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Helpful Consignment Check-In Clarification!

Our consignors rule! They make awesome zines and comics, lug them over here (or send them over here), and then get excited to see their stuff on the shelves. And we’re excited to put their work in people’s paws.

When we updated our consignment policy last year we had faith that our consignors would make our work sustainable by following some changes in our consignment policy. One thing was that we only accepted consignment check-ins via email at info@quimbys.com to tell people they had to check in for restocks and payment. It was an adjustment, for sure! And we also changed our policy about how often you could check in, which was no more than 3 times a year or once every 4 months. And finally, we told consignors which titles we could restock and how many of them we would accept, instead of blindly just taking any restocks. Like any business, we found it made more sense to actually look at numbers and think about which items we could take more of. In the past, people who stopped here, say, on their way to an art opening and didn’t want to carry all their zines couldn’t just drop restocks in our laps anymore, if they were things that we couldn’t afford to take more of. (New stuff though? Hell  yeah! Any time! If we haven’t had it before, we wanna see it! A new issue of your zine, we’ll take 5!) So thanks to everybody who understood and respected why we had to do this. Here is a blog post that outlines why we had to make these changes.

We got some helpful feedback from our consignors. Longtime consignors knew they were being asked to check in every 4 months instead of any time they felt like it, and they were happy to do so. but they weren’t sure when those 4 months started. Was it 4 months from the date they were last paid? Was it 4 months from the last day they asked about their consignment? Well, here’s the answer: you can check in 4 months from the date we itemized your last payout for you. So if you emailed us on Sept 15th (OUR BIRTHDAY!) and we got back to you on say, September 25th (give us a break! We have thousands of consignors!), the next time you’d be eligible to check in would be January 25th. That’s four months from the day we emailed you back and told you what we owe you (and asked you to clarify your payment information).

Thank you so much for your continued patience as we’ve refined our consignment process to meet the unprecedented volume of consignment items we continue to receive. Please keep sending us your awesome stuff! We wanna get it up on our shelves.

(cute consignor image by @fraulein_echo!)

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

KerBloom #170 $2

Creature Shock by Ashley Belanger $5

Girls Can Do Anything by Mel $19.99

Room Tone #5 $3

Comics

Annabella’s Book of Hours $5

Clutch Tales of the Future by Tyler Starr $15

Belly Full of Heart by Madeline Mouse (Silver Sprocket) $9.99

The Corpse Itself $3,000,000 by Jake Burdoin $3

Commics by Gia Kornfeld Dig Dog #1 $6 and more.

Mason #0 by Louis Petersen $3.99

Domesticates #1 by Andrew Conti $10

Graphic Novels

Demons: Rise and Grind by Hyena Hell (Silver Sprocket) $14.99

Maple Terrace by Noah Van Sciver (Uncivilized) $24.95

Art Books

Propagandopolis: A Century of Propaganda From Around the World by Bradley Davies & friends (Fuel) $32.95

Essays (Sort of)

Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture and the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox $20

Poor Artists: A Quest Into the Art World by Gabrielle De La Puente and Zarina Muhammad (aka the White Pube) $24.99

Sketched Out: Artistic Sketchbooks and Journals Unveiled edited by Victionary $45

Songscapes: Stunning Graphics and Visuals in the Music Scene by Victionary $49.95

Fiction

This Is Your Bike on Plants Fantastical Feminist Stories of Bicycling, Gardens, and Growth edited by Elly Blue $13.95

What Doesn’t Kill Us by Ajay Close $17.95

DIY

A People’s Guide to Houseplants: Thrifty, Sustainable Ways to Fill Your Home with Plants by Cara Brezina (Microcosm Publishing) $14.95

Film

The Museum of Wes Anderson: His Movies and the Works That Inspired Them by Johan Chiaramonte and Camille Mathieu $35

Magazines

Hellebore #12 Samhain 2024 – A Summoning of Ancient Terrors $17

Apartamento #34 $35

November Newsletter Out Now!

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Wicker Park Indie Bookstore League Sticker $3.99

Quimby’s Bookstore Black and White Book Spine Sticker by Casey Gartlan/Witchmxm $6

Jenn Woodall Postcard Box Set (Silver Sprocket) $19.99

Zines

The Papercuts Library #11 Baking Cookies on Every Type of Day by Joey Sellers $5.99

Auntie by Rita Sindelar $5

Zazazine issues #0 and #3 by April Ursula Fox $13 each

Fetish #2 Fall 24 by Tina Mead $3

Postcards From Irving #9 by Tyler $5

For the Love of Peter Hujar by Steven Reigns $12

Hey Look at That #4 by Aaron Brown $12

Qwerty Quarterly #6 Scenes From Qwerty Fest Fall 2024 $5

Malt Adult #30 $5

Alchemy, Memory and the Architecture of Initiation by Brian Cotnoir $10

Sketchbook Drawings 2024 by Drew Lerman $10

X Kool Kids #9 $5

Vizualis Kolteszet (Visual Poetry) An Introduction to the Work of Andras Rajnai by Robert Newsome $6

Silences Ohio by Maud Lavin $7

Human Issue #3 Unsettling Sight by Edwin Perry Manchester $5

Comics

Bloody Mary by Nick Winn (Silver Sprocket) $9.99

New Wave Comics presents Hero League #1 & #2 by Reginald Wayne Soileau $2 each

Devout by Frankie Lyne $12

Grendel’s Dog #1 by fscare $7

Unknown by Genevieve Kotz $5

50 Flip Experiment #33 by Dan Hill $5

So Buttons #14 Life and Death edited by Jonathan Baylis $10

Airbag #3 More Stories by Brian Canini $8

Death Spark by Thomas Campbell $20

Catboy Catalogue #2 Sum 198X by Fox Graham $8

Comics Blogger #10 $5

Occult Comix: An Eclectic Anthology by Village Archives $15

Graphic Novels

Acme Novelty Datebook vol 3 by Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly) $49.95 – Yes, we have signed copies, but ya gotta come in to the store to buy those. Want vol 1-3 in a slipcase? Geddit at $149.95. (Those are unsigned.)

Applewood Canyon: An American Suburban Satire by Brian Canini $16

Complete Poe Clan VOL 1 & 2 The 70s by Moto Hagio (Fantagraphics) $80

Art Books

I Fashioned and I Broke by Anna Gregoline $10

Outer Limits

Mysticism by Simon Critchley $18.95

Music Books

Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue by Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton (Trouser Press) $22.95

Hell on Wheels: Tour Stories Remembered, Remixed, Remastered by Greg Jacobs (U of Hell) $19.95

Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen (33 1/3 vol 186) by Steacy Easton $14.95

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography by Peter Ames Carlin $32

Fiction

Blue Sisters: A Novel by Coco Mellors $30

For the Young at Heart

Dinosaur Uproar by Michael Barron $24 and Dinosaur Uproar Coloring Book $12

Essay Books

Yokels in the Windy City and Other Ridiculous Reflections From “Magic Mike 6XL” by Michael D. Davis $5.99

Chap Books & Poetry

Dirt by April Ursula Fox $13

Prairie Roots by James Lowell Hall (Lake Claremont Press) $18.95

Sexxxy

by fscare: My Precious Doll by Fscare $6, Catfished $7

Boyfriend Material: A Trans Masc Smut Zine edited by Frances Andonopoulos and Blue Buzbee $12

Offsite: Zine Club Chicago on Marz: SNACKWAVE! Zinemaking Hangout

Nov ’24
14
7:00 pm

Zine Club Chicago on Marz: SNACKWAVE! Zinemaking Hangout
Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown
7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, November 14, 2024
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is teaming up again with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club to host a free zinemaking hangout at the locally owned taproom and café space. We’re inviting folks to help create a group zine on a theme that’s close to our treat-loving hearts: SNACKWAVE!

Please join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz: SNACKWAVE! Zinemaking Hangout, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, November 14 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 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 featuring Tender Lovin’ Cutz with Tommy Kladis after our event wraps up at 9 p.m., and we encourage y’all to stick around for some all-vinyl jams, too!

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 the monthly flyers, created the logo.

Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago like here on IG and here on Twitter.

#zines #zinemaking #ZineClubChicago #DIY #LifeonMarz #Quimbys #QuimbysChicago

Facebook event link is here.

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A flyer featuring a stack of Oreo cookies riding a surfboard inside a huge wave and this text: “Zine Club Chicago on Marz: SNACKWAVE!; 7-9 p.m. Thursday, November 14; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave; Free!; Info: quimbys.com”