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Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition, July 27th
Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, July 27 on Zoom
Free!
Celebrate International Zine Month #IZM2021 with us as we recognize zines as passports to places we want to go, both geographical and metaphorical!
When summer hits its peak, the open road beckons. And this year in particular, many of us are dreaming about and making plans for travel to locales both far and near. This month, we’ll be answering the call to adventure and exploring zines about travel!
Grab your fave travel zines (bonus points for bringing zines that include hand-drawn maps!), BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, July 27 on Zoom!
** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club 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. CST Monday, July 26. We’ll email you the Zoom link by 11 p.m. 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 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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/
More info at social media channels: @zineclubchicago
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
How to Draw a Snake Eating its Own Ponytail Zine and Tattoo $7
Ars Goetiamon Gotta Summon Them All Terri by Jo Frew $5
ZINEFOREST CAFE by Megan Kirby and Jon Mastantuono $10
Popular Pandemics Spring 2026 $10
Stone Fruit issues #3 & #4 Zine About Queerness and Religion $12
I Believe You by Karina Killjoy $10
Open Waters by Laura Citino $10
20×12 Chicago Zine #2 $5
Atlantic Altar Zine Kit (Curandera Press) $8
Excerpts from the Prayer Box No More Lazy Lover Altar (Curandera Press) $6
Comics & Minis
Boffo Quarterly #2 by Mosher $7
Long Gone #4 by Samuel Benson $5
Bad God #1 by Hink $15
BuriDemon by Kasey Iris $48
Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear #1 by Alex Nall $5
Graphic Novel
Factory Summers by Guy Delisle (D+Q) $22.95
Dear Rachel Whitlock by Rae Whitlock $12
Let’s Not Talk Anymore by Weng Pixin (D+Q) $24.95
The Pleasure of the Text by Sami Alwani (Conundrum) $20
Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike by the Stanford Graphic Novel Project (Haymarket) $17.95
Art Books
Another History of Art by Anita Kunz (Fantagraphics) $24.95
Stick and Skate, with 140 Skateboard Stickers by Stickerbomb $24.95
Politics
Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat (PM Press) $17
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change by Noam Chomsky, Interviews with and C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket) $16.95
Red Nation: Rising From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation by Nick Estes (PM Press) $17.95
When We Are Human by John Zerzan (Feral House) $14.95
Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction by Jeremy Brecher (PM Press) $26.95
Representing Radicals: A Guide for Lawyers and Movements by Tilted Scales Collective (AK Press) $12
Music Books
Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge $28
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History, edited by Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser, Anna Joy Springer and Liam Warfield (PM Press) $18
The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook by Cynthia Kaufman (PM Press) $16.95
Fiction
Works of Guillaume Dustan vol 1 Novels In My Room, I’m Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me, edited by Thomas Clerc (Semiotext[e]) $17.95
Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh $16
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey by Zack Carlson, Annie Choi and Joseph A. Ziemba (Fantagraphics) $34.95
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell $27.99
Occult Botany by Paul Sedir $50
Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work by Brian Cotnoir (Weiser) $16.95
Manifestation Magic: 21 Rituals, Spells, and Amulets for Abundance, Prosperity, and Wealth by Elhoim Leafar (Weiser) $18.95
Essays
Best Letters From Asian Americans in the Arts by K Ho and Daisy Nam (N+1) $23
Sweet Dreams by Pamela Sneed $15
Of Color: Essays by Jaswinder Bolina (McSweeneys) $18
Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation by Kimberly Dark (AK) $18
Women on Waves: A Cultural History of Surfing: From Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champions by Jim Kempton $29.95
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos $28.95
Weirdest Maths: At the Frontiers of Reason by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee $17.95
Food
Let’s Make Dumplings!: A Comic Book Cookbook by Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan $19.99
Humor
Space Nomads: Set a Course for Mars : Chasing the Arts, Sciences, and Technology for Human Transformation by Camomile Hixon $24.99
Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
McSweeneys #63 $26
Zombie Apocalypse Now the Walking Dead #264 Belladonna $5
Brief History of Burning by Cait Okane $16
Strong Off the Shelf #1 by Lemmy Yaakova $20
Halcyonic by Margaux Wilhite $13
Halcyon by Madeline Blair $11.49
Sexxxy
Wear Leather Worship Satan by Carlos Deth $15
Elska #33 Sao Paulo Brazil $20
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June Quimby’s Newsletter Out Now!
Our monthly announcements and all that jazz. Have you subscribed so you get it in your inbox every month yet? Check it out here.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramQuimby’s Postcard by Jessi Zabarsky $2
Zines
Burf Quimby’s Pub Quiz Zines #1-#7 $6 each
We’ll Never Have Paris #18 2021 Blue $7
Touring America Fall in New England $2
Katabasis $3
Partial Nudity $8
Rat Boys by Allie Mahai $10
Survive with Dag Banners $2
Baby Teef #1 by Venus Tapang $3
Choose Your Own Consensual Adventure: A Step by Step Guide to Making Sure All the Sex You Initiate Is Consensual and Safer by Nicole Mazzeo $7.50
Comics & Minis
Lavender Scare by Arantza Pena Popo $15
Comics/zines from Drew Morrison: Brokenland #1-#3 $3.99 each, Mostly Heads the Sketchbook vol 1 $5.99
Marceline’s Alley Stories by Cecilia Schmitt $12
Blood Truckers by Lauren Ramsey $7
Smoking Gun by Teddie Bernard $8
Graphic Novels
Now vol 10 (Fantagraphics) $12.99
City of Belgium by Brecht Evens $29.95
Politics & Revolution
Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice by Michael Beyea Reagan $18
Culture Strike: Art and Museums In an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich $26.95
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser $21
Pop Culture
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! by Tom Scharpling $27
Fiction
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel by Rivka Galchen $27
Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani $17
Outer Limits
Serial Killer Trivia: Cold Cases: Fascinating Facts and Chilling Details from the Creepiest Unsolved Murders Ever by Michelle Kaminsky $15.95
Druuuuuugs
Encyclo-Weedia: 420 Smokes: The Ultimate Stoner Lifestyle Guide by Jack Kapos $19.99
Magazines
Adbusters #155 july/aug $14.95
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New Quimby's Postcard by Jessi Zabarsky!
We are over the moon with this playful postcard that Chicago-based cartoonist and illustrator Jessi Zabarsky made for us! Its whimsical multi-color take on Chris Ware’s iconic Quimby imagery is such a sweet tribute. We know you’ll love the hidden creatures doing silly things as much as we do! And did you see the mouse pulling the strawberry?! Spend some time with it and take it in, you won’t be able to get enough. And THE THING HAS ROUNDED CORNERS! Perfect for dropping a line to your friends while also spreading the word about your favorite bookstore. Only $2! What a steal! Come into the store and get it or order one from our webstore here.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramAnd hey! Check out this CAKE POPS interview with Quimby’s employees past and present here!
Zines
Pencil Revolution #16 and #17 by Johnny Gambor $5 each
2 new Book Mark zines from Pressing Concern, $7 each:
Mutual Aid Is Kin(etic): Ten Things I Feel About Mutual Aid by Carla Bergman
The Urgency of Awesome: How Much Else You Could Be Doing by Liz MasonRobin Hustle’s Fenestrated Shape $4
Os Decorum Adult Coloring Book by Shelby Lerner $14
Comics
Multiple Anders Nilsen titles!: In Your Next Life You Will Be Together With All of Your Friends $20, Tongues Chapter 4 $18
Red Room #1 The Anti Social Network by Ed Piskor $6.99
Devil In Hand by Issa Saldana $3
FTM Horndogs by R.Y. Newman $5
Titles by Bianca Brandolino: New Day $15, Transience $5
Comics by Jen C.: And I Can’t Swim, Diary Comics 1 & 2 and more.
Graphic Novels
Antifa: Super Soldier Cookbook by Matt Lubchansky (Silver Sprocket) $14.99
Fiction
Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel by Aimee Bender $16.95
Politics, Revolution & Essay
Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin $13
Ain’t I a Woman by Sojourner Truth $13
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books by George Perec $13
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir $16.95
Magazines
Juxtapoz #218 summer $9.99
The Grind #2 Perspectives On Stripping From the Dancers Themselves $10
In These Times june $4.95
The Monthly Review may $6
The Believer #136 june july $12
Outer Limits
Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies: Your Complete Guide to the Magick of the Fae by Skye Alexander $16.99
Sexxxy
2 Meats!: Meat Special Book Preview Edition $20, Meat: The Final Issue $20
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Quimby's and Community CAKEPOPS Panel
What an honor! The first CAKE POPS video is up at the CAKE Chicago YouTube page, starring Quimby’s Bookstore employees past and present: Mike Centeno, Corinne Halbert, Caroline Cash & Liz Mason. Come watch us talk about the store, the comics community of Chicago, & the large quantity of duct-taped consignment binders behind the counter.
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CAKEPOPS is a series of digital check-ins with CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) Creators about topics of interest. This installment of CAKEPOPS is our very first!
Join Quimby’s Bookstore manager and zinester Liz Mason and cartoonist-employees past and present Corrine Halbert, Caroline Cash, and Mike Centeno as they discuss the history of Quimby’s Bookstore, as well as it’s impact on the Chicago comics community!
Panelists:
Mike Centeno (he/him) https://www.mikecenteno.com/
Corinne Halbert (she/her) https://corinnehalbert.com/
Caroline Cash(she/her) https://carolinecashcomics.com/
Liz Mason(she/her) https://lizmasonisawesome.com/Panel coordination by Aim Ren
Video editing and animation by Sage Coffey
CAKEPOPS Graphics by Andrea BellWHAT IS CAKE? The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, cake is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers. As a completely volunteer run organization, your tax-deductible support is vital to CAKE’s growth and financial stability. If you enjoyed our CAKEPOPS series, please consider donating here: tiny.cc/donateCAKE
To learn more about CAKE and upcoming CAKE events, visit our website: cakechicago.com
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Zine Club Chicago Online: How-To Zines Edition, Tues, June 29th
Zine Club Chicago Online: How-To Zines Edition
with Special Guest Anna Jo Beck
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 29 on Zoom
Free!
This month, we’re thrilled to be celebrating a special guest: One of our founding members (and also our incredibly talented designer) Anna Jo Beck! Anna will discuss Broke, Not Broken: Personal Finance for the Creative, Confused, Underpaid, and Overwhelmed, her newly released first book that has its origins in her popular how-to zine about personal finance.
Everyone is invited to share your favorite how-to zines, as well! Please join us for Zine Club Chicago Online: How-To Zines Edition with Special Guest Anna Jo Beck at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 29 on Zoom.
Broke, Not Broken, a compassionate, friendly, and fun guide to personal finance, is being published in Summer 2021 by Microcosm Publishing. (Snag your copy from ZCC’s sponsor, Quimby’s Bookstore, which you can PRE-ORDER HERE!) Anna also runs a Zine-a-Month subscription through Patreon and publishes Zine Fiend, a free e-newsletter about zine culture. You can find links to Anna’s work here: linktr.ee/annajobeck
** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online 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 28 (the day before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CT 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 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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/
More info at ZCC social media channels: @zineclubchicago
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/590645888507102/
Links
Anna’s linktree: https://linktr.ee/annajobeck
Anna’s portfolio: annajobeck.com
Buy Anna’s zines: https://annajobeck.storenvy.com/
Read Anna’s zines online for free: https://issuu.com/annajobeck
Buy Anna’s book (though Quimby’s will have copies too): https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/artist/anna-jo-beck
Anna’s Patreon/Zine-a-Month subscription: www.patreon.com/annajobeck
Zine Fiend: https://tinyletter.com/zinefiend
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Strange Tapes Hamburger Dad: Special Edition Zine by Scott R. Miller & friends $5
Rain Barrel #2 april by Jordan Sea $3
Religion, Politics, Sex vol 2 The Family Issue by Robert T. Glen $6
I Think You Might Write a Body Once and Awhile: Passive Aggressive Vintage Postcards 1909-1949 by Robert T. Glen $6
GenderFail stuff: Urgent Publishing After the Artist’s Book: Making Public in Movements Towards Liberation by Paul Soulellis $24, Manifesto Profit for Survival by Be Oakley $12, Some Definitions, Some Thoughts, Some Assertions, Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance by Be Oakley $16
In Your Chest in Your Gut Everywhere All Over by Caitlin McCann $7
zines by Jilly Foo: My My Moemon $2, Hallowzine 2020 $5 & more.
The Match #122 spring $3
Learn English with Mr. Wood by Antek $2
These Are All Inadequate #3 by Jesse Maximum $3
Great Rock N Roll Dwindle #2 by No One $4
Reglar Wiglar #27 by Christopher Auman $8
Flux in Green Air $24
Comics & Minis
Vixen Black $2
Myrodemus #2 by Finn Walker $24.99
Prey Pray by Stokes Breanan And Lei $6
Campfire Comics and Stories Biannual january $10
Get To You by Gabe Mason Howell $10
Rust Belt Review #1 Comics Anthology $10
Graphic Novels
Heart Shaped Tears: Art, Comics and Dark Secrets by Abby Jame (Silver Sprocket) $24.99
The Gift by Zoe Maeve (Conundrum) $18
Super Magic Forest by Ansis Purins $16.95
Crash Site by Nathan Cowdry (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Scoop Scuttle and His Pals: The Crackpot Comics of Basil Wolverton, edited by Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $29.99
It’s Life as I See it: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 – 1980 edited by Dan Nadel (MCA/NYRC) $24.95
Fiction
Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell (Ignota) $19.95
Hollow by B. Catling $17
Music & Movies Books
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte $18
Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks by The Lunachicks with Jeanne Fury $18.99
More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk by John Doe & Tom DeSavia $16.99
Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide (2nd Edition, Revised) by Josiah Howard (FAB Press) $29.95
Essays
In a Car On a Road Going to a Place by Caitlin McCann $24.99
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin $28
DIY
Witches Guide to Wildcraft: Using Common Plants to Create Uncommon Magick by JD Walker $17.99
Magazines
Lost In #24 Veggies $13
Yes Magazine #98 summer $6.50
Mojo #331 june $11.99
Monocle #143 $14
Harpers Magazine jun $7.99
Bust #125 summer $7.99
Wire #447 $12.50
Offscreen #24 $22
Chap Books
You Make Me So Mad Sometimes by Caitlin McCann $12
I’m Home and Theres Nothing by Dustin Struckman $5
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Stuff From Fiddlers Green!: Place of the Song Dream: The Animal Spirituality of Kenneth Grahame by Clint Marsh and Timothy Renner $6, Purple Thread: The Supernatural Doom of Oscar Wilde by Nina Antonia, Illustrated by Nathaniel Winter-Hebert $10, Tales From Fiddlers Green vol 1 edited by Susan Redington Bobby $15
Someplace Special, edited by Aim Ren Beland and Cynthia E. Hanifin $10
The Most Unwanted Zine by Liz Mason $5
Razorblades and Aspirin #12 $8
KerBloom #149 In Which I Interview My Nine-Year-Old by Artnoose $2
Freaky 4 Farley: The Many Moods of Motern Quaterly by Leor Galil $5
Weeds Never Die by Heather Anacker $4.99
Gay Ass Dishes $8
zines by Lucy Isadora: Hail King Kong: A King Kong Fanzine $5, X Zine X
Adita #12 A Day in the Air $4
Somnambulist #35 Tax Deductible Rome $5
Crystal Ephemera: A Prosaic Mosaic by Cold Prick Lee $5
zines by Kat Crow: Things Listed Things Understood, We Will Survive, Universe Next Door and more.
Wishbone #10 $6
Macedonia Disposables Oct 2017 – May 2018 by Nick Ramsay $12
Halcyon Days: A Group Zine by Dirty Art Press $12
One VVoman Show Juxtaposition by Kassandra Pinero $12
Skurt Cobain #3 A Zine About the 90s by Jolie Ruin & friends (Riot Grrrl Press) $2
Weird Tales: The Iconic Pulps, Chicago Connections by Joe Muszynski $4
Never Step In the Same River Twice: The South Branch of the Chicago River Across Time and Space by Annie Howard $5
Image Not Found: Captions to Burning Men Photos $5
Quit Your Job And Eat Pizza #4 & #5 $2 each
Comics & Minis
Bubbles #10 An Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8
Love and Rockets Magazine #10 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez $4.99
Cuts of Me #1 by Nacho Nova $8
Bird Comic #1 & #2 by Ruby Giles Carter $6 each
New Wave Comics Presents #17 and #18 $1.50
Magic Depressive #38 A Words Issue by Cacciola $3
Graphic Novels
My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts (D&Q) $19.95
Chartwell Manor by Glenn Head (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Poison Flowers and Pandemonium by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Fictional Father by Joe Ollmann (D&Q) $24.95
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre by Alverne Ball & Stacey Robinson $15.99
Pizza Punks by Cole Pauls (Conundrum) $15
The Comics Journal #307 winter spring 2020 Comics and Animation $16.99
Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows by Rose Eveleth $24.99
Black Star by Eric Anthony Glover & Arielle Jovellanos $24.99
The Wonderful Year Book by Becca Taylor $24.95
Art & Design Books
Sign Painting: A Practical Guide to Tools, Materials, and Techniques by Mike Meyer & Better Letters $35
Politics & Revolution
How to Think Like an Activist by Wendy Syfret $14.99
The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All by M. V. Lee Badgett $18
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose $30
Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat $17.95
Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction by Margrit Schiller (PM Press) $19.95
The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State by Eric Laursen (AK Press) $16
Essays
What We Don’t Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life by Joann Wypijewski $19.95
F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow: A True Story by Action Bronson $26
Hotel: My Cancer Story by P. Guizzetti $5
Mayhem & Outer Limits
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition by Elizabeth Kendall $16
Fiction
Juneteenth: A Novel by Ralph Ellison $25
Poetry & Chap Books
Lydia Tomkiw Poems, edited by Dan Shepelavy (Universal Exports of North America) $15
Music Books
Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother by G’Ra Asim $24.95
Magazines
Tape Op #143 june july $5.99
Shindig #114 april $13.99
The Baffler #57 $14
Jacobin #41 $12.95
AnOther Magazine vol #40 $22.50