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Category: new stuff
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New Stuff 11/15/08 Two Weeks Worth!
I was visiting Portland and Spokane last week so sorry for any new stuff delays, so here you go two full weeks of hot hot new stuff. Also don’t forget Chip Kidd and Saul Ferris will be doing a presentation about their new book BatManga Tuesday November 18th 6PM at Chicago Comics!
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New Stuff November 1st 2008
Pumpkins have been smashed, eggs have been thrown and all the souls are back in hell. We got a hot wall of remainder books in back tons of deals you have to see to believe, but as always with these hot deals once they are gone, their gone! So don’t sleep in to long today. -
New Stuff 10/25/08
Just had a dude ask me if we sold Ron Paul paraphernalia? What Halloween costume is that for? Anyway Henry Owings will be here tonight to make fun of the often over serious business of indie rock. So swing by if you can, last time he brought everybody in attendance milkshakes! For Real! Other than that the fall book onslaught continues, WOW!
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New Stuff October 18th 2008
Lots of new stuff, Sweet events this week. Stop in!
Also Slingshots for 2009 just came in so hit us quick if you want best choice of colors!!! -
Featured Book of the Day: Fraktur mon Amour
Fraktur Mon Amour (Princeton Archetectural Press) showcases 333 Blackletter fonts collected by Judith Schalansky, accompanied by a CD of 150 fonts compatible with both PC or Mac. Four of the fonts were created just for this book! It’s beautiful black and hot pink, has won awards and looks like a prayerbook. Rock horns, everybody!
People tend to think of Blackletter font (also known as Fraktur or Gothic type) as something associated with hip hop or heavy metal album covers, gangs, street culture, tattoos, goth culture and even advertising. You know you’ve seen it! It’s the font usually used just for titles, ’cause a whole document with it can be harder to read. But this font pops up in lots o’ places, like these, for example:
But it wasn’t always like this. Blackletter font was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages though the Renaissance replaced most of it with Latin Antiqua. It was incorrectly associated with the Nazis, who actually banned its use in 1941 because it was falsely believed to be a Jewish invention. These days this font is embraced in many parts of both subculture and popular culture.
Each Blackletter font in Fraktur Mon Amour is presented on a full page along with its complete alphabet, date of origin, the name of its designer, and its original foundry. Like this:
Isn’t this hot? How could you not want this? It even has a black and pink ribbon bookmarker to keep your place in case you are deciding whether to use Duerers Minuskeln or Fette Deutsche Schrift to decorate your goth greeting card for your goth holiday party invitation. Come into the store today and take a look at this beauty.
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New Stuff October 11th 2008
We have a sweet event tonight the weather is nice and the store has been busy all day due to the mega punk? Show this weekend, the secret nerdy comic conference, and maybe some smelly circuit benders stopping in while on tour. Banner weekend here.
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Featured Book of the Day: Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III
The final volume of this trilogy is the only one in print. The other volumes go for tons! If you’re not familiar with any of the books in the series, the deal is that they’re tattoos done with crude resources by Russian prisoners on each other, and they’re collected by this lifetime security guard Danzig Baldaev (his name is Danzig, heh heh hehheh). The KGB supported his collection! It was important to them to be able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images (both pictoral and text) on their bodies. You don’t need to have either of the other books in the trilogy to get into this one. Devils, penises (peni?), swords, SS cats, barbed wire, anti-party tatts — whether you’re an ink freak, photography nut, sociologist, political maverick (are any politicians really mavericks, I mean really?) or lowbrow art collector, this is the book for you. I particularly like the captions for many of the drawings that translate the meanings. Just as an example, dig the caption explaining the drawing of a rat with Russian text that translates to ‘Tightwad filcher’ for a convict sentenced for hooliganism: “He stole three packs of cigarettes and some sweets from the lockers of his fellow inmates. He was discovered and beaten up. It was decided by a group of ‘authoritative’ thieves that this tattoo should be forcibly applied as punishment.” Thazwutchoo get for stealin’ candy and smokes! These books have even influenced a movement in these parts where the youngins have actually started replicating these drawings on themselves by professional tattoo artists — would they get their asses kicked in a Russian jail?
