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  • New Stuff This Week

     

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    The Fred’s BEDROCK AND ROLL Cassette and Mini Comic by Alex Schubert $16

    Patches from Mille Putois! by Jasper Jubenvill, Simon Bossé, Diane Obomsawin & Richard Suicide $12 each

    Zines

    Ghoul Talk Fall 2021 – An Adult Halloween Zine by MV Garcia $6

    Baby Animals Against Cancer by Ayun Halliday $3

    Coffee People Zine #14 $15

    More Recipes About Music and Food, various issues by Frank Davis (Bushwick Grill Club Press) $3-$10

    The Story of Molly Belle and Promise by John Derr $15

    5 x 7.5 #7 July 21 Protest Season 2 by Rolando Rodriguez $7.50

    Zines by discountyakuza $2-$2.50

    How to Sell Stuff at an Event by Joe Biel $4.95

    Impossible Game: Using Dice and Divination to Examine Everyday Life and Manifest Your Dreams by Eric J. Millar $5.95

    Seeds of Spring #3 A Mi kMaq Teen Discovers Kropotkin Punk and Her Place In the World $4.95

    Drunk Punk Workbook: A Step Working Guide to Getting Sober Without Gods or Masters by Tim Spock $6.95

    Imprisoned with Covid 19 by Tim Spock $4.95

    The Warning Signs of the Huli Jings: Discover the Narcissists Disguising Themselves as Our Co-Workers, Friends, or Family by Jenn Truong $6.95

    How to Be Wrong by Nicole Gulatz $4.95

    Alter Ego Zine #1 & #2 Original Sin by Mae Lyne in color & b+w versions

    Survivors Guide to Surviving by Survived and Punished $7

    Revolutionary Scorned $10

    Comics & Minis

    We Are Not So Close by Sally $12

    Dolly Pardon Fanzine by Liz Yerby, Caroline Cash, Sam Szabo and more $10

    Freaky #6 Sick Sick Six edited by Andrew Goldfarb $5

    Graphic Novels

    Discipline by Dash Shaw $27.95

    Night Fisher by R Kikuo Johnson (Fantagraphics) $19.99

    On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder & illustrated by Nora Krug $16.99

    Art, Design & Photo Books

    Chicagoan Berliners: The Rat Dream Club Interviews by Dylan Peterson $15

    Shop Cats of China by Marcel Heijnen $24.95

    Politics & Revolution

    The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller $30

    Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women In America, Second Edition by Tamara Winfrey Harris $18.95

    We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave by Patricia Romney (Feminist Press) $19.95

    A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate: Everyone’s Guide to the Science of Climate Change by Steven Earle PhD $19.95

    Essays

    A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 by David Sedaris $32

    Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman $28

    Film & Music Books

    Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the ’70s and ’80s, Expanded Edition by Michael Gingold (1984 Publishing) $37.95

    Confess: The Autobiography by Rob Halford $18.99

    Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Keleefa Sanneh $28

    Codex Metallum: The Secret Art of Metal – The Hidden Meanings Behind Metal’s Greatest Album Covers by Maxwell and Alt236 (Cassell) $39.95

    We Could Be…Bowie and his Heroes by Tom Hagler and Tony Visconti $24.99

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    Skulls: Portraits of the Dead and the Stories They Tell by Paul Gambino $30

    When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance by Daniel Pinchbeck and Sophia Rokhlin $16.95

    DIY Books

    Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself by S. Bear Bergman and illustrated by Saul Freedman-Lawson (Arsenal Pulp Press) $21.95

    Fiction

    Detransition Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters $18 – Now in soft cover.

    Slumberland: A Novel by Paul Beatty $16

    This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It (John Dies at the End, 2) $17.99

    Attack Surface: Book 3 of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow $18.99

    Magazines

    Apartamento #30 $30

    Studio Magazine #3 $25

    Lit Journals & Poetry

    The First Line vol 23 #3 Fall 2021 $6

    Cat Fell Asleep In the Sun: Poems by Laszlo Katona $18.50

    Sexxxy

    Titles in the Queering Consent Series!

    Plus! New stickers from Tony Recktenwald!

  • Zine Club Chicago Online: PURRzines Edition + Hallowine Celebration, Oct. 26

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    Zine Club Chicago Online: PURRzines Edition
    7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, October 26 on Zoom
    Free!

    Last month, Zine Club Chicago discussed perzines … this month, they’re welcoming the spooky season with a celebration of PURRzines!

    Cats of all stripes have slunk across the pages of countless zines and into our hearts.  In October, Zine Club Chicago will be discussing zines about our feline friends and other mysterious creatures (both real and imaginary)! This also will be the group’s annual Hallowzine celebration, so costumes — for humans and #zinepets alike — are highly encouraged.

    Grab your fave zines about cats, BYOT(ricks)&T(reats), and join in on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: PURRzines Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, October 26!

    ** Zoom info ** Zine Club Chicago wants to make sure that its events are a safe space, so the Zoom link won’t be released publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CT Monday, October 25 (the day before the event). You’ll receive the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CT that evening.

    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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’s monthly flyers, created its logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines.

    More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.

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    Quimby’s Coasters! Set of 4 for $10

    Zines

    Women In Print #7 by Jennifer Trontz $8

    Vetsh #1 Spent by Sam Bulleit $10

    Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non Conforming Nonbinary AMAD Folks by TransFighters Oakland (Silver Sprocket) $5

    Skree #1 The Garf (Re)issue by Corey Corcoran $8

    Weekly World News Greatest Covers #1 $20

    Xerography Debt #50 $4.95

    Party Line #6 spring 2021 Official Organ of Futel by Karl Anderson $3

    Catsploitation #2 Part 2 A Zine Celebrating Horror Fans and their Cats by Matt Ragsdale $7

    Zines by Nick Disabato: Twenty Objects $3, Weekly Updates $5, Grammar $5, Food Updates $3, Business Book $3

    Comics & Minis

    Demons: To Earth and Back by Hyena Hell (Silver Sprocket) $6.66

    Road Show #1 by James the Stanton (Silver Sprocket) $5.99

    Litterpig #1 by Evin Collis $7 and #2 $8

    Butterfly Book From Me to You $12

    Cat Scratch Fever #1 by Emily Zullo $8

    Invasion on Aisle Two #2 by Erik Jasek $10

    Boris by Chris Mattei $5

    Superhero Comic Book by Ina $10

    Thanks for Listening by Xena Lopez $16.50

    Graphic Novels

    This Is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle (D+WQ) $24.95

    The Comely Widow: The Crimes of Serial Killer Belle Gunness by John Enrique Thompson $15

    Feelings by INAPOOPSONS $24.99

    How To Pick A Fight by Lara Kaminoff (Nobrow) $18.99

    Lights, Planets, People! by Lizzy Stewart & Molly Naylor (Avery Hill) $22.95

    Jodorowsky Library Edition: Anibal 5 • Megalex • Selected Short Stories by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Humanoids) $39.99

    Politics & Revolution

    Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood by Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, Susana Morris $16.95

    Outer Limits

    Evergreen Ape: The Story of Bigfoot by David Normal Lewis (Microcosm) $9.95

    Gods and Spacemen Throughout History: Did Ancient Aliens Visit Earth in the Past? by W. Raymond Drake (Adventures Unlimited) $18.95

    DIY & Food

    Radical Brewing: Easy and Cheap Ways to Make Alcohol at Home by Baltimore Brew Collective (Microcosm) $4.95

    The Dabbler’s Guide to Witchcraft: Seeking an Intentional Magical Path by Fire Lyte $16.99

    Please Don’t Feed the Bears: A Heavy Metal Vegan Cookbook by Asbjorn Intonsus (Microcosm) $14.95

    Music Books

    Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock by David A. Ensminger (Microcosm) $16.95

    Love, Death & Photosynthesis by Bela Koe-Krompecher (Don Giovanni Records) $13.95

    Juggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America’s Weirdest Music Scene by Craven Rock + Damon Thompson (Microcosm) $16.95

    Stuff From Gods & Radicals Press:

    Reclaiming Ourselves by Emma Kathryn $14
    Gods Speaking by Judith O’Grady $13
    Witches In a Crumbling Empire by Rhys Wildermuth $15
    Your Face Is a Forest by Rhys Wildermuth $13
    Dead Hermes Epistolary by Slippery Elm $18
    We Live in the Orbit of Beings Greater than Us: Interviews from Last Born in the Wilderness by Patrick Farnsworth $18
    (plus restocks of older G&R Press)

    Magazines

    Harpers Magazine october $7.99

    VegNews #128 $9.99

    Breathe #40 $13.99

    In These Times october $4.95

    Mojo #335 october $11.99

    New Noise Magazine #59 $4.99

    Shindig #118 august $13.99

    Popshot Quarterly #33 fall $12.75

    Wire #451 september $12.50

    Plus:

    Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2022 $21.99

    Sticker restocks and new from Silver Sprocket!

  • Anne Elizabeth Moore Talks Perzines and Memoirs with Quimby’s Online Nov 5th

     

    Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new book Gentrifier: A Memoir (Catapult Books) is ostensibly about a free house the author was awarded in Detroit in 2016. But after she moves in, pets some cats, and gets to know her delightful neighbors, the murky history of her supposedly free house—more costly than expected—comes to light, illuminating the contemporary American housing crisis. Moore writes about gender, policy, and the downside of capitalism (all of it), plus she includes many jokes, so her books are pretty good. She has been self-publishing since she was 11 and will talk about using zines in a writing practice, and memoir in a self-publishing practice.

    Don’t miss Anne on the Quimby’s Instagram, livestreaming on Fri, Nov 5th at 7:30pm CT at instagram.com/quimbysbookstore where she’ll talk with Quimby’s employees and fellow veteran zinesters Liz Mason and Cynthia E. Hanifin, in what promises to be a lively discussion. Because this is a livestreaming workshop event, viewers are encouraged to come prepared with questions to ask about the differences between perzines (as in personal zines) and memoir, moving from one to the other, and incorporating zines into a writing practice and/or memoir writing into a self-publishing practice. Part workshop, part craft talk, part book discussion, part interactive discussion with the audience, this event promises to be fully unpredictable and most definitely fun.

    For a limited time! While supplies last, with the purchase of this book, you will get a signed bookplate by Anne Elizabeth Moore, in celebration of this November 5th event! Get Gentrifier at Quimby’s Bookstore here.

    “I don’t know how Anne managed to write the funniest book I’ve read in years and the most honest one about the scramble of American life, but she did.” —Jace Clayton, Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture

    Anne Elizabeth Moore was born in Winner, SD, and currently lives in the Catskills with her ineffective feline personal assistant, Captain America. In 2019, her book Sweet Little Cunt won an Eisner Award. Body Horror was nominated for a 2017 Lambda Literary Award and a Chicago Review of Books Award, was listed as a 100 Best Books Of All Time on the Political Economy by BookAuthority and named Best Book by the Chicago Public Library. Threadbare made the 2016 Tits & Sass list “Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work.” Cambodian Grrrl received a 2012 Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism. Unmarketable was Mother Jones’ Best Book of 2007.

    For more info: www.anneelizabethmoore.com

  • New Stuff This Week

     

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    2022 Slingshot Planners! Small $8 + Large $16

    Zines

    No Scene Zine #5 Presents Lisa Frankenstein by BSide, July TimeSheets & Spacebar $6

    Spew issues #1-#3 edited by Karina Remer Avery Parrott $7 each

    Gig Life #1 History $8.50

    Religion Politics Sex #3 The Pandemic Issue summer 2021 by Robert T. Glen $5

    zines by Laura Rowley: Ties That Bind Projects For Soothing Tension $8.50, Endon Metra Osis by Laura Rowley $8.50

    Half Frame Journal #1 Documenting a Bike Tour Down the Willamette Valley in 35mm Film and Drawings by Shawn Granton (Urban Adventure League) $6

    The Papercuts Library #5 Let’s Make the Equal Rights Amendment Unanimous $5.99

    Cured Heart, Anima Animus Art Series Zine #7 by Paul Leroy $7

    King and I by Feli Fisher $10

    From Brown and Proud Press: Ranflas by Luz Magdaleno Flores and Zoulee Fer $10, Hood Opulence by Luz Magdaleno Flores $5, & more.

    From Fugitive Ink Studio: Bootleg Tarot: An Exploration of the Major Arcana $10, Bryn by Aaron Uglum $10, & more

    Comics & Minis

    Small Universes, Comix Poems by Tori Holder $5

    Deri by Kevin Curley $5

    Graphic Novels

    Recidivist IV by Zak Sally (Secret Acres) $19.95

    One Piece vol 1 Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda $9.99

    Art Books

    Stickerology: 928 Astrology Stikces From Aries to Pisces, illustrated by Elisa Wong $14

    Politics & Revolution

    The History of Democracy Has Yet to Be Written: How We All Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again by Thomas Geoghegan (Belt Publishing) $26

    DIY

    Creepy Cross-Stitch: 25 Spooky Projects to Haunt Your Halls by Lindsay Swearingen $18.99

    Fiction

    The Beast in Aisle 34 by Darrin Doyle (Tortoise Books) $17.99

    Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 edited by Leslie S. Klinger & Lisa Morton $16.95

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination With Spirits and the Supernatural by Marc Hartzman $22.99

    Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural by Keisuke Nishimoto $15.99

    Spacecraft (Object Lessons) by Timothy Morton $14.95

    The Witches Almanac #41 Spring 2022-2023 $15.95

    Essays

    Black Nerd Problems: Essays by William Evans and Omar Holmon $27

    Magazines

    Shock Cinema #60 $5

    The Baffler #59 $14

    The Monthly Review vol 73 #4 september $6

    Skeptic vol 26 #3 $6.95

    Aperture #244 fall $24.95

    Headmaster #9 $20

    Lit Journals

    Granta #156 summer $19.99

     

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    Zines

    Papercore #5 DIY International Punk Zine spring summer $4

    Alternative Incite #4 spring $4

    Hot Shop Music ft. Pearl Dick by Charlie Manion $15

    Late to the Party Sum 21 by Erik Jacobson $3

    Keanu Godmother by Issa Saldana $1

    Dotty’s Vegan Munchies Adventures #1 $18

    Maps by Chris Auman $6.50

    Pencil Revolution #20 I Brought My Pencil Back to School Issue by Dr. Johnny Gamber II $5

    Tuesday Zine Issues #1-8, #9-#16 by Frank Fehler $5

    Craft Leftovers vol 5 #1 The Many Deaths of Backyard Chickens by Kristin M. Roach $7

    Comics & Minis

    Acid Nun #2 by Corinne Halbert $10 – Plus a restock of her stickers!

    New stuff from Kus!
    Mini-kuš #99 Flowers Intertwined by Ema Gaspar $6
    Mini Kus #100 Long Live the Witches by Valentine Gallardo $6
    Mini Kus #101 Survival Mode by Dileydi Florez $6
    Mini Kus #102 10 Sim Lane by Essi Nieminen $6
    S #42 Baltic Comics Magazine: Scientific Facts $14

    Stripburger issues #75-77 $12 each

    Haint Tales #1 by Anthony Aiuppy $10

    Zero Point: A Short Sci-Fi Comics Collection by Quinn Thomson $7

    New Yerby Spr 2021 by Liz Yerby $8

    Positively Moomin Comics Anthology by Liz Yerby & friends $10

    Beastly by Ben Cherry $4

    Graphic Novels

    Good Night, Hem by Jason (Fantagraphics) $19.99

    Represented Immobilized by Rick Trembles (Conundrum) $12

    I Am a Cat: The Manga Edition by Soseki Natsume $14.99

    Politics & Revolution

    Steal This Book 50th Anniversary Edition by Abbie Hoffman $19.99

    DIY

    2022 Witch’s Diary: Reclaiming the Magick of the Old Ways by Barbara Meiklejohn-Free and Flavia Kate Peters $14.95

    The Good Spell Book : Love Charms, Magical Cures, and Other Practical Sorcery (Revised) by Gillian Kemp $18

    Hard To Be A Person by Brett Newski $20

    Chap Books

    Fifteen Limericks About Van Gogh by David Hankins $2.50

    Essays

    Kathy Acker In Seattle edited by Daniel Schulz (Misfit Lit) $14

    The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West $17.99

    Help

    Savage Love A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras by Dan Savage and Joe Newton $19.95

    Outer Limits & Mayhem

    Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart (Public Affairs) $28

    Symbols of the Occult: A Directory of Over 500 Signs, Symbols and Icons by Eric Chaline $24.95

    If You Can’t Quit Cryin’, You Can’t Come Here No More: A Family’s Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America by Betty Frizzell (Feral House) $17.95

    The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles Harvey $18.99

    Fiction

    The Every by Dave Eggers (McSweeneys hardcover edition) $28

    Wrong End of the Telescope: A Novel by Rabih Alameddine $27

    Dantes Indiana: A Novel by Randy Boyagoda (Biblioasis) $16.95

    The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki $30

    Awkward Black Man: Stories by Walter Mosley $17

    Magazines

    Planted: Chicago’s Vegan Magazine summer $8

    Wire #450 august $12.50

    032c #39 summer $19.90

    Monocle #146 september $14

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    Zines

    Fluke Publishing stuff: Poster Morgue by NXOEED, Fluke Fanzine #19 by MT $5 each

    Metasnax by Milo $2.50

    DIY Law by David Orozco $5

    New zines by Brian Cotnoir: Monochord: A Philosophical Instrument $5, Alchemy and Music Sound Text and Vision $10

    Plates of Meat #2 Teenage Rampage, Plates of Meat #3 The Style Issue, $15 each

    Damaged Mentality #8 by Synthia Nicole $2.25

    Hells Anglers: A Collection of Fish to Haunt Your Nightmares by Zak Biggard $5

    Prom Cats by Julia C. $2

    Anxious Don’t Panic by Xoxotoki $2

    This is What My Panic Attack Looks Like by Julia Redmond $3

    Mixed Up History of Royal Rulers and Their Doggies by Sarah Raymond $5

    KerBloom #151 july august $2

    Comics & Minis

    Santos Sisters #1 by Greg and Fake $5

    NOME by Jessi Zabarsky $15

    Castle #1 by Imp $5

    issues of OBL V OUS : A Hot Summers Night $2.50, I Want Your Soul $2

    Graphic Novels

    Day and Age Year One vol 1 by Andrew Oh $6.99

    Politics & Revolution

    Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week by Will Stronge and Kyle Lewis $14.95

    Feminist City by Leslie Kern $19.95

    Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine $20

    Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith $14.95

    How to Read Marx’s Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters by Michael Heinrich $28

    Art Books

    Sacred Beasts: The Animals that Inspired Europes First Artists by Zak Biggard $20

    Essay

    On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson $27

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (fancy Modern Library edition) by Hunter S. Thompson $24

    Nation of Women by Luisa Capetillo $15

    Mayhem

    Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind by David B. Nelson $39.99

    Music Books

    Ever Fallen in Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes by Pete Shelley and Louie Shelley $24.99

    Babble on an’ ting: Alex Paterson’s Incredible Journey Beyond the Ultraworld with The Orb by Kris Needs with Alex Paterson $24.99

    Growing Out of It: Machinations Before Madness by Lee “Kix” Thompson $24.99

    2 new books from the 33 1/3 series: Janelle Monáe’s Archandroid by Alyssa Favreau, Sam Cooke’s Live At Harlem Square Club by Colin Fleming

    Rust in Peace: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece by Dave Mustaine $17.99

    Fiction

    His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined $12.99

    Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction by David Hajdu $15.95

    Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks (Feminist Press) $17.95

    I Wished: A Novel by Dennis Cooper $25

    The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk $16.99

    Science!

    Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach $26.95

    Local Interest

    Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City by Carl Smith $19

    Sexxxy

    Grime by Marc Koprinarov $5

    Lit Journals

    Iowa Review vol 50 #3 $8.95

    Lucky Jefferson titles all edited by Nabeela Washington: Instrospection, Cookout, Meliora, Labyrinth $10 each

    Magazines

    Juxtapoz #219 fall $9.99

    Horror Hound #90 august $6.99

    For the Kiddies

    Blancaflor, the Hero with Secret Powers: A Folktale from Latin America by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio Garcia Sanchez $9.99

    Other Stuff

    Spooky stickers White Stag Art!

  • September Quimby’s Newsletter Out Now!

    Our monthly announcements and all that jazz. Have you subscribed so you get it in your inbox every month yet? Check it out here.

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    Candles by White City Devil! In Tin cans with soy blends $16 each in “Bloodlust” + “Impaler” + “Coffee and Coconut” + “Weedeater”

    Zines

    Gina and Joe Talk About Queer Horror by Gina Brandolino and Joe Carlough $5

    Stated Plainly by Dustin Reilly $5

    zines by Maira: Do You Still Hate Me: A Zine About Social Anxiety and Growing Up, i’ve got a number of irrational fears that i’d like to share with you $3

    Urban Daydreams by Jason Valenzuela $7

    Photo zines by Larry Wolf $8, each: Rough Raw Reclaimed #1, More Or Less Transparent

    Six Stories by Steven Holmquist $6

    Digital Penance #1 by Matt Oberski and Kyle Brand $13

    International Review #166 $3

    Famous Cats Passed by Joe Carlough $2

    Comics & Minis

    The Future #7 by Tommi Musturi $6

    Back Channel by Matt Bellisle $5

    Comics by Charles Brubaker: Ask a Cat Digest #14, Witch Named Koko #10, Goblins and Fortune

    Being John Arbuckle #1-#7 by Gobonussaves $6 each

    Comics by Davidt Dunlop: Satanic Panic, Martin, Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder & more

    Graphic Novels

    Nod Away vol 2 by Joshua M. Cotter (Fantagraphics) $29.99

    Bird Feeder by Ryan Oliver and Rosario $10

    Music Books

    The History of Bones: A Memoir by John Lurie $28

    Field Guides by Steve Wide $14.95 each: Britpop, Grunge

    Mayhem & Outer Limits

    Spirits of the Otherworld: A Grimoire of Occult Cocktails and Drinking Rituals by Allison Crawbuck & Rhys Everett $19.95

    Family Dolls: A Manson Paper and Play Book by John Reed and Choi Sungyoon $15

    Carmilla: The Cult Classic That Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu $18.95

    Help

    Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau $16

    Food

    Alien Cookbook by Chris-Rachael Oseland $34.95

    3D Munchies: Three-Dimensional Recipes to Satisfy Them Cravings by Eli George $19.95

    Poetry & Fiction

    Books by Yvonne Zipter: Infraction, Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound

    Other Stuff

    Ginseng Roots Collectible Box by Craig Thompson (Uncivilized) $16.95

  • Zine Club Chicago Online: Perzines Edition with Special Guests Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest, Sept. 21

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    Zine Club Chicago Online: Perzines Edition with
    Special Guests Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest
    7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, September 21 on Zoom
    Free!

    This month, Zine Club Chicago has a lot to celebrate! The group is incredibly excited to welcome two special guests, Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest, to discuss one of the most compelling and enduring genres in self-publishing: Perzines.

    In a world where too many voices still go unheard, perzines (short for personal zines) thrive at the intersection of the personal and the political, where our individual stories can inspire connection, hope, and revolutionary action. Jonas and Red will talk about their own deeply personal zines, their favorite perzines, and the fest they’re organizing to bring together perzine makers and fans from across the region. Everyone is invited to bring your own most-loved perzines to share, too!

    The black-and-white logo for Midwest Perzine Fest

    The members of Zine Club Chicago also will be breaking out their finest fizzy beverages and snacks to commemorate Quimby’s’ 30th anniversary! This September marks three years that the store has sponsored Zine Club Chicago, too.

    Grab your fave perzines, BYOB(ubbly), and join in on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Perzines Edition with Special Guests Jonas and Red of Midwest Perzine Fest at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, September 21!

    ** Zoom info ** Zine Club Chicago wants to make sure that its events are a safe space, so the Zoom link won’t be released publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CT Monday, September 20 (the day before the event). You’ll receive the Zoom link by 11 p.m. CT that evening.

    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 Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’s monthly flyers, created its logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines.

    More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.