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  • Announcements and Weekly Top 10

    Three news pieces.

    Firstly, we are saddnend to hear of the passing of Sparkplug publisher Dylan Williams. Williams had been battling cancer. We send our condolences to his family and friends.

    Congratulations to our own Edie Fake, who won a 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for his book Gaylord Phoenix.

    Billy McCall (aka Billy Da Bunny) of Proof I Exist zine moved to New Mexico and got involved with the ABQ Zine Fest 9/30-10/2, and as part of the fest, he’s hosting The First Annual ABQ Zine Fest OLYMPICS on 10/1 with events like Speed Stapling, Precision Folding, and Synchronized Zining.  Yes, you read that correctly. So, if you’re in Albuquerque in a few weeks, go and git yer zine on.

    Here are the top 10 bestsellers of last week:

    1. F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker and Biz Stone (Simon) $12.00
    2. Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 $5.99
    3. The Believer #83 Sep 11 $8.00
    4. Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Solutions, and How You Can Get Involved by The Innocence Project $2.50 –  This zine outlines the basic ways wrongful convictions easily happen in the current American justice model, develops solutions and talks to activists about what their approaches are towards changing the system. Clear, informative, hopeful and helpful.
    5. I Dont Understand Farming #6 $.75
    6. I Will Bite You and Other Stories by Joseph Lambert $14.00 – 2011 Ignatz Winner for Outstanding Artist! Weird and toothsome stories of child-planetary interaction, monsterous consumption, ants-in-the-pants urgency and geometric breakdown. Lambert’s drawings have an assured mischieviousness like Steve Weissman’s early Lemon Kids, and these tales operate in a cosmic system that eschews outright snark and didactic symbolism in favor of suprising solutions and original visions. -EF
    7. Chicago Street Art by Joseph J. Depre, Oscar Arriola, etc. $15.00 – Text by Joseph J Depre and photos by Oscar Arriola, Chris Diers, Thomas Fennell IV and Patrick Hershberger. A love letter of sorts to Chicago and its many street artists, photos published here so that when the art gets graffiti blasted they’ve been documented somewhere. With work by such artists as Tiptoe, Artillery, The Viking and more. Traverlers, fuck bringing home a snowglobe from the souvenir stand. Get this book instead.
    8. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00
    9. Exxxtinction: 1st Known Circle Jirk by Sy Loady $3.00
    10. Warmer by Aiden Koch (Sparkplug) $5.00 – Koch’s moody, pencilled mini builds itself out of vaguely nihilist non-events. Pregnant pauses dwell on crumpled clothes and antique light fixtures, limbs and patterns. The structure plays itself long and loose, the slow clues that build narrative poignancy do an equal turn at washing away any meaning so we’re left with the dissolution of an empty visit to an empty day. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES!?
    Show Me The Money #35 $2.50
    Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia by Joao Maiopinto and Marcos Farrajota (MMMNNNRRRG) $14.22
    Penny Man Trashed 12 x 12 Screenprint Included by Ben Chlapek $8.00
    Backward Jane #2 Noelle Havens $3.50
    Take That Crap Off Your Wall $3.00

    COMICS! COMIX!
    Nix Comics Quarterly issues #1-#3 (prices vary)
    Upset Cats #1 Zejian Shen $10.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Caminhando Com Samuel by Tommi Musturi (MMMNNNRRRG) $28.44
    Malus by Christopher Webster (MMMNNNRRRG) $17.06
    Dimensions #1 $25.00
    Ozma of Oz by Eric Shanower and Slottie Young (Marvel) $29.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!?
    Neuro Trip by Neuro (MMMNNNRRRG) $21.32
    Just My Type a Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield (Gotham) $27.50 – With a forward by Chip Kidd.
    Sacred Skin: Thailands Spirit Tattoos by Tim Vater (Visionary) $32.95

    FICTION!?
    Howl on Trial the Battle for Free Expression by Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters (Citylights) $14.95

    MAGAZINES!?
    Fortean Times #279 Oct 11 $11.99
    VMan #23 Fall 11 $5.95
    Boneshaker Magazine #6 $10.00 – This bike mag is one of our topsellers.
    Fifth Estate vol 46 #2 #385 Spr 10 $4.00
    Tattoo Revolution Sep 11 $11.75

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!?
    Vain #10 Fall 11 $10.00
    Annalemma #8 $15.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Big Questions (soft cover edition) by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Thanks to everybody that came out to both off-site events we sold books at for Anders, at both Lula and the Hideout!
    2. Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb $18.00
    3. F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker and Biz Stone (Simon) $12.00
    4. Bitch #52 $5.95
    5. Design Bureau Sep Oct 11 $8.00
    6. lose #3 by Michael Deforge (Koyama) $5.00
    7. Believer #83 Sep 11 $8.00
    8. The Game by Anders Nilsen $9.00
    9. We Are Wisconsin ed. by Erica Sagrans $18.00 – Wisconsin Uprising in the words of the activists writers and everyday wisconsinites who made it happen. Contributors include Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Van Jones, John Nichols, Medea Benjamin, Mike Elk, Andy Kroll, Tony Schultz, Ian Murphy, Allison Kilkenny, Billy Wimsatt, Chris Bowers, and more.
    10. Archiving the Underground #1 ed. by Jenna Brager and Jami Sailor $2.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES!
    Whore Eyes #4 by various (Drippy Bone) $11.00 – One meaty thickpack of 3 sickosauce artzines from Jessie Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw AND a 80-minutt rambunk cd compilation -EF


    Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck Ups Know It Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Whos Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone) $4.00
    Death Trip by Shalo P and Peter Gray Hurley $7.00 – “This new release sees the artists respectively knashing their teeth at their obsessions and desires, tearing inward into depictions of fear, isolation and charming forms of nihilism, revealing a common theme of self-defeating anxiety that propels them into “the spiritual pursuits of the street”. the images collide and play off each other, dancing in full cover spreads and stark black and white pages like twisted visions shared by dreamers on different planes of existence. DEATH TRIP is ultimately a book for those not content with conventional imagemaking but at ease in shredding beyond its basic fabric into the emotional sparseness and infinite lushness we bear as human beings ruled by strange and powerful desires.” – Shalo P on DEATH TRIP


    Human Storage by John Henry Kelly (Drippy Bone) $4.00
    Birdsong #15 $6.00
    Graffiti Coloring Book vol 1 Get Ur Magic Marker Wet Cuz This is the Jafolio $20.00
    Losing Things Is Easy – A One Off Zine with Original Poetry Drawings and Photos by Franziska Andonopoulos $2.00
    You and Everyone You Know is Damaged in Innumerable Secret Ways And Most… $2.00
    Wanderlust Herbal $2.00
    Fiesta Del Sol 2011 by M. Miller $10.00
    Sensation #1 by Gene Booth and Grace Tran $3.00
    Put a Egg On It #4 Sum Fall 11 $7.00
    Bullet Breath #1 $1.00
    Jimmy #1 Greenwood $7.00
    Take a Trip On a Cloud by Thad Kellstadt $8.00
    KerBloom #91 Jul Aug 11 by Artnoose $2.00
    DIY or Dont We #3: A Zine About Doing Things Together by Nicki $3.00
    Somnambulist #17 by Martha Grover $3.00

    COMICS! COMIX!
    Papercutter #17 (Tugboat Press) $4.00 – Featuring Jason Martin, Jesse Reklaw, Corinne Mucha, Frabncois Vigneault, Calvin Wong, Sarah Oleksyk, Hellen Jo, Vanessa Davis
    Fungus #1 By James Kochalka (Retrofit Comics) $5.00
    Gentle Soul by Lisa Vanin $6.95
    Fall Is Here by Meghan Ansbach $4.00
    Stars Were Exploding Meghan Ansbach $2.00
    Echo Location #1 by Krystal DiFronzo $3.00
    Map Makers Mansion by Kevin L Jensen $2.00
    In The Woods by Kevin Jensen $2.00
    You’re Not Alone: Quotes from A Letter From Katherine Collins Relatable Life… by Rachel Swanson $3.00
    Crass Sophisticate Color Cover #24 #25 by Josh Reinwald and Justin Rosenberg $3.00
    Spirit House by Rylan Thompson $8.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot by Jacques Tardi and Jean Patrick Manchette (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Hidden by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Mome #22 Fall 11 $19.99
    Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill (First Sec) $14.99
    Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Seymour Chwast (Bloomsbury) $20.00
    Feynman by Jim Ottaviani+var. (First Sec) $29.99
    Water Wife by Rachel N Swanson $15.00
    Steve Ditko Omibus vol 1 starring Shade the Changing Man (DC) $59.99
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 5 HC (Boom) $24.99
    Any Empire by Nate Powell (Top Shelf) $19.95
    Green River Killer a True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse) $24.99

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Bake Sale by Sara Varon (First Second) $16.99
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Penguin) $15.00 – With an awesome Ivan Brunetti cover!
    James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Penguin) $15.00 – Introduction by Aimee Bender and cover by Jordan Crane.

    FICTION!
    Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Faber) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Postmortal by Drew Magary (Penguin) $15.00

    DIY!
    Foraging Self-Sufficiency by David Squire (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Cookiepedia Mixing Baking and Reinventing the Classics by Stacy Adimando and Tara Striano (Quirk) $18.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Bitch #52 $5.95
    Mojo #215 Oct 11 $9.99
    Filter #45 $5.95
    Design Bureau Sep Oct 11 $8.00
    Artforum Sep 11 $10.00
    Backwoodsman vol 32 #5 Sept Oct 11 $4.95
    Dot Connector #14 $7.95
    Skeptical Inquirer Sep Oct 11 vol 35 #5 $4.95
    Flaunt #116 $10.95
    Dwell Oct 11 $5.99
    Diffusion #3 2011 $12.00
    Treating Yourself #30 $7.99
    Scootering #302 $8.99
    Monocle vol 5 #46 Sept 11 $10.00
    Z Magazine Sep 11 $4.95
    The Progressive Sep 11 $4.95
    Skin and Ink Nov 11 $6.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    The Believer #83 Sep 11 $8.00
    So Sorry To See You Go by C. McGath $12.00

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
    The Master Game: Unmasking The Secret Rulers Of The World by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval (Disinfo) $24.95 – The Master Game refers to a scheme or “game” played on the world stage to bring about a world order governed by a lofty goal which, today, we term the “Masonic Ideal.” The Master Game traces the origins of this game of symbols and words and talismans from ancient Egypt all the way to modern times, and places it squarely on the elitist Scottish Rite Freemasonry, headquartered in Washington, DC, and ruled by a secretive and powerful brotherhood of men who have attained the thirty-third degree. The Master Game exposes this world order’s true purpose and, more importantly, shows how it has affected the United States of America and badly backfired on 9/11.
    The Terror Conspiracy Revisited: What Really Happened on 9-11 and and Why Were Still Paying the Price by Jim Marrs (Disinfo) $17.95
    Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness by Jose Arguelles (Evolver) $14.95
    Half-Empty by David Rakoff (Anchor) $14.95
    More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by Charles Bukowski (Citylights) $16.95
    Wageslave’s Glossary by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell (Biblioasis) $11.95 – With illustrations by Seth.

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation by Sujatha Fernandes (Verso) $19.95
    Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm (Anchor) $25.00 – No, not by Mark Arm from Mudhoney. Mark Yarm. Everybody Loves Our Town captures the grunge era in the words of the musicians, producers, managers, record executives, video directors, photographers, journalists, publicists, club owners, roadies, scenesters and hangers-on who lived through it. The book tells the whole story: from the founding of the Deep Six bands to the worldwide success of grunge’s big four (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains); from the rise of Seattle’s cash-poor, hype-rich indie label Sub Pop to the major-label feeding frenzy that overtook the Pacific Northwest; from the simple joys of making noise at basement parties and tiny rock clubs to the tragic, lonely deaths of superstars Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley. “Yarm’s affectionate, gossipy, detailed look at the highs and lows of the contemporary Seattle music scene is one of the most essential rock books of recent years.” —Kirkus Review, *Starred Review*


    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel by Dan Sinker (Simon) $12.00 – “The performance and identify of @MayorEmanuel, a fake Twitter account, captured the imagination nearly as much as the real politics” —The Atlantic.
    We Are Wisconsin ed. by Erica Sagrans $18.00 – Wisconsin Uprising in the words of the activists writers and everyday wisconsinites who made it happen. Contributors include Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Van Jones, John Nichols, Medea Benjamin, Mike Elk, Andy Kroll, Tony Schultz, Ian Murphy, Allison Kilkenny, Billy Wimsatt, Chris Bowers, and more.


    Signing Their Rights Away: Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution by Denise Kiernan etc. (Quirk) $19.95
    Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky (Seven Stories) $15.95
    9-11 Was There an Alternative by Noam Chomsky – With a new essay written after the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
    Story of the Iron Column Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War by Abel Paz (Biblioasis) $18.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00
    Anal Intruders From Uranus #4 by Wes Crum (Eros) $3.95
    Alt #3 $9.95

    OTHER STUFF!
    Fun little Otsu datebooks! Get your 2012 on now.

  • Weekly Top 10

     

    1. SPS #9 Sad People Sex by Heather Benjamin $3.00

    2. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00

    3. McSweeneys #38 $18.00

    4. The Lonely Hippopotomous by Leslie Perrine $2.00

    5. Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $5.99

    6. Yiddishkeit Jewish Vernacular and the New Land by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle (Abrams) $29.95

    7. Big Questions by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95

    8. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00

    9. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Briggs (Microcosm Publishing) $7.00

    10. SPS #7 Sad People Sex by heather Benjamin $3.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Human Nature by Daikichi Amano (Bongout) $50.00 – This book makes me feel sort of throw-uppy but I can’t take my eyes off it, and I kind of want to own it. Marilyn Manson said it best: “Daikichi Amano’s art is a combination of Jean Cocteau and Jacques Cousteau.” -LM


    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    Xerography Debt #29 $3.00
    My Aim is True #2 by Carrie $1.00
    Whore Eyes #4 by Jesse Lowe, Lachlann Rattray and Adam Shaw. Comes with comes with Whore Eyes Comp Govmnt Acid compilation CD (Drippy Bone Books) $11.00
    Minimum Rage: A Series of Bad Events Overflowing With Fuck-Ups Know-It-Alls and Pansies – The Life Story of That Guy Who’s Name You Can’t Remember (Drippy Bone Books) $4.00 – Can I just say that this is on the cover?: “Fuck You Buy It It’s Cheap”? Is that reason enough? No? Maybe this will sell you on it if you know this next fact: One page has a picture of Emo Philips with a trombone around his neck and it says “I still believe Emo Philips is a genius.” What else do you need to know? -LM
    Death Trip by Shalo P. and Peter Gray Hurley (Drippy Bone) $7.00
    Human Storage by John Henry Kelly (Drippy Bone) $4.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    In The Wake of Heroes #1 by Lee Kolinsky and Sham Arifin #3.50
    Product of Society Aug 11 $3.99
    Comics by Leda Zawacki: Fauna $3.00 and Puddles of Cute: A Comics Collection by $6.00 – Puddles reprints “Monster in the Mansion” from Goat Girl #1 plus 3 other stories:  “Fireflies”,  “Ladybird” and  “Killer Whale People” drawn with a Nicole J. George-ish eye  for  the  strangely  cute. -EF
    One Time Only by Cassie J. Sneider $1.50 – How do you sneak out from a shameful one night stand while the other person is asleep? What if they have really bad wall tapestries? Is hitting rock bottom both depressing and somewhat exciting because that makes you one step closer to resembling Vince Neil? Written by the hilarious Cassie J. Fine Fine Music Sneider and drawn by Nick Rhode. Um no, not Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. Just Nick Rhode. FYI. -LM
    Cebolla Con Chocolate by Ines Estrada and Rodrigo Simancas (Cafe Con Leche) $8.00 – Absurd burds, wurds, turds and nurds! Inés’ drawings are brillbrilliant and Rodrigo’s writing is smartgood and it also features a lovely contraption from the future. In español.
    Viisitoista Paivaa Meksikossa by Ines and Muura $8.00
    Kim Gee Comics #4 by Kim Gee $5.00
    Brendan Wells Presents: Mickey Comics #1 – Featuring the story Mouse Secrets by Walt Disney Jr. $2.00
    Ring Wraiths at Home Xenia James O’Keefe $4.00 – New comic from the artist of Spider Who Had Arachnophopia of Patton Oswalt-Tweeting-about fame!

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle (Abrams) $29.95
    PS Magazine Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will and Ann Eisner and Eddie Campbell (Abrams) $21.95
    Blackjacked and Pistol Whipped Crime Does Not Pay Primer by Dennis Kitchen etc. (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Bouncer the One Armed Gunslinger by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Francois Boucq (Humanoids) $29.95
    Okie Dokie Donuts Open For Business by Chris Eliopoulos (Top Shelf) $9.95
    Male Call: Complete Newspaper Strips 1942-1946 Starring Miss Lane by Milton Caniff (Hermes) $39.99
    How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden (Vertigo) $19.99
    Nogoodniks by Adrian Norvid (D&Q) $24.95
    Malinky Robot Collected Stories and Other Bits by Sonny Liew (Image) $16.99
    Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod (Top Shelf) $24.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Whole Car Poetry by Frank Veleno and Hepo (Whole Train) $29.95
    Subway Player Blackbook Cult Series vol 2 by MSER (Whole Train) $29.95
    Twinkles by Miss Van (Drago) $50.00
    Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne by Jake Smallman  and Carl Nyman (MBP) $21.95
    Art of Big City by Ragnar (Baby Tattoo) $40.00
    Book of Skulls by Faye Dowling (Laurence) $14.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Criminal Class Review vol 4 #2 $15.00 – CCR searches for gritty, hard luck tales from all walks of life. This issue, guest editors identical twins Kent and Keith Zimmerman (who teach literary endeavors at prisons like San Quentin) curate this “Prison Issue.” And the cover is a beauty, designed by Chicago print artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
    Monday Night #10 vol 1: Journal of New Literature $5.00
    Paper Darts vol 3: A Magazine of Lit and Art $14.00
    Inhuman by Hillary Basile $1.00

    DIY!
    Teeny Tiny Mochimochi by Anna Hrachovec (Potter Craft) $19.99 –  More than 40 itty bitty minis to knit wear and give.

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Workin’ Mime to Five by Dick Richards (WriteBloody) $17.00 – Thoroughly silly!
    Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation by Trevor Norton (Pegasus) $24.95
    Gris Grimlys Atrium Secretum: 13 Years of Hidden Truths (Baby Tattoo) $44.00
    Secret Societies: Inside the Freemasons Yakuza Skull and Bones Worlds Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds (Arcade) $14.95 – A smart and surprising behind-the-scenes exploration of the tales confirmed and fabricated that surround the best known and often least understood secret societies.
    Who Am I?: And If So, How Many? by Richard David Precht (Spiegel & Grau) $16.00 – This book has been talked about as being a philosophical view on topics like morality, happiness, and the soul with insights gleamed from biology and the neurosciences. Sounds like an episode of Radiolab to me. -LM

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Pirate Penguin Vs Ninja Chicken Troublems With Frenemies by Ray Friesen (Top Shelf) $9.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad Tariq Ali (Verso) $12.95
    True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School by Susan Gubar (Norton) $29.95
    Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project and the Lessons of Internation by Ramor Ryan (AK) $16.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Bizarre #179 Sep 11 $10.50
    Flaunt #116 $10.95
    Clutter #15 Like Toys Love Clutter $9.99
    Paper Sep 11 vol 28 #1 $4.00
    Tattoo Revolution Aug 11 $11.75
    Tattoo Society #29 $7.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Inamorata: The Erotic Art of Michael Manning (Last Gasp) $24.95 – Finally back in print and available in soft cover.

    OTHER STUFF!
    Inherit 2012 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00 – Since we started getting Nikki McClure’s calendars in 2004 it’s been a bestseller. And when you see it, you’ll understand why.

  • Weekly Top 10

    How many weeks in a row is Lucky Peach at #1 now? I lost count. Nice to see a title like Abolish Restaurants is in the top sellers even though it’s months old now ; often what makes it into the bestsellers are the new stuff, but some titles just always do well, like Sad Animals and Make Your Place. People often ask, “How many copies does it take to land in the bestsellers?” The answer: usually somewhere between eight and three copies. Sometimes even just 2 or 3 copies! Yes, that’s kind of weird. 2 or 3 copies a bestseller?! Why bother having a top 10 then? Well, the answer to that lies in this fact: As of this moment we have 11,157 items in stock in our database. So even selling 2 of some things is a lot sometimes! Of course, if there’s an in-store event with a writer or artist, fans will buy their stuff at the event, which can push something into the top 10 also. And then there are things we don’t actually include in the Top 10 because they’re hardly reflective of the reading material people buy, like postcards and grab bags (only $2.50 each!). Now you’ve been schooled in our Top 10! -Liz

    1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – I read this straight through right before I went to sleep the other night and had an INTENSE NIGHTMARE ABOUT RAMEN. Woke up hungry. -EF

    2. Sad Animals by Adam Meuse $4.00 – Sad and cute. What is it saying that this is often in our top 10?

    3. Cabinet #42 Forgetting $12.00

    4. Maximumrocknroll #340 Sep 11 $4.00

    5. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00

    6. Monocle Mediterraneo #3 $8.00

    7. N Plus 1 #12 Fall 11 $13.95

    8. Abolish Restaurants by Prole.info (PM Press) $5.95

    9. Sand Dune Press #1 by Erik Schneider $2.00 – Cutest little comic about tough guys killing each other I ever did see. -EF

    10. Noah Novella: The Peoples History of Noah Van Sciver: Selection of Autobiographical Comics by Noah Van Sciver $4.00 – Noah VanSciver does autobio comics by taking us into his personal troll hole, and it’s not such a bad place to be. He’s a hater, for sure. His crabcake one-pagers about growing up poor, awkward and unlucky really do start to have the Crumb-y effect of explaining the chips on his shoulder. He’s got a good drawing sensibility too that just wrings extra angst and neuroses out of the story. I gotta say, his constant pursuit of fame and fortune through making weird comics wears me down stresses me out a little. The comics are good, they’re being published and noticed, and they’re getting better all the time, it might be time to stop sweating the small stuff and just go for it. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb (Doris) $18.00 – Issues 19-27 of doris zine, collected, alphabetized and extended for your feminist excitement. Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on 9/3.


    The Comedians Aug Sep 11 #27 $4.50
    Exp #00 Infinity by Matthew Kumar $7.00
    There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here #1 Sleep by various $8.00 – “The street corner magicians who plugged in this archive of dangerous thinkers and awesome nobodies have finally put together something in paperback form that will last through the wars when virtual Tomorrowland comes crashing down. A perfect-bound reader for all gods of the porcelain throne. The Sleepy of the Week; Greatest Hits now at a nice price. Featuring candid photos of the ones who have the right idea.”


    Broken Pencil #52 $5.95
    The Inner Swine vol 17 #1 and #2 $2.00
    Things That Matter by Jamie issues #1-#3 $2.00 each and #3 is a split zine with M. Xavier.

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    (FD Agent In) Haystack Full of Needles #1  by various $7.00
    various issues of S. Baltic Comics Magazine (various prices)

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Europe 1 20000000 $8.00
    3×3 Kus: Specializdevums Special Edition $9.00
    Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising 1970s to 1940s ed. by Rick Marschall and Warren Bernard (Fantagraphics) $28.99
    Even More Old Jewish Comedians by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    John Constantine, Hellblazer TPB Bloody Carnations (Vertigo) $19.99
    Fables Deluxe Edition Book 3 by Bill Willingham (Vertigo) $29.99
    We3 HC The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison (Vertigo) $24.99
    New X-Men vol 4 by Grant Morrison (Marvel) $14.99 – Collects New Xmen 127 through 133.
    Too Much Coffee Man Omnibus TPB vol 1 by Shannon Wheeler (Vertigo) $24.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Beautiful Decay Book 6 Future Perfect $20.00 – 300 artists riffed on what their ideal future would be and one Grand Prize winner was selected. Over 100 finalist’s work are featured throughout the publication.The book also includes a feature length article with notable, emerging, New York artist, Robin Williams whose surreal paintings give us a view into her very own Future Perfect. Only 1,500 copies were made, all of which are ad-free and hand numbered.”


    Cult Street Ware by Josh Sims (Laurence) $16.95
    Despite Moments of Clarity There Is No -Ism In This Book: 100 New Artists by Francesca Gavin (Laurence) $39.95
    Lets Make Some Great Art by Marion Deuchars (Laurence) $19.95
    General Idea Imagevirus by Gregg Bordowitz (Afterall) $16.00
    Microworlds by Marc Valli and Margherita Dessanay (Laurence) $19.95
    1000 Steampunk Creations Neo Victorian Fashion Gear and Art by Dr. Grymm amd Barbe Saint John (Quarry) $24.95
    Visual Complexity: Mapping Patrterns of Information by Manuel Lima (Priceton) $50.00

    FICTION!
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown) $24.00

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    McSweeneys #38 (Mcsweeneys) $18.00
    N Plus 1 #12 Fall 11 $13.95
    Pageboy Magazine III 11 $10.00
    Exact Change Only Sum 11 $10.00
    Granta #116 Sum 11 Ten Years Later $16.99
    Upstreet #7 $12.00
    Slake Los Angeles #3 2011 Crossing Over A City and Its Stories $18.00

    DIY!
    Mission Street: Food Recipes and Ideas From an Improbably Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz (McSweeneys) $30.00
    SexPot: The Marijuana Lover’s Guide to Gettin’ It On – Sexy Stoner Advice From Cannabis Columnist by Mamakind (Quick) $14.95
    Cannabis Indica vol 1 Essential Guide to the Worlds Finest Marijuana Strains by ST Oner and Greg Green (Green Candy) $20.00
    Marijuana Recipes and Remedies for Healthy Living by Mary Jane Stawell (Ronin) $14.95
    Baked: Over 50 Tasty Marijuana Treats by Yzbetta Sativa (Green Candy) $18.00
    Jiggles: Shots 75 Recipes To Get the Party Started by Rachel Federman (Abrams) $12.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    UFOs: Generals Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean and John Podesta (Three Rivers) $15.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands For a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff with illustrations by Leland Purvis (Soft Skull) $14.95 – From the author of Media Virus, Coercion and Life Inc. Will the internet rule us? Or will we rule the internet? And which is better?

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith (Mariner) $13.95
    Overkill: The Untold Story of Motorhead by Joel McIver (Omnibus) $23.95

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 911 Injustice by Alia Malex and Karen Korematsu (McSweeneys) $16.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Cabinet #42 Forgetting $12.00
    Tiki Magazine vol 7 #2 Fall 11 $4.99
    Wallpaper Sep 11 $10.00
    True Detective Aug 11 $4.99
    Skunk vol 7 #2 $6.99
    Wire #330 Aug 11 $10.99
    Maximumrocknroll #340 Sep 11 $4.00
    Fader #75 Aug Sep 11 $5.99
    Monocle Mediterraneo #3 Sum11 $8.00
    Harpers Magazine Sep 11 $6.99
    In These Times Sep 11 $3.50
    Inked Sep 11 $7.99
    Rebel Ink Magazine Sep 11 $5.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance ed. by Mitzi Szereto (Cleis) $14.95
    Frat Boys: Gay Erotic Stories by Shane Allison (Cleis) $14.95
    Girls Who Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica by Delilah Devlin (Cleis) $14.95
    Front #158 $9.99
    All American Guys #1 $9.99

  • Weekly Top 10

    Once again, Lucky Peach at the top, followed by some of the usual suspects. However, we got in a publication from AK about Zapatistas, which is a topic that always seems to work here. Also, a local Chicago guide that I think may be its first time on our Top 10, if I remember correctly. Noah Van Sciver’s history comic rounds out the mix, and that’s available on our website, as are all of the items that have links. Other things, well, guess you’ll have to come in the store or give us a buzz at 773-342-0910.

    1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – I read this straight through right before I went to sleep the other night and had an INTENSE NIGHTMARE ABOUT RAMEN. Woke up hungry. -EF

    2. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #2 1969 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $9.95 – The newest issue!

    3. Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99

    4. Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection by Aaron Cometbus (Last Gasp) – Collects Cometbus 44-48 and a bit of new material. Tales from the Dead End, Lanky, and the Back to the Land series.

    5. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00 – Always a Quimby’s staple.

    6. Commune In Chiapas: Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion (PAGP) $5.00

    7. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago by Laura Szumowski $7.95 – Need a cooler guide to the city than those other alternative weekly or NFT books? Try this one.

    8. Death of Elijah Lovejoy by Noah Van Sciver $5.00 – VanSciver’s snarly lines and curmudgeonly tendancies lend themselves nicely to his mayhem-laden comic about pre-civil war lynch mobs and the ambush and murder of abolitionist and jounalist, Elijah Lovejoy. -EF

    9. Plazm #30 $10.00

    10. Dazed & Confused #100 Aug 11 $9.99

  • New Stuff This Week

    We’re proud to offer you Leslie Stein’s first new issue of Eye of the Majestic Creature since Fantagraphics published her collection of issues #1-#4.

    In this fifth issue Larrybear has moved back to New York after having lived in the countryside. She finds herself employed at a dress shop run by an absentee boss in the East Village, and living with her old friend Seashell in an infested Brooklyn apartment. Of course, Marshmallow and her anthropomorphic friends are there too, but being magical they are not allowed to leave the house. Not that this stops Marshmallow, who is becoming increasingly depressed and drinking way too much.On a nice winter day, roaming around Manhattan, Larry finds herself drawn to the Visionary Arts Museum, and is amazed to find they are having a retrospective of Victorian Sand Counters. Inspired, Larry begins to count sand seriously, but in a world where this is largely a forgotten art form, where can it possibly take her?

    …and other stuff!

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    Shows I’ve Seen At Metro by Timothy James McPherrin $2.00 – This is adorable.
    Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood by Tomas Moniz and various (PM Press) $15.00
    Darkness to the West by Adam Gnade $2.00
    various issues of High on Burning Photographs $1.00 each
    Anarchism: The Feminist Connection by Peggy Kornegger (Kersplebed) $4.00
    Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, Also Who Was Emma Goldman by Emma Goldman and The Workers Solidarity Movement (Kersplebed) $3.00
    Anarchist Organisation Suggestions and Possibilities by Graham Purchase (AK) $2.50
    Commune In Chiapas Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion (PAGP) $5.00
    Deadly She Wolf: Assassin at Armageddon and Mommas Song by various $20.00
    Down With the Prison Walls a Talk by Iglesias  Martinez Laudelino 3.00
    Guerilla Warfare: A Method by Erenesto Che Guevara $4.00
    Hieroglyphica Anonymous $5.00
    Mamphiles #4 Raising Hell $6.00
    Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman $2.00
    Non Western Anarchisms Rethinking the Global Context by Jason Adams $3.00
    Profit and Exploitation by Peter Kropotkin (Thought Crime Ink) $4.00
    Red Army Faction the Urban Guerilla Concept $5.00
    Relevence of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (Kerr) $4.00
    Return of the Cake Scoffer: Cheap’n’ Easy Vegan Cooking by Ronny $3.50
    Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse by various $7.00
    Zine About Womens Self Defence #1 Fighting Back, Not Taking Shit Being Heard $3.00
    Anarchist Economics an Alternative for the World In Crisis by Abraham Guillen $5.00
    Molten Rectangle #3 Special Family Issue $10.00
    It Should Be Obvious #1 Kelcey Towell  $13.00
    My Aim is True by Carrie $1.00
    Zine Centro $1.00
    Compleat Anglerfish by Michelle Yacht $8.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Three #2 by various $6.25
    Chronicles of Fortune by Caroline Picard $10.00
    Sand Dune #1 Jun Jul 11 Erik Schneider $1.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Big Questions (soft cover veresion) by Anders Brekhus Nilsen (D&Q) $44.95 – Join us and Anders celebrating the release of his magnum opus Big Questions at Lula Cafe on Tuesday, September 30th. This beautiful and minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and over 600 pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. Ask about the fancy $69.95 hardcover version, signed and numbered version.
    Blankets by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf) $39.95 – New deluxe hardcover edition, featuring higher-quality paper, Smyth-sewn bindings, a spot gloss, and a slightly wider trim size.
    Forming vol 1 by Jesse Moynihan (Spiro) $29.95
    Nipper 1965-1966 by Doug Wright (D&Q) $16.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Graffiti Japan by various (MBP) $21.95

    FICTION!
    Machine Man by Max Barry (Vintage) $14.95
    Subversions: Anarchist Short Stories by The Anarchist Writers Bloc (AK) $14.95
    How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher (Melville) $15.00 – Don’t miss Christopher Boucher here at Quimby’s on Wed, Aug 24th at 7pm, joined by Adam Levin, the author of The Instructions.

    Christopher Boucher reads from How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive with Adam Levin (The Instructions) 8/24

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Resonant Space by Devon King $10.00

    DIY!
    In Every Town: An All Ages Music Manualfesto  (All Ages Movement Project) $14.99
    Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer by Erin Mann (Beacon) $15.00
    Bumping Back: An Activist’s Guide To Getting There, Doing the Business & Getting Away with It  by L. Hobley (Niccolo) $24.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Fashion Cats:  Feline Couture from Japans Number 1 Cat Tailor by Takako Iwasa (Vice) $12.00 – Yes, this is for real. Takako Iwasa makes adorable goth-lolita clothes for her Scottish-fold kitties, and it’s so cute you want to cry.
    Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism In Western Civilization by Donald P. Dulchinos (Autonomedia) $17.95
    Year In the Life of A Factory by Maynard Seider (Kerr) $14.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth (Vintage) $15.95 – A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
    Some Mother’s Daughter: Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence by The International Prostitutes Collective (Crossroads) $13.99
    Russian Tragedy by Alexander Berkman (Phoenix) $11.95
    Autobiography of Mother Jones (Kerr) $6.95
    Changing Society: The Lives of Worker Heroes Who Made a Difference by Bob Breving (Kerr) $9.00
    Emergent Publics: An Essay on Social Movements and Democracy by Ian Angus (Arbeiter Ring) $9.95
    Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by various (Falling Wall) $9.99
    Intervention Series 9: Atta by Jarett Kobek (Semio) $12.95
    Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy by Christian Marazzi (Semio) $15.95

    CHILDRENS!
    Secret World of Terijian (Crimethinc) $6.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #128 Sep 11 $5.99
    Fortean Times #278 Sep 11 $11.99
    Under the Influence #9 2011 La Folie Issue $19.50
    Plazm #30 $10.00

    SEX & SEXY!
    Housewives at Play #20 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95

    OTHER STUFF!
    Write Here $8.00 – Nice blank journal made by Cindy Crabb of Doris fame. And P.S.: Don’t miss Cindy Crabb here at Quimby’s on here Sat, Sep 3rd, 7pm to celebrate her new book, The Encyclopedia of Doris, which brings together the last 10 years of zines and a ton of new writing as well.