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    Zines

    by Scott Russell Morris & friends: Witch’s Cat – A Solo Journaling RPG $16, Tarot Zines ($15-$16) and more.

    Don’t Stop Me Now: How to Resist Drag Bans and Create Total Gender Liberation by Christa Orth (Literary Kitchen Collective Press) $15

    Zines by Larry Wolf $5 each: Fortune Tellers, Enfantes Terribles photo zine

    Room Tone #4 by Kurt $3

    Bicycling in Tokyo 35mm Photos by Shawn Granton $12

    Zines by S. Duff $5 each: Perfect Specimens, Year of the Mirror, As Something Breaks, Woman at the Wheel

    Bookshelf Voyeur #7 The Light and Dark sides of Yearbooks! by L J Williams $10

    Fungivore by Heather Anacker $11.11

    A Modern Guide to Communicating In the Real World by Ian Fugett $10

    Comics

    Pee Pee Poo Poo #1 by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket) $9.99

    King Cat #83 by John Porcellino $7

    Tongues 6.5 Supplement #1 by Anders Nilsen $18

    Comics by Dave Hankins $4 each: Gorilla Movies, Elephant Buildings, Giraffes

    Josh Horror Comics by Josh Bayer, Josh Cotter, Josh Simmons and Josh Stephens $20

    2 issues of Shadow Banshee by Nadia, $3 each

    Graphic Novels

    Future by Tommi Musturi (Fantagraphics) $39.99

    Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch by Guy Colwell (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Mothballs by Sola Otero (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Iris: A Novel for Viewers by Thé Tjong-Khing and Lo Hartog van Banda (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    The Night Never Ends by Steve Thueson (Silver Sprocket) $19.99 – Sale date 8/28!

    Legendary Spirits: The Collected Grace, Jerry, Jessica & Me by Derek Marks $20

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown (AK Press) $18

    Essays

    The Snarling Girl and Other Essays by Elisa Albert $26.95

    Bad Feminist TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by Roxane Gay $18.99

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Magic at the Crossroads: The Devil in Modern Witchcraft by Kate Freuler $19.99

    Travel (LOL)

    Go to Hell: A Traveler’s Guide to Earth’s Most Otherworldly Destinations by Erika Engelhaupt $24.99

    Music Books

    CRASH BANG: Pictures from a Punk 1976-1982 by DB Burkeman $39.99

    It Wasn’t a Phase!: The Ultimate Emo Activity Book by Yasmine Summan $15.99

    Fiction

    Layman’s Report by Eugene Marten $26

    My Men: A Novel by Victoria Kielland $16

    Politics & Revolution

    Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi $18.95

    The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973 by Clara Bingham $32.50

    Self-Care

    It’s Your Body: The Young Woman’s Guide to Empowered Sexual Health by Dena Moes $16.99

    Chap Books & Lit Journals

    Killing Time Is a Sacred Act by Ramsey Khaweja $10

    Vitreous Wick #6 $10

    Food Books

    Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America’s Most Legendary Haunted Places by Amy Bruni with Julie Tremaine $29.99

    Drinkin’

    The Turn of the Screwdriver: 50 Dark and Twisted Literary Cocktails by Iphigenia Jones $19.99

    Biking Books

    Urban Adventure League Cycle Touring Primer 3rd Ed: A Quick Guide to Help You Plan Your Multi Day Bicycle Adventure by Shawn Granton $12

    Film

    A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey $29.99

    Other Stuff

    2025 Calendars/Planners $13.99-$14.99: Witches’ Datebook, Moon Sign Datebook, Daily Planetary Guide, Moon Sign Datebook, Daily Planetary Guide and more.

    I Want to Believe (It’s Not Butter) Sticker by Heather Anacker $2

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    A shipment of zines from Quimby’s and Quimby’s NYC founder Steven Symbersky! Star Trek ephemera zines $5 each, lost cat and dog poster zines $2.50 each, and more!

    Titles from Sick Sad Trans Fags: Man Hating Bisexual Coming of Age Stories $15, Covid Stole My Slut Era $6, Autistic Shorthand for Crips: A Guide for Easier Communication Between Autists With Limited Energy $5 and more.

    Dragon Year by Jilly Foo $5

    Culpeper’s Guide to the Properties, Virtues, and Uses of zines by Nicholas Culpeper, 7.99 each: Herbs and Their Leaves – Barks, Roots, Woods, and Other Natural Medicines – Fruits, Seeds, Flowers, Juices, Stones and Other Natural Medicines

    Cowboys and Lawyers (Queering Consent Series) by Robin S. Stafford (Microcosm Publishing) $7.99

    Party Line #9 $4.95

    Compilation Nation #2 The Only Fanzine Dedicated to Various Artists by Sydney Salk $5

    Copy This Cassette! A Cassette Review Zine For Those That Love Cassettes by D. Blake Werts $2.95

    Crafting Tools Make Us Human #1 by Tyler Reid and Aaron Moring-D’Angier $20

    What Guinea Pigs Can Teach Us About Life: How Sleeping Piggies Show Rest as Resistance and Yawning as Care by Virginia Cafaro $7.99

    & Ull Take Me Down lyrics by Yasha $5

    Comics

    Bubbles #20 $8

    Tooth of the Troll: A Greta Smalltusk Tale by Quinn Thomson $5

    Graphic Novels

    Kommix by Charles Burns (Fantagraphics) $24.99

    Blurry by Dash Shaw $34.95

    The Atlas Comics Library No. 3 : In the Days of the Rockets! (Fantagraphics) $49.99

    Politics & Revolution Books

    Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta by Bill Blade Howell with Helen Lee (Akashic) $26.95

    Music Books

    Chicago House Music: Culture and Community by Marguerite L. Harrold (Belt Publishing) $24

    Fiction Books

    Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning $30

    The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due $17.95

    DIY Books

    Make It Last: Prolonging and Preserving the Things We Love by Raleigh Briggs (Microcosm Publishing) $9.95

    Magazines

    Broken Pencil #103 $9.95

    Tape Op #162 $5.99

    Lit Journals

    Overtime – Hour 68: Lucifers by Lauren O’Donoghue (Blue Cubicle Press) $2

    Oyez Review #51 Novellas $14

    From Long Day Press $14-$16:
    Accomplished Muskrat Trapper: A Book on Trapping for Amateurs by Arno E. Schmidt
    Desolation by frankie baby
    In Between My Bodies: Essays by Emily Capers
    Gainesville: A Novel by Colin Winnette
    Saturn: Stories by Simon Jacobs
    We Go Liquid a Novel by Christian TeBordo

    From 826CHI

    Indomitable Forces: Writing From the Students of Wells High School $18

    I Love the State You Are In: Writing From the Students of 826ChI’s After School Writing Lab $15

  • Zine Club Chicago Online: Labor Edition, Aug 20th

    Zine Club Chicago Online: Labor Edition

    7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 20 on Zoom

    Free!

    What kind of work do you do? That question has inspired countless self-published tributes, rants, and calls to action. This month, Zine Club Chicago will be discussing zines about labor of all kinds — the work we love, the work we perform to pay the bills, the work we dread, and the work we do to build a better world.

    Grab your favorite zines about labor to share, BYOS(nax) and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Labor Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 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 5 p.m. CT Monday, August 19 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 20.

    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 quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

    Want the Facebook event link? It’s here.

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  • New Stuff This Week

     

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    Zines

    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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    Zines

    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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    The 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!

  • 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, Chicago

    Congrats 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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  • 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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    Zines

    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