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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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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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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramNo New Stuff Saturdays Livestream this week but here’s the new stuff post a day early!
Zines & Zine-Related
Long Arm Stapler COZY by Heather Anacker! Made exclusively for Quimby’s!!! $20
Freaks and Geeks: A Fanzine by Lizzie Robillard (Fluke Publishing) $5
Christopher Coppola Fanzine $5
Feline Frustrations by Colt Hack $5
Five Day Death Workbook $12
Words and Smiles #5 $4
Comics & Minis
Stuff from Nick Bunch/Reptile House Comix: Reptile House issues #7 & #8, Blood Horn #1
Lemonade Tango #1 by Henry Uhrik $7
Comics by Wyatt Phillips & friends: Shitty Presidents, Everything Rots & more
On Sneaking by Jon Inaki $10
Multiple Comics by Kai Lumbang: All Boys Leave Home, End Comes Beyond Chaos, Celestial Summons & more.
Kitchen Witchen & DIYing & Parenting & Doing Things
Hang In There Kitten TEA TOWEL by Heather Anacker $12
Kitchen Witch: Natural Remedies and Crafts for Home, Health, and Beauty by Katie Haegele & Nadine Schneider (Microcosm) $19.95
Woke Parenting: Raising Intersectional Feminist, Empathic, Engaged, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids While Still Having a Life by Faith G. Harper & Bonnie Scott (Microcosm) $14.95
Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm) $14.95
Graphic Novels
Too Tough to Die: An Aging Punx Anthology edited by Haleigh Buck and J. T. Yost (Birdcage Bottom Books) $20
Comrade Himbo featuring Aim Ren Beland & friends (POMEpress) $25
Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo vols 2 & 3 by Drew Weing
Mayhem
Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth by Jessica Dore $27
Magic: A History from Alchemy to Witchcraft From the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden $20 – Now in soft cover.
Fiction
C.A.T.S.: Cycling Across Time And Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories about Bicycling and Cats by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $12.95
Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin $18
Druuuuuuugs
Dopeworld: Adventures in Drug Lands by Niko Vorobyov $18.99
Chap Books, Poetry, Lit Journals
Titles by Blau, $5 each: Existential Crisis, Organized Chaos
Schematics and Assemblies of the Cosmic Heart by Gary Gautier $10
Pity Party by Nicholas Herrera $13
Taddle Creek #47 C Holiday 2021 $2.95
Magazines
Apartamento #28 $30
Essays
The 88 Keys That Opened Doors by Charles Joseph Smith edited by Kate Hutchinson $15
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition, Dec. 14
Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 14 on Zoom
Free!For Zine Club Chicago’s last event of the year, you’re all invited to make mini zines with our merry crew! Let’s celebrate this festive season together with a laidback virtual hangout. A swap by mail will be held after the event for folks who’d like to share the mini zine they made, too.
All you need to bring is a few sheets of paper, a writing utensil, and your creativity. If you’ve never made a mini zine before, here’s a quick video tutorial (and we can provide any assistance you need at the event, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUzo41dh5Q
Grab your zinemaking supplies, BYO(H)oliday(T)reats, and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Holiday Zinemaking Hangout + Swap Edition at 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 14!
** RSVP required ** To help make sure that online Zine Club Chicago 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, December 13. You’ll receive the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CST that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’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.
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Talkin' Turkeys Edition
Zine Club Chicago Online:
Talkin’ Turkeys Edition
Tues, Nov 23rd, 7:30pm CT on Zoom
Free!This month, we’re going to be talkin’ turkeys … not the Butterball variety, but the type that gets cooked up by artists, writers, and makers. We’re inviting you all to share your own creative endeavors — bunglesome zines, clunky poetry, inconsequential comics, not-so-persuasive essays, visual art that missed the mark, overwrought teenage journal entries, etc. — that make you laugh when you recall them now. Let’s take a fun, lighthearted look at some of the less-than-perfect stuff we’ve created as we’ve explored our chosen art forms!
Grab your not-so-fine feathered endeavors, BYO(S)nacks, and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Talkin’ Turkeys Edition!
** 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, November 22. We’ll email you the Zoom link by 11 p.m. that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs Zine Club Chicago’s monthly flyers, created the ZCC logo, and also made this awesome Zine Club Shoutout database of zines people talk about at Zine Club!
More info: event link at Facebook + @zineclubchicago on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
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Zine Club Chicago Online: PURRzines Edition + Hallowine Celebration, Oct. 26
Zine Club Chicago Online: PURRzines Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, October 26 on Zoom
Free!Last month, Zine Club Chicago discussed perzines … this month, they’re welcoming the spooky season with a celebration of PURRzines!
Cats of all stripes have slunk across the pages of countless zines and into our hearts. In October, Zine Club Chicago will be discussing zines about our feline friends and other mysterious creatures (both real and imaginary)! This also will be the group’s annual Hallowzine celebration, so costumes — for humans and #zinepets alike — are highly encouraged.
Grab your fave zines about cats, BYOT(ricks)&T(reats), and join in on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: PURRzines Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, October 26!
** Zoom info ** Zine Club Chicago wants to make sure that its events are a safe space, so 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. CT Monday, October 25 (the day before the event). You’ll receive the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CT that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’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.
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Anne Elizabeth Moore Talks Perzines and Memoirs with Quimby’s Online Nov 5th
Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Gentrifier: A Memoir (Catapult Books) is ostensibly about a free house the author was awarded in Detroit in 2016. But after she moves in, pets some cats, and gets to know her delightful neighbors, the murky history of her supposedly free house—more costly than expected—comes to light, illuminating the contemporary American housing crisis. Moore writes about gender, policy, and the downside of capitalism (all of it), plus she includes many jokes, so her books are pretty good. She has been self-publishing since she was 11 and will talk about using zines in a writing practice, and memoir in a self-publishing practice.
Don’t miss Anne on the Quimby’s Instagram, livestreaming on Fri, Nov 5th at 7:30pm CT at instagram.com/quimbysbookstore where she’ll talk with Quimby’s employees and fellow veteran zinesters Liz Mason and Cynthia E. Hanifin, in what promises to be a lively discussion. Because this is a livestreaming workshop event, viewers are encouraged to come prepared with questions to ask about the differences between perzines (as in personal zines) and memoir, moving from one to the other, and incorporating zines into a writing practice and/or memoir writing into a self-publishing practice. Part workshop, part craft talk, part book discussion, part interactive discussion with the audience, this event promises to be fully unpredictable and most definitely fun.
For a limited time! While supplies last, with the purchase of this book, you will get a signed bookplate by Anne Elizabeth Moore, in celebration of this November 5th event! Get Gentrifier at Quimby’s Bookstore here.
“I don’t know how Anne managed to write the funniest book I’ve read in years and the most honest one about the scramble of American life, but she did.” —Jace Clayton, Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
Anne Elizabeth Moore was born in Winner, SD, and currently lives in the Catskills with her ineffective feline personal assistant, Captain America. In 2019, her book Sweet Little Cunt won an Eisner Award. Body Horror was nominated for a 2017 Lambda Literary Award and a Chicago Review of Books Award, was listed as a 100 Best Books Of All Time on the Political Economy by BookAuthority and named Best Book by the Chicago Public Library. Threadbare made the 2016 Tits & Sass list “Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work.” Cambodian Grrrl received a 2012 Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism. Unmarketable was Mother Jones’ Best Book of 2007.
For more info: www.anneelizabethmoore.com
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Perzines Edition with Special Guests Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest, Sept. 21
Zine Club Chicago Online: Perzines Edition with
Special Guests Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, September 21 on Zoom
Free!This month, Zine Club Chicago has a lot to celebrate! The group is incredibly excited to welcome two special guests, Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest, to discuss one of the most compelling and enduring genres in self-publishing: Perzines.
In a world where too many voices still go unheard, perzines (short for personal zines) thrive at the intersection of the personal and the political, where our individual stories can inspire connection, hope, and revolutionary action. Jonas and Red will talk about their own deeply personal zines, their favorite perzines, and the fest they’re organizing to bring together perzine makers and fans from across the region. Everyone is invited to bring your own most-loved perzines to share, too!
The members of Zine Club Chicago also will be breaking out their finest fizzy beverages and snacks to commemorate Quimby’s’ 30th anniversary! This September marks three years that the store has sponsored Zine Club Chicago, too.
Grab your fave perzines, BYOB(ubbly), and join in on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Perzines Edition with Special Guests Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, September 21!
** Zoom info ** Zine Club Chicago wants to make sure that its events are a safe space, so 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. CT Monday, September 20 (the day before the event). You’ll receive the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CT that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’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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Zine Club Chicago Online: You're In My World Now Edition with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko, August 24
Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition
with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 24 on Zoom
Free!This month, Zine Club Chicago is really excited to welcome their first guest host, Chris Sienko! This zine enthusiast has been invited to lead a discussion about an intriguing theme he’s devised: Zines that take you into another world, especially through idiosyncratic writing or topics.
Many zines are created to convey information, whether they contain reviews, interviews, recipes, or travel dispatches. But sometimes, no matter the topic, you’ll find a zinemaker who just doesn’t follow any of the conventions of information delivery — they have a personal language of their own, their own shorthand or catchphrases that you don’t hear anywhere else. These types of zines are like a strange roadside attraction where you pull off to see something new and find a person who has created their own world and stored it in little glass jars and on display tables, offering you a glimpse for just a buck or two.
Grab your zines that are worlds unto themselves, BYOS(nacks), and join in on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko at 7:30 p.m. CT August 24!
Chris Sienko has been writing about noise, music, and all the permutations in between for over 25 years. He’s the co-author of As Loud As Possible, a large-format noise zine published in 2010. He’s written for such print and online publications as Muckraker, Blastitude, Dead Angel, Vulcher, Fördämning, and the forthcoming third issue of a zine simply called “untitled.” He’s written liner notes and feature-length interviews for such bands and solo projects as Ceramic Hobs, Sudden Infant, Sewer Election, The Rita, Jason Crumer, and LHD. Chris covered experimental music performances in Chicago via the Gapers Block music site, Transmission from 2007 to 2015.
When not ruining his hearing, Chris is a movie buff and has hosted the Stiff-Legged Film Festival, an obsessive, endurance-defying, money-losing event out of his home since 2001, a high point being a three-weekend, fifty-film 1970s sci-fi dystopia fest in 2016. Chris lives in North Park with his wife, Wendy, a 15-minute walk from the NEIU campus and, hopefully soon, from screenings by the Chicago Film Society.
** Zoom info ** Zine Club Chicago wants to make sure that its events are a safe space, so 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. CT Monday, August 23 (the day before the event). You’ll receive the Zoom link via email by 11 p.m. CT that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’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
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Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition, July 27th
Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, July 27 on Zoom
Free!
Celebrate International Zine Month #IZM2021 with us as we recognize zines as passports to places we want to go, both geographical and metaphorical!
When summer hits its peak, the open road beckons. And this year in particular, many of us are dreaming about and making plans for travel to locales both far and near. This month, we’ll be answering the call to adventure and exploring zines about travel!
Grab your fave travel zines (bonus points for bringing zines that include hand-drawn maps!), BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, July 27 on Zoom!
** Zoom info ** 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, July 26. We’ll email you the Zoom link by 11 p.m. that evening.
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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer 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 at social media channels: @zineclubchicago
