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New Stuff This Week
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From Robert T. Glen: “I Will Think You are Dead If You Don’t Hurry and Write”: Whiny, Snarky and Demanding Antique Vintage Postcards 1906-1943 $6, Minizine About Notable Football Games issues #1-#3 $1 each, Religion Politics Sex issues #4A-#4C $4-$6
Zines by Max Kurbat $3-$5: Pictures of My Cat, The Witness, Autopsy Report
My Little Underground issues #2 & #4 by Shannon McMahon $9 each
A Violent Break by Oscar Eduardo de Paz $15
Grey Matter Gravy #4 Chris Marker’s La Jetée by Michael Verdi $6
Bootleg Bob’s: An Aquatic Panda Distro Collab Zine by Andrea Pearson $5
X Kool Kids #8 $5
I See Myself in You by William J O’Brien $10
Stuff by Joe Galbrath: Hot Dogs and Hot Spots #1 $8, Big Delights: Celebrating the Comic Book Ads of Hostess Snack Cakes #1 $4
Zines by by Lil Pistons $1-$2: How A Bagpipe Works, Cafartic #1, Snailmate Fanzine & more.
Comics
First Good Time by Aim Ren Beland $6
Shit Dates issues #4 + #5 by Mel Stringer $10 each
How to Get Found by Bigfoot by Ellie Gerken $15
What Do You See by RSB, IB & TB $2
Three Failures by Thayer Nicholas Grunstrom Brey $4
Graphic Novels
Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito $25
Essay Books
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler and illustrated by Manzel Bowman $14.95
Drop In: The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding by Deborah Stoll $29.99
Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song $27.99
Music Books
Mia Zapata and The Gits: A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution by Steve Moriarty $28.95
Fiction Books
Dead Stars by Bruce Wagner $19.99
Bright Objects by Ruby Todd $28.99
Tenth Anniversary Edition of each of the books in Jeff VanderMeer’s wildly popular Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) $18 each
LitenVerse vol 2 Defekt by Nino Cipri $14.99
Banal Nightmare: A Novel by Halle Butler $28
Outer Limits
Vampires: A Handbook of History & Lore of the Undead by Agnes Hollyhock $19.99
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Take Me Home by Sarah Fathima Mohammed $10
Rusted Radishes #11 Labor and Idleness $24.99
The Drift #13 $19.99
Magazines
Austin Seance Quarterly Journal Summer 2024 $5
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New Stuff This Week
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Gemini Rising #3 by Angel xoxo $7
East Village Inky #70 The Animal Issue by Ayun Halliday $3
SmittenKittenTX #1 Handmade Weirdness By An Over Caffeinated Vegan $5
Raging Opossum Press #1 $10
Thick Press stuff:
Things We Learned From Organizing Pods: A Conversation on Mutual Aid by Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy $5
Conversation About Death Penalty, Abolition and Social Practice by Erin Segal and friends $2
and more.Peng 33 #3-#5 $10 each
Parachutist by Joe Fletcher $10
I’m Not I’m Not I’m Not A Baby by Dev Murphy $12
Comics
666 #3 Money – A Horror Anthology $10
Blvd At a Time of Day by Tori Holder $5
Yokai Tha Menace $4
Graphic Novels
Search and Destroy Vol. 1 by Atsushi Kaneko & Osamu Tezuka (Fantagraphics) $14.99
Freedom Shall Prevail: The Struggle of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish People by Sean Michael Wilson & illustrated by Keko (PM Press) $19.95
Politics & Revolution Books
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America by Katherine Turk $22
War with Myself: Essays on Design, Culture & Violence by Ian Lynam $20
Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017–2023 by David Van Deusen (PM Press) $19.95
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement by Susannah Gibson $29.99
The Awakening of Latin America by Ernesto Che Guevara $24.95
Magazines
Elska #47 Munich Germany vols 1 & 2 $20 each
Local Interest
Midwest Shreds: Skating through America’s Heartland by Mandy Shunnarah (Belt Publishing) $24
Chap Books
If You Need It by Edie Roberts $12
I Regularly Practice Holding My Breath by Talia Gordon $15
Zero by Tyler Little $15
Comfort Event by Todd Colby and Joanna Penn Cooper $10
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramView this post on InstagramThe livestream was super janky today! We had to restart it and the buzzing was insane! Next week we’ve got a fancier device to film on. ENJOY.
Zines
Double Star by Echo the Human $5
Wandering Days: Belle and Sebastian and Me, 1996-2024 by Mike Appelstein $5
Walk Off Hot Issue 6 by Charly Fasano $6
The Wonder of It All #13 $3
KerBloom #168 $2
Comics
Who Ate My Pudding by Gaocanyue Zhu $8
New Wave Comics Presents issues #24 & #25 by David Soileau and Reginald Wayne Soileau $2 each
Scumburbia Mega-Sized Mall Issue by Sam Grinberg $15
Katydid Funeral by Samantha Wilson $6
Comics by by Cameron Hatheway, $5 each: Farrago Sketchbook Comics #1, Ultrafugu vs Mothugu
Comics by Muchen Wang: Hot Dog $10, Smoothie $3 & more.
Comics by S. Maloney: 2 issues of Queer Ecology, $10 each: Earthworms, Kobudai Fish
Grixly issues #65 & #66 by Nate McDonough $3 each
Unpunctual Submission of Thee Imperial Egg by Trevor Adams amd Nate McDonough $1
Graphic Novels
Parasyte Full Color Collection 7 by Hitoshi Iwaaki $19.99
Essay Books
Pieces of a Girl by Stephanie Kuehnert $17.99
Mayhem & Outer Limits
On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy by Brian Cotnoir (Watkins) $16.95
Jude’s Seasonal Herbal Remedies: Recipes for Natural Healing by Jude Todd & Carly Wall $16.99
Vodou, Voodoo, and Hoodoo: Explore the Evolution of Caribbean Magic by Sebastien de la Croix & Diamantino Fernandez Trindade $16.99
Mastering the Art of Witchcraft: Building a Practical Foundation by Frater Barrabbas & illustrated by Keith Ward (Crossed Crow Books) $21.95
Fiction
Pink Slime: A Novel by Fernanda Trías $24
Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa $15.95
Drainman by RW Spryszak $11.25
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Rotten Teeth Candy Heart by Halliday Carpender $5
The First Line vol 26 #2 $6
Magazines
Uppercase Magazine #62 $24
Cut Me Up #13 $18
Plus!: Notebooks Galek Sea! Stickers and patches new and restocks by Adam JK, Papio Press & Chris Adams! And more!
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PeePee PooPoo #1 Release Party, Aug 23rd
PeePee PooPoo #1 Release Party
with Caroline Cash, Gina Wynbrandt, & Bonnie Guerra
Sat, Aug 23rd, 7:30pm at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave, ChicagoCongrats to Caroline Cash! Her comic PeePee PooPoo won an Eisner for Best Limited Series! As a Quimby’s alum, we’re awfully proud of her. She’ll come back to Quimby’s this month to celebrate the release of PeePee PooPoo #1!
Four issues into the series and we finally get PeePee PooPoo #1! Was it time travel, or a marketing move? The world may never know! In this issue: Caroline discovers a fresh start is surprisingly hard to make in “Ah, Philly.” Romance blossoms in “First Date,” a classic Alison Bechdel comic gets an update in “Femme and Butch,” and a night out turns complicated in “Stoned Again.” Caroline Cash’s gay, modern take on the ‘60s underground comic continues to make readers say “hell yeah.”
Join us in store at Quimby’s on Fri, August 23rd at 7:30pm with readings by Caroline Cash, Gina Wynbrandt, and Bonnie Guerra!
Caroline Cash (above) is an Eisner-winning cartoonist who used to live in Chicago. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, VICE, The Nib, The Chicago Reader, and various other publications. She is currently working on her award winning series PeePeePooPoo. She is a Capricorn. @cash_browns
Gina Wynbrandt is an artist living in Chicago. Her work has been featured in The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, printed in The Best American Comics, nominated for two Ignatz awards, and translated into Danish, Norwegian, and Spanish. Find her at ginawynbrandt.com.
Bonnie Guerra is a lesbian cartoonist living in Chicago IL, who draws cute furries and humans having gay sex. With her humor, wits, charm, and DD cups, she is going to change the comics industry as we know it. Find her at @Hotchickheaven @Bxxxnie
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Quimby’s July 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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It's July! Celebrate International Zine Month 2024
July is International Zine Month! Celebrate the wonderful world of independent publishing with daily activities. Download a higher res of this year’s flyer of daily prompts here!
Flyer design by Jordan Ducree, a graphic designer and web technician in Portland, Oregon. Text inspired by the continued celebration of IZM set forth by Alex Wrekk and other contributors since 2009, updated in 2024 by Novie Nimble and Joshua James Amberson of Antiquated Future.
#IZM2024
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New Stuff This Week
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Looping the Loop: A Horror Story by Four Typewriters With Assistance by Charles McKelvy $8
This Old Typewriter Typing Tales by Ronald J. Remington and illustrated by Lisa Quinlan Heibutzki and Charles McKelvy $20
Fluke #21 The Colossus Compendium $5
Cautionary Reflections by Leah Spears $4
Sad Unicorn by William J. O Brien $10
Comics
You Don’t Get There From Here issues #61-#63 Diary Comics by Carrie McNinch $4 each
Bottom’s Up! by Barbara Benas (Silver Sprocket) $9.99 – On sale 7/31!
CCC #1 Comics College Chicago – Introduction to Comics: A New Magazine of Comixschool USA Notes $10
Nonprose #2 by Kevin H. $5
Compost This Zine by Mel Dempsey, illustrated by Sean Dempsey $2.50
Graphic Novels
The Wendy Award by Walter Scott (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95
La Arruga vol 1 by Jimena Lloreda Droz $24.99
Moomin Adventures: Book One by Tove & Lars Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95
Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology edited by Rafael Grampa & Janaina de Luna (Fantagraphics) $29.99
The Nancy Show: Celebrating the Art of Ernie Bushmiller edited by Peter Maresca & Brian Walker (Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books) $22.99
Art & Design Books
Insectile Inspiration: Insects in Art and Illustration (Victionary) $45
Politics & Revolution Books
Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination by Jon Greenaway $14.95
Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin $18
Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control by Betsy Phillips (Third Man Books) $21.95
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes (Haymarket) $20.95
Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism by Richard Gilman-Opalsky (AK Press) $21
Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front by Craig Rosebraugh (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95
Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change edited by Premal Dharia, James Forman, Jr. & Maria Hawilo $20
Music & Film Books
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock (Akashic) $26.95
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Willow Maclay & Caden Gardner (Repeater) $19.95
Help
Unfuck Your Shame: Using Science to Accept Our Feelings, Resolve Guilt, and Connect with Ourselves by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95
Utopian Witch: Solarpunk Magick to Fight Climate Change and Save the World by Justine Norton-Kertson (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95
Fiction
Lo Fi: A Novel by Liz Riggs $29
The Body Harvest by Michael J. Seidlinger $17.95
On Strike against God by Joanna Russ, edited by Alec Pollak (Feminist Press) $17.95
Newspapers
County Highway vol 2 #1 July August 2024 $8.50
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Rotten Teeth Candy Heart by Halliday Carpender $5
Moss Piglet July 2024 The Dance Issue $12
…and:
Riso printed composition notebooks by Next Chapter Studio – various sizes!
Astrology Diary 2025 $22.95
Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner 2025 $19.95
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Chicago Zine Fest + Midwest Perzine Fest, Oct 5th
Quimby’s is a co-sponsor for Chicago Zine Fest and Midwest Perzine Fest 2024. CZF will house MWPZF in the Perzine Alley!
The exhibition day for Chicago Zine Fest / Midwest Perzine Fest 2024 will take place Saturday, October 5 (11 am-6 pm) at the Columbia College Student Center (754 S Wabash Ave). All events during the weekend are FREE and open to the public!
Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops and the big expo day where 100+ zinesters sell and trade their zines. Midwest Perzine Fest features local, midwestern and perzinesters* from across the country!
*as in “personal zine,” eh?
More info coming soon!
CZF poster by @onlinevalentine
MWPZF poster by @angel.xoxoxoxox
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CAKE Chicago, Aug 24th + 25th
Quimby’s is a proud co-sponsor of CAKE 2024, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo.
CAKE 2024 will be held:
August 24 (11am-6pm) – August 25 (11pm-5pm), 2024
WHERE:
Zhou B. Art Center1029 W 35th St.
Chicago, IL 60609
Free and open to the public!
Special guests include!:
More info at cakechicago.com.
2024 Poster is by the talented Jasjyot Singh Hans.
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Zine Camp at the Richard J. Daley Branch of the Chicago Public Library, July 21st
Zine Camp 2024 presented by Zine Club Chicago
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, July 21, 2024
Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library
3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport
Free!
Zine Camp, the annual summer camp-style hangout for folks who love zines presented by Zine Club Chicago, returns this July at a new location in Bridgeport!
Zine campers, get ready for a fun day of zinemaking, workshops, zine trading, socializing, snax, and more! Newbies and Zine Club Chicago regulars alike are welcome at Zine Camp 2024, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, July 21 at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport. Free!
Camp activities include:
*Fortune teller zine workshop led by Larry Wolf!
*An impromptu rhyming zine appreciation jam led by Ayun Halliday!
*Mixtape-themed zine workshop led by Cynthia E. Hanifin!
*Zinemaking stations for adults and kids!
*All. the. snacks! (s’mores and more)Zine Club Chicago also be hosting a pen pal station so you can strike up a correspondence with an out-of-town zine friend! Can’t make it to Zine Camp and want a pen pal? Sign up here: tiny.cc/ZineCamp2024PenPals
Feel free to drop in anytime between 1-5 p.m. and stay for as long as you like. Zine Camp homebase will be the indoor Community Room at the Richard J. Daley library branch, with activities around the fountain outdoors as weather permits. Make sure to visit the brand-new Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library while you’re in the Community Room, too!
Need a map, directions to help you get there, accessibility information, and details about our afterparty? You can find all the info about Zine Camp 2024 (including where we’re going for the afterparty!) at zine.camp + @zineclubchicago + quimbys.com
Zine Camp is made possible by the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library and branch manager Jeremy Kitchen; Quimby’s Bookstore and shop manager Liz Mason; and zinemakers Lucinda J. Williams and Johnny Misfit.
Shoutout to the Zine Camp Counselors: Aim Beland, Michael Verdi, Ayun Halliday, Liz Mason, and Cynthia E. Hanifin.
Thank you to Aim Beland for designing the Zine Camp 2024 logo and poster!
Facebook Event Link is here!
Image description
A blue flyer with the illustration of an orange tent made out of a stitchbound zine and a tree branch, with this text: “Zine Camp 2024; A (free) meetup for those who love zines!; Brought to you by Zine Club Chicago; 1-5 p.m. July 21th; Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. (Bridgeport, Chicago); for more info, visit zine.camp”
Note: this event is not at Quimby’s!