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Zine Club Chicago Online: Pandemic Zines Edition on Feb. 22!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Pandemic Zines Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 22 on Zoom
Free!Two years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a global health emergency, forever changing the world as we knew it. During these pandemic times, many people have turned to zinemaking as a way to share their experiences, their knowledge, their fears, and their resilience.
This month, we’ll be discussing zines that focus on life in the era of COVID-19, including perzines, mini-comics, how-to guides and more. Grab your faves, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Pandemic Zines Edition at 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 22!
** RSVP required ** 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, Feb. 21 (the day before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Feb. 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 at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
Facebook event is here.
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New Stuff This Week
Zines
The Fat Chick Dating Myth by Jamie Kadas $4
Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood by Allyson Gonzalez $3
Whatever Is Vol. 2 #2 by Veggiebat $8
Brown Boy by Nishat Ahmed $10
Eppur Si Muove by Stacey Balkun $8
Man Ain’t Nothin by Jason McCall $10
Girl Detectives by Emily Capettini $10
How Wild and Soft You Are by Weaver Mechler Creekmore and Koester $10
Go Wolf Hunter by Khadijah Lacina $10
Shots #154 Win 22 Earthly Delights $10
Indoor Nature Journal by Jam Doughty $1
Janeway Protocol Catalogue of Captain’s Hairstyles by Jam Doughty $1
Yard Guys August 2020 by Jam Doughty $1
Orchidaceous by Jam Doughty $1
Desert Power Zine of Tough Buddies by Jam Doughty $1
Postage #3 Tilda Appreciation Issue by Jam Doughty $1
Congratulations You Got Poisoned The Untamed Fanzine by Francis FireMotif $6
Vernacular #1 $20
Vernacular #2 $20
Baffler #61 $14
Shindig #122 Dec 21 $13.99
Kinfolk #42 Win 21 $18
Three by Three #18 Illustration Annual $25
Mojo #339 Feb 22 $11.99
Harpers Magazine Feb 22 $7.99
Cinema Retro vol 18 #52 $11.99
Dazed and Confused vol 5 #274 Win 21 $13.20
In These Times Feb 22 vol 46 #2 $4.95
Breathe#43 $13.99
Comics & Minis
Mini Kus #103 Grandad Reg by Patrick Wray and Clara Heathcock $6
Mini Kus #104 Shooting by Pedro Burgos $6
Mini Kus #105 Lil Jormly by Christopher Sperandio $6
Mini Kus #106 Dawn of the Living Dead Near Kotka Morgue by Marko Turunen $6
Goiter Comics #6 by Josh Pettinger $8
Graphic Novels
DJ Cat Gosshie World Tour by Harukichi $16
Illustrating Spain in the US HC edited by Ana Merino $24.99
Politics & Revolutions Books
JFK to 9/11 Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick $29.95
Essays
Death of the Artist How Creators Are Struggling to Survive In the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresiewicz $19.99
Music Books
Up Above the City Down Beneath the Stars $28.99
Food Books
Why Vegan Eating Ethically by Peter Singer $15.95
Fiction
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler $27.95
I Am Stone The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist $15.95
Lit Journals
Quotidian Volume 2 Connections $24
Granta #157 Fall 21 $19.99
Iowa Review vol 51 #1 Spr 21 $8.95
Other Stuff
Let’s Get Strange and Unusual Greeting Card by Jamie Kadas $6
Girl of Your Dreams Greeting Card by Jamie Kadas $6
Love You to Pieces Greeting Card by Jamie Kadas $6
Man Pierced With Rocket by Eric Kirsammer $100
Small Collage by Eric Kirsammer $10
Medium Collage by Eric Kirsammer $15
Large Collage by Eric Kirsammer by $20
Comics Collage Poster Bigger Large by Eric Kirsammer $15
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Quimby’s January Newsletter Out Now!
It’s our monthly announcements and all that jazz. Have you subscribed yet so you’ll never miss it? Check out January’s and don’t forget to subscribe while you’re there.
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Zine Club Chicago Online x Meanwhile: Over the Hill Edition on Jan. 25!
Zine Club Chicago Online x Meanwhile: Over the Hill Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, January 25 on Zoom
Free!This month, Zine Club Chicago incredibly excited to hand over its event to the amazing minds behind Meanwhile Chicago, who will bring their unique zinemaking-meets-storytelling show to our little corner of Zoom. Expect thrilling performers, inspiring zine prompts, and the high-spirited fun that only the Meanwhile hosts can generate, all focused on the theme Over the Hill.
Performers will include Aim Beland, Linda Kawano, and Liz Mason & Cynthia E. Hanifin! The Meanwhile crew — Megan Kirby, Catherine Eves, and DJ Williams — will share zinemaking prompts so you can create along at home. All you’ll need is some plain paper and your favorite writing/drawing implement.
Grab your zinemaking supplies, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online x Meanwhile: Over the Hill Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, January 25!
** RSVP required ** To help make sure that online Zine Club 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, Jan. 24 (the day before our event). You’ll receive the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Jan. 25.
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 at quimbys.com and 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 InstagramWe’re skipping the New Stuff Saturdays Livestream this week, since we’re closed on this Saturday for New Year’s Day. Here’s wishing you a warm start to 2022. Enjoy!
Zines
Cineaste’s Guide to Chupacabras on Film by Damon Charles Bishop $10.50
Comics & Minis
Grand Station by Kelly Wang $20
Graphic Novels
Bad Dreams by Janek Koza (Centrala) $22
Politics & Revolution
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Menchers & Beth E. Richie (Haymarket Books) $16.95
Angela Davis: An Autobography by Angela Davis (Haymarket Books) $28.95
Music & Film Books
Where the Wild Gigs Are: A Trip Through Americas Legendary Underground Music Venues by Tim Hinely (HoZc Books) $24.99
Bunnyman: Post-War Kid to Post-Punk Guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen by Will Sergeant (Third Man Books) $19.95
Tape Leaders: A Compendium of Early British Electronic Music Composers by Ian Helliwell (Velocity Press) $35
These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World by Grady Hendrix & Chris Poggiali $39.95
Fiction
Imago by Octavia E. Butler $16.99
Essays
An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World from Delayed Gratification by Rob Orchard, Christian Tate and Marcus Webb $25
Witchy Stuff
Witch Life: A Practical Guide to Making Every Day Magical by Emma Kathryn (Llewellyn) $17.99
The Witches’ Sabbath: An Exploration of History, Folklore & Modern Practice by Kelden (Llewellyn) $16.99
Magazines
RFD #188 winter $11.95
Chap Books
Human Remains by O. Ashby $12
Sexxxy
Adventures of Liara Roux $16.95
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramQUIMBY’S COLA!!! by Caroline Cash, in collaboration with Marz Brewing!
View this post on InstagramGifty Shit
Nudie Ladies 2022 End of Herstory Calendar by Flannery Cashill $15
More stickers by Corinne Halbert & Mel Stringer (Eat Me, Pick Yourself Up and Try Again, Wheelie Cool Sticker by Mel Stringer, Fairy Dust)
Zines
East Village Inky #65 by Ayun Halliday $3
KerBloom #152 Sep Oct 2021 by Artnoose $2
Pandemic Movie Watchlist SECOND DOSE by Johnny Misfit $3
New Wave Chicken #9 (Fluke Publishing) $4
Push: A Cure Fanzine issues #1 and #4, $6 each by Arusha Baker & friends
zines from LMK, $6 each: Above All Else, Recipes, Deeper Meanings to Words and more.
Thirteenth Story #5 by Jaye Frisina $10
Handout #8 Rejection Letters $2
The Thread #17 a Memoir Personal Zine by Rachel Lee-Carman $5
Rubber Souls by industrialsewage $3.75
These Are All Inadequate Christmas Issue and issue #3 $3 each
December 3rd by JB $4
Papercuts Library #6 You and Your Phone Are Boring $5.99
Comics & Minis
Vacuum Decay #4 by Harry Nordlinger $10
Birth of Eggy Toad by Aim Ren $2
Municipal Threat Explotation (Fluke Publishing) $5
Graphic Novels
Peow Studio Press stuff! On Tour by Moa Romanova $12, Ice Cream and Beast by Iggy Craig $10, Berzerkid by Gax Vallez and Mikal Lopez $12, Brush Paradise by Mathilde Kitteh $15, Aeon 6 by Jules Naleb $12, Bark Bark Girl by Michael Furler $19, Witchcraft and Melancholia by Loic Locatelli Kournwsky $22, Magic Mayhem Metal by Tom Hunter $27
Good Boy Magazine #1 (Silver Sprocket) $9.99
Art Books
Connies Characters by Constance Volk $20
Music Books
Reversing into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977 – 1990 by Andrew Krivine $45
Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World’s Greatest Guitarists by Eilon Paz and friends $50
Essay Stuff
Flying High: Flags of the United States by Billy McCall $14
Slow Motion Heroics by Joshua James Amberson $10
New Stuff From GenderFail Press: Imperfect Archiving Archiving As Practice For a Love of Softness by Be Oakley $20, Behind Shut Eyes QTBIPOC Dream Anthology $25 & more.
Fiction
Especially Now SC by Jonas Cannon $5
Everybody Comes From Somewhere by Ira Sacharoff $14
Photography Books
PUSH: J. Grant Brittain – 80s Skateboarding Photography with words from Tony Hawk, Miki Vuckovich, Garry Scott Davis (Gingko Press) $50
Sexxxy
Elska #35 Casablanca Morocco $20
New York Hustle #1 $20
Magazines
Juxtapoz #220 winter $9.99
Breathe #42 $13.99
Progressive december-january $5.95
Aperture #245 winter $24.95
Vive Le Rock #86 $13.60
Wire #453 november $12.50
Heavy Metal #312 $13.99Poetry & Chap Books
31 Days The Self by Amie Zimmerman and Samantha Wall $15
Poetry by Connie Boje $5 each: My Life is a Library #12, Monster of Music #16
For the Young at Heart
Haymarket Books Fairy Tale Revolution series, $17.95 each: Duckling by Kamila Shamsie, Blueblood by Malorie Blackman, Hansel and Greta by Jeanette Winterson
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Introducing Quimby's Cola!
Pow! We are proud to unveil this: A Quimby’s COLA! Get it here!
We’ve teamed up with our friends over at Marz Community Brewing Co, down in Bridgeport, for a small run of tasty cola with the label designed by Quimby’s Bookstore cartoonist in residence Caroline Cash. The label spoofs Chris Ware’s multi-headed mouse from our logo, fightin’ it out, putting multiple meanings to the word POP! When you’re done enjoying the soda, put the bottle on display in your curio cabinet next to your Quimby’s 2016 QuimBrew that astute Quimby’s fans may remember, also a Marz collab that exists only in delicious memory.
You know what’s even more awesome? While supplies last, the Quimby’s cola comes with a limited edition risograph print screenprinted by Caroline herself! The catch? You gotta buy it in the store (sorry, this is for local folks in the store, not web orders).
Don’t snooze on this soda — it’s a small run of soda, and we only got a few cases, so grab it while we still got it!
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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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November 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.
