Our officemates at McSweeney’s have worked their butts off to produce a full-color broadsheet newspaper replete with magazine, book section, and comics and it finally hits the streets today (Tuesday, 12/8)! You can get your copy at ground central (849 Valencia Street between 19th and 20th) and congratulate them on a job well done. Plus it’s on sale for $5 today! You can also find it at other fine stores and even newsies, just check out the Bay Area map.

We are super excited that Lilli Carre’s Nine Ways to Disappear made it into this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review! To celebrate the good news, we’re putting the book on sale for the rest of the month. So if you haven’t gotten a copy yet, there’s no better time!

Free Shipping was such a hit in November that we decided to extend it into December. So domestic orders $25 & over will qualify. Happy Holidays!

We’re still adjusting to the falling back of the hour and overeating of candy, but we’re managing to break out of our torpor to bring you good news. We have a bevy of new products from the very talented likes of Lilli Carre, Jennie Smith, Gemma Correll, and Jo Dery! And for the month of November, we’re bringing back free shipping for domestic orders over $25 when you shop online. So feel free to stock up for the holidays and spread the joy!

Lilli Carre's Nine Ways limited edition offset print

Jennie Smith's Shelter limited edition offset print

new cards by Gemma Correll

Jo Dery book gift tag (and our old pal Walt)

If you’re in San Francisco this weekend, please join us at the Alternative Press Expo. We’ll be at booth 415 offering special show discounts and hanging with some lovely out-of-town guests: Lilli Carre from Chicago and Martine Workman from Seattle! Lilli will be signing copies of her Little Otsu book Nine Ways to Disappear and brand new print. She’ll also have some screenprints and Trubble Club minis. Martine will be signing copies of her Little Otsu mini Water and Fall and will have some of her fun handmade minis like Conversating, Cheek to Cheek, and the hilarious Hunks.

And be sure to check out other LO artists who will be at APE. Joey Sayers will be sharing a table with Minty Lewis and Damien Jay (booth 423) and Jeremy Tinder will be floating around somewhere, but will definitely be at the opening for his show with Grant Reynolds at Giant Robot on Saturday night.

Jo curated an animation program, Experimental Animation, for the new Citizen Jane Film Festival taking place in Columbia, MO this weekend, October 16th-18th. She’ll be there presenting her program, showing her new animation, participating in some panels and workshops, and will have copies of her book Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret for sale. She’s also showing a new Lilli Carré short (Head Garden) in her program and will have some Nine Ways to Disappear as well. Check it out!

A still from Lilli’s animation Head Garden…

And from Jo’s animation Peeks!

Stop by our table at Wordstock this weekend from 10a-6p at the Oregon Convention Center. We’ll have a good selection of our books and paper goods at special Wordstock pricing (aka everything will be on sale). See you there!

Lart (Berliner) & Simon (Evans) have a show happening now in their current hometown Berlin. Under the name “Light Centre” they created, “An array of objects from the artist shared domestic environment, fastidiously recreated in the form of ghost-like black & white replicas, stand arranged as in a display from a post apocalyptic anthropology museum,” according to their gallery, Maribel Lopez. This is reason enough to take a European vacation.

More info here:
http://www.maribellopezgallery.com/html/CurrentExhibition.html

The Little Otsu Annual Volume 4 is officially in the house and ready to ship! It turned out great with Dan Black’s intricate drawings reproduced beautifully by 1984 Printing in Oakland. Even our newest feature, fold-out mini calendars, went off without a hitch. We’re stoked and excited to get these into your planning hands!

Vol. 4 made its public debut this weekend at Flatstock in Seattle at the Landland booth. On top of doing a stellar job with this year’s Annual, Dan has been busy making lots of amazing Landland posters. He stopped by yesterday before heading back to Minneapolis and we got to choose a few for our online shop (we’ll be adding them soon). Here he is dealing to us out of his trunk…

can I get a stereo with that?

It’s San Francisco Zine Fest time this weekend so make sure to take advantage of this awesome free event at Golden Gate Park! You might even win a copy of Nine Ways to Disappear or Quietly Sure in the raffle. And help them cover some of their costs right next door to the store at Amnesia on Saturday night, 9pm, at the Zine Fest benefit show.