Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium

Death Magazine #3

36 pp., 11x8.5, perfect bound, color

Death Magazine: A Magazine for the Enthusiast and Non-enthusiast Alike's 3rd issue -- the Sex Issue. Pages include photo essays on post-sexed beds, comics about executions and erections, and psychedelic imagery of the other side. Featuring a cover -- as well as interior pages -- by John Patrick McKenzie (Creativity Explored), this issue also includes writing and artwork by Slava Mogutin, a hand-stitched black on black panel by Joel Gibb (The Hidden Cameras), super-color-dense canvases by Clark Goolsby, a not-so-funereal funeral review by Anna Huff (Anna Oxygen/Cloud Eye Control), an intimate look at freshly tossed sheets by Chris Hornbecker, Jersey poetry by Sara Marcus (Girls to the Front), and Stephen Irwin's final interview, conducted two weeks before his tragic Christmas Eve heart attack.

$12.00

Death Magazine #4

36pp., 11x8.5, perfect bound, color

Theme: Animals.

Death #4 is animalistic. Mx Justin Vivian Bond's cat-looking chicken, Pearl, pen's some words for us, and internet guru Alex Blagg answers our questions about death in the digital domain. Also in this issue: are penguins purposefully getting lost? Is it ethical to flush your so's frog and then swap it for a replacement? Are elephants the most funeral-loving animal? Should bird-like mothers involve their children in their suicidal narratives? Did Rudy Huxtable properly grieve Lamont Goldfish? William Hundley, Winston Chmielinski, Stephen Scott Smith,Sarah Shapiro, Brian Kenny and an animate slew of others complete the issue with their distinctive visions of dissolution. Corporeal cover sculpture and photo by Daniel Arsham.

$12.00

Doris #23

32 pages, offset, 1/2 size

$1.50

Fillip #15, Fall 2011

176 pp, 9.5x6.5, perfect bound

Fillip is a publication of art, culture, and ideas released three times a year.

Issue #15 focuses on "Apparatus, Capture, and Trace". Reflecting on the link between the increasingly intertwined apparatuses of photography and biopolitics, this issue confronts the subjectivity created from the struggle of the object and the lens.

1. Series: Apparatus, Capture, Trace
2. Series: Intangible Economies
3. Christian Nagler & Joseph del Pasco Curating the Time of Algorithms
4. Christina Linden Forward Looking
5. Peta Drake Inclusivity and Isolation
6. Christian Hanggi Stockahausen at Ground Zero
7. Roundtable Secondary Information
8. Chris Fitzpatrick & Post Brothers A Productive Irritant

$15.00

Fine Line #3

50 pp., 11x9, perfect bound, color

From the publisher: Fine Line Magazine exists simultaneously to explore contemporary art, support emerging artists and most importantly, to inspire a feeling that is uniquely human and self-aware. It is a concrete, aesthetic expression of its creators, equal parts documentation and dialogue - a work of art in itself.

Issue #3, This is a Theory, takes a closer look at our relationship to our surroundings, both natural and man made, dissecting familiar environments and asking us to reconsider them.

$10.00

F__ked Up Got Ambushed Zipped In

By Harlan Mahaffy

quarter size.

The product of one winter with an overabundant need to draw.  This zine is a collection of 32 illustrations of or inspired by the band Fugazi.  It is designed to be disassembled and reassembled as a poster for your wall in any configuration you might like. 

$2.00

Hamburger Eyes #13

150 pp., 8.5x7, perfect bound

From the publisher: When opening Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine you enter a pictorial history of both the unseen and iconic moments of everyday life. It is organized in such a way that it has become many things to many people. As a photo journal, we share our travels and experiences. As a photo diary, we share our accomplishments and heartaches. And as a photo album, we share our families and friends and reach people on a level they have been familiar with since their first birthday party. Our publication is currently composed of black + white photography. We have contributions from photographers of all levels. Inspired by the traditions that began with National Geographic and Life Magazine, we hope to revitalize the sensation of photography as a craft as well as a tool to record and document.

$10.00

Herbal First Aid

By Raleigh Briggs

10 pp., 8.5x5.5, saddle stapled

A short but comprehensible zine on assembling a natural first aid kit. Full of resources, how tos, remedies for bug bites, burns, various aches and pains, hangovers (never!), and more. With a section on balm and tincture making, suggestions for further reading, and cute drawings, Herbal First Aid will have you god as new in 4 to 12 hours.

$3.00

How To Draw Your Family

By Gabriel Liston

58 pp., 8.5x7, saddle stapled

Artist and friend of Reading Frenzy Gabriel Liston takes a Zen approach to drawing. Or maybe it's just the hands-up-in-the-air-whatever-works attitude of parenthood. Sage advice, such as "Accept suffering. Your children will be unimpressed with your drawings of them" accompany Liston's gorgeous sketches of his family and pets, inspiring your own artistic ambitions.

$7.00

My Day #19: At a Minor League Baseball Game

By Nate Orton

The continuing series of zines in which Nate's drawings are displayed alongside observations and writings all layed out while at a minor league baseball game.

$3.00