Monthly Archive for December, 2024

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Big news About Quimby’s!

We’ve got some major news to tell you about the future of the store. More information here at Block Club Chicago.

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

new zines by Jolie Ruin: Slutcake #19 Oct 24 $2, Escapist Artist #74 The Year 2004 $3.50

Things People Said to Me This Year by Echo the Human $1

Swallow Me Whole #1 by Vani $7

Fiji Mermaid – A Monster That Crept Into Our Museums by Allison C. Meier $10

Sideshow Gazette #1 by Outside Talker Press $7.50

How to Be a Sideshow Geek: An Illustrated Guide $7.50

Calm Before the Storm: A Sideshow Tease Featuring Jellyboy the Clown $7.50

On the Shedim by Anastasia (Stormbringer Press) $6

Zines by by Lily Patterson: Baby’s First Zine $4, Spooky Silly Comics for Weirdos Like You $3.50, Signburbia Signs for End Times $6

Comics

You Don’t Get There From Here #66 Diary Comics by Carrie McNinch $4

Freaky #11 This One Goes Up to Eleven edited by Andrew Goldfarb/The Slow Poisoner $5

Ding by Evangeline $3

Graphic Novels

Monday: An Apocryphal Comic Book by Andy Hartzell $29.99

Buzzelli Collected Works vol 3: The Revolt Of The Wretched by Guido Buzzelli $34.99

In the City Part 3 by Karl Christian Krumpholz $16

Art Books

Good Dogs: Canine Companions in Art and Illustration (Victionary) $45

Politics & Revolution Books

A Livable Future is Possible: Confronting the Threats to Our Survival by Noam Chomsky & C.J. Polychroniou (Haymarket) $19.95

Music & Film Books

Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl by Jonathan Scott $18

The Monstrous Feminine (Harpy House Press) $20

Essay Books

Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer by Jesper Juul $30

Fiction Books

Dead Girls Don’t Dream by Nino Cipri $19.99

The Case of the Unauthorized Release of Lost Souls by Galicia Midwest $8.99

Poetry

KUMI: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani (Akashic) $36.95

Leaves of Grass: Two Volume Deluxe Collectable Edition Featuring 300 Pages of Writing, Notes, and Ephemera by Walt Whitman, edited by Jesse Nathan (McSweeney’s) $92

Looking for a Unique Gift? Send a Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Package!

Not sure what to get a certain tough-to-shop-for someone on your gift list this year? May we suggest a Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Package? You choose the denomination (we offer $25, $69, and $100 options) and tell us a little something about what your recipient is into, and our zine specialists will choose a unique assortment of self-published delights! Oh, and our Qustomized Quimby’s Zine Packages make a great lil’ treat for yourself, too.
Here’s an example: The person who will receive the $25 Qustomized Zine Package in this photo loves animals, resisting our robot overlords, travel, smart cultural analysis, and slice-of-life stories. Look at that awesome selection of ziney goodness that will be arriving in their mailbox, along with some free Quimby’s bookmarks!
Qustomized Zine Packages are available right here on our website only. If you’d like some help putting together a customized gift while shopping in our store, we’ll be happy to assist you in person! And yeah, if you prefer to let your gift recipient choose some fun new zines on their own, we’ve got gift cards available online and in-store, as well.

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