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New Stuff This Week
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Zines
Roctober #52 Nothing Special 25th(ish) Anniversary Issue $7
Dan Gleason Is In Business by Dan Gleason $3
Not Like You: Love Letters to Grosso $8
5×7.5 by Rolando Rodriguez, issues #3 and #4 $7.50
Comics & Minis
What Now? by Johnny Sampson (Slow Leak Press) $10 – Plus some new stickers from Johnny!
Art Books
Soviet Visuals by Varia Bortsova $15
Film & Music
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed $32
Vinyl Age: A Guide to Record Collecting Now by Max Brzezinski (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers) $30
They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll by Doug Brod $28
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West $27
DIY
Beyond Manifestation: A Monthly Journal and Workbook for Presence by Kelly Cree and Jessica Mullen (School of Life Design) $21
Killer Plants: Growing and Caring for Flytraps, Pitcher Plants, and Other Deadly Flora by Molly Williams (Running Press) $18
Drugs
Everything You Ever Wanted Know About Marijuana (But Were Too Stoned To Ask) by Tim Pilcher (Ilex) $8.99
Fiction
Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand $16.99
Pirates!
Devil’s Ballast by Meg Caddy $11.95
Lit Journals
Taddle Creek #46 $6.95
Magazines
Soft Magazine #5 Traveling Artist $18
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramReminder! We will be open everyday Sun 12/20 through 12/24 noon to 6pm & closed on 12/25. Special hours this week only!
Anima Animals by Mark Ryden (Cernunnos) $40
Zines
Mystery Objects – Junk Drawer #11 by Eric Bartholomew $4
I Can’t Sing by Matt Albertini $5
Times I Lose My Name vol 1 by Tyler Esque $5
Horizontal: Adel Souto In Landscape Mode $4
Vertical: Adel Souto In Portrait Mode $4
Comics & Minis
Bad Boy Billy Corgi various issues $1 each
Graphic Novels
The Blood Anthology by Beata Sosnowska & Zavka (Centrala Central Europe Comics Art) $20
Politics & Revolution
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky & Marv Waterstone (Haymarket) $19.95
Music Books
When Can I Fly? The Sleepers, Tuxedomoon & Beyond by Michael Belfer with Will York (Hozac Books) $22.99
I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound: A Memoir by Mike Doughty $17.99
Fiction
Corpsepaint by David Peak (Word Horde) $15.99
Brief Lives of Idiots by Ermanno Cavazzoni (Wakefield Press) $14.95
Magazines
Wire #442 December $12.50
Mother Jones February 2021 $8.99
The Monthly Review vol 72 #7 December $6
Taproot #42 $12
Lit Journal
Roc #1 Ripple of Change $12
Other Stuff
Krampus Puzzle 1000 Pieces by Monte Beauchamp (Last Gasp) $39.95
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Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks Edition, Jan 19th
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, January 19 on Zoom
Free!
Some people meticulously catalogue their zines, while others toss them in random piles; for many of us, the ways we keep our zines fall someplace in between. This month, we’ll be discussing how we live with the zines we choose to bring home with us. Some of our favorite collectors will be showing us their stacks, and you’re invited to show off — or just talk about — your personal zine organizing system, too.
Get your collection in order (or leave it messy), BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Show Us Your Stacks Edition!
** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club 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 5:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, Jan. 19. We’ll email you the Zoom link one hour before the event begins.
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 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 at quimbys.com and on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @zineclubchicago
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/142135534123424/
(Photo taken at the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Ore., 2018 by C.E. Hanifin)
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramReminder! If you’re in the U.S. and placing a mail order and want it by Dec 25th, Dec 14th is the cut off date. Please note that we can’t 100% guarantee the post office will get it to you by the date, so best to place your orders earlier than later.
View this post on InstagramWhy yes, we have gift certificates. They’re here.
Zines
More back issues of Popular Pandemics! $10 each
I Love Chicago In the Winter by Heather Anacker $5.55
Faces #1 by Misha Ardichvili $5 small size or $10 bigger size
Charlie Kaufman by KJ Kuhns $3
Comics & Minis
OK I’m Bored Lets Leave by Levi Freidman $8.50
Transmissions From Dreamtown #1-#3 by Isaac Roller $5-$7 each
Graphic Novels
Remina by Junji Ito $22.99
Okay, Universe: Chronicles of a Woman in Politics by Delphie Côté-Lacroix and Valérie Plante (D+Q) $21.95
Time Traveling With Your Octopus by Brian Kesinger (Baby Tattoo) $29.95
Politics & Revolution
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly by Guerrilla Girls $30
Mayhem
Horrorscopes by Amy Brereton / Psi Tallstar $20
My Little Occult Book Club: A Creepy Collection by Steven Rhodes $14.95
Music-Related
Metal Mappa Mundi: A World Tour of Heavy Metal, from Birmingham to Botswana Map by Jon Kutt and Ian Winwood (Herb Lester) $14
Essays
Signature Shoes by Ryan Trembath $20
Magazines
In These Times Dec 2020 $4.95
The Progressive Dec 2020 Jan 2021 $5.95
Chap Books & Lit Journals
There is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu (Radix) $12
N+1 #38 Fall 2020 Death Wish $14.95
The Bennington Review #8 Fall 2020 $13
Cumulus #2 Fall 2020 A New Epoch $10
Other Stuff
Selected 2021 Moleskines, various prices
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Quimby's Holiday Hours For Geniuses + Dec 14th Online Deadline
OK, we know this is confusing. Get out your planners!
Quimby’s will continue to be open to the public noon to 6pm Thursday through Monday (closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays).
However! Lucky you!
The week before December 25th (and only that week) we will also be open Tues, Dec 22nd and Wed, Dec 23rd, noon to 6pm, both of those days.
Quimby’s will be closed on Friday, December 25th and Fri, January 1st.
Once the holidays are over, we’ll be back to our schedule of noon to 6pm Thursday through Monday.
But of course, you can always shop at our website anytime you want. Ready for the quiz? Did you write this all down in your Slingshot Planner?
Domestic Holiday Online Shopping Deadline: December 14th
In the U.S. and need your gifts by December 25th? Order by Dec 14th. We do ask, however, that our customers keep in mind that USPS delays have been A THING, for obvious reasons. Once we put your stuff in the mail please be patient with our friends at the post office and beware that delays may continue through the holiday season. Overseas? We’re happy to ship to you but cannot confirm that your merch would arrive by December 25th.
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December Quimby’s Newsletter Out Now!
Cozy on up to your Quimby’s December announcements. New stuff, virtual events (OK, virtual event, singular) and more.
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New Stuff This Week
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Alternative Incite #2 Fall 20 Follow the Creative Impulse $4
Comics & Minis
Bubbles #8 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8
You Don’t Get There From Here #56 by Carrie McNinch $4
Stuff from Shawn Granton/Urban Adventure League : New comics & stickers & restock!
Rimeski Comics #11 November 2020 $3
Comics by BluRaven Houvener: Lil Boy Jake $1, It’s Just Another Day #2 $2
Finance Cove #1 Syntonyms For Passion by M. Pearson (Glom Press) $2
Rodeo #2 by E. Salazar $6
Graphic Novels
The Complete Hate by Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) $119.99
Graphic Novels from by Cathy Hannah: Everyday Diary Comics From Jan-Dec 2017 $15, Year We Met: Diary Comics From Jan-Dec 2019 $15, Lonely Grave of Bobby Frank $10
Hemingway In Comics by Robert K. Elder $29.95
Eternaut 1969 by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and drawn by Alberto Breccia (Fantagraphics) $19.99
The Guidebook to Queer Jewish Spirituality by Mira Schlosberg (Glom Press) $12
Hold My Hand by the Plasma Grid by Michael Hawkins (Glom Press) $10
Politics & Revolution Books
Communism of Love: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Exchange Value by Richard Gilman Opalsky (AK Press) $22
Fiction
Tiny by Mairead Case (Featherproof) $14.95
Design Books
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt $30
Fiction
Serotonin: A Novel by Michel Houellebecq $18
Dead Astronauts: A Novel by Jeff Vandermeer $17
Sexxxy
Tom of Finland: Made in Germany (Skira) $39.95
Meat #31 The Naked Issue 2020 + Meat #32 The Ginger Issue $20 each
Magazines
Juxtapoz #216 $9.99
Lit Journals & Chap Books
The Paris Review #235 $20
Granta #152 $19.99
Dig by Sydney and Steph $6
WMN issues #1 & #2 $24 each
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New Stuff This Week
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Popular Pandemics spring summer 2022 + Fall 2022 $10 each
Workprint #2 Misfit Cinema Journal $4
Politics & Revolution Books
Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2021 by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth (Seven Stories Press) $17.95
Magazines
Portable Gray vol #3.2 Fall 20 $15
Bitch #89 winter $9.95
Bust #123 winter $7.99
Tape Op #140 december january $5.99
Aperture #241 winter $24.95
Photo Books
Havana Cuba by Joey Seils $20
Kidstuff
Ben Balloon and Friends by Mary Bowyer $7.99 + Tony Turtle and Friends by Mary Bowyer and Elaine Frick $9.95
Totally Inappropriate for the Times
Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2021 $21.99
Other Stuff
Button Up America: 500 Piece Puzzle From The Busy Beaver Button Museum $14.99
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New Stuff This Week
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Zines & Zine-RelatedCrap Hound 2020 Books and Bees by Sean Tejaratchi $20
Mom Updates by Bruce George Wingate (Public Collectors) $5
Broken Pencil #89 Can Zines Save Democracy $7.95
Gustafsen Lake Crisis: Statements From Ts’Peten Defenders by Ts’Peten Defenders $8
When Being An Ally zines by Xolpakelxhit, $8 each:
…Turns Into Being An Appropriator Settler Conduct and Self Check
…Until It Is Time to Do Some Real Ally ShitComics & Minis
New Yerby Summer 2019 by Liz Yerby $8
Comics by Jam Doughty: Fallen Fronds $10, Smol Trek $15, Bunch of Frames $1
Gonzales: When Satan Came to Tonka Town: A Comic Story by Ric Royer and drawn by MT Shelves (Model City Books) $8
Graphic Novels
Berserk vol 6 Deluxe Edition by Kentaro Miura $49.99
To Know You’re Alive by Dakota McFadzean (Conundrum) $20
Art!
Mushroom Postcards (PIE International) $19.99
Essays
Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Semiotext(e)) $17.95
Castle Faggot by Derek McCormack (Semiotext(e)) $15.95
Fiction
Never Die Alone by Donald Goines $15.95
Magazines
Apartamento #26 $28
The Baffler #54 $14
Jacobin #39 $12.95
HorrorHound #85 $6.99
Wire #410 $12
Adbusters #152 $14.95
Yes Magazine #96 $8.50
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Overtime Hour 57 The Art of Interviewing by Peter Gregg Slater (Blue Cubicle Press) $2
Worthy Tales Issue 1 by Evelyn Richardson $12
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Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: Our Faves of 2020 Edition on Dec 15th
Zine Club Chicago ONLINE: Our Faves of 2020 Edition
7:30 p.m. Central Time Tuesday, December 15 on Zoom
Free!
What are the best zines you read this year? This month, we’ll be discussing our favorites of 2020 — the zines that delighted us, surprised us, educated us, inspired us, and made us glad that folks all over the globe devote their time and creativity to self-publishing.
Grab the titles you enjoyed most this year, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago: Our Faves of 2020 Edition!
** Zoom info ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link and password publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 5:30pm CT on Tuesday, Dec. 15th. We’ll email you the Zoom link and password one hour before the event begins.
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 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 at on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @zineclubchicago
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1330802300590736
Wanna spread the word about this meeting of ZCC but need flyers in additional formats? Check out these birdies!
