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Chicago Zine Fest + Midwest Perzine Fest, Oct 5th

Oct ’24
5
11:00 am

Quimby’s is a co-sponsor for Chicago Zine Fest and Midwest Perzine Fest 2024. CZF will house MWPZF in the Perzine Alley!

The exhibition day for Chicago Zine Fest / Midwest Perzine Fest 2024 will take place Saturday, October 5 (11 am-6 pm) at the Columbia College Student Center (754 S Wabash Ave). All events during the weekend are FREE and open to the public!

Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops and the big expo day where 100+ zinesters sell and trade their zines. Midwest Perzine Fest features local, midwestern and perzinesters* from across the country!

*as in “personal zine,” eh?

 

More info coming soon!

CZF poster by @onlinevalentine

MWPZF poster by @angel.xoxoxoxox

CAKE Chicago, Aug 24th + 25th

Aug ’24
24
11:00 am
Aug ’24
25
11:00 am

Quimby’s is a proud co-sponsor of CAKE 2024, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo.

CAKE 2024 will be held:

August 24 (11am-6pm) – August 25 (11pm-5pm), 2024

WHERE:
Zhou B. Art Center

1029 W 35th St.

Chicago, IL 60609

Free and open to the public!

Special guests include!:

More info at cakechicago.com.

2024 Poster is by the talented Jasjyot Singh Hans.

Zine Camp at the Richard J. Daley Branch of the Chicago Public Library, July 21st

Jul ’24
21
1:00 pm

Zine Camp 2024 presented by Zine Club Chicago

1 p.m. – 5 p.m.  Sunday, July 21, 2024

Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library

3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport

Free!

Zine Camp, the annual summer camp-style hangout for folks who love zines presented by Zine Club Chicago, returns this July at a new location in Bridgeport!

Zine campers, get ready for a fun day of zinemaking, workshops, zine trading, socializing, snax, and more! Newbies and Zine Club Chicago regulars alike are welcome at Zine Camp 2024, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, July 21 at the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport. Free!

Camp activities include:

*Fortune teller zine workshop led by Larry Wolf!
*An impromptu rhyming zine appreciation jam led by Ayun Halliday!
*Mixtape-themed zine workshop led by Cynthia E. Hanifin!
*Zinemaking stations for adults and kids!
*All. the. snacks! (s’mores and more)

Zine Club Chicago also be hosting a pen pal station so you can strike up a correspondence with an out-of-town zine friend! Can’t make it to Zine Camp and want a pen pal? Sign up here: tiny.cc/ZineCamp2024PenPals

Feel free to drop in anytime between 1-5 p.m. and stay for as long as you like. Zine Camp homebase will be the indoor Community Room at the Richard J. Daley library branch, with activities around the fountain outdoors as weather permits. Make sure to visit the brand-new Zine Club Chicago South Side Zine Library while you’re in the Community Room, too!

Need a map, directions to help you get there, accessibility information, and details about our afterparty? You can find all the info about Zine Camp 2024 (including where we’re going for the afterparty!) at zine.camp + @zineclubchicago + quimbys.com

Zine Camp is made possible by the Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library and branch manager Jeremy Kitchen; Quimby’s Bookstore and shop manager Liz Mason; and zinemakers Lucinda J. Williams and Johnny Misfit.

Shoutout to the Zine Camp Counselors: Aim Beland, Michael Verdi, Ayun Halliday, Liz Mason, and Cynthia E. Hanifin.

Thank you to Aim Beland for designing the Zine Camp 2024 logo and poster!

Facebook Event Link is here!

Image description

A blue flyer with the illustration of an orange tent made out of a stitchbound zine and a tree branch, with this text: “Zine Camp 2024; A (free) meetup for those who love zines!; Brought to you by Zine Club Chicago; 1-5 p.m. July 21th; Richard J. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. (Bridgeport, Chicago); for more info, visit zine.camp”

Note: this event is not at Quimby’s!

New Stuff This Week

Zines

From the Mattazine Society:
Por El Amor De Kid Congo Powers $12
Vax Zine by Annie Vaxxer, MBA $6
Fagskins $2
How to Play Hide the Snake $2

Spiderweb Salon zines:
You Are Queer by OUTreach Denton $7
Lets Make a Zine $5
This Is How You Get Ants by Courtney Marie $5
…and more.

Host and Gather – Chili Potato Ideas for Entertaining by Jen Mayer $18

Zines by Simon Moreton:
Now Is the Time to Know Everything $13
Minor Leagues #11 & 12 $5, $6

From Sheer Spite Press/Lee P.:
Five Friendship Fantasies $3.33
Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels Like $8.33
…and more.

Glass #1 $7

Comics

Comics from Dave Ortega:
School of the Americas $10
Hacienda #1 & #2 $10 each
De Las Casas $6
…and more.

Monster Crime by Johnny Damm $10

Graphic Novels

Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia (Silver Sprocket) $15.99

Soft cover versions of books published by Avery Hill that we had in hardcover:
Walking Distance by Lizzy Stewart $12.99
The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery $18.99 (& Pomery’s Victory Point $16.99)

Thousand Oaks Book 3 Monolith Mall by Blaise Moritz $15

Lavender Clouds: Comics about Neurodivergence and Mental Health by Bex Ollerton $16.99

You and a Bike and a Road by Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics) $22.99

J + K by John Pham (Fantagraphics) $19.99

Art & Photo Books

Shamanic Journey: The Art of Chris Dyer (Last Gasp) $50

Family Values: Kurt, Courtney & Frances Bean by Guzman $29.95

This is a Book for People Who Love Tattoos by Verena Hutter and illustrated by Eric Hinkley $17

Music Books

Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond by Geezer Butler $19.99

Futuromania : Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow’s Music Today
Simon Reynolds $21.99

Self-Improvement + Doing Stuff + Food

RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age by Chuck D & Kathy Lopez $29.95

The Original Rider Waite Book Of Ceremonial Magic by A. E. Waite $36.99

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy $17.95

Essay Books

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman by Elizabeth Garver Jordan, edited by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison Kahan $22

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture by June Thomas $30

Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary to Trans Punk by Imogen Reid / Crossdresser Growing Up Trans in the 1990s and 2000s by Kat Rogue (Sheer Spite Press) $10

Fiction

The Sons of El Rey: A Novel by Alex Espinoza $28.99

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive: A Novel by Craig DiLouie $19.99

One or Several Deserts by Carter St Hogan $16.95

Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell $29

Chap Books & Poetry

Fat Girl Magic by Kat Savage (Central Avenue Poetry) $17.99

Digging Through Trash Looking 4 Rings $5

Chapbooks by Ivan Kuhari/J. Maloof:
Dropout $15
Plug In $15
Silhouettes $20
…and more

Folklore

Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters & Mythos from Around the World by Rachel Quinney $19.99

Sexxxy

Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn $30

Magazines

Double Blind issues #10 & #11 $15 each

Headmaster #10 $24.99

Gush vol 1 #1 $10

…And:
Stickers and notebooks from BoyPilot Goods

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

Cicada Zine by Ana and Echo $1

Christian New Age Quarterly vol 26 #3 Spr 24 edited by Catherine Groves $3.50

Post No Signs #1 Skateboards $15

Digestif #1 by Brianna Dingeldein $10

Be Willing to Part With Some Insistence Then Freedom Comes $3

Load Zwift $2

Room Tone #3 by Kurt $3

Loculus #1 iOSR by RSP (Two Clowns in a Hole Press) $10

Comics

Perception Through a Gap by Katie Lane $15

Drawing of the Passion of Christ by Bartholomew $15

Comics by Angela Fanche: Humility Machine $10 + WWREC #1 & #2 (both with Max Burlingame) $10 each

Comics from Secret Room Press:
by Ross Jackson Joe Boss $15, Spelunker Solitaire $8
by John James: E Therapy Online $5, In Darkness Without Fear $2
by Kevin Reilly: Snowman $8

Salamander Deep by Chana Goldbloom $10

Voice From the Black Sea – A Brooding Mariner’s Tale by Eric DeSantis $6

Comics by Cecilia Jane: Floof $6, Bonsai Trees $6, Beanie Baby Shop $8, Small Dumb Comics #1 $5, Poppi $4, How to Fill Your Sketchbook $5

Graphic Novel

Clippings by Gabby Golec $24.99

by Sean Christensen: Pattern Grows Clearer (Secret Room Press) $24.99

Music + Film Books

Ideal For Living a Celebration of the EP – Extended Play by Corey du Browa and Friends (Hozac Books) $23.99

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne $19.99

Macabras: The Horror Comic Art of Jayme Cortez (Korero Books) $29.99

Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor Who to Acid House by Matthew Collin $36.99

Sexxxy

Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey Through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future by Esmé Louise James $30

Fiction

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: A Novel by Andrés Stoopendaal $27.99

WannaBeat by David Polonoff (Trouser Press Books) $17.50

The Abyss: A Novel by Fernando Vallejo $15.95

The Greatest Whole by A.A. Khan [aka King Khan] (First to Knock/Khannibalism) $18

Outer Limits Books

Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks edited by Pam Lock (British Library’s Tales of the Weird Series) $16.99

A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans by Jeffrey B. Russell & Brooks Alexander $16.95

Magazines

Broken Pencil #102 $9.95

Lit Journals

McSweeneys #74 Packed In a Lunch Box Designed by Art Spiegelman (Sale date 6/27!)

Undertheorized #1 Fall Win 2023 edited by Emily C. Kuret $10

Plus
Bumpin’ Uglies new stickers (and restocks)!
Notebooks and blank cards from Laughing Elephant!
Stickers from Ren-O-Graphics!