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New Stuff This Week

 

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Quimby’s Small 2.5″ Sticker $2

Zines

Acid Nun Paintings by Corinne Halbert $10

Every Song I Ever Heard: A Non Chronological Memoir No One Asked for #2 by AP Comfort $8

Unusual Places of the Chicago Suburbs #3 Subdivision Island Formed by Highways by Eric Kammerer $4

Radical Gardening Planting In Protest $6

I Wish For A Gentle Cloud Spirit For Your Day No Matter the Triblations You May Experience $15

Zines by Paul Shortt $10-$20: Performances for Waiting in Line: Performed Alone or In Collaboration with Others, Signs About Art, Don’t Let Adulthood Corrupt You and Other Signs & more.

Mutuo Soccorso! Tim Devin Tells You All About Boston’s Italian Mutual Aid Societies in the Early 1900s $11

Chicago Yesterday vol 22 #8 $15

World Wide Web: Modernism’s Influence on the Design of the Internet by Chayse Walker $10

Life Death and Creatures $7

Daily Affirmations by Ari G. $12

New zines by Sofia Diaz, $5 each: Texas Size IKEA, Chair Hunt

Comics

Grixly #61-#63 by Nate McDonough & friends $3 each

Witch Shit #1 A Comic Book by Chris Resnick $5

Untamed Highway #1 Comics’n’Stories by Noah Snodgrass $5

Cellist #1 by Crabby $8

Novice #1 by Sean McCarthy $10

Flowery #53 by Mel Stringer $10

Comics by Kapka, $15 each: Sketchbook Dump #2, Doobious Odyssey

Graphic Novels

Blankets: 20th Anniversary Edition by Craig Thompson (D&Q) $39.95

Macbeth by William Shakespeare adapted by K. Briggs (Avery Hill) $22.95

Damnation Diaries by Peter Rostovsky (Uncivilized Books) $24.95

Art & Photo Books

Street Art for the Planet by Xavier Tapies (Gingko Press) $19.95

In Chicago and Covered by Some Sort of Vine $20

Essay Books

Catastrophe Time by Gary Zhexi Zhang (Strange Attractor Press) $21.95

Film, TV & Music Books

A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. by Max Evry $29.99

We’re Not Worthy: From In Living Color to Mr. Show, How ‘90s Sketch TV Changed the Face of Comedy by Jason Klamm $27.99

The White Label Promo Preservation Society vol 2 100 Flop Albums You Ought To Know by Sal Maida, Mitchell Cohen & friends (Hozac Books) $28.99

Fiction

OKPsyche: a novel by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Small Beer Press) $15

Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink vol 2 The Master and Other Stories $13.99

The Wind Knows My Name: A Novel by Isabel Allende $28

Cardboard Clouds by Benjamin Niespodziany $18

Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight by Shelly Page $12

Food Books

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy $26.95

Sexxxy

Le Toucher by Dutes Miller $20

Other Stuff

Blueprint Notebook: Technical Innovations (Dokument Press) $7.95

Quimby’s Logo shirts back in stock

Why was Jon Resh finally able to land his first wallride after trying for decades? Because HE WAS WEARING THE CLASSIC QUIMBY’S SHIRT, now all sizes back in stock! It makes dreams real!

The official Quimby’s T-shirt is black shirt features our logo, designed by Chris Ware, printed on black high-quality pre-shrunken Bella + Canvas brand shirts. It’s sweet, simple, and to the point: QUIMBY’S! These shirts were printed locally, by our friends at Strange Cargo.

Get it here.

Quimby’s 32nd Anniversary T-Shirt Celebration Featuring Vichcraft Live Chainstitching, Sat, Sep 30th

Sep ’23
30
6:00 pm

Wahoo! Quimby’s is turning 32!*

To help us celebrate Chicago gem of a printer and chainstitcher Vichcraft (aka Jenna Blazevich) has designed some new merch for us to premiere at A LIVE CHAINSTITCHING EVENT HERE AT QUIMBY’S ON SATURDAY, SEPT 30TH from 6-9pm! She designed a spanking new Quimby’s t-shirt that is BEAUTIFUL (trust us) we’ll be debuting at this event. And we’ll be unveiling some other unexpected merch too — but we don’t want to spoil the surprise!

Vichcraft will be on hand with her 80-year-old Cornely machine to chainstitch a variety of items, including felt pennants and other things for sale. For a fee, she can customize items, so bring your stuff you want to have personalized.*

Vichcraft is the multi-disciplinary design studio run by Jenna Blazevich in Chicago, Illinois since 2015. Find her at https://vichcraft.shop/ and on IG: @vichcraft

 

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Here’s the Facebook event invite if you want it!

*Our actual anniversary is September 15th! This event is not actually on the 15th! But you should buy us a birthday cake on that day anyway. Happy birthday, us!

*Here are helpful hints about what materials are ideal for your customized chainstitched item!:

Ideal items:

Woven fabrics: Canvas, Denim, linen
Crewnecks or sweatshirt type knits
Beanies
Bandanas

Materials to avoid:

Thin knit fabrics (tee shirts)
Loosely knit fabrics (sweaters, scarves)
Items with sherpa linings or excessive batting

 

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Zines

Fluke #20 The Big Mud $5

Broken Pencil #99.5 $7.95

“Are You Married or What Is the Matter?”: Inconsiderate, Passive-Aggressive and Snarky Antique Postcards 1907-1921 by Robert T. Glen $6

Zisk #34 Summer 2023 by Mike Faloon & friends $3

How to Turn Into a Frog by Jewlya Sturtevant $24.99

Flotation Device #18 $2

Netlabeler #2 by Keith Helt $2

Nuances of Existence Are Explored by Artists by Marc Fischer/Brett Bloom (Temporary Services/Half Letter Press) $9

Zines & Comics by Maggie Michel $12-$15: Five Guys Burgers and Fries But One of Them Dies, Emergence 2023 Thesis Illustrations

Comics

Bubbles #17 August 2023 Independent Fanzine About Comics and Manga $8

Comics by Katya Granger, $10-$15 each: Super Ghost Girl #1, Manatee Mermaid, Cloud Girl Story: The Secret Magic

Graphic Novels

Proof That the Devil Loves You by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $24.99

What’s Fear Got to Do With It? by Ivana Filipovich (Conundrum) $18

Black Phoenix Comics and Illustrations vol 2 by Rich Tommaso (Floating World) $14.95

Starseeds vol 3 by Glaubitz Charles (Fantagraphics) $34.99

Okinawa by Susumu Higa (Fantagraphics) $29.99

101 or So Ways My Family Might Die But Probably Won’t by Michael D. Davis $4.25

Mage and the Endless Unknown by SJ Miller (Iron Circus) $15

A Book To Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete (Fantagraphics) $75

Memoirs of a Man In Pajamas by Paco Roca (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Eden II by Kenny Wroten (Fantagraphics) $39.99

Cloven Book 2 by Garth Stein and drawn by Matthew Southworth (Fantagraphics) $24.99

Art & Design Books

Sean Aaberg’s Halloween Book (Gingko Press) $29.95

Politics & Revolution Books

The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France by Mark Bray (AK Press) $26

No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno by Charlie Allison, illustrated by N.O. Bonzo & Kevin Matthews (PM Press) $21.95

Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression by Chris Robe (PM Press) $24.95

Fiction

The Future by Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis) $18.95

Dinosaurs: A Novel by Lydia Millet $17.95

Sexxxy

Pretty Boys Don’t Belong On Oil Rigs by Andreas L. $6

Chap Books

I Can Do Good Things by Izzy Larson $3.50

Other Stuff

Connect 2024 Calendar by Nikki Mcclure $24

New Stuff This Week

 

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Zines

Weirdo Du Jour #3 Line Cook Love by K. Ratticus $1

Carrot Informer Magazine $8

Restless City #1 $5

Stim and Sensory Toys by Clementine Penner $2

Unusual Places of the Chicago Suburbs #2 Hidden Nuclear Missile Park by Eric Kammerer $4

Yarn Bomb #3 & #4 $20 each

More Hands by Joshua Bohnsack $3

Scorpion Bowl: A Story by Joseph Demes $5

Zines by Indigo Field: Strawberry Jam $10, Angel Papers $5 + more

Wonders From Western Ave by Mac and Emma $24.99

Zines from Two Headed Dog Publications, by Saoirse Finn and friends: Something Special #3 $10, Solidarity 4Ever a Collaborative Zine $10 and more.

Comics

The Future #10 the End of Everything Immediately by Tommi Musturi $6

New photo zines from Mary Miller $12 each

Moment In Time $2

Graphic Novels

Thunder and Lightning by Kimberly Wang (Silver Sprocket) $13.99

Witchy Shit

Llewellyn’s Little Book of Witchcraft by Deborah Blake $14.99

Spirits, Seers and Seances: Victorian Spiritualism, Magic and the Supernatural by Steele Alexandra Douris $16.99

Small Magics: Practical Secrets From an Appalachian Village Witch by H. Byron Ballard $17.99

Fiction

Atavic Fear of Hailstorms: A Novella by Joao Reis $14

Burnt Sienna by Joshua Bohnsack $8

Sex With My Family Fictions by Jessica Anne $14

Chap Books

lonely line breaks: ChatRQT by Robbie Q. Telfer $10

Lit Journals

Oyez Review #50 $8

Magazines

International Review #170 $3

From the students over at 826CHI down the street!:

Within by Eddy McGhee $10

Chicken In Oshean by Lucas Kohng $16

El Chiquito Big Book: Writing From the Students of Pickard Elementary $20

Things That Give Us Butterflies: Writing From the Students of 826ChI’s After School Writing Lab $15

All the Beauty It Brings: Writing by 826CHI’s Teen Writers Studio $15

Other Stuff

Stickers from Bumpin’ Uglies!
Patches from Retrograde Supply Co!

…And more!