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Zine Club Chicago SNAX Collab Zine Call for Submissions!
SNAX
A Zine Club Chicago collab zine
Call for SubmissionsThe members of Zine Club Chicago love snacks (almost) as much as they love zines, so the group is celebrating their collective snackiness with a collab zine. Send in your writing, lists, comics, drawing, collage & more all about SNACKS!
Updated food pyramids made up only of snacks, an essay about discovering Zapp’s chips on your first trip to New Orleans, a renaissance-style still life of your favorite noshes, a power ranking of the most coveted sleepover snacks of 2000, a poem about your first experience of the munchies . . . if it pertains to the realm of the edible, Zine Club Chicago wants to know about it!
Submission guidelines: 500 words max for writing; 4.5” x 7.5” max, black & white + 300 dpi for artwork. (One submission per contributor, please; you’re welcome to submit images to accompany a written submission, or text to accompany a visual art submission.) Due to space limitations, please limit visual submissions to 2 pages max.
SUBMISSION LINK HERE: bit.ly/snackzine
Deadline: July 31, 2022
All contributors will receive a free copy of the zine! Zine Club Chicago is planning for an autumn 2022 release, and will keep everyone updated via the email address you provide.
Co-edited by Rachel Hyman, Liz Mason, and Cynthia E. Hanifin
Questions? Email zineclubchicago(at)gmail(dot)com
You don’t need to be a Zine Club Chicago member to submit, but all are welcome at the monthly Zoom meetups!
Want to know more about Zine Club Chicago? Check out their social media channels: @zineclubchicago
Please note that Zine Club Chicago reserves the right to reject any submissions that do not meet their guidelines.
Image #1 description: A purple illustration, accented with green on a peach background, of a bag of potato chips, with this text: SNAX; A Zine Club Chicago collab zine; bit.ly/snackzine
Image #2 description: An illustration of 2 green cake pops on a peach background, with this text: Send us your writing, lists, comics, drawing, collage & more all about SNACKS! Writing: 500 words max; Artwork: 4.5 in x 7.5 in max, black & white, 300 dpi; Submission deadline: July 31, 2022; Co-edited by Rachel Hyman, Liz Mason & Cynthia E. Hanifin; zineclubchicago@gmail.com; bit.ly/snackzine“
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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
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with images of a vintage-style food buffet, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Food Zines Edition Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, June 21”
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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”
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New Stuff This Week
Happy Saturday! Did you know that April 9 is National Unicorn Day? While we don’t have any mythical creatures in stock right now, we do have a TON of fun new stuff in the form of zines, comics, and books. Check out this fantastic list of fresh arrivals!
Zines
My Favorite Actor is a Dog by Aim Ren $2
Women in Print #8 $8
Razorblades and Aspirin #14 $8
Dealing with COVID: Hopefully Helpful Tips by Lost Fillings $1
Time’s Up: No More Rape Culture in Our Skate Culture by Smash the Skatriarchy $3.95
How It Felt to Me: The Further Writings of Annie Howard $11
Gothic Lyric Book by Karina Song and Blaketheman1000 $5
I Miss You by Karina $1
Cut Me Up #8: Guided by Instinct $18
Something Rather Than Nothing Zine #1 $4
Bad Year by Nick Greer $5
Comics & Minis
Ghouls by Jenn Woodall $12
Future #8 by Tommi Musturi $6
Teeni Bop #1 $4
Annual Eternia Bodybuilding Contest #1 $2
Forms Saint George and the Dragon by Ryan Shipman $5
Eschew #5 by Robert Sergel $8
Smear Girl of Clay #1 $2
Heavy Metal #315 $13.99
Reptile House #9 by Nick Bunch $5
Scoundrels Don’t Get Caught by Hannibal Gerald $6
Graphic Novels
Rave by Jessica Campbell $22.95
Hell Phone: Book One by Benji Nate $14.99
One Hundred Columns for Razorcake: The Complete Comics 2003-2020 by Ben Snakepit $11.99
Book Tour by Andi Watson $24.99
Mr. Lightbulb by Wojtek Wawszczyk $29.99
Squeak the Mouse by Massimo Mattioli $29.99
Fiction
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker Martin $17.99
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan $28
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer $18
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers $21
DIY Books
Creative Not Famous the Small Potato Manifesto by Ayun Halliday $14.95
Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture vol 6 by Alex Wrekk $15 – In fancy hardcover!
Everything Depends on Me: A Book About OCD by Alice DuBois $24
A Quick and Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez $7.99
Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting by Julia Illes $18.95
From Big Idea to Book: Create a Writing Practice That Brings You Joy by Jessie L Kwak $14.95
Music Books
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran $18.99
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland $30
Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury From Seattle by Keith Cameron $24.99
Essay & Culture & Memoir
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross $30
Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh $22
Mayhem & Outer Limits Books
Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley $15.95
Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy edited by Mike Ashley $15.95
Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink by John Miller $15.95
Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer by Christopher Berry Dee $16.95
Food & Drug Books
The Microdosing Guidebook: A Step-by-Step Manual by CJ Spotswood $19.95
Sexxy
Fantasy Lewds Erotic Anthology by Andy Hood $15
Experience Points: Illustrated Queer Smutty Stories by N.A. Melamed $12.95
Magazines
Little White Lies #92 $16.99
032c #40 $24.95
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Granta #158: In the Family $19.99
Kids Stuff
Illustoria #17 $16
Other Stuff
What A Time to Be Gay and Alive Bumper Sticker by Archie Bongiovanni $3
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Midwest Perzine Fest Online Perzine Reading on April 8!
This spring, Midwest Perzine Fest is celebrating perzines — and the friendships they help forge — with a virtual event featuring some amazing zinemakers! The Midwest Perzine Fest Online Perzine Reading will be streamed live on Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. Central Time on the MWPZF YouTube channel: tiny.cc/mwpzfyoutube
The readers for the event, who all will be sharing work on the theme of friendship, are Heather Anacker, Nichole Bael, Julie Halpern & Liz Mason, Jessie Lynn McMains, Lynne Monsoon, Red Schulte, and Alisha Walker. The evening’s moderator will be MWPZF founder Jonas.
This event is free! PayPal donations to support MWPZF (which is planning its first in-person Exhibition Day here in Chicago!) are greatly appreciated: midwestperzinefest@gmail.com
This event is sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Poster designed by our Cartoonist-in-Residence Caroline Cash.
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks II Edition on March 22!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks II Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, March 22 on Zoom
Free!We had such a great time last year getting a peek at how y’all organize your zines at home that we’re bringing back this theme! And this time around, Ed from The Word Distro will be giving us an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of the stacks at his distro HQ.
Some people meticulously catalogue their zines, while others toss them in random piles; for many of us, the ways we keep our zines fall someplace in between. In March, we’ll be discussing how we live with the zines we choose to bring home with us. Some of our favorite collectors will be showing us their stacks, and you’re invited to show off — or just talk about — your personal zine organizing system, too.
Get your collection in order (or leave it messy), BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks II Edition at 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, March 22!
** 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. CST Monday, March 21 (the event before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CST on Tuesday, March 22.
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 the group’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.
