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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
The Escapist Artist #69 by Jolie Ruin $2
Thoughts Feelings Actions $3
Don’t Listen in Secret $3
OYP $7
I Am Enough $2
Mi Abuelito $2
Poems For a Sharp Boy by Katerina Ellison-Batt $1
Tiny Words From Far Away $1
Cow Club by LG Teevee (Clinically Proven Press) $2
From Fluke Publishing: Invisible Eye #2 $11, People In My Panic Room by Ian Addison $5
From Small Sword Press: No Fucking Walls Around Us $3, June Drawings by Kai Lumbang $7, Stale Cupcakes Fanzine #1 Mar 20 $10
Sludge Diaries Micron Vomit by Mollo Hersh $7
Antigravity Jan 2023 $10
What I Wish I Knew About the Pelvic Floor Before I Developed Chronic Pain by Amy Wanner Jeansonne $10.00
zines by Allison Catuira $2 each: Body In Space, Catfish Sinigang, Nilaga, Tastes Like Home: A Collection of Recipes of My Comfort Foods
Comics & Minis
Lauren Ipsum #2 by Charles Brubaker $5
When We Were Trekkies #1-3 Project Manhattan by Joe Sikoryak $4 each
Crash Coral #1 by R. Avilez and Lainey Williams $5
Seconds Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months Years Decades by Paige Yes Treebridge $10.00
Graphic Novels
Cankor by Matthew Allison $35
W the Whore by Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin de Vries $39.95
Godhead vol 2 by Ho Che Anderson (Fantagraphics) $24.99
Politics & Revolution Books
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by WEB DuBois (McSweeneys) $26
The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager $20
Music
Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio, Edited by Stephen Coates (Strage Attractor Press) $34.95
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Aleister Crowley In Paris: Sex, Art and Magick In the City of Light by Tobias Churton $40
DIY Books
Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection by Deepa Iyer (Thick Press) $20
Magazines
Uppercase #56 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $20
Chap Books
In One’s Hand by Todd Evans $22
Other Stuff
Dream Bindery MINI Softcover Blank Book Journal $13
2023 Planner by Nora Catlin $18
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Naked Raygun Signs Limited Edition Comic Book/Broken Things 7" + WAX TRAX! Naked Raygun Pop-Up on Feb 4th
Naked Raygun Signs Broken Things 7″ With Comic
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WAX TRAX! Naked Raygun Pop-Up on Feb 4th
at Quimby’s Bookstore
Saturday, Feb 4th, 3pmQuimby’s welcomes Chicago punk legends Naked Raygun for an in-store signing of their limited edition 7″ Broken Things that comes with a comic insert (and etched B side) by indie comics artists James Romberger (who will also be joining us!) & Josh Bayer.
In addition to the band’s attendance, famed vinyl titans WAX TRAX! will be on hand to offer additional NR merch in a pop-up store that fits right in with Quimby’s.
Broken Things is from NR’s first album in 30 years, Over the Overlords. This 7″ is brought to you courtesy of Xylophone, and Quimby’s is the only store in Chicago / Illinois / The Midwest / the 49 states (that are not New York) that has this!
Excited to see you at our free event!
Want to buy Broken Things in advance so it doesn’t run out before you get here? Get it at quimbys.com here.
Dig that flyer! Art by James Romberger and Josh Bayer, with art direction by Jason Mojica.
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And!
•There may be some FREE SHIT.
•There will be silkscreened event posters for sale featuring new James Romberger & Josh Bayers art.
•We will have a limited amount of blue vinyl of the comic + 7″ that you can only get AT THE EVENT!
•There is an official unofficial afterparty in the works.
•We should add that the date of this event is also the birthday of Quimby’s manager Liz.
•You have no excuse not to attend.
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P.S. You saw Quimby’s in the background of the NR documentary, right?
P.P.S. Can you count how many past and present Quimby’s employees are in the NR video for “Living the Good Times”?
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***The Fine Print That You Should Most Positively, Definitely, Indubitably Read***
Please adhere to these rules and don’t drive Quimby’s employees bananas:
Due to small print run, purchase of this item is limited to 2 per customer at both quimbys.com and in store.
Band will only be signing copies at our event on 2/4/23. Customer must be present at event to get their item signed.
Quimby’s will not get this item signed for you, nor will we hold or ship signed copies.
Due to time constraints, we respectfully customers to limit signing requests to 3 items or less per person.
No swimming without lifeguard on duty.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
KerBloom #159 by Artnoose $2.00
Zines by Your Pal AL: In the Night: A Retrospective $3.00, Pocket Isopod $4.00
How to Have More Fun On Your New Bike by Rosario Parker Gordon $8.00
Craigslist Zine #1 $4.00
Flung From the Volcano #2 by Emmy E. Smith and Guy Laramie $5.00
Comics
666 #2 Blood: A Horror Anthology (Really Easy Press) by Caroline Cash & friends $12
Graphic Novels
Sungazer by T. Sean $15
Art Books
Fungal Inspiration: Art and Illustration Inspired by Wild Nature (Victionary/Gingko) $45
Graphite: The H to B of Contemporary Pencil Art & Drawings (Victionary/Gingko) $45
Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design (Victionary/Gingko) $45
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art and Magic by Victoria Jenkins (Tate Publishing) $35.00
Politics & Revolution Books
Restocks & New Stuff From GenderFail, including: Manifesto Profit for Survival: Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices by Be Oakley $22.00, Against Artsploitation Unionizing the New Museum by Dana Kopel $20.00, GenderFail Reader #4 $20.00 & more.
The Enduring Legacy of Portland’s Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon by Joe Biel (Microcosm) $19.99
From Conflict to Community: Transforming Conflicts Without Authorities by Gwendolyn Olton (Microcosm) $16.95
The George Floyd Uprising edited by The Vortex Group (PM Press) $22.95
Decolonize Self-Care by Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe C. Meleo-Erwin $19.95
Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr. (PM Press) $16.95
We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action by Shannon Clay (PM Press) $24.95
Agitated: Grupos Autónomos and Armed Anticapitalism in Spain, 1974–1984 by Joni D. (AK Press) $24
Music Books
Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983 by Jen B. Larson (Feral House) $28.95
Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer (Faber & Faber) $14.95
Fiction
Bicycles and Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories About Witches on Bikes edited by Elly Blue (Microcosm) $12.95
DIY
Culpeper’s Complete Herbal: A Compendium of Herbs and Their Uses by Nicholas Culpeper $24.95
Magazines
RFD #192 $11.95
Poetry, Chap Books & Fiction Zines
Bard Kinetic by Anne Waldman (Coffee House Press) $19.95
Extremely Gay For the Moon and the Lake by Erin J. Watson & Hyacynth Wrobel $5.00
All Clues Point to Mystery (The Meatball Mystery Series) by Damon Charles Bishop $8.95
Sexxxy
Atlas of Half-Lives $8
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New Stuff This Week
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Crass $1.00
Everytime Burt Ward Says Holy $1.50
Heliotrope #1 A Guide to a More Sustainable Lifestyle $15.00
Zines by Hadass Bar-Lev: Purple Moon Spawn: A PMS Perzine #18-#19 $1.50 each, More Than Default Male: A Perzine Comprehensive Zine About Multi-Gender Hebrew $2.50, Raise Your Horns Grrrls and Growls #2 Nov 22 Hadass Bar-Lev $2.50 + a bunch of restocks
zines by Arwen: Music Reviews For People Who Like That One Song Off That One Album #1 $4.00, Eight Drawings of Hot Dogs Dec 22 by Arwen $1.00
No Bad Whores Just Bad Laws Support Hose Year 6 $5.00
Comics & Minis
Comics by Alan Jennings $5.00 each: Florida Man An Expose, Primer on Greek Gods and Hangers On, Scenes From the Life of General George Washington Retold & more.
Graphic Novels
Weekly Bun Life vol 1 by Jessi Zabarsky $10.00
Art Books
Drawing by Laurie Lipton (Last Gasp) $49.99
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Occult Paris: City of Night by Philippe Baudouin and Daphna Sebbane $14.00
Music Books
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83 (Bazillion Points) $39.95 – Reprint!
DIY
Cross Stitch or Die Tryin’: 30 Patterns for Hip Hop Lovers by Kate Blandford $16.95
Magazines
Apartamento #30 $35.00
For the Young at Heart
Sound of Letters by Julien Billaudeau (Little Gestalten) $26.95
Other Stuff
Mushroom Lovers Journal $12.95
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Sam Kunkel Discusses Gustave Kahn’s The Solar Circus With Jeremy Kitchen at Quimby's on Feb 18th
Quimby’s welcomes translator Sam Kunkel, who will discuss the great forgotten Symbolist masterpiece The Solar Circus with Chicago author and critic Jeremy Kitchen on Saturday, Feb 18th at 3pm in the afternoon.
Gustave Kahn’s The Solar Circus is an 1898 French novel dripping in psychedelic images of exotic gemstones, merfolk, and phantasmagoric menageries. Inverting day for night and reality for a dazzling dream, this is the story of a solipsistic Bavarian count who falls in love with the star of a traveling circus—thereby forcing him out of self-imposed seclusion. As the lovers set out from the count’s castle, they encounter a world in transformation: peasants in rebellion, the bright lights of London’s Orpheum theater, and even an ether-swilling Jack the Ripper in an opium den. In the process, the count must come to grips with his own fragile notions of superiority and truth.
The Solar Circus is text unlike any other, one that vacillates effortlessly between wild, imagistic poetry and philosophical prose, prefiguring those seminal 20th century works of Modernist literature which would appear more than two decades later.
The Solar Circus is being published by Michigan City-based First to Knock. Its publication will mark not only the novel’s first appearance in English but also its first independent reissue since it was published in 1898. The novel has been newly translated by Sam Kunkel, a Paris-based, Chicago-born scholar of 19th century Symbolist literature.
Kunkel will discuss Kahn’s novel and its place in the lineage of circus books with Chicago’s very own Jeremy Kitchen—author, literary critic, and librarian. A Q&A will follow. Books will be for sale.
For more info:
info(at)firsttoknock(dot)com
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Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON: No Sleep 'Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout, Jan. 21st!
Zine Club Chicago IN PERSON: No Sleep ’Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout!
7-11 p.m. CT Saturday, January 21
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue
Free!Is making progress on your zine projects one of your new year’s resolutions? Then kick off 2023 with Zine Club Chicago at the No Sleep ’Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout!
Bring your work-in-progress, create a new zine on the spot, or just catch up with other zine folks at our 4-hour Saturday night event here at the shop. (This gathering will channel the chill hangout vibe of Quimby’s Zlumber Parties of yore.)
We’ll have zinemaking supplies, creative prompts, and snacks on hand. Zinemakers are encouraged to bring their zines to swap with others! We’ll keep the party rolling from 7 to 11 p.m.; feel free to drop in anytime during the evening. (Bonus points if you wear your cutest pjs.)
Out-of-town friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in February for a special event that could only happen online! If you’d like to get together virtually with zine pals this month, check out Zine Party!, hosted as always by Michael Verdi, at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, January 10. For more info and the Zoom link, visit 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 the image of a table full of people making zines, hanging out, and eating snacks, with text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: No Sleep ‘Til Stapling Zinemaking Hangout! In Person! Free!;Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park; 7-11 p.m. CT Saturday, January 21”
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New Stuff This Week
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Naked Raygun Broken Things 7″ Record and Comic (Xylophone Media) $15.00View this post on Instagram
Zines
The Lowbrow Reader #11 $4.00
Junk Mail Envelopes That Think They’re the Boss of Me by Johnny Masiulewicz (Happy Tapir Press) $3.00
Waltzing Carpet Juliette #2 by Mark Ostler $5.00
FrootPunch Magazine #1 by Justin Skaggs and Sofa Melon $24.00
Your Daily Status Quo Tarot Reading $5.00
Razorblades and Aspirin #15 $10.00
Pure Intent #1 $4
Comics & Minis
Five More Minutes by Jude Bettridge $4.00
Adventures of Indico in Stonerland $4.20
Were Feeling the Same: Understanding of the Thing by Jenn Eisner and Madeleine Aguilar $5.00
Overwintering: A Zine About Future Earths by Jam Doughty $5.00
Zines & comics by Jude R. Bettridge!
New stuff and restocks by Nacho Nova!
Graphic Novels
Atomkinder: Cartoons 1960-1967 by HR Giger $24.95
Cult of the Ibis by Daria Tessler (Floating World Comics) $29.95
Art Books
Where’s Banksy: Updated Edition (Gingko Press) $45.00
Politics & Revolution
Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century by Danny Katch (Haymarket Books) $17.95
Essay
Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy by Ian F. Svenonius (Akashic) $17.95
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate (Haymarket Books) $24.95
Music Books
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers (White Rabbit Books) $26.99
Fiction
Ghost Music by An Yu $26
Magazines
Two Italian Rascals #1 $18.00
Plus!
New stuff and restocks from Arcane Bullshit & World Famous Original!
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramPins, patches, stickers & socks from Badaboom Studio!
View this post on InstagramZines
Sister of the Moon Rhetoric of the Witch by Dawn Rogers Stahura $12.00
Carpal Tunnel Headache by Everett Gee (Fluke Publishing) $5.00
Resistance Is Fertile: A Chapbook In Support of Midwest Access Project by Amanda ReCupido and Jill Lyons $15.00
Zines by Bret Koontz: Sparkle Road Cult $20.00, Hardd Copy II (with Jake Acosta) $7.00
An Actually Autistic Window on Economics by Andrew Coltrin $5.00
zines by Jason Valenzuela: 700 South Normandie $10.00
Trickfilm #2 by Charles Brubaker $5.00
Books by Nico Ciani: At Least Were Trying a Book $5.00, It’ll Come (with Harold Martin) $2.00
I Promise Never to Find This Funny Even If One Day I Do by Mole and Lorelai $0.75
Trains by O. Ashby $5.00
Lets Go Stag Dirty Movies from the Past by Dan Erdman $1.00
Antigravity Dec 2022 vol 20 #9 $10.00
Filbert Filbert Awoke Somewhere Entirely Different by Adam Kane $2.00
Comics
Bubbles #15 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8.00
I Hope This Finds You: Daily Diary Comics by Kevin Budnik, issues from Aug through Nov $6.00 each
Karikatur by Ken Cohen and Graham Sisk $5.00
Base Metals and Gold by Aodh O. Riagain $5.00
Love Bug by Lonnie Garcia $5.00
Comics by Ryan B: Y2K Part II Cybergames: A Diggles Digest Adventure $3.00, Rain Down On Me $5.00
Mortal Coil $10.00
New Look New Feel $5.00
Comics by Adam Kane: Moonbanana: A Parade of Obscurities $5.00, Peter the Wild Boy $5.00 & more
Lauren Ipsum #1 by Charles Brubaker $5.00
Graphic Novels
Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics) $22.99
Bungleton Green and The Mystic Commandos by Jay Jackson (New York Review Comics) $24.95
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Early Works by Art Spiegelman $25.00 – Back in print!
Music Books
How We Used Saint Etienne to Live by Ramzy Alwakeel (Repeater Books) $14.95
Art Books
Always One Button Short: The Buttons of Edward Gorey by Jonas Ploeger $16.95
How To
Writing Exercises and Various Approaches to Life On Earth by Joshua James Amberson (Antiquated Future) $10.00
Fiction
The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel by Tomihiko Morimi $26.99
Who Mothered the Corpse: A Novella by Zero $10.00
Ally by Ivan Repila $16.99
Magazines
Tape Op #152 $5.99
Lit Journals & Poetry
Brick #110 $20
Fieldnotes Lines of Flight #4 $18.00
Masochism Poems by Kelsey H. $5.00
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
Synth History #2 by Danz CM $25.00
Hallogallo issues #5, #7, #8 by Kai Slater $5 each
Name Question by Annie Howard $8.00
Wonder of it All #10 Paved with Intentions $3.00
Graphic Novels
Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos by S. Craig Zahler $39.99
Francis Rothbart: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral by Thomas Woodruff (Fantagraphics) $75.00
Leaf Peepers by Mark Bouchard, Shelby Criswell & Emmett Nahil $15
Art, Design & Photo
Making Fonts: A Comprehensive Guide to Professional Type Design by Chris Campe and Ulrike Rausch (Gingko Press) $45.00
Barry McGee: Reproduction $60
Every Pill I Took 2000-2001 by Michael Lorenzin (Blurring Books) $20.00
Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation by Qween Jean $45.00
I Left a Note by PORK $20.00
Sidewalk Sacrifice Wheels of Misfortune by Rich Browd (Blurring Books) $20.00
Music & Film
Punk 45 The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976–80 edited by Jon Savage & Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Books) $49.95
Drumming With Dead Can Dance and Parallel Adventures by Peter Ulrich $29.95
Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by Karen Han $45.00
History of Violence 1973 by David Cotner (Nine-Banded Books) $30.00
Temperatures Rising: Galaxie 500 An Oral and Visual History by Mike McGonigal $35.00
Mayhem & Outer Limits
The Philosophy of Dark Paganism: Wisdom & Magick to Cultivate the Self by Frater Tenebris (Llewellyn) $21.99
Politics & Revolution
After the Internet: Digital Networks Between Capital and the Common by Tiziana Terranova (Semiotext(e)) $16.95
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction by Shira Hassan (Haymarket Books) $24.95
Lucky Mud and Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship by Christina Jarvis $28.95
Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life and Life edited by Lizzie Borden $21.95
Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2023 edited by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth $18.95
Essays, Kind of
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter by Jonas Mekas $20.00
Drinkin’
How to Drink Like a Rock Star: Recipes For the Cocktails and Libations that Inspired a Hundred Music Legends $19.99
Fiction
Healing Circle: A Novel by Coco Picard (Red Hen Press) $17.95
Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau (Astra House) $17
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler $22.95
Poetry
Grocery Shopping With My Mother: Poems by Kevin Powell (Soft Skull Press) $24.00
Counter Map: A Poetics of Place edited by Darian Razdar $24.99
For the Young at Heart
Books from Little Gestalten:
Hello, Robot!: Day-to-day life with Artificial Intelligence! by Cosicosa and Ana Seixas $35.00
How to Be a Spy by Daniel Nesquens and Oyemathias $29.95
Legendary Escapes by Soledad Romero Marino & Julio Antonio Blasco $24.95
