Original Crap Hound and Internet graphic sarcasm sultan Sean Tejaratchi is back with his annual calendar, sold to benefit Reading Frenzy, Portland, Oregon's world-beating zine store and independent publishing emporius.

Reading Frenzy, the astoundingly great zine store in Portland, OR, lost its lease. They need to raise $50K to reopen.

Portland's wonderful zine store Reading Frenzy is running a huge zine and book sale as a fundraiser — it's perennially cash-strapped, of course. They're seeking donations of cool printed material to go into the sale.

* Books, all subjects
* Children's books
* Comics and graphic novels
* Zines, pamphlets, broadsides
* Magazines, alternative/independent, vintage
* Paper ephemera, posters, prints, mail art materials, rubber stamps
* Reading accoutrement's: magnifying glasses, reading glasses, book ends, book stands, bookmarks, pipes, slippers, footstools, small lamps
* Blank journals

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(Thanks, Chloe! — Read the rest

Chloe Eudaly runs Reading Frenzy/ in Portland, Oregon, a legendary, amazing alternative bookstore that also publishes many fantastic zines and books, including Crap Hound. Her young son has cerebral palsy, which means that she has a hard time travelling due to the need to provide care for him. — Read the rest

Chloe Eudaly, whose zine emporium Reading Frenzy (previously) and publishing makerspace the Independent Publishing Resource Center are PDX institutions, is running for Portland City Council, campaigning on affordable housing for all in a city whose longterm residents are being left behind by runaway rents and spiraling housing prices.

Chloe from Portland's Reading Frenzy writes, "Mike King has made more concert posters than any designer in America. This book contains more than 1000 of them. Spanning three decades of music, Maximum Plunder gathers together Mike's work into a comprehensive retrospective. — Read the rest

Chloe from Portland's Reading Frenzy writes, "Six of our favorite Social Justice Kittens are back in postcard form! Next up: MRA Puppies!
Postcards by Sean Tejaratchi/LiarTownUSA (previously) published by Show & Tell Press!"

Chloe from Portland's Reading Frenzy bookstore writes, "Portland based, self-taught artist, Alicia Justus, is Kickstarting her first coloring book in collaboration with Show & Tell Press (publisher of Crap Hound)."

It's a twisted, genius alphabet book in the style of Tejaratchi's (more) wonderful found-art collage zine Crap Hound, and published by the brilliant Portland zine store Reading Frenzy; $20 gets you your own copy.

We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include:

• Frank Zappa reads the dirty bits of Naked Lunch.

• TIme-lapse of a particularly intense aurora borealis display. — Read the rest

Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse is the a documentary about a teenage boy who finds himself through punk rock, zines, and comics and loses himself to schizophrenia.

Chloe from Portland's Reading Frenzy sez, "Help us Kickstart Crap Hound #5: Hands, Hearts & Eyes (3rd ed.) into existence! Crap Hound is an astounding compendium of line art collected from various vintage and obscure sources, artfully arranged around a variety of themes. — Read the rest

Chloe Eudaly (proprietress of Reading Frenzy/Show & Tell Press) says:

Crap Hound is the sporadically published vintage line art zine my friend Sean Tejaratchi edits and I publish. We have 3 issues slated for publication this year and are using Kickstarter to raise funds to get the first one to press.

Chloe from Portland's Reading Frenzy zine emporium — publishers of the brilliant and highly irregular found art zine CRAP HOUND — has sent along several interior pages from CRAP HOUND 7: CHURCH AND STATE, which goes on sale tomorrow. Enjoy! — Read the rest

Issue 7 of Sean Tejaratchi's seminal clip-art zine CRAP HOUND is just about to hit the stands, thanks to the good folks at Portland's Reading Frenzy, a zine store par excellance. CRAP HOUND plunders its graphics from hundreds of sources and then features them in gorgeous, endlessly fascinating mosaics and layouts. — Read the rest

Sticker Graphics is a series of gorgeous box-set mixed-media books devoted to sticker art (something I have a lot of passion for). I picked up issue two ("Do You Love Stickers?") at Reading Frenzy last week, taken by the gorgeous, Space-Odysseyesque curved white box, which has a transparent compartment on the top filled with handsome stickers and patches. — Read the rest

I was lucky enough to recently tour Portland's Independent Publishing Resource Center — a zine-maker's co-op that provides a lab for self-publishing zinesters who can come in and use the center's computers, printers, copiers, and fantastic letter-press workshop. They offer courses in zine-making (especially in the use of the letter-press, which produces really handsome materials). — Read the rest

Chloe from Reading Frenzy (Portland's astounding zine store) just handed me a copy of Crap Hound No. 6, the latest installment in her press's steady reissuance of the seminal clip-art zine. Created by Sean Tejaratchi, Crap Hound issues each featured a grand, disjointed theme — issue six's is Death, Telephone and Scissors. — Read the rest

I just finished reading Joe Sayers's mini-comic, "I'm Gonna Rip Your Face Off" (discovered on the shelves of Portland's amazing, one-of-a-kind zine emporium Reading Frenzy) and man, that's some kind of bitter, angry funny! Three bucks is cheap for the kind of sardonic barks of laughter this little book wrung from my chest. — Read the rest

Crap Hound was the seminal clipart zine that featured page on page on page on page of artistically arranged black and white design elements and illustrations, grouped on themes like circuses, skeletons, and — in issue five, "hearts, hands and eyes." — Read the rest