Plastic Knife #4 $2.00 – Plastic Knife provocatively pairs its rapid fire off-the-cuff short prose with full-color road trip photos of construction workers holding “SLOW” and “STOP” signs. Smart and funny. Plus you get a free plastic knife in the deal.
Comics/Comix/Mini-Comix/Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks/Sequential Art With Words and Pictures/Whatver You Want to Call It, You Wanna Fight?
Kick Ass HC by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr $24.99 – Cause if you wanna argue about it, this book will Kick your Ass.
Ignition City vol 1 TPB by Warren Ellis and Giancula Pagliarani (Avatar) $19.99
Almost Silent HC by Jason (Fantagraphics) $24.99
High Maintenance Machine #26 Win 10 by Matthew Reidsma $3.00
Music Books
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $27.00 – Patti Smith’s memoir of her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, a document of the halcyon days for art and artists in New York in the late sixties and early seventies.
Sexy Sexy
OP Original Plumbing #2 Trans Male Quarterly “The Hair Issue” $8.00 – Putting the “Hir” back in “Hirsute”, this issue features the dreamy bohemian longhair Chris Vargas, Brooklyn-based barber Khane, Canadian bear Ayden and an interview with – get this- trannychaser Margret Cho! We like this place. Kisses.
Poltics Is Not a Banana: The Journal of Vulgar Discourse/What Are You Doing After the Orgy Or the Insurrection Or Whatever? by The Institute For Experimental Freedom $10.00
Places Were Not From $1.75
Its Your Turn Now by the Green Lantern Press $5.00
Uncle Envelope #14 Help Me Finish This by Dina Kelberman $4.50
Fiction/Poetry
Clops by Devin King and Brian McNearney (Green Lantern Press) $10.00
Concrete of Tight Places by Justin Andrews (Green Lantern Press) $20.00
Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud and Nick Sarno (Green Lantern Press) $20.00
Eat When You Feel Sad by Zachary German (Melville House) $14.95
Order of Odd Fish SC by James Kennedy (Random House) $7.99
Lit Mags and Chap Books
Logan Square Literary Review #2 Win 10 $5.00
Believer #69 Feb 10 Limerence $8.00
Electric Literature #3 Win 10 $9.95 – With work from Aimee Bender, Rick Moody, Patrick DeWitt, Jenny Offill, Matt Sumell. Plug in! 120pp, b&w.
Politics & Philosophy
Adbusters #88 Mar/Apr 10 $8.95
The Point #2 Win 10 $12.00
Music Mags
Mojo Mar 10 $9.99
XLR8R #131 $4.99
Outer Limits Stuff
Fortean Times #258 Mar 10 $11.99
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch $26.95
Disaster: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues and Other Catastrophies HC by John Withington (Skyhorse) $24.95
Jack the Ripper’s Secret of Confession: The Hidden Testimony of Britians First by David Monaghan and Nigel Cawthorne (Skyhorse) $24.95
Street Legends vol 2 by Seth Ferranti (Gorilla Convict Publications) $15.00
Grey Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls the Conspiracy to Genetically Tamper With Humanity (Bear) $28.00
Chasing the White Dog: Amateur Outlaws Adventures In Moonshine HC by Max Watman (Simon) $25.00
Lifestyle/Culture Mags
Tokion vol 3 #3 $6.9
Skin Art #131 $6.99
High Times Apr 10 $5.99
Comics/Comix/Graphic Novels/Minis
All Star Superman vol 2 TPB by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly (Vertigo) $15.99
Preacher Book Two HC by Garth Ennis (Vertigo) $39.99
From the Ashes TPB vol 1 by Bob FIngerman (IDW) $19.99
Hicksville Definitive Edition by Dylan Horrocks (DQ) $19.95
Big Bad Book TPB by Jajic etc. (Alterna) $11.99
King A Comics Biography The Special Edition HC by Ho Che Anderson (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Mason Dixon Knitting the Curious Knitters Guide SC by Kay Gardiner (Clarkson Potter) $22.99
Built by Wendy Dresses the Sew U Guide to Making a Girls Best Frock by Wendy Mullin etc. (Clarkson Potter) $27.50
62 Projects to Make With a Dead Computer and other Discarded Electronics by Randy Sarafan $14.95
Sexy
Pinups #11 Dominic $14.00 – Pinups, for the uninitiated, is some high-grade otter/bear smut. Flip through this issue and learn a little about Dominic’s yoga routine. Dare to disassemble the booklet and you have all the pieces to reassemble a giant wall-size Dominic poster. Glorious!
LADYDRAWERS: Gender and Comics in the US is a project about gathering information about women and trans peoples’ experiences in all aspects of the comics industry, Whether you’re a creator, bookseller, conventioneer, publisher, inker, or editor, this project will gather personal stories regarding the intersection between media production and issues of gender. This information will eventually be published in the introduction to a book collecting interviews with women and trans comics artists. If you are interested in answering questions or sharing information regarding professional engagement, gender and sexual identification, and the extent to which gender has been an issue in your own professional pursuits, contact James Payne at james.david.payne.1@gmail.com .
Nik Jajic (co-creator/writer) and Mike Czernaiwski (co-creator/additional art/letterer) present to you—the extremely attractive, and exceptionally brilliant reader—a twisted comedy that insists on blending genres, inducing panic attacks, and occasionally causing motion sickness, all in the form of their deliciously perverse new graphic novel The Big Bad Book from Alterna Comics. It’s been described as Clash of the Titans meets Office Space with a clown and a monkey… yeah, pretty sweet. What’s that?! Still not convinced?! Well then, listen to what a couple of extremely prestigious and very well endowed reviewers had to say:
“The Big Bad Book is a fun and breezy read, there are a lot of good ideas, and Jajic’s handle on dialogue is top notch” -aintitcool
“The Big Bad Book is a locker room humored trip through the absurd and bizarre… with devious clowns and thunder powered monkeys. Gotta’ love that!” -geekinthecity
Yes, it will be awesome, and yes you can get a signed copy, just mark it on your calendar, already! And don’t forget to wear something provocative! Purr!
Jim Goad is the world’s bravest man or so says his wildly hilarious politically extreme website JimGoad.net. With an obscenity trial, a prison sentence and an emergency life-saving brain surgery to his credit he may not be too far off with that claim. Goad is the author of the Red Neck Manifesto a book which is extremely anti-PC became a New York Times Best Seller in a time when PC was the thing to be. Jim got his start as a writer publisher and editor of the ANSWER Me! magazine. The magazine would land him an obscenity trial for the Rape Issue. Jim has also written Gigantic Book of Sex.
Chuck Palahniuk had this to say about Jim Goad’s writing, “brutally honest without worrying about being correct.”
Vice Magazine had this to say about Jim Goad’s Gigantic Book of Sex, “This entire book is gross and hilarious.”
Jim’s memoir titled Shit Magnet chronicles a wild spiral of love, lust, death, and his imprisonment after a violent altercation with a lover whom he had a restraining order on at the time.
Also joining the bill is Chicago Criminal ClassPress Editor and Chief Kevin Wheatley and Staff Writer Bill Hillmann both will be reading from the newest edition of Criminal Class Press, that which Goad has contributed to.
