Recent acquisitions:

·EXPLORATIONS IN SPACE – Via Portland Oregon. Many contributors in this small full color collection theorizing space as well as mental and physical fields of social interaction. Also summarizations of projects these short pieces offer a jump off into conceptualizing, articulating, and controlling various environments. Points of interest include Paul Sermon’s Telematic Vision, Caley Feeney’s Inter-Dimensional Origami, and Mediascapes an excerpt from In The Bubble.

·CREATE & DESTROY – Some gutter rag vomit zine from LA’s Branded. All the crucial topics covered: Girls dressed up like bunnies – check. Tons of amazing slash shitty throw-ups – check. Sewer rats, Strippers, and Stencils – check, check, check. Screen printed covers, hand numbered in an edition of 100, with hand sewn binding.

·ALLEY BLISS -Westside Baltimore trash piled thick. Comics by Max Eisenberg aka Dj Dog Dick about dreams, sharing, breakup notes, and taking out the trash. Covers screen-printed in piss yellow.

Yo – Philly zine scene is killin’ tha game!

·ALWAYS COMIX 5 - Always Comix 5 is ‘The Evil Issue’ and the Always ladies Ms. Erin and Ms. Sarah are stepping up their comic game with this perfect bound – offset printed anthology featuring tons ‘n tons of comics.

·SO NICE TO FINALLY MEET YOU - Born out of the Mail Art Collective (a monthly mail swap art project) – this photocopied zine with screen printed covers brings together a bunch of the contributors and participants. Featuring stories, photos, and drawings.

·NEW ASSHOLE – … for when your old one runs out! New Asshole is a wonderfully obnoxious over-sized journal of critique on various tribes of Philadelphia’s DIY scene. With black on black screen-printed covers.

·FOLLOW ME – by Jesse Moynihan. Published by Bodega. The third part in Mr. Moynihan’s ‘The Backwards Folding Mirror’ series is Follow Me. A hilarious transcendental surprise that is continually unfolding. Please do not forget: ‘Hold fast to my mystic do-rag’.

·HELTER SKELETON - Studio thug and homemade weapon enthusiast Bill McRight carves a mean violent wood block. This is a catalog of recent block-prints with titles like ‘Bunch Of Heads’, ‘Corpse Destroyer’, Dragon Wizard Weed’, and ‘Dude Bringing A Skull To An Eagle’. Copper metallic screen printed covers.

·LISTEN TO THE GRAND PASTORAL NOTHING – Upcoming Zine Of The Month’r Michael Gerkovich unloads his cellphone camera into grimy high contrast black and white realities. Featuring South Kensington gentrifiers, infinite piles of trash, shitty North Philly throw-ups, cats, guns, god’s eyes, and bling teeth. So Real.

·TIGER SAGA PART TWO – an oldie by Matt Leines featuring 2002 sketchbook drawings. Beautifully re-printed by Cantab in 2009 with 2 color screen-printed covers and golden rod inside.

·TITLE – Every one is scratched out in these lovely crude drawings by Freddy Williams. Assembled with assistance from the PDDC Cultural Arts staff.

·$10 FREE KITTENS – MFB!

·4000 FLAVORS VOL. 4 - 4000 Flavz is a Philly compilation featuring short fiction works from folks all over. Always has pretty screen-printed covers. Always.

Back from the NYC zine fest with a new stack. From right to left:

· SHOWPAPER 52 – Past issue featuring Pom lover Brian Blomerth. Showpaper lists tons of shows happening around NYC.
· MAKING THE CURRICULUM – Robin Cameron’s Amazon Wish List asks do we need to go to school? Before your eyes – website becomes zine.
· JESUS LOVES ME – Black and white large scale photo-zine from Jon Bocksel. Shot on film featuring street scenes from the Bed Stuy neighborhood in Brooklyn focusing on hand-painted signs and displays.
· SURPRISE 1 + 2 – Calder and Wojack organize surprise party installations. These zines document their first two events. Covers have small drug baggies filled with surprise supplies (confetti and slime) used. Zines feature internet artwork collage and action shots from the surprise parties.
· MINDMAPS – another zine from Robin Cameron and published by Golden Age.
· FREE DANGER – So much black toner! Featuring dirty pics, Chuck Norris, old people regrets, more naked pics, and finally drunk advice. Also more naked people and ninja turtle drawings.
· SUPER TEN – Big book of ten designers and illustrators creating ten works about ten songs.
· AUTOSTOP – Nice little offset zine featuring drawings of hitchhikers from Zurich.