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New Stuff This Week
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Mini Movie Marathon: Costumes By Eiko by Anna Jo Beck $2
Distant Zine issues #7 and #8 $5
South of Chicago by Tim Carpenter and Nathan Pearce $15
zines from Displaced Snail, Joe Carlough & friends:
Ritual Reflections on the Things We Do $6
Satanic Butchery of Boredom $8
Lines of Sexuality Are Blurre:d An Essay on My Bisexuality $3
Hit the Decks: A This and That Tapes Fanzine of Music Art and Cassette Culture #2 The Community Issue $5
Bad Apples by Kara Khan and Mat W. $5Beer Soup by Dani and Elena $5
Eavesdropper Cafe by Brian Koschak $15
Wonder of It All #9 Infinite Cigarettes $3
Comics & Minis
Stuff from T. Sean: Body Bag, Catatonic, Money Candle $7 each
GECKO by Nate Garcia $10
Bottle and Po Go Bot #1 by Nicholas and Kyle Borders $4
Jaywalk Magazine #1 by Austin English and Angela Fanche $10
Blah Blah Blah #2 by Juliette Collet $7
Venomyths #4 by Joshua Ray Stephens $15
Forever and Everything #8 by Kyle Bravo $5
GU #2 by Al Nelson $10
Graphic Novels
My Perfect Life by Lynda Barry (D+Q) $21.95
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner $26.99
Loved and Lost: A Relationship Trilogy by Jeffrey Brown $29.99
Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS by Janet Biehl (PM Press) $27.95
Gay Giant by Gabriel Ebensperger (Street Noise) $19.99
The Weakly Dispatch by Rick Trembles (Conundrum) $20
July Underwater by Zoe Maeve (Conundrum) $20
Dear Mother and Other Strangers by Bhanu Pratap $12
Omnis Temporalis: A Visual Long-Playing Record by Seth, Mark Haney (D+Q) $59.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Keywords for Capitalism: Power, Society, Politics by John Patrick Leary (Haymarket) $18.95
Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century by Tom Wetzel (AK Press) $22
Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime by Kristian Williams $16
Fiction
Music for Erotomaniacs by Supervert $20
Koalas and Other Funny Short Stories by Ahyoka Saas $11
Music Books
Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose $18.95
Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey by Michael Goldberg (HoZac) $29.99
Creep and Crow by Marc Ruvolo $8
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” by Alan Light $18
Magazines
Tidal Magazine #14 $16
Toilet Paper #18 $18
Chap Books
What Does It Feel Like Today by Dani Naum and Elena Goluboff $5
Magic Box by Peach Kander $12
Local Interest
Chicago Scavenger: The Ultimate Search for Chicagos Hidden Treasures by Jessica Mlinaric $20.95
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New Stuff This Week
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Somnambulist #32 Fathom $3 + Somnambulist #35 Mardi Gras Wedding by Martha Grover $5
Stoxed #2 $12
Taco Sophia Two Texas Tough Rad Cats by Vanessa Capshaw $8
I’m Slow by Geremy Pettis (Dirty Art Press) $20
Comics & Minis
Aqui by Mike Centeno $5
Procyon II by K Sakumoto $10
Crime Destroyer – True Till Death by Shaky Kane and friends (Floating World) $7.95
Spotless by Gizem Malkoc $12
Apocalypse 5000 Outlaw Comics by Ken Landgraf & Bob Huszar $6.95
Comix 4 Fun by Finn Holtz $4
Kind Words $4
Ghost Poem #1 My Friend by Smila Gaulkin $3
Unresolved #3 A Zine for the Art Scene, The Melkbelly and Tenzig Issue Summer 2022 by Eli Scmitt $5
Sleemor Gank by Alexander Laird $20
Feminine by Hink $7
Graphic Novels
Time Zone J by Julie Doucet (D+Q) $29.95
Schappi by Anna Haifisch (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Mr Boop by Alec Robbins (Silver Sprocket) $39.99
Hummingbird Heart: A Memoir by Travis Dandro (D+Q) $29.95
I’m Hanged by Marco Testa $25
Free Pass by Julian Hanshaw $19.99
Ish by Adam de Souza (Silver Sprocket) $14.99
Golden Boy: Beethoven’s Youth by Mikael Ross (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Hollow Press graphic novels:
Gaia by Asagi Yaenaga $27
Kskhh by Daisuke Ichiba $20
One by David Marchetti $25
Postpoland by Bartosz Zaskorski $12Film & Music Books
Movie Madness: 30 Years Behind The Counter At Portland’s Iconic Video Store by Movie Madness & friends $15
Cat Power’s Moon Pix by Donna Kozloskie 33 1/3 vol 164 $14.95
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly by Sequoia Maner 33 1/3 vol 166 $14.95
Essays
Sorry I Was Gone – A Lyric Memoir by Martha Grover $20
Fiction
Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan $25
Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton $17
Magazines
Wire #459 $12.75
Mojo #343 june $12.50
Vive Le Rock #91 $13.99
Lit Journals
The Chicago Review vol 65 #2 #3 #4 75th Anniversary $20
For the Young at Heart
Puppy Knight: Den of Deception by Michael Sweater and Josue Cruz (Silver Sprocket) $12.99
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Food Zines Edition, June 21st!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Food Zines Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 21 on Zoom
Free!This month, Zine Club Chicago will be serving up a theme that many of you have requested: Zines about food! Y’all are cordially invited to share samples of your fave titles featuring recipes, reviews, and deep-dish dives into all things edible. We’ll also be announcing a call for submissions to the Zine Club Chicago snack zine!
Grab your favorite zines about noshes, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Food Zines Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 21!
** RSVP required ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CT Monday, June 20 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, June 21.
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers, created our logo, and made our Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events.
More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
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New Stuff This Week
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Playlist zines by Burf Quimby!: Punk, New York New York, Toi Toi Toi, Onzin, Ruimte $2.50 each
Rain Barrel #3 The Fit Issue by Jordan Sea $3
Grey Matter Gravy #2 by Michael Verdi $10
zines by Robert T Glen: Great Gifts For the Kids of People You Don’t Like $1, zines in the Passive Aggressive Vintage Postcards Series $6 each, You’re Lost In London $3
Pizza Zine #2 by Mikie Poland $7
Ed Reviews Stuff $2
Bio Organic Surrealism #1 A Collection of Works by Colvet $3
Walk Off Hot Issues 1 and 5 Charly Fasano $6 each
Christian New Age Quarterly vol 25 #3 by Catherine Groves $3.50
As Ghosts Do by Annoying Childish $7
zines by cheapw1ne: A Dirty Thing $5, Comic Relief $1.50, Cheap Wine $1.50
Daddy Issues vol 2 An Anthology $5
Coltrain by Ahmad Haynes $10
Scat Finder: A Guide to Mammal Scat of Eastern North America by Dorcas S. Miller $5.95
Go Forth and Create Without Fear by Kat Crow $14
Angelo’s Ashes or To Live and Die in LA by Marc Fischer $5
Boiler Room #1 by Geoff Jackson and Tiffany Norman $5
zines by Rosario Parker Gordon: Immortalized Words $3, With a Dash of Optimism (with Emmy Smith) $12
Probably Already Underneath by Emmy Smith $12
zines by Abe Shriner: What Are The Benefits of Reintroducing the Gold Standard Informative Guide, When’s the Last Time We Talked About Feelings Self Help Workbook $2
Comics
I’m So Punk: A Comic About Shitty Punk Boys Collection by Caroline Cash $6
Licorice Whip #1 edited by Allie Trigoso and Amy Lockhart $10
Dust Devil by Ellie Gerken $15
Deng #1 Seasonal Affective Disorder II by Donny Walsh $5
Terraformonauts #18 $15
Jurassic Soup – Collection of Strips from 2019-2021 by Erik Jasek $8
Shy City, Growing up In Chicago as a Chronically Nervous Adolescent by Vyolet Weissman $5
You Meet in a Moonlit Clearing $7
Fifty Flip Experiment #28 April 2022 $5
Fables of Yonder by LM $10
Art Books
Building a New World: Communist Propaganda Posters $29.95
The Art of Gabriel Villa $24.99
Rooftop Basement #1 $5.50
The World Ends With a Poot by Sarah Maloney $12
Being a Suicidal Person by Path $10
Politics & Revolution
Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism by Vijay Prashad & edited by Frank Barat (Haymarket) $16.95
Music, Film & TV Books
Ewen Spencer: While You Were Sleeping 1998–2000 $50
Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion by Harry Sword (Third Man Books) $19.95
Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World by Ryan Britt $28
Fiction
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester $16.95
Rainbow Rainbow: Stories by Lydia Conklin $26
How to Build a Home for the End of the World by Keely Shinners $18
Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Carolyne Larrington & friends $21.99
Essays
Black Nerd Problems: Essays by William Evans & Omar Holmon $18.99
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner $17.99
Magazines
The Anarchist Review of Books #2 and #3 $6 each
Shindig #126 $14.25
Untitled Identity Untitled $15
Tape Op #149 $5.99
Bust #129 $7.99
The Internationalist #66 $1
The Monthly Review may $6
Juxtapoz #222 $9.99
Little White Lies #93 $16.99
Yes Magazine #102 summer $6.50
Empire june $11.75
Breathe #46 $14.25
Chap Books
chap books by reflectivezines: Short Poems on Dreaming, Short Poems About Attachment, On Infatuation and more $3 each
For the Young at Heart
The Wonderful World of Eva by Eva Toorenent $22.95
El murciélago by Elise Gravel $11.99
Lowriders to the Rescue by Cathy Camper and illustrated by Raul the Third $12.99
Other Stuff
Nature Is Queer Sticker by Sarah Maloney $5
Stickers by Corinne Halbert, new ones and restocks! $3 each
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New Stuff This Week
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We’ll Never Have Paris #19 2022 Ever Given, True Stories $7
Going Inside by Nora Catlin $5
Art Reimagined: An Augmented Reality Art Book by Downtown 500 $25
Zines by H Jones: No Roe? $4, Just Do It $1
Happy Tapir: Was Ozzy Once, Met Ozzy Twice by Johnny Masiulewicz $5
Zines by Sorin S: Technicolor Animalia $6, Backyard Butterflies, Supporting Monarch Butterflies in Urban Environments $4
Sketchbook Dump vol 1 by Kapka $15
Popular Pandemics Fall 2028 Salute to Organized Labor $10
Creepy Creatures by Clive and Iona $3
zines by Johnny Gamber, $5 each: Pencil Revolution #27 + #28, Pen Post #8 + #9
Comics & Minis
Tongues Chapter 5 by Anders Nilsen $18
Technicolor by Kelly Wang $20
Comics by Kevin Huizenga: F Comic #3 $8, F 2020 Comics Bundle Issues #1-#3 $18
Comics by Dante Lumsden: Curses $12, Brought To You by Dante Lumsden $7
Comics by Gabrielle Hughley: Patisserie Princess $10, Spellbound $5
Fun to Funky #2 & #3 by Murphy and Rovnak $3 each
World by Brooke Lord $15
Eyeland #2-#4 by Nick Forker $5 each
Superhero Comic Book various issues by Ina
Graphic Novels
The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux $22.95
The Comics Journal #308 Win Spr 2022
Mayhem
Consorting with Spirits: Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies by Jason Miller $18.95
Music & Film Books
Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood by Kristin Hersh $27.95
Sofia Coppola: Forever Young by Hannah Strong $45
Essays
Brace for Impact: A Memoir by Gabe Montesanti $27
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos $16.95
Magazines
The Baffler #63 $14
Mother Jones june $8.99
Empire may $11.75
Other Stuff
Tattoo Playing Cards by Munden $14.99
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New Stuff This Week
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Sad Girl Riot #7 $2.50
Skurt Cobain #4 Apr 22 A Zine About the 90s by Jolie Ruin $2
zines by Martin Sammy Gardea, $5 each: Message Delivered vol 4, Ups and Downs of an Elevator Operator (with Jamie Condon)
Comics
The Collected Prairie Pothole by John Porcellino (Uncivilized) $6
Crickets Colour Special #1 Blood of the Virgin MMXX1 2021 by Sammy Harkham $14
I Hate My Phone by Isabel Steffes $10
Safe Hands by Liam Owings $10
Hypermutt #3 by Max Huffman $4
New Comics by BluRaven C. Houvener, $3 each: Jake the Covid Years 2020-2021, Jake a World of Musicians & more.
Simon and Marie $12
Sheeted Dead vol 1 Extended Version by Michelle Spadafore $7
Graphic Novels
Peanutbutter Sisters and Other Stories by Rumi Hara $24.95
Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck (Conundrum) $20
The Nib Magazine #11 Food $14.95
MOAB by Mara Ramirez $24.99
Hive the Coronation by Miles MacDiarmid $24.99 (and Deleted Scenes $10)
Freak Comix #10 $24.99
Oboy Comics by Shaheen Beardsley $24.99
Politics & Revolution
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color by Lorgia García Peña (Haymarket) $15.95
Music Books
The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs by Martin Popoff $39.95
Fiction
Scorcher Forces of Nature #1 by Kelly Edwards $12
Rise of Daybreak vol 2 The Rise of Midnight Series by Sara A. Freites $16.99
DIY
Financial Feminism: A Woman’s Guide to Investing for a Sustainable Future by Jessica Robinson $15.95
50 Things to Do in the Urban Wild by Clare Gogerty $17.95
Plant Spirit Medicine: A Guide to Making Healing Products From Nature by Nicola McIntosh $22.95
From Earth: Create Your Own Natural Apothecary by Charlotte Rasmussen $22.95
Spiritual Herbalism: The Magic and Medicine of the Plants by Josh Williams $29.95
Blackthorn’s Protection Magic: A Witch’s Guide to Mental and Physical Self-Defense by Amy Blackthorn (Weiser) $16.95
The Grind Culture Detox: Heal Yourself from the Poisonous Intersection of Racism, Capitalism, and the Need to Produce by Heather Archer (Hierophant Publishing) $18.99
Witch, Please: Empowerment and Enlightenment for the Modern Mystic by Victoria Maxwell $18.95
Essays
Wanting You to Want Me: Stories from the Secret World of Strip Clubs by Bronwen Parker Rhodes and Emily Dinsdale $24.99
Mayhem & Outer Limits
The Alchemist’s Handbook by Frater Albertus $18.95
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies by Keith Seifert $27.95
Magic: An Occult Primer: 50 Year Anniversary Edition by David Conway $24.95
Magazines
Shots #155 spring $10
In These Times May 22 $4.95
Monocle #153 may $14
The Monthly Review april $6
AnOther Magazine vol #42 $22.75
Behavioral Scientist issues #1 & #2 $20-$24.99
Poetry & Chap Books
Another Nothing Message by James Chongo “Nicodemus” Houvener $4
Small Talk – Conversation Starters from an Expert at Small Talk by Grace Ann Maxwell $8
For the Young at Heart
Humans and Animals: What We Have in Common by Pavla Hanackova & illustrated by Dasha Lebesheva $16.95
Other Stuff
Do It To Death Patch $5
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May Quimby’s Newsletter out Now
Check out the May Quimby’s Newsletter.
Sign up to get our monthly missive in your e-mail inbox every month at quimbys.com
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Quality Steven Svmbersky Hang Out Time, 5/26
Quimby’s Bookstore founder Steven Svymbersky is visiting from Quimby’s Bookstore NYC! He’ll hang out all day with us on Thurs, May 26th from noon to 6pm, perhaps regaling us in the City of the Big Shoulders with stories of bookselling in the Big Apple, or perhaps reminiscing about Wicker Park in the 90s. Who’s to say? Come, say hi and have a bitch session about how much cooler this neighborhood used to be.
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New Stuff This Week
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Ker-Bloom #155 Mar Apr 2022 $2
Chickfactor #19 $15
2 issues of Smash the Skatriarchy by Amelia Bjesse Puffin $6.95 each: #2 Sweden, #3 BIPOC Skaters
Secret Self by Elisa $3
De Sorore Mystica by Brian Cotnoir $10
Stone Fruit #5 Epistles $12
Comics
Doing Easy by Shea Cahill $7
Clusterfux Comix #4 by Cameron Hatheaway and Drew B. Hall $10
Mayhem
The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy by Ann Rule $19.95
More Stuff from The British Library Tales of the Weird Series $15.95-$16.95
Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee edited by Mike Ashley
Weird Woods Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain edited by John Miller
Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
The Philosophy of Whisky by Billy AbbottMusic Books
Kraftwerk’s Computer World (33 1/3 vol 63) by Steve Tupai Francis $14.95
Fiction
We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman $17
Stuff From GenderFail:
GenderFail Reader 1-3 by Be Oakley and Noah LeBien 2021 $20
Radical Accountability Radical Transparency Radical Action 2022 by Be Oakley $12
GenderFail Two Anthologies on Failure 2022 edited by Be Oakley $22
First 100 Google Image Search Results of TWINK by Be Oakley 2014 $18
GenderFail Anthology of Queer Typography vol 1 2022 edited by Be Oakley with Paul Soulellis
Empathic Intimacies A Touch That You Can Really Feelllll April 2022 $20Magazines
Afterall Journal #52 $15
Document Journal #18 winter $25
Heavy Metal #316 $13.99
Cinema Scope #90 $5.95
Skeptical Inquirer vol 46 #3 $5.99
ID Magazine #367 spring $18.50
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Granta #159 $19.99
Soft Mouth by MAP $8
Sexxxy
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Cut-and-Paste Conundrums Edition, May 24th!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Cut-and-Paste Conundrums Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, May 24 on Zoom
Free!We all have those zines in our collections … the ones that represent some sort of mystery. Perhaps we can’t remember where we picked up a particular title, or we wish we could find out more about an enigmatic zinemaker. Or maybe the zine’s content explores a puzzling subject. This month, Zine Club Chicago will revel in (any possibly even unravel) the questions posed by the most intriguing zines we own.
Grab your favorite cryptic zines, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Cut-and-Paste Conundrums Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, May 24!
** RSVP required ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CT Monday, May 23 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, May 24.
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers, created our logo, and made our Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with images of two people dressed as old-time detectives with magnifying glasses, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Cut-and-Paste Conundrums Edition Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, May 24”
