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Quimby’s December 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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Quimby’s Consignor Appreciation Event, Dec 14th!
To our awesome consignors: We’re nearing the end of a major upgrade of our consignment systems, which has taken more than a year and includes updating 32 years of manual and digital consignment files and inventorying every single one of the many thousands of consignment items in our shop.
This process required hundreds of hours of extra work for our tiny staff, and has come at a time when we’re receiving a volume of incoming consignment items that is unprecedented in our three-decade history. The changes we’ve been making have caused delays in consignment check-ins for our consignors, and we’re still working through our backlog. And longtime and new consignors alike have needed to adjust to our new policies.* (We’re adjusting to them, too.)
We know this process has been frustrating for some of you at times. Consignment is an extremely time-consuming process for any business — that’s why most bookstores don’t offer it. Our recent systems upgrades and changes to consignment policies are absolutely necessary in order for us to continue offering consignment as an option for creators in the Chicago area and around the globe.
We deeply appreciate our consignors’ patience as we’ve worked on these upgrades. Many of you have sent us kind words and encouragement, and that means everything to us. Our consignors and your wonderful self-published zines, comics, and books have always been the heart of our shop, and we’re grateful to everyone who has stuck with us through our consignment program’s growing pains.
To thank our consignors for being a vital part of our Quimby’s community, we’re holding a Consignor Appreciation event this Thursday, Dec. 14! Stop by our shop from 5-8 p.m. to enjoy free snacks, hang out with your fellow consignors, use your 10% discount, and snag a free limited-edition sticker designed for you by our own Echo Elise González!
Out-of-town consignors, we’ll be glad to send you a sticker with your next consignment payout check or mail order — just let us know you’d like one the next time you check in or place an order!
*Haven’t taken a look at our new consignment policies yet? Find all the info + our new consignment form here.
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New Stuff This Week
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ZinesSlutcake #16 Oct 23 by Jolie N. $7
Wurstelprater in October by Marc Fischer $9
The Curious Cat That Found the Map by Cristina Benavides $2
The Papercuts Library #9 Flying Sucks by Joey Sellers $5.99
Twenty Elf issues #4 & #5 by Johnny Masiulewicz (Happy Tapir Press) $2 each
Tending to Your Roots Grounding Herbs for Anxious Times $10
Apprentice $10
For the Love of Cookie Mueller $12
Bye Forever See You in the Afterlife $5
Comics
Cassetty Comics by Chris Auman $7.50
Pen Fella Episodes #1 + #2 by Jude R. Bettridge $3 each
New Wave Comics Slane #4 by David Soileau $2
I’m a Cop: Real Life Horror Comics #2 by Johnny Damm $8
Mullet Mouse in the Tyranny of Sports Featuring Napper the Nipple $6
Tracy Cheddar in the Hot Date $6
Good Cop and Bad Cop in the Crime Scene $4
Graphic Novels
Milky Way by Miguel Vila (Fantagraphics) $24.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024 edited by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff $18.95
Dirtbag: Essays by Amber A’Lee Frost $28
Pillars of Gynarchy by Viola Voltairine $19.99
Calendars
Treasury of Shitting Dogs 2024 Calendar: Americas #2 Calendar by Ryan Duggan (Paper Hat) $20
Essays
Moths and Flowers: The Writings of Samer Alshaibi $12.99
TV
Hi Honey, I’m Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume $22
Sexxxy
Nervous Pervert #1 Sketchbooks From the Late Teens Early ’20s by Josh Simmons $1
For the Love of Kristian Hoffman $12
For the Love of Dennis Cooper $12
Sexy Ladies Mostly Drawn While Lonely $3
Magazines & Newspapers
County Highway #2 $8.50
The Internationalist #71 $1
Fiction
Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier $17.95
Chap Books & Poetry
Some Blue a Little Spur by Kris Falcon $15
My Men Poems by Nazaret Ranea $5
Triptych Love Letters to You Me and Florida by A. Kosmicki $13
Send $1999 for Supplements and Freedom: Collages and Uncreative Writing by Noah Berlatsky $5
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Ain't No Party Like a Zine Party!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Ain’t No Party Like a Zine Party! Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, December 12 on Zoom
Free!This month, Zine Club Chicago is pairing up with our pals at Zine Party! to say farewell to 2023 with a festive online gathering! Our own Liz Mason will lead us in a fun zinemaking activity focused on celebrating our personal highlights of this year.
Grab your zinemaking supplies*, BYOH(ot)C(ocoa), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Ain’t No Party Like a Zine Party! at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, December 12.
** 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 Dec. 11 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Dec. 12.
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.
Zine Party!, a monthly Zoom hangout for folks who make zines, is hosted by Michael Verdi on the second Tuesday of each month. Find out more at zine.party
Facebook event link here. More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
* You’ll need a few sheets of 8.5×11” paper, a pair of scissors, whichever implements you prefer for writing/drawing/etc., 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): How to Make a Mini Zine
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with the image of partygoers looking up at a sky full of festive stars, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Ain’t No Party Like a Zine Party! Featuring a Zinemaking Activity Led by Liz Mason; Online! Free!; Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023”
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Tarot Readings By Echo
Don’t miss tarot readings by Echo! She’ll be here to read your cards on Nov 30th, Dec 7th and Dec 21st from 5pm-7:30pm! Echo has been reading tarot cards for many years. She uses tarot as a mind-opening tool, a method for helping us see more, a path illuminator. Find her on the internet at @fraulein_echo + echothehuman.com.
Don’t miss Buy Shit Thursdays at Quimby’s, where Quimby’s will be open til 8p during the holiday season. More info here!
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New Stuff This Week
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Offer Me Alternatives/ Offer Me Solutions I Decline Sticker by God Bless Generica $1.75
We Are the Weirdos Patch $8
Weirdos Together Patch $8
Don’t Test Me Enamel Pin $12
Pronoun Enamel Pins by Adam JK $10
Lost Cause Patch $7
Your Utopia / My Dystopia Patch $7
Mel Stringer Stuff
Flowery #57 Diary Comix $10
I Love Suzy comic $15
Assorted greeting cards $7.50 each
Stickers, $6.50 each: Go Little Rock Star, Gruss Von Krampus, Salty Sweeties
…and more!Zines
Right Ingredient Right Time #1 Strawberries by Rachel Hyman and Nick Disabato $5
More zines by Billy McCall: Proof I Exist #42 Five Days In Chicago $1 + Proof I Exist #43 split zine with QRK #5 Ed Tillman $3
Cis Just Doesn’t Get It #1 by Jude Bettridge $6
Comics
I Hope This Finds You issues #9 and #10 Diary Comics by Kevin Budnik $6 each
Graphic Novels
Holy Fools and Funny Gods the Hidden Link Between Religion and Humor by Izar Lunacek (Uncivilized Books) $24.95
Buzzelli Collected Works vol 1 the Labyrinth by Guido Buzzelli (Floating World) $29.99
Art & Photo Books
Weeds Tavern: Poster Art illustrated by Sergio Mayora, text by Dave Hoekstra $40
Skateparks: Waves of Concrete by David Andreu, curated by Luka Melloni $45
Politics & Revolution Books
The Complete Works of Malatesta: The Armed Strike: The Long London Exile of 1900–13 by Errico Malatesta, edited by Davide Turcato (AK Press) $28
Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners edited by Josh Davidson with Eric King (AK Press) $28
Fiction
Pervatory by RM Vaughan $17.95
Sexxxy
Circus of Books 1963-2019 $12
Pictures & Words: Straight to Hell Editions by Scott Ewalt $10
McOrgy by JB $14
Elska #44 Tbilisi Georgia $20
Magazines
Tape Op #158 $5.99
Double Blind – assorted back issues $15 each
Lit Journals & Chap Books
N+1 #46 $16.95
Various new chap book titles from Porkbelly Press.
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BUY SHIT THURSDAYS + Quimby's Holidays Hours
No time like the present to tell you our holiday hours!
And oh! It’s that time of year again! If you’re looking for gifts that are unique, memorable and just plain cool, we’ve got you. And we’re even staying open late on Thursdays during the holiday season so you can get all your shopping done here, where we promise you a Mariah Carey-free zone.
We’ll be open 12-8 p.m. on these Buy Shit Thursdays:
Nov. 30
Dec 7
Dec. 14
Dec. 21
We might have some fun surprises, too! So stop in for the kind of BS only Quimby’s can shovel.
(Just as a reminder, our usual hours are 12-6 Thursdays through Mondays, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So live it up on these Buy Shit Thursdays when we’re open til 8!)
One of those people who needs a Facebook invite to put this on your cal? Geddit here.
Also don’t miss tarot readings by Echo on 3 out of 4 of those Buy Shit Thursdays! Echo will be here to read your cards on Nov 30th, Dec 7th and Dec 21st from 5pm-7:30! Echo has been reading tarot cards for many years. She uses tarot as a mind-opening tool, a method for helping us see more, a path illuminator. Find her on the internet at @fraulein_echo + echothehuman.com.
Other Holiday Stuff People Ask About Here!:
Doing a mail order? Want your stuff in the mail by Dec 23rd? Order it by Dec 9th, and we’ll try our best. Then it’s in the hands of USPS.
Don’t know what to get somebody? Get them a Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Package, only available via order on our website!
Wanna buy a gift certificate? Buy one here!
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New Stuff This Week
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Record Gentle Apocalypse by Echo the Human $7
2 zines by Ayun Halliday: Barbie Movie Manque $2, East Village Inky #69 $3
Places to Spit $6
Unsettled Land #1 the Settlement Line by Hui Min Tsen $12
Maine by Spencer Morgan $15
KerBloom #164 by Artnoose $2
Faeries and Fruits #4 Skeleton Outta the Closet $5
zines by HBP, $4 each: Trojan Worrier, Tender Pirates
Katya Kat Private Detective #2 by Spence $3
Oakland Museum of Nail Art: One Year of Handy Homages to Classical Works by Laurel Masako and Molly $4
Find Your Light: A Photo Zine by Jose Pavon $10
Problems by Cam Daigle $7
I’m a Creature of the Clouds Trying to Be a Creature of the Earth $15
Sand In That Awareness That There September 27th 2023 by Allegra Harvard $10
22 Unrealized Public Project Proposals by Temporary Services, illustrations by Kioine Kochi $10
Comics
Mineshaft #44 $15
Tongues Chapter 6 by Anders Nilsen $18
Dude, Why Are You Still Here? by Nelson DSilva $2
A T Walker #1 by Micah Liesenfeld $9
Moonbanana #2 Drawings From Over There Moon Banana by Adam Kane $8
Airbag #2 More Stories by Brian Cani $10
Handyman $10
Airheads by Jeremy Husserl & friends $2.99
Full of Shit by Max Graves $6
Love and Rockets MAGAZINE #14 by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $4.99
Comics by Katie Armentrout: Celebrate the People #4-#5 $10 each, You’re Too Kind: An Anxious Comic About Receiving Compliments $8, Introvert Attends the Party: A Multi Panel Picture Story $8
Cute KO comics, various issues by Erika Schnatz $3-$10
Dreams: A Prelude by Sadie Entwistle $10
Graphic Novels
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll $27.99
Angel Heart vol 1 Episodes 1 to 5 by Flore Balas $17
Curses by George Wylesol $24.99
Wilderness Collection by Claire Scully $19.99
Leftstar and the Strange Occurrence by Jean Fhilippe (Silver Sprocket) $15.99
Art & Design Books
Striking a Pose: A Handy Guide to the Male Nude by Anita Kunz (Fantagraphics) $22.99
With and Against: the Situationist International in the Age of Automation by Dominique Routhier $26.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self Managed Abortion by Naomi Braine $24.95
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post ADA World by Ben Mattlin $21.95
Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism by Michael Zweig (PM Press) $22.95
Mad World: War, Movies, Sex by Slavoj Žižek $17.95
Decolonize Drag by Kareem Khubchandani $19.95
Toward Liberation: Educational Practices Rooted in Activism, Healing, and Love by Jamilah Pitts $21.95
Defend/Defund: A Visual History of Organizing against the Police by Interference Archive $22
Music & Film Books
Kleenex/LiLiPUT by Marlene Marder, edited by Grace Ambrose (Thrilling Living) $50
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy $26
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics by Johnny Cash with Mark Stielper and John Carter Cash $55
Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore $35
Nightmare on One Sheet: The Horror Art of Graham Humphreys $45
David Lynch: A Retrospective by Ian Nathan $39.99
Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes by Evan Auerbach and Daniel Isenberg $45
Gathering of the Tribe vol 3 Ritual – Companion to Occult Music on Vinyl Landscape by Mark Goodall (Headpress) $17.95
Punk Under the Sun: 80s Punk and New Wave In South Florida by Joey Seeman and Chris Potash (HoZac Books) $29.99
Outer Limits & Mayhem Books
Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of Londons Lost Artist by Phil Baker (Strange Attractor Press) $24.95
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self by Marc Wittmann $21.95
Crystals, Mother Earth and the Forces of Living Nature by Nigel Graddon $19.95
Aleister Crowley the Beast in Britain Map by Gary Lachman and Michelle Merlin $14.99
Essay Books
Alien Daughters: Walk Into the Sun an Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang (Semiotexte) $17.95
Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado $18
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami $17
J. G. Ballard: Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007, edited by Mark Blacklock $32.95
Earlier by Sasha Frere-Jones (Semiotexte) $16.95
Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore $27
Food
Cook Like Your Ancestors: An Illustrated Guide to Intuitive Cooking With Recipes From Around the World by Mariah Rose Marie (Silver Sprocket) $29.99
Fiction
The Big Book of Cyberpunk edited by Jared Shurin $32.50
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror ed. by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams $30
Internet Newspaper: A Novel by Adam Gnade $15
At Night He Lifts Weights by Kang Young-Soo $16.95
Inversion by Aric McBay $17
Magazines
Apartamento #32 $35
Tidal Magazine #17 $16
Poetry Books & Lit Journals
Moss Piglet November 2023 $12
Anecdoche Poetry by Jules Crocker $17.99
Other Stuff
Satanic Reptilian 2024 Bumper Sticker $5
Drugs Toiletry Bag $15
New stickers/patches and restocks from Arcane Bullshit!
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Quimby’s November 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
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Welcome to Dogtown by Adam Prenger $15
NXOEED #3 $5
Zines from Acid Facial: Gu, Bad Luck In Duck Days & more.
Forgotten Music Masters #1 by Chris Auman and Deron Grams $6
Cities by Chris Auman $6.50
Graphic Novels
The Cliff by Manon Debaye (D+Q) $22.95
Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez $29.99
Transitions: A Mother’s Journey by Elodie Durand $19.99
The Atlas Comics Library No. 1: Adventures Into Terror vol 1 (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Stories From Zoo by Anand $19.99
Art Books
Chasing Colors Photographs by Michael Y. Frantz $20
Politics & Revolution Books
Contraventions: Editorials from New Left Review edited by Susan Watkins (Verso) $29.95
Essay
Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox $29
Rotten Evidence by Ahmed Naji (McSweeney’s) $20
In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture In the 1980s by M Galvan $28
Cat Lovers A to Z by Clare Faulkner $21.99
Music Books
Punk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism by John Malkin $34
Music books by by Cisco Bradley, $24.99 each: The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront, Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters by Jeff Belanger $22
Best of Skeptical Inquirer vols 1 Paranormal Borderlands & 7 Unreason $29.95 each
Witches Almanac #43 Spr 2024-2025 $15.95
Fiction
The Honor of Your Presence by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s) $16
Pedro and Marques Take Stock: A Picaresque Novel by José Falero $25
Local Interest
Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams $40
Wheels
Right, Down + Circle : Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater by Cole Nowicki $14.95
Magazines & Newspapers
Broken Pencil #100 $9.95
Hellebore #10 $15
County Highway #1 $8.50
Illustoria #22 $16
Spartacist #68 $3
Workers Vanguard #1179 $.50
Lit Journals
The Believer #143 $16
Drift #11 $19.99
After Hours #46 $12
Poetry
Common Terror by Jeff Haber $15
