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  • New Stuff This Week

    Back in print! Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia vol II!

     

    ZINES
    Every Reason #7 $1.00
    Drawers by The Perpetual Dusk at Crusty Caverns, Edwin Perry & Stephen Gregg $5.00
    Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #4 a Cotillion Charge Through Organic Esoterics $3.00
    It’s 1973 by L. Taylor $3.00
    Judas Goat Quarterly #51 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
    One A Day July 2011 by Laura Walker $3.00
    Welcome to Bend #7 Yoga Issue by Laura Walker $3.00
    The Groovy Pickle #1 by Pamela Larson $2.00
    Feeding the Masses: A Guide to Mass Vegan Catering by The Anarchist Teapot Mobile Kitchen $3.00

    COMICS & COMIX
    Department of Art #1 by Dunja Jankovic (Sparkplug) $6.00
    Passage #1 by Tessa Brunton $6.50
    Monster Treasure Digest Comics #1 by Maria Sputnik $3.00
    Future Tense by Caroline Paquita (Pegacorn Press) $9.00 – Anthology with work by Jo Dery, Josh Bayer, Al Burian, Edie Fake and more.
    Round Room Funnies #1 by Ian Sundahl (Sparkplug) $1.00
    Ishis Brain by Eamon Espey (Sparkplug) $4.00
    Sorry Sheets #1 by Erowyn Franklin $5.00
    Goodbye Turtle by Yumi Sakugawa $5.00
    Goodness by Mel Stringer $7.00
    Pope Hats #2 by Ethan Riley (Adhouse) $6.95
    Yakitori #1 by Andrea Tsurumi $4.00
    Terka #1 in Missing Pieces by Andrea Tsurumi $5.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPER BACKS
    Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton (D&Q) $19.95
    Best American Comics 2011 edited by series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, with guest editor Alison Bechdel (HM) $25.00 – Don’t miss Alison Bechdel here at Quimby’s on 10/8.
    Ink Weed Some Collected Comics by Chris Wright (Sparkplug) $16.00
    Gandhi: A Manga Biography by Kazuki Ebine (Penguin) $15.00
    Reporter Little Black by Dylan Williams (Sparkplug) $8.00
    Daybreak by Brian Ralph (D&Q) $21.95 – All issues compiled into a nice hardcover volume, with a handful of extra pages.
    Suicide Girls vol 1 TPB (IDW) $19.99
    Freddy Stories by Melissa Mendes $10.00 – So cute!

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS
    Tattoo World by Kakoulas and Kaplan (Abrams) $35.00
    Moby Dick in Pictures: One Drawing For Every Page by Matt Kish (Tin House) $39.95
    Classic Flash 2 In 5 Bold Colors by Jeromey Tilit McCullock (Schiffer) $25.00
    Sweet Rot book 2 Raiders of the Lost Art by Joe Simko (Schiffer) $19.99
    Chewed by Svenson & Warren (IWB) $24.95
    Genealogies of Pain by Marilyn Manson & David Lynch (Kunst) $40.00
    No Mervy Life on the Roller Derby Track by Jules Doyle (Schiffer) $39.99
    Stencil 201 25 New Reusable Stincils with Step by Step Project Instructions by Ed Roth (Chronicle) $24.95

    SEX & SEXY
    The Unbearables Big Book of Sex (Autonomedia) $18.95

    MAYHEM & MISC
    Ten Ways to Recycle: A Corpse and 100 More Dreadfully Distateful Lists by Karl Shaw (Three Riv) $10.99
    Chasing Ghosts: Texas Style on the Road with Everyday Paranormal by Klinge & Passero (Thom Dunn) $25.99
    Werewolves: Myth, Mystery, and Magick by Katie Boyd (Schiffer) $16.99
    What Comes After Money: Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan (Evolver) $18.95
    Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood by Peter Bebergal (Soft Skull) $15.95

    FICTION
    The Immortality Engine by George Mann (Tor) $24.99

    MUSIC BOOKS
    Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage by Alic Bag (Feral House) $17.95
    Put The Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute by Matthew Chojnacki (Schiffer) $39.99

    DIY
    Craft Activism People Ideas and Projects from the New Community of Handmade by Joan Tapper and Gale Zucker (Potter) $22.99

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Stanley and Smith (AK) $21.95

    MAGAZINES
    Raw Vision #73 $14.00
    IdN vol 18 #4 $17.50
    Infamous #5 $6.99
    True Crime Sep 11 $8.99
    Survivalist #4 $4.95 – For the “GET OFF MY LAND” types.
    Fantastic Man #14 $12.99
    Garage Magazine #1 Fall Win 11 $18.99
    Gothic Beauty #34 $6.95
    Astonish  Magazine #1 $9.95
    Ladygunn #3 Fall 11 $9.99
    Lovecat #2 $8.99
    Four Gs #4 Graffiti Guns Girls and Ganja $7.00
    Skateboard Mag #92 $3.99
    Paper Oct 11 vol 28 #2 $4.00
    Fangoria #307 $9.99
    Cinema Retro vol 7 #21 $11.99
    Mojo #216 Nov 11 $9.99
    Wire #331 Sep 11 $10.99
    Ghetto Blaster #29 $3.95
    Remedy Quarterly #6 Stealing $7.50
    Z Magazine Oct 11 $4.95
    Monocle vol 5 #47 Oct 11 $10.00
    Reason Nov 11 $3.95
    Progressive Oct 11 $4.95
    GLQ vol 17 #4 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies $12.00
    AdBusters #98 Nov Dec 11 $8.95
    In These Times Oct 11 $3.50
    Travel Naturally #80 $9.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS
    Explosion Proof Magazine #4 Fall 11 $9.00
    Rejected Quarterly #22 Sum Fall 11 $7.50
    Coffin Factory #1 $9.00
    Sinister Wisdom #83 Sum 11 $6.00
    The Paris Review #198 $12.00
    Matrix #90 $8.00
    Bomb #117 Fall 11 $7.95
    Logan Square Literary Review #8 Fall 11 $5.00

    OTHER STUFF
    Caroline Paquita 2012 Calendar $10.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. What The Hell Are You Doing: The Essential David Shrigley (Norton) $35.00 – “By turns hilarious, satirical, and brilliant, David Shrigley’s full-page illustrations-a combination of drawing, comics, photography, and sculpture-are sui generis: uproariously funny, pleasantly unnerving, and, most of all, really, really cool. Neither “graphic novel” nor “art book,” What the Hell Are You Doing? celebrates the surreal world of the artist who created Ants Have Sex in Your Beer and To Make the Meringue You Must Beat the Egg Whites Until They Look Like This.

    2. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95 – Two pitch-perfect stories of rejection, imperfection, and relationship drama, each ending on a surprisingly uplifting note. “Hortisculpture” pushes Tomine into a stylistic camp with Sammy Harkham, Jordan Crane, Chuck Forsman and Kevin Huizenga – perhaps more than ever before. The story works with a “Chalky White”-ish suburban everyman and his tempered ambitions, but camps up the visual style into a Marmaduke-y newspaper strip aesthetic. The effect is similar to the trickiness of his wedding planning comics. The second half is a repolishing of his “Amber Sweet” college girl mistaken for porn star plot. Plus we get a glimpse into Tomine’s sad-sack mailbox, and some self-aware griping about putting out comics issue by issue.  -EF

    3. Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – Hotly anticipated new work from the author of Blankets and Goodbye Chunky Rice.

    4. Crap Hound #8 Superstition $12.00 – Clip art galore, collage style. Once you open it you can’t put it doooowwwnnn, superstitious theeeeeemed in time for Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeen!

    5. Caroline Paquita 2012 Calendar  (Pegacorn Press) $10.00 – Thanks to everybody who came out last night for the release event for Pegacorn Press!

    6. Future Tense  (Pegacorn Press) $8.00 – Ditto! A fabulous comics anthology.

    7. Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010 byMichael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Yes, with text. Yes with illustrations. And oh yeah, yes with Mark Twain as porn star, drifter and grifter.

    8. Bitch #52 $5.95

    9. Prompts-Prompted Spr 11 The Creative Writers Guild $5.00 – Those art students! Bein’ all literary and stuff.

    10. Maximumrocknroll #341 Oct $4.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    ZINES
    Radical Pet #6 by Margarat Nee $2.50

    Found Magazine #7 Willis Earl Beal Special Collection: Limited Edition Acousmatic Sorcery 17 Song Debut Album $20.00
    Translady Fanzine #1 by Amos Mac and Zackary Drucker $20.00
    Show and Tell #8 a zine made with love in Bend Oregon by Rachel Lee Carmen $3.00
    Phallic Titty Manifesto by Jackie Wang $1.50
    Peops #6 by Fly $4.00
    Great Anarchists by Peter Willis $3.00
    Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks by Dniel Gross, Staughton Lynd and Tom Keough (PM Press) $4.95
    No More Unicorns by Emilie Robin $5.00
    Train Stories #2 by Dre CTA $1.00
    Can of Air #1 by Peter E. Rosales $2.00
    Shotgun Seamstress #5 $3.00
    Bookstores and Baseball: 2nd Inning the Moneyball Issue by David Labounty $4.00

    COMICS & COMIX
    Feedback #9 by John Isaacson  $2.00 – Jon goes to a lot of punk shows. Then he does comics about them.
    Everything Dies #7 by Box Brown $5.00
    Get on My Horse by Robin Emilie $3.00
    Captcha #4 by Jojo Sherrow $4.00
    Devil Burger by Kevin Fair $10.00
    French Toast Comix #6 Coffee and Beer Money by Becky Hawkins $4.00
    Zegas #1 by Michel Fiffe $9.95

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
    Habibi by Craig Thompson (Pantheon) $35.00 – New work from the artist of Blankets and Good-Bye Chunky Rice!
    1-800 Mice HC by Matthew Turber (Picturebox) $22.95 – Finally! All in one place.
    Love and Rockets New Stories vol 4 by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $14.99
    Pure Pajamas: A Handsom Treasure Trove of Scrumptious Visual Delights… by Marc Bell (D&Q) $22.95
    Dawn of the Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley (Chronicle) $12.95
    Hellboy vol 11 Bride of Hell and Others by Mike Mignola etc. (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Hellboy vol 3 HC by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse) $49.99 – Collects Conqueror Worm and Strange Places.
    New York Five TPB by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly (Vertigo) $14.99
    New X Men TPB 1 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
    Astonishing X-Men TPB Xenogenesis by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews (Marvel) $19.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS
    Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
    Cut and Paste 21st Century Collage by Richard Brereton and Caroline Roberts (Laurence King) $29.95
    Idols by Gilles Larrain (PowerHouse) $35.00
    Rebus by James Jean (Chronicle) $45.00
    What The Hell Are You Doing?: Essential David Shrigley (Norton) $35.00 – Thanks to everybody who came out to the David Shrigley event here at the store or the lecture at Columbia.
    Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
    Everyday Love: The Art of Nidhi Chanani $30.00 – Awfully cute.
    Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00
    Graffiti 365  by Jay “J.SON” Edlin (Abrams) $32.50 – This book delivers the first real insider’s view into the contemporary graffiti and street-art scenes, as well as their antecedents. A fun, wide-ranging survey of the international graffiti movement, this book uses more than 600 rare, previously unpublished, or legendary images to introduce and describe important artists—from Blade to Banksy—and styles—from bubble to wild. Along the way, Graffiti 365 covers different eras, cities, legendary walls and crews, police and public responses to graffiti, and more. Author J.SON, has been an artist and historian of the graffiti movement for decades—he started writing graffiti in 1973 and retired in 1984. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, Graffiti 365 is a wide-angle snapshot of an entire movement.

    DIY
    The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day by Laurie Henzel and Debbie Stroller (Stewart/Chang) $29.95

    FICTION
    All The Pretty People: Tales of Carob Shame and Barbie Envy by Ariel Gore and Summer Pierre (Lit Star) $10.00
    Temple of Air by Patricia Ann McNair (Elephant Rock) $16.00
    Murder At Any Age by Tony DeMarco $14.99
    Zippermouth by Laurie Weeks (Feminist) $14.95
    Stories of Haven I ed. by Bob Nelson – An collection of stories from Anthology Magazine.
    God Complex by Chris Titus $19.95
    In Case You Didn’t Hear Me The First Time by Sharon Skinner $7.99
    Marks Night by Brian Schmarje $17.00
    50 Plays Fifty Short One Act Plays by Joe Janes $25.00 – Don’t miss Joe Janes here at Quimby’s 10/1!

    MAGAZINES
    Color Ink Book vol 11 DIY Art Periodical $10.00
    Bizarre #180 Oct 11 $10.50
    Purple Fashion vol 3 #16 $45.00
    Bust Oct Nov 11 $4.99
    Razorcake #64 $4.00
    Tape Op #85 Sep Nov 11 $4.95
    Wax Poetics #48 $9.99
    Harpers Magazine Oct 11 $6.99
    Tattoo Revolution Oct 11 $11.75

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Rogue: Searching For the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss (Crown) $25.00
    Trans Love Radical Sex: Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary by Morty Diamond (Manic D) $14.95
    Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Progressive) $15.95
    Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melvilee) $16.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
    Origin of My Organs: Aching What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Loudin $6.95
    A Capella Zoo #7 Fall 11 $7.00
    Prompts Prompted Spr 11  by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $5.00
    Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #27 Aug 10 $5.00
    Waukegan Pepsodent Conundrum by G. Wallace $3.00

    MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
    Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab (university of Chicago) $20.00
    Crap I Bought on E-Bay: 101 Crazy Bizarre Seriously Weird Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Running) $13.00
    Death In the City of Light: Serial Killer of Nazi Occupied Paris by David King (Crown) $26.00
    Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending Without Words by Romana Lefevre and Daniel Castro (Chronicle) $12.95
    Stories in Reserve vol 1 by The Temporary Travel Office $15.00
    Zombies Zombies Zombies: The Most Complete Collection of Zombie Stories Ever Published (Vintage) $25.00
    Maybe He’ll Grow Out Of It: Collection of 45 Outlandish Stories of Youth Idealism by Christopher Gutierrez $16.00

    SEX & SEXY
    RFD #147 Fall 11 $9.95

    OTHER STUFF
    Flavor Savers Mustache Chip Clips (Gama Go) $8.00
    New assorted wrapping papers with such graphics as: Bacon, Fancy Moustaches, Pi, Cupcake! $4.00 per pack
    Instantly Antique Wall Decals: 35 Peel and Stick Decals Easy to Apply and Remove by Julia Rothman (Chronicle) $24.95
    Crazy new toys! Finger Pickles that make your fingers into pickles! Whaaaat? Yes! ($.75 each!) And Finger Narwhals!
    Shark Attack Porcelian Mug $9.50 – So you look inside, and at the bottom there’s a shark fin. Call the troops!
    Individually Wrapped Bacon Candy $6.00 – It’s all about the tin it comes in!
    Old-Fashioned Bacon Candy Canes $4.50 – September is the new December.
    Silver Fox Sly Ceramic Desk Organizer (Gama Go) $20.00
    Blood Sucking Sour Candy Blood Cherry $1.50
    Gummy Earthworms Candy $.32
    Topps Wacky Packages Stickers Series 7 $1.99
    Best of CGW Radio by The Creative Writers Guild of SAIC $6.00
    Popcorn Jelly Beans $5.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    Just a reminder that tonight artist David Shrigley will be here at 7pm. See you then!

    No surprise what tops the list of bestellers — a new issue of Crap Hound and a new issue of Optic Nerve! A double bubble of excitement!

    1. Crap Hound #8 Superstition (Show & Tell) $12.00
    2. Optic Nerve #12 by Adrian Tomine (D&Q) $5.95
    3. Wallpaper Oct 11 $10.00
    4. You Dont Get There From Here #20 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
    5. Juxtapoz #129 Oct 11 $5.99
    6. Burn Collector #15 by Al Burian (Microcosm) $3.00 – Al Burian takes on his new home town, Berlin with a little help from a Chicago All-Star team of Anne Elizabeth “Unmarketable” Moore and Liam “Secret Beach” Warfield.
    7. Animal Sex You Might Not Want To Know by Isabella Rotman $3.00 – This mini is so good! It’s a sly and pervy funny-as-shit guide to kinky sex in the animal kingdom. From ungodly long schlongs of Argentine lake ducks to pheromone-fueled Garter Snake fuckballs, Rotman’s bestiary culls the cream of the crop from what sounds like some pretty extensive -uh- “internet research”. -EF

    8. Neely Covers Comics To Give You The Creeps (Collectors Edition) by Tom Neely $6.00 – The calls are coming from inside the house as T.Neely does his number on 14 classic pulp comic covers.

    9. Filter #45 $5.95
    10. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00 – Quimby’s alum and international zine curmudgeon Al Burian has crafted a new zine exclusively for the store, the second in our “Quimby’s Exclusive” line of periodicals. In OK OK You Smote Me, Al takes us around the corner to his mayhem-prone stint on Wicker Park’s Dean Street, unhexing his way-too-hexed apartment and watching the tumult as Old Chicago takes a scraggly, low-level “stand” against encroaching yuppie “neighborhood improvement”. Compelling, humorous and wistful, with that trademark Burn Collector balance of heart and snark. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Yes! Optic Nerve #12 is here! $5.95

    ZINES
    Punch Yourself In the Face and Drop Dead by Dimitri Karakostas (No Fun Press) $7.50
    Basic Paper Airplane #5 by Joshua James Amberson $3.00
    Zisk #20 Fall 11 $2.00
    Half Nelson #2 $2.50
    Bushwick Review #3 $5.00
    Class Struggle #71 Aug Sep 11 $3.00

    COMICS & COMIX
    The Plot #1 a Monster in the Forbidden Forest by Neil Brideau $4.00 – Charming new comic from Neil, our comics sommalier. He got it all ready for SPX and boy, was it worth it!
    Leper by Jeff Zwirek $3.00
    Love Pile #1  by Ze San San $8.00
    Barefoot On Bumblebees #1 $2.00
    Fest #1 by Nicholas Bennett and Christopher Stryker $3.00
    You Dont Get There From Here #20 by Carrie McNinch $2.00
    Jumping Bo: An American Legend by Alex #1 and #2 each $2.00
    19 Short Comics by Drewscape $7.00
    Boy and the Worm by Drewscape $5.00
    Cartoon Picayune #2 Fall 11 by Josh Kramer, James Sturm, and Katherine Roy $4.00
    Homos In Herstory 19th Century Edition by Elvis Bakaitis $3.00
    Twinks for Sale: A Humble Comics Zine $3.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS
    Mark Twains Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Michael Kupperman has already indulged his love for Mark Twain in the pages of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, but the recent publication of Twain’s (real) autobiography has inspired the cartoonist to a full-blown book-length master- piece of hilarity.
    Readers eager to see how Twain hunted the Yeti (“Come out here and face me, you snow-covered coward!”), met the Six Million Dollar Man, had a love affair with Mamie Eisenhower (“Boy oh boy, this lady was one hot dish”), and accidentally became involved in X-rated films, will devour this tome, which of course is augmented with Kupperman’s hilariously deadpan illustrations. 128 pages of full-color comics.


    Prison Pit Book 3 by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
    Armed Garden and Other Stories by David B. (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Man Who Grew His Beard by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics) $19.99
    Art of Joe Kubert by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Evil Garden by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95
    Troop 142 by Mike Dawson (Secret Acres) $20.00
    Korgi Book 3 by Christian Slade (Top Shelf) $9.95
    Zahras Paradise by Amir and Khalil (First Sec) $19.99
    New X-Men TPB vol 5 by Grant Morrison etc. (Marvel) $14.99
    Crossed vol 2 Family Values by David Lapham (Avatar) $19.99
    Lost Lions by Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $12.95

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Hip Pocket Sleaze The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks by John Harrison (Headpress) $22.95
    Old Mens Tattoos by Thomas Jeppe (Dokument) $29.95
    Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Tascen) $39.99 –
    Twenty-seven of the famous Grimms’ fairy tales in an all-new translation, containing illustrations by some of the most famous illustrators from the 1820s to the 1950s.
    Roma Omnia Vincit by JB Rock (Drago) $33.00

    DIY
    Rabbit Food Cookbook: Practical Vegan Recipes Food History and Other Miscellany by Beth A. Barnett (Sasquatch) $21.00
    Salad Daze: The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook by Alex Brown etc. (MBP) $25.00
    Happy Buds: Marijuana For An Occasion by Ed Rosenthal (Quick) $12.95 Dance, play, chill, snuggle, this book is all about helping readers – whether they are casual or regular users. Select the right varieties for any mood or activity. This book offers expert guidance on marijuana buds that work best for more than 25 occasions, profiling more than 80 varieties of bud. Ed Rosenthal is joined by buds. That is, his friends Anna Foster and Mamakind.

    FICTION
    Karaoke Singers Guide to Self Defense by Tim Kinsella (Featherproof) $14.95 – Member of Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, Chicago’s own Tim Kinsella’s first novel tells the story of family members that reunite for a funeral, published by local publisher Featherproof.


    Sour Candies by Jon Dambacher $19.95
    Black Like Us a Century of Lesbian Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction ed. by Devon W. Carbado (Cleis) $24.95
    American Wasteland: Bleak Tales On the Future On the Tenth Anniversary of 911 ed. by Jason Pettus $20.00

    MAGAZINES
    Juxtapoz #129 Oct 11 $5.99
    Shots #113 Fall 11 $6.50
    Wallpaper Oct 11 $10.00
    Up Magazine #44 Sum 11 $8.75
    Goodfellas #3 $12.00
    True Crime Aug 11 $8.99
    Romka #5 $12.00
    Open Minds Oct Nov 11 $6.50
    Skeptic vol 16 #4 $6.95
    ID Magazine Pre Fall 11 $12.00
    High Times Nov 11 $5.99
    Art of Mary Jane #6 $6.99
    BlackBook #86 Sep 11 $4.95
    Laphams Quarterly vol 4 #4 Fall 11 $15.00
    Explosion Proof Magazine #3 Sum 11 $9.00
    Creative Nonfiction #42 Sum 11 $10.00
    Radical History Review Fall 11 $14.00
    Against the Current #156 Sep Oct 11 $5.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION
    Surviving the Cataclysm: Your Guide Through the Greatest Financial Crisis in Human History by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Weinstein) $25.00
    F’em Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls by Jennifer Baumgardner (Seal) $17.00
    How the World Works: Four Classic Bestsellers in One Affordable Volume by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian (Soft Skull) $18.00 – Published as four short books in the famous Real Story series—What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good.
    Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington (Seven Stories) $14.00
    Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward (Oxford) $11.95
    Liberating Society From The State and Other Writings by Erich Musham and Gabriel Kuhn (PM Press) $26.95
    Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky by Nicholas Von Hoffman (Nation) $15.99

    CHILDRENS
    Treehorn Trilogy by Parry Florence Heide and Edward Gorey (Pomegranate) $29.95
    Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) $29.99 – By the author of Invention of Hugo Cabret.
    Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking by Philipe Coudray (Toon) $12.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY
    Origin of My Organs Aching: What You Did to Make My Throat Stop Working by Sarah Louden $6.95
    South Loop Review vol 13 $10.00
    First Line vol 13 #3 $3.00
    Literary Review vol 54 #4 Sum 11 $8.00
    Maximumrocknroll #341 Oct 11 $4.00
    Sound Projector #20: Full Colour Edition $39.50, Mono Black and White Edition $12.00
    Grow No Moss by Julia Hendrickson $16.00 – Local poet, with screen-printed images done at the local Spudnik Press.
    I’m Not Your Fucking Doctor: Medicine Poems by Dustin C. Pickett $10.00

    MAYHEM, MISCREANTS, MEMOIR & MISCELLANEOUS
    Blood In, Blood Out: Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood by John Lee Brook (Headpress) $19.95
    Steampunk Poe by Zdenko Basic and Manuel Sumberac (and oh yeah, Poe) (Running Press) $18.95 – Every Poe story and poems is fully illustrated with steampunk-inspired art—from 1920s aviation gear to elaborate musical instruments—creating a fresh perspective on his work containing bizarre characters of madmen and mystery.
    Crap I Bought on EBay: 101 Crazy, Bizarre, Seriously Weird, Ridiculously Raunchy Items Exposed by Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins (Weinstein) $13.00
    Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer (Pomegranate) $35.00
    Amsterdamned If You Do: An Anthology About Setting ed. by Traci Kim (CCLaP) $20.00
    99 Problems: Essays About Running and Writing by Ben Tanzer (CCLaP) $20.00
    Spiritual Snake Oil: Fads and Fallacies in Pop Culture by Chris Edwards (See Sharp) $11.95

    SEX & SEXY
    Steamlust Stempunk Erotic Romance ed. by Kristina Wright (Cleis) $14.95 – Fetishizing the wardrobe, language, fantasy and rituals of steampunk, editrix extraordinaire Kristina Wright selects erotic stories of shiny brass and crushed velvet; mechanical inventions and romantic conventions; sexual fantasy and kinky fetish.


    Take Me There Trans and Genderqueer Erotica ed. by Tristan Taormino (Cleis) $14.95
    Hurts So Good: Unrestrained Erotica ed. by Alison Tyler (Cleis) $14.95
    Pinups #15 Micka $14.00
    Front #159 $9.99

    OTHER STUFF
    Field Notes Blank Journals $9.95 – Our customers asked us to get these awesome blank books sold in packs of 3. And here they are! Blank, lined and graph styles. Also in other styles like neon colors, balsam fir and Illinois County Fair. They’re movin’ fast!


    We Wish You a Crazy Christmas: 30 Oversized Postcards (Darling & Co.) $9.95 – Never to soon to get in the holiday craze.

  • 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