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Zine Club Chicago Online: Fest Finds Edition with Special Guest Co-host Jordan Sea of Sonoma County Zine Club, June 20th!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Fest Finds Edition
With Special Guest Co-host Jordan Sea of Sonoma County Zine Club
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 20 on Zoom
Free!Zine fest season is in full swing, so this month Zine Club Chicago is inviting y’all to share your fave finds from Chicago Zine Fest, CAKE, and other in-person and online events that center self-publishers. We’re super excited to welcome a special guest co-host, Jordan Sea of Sonoma County Zine Club, to give us a West Coast perspective on the return of zine fests around the country!
Grab the best zines you’re scooped up at recent festivals, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Fest Finds Edition with Special Guest Co-host Jordan Sea of Sonoma County Zine Club at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 20!
** 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 19 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, June 20.
Observer, contemplative, seeking engrossment, zinester, mom, following too many podcasts. Jordan Sea has been a fan of zine culture for 20 years but only started writing Rain Barrel in 2020. Out of a deep longing for Chicago’s zine community and with a desire to enliven zine culture and find other zinesters near them, they began the Sonoma County Zine Club in 2022. Jordan sells their own zines and those of their family on their Etsy store. Their writing has appeared in Snax and Behind the Zines, with their latest Rain Barrel issue featured in Anna Jo Beck’s Zine-A-Month. You can also find Jordan on Instagram at @rainbarrelzine.
Sonoma County Zine Club is a collaborative space to create and share zines in community. Activities are usually informal, open for folks to work on whatever they wish. Different art supplies are provided, like markers, tape, scissors, rubber stamps, glue sticks, paper, and more! Occasionally a collaborative zine is made on a particular topic. The library provides the space and fun snacks! Sonoma County Zine Club meets on the first Tuesday night of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sebastopol Regional Library in Sebastopol, CA.
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. Facebook link here.
Image description #1: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with the crowd photo from Chicago Zine Fest 2023, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Fest Finds Edition with Special Guest Co-host Jordan Sea of Sonoma County Zine Club; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 25, 2023”
Image description #2: A photo of zinemaker Jordan Sea, who is smiling and has pink and black hair and rhinestone-studded cats-eye glasses.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Forever Haunted by Cynthia E. Hanifin $2
Exclusive Thoughts issues #1-#8 by J Kern, $1 each
zines by Nune Gigirassy, $5 each: Zine Snail, What Do I Do With All These Dandelions, How to Grow Your Own Tinymato
Trash Fashion Show $12
Walt Loved Zines #5 and Projection Booth #2 by Lynne Monsoon and Jami Sailor $11
Butch Nor Femme #15 by Lynne Monsoon $4
Love Me Love Me Please Retweet – An Artpop Fanzine by Megan Kirby $5
3 2 1 2 3 by Michaela Chan $5
Comics
Futile #9 by Mike Centeno $10
Bar Bee by Dmitry Bondarenko $10
Woke With Extreme Distress: A Zine Collective $5
House Divided by H. Jones $2
Lab Rat #3 by Michaela Chan $5
Graphic Novel
Another Day In Paradise by Megan Kirby (Fruit Bat Press) $20
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz $30
Listen, Beautiful Márcia by Marcelo Quintanilha (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Out of My Head: The Imaginary Creatures of Josep Baqué edited by Brian Chidester $49.99
Art Books
Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive by Danzig Baldaev & friends (Fuel) $55
New Tattoo Artists: Illustrators and Designers Meet Tattoo edited by Mariona Cabassa (Hoaki) $29.95
Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti (Verso) $24.95
Politics, Revolution & Essay Books
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller $18.99
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies edited by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson & Bry Reed (PM Press) $22.95
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (Verso) $19.95
Beneath the Pavement: The Garden an Anarchist Coloring Book for All Ages by NO Bonzo (PM Press) $10
Decolonize Multiculturalism by Anthony C. Alessandrini $19.95
Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints and Queerness Through the Ages by Dan Jones $19.99
Music Books
The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth by John Robb (Manchester University Press) $36.95
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson $17.95
Funny Ha Ha
Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book by Scott Aukerman & friends $29.99
Fiction
La Batarde by Violette LeDuc $18.95
Isolate by Apollo Camembert $12.95
Stories by Michaela Chan $7
Doin’ Stuff
Linocut: Learn In a Weekend by Nick Morley (Skittledog) $16.99
How to Be a Rule-Breaking Letterer: A Guide to Making Perfectly Imperfect Art by Huyen Dinh $19.95
Magazines
Broken Pencil #99 $7.95
Chap Books
Words to Humanize Me #1-#3 by emmtropywrites $3.50 each
Better Than What by Michael Buckius $15
Chap Books by by Jordan Lee Tung: Dandelion Triptyph $2, Autobiographic Asphyxiation $5, Swat Team Gun Barrel Exorcism $5
Wheels
Locals Only: 30 Posters: California Skateboarding 1975–1978 by Hugh Holland $29.95
Other Stuff
All Bets Are Off Playing Cards by Tuesday Bassen $14.95
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Quimby’s May Newsletter Available Now
Read it here and make sure you sign up to get it in your inbox at quimbys.com.
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Zine Club Chicago In Person: Choose Your Own Adventure Zine Workshop With Jude R. Bettridge, May 26th!
Zine Club Chicago In Person: Choose Your Own Adventure Zine Workshop
With Jude R. Bettridge
7-9 p.m. CT Friday, May 26
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.
Free!In May, Zine Club Chicago is excited to welcome Jude R. Bettridge to lead a workshop that gives Choose Your Own Adventure a zine twist! Jude will demonstrate how to make multiple folded, mini-zine formats that offer readers a chance to explore. Create stories that lead to different outcomes, sending your favorite characters on an epic quest of your choosing!
Join us for Zine Club Chicago In Person: Choose Your Own Adventure Zine Workshop at 7-9 p.m. Friday, May 26 here at the shop. We’ll have zinemaking supplies and snacks on hand! Masks are strongly encouraged when you’re not noshing.
Jude R. Bettridge (they/them/theirs) is a Chicago-based Jack-of-all-trades artist, whose focus shifts from comics and zines to oil painting and fiber sculpture as often as they change their pants. Their comic work draws inspiration from the great Art Spiegelman, Bill Watterson, and Beth Hetland as they depict the daily struggles of being a neurodivergent super-queer social anomaly in a late-stage capitalistic hellscape. Often featuring fantastical characters and their fat cat, Gravy Boat, their work takes on a cynical, sarcastic lens to talk about mental health, trans rights, environmentalism, queerness, socialism, and much more. Is this a coping mechanism? Maybe. In a nutshell, they just want to talk about zines, queerness, and have someone read their comics.
Out-of-town friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in June with a to-be-announced special guest co-host! If you’d like to get together virtually with zine pals in May, check out Zine Party!, hosted by Michael Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, May 9. For more info and the Zoom link, visit next.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.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event here.
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a black-and white image in the center featuring a sword, treasure map, and various other adventure-themed images, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Choose Your Own Adventure Zine Workshop in Collaboration With Jude R. Bettridge; In Person! Free!; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; 7-9 p.m. Friday, May 26, 2023”
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Zine Club Chicago Hosts a Post-CZF2023 Hangout, May 21st!
12-2 p.m. Sunday, May 21
Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave.
Free!Going to Chicago Zine Fest?* Let’s keep the fun fest vibe going all weekend! Zine Club Chicago is hosting a meetup (with snacks, of course) from 12 to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 21 here at the shop. Spend time with your zine pals and make new ones, eat some cookies, browse fresh arrivals in the shop, and drop off your consignment items.**Free! Masks encouraged. More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event here.* We’ll be there! Look for the Quimby’s and Zine Club Chicago tables at #CZF2023.** Please note that we have moved to an email-only consignment check-in system and will not be able to make consignment payouts or check current stock levels of your consignment items during the hangout.Image description: A black-and-white, cut-and-paste event flyer that reads: “Join Zine Club Chicago for a Post-Chicago Zine Fest Hangout! 12-2 p.m. Sunday, May 21 at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; Free!: Meet up with zine friends and make new ones!; Drop off consignment items!; Eat cookies!; Masks encouraged; More info: quimbys.com” -
Quimby's April Newsletter Available Now
Read it here and make sure you sign up to get it in your inbox at quimbys.com.
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Independent Bookstore Day Indie Bookstore Crawl – Saturday, April 29, 2023
Stop at Quimby’s during the annual Indie Bookstore Crawl (IBD) on Saturday, April 29th, the one-day national party celebrating Chicagoland indie bookstores. Use the map at ChiLoveBooks.com to learn about how to participate and plan your itinerary.
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Riotous Zines Edition, April 25th!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Riotous Zines Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 25 on Zoom
Free!From snarky observations and arch takes to wacky puns and sight gags, zines make excellent vehicles for all kinds of humor. This month, we’ll be discussing — and cracking up about — our favorite titles that make us smirk, giggle, and LOL!
Grab the funniest zines in your collection, BYOS(ense)O(f)H(umor), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Riotous Zines Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 25!
** 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, April 24 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, April 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 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. Facebook event here.
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with the cartoon image of a person laughing with their mouth wide open, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Riotous Zines Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 25, 2023”
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March Quimby's Newsletter Out Now
Here’s March’s newsletter (or click below)! Sign up to get our monthly newsletter in your inbox here!
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Zine Club Chicago In Person: Chicago Stories Edition, March 24th!
Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON: Chicago Stories Edition
7-9 p.m. CT Friday, March 24
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave
Free!The big-shouldered metropolis we call home has inspired countless self-publishers, so this month Zine Club Chicago is celebrating zines about Chicago! We’ll be bringing back our discussion-meets-show-and-tell format for this in-person gathering, so please bring your favorite Chicago zines to share.
Join us for Zine Club Chicago In Person: Chicago Stories Edition at 7-9 p.m. Friday, March 24 here at the shop, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park. We’ll have snacks on hand! Masks are strongly encouraged when you’re not noshing.
Out-of-town friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in April! If you’d like to get together virtually with zine pals in March, check out Zine Party!, hosted by Michael Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, March 14. For more info and the Zoom link, visit next.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.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event here.
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with an image of the Chicago skyline and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Chicago Stories Edition; In Person! Free!; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; 7-9 p.m. CT Friday, March 24, 2023”
