QUIMBY’S WANTS YOU (to stay safe and get your weirdo reading material). Until further notice, we will temporarily close to the public until the end of March and assess at that time when to reopen. Both March and April in-store events have been cancelled. But lucky for you, someone will be here to fill mail orders and to provide curbside pick up.
How can you help us make sure that Quimby’s is still going to be here once this COVID business is past us?
Buy something over the phone with your credit card (773-342-0910) and we’ll bring it out to you in your car or bike at our curb (Mon-Fri 11am-5pm). We’ll pretend we’re on roller skates with a tray of fries. What to order? Some of what we sell you can view at our webstore and some things that aren’t for sale at our there are listed weekly on our QuimBlog, and you can get an idea of things that might excite you. Sometimes we post things on our Instagram too, so if you see something exciting on our social media, contact us at info@quimbys.com or call us at 773-342-0910 and we’ll make sure you get it.
Want to Zoom us to check out some stuff to make a more informed decision about a potentital purchase? Start a chat with us on Zoom by looking us up by our e-mail at info@quimbys.com. You can download the Zoom app at https://zoom.us/download.
Don’t want to use the website but you’re an introvert with crippling social anxiety and don’t want to talk on the phone? Yeah, it happens to everybody at some point. E-mail info@quimbys.com with us your credit card info as well as your billing and shipping info, but to keep it secure split numbers into 3 different e-mails (labelled 1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3).
In support of the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, March events at Quimby’s will postponed until a future unspecified date. The following March events will be postponed: the Isabelle Rizo tarot card reading on Monday, March 16th and the monthly Zine Club meeting on March 24th. At this point in time it’s too early to tell if our April events will be affected.
Until further notice Quimby’s Bookstore will continue to be open our regular hours, and of course you can shop a curated selection of our merchandise at quimbys.com and have items shipped to you or carried out to your car at the curb. For updates regarding store news stay tuned to quimbys.com. To stay informed about the virus straight from the primary source of the Illinois Department of Public Health, check their website here. Warmly wishing you safety and health,
Quimby’s is proud to be a sponsor of the 2020 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. CAKE features 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. More info at cakechicago.com.
CAKE 2020 will be held 6/13-6/14 11am-6pm at Broadway Armory (5917 N Broadway) in Edgewater.
Swimming In Darkness by Lucas Harari (Arsenal Pulp) $27.95
Nancy by Olivia Jaimes $14.99
Dakwakada Warriors by Cole Pauls (Conundrum) $20
Brain Bats of Venus: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton (1942-1952) vol 2 by Basil Wolverton and Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics) $44.99
Politics & Revolution
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein $27
Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum $27
The Chapo Guide to Revolution by Chapo Trap House and Felix Biederman $17
Fiction
Mycelium by Annette Weisser $15.95
Outer Limits & Mayhem
Sunshine On an Open Tomb by Tim Kinsella (Featherproof) $16.95
The Science of Monsters: The Truth about Zombies, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Legendary Creatures by Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl $14.99
The Good Reverend’s Guide to Infused Spirits: Alchemical Cocktails, Healing Elixirs, and Cleansing Solutions for the Home and Bar by Steven Grasse & Sonia Kurtz illustrated by Michael Alan $22.99
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman $17.95
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore by Fungipedia Lawrence Millman and illustrated Amy Jean Porter $16.95
Music Books
Out of Step: Washington D.C. Punk Interviews by David A. Ensminger $12
Girl In a Girl Band by Malia James (of the Dum Dum Girls) $35
Massive Attack’s Blue Lines (33 1/3 #140) by Ian Bourland $14.95
Everything Depends On This Depends On Everything 2020 Wall Calendar by Nikki McClure $18
Zines
Lady Teeth #9 by Taryn Hipp $5
Comics & Minis
more Marnie Galloway comics $5: Library, Home Altar
Demystifying Comics by Neil Brideau (Radiator Comics) $3
Wish You Were Pier by Elk Paauw $6
Fizzle #2 by Whit Taylor (Radiator Comics) $8
more Miranda Harmon comics: Turtles $2, One Weird Trick $4
Comics by Jackie E. Davis: Artists Melancholia $4, How to Draw Hands $3, My First Boyfriend $5 & more.
No Bones Nancy by AR Franklinstein $9
New Yerby 2020 by Liz Yerby $8
Graphic Novels
I Made 100 Comics in 100 Days: An Underpants and Overbites Collection by Jackie E. Davis $22.95
Press Enter to Continue by Ana Galvan (Fantagraphics) $19.99
The Tenderness of Stones by Marion Fayolle $32.95
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (D+Q) $29.95
Home After Dark: A Novel by David Small $19.95 – Now in soft cover.
Immersion Program by Leo Quivreux (Floating World) $19.95
Hat Boyz by Erick Pepper Rivera $16.95
Bloody Stump Samurai by Hiroshi Hirata $20
Taxi: Stories from the Back Seat by Aimée de Jongh (Conundrum) $17
Martin Peters by Patrick Allaby (Conundrum) $15
The Borgias by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara $29.99
Politics & Revolution
Belt Publishing titles: This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America by Jonathan Foiles $16.95, Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook by Martha Bayne $20, Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison By the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice $16.95
Outer Limits
Dangerous Games to Play In the Dark: A Guide to Summoning Spirits, Divining the Future, and Invoking the Supernatural by Lucia Peters $13
The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 87 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting by Joe Gillard $14.99
Nihilsim by Nolen Gertz $15.95
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism by Timothy Denevi $17.99
Consider the Platypus: Evolution Through Biology’s Most Baffling Beasts by Maggie Ryan Sandford, illustrated by Rodica Prato (Black Dog) $29.99
Film, Music & TV Books
Carnal Curses, Disfigured Dreams: Japanese Horror And Bizarre Cinema 1898-1949 (Japanese Film Perspectives) by Kagami Jigoku Kobayashi (Shinbaku) $26.95
The 33 1/3 B-sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums by Will Stockton (Editor), D. Gilson $19.95
All Gates Open: The Story of CAN by Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt $19.95
Fried and Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-ups and Breakdowns In the Record Business 1978-98 by Mick Houghton $19.95
Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen & Todd VanDerWerff $20 – Now in soft cover.
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman $17
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa $17
Health
Hysterical Why We Need to Talk about Women Hormones & Mental Health by Eleanor Morgan $18.99
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine by Jennifer Gunter $18.95
Fiction
Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate by Gary Lippman (Rare Bird Books) $18
The Ticking Heart by Andrew Kaufman $19.95
Magazines
Bitch #84 fall $7.95
Juxtapoz #211 fall $9.99
Bust #118 september october $6.99
Jacobin #34 summer $12.95
Poetry
Evolution by Eileen Myles $16 – Now in soft cover.
Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman $17.95
Fortune for Your Disaster Poems by Hanif Abdurraqib $15.95
