Monthly Archive for November, 2024

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Zines

New zines from Jam: Paper Garden #2 $6, Calcium Ornament $7, Lefty Life Forms $2, Gourd Town $2

Vault of Slack #5 by Xenofact $8

various photo zines by Larry Wolf, $10 each: In Conversation (multiple issues), Rough Cut & more.

issues Thirteen Facts, $2 each: #14 Repo Man, #16 Maurice Sendak, #17 Phantom of the Opera

Christmas Songs by Dave (Lazer Attack Zines) $4

Fall Friends by Jax Fleming $4

Laced $2

Behind the Screams: Interviews from All Corners of the Chicago Alternative Music Scene by Eleanor Coughlin $5

Park the Car: A Mini Zine by Lizzie Cooper #1 & #2 $2.50 each

zines by Lorelei Preus $4.44 each: Commuter Cats, I Love Paczki, Bat Zine

Librarian Against AI or I Think You Should Leave by Violet B. Fox $5

Dragon Within Antarctica’s Prison by Will Dee $6

New zines from Fluke Publishing, $5 each: Martha #2 Art and Words to Look Upon and Think About, Tiger and Donuts #1

The Society of Avian Dreamers – July 13 2024 by Amaranta Isyemille Lara Ramos $8

Comics

Slow Leak #4 by Johnny Sampson $15

I Am Okay by Sarah Becan $10

(Travel) Ghouls – Bonus Supplementary Issue #4.44 by Josh Simmons $2

Wildie by Atlas Power $5

Scythe Unseen – Poems and Drawings by Tom Orr $5

Sheeted Dead #2 by Michelle Spadafore (Urban Ochre Press Comics) $7

Desert Rats #2 by Nick Bunch $10

Nose Bleed #2 by Derick Jones $10

Evidence of Small Pleasures by Sev GT $2

Graphic Novels

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore, Steve Moore & more $49.99

(f)Art Books

The World of Banksy by Alessandra Mattanza $35

Politics & Revolution

Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025 edited by Andy Lee Roth & Mickey Huff, illustrated by Anson Stevens-Bollen $19.95

Mayhem & Outer Limits

Mastering the Art of Ritual Magick by Frater Barrabbas $39.95

Appendix N, revised and expanded edition: Weird Tales From the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons edited by Peter Bebergal (Strange Attractor Press) $22.95

Essay

How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays by Vera Blossom $17.95

Music Books

The Other Side of Reason by Andrew Schmidt (Hozac Books) $27.99

Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms by Doug Skinner (Strange Attractor Press) $22.95

Magazines

Tape Op #164 $5.99

Chap Books & Lit Journals

Poetry by Amaranta Isyemille Lara Ramos: Tripas an Odyssey in Haiku $22, Holydaze Again $5

Overtime Hour 69 Vitality by Dylan Bach (Blue Cubicle Press) $2

You’ll Hear From Me This Week by Seth Andrew Bearman $16.50

Moss Piglet November 2024 Patterns $15

Quimby’s Open on a Tuesday! December 24th, noon to 6pm!

Dec ’24
24
12:00 pm

We’re normally closed on Tuesdays! But Tuesday, December 24th we’ll be open from noon to 6! Lucky you! This isolated Tuesday we thought you might want it. Live it up!

Wanna know about our other holiday hours? We’re closed on Dec 25th and Jan 1st. Stay in and read all those zines and books and comics you have piling up!

Offsite: Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout, Dec 5th

Dec ’24
5
7:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout

Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown

7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, December 5, 2024

Free!

In December, Zine Club Chicago will be easing into the frosty season with a free zinemaking hangout in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y’all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme How to Survive a Chicago Winter.

Please join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter Zinemaking Hangout, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, December 5 at Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown. Free!

Zine Club Chicago will provide all the zinemaking supplies! Just bring your creativity. Life on Marz Community Club, our favorite locally owned taproom and café space, offers awesome alcoholic, CBD, and non-alcoholic beverages from Marz Brewery and more, plus some very fun snacks, for purchase. The taproom also will be holding a DJ Night after our event wraps up at 9 p.m., and we encourage y’all to stick around for some chill jams, too!

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago. This free event series is produced by Cynthia E. Hanifin and sponsored by Quimby’s Bookstore. Anna Jo Beck designs our monthly flyers and created our logo.

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

lifeonmarz.club

Facebook event invite here.

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A flyer featuring a photo of snow-dusted rooftops at the Western Pink Line stop and this text: “Zine Club Chicago on Marz: How to Survive a Chicago Winter; 7-9 p.m. Thursday, December 5; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave; Free!; Info at quimbys.com”

Tarot Readings by Echo, Dec 14th

Dec ’24
14
12:00 pm

Don’t miss an afternoon of tarot readings by Echo! She’ll be here to read your cards on Sat, Dec 14th, noon to 4pm! Echo has been reading tarot cards for many years. She uses tarot as a mind-opening tool, a method for helping us see more, a path illuminator. Find her on the internet at @fraulein_echo + echothehuman.com.

Facebook event invite is here.

Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason, Dec 19th

Dec ’24
19
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason

7:30 p.m. CT Thursday, December 19, 2024

Online! Free! On Zoom, RSVP info below

Zine Club Chicago is putting a bow on 2024 with their annual December online zinemaking workshop led by our own Liz Mason! We’ll be creating mini zines that celebrate our personal highlights of this year.

Grab your zinemaking supplies*, BYOH(ot)C(hocolate), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: All Wrapped Up Zinemaking Workshop with Liz Mason at 7:30 p.m. CT Thursday, December 19, 2024.

** 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 5 p.m. CT Wednesday, Dec. 18 (the day before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Thursday, Dec. 19.

 

Liz Mason is a founding member of Zine Club Chicago. She publishes, among other things, Caboose, which won First Runner-Up in the Best Zine Category in the Chicago Reader’s 2023 poll. Her work has been in places like Broken PencilPunk Planet, The Zine Yearbook and the back of her friend’s toilets. She’s worked at Quimby’s Bookstore since 2001 in a state of perpetual arrested development. Find her at LizMasonIsAwesome.com + Etsy at LizMasonZines + @caboosezine at all the places.

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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

 

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

* You’ll need a few sheets of 8.5×11” paper, a pair of scissors, whichever implements you prefer for writing/drawing/etc., and your creativity! If you’ve never made a mini zine before, here’s a quick video tutorial (and we can provide any assistance you need at the event, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUzo41dh5Q

Here’s the Facebook event invite.