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Curbside Splendor #4 Fall 12 $10.00

Zines & Zine-Related Books
Punk: The Best of Punk Magazine by John Holmstrom and Bridget Hurd $30.00
Chickfactor #17 Legendary Indie Nerd Bible Autumn 12 $10.00
Meat Francois Sagat Special $20.00
Thou Shalt Not Talk About the White Boys Club Challenging the Unwritten Rules of Punk by Sari $2.50
Judas Goat Quarterly #56 win 12 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
Public Collectors Paper Blog #2 $4.50
Selections #1 by Jessica Pierotti $5.00
Toys Toys Toys, A Last Minute Back to Print Holiday Zine $3.00
Arthur #33 Jan 13 $5.00 – WHAT? ARTHUR IS BACK IN PRINT?! AWESOME.
Victory Journal #4 Fall 12 $5.00
Pit Stains #1-$3 by Matthew Aull, prices vary.

Comics & Comix
Lois #2 by Lois Gilbert $5.00
True Swamp #2 by Jon Lewis (Uncivilzed) $4.00
Not My Small Diary #17 Stories From High School ed. by Delanie Derry Green $7.00
Rena Rouge vol 37 by Alan D. Caesar $3.00
Demon Dust #13 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Cat Mariner by Adrian Pijoan $3.00
Be the Love #1 by Jon Drawdoer $2.00
1-800-Kravlox #1 by Isabel Reidy $3.00
Structures 12 through 23 by Vincent Stall (Uncivilized) $5.00
Weird Magazine #2 Nov 12 by Mr. Freibert et al. $10.00
Powdered Milk Collected Stories by Keiler Roberts $7.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Delphine HC by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $24.99 – Collects Delphine #1 through #4.
Weird Horrors and Daring Adventures the Joe Kubert Archives, 33 Uncensored Classics (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Adventure Time TPB vol 1 by Ryan North et al. $14.99
Before the Incal Classic Collection by Jodorowsky et al. (Humanoids) $44.95
Chinatown TPB by Sunbros $19.99

Fiction
Way We Sleep an Anthology by Jessica and James C. Bye $19.99

Drugs
The Heroin Chronicles ed. by Jerry Stahl $15.95

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Death Photography 1994-2011 by Tsurisaki Kiyotaka (Creation Books) $39.95 – Give the gift of corpse photography this year!
You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos by Robert Arthur (Feral House) $24.00
Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre, How We Dignify the Dead by Sarah Murray $16.00
Paranormal Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Christopher Kiernan Coleman $16.99
Haunted Asylums by ER Vernor $19.99
The Authentic Animal Inside: The Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy by Dave Madden $15.99
Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock N Roll Group by Ian F. Svenonius $14.95
What Are You Doing Here? A Black Womans Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal by Laina Dawes (Bazillion Points Books) $16.95
Briefly Knocked Unconscious By a Low Flying Duck: Stories from 2nd Story (Elephant Rock Books) $20.00

For Kids
Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis $11.99

Magazines
Grantland Quarterly vol 4 $25.00
Camera Obscura #81 Feminism Culture and Media Studies $12.00
Fangoria #319 $9.99
Design Bureau Jan 13 $8.00
Capricious #13 $17.00
IdN vol 19 #5 $19.95
Raw Vision #77 $14.00
Shots #118 $6.95
Frieze #151 Nov Dec 12 $10.00
Cine Qua Non #6 $10.00
Skeptic vol 17 #4 $6.95
Bizarre #196 Jan 13 $10.50
Gothic Beauty #38 $6.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 5 #1 Win 13 $16.00
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #16 Dec 12 $9.99
Ugly Things #34 $9.95
Big Takeover #71 $5.99
Clash #80 $8.99
Uncut Jan 13 #188 $9.99
Wire Dec 12 #346 $9.99
Uncut The Kinks Ultimate Music Guide $13.99
GLQ vol 19 #1 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
Harpers Magazine Jan 13 $6.99
In These Times Dec 12 $3.50
Progressive Dec 12 Jan 13 $4.95
National Green Pages 2013 $9.95
RFD #152 Win 12 $9.95
Tattoo Oriental Special #8 From Tattoo Life $9.99

Poetry, Lit Mags and Lit Journals
Sweet Talk by Grant Reynolds $3.00
Six By Six #27 You’re Talking To Me Like I’m Seven Hundred $5.00
High Art and Love Poems by Keith Gaustad $9.95
The First Line vol 14 #4 Win 12 $3.00
Fourteen Hills vol 19 #1 2013 $9.00
The Paris Review #203 $15.00
Little Star 2013 #4 $14.95
Lana Turner #5 $12.00
Bomb #122 Win 12 13 $7.95
Ferocious  Quarterly #3 Be Prepared $12.00

Sex & Sexy
Transformation #82 $12.50
Sweets Magazine vol 5 #20 $5.99
Alt #5 Jan Feb 13 $9.95

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The White House by Joel Craig (Green Lantern Press) $15.00 – Craig’s book doesn’t so much demand as much as call out to the reader, in sequence like an all-night deejay party, with time to dance, time to rest, time to go to the bar and get a refill, or outside for a quick cigarette, hitting on someone on the way back in, hoping to strut, step and swing with them. Cover art and book design by Sonnenzimmer.

Zines
Under Ice: A Kate Bush Fan Zine $5.00 – Yes, for reals.
KerBloom #98 Sep Oct 12 by Artnoose $2.00
Sophisticated Aggressively Stupid by Dan Gleason $3.00
The Last of the Hippies: An Hysterical Response by Penny Rimbaud $6.00
Denise Marks zines: Mama Oso #1 Nine Months and Mama Oso #2 Birthday $3.00 each
Meat #8 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
Field Guide to Chairs of the Upper Midwest (Lemon O Books) $3.00 – Hilarious.
Overcoming Fitness by Robert Kocik (Autonomedia) $5.00
Sweetmeats #2 by Edie Fake $2.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Prison Pit Book 4 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me, A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney $20.00 – Forney explores her personal experience with being a creative person while also being a manic depressive. Her highs are well, extreme of course, and the lows are well, extreme of course. But whether mental illness has touched your life or not, this book is an excellent read, especially for the venture into creativity, as well as the enlightening nitty gritty specifics like medical expenses that memoirs of the “coping with mental illness” genre tend to omit. A fast and heart read.-LM
Spaceman Deluxe Edition by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso $24.99
Ragemoor by Jan Strnad et al. $17.99
Scott Pilgrim vol 2 Scott Pilgrim vs The World by Bryan Lee O’Malley $24.99 – Now in color!
JLA Earth 2 TPB by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely $14.99
Tank Girl Carioca by Mike McMahon and Alan C. Martin $19.95
Annotated Sandman vol 2 by Neil Gaiman $49.99 – Collects Sandman #21 through #39.

Art & Design
Sketch Books: The Hidden Art of Designers Illustrators and Creatives by Richard Brereton $19.95
Silhouettes from Popular Culture by Olly Moss $16.95 – The Prisoner! Cosby! Aliens! And so on.
Generation Ink, Williamsburg Brooklyn by Paul Nathan $29.95
The Lands of Ice and Fire: Maps From Kings Landing to Across the Narrow Sea (A Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin $40.00 – This dazzling set of maps transforms the lands of Martin’s epic Song of Ice and Fire series, (which started with A Game of Thrones), into an atlas with pieces that would look great on any castle wall.

Fiction
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk $14.95
The Pirates in an Adventure with Romantics by Gideon Defoe $14.95
Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman $15.00
Kurt Vonnegut Letters $35.00
The Funny Man by John Warner $14.00 – A midling comic rockets to fame when he comes up with his gimmick. Can’t he get no respect?

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals by Christopher Monks $14.95 – Fragments from PALIN! THE MUSICAL, Obama’s Undersold 2012 Campaign Slogans, A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable…And much more.
Pot Psychology’s How To Be Low Brow Advice from High People by Tracie Eagan Morrissey et al. $14.99 – From the founders of the Jezebel.com video series Pot Psychology, that dispenses advice about stuff relevant to both potheads and sexy style. Also: 101 pictures of animals acting like people. Illustrations by Lindsay Mound.

Chuck Norris: Longer and Harder: The Complete Chronicle of the World’s Deadliest, Sexiest, and Beardiest Man by Ian Spector $18.00 – 1500 (parodied) facts.
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays From the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn $24.95
Forgotten Wisdom vol II by Prof Oddfellow, the Doktor of Forbidden Destower of Wondermint $9.95
My Ideal Bookshelf by Jane Mount and Thessaly La Force $24.99
Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World by Randy Alfred $19.99
Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace $26.99 – 15 essays from the 20 years of Wallace’s career.
The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life) by Chris Hardwick $15.00 – Host of The Nerdist podcast/blog/empire shares crucial information needed to come out on top in the current Nerd uprising.
DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia by Misha Glenny $16.00 – Alarming and illuminating stories of cybercrime, cyberwarfare and cyberindustrial espionage.
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem $16.95 – An entertaining grab bag that covers everything from great novels to old films to graffiti to cyberculture.
Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World by Randy Alfred $19.99 – Wired Magazine’s’s top-flight science-trivia book.

Politics & Revolution
Prisons Will Not Protect You by Ryan Conrad and Dean Spade $10.00
Anarchism and Environmental Survival by Graham Purchase  (Black Cat) $23.95
Markets Not Capitalism by Gary Chartier et al. (Minor Compositions) $32.00

DIY & Food
The Pickled Pantry by Andrea Chesman $19.95
Intoxerated: The Definitive Drinkers Ditionary by Paul Dickson $14.95

Kids & Radical Parenting
Geek Mom: Projects, Tips and Adventures for Moms and their 21st Century Families by Natania Barron et al. $19.99
Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal by Karen Falk $29.95
Middle School,The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson, with illustrations by Laura Park $7.99 – With drawings from local comics superstar Laura Park, and now in an affordable soft cover, you can’t lose.

Magazines
Juxtapoz #143 Dec 12 $5.99
Randy #3 Stop Calling Me Names by AK Burns et al. $8.00
Design Bureau Nov Dec 12 $8.00
American Athiest 4th Quarter 12 $4.95
True Crime Oct 12 $8.99
Fortean Times #294 Dec 12 $11.99
Ladygunn #6 $9.99
Arena Homme Plus #38 Fall 12 Win 13 $15.50
Treating Yourself #37 $7.99
High Times Jan 13 $5.99
Boneshaker Magazine #10 $12.00
Ghetto Blaster #33 $3.95
Under the Radar #43 $5.99
Hip Mama #53 $5.95
Whistle #3 Modern Pin Up Magazine (Sophie King) $10.00
In These Times Nov 12 $3.50
SSLM vol 15 Oct Nov 12 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00
Under the Radar #43 $5.99
Bound By Ink vol 1 #11 $7.99
Inked Girls Nov Dec 12 $7.99

Poetry, Lit Mags and Lit Journals
Palm Trees by Nick Twemlow (Green Lantern Press) $15.00 –  The poems shuttle from airport to boardroom, boardroom to living room, making the kind of foreboding observations that might issue from a drug-addled and paranoid Delphic Oracle. Cover art and book design by Sonnenzimmer.

Sex Guides & Culture, Gender Studies
Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay by Paul Vitagliano $14.95
Gaytimes Magazine #412 Nov 12 $9.95
SSLM vol 15 Oct Nov 12 Same Sex Life Magazine $5.00

For Steampunk Enjoyment
The Right Way to Do Wrong: A Unique Selection of Writings by History’s Greatest Escape Artist by Harry Houdini (Melville House) $15.00 – Published originally in 1906, this masterclass in subversion by conducted by the world’s greatest illusionist is an anti-etiquette guide and proof that things are not always as they seem. With an introduction by Teller, Penn Jillette’s’s usually silent partner!
The Balloonist by MacDonald Harris – This book won awards in ’77 but this reprint is is more relevant than ever to those interested in things steampunk and 90s. The 1890s, that is. Swedish inventor Gustav Crispin and two companions embark on a hydrogen balloon voyage to the north pole, accompanied by a crate of passenger pigeons and a plentiful supply of canned goods, not to mention sexual politics, romance, railway trains and physics.

Steampunk Fashion by Spurgeon Vaughn Ratcliffe $24.95
Steampunk: An Illustrated History of Fantastical Fiction, Fanciful Film, Other Victorian Visions by Brian J. Robb $35.00

Reprints & Restocks
The Hive by Charles Burns $21.95 – Second book in the Xed Out series. Back in stock.
Lucky Peach #5 China Town Issue $12.00
Lost Dimension by Paul Virilio (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) $15.95 – Thoughts regarding living in the realm of the lost dimension, where the three-dimensional public square of our urban past has collapsed into the two-dimensional interface of the various screens that function as gateways to home, office, and public spaces. Written in 1983 but still as relevant as ever.
Blast Off: Rockets, Robots, Ray Guns and Rarities From the Golden Age of Space Toys by S. Mark Young et al. (Dark Horse) $24.99
Sleepwalk and Other Stories by Adrian Tomine $17.95
various issues of Doris
Nurse Nurse by Kate Skelly (Sparkplug) $15.00
Mark Twain Was Right the 2001 Cincinnati Riots by Dan P. Moore (Microcosm) $8.95

Other Stuff
2013 Justseeds and Eberhardt Press Organizers: Small ($7.00) and Large ($10.00)
The Bottled Wasp Pocket Diary 2013 $10.00 – In purchasing this item you’re supporting the Brighton Anarchist Black Cross’ fundrasing efforts to create a long-term stable income for prisoner support activities.

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2013 SLINGSHOT ORGANIZERS ARE HERE! $6.00 small, $12.00 large. Click on the image above to order yours now.

We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – As teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power!, a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, and Hüsker Dü at the height of their powers. Meanwhile, their amazing photographs captured the dilapidated houses, abandoned storefronts, and disaffected youth culture of the early Reagan era. Never before seen, except in crude fanzine form, these detailed and richly narrative photos are now collected to present an intimate document a uniquely fertile creative moments.

Zines & Zine-Related Books

Found Magazine #8 $5.00 – The latest and greatest issue of FOUND.
Miranda #21 by Kate Haas $3.00 – Motherhood and other adventures, in well-crafted, lively essays and reviews, covering books, life with small boys, Peace Corps Morocco, lost companions, and whatever else is on the mind of an ex-English teacher turned at-home mother/writer. Tasty recipes, too.

Everydaypants #1 by Ramsey $3.00
various zines from Providence Comics Consortium
The Simple History Series: Collection One  by J. Gerlach (Microcosm) $19.95 – Included in this seven-zine, 336-page, sleeve-bound boxset is Simple History author J. Gerlach’s Nez Perce Indians, Hawaii (1778-1959) From Western Discovery to Statehood, The Spanish Civil War, Crusades: Christian Attempts to Liberate the Holy Land (1095-1229), Christopher Columbus & His Expeditions to America, The Congo: A European Invention, and The Cold War!! The Simple History zine series is an ongoing attempt to bring unrecognized or otherwise mis-told histories to a modern audience of all ages. By presenting its facts objectively, Simple History’s goal is to share history without marring the facts by editorializing.

25 Chicagoans vol 1 by Oscar Arriola $6.00 – Quimby’s store regular Oscar asked a bunch o’ people out and about to photoboothify themselves and design the back of the back. He prints both the pictures front and back, and this first volume reads like a visual Terkelian journal of a moment in Chicago history.
Night of the Fandom #5 She Was Made for Me But She Hates Me $6.00
Fragmented #1 $18.00
Lonely Inspector by Tiina Lehikoinen $7.50
Matthew Murray Oblast scifi punk bike perzines
D Tuned #2 Sep 12 $2.00
Exploitation Retrospect #51 Journal of Junk Culture and Fringe Media $4.00
Best Breakfast #2 In Town Plus Breakfast Sandwich Inside Thou Sucks Because You $2.00
Sound Record #1 Fall 12 In Facts for the Out Crowd: The truth about Louise Bourgeois Skate Parks Accordian Puffin $2.00

Comics & Comix
Clutch #24 Invincible Summer #21 by Clutch McBastard and Nicole J. Georges (Tugboat Press) $2.00 – Every year old friends Nicole and Clutch team up to produce an autobiographical split zine that traces their overlapping lives as they deal with the trials and tribulations of the modern world. This year Nicole focuses on the ups and downs of her job teaching children and the struggles of caring for her two aging dogs. Clutch travels to Toronto, works on his upcoming graphic novel and sings a song about glucose meters. A sublime look at life, friendship and taking one day at time.
Demon Dust #11 Oct 12 by Bernie McGovern $2.00
Troll On #2 The Skin of the Slarbarian and Troll On #3 by Benjamin Bergman $7.50 each
Mary Shelley vs Dracula by JP Tervamaki $7.50
Star Sounds Tahtien Aania by Amanda Vahamaki $5.00
Strata #1 Hidden in the Mountain by Bill Rusk $2.00

Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road (Feminist Press) $15.95
Finnish comics ultimate overload!: Finnish Comics Annual 2011 and 2012, Koiran Kakkaa Champ Poo by Roope Eronen, Samuelin Matkassa and Second and Third Books of Hope by Tommi Musturi, Kuti Kuti Guide to Finland and more!
Crossed vol 4 by Garth Ennis and friends $24.99
Saga TPB vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples $9.99
Lovecraft Anthology vol 2 Graphic Collection of Short Stories by HP Lovecraft et al. $19.95
Mattias Unfiltered: The Sketchbook Art of Mattias Adolfsson $16.99
Once Upon a Time Machine by Andrew Carl et al. $24.99
Graphic Canon vol 2 Worlds Great Literature as Comics and Visuals by Russ Kick (Seven Stories Press) $34.95 – From Kubla Khan to Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Escape to Gold Mountain:A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America by David HT Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press) $19.95
Gary book 3 by Tyrell Cannon $7.00

Art, Design and Photo Books
Stencil Republic by aiko $29.95
Hello Cutie: Adventures in Cute Culture by Pamela Klaffke (Arsenal Pulp Press) $19.95
Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea by Stephen Dupont (PowerHouse) $30.00
Hall of Fame New York City $19.95 – Yes, there is a graffiti Hall of Fame. Guess where it is?

DIY

Let’s Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition: A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras by Lesley M. M. Blume and Grady McFerrin $18.95
Gorilla Food: Living and Eating Organic, Vegan and Raw by Aaron Ash (Arsenal Pulp) $24.95
Boneshaker #43-300 A Bicycling Almanac $8.00

Mayhem, Miscreants, Memoirs, Music & Misc
Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth by Sasha Lilley et al. (PM Press) $16.00
Transhumanism Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell and Dr. Scott D. Hart (Feral House) $19.95
Steampunk III Steampunk Revolution ed. by Ann Vandermeer $15.95
Insincerely Yours: Letters From a Prankster by Bernard Radfar $13.95
Heroines by Kate Zambreno (Semiotexte) $17.95
Instant: The Story of Polaroid by Christopher Bonanos $24.95
Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative by Lawrence Weschler (Counterpoint) $16.95
Republic Lost How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig $15.99

Politics & Revolution
Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls On Life, Love and Fashion by Virgie Tovar (Seal) $16.00
Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth (Counterpoint) $22.95 – In March 1906, Emma Goldman published the first issue of Mother Earth, a “Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature.” Conceived as a forum for anarchists of every school and variety, Mother Earth laid the groundwork for American radical thought. Culled by Peter Glassgold.
Magazines
Juxtapoz #142 Nov 12 $5.99
Hi Fructose #25 $6.95
Fortean Times #293 Nov 12 $11.99
Student Publication vol 35 Transformation New Persepctives on Design Methods and Processes by the NC State Univeristy College of Design $15.00
Dwell Nov 12 $5.99
Pinstriping #34 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
Dazed & Confused vol 3 #14 Oct 12 $9.99

Poetry, Lit Mags and Lit Journals
Gigantic Sequins vol 3 #2 $5.00
Monday Night #11 $5.00
WomenArts Quartery Journal vol 2 #4 Fall 12 $10.00
The Believer #93 $8.00
Horse Ballast by Patrick Culliton $7.00

Sex & Sexy
Never Easy by Natty Soletz et al. $9.99 – Queer young cowboys.
Cheeky Spanking Stories byRachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis) $15.95
Seductress Erotic Tales of Immortal Desire by DL King (Cleis) $15.95
Lips Like Sugar Womens Erotic Fantasies by Violet Blue (Cleis) $15.95
Simultaneous O: A Couples Guide to Achieving the Ultimate Climax $13.95
Hot and Fast: Sexy Spontaneous Quickies for Passionate Orgasms $14.95
Adult Movie Superstars vol 1 Golden Age Photos by Jack Hunter $24.95

Other Stuff
Hamburger Pocket Pouch and Keyring Combo $9.50
More Blank Moleskine journals in a variety of styles, including ones with cassettes on the cover.
U-Fizz Carbonate Anything in Minutes From Flat to Fizzy $8.00 – OK vegans, don’t miss your chance to carbonate your broccoli juice.