One of my favorite new sites/boutiques, the video game culture shop Attract Mode is now carrying Electric Ant issue 1 & issue 2! Please check out the shop, which features goods by other contributors such as Derek Yu, HARVEYJAMES, Hellen Jo, Calvin Wong-- along with excellent zines by our friends Matt Hawkins (Fort90), Raina Lee (1-Up MegaZine) and Matthew Kumar (exp).
I'm going to add a new post to Same Hat specifically about The Beguiling (to add to the series of TCAF posts) this weekend. But before that, I wanted to share these photos and sightings from the shop. (I know Comic Relief lovers will be shocked by this, but I contend that The Beguiling is the best comics/manga shop in North America).
We had a rare and lovely day of NO RAIN in San Francisco today, so I did a bit of aimless wandering in my hood. Stopped by the small-but-impressive zine shop, Needles & Pens, for my fix of local goods. While making mental lists of things come back and buy, I was pleasantly surprised to see restock copies of Electric Ant #1 gracing the front display and featured shelf inside the store!
(EA#1 on the shelves at Quimby's, photo from evan)
[Updated December , 2009]
IRL (america)
+ Needles & Pens, 3253 16th st, san francisco, ca 94103 (site)
+ Mission: Comics & Art, 3520 20th st suite B, san francisco, ca 94110 (site)
+ Giant Robot SF, 618 shrader st, san francisco, ca 94117 (site)
+ Giant Robot 1, 2015 sawtelle blvd, los angeles, ca 90025 (site)
+ Giant Robot NY, 437 e 9th st, new york, ny 10009 (site)
+ Pony Club Gallery, 625 nw everett st, #105 portland, or 97209 (site)
+ Quimby's, 1854 w. north ave, chicago, il 60622 (site)
+ Ada Books, 717 westminster st., providence, ri 02903 (site)
+ Forbidden Planet, 840 broadway st., new york, ny 11201 (site)
+ Cosmic Comics, 10 e 23rd st., new york, ny 10010 (site)
+ Desert Island, 540 metropolitan ave, brooklyn, ny 11211 (site)
+ Rocketship, 208 smith st., brooklyn, ny 11201 (site)
+ Floating World Comics,20 new 5th ave portland, OR (site)
IRL (abroad)
+ Village Vanguard, 3 rue de Nemours, 75011 paris, france (site)
+ The Beguiling, 601 markham st. toronto, on, canada (site)
ONLINE
+ Attract Mode, video game culture shop (site)
+ ICFYC Distibution, punk/noise/zines (site)
+ Poopsheet Shop, zine/comics distribution (site)
I got an exciting piece of news this week when I cracked open my copy of Giant Robot #57 and saw a capsule review of Electric Ant #1... Thanks to Eric Nakamura for writing us up! Dude was nice enough to contribute a list of ten tidbits of zine wisdom (which graces the inside back cover).