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Comics

Artbabe.com: Join the army--the ARTBABE army, that is. Jessica Abel's homepage features illustrations, comics, an ABEL FAQ, links, photos, and a La Perdida web-only exclusive.
Cheesy Graphics: The once and future King of Cheese -- providing high quality, low brow orginal art, design, graphics, and content for web & print to the underground music, magazine, & multi-media scenes since 1984.
funchicken.com: Website home of Mark Todd ("F-Man", "Troy") and Esther Pearl Watson ("Unlovable").
Girlhero: Girlhero is the website of Megan Kelso, cartoonist of Queen of the Black Black (Highwater Books). It has comics, illustration, links, as well as a damning piece about her experience as editor of Scheherazade.
Johnny Ryan's website: Filthy, purile, obscene, scatological and uncorrect are just a few of the words that nazi penis-faced whore robots will call Johnny Ryan's website.
Lark Pien: Nifty homepage of Long Tail Kitty cartoonist Lark Pien, with art galleries, comics, and more.
The Bougie Daily Comic: Robin Bougie's (Cinema Sewer) daily comix weblog: "Kickin out comics all night like I was Osama Tezuka/I carry a rapidograph, but that shit kills like a bazooka"
The Holy Consumption: Will the congregation please rise as we sing praise to our Lord for giving us the work of extraordinary Chicago-area comic artists Paul Hornschemeier, Jeffery Brown, Anders Nilsen, and John Hankiewicz? Amen!
USS Catastrophe: Homepage collective of Kevin Huizenga (Or Else), Ted May, Jeff Wilson, Dan Zettwoch (Redbird), and Warren Craghead.

Zines

Adita: ADITA a day in the eye-ray zine and zinester training mosque. Midwest blazing modestly.
Bitch Magazine: Look, up in the sky! It's a noun! It's a verb! It's a feminist response to pop culture!
Black Velvet Magazine: Black Velvet Music Magazine - UK Independent Rock Zine - It Rockin' Rocks!
Girls Not Chicks: Genderful coloring books for all!
Hypocritical Mass: So the Hypocritical Mass website is now live, although there really isn't much there yet. I'm working on getting more stuff on there (and learning HTML in the process) now, but it's pretty slow moving.
Infiltration: The website of the zine about going places you're not supposed to go.
Juxtapoz: Highbrow art for lowbrow minds? Lowbrow art for highbrow minds? Mind art for highbrow lowbrows? From stencils to oils, Juxtapoz is the bible of the lizard brain set. A must.
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet: The online home of Kelly Link's biannual literary zine. Features some of the fiction and zine reviews also in the print zine.
Ladyfriend: Whether you're looking advice how to cut your own hair, comics about babysitters gone bad, stories about adventures on public transportation, or tales of inspiring aunts, Ladyfriend's got something for you.
Loitering Is Good: Joey Alone's website, with photos, ramblings, drawings & more.
Love, Chicago: "Love, Chicago is a new quarterly that profiles independent artists, entrepreneurs and events that have helped make Chicago not only a destination, but a place to hang one's hat."
Lumpen: The digital hub of your Cholo Lifestyle, featuring Select Media, Buddy, videos of Fensler's GI Joe PSAs, and scads of links to local, national, and international activist sites.
McSweeney's: The gobbling rate was 45 gobblers heard per 100 hours. The survey showed that the best gobbling occurred in the western and northwestern counties. An eerie solitude found its way over me.
Passenger Magazine: The Passenger is a magazine and nonprofit organization founded by students at Northwestern University in 2003. Its mission: to reveal the hidden commonalities and shared experiences unique to people coming of age at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Pistil Magazine: PISTIL Magazine is a national, independent, Chicago-based publication that showcases groundbreaking talent. With a focus on community, diversity & activism, our content combines high-concept fashion with progressive feminism. Each quarterly, themed issue features five "Groundbreaking Women" making significant strides in their given fields. In addition, the women and men of PISTIL foster activism in the arts through a series of sponsored community awareness events.
Queer Ramblings: Queer Ramblings Magazine is a sassy writing, art and music magazine for people who lead a queer lifestyle.
Roctober: Internet HQ of Roctober, Chic-A-Go-Go, and The Goblins!
SMUT Magazine: SMUT magazine--pretty much what it sounds like. At SMUT's website, you'll find previews of print articles and fiction, as well as smutty extras that haven't made it into the magazine yet.
Soft Targets Journal: “When the next war comes, they'll get rich selling rat skins, cocaine, and corrugated iron masks.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Sweet Action™: We are an independent zine that is interested in showing a different type of pornography directed towards hetero women. Girls need porn too!
terry plumming: that one dood who invented synthetic blods, some spiritual person, personal messages, an older lady, somebody into politics, another artist from some different weird place, a writer who's really difficult to understand but everybody thinks is way deep, and a zookeeper looking foreigner who's way into animals but in a cool way / if it really is about you and what you have done with all your history then come for fuckedup show and discussion / if you have found a niche stay there stay arise
The Constant Rider: The webby version of Kate Lopresti's zine about all things public transportation.
The Inner Swine: The sinister online blogazine of Inner Swine's Jeff Somers.
The Sound Projector Music Magazine: The Sound Projector is personal, speculative, humourous, eccentric and discursive - it is simply an open platform for ideas, pointers, directions, the million and one ways in which the drug of music can short-circuit your brain, expand your horizons, and connect you to your inner being.
the2ndhand: "When evaluating pigs, two major areas must be considered: body composition and structural soundness. When viewed from the behind, the muscles of the ham region should be long and thick, with the thickest point through the stifle (interior leg). There should be a good deal of spread or width between the hind legs, indicating ham muscling. Finish refers to the amount of fat over the muscles of a mature (125-250 lb.) pig."
Tint Magazine: Tint Magazine is a smart, edgy, and progressive multicultural grassroots zine or self-published magazine, created to "Celebrate Women of Every Color". Tint Magazine's dimensions are 8.5 x 11 with a full color cover and back with black and white interior pages, and usually has anywhere from 35-50 pages. It's composed of the writing [both fiction and non-fiction] and artwork from a multitude of voices; women from all walks of life, from all over the world. The zine covers a variety of topics including issues of the mind, body, spirit, entertainment, culture, style, and real life.
Venus Magazine: Venus is the No. 1 source for coverage of women in music, art, film, fashion, and D.I.Y. culture. Published quarterly and distributed internationally, venus features interviews with edgy musicians and up-and-coming artists and fashion designers, along with reviews of CDs, films, and books. In addition to sassy reviews and interviews, each issue of venus features such popular regulars as the "Sexy" section, "About Place," "Where You At?" "On the Road," "Retro Fetish," and a short story. In addition to the magazine, the venus Web site is updated daily, featuring original content that's not included in the magazine.
Vladmaster: The interweb home of Vladimir's haunting, eloquent Vladmaster reels. Joseph Cornell is smiling on Utopia Parkway once again.
Zine World: Zine reviews, censorship & privacy news, event listings, word of mouth on DIY and zine projects.

Publishers

Akashic Books: Straight outta Brooklyn, reverse-gentrification of the literary world. Publisher of many Quimby's favorites, including The Anti-Capitalis Reader and Water in Darkness.
Creation Books: Publisher of the incredible Creation Cinema Collection, not to mention a who's who of degenerates likes of Artaud, Genet, Manning, de Sade, more!
Drawn & Quarterly: Publisher of Dirty Plotte, Palookaville, Peep Show, Optic Nerve, Sof'Boy and more!
Fantagraphics: Home of Eightball, Schizo, Hate, Artbabe, Blab and more!
Feral House: The publishing house that refuses to be tamed! Meow!
Last Gasp: Publisher and distributor of many of the disturbing and uncomfortable publications which Quimby's is proud to carry.
Sara Ranchouse Publishing: ARTISTS' BOOKS, PRINTED MULTIPLES, ART-AT-LARGE.... Art that takes the form of books and other printed objects which reside comfortably in venues as various as the seat pockets of small airplanes, a lawn chair in a small town in Michigan, and a grass hut in India.
Soft Skull: Independent publishers of fine, fine work such as Get Your War On, Peops, Fortunate Son, and The Zine Yearbook, to name but a few.
Valancourt Books: Valancourt Books specializes in quality reprints of rare 18th and 19th century literature.

Friends

5 Minutes To Live Video: 5 Minutes to Live specializes in providing films lost to the public. The titles we sell are some of the best films we feel should be seen by any fan of extraordinary cinema. No shit. Home of Gimme Gimme Octopus, The Dinah Shore Portal To Hell, two of the most fucked-up DVDs you'll ever want to see.
babyart.org: babyart! trevor brown's double cuddly homepage, complete with a big big online gallery of his work, a blog, and lots of other super cute surprises.
Cabinet of Curiosities: For study and grins: a collection of curiosities presented by history writers, magicians, comedians, museum curators, polka bands, sideshow proprietors, scallywags, and a few street thugs.
Chicago Comics: The sister store of Quimby's, Chicago Comics has the most extensive independent comics selection in the midwest! Far out!
Facets Video: Facets Multi-Media's mission is to preserve, to present and to distribute independent, world and classic film, and to educate adults and children in the art and legacy of film.
Imperfect Articles: Locally (that's Chi-caw-go to you, bud) printed t-shirts with art by such cool folks as David Shrigley, Jeff Nebolini, Cody Hudson, Brian LaRossa, Christopher Russell and more.
Lambiek.net: Great European comic shop located in Amsterdam.
Laughing Catholic: Homepage of the Laughing Catholic, designer of the excommuni-tastic magnets sold here.
Movieside Film Festival: Saturday, December 13 - 14 Movieside Film Festival Guest Host Jim Jarmusch screens some of his favorite shorts! Plus lots more... Check out their website for more details.
Mr Dan Kelly (dot) com: Mr. Kelly brings smiles, laughter, and tears of joy to millions of children whenever he leaves the house without his pants.
Old Town School of Folk Music: The Old Town School of Folk Music teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in the traditions of diverse American and global communities.
Phoneticontrol dot com: Robot sculpture, text, elbow grease, soda (diet) & illustration from Eric Broers, local Chicagoan.
Shappy!: Shappy used to peddle smut for us! He was a Chicago based poet and poetry slam champ until he moved to New York. Now he's a New York based poet and poetry slam champ and a surly bartender at the Bowery Poetry Club. Said to approximate god, except that he's in humor biz rather than the smiting biz. His books include the recently published Shlock & Awe (Kapow Press, 2005), and My First Little Book of Ass (Kapow Press, 2000) which won the 2001 Firecracker Award for poetry. Here you can check out his online diary, check out video and audio performances, read comix, and otherwise misuse plenty of your employers time!
WNUR 89.3 FM: Non-commercial, listener-supported radio (and MP3 streams) eminating from the idyllic campus of Northwestern University.