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Vincent Bernier and Mariel Primois
AbramsI don't care if punk is the uncoolest thing in the world. I still get really into these images. This long, tall book features the best covers and excerpts from old magazines about punk rock. It’s got slick magazines as well as Xerox zines. You know what this shit looks like already. This is just a really big book of it on nice, porous paper. It's like all the best stuff from a punk magazine collection condensed into an easy-to-move-with book.Buy it here.

Sammy Harkham
PictureboxThis is a collection of pretty good and pretty OK comics by Sammy Harkham. The ones that are only OK are older, from when Sammy’s drawings weren’t great. The later ones, however, are real good. There are even some things he did for VICE in here, including a comic where I gave him three themes to use. Why didn't he mention VICE or me? Because he is a total jerk. His comics typically revolve around a bunch of abrasive loudmouths whom he or his other main characters have to suffer quietly. One time I saw Sammy Harkham humiliate some actor pal of his at a comic con just like one of the jerks in his comics. I can be abrasive and rude, too, but I acknowledge it. I don't make comics where the flaws of the judgmental narrator are ignored.
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Edited by Jesse Pearson
PictureboxBefore he became a purveyor of highbrow filth, Jesse Pearson was the editor of VICE. This is what happens after you stop being the VICE editor-in-chief: you look at naked ladies professionally. It's not bad. Come work for VICE, where your golden parachute is made of golden-shower photos.Several people I know and some I only wish I did are in this book, naked in their own photos or in other people’s. There's Sandy Kim and Maggie Lee, who have been all up inside VICE for a while. There are photos of Aurel Schmidt having sex with a guy who looks better nude than it seems most men are capable of. Nicky Lesser, who I remember as being kind of high and giggly, also has some photos in here. It all starts with a great collection of thoughts from Jesse about nude photos and an admission that he jerked off to some of the pictures in the book.This is a very good book even though I find myself resenting how all the people in it look good naked while I look like a hairy, angry toad.You can buy it here and jerk off until you go blind or die or whatever.

Tom Gauld
Drawn & QuarterlyI can't remember if I wrote a review for Tom Gauld's book Goliath, but I really hated it. It was a big humorless thing with no words and panels that took up the entire page. It was about some simply drawn people building a giant robot or something. I don't remember much of the content, just that I thought it was arrogant how he was trying to pass off so little as being so much.
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Edited by John Corbett
PictureboxBefore I peeled the plastic wrap off of this book I thought it would be more than it was. The cover design is beautiful, with a photo of Sun Ra on the dust jacket that's cut at an angle to reveal an Aye Aton painting underneath it.There are 12 similar photos of Sun Ra at the front of this book. They all are OK, but very similar. There are also a couple of essays, and then the rest of the book is mostly small, old photos of murals that Aye Aton did. They are nice but it seems like the images in this book weren't made for a wide viewership.You can buy it here.See you next week. You can see my last column here.@NicholasGazin
