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Zine Club Chicago In Person: Chicago Stories Edition, March 24th!
Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON: Chicago Stories Edition
7-9 p.m. CT Friday, March 24
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave
Free!The big-shouldered metropolis we call home has inspired countless self-publishers, so this month Zine Club Chicago is celebrating zines about Chicago! We’ll be bringing back our discussion-meets-show-and-tell format for this in-person gathering, so please bring your favorite Chicago zines to share.
Join us for Zine Club Chicago In Person: Chicago Stories Edition at 7-9 p.m. Friday, March 24 here at the shop, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park. We’ll have snacks on hand! Masks are strongly encouraged when you’re not noshing.
Out-of-town friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in April! If you’d like to get together virtually with zine pals in March, check out Zine Party!, hosted by Michael Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, March 14. For more info and the Zoom link, visit next.zine.party
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 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.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event here.
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with an image of the Chicago skyline and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Chicago Stories Edition; In Person! Free!; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; 7-9 p.m. CT Friday, March 24, 2023”
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New Stuff This Week
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Antilife by Maclean Kelley $2
Davezine #18 Packing Up and Throwing Away by David G. Cookson $5
Space Queer Chronicles vol 1 Love for the Wounded and Sensitive by Lucia Dabdoub $10
Meat Sheet #7 $3.33
Spaghetti Brain Archive #2 $8
Stuff from National Monument Press: Lamentations on War a Love Ballad 4 Thomas Seikert by Gregory Rick, Elastic Capacity a Book of Epigrams by K. Laster, Tourist Photographs by Zach Clark, Iceland Travel Zine 2022 by Min Heo & more. All $15 each.
Grandfather Peyote Heart of the World by Nathan Young $15
Stuf from Lanesville Press: In Full Flower Let Night Come by Terence Hannum $15, Alexa Echoes by Amanda Turner Pohan $10
Decolonize This Yard: Land Back to Native Ecologies and Communities Midwest Flower Mix $8
Jakes Pizza #1 by Johnny Berger $8
Sans Comic: Reverse Cartoon Caption Contest by Jesse Malmed and You $8
Famous Monochromes of Art History: A Paint by Numbers Coloring Book by Jesse Malmed and You $8
No 1 Like Hue ARTINY Fanzine 22 Misprint Edition $10
AnxietyGrlz $8
Zines by Spence $3: Snacks #1, Katya Kat: Private Detective #1 The City Stands Alone
ABC Coloring by Aine Schuh $4
Pairing Beer and Chocolate a Bean and Barstool Zine by David Nilsen $13
Documenting Being in a Pre-Invented Existence vols 2 & 3 by Jackson Galati $10 each
Comics & Minis
Sober Rabbit – Stars and Strips Forever Selected Strips 2019-2022 by Whitney Wasson $18
Stuff by Quinn Koeneman: Caravaggio Meets the Magic Man $24.99, One $10, Hobbes or Memories I Know Are Real $10, Spaces $20
Super Team International, various issues by Scott O. Brown (Bronco Ink Publishing) $3.99-$6.99 each
Evola and Hobson #1 & #2 $10 each
Comics by Hans Lindahl, $5 each: Today I Woke Up In a Fog, Future Husband: A Tiny Intersex Comic, Cat Burglar: A Tiny Intersex Comic $5 each
Marshmallows by Chris Resnick $8.00
Haunt: A Collection of Spectral Comix Poems by Tori Holder $6
My Fool #52 $5
Negative X #2 by Matt Vitucio $4
Grixly #59 & #60 by Nate McDonough $3 each
Mineshaft #43 $15.00
Fifty Flip Experiment #31 $5
Sheepy on Strike by Polly Fossey $18
Graphic Novels
Brooklyn’s Last Secret by Leslie Stein (D&Q) $29.95
Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom by Jason Chang, Benjamin Barson, Alexis Dudden and Kim Inthavong (PM Press) $16.95
Heartless 10th Anniversary Edition by Nina Bunjevac (Conundrum) $20
We’re All Just Fine by Ana Penyas (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Lauren Ipsum by Charles Brubaker $10.99
Krazy and Ignatz: George Herriman Library 1925-1927 (Fantagraphics) $49.99
Fiction
The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai $14.95
The Solar Circus by Gustave Kahn, Translated by Sam Kunkel (First to Knock) $17
Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia $19.95
Loteria by Cynthia Pelayo (Agora Books) $17.99
Music Books
Rebel Soul: Musings, Music, and Magic by Bebe Buell (HoZac Books) $39.99
The History of Miami Hip Hop: The Story of DJ Khaled, Pitbull, DJ Craze, and Other Contributors to South Florida’s Scene (Scene History) by John Cordero (Microcosm Publishing) $16.95
Politics & Revolution Books
Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid edited by Wren Awry (PM Press) $20
My Country Is the World: Writings, Speeches, Statements, and Interviews against the Vietnam War edited by Luke Stewart (Haymarket) $29.95
Essay(ish) Books
The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World by Marshall W. “Major” Taylor (Belt Publishing) $20
Hoop Muses: An Insiders Guide to Pop Culture and the Womens Game by Kate Fagan, Seimone Augustus & Sophia Chang $29
Mayhem & Outer Limits
American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders by Jim Willis $22.95
Poetry & Chap Books
Chronicle Psychiatrist Telephone by Britt Coffman $14.95
Pigeons Rising: A Poetry and Art Zine Dedicated to a Totally Average Weekend In NYC $6
In Loving Memory of the Boy Who Broke My Heart by Liv Story $5
Faint Howl by Mitchell Bueno $8
Health & DIY
The Transmasculine Guide to Physical Transition: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks by Sage Buch + Workbook $16.95 each
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross $17.95
Unfuck Your Eating: Using Science to Build a Better Relationship With Food, Health, and Body Image by Dr. Faith Harper (Microcosm) $14.95
Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic Deadly and Strange World of Fungi by Diane Borsato and Kelsey Oseid $24.95
Photo Books
Images of America Woodridge by Jo Fredell Higgins $23.99
Magazines & Newspapers
Broken Pencil #98 $7.95
Antigravity Feb 2023 vol 21 #2 $10
Plus! New stuff & restocks of patches, stickers, buttons!
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New Stuff This Week
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Silent Command #2 by Mike Appelstein $5
2 new titles from Roostercow: Used Records and Tapes #3 by Chris Auman & friends $7, Gray Flag #3 by Chris Auman $4.50
Dinny Mr. Rex and Seldom Seen Slim the Statues of Claude Bell by Dave Hankins $4
Z Z Zine #1 $3
Riot Letters #1 Spr 23 by Chloe Meltzer $5
Comics
Pee Pee Poo Poo Comics #69 Silver Sprocket 2023 Edition by Caroline Cash $9.99
Fungirl Vulva Viking by Elizabeth Pich (Silver Sprocket) $9.99
Rituals by Nicole Goux (Silver Sprocket) $12.99
Cartoon Dialectics #3 2022 by Tom Kaczynski (Uncivilied) $6
Two Births of Neeve by Ciara (Uncivilied) $4
Lora by Hink $20
Shrine On a Series of Shrines #1 by Erin Boyle $5
Santos Sisters #3 $5
Molly Needs to Clean Her Room by Brittney Bourne $15
Fanny’s Day Off #1 by Mattie Akers $5
Secret History of Black Punk Record Zero by Raeghan Buchanan (Silver Sprocket) $14.99
Graphic Novels
Now vol 12 Fantagraphics New Comics Anthology $12.99
Sugar and Other Stories by Joy San (Silver Sprocket) $21.99
Spa by Erik Svetoft (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro: Japan’s Classic Manga (D&Q) $29.95
Art Books
Yokai: The Ancient Prints of Japanese Monsters by Paolo Linetti $45.00
Mayhem & Outer Limits
The Fact, Fictions and the Forbidden Predictions of the Amazing Criswell by Edwin Lee Canfield (Headpress) $27.95
Music & Film Books
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive by Julian Cox and Jim Shedden $39.95
The Business: A History of Popular Music from Sheet Music to Streaming by Simon Napier Bell (Unbound) $18.95
Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs In a Sea of Sound by David Rothenberg $27.95
House of Psychotic Women Expanded Edition: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-La Janisse $59.95
The Frightfest Guide to Vampire Movies: The Dark Heart of Cinema by Nathaniel Thompson (Fab Press) $24.95
Essay
Body Horror PRE-ORDER Capitalism Fear Misogyny Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Feminist Press) $18.95 – Not actually in stock yet. A pre-order!
Every Single Piece of Blue Clothing That I Currently Own by Delphine Bedient (Sincerely Analog Press) $16
Retro Gaming: A Byte Sized History of Video Games by Mike Diver $16.95
Fiction
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird by Manon Burz Labrande $16.95
Fight Night by Miriam Toews $18
DIY Books
Parlour Magic: A Little Manual of Amusing Phenomena by Henry Perkins $17.95
Magazines
Tape Op #153 $5.99
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Moss Piglet the Power of Myth Feb 2023 $12
Chap Books by by Connie Boje: Space Garbage, Seethrough, Shrunken Hearts of the Big Heads, Glitter #33, Digit Tall #28
Woodfireearthmetalwater by Moki $10
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New Stuff This Week
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Shot In CDMX a Mini Movie Marathon by Anna Jo Beck $2
Pocket Shapes by Jam $2
Community Mausoleums of the Midwest by Nicholas Knowlton $2
Graphic Novels
The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot (Fantagraphics) $45
Music Books
69 Exhibition Road: Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance by Dorothy Max Prior (Strange Attractor Press) $24.95
Rock’s in My Head: Encounters With Phil Spector, John & Yoko, Brian Wilson and a Host of Other People Who Should Be Just as Famous by Art Fein (Trouser Press Books) $18.50
Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle (33 1/3 vol 170) by Selena Chambers $14.95
Local Interest
Last Call Chicago: A History of 1001 LGBTQ-Friendly Taverns, Haunts & Hangouts by by Rick Karlin and Sukie de al Croix (Rattling Good Yarns Press) $32.95
Magazines
Mildew the Secondhand Fashion Magazine #1 $20
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Tactical Hand Cream: A Casual Dry Cleaning Zine by Michael Sincavage III $10
From Interference Archive: We Won’t Move Tenants Organize In New York City $12, Defend Defund Zine Series $21, Interference Archive Building: A Counter Institution In the United States by Jen Hoyer and Josh MacPhee $9
Xerography Debt #53 $4.95
Your Bus Is Here by Lee Hodge and Claire Lobenfeld $20.00
Boiling Kettles #2 $3
Zines by Cathy Durso: Mountain Climbing $6, Longest Winter $8, People We Don’t Know $3
Cut Me Up #10 Reconnect Win 23 $18
zines by Turner Hilliker: Motion $5.00, Culminate and Terminate: A Collection of Endings Conclusions and Final Acts $5
Comics & Minis
It’s Hard to Say What Shape I’m In by Johnny Sampson $10 – Plus stickers, cards, restocks & more!
Solace $3
This Book of Drawings and Words by Richie Owens $8
Peel #2 $24.99
Zines by Jude R. Bettridge: Making Zines Fun Folds to Follow $5, Smells Good $3
Graphic Novels
Dark Cabbage and the Egg by Emma Jon-Michael Frank (Floating World) $17.95
Where I’m Coming From by Barbara Brandon-Croft (D&Q) $29.95
Music Books
Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children by Rose Marshack $19.95
Conform To Deform: The Weird & Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare by Wesley Doyle $24.95
Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon $29.95
The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes by Hugh Hodges (PM Press) $22.95
Politics & Revolution
Spirituality and Abolition, edited by Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent $20
On Medicine as Colonialism by Michael Fine (PM Press) $17.95
Essays
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg $17.99
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston $19.99
Remaking Society: A New Ecological Politics by Murray Bookchin (AK Press) $20
Fiction
Vampire Weekend: A Novel by Mike Chen $28.99
Maroons by Adrienne Maree Brown (AK Press) $18
Station Six by S.J. Klapecki (AK Press) $16
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna by Dennis McKenna PhD $24.95
Lost Paititi and the Non-Human Remains of Nazca by Thierry Jamin $22
Poetry & Lit Journals
Golden Record by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Silver Sprocket) $19.99
The Woman’s Part by Jo Gatford $13
Stanchion #10 $10
Ground Is Uneven vol 2 Human Error and Erred Humans $18
For the Young at Heart
My Little Mushroom Book Activity Booklet by Margarita Fedorova $10.00
Other Stuff
New Stickers and Postcards by Jam Doughty!
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
The Wonder of It All #11 $3.00
I Am at Metaphor – Actually I’m at Extended Metaphor by pollychernina $13.00
Kentucky AppalaChah a Violent Romance by Julien Godman $10
Never Blue Again $8.00
It Is What It Is Isn’t It $10.00
Deafblind People In History – It’s Not Just Helen Keller by Violet B. Fox $3.00
Adventures In Foreign Language Zooms #1 In German by David Villegas $2.00
Then March Lasted Five Years: An Activity Book – About Being a Nurse During the COVID Times by A. Hanna $5.00
Graphic Novels
Children of Palomar & Other Tales: A Love and Rockets Book by Gilbert & Mario Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: In the 21st Century and Other Follies by Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides and Dave Sheridan (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Winter of Our Pandemic by David Collier (Spare Parts Press) $20
Chartwell Manor by Glenn Head (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala (Fantagraphics) $29.99
The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV by Liv Stromquist (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Politics, Revolution & Essay Books
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York by Jeremiah Moss $27.95
Bloodbath Nation by Paul Aster $24.00
So We Can Know: Writers on Pregnancy Loss Abortion and Birth edited by Aracelis Girmay (Haymarket Books) $21.95
Music, Film & Horror Books
Bodies: Life and Death In Music by Ian Winwood $21.95
James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Mayhem Books
The Curious World of Bacteria by Ludger Wess $29.95
Lit Journals
Sinister Wisdom #127 A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal $14.00
Other Stuff
New stickers, pins, drinking vessels (?!) from Winslow Dumaine
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks Edition, Feb. 21st!
Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, February 21 on Zoom
Free!Whenever we ask folks which subjects they’d like to discuss at our events, zine organization tops the list. So in February, we’re bringing back our popular Show Us Your Stacks theme for the third year in a row!
This month, we’ll be meeting on Zoom so y’all can show off how you organize the zines you choose to bring home with you. Whether you meticulously catalogue your zines, toss them in random piles, or something in between, we want to know about the ways you arrange, display, and categorize your personal collection.
Get your self-published stash in order (or leave it messy), BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, February 21 on Zoom!
** 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, February 20 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, February 21.
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 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.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event here.
Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with the image of mini zines tucked into plastic sleeves inside a binder, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Show Us Your Stacks Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, February 21”
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New Stuff This Week
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Brand Names written by Billy McCall & illustrated by Sully Kaiju $4
Fish-Ins & Black Native Solidarity In the 1960s by Mariame Kaba (Half Letter Press) $7
Multiple issues of Coffee People Zine
Baphometta and the Fortune Teller by Davidt Dunlop $8
Dungeons and Dragons Ability Checks and Their Meanings by Smol Cynic $4
Drawn to History vol 1 #1 Jan 2023 $4.50
Ripped Head vol 2 $15
Student Planner: A Reflection On My Four Years at Art School and Educational Institutions $15
Unresolved #5 by Eli Schmitt $5
Figure Drawing Companion: 100 Plus Poses to Sketch On the Go by Maria B Cosenza $21.99
Collector by Jessica Hoofnagle (Fluke Publishing) $5
zines by Karis: New Beat Generation $24.99, 2022 $15, Butterfly Shit $5
Comics & Minis
King-Cat #82 by John Porcellino $5
Shadow Banshee Head Full of Clouds by Nadia Stodder $2
New Comics by Mae Lyne: Boys $15, Alter Ego The Neon City $4
Comics by Douglas Cueva, $1 each: Tiny Comix #1 Call Me Asmael by Doug Cueva, Vomito #3 Im Not an NFT Comics Anthology
Comics by Michaela Chan: Flood #1 $5, Lab Rat #1 & #2 $4 each
Our Grand Station 2nd edition by Kelly Wang $23
comics by Daimon Drew This/Daimon Hampton: Gold $5.00, Stoopin’ A Bronzeville Twitter Project $13, Paper Wings $3, Punx: An X Men Art Book $10
comics by Juan Lara: Jalapeno Business Comics Inspired by Text Messages and Mexican Food $5, Space Foo #1 $5, Odd Goblins #1 by Juan Lara $6
comics by Kapka: Missing by Kapka $20, Doobie Diary $15
Falke by JD Riley and Kradeelav $16
Wiggle Bird Comix #51 Tales 4 Tomorrow by Mergo Petrichor (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club) $5
Bong Verse #1 and 2 by Ari Gomez $15
Comic Book Millionaires – Parody Issue by Eric Gordon and Jeremy Rosenstein $6.99
Hacks for Hacks by Jude Bettridge $4
Graphic Novels
The Day the Cat Got Shot by Ben Dudley $17
Esther’s Notebooks by Riad Sattouf $30
Post York by James Romberger $17.99
Theth: Tomorrow Forever by Josh Bayer $24.99
Music & Film Books
101 Films You Could See Before You Die: A Film Guide for the Disenchanted by Billups Allen (Goner Records) $18.99
Busking Blues: Recollections of a Chicago Street Musician and Squatter by Westley Heine $20
Magazines
Geez #67 Win 23 Craft at the End of the World $15
Lit Journals
Moss Piglet Jan 2023 Seventh Anniversary Issue $12
The First Line vol 24 #4 $6
The Last Line #8 $3
Other Stuff
The Magickal Botanical Journal: Plants from the Witch’s Garden by Maxine Miller & Christopher Penczak (Llewellyn) $19.95
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