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Top 10 Last Week
This is for the week 7/19/09-7/25/09:
1. The Believer #64: The Music Issue $10.00
2. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
3. Boneshaker #42-100: Bicycling Almanac $5.00
4. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
6. Tales Designed to Thrizzle vol 1 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
7. Fart Party vol 2 by Julia Wertz (Atomic) $13.95
8. Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance $2.00
9. As of Yet Unseen by Jeremy Tinder $3.00
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-29
- Boyd Rice, NO, new. http://ow.ly/ir2O #
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New Stuff This Week
You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation by Fletcher Hanks and Paul Karasik (Fantagraphics) $24.99
No (Heartworm #33) by Boyd Rice (Heartworm) $14.9
Who Killed Amanda Palmer by Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer (JSR) $16.99 – Photos of Ms. Palmer (from the band the Dresdon Dolls) in various dead body scenarios, based on her lyrics. With accompanying short stories by Neil Gaiman!
Prurient Rose Pillar (Heartworm) $110.00 – Text and photo accompaniment. Comes with record.
Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine by Tyler E Boudreau (Feral House) $16.95 – See the author at Quimby’s August 12th!
From Wonderland With Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium by Steffin P Maarup (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Paul Thek Artists Artist by Harold Falckenberg and Peter Weibel (MIT Press) $54.95
Milk Milk Lemonaid #13 $.50
Black Velvet #61 $6.25
The Virgin Project ed. by KD Boze and Stasia Kato $25.00 – Exactly what you want it to be: comics about the very topic.
Of Walking In Ice Munich Paris 23 November to 14 December 1974 by Werner Herzog (Free Association) $25.00 – Reprint of the classic novella by Herzog about his winter hike in hopes to heal his dear friend.
Tiny Meat Enid Wallet $4.00 – The time has come. Fan fiction wallets.
There’s Something Wrong With Sven by Greg Gerke $10.00 – Don’t miss him here August 13th!
Bomb It DVD $26.95 – Fascinating film by Jon Reiss, a look at global graffiti culture.
Spacedog by Hendrik Dorgathen (Gingko) $12.95 – Graphic novel or artist illustrated no word art book? You be the judge.
L’Invasion de Paris (Gingko) $35.00 – featuring the work of Space Invader
Lenore vol 2 #1 by Roman Dirge (SLG) $3.99
Medicine Cabinet Of Curiosities: An Unconventional Compendium of Health Facts And Oddities by Nicholas Bakalar (Times) $15.00
Ray Bradburys Farenheit 451: Authorized Adaptation by Tim Hamilton (Hill&Wang) $16.95 – In graphic novel form!
Chicago Neon Signs by Dan Zamudio (Wicker Park Press) $24.95/ Water Tanks Of Chicago A Vanishing Legacy: Photographs and Paintings by Larry W Green (Wicker Park Press) $19.95 -Wanna give your friends a feel for Chicago? Support local presses and buy these poignant photo books.
Kilter #4 Sum 09 $5.00
Boneshaker #42-100: Bicycling Almanac $5.00
Spread Vol 5 #1 Sum 09 $5.95
Fake Your Own Death #2 $10.00 – Comes with CD.
Surrogates Flesh and Bone by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele (Top Shelf) $14.95
The Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie (Top Shelf) $45.00 – Couldn’t afford it in the fancy purple box? Get it in this fancy hardcover.
Late Fauna of Early North America by Scott Musgrove (Billy Shire Fine Arts) $34.95 – Deluxe reprint of an old classic. For fans of dark but cute blobby creatures.
Papercutter #10 (Tugboat) $4.00 – Featuring works from Damien Jay, Jesse Reklaw and Minty Lewis.
Heeb #92 $5.99
Juxtapoz Aug 09 $5.99
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SEAN FELIX READS FROM NAMELESS FACES
Various works meant to warp your world view. Wither its laughing at the bizarre, reaching for the steak knife under the weight of melodic verses, or simply trying to contain a shiver, you will find yourself left slightly askew. Fresh from his stay at the psych ward SEAN FELIX exposes fragments of his mind without requiring the tokens usually necessary for a peepshow of this caliber. Subjects ranging from battles against a twisted god to the murder of a girlfriends mother will leave you wanting to reread the fluid narratives. Little girls with knife fixations, critiques toward the art world, man’s murderous narcissism, and the slow death that encompasses so many relationships are just pieces of a whole. Come hear a verbal menagerie of morbid curiosity, YOU ARE INVITED.
NAMELESS FACES is a collection of short stories, excerpts, poetry, and rants. Inspired in part by actual events and also by events only taking place inside the authors head, distinguishing the two is a constant challenge. Sean Felix reflects on the abstractly complex as well as the absurdly apparent which binds us all. You will be only spectators awaiting the ambulance to arrive at the scene of the collision.
SEAN FELIX is a resident of Chicago, is fascinated by pork products, hates electrical engineers, and is plotting to destroy straight leg pants (ladies, your feet look like elephant ears because of them, get a clue). This is the first of his viral distributions.
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-23
- SALE BOOK section jams econo today with Chris Ware, Chuck Klosterman, Super 7, Philip K Dick, Andy Warhol, Todd Hignite y mucho maas! #
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A Captive Audience & Top 10
Dave Reidy (below) and friends celebrated the release of his book Captive Audience with the first ever Quimby’s Queroke on July 15th! For video of the event, go here.
And here is the top 10 bestsellers for the week 7/12/09-7/18/09:
1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. Hi-Fructose #12 $6.95
3. Captive Audience by Dave Reidy (Ig) $14.95
4. Puzzled Panthers Meter Meltdown $1.00
5. The Believer #64 The Music Issue $10.00
7. Make Your Place: Affordable Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm) $7.00
8. Learning Good Consent $3.50
9. List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00
10. Rad Dad #13 $3.00
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-18
- Puzzled Panther's Meter Meltdown. #zinesiwishiwrote #
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New Stuff as of 7/17/09
Serious Pitchfork action right now. And this guy!
Dig this new stuff!:
Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie (Top Shelf) $45.00
Portable February by David Berman (Drag City) $9.98
Galactic Zoo Dossier #8 Magazine and DVD $16.98 – Yes! A new issue!
Welcome to Forest Island by Bwana Spoons (Top Shelf) $30.00
Batman Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader The Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (Boom) $24.99
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #1 by Philip K. Dick and Warren Ellis (Boom) $3.99
Preacher Book One HC by Garth Ennis (Vertigo) $39.99
Welcome to Forest Island by Bwana Spoons (Top Shelf) $30.00 – These amazing colors will blow yer mind!
Looking For The Magic by Max G. Morton (Heartworm) $10.00
23 by Max G. Morton (Heartworm) $10.00
Super Power $3.25
Fake Your Own Death #2 $10.00 – Zine featuring a variety of prints, comix and whatever else. And the CD is a mix of sound footage.
Tape Op #72 $4.50
The Believer #64 The 2009 Music Issue $10.00
Nexus vol 16 #4 Jul Aug 09 $5.95
Ballads Of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert $13.00 – New fiction from the author of I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone.
Sugarcube by Samuel C Gaskin $4.00 – Cute mini comic!
PS Comics by Minty Lewis (Secret Acres) $11.00 – Anthology with, among other things, doggies!
Audio Culture by Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner (Continuum) $29.95
Peoples Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm by Tribe Called Quest – by Sean Taylor (Continuum 33 1/3 Series) $10.95
Rejected Quarterly #19 Win Spr 09 $7.50
Spank #13 Homo Art Zine $6.00
Libellers Almanac Vol 1 #2 $6.00
Threshold 2009 #29 $14.99
So You Want To Be A Librarian by Lauren Pressley (Library Juice Press) $15.00
Makeout Creek #3 $8.00
Datacide #10 $4.50
Handbook vol 3 #3 2009 $6.00
Puzzled Panthers Meter Meltdown $1.00 – Rather timely zine about takin’ down the meters. With heavy metal fonts and pictures!
Hi Fructose #12 $6.95
Double Life Is Twice Is Good by Jonathan Ames (Scriber) $15.00
Militant Flamboyance #1 A Brief History of the Stonewall Riots and Other Queer Happenings $1.50
List #13 Sum 09 Moving On $3.00
Duplex Planet #185 $2.00
Everyone Is Stupid Except For Me and Other Astute Observations by Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora by Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper (Harper) $13.99
Johannes Cabal The Necromancer by Jonathan L Howard (Doubleday) $25.00
Girls Guide to Rocking How to Start A Band Book Gigs And Get Rolling to Rock by Jessica Hopper (Workman) $13.95
Tales Designed to Thrizzle vol 1 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $24.99
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Tyler E. Boudreau Reads From Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
Written by Marine Corps veteran Tyler Boudreau, Packing Inferno (Feral House) traces his 12-year career as a Marine, from boot camp in South Carolina to the first siege on Fallujah in 2004. Boudreau’s transformation from eager recruit, to a professional-minded Marine torn between an intense desire to experience combat and a growing skepticism about the operations in which he is participating, and finally to a Commanding Officer who lost faith in the mission, is told in deeply personal detail. Boudreau, an Iraq war veteran grappling head on with the psychological trauma left by war, refuses to be silent. His transformation is reflective of the broader American discontent about a war and occupation with no end in sight, and no moral compass left to guide it.
Packing Inferno digs deep in to the morass of the Iraq war as only a veteran of the conflict can. With rare candor, Boudreau’s account takes readers into the experience of war and all its contradictions. Early in his tour he embraced the call to win “hearts and minds,” politely waving at each Iraqi he met. Yet he confesses that, “most of the Marines, like me, were hungry for blood,” and recounts the unbridled joy he felt after he first saw combat. Eventually Boudreau relates the creeping skepticism that set in at the impossible task of distinguishing civilians from combatants.
Slowly he comes to believe that American military forces are only creating more insurgents with each attack, and that the war’s inevitable consequence is irreversible turmoil in Iraq and even civil war. Back in the U.S. in 2005, preparing for a second tour in Iraq, Boudreau realizes he loves his Marines more than the mission, and feels professionally obligated to relinquish his command and resign his commission. Boudreau’s final assignment as a Marine is not on the battlefield, but as the OIC of 2d Marine Regiment’s rear echelon, assigned the unenviable task of alerting the families of wounded Marines. It is during this time, in what he describes as the most difficult job he’s ever done, that Boudreau notices the overwhelming numbers of service members returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress. Boudreau starts to wonder why it is never part of his script to tell a mother or a father that, “Your boy is coming home with a broken heart.” If Boudreau left the Marines in 2005, his battles had only begun. From chronic insomnia to sudden bursts of rage, Packing Inferno takes us inside the mind of a soldier struggling to make peace with the demons of war. Boudreau calls on readers not to avert their eyes from the ugly psychological wounds carried by many veterans and to declare loud and clear, “War did this.”
Tyler Boudreau, a twelve-year veteran of the Marine Corps infantry, was deployed to Iraq in 2004 as Assistant Operation Officer for an infantry battalion. Following the deployment he was assigned as the Commanding Officer of a rifle company and was preparing to return to Iraq when he resigned his commission because of his growing reservations about the war. He is the founder of Collaborative Revolution, a new not-for-profit humanitarian project to assist Iraqi refugees and immigrants resettled in the US. He maintains a blog at: www.deeperthanwars.blogspot.com
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Top 10 Last Week
Back to basics! This is for the week ending July 11th. Enjoy!
1. Cometbus #52 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman (Picturebox) $15.00
3. Butt #26 $9.90
4. First Line vol 11 #2 $3.00
5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk) $12.95
6. Studs Terkels Working A Graphic Adaptation (New Press) $22.95
7. Order of the Odd Fish by James Kennedy (Delacorte) $15.99
8. Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw (Picador) $15.00
9. Gigantic #1 $3.00
10. Monologues For Calculating The Density Of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen (Fantagraphics) $22.99