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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramOur brand-new Quimby’s Cola, bottled by Marz Community Brewing Co., with a label designed by Caroline Cash!! More stickers from Arcane Bullshit! And a ton of other stickers not pictured here, like mushroom stickers by Chris Adams. Seriously, you could wallpaper your walls with the amount we have right now.
Zines
Do You Like Scary Movies #5 by Ronnie $5
Mini Comics
Last Herald #1 by Roger Landes and Jorge Copo $5.99
Space Car Blue Book by Micah Lisenfeld Pants split w/ Other Serious Topics by Danny Houk $6
Underexposed #5 Jane Campion $7
How To Say Hello by Max Morris $10
Alanzo Sneak by Nate Garcia $10
Graphic Novels
Afternoon at Mcburger’s by Ana Galvan (Fantagraphics) $16.99
Other Lives by Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) $17.99
George Sprott 1894-1975 A Picture Novella by the Cartoonist Seth (D+Q) $24.95
On the One Hand / On the Other Hand: The Art & Graphic Stories of R. O. Blechman (Fantagraphics) $45
Babylon by Tomi Ungerer (Fantagraphics) $26.99
Tattoo Stuff
Philosophy of Tattoos by John Miller $16.95
Food & DIY
Rust Belt Vegan: Kitchen, Recipes, Resources and Stories edited by Meredith Pangrace (Belt Publishing) $16.94
Ultimate Book of Craft Beer by Melissa Cole $27.50
Hex Twisting: Countermagick Spells for the Irritated Witch $17.99
Music Books
How to Be a Rock Star by Shaun Ryder $26.95
Head on a Pike: The Illustrated Lyrics of Matt Pike $20
Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor by Lina Abascal $18.99
Outer Limits
Day of the Dead: A Visual Compendium by Chloe Sayer $25
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess & Steven Matthew Constantine $28
Wheels
Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport by Michella M. Marino $35
Magazines
Yes Magazine #100 Winter $6.50
Horror Hound #91 Fall 2021 $8.99
Bust #127 winter $7.99
Harpers December $7.99
Mojo #337 $11.99
Lit Journals & Poetry
N+1 #41 Fall 2021 $14.95
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire $27.95
Masks Literary Magazine Fall 2021 $8
For the Young at Heart
Fairy Rhymes by Marjorie Foxx and Jill Fredrickson $10
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Quimby’s December Newsletter Out Now!
It’s our monthly announcements and all that jazz. Have you subscribed yet so you’ll never miss it? Check out December’s and don’t forget to subscribe while you’re there.
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Quimby's 2021 Holiday Gift Guide
Right now our shop is crammed full of amazing, unique gifts for everyone in your life. (OK, maybe not your uncle who only wants vintage Nixon paraphernalia, but just about everybody else). Here are just a few of our staff picks for the best stuff to wrap up this season.
And if you don’t spot the gift you’re seeking on this list, come on into the store and let us help you find that perfect present for someone you love (or for yourself … you surely deserve a little something, too).
Quimby’s Schwag
You know you love us … so spread the love around by gifting some Quimby’s merch, featuring original designs by some of our favorite artists.
Quimby’s Gift Certificates, available in a variety of denominations
Quimby’s Air Freshener, designed by Plastic Crimewave
Quimby’s Coasters, featuring our classic logo designed by Chris Ware
Quimby’s 30th Anniversary T-shirt, designed by Caroline Cash
Quimby’s Logo Embroidered Patch
Quimby’s Bong Mice Metallic Sticker, designed by Caroline Cash
Liz, Manager and Zine Maven
Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore (comes with a free bookplate signed by the author, while supplies last)
Someplace Special, edited by Aim Ren Beland and Cynthia E. Hanifin
Lydia Tomkiw: Poems, edited by Dan Shepelavy
Hang in There Kitten Tea Towel, designed and hand-printed by Heather Anacker
Dame Darcy Meat Cake Calendar 2022
Caroline, Cartoonist in Residence
Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge
Bubbles, An Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga #11 (We’ve got issues #1-#10 in stock, too)
Be Gay Do Crime by Mary Nardini Gang
You Have Been Catcalled. What Do You Do? Patch by Jenn Woodall
Cynthia (Zinethia), Zine Warrior
Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Package $25 Version (also available in $69 and $100 versions)
Awesome Things #4 by Liz Mason (Awesome Things #1, #2, and #3 are, frankly, awesome, as well!)
Girl in the World by Caroline Cash (comes with a free sticker sheet designed by the artist, while supplies last)
Social Justice Kittens Calendar 2021 (available in-store only)
Zine Game Deck by Billy McCall
White City Devil Coffee & Coconut Candle (available in-store only, with a free Quimby’s matchbook while supplies last)
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramNo New Stuff Saturdays Livestream this week but here’s the new stuff post a day early!
Zines & Zine-Related
Long Arm Stapler COZY by Heather Anacker! Made exclusively for Quimby’s!!! $20
Freaks and Geeks: A Fanzine by Lizzie Robillard (Fluke Publishing) $5
Christopher Coppola Fanzine $5
Feline Frustrations by Colt Hack $5
Five Day Death Workbook $12
Words and Smiles #5 $4
Comics & Minis
Stuff from Nick Bunch/Reptile House Comix: Reptile House issues #7 & #8, Blood Horn #1
Lemonade Tango #1 by Henry Uhrik $7
Comics by Wyatt Phillips & friends: Shitty Presidents, Everything Rots & more
On Sneaking by Jon Inaki $10
Multiple Comics by Kai Lumbang: All Boys Leave Home, End Comes Beyond Chaos, Celestial Summons & more.
Kitchen Witchen & DIYing & Parenting & Doing Things
Hang In There Kitten TEA TOWEL by Heather Anacker $12
Kitchen Witch: Natural Remedies and Crafts for Home, Health, and Beauty by Katie Haegele & Nadine Schneider (Microcosm) $19.95
Woke Parenting: Raising Intersectional Feminist, Empathic, Engaged, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids While Still Having a Life by Faith G. Harper & Bonnie Scott (Microcosm) $14.95
Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $14.95
Graphic Novels
Too Tough to Die: An Aging Punx Anthology edited by Haleigh Buck and J. T. Yost (Birdcage Bottom Books) $20
Comrade Himbo featuring Aim Ren Beland & friends (POMEpress) $25
Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo vols 2 & 3 by Drew Weing
Mayhem
Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth by Jessica Dore $27
Magic: A History from Alchemy to Witchcraft From the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden $20 – Now in soft cover.
Fiction
C.A.T.S.: Cycling Across Time And Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories about Bicycling and Cats by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $12.95
Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin $18
Druuuuuuugs
Dopeworld: Adventures in Drug Lands by Niko Vorobyov $18.99
Chap Books, Poetry, Lit Journals
Titles by Blau, $5 each: Existential Crisis, Organized Chaos
Schematics and Assemblies of the Cosmic Heart by Gary Gautier $10
Pity Party by Nicholas Herrera $13
Taddle Creek #47 C Holiday 2021 $2.95
Magazines
Apartamento #28 $30
Essays
The 88 Keys That Opened Doors by Charles Joseph Smith edited by Kate Hutchinson $15
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition, Dec. 14
Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 14 on Zoom
Free!For Zine Club Chicago’s last event of the year, you’re all invited to make mini zines with our merry crew! Let’s celebrate this festive season together with a laidback virtual hangout. A swap by mail will be held after the event for folks who’d like to share the mini zine they made, too.
All you need to bring is a few sheets of paper, a writing utensil, and your creativity. If you’ve never made a mini zine before, here’s a quick video tutorial (and we can provide any assistance you need at the event, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUzo41dh5Q
Grab your zinemaking supplies, BYO(H)oliday(T)reats, and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition at 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 14!
** RSVP required ** To help make sure that online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, the Zoom link won’t be released publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CST Monday, December 13. You’ll receive the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CST that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’s monthly flyers, created its logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Skeletor’s Guide to Surviving the Holidays (Eternia Press) $6.66
Faith G. Harper how-to zines, $5.95 each: Unfuck Your Mindfulness & Meditation: Exercises to Calm Your Body, Mind, and Vagus Nerve $5.95 (also one about breathing and stress), and also somehow Unfuck Your Bread: Gluten-free, Paleo, and Keto Recipes for People Who Miss Bread
Phantom Pie Maker, From the Story Collection Haunted Junk Drawer by Eric Bartholomew $2
Comics & Minis
Punkins Imagination by Turtel Onli $3
Graphic Novels
Brian Blomerth’s Mycelium Wassonii $32
Weeding by Genevieve Lebleu $18
Man In Furs: From Divine Punishment to Punishment Divine by Catherine Sauvat and Anne Simon (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory by Evan Dorkin, Ben Dewey & friends $24.99
Art Kinda Maybe Sorta Fashion
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love by Haruki Murakami $25
Politics & Revolution
The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert $24.95
Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections by Ian Rosenberg & illustrated by Mike Cavallaro $28.99
DIY
Radical Sewing: Pattern-Free, Sustainable Fashions for All Bodies by Kate Weiss (Microcosm) $14.95
The Herb Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Medicinal Plants by the Chelsea Physic Garden and Holly Farrell $15.95
Music
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by Daniel de Vise $30
Fiction
People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami $15.95
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica edited by Jessica Hundley (Taschen) $40
Humor
A Modern Man: The Best of George Carlin $17.99
Essay
Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France 1971-1972 by Michel Foucault, edited by Bernard E. Harcourt $20
Essays Two by Lydia Davis $35
Magazines
Monocle #148 november $14
Dazed and Confused vol 5 #273 fall $13.20
In These Times december $4.95
Frankie #103 $17.99
Adbusters #158 vol 29 #6 november december $14.95
Gentlewoman #24 fall winter $17.99
Heavy Metal #311 $13.99
Plus: More stickers!
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Yes We Have Gift Certificates! And Holiday Hours!
AND HOLIDAY HOURS!
Please note!
Quimby’s will be closed Sat, Dec 25th & Sat, Jan 1st.
Hours of Operation:
Thurs through Mondays noon-6pm
closed Tues + Wed
BUT YES WE WILL BE OPEN 12-6 THE ONE WEDNESDAY BEFORE XMAS, DEC 22ND!
NEED YOUR PACKAGE BY DEC 25th? ORDER BY DEC 11TH BUT UNDERSTAND USPS IS UNDER A LOT OF STRESS AND THERE MAY BE UNEXPECTED DELAYS.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramChris Ware Building Stories Jigsaw Puzzle by Presspop $50
McSweeneys #64 The Audio Issue $32
Zines
Multiple issues of Queer Sailors Zines Presents by Kel R Karpinski $7
Radical Left Chapbook Series #1: Testimony of Abbie Hoffman (Touchdown Press) $13
Cuevas Illustration and Photography #2 by David Alvarado $15
Uncollected Thoughts by Dan Gleason $3
Comics & Minis
No One Comes to the Lake Anymore by Charles Forsman $6
Plaguers Int’l by Max Huffman $8
new issues of OBL V OUS
Graphic Novels
Rabbit Game by Miyoshi (Domino Books) $12
Swan Song by Sonja Ahlers (Conundrum) $20
It Took Luke by Mark Bouchard and Bayleigh Underwood $20
American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber $35
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein $28
Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998–2011 edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $40
Welcome to the Village: The Transformative Journey of a Three-Time Peace Corps Volunteer Across Africa by Vanessa Zucker $10.99
Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who’ve Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell (Street Noise Books) $18.99
Twelve Sisters of the Never Ending Castle by Shintaro Kago (Hollow Press) $35
Manifester Monsters by Mat Brinkman (Hollow Press) $25
Methods of Dyeing by B. Mure (Avery Hill) $12.95
Sour Pickles by Clio Isadora (Avery Hill) $15.95
Jinx Freeze by Hurk (Avery Hill) $16.95
Art & Design Books
Black Artists Shaping the World by Sharna Jackson $19.95
Toys. 100 Years of All-American Toy Ads by Jim Heimann and Steven Heller $40
Politics & Revolution
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson (AK Press) $15
Essays
The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums by Amy Leach $26
Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation by Reid Mitenbuler $18
Music Books
Shut Up You Animals!!! The Pope is Dead. A Remembrance of Dirk Dirksen: A History of the Mabuhay Gardens by Dirk Dirksen & friends (Last Gasp) $17.95
Maria Callas’s Lyric and Coloratura Arias by Ginger Dellenbaugh (33 1/3 series) $14.95
GREBO!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers On Acid and Crazyhead by Rich Deakin (Headpress) $25.95
Food
The Plant Clinic by Erin Lovell Verinder $29.95
Outer Limits
Astrology. The Library of Esoterica by Andrea Richards & Susan Miller (Taschen) $40
Geomancy: Earth Grids, Ley Lines, Feng Shui, Divination, Dowsing, & Dragons $24.95
WTF
Crap Divination: The Dark Art of Reading Dark Marks: How to Interpret Toilet Runes by Dingleberry Marx $8.99
Film & Music Books
Gus Van Sant: The Art of Making Movies by Katya Tylevich $25
Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art * Words and Wisdom by Nora Guthrie & Robert Santelli $40
Carpenters: The Musical Legacy by Michael Cidoni Lennox & friends $35
Fiction
People Want to Live by Farah Ali (McSweeney’s) $24
Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky $9.99
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham $17.95
Jack Ruby and the Origins of Avant Garde in Dallas by Robert Trammell (Deep Vellum) $16.95
For the Young at Heart
The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales by Jen Campbell & illustrated by Adam de Souza $19.95
Art Is Everywhere: A Book About Andy Warhol by Jeff Mack $19.99
Grandpa’s Farm by James Flora (Feral House) $17.95
Magazines
Tape Op #146 dec jan $5.99
The Baffler #60 nov dec $14
Chap Books & Poetry
Simultaneous Revolutions Poems by Marcus Colasurdo and GH Mosson (PM Press) $5.95
Sleeper by Paul Joseph Ryan $8
Other Stuff
Andy Warhol Banana Stress Reliever $8.99
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramQuimby’s Air Freshener by Plastic Crimewave $5.99
View this post on InstagramDame Darcy 2022 Meat Cake Calendar $15
Zines
Midwest Perzine Fest Presents What’s a Perzyne? A Retrospective by Jonas & Cynthia Hanifin $1
Words and Smiles #4 by Don Unger $3
zines by John Bolin: Photos $12, More Than Five Drawings $8
Pencil of the Week #12 $3
Body Condition by Brian Uhl $23
RPG guide zines by Colt Hack, $5 each: Fights of Flight Bird, Omega Scale Threat Godzilla
It’s All Out in the City: A Photo Zine by Archer Daigle $5
Comics & Minis
comics by Fox Graham: Lucky Jay #2 $8, Lucky Edwin #1 $6, Messenger #1 $1.50
Poor Little Ghosts by Davidt Dunlop $8
Buny by Ben Cherry $6
Doom Skull #3 by Dane Georges $5
Lone Roller by Philip Twigg $6.99
Cats by Felix $1
Graphic Novels
Red Flowers by Yoshiharu Tsuge (D+Q) $24.95
Tunnels by Rutu Modan $29.95
Nib Magazine #10 Nature $14.95 – With a piece by Caroline Cash!
Robert Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 5. 1989–1998 edited by Dian Hanson (Taschen) $40
Graphic Novels & Comics from Rotopol: Mellom Collection #1 by Rita Furstenau $5, To Be a Brave Scout by Julia Kluge $13, Pimo and Rex books by Thomas Wellmann, Hearsay by Lea Heinrich $12, It Had to Be You by Nick Edwards $12, It’s an Unhappy Day For Many Reasons by Kirsten Carina Geiber $10, In Winter by Rita Furstenau $12
Politics & Revolution
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho $18.99
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil W.E.B. Du Bois $19.95
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays $27.95
Essays
Death Never Dies: Mourning 2020 Through the Lives and Deaths of Public Figures by Lee Fearnside $24.99
Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton $14.95
Dante In the Desert by Anthony Walent $20
Fiction
The Plague by Albert Camus $26 – The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years.
Wheatyard by Peter Anderson $8
Music Books
Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls: Women Music and Fame by Lisa Robinson $17
33 1/3 series: John Prine’s John Prine by Erin Osmon $14.95
Magazines
Mojo #336 november $13.99
Skeptical Inquirer vol 45 #6 november / december $5.99
Raw Vision #108 fall $16
Other Stuff:
Tarot Original 1909 Circular Deck $29.95
No Masters, No Bedtimes You’re Not the Boss of Me Sticker $2
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramHey! We got in a whole awesome mess of gifty shit from Band of Weirdos and World Famous Original.
Zines
Horse Corn #5 by Kate Parnell & friends $15
Bite Around the Bruise by Keith Herzik $10
Spunk #13 + $14 $12 each
Forgotten Rides, The Fanzine by Adel Souto $8
Comics & Minis
Futile #8 by Mike Centeno $8
Comics from Floating World: Unsmooth vol 2 by ES Glenn $15, Hyperthick #1 Eternity My Favorite by Steve Aylett $5.99, Night Hunters #4 by Dave Baker and Alexis Ziritt $4.99
Mint by Michael D. Kennedy $7
Hollow Press stuff: They Live In Me UDWFG Presents Jesse Jacobs $22, Dimensional Flats by Tetsunori Tawaraya $17, Day of the Flying Head by Shintaro Kago $27, Life of Namazuko by Daisuke Ichiba $27, Princess of the Neverending Castle by Shintaro Kago $37
Being John Arbuckle #8 by Gobonussaves $6
Graphic Novels
Upgrade Soul: Collector Edition by Ezra Clayton Daniels $29.99
Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu Collector’s Edition Hardcover $24.99
Red Room: The Antisocial Network by Ed Pisko (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Ex Libris: A Comic by Matt Madden (Uncivilized) $29.95
No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Nib Magazine #9 Secrets $14.95
I Will Not Die Alone by Dera White, illustrated by Joe Bennett $19.99
Politics & Revolution
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle by Jonas Ceika $14.95
Mayhem & Outer Limits
American Serial Killers: The Deadliest Years 1950-2000 $18
The K’Rla Cell and the Secret Key to Liber Al by Jeffrey D Evans and Peter Levenda (Ibis Press) $40
Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist, edited by Katie West and Jasmine Elliott $16.95
Acephale: Religion, Sociology, Philosophy by Georges Bataille & friends $17
Hoodoo Justice Magic: Spells for Power, Protection and Righteous Vindication by Miss Aida $18.95
Essay
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King $15.95
Fiction
Cursed: An Anthology edited by Angela Slatter $8.99
Food Books
Reclaiming Food: Core Recipes and Cooking Skills for Reclaiming Your Food Security by Emma Kathryn $14
DIY
Super Subversive Cross Stitch: 50 Fresh as Fuck Designs by Julie Jackson $16.95
Music Books
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman $28
Wheels
Skate Trivia Volume One $19.95
Magazines
Wire #452 oct $12.50
Harpers Magazine nov $7.99
ID Magazine #364 Fall $18.50
Document Journal #18 $25
Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
There Are Trans People Here by H Melt (Haymarket) $16
Oh Well by Reid Cohen $6
Bridge vol 20 #1 $25
Flowers and Animals Are the Only Things Worth Noticing, Poems and Drawings by Tom Orr $5
