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July is International Zine Month! Celebrate the wonderful world of independent publishing with daily activities. Download a higher res of this year’s flyer of daily prompts here!
Flyer design by Jordan Ducree, a graphic designer and web technician in Portland, Oregon. Text inspired by the continued celebration of IZM set forth by Alex Wrekk and other contributors since 2009, updated in 2024 by Novie Nimble and Joshua James Amberson of Antiquated Future.
#IZM2024
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Zines
Looping the Loop: A Horror Story by Four Typewriters With Assistance by Charles McKelvy $8
This Old Typewriter Typing Tales by Ronald J. Remington and illustrated by Lisa Quinlan Heibutzki and Charles McKelvy $20
Fluke #21 The Colossus Compendium $5
Cautionary Reflections by Leah Spears $4
Sad Unicorn by William J. O Brien $10
Comics
You Don’t Get There From Here issues #61-#63 Diary Comics by Carrie McNinch $4 each
Bottom’s Up! by Barbara Benas (Silver Sprocket) $9.99 – On sale 7/31!
CCC #1 Comics College Chicago – Introduction to Comics: A New Magazine of Comixschool USA Notes $10
Nonprose #2 by Kevin H. $5
Compost This Zine by Mel Dempsey, illustrated by Sean Dempsey $2.50
Graphic Novels
The Wendy Award by Walter Scott (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95
La Arruga vol 1 by Jimena Lloreda Droz $24.99
Moomin Adventures: Book One by Tove & Lars Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly) $22.95
Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology edited by Rafael Grampa & Janaina de Luna (Fantagraphics) $29.99
The Nancy Show: Celebrating the Art of Ernie Bushmiller edited by Peter Maresca & Brian Walker (Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books) $22.99
Art & Design Books
Insectile Inspiration: Insects in Art and Illustration (Victionary) $45
Politics & Revolution Books
Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination by Jon Greenaway $14.95
Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin $18
Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control by Betsy Phillips (Third Man Books) $21.95
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes (Haymarket) $20.95
Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism by Richard Gilman-Opalsky (AK Press) $21
Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: The FBI vs. the Earth Liberation Front by Craig Rosebraugh (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95
Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change edited by Premal Dharia, James Forman, Jr. & Maria Hawilo $20
Music & Film Books
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock (Akashic) $26.95
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Willow Maclay & Caden Gardner (Repeater) $19.95
Help
Unfuck Your Shame: Using Science to Accept Our Feelings, Resolve Guilt, and Connect with Ourselves by Faith G. Harper (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95
Utopian Witch: Solarpunk Magick to Fight Climate Change and Save the World by Justine Norton-Kertson (Microcosm Publishing) $19.95
Fiction
Lo Fi: A Novel by Liz Riggs $29
The Body Harvest by Michael J. Seidlinger $17.95
On Strike against God by Joanna Russ, edited by Alec Pollak (Feminist Press) $17.95
Newspapers
County Highway vol 2 #1 July August 2024 $8.50
Chap Books & Lit Journals
Rotten Teeth Candy Heart by Halliday Carpender $5
Moss Piglet July 2024 The Dance Issue $12
…and:
Riso printed composition notebooks by Next Chapter Studio – various sizes!
Astrology Diary 2025 $22.95
Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner 2025 $19.95
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Quimby’s is a co-sponsor for Chicago Zine Fest and Midwest Perzine Fest 2024. CZF will house MWPZF in the Perzine Alley!
The exhibition day for Chicago Zine Fest / Midwest Perzine Fest 2024 will take place Saturday, October 5 (11 am-6 pm) at the Columbia College Student Center (754 S Wabash Ave). All events during the weekend are FREE and open to the public!
Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops and the big expo day where 100+ zinesters sell and trade their zines. Midwest Perzine Fest features local, midwestern and perzinesters* from across the country!
*as in “personal zine,” eh?
More info coming soon!
CZF poster by @onlinevalentine
MWPZF poster by @angel.xoxoxoxox
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Quimby’s is a proud co-sponsor of CAKE 2024, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo.
CAKE 2024 will be held:
August 24 (11am-6pm) – August 25 (11pm-5pm), 2024
WHERE:
Zhou B. Art Center
1029 W 35th St.
Chicago, IL 60609
Free and open to the public!
Special guests include!:
More info at cakechicago.com.
2024 Poster is by the talented Jasjyot Singh Hans.
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