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CHIPRC’s Zine Club Special Event: Zinemaking Hangout, at Quimby’s!

Published on April 26, 2019 0 Comments

May ’19

7:00 pm

CHIPRC’s Zine Club Special Event: Zinemaking Hangout, at Quimby’s!

Tuesday, May 7th, 7pm

Here at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park

Free Event

Chicago Zine Fest is just around the corner, so let’s get together to finish our zines (or make a brand-new one) before the fest! Join us at Quimby’s for a special zinemaking event. Bring your work in progress, create a mini-zine on the spot (we’ll have supplies on hand), or learn a new zine-binding technique from Zine Club member Heather Anacker.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are invited to hang out, make zines, and enjoy snacks!

This event is produced by Chicago Zine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin.

Facebook link here.

Tags: CHIPRC, Cynthia E. Hanifin, Heather Anacker, Zine Club, zines.

Call for zinesters to exhibit at the annual American Library Association conference in Chicago

Published on June 2, 2017 0 Comments

The American Library Association Zine Pavilion are still looking for tablers at their annual conference June 23rd-June 26th. Free to join and free to attend the conference! Sign up here!

Tags: ALA, American Library Association, Zine Pavilion, zines.

Quimby’s Bookstore NYC ALMOST OPEN!

Published on November 30, 2016 0 Comments

It’s true! It’s true! Quimby’s Bookstore in New York is almost open!!!!! And your zines are wanted there!!! Here are words from Steven Svymbersky, who wants them from you to sell there!! Words form him below, as well as the consignment form. Yeah!!!

QUIMBY’S ANNOUNCEMENT

Quimby’s Bookstore NYC is ready to start receiving your zines and books on consignment. There are two important things you need to know before sending me your publications:

1. The trademark “Quimby’s” and the trademarked logo are used with the permission of the mark’s owner, Chicago Comics Inc., which owns and operates Quimby’s. Neither the Chicago-based Quimby’s Bookstore or Chicago Comics are in any way responsible for transactions made with Quimby’s Bookstore NYC, a wholly independent company and sole proprietorship of Steven Svymbersky.

2. Quimby’s Bookstore NYC will not accept/sell graphic novels, comic books, comic-related art, zines,books or novelties. Quimby’s Bookstore NYC is located next door to Desert Island Comics, a retailer of all the finest comics and graphic art publications. To sell your comics/graphic arts we encourage you to contact Gabe Fowler at desertislandbrooklyn@gmail.com for more information on how to consign your comics and graphic arts publications.

For any comics publishers that may be disappointed that there is not a new store to sell their wares, you need to know that there was no way I was going to be able to afford enough space in New York to carry all the publications that the much larger store in Chicago can handle. Had I moved somewhere farther from Desert Island and carried comics I would have had to make very hard decisions about what publications I could take and I would have had to turn a lot of publishers away. Finding this space next door to the best comic book store in New York is a huge blessing. Now fans can find all the great alternative publications they want in one easy to reach location. And between the two stores we can be all-inclusive. Gabe Fowler has been completely supportive and encouraging to my opening next door and in the spirit of true collaboration I do not want to compete with Desert Island in any way.

If you want to sell your graphic novels, comics and graphic arts publications and novelties you can write to Gabe Fowler at desertislandbrooklyn@gmail.com.

If you have non-comics or graphic arts zines, books or novelties, you can write to me, Steven Svymbersky at quimbysbookstorenyc@gmail.com.

We are excited to provide a one-stop location for every amazing publication out there. Send us yours and if you’re in New York be sure to come and visit us at:

Desert island Comics, 540 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
&
Quimby’s Bookstore NYC, 536 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Consignment form for zines below!)

Steven Svymbersky

@quimbysbookstorenyc

quimbys-nyc-consigment

Tags: Desert Island, Quimby's Bookstore NYC.

Announcing the 2nd Annual TRANSIT Residency for CAKE 2016!

Published on January 12, 2016 0 Comments

As per a CAKE e-mail!:

CAKE is proud to announce our continuing partnership with Transit Residency and Chicago Public Resources Center (ChiPRC) as applications open for the second annual inbound comics artist residency!

Transit Residency is looking for non-Chicago-based cartoonists and zinesters to apply for a chance to spend the 2 weeks leading up to CAKE (May 29 – June 12) creating work at the beautiful ChiPRC studio/workspace. The winner of this juried residency is awarded a stipend of $1000 to help cover travel and lodging expenses. They will also receive a free table space at CAKE as well as integration into programming at CAKE 2016!

Last year Transit and ChiPRC hosted Ignatz nominee and Society of Illustrators Gold Medal winner Roman Muradov, who wrote about his experience here for the Transit blog. We hope all of our out of town exhibitors, friends, and visitors will apply! For more information, please follow this link.

The Fourth Annual Chicago Alternative Comics Expo will take place on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12, 2016 at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted Ave. If you have any questions about the residency, please contact Meredith Winer at meredith@transitresidency.org.