Two events we’re involved with are in this week’s Critics’ picks in Time Out Chicago! We’ll be selling Anders Nilson’s Big Questions anthology off-site at his release event at Lula Café on Tues, Aug 30th 7pm, and Carrie McGath reads from So Sorry to See You Go here at Quimby’s on Sat, Aug 27th, 7pm.
Thanks to Carrie McGath for pointing this out to us!
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
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
For the longest time, people have asked us if we have temporary tattoos. And often, they look at our business cards and say, “Oh, is that a temporary tattoo?” When we tell them they’re just our business cards, they get sad, and then they say, “You should totally do temporary tattoos.” Well! The people have spoken. And we listened. So here they are. Come in and get yours. Then take a picture and add it the Quimby’s Bookstore Group on Flickr.
Many of the events experienced by the main character of Rebekah Mercuri’s debut novel echo the true-life experiences of the author, who herself, was involved in a Christian Cult.
Weeding the Seeds of Deceit is a story of Hope Locker, a young woman seeking closure to the haunting and vivid memories of an impoverished life, beginning with the manipulations and contradictions from a Christian Cult her parents joined in her youth. When the prophet of the cult threatens their lives, the family escapes to Texas to live with Hope’s paternal grandfather. The deep affliction her parents feel from dragging the family into such annihilation leads them down an even more despairing and destructive path. Despite the cult experience, Hope maintains her faith through prayer, and music later becomes her sole outlet from life’s chaos, and provides her with the inspiration to follow her dreams.
REBEKAH MERCURI is a writer and mother of two. She had a unique and nomadic childhood as a member of a Christian cult. Her experiences inspired her to pen her debut fiction novel, Weeding the Seeds of Deceit. Mercuri was born in Anaheim, California and was educated at Columbia College Chicago, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Fiction Writing. She also holds an Associate’s degree in Marketing and Business Management from Cincinnati State Community College. She resides in Chicago, Illinois and is currently working on a her next novel.
Thurs, Sep 15th, 7pm
With all the talk of “hope” and “honor” that was bound to arise during the tenth anniversary of September 11th, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP) thought it was important to also remind the future of what the last ten years have REALLY been like. That’s why the center put together this latest anthology, which took a dark science-fiction conceit as its core and then invited a series of writers across the nation to pen stories set within that alternative universe. In this case, the stories look back from a fictional twentieth anniversary of 9/11, but one where John McCain won the 2008 and ’12 elections, then Sarah Palin in 2016 and ’20; and with no government bailouts, no withdrawals from the Middle East, and no attempts to move away from an oil-based economy, the US has become a much bleaker and more terrible place, a nation that is now used to rolling electricity blackouts two or three days a week and that is just about to go to war with Mexico, where the permanently unemployed squat in half-finished McMansions out in crumbling suburbs that almost completely lack both gasoline and fresh fruit. A sobering reminder of what life under Tea Party rule would likely be like, “American Wasteland” is an antidote to the false cheeriness and optimism that has come with the tenth anniversary of 9/11, a more realistic look at all the mistakes this nation has made between then and now.
Various local contributors to this anthology will be performing at Quimby’s that night, including DELPHINE PONTVIEUX (“ETA: Estimated
Time of Arrest”), MARK R. BRAND (“Life After Sleep”) and LAWRENCE SANTORO (“Just North of Nowhere”). CCLaP itself (cclapcenter.com) is a
mostly online organization that has been open since 2007, a regular publisher of both electronic and handmade paper books, as well as such other activities as a podcast, 150 book reviews a year at its blog, and half a dozen live events annually at various venues across the city.
Friday, September 9th, 7pm
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
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.
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.
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
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. -EF
Plastic 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. -EF
The 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
