Utne Reader's library is abuzz with a steady flow of 1,500 magazines, newsletters, journals, weeklies, zines, and other lively dispatches from the cultural front that are rarely found at big-box bookstores, newsstands, or even online. So we share the highlights (and occasional lowlights) of what's landing in our library each week in 'From the Stacks.' Check in every Friday for the latest edition.

Forthcoming from indie publisher Buenaventura Press, Hunter & Painter, a comic book by British illustrator Tom Gauld, opens with the prehistoric title characters discussing their work-related anxieties over a pint. (Yes, a pint: American readers will quickly note the charming irony of cavemen expressing themselves in British vernacular.) These loincloth-clad chums share many stresses with their 40,000-years-in-the-future descendants. The hunter laments that he hasn't caught anything 'bigger than a hare' all year; the painter struggles to imagine a subject for his next cave-side masterpiece ('It's been easy so far: rabbit hunt, deer hunt, ox hunt, bear hunt.'). Though the book is small, Gauld gives his illustrations plenty of room to breathe -- the story feels like it ambles on at the same pace as a couple of cavemen in no particular hurry. Those eager for a preview can visit Cabanon Press' online gallery, which showcases some of the comic as it originally appeared in the Guardian. -- Danielle Maestretti

Be they witty and artful or banal and messy, the comics in Not My Small Diary are, at the very least, endearing. Compiling the work of all types of comic talent from around the country, this enjoyable zine celebrates its 13th issue with a two-volume set drawing on the theme 'Luck of the Draw.' #13 includes everything from funny, predictable tales of broken mirrors, black cats, and casinos, to more intense explorations of luck in love, money, and death. On their own, only a few of these stories would hold up well, but grouped in this finely assembled zine, they form a treasure trove of quirky anecdotes. -- Elizabeth Oliver