The guys over at Featherproof Books in Chicago have put out 2 releases, each of their own, that I think you all should check out while you're doing your online holiday shopping!
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by Zach Plague
288 pages, perfect bound, $10
When the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship
goes missing, Ollister and Adelaide lose their post-modern marbles. He
plots revenge against art patriarch The Platypus, while she obsesses
over their anti-love affair. Meanwhile, the art school set experiments
with bad drugs, bad sex, and bad ideas. But none of these desperate
young minds has counted on the intrusion of a punk named Punk and his
potent sex drug. This wild slew of characters get caught up in the
gravitational pull of The Platypus' giant art ball, where a confused
art terrorism cell threatens a ludicrous and hilarious implosion. Zach
Plague has written and designed a hybrid typo/graphic novel which
skewers the art world, and those boring enough to fall into its traps.
Hiding Out
by Jonathan Messinger
192 pages, perfect bound, $10
Nothing is as it seems: A jilted lover dons robot armor to win back the
heart of an ex-girlfriend; an angel loots the home of a single father;
a teenager finds the key to everlasting life in a video game. In this
much-anticipated debut, one of Chicago's most exciting young writers
has crafted playful and empathic tales of misguided lonely hearts.
Sparkling with humor and showcasing an array of styles, Hiding Out
features characters dodging consequences while trying desperately to
connect.
