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Werner Herzog Of Walking in Ice
This is the 1974 travel-diary filmmaker Herzog kept while walking from Munich to Paris on foot through a blizzard. He believed the absurd feat would save his friend from succumbing to terminal cancer.

Jim Drain Kauzchensteig 10
Book of simple collages from the ex-Fort Thunder costume-designer/sculptor/cartoonist. Overlays metal T-shirt catalogues, butchery bargains, hippy lovemaking.

Gary Panter Retrospective Box Set
Long overdue two-volume tome that covers much of Panter's fine art paintings and sketches. Adds another vital element to his known oeuvre beyond the set designs on Pee Wee's Playhouse, '80s fliers for the Germs and Screamers, and Jimbo comics.

Sean Wilsey Oh the Glory of It All
Memoir about growing up rich and poor at the same time by the co-founder of McSweeney's. Much rage, comedy, self-deprecation, adolescent misadventure.

Ian Svenonius The Psychic Soviet
Book of essays by frontman of Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up, Weird War. Did you know that Seinfeld was a capitalist ploy to gentrify urban centers?

Yayoi Kusama
Tadanori Yokoo
Peter Sutherland
Saul Steinberg
Matthew Thurber