Monthly Archive for February, 2024

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New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

What the Hellraiser by Johnny Misfit $1

Candy Quest by Pez D. Spencer $3

Cross Country Zines by Andria Alefhi Lamberton $7 each: #1 Ireland 27 years later + #2 U.S. 10 E, Solo winter

Touring America: Eddie Goes West With Special Guest Billy McCall $3

Shapes Zine, issues #3-#5, $3 each

Memoirs of a Baby Bootblack #2 by Lore $1

Remedial Images: A Short Magazine of Comics and Writing, edited by Nathan McMurray and Henry Tartt $5

Wett Butt #6 $5

Blessed Are Ye Dead #2 Which Continues the Work of Cataloguing New England Gravestones by Cuyler Keating (Punched Tin Press) $15

Comics

2 comics by Mel Stringer $10 each: Broken Branches #1, Shit Dates #2 Based on True Stories Submitted by Readers

Trickfilm #4 by Charles Brubaker $5

Comics by Aaron Zvi Felder, $5 each: Lines on Lines, Curves on Curves, Melvin Gets Creative

Taunt by Ari Ganahl $10

Graphic Novels

Hypericum by Manuele Fior (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Lauren Ipsum Throws the Book at You by Charles Brubaker (Smallbug Press) $10.99

Music & Film Books

IDLES x Magda Archer: Brutalism – Illustrated Lyrics by Joe Talbot, illustrated by Magda Archer $24.95

Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, edited by Kevin M Strait and Kinshasha Holman Conwill $29.95

Outer Limits

Tales From Fiddlers Green vol 2 A Peculiar Parish Magazine: Midnight Flowers, edited by Susan Redington Bobby (Wonderella Printed) $20

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen $30

Memoir

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford $28.99

Photo Books

City Threads by Wyzendale and Hope Wang $24.99

Fiction

Poor Deer: A Novel by Claire Oshetsky $26.99

Self-Portraits: Stories by Osamu Dazai $15.95

Gifty Stuff

Stickers from Echo Elise Gonzalez (Echo the Human): Rat $6, Owls Sticker Sheet $7

Stickers from Tony Recktenwald: Go Cubes Go $2, Earnest $4

Cards by Jamie Kadas $6 each (Curvy Girl Comics): Let’s Have a Ghouls Night, Wanna Bite?

…and much more!

Zine Club Chicago Online: Crowdfunding Your Zines Edition with Special Guest Scott Russell Morris, Feb. 20th!

Feb
20
7:30 pm

A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with images of zinemaker and professor Scott Russell Morris and the cover of his zine Ace of Magpies, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Crowdfunding Your Zines Edition with Special Guest Scott Russell Morris; Online! Free!; Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024”

Zine Club Chicago Online: Crowdfunding Your Zines Edition with Special Guest Scott Russell Morris
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, February 20 on Zoom
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is excited to welcome special guest Scott Russell Morris, who will be joining us from South Korea to discuss the pros and cons of taking your zines to popular crowdfunding platforms. Scott will present his personal experience from his six Kickstarter campaigns and share insights from other zinesters who’ve used crowdfunding. There will be a lot of practical tips and tricks to help you set up your own zine campaign and a brief brainstorming session to see if crowdfunding is right for your project.

Scott Russell Morris is the creator and editor of Magpie Zines, a zine about tarot, magpies, and found meaning. He is also a university professor, board gamer, and squirrel enthusiast. You can learn more about Scott and his work at skoticus.com and on Instagram @magpiezines

Bring your questions and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Crowdfunding Your Zines Edition with Special Guest Scott Russell Morris at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, February 20.

** RSVP required ** We want to make sure that our online Zine Club Chicago events are a safe space, so we won’t be releasing the Zoom link publicly. If you’d like to attend, please email zineclubchicago@gmail.com to RSVP by 9 p.m. CT Monday, Feb. 19 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Feb. 20.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free monthly event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers, created our logo, and made our Zine Club Chicago Shout-Outs site, where folks can peruse and recommend zines we’ve discussed at our events.

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

Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with images of zinemaker and professor Scott Russell Morris and the cover of his zine Ace of Magpies, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Crowdfunding Your Zines Edition with Special Guest Scott Russell Morris; Online! Free!; Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024”