Category: regular weekly post

  • 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.

  • Weekly Top 10

    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. Under the Radar #37 $5.99

    3. 8-Track Mind #101 Zines vs Blogs By Russ Forster $3.00 – After a 10-year hiatus 8-Track Mind heeds the call of the Revenge of Print and pulls a fresh new issue out of the oven!

    4.  Bitch #51 $5.95

    5. Cometbus #54 In China With Green Day by Aaron Cometbus $4.00

    6. So Raw its Downright Filthy: A Raw Vegan Cookbook by Joshua Ploeg (Microcosm) $4.00 – Weirdo delicious recipes that also happen to be raw.

    7. Mountain Wilds by Jay Krevens $6.00 – Jay moved to the Portland and just sent us some new scenic love of misty lore and cabin crafts, looming, owling, bear worship and astral travails. Accordian folded booklet has crafts on one side and mountainscape panorama on the reverse. -EF


    8. OK OK You Smote Me Stories by Al Burian (Quimby’s Exclusive) $3.00

    9. Readin and Fightin #3 Mental Health/Education Issue – Insisting on Literature by Women of Color by Camille Yarnover $1.50 – Thoughtful post-collegiate musings from a New Haven zinester exploring issues of race, edication and mental health and how they intersect. -LM

    10. Tiny Bangs #1 by Olivia Horvath $5.00 – This is the build: Emily, with a swarm of hair, working as a nude model, feels the twinges of coming apart at the seams. On her psychic wavelength are her lover Bea full of balance calm and touch and the drawing teacher Ben, smitten and shy. Moody with the light changing like clouds rolling in. -EF

  • New Stuff This Week

    Lalapalooza weekend. Grant Park can keep their sweaty and crowded crowds, we’ll just chill here, thanks!

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    Underground Music Fanzines From the Late 1980s-Early 90s by Marc Fischer and Temporary Services (Temporary Services) $5.00 – Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.Cambodian Grrrl: Self Publishing in Phnom Penh by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Cantankerous) $7.95 – Unmarketable author and independent publishing activist tells the story of her experience with a large group of social-justice-minded young women from the impoverished provinces of Cambodia in short essay collections on contemporary media, art, and educational work by, for, and with young women in Southeast Asia. Part memoir, part investigative report, completely compelling.

    Judas Goat Quarterly #50 by Grant Schreiber $1.50 – Fifty issues strong, the feisty old JGQ kicks back in the August heat and ponders the absurdities of our political plight as civil liberties get stripped from us like so much sunburnt skin. -EFPlastic Knife #7 $3.00
    Awesome Future Stories of Victorious Action by Robnoxious $4.00
    Avow #24 by Keith $4.00
    Wild Fermentation Zine: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation by Sandor Katz (Microcosm) $6.00
    Readin and Fightin #3 Mental Health Insisting on Literature by Women of Color by Camille Yarnover $1.50
    Flood #3 Spr 11 and Flood #4 Sum 11 $5.00 each
    Zine by Jessica Ciocci (Picturebox) $8.00
    Filth #3 Sum 11 $3.00
    People I Love Best #4 by Lia Cunningham $2.00
    Zines by Devan Elyse Bennett: Sad Eyed Girl $2.00, Fascinating History of Perfume $1.50
    Stitches In My Head #1 $4.00
    Flermp by James The Stanton $5.00
    DumDum #1 Cities and States: How to Leave Cities by Taleen Kalenderian $3.00

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Big Top Popaganda #1 by Ron English (Creators Edge) $3.99 – Written and illustrated by the Popagandesque lowbrown artist known for his eerie and artful takes on things All American: Mickey Mouse, McDonalds and other corporate “icons.”
    Suicide Girls Comic #4 by various (inclding Steve Niles) (IDW) $3.99 – Sexy chicks with tatts fightng crime.
    Lane Leson Comics #1 by Lane Nelson $3.00
    Reckless $1.00
    Loner $1.00
    Damen County #1: Thats One Big Hole Minnesota by Russ G. $5.00
    Dead Yeards #1 by Nerd $7.00
    Ziskas Drum vol 1 by Steven Trimmer $5.00
    Stobor Stanton James the Stanton $5.00
    Three #2 by Jennifer Camper and various $6.25

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $18.99
    Tank Takuro: Manga Master Prewar Strips 1934-35 ed. by Gajo Sakamoto (Press Pop) $29.95
    Killing Velazquez Philippe Girard (Conundrum) $20.00
    Jack Kirby Omnibus vol 1 Starring Green Arrow (DC) $49.99
    Marvelous Land of Oz SC by Frank L. Baum (Marvel) $19.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Faces by Glenn Barr (Last Gasp) $15.95
    Art of Sketch Theatre vol 1 (Baby Tattoo) $40.00

    FICTION!
    Cockfighter by Chalres Willeford (Picturebox) $17.95
    Zero History by William Gibson (Berkley) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Steady Work by Lloyd Zimpel $12.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Anobium vol 1 Sum 11 $10.00
    The Toucan #12 Sum 11 $3.00

    DIY!
    The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms In the Quest for Meaning by Simon Powell (Park Street) $18.95

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    You Don’t Know Shit: A Brilliant Miscellany of All Things Scatalogical by various (SMP) $12.99
    Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture by Stephen H Segal (Quirk) $14.95
    Baffling and Bizarre Inventions by Jim Murphy (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Weird and Wacky Inventions by Jim Murphy (Skyhorse) $12.95
    Barbarian Rites: The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes by Hans Peter Hasenfratz (Inner Traditions) $16.95
    The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by various (Bear & Co.) $15.00
    Scattered Skeletons In our Closet by Karen Mutton (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95 – The rundown on various hominids, skeletons, anomalous skulls and other “things” from our family tree, including hobbits, pygmies, giants and horned people, dolichocephaloids (Coneheads) and more. Heavily illustrated.
    Grid of the Gods: The Aftermath of the Cosmic War and the Physics of the Pyramid (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
    Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field: Gravity and Electro Magnetism Redefined by John Brandenburg PhD (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95
    Dark Star: Hidden History of German Secret Bases, Flying Disks and UBoats (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
    Chicago Italians at Work: Images of America by Peter N. Pero $24.00
    Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood: Images of America by Peter N. Pero $24.00
    Under the Red Velvet Cover: Conquering Victimhood and Breaking the Silence by Grant Garris $14.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    I Love Rock N Roll Except When I Hate It: Extremely Important Stuff About the Songs and Bands You Love/Hate, Love to Hate, Hate to Love by Brian Boone (Perigree) $13.95
    Euro Punk: The Visual Culture of Punk in Europe 1976-1980 (Drago) $55.00

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols (Nation) $16.99

    MAGAZINES!
    Kill Screen #4 Public Play Issue $15.00 – The video game mag for video game appreciators and also people who don’t get into video games. Very entertaining! We also have these back issues for $15.00 each as well: #2 Back to School Issue and #3 Intimacy Issue.
    Sketch School #1 by Carol Sogard $7.00  – And same with this one.
    Dwell Sep 11 $5.99
    Sneaker Freaker #21 $14.50
    Color Skateboards Collectors Issue 2011 $7.99
    Mojo #214 Sep 11 $9.99
    Tattoo Collection #45 $7.75

    SEX & SEXY!
    Headmaster #1 and #2 $20.00 each – Hot And Haute Fag Art Porn Magascene. -EFThe Pin-Up Art of Humorama ed. by Alex Chun and Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics) $19.99 – Collects hundreds of racy cartoons from the once-ubiquitous tasteless humor mag, including Dave Berg, Jack Cole, Basil Wolverton and more.
    Latex Fashion Photography: Slick Shiny Sexy (Goliath) $49.95
    Surrealistic Erotic Dreams by Frank C. Hauser (Imaginary) $69.95

  • Weekly Top 10

    Wow! Except for a few items, Comics R Us this week on the top 10.

    1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – McSweneey’s food mag. The Ramen Issue.
    2. Wax Poetics #47 $9.99
    3. Too Dark to See by Julia Gfrorer (Sparkplug) $5.00 – Another dark, disturbing gorgeous tale from Julia Gfrörer, about a couple being visited by supernatural spirits.
    4. Hi Fructose #20 $6.95
    5. All I Want Is Everything #1 by Caitlin Constantine $3.00 – After a 6-year hiatus on zinemaking, Constantine comes back to the format to tackle a painful part of her personal history, the years she spent with an abusive husband. This resulting zine is powerful and profound; she confronts societal hate and invisibility with articulate and personal writing, wrestling her own demons in the process. -EF
    6. Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd #1: A Work of Satire and Fiction by Benjamin Marra (Traditional Comics) $3.00
    7. Alien Invasion #1 by Lauren Albert $5.00
    8. Rambo 3.5 by Jim Rugg (Sparkplug) $2.00 – Ignatz winner for Outstanding Mini-Comic. With the Ruskies gone from Afghanistan, the Taliban, led by anti-Soviet Mujahideen, siezed power in Kabul. After apparently forgetting how awesome and badass Rambo is, the Taliban gave refuge to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist gang – al Queda.
    9. Everything We Miss by Luke Pearson (Nobrow) $20.00 – a compendium of the things that we happen to miss when something else seemingly more important comes along.
    10. Diary Minneapolis, California, New York, What The, Manifestation by Gabrielle Bell $4.00 – Gabrielle’s ‘adaptation’ of the notorious Scum Manifesto. Named as one of the top 25 mini-comics of 2010 by The Comics Journal.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Some cool stuff this week: A new mini from Alec Longstreth, a new LOEG from Alan Moore, The Comics Journal back in action, a whole mess of awesome stuff from Sparkplug, a book of postcards by local artist Paul Hornschemeier, Adbusters and more.

    ZINES & ZINE BOOKS!
    She’s So Unusual #1 by Toots La Rue (Sparkplug) $2.00 – This is a super awesome zine about Cyndi Lauper!
    Franziskas Bike Zine #2 $1.00
    Many Many Make One Bit By Bit #1 by Jim Swill $4.99
    Lair Molt Selected Works 2008-2011 by Brian Uhl (Now Is The Time) $10.00 – 28p, b&w, silkscreen cover, 8.5″x11″, comes with patch, button and key, edition of 250.

    Calypso Zine #2 Featuring Marissa Paternoster Robo Sexism Hairy Pits $2.00
    Faux Cal Point Press vol 1 #2 Jun 11 and #3 Jul 11 $3.00 each

    COMICS & MINI COMIX!
    Phase 7 #016 by Alec Longstreth $5.00
    Drip by C Cilla (Sparkplug) $4.00
    Any Anyway #1 by Darryl Ayo (Sparkplug) $2.00
    In The Tall Grass #3 and #4 by Tessa Brunton $3.00 each
    Too Dark to See by Julia Gfrorer (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Nurse Nurse #7 by Katie Skelly (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Play Overlord by var. (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Inventez des Nouvelles Positions Sexuelles Invent New Sexual Positions by Gwenaelle (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Dream Grant the Church of Awesome Thought by Sean ABT Christensen (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Flesh and Bone – A Colouring Concertina by John Sibbick $18.00
    Big Mother #1 by McBess $30.00
    Fight Comic by Jack Teagle $8.00
    New Ghost by Robert Hunter $11.00
    Badaboom Twist: Comics in English Drawn By a French Speaking Guy Married to an American issues #1-#3 by David Libens $3.00 each

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol 3 Century #2 1969  by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Top Shelf) $9.95
    The Comics Journal #301 (Fantagraphics) $30.00 – Yes! Finally a new issue and it looks hot. This volume features a focus on R. Crumb plus an interview with Joe Sacco, a peek into the private sketchbooks of (and accompanying interviews with) Jim Woodring, Tim Hensley, and the novelist Stephen Dixon, a conversation between Mad Fold-Out creator Al Jaffee and Thrizzle auteur Michael Kupperman, and more!
    Band by Mawil (Blank Slate) $12.99
    Snaps by Rebecca Kraatz (Conundrum) $15.00
    Suddenly Something Happened by Jimmy Beaulieu (Conundrum) $20.00
    Collected John G Miller 1990-1999 (Spit and a Half) $20.00
    Setting the Standard 1952-1954 by ALex Toth (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Wormwood Gentleman Corpse HC vol 3 Calamari Rising Deviant Edition by Ben Templesmith (IDW) $24.99
    Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti: Treasury of XXth Century Murder by Rick Geary (NBM) $15.99
    Everything We Miss by Luke Pearson $20.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    So So Heroes 30 Postcards by Paul Hornschemeier (Chronicle) $9.95
    Untitled III This is Street Art (Carpet Bombing Culture) $34.95
    Graffiti Burners ed. by Björn Almqvist (Dokument) $29.95 – The most eye-popping graffiti of today! New times, new ideas. In cities worldwide, graffiti art is constantly being taken to higher levels. The will to burn all resistance, to outdo all the others, brings about unexpected and amazing results. Graffiti Burners shows us how techniques have been refined and letter construction distorted, how colour combinations have blossomed and concepts developed. The competition for mastery is burning hot! In addition to amazing pictorial material, several of the writers talk about their pieces and what burners mean to them. Moreover, they offer tips and guidance to those who want to do a burner of their own. Graffiti Burners offers a unique opportunity to acquaint oneself with the progress of the last few years; to be inspired and impressed. In Graffiti Burners the world’s foremost writers show us their favourite works. In short, the best of the best! Aroe (UK), Bates (DK), Bio (USA), Kacao77 (D), Rime (USA), Scan (CA) and Suiko (JP) are just a few of the contributors to the book.

    Conseil Juridique et Artistique Legal and Artistic Counsel by Audrey Chan $15.00
    Curiosities of Janice Lowry (Grand Cent) $45.00
    Big Poster Book of Hindu Dieties: 12 Removable Prints by Sanjay Patel (Chronicle) $24.95
    Lowrider Coloring Book by Oscar Nilsson (Dokument) $9.95
    OFFF, Year Zero: Artwork and Designs from the OFFF Festival ed. by Rob Chiu (MBP) $60.00 – OFFF is a post-digital culture festival, featuring some of the world’s most relevant contemporary artists, designers, and media mavens. This anual collection features artwork and essays created specifically for the festival and only available in this book. This edition has an exclusive DVD, and every page is die-cut, so the artworks can be hung on the walls. Contributing artists and designers includes Stefan Sagmeister, Rick Poyner, Erik Spiekermann, Keetra Dean Dixon, and Vimeo founder Blake Whitman.

    FICTION!
    Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath And Other Oneiric Works by HP Lovecraft (Creation) $14.95
    Too Young To Fall Asleep by Sally Weigle (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography) $20.00 – Why would a poetry-writing high-school emo girl from suburban Chicago volunteer for the Iraq War? And when both of her legs are blown off in a non-combat IED explosion, how will she ever recover?
    Salt Creek Anthology: A Hyper Fiction Project (Chicago Center for Literature and Photography) by Jason Fisk $20.00 – A couple meet in a mental institution, have six kids, and devolve into violent alcoholism. An elderly Polish woman with Alzheimer’s goes insane in front of our eyes. A frazzled empty-nester has her bruiser son move back in, along with a scheming girlfriend planning a surprise pregnancy to get them both back out. And an abusive, overweight, racist monster of a man psychologically lords over them all, a total of twenty-odd characters all living on the same cul-de-sac in the far rural suburbs of Chicago. This “micro-story” collection breaks these families’ adventures down into a series of 75 linguistic nuggets. Each story is a different piece of paper in a box, and you can read them in any order you want.
    Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding (Ballantine) $16.00
    The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (Ballantine) $16.00 – Back in print! 20th Anniversary edition of this classic text of an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time.
    The Chicago Landmark Project: 12 World Premiere Plays About Chicago Places by var. (Theatre Seven of Chicago) $16.00 – Using distinct locations in zip codes from Rogers Park to the South Side, The Chicago Landmark Project offers twelve diverse snapshots of Chicago life from present day to the distant past.

    LITERARY JOURNALS, CHAP BOOKS & POETRY!
    Man Who Juggeld His Balls by Aarib Wooten $14.99
    Overtime Hour 20 Above the Line by Suzanne Ushie $2.00

    DIY!
    Psychedelic Shamanism, Updated Edition: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants by Jim DeKorne (North Atlantic Books) $19.95
    Remedy Quarterly #5 Community $7.50

    CHILDRENS!
    Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts, with illustrations by Laura Park (Littlebrown) $15.99 – With charming illustrations by local illustrator-comics-Trubble Clubber super-star Laura Park.

    MUCKRACKING, MEMOIRS, MAYHEM, MISCREANTS & MISCELLENOUSNESSESESNESS!
    Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes (Akashic) $14.95
    Girls of Murder City: Fame Lust and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry (Penguin) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow by var. (Prairie) $24.99
    911: The Simple Facts Why the Official Story Can’t Possibly Be True by var. (Soft Skull) $12.00
    Finding My Place: One Man’s Journey From Cleveland to Boston and Beyond by Judah Leblang $15.95
    Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Most Americans Won’t Do by Gabriel Thompson (Nation) $14.99
    Be Honest and Other Advice From Students Across the Country From 826 National by Ninive Calegari (New Press) $25.95
    Page One: Inside the New York Times and the Future of Journalism by David Folkenflik (Public Affairs) $15.99

    POLITICS & REVOLUTION!
    Unruly Women: T he Politics of Confinement and Resistance by Karlene Faith (Seven Stories) $19.95
    Weaponizing Anthropology by David Price (AK) $15.95
    Complaints and Distorders (Second Edition) Sexual Politics of Sickness by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English (Feminist Press) $9.95

    MAGAZINES!
    Bizarre #178 Aug 11 $10.50
    AdBusters #97 Sep Oct 11 $8.95
    In These Times Aug 11 $3.50
    World Explorer vol 6 #1 $8.95
    IdN vol 18 #3 $17.50
    Pinstriping #27 Kustom Graphics Magazine $9.95
    Wow Magazine #1 $24.99
    Gothic & Lolita Bible #38 $33.00
    Ack Ack Ack #3 by Matt Average $3.00 – Average’s California photo files take you for a ride in their way-back machine: Spazz, Die Monitor Bats, Epileptic Terror Attack, Glass Candy, Tragedy, Reality Crisis, Limp Wrist, Go Go Go Airheart, Red Dons and Life’s Halt.

    Under the Radar #37 $5.99
    Maximumrocknroll #339 Aug 11 $4.00
    Me Magazine #21 Sum 11 $7.50
    Skin and Ink Sep 11 $6.99

    SEX & SEXY!
    Sweets Magazine vol 4 #17 $5.99
    Psychopathia Sexualis – Classic Study of Deviant Sex (Complete English Language Translation) by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (Arcade) $16.95

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Lucky Peach #1 Sum 11 $10.00 – McSweeney’s food periodical. Issue #1.

    2. Hi Fructose #20 $6.95

    3. 8-Track Mind #101 Zines vs Blogs ed. by F.R. Russ Forster $3.00 – WELCOME BACK 8-TRACK MIND!!!! Holy Moly! After a 10-year hiatus 8-Track Mind heeds the call of the Revenge of Print and pulls a fresh new issue out of the oven! Man, this was the zine that I remember reading way-back-when that REALLY made me think, “Woah, you really can make a great zine about ANYTHING.” Truly. This issue goes light on the 8-trackology but stays true to its analog-obsessed roots with a well-rounded symposium all about “Zines Versus Blogs”. -EF — Contributors: Chris Barrows, Peter Bergman, Joe Carducci, Kim Cooper, Brendan DeVallance, Tony DuShane, Sam Green, Lance Laurie, Alison Levy, Tom Lynch, Danny Plotnick, Dan Sutherland, V Vale and Lucien Williams.

    4. Monocle vol 5 #45 Jul Aug 11 $10.00

    5. Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00

    6. Fine Fine Music by Cassie J. Sneider (Raw Art) $15.00 – “FINE FINE MUSIC is a collection of stories about the other side of rock and roll and coming of age in the land that time forgot. Lake Ronkonkoma is stuck in 1981, an alcoholic blackout of unnatually tan people waxing their Camaros to Foreigner on cassette and knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not. From an internship making Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, and a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider delivers her tales of growing up in a land of fist-pumping Snookies with the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk.”

    7. The First Line vol 13 #2 $3.00

    8. Dazed & Confused #99 Jul 11 $9.99

    9. East Village Inky #47 by Ayun Halliday $3.00 – Ayun gives us a Mermaid Parade 101 and plenty of scrapper parent scene reportage. Topped with tales of a sourdough starter (you know how New Yorkers like to brag about how cultured they are). -EF

    10. Handbook vol 5 #3 2011 ed. by Darren Ankenbauer $6.00 – Lots of intriguing mesh garments in this issue, a back-by-popular demand culling of the creme-de-la-creme of online ads, East Village Boys interview, queer politics, long hard reader dick, and let’s not forget the meat of the issue: Derek, Joey and coverman Caedon.