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April Window Artist-In-Residence Bianca Xunise!

Published on April 7, 2024 0 Comments

Calling all punk city rats! Check out these amazing banners in our window by our April artist-in-residence, Chicago-based cartoonist Bianca Xunise! We could not love them more! Bianca will be here to celebrate the release of their book Punk Rock Karaoke on Saturday, April 27th at 3:30pm when they’ll be in in conversation by director, producer and author Jessica Hopper and on Independent Bookstore Day nonetheless!



Bianca Xunise’s work primarily focuses on the plight, joy, and daily struggles of misfits within the black community. In 2017 Xunise earned an Ignatz for Promising New Talent for their comic Say Her Name, an autobiographical story of police brutality and social justice. In 2020 Xunise earned their second Ignatz for their contribution to Be Gay, Do Comics published by IDW. Xunise has collaborated with Vogue, The Washington Post, The Nib, and Believer Magazine. They are also a contributor to the book How We Fight Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance along with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tarana Burk, and Harry Belafonte. Bianca became the first nationally syndicated non-binary cartoonist when they joined the comic strip Six Chix in 2020 as their first black creator. More info at https://linktr.ee/biancaxunise

Poster for event by Casoline Cash.

QuimBurger Celebration, Oct 28th

Published on October 23, 2023 0 Comments
Oct ’23
28
12:00 pm

Everybody knows if Halloween falls on a weekday you do your partying the Saturday before. 2023 is no exception (especially because we’re closed on Tuesdays anyways). So join us all day on Saturday, October 28th from noon to 6pm while we transform Quimby’s into QuimBurger, with special themed merchandise and activities (and of course, candy).

No, we won’t have hamburgers and fries, but we will be selling a super special secret thing you can only get at Quimby’s, inspired by our newest window display! Chicago artist/writer/Meanwhile reading series organizer/fast food aficionado Megan Kirby transformed our front window into a vision of greasy fast food, inspired by Chris Ware’s store logo. We’re big fans of Megan’s work around these part, from her works like Another Day In Paradise and Coffee Spoons, to her pieces in the Chicago Reader, we are thrilled to have her art in our window! We’ll have some themed things to buy related to the QuimBurger theme we’ll surprise you with that day.

And since it’s the spooky season, we have to pay our tributes to the energies from beyond the veil. And that is why we’ll have tarot readings by Echo from 3-6pm! Echo has been reading tarot cards for decades. 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.

 

Spring Window Display Has Sprung

Published on April 5, 2023 0 Comments

 

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Check out our new window display!

Happy Holidays from Quimby’s!

Published on December 4, 2022 0 Comments

Step into the wintery wonderland that is the Quimby’s holiday window display! Designed by our Artist-in-Residence Ashley Wilfong* (an actual position here that is totally not made up) and assisted by employee-and-artiste Echo Elise Gonzalez (check out her Dream Bindery notebooks!), the window features staff favorite books, zines, and gifts peppered among miniature buildings and festooned trees. Don’t miss the Chicago skyline in the background, the garland of colorful zines, and the tree hanging with mini-zine ornaments. Stop by anytime from 12-6 Th-M and peruse our collection of books, zines, comics, and curiosities. The store is filled with perfect gift options of every size–come in and grab something for your friends, family, maybe even yourself? We won’t tell.

* Ashley relocated this year from West Virginia to Chicago, where she is constantly reminded of the magic of our city. This is her first time making a public display and she designed it to be a place where a tiny two-headed mouse would like to live. Check out her neighborhood favorite cocktail bar Nighthawk in Albany Park.

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 14, 2019 0 Comments

Check out our window, created by the inimitable Rachel McPadden!


Slow Leak #3 by Johnny Sampson $12 – Also we have a new sticker from Johnny, the sorcerer that was the CAKE t-shirts a couple years ago.

Zines

Do What Now? Prank Calling Publication $2

Phone Loser Monthly #16 $2

Death of Nature by Matthew Siemianowski $2

Middle West by Nathan Pearce $2

Triangles Found In Nature by Michelle Zellers $4

Bad Egg #4 Horror $7.50

Urban Guerrilla Zine #22 $7.50

Comics & Minis

The Constitution Illustrated Sampler by R. Sikoryak $3

Tongues Chapter 3 by Anders Nilsen $15

Infinity Wretch #0 + #1 $7 each

HIV AIDS $5

Couple by Daniel Welch $6

Minotaur’s Daughter by Ian Holman $5

Grace Jerry Jessica and Me #3 by Derek Marks $6

Graphic Novels

No Longer Human by Junji Ito $34.99

The Drifting Classroom Book 1: The Perfect Edit by Kazuo Umezz $34.99

In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way: A Graphic Novel Paperback by Marcel Proust, illustrated by Stephanie Heut $19.95

Art & Design Books

Vintage Graphic Design: Type, Typography, Monograms & Decorative Design from the Late 19th & Early 20th Centuries by Steven Heller & Louise Fili $19.99

Music Books

Foreground Music: A Life In Fifteen Gigs by Graham Diff (Strange Attractor Press) $19.95

One Smashed Window by Aaron Hammes and Marten Katze $15

Outer Limits

Books by Ronald H. Blumer: Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper $15, The Shocking History of Pee $15, The Secret Life of Sweat $12, A Navel History of the World $12

The Devils by New Juche (Amphetamine Sulphate) $23

Magazines

Juxtapoz #212 winter $9.99

Wire #430 december $12.50

Fortean Times #386 december $12.40

Apartamento #24 $24

Chap Books & Poetry

The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K Le Guin $16 – Illustrated by Alec Dunn.

Dysphoric Geography by Christy Davids $5

Home Like by Nabil Kashyap $5

Modest Technologies by Connie Yu $5

Total Mood Killer by Merritt K. and Niina Pollari $13

Beasts by Kate O Brian Wooddell $5