Monthly Archive for July, 2025

Quimby’s After Hours: Sobotka Literary Magazine | Thursday 7/31 6:30

Jul
31
6:30 pm

Quimby’s After Hours: Sobotka Literary Magazine
Thursday, July 31, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to Attend: Quimby’s After Hours: Sobotka Literary Magazine

Sobotka Lierary Magazine is the screaming brainchild of two humans from Illinois, USA. Sobotka roughly translates from Polish as “bonfire.” Bonfire literally means “bone fire” or “a fire of bones” in the English language, but has become synonymous with people conversing and connecting in a warm light of their own creation, safe from the darkness that surrounds them. Sobotka believes that writing, and the community found through sharing, can serve as a bonfire.

Expect a raucous reading celebrating contributors to recent issues of Sobotka Literary Magazine!

Sobotka Readers: Nish Ahmed, Rivka Yeker, Jacob Stovall, and Lemmy Ya’akova

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Pay what you want. Suggested: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “Show & Tell” in the note!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Quimby’s Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors, 8/9

Aug
9
6:30 pm

Quimby’s Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors
Saturday, August 9th, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Register to attend Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors

Join Chicago-based publisher Marc Fischer of Public Collectors to discuss his latest Public Collectors publications, and read from the recent booklets: “Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?” and “Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?

Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative he formed in 2007. Public Collectors aims to encourage greater access and scholarship for marginal cultural materials, particularly those that museums ignore. Public Collectors’ work includes the Library Excavations publication series and web project, Hardcore Architecture—a blog and publication series about where people in punk bands lived, and Quaranzine—which produced 100 single-page publications with over 75 collaborators at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to Public Collectors, Fischer is also a member of the group Temporary Services (founded in 1998) and a partner in its publishing imprint Half Letter Press (ongoing since 2008). He is based in Chicago.Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

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Pay what you want. Suggested: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “Show & Tell” in the note!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

Floral Observer multiple issues by Rachel Hays $12 each

Who Shares the Restroom Code With Ice Agents? by Public Collectors (Half Letter Press) $6

Silence Equals Death $5

PaCT: A Journey Beyond the Horizon by Peter Bergman $30

First Aid and How to Perform It by Anarchist Black Cross $5.99

Coercive Control How to Recognize and End Abuse in Your Relationships by Faith G. Harper $7.99

Boobs Not Bombs: Produce Your Own Transdermal Estrogen by Fairy Wings Collective $7.99

Neurodivergent Pride #14 Mutual Aid What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World by Joe Biel & friends $6.99

Baking with Baddies: How to Succeed in Business as a Multidimensional Cookie Creative by Via Carpenter $7.99

Chickweed: Edible Weeds and Herbalism by london anarcha feminist kolektiv $6.99

Embracing the Monster: How Horror Movies Empower by Riana Slyter $7.99

Zines by Emma Alice Johnson $7.99 each: Midnight Queens: 80s Horror Movies Written and Directed by Women, Not So Creepy Crawly a Bug Lovers Guide to Insect Horror Films, Bound by Blood: A Guide to Glenn Danzig’s Verotik Comics, Unholy Passions: The Musings of an Unrepentant Danzig Fangirl

A Thousand Hours in the Sun: Skateboarding and Community in North Portland: Photographs by Per Bjesse, edited by Amelia Bjesse Puffin $7.99

Fix Your Home: The Sustainable Art of Patching, Plumbing and Repairing by Raleigh Briggs $7.99

Zisk #36 edited by Mikes Faloon and Fournier $4

Bad Atheist #1 by Cooklin $6.99

Queer Platonic Relationships: A Guide to the Aro/Ace Spectrum, Friendships, Zucchinis, and Other Terms by Athens Webster $7.99

Devastating Atomic Drop #1 Spr 25 by Atomic Drop $3

Abracadabra #1 edited by Izzy Fradin $15

zines by Daisy Vanderwood $10-$25: Marilyn For All, Magic Women Almanac, Bug Girls

Act Your Age #2 A Zine About Fandom at 35+ and Beyond edited by Keidra Chaney $5

Mutations #5 by Elsa Trash $4

Brownies #1 by Jen Mayer $15

Full Bleed #4 edited by Tony Recktenwald, Edward Witt and Judson Picco $6

Bookshelf Voyeur #9 The Food Issue Part 1 Mid-Century Food and Cookbooks: A Recollection by LJ Williams $10

Art Stuff

PaCT: A Journey Beyond the Horizon by Peter Bergman $30

Mutiple items by Jasjyot Singh Hans! $20-$40

Comics

Bagel Butch Comic (Wiggle Bird Mailing Club #81) by Alieha Dryden $10

multiple titles by AT Pratt $15-$20

More comics by Steve Schaberg: Chapter Eleven $16, C: A Zine $6

Domesticates #2 by Andrew Conti $10

Pedro vs Extinction issues #1 and #2 by Pedro Paulino Makiyama $9.99 each

Betta by ositodraws $3

Wammy #1 Welcome to the Real World by Oliver Carrison $8

Graphic Novels

Return to the Snake Pit: Daily Diary Comics 2022-2024 by Ben Snakepit (Microcosm) $19.99

Hate Revisited: Livin’ the Good Life With Buddy Bradley by Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Politics & Revolution

Trouble at Coal Creek by Austin Sauerbrei (Haymarket) $22.95

Fiction

Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers: Elly Blue Presents Stories by Charlie Jane Anders and more (Microcosm) $14.99

Newspapers & Magazines

County Highway vol 3 #1 $8.50

Uppercase #66 for the Creative and Curious $24

Perhaps Magazine #1 Transition $18

Lit Journals, Chap Books & Poetry

The First Line vol 27 #2 $6

Provenance by L. Gibson (Rainproof Independent Press) $14

by Kristen Jacobson, $7 each: One Way to Do It: A Short Story, Together: A Short Story

Forever Place: Presence Through Art and Poetry by Rikki Horvatic $15

San Francisco Neo-Futurists Chapbook #9 Selected Plays From the Infinite Wrench $10

Broke Stay Broke Poems by Tim Stafford $18

Health Books

Unfuck Your Brain: Graphic Guide Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freakouts and Triggers by Dr Faith G. Harper, illustrated by Gerta O. Egy (Microcosm) $16.99

Hardcore Happiness: A Graphic Journey by Reid Chancellor (Microcosm) $16.99

Nonmonogamy and Defying a Paradigm by Marla Schreiber $11.95

Sexxxy

Queering Consent Series zines $7.99 each: Handcuffs, Chains and Canes by Jessi Joan, Devil Made Me Do Him by River Huckleberry Kero

Kinky Conversation Deck: What Turns You On $14.99

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

Seven Photographs of Cemeteries by Liz Walker $4

Fluke #22.5 Andy Conrad Memorial Handout $3

Skits #2 A DC Sketch Comedy Zine & Skits #4 A Washington Humor Quarterly $5 each

Loculus #15 In Praise of Dust by RSP $12

Resist Monopolies!: How to Fight Corporate Control and Support an Economy That Matters by Ron Knox (Microcosm) $7.99

Party Line #10 by Karl Anderson (Microcosm) $4.95

Copse: A Beginners Guide to Tree Protesting by Kate Evans (Microcosm) $6.99

Unresolved #12 by Eli Schmitt $5

Girl Hell 1999 by Kristen Miciotta $7

Test Patterns #3 by Lizzie Cooper $10

zines by Renee Herlinger $2.50-$8 each: Evening Will Settle In Soon, Field Museum Hall of Birds, I Am Your Girl, In the Water

I’m Really Gonna Miss Eating When I Die by Akaelah Rain $18

Koreangry issues #7 and #8 by Eunsoo Jeong $12 each

Austin Seance Quarterly Journal Summer 2025 Summer Spooky Fun Reading Issue by Jake Cordero and Albert Lucio $5

Comics

Life in Kell Goes to the Theatre by Kolin Lawler $4

Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange #1 14 Artists $20

Streetcar Makeouts #2 by Jona $12

Two Under Two by Jackie E. Davis $12

Where Can I Sing? by CJ Wu $10

Mineshaft #46 & Mineshaft #4 Revised Edition, $15 each

Mole by Arantza Pena Popo $15

Graphic Novels

The Idris File by Dix (Fantagraphics) $24.99

The Wrestler by John Kenn Mortensen (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Guest In the House by Emily Carroll $19.99

Wake Up Pixoto by Weng Pixin (Drawn & Quarterly) $24.95

Politics & Revolution Books

Puta Feminista: A Manifesto of Sex Worker Feminism by Monique Prada $15.95

It’s Not That Radical Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach (Haymarket) $19.95

Art Books

In Progress: See Inside a Renowned Lettering Artist’s Creative Process (Revised Edition) by Jessica Hische $32.50

Skateboard Stickers: Over 200 Stickers by Stickerbomb $24.99

New Victionary Books, $45 each: Folkish: Illustrations Inspired by Folklore, Avian Inspiration: Birds In Art and Illustration

New PIE International Books, $29.95 each: Little Animals of the Forest: 100 Writing and Crafting Papers by Saeko Inui, 24/7 by TOMOWAKA

Film & Music Books

Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema by Ericka Knudson $35

Good Movies As Old Books: Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers by Matt Stevens $30

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock by Jonathan Gould $35

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk (now in soft cover!) by Kathleen Hanna $19.99

Fiction

Books of Fiction by Adam J. Galanski-de Leon $10-$12: Intrepid, Magpie Funeral, Laughter of Hyenas at Bay

Don’t Say Goodnight by Monique M. Landsberger $15.99

Health

Art of Being Through Emptiness by Ayako Kato $20

Magazines & Lit Journals

Postlife Magazine #2 Technosocial $18

multiple Moss Piglet issues, $15 each: Alice’s Adventures (July), Gardens (August)

Druuuuuuugs

Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the Worlds Strangest Drug by Andrew R. Gallimore $30