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Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko, August 24

Aug ’21
24
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition
with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 24 on Zoom
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is really excited to welcome their first guest host, Chris Sienko! This zine enthusiast has been invited to lead a discussion about an intriguing theme he’s devised: Zines that take you into another world, especially through idiosyncratic writing or topics.

Many zines are created to convey information, whether they contain reviews, interviews, recipes, or travel dispatches. But sometimes, no matter the topic, you’ll find a zinemaker who just doesn’t follow any of the conventions of information delivery — they have a personal language of their own, their own shorthand or catchphrases that you don’t hear anywhere else. These types of zines are like a strange roadside attraction where you pull off to see something new and find a person who has created their own world and stored it in little glass jars and on display tables, offering you a glimpse for just a buck or two.

Grab your zines that are worlds unto themselves, BYOS(nacks), and join in on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: You’re In My World Now Edition with Special Guest Host Chris Sienko at 7:30 p.m. CT August 24!

Chris Sienko has been writing about noise, music, and all the permutations in between for over 25 years. He’s the co-author of As Loud As Possible, a large-format noise zine published in 2010. He’s written for such print and online publications as Muckraker, Blastitude, Dead Angel, Vulcher, Fördämning, and the forthcoming third issue of a zine simply called “untitled.” He’s written liner notes and feature-length interviews for such bands and solo projects as Ceramic Hobs, Sudden Infant, Sewer Election, The Rita, Jason Crumer, and LHD. Chris covered experimental music performances in Chicago via the Gapers Block music site, Transmission from 2007 to 2015.

When not ruining his hearing, Chris is a movie buff and has hosted the Stiff-Legged Film Festival, an obsessive, endurance-defying, money-losing event out of his home since 2001, a high point being a three-weekend, fifty-film 1970s sci-fi dystopia fest in 2016. Chris lives in North Park with his wife, Wendy, a 15-minute walk from the NEIU campus and, hopefully soon, from screenings by the Chicago Film Society.

** Zoom info ** Zine Club Chicago wants to make sure that its events are a safe space, so the Zoom link won’t be released publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CT Monday, August 23 (the day before the event). You’ll receive the Zoom link via email by 11 p.m. CT that evening.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly series is produced by Chicago Zine Fest/Midwest Perzine Fest organizer Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs the club’s monthly flyers, created its logo, and made the Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines.

More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event is here.

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zine

Alaska by P. Timer $15

Stuff from Fluke Publishing: Off Into Nowhere: The Limo Zine Anthology by Matt Limo & friends $2 + Embrace the Hate $2

No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws, Support Hose Years Three & Four $10

International Whores Day Zine by Kinky Out $10

zines by Jilly Foo: Big Spike and Mighty Moe vs the Golden Wasteland $6, Tiny Zines $5

Seasons 1 & 2: Twin Peaks and Seinfeld mashups by Kristen Morrison (iS Press) $10 each

Welcome to Chili’s #2 $15

Clearline #2 $20 & #3 $25

Comics & Minis

F #1 Comic by Kevin Huizenga $8

Comics by Orr: Burrow $7, Lunch Rush $6

Solar Grid #4 by Ganzeer (Radix Meda) $12

OBL-V-OUS #2 & #3 Bad Art for Bad People by Mae Luxe $10 each

Graphic Novels

Farewell Brindavoine by Tardi (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Music Books

Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 by Alan Licht (Blank Forms Editions) $25

Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them by Tom Gatti $22

Hallucinations from Hell: Confessions of an Angry Samoan by Dr. Gregg H. Turner, Gary Panter, Dave Lebow and Mindy Turner (Rare Bird books) $24

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir by Kathy Valentine (U of Chicago Press) $18.95

You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike $31

Film Books

Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre As Political Satire by Martin Harris (Headpress) $22.95

Politics & Revolution

Making Revolution: My Life In the Black Panther Party by Field Marshall Don Cox (Heyday) $16

DIY(ish)

Zener Cards by Pierluca Zizzi (Llewellyn) $19.95

Oh Hell No: And Other Ways To Set Some Damn Boundaries by Dani Katz & Sara Ahmed $14.95

Chilling Cocktails: Classic Cocktails With a Horrifying Twist by Jason Ward $12.99

Fiction

Trip City by Trevor Miller (Velocity Press) $20

ELPASO: A Punk Story by Benjamin Villegas (Deep Vellum Publishing) $15.95

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime) $27.95

Skateboarding

The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life by Kyle Beachy $27

Magazines

Adbusters #156 sept/oct $14.95

New Noise Magazine #58 $4.99

The Monthly Review july/aug $14

Mojo #333 aug $11.99

Kinfolk #40 $18

Cinema Scope #87 summer $5.95

Ugly Things #57 $9.95

Lit Journals & Chap Books

Bridge vol 21 #1 $35

Searching For Love, Finding a City Poems by EA Gregor $20

Chinatown Romeo – Poems by Michael Chang $10

Saudade A Love $5

Sex Guides & Culture

Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide by Maria Conejo and Zoe Mendelson $28

Other Stuff

Fancy Fauna themed Notecards $15.95, Notebook Set $14.95, Graphite Pencils $14.95

Last Call, Cats Playing Cards by Arna Miller Ravi Zupa $14.95

Murder of Crows Journal by Corrado Roi (Llewellyn) $13.95

Llewellyn’s Witches’ Spell-A-Day Almanac 2022 $13.99 + Llewellyn’s Witches Datebook 2022 $13.99

Stickers by Sarah Mirk!