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New Stuff Week of January 31, 2010

Published on February 6, 2010 in books, comics, lit journals, lowbrow art, mayhem, music, new stuff, news, store news, tattoo-related and zines. 0 Comments

Check out these new things before anyone else does. Then take their eyeballs, so they can’t check them out ever!

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ZINES

Fluke Magazine #8 $2

COMICS/COMIX/MINIS

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #32 By Joss Whedon $2.99

Crass Sophisticate #23 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

Crass Sophisticate #24 by Josh Reinwald & Justin Rosenberg $2

Crestfallen #2 by Sandra Sierra $3

Franz Kafka’s Poseidon by Jarod Rosello $4

Stories vol 2 Copy Matthew and Buster Swimming Free Hugs by Martin Cendreda $3

Tales From The Crypt #13 $3.95

Tank Girl Skidmarks #3 by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo $3.99

GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS

Crogan’s March by Chris Schweizer $14.95

Fables vol 13 the Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, and Mark Buckingham $17.99

Teenage Timberwolves Lust for Lightning by James Havoc & Daniele Serra $14.95

MAGS

Against the Current #144 Jan Feb 10 $5

Altercation #24 $3.95

Car Busters #40 $5

Dwell Mar 10 $5.99

Earth First vol 30 #2 Jan Feb 10 $4.5

Extra Feb 10 vol 23 #2 $3.95

Grafik #181 Jan 10 $19.99

Hails and Horns #16 WIn 09 $4.95

Haunted Times vol 4 #3 Win 10 $6.5

Hip Mama #45 $5.95

In These Times Feb 10 $3.5

Monocle vol 3 #30 Feb 10 $10

Namaste Vol 11 #2 $9.99

Nexus vol 17 #1 Jan Feb 10 $5.95

Progressive Feb 10 $3.95

Tattoo Life #62 $6.99

Tattoo Society #20 $7.99

Time Out Chicago Feb 4 10 $2.99

Trace #86 $5.99

Transworld Skateboarding Mar 10 $3.99

Vman #17 Spr 10 $5.5

Winq Win 10 $7.95

Z Magazine Feb 10 $4.95

LIT JOURNALS

826 Quarterly #10 Sum 09 $15

McSweeneys #33 $16

Pleiades vol 30 #1 $8

FICTION ‘N’ POETRY

Failure By James Greer $15.95

Orange Crush By Simone Muench $14.95

MUCKRAKING, MEMOIRS, AND MISCELLANY

Complaint, From Minor Moans to Principled Protests By Julian Baggini $15.95

Madame Curie Complex, the Hidden History of Women in Science By Julie Des Jardins $16.95

DIY/HOW TO BOOKS

Artist in the Office, How to Creativel Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week By Summer Pierre $13.95

Little Green Book of Absinthe, an Essential Companion with Lore Trivia and Classic Recipes By Paul Owens $18.95

FINE, LOW BROW, AND GRAFITTI fART BOOKS

Cholo Writing, Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles By Francois Chastanet $24.95

Autumns Come Undone By Shag $40

Open Book Drink and Draw Collaborations $24.95

Shadowplay by Mark Wilkinson $39.95

MAYHEM & OUTER LIMITS

Strange Case of Dr HH Holmes, World’s Fair Serial Killer by John Borowski $20

Hollow Earth, the Bizarre 60s Classic Back in Print By Raymond Bernard $16.95

Homage to Pan, the Life Art and Sex Magic of Rosaleen Norton By Nevill Drury $24.95

MUSIC

Band Crime Punk77 Revisited, a Photographic Look at the Band Crime and Punk By James Stark $14.95

Radiohead Hysterical and Useless By Martin Clarke $19.95

POLITICS

World Report 2010 By Human Rights Watch $25

PORN BOOKS

Season of Infidelity, BDSM tales From the Classic Master By Oniroku Dan $14.95

Exhibitionism for the Shy, Show Off Dress Up and Talk Hot By Carol Queen $15.95

Trubble Club Puts ‘em on the Glass

Published on December 28, 2008 in mayhem, news, store news and windows. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Its been so holidaze! around here we forgot to tell everyone how awesome our new window display is! Done by the collective of Chicago comic artists Trubble Club, it has a little bit of something for every one: food as people, gore, animals with fire arms.

Trubble Club Vol 1 & Vol 2 available now

And be sure to check the Trubble Club Blog for more collaborative comic madness

Featured Book of the Day: Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III

Published on October 10, 2008 in art, mayhem and new stuff. 0 Comments Tags: .

The final volume of this trilogy is the only one in print. The other volumes go for tons! If you’re not familiar with any of the books in the series, the deal is that they’re tattoos done with crude resources by Russian prisoners on each other, and they’re collected by this lifetime security guard Danzig Baldaev (his name is Danzig, heh heh hehheh). The KGB supported his collection! It was important to them to be able to establish facts about convicts by reading the images (both pictoral and text) on their bodies. You don’t need to have either of the other books in the trilogy to get into this one. Devils, penises (peni?), swords, SS cats, barbed wire, anti-party tatts — whether you’re an ink freak, photography nut, sociologist, political maverick (are any politicians really mavericks, I mean really?) or lowbrow art collector, this is the book for you. I particularly like the captions for many of the drawings that translate the meanings. Just as an example, dig the caption explaining the drawing of a rat with Russian text that translates to ‘Tightwad filcher’ for a convict sentenced for hooliganism: “He stole three packs of cigarettes and some sweets from the lockers of his fellow inmates. He was discovered and beaten up. It was decided by a group of ‘authoritative’ thieves that this tattoo should be forcibly applied as punishment.” Thazwutchoo get for stealin’ candy and smokes! These books have even influenced a movement in these parts where the youngins have actually started replicating these drawings on themselves by professional tattoo artists  — would they get their asses kicked in a Russian jail?

Today’s Featured Book: L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Illustrated by Graham Rawle

Published on October 8, 2008 in art, books and mayhem. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

This is no ordinary reprint. This version of The Wizard of Oz is an artbook illustrated by Graham Rawle, author of Woman’s World (a novel created entirely from fragments of found text from 60s womens mags, now being made into a movie). The text is the same — hence it being almost 300 pages long! There’s illustrations on almost every page, and they’re crazy. Collage-y type of stuff with dolls and toys and beads and doll slippers and bottles and things cut out from other things — like he cut up magazines and newspapers and then went crazy at American Science and Surplus. Kids would love this but adults may love it more. Even some of the font is spicy with cursive and italics and who knows what else. There’s little graphic surprises on almost every page. A lot of work went into this thing!

Today’s Featured Book: Beautiful Mutants by Mark Mothersbaugh

Published on October 3, 2008 in books and mayhem. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Yes, that Mark Mothersbaugh — the lead singer of Devo. Beautiful Mutants is the show catalog for the 2007 exhibition of the same name at CSUF Grand Central Art Center Project Room in Santa Ana, CA. It has lots of old timey photos of interesting people (Carmen Miranda, the Del Rubio Triplets, various circus-y freak people, just to name a couple, even a few pugs! I’ve seen the artist with his pugs. Awesome!) halved and then resewn to show the same half as the opposite side. What do I mean? OK, so let’s say you took a picture of me. Oh, and let’s say I’m a sad-eyed perfumier in Brecksville, Ohio in like, the forties. In one hand I’m holding some flowers. And in the other hand I’m holding lace. So then you take the side where I’m just holding the flowers and make a replica of that side, except that you reverse it. Now both sides are facing each other, totally symmetrical. You cut away the side with the lace, and you attach the side with the reversed image of me holding the flowers. And voila! I look like a very mutilated version of myself. And my sad eyes are way too close together. Or way too far apart so I look freaky like Jackie O. Does this make any sense? Some of the photos in the book the eyes are so close together that it makes one eye, so it’s like a cycloptic magician or something. Crazy!