Erotic Anthology Comic (Icarus) $4.99

Other Oddities

3D View Master Photo Reels by Matt Bergstrom of the Wurlitzer Build Your Own Chicago and New York Postcards! Three different Chicago-based reels, $10.00 each. Topics are: Motels of Lincoln Avenue, Route 66 in Chicago, and Chicago Hot Dog Stands! Plus, we sell the viewmasters themselves for only $6.00!

Come all ye faithful.

Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, ed. by Jacques Boyreau (Fantagraphics) $19.99

2010 Gear Worms Calendar by Leig Goldberg $24.00 – Beautiful screen-printed as usual

Great Anti War Cartoons, ed. by Craig Yoe (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Sublife vol 2 by John Pham (Fantagraphics) $7.99

EdgyCute: From Neo Pop to Low Brow and Back Again, ed. by Harry Saylor and Carolyn Frisch (Mark Batty) $45.00

various mini comix by Skylaar Amann, including CorpoLand a Guide to Tomorrow Today, Action Bookbinding, Bookulele a Love Story, and more. Prices vary.

Folk Photography the American Real Photo Postcard 1905 to 1930, ed. by Luc Sante. As featuredin The Chicago Reader (Yeti Publishing) $24.95

Yeti #8 $11.95

Mind Control zine by Sean Hernandez $4.25

Smile Hon Youre in Baltimore #12 by William Tandy $3.00

Men Seeking Men chap book by Oso Arcilla and Jay Krevens $6.00

Little Nemo Slumberland 2010 Calendar $14.95

Roadkill vol 2 #2 zine $2.00

Asbestos Wick mini comic by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug) $4.00

Miranda Baby mini comic by Sean ABT Christensen (Sparkplug) $4.00

Buzz #3 by Corrinne Mucha mini comic $3.00

Fighting Words vols 1-4 by Robert Katman, $22.95 each.

It’s Broken Do You Think You Can Fix It zine by Jay Groft $3.00

Watch the Closing Doors #49 by Fred Argoff $2.50

Capricious #10 $19.00

Paradise Road #1 A Hardboiled Detective Story comic by Igor Glushkin $2.95

2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 26 #3 $6.25

Big Takeover #65 $5.99

Buds and Babes #3 $7.99

Four Gs #3 Graffiti Guns Girls and Ganja $7.00

Girls & Corpses #3 Win 09/2010 $8.95

Green Teacher #86 $7.95

Juxtapoz #107 $5.99

Laphams Quarterly win 09 $15.00

Lemon #4: Heroes $12.95

Maximum Rocknroll #320 $4.00

National Green Pages 2010 $9.95

Radical Philosophy #158 $13.00

Raw Vision #67 $14.00

Royal Flush #6 $9.99

Shock Cinema #37 $5.00

Signal to Noise #56 $4.95

G-Fan #89 $5.99

Car Busters#39 $5.00

Conspiracy Journal #29 $3.00

Esopus #13 $14.00

Eye Spy #64 $6.50

Fader #65 $5.99

Conceptual Realism In the Service of the Hypothetical by Robt Williams (Fantagraphics) $49.99

Sneaker Freaker #16 $12.50

Monocle vol 3 #29 Dec 09 $10.00

Fortean Times #256 Jan 10 $11.99

Wire Dec 09 #310 $10.99

Pork Chop Robinson #8 mini comic $3.00

Whipping Girl: A Transexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano (Seal) $15.95

High Times Feb 10 $5.99

Tank Girl – Dark Nuggets One Shot – No Nonsense Special Edition by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo (Image) $3.99

Skeptical Inquirer Nov 09 $4.95

Skunk vol5 #6 $5.99

Social Anarchism #43 $6.00

Tabu Tattoo #40 $7.99

TAN: Naturist Lifest #45 $8.99

Tattoo Scout #14 $8.00

Tattoo Society $7.99

Theme #21 $5.95

Tiki Magazine win 09 $4.99

Tokion vol 3 #2 $6.99

Treating Youself #19 $7.99

True Detective #19 $4.49

Ugly Things #29 $8.95

Z Magazine Dec 09 $4.95

Burn Collector #14 by Al Burian $8.00 – Yes! It’s true. A new issue.

Cometbus #53 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00 – Also yes! Also it’s true! A new issue.

Bad Reputation: Performances Essays Interviews by Penny Arcade (Semiotexte) $19.95 – From the beat-era artist.

Ray Caesar Art Collection vol 1 (Murphy Design) $54.00 – Appealing to the lowbrow Mark Ryden-y types.

Storm Clouds by Jeff Soto (Murphy Design) $41.00 – See description above.

Well Actually by Andy Burkholder $1.00 – From the mini comics artist of such mono- and bi-syllabic titles such as OK, No, Thinking, What and Dogshed.

Neil Jam Book by Neil Fitzpatrick $1300 – Selected shorts of #11-17 as well as new material from local comics artist.

Electric Literature #1 Sum 09 and Electirc Literature #2 Fall 09 by Adam Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum. $9.95 each. Lit journal outta Brooklyn.

Electric Ant #2 Exquisite Corpses $12.00 – A zine. Not to be confused with the above title.

Driven By Lemons by Josh W. Cotter (Adhouse) $19.95 – Sketchbookish material from local artist behind Skyscrapers of the Midwest.

Blammo #4 by Noah Van Sciver $4.00

Famous Hairdos of Popular Music vol 3 Morrissey $3.00

Murder and Mayhem in Chicagos Vice Districts by Troy Taylor (the History Press) $19.99 – And don’t miss Troy Taylor’s other cardinal direction titles such as Murder and Mayhem on Chicagos South Side.

Untitled II: The Beautiful Renaissance, Street Art and Graffiti by Gary Shove (ProActif) $19.95 – Artists featured include Miss Van, Dan Witz, Ron English, Obey, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Swoon, Os Gemeos, and Herakut.

Colour Mania (Victionary) $39.99 – Colour Mania brings together an eclectic group of talented designers who have one thing in common: they are artists who simply can’t get enough of one particular color – be that red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black or white.

Mural Art vol 2: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World from Graffiti to Trompe L’Oeil by Kiriakos Iosifidis (Publikat) $45.00

Flash Back Retro Design in Contemporary Graphics (Victionary) $39.99

Juxtapoz Dark Arts, ed. by Diana Weber (Gingko) $29.95 – These works compiled by Juxtapoz features today’s most talented dark artists who feature such dark things in their work such as gothic subculture, the metaphysical, the disturbing or the nightmarish.

Juxtapoz Photo, ed. by M Revelli (Gingko) $29.95

Upper Playground 10 Years T Shirt Graphics, ed. by Evan Pircco (Gingko) $39.95

Design Play: An Array of Quirky Design by Victor Cheung (Victionary) $39.95

Red Snow by Susumu Katsumata (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95 – Katsumata draws and writes about the lives of peasants and farmers from his native region in the Japanese countryside of his youth, struggling to survive the harsh seasons and the difficult life of manual laborers and farmers.

Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard (St. Martins) $14.99 – Apocalyptic dystopian fiction.

Updated hard cover editions of each of the books in Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy (North Atlantic Books), encyclopedic studies of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. Beautifully designed and illustrated, $35.00 each:

Pharmako Poeia: Power Plants Poisons and Herbcraft

Pharmako Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path

Pharmako Dynamis: Stimulating Plants Potions and Herbcraft

Bitch #45 $5.95

Juxtapoz #107 Dec 09 $5.99

Bust Dec 09 Jan 10 $4.99

Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green (McSweeneys) $29.99 – Autobiographical graphic novel about Binky Brown as a teenage Catholic, struggeling with religion and his own adolescent  neuroses. With an introduction by Art Spiegelman.

On Lives Subway Supplement by Michael Parish $4.99

Trnsfr vol 1 #1 Sep Oct 09 by Alan Fischer $7.00 – First issue of this art mag.

Proof I Exist #10 Nov 09 $2.00 – Billy is still crankin’ ’em out!

Michael Jacksons Masculinity by Yasmin $3.00 – Tackeling the heavy issues.

Razorcake #53 $4.00

Bizarre #156 Dec 09 $10.50

Escapists by Brian Vaughan and Michael Chabon (Dark Horse) $14.95

Pictures That Tick Short Narrative Book 1 by Dave McKean (Dark Horse) $19.95

RASL Starter Pack by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books) $14.00 – Includes Issues 1 through 5 and tattoos!

Year of Living Dangerously by Ted Rall Pablo Callejo (NBM) $18.95

Final Flesh DVD (Drag City) $16.00 – THE big inevitable BOMB is about to land on a family of three, throwing the very fabric of their balls to the wall…reality howls for mercy…fear strangles terror…the bones of the air shatter into fire. Just some light chick flick viewing.

Subvert Reality by Dan Gleason $2.00

Monday Night Journal of New Lit #8 by Jessica Wikens and Rob Pierce $3.00

Fallen Books by Dubbin and Davidson (Onestar) $40.00 – For book lovers, Fallen Books will have the grim fascination of a car wreck or crime scene. It collects photographs of toppled books and bookcases from libraries in seismically active areas, organized chronologically with the cool appraising eye of a mortician, with captions from newspapers or librarian’s notes, and with the pages for each incident color-coded according to the Mercalli Scale.

Signs of the City: Metropolis Speaking by Rudolf Netzelmann, Peter Winkles, and Stefan Horn (Jovis) $45.00 – Artists process city documentation of notices, posters, graffiti or advertising submitted by people in Barcelona, Berlin, London and Sofia via cells phones and GPS. Like Brant’s Weather Photos on the news, only more high brow.

Culture Nature: Art and Philosophy In The Context of Urban Development by Anke Haarmann (Jovis) $28.00 – This volume documents a series of events that took place in the summer of 2008 as part of the Summer on the Elbinsel festival in Wihelmsburg, Austria, which boasted a diverse group of international artists, including Critical Art Ensemble, Mike Davis, Lisa Heldke, and more. Their aim is to use sustainable artistic methods to reflect an urban response to climate change.

Monsters by Maria Roosen (Valiz) $29.95 – Breasts, silver mushrooms, a melancholy fir tree, giant slippers, a water tower with a crazy red wig, pricks dangling from a string, milk cans: these are a sampling from the ten works that Maria Roosen has chosen for this substantial volume.

Space Vampires by Colin Wilson (Monkfish) $12.95

Men: Twenty Five Years in Photographs (Alyson) $29.95 – Sexy photos. Of men. Sometimes on a motorcycle.

Sisterhood of the Rose: The Recollections of Celeste Levesque by Jim Marrs (Disinfo) $24.95 – The first novel from outer-limits conspiracy buff Marrs, using his factual research into the Nazis’ fascination with the occult and their search for iconic treasures as a basis for the novel.

Late Work of Margaret Krofits by Mark Gluth (Akashic) $14.95

Trash: A Queer Film Classic by Jon Davies (Arsenal) $14.95

Lam of Desire: A Queer Film Classic by Jose Quiroga (Arsenal) $14.95

Tattooed Lady: A History, ed. by Amelia Klem Osterud (Speck) $27.00

Fan Letters To a Stripper: A Patti Waggin Tale by Bob Brill (Schiffer) $49.99

Piece Meal by Nate Beaty $4.00

These Yams Are Delicious by Sam Sharpe $4.00

New Americans by Josh Journey Heinz $30.00

Somnambulist #15 by Martha Grover $3.00

Adventures of my Life Spring Semester 09 Issue #1 by Adam Matthew Roob $3.00

Sweet Tomb by Trinie Dalton $8.00

Visible Rooster Jack #1 by Hanesen, Zmith and Witty $4.00

Forty Four Presidents by Sputnik (Garrett County Press) $12.95

Simple History Series #5: Hawaii 1778 to 1959 From Western Discovery to Statehood by J. Gerlach $2.50

Pencil Writing zine by Jerstin Crosby $3.00

Well Draw & Quarterly dropped the major comic bomb with a whole slew of hot titles. The Tatsumi is amazing and not to be missed and all you autobioesque & voyeur comic book lovers should really get up on the Gabrielle Bell book. Stock up before the last snow hits tonight? Peace I’m out!

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Wow lots of sweet zines and magazines this week, but its been real slow for comics! What’s up comic people where are you at? We need some new stuff to get our spring read on! On a super positive note we also got a small supply of the sweet new monograph from former Chicagoan Jesse Rose Vala which I highly recommend you pick up before its gone! Never anytime for sleepiness around here! Get on it!

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We’ll forgive you if the hordes of weekend warriors drunk on the perfume of light beer and greased up in shamrock green have you too scared to leave the house! But for the brave souls that do venture out, with great risk comes even greater reward! So put on your rain boots avoid the green puddles and come get those goods: including a new issues of Cinema Sewer, a nice new book of Basil Wolverton’s bible illustrations, and much more.

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Not many new books this week but the magazines and zines are steping up to the plate with nice new issues of Stop Smiling, Venus, East Village Inky and Bitch to name a few. Just to reiterate the Gondry event has been canceled next week-sorry! But we will still be here if you want to come say “hi.” I promise we don’t smell…well not that bad.

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