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

Published on November 29, 2024 0 Comments
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

Published on November 27, 2024 0 Comments
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

Published on November 27, 2024 0 Comments
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 Pencil, Punk 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.

Now Ya Know!: 2024 Holiday Hours & Shipping Deadline

Published on November 25, 2024 0 Comments

Quimby’s will be closed Nov 28th, Dec 25th and Jan 1st. Now ya know!

And guess what? We’ll be open on one Tuesday! 12/24 noon to 6. Thought you’d want that day to shop, even though we’re normally closed on that day of the week. Now you know that also!

Are you in the U.S. and hoping to get your mail order by Dec 24th? Please place your order by Dec 12th. Now ya know about that too!

Now you know everything, Know-It-All!

New Stuff This Week

Published on November 23, 2024 0 Comments

 

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Zines

more zines from Catmothcrow: Zines as Activism: An Abridged History $1, Ritual Tradition $1, Catmothcrow Guide to Terrariums by Dayna Moth $6

more zines by John Dishwasher: Beauty as Power $3, Street Gallery vol 2 Photographs with Street Art from Southern California and Baja, California (Six Fires Press) $15

Loneliness of the Electric Menorah by Aaron Cometbus (originally Cometbus #51) (PM Press) $12.95

Cross Mountain by Isaac Barnett $15

American Surveillance: A Video Look Into Human Experience by Dylan Simon $12

A Document of a Chicago Music Community: The Second One by Braeden Long $10

Life of Work issues #3 & #4 by David LaBounty $3 each

issues of Sabotage, $7 each: Top Secret CIA Operations, Native Resistance Part 1 & more.

Nuclear Eye #1 by Dan Ducas $5

new comics by Steve Schaberg: Car World $15, Manifest Content Dream Comics $10

Spukschloss and Heimweh Unofficial Publication $8

Die Madchen $5

…and zine-related stickers $1.99 each: Ask Me About My Long Arm Stapler, This Is Going In My Perzine, I’d Rather Be at a Zine Fest

Comics

comics by Sam Rose, $1 each: Sex and Magic, Feygele Shabbes Parshas Vayechi 5784 & more.

Funeral Dreams by Danielle Stanko $10

Art Books

The British Invasion! by Herve Bourhis $34.99

Music Books

High And Rising: A Book About De La Soul by Marcus J. Moore $29.99

What is Anarchist Music by Ruud Noys (PM Press) $5

Piss in the Wind vol 1 Misadventures of an Indie Troubadour by Brett Newski $16

A bounty from Underworld Amusememts:
Sorceries and Scandals of Satan by Henry M. Tichenor $15.95
Infernalia by Michael Rose $16.95
Critique of Anarchist Communism by Ken Knudson $6.95
Hotcha! Three Vintage Booklets on Scandalous Broads and Sinful Sweethearts $14.95
Occult Technology of Power by the Transcriber $8.88
Anarchist Ephemera by Peter Lamborn Wilson $8
…and more!

Mayhem & Outer Limits

How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick (Isolarii) $17.95

Haunted World: 101 Ghostly Places and Encounters by Theresa Cheung $17.99

Beyond Esoteric: Escaping Prison Planet (2nd Edition) by Brad Olsen $22.95

Essays

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business by Roxane Gay $19.99

Fiction

Nosferatu Unbound edited by Steven Paulsen Christopher Sequeira $14.99

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (British Library Tales of the Weird Series) $16.99

Food

Cocktails from the Crypt: Terrifying Yet Delicious Concoctions Inspired by Your Favorite Horror Films by Jonathan Dehaan & Kimberley Elizabeth $23.99

Poetry

20 Erasure Poems of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jennifer Roche $14.99

Sexxxy

Butt Magazine #35 $17

Newspapers

County Highway vol 2 #3 Nov Dec 2024 $8.50