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Quimby’s Show & Tell: Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press, 7/17

Published on June 8, 2025 Closed

Jul ’25

6:30 pm

Quimby’s Show & Tell: Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press
Thursday, July 17, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend Show & Tell: Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press

Join Detroit-based printmaker and publisher Rachel Hays of Taxonomy Press for an evening of visual storytelling and reflection on sustaining a creative press practice. In this Show & Tell session, Rachel will share recent work and guide us through the systems, collaborations, and small habits that help her keep going as she navigates the shift to full-time independent publishing.

Expect an honest, low-key conversation about the creative process, risograph printing, and staying grounded outside the algorithm. Perfect for anyone curious about zines, small press life, or slow, intentional ways of making.

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Suggested donation: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “Show & Tell” in the note!

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!

Quimby’s After Hours: Raging Opossum, 6/26

Published on June 7, 2025 Closed

Jun ’25

6:30 pm

Quimby’s After Hours: Raging Opossum
Thursday, June 26, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend After Hours: Raging Opossum

Join Quimby’s Bookstore and Taylor Thornburg to welcome Raging Opossum Press for our inaugural After Hours evening of readings.

Raging Opossum Press is a publishing house and press highlighting the local and DIY art in Chicago… Raging Opossum Press is dedicated to the ideas of community and the wonders of sharing art with one another, and strives to do that regularly by showing off different artists through publications, interviews, or our newsletter which shares and discusses a variety of different art events, shows, and whatever else around Chicago.

Expect a raucous reading celebrating contributors to recent issues of Raging Opossum.

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Suggested donation: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “After Hours” in the note!

Quimby’s Co-Sponsors Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE), at The Irish American Heritage Center, 6/28 + 6/29

Published on June 1, 2025 0 Comments

Jun ’25

11:00 am

Quimby’s is proud to co-sponsor The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE), 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.

Featuring Special Guests!: Angie Hewitt, Caroline Hu, Geneva Bowers, Koreangry, Malachi Ward, Max Huffman

CAKE 2025

Saturday, June 28, 11:00 – 6:00 PM
Sunday, June 29, 11:00 – 5:00 PM

at The Irish American Heritage Center (not at Quimbys!)
4626 N. Knox Ave.
Chicago, IL 60630

Masks strongly encouraged.

More info at cakechicago.com

flyer by former Quimby’s employee Mike Centeno!

Quimby’s Co-Sponsors Chicago Zine Fest at the Harold Washington Library Center, 7/19

Published on May 12, 2025 Closed

Jul ’25

11:00 am

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Quimby’s is proud to be a co-sponsor of Chicago Zine Fest! We’ll be tabling there on 7/19 at the Harold Washington Library featuring special guest Angel xoxoxoxox! Stop by our table and say hello.

Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops and the big expo day where 70+ zinesters sell and trade their zines. All CZF events are free and open to the public.

Saturday, July 19, 2025, 11 am to 4 pm
Harold Washington Library Center
Winter Garden, 9th Floor
400 S State St
Chicago, IL 60605

More information at chicagozinefest.org.

art by Kelly Wang.

John Porcellino & Chris Fink Release Forage Like a Bear at Quimby’s, May 31st

Published on May 9, 2025 Closed

May ’25

7:00 pm

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Don’t miss John Porcellino (King-Cat) and Chris Fink (Add This to the List of Things That You Are) visiting Quimby’s to talk about Forage Like a Bear, their collaborative book of gentle micro-essays on nature, family, and life on Saturday, May 31st at 7pm!

This beautiful book by Chris Fink collects twenty of his short, luminous radio essays as heard on Northern Public Radio WNIJ FM in DeKalb, Illinois. Low-key and plainspoken, he explores quiet moments in nature and with family in a classic Midwestern style. It features whistling acorns, scribbling clams, gossipy geese, technicolor ducks, turkeys (including human ones), roving bands of chipmunks, chimneys, fires, chainsaws, lice, thin ice, approximately 30,000 blueberries, cars rolling uphill, the leaves of a mulberry tree drifting down, Peace Trail meanders, and maybe just maybe, a holy grail morel and more, all illustrated with graceful ink line drawings by comics luminary John Porcellino.

Porcellino will read (with slides) selections from recent issues of King-Cat, with Chris Fink reading afterwards from Forage Like a Bear. A Q+A and signing will follow. Books will be available for purchase.

Long-time friend of Quimby’s John Porcellino has been publishing King-Cat Comics since 1989. When he does events at Quimby’s he lovingly refers to us as the place where he does the first event on the tour to experiment, and we are therefore the “sacrifical pancake.” He runs Spit and a Half Distro and goes to the post office on most days. Follow him on Patreon +@johnporcellino on IG among other places.

Chris Fink is a professor of English at Beloit College and the editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal. He’s the author of two collections of short stories, Farmer’s Almanac: A Work of Fiction (Emergency Press, 2013/2023) and Add This to the List of Things That You Are (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). He’s a regular contributor to Northern Public Radio.

Forage Like a Bear (Bored Wolves, 2025) $18.00 – Lovingly printed on soft white paper with French flaps.

Yes! Quimby’s will stay open later for this event! Quimby’s is located at 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60622. This event is free.

Find the Facebook event link here.