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Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON: SNAX Release Party + Zinemaking Hangout, Nov. 18th!
Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON: SNAX Release Party + Zinemaking Hangout!
7-9 p.m. Friday, November 18
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue
Free!In November, Zine Club Chicago is gathering in person to celebrate the release of SNAX, its fresh-off-the-presses collab zine! Join us at the bookstore from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, November 18 to meet some of the awesome SNAX contributors, make fun-sized mini zines with us and, of course, share some snacks!
The SNAX Release Party + Zinemaking Hangout will be Zine Club Chicago’s first in-person event since February 2020 here at Quimby’s. We’re excited to get together with our local friends! We’ll have zinemaking supplies and snacks on hand. Please feel free to bring a treat to share, if you like. Masks are encouraged when you’re not snacking.
SNAX contributors, you’re welcome to pick up your free copy of the zine at the party. We’ll have copies for sale at the shop and on our website, as well.
Online friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in December to ring out 2022 with an extra fun holiday event! If you’d like to get together virtually with zine friends this month, please join us at Zine Party, hosted by Zine Club Chicago fave Michael Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, Nov. 8. For more info and to get the Zoom link, visit zine.party.
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. Thank you to SNAX Co-Editor Rachel Hyman for creating our flyer this month!
More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.
Image description: A multi-colored flyer featuring a collage of various snack foods, the red-and-blue Zine Club Chicago logo, images of a stapler and a pair of scissors, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON! SNAX Release Party + Zinemaking Hangout; 7-9 p.m. Friday, November 18; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.; Free!; Info: quimbys.com”
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Piscean Footnotes #2 A Quaranzine by Lynne Monsoon $3.50
Everything Is Fine #7 The Mother and The Crone by Nyxia Grey $8
Zine Explosion 1985-1995: A Personal History by Burf Quimby $6
Religion, Politics, Sex #1 The Race Issue by Robert T. Glen $5
Papercuts Library issues #1-#3 $5.99
Errorsmith issues #1 & #2 by gluerazor $3
Fruiting Bodies: An Illustrated Journey Through the Garden of Mycological Delights by Heather Andhercats $12
Comics & Minis
issues of Ghouls by Josh Simmons: #0 $.50 & #2 $2
Elizabeth Von Dracula #1 and #2 by Patnaude Nicholaus $2.50 each
Graphic Novels
I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB vol 3 After the War by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Bagel High: Comics About Bagels That Go To High School by Mikey Heller $8
Political
Feminist International: How to Change Everything by Veronica Gago $26.95
Music Books
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music and Fame by Lisa Robinson $27.99
33 1/3: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads by Santi Elijah Holley $14.95
Outer Limits & Mayhem
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden $30
The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography by Andy Sharp $16.95
Beyond the Occult: The Astonishing Conclusion to the Occult Trilogy by Colin Wilson $21.95
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God by Claire Cronin $16.95
The Penguin Book of Exorcisms by Joseph P. Laycock $17
Food & Drugs
Pizza: History, Recipes, Stories, People, Places, Love by James Elliot and Thom Elliot (The Pizza Pilgrims) $29.99
Classy as Fuck Cocktails: 60+ Damn Good Recipes for All Occasions by Calligraphuck $15.95
100 Best Cannabis Strains: A Pocket Guide for Medicinal and Recreational Use by Michael Blood M.S.W. $14.99
Design
Infra-Ordinary Chicago by Meg Studer $12
Fiction
Echoes of a Natural World: Tales of the Strange & Estranged edited by Michael P. Daley (First to Knock) $15
Kraft: A Novel by Jonas Lüscher $26
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates $18
gods with a little g by Tupelo Hassman $18
Who Fears Death (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Nnedi Okorafor $17
The Phlebotomist by Chris Panatier $14.99
Humor
Pussweek: A Cat’s Guide to Feline Empowerment By Cats For Cats by Bexy McFly $16.95
Magazines
The Believer #133 december $12
The Monthly Review vol 72 #6 november $6
The Internationalist #61 $1
Dazed and Confused fall 2020 $13.20
Skeptical Inquirer vol nov/dec $5.99
AnOther Magazine vol #39 $22.50
Mother Jones Special Issue 2020 How Trump Bungled Americas Coronavirus Response $9.99
Other Stuff
Death Mirror Holographic Sticker by Corinne Halbert $3
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Video Game Art Gallery Celebrates the Release of Issue 2 of the VGA Reader at Quimby's, March 9th
Come join the staff of the Video Game Art Gallery, the editorial board, and their colleagues in celebrating the release of issue 2 of the Video Game Art Reader, a scholarly peer-reviewed art history publication. The VGAR is an attempt to not only deepen the discourse around video games, but to also make it more accessible to the public and inclusive of marginalized voices. The theme for this issue was “survival strategy,” an investigation not just into the defined genre of “survival games,” but the methods by which all games can become tools for conditioning, coping, and creating within the digital world. Issue 2 includes works by Martin Zeilinger writing on the limits of digital performance art, Andrew Bailey examining how exploration of digital spaces can transform understanding of physical ones, Michael Anthony DeAnda investigating the consequences of digital surveillance, Luisa Salvador Dias discussing how video games depict war, Michael Paramo arguing for better representation of queer characters, and Treva Michelle Legassie probing the implications of rendering oneself in a video game. This issue also includes a practitioner statement by Elizabeth LaPensée on her water-protecting side-scroller, Thunderbird Strike, and an interview with the evocative game designer and scholar Anna Anthropy.
The event will begin at 7pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be served. Copies of the latest VGAR will be available for sale, as will the Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition catalogue, also produced by the VGA Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
For more info:
mreed(at)vgagallery(dot)com
Sat, March 9th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Egg Cream vol 1 by Liz Suburbia (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $11.99 – Serving up a delicious concoction of sweet, sweet comics, chilled to frothy perfection — Liz Suburbia returns with a new annual, collecting the newest and best that she can dish out. We’re talking dog dreams, modern day saints, and the first installment of the ongoing feature Sacred Heart part 2, “Livin’ in the Future” (exclusive to Egg Cream)!
Zines
Cheap Toys #22 by Giz $4
Homocats Modern Problems $12
One Month of Drawings by Brandon Alvarado $18
Soggy Velvet by Golda Pinals $20
Comics & Minis
Worn Tuff Elbow #2 by Marc Bell (D+Q) $8
Fifty Flip Experiment #24 Jan 19 by Dan Hill $5
Pregnant and Fired by Meghan Turbitt $5
True Pooch: Real Stories Of Love, Loss And Leashes edited by Alessa Kreger $7
One Thing at a Time Bud by Kevin Budnick $8
Emotional Data Test Tube Sugar Baby by Abby Jame (Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club) $6
Graphic Novels
Jumbo Mumbo (Tinto Press) $24.99
Fistful of Drawings: A Graphic Journal by Joe Ciardiello (Fantagraphics Underground) $25
Monkey Chef: A Love Story by Mike Freiheit (Kilgore Books) $19.95
Fred the Mustard Packet Does the Scottish Play by Tommy Cannon $12
Drop Target Omnibus by Alec Longstreth (Birdcage Bottom Books) $29.99
Off Season by James Sturm (D+Q) $24.95
Fiction
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis (Catapult) $23
Magazines
Cinema Scope #77 $5.95
Smith Journal #28 $18.99
Maximumrocknroll #429 $4.99
Mojo #303 $11.25
Lit Journals
The Believer #123 $12
N+1 #33 $14.95
For the Kiddies
Skateboarding Animals Alphabet by Rex Flodstrom $24.99
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
Basic Paper Airplane #12 Interview Issue by Joshua Amberson $3
2 Brian Cotnoir titles, $10 each: The Alchemical Wedding & On the Homunculus
Rejected Zine #1 by Troy Kody Cunio $3
Pfff by Chad Cook $5
Lana Del Rey Is That Bitch: A Zine by Mattie Ganson $2.50
Zines/Comics from Sara McHenry: Hard to Love #7 & #8 $3 each
Comics
Cloud by Tom McHenry $5
Politics, Revolution & Current Events
Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance by Michelle Akanji / Friedrich Von Borries (Lars Muller Publishers) $29.95 – Signs, photos, art, text and more from the last 50 years of protest.
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States, Revised and Updated by Priscilla Murolo / A. B. Chitty, with illustrations by Joe Sacco $19.99
Art Books
Off the Wall: Art of the Absurd by Victionary $34.95 – Talking pets, repurposed pop-culture icons & more from 20+ artists.
Local Interest
Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins / A. Brad Schwartz $29.99
Mayhem
Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky $17
The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court by Patricia Barnes-Svarney / Thomas E. Svarney $21.95
Fiction
Eat Only When You’re Hungry by Lindsay Hunter $16
The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas $15.95 – Hilarious stories of a dog who simply won’t stop howling on social media, a very bad date that births an unforgettable meme and more!
Micro Novels by Tory Seller $14.99
Magazines
AdBusters #139 $14.95
Shots #140 $8.25
Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez (Haymarket) $16
Android Poet American Tongue by Troy Kody Cunio $4
Time Snail by Brian Cotnoir $5
Secrets of Daydreaming by Nathaniel Bek $12
I Come From There by Joy Stokes $9.99
Chicago Review vol 61 #3 and 61 #4 $15
Kids Stuff
3×4 by Ivan Brunetti (Toon Books) $12.95
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Hot Air Balloon Duels! Space Drinks! Junk Drawers! The Antelope Release Party at Quimby’s 9/8
Stop by Quimby’s on September 8th at 7pm to check out the release party of your new favorite journal of oral history and mayhem, The Antelope. Co-founders Elisa Shoenberger and Meghan McGrath have put together a great issue, featuring falconers, beekeepers, swashbuckling Frenchmen, drone hobbyists, space-themed drink recipes, artifacts of early flight, comics, poetry, blimp disasters, and more. This event will include a reading from contributor and fancy sweater-wearer Joe Mason, sharing tales of never-ending sushi, and at least one hot balloon duel. Eric Bartholomew’s famous Junk Drawer zine will make a special appearance, with historical Chicago artifacts galore.
“Elisa and Meghan are quirky and fun scholars interested in oral history and mayhem, and they’ve edited a wonderful magazine.” Quimbys.com
Elisa Shoenberger is a freelance writer who has written for the Boston Globe, Hello Giggles, City Creatures Blog, Curbed Chicago, and others. Meghan McGrath is a wombat enthusiast, community radio DJ, and security ethnographer based in New York.
For more info:
antelopemagazine.com
Facebook event invite for this event
The Antelope in the Quimby’s on-line store
theantelopemagazine(at)gmail(dot)com
Saturday, September 8th, 7pm – Free Event
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Zizobotchi Rises at Quimby's: Selected Readings from Volume 2 on Friday, March 2nd
Join us for a night of selected readings from Zizobotchi Papers: volume 2, fall, 2017.
Zizobotchi Papers is a literary journal dedicated to the novella. Think double feature, with a paperback spine instead of a marquee.
Jeff Phillips will read from his latest novella, God’s Least Likely to Succeed, about the derailing of a secret agent’s first day on the job by an ancient cult’s infiltration of their operation.
Erin Makowski will read from Dan MacRae’s latest novella, The Dollmaker’s Grin, where an altercation changes a shuttle bus driver’s life, for better, and for much much worse.
Copies of the book will be for sale for $13.
Find out more about Zizobotchi Papers on the web at Zizobotchi.com
Jeff Phillips is a washed up varsity cross country skier and storefront theatre method actor. For two years he was co-host of The Liquid Burning, an apocalypse themed reading series, and for just shy of three years, he co-hosted the Chicago reading series Pungent Parlour. His short fiction has appeared in Seeding Meat, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Metazen, Chicago Literati, and Literary Orphans. He is the co-founder of Zizobotchi Papers, a literary journal dedicated to the novella and a regular contributor of short stories and essays at the site Drinkers With Writing Problems. You can find him on Twitter as @TheIglooOven or at theotherauthorjeffphillips.com
Erin Makowski has been acting and singing since her childhood. Her first production was as Gretel in ‘The Sound of Music’. Most of her younger years were spent in the Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso going from the high seas in ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ to a little maid in school in Mikado. After her early schooling in the theater Erin received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College right here in Chicago. Erin has worked with many companies in town, played extras on TV and sung her heart out for Cabaret audiences.
Fri, March 2nd, 7pm – Free Event
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Black Eye Number 3 Release & Signing 2/18
This event is occasioned by the publication of BLACK EYE No. 3, the final and timely volume of the Ignatz-nominated Black Eye, the anthology of humor and despair published by Rotland Press. This all-comics issue compiles 136 pages with a jaundiced eye on the zeitgeist. Subtitled “A Shameful Enlightenment,” it is a riff on the absurdity of our times, as charted by a coterie of 36 international cartoonists. Black Eye No. 3 will thrill, sicken, amuse, titillate, horrify, and fortify. This event is an opportunity to bring together five of the contributing artists who are based in Chicago: Andy Burkholder, Corinne Halbert, Paul Nudd, Onsmith and Johnny Sampson. Copies of BLACK EYE No. 3 will be available for purchase, as well as a limited edition letterpress print by Paul Nudd, and a limited edition risograph print by UK artist Ben Jones. The Sightseer’s Complement, a limited run, 40-page supplemental book to Black Eye No. 3 will also be available for purchase and signing.
“Ryan Standfest brings together an exquisitely curated collection of funny, dark, and beguiling comic art for Black Eye No. 3. I’m going to read my copy by a roaring arson blaze.” —Kaz, Creator of the comic strip Underworld
The contributors to Black Eye No. 3 include: Alexis Beauclair, Tom Bunk, Andy Burkholder, Max Clotfelter, Mark Dancey, Kayla E., Vincenzo Fagnani, Penelope Gazin, Julia Gfrörer, Anna Haifisch, Corinne Halbert, Eric Haven, Ian Huebert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Clara Bessijelle Johansson, Francis Kulikowski, Meghan Lamb, David Lynch, John Maggie, Nicolas Mahler, Jérôme Mulot, Erik Nebel, Paul Nudd, Onsmith, Pierre La Police, Helge Reumann, Josephin Ritschel, Martin Rowson, Florent Ruppert, Johnny Sampson, David Sandlin, S. William Schudlich, Santiago Sequeiros, Sammy Stein, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Chris Wright The cover is by Joan Cornellà. The book is edited by Ryan Standfest.
Founded in 2010, ROTLAND PRESS is a small publishing house located in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is a publisher of printed projects that promote subversive humor— be it black, dark, gallows, satirical or absurd. ROTLAND PRESS aims to occupy a place between the mainstream and the avant-garde, the philistine and the genteel, industriously manufacturing the finest in despairing entertainment. Ryan Standfest in the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief. More info: rotlandpress.com
Sat, Feb 18th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
We got a bunch o’new gifty stuff! Cat tiki mugs, inflatable cat wizard hats, plague doctor air fresheners, squirrel coffee cups, and more!
*ZINES*
People in the Backseat by Bobby Burg $5.00
Loose Ends and Loneliness: A Zine About Transition Times by Allison Felus $3.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
comics by Shin Yin Khor (Sawdust Press):
Desert $4.00
Beast Darling $4.00
Tiny Adventure Journal Goes To Petrified Forest $8.00American Spirits Freelance Ghostbusters #1 by Andi Santagata $7.00
Sorry Youre Ill by Inbal Amit $3.00
Wage Slaves vol 3 by John Bailey $8.00
Secrets by Jasmin Mejia $3.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Chicken: A Comic Cat Memoir by Terese Jungle $17.99
Robusto by Wostok and Friends $12.00
*ART & DESIGN*
Outlaw Bible of American Art by Alan Kaufman (Last Gasp) $39.95
Uptown and Downtown: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps by Alan Bortman $34.99
Ferragosto Book 1 by Jonathan David Lange $25.00
*FICTION*
You Are Having a Good Time by Amie Barrodale $14.00
Angels of Detroit by Christopher Hebert $27.00
Year Two Hundred by Agustin de Rojas (Restless) $18.99
*ESSAYS*
Oh Florida: How Americas Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country by Craig Pittman $26.99
*MAYHEM*
Witchcraft: A Handbook of Magic Spells and Potions by Anastasia Greywolf (Wellfleet Press) $16.99
Supernatural Serial Killers: Chilling Cases of Paranormal Bloodlust and Deranged Fantasy by Samantha Lyon & Daphne Tan (Arcturus Publishing Limited) $9.95
Gangster Women and the Criminals They Loved by Susan McNicoll (Arcturus Publishing Limited) $9.95
*DRUUUUGS*
Steven Cerio’s ABC Book: A Drug Primer by Steven Cerio $12.95
*SEXY*
Elska #6 Istanbul Turkey $18.50
BDSM FAQ Your Antidote to Fifty Shades of Grey by Faith G. Harper $4.00
Good Girls Rot Bad Girls Too by M Zinkovitch $5.00
*MAGAZINES*
Juxtapoz #187 Aug 16 $6.99
Fader #104 $6.99
Furore #21 $15.00
Wicked Vision Magazine vol #1 $18.00
Puss Puss #4 $24.95
Sneaker Freaker #35 $12.95
Sick Muse #3 Jun 16 $5.00
Tom Tom Magazine #26 Roots $6.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
After Hours #32 and #33 Sum 16 Journal of Chicago Writing and Art Afterhours $15.00
Monocle vol 10 #95 Jul 16 $12.00
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Chicago Alternative Comics Expo presents Kramers Ergot 9 Signing 6/10
CAKE is excited to present a signing event for Kramers Ergot 9, with CAKE Special Guest Sammy Harkham. Joining the signing will be contributors Andy Burkholder, Anya Davidson, Kevin Huizenga, Patrick Kyle, John Pham, and Lale Westvind.
“I think this is the best issue yet and I couldn’t be happier doing it with any other publisher. Fantagraphics is the place where the best of the low brow and the literary strands of comics are equally represented and cherished on their own terms, and that’s something I have always strived for with Kramers, as well. So it’s a great fit.” – Sammy Harkam
Since Kramers Ergot ‘s inception in 2000, it has introduced new talents and solidified aesthetics; each volume is an of-the-moment, state-of-the-medium manifesto. This anthology has always been a reflection of creator/editor Sammy Harkham’s comics passions, both past and future. Kramers Ergot 9 gathers many of the best and brightest together in one giant, oversized collection.
Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo [CAKE], 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. The Fifth Annual CAKE will take place on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12, 2016, at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted Ave. in Chicago. For more info about CAKE: cakechicago.com & Max Morris cakeexpo(at)gmail(dot)com.
This event is sponsored by Revolution Brewery, and will have refreshments provided while supplies last.
Friday, June 10th, 7pm – Free Event
Click here to see the Facebook event to invite your friends!
