Category: on Zoom

Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25 on Zoom
Free!

Happy Pride Month! In June, Zine Club Chicago will be celebrating zines created by LGBTQIA+ zinemakers, so bring your favorite self-published perzines, diary comics, radical treatises, how-to guides + more to discuss during the conversation! Queer zinemakers are especially encouraged to share their own work.

Grab your fave queer zines to share, BYOG(ushers) and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Pride Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 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 5 p.m. CT Monday, June 24 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 25.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event 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 the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event invite link here.

P.S. Thanks to everybody who came out to the May Zine Club Chicago meeting at Quimby’s with Alex O’Keefe of DnA Artists! Download the zine that everybody contributed to so that you can print and assemble it HERE!

Image description: A rainbow version of the Zine Club Chicago logo, which features an illustration of a lightbulb with a zine inside of it.

Zine Club Chicago Online: Return of Zine Bingo Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23 on Zoom
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is bringing back Zine Bingo! Our twist on the classic game will give everyone an opportunity to go on a scavenger hunt through your own zine collections.

Check out our bingo card, grab your zines, BYOS(nacks) and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Return of Zine Bingo Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

Here’s how our version of Zine Bingo will work: We’ve created a zinecentric bingo card that you can find in this post and at quimbys.com. (We’ll all be using the same card for the game; feel free to print it out or download it). Each box on the card represents a category of zines that you might have in your collection; for example, a how-to zine or a zine about cats.

Before we meet, search your collection and find one zine that corresponds to a category in one box from each vertical row on the card. The rows are marked with the letters Z-I-N-E-S. Each box also has a number in the corner. (Y’all are welcome to bring zines that correspond to more or fewer than one box per row, or to not bring zines at all and join us just to hang out.)

During our event, we’ll randomly pull bingo balls marked with the letter and number of each box on the bingo card. Folks with a zine that fits the category in the box we’ve called will then tell us about the zine they brought. We’ll keep going until we get a collective bingo! (Everyone is a winner at Zine Club Chicago.)

** 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 5 p.m. CT Monday, April 22 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23.

-> Please note that we’ve changed the RSVP cutoff to 5 P.M. CT on the evening before our online event! <-

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers and 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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

More info at the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event link is here.

Image descriptions

A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with an image of a round wire receptacle filled with bingo balls, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Return of Zine Bingo Edition; Online! Free!; Zoom info + bingo card on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, April 23, 2024”

A handmade Zine Bingo board with a description of a different category of zine in each square.

Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition

7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22 on Zoom

Free!

Who are your zine heroes? This month, Zine Club Chicago is honoring the zinemakers we admire, those illustrious creators whose work most thrills and inspires us. Not all heroes wear capes, but ours might be wielding a long-arm stapler.

Grab your favorite zines made by your personal self-publishing icons, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 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. CT Monday, August 21 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Aug. 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 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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Description of image #1: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of zine hero (and former Quimby’s employee) Neil Brideau of Radiator Comics, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”

Description of image #2: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of a stack of Crap Hound zines, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”