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December Newsletter Out Now!
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New Stuff This Week
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New zines from Jam: Paper Garden #2 $6, Calcium Ornament $7, Lefty Life Forms $2, Gourd Town $2
Vault of Slack #5 by Xenofact $8
various photo zines by Larry Wolf, $10 each: In Conversation (multiple issues), Rough Cut & more.
issues Thirteen Facts, $2 each: #14 Repo Man, #16 Maurice Sendak, #17 Phantom of the Opera
Christmas Songs by Dave (Lazer Attack Zines) $4
Fall Friends by Jax Fleming $4
Laced $2
Behind the Screams: Interviews from All Corners of the Chicago Alternative Music Scene by Eleanor Coughlin $5
Park the Car: A Mini Zine by Lizzie Cooper #1 & #2 $2.50 each
zines by Lorelei Preus $4.44 each: Commuter Cats, I Love Paczki, Bat Zine
Librarian Against AI or I Think You Should Leave by Violet B. Fox $5
Dragon Within Antarctica’s Prison by Will Dee $6
New zines from Fluke Publishing, $5 each: Martha #2 Art and Words to Look Upon and Think About, Tiger and Donuts #1
The Society of Avian Dreamers – July 13 2024 by Amaranta Isyemille Lara Ramos $8
Comics
Slow Leak #4 by Johnny Sampson $15
I Am Okay by Sarah Becan $10
(Travel) Ghouls – Bonus Supplementary Issue #4.44 by Josh Simmons $2
Wildie by Atlas Power $5
Scythe Unseen – Poems and Drawings by Tom Orr $5
Sheeted Dead #2 by Michelle Spadafore (Urban Ochre Press Comics) $7
Desert Rats #2 by Nick Bunch $10
Nose Bleed #2 by Derick Jones $10
Evidence of Small Pleasures by Sev GT $2
Graphic Novels
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore, Steve Moore & more $49.99
(f)Art Books
The World of Banksy by Alessandra Mattanza $35
Politics & Revolution
Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025 edited by Andy Lee Roth & Mickey Huff, illustrated by Anson Stevens-Bollen $19.95
Mayhem & Outer Limits
Mastering the Art of Ritual Magick by Frater Barrabbas $39.95
Appendix N, revised and expanded edition: Weird Tales From the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons edited by Peter Bebergal (Strange Attractor Press) $22.95
Essay
How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays by Vera Blossom $17.95
Music Books
The Other Side of Reason by Andrew Schmidt (Hozac Books) $27.99
Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms by Doug Skinner (Strange Attractor Press) $22.95
Magazines
Tape Op #164 $5.99
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Poetry by Amaranta Isyemille Lara Ramos: Tripas an Odyssey in Haiku $22, Holydaze Again $5
Overtime Hour 69 Vitality by Dylan Bach (Blue Cubicle Press) $2
You’ll Hear From Me This Week by Seth Andrew Bearman $16.50
Moss Piglet November 2024 Patterns $15
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Quimby's Open on a Tuesday! December 24th, noon to 6pm!
We’re normally closed on Tuesdays! But Tuesday, December 24th we’ll be open from noon to 6! Lucky you! This isolated Tuesday we thought you might want it. Live it up!
Wanna know about our other holiday hours? We’re closed on Dec 25th and Jan 1st. Stay in and read all those zines and books and comics you have piling up!
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Offsite: Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout, Dec 5th
Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout
Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown
7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, December 5, 2024
Free!
In December, Zine Club Chicago will be easing into the frosty season with a free zinemaking hangout in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y’all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme How to Survive a Chicago Winter.
Please join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, December 5 at Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown. Free!
Zine Club Chicago will provide all the zinemaking supplies! Just bring your creativity. Life on Marz Community Club, our favorite locally owned taproom and café space, offers awesome alcoholic, CBD, and non-alcoholic beverages from Marz Brewery and more, plus some very fun snacks, for purchase. The taproom also will be holding a DJ Night after our event wraps up at 9 p.m., and we encourage y’all to stick around for some chill jams, too!
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers and created our logo.
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
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A flyer featuring a photo of snow-dusted rooftops at the Western Pink Line stop and this text: “Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter; 7-9 p.m. Thursday, December 5; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave; Free!; Info at quimbys.com”
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Tarot Readings by Echo, Dec 14th
Don’t miss an afternoon of tarot readings by Echo! She’ll be here to read your cards on Sat, Dec 14th, noon to 4pm! Echo has been reading tarot cards for many years. She uses tarot as a mind-opening tool, a method for helping us see more, a path illuminator. Find her on the internet at @fraulein_echo + echothehuman.com.
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Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason, Dec 19th
Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason
7:30 p.m. CT Thursday, December 19, 2024
Online! Free! On Zoom, RSVP info below
Zine Club Chicago is putting a bow on 2024 with their annual December online zinemaking workshop led by our own Liz Mason! We’ll be creating mini zines that celebrate our personal highlights of this year.
Grab your zinemaking supplies*, BYOH(ot)C(hocolate), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason at 7:30 p.m. CT Thursday, December 19, 2024.
** RSVP required ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club Chicago 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 p.m. CT Wednesday, Dec. 18 (the day before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Thursday, Dec. 19.
Liz Mason is a founding member of Zine Club Chicago. She publishes, among other things, Caboose, which won First Runner-Up in the Best Zine Category in the Chicago Reader’s 2023 poll. Her work has been in places like Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, The Zine Yearbook and the back of her friend’s toilets. She’s worked at Quimby’s Bookstore since 2001 in a state of perpetual arrested development. Find her at LizMasonIsAwesome.com + Etsy at LizMasonZines + @caboosezine at all the places.
Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event 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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/
More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago
* You’ll need a few sheets of 8.5×11” paper, a pair of scissors, whichever implements you prefer for writing/drawing/etc., and your creativity! If you’ve never made a mini zine before, here’s a quick video tutorial (and we can provide any assistance you need at the event, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUzo41dh5Q
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Gift Guides to Get You in the Giving Spirit
Since the season of giving is fast upon us, we at Quimby’s would like to offer you some guidance in your gifting. So we will be posting our staff-curated gift guides over the next few weeks on our socials, and I’ve been honored with going first.
For the HORROR QUEEN in your life who isn’t ready for Halloween to be over, we’ve got everything from comics and zines, to stickers and poetry, and even a game! And just to prove that I’m recommending for a friend, I’ll start with my most recent purchase for myself and work back to one of my favorites.
As a lifelong Gorey-phile, I bought Escape From The Evil Garden an Edward Gorey board game the moment we were both in the shop together. I told myself it was an early Christmas present, but I already opened it and played with my bae (and won!). The game is for ages 10 and up and plays like a spooky, more advanced Candyland. You might be cast as the Cheerful Woman or the Unwell Man with traits and abilities to match; then you have to make your way through the labyrinth to get out of the garden, battling plants and animals for your survival. So much fun.
If you’re more in the mood for stocking stuffers, there are oh so many spooky stickers. I love this sexy trick-or-treater, Bat Girl drawn by Mel Stringer. Riding Roller Coasters with Vincent Price is a micro-zine by Dayna Meyer celebrating the Master of Horror’s love of the terrifying amusement park ride. I also really enjoy Spooky Nova by Ari Ganahl. This all-ages mini-comic shows the meet-cute between a kid and a friendly ghost trick or treating (with a poke at gender roles). Perfection.
From the folx at Pork Belly Press, I would recommend haunted, a limited edition anthology of poems rooted in the idea of haunting. If you’ve never noticed the gorgeous chapbooks they make, the cover designs would make them stand out even if we didn’t have them in a special spot on the chapbooks rack. They’re also hand-numbered and hand-sewn, so yes, I swoon over these.And last but certainly not least on my list is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Books One and Two by Emil Ferris. I’ve included both in case your HORROR QUEEN already has the first or if you’re just feeling generous. These beautiful comics are drawn in heavy pen and follow Karen, an adolescent who sees themself as a werewolf, as they try to solve the mysteries of the adult world while characterizing everyone as monsters of the silver screen. Extra bonus features include being created by a Chicago native, so there’s lots of Uptown and the Art Institute among other great Chicago locations and legends. Among my favorite comic books of all time, I cannot recommend these books enough, whether or not you love horror.
I hope this helps ease you into this holiday season. And if you’ve already checked your favorite HORROR QUEEN off your list, then stay tuned in on our social media for more gift guides to come.
-elizabeth @getbacktoprint
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Now Ya Know!: 2024 Holiday Hours & Shipping Deadline
Quimby’s will be closed Nov 28th, Dec 25th and Jan 1st. Now ya know!
And guess what? We’ll be open on one Tuesday! 12/24 noon to 6. Thought you’d want that day to shop, even though we’re normally closed on that day of the week. Now you know that also!
Are you in the U.S. and hoping to get your mail order by Dec 24th? Please place your order by Dec 12th. Now ya know about that too!
Now you know everything, Know-It-All!
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New Stuff This Week
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more zines from Catmothcrow: Zines as Activism: An Abridged History $1, Ritual Tradition $1, Catmothcrow Guide to Terrariums by Dayna Moth $6
more zines by John Dishwasher: Beauty as Power $3, Street Gallery vol 2 Photographs with Street Art from Southern California and Baja, California (Six Fires Press) $15
Loneliness of the Electric Menorah by Aaron Cometbus (originally Cometbus #51) (PM Press) $12.95
Cross Mountain by Isaac Barnett $15
American Surveillance: A Video Look Into Human Experience by Dylan Simon $12
A Document of a Chicago Music Community: The Second One by Braeden Long $10
Life of Work issues #3 & #4 by David LaBounty $3 each
issues of Sabotage, $7 each: Top Secret CIA Operations, Native Resistance Part 1 & more.
Nuclear Eye #1 by Dan Ducas $5
new comics by Steve Schaberg: Car World $15, Manifest Content Dream Comics $10
Spukschloss and Heimweh Unofficial Publication $8
Die Madchen $5
…and zine-related stickers $1.99 each: Ask Me About My Long Arm Stapler, This Is Going In My Perzine, I’d Rather Be at a Zine Fest
Comics
comics by Sam Rose, $1 each: Sex and Magic, Feygele Shabbes Parshas Vayechi 5784 & more.
Funeral Dreams by Danielle Stanko $10
Art Books
The British Invasion! by Herve Bourhis $34.99
Music Books
High And Rising: A Book About De La Soul by Marcus J. Moore $29.99
What is Anarchist Music by Ruud Noys (PM Press) $5
Piss in the Wind vol 1 Misadventures of an Indie Troubadour by Brett Newski $16
A bounty from Underworld Amusememts:
Sorceries and Scandals of Satan by Henry M. Tichenor $15.95
Infernalia by Michael Rose $16.95
Critique of Anarchist Communism by Ken Knudson $6.95
Hotcha! Three Vintage Booklets on Scandalous Broads and Sinful Sweethearts $14.95
Occult Technology of Power by the Transcriber $8.88
Anarchist Ephemera by Peter Lamborn Wilson $8
…and more!Mayhem & Outer Limits
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick (Isolarii) $17.95
Haunted World: 101 Ghostly Places and Encounters by Theresa Cheung $17.99
Beyond Esoteric: Escaping Prison Planet (2nd Edition) by Brad Olsen $22.95
Essays
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business by Roxane Gay $19.99
Fiction
Nosferatu Unbound edited by Steven Paulsen Christopher Sequeira $14.99
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (British Library Tales of the Weird Series) $16.99
Food
Cocktails from the Crypt: Terrifying Yet Delicious Concoctions Inspired by Your Favorite Horror Films by Jonathan Dehaan & Kimberley Elizabeth $23.99
Poetry
20 Erasure Poems of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jennifer Roche $14.99
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Newspapers
County Highway vol 2 #3 Nov Dec 2024 $8.50
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New Stuff This Week
View this post on InstagramRestocks and new stuff from Arcane Bullshit, Stay Home Club & Badaboom Studio! The gifty shit is coming in fast and furious.
Zines
Zines by Hamish Ironside: Saudade issues #6-#8 $5 each, Tacky Tiger #2 The World’s Only Sparks Zine $5
Leaf #1 Nov 24 by T E P Noodle $5
Photo zines by J. Daniel Hud: Grasshopper Looking at Itself $18, Business Trip – Pictures From Downtown Chicago with Michael Gerstein, Jack McKinney, Ludvig Peres and Jordan Putt $24.99
Quarter Life Crisis #1 Huh, Is That Who I Think It Is? $2
Magic Mirrors edited by Lulu Schwed issues #3 and #4 $6 each
Twelve Things I Found While Killing Time at Walmart by T. Wesley Snead $2
Secrets Inside Cabling #73 by Calliope Neurotoxin $7
Creepy Ephemera by Donna Ramone $3 each: American Christmas – A Pack of Lies, Letters to Santa, The Christmas Gavle Goat
Ice Cream Man #1 by Otron Hastings $4
999 Stories About Dying by Dan Gleason $3
Love Letters for Nesting Dolls by Stephanie and Heather Lynn $5
Photo zines by Mary $15 each: Styles of the Hood August 2024, Felt, Hexagons 2024
Gab Magazine #1 $20
Comics
Dust Devil: Curse of the Remolino by Charlie Angell and Orenthal Twain $16
Two Invisible Friends in 50,000 Years of Darkness by Twyla Rhode $15
Pigeonface – Hair of the Dog by Josh Josh Jones and T. Wesley Snead $5
Comics by Conor Stechschulte: Crepuscular #1 $12, ORD-CDG-ORD $7
Zachary in the Shadow World by Zak Biggard, various issues
Dead Time Data by Andy Leuenberger issues $5 & #6 $10 each
limbs by Tori Holder $7
Domesticates #1 by Andrew Conti $10
Graphic Novels
Atlas Comics Library vol 4/War Comics vol 1 edited by Dr Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics) $34.99
Politics & Revolution Books
To Rob a Bank Is an Honor by Lucio Urtubia (AK Press) $22
Essay (Sort of)
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille $24.95
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber $32
Art & Design Books
Elements: Chaos, order and the five elemental forces by Stephen Ellcock $35
Krampus Greeting Cards Box Set 3 (Last Gasp) $24.95
Mayhem & Outer Limits
STOP Looking At My Tiny Town: An Arcane Bullshit catastrophe $18
Time Expansion Experiences: The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time by Steve Taylor $21.95
Stories of the Occult: Supernatural Happenings and Strange Tales from Around the World by Jamie King $11.99
Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder of the Church of Satan by Doug Brod $31
Killer Cocktails: Dangerous Drinks Inspired by History’s Most Nefarious Criminals by Holly Frey & Maria Trimarchi $29.00
RedHanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick by Suruthi Bala & Hannah Maguire $18.99
The Little Book of Cults: A Pocket Guide to the World’s Most Notorious Cults by Jamie King $10.99
Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders by Cara Giaimo, Joshua Foer & more. $40
Music Books
New 33 1/3 books, $14.95 each: Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love by Leah Kardos & Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica by Zachary Petit
Ever Fallen in Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes by Pete Shelley with Louie Shelley $16.99
MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds $30
Self-Care
The Essential Dr. Faith: Using Science to Boost Your Brain, Body, Intimacy, and Boundaries by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm Publishing) $28.95
Cooking with Magic Mushrooms: The Psilocybin Cookbook by David Connell (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95
Fiction
Daughters of the Nile by Zahra Barri (Unbound) $18
The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel by Haruki Murakami $35
In Thrall by Jane Delynn $17.95
Wellness: A Novel by Nathan Hill $19
The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen $19.99
Portals by Noel Sevilla $17
Set My Heart on Fire: A Novel by Izumi Suzuki $19.95
Lit Journals & Chap Books
Midnight Mind #7 $12
Agon Journal #1 $24.99
Restocks and new titles from porkbelly press chap books: Woman the River by Sayuri M. Ayers $13, Mascara Boobs and Headbands by Susan Milchman $9, Final Girl: An Anthology of Survival by Nicci Mechler $13, Few Mythic Paths by Mari Ness $13, For Every Tower a Princess by Kathryn Kulpa $9
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Elska #49 Salt Lake City, Utah $20
