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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
KerBloom #150 May June: A World Anew by Artnoose $2
Baby Teef #2.1 What Is Your Gender by Venus $7
Toilet Lids by John Maggie $2
Head: A Collection of Portrait Paintings by Jim Chatelain and John Maggie $20
Zisk #32 Covid Summer Remembering Bob Gibson by Mike Falloon, Mike Fournier, & friends $3
Three Hour Nap Clause, A Novel by David G. Cookson $8
Stuck on VHS Supplement #1 by Josh Schafer $10
Lunchmeat #10 by Josh Shafer $10
zines by Francis/FireMotif $3-$4.50
Watch Closely $3
Juno to Juno Communication My Wretched Cat Whomst I Love $3
No Fun Club
1D Fanfiction Writing, School For Teenage LonelyheartsComics
Mineshaft #40 $10
Red Room #2 The Anti-Social Network by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics) $3.99
Garens Diary #1-$2 by Barbara Lane Tharas $18 each
Graphic Novels
Alone In Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden $32.95
Bubble by Morgan, Morris, Cliff, & Riess $17.99
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke $30
Music Related
The Otherwise: The Screenplay for a Horror Film That Never Was by Mark E. Smith and Graham Duff (MIT Press) $21.95
Fiction
Final Girl Support Group: A Novel by Grady Hendrix $26
A Womans Affair by Liane de Pougy $13.99
Caul Baby: A Novel by Morgan Jerkins $27.99
Magazines
Bitch #91 summer $12.95
Project Calm #6 $20
Internationalist #63 $1
Phile #5 The International Journal of Desire and Curiosity $23
Chap Books
Art of Eeking By by Tom Orr $7
Other Stuff!
Psycho Bates Motel Notepads $12.95
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New Stuff This Week
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New stuff from Billy McCall!
Proof I Exist #35 & #36 $2 each
Zine Friends Forever Patches Set! $6
multiple issues of State Flags $2Comics
Comics Will Break Your Balls by Sam Szabo $15
Apologies to Astraeus #1 A Horror Comic by Ben Montaug $9
Comics by Reginald Wayne & David Soileau, $2 each:
Hero League #4 New Wave Comics
New Wave Comics #18 Presents Supera Vs. Tidal WaveGraphic Novels
Rebecca and Lucie In the Case of the Missing Neighbor by Pascal Girard (D+Q) $21.95
Music Books
The First Collection of Criticism By a Living Female Rock Critic, Revised and Expanded by Jessica Hopper $22
Politics & Revolution Books
Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common by Ewa Majewska $24.95
Druuuuuuugs
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan $28
Outer Limits & Mayhem
3 Wooden Books re-releases in soft cover, $7.95 each:
Celtic Pattern: Visual Rhythms of the Ancient Mind by Adam Tetlow
Shadows In Nature Life and Art by William Vaughan
Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret by Scott OlsenDIY
The Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love by Faith G. Harper Lpc-S Acs Acn and Joe Biel (Microcosm) $13.95
Fiction
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman $18
Magazines
Little White Lies #89 june july $16.99
VegNews #127 summer $9.99
Skeptical Inquirer vol 45 #4 july august $5.99
Wire #448 june $12.50
Aperture #243 summer $24.95
Dazed and Confused vol 5 #272 summer $13.20
In These Times July $4.95
Documentarian Win 2021 $12Lit Journals & Chap Books
WMN #3 Taking Space Lesbian Art and Poetry $24
Warm Aching: Lite Rhymes For Sentimental Communists by Jack Chelgren $5
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Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition, July 27th
Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition
7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, July 27 on Zoom
Free!
Celebrate International Zine Month #IZM2021 with us as we recognize zines as passports to places we want to go, both geographical and metaphorical!
When summer hits its peak, the open road beckons. And this year in particular, many of us are dreaming about and making plans for travel to locales both far and near. This month, we’ll be answering the call to adventure and exploring zines about travel!
Grab your fave travel zines (bonus points for bringing zines that include hand-drawn maps!), BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: On the Road Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, July 27 on Zoom!
** 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 9 p.m. CST Monday, July 26. We’ll email you the Zoom link by 11 p.m. 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 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 social media channels: @zineclubchicago
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramZines
How to Draw a Snake Eating its Own Ponytail Zine and Tattoo $7
Ars Goetiamon Gotta Summon Them All Terri by Jo Frew $5
ZINEFOREST CAFE by Megan Kirby and Jon Mastantuono $10
Popular Pandemics Spring 2026 $10
Stone Fruit issues #3 & #4 Zine About Queerness and Religion $12
I Believe You by Karina Killjoy $10
Open Waters by Laura Citino $10
20×12 Chicago Zine #2 $5
Atlantic Altar Zine Kit (Curandera Press) $8
Excerpts from the Prayer Box No More Lazy Lover Altar (Curandera Press) $6
Comics & Minis
Boffo Quarterly #2 by Mosher $7
Long Gone #4 by Samuel Benson $5
Bad God #1 by Hink $15
BuriDemon by Kasey Iris $48
Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear #1 by Alex Nall $5
Graphic Novel
Factory Summers by Guy Delisle (D+Q) $22.95
Dear Rachel Whitlock by Rae Whitlock $12
Let’s Not Talk Anymore by Weng Pixin (D+Q) $24.95
The Pleasure of the Text by Sami Alwani (Conundrum) $20
Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike by the Stanford Graphic Novel Project (Haymarket) $17.95
Art Books
Another History of Art by Anita Kunz (Fantagraphics) $24.95
Stick and Skate, with 140 Skateboard Stickers by Stickerbomb $24.95
Politics
Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat (PM Press) $17
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change by Noam Chomsky, Interviews with and C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket) $16.95
Red Nation: Rising From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation by Nick Estes (PM Press) $17.95
When We Are Human by John Zerzan (Feral House) $14.95
Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction by Jeremy Brecher (PM Press) $26.95
Representing Radicals: A Guide for Lawyers and Movements by Tilted Scales Collective (AK Press) $12
Music Books
Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge $28
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History, edited by Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser, Anna Joy Springer and Liam Warfield (PM Press) $18
The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook by Cynthia Kaufman (PM Press) $16.95
Fiction
Works of Guillaume Dustan vol 1 Novels In My Room, I’m Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me, edited by Thomas Clerc (Semiotext[e]) $17.95
Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh $16
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey by Zack Carlson, Annie Choi and Joseph A. Ziemba (Fantagraphics) $34.95
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell $27.99
Occult Botany by Paul Sedir $50
Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work by Brian Cotnoir (Weiser) $16.95
Manifestation Magic: 21 Rituals, Spells, and Amulets for Abundance, Prosperity, and Wealth by Elhoim Leafar (Weiser) $18.95
Essays
Best Letters From Asian Americans in the Arts by K Ho and Daisy Nam (N+1) $23
Sweet Dreams by Pamela Sneed $15
Of Color: Essays by Jaswinder Bolina (McSweeneys) $18
Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation by Kimberly Dark (AK) $18
Women on Waves: A Cultural History of Surfing: From Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champions by Jim Kempton $29.95
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos $28.95
Weirdest Maths: At the Frontiers of Reason by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee $17.95
Food
Let’s Make Dumplings!: A Comic Book Cookbook by Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan $19.99
Humor
Space Nomads: Set a Course for Mars : Chasing the Arts, Sciences, and Technology for Human Transformation by Camomile Hixon $24.99
Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry
McSweeneys #63 $26
Zombie Apocalypse Now the Walking Dead #264 Belladonna $5
Brief History of Burning by Cait Okane $16
Strong Off the Shelf #1 by Lemmy Yaakova $20
Halcyonic by Margaux Wilhite $13
Halcyon by Madeline Blair $11.49
Sexxxy
Wear Leather Worship Satan by Carlos Deth $15
Elska #33 Sao Paulo Brazil $20
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June 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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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramQuimby’s Postcard by Jessi Zabarsky $2
Zines
Burf Quimby’s Pub Quiz Zines #1-#7 $6 each
We’ll Never Have Paris #18 2021 Blue $7
Touring America Fall in New England $2
Katabasis $3
Partial Nudity $8
Rat Boys by Allie Mahai $10
Survive with Dag Banners $2
Baby Teef #1 by Venus Tapang $3
Choose Your Own Consensual Adventure: A Step by Step Guide to Making Sure All the Sex You Initiate Is Consensual and Safer by Nicole Mazzeo $7.50
Comics & Minis
Lavender Scare by Arantza Pena Popo $15
Comics/zines from Drew Morrison: Brokenland #1-#3 $3.99 each, Mostly Heads the Sketchbook vol 1 $5.99
Marceline’s Alley Stories by Cecilia Schmitt $12
Blood Truckers by Lauren Ramsey $7
Smoking Gun by Teddie Bernard $8
Graphic Novels
Now vol 10 (Fantagraphics) $12.99
City of Belgium by Brecht Evens $29.95
Politics & Revolution
Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice by Michael Beyea Reagan $18
Culture Strike: Art and Museums In an Age of Protest by Laura Raicovich $26.95
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser $21
Pop Culture
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! by Tom Scharpling $27
Fiction
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel by Rivka Galchen $27
Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani $17
Outer Limits
Serial Killer Trivia: Cold Cases: Fascinating Facts and Chilling Details from the Creepiest Unsolved Murders Ever by Michelle Kaminsky $15.95
Druuuuuugs
Encyclo-Weedia: 420 Smokes: The Ultimate Stoner Lifestyle Guide by Jack Kapos $19.99
Magazines
Adbusters #155 july/aug $14.95
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New Quimby's Postcard by Jessi Zabarsky!
We are over the moon with this playful postcard that Chicago-based cartoonist and illustrator Jessi Zabarsky made for us! Its whimsical multi-color take on Chris Ware’s iconic Quimby imagery is such a sweet tribute. We know you’ll love the hidden creatures doing silly things as much as we do! And did you see the mouse pulling the strawberry?! Spend some time with it and take it in, you won’t be able to get enough. And THE THING HAS ROUNDED CORNERS! Perfect for dropping a line to your friends while also spreading the word about your favorite bookstore. Only $2! What a steal! Come into the store and get it or order one from our webstore here.
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramAnd hey! Check out this CAKE POPS interview with Quimby’s employees past and present here!
Zines
Pencil Revolution #16 and #17 by Johnny Gambor $5 each
2 new Book Mark zines from Pressing Concern, $7 each:
Mutual Aid Is Kin(etic): Ten Things I Feel About Mutual Aid by Carla Bergman
The Urgency of Awesome: How Much Else You Could Be Doing by Liz MasonRobin Hustle’s Fenestrated Shape $4
Os Decorum Adult Coloring Book by Shelby Lerner $14
Comics
Multiple Anders Nilsen titles!: In Your Next Life You Will Be Together With All of Your Friends $20, Tongues Chapter 4 $18
Red Room #1 The Anti Social Network by Ed Piskor $6.99
Devil In Hand by Issa Saldana $3
FTM Horndogs by R.Y. Newman $5
Titles by Bianca Brandolino: New Day $15, Transience $5
Comics by Jen C.: And I Can’t Swim, Diary Comics 1 & 2 and more.
Graphic Novels
Antifa: Super Soldier Cookbook by Matt Lubchansky (Silver Sprocket) $14.99
Fiction
Butterfly Lampshade: A Novel by Aimee Bender $16.95
Politics, Revolution & Essay
Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin $13
Ain’t I a Woman by Sojourner Truth $13
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books by George Perec $13
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir $16.95
Magazines
Juxtapoz #218 summer $9.99
The Grind #2 Perspectives On Stripping From the Dancers Themselves $10
In These Times june $4.95
The Monthly Review may $6
The Believer #136 june july $12
Outer Limits
Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies: Your Complete Guide to the Magick of the Fae by Skye Alexander $16.99
Sexxxy
2 Meats!: Meat Special Book Preview Edition $20, Meat: The Final Issue $20
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Quimby's and Community CAKEPOPS Panel
What an honor! The first CAKE POPS video is up at the CAKE Chicago YouTube page, starring Quimby’s Bookstore employees past and present: Mike Centeno, Corinne Halbert, Caroline Cash & Liz Mason. Come watch us talk about the store, the comics community of Chicago, & the large quantity of duct-taped consignment binders behind the counter.
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CAKEPOPS is a series of digital check-ins with CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) Creators about topics of interest. This installment of CAKEPOPS is our very first!
Join Quimby’s Bookstore manager and zinester Liz Mason and cartoonist-employees past and present Corrine Halbert, Caroline Cash, and Mike Centeno as they discuss the history of Quimby’s Bookstore, as well as it’s impact on the Chicago comics community!
Panelists:
Mike Centeno (he/him) https://www.mikecenteno.com/
Corinne Halbert (she/her) https://corinnehalbert.com/
Caroline Cash(she/her) https://carolinecashcomics.com/
Liz Mason(she/her) https://lizmasonisawesome.com/Panel coordination by Aim Ren
Video editing and animation by Sage Coffey
CAKEPOPS Graphics by Andrea BellWHAT IS CAKE? The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, cake is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers. As a completely volunteer run organization, your tax-deductible support is vital to CAKE’s growth and financial stability. If you enjoyed our CAKEPOPS series, please consider donating here: tiny.cc/donateCAKE
To learn more about CAKE and upcoming CAKE events, visit our website: cakechicago.com