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Support Quimby’s on Cyber Monday (Or Any Day, Really)

Published on November 28, 2022 0 Comments

It being Cyber Monday we thought we would give a shout out to the multiple ways you can use your hard earned moolah to support us with your mail order.

You probably know we have a webstore at quimbys.com where we sell all our QuimbSwag (gift certificates, t-shirts, all that stuff) and a select few other exciting things. You can have stuff shipped! Or you can select Curbside Pickup and we’ll hold it for you!

But did you know your can also order from bookshop.org and give us a kickback?

Here’s the story with that. Let’s say you want a book we carry (or even a book we don’t carry) though it’s not available on our website. (See our bookshop.org link in our bio.) But you still want to buy it from Quimby’s. Our online bookshop.org store provides that opportunity and also lets you order your guilty pleasure book you don’t want anyone to know you’re reading. And you have it shipped directly to you! Your favorite bookstore (that would be um, us) gets a commission when you select Quimby’s as the store. We thank you for that! There are some curated lists over there too if you need some suggestions. Just make sure the Quimby’s logo is in the upper left corner and you’re gold.

quimbys.com/store

bookshop.org/shop/quimbysbookstore

Astute Quimby’s fans will recall back in the day we used to have a version of this that we used to joke about and we called it Quimazon? It was that thing that nobody used because it was awkward and confusing. Remember that? Bookshop.org is a much better version of that, an iteration that’s easy to use and updated in a way that makes sense for people. Hoo-ray!

Zine Club Chicago Online: Cheap Copies! Edition with Special Guest Rich Dana, Aug. 16th!

Published on July 29, 2022 0 Comments

Aug ’22

7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: Cheap Copies! Edition
with Special Guest Rich Dana
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 16 on Zoom
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is really excited to welcome special guest Rich Dana, a stencil artist, zinemaker, and founder of Obsolete Press. Rich will be joining us on Zoom to discuss his recent release, Cheap Copies!: The Obsolete Press Guide to DIY Hectography, Mimeography & Spirit Duplication, and demonstrate one of the no-cost/low-cost analog printing techniques featured in the book.

Bring your questions for Rich and your favorite zines that were printed using cheap, cool, and tactile DIY techniques! We want to hear about the non-digital ways that zines in your collection (and that you’ve made yourself!) were reproduced, including hecto, ditto, mimeo, block printing, letterpress, screen printing, and copying by hand.

Grab your stack of analog-printed zines, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Cheap Copies! Edition with Special Guest Rich Dana at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 16!

** 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 9 p.m. CT Monday, August 15 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, August 16.

Zine newbies and longtime enthusiasts alike are always welcome at Zine Club Chicago, the city’s only book club-style event for people who read zines. This free monthly 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.

More info at quimbys.com and on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago. Facebook event is here.

Image description: A red-and-blue infographic flyer featuring a photo of zinemaker Rich Dana demonstrating an analog printing technique and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Cheap Copies! Edition with Special Guest Rich Dana; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CST Tuesday, August 16”

New Stuff This Week

Published on April 9, 2022 0 Comments

Happy Saturday! Did you know that April 9 is National Unicorn Day? While we don’t have any mythical creatures in stock right now, we do have a TON of fun new stuff in the form of zines, comics, and books. Check out this fantastic list of fresh arrivals!

Zines

My Favorite Actor is a Dog by Aim Ren $2

Women in Print #8 $8

Razorblades and Aspirin #14 $8

Dealing with COVID: Hopefully Helpful Tips by Lost Fillings $1

Time’s Up: No More Rape Culture in Our Skate Culture by Smash the Skatriarchy $3.95

How It Felt to Me: The Further Writings of Annie Howard $11

Gothic Lyric Book by Karina Song and Blaketheman1000 $5

I Miss You by Karina $1

Cut Me Up #8: Guided by Instinct $18

Something Rather Than Nothing Zine #1 $4

Bad Year by Nick Greer $5

Comics & Minis

Ghouls by Jenn Woodall $12

Future #8 by Tommi Musturi $6

Teeni Bop #1 $4

Annual Eternia Bodybuilding Contest #1 $2

Forms Saint George and the Dragon by Ryan Shipman $5

Eschew #5 by Robert Sergel $8

Smear Girl of Clay #1 $2

Heavy Metal #315 $13.99

Reptile House #9 by Nick Bunch $5

Scoundrels Don’t Get Caught by Hannibal Gerald $6

Graphic Novels

Rave by Jessica Campbell $22.95

Hell Phone: Book One by Benji Nate $14.99

One Hundred Columns for Razorcake: The Complete Comics 2003-2020 by Ben Snakepit $11.99

Book Tour by Andi Watson $24.99

Mr. Lightbulb by Wojtek Wawszczyk $29.99

Squeak the Mouse by Massimo Mattioli $29.99

Fiction

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker Martin $17.99

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan $28

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer $18

The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers $21

DIY Books

Creative Not Famous the Small Potato Manifesto by Ayun Halliday $14.95

Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Resource For Zines and Zine Culture vol 6 by Alex Wrekk $15 – In fancy hardcover!

Everything Depends on Me: A Book About OCD by Alice DuBois $24

A Quick and Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez $7.99

Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting by Julia Illes $18.95

From Big Idea to Book: Create a Writing Practice That Brings You Joy by Jessie L Kwak $14.95

Music Books

Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran $18.99

Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland $30

Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury From Seattle by Keith Cameron $24.99

Essay & Culture & Memoir

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross $30

Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh $22

Mayhem & Outer Limits Books

Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley $15.95

Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy edited by Mike Ashley $15.95

Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink by John Miller $15.95

Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer by Christopher Berry Dee $16.95

Food & Drug Books

The Microdosing Guidebook: A Step-by-Step Manual by CJ Spotswood $19.95

Sexxy

Fantasy Lewds Erotic Anthology by Andy Hood $15

Experience Points: Illustrated Queer Smutty Stories by N.A. Melamed $12.95

Magazines

Little White Lies #92 $16.99

032c #40 $24.95

Chap Books & Lit Journals

Granta #158: In the Family $19.99

Kids Stuff

Illustoria #17 $16

Other Stuff

What A Time to Be Gay and Alive Bumper Sticker by Archie Bongiovanni $3

New Stuff This Week

Published on December 18, 2021 0 Comments

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QUIMBY’S COLA!!! by Caroline Cash, in collaboration with Marz Brewing!

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Gifty Shit

Nudie Ladies 2022 End of Herstory Calendar by Flannery Cashill $15

More stickers by Corinne Halbert & Mel Stringer (Eat Me, Pick Yourself Up and Try Again, Wheelie Cool Sticker by Mel Stringer, Fairy Dust)

Zines

East Village Inky #65 by Ayun Halliday $3

KerBloom #152 Sep Oct 2021 by Artnoose $2

Pandemic Movie Watchlist SECOND DOSE by Johnny Misfit $3

New Wave Chicken #9 (Fluke Publishing) $4

Push: A Cure Fanzine issues #1 and #4, $6 each by Arusha Baker & friends

zines from LMK, $6 each: Above All Else, Recipes, Deeper Meanings to Words and more.

Thirteenth Story #5 by Jaye Frisina $10

Handout #8 Rejection Letters $2

The Thread #17 a Memoir Personal Zine by Rachel Lee-Carman $5

Rubber Souls by industrialsewage $3.75

These Are All Inadequate Christmas Issue and issue #3 $3 each

December 3rd by JB $4

Papercuts Library #6 You and Your Phone Are Boring $5.99

Comics & Minis

Vacuum Decay #4 by Harry Nordlinger $10

Birth of Eggy Toad by Aim Ren $2

Municipal Threat Explotation (Fluke Publishing) $5

Graphic Novels

Peow Studio Press stuff! On Tour by Moa Romanova $12, Ice Cream and Beast by Iggy Craig $10, Berzerkid by Gax Vallez and Mikal Lopez $12, Brush Paradise by Mathilde Kitteh $15, Aeon 6 by Jules Naleb $12, Bark Bark Girl by Michael Furler $19, Witchcraft and Melancholia by Loic Locatelli Kournwsky $22, Magic Mayhem Metal by Tom Hunter $27

Good Boy Magazine #1 (Silver Sprocket) $9.99

Art Books

Connies Characters by Constance Volk $20

Music Books

Reversing into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977 – 1990 by Andrew Krivine $45

Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World’s Greatest Guitarists by Eilon Paz and friends $50

Essay Stuff

Flying High: Flags of the United States by Billy McCall $14

Slow Motion Heroics by Joshua James Amberson $10

New Stuff From GenderFail Press: Imperfect Archiving Archiving As Practice For a Love of Softness by Be Oakley $20, Behind Shut Eyes QTBIPOC Dream Anthology $25 & more.

Fiction

Especially Now SC by Jonas Cannon $5

Everybody Comes From Somewhere by Ira Sacharoff $14

Photography Books

PUSH: J. Grant Brittain – 80s Skateboarding Photography with words from Tony Hawk, Miki Vuckovich, Garry Scott Davis (Gingko Press) $50

Sexxxy

Elska #35 Casablanca Morocco $20

New York Hustle #1 $20

Magazines

Juxtapoz #220 winter $9.99
Breathe #42 $13.99
Progressive december-january $5.95
Aperture #245 winter $24.95
Vive Le Rock #86 $13.60
Wire #453 november $12.50
Heavy Metal #312 $13.99

Poetry & Chap Books

31 Days The Self by Amie Zimmerman and Samantha Wall $15

Poetry by Connie Boje $5 each: My Life is a Library #12, Monster of Music #16

For the Young at Heart

Haymarket Books Fairy Tale Revolution series, $17.95 each: Duckling by Kamila Shamsie, Blueblood by Malorie Blackman, Hansel and Greta by Jeanette Winterson

Quimby’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide

Published on December 7, 2021 0 Comments

Right now our shop is crammed full of amazing, unique gifts for everyone in your life. (OK, maybe not your uncle who only wants vintage Nixon paraphernalia, but just about everybody else). Here are just a few of our staff picks for the best stuff to wrap up this season.

And if you don’t spot the gift you’re seeking on this list, come on into the store and let us help you find that perfect present for someone you love (or for yourself … you surely deserve a little something, too).