New arrivals to the Last Gasp bookshelves

• DEVITA UNAUTHORIZED
  A Manhattan native (b. 1932), Thom deVita showed at open-air art fairs in Washington Square Park In the 1950s and mingled with famous New York School painters at the Cedar Tavern. Interested in tattooing from an early age, he began tattooing in the 1960s soon after it was declared illegal in all the boroughs of New York (the ban was finally overturned in 1997). Although he pursued that as an underground career for nearly forty years, he continues to work in drawings, ontage, and constructions.

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• MOTHER
  “Mother” has always been a popular theme in the world of tattoos, and the first tattoo a young man gets is often associated with this theme, not least because of the ruckus he will avoid when returning home with it. At first most mothers become angry at such an impulsive deed, but once she realises that this is an indelible display of unconditional love for her and that it will be visible to all for all time, all her heart can do is melt.

  Nowadays, a truly “modern” mother sometimes accompanies her son to the tattoo parlour and witnesses how the representation of her sons love for her takes shape. Sometimes this does not happen, because she has already passed away. A tattoo with the word “Mother,” occasionally even coloured with her ashes, can make such a great loss more bearable. The tattoo is part of the mourning process; it provides comfort and nurtures acceptance. The pain is boldly endured, a tear or two might roll down his cheeks, but bargaining about the price is considered bad form.

  In this book, the most beautiful Mother tattoos from the Schiffmacher Collection are collected. A special gift book for mother, which can also be an inspiration for how one can wear the love for her on his skin forever.

• DESTROYING EVERYTHING… SEEMS LIKE THE ONLY OPTION
  A glaring, unflinching, honest snapshot of youth sub-culture that Ricky himself has been immersed in for many years. Bringing together aspects of bikes, D.I.Y. punk & underground youth culture, Destroying Everything is a collection of photographs of people who do their own thing their own way and live life from the heart, no matter what the consequences.
• FUTURE PRIMITIVE REVISITED
  As our society is stricken with repeated technological disasters, and the apocalyptic problems that go with them, the “neo-primitivist” essays of John Zerzan seem more relevant than ever. “Future Primitive,” the core innovative essay of Future Primitive Revisited, has been out of print for years. This new edition is updated with never-before-printed essays that speak to a youthful political movement and influential writers such as Derrick Jensen and Paul Theroux.
• FIRE AND FLAMES
  Translated for the first time into English, the history of the German autonomous anticapitalist movement is traced back to the 1970s in this firsthand account. Battling police in riot gear, the early members of the autonomous movement used military tactics that included barricading and hurling Molotov cocktails in protest. Dubbed the “Black Bloc” by the German media, those tactics were soon adopted by scores of anticapitalist groups across the globe. The dawn of the autonomous faction spawned a movement in which average citizens can reclaim their lives from governmental control. Political activists and anticapitalists will find updated historical context to the movement and the current state of the German autonomous movement in this updated chronicle. Introduction by George Katsiaficas. Afterword by Gabriel Kuhn.
• GET YOUR PITCHFORK ON!
  For hard-working office workers Kristy Athens and husband Michael, farming was a romantic dream. After purchasing farm land in Oregon’s beautiful Columbia Gorge, Athens and hubby were surprised to learn that the realities of farming were challenging and unexpected. Get Your Pitchfork On! provides the hard-learned nuts-and-bolts of rural living from city folk who were initially out of their depth. Practical and often hilarious, Get Your Pitchfork On! reads like a twenty-first century Egg and I.

  Get Your Pitchfork On! gives urban professionals the practical tools they need to realize their dream, with basics of home, farm, and hearth. It also enters territory that other books avoid — straightforward advice about the social aspects of country living, from health care to schools to small-town politics.

  Kristy Athens doesn’t shy away from controversial subjects, such as having guns and hiring undocumented migrant workers. An important difference between Get Your Pitchfork On! and other farm/country books is that the author’s initial country experiment failed. Ravaged by the elements, the economy, and the social structure of their rural area, Athens and husband sold their farm and retreated to Portland, Oregon, in 2009. This gave Athens the freedom to write honestly about her extraordinary experience.

  Having learned from mistakes, both Kristy and her husband are currently saving up to buy another farm, and this time to live a practical dream rather than an uninformed nightmare.

• PICTOPLASMA: THE CHARACTER COMPENDIUM
  The long sought after original is back! After the best-selling Character Encyclopaedia from 2006, Pictoplasma finally presents a brand new compilation with the latest works by the international protagonists and new talents in the field of character design. From illustration and graphic design to fine and urban arts, toys and costumes, this is the unique sourcebook for anyone creative and seeking inspiration. Featuring more than 900 outstanding artworks and individual characters by 200 international artists, The Character Compendium is one of its kind, giving insight to the current trends in figurative design. The Character Compendium features work by Raymond Lemstra, Julia Pott, FriendsWithYou, Florentijn Hofman, Amanda Visell, Brock Davis, Jordan Metcalf, Phunk Studio, Noferin, Nathan Jurevicius, McBess, Koralie and many, many more.
• BAREFOOT AND IN THE KITCHEN
  This heavily illustrated vegan cookbook is packed with delicious recipes and entertaining essays. Not at all an exclusive affair, Barefoot and in the Kitchen works with ingredients available to folks everywhere not just those with access to fancy health food stores. Make a basic white sauce, your own seitan, mac’n'cheese, cornbread, and cookies. Folks who have been vegan for awhile will love variations like stuffed shells, dirty rice, and “Cinnamon Buns of Doom.” For Ashley resistance is tasty and once you try out these recipes, your resistance will taste good too!
• DIRTY GIRLZ
  A decade after their last raunchfest, Lust in Space, Kono Yaro and Suke Bei return with Dirty Girlz, an all-new collection of lesbo-rrific short stories in many different genres. (No boys allowed!) In the lead story, space cops deal with a planet-wide infestation of a lesbian virus. “Pirates” features cat-o’-nine-tails action, while in another cruel yarn, a captured lesbian sex slaver who is forced to undego “The Interrogation” turns the tables on her captors. In “Renegades,” a traveling schoolmarm finds more than she bargained for in the Old West… and we don’t even need to tell you what goes on in “Photo Op.” Sex on every page!
• FINE FINE MUSIC
  A memoir of short funny stories about growing up on Long Island, having lots of crappy jobs, and getting into rockandroll. Fine Fine Music is a collection of stories about the other side of rock and roll and coming of age in the land that time forgot. Lake Ronkonkoma is stuck in 1981, an alcoholic blackout of unnaturally tan people waxing their Camaros to Foreigner on cassette and knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not. From an internship making Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, and a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider delivers her tales of growing up in a land of fist-pumping Snookies with the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk.

New arrivals to the Last Gasp bookshelves

• SUPER IAM8BIT
  Zelda. Mega Man. Dig Dug. A follow-up to the original iam8bit book. More than 80 artists remix their retro gaming fantasies, employing a variety of techniques, from paint to sculpture, all inspired by the magical era that was the ’80s arcade and console scene. Foreword by Kevin Pereira.
• THE ENIGMA OF CRANIAL DEFORMATION
  Popular Lost Cities author Childress tackles the enigma of worldwide cranial deformation along with Canadian-Peruvian anthropologist Foerster. In a book filled with over a hundred astonishing photos and a color photo section, Childress and Foerster take us to Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Malta, China, Mexico and other places in search of strange elongated skulls and other cranial deformation. The puzzle of why diverse ancient people — even on remote Pacific Islands — would use head-binding to create elongated heads is mystifying. Where did they even get this idea? Did some people naturally look this way — with long narrow heads? Were they some sort of elite race that roamed the entire planet? Why do anthropologists rarely talk about cranial deformation and know so little about it? As incredible as it seems, Childress and Foerster discover that cranial deformation was practiced on nearly every continent by special groups who believed they were imitating their highly advanced ancestors. This is a mind-blowing trip into the strange past of humans on planet earth.
• ELOQUENT VANDALS
  Eloquent Vandals tells the story of how the Nuart festival has grown from a small underground festival to an Internationally acclaimed street art event. Without the usual restraints of corporate sponsorship or sales to consider, Nuart consistently brings out the best from some of the worlds leading Street Artists. This book offers an opportunity to look back over previous years and shows why Nuart is regarded as an important figure in the 21st century’s most dynamic and vital art movement. The book also tells the story of a movement that instead of fulfilling the criteria for modern art, created new arenas for art in the streets and on the Internet.

  The relationship between Street Art and the net is one of the things Steven Harrington and Jaime Rojo write about in “Freed from the Wall, Street Art Travels the World.” This is one of three essays that have been written for the occasion by some of the most important and influential people in the field. Together with texts by Carlo McCormick, Tristan Manco, Martyn Reed, Logan Hicks and The Dotmasters, this book can offer new reflections and perspectives on an art form that has been underestimated and under theorized for over a decade.

• WHEELS OUT OF GEAR
  Originally published to great critical acclaim in 2004 by Helter Skelter Publishing, Wheels out of Gear is a vivid exploration of the 2-Tone movement of the late 1970s and early ’80s, set against the turbulent backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain. Taking its roots from Caribbean Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae, the 2-Tone sound was honed into a modern urban multi-racial groove led by The Specials, whose 2-Tone record label gave the movement its name and a home to many of the groups of the time, such as The Selecter and Madness. In a period of great political polarisation, with clashes between the National Front and the Anti-Nazi League, as well as riots in London, Liverpool and Birmingham, and the death of Blair Peach at the hands of the police, The Specials and their contemporaries spread a multi-racial message whilst gaining commercial success with hits such as Too Much Too Young and Ghost Town, which combined catchy dance music with socially aware lyrics. Wheels out of Gear is a candid exploration of this fascinating era in British music and politics and is a must-have for all fans of the 2-Tone sound. It will also fascinate anyone with an interest in 1980s politics. The author, Dave Thompson, lives in America and is available for interviews. His soon to be published book on Patti Smith will have a halo effect for this book.
• GLORIOUS VOL. 3
  Glorious Volume 3 / Kings of Green 1.1: It is not a book, neither a magazine it’s a catalogue of graffiti, which this times comes out in a very special format. 284 pages, a DVD, photos, interviews and high grade focuses. We start by a preview of the new edition of a cult book “Graffiti a New York” by Andrea Nelli, that will come out in 2012. For what concerns international writing, we have Serm the underground Bucharest bomber, with his best photos. From the capital of Rumania to the Chicago subway, passing through Rome and Milan that this time are represented by two special members of the scene, Brus and Erpes, so to have quality and quantity, bombing and style. We then have the photos of the famous Kings of Green, the party jam held in summer that every one looks forward to, this has also become an environment project that participates at a competition called MercinTreno2011, that has the acknowledgement of the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. This year like the past ones we’ve evolved some of the best writers around, both foreigners and Italian, we made a real documentary, different form the usual 30 minutes filming, but “unique” graffiti stories. If that wasn’t enough, we have the exclusive photo call by Ilario Cardoni and Adrian Oprea, that go behind appearance, revealing emotions and sensation of those who live with writing an deep passion. The Glory is back stronger than ever!
• CONSPIRACY CINEMA
  While they remain marginalized by the mainstream media, conspiracy theories are a growing influence on the contemporary political imagination, thanks mostly to the unprecedented phenomenon David Ray Carter has entitled “conspiracy cinema” — documentaries mostly freely available over the internet, that present a conspiratorial explanation for an event or series of events, including everything from 9/11 to the Kennedy assassinations, Roswell to the AIDS pandemic. Incredibly, an estimated half a billion people around the world have watched one of these films at some time or other, yet this is the first book to exclusively address what is indubitably the definitive cinematic movement of the internet generation. And Conspiracy Cinema does not address it in a dry, academic fashion. Rather, Conspiracy Cinema presents a light, funny, interactive (all the films addressed are freely available at the touch of button online) guide to this transgressive, intriguing and immensely popular form of modern entertainment. Chapters focus on conspiracy, ranking the documentaries, and evaluating the plausibility of both official and conspiratorial explanations. Foreword: A Grassy Knoll Too Far by Mick Farren. Preface by Thomas McGrath.
• I LOVE SCIENCE!
  Labaratory Technician of words, Shanny Jean Maney turns plain language into curious, knowledge-hungry poetry. Alarm clocks, dogs and Jeff Goldblum wait in the center of the Venn Diagram where the mysteries of the intangible philosophers of our day intersect. This book stands as a reminder that our hearts can hurt from knowing too much, our laugh lines can deepen and that the nature of both poetry and science are one in the same. Featuring a special introduction by Lynda Barry!
• CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST AND THE SAVAGE CINEMA OF RUGGERO DEODATO
  Revised and updated collector’s edition! Cannibal Holocaust is widely acclaimed as being one of the greatest horror movies of all time; indeed this hugely influential film is so devastatingly effective that it is often wrongly accused of being a ‘Snuff’ movie. This book is the fully authorised guide to the amazing films of Ruggero Deodato, whose notorious masterpiece Cannibal Holocaust is analysed in depth along with all his other movies, which include House on the Edge of the Park, Waves of Lust, Cut abnd Run, Last Cannibal World, Bodycount, Phantom of Death, The Barbarians, Dial: Help, The Atlantis Interceptors, and Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man. With two career-spanning interviews, a detailed filmography, reviews of all his movies and a stunning selection of stills, ad-mats, rare posters and behind the scenes photographs selected from Ruggero Deodato’s personal collection, this book is the definitive reference work on one of Italy’s most accomplished horror film directors. Fully revised and updated, with an extra 16 pages of new text and illustrations, and issued in hardback for the first time.
• A HOWLIN’ WIND
  Take a trip to a lost world. A world permeated by the odour of stale tobacco and overflowing toilets; a world where your feet stick to the carpet and the walls are covered in peeling flock wallpaper. The beer is warm, but the band on stage is hot. Welcome to the world of 1970s pub rock.

  Author John Blaney traces the history of pub rock from its Mod roots through to its reinvention as new wave. He covers all the essential bands such as the American Eggs Over Easy (who started it all), Brinsley Schwarz, Kilburn & The High Roads, Dr Feelgood, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello and more, in a fascinating study that has been painstakingly researched and is well argued. Crucial to the movement were Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera, both of whom managed Pub Rock bands before setting up Stiff Records. With little money, or inclination, to sign big acts they turned to the Pub Rock caterpillars they knew and turned them in new wave butterflies. Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Elvis Costello were all on roads to nowhere, but made it big as a result of Stiff’s involvement. The book ends with the Be Stiff tour of 1979, when a ‘new’ new wave was breaking with Wreckless Eric, Lene Lovich and Rachel Sweet.

  With eye-witness accounts from those involved, including a lengthy interview with Dave Robinson, John Blaney explains perfectly how pub rock started, flourished and reinvented itself as the new wave: “A Howlin’ Wind” that blew away the cobwebs from a moribund music scene. Of particular interest to US audiences will be the attempts to conquer American by some of the acts. Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and Ian Dury succeeded (as did Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds to a lesser extent), but Dr Feelgood failed due to an unwillingness to play the corporate game. This book is different from Will Birch’s excellent No Sleep Till Canvey Island, and is complementary to it as Will looks at the When and Where, whereas John covers the Why and How. Will has been very supportive of this book. In addition to an 8 page plates section there are black and white images of people and memorabilia scattered throughout the book, making this a lovely memento of an era when the music mattered.

• BEAVER STREET
  For sixteen years Robert Rosen worked behind the X-rated scenes of such porn magazines as High Society, Stag, and D-Cup. In Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography, Rosen blows the lid off the lucrative and politically hounded adult industry, providing a darkly engaging account of its tumultuous decades — from the defining Traci Lords scandal and the conception of “free” phone sex to the burgeoning success of smut in cyberspace in the twenty-first century. A Vanity Fair “Hot Type” pick.
• UGLY THINGS MAGAZINE #33 (SPRING/SUMMER 2012)
  Wild sounds from past dimensions. ’60s Mod bands and other cultural artifacts. In this issue: A Love Supreme — the Johnny Echols interview; Group 1850 — unfrozen minds; Cyril Jordan’s San Francisco beat; The Craig; Wimple Winch; electric eels; Reekers; Ed Sanders; reissues reviewed; more.
• JESUS DRESS-UP FRIDGE MAGNETS, FINAL JUSTICE
  Now it’s time for Magnetic Jesus Dress-Up! Hang Jesus on your fridge door, school locker, car door or steel cage! Then dress Him up in a variety of exciting, colorful outfits for hours of playtime fun! Why is this set called Final Justice? Because now you can finally seek true justice and crucify the most hated villains! You can buy your set now and guarantee that you’ll be receiving the greatest dress up magnet game ever created on God’s green earth! One magnetic Jesus, with 35 pieces of magnetic clothing and accessories.
• STREET ART NORWAY
  Norwegian Street Art has gained recognition, both nationally and internationally, with the works by artists as Strk, Dolk, Pobel and many more. Here is the art in Norwegian street art from the early 1990s to the present. This was the top selling art book in Norway in 2010 and 2011.
• THE ORGANIC BACKYARD VINEYARD
  Interest in wine shows no signs of slowing down — wine tours, tastings, and vacations are now common and homeowners often have space dedicated to their collection. The logical next step? Learning to grow and make your own.

  In The Organic Backyard Vineyard expert Tom Powers walks the small grower through the entire process of growing grapes, with a month-by-month maintenance guide covering all regions of the U.S. and Canada. He explains everything a beginning grape grower needs to know: how to design and build a vineyard, how to select grapes for each region, how to maximize yield using organic maintenance techniques, how to build a trellis, how to harvest at peak flavor, and how to store grapes for winemaking.

  Updated from his self-published version, this edition includes organic growing information and all new photography. The Organic Backyard Vineyard features everything a wine lover needs to build and care for a backyard vineyard.

• URBAN FARMS
  Urban Farms provides in-depth profiles of 16 innovative farms located in major metropolitan areas across the country, each operated by passionate individuals and communities committed to growing their own fruits and vegetables and raising animals. Included in these pages are some of the leaders in the movement, from Novella Carpenter’s farm in an empty lot in Oakland to Growing Power’s vast compound in Milwaukee. In addition to stories about the farms and their owners, sidebars provide basic how-to tips for such activities as composting, canning, beekeeping, and growing vegetables. A burgeoning movement that is fast catching on, urban farming taps into many touchstones of the zeitgeist, including environmental awareness, the foodie culture, localism, distrust of mass-production farming practices, and the DIY approach to life and living.
• SAUCERS, SWASTIKAS, AND PSYOPS
  Oxford-educated historian Farrell continues his best-selling book series on suppressed technology, Nazi survival and the postwar psyops with his new book Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops. Farrell discusses SS Commando Otto Skorzeny; George Adamski; the alleged Hannebu and Vril craft of the Third Reich; The Strange Case of Dr. Hermann Oberth; Nazis in the US and their connections to “UFO contactees;” The Memes — an idea or behavior spread from person to person within a culture\ — are Implants; Adamski’s ET Message: The Danger of Weaponized Gravity; and tons more. What do the following things have in common: George Adamski, Fascists, Nazi scientists, American engineers, the CIA, the Wall Street Morgan interests, I.G. Farben, ITT, SS Commando Otto Skorzeny, the post-war Nazi International, American Intelligence and the Mafia Drug Lords? Answer: they are all components of a “breakaway civilization” seeking to protect its control over advanced technologies and to project itself into outer space while waging a covert war here on earth with the same advanced technologies-and the rest of humanity be damned. Join internationally-known researcher Joseph P. Farrell in this next chapter in his expose of secret Nazi wartime and postwar research that he began in The SS Brotherhood of the Bell and Nazi International.
• ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #37 (SPRING 2012)
  A beautiful, educational, and scholarly magazine devoted to the history of American illustration art. Each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and color reproductions. In this issue: “Elaine” – the queen of romance illustration; the art of Coby Whitmore; the art of George Ziel; more.
• MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL MAGAZINE #349 (JUNE 2012)
  Hardcore, punk rock, scene reports, straight edge, radical politics. In this issue: Omegas Zyanose; Negative Standards; Antisect; No Statik; Your Pest Band; Eutanasia; Appalachian Terror Unit; Power Age; Only Fumes and Corpses; Skizophrenia; David Ensminger; Greek scene report; more.
• D.I.Y. MAGIC (DIY)
  What is magic? It is the fine and subtle art of driving yourself insane! No really, it is just that. It is a con game you play on your own brain. It is the trick of letting yourself go crazy, and when it’s done right, the magus treads the same sacred and profane ground where walks the madman…

  We can read descriptions of myths, of the practices of shamans, but the descriptions we might read by a Pentecostal believer, or a voodoo practitioner ridden by the loa, will be meaningless to us unless we have already been in the state they describe. These are wholly subjective experiences.

  If you take these many practices, from across countless fields, cultures, religions, modes of being and systems of ritual (hypnosis, song and dance, duende, speaking in tongues, enchantment, faith healing, divination, out of body experience, sweat lodges, drumming, yoga, drugs, fever and on and on), we find that we are really talking about the same thing: a state where the mind lets go of the normal way of being and is opened up to an experience of existence as a whole that is bigger and without time. These states are all really different forms of the same thing, or if not the precisely the same thing, then near and adjacent territories in a realm that lies parallel to this one, reachable by many means.

  In short, rather than advertise this as a book of magick, it could just as well have been labeled a book of psychology hacking. Or a cookbook. Think of it as jail-breaking the iPhone of your mind. Teaching it to do things that its basic programming was never set up for. Advanced self-psychology.

  Featuring over 40 b&w illustrations by: Lala Albert, Farel Dalrymple, Ines Estrada, Maureen Gubia, Kevin Hooyman, Dunja Jankovic, Aidan Koch, Jesse Moynihan, Luke Ramsey, Ron Rege Jr. & more!

• AMERICAN PSYCHO: DRAWINGS
  Floating World has teamed with Traditional Comics to reprint Benjamin Marra’s sold out Elf Booklet series, Drawings Inspired by the Motion Picture “American Psycho.” The original artwork was rescanned and published as a broadsheet newspaper. Three new illustrations and brand new covers were created for this limited edition of 1500 copies.

  Employing Raymond Pettibon’s aesthetics and inspired by the movie “American Psycho,” these 28 illustrations “seem almost mathematically calculated to haunt the eyes they meet: whether it’s the sublimely balanced blacks and whites or the point-of-impact axe to neck shots… the real story here is Marra’s art, which is far and away the best work of his career.” -Matt Seneca, Comics Alliance

New arrivals to the Last Gasp bookshelves

• INTERIORAE
  A high-rise apartment building in an unnamed European city. Its inhabitants come and go, meet each other, talk, dream, regret, hope… in short, live. A ghostly, shape-shifting anthropomorphic white rabbit roams from apartment to apartment, surveying and keeping track of all this humanity… and at the end of every night, he floats down to the basement where he delivers his report to the “great dark one.”

  Lushly delineated in penciled halftones, this moody graphic novel was originally serialized in Fantagraphics’ acclaimed “Ignatz” series of upscale saddle-stitched booklets in duotone form, but this complete edition restores the artist’s original striking full-color treatment. Nominated for the 2011 Prix Artemisia.

• BURN COLLECTOR ZINE #16
  Burn Collector #16 (April 2012) is sub-titled “Music and Mania,” and examines the intersection between creativity and losing your marbles. Street musicians, arena rock, classical vs. computers, Little Richard vs. Elvis, and a wide variety of other topics are discussed as Burian contends that “the modern musician is essentially a maniac, living on a delusional dream, whose basic project — putting forth a unique voice into the general din and calamity of the oversaturated information age — has so little chance of success as to make it an act of ultimate, incredible optimism.” The zine contains comics, essays, reviews, and interviews with musician Tim Remis and radical mental health activist Sascha DuBrul.
• JAPANESE BUDDHISM X HORIYASHI III
  Japanese Buddhism x Horiyoshi III is the first book of its kind on an esoteric and difficult to approach subject matter. It includes almost 400 pages of beautiful photography illuminating Japanese Buddhist iconography from the top four Buddhist expanses in Japan, with clear and thorough explanations, in English, of the numerous deities and symbols. This publication also includes tattoo reference provided by Horiyoshi III and his clients and an interview with him on Buddhism and its relationship to Japanese tattooing. Text by Manami Okazaki and photography from renowned cameraman Geoff Johnson, this is a must have reference book. The book is a monster, 6″ x 9″ and softcover with superior binding.
• INTRODUCING CAMUS
  A friend of Sartre who used to hang out on the Boulevard Saint Germain, the second youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize, a journalist, French resistance fighter and human rights campaigner, Albert Camus, always refused the existentialist label with which he is usually associated. For Camus, the word was “absurd,” without purpose, leading only unto death, yet all the more invigorating precisely because of this. Camus was an intellectual in the tradition of the great humanists, a Resistance fighter during World War II, and also a great sensualist for whom sun, sea, sex, football and theatre were the answer to life’s absurdity. This graphic novel guide introduces his life and work.
• JAPANESE MYTHICAL CREATURES
  Gomineko Press is stoked to finally debut Japanese Mythical Creatures. Illustrations of Kappa, Kirin, Baku, Nue, Kitsune and Tsuchigumo from over 120 different artists world wide!
• SWELL
  Wave watchers around the world know that no two waves are the same. Yet each and every wave that rises, peaks, and crashes onto the beach is generated by a much larger force originating thousands of miles away. Surf journalist team Evan Slater and Peter Taras capture the essence of waves and the swells that produce them in this breathtaking collection of wave photography. Slater characterizes four distinct swells from different corners of the globe and traces their journeys throughout the year from storm to seashore. His reflective, informative essays amplify these powerful images of hundreds of waves frozen in time, beautiful, simple, universal, yet wholly unique — and the best thing to watch on the planet. 120 color photographs, plus 4 maps.
• POCKET ZOMBIE FIGURE: WONDOO DOG
  Created by Alex Rodrigue, the Pocket Zombies are adorable little Zombies always ready to laugh and, of course, to play with your delicious BRAIN! Wondoo is Ted’s dog. He loves to play with Ted & Apple. He also alerts them when the Scary Men come close. He often stumbles upon his own tongue. Favorite food: brain chow. Favorite music: Snoop Brain.
• A GREATER MONSTER
  A psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, A Greater Monster is the mind-bending second novel by the author of the acclaimed Death by Zamboni. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a radically twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse mirror. Along the way, you’ll encounter sphinxes, gods, living skeletons, witches, and quite possibly the strangest circus ever imagined. Innovative and astonishing, A Greater Monster breathes new life into the possibilities of fiction. Gold Medal winner as Outstanding Book of the Year in the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
• POCKET ZOMBIE FIGURE: APPLE
  Created by Alex Rodrigue, the Pocket Zombies are adorable little Zombies always ready to laugh and, of course, to play with your delicious BRAIN! Apple is Ted’s older sister. She always plays pranks on Ted like replacing the brain from his lunchbox with disgusting cabbage! Favorite food: Raisin Brain cereal. Favorite music: Brainey Smear. Dislikes: blond, pop singers. Surprises inside the box!
• MCSWEENEY’S #40
  The first McSweeney’s issue of 2012 features all kinds of amazing stuff — so much, from so many good people, that we turned it into two beautiful little books. There are new stories from Neil Gaiman and Etgar Keret and David Vann (can you guess which one contains pterodactyls and Aztecs?), there is Sad Sayrafiezadeh awaiting the uprising at Occupy Wall Street and a special compendium of the incredible writing that inspired the Egyptian Revolution, and, in its own volume, there is Rick Bass’s extraordinary account of a week in Rwanda — the most ambitious nonfiction piece McSweeney’s has ever run, and without a doubt one of the best essays of the year. You don’t want to miss this one!
• POCKET ZOMBIE FIGURE: TED-E
  Created by Alex Rodrigue, the Pocket Zombies are adorable little Zombies always ready to laugh and, of course, to play with your delicious BRAIN! TED-E is the younger brother of Apple. He and his sister have tons of fun roaming the streets of Braindale City. Favorite food: Brain booger. Favorite game: Basketbrain. Dislikes: Broccoli, people moving too fast! Surprises inside the box!
• ESCAPING THE GALLOWS
  A testament to hard livin and fast women, this book embodies a rebellious spirit so tangible… it leaps from the page to punch you in the face. Meyer’s illustrations are a whirlwind of tattoo imagery, inamorata, 90′s icons, personal battles won and lost, hope, desire, grief and unabashed loyalty…crafted with a discerning eye and the patience of a saint. Meyer may still be getting his sea legs in this industry, but impounded within the covers of this book is a powerful roar of protest and a raised fist.
• BERLIN 18
  A new chapter of Berlin: City of Light, the final volume of Jason Lutes’ epic trilogy. Confronted by the hatred and fear that has begun to seep through the cracks in the Weimar Republic, Kurt Severing retreats into drink and despondency. His friends, alarmed by this self-destructive turn, make plans to intervene. Across the city, Silvia Braun has fallen in with a gang of young Communists, who are dumbstruck when she single-handedly attacks two Nazis in the street. Meanwhile, the idyllic nocturnal escapades of Marthe Muller and Anna Albrecht are shattered by a police raid on one of their favorite nightclubs, which leaves their relationship in ruins.
• MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER
  Over 210 full-color pages of Ditko in his early prime that have never been properly reprinted until now — thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses, and unsuspecting victims.

  Five years before his breakthrough as the co-creator of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and other classic super-heroes for Marvel Comics in the early 1960s, Steve Ditko, inspired by the freedom he found at the laissez-faire Charlton Comics, was turning out some of the best work of his career.

  Mysterious Traveler, which collects stories from (among others) Tales of the Mysterious Traveler and This Magazine Is Haunted, reprints over 210 full-color pages of Ditko in his early prime. These are stories that have never been properly reprinted until now — thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses, and unsuspecting victims.

• FALLEN WORDS
  In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword,the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can’t extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi’s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature. Edited and designed by Adrian Tomine.
• BABY’S IN BLACK
  A fascinating, exhilarating portrait of The Beatles in their early years. Meet The Beatles… right at the beginning of their stardom. This gorgeous, inspiring graphic novel is an intimate peek into the early years of the worlds greatest rock band. The heart of Baby’s in Black is a moving true love story. The “fifth Beatle,” Stuart Sutcliffe, falls in love with the beautiful Astrid Kirchherr when she recruits The Beatles for a sensational (and famous) photography session during their time in Hamburg. When the band returns to the UK, Sutcliffe quits, becomes engaged to Kirchherr, and stays in Hamburg. A year later, his meteoric career as a modern artist is cut short by his tragic death. The book ends as it begins, with Astrid, alone and adrift; but with a note of hope: her life is incomparably richer for her friendship with The Beatles and her love affair with Sutcliffe. This tender story is rendered in lush, romantic black-and-white artwork.
• JERUSALEM
  2012 Fauve d’Or at the Festival Intl de la Bande Dessine d’Angouleme.

  Acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle returns with his strongest work yet — a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in the Holy City.

  Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger in a strange land point of view that made his other books, pyongyang, shenzhen, and burma chronicles required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. In jerusalem: chronicles from the holy city, Delisle explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. He eloquently examines the impact of the conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays.

  When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle’s drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming nothing and drawing everything. Jerusalem showcases once more Delisle’s mastery of the travelogue.

• OCCUPY
  Since its sudden appearance in September 2011, the Occupy Movement has spread to thousands of towns and cities across the world. For some it’s the economy. For others, it’s something deeper. Through relentless organizing and ongoing civil disobedience, the movement now occupies the global conscience as its influence spreads from street assemblies and protests to op-ed pages and the corridors of power. From the movement’s onset, Noam Chomsky was there, offering his voice, his support, and his detailed analysis of what’s been going down and what might be done.

  In Occupy, Chomsky presents his latest thinking on the core issues, questions and demands that are driving ordinary people to protest. How did we get to this point? How do the wealthiest 1% influence society? How can we separate money from politics? What would a genuine democracy look like? How can we create new institutions to increase freedom and equality for all?

  Following the old course, says Chomsky, isn’t going to work. He argues that if we continue to follow the model of growth set for us by the 1%, we’ll be like lemmings walking off a cliff. The only alternative is to get involved and fight for a better future. If not now, when? If not us, who?

  Easy to read, affordable, loaded with photos and practical advice for activists. Read this book if you want to do something to protect freedom, democracy, and the economy from further corporate influence and control.

• GOLIATH
  A master of stripped-down, powerful storytelling reworks the David and Goliath myth. Goliath of Gath isn’t much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he’d pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king, he finds himself issuing a twice-daily challenge to the Israelites: “Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight. If he be able to kill me, then we shall be your servants. But if I kill him, then you shall be our servants.” From one of Britain’s most popular cartoonists, Goliath displays a sensitive wit, a bold line, and a traditional narrative reworked, remade, and revolutionized.
• THE BROKEASS GOURMET COOKBOOK
  BrokeAss Gourmet is the premier food and lifestyle blog for folks who want to live the high life on the cheap. The blog features recipes that are always under $20, along with great advice on inexpensive but delicious beers, wines, and cocktails, plus other topics relating to the BrokeAss Gourmet lifestyle. The site and its vivacious founder, Gabi Moskowitz, have garnered thousands of followers and received national publicity, including being featured on MSN Money and Time.com. Gabi has also contributed several videos to “Appetites,” the number-one food app on iTunes. Now this first ever The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook offers more than 200 delicious and easy recipes for a variety of meals, from soups and starters to main dishes and desserts. And once the pantry is stocked, all the other ingredients can be bought for $20 or under.
• VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR MOBILE
  This fun, easy-to-assemble mobile kit features art from Eric Carle’s beloved book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. With eye-popping color and a simple design, this mobile fits the bill for all kinds of decorating needs, from the nursery to the classroom — and beyond! Ages infant to 3.
• FAG SCHOOL ZINE #4
  Brontez is back with this new split zine — with himself! On tour with Sister Spit, he’s blowing minds across the nation with his awesome styles, calling it as he sees it, making you laugh, cry, and everything in between. One side, “Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger?” is all new fiction and the flipside, “Join the Professionals,” is all interviews with such badasses as: Daniel Nicoletta, Kenyon Farrow, Michelle Tea, Javier Perez, Josh Cheon, Suppositori “Spaz” Spelling, Robert Yang AKA “Robot Hustle,” Justin Torres, Chris Owens, Tobi Vail, Juan Velasquez, and Stevie Shakes.
• DRAGON, ROBOT, GATORBUNNY
  Pick one. Draw it. Make it funny. A book for doodling, drawing, and laughing! Featuring the inimitably humorous art of Calef Brown and a wonderful menagerie to stretch and inspire your artistic talent and imagination alike — plus 32 stickers! This sketchpad opens out to blank pages bordered with color designs on the bottom, Calef Brown’s art on the top. Wildly inventive fun for artists aged 5 to 105.
• JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE #137 (JUNE 2012)
  Started by Robert Williams, this is the art magazine for “lowbrow” art. Tattoo art, graffiti art, car culture art, erotic art, outlaw art, fantasy and sci-fi art, comic-influenced art, etc. In this issue: Don Pendleton — Alien Workshop Hero to new horizons; Wayne White — banjos, movies, and Pee-wee’s Playhouse; Kevin Cyr; Brian Chippendale; Raul Gonzalez; Killian Eng; Ether & Utah; Damien Hirst; more.
• HIGH TIMES MAGAZINE #438 (JULY 2012)
  Marijuana activism, pictures of marijuana, rock and roll, etc. In this issue: summer indoor grow; beat the heat — 21 hot tips for cool growrooms; 99 plants in 7 days; cloning for heavy yields; Kentucky’s pot mafia; succeed with seeds; more.

New arrivals to the Last Gasp bookshelves

• HENRY & GLENN FOREVER AND EVER COMIC #1
  It’s the moment the world has been waiting for: the return of everyone’s favorite musclebound punk/metal romantic odd couple, Henry and Glenn. Over the course of three short stories, our metaldude heroes love, fight, hang out at the spa with Lars and James, squabble about property values with friendly satanist neighbors Hall and Oates, and work out their differences in therapy. It’s hardcore. It’s hilarious. It’s a true testament to the power of love to overcome even the biggest, manliest egos of our time. Comics and stories by Tom Neely, Ed Luce, Benjamin Marra, Igloo Tornado and more!
• DO-IT-YOURSELF SCREENPRINTING
  Back in print! A fascinating graphic novel that details the art and science of screenprinting from inception to printed t-shirts to working in a print shop to understanding line screens, to hawking your printed wares on the street! How to build a screen, burn an image, test how things are going, pull ink, wash out screens, know what screen mesh to use, and creative ideas. It’s a true joy to see the exaggerated illustrations while learning such a useful and practical craft! How to turn your home into a t-shirt factory! Essential for people who don’t know how to screenprint or those a bit rusty.
• ARE YOU MY MOTHER
  From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

  Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood… and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It’s a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother — to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

New arrivals to the Last Gasp bookshelves

• PEANUT BUTTER VOL. 6
  Molly may actually be falling for a handsome — and thickly endowed — young man who saves her from a scary situation with two guys getting dangerously close to rape. The reward for him is letting him take her ass… the largest she’s ever experienced there, a mind blowing experience that can’t be rushed…
• THE CALL OF CTHULHU AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES
  A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie.

  “I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” -Stephen King

  Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft’s preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master’s fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as “The Outsider” to the overpowering cosmic terror of “The Call of Cthulhu.” More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft’s mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical — and visionary — American writer.

• BEST OF ENEMIES, PART 1: 1783-1953
  The first volume of a ground-breaking graphic novel series on US-Middle East relations. It was an American who first described the “Barbary” lands of the Meditteranean basin as “the Middle East” — a region by which America, ever since its own revolutionary foundation, has always measured its power. Acclaimed historian Jean-Pierre Filiu and award-winning artists David B. here tell the story of the blockades, broadsides, and betrayals of this foreign affair — a wary co-dependency that, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Eisenhower era, and from gold to oil, has continued to define our modern world.

  Filiu and David B. draw striking parallels between ancient and contemporary political history in this look at the USMiddle East conflict. The reader is transported to the pirate-choked Mediterranean sea, where Christians and Muslims continue the crusades, only this time on water. As the centuries pass, the traditional victims of the Muslim pirates — the British, French, and Spanish — all become empire-building powers whose sights lie beyond the Mediterranean.

• SIZZLE #53
  The adult comic magazine, with a good variety of art styles and sex styles. Now in full color! In this issue: Introducing Mona Agent X, a sexpot undercover agent who gets her way in a much better way than just violence! Also: Banana Games, Omaha the Cat Dancer, Peanut Butter and more!
• SIZZLE #52
  The adult comic magazine, with a good variety of art styles and sex styles. Now in full color! In this issue: Cornnell Clarke’s Peanut Butter series starts its 6th chapter right up. Kevin Taylor provides raunchy pin-ups, including an amazing pull out poster in the middle. They introduce the new sex soaked action-packed detective series District 69, and more Barbarian Chicks.
• THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW WAVE
  The Talking Heads, The Boomtown Rats, Blondie, Elvis Costello: this fun new addition to the successful Encyclopedia series celebrates the hugely influential New Wave musical movement of the late 1970s and 80s. Originating as a less-aggressive sister movement to punk, New Wave encompassed a wide range of styles, from Brit pub-rock to electronica, synth-pop, and even ska. The Encyclopedia of New Wave comprehensively captures this eclectic music, all of which enthralled the newly emergent MTV generation. With its tendency toward romantic minimalism, dark dance beats, and gender-bending antics, New Wave changed the course of popular musical history, as well as fashion and art. Foreword by Gerald Casale.

New arrivals to the Last Gasp bookshelves

• KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE
  “Kiki never do the same thing for three days in a row — never, never, never!” Winner of Angouleme Festival’s Essential Prix & RTL Grand Prix. In the bohemian and brilliant Montparnasse of the 1920s, Kiki escaped poverty to become one of the most charismatic figures of the avant-garde years between the wars. Partner to Man Ray, Kiki made her mark with her freedom of style, word, and thought that could be learned from only one school — the school of life. The muse of a generation, she would be immortalised by many artists, and was one of the first emancipated women of the 20th century. Her story is told in this graphic novel biography. Not smut, but some nudity and sexuality — not for kids.
• J MASCIS THROBBLEHEAD (DINOSAUR JR.)
  J Mascis, founder of Dinosaur Jr. and creator of some of the modern rock era’s most signature chops, has joined the ranks of the Throbblehead elite. This figure is limited to 1000 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall, and is made of a lightweight polyresin. J is accurately sculpted right down to the big ole glasses, rockin’ riff grip, and signature silver mane that features REAL DOLL HAIR — a first for Aggronautix! Pick up this highly influential (and potentially face melting) figure today!
• TATTOO BIBLE
  Humankind has always tried to enhance their looks: just like jewelry, clothes, accessories, make-up, and haircuts, tattoos have been present since time incarnate. The history of the tattoo began 5,000 years ago and is as diverse as the people who wear them. Tattoos have been used for all kinds of purposes ever since the dawn of time: as symbols of spirituality, devotion, or religion; as status symbols, rewards for bravery or symbols of rank; as amulets or talismans; as a means of identification; and even as a symbol of punishment, slavery or imprisonment. Today, tattooing is recognized as a socially acceptable and legitimate art form that attracts men and women of all walks of life. As always, each individual still has his or her own reasons for getting a tattoo; albeit for aesthetic reasons, as a fashion statement, to mark themselves as a member of a group, to honor loved ones, or to express an image of themselves to others. This book contains more than 300 images of tattoos and tattooed people from all layers of society and all parts of the world, throughout time. As such it can both be used for inspiration as well as entertainment.
• JACK’S BOOK
  First published in 1978, Jack’s Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the “King of the Beats.” Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac’s story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac’s ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography — the first of its kind — presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation. Revised and updated.
• E-VOLVED MAGAZINE #1 (PREMIERE 2012) (EVOLVED)
  E-VOLVED explores the world of tattoos and fine art. They’re an art magazine for serious collectors. E-VOLVED is not only for professionals in the community, but for genuine art enthusiasts. They promote artists of all mediums and genres. In this premiere issue: Jeff Gogue; Chet Zar; Noelle Timmons; Lex; Ivy D’Muerta; step by step with Derek Harrison; more.