Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor The Midwest Perzine Fest. Here’s the most recent announcement from the founders of #MWPZF2020:
We’re so excited to announce our digital events for #MWPZF2020! Please join us on Saturday, October 10 for the inaugural Midwest Perzine Fest, coming to you globally from Chicago.
Panel Discussion! Telling Our Stories, Claiming Our Power, a panel discussion moderated by Midwest Perzine Fest founder Jonas and featuring longtime perzine makers, artists, and activists Julia Eff, Dawn Graham, Jessie Lynn McMains, and Monica Trinidad, will debut at 3 p.m. Central Time Oct. 10 on our YouTube channel:tiny.cc/mwpzfyoutube
Hashtag! All day long on Oct. 10, perzine makers in the Midwest and around the world are invited to share their perzines and check out the work of others on social media using our hashtag #MWPZF2020. We’ll be reposting as much as we can to our Midwest Perzine Fest accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Perzine Swap! We’re hosting a perzine swap through the mail. If you’d like to participate, we’ll pair you with a perzine pal! Just fill out this Google form by 11:59 p.m. Central Time Sunday, Oct. 11: tiny.cc/mwpzfswap
7:30 p.m. Central Time Tuesday, October 27 on Zoom
Free!
What keeps you awake at night? This year, the specters that haunt Halloween time are competing with more palpable frights. At Zine Club Chicago Online: FEAR Edition, we’ll be discussing zines about what scares us, from ghouls and goblins to stolen elections and rampant viruses. We’ll also have some fun surprises for you all during our annual Hallowzine celebration! Costumes are highly encouraged for you and your zine pets.
Grab your favorite titles, BYOT(reats and/or Tricks) and join us on Zoom for a spooky good time!
** 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 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27th. You’ll receive an e-mail from Zine Club Chicago with 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 also made this awesome Zine Club Shoutout database of zines people talk about at Zine Club!
Flaunt your Chicago love with the most recent iteration of the Quimby’s Bookstore logo patch, inspired by Chris Ware’s iconic art. This most recent patch is outlined with the same salmon color featured inside. Our Quimby’s logo patches are 5-color, 3″ round, heat sealed beauties and crafted by our friends at Patches4Less.
Q-Anon. Fake News. Bohemian Grove. False flag attacks. Deep state. Crisis actors. Whatever Gate. Is any conspiracy worth the life of a believer?
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media while conspiracy advocates, malicious political movements, and even foreign governments have long understood how to harness the power of fear and the fear of power into lucrative outlets for outrage and money. But what happens when the harbingers of “inside knowledge” go too far?
In American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness (Feral House), author Tea Krulos tells the story of one man, Richard McCaslin, who’s fractured thinking made him the ideal consumer of even the most arcane of conspiracy theories. Acting on the daily rants of Alex Jones and his ilk, McCaslin takes matters into his own hands to stop the unseen powers behind the world’s disasters who congregate at conspiracy world’s Mecca- The Bohemian Grove. It all goes wrong with terrible consequences for the man who styled himself-The Phantom Patriot.
McCaslin is not alone, as conspiracy-driven political action has bubbled its way up from the margins of society to the White House. It’s no longer a lone deranged kook convinced of getting secret messages from a cereal box, now its slick videos and well-funded outrage campaigns ready to peddle the latest innuendos and lies in hopes of harnessing the chaos for political gain. What is the long term effect on people who believe these barely believable stories? Who benefits, and who pays the price?
Krulos investigates and explains the power of conspiracy and the resulting shared madness on the American psyche.
Tea Krulos is a Milwaukee-based writer who documents the underground world of fringe sub-cultures. His previous books, Apocalypse Any Day Now-Deep Underground with America’s Doomsday Preppers and Heroes in the Night-Inside the Real Life Super Hero Movement explored the driving beliefs and lives of the people who choose to reject accepted reality and substitute their own.
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