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

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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.

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

Qwerty Quarterly #8 $5

Astromatograph #0 $13

Dopamine Decorating #2 Creating a Home You Love by Karina Hagelin $6

Greylord’s Hoard Presents Into the Abyss #1 A New Magazine of Oddities and Peculiar Things $5

World of Arginor: An Eternal Champion Fanzine by Greg Steele $10

Comics

Margin Notes #1 and #2 by Kiernan Teare-Thomas $6 each

Loose Ends: #1 Skills and Observation $2.50, #2 Healthy Work Ethic $1.50

Grixly #69 and #70 by Nate McDonough $3 each

Life in Kell – Super Mega Zine Edition A Memoir How to Be Fun at Parties by Kolin Lawler $8

Graphic Novels

Insectopolis: A Natural History by Peter Kuper $35

Newspapers

County Highway vol 2 #6 May June $8.50

Poetry

Mischief and Mayhem: Poems and Type Art by Justin O’Brien with illustrations by Keith Huie (Garret Room Books) $15

Sexxxy

Elska #52 Chisinau Moldova $20

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

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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.

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

2 new Half Letter Press zines! Why Self-Publish Under Fascism by Marc Fischer $3 & Group Work: A Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration from a Variety of Sources and Practices Compiled by Temporary Services $10

Rate of Decay #13 $4

New issues of 13 Facts: #25 Bride of Frankenstein, #26 Beatrix Potter, #27 L. Frank Baum $2 each

Zines fom Fish Juice Media: Lazy Star Zine #1 Manifesto $5, Cats We Meet On the Street by Uriel Herzsage and Edie Trautwein $10 and more.

Comics

Comics by Dylan Shoaf: Rat Mag issues #1-#3, Sinkhole Suicide and more $5 each

Dumpling Dilemma by Dylan Sturdy & Rue Ouzman $15

Something Creepy with Professor Vesper (multiple issues) $10 each

Witch For Hire by Charles Brubaker $3

Hoggett’s Notion #3 by Dylan Ward $6

Comics by Gary W. Lehman: Dog Vending Machine #1, The Chase #1, Golden Crown #1 $4-$6

Charles’ Italian Vacation: A Charles Special by Spenser CruZoni $5

Graphic Novels

Kitz N Katz by Bob Laughlin (Smallbug Press) $17.99

Magazines

RFD #201 $11.95

Lit Journals

Moss Piglet April 2025 Westerns $15

New Stuff This Week

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Zines

April’s Eating Zine #6 Travels Away Travels at Home $15

Zines by Asami Akinaga & friends (various prices)

Poster Morgue #2 2021-2025 by NXOEED $5

Free Range Sculpture Garden: Fighting Boredoms and Apathy In All Dimensions of Time and Space Words by Tim Devin, illustrations by Alex Kittle $12

Cooking With the Dead by Allison C. Meier, Browyn Hazelwood & Claire Voon $10

Modern Luddite March 2025 The Anxiety Issue by Da Won Kim $5

Comics

Shadows Over Springfield by Harry Nordlinger $8

Rose Colored Glasses by C. Yen $5

Cruel by Evangeline $5

I Need to Kill My Boyfriends College Roommate by Darya Foroohar $15

Graphic Novels & Manga

I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95

Denniveniquity a Graphic Memoir by D. Boyd (Conundrum Press) $25

Call Me Emma: One Chinese Girl Finds Her Way in America by Makee (Street Noise) $23.99

Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile by Taha Siddiqui and Hubert Maury $27.95

They Were 11! by Moto Hagio $19.95

Politics & Revolution Books

Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber (AK Press) $32

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books) $16.95

Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology by Dipti Desai and Stephen Duncombe $24.95

Music Books

Light Pours Out of Me: The Authorised Biography of John McGeoch by Rory Sullivan Burke (Omnibus Press) $20

Food & Druuuuuuuuugs

Your Extraordinary Mind: Psychedelics in the 21st Century and How to Use Them by Zach Leary $19.99

Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome by Laura Lee Flanagan (Process) $28.95

Fiction

Sympathy For Wild Girls: Stories by Demree McGhee $17.95

Below the Grand Hotel by Cat Scully $19.95

Lit Journals

Mystery and Adventure Series Review #64 $3

Opera Glass #113 March 2025 by Iris J. Arnesen $3