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1/29 After Hours: General Things Press

Jan
29
6:00 pm

After Hours with General Things Press Thursday, 1/29 6:30-8.
Readings by: Evan Fusco, Jessie McCarty, Lemmy Ya’akova, Grace Papineau-Couture
In Person at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL

General Things Press is an assemblage of various people coming together to collaborate on producing works in the world. Underneath its umbrella it contains a publishing effort, a latent radio show, and a reading series. General Things Press makes as it can with vigor and excitement. All works are printed locally and bound by hand by the editor.

Jessie McCarty is a writer and information science worker from Louisiana. Their book, Pretty Punks, is out with Magra Books now. They often write about gender, folklore, Irish and American-Southern diasporas.

Evan Fusco is a lecturer based in Chicago, IL. Pieces of theirs have been published, performed, contained, or shown in and/or at: Other Forms, MOCA Cleveland, Apparatus Projects, The Chicago Art Book Fair, Plates Journal, Carrol University, Prompt Press, Watershed Art & Ecology, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection.

Lemmy Ya’akova is an advocate for y2k low culture, an amateur pool player, a popcorn enthusiast and a cat parent to their son, Moose. Their work can be found in HAD (Hobart After Dark), Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine, SAND Journal and more. They’re the author of the poetry collections Overflowing the Tub, Night Gallery Press, 2024 and Tiger’s Tail, General Things Press, 2024.

Grace Papineau-Couture is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago. They are interested in sound as a generative process – something unfolding, recursive and responsive, allowing for sound and listener to have a dialectical relationship. Using old and low-fidelity technology such as cassette tapes, contact microphones, and experimental instruments, Grace’s sound performances interface with themes of haunting, environmental disaster and acoustic ecology. These compositions urge the listener to ask themselves, “what do we hear in the latency? What kind of apparition reveals itself to us through the cracks of low fidelity?”

After Hours is a production of Taylor Thornburg and Quimby’s Bookstore

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Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

1/23 Show & Tell: Blonde Bombastic, Frankie Lyne | Opening & Reading

Jan
23
6:30 pm

Quimby’s Show & Tell
Blonde Bombastic
Art Opening and Talk by Frankie Lyne
Comics Reading by Frankie Lynn, Gren Bee, and J.E Paeth
Friday, January 23rd, 2026 – 6:30 PM

Show runs through Sunday February 8th
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Blonde Bombastic features the work of Frankie Lyne [ they/them ] centered around Marie a 50’s does 70’s heroine who’s incredible outfits, glamorous looks, and bad news boyfriend Simon keep her just ahead of the dire consequences of her full on sex-and-drugs rock and roll lifestyle.

Featuring a full wall of plush cheetah print, blow ups of the original art, process work, Risograph prints, and bejeweled safety pin bound risograph zines, Blonde Bombastic will be on view at Quimby’s Friday Jan 16 – Sunday February 8th.

On Friday, January 23rd, at 6:30 Frankie will be joined by friends Gren Bee and J.E Paeth for a artist talk and reading.

Frankie Lyne [ they/them ] is a recent School of the Art Institute Chicago graduate, comics creator, and musician. Their comics and zines include Supercvnt, Simon and Marie, Death of Marie, Devout, Vive La Vie MoonStride, Alter Ego, and Starr Ramone.

Frankie sells comics and zines at Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago Comics, and Howling Pages. They are also published in SAIC’s Mouth Magazine and have run Starr Ramone in F News since 2021.

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01/12 Sketch/Book: Salon

Jan
12
6:00 pm

Sketch / Book: a Wicker Park Reading and Drawing Salon
A collaboration between LMN Wedge Studio and Quimby’s
Monday, January 12th, 2026 –  6:00-8:30pm

Meet in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore: 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago IL: 60622
At 6:30 walk 2 blocks to LMN Wedge Studio 1579 N Milwaukee Ave Suite 206, Chicago, IL 60622

Cost: $40 – comes with a free zine or comic of your choice ($15 value or less) at Quimby’s Bookstore and tea and light refreshments at LMN Wedge. Funds go directly to support these vital Wicker Park artist run spaces.

Capacity: A cozy and mystical gathering of 13!

Sketch / Book is a social salon and creative meetup centered on reading and/or drawing, hosted by LMN Wedge Studio and Quimby’s Bookstore. Guests begin the session at Quimby’s to select a free zine. After browsing, and getting aquinted we’ll head over to the Flatiron Arts Building to read or sketch within the eclectic comfort of LMN Wedge Studio and Gallery. This is an opportunity to read a zine book or comic in a social setting, practice sketching people from observation, or simply journal and mark-make in your sketchbook within a social, supportive setting.

A time for round-robin sharing and networking is built into the schedule.

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01/09 Conor Stechschulte: Closing

Jan
9
5:00 pm

Crepusculine Exhibition Closing Reception
with
Conor Stechschulte
Friday, January 9th, 2026 –  5:00-7:00pm

in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore: 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago IL: 60622

Join Conor Stechschulte  for the closing reception of original art related to the process and thinking behind his new comic, “Crepusculine 2.”

Conor Stechschulte is an Eisner-Nominated cartoonist, artist, screenwriter and educator. He is the author of the graphic novels The Amateurs and Ultrasound. His work has been translated into five languages and adapted for film. He teaches classes in comics, printmaking, and self-publishing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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County Highway Summer Reading Tour, 7/12

Jul ’25
12
3:00 pm

County Highway Summer Reading Tour
Saturday, July 12, 2025 – 3:00 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend County Highway Summer Reading

Meaghan Garvey and Amanda Fortini will be reading from their work in County Highway with interspersed discussions, followed by an audience Q&A discussion!

County Highway is a magazine about America in the form of a 19th-century newspaper, started on a shoestring by three friends (David Samuels, Walter Kirn, and Ryan Baesemann) in the wake of the pandemic. They have since become the fastest growing print periodical in the country — earning an annual circulation of 150,000 copies barely one year after releasing thier debut issue.

The name County Highway is inspired by what they believe is the perfect-sized place for the enhancement of life and art. A county is a chunk of earth big enough to allow for a variety of human types, but small enough to get to know a decent number of your neighbors, where they come from, what they’re proud of, what they fear, what they smoke, what they drink, and what they love. The county where County Highway newspaper is located is somewhere between all those places, real and imaginary. It’s the scale of the place that’s important, and also the idea of traveling from one to another with an eye towards finding new answers to the founding American questions of who we are, and why we are here.

Dubbed America’s Only Newspaper,” County Highway features hairy off-road adventures by some of America’s best and strangest writers; reports on the myriad of political and spiritual crises that are gripping our country and their deeper cultural and historical sources; regular columns about agriculture, civil liberties, animals, herbal medicine, and living off the grid, both mentally and physically; essays about literature and art; and an entire section devoted to music. Offering a road-side banquet of American humor, common-speech, and social and political insights in every issue, County Highway prints six times each year for readers across all fifty states and Canada. Wherever there’s a stop sign, there’s a story.

Amanda Fortini is a natural remedies columnist for County Highway. She divides her time between Livingston, Montana, and Las Vegas, Nevada, about which she is currently writing a book of essays, Flamingo RoadFrom 2021 to 2022, she did a nine-month flower essence apprenticeship and got certified as a practitioner.

Meaghan Garvey is a writer and illustrator living on the beach in the Midwest. She’s a contributing writer to County Highway, with bylines in Pitchfork, NPR, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Tablet, Vulture, and many other outlets. Her debut book Midwestern Death Trip will be published by Panamerica in 2026.

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Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!