Why was Jon Resh finally able to land his first wallride after trying for decades? Because HE WAS WEARING THE CLASSIC QUIMBY’S SHIRT, now all sizes back in stock! It makes dreams real!
The official Quimby’s T-shirt is black shirt features our logo, designed by Chris Ware, printed on black high-quality pre-shrunken Bella + Canvas brand shirts. It’s sweet, simple, and to the point: QUIMBY’S! These shirts were printed locally, by our friends at Strange Cargo.
Wahoo! Quimby’s is turning 32!*
To help us celebrate Chicago gem of a printer and chainstitcher Vichcraft (aka Jenna Blazevich) has designed some new merch for us to premiere at A LIVE CHAINSTITCHING EVENT HERE AT QUIMBY’S ON SATURDAY, SEPT 30TH from 6-9pm! She designed a spanking new Quimby’s t-shirt that is BEAUTIFUL (trust us) we’ll be debuting at this event. And we’ll be unveiling some other unexpected merch too — but we don’t want to spoil the surprise!
Vichcraft will be on hand with her 80-year-old Cornely machine to chainstitch a variety of items, including felt pennants and other things for sale. For a fee, she can customize items, so bring your stuff you want to have personalized.*
Vichcraft is the multi-disciplinary design studio run by Jenna Blazevich in Chicago, Illinois since 2015. Find her at https://vichcraft.shop/ and on IG: @vichcraft
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Here’s the Facebook event invite if you want it!
*Our actual anniversary is September 15th! This event is not actually on the 15th! But you should buy us a birthday cake on that day anyway. Happy birthday, us!
*Here are helpful hints about what materials are ideal for your customized chainstitched item!:
Ideal items:
Woven fabrics: Canvas, Denim, linen
Crewnecks or sweatshirt type knits
Beanies
Bandanas
Materials to avoid:
Thin knit fabrics (tee shirts)
Loosely knit fabrics (sweaters, scarves)
Items with sherpa linings or excessive batting
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Zines
Fluke #20 The Big Mud $5
Broken Pencil #99.5 $7.95
“Are You Married or What Is the Matter?”: Inconsiderate, Passive-Aggressive and Snarky Antique Postcards 1907-1921 by Robert T. Glen $6
Zisk #34 Summer 2023 by Mike Faloon & friends $3
How to Turn Into a Frog by Jewlya Sturtevant $24.99
Flotation Device #18 $2
Netlabeler #2 by Keith Helt $2
Nuances of Existence Are Explored by Artists by Marc Fischer/Brett Bloom (Temporary Services/Half Letter Press) $9
Zines & Comics by Maggie Michel $12-$15: Five Guys Burgers and Fries But One of Them Dies, Emergence 2023 Thesis Illustrations
Comics
Bubbles #17 August 2023 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8
Comics by Katya Granger, $10-$15 each: Super Ghost Girl #1, Manatee Mermaid, Cloud Girl Story: The Secret Magic
Graphic Novels
Proof That the Devil Loves You by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $24.99
What’s Fear Got to Do With It? by Ivana Filipovich (Conundrum) $18
Black Phoenix Comics and Illustrations vol 2 by Rich Tommaso (Floating World) $14.95
Starseeds vol 3 by Glaubitz Charles (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Okinawa by Susumu Higa (Fantagraphics) $29.99
101 or So Ways My Family Might Die But Probably Won’t by Michael D. Davis $4.25
Mage and the Endless Unknown by SJ Miller (Iron Circus) $15
A Book To Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete (Fantagraphics) $75
Memoirs of a Man In Pajamas by Paco Roca (Fantagraphics) $29.99
Eden II by Kenny Wroten (Fantagraphics) $39.99
Cloven Book 2 by Garth Stein and drawn by Matthew Southworth (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Art & Design Books
Sean Aaberg’s Halloween Book (Gingko Press) $29.95
Politics & Revolution Books
The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France by Mark Bray (AK Press) $26
No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno by Charlie Allison, illustrated by N.O. Bonzo & Kevin Matthews (PM Press) $21.95
Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression by Chris Robe (PM Press) $24.95
Fiction
The Future by Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis) $18.95
Dinosaurs: A Novel by Lydia Millet $17.95
Sexxxy
Pretty Boys Don’t Belong On Oil Rigs by Andreas L. $6
Chap Books
I Can Do Good Things by Izzy Larson $3.50
Other Stuff
Connect 2024 Calendar by Nikki Mcclure $24
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Zines
Weirdo Du Jour #3 Line Cook Love by K. Ratticus $1
Carrot Informer Magazine $8
Restless City #1 $5
Stim and Sensory Toys by Clementine Penner $2
Unusual Places of the Chicago Suburbs #2 Hidden Nuclear Missile Park by Eric Kammerer $4
Yarn Bomb #3 & #4 $20 each
More Hands by Joshua Bohnsack $3
Scorpion Bowl: A Story by Joseph Demes $5
Zines by Indigo Field: Strawberry Jam $10, Angel Papers $5 + more
Wonders From Western Ave by Mac and Emma $24.99
Zines from Two Headed Dog Publications, by Saoirse Finn and friends: Something Special #3 $10, Solidarity 4Ever a Collaborative Zine $10 and more.
Comics
The Future #10 the End of Everything Immediately by Tommi Musturi $6
New photo zines from Mary Miller $12 each
Moment In Time $2
Graphic Novels
Thunder and Lightning by Kimberly Wang (Silver Sprocket) $13.99
Witchy Shit
Llewellyn’s Little Book of Witchcraft by Deborah Blake $14.99
Spirits, Seers and Seances: Victorian Spiritualism, Magic and the Supernatural by Steele Alexandra Douris $16.99
Small Magics: Practical Secrets From an Appalachian Village Witch by H. Byron Ballard $17.99
Fiction
Atavic Fear of Hailstorms: A Novella by Joao Reis $14
Burnt Sienna by Joshua Bohnsack $8
Sex With My Family Fictions by Jessica Anne $14
Chap Books
lonely line breaks: ChatRQT by Robbie Q. Telfer $10
Lit Journals
Oyez Review #50 $8
Magazines
International Review #170 $3
From the students over at 826CHI down the street!:
Within by Eddy McGhee $10
Chicken In Oshean by Lucas Kohng $16
El Chiquito Big Book: Writing From the Students of Pickard Elementary $20
Things That Give Us Butterflies: Writing From the Students of 826ChI’s After School Writing Lab $15
All the Beauty It Brings: Writing by 826CHI’s Teen Writers Studio $15
Other Stuff
Stickers from Bumpin’ Uglies!
Patches from Retrograde Supply Co!
…And more!
M.S. Harkness Celebrates Time Under Tension: a Graphic Memoir
at Quimby’s Bookstore
With Evan Salazar & Caroline Cash
Fri, Oct 6th, 7pm
Free!
Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for dignity in a world that rarely affords it and taking agency of adulthood in the face of so many easy excuses not to.
M.S. Harkness is graduating from art school in Minneapolis and facing a crossroads in life. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a sexually abusive father on parole, and is in love with an aspiring MMA fighter who mostly hangs out with her to get high and already has a girlfriend and career prospects with a fight promotion. An art career feels untenable — as one professor tells her, “Don’t expect to get by on this fucked-up broke girl shit.” She decides to get a personal trainer’s certificate — it seems like a feasible and sensible career option — but continues to dabble as a sex worker and weed dealer because the money is too irresistible. With idle hands due to no classes or full-time work, M.S. has ample time to aimlessly fuck around — or, to get her shit together. “I want to be better, I want to be stable and solid. I don’t want to keep aimlessly shifting between untenable situations.”
Harkness’s bold, precise black-and-white cartooning and eye for storytelling invites the reader in, while her sharp wit and naturalist ear as a writer takes it away from there. Never didactic, always real, Time Under Tension is a spirited and assured work of graphic memoir.
M.S. Harkness was born in Oklahoma and lives in Columbus, Ohio. She was featured as an up and coming cartoonist at the Angouleme Comics Festival in France, and was a recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Artist Grant. Harkness occasionally teaches comics at Columbus College of Art & Design, in addition to working as a personal trainer. This is her third graphic novel, following Tinderella and Desperate Pleasures (both from Uncivilized Books). Find M.S. Harkness on IG at @m.s.harkness.
Joining the celebration of Time Under Tension are artists Evan Salazar and Caroline Cash.
Evan Salazar is a cartoonist originally from Tucson, Arizona. His main project is the self-published comic book Rodeo, which explores the secret passageways that connect memory, imagination, and family. Salazar has been published internationally, was the recipient of a 2020 MICE Mini-grant, participated in the Hocking Hills Cartoonist Retreat, founded the Tucson Comix Club, and has presented his work at comics festivals across the United States. He currently lives in Arizona with his dog, Margie. For more info see rodeocomics.com.
Ignatz award winning cartoonist Caroline Cash, known for such titles as Girl In the World and Pee Pee Poo Poo, used to work at Quimby’s. She can be found on IG at cash_browns.
More about Time Under Tension:
See M.S. Harkness on tour!
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Zines
Ritual View #1 An Overview of Satanic Moral Panics $3
Ritual View #2 Gurus, New Religious Movements, Brainwashing and Early Christianity $3
LUntimeth issues #1-#6, $10 each
Unresolved: A Zine for the Art Scene #7 by Eli Schmitt $5
Zines by by Amanda S., $3 each: Paper and Glue: An Idea of Home, Turtle, Act I One
Thirty Portraits of Students of the Book Of $5
Repro Workers: Labor Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Helen Bolton $2
Index of Needs and Wants by Anwulika Anigbo $11
Grib Jaanga the Official Zine of the Masses #4 $12
Comics
You Don’t Get There From Here #59 by Carrie McNinch $4
Flowery #54 Jun Jul 23 by Mel Stringer $10
Reptile House #12 $7
Comics (and zines) by Hali Kleinfeld: Above Crane Canyon: A Short Graphic Memoir $20, Fruit Buds $10, Mirage a Song-Inspired Zine $5, Bagel Zone $5
Starseed and Her Psychic Warriors #2 In a Mada Da Vee Da by Sophia Pierre $10
Liams Crunchy Comix #4 by Liam Humel $2
Graphic Novels
Naked Tree by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (D+Q) $29.95
Art!
Cosmic Scholar: The Filmmaker, Folklorist and Mystic Who Transformed American Art – The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed $35
Politics & Revolution Books
Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago by Essence McDowell and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket) $19.95
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System by M. Chris Fabricant (Akashic) $19.95
Essay Books
This Story Will Change: A Memoir After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane $16.95
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgwick Wohl $18
Fiction Books
Keep Moving and No Questions: Stories by James Kelman (PM Press) $17.95
Lets Go Lets Go Lets Go Stories by Cleo Qian $17.95
Bezoar Delinqxenz by Mochu $22
Music Books
Heroes of the Metal Underground: The Definitive Guide to 1980’s American Independent Metal Bands by Alexandros Anesiadis and Yannis Skarpelos (Feral House) $42.95
Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, edited by Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic) $18.95
Tainted Love: From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar by Alex Coles $20.95
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Moss Piglet Aug 2023 $12
Sobotka Literary Magazine #10 $15
I Wake With Eyes the Sound of Nectarines by Annie Grizzle $15
Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22 on Zoom
Free!
Who are your zine heroes? This month, Zine Club Chicago is honoring the zinemakers we admire, those illustrious creators whose work most thrills and inspires us. Not all heroes wear capes, but ours might be wielding a long-arm stapler.
Grab your favorite zines made by your personal self-publishing icons, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22!
** 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, August 21 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Aug. 22.
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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
Description of image #1: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of zine hero (and former Quimby’s employee) Neil Brideau of Radiator Comics, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”
Description of image #2: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of a stack of Crap Hound zines, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”
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Restocks and new stickers and patches from Band of Weirdos an Stay at Home Club!
Zines
Twenty Elf #1-#3 by Johnny Masiulewicz $2 each
I Love Women Who Love Women #2 $23
Blooms $3
Moss Piglet July 2023 $12
Signal After Radio Silence Spring 2023 edited by Dasha Aksenova and Emma Kamran $10
Life of Work #1 Child Labor by David LaBounty $3
Death Scans by Mackenzie Carlock and Rush Falknor $15
Interpersonal Travel Guide #1 by Bao Luong $5
For What Seems a Thousand Years Remembering Low In Concert by Nathan Vernau $8
Strong Feelings #1 & #2 $4 each
Superpresent – multiple issues $20 each
Top Surgery Guidebook Second Edition by Stevie Linn $15
For the Love of Raymond Carver by M. Musgrove $20
Comics
I Remember Nothing a Fiction by Kevin Budnik $15
Hey Sailor #1 and #2 by Mike $4 each
Murcielago el Bruce Man by Jonny Sims $20
Forceps by R Paiao Oliveira $9
Flow Form Speciman by Lale Westvind (Neoglyphic Media) $6
Fickle Bean #1 by Evan Hicks $8
Pigeon and Friends #1 What Comes Around by Liam Kipp $6
Graphic Novels
Werewolf Jones and Sons by Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger (Fantagraphics) $19.99
Dementia 21 Box Set vols 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago (Fantagraphics) $60
Illustrated Al the Songs of Weird Al Yankovic $29.99
Soichi: Story Collection by Junji Ito $25
I Never Found You by Emma Jon Michael Frank $19.95
Art Books
Graffiti Bible: A Complete Guide on How to Do Graffiti by Eske Touborg $45
Music Books
Illustrated History of Rock by Luis Demano and Susana Monteagudo $24.95
Fiction
Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman $17.95
101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann $23.99
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Zines
Garden People #1 by Ginnie Hsu Jessica Roux and Libby Vanderploeg $15
Nonprose #1 $8
XXCK DXNIXXL CXRXSTXEs Dream Journal #2 $1
Zines from Fluke Publishing: Embrace #2 by Laweez $4, Beef or Mutton by Emily Elders $5
Mini Comics
Glory by J.B. Van Overbeek $10
Graphic Novels
Palookaville vol 24 Cove Inn $29.95
Rivers Edge by Kyoko Okazaki $14.95
Art & Photo Books
Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe $40
F 28.8 Fem Film Photographers (Pink Slip Press) $24.99
Cut Up This Book and Create Your Own Underworld by Eliza Scott & illustrated by Marta Costa Planas $17.99
Politics & Revolution Books
Sex Talk: A Feminist Discussion of Sexual Empowerment by Stephanie Estournet and Olympe de Ge $24.99
#SayHerName – Black Womens Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence by Kimberle Crenshaw & African American Policy Forum $17.95
Fiction
Oh God the Sun Goes: A Novel by David Connor $18.99
Tell Me I’m an Artist: A Novel by Chelsea Martin $17.95
If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe by Jason Pargin $19
Charm City Rocks: A Love Story by Matthew Norman $17
Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence by Rafal Kosik $29
Jobs for Girls With Artistic Flair: A Novel by June Gervais $18
Kallocain by Karin Boye $17
Witchy Shit
The Everyday Witch’s Coven: Rituals and Magic for Two or More by Deborah Blake $18.99
2024 datebooks from Llewellyn (Almanacs, astrological calendars etc.) – various types and prices.
Conjuring with Cannabis: Spells and Rituals for the Weed Witch by Kerri Connor & friends $17.99
Music Books
United Forces: An Archive of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack 1986-1991 by Marcelo R. Batista (Bazillion Points) $49.95
The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up by Serouj “Midus” Aprahamian, Toyin Falola & Abimbola Adelakun $24.95
Magazines
Double Blind #9 $15
Pink Slip #3 Resurgence $15
DIY
Mushroom Hunting: Forage For Fungi and Connect With the Earth by Emily & Gregory Han $12.95
To Be Read Upon My Death: Write a Scandalous Memoir About Yourself $15
Other Stuff
More Dream Bindery Sketchbooks! $20 each
So Cool Print Print by Caroline Cash $40
Stay at Home Blank Cards $4
