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Look at our awesome window display, created by Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher of the Sonnenzimmer Studio! Don’t miss Nadine’s event here on Oct 29th!
1. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99
2. Bust Oct/Nov 09 $4.99
3. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00
4. The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99
5. Monocle vol 3 #27 Oct 09 $10.00
6. Rainbow Connection Richard Hunt Gay Muppeteer by Jessica Max Stein $7.00
7. Achewood vol 2 Worst Song Played On Guitar by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $15.95
8. Comic Dirama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00
9. In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek (Verso) $19.95
10. Dark Places by Filian Flynn (Shaye Areheart) $24.00
We’ll Never Have Paris vol 5 Sep 09 $4.00
Road Kill vol 2 #11 $2.00
Courting the Bull An Anthology of Expatriate Literature In Spain, edited by Sara E. Rogers $15.00
Juice #66 $3.99
Tattoo Life #60 $6.99
Day in the Life (Lyfe) #9 $5.99
Dice #28 $6.95
Z Magazine Oct 09 $4.95
Progressive Oct 09 $3.95
UFO Magazine #151 vol 23 #10 $5.99
XLR8R #129 $4.99
2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 26 #3 $6.25
Hip Mama #44 $5.95
Cinema Retro vol 5 #15 $11.99
In These Times Oct 09 $3.50
Maximumrocknroll #317 $4.00
Witches Almanac #29 Spr 2010 to Spr 2011 $11.95
Radical Teacher #85 $8.50
William S Burroughs Remebered DVD $15.00 – Subtitled: Naked Lunch at the Bourgeois Pig/ Naked Lunch Publication 50th Anniversary 2009
Chicagos Tallest Buildings Poster $20.00 – Designed by Matt Bergstrom of the Build Yourn Own Chicago Postcards.
Rad Dad #15 $3.00
About My Disappearance #3 $1.00 – From Dave, the zinester who wrote On Subbing.
Monocle vol 3 #27 Oct 09 $10.00
Aya The Secrets Come Out by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (DQ) $19.95
Trotsky A Graphic Biography by Rick Gerary (Hill and Wang) $16.95
Umbrella Academy vol 2 TPB Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba (Dark Horse) $17.95
Fables Deluxe Edition Book 1 by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $29.99
Batman the Black Glove TPB by Grant Morrison and JH Williams (DC) $17.99
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #4 by PKDick and Ed Brubaker (Boom) $3.99
Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 vol 5 Predators and Prey by Joss Whedon etc. (Dark Horse) $15.95
Super Maxi Pad Girl #1 and #2 by Daniel Olson and AJ Niehaus $4.00 each – Comix!
Poop mini comic by Sam Sharpe $2.00 – Very pretty actually!
Map Manual of Architecture Possibilities #1 Antarctica $6.50 – In case you’re planning a trip there.
For Lonely Adults Only #5 Sum Fall 09 $6.00
Alpha City Comics #2 by Kevin Sciretta and Neil Brideau $2.00
Show Me the Money #30 $2.50
Elfish Gene: Dungeons Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe (Soho) $14.00
Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk and Whites The Elements Of Style (Touchstone) $22.99
Logan Sevilles Finest: On the Run (From Here) $14.95
Cubabrasil: On the Run (From Here) $14.95
American Motorcycle Girls 1900 ts 1950: A Photographic History of Early Women Motorcyclists $50.00
Sexicon Sexual Dictionary (Nicotext) $9.95
Dedalus Book of Literary Luicides Dead Letters by Gary Lachman (Dedalus) $15.99
Backjumps The Live Issue #3: Urban Communication and Aesthetics (From Here) $29.95
Stalking Tricksters Shapeshifters Skinwalkers Dark Adepts And 2012 by Christopher Obrien (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95
Sublime Stitching Vital Organs Embroidery Pattern (Sublime) $5.00
I Drink For a Reason by David Cross (Grand Central) $23.99
Waste Uncovering The Global Food Scandal by Tristam Stuart (WW Norton) $27.95
Prison Pit by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) $12.99
First As Tragedy Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek (Verso) $12.95
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October 5th, 7 p.m. : Punch Buggy Tour! The cross-country zine and comics tour… http://bit.ly/jW77L #
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Don’t miss Stephen Elliott Reading From The Adderall Diaries, with Joe Meno, author of The Great Perhaps.
In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina’s former lover, and Hans’s former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of.
At the time of Sturgeon’s confession, Stephen Elliot is paralyzed by writer’s block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Francisco’s underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliott’s own father.
So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hilton’s celebrity, The Adderall Diaries is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest, it is the breakout book by one of the most daring writers of his generation. For more info: www.stephenelliott.com
Reading with Stephen Elliott is local author Joe Meno.
“Meno’s distinctively imaginative and compassionate fiction is forged at the intersection of ordinariness and astonishment. In this tragicomic family drama, his fifth novel, [The Great Perhaps], he creates a topsy-turvy household. Jonathan and Madeline Casper, timid and insular, are scientists at the University of Chicago. He is devoted to the elusive giant squid and prone to seizures at the sight of a cloud; she is conducting a bizarrely disastrous lab experiment involving pigeons. Amelia, the older of their two teen daughters, is suspended for writing inflammatory editorials in the school paper, while Thisbe has taken to ardent prayer. With anxiety running high over the Iraq War and the 2004 election, Madeline takes off in pursuit of a strange man-shaped cloud; Jonathan hides in a child’s fort of sheet-draped furniture; their valiant, neglected daughters run amok, and Henry, Jonathan’s ailing father, escapes from the nursing home. As Meno masterfully, and meaningfully, conflates the fantastic with the everyday, he reaches back to Henry’s broken childhood and a stint in a World War II internment camp for German Americans. Tender, funny, spooky, and gripping, Meno’s novel encompasses a subtle yet devastating critique of war; sensitively traces the ripple effect of a dark legacy of nebulousness, guilt, and fear; and evokes both heartache and wonder.” –Booklist
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This is not another portfolio book by an artist… or at least it’s trying not to be. Formal Additive Programs, Nadine Nakanishi’s first release is an attempt to provide insight into a daily art practice and process, while focusing on the commonalities of figurative and abstract images. Formal Additive Programs offers 18 simple instructions to help the reader expand upon a singular idea, a practice that aids Nakanishi in her art-making everyday.
This book release party will also feature Dakota Brown and Nick Butcher. Brown, who wrote the poetic preface to the book, will be reading from his work. Butcher (www.nickbutcher.net) is to follow with a musical set, interpreting the 18 steps of instruction that make up the books content. The audience is encouraged to draw along with the instructions and the music.
Can a set of instructions be so beautifully imbricated as to occlude their own identity as instructions? Can rules for drawing be expressed in a language that eschews the visual, a language more attuned to the patterns of acoustic space and kinesthetics? Nadine Nakanishi’s Formal Additive Programs answers these questions with an enthusiastic, quiet, unpretentious ‘yes’. The title indicates that these are programs for constructing patterns. With these programs, Nakanishi demonstrates how suggestions, rules, axioms, can allow emergent creative processes to thrive. The familiar paradox is that creativity can perhaps best be conceptualized in terms of limits. The particular can find its horizon in the infinite, as long as contingency is allowed to breathe life into the project. Formal Additive Programs builds bit-by-bit, but this is something very different from deductively-arranged building blocks. These aren’t building blocks at all. To keep things aural: these are more like building tones.— Dave Park, Associate Professor of Communication, Lake Forest College
Formal Additive Programs
Format, 7” x 9.75”,
Cover and Interior, 2-pms colors / Interior, 28 pages
Hand-printed silk-screen dust jacket – First printing, limited Edition 250
For more info about the author go to: www.yoneko.net, or www.sonnenzimmer.com
