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South Side Zine Library Launch Party in Bridgeport, June 9th
Zine Club Chicago is thrilled to announce the launch of a brand-new South Side Zine Library! This free community resource, stocked with zines of all kinds, will be permanently housed in the Community Room at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library in Bridgeport.
To celebrate, Zine Club Chicago is pairing up with the Blue Ribbon Glee Club to host a launch party featuring the intermittent reading and performance series Three Songs, plus an open mic and zinemaking!
All are invited to the Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library Launch Party featuring Three Songs with the Blue Ribbon Glee Club on Sunday, June 9 at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport. Zinemaking begins at 1 p.m.; the Three Songs readings and performance will start at 2 p.m. Free!
For the Three Songs performance, a trio of featured readers will each share a story about one of the songs in the BRGC punk a capella repertoire, and then the group will sing it. The readers are:
- Nikki Roberts (Locals Only zine)
- Liz Olney (RadicleArts + BRGC member)
- Cynthia E. Hanifin (Pulaski at Night zine + South Side Zine Library founder)
- YOU! We’ll be hosting an open mic for anyone in the community who wants to tell their own music-related story.
More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago socials: @zineclubchicago
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 the monthly flyers and created the logo, and she also created the visuals for the South Side Zine Library.
Zine Club Chicago would like to thank the South Side Zine Library sponsors: The Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library + branch manager Jeremy Kitchen, Quimby’s Bookstore, Lucinda J. Williams, and Johnny Misfit.
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A flyer with an image of the Chicago skyline viewed from Palmisano Park in Bridgeport and this text: “Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library Launch Party! Featuring Three Songs with Blue Ribbon Glee Club; Readings by Nikki Roberts, Liz Olney, and Cynthia E. Hanifin; Punk a capella performance, open mic + zinemaking!: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 9; Richard J. Daley Branch, Chicago Public Library in Bridgeport; 3400 S. Halsted St.; More info: quimbys.com; Instagram: @zineclubchicago; chipublib.org
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Jail on Wheels: A Mid-20th Century Scared Straight by Jacqui Shine (Half Letter Press) $8
Long Way Home by Tanzen Lilly $7.50
Things We Bought at Harvestime, edited by Erin J. Watson $6
Ker-Bloom #167 $2
Zines by Ashley Hartman Annis, $6 each: Intro to Endometriosis, My Period is Late: Things to Know When You’re Freaking Out, Emergency Contraceptives & more!
Comics
Ghouls #4.25 by JHS $2
New stuff from Small Sword Press: Internal Inventory April 2024 by Kai Lumbang $8, Rats edited by Elijah Harrison, Jessica Milar Bentla & Kai Lumbang $5
Comics by N. Khan, $10 each: True Meowhem, Grimace Vacation
Dog Treats – The First Comic I Ever Made by Lily Christou $5
Flart Comix #1 $3.99
A Cure for Lemonade by Jeremy Estes and AP Comfort $10
Graphic Novels
What It Is by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95 – New soft cover edition!
Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol (First Second) $14.99
titles by Ethan Persoff: The Recovery of Charlie Pickle vols 1-3 $7 each, The Bureau $12
Stuff in a number of genres from Michael D. Davis: Animals in Formal Victorian Clothing: A Stranger Coloring Book $3.99, Mikey’s Horror Parody Book vol 1 Mocking the Movies You Hate Love and Never Heard Of $3.99 & more.
Art & Design Books
Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid and illustrated by Kara Walker $27
Street Art Cookbook: A Guide to Techniques and Materials by Benke Carlsson & Hop Louie (Dokument Press) $19.95
Outer Limits
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics by Ernesto Londono $29.99
Vril: Secrets of the Black Sun by David Hatcher Childress (Adventures Unlimited) $22
Sexxxy
Elska #09 Yokohama Japan vol 2 2024 edition $20
DIY & Health Books
The Witch’s Workshop: A Guide to Crafting Your Own Magical Tools by Melissa Jayne Madara $30
I’m Enough: An Illustrated Beginner’s Guide to Self-Acceptance and Interpersonal Relationships by Tenten Hosokawa & Hiroko Mizushima (Last Gasp) $16.95
Essay Books
Magical/Realism : Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal $29
Fiction
All Fours: A Novel by Miranda July $29
The House That Horror Built: A Novel by Christina Henry $18
My First Book by Honor Levy $27
The Instructions: 13th Anniversary Bar Mitzvah Edition by Adam Levin (McSweeney’s) $32
Food Books
Let’s Make Bread: A Comic Book Cookbook by Ken Forkish and illustrated by Sarah Becan $22
The Dawn of Food by Karen Mutton (Adventures Unlimited) $19.95
Music & Film Books
Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music by Toby Manning (Repeater Books) $35
Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers by Jared Stearns $23.95
The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema (2nd Edition, Revised) by Nikolas Schreck (Headpress) $31.95
FrightFest Guide to Mad Doctor Movies: The Dark Heart of Cinema by John Llewellyn Probert (FAB Press) $24.95
Poetry
Waders by Andrew Motion (McSweeney’s) $22
Essay
Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging by Michael Bond $27.99
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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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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Bloom, various issues (Baby Bloom Press) $8 each
new micro zines from by Jam, $2 each: Luminous Cells, Sea Babies
Hysteria Ramblings of a Self Described Madwoman #1 $4
Gumbo: A Chicago Magazine #1 $3
Meat Ball Head by Kat Tuesday $5
Human Issue #2 The House That I Always Dream About by Edwin Perry Manchester $5
Comics
š! Baltic Comics Magazine issues #49 & #50 (Kus) $14 each
Contact by Lucas Cisneros $12
Flavour Pack #2 Mar 2024 (TD Sequentials) $7
Girl Failure: A Small Comics Anthology About Girls Who Fail by Becki Z $10
Art Books
A Doorway to Joe: The Art of Joe Coleman with a foreward by Mike McGee and an intro by Tom Waits (Fantagraphics) $9.99
Music Books
Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey by Nige Tassell (Nine Eight Books) $18.99
Sonic Spells: Musicians and Music Lovers on the Magic of Music by Dana Cooper $15
Outer Limits & Mayem Books
The Way of the Will: Thelema in Action by David Shoemaker (Weiser) $19.95
Fiction
Cartoons by Kit Schluter (City Lights) $16.95
Body Farm: Stories by Abby Geni $27
On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane $17.99
The Guest: a Novel by Emma Cline $18
Exile in Guyville: Stories by Amy Lee Lillard $18
Good Night, Martha by Nancy Morton $12.95
Adventures of Zorax Zoomster by Shemar James $15
Essay(ish) Books
SLUTS Anthology edited by Michelle Tea (Dopamine X/Semiotext(e)) $17.95
Food Books
Noodles, Rice, and Everything Spice: A Thai Comic Book Cookbook by Christina de Witte & Mallika Kauppinen $22.99
For the Young at Heart
Club Microbe by Elise Gravel (D+Q) $17.95
Chap Books
Rest by Thomas Pol $5
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Quimby's Offsite: Emil Ferris Discusses My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two at Harold Washington Library Center, June 5th
Emil Ferris at the Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State Street, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Lower Level
Wednesday, June 5
6pm–7pmNot at Quimby’s.
The Chicago Public Library and Quimby’s welcome Emil Ferris to the Harold Washington Library Center to discuss her highly anticipated new book, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two. Emil Ferris will be in conversation with painter Kurt Devine.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold.
In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. Young Karen attends the Yippie-organized Festival of Life in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate Anka’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka’s heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother Deez of hiding. Ferris’s exhilarating cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them eariler. Visually, the story is told in Ferris’ inimitable style that breathtakingly and seamlessly combines panel-to-panel storytelling and cartoon montages, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster mag iconography.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is part of the My Favorite Thing is Monsters series.
Emil Ferris grew up in Chicago during the turbulent 1960s, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Find her at on Patreon here – on IG @emilferris on Twitter @Emilferrisdraws
How to Attend – In Person: Doors to the Auditorium open at 5:30 p.m., and seating is first come, first served (350 capacity). Quimby’s will be selling Emil’s book, and she’ll be available to autograph books at the conclusion of the program.
How to Attend – Virtual: This event will also take place live on CPL’s YouTube channel and CPL’s Facebook page. You’ll be able to ask questions during the event as well! Can’t make it to the live stream? CPL will archive the video on YouTube to watch later.
Accessibility: Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email access@chipublib.org to request accommodations. Requests must be made at least 14 business days before the event.
More info at the CPL Event Listing here.
Facebook event listing here.
Note this event is NOT at Quimby’s!
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Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O'Keefe, May 11th
Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives –
A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe
3 p.m. Saturday, May 11
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.
Free!This month, Zine Club Chicago is excited to welcome special guest Alex O’Keefe of DnA Artists as we each share personal narratives to form a group perzine!
Alex will walk participants through the process of creating a small auto-bio work (writing, drawing, collage — anything goes!) She’ll gather those stories to create an anthology zine, which everyone on the Zine Club Chicago Google group email list will receive for home printing after the event. A limited number of free print copies will also be made available at our shop (first-come, first-served).
Please join us for Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe, 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11 at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park. Free!
We’ll provide zinemaking supplies and snacks. Zine Club Chicago is a mask-supportive environment; we’ll have masks available if you’d like to wear one. Please note that seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Alex O’Keefe (she/her) is a Chicago-based artist, librarian, and storyteller. Her creative work often takes the form of comics, drawings, fiber arts, zines, and book arts. She is 1/2 of DnA Artists, who make bite-sized, humorous, and often informative zines, prints, and paper goods with an illustrative and comics aesthetic.
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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/
More info at the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
Flyer design by Anna Jo Beck, featuring an illustration by Alex O’Keefe.
Photo of Alex by Jamie Kelter Davis.Facebook event link is here.
Image descriptions
A red-and-blue infographic flyer featuring an illustration by Alex O’Keefe of a person wearing glasses and holding a zine, with text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Folding Pages, Unfolding Lives – A Collaborative Perzine Workshop led by Alex O’Keefe,; In Person! Free!; 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, 2024; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park”
A headshot of Chicago-based artist, librarian, and storyteller Alex O’Keefe.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Qwerty Quarterly #4 Shift Into Spring edited by Molly Snyder and Tea Krulos $5
Rate of Decay #5 Tyvek $2
The Lowbrow Reader #13 $4
Take the Box: An Amy Winehouse Lyric Zine $7
Grachki Mar 2024 and April 2024 $5 each
I Make Coffee at Home Every Morning and Yell Out My Name Incorrectly Once It’s Brewed $10
Rain Summer 2023 $12
King Bourbon by Steve Gentry issues #1 & #2 $5 each
Greetings From the Diaspora by Aliyah NC issues #1 & #2 $10 each
Room Tone issues #1 & #2 $4 each
Gray Flag #4 by Chris Auman $4.50
Birds of April 9th, 2024 by Renee Herlinger $4
Stories for How to Live Without Solid Ground $5
Shut Mouth $5
Uses of Punk Rock Based on True Stories $2
Comics
Some Gay Comics $5
Maypoles and the Summer Solstice $4
Comics by David Mahler $3-$4: Food Magik, Deep Park #1-#3, Paulau and Nem & more.
Nightblade One Shot: A Man Lost in Time and Reality by Toilet Comix Cru, edited by Nathaniel JK $8
Comics by Claire Yen, $20 each: Wavellite: A Comics Anthology & To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph
Graphic Novels
Blessed Be: A Flowertown U.S.A. Adventure by Rick Altergott (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Freddy Reno Went Missing by Don M. Patterson $24
Politics & Revolution
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (New edition with a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum) $21.99
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr. $12.99
Witness: An Insider’s Narrative of the Carceral State by Lyle C. May (Haymarket) $19.95
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah (Haymarket) $19.95
Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use by Justice Rivera $23.95
Outer Limits
Atlas of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places and Unimaginable Destinations by Travis Elborough $15
Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare edited by Jonathan Allen $40
Fiction Books
If Youre a Girl – Selected Stories 1985-2023 by Ann Rower $17.95
Nighttime Kingdom by William J. O’Brien $15
Zelda Rising by George Hook $18.95
Bad Seed: Stories by Gabriel Carle (Feminist Press) $15.95
Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories edited by Sarah Coolidge $16.95
Palestine +100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba edited by Basma Ghalayini $15.95
Young Mungo: A Novel by Douglas Stuart $18
Love in the Big City: A Novel by Sang Young Park $17
Druuuuuuugs
Mushroom Magic Dr. Sapphire McMullan-Fisher $19.95
Music Books
Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer (Expanded Edition) by Jah Wobble $17.95
In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Up with the Brian Jonestown Massacre by Joel Gion $30
Essay
Atlas of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance, Places and Unimaginable Destinations by Travis Elborough $15
Miseducation of a ’90s Baby by Khaholi Bailey $16.95
Magazines
Pink Slip #5 Root $15
Poetry, Chap Books & Lit Journals
Light Spun by Kwame Sound Daniels (Perennial Press) $16
Hemorrhaging Want and Water by Emily Marie Passos Duffy (Perennial Press) $18
Y Tu Tambien Extranas la Magia $2
Sin un Plan $2
Rock Pile Press #2 & #4 $8-$12
For the Young at Heart
The Cat Who Couldn’t Be Bothered by Jack Kurland $18.99
Zoo Menagerie: A Visit to the Zoo by Jo Fredell Higgins $13
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New Stuff This Week
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ZinesUsed Records and Tapes #4 by Chris Auman, Mike Dixon & friends $7
Comp Book Companion (various issues) by Key Bridge It Daly $13
Experimental Exercise by Robert Zant $15
I Belong to Me (multiple issues) by Rachael Tyrell
I Know About the Beaver 2nd edition $6
Forever: A Photo Zine by Sunny $8
Hi-Fi Anxiety, various issues
In the Blink of an Eye #1 by Isaac Barnett (Gasoline Press) $15
Comics
Detours: Comics and Drawings by Eli Bishop $10
Comics by Kieran Teare-Thomas: Initiative, multiple issues of Campfire
I Love Women #3 $20
Rate of Decay #4 $1
Silent Command #5 by Mike Appelstein $5
Graphic Novels
So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95
Gleem: A Selection of Spectacular Short Stories by Freddy Carrasco (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95
Love and Rockets: The Sketchbooks by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $75
4/20 Dude
Cooking with Weed: Get Baked with 35 Recipes by Margie Stone $14.99
Art Books
Wonderflux: A Decade of e-flux Journal edited by Julieta Aranda & friends $24
Politics & Revolution Books
The Sexist Microphysics of Power: The Alcàsser Case and the Construction of Sexual Terror by Nerea Barjola (AK Press) $23
Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care edited by Mimi Kim, Cameron Rasmussen & Durrell M. Washington (Haymarket Books) $24.95
Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Eddie Ahn $24.99
Essay Books
Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation by Stephanie Haerdle $19.95
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer $17
Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarders Lens by Jose Vadi $26
Fiction
Ghost Years: Stories by Barry Gifford $16.95
Stories From the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction editd by Jordan Elgrably (City Lights Books) $17.95
The Missing by Ben Tanzer (7.13) $19.99
Music Books
Throbbing Gristle: An Endless Discontent by Ian Trowell $39.95
Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present by JR Moores $18
The Monkees: Made in Hollywood by Tom Kemper $16
I Hate Old Music, Too: How Familiarity & Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music by Dave Thompson $27.95
Toxic Shock Records: Assassin of Mediocrity – A Story of Love, Loss, and Loud Music by Bill Sassenberger $20
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999 by Tom Maxwell $30
A Book of Days by Patti Smith $20
Local Interest
Beer Hiking Chicago and Beyond: The Tastiest Way to Discover the Windy City by Jessica Sedgwick and Dan Ochwat $24.95
Chap Books
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists Chapbook #8 2023 Selected Plays From the Infinite Wrench $10
Lit Journals
Sinister Wisdom #132 $14
The First Line vol 26 #1 $6
Moss Piglet April 2024 edited by John Bloner Jr. $12
Just Keeping It Together, Barely
A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times by Athena Aktipis $17.99
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New Stuff This Week
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ZinesFixer Eraser #7 by Jonas $3
The Hungover Gourmet #12 by Dan Taylor $5
Malt Adult #28 by Sarah Schmidt $5
X Kool Kids #7 Culture $5
Cherry Bomb #2 by Emma and Mari $15
Zines by Hali Kleinfeld: issues of Outfit Archive, Truth Serum #2 & more.
Life Advice in a Tweet From @Katya $8
Comics
Huge shipment from kuš: mini kuš! New issues of š!
My Body Unspooling by Leo Fox $9.99
Woof by Maty G (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $6
Myrodemus #3 Awakening by Finn Walker $8
CCC1.1 Same but Different: A New Magazine of Comix Skool USA Notes $8
Bogue #2 Winter Issue by Ruby Carter $6
Graphic Novels
Black Phoenix Comics and Illustrations vol 3 by Rich Tommaso (Floating World Comics) $14.95
Atlas Comics Library vol 2 Venus Strange Stories of the Supernatural edited by Dr Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics) $49.99
Food School by Jade Armstrong (Conundrum Press) $15
The 7th Voyage of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Other Follies by Gilbert Shelton & Dave Sheridan (Fantagraphics) $22.99
kuš graphic novels: Good Night and Sweet Dreams by Teddy Goldenberg (kuš) $14, Slikmiks by Mikkel Sommer and Mekl (kuš) $18 & more!
Music Books
Audio Erotica : Hi-Fi Brochures 1950s–1980s edited by Jonny Trunk & friends (FUEL) $34.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Unite and Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook by Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) & Daphna Thier (Haymarket Books) $10
Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America by Raul Zibechi (AK Press) $18
Essay Books
Manifesto : Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, Ernesto Che Guevara (Seven Stories Press) $15.95
All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022 by James Kelman (PM Press) $24.95
Hello We Were Talking about Hudson edited by Steve Lafreniere (Soberscove Press) $24
DIY Books
Healing Plants: From Elizabeth Blackwell’s Curious Herbal, edited by Marta McDowell $12.95
Fiction Books
Rachel Condition by Nicholas Rombes $17.95
Snow Woman and Other Yokai Stories from Japan by Noboru Wada, illustrated by Haruna Wada $15.99
Magazines
Uppercase #61 $24
Chap Books
Ornamental Theology by P.T. Orbizol $5
