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Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica Zinemaking Hangout, March 13th!

Published on March 7, 2025 0 Comments
Mar ’25
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Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica Zinemaking Hangout

Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave. in Logan Square/Bucktown

7 – 9 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2025

Free!

In March, Zine Club Chicago is celebrating the music that moves us in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y’all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme Zinetronica.

This month’s theme is inspired by Marz Community Brewing’s Synth Fest 2025, a week of awesome bloops, bleeps, and beats taking place March 7-15 at both Life on Marz and the Marz Mothership.

Please join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica Zinemaking Hangout, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 13 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. Conflict Bureau’s Tactical Acid Weapon will be providing sonic accoutrement during the evening, and we encourage y’all to stick around for some awesome music!

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 is the creative force behind our visuals.

More info:

Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Facebook event link.

lifeonmarz.club

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A flyer featuring images of a vintage synthesizer and this text: “Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Zinetronica; 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 13; Life on Marz Community Club, 1950 N. Western Ave; Free!; Info at quimbys.com”

Recommended Reading: Vibrant Voices on the Page

Published on January 29, 2025 0 Comments

A pile of books and zines that tell personal stories, available at Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago.

The world is a flaming mess right now. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, I’m right there with you. Whenever I’m struggling, I know that I can find respite in personal narratives. Reading about another person’s challenges, triumphs, sorrows, and joys reminds me that, as Adrienne Rich wrote, our stories flow in more than one direction.

Our shop is, of course, packed to the brick walls with vibrant voices on the page. Here are a few of the tales in which I’ve taken solace lately.

Every single issue of Lucinda J. Williams’ Bookshelf Voyeur series is a pure delight. Her latest release, #8: On Scrapbooks, delves into the fascinating lives that the zinemaker first encountered within a collection of turn-of-the-century ephemera.

Anxious Critters #1 and #2: I adore this pair of sweet zines about the relationship between creator Alex O’Keefe and her housemate: A very cute bunny named Ivy.

Although I’m a native Chicagoan, I’ve lived a good chunk of my life in small Midwestern towns, each with its own unique DIY community. Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett takes a compelling look at how the hardcore punk movement played out in one central Illinois city in the ’80s and ’90s.

When someone I know returns from a trip, the first thing I ask is what they ate during their journey. April Malig chronicles her culinary adventures, with words and gorgeous colorwashed images, in April’s Eating Zine #5: Everything I Ate in Japan (Part One: Toyko!) and April’s Eating Zine #5.5: Everything I Ate in Japan (Part 2: Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Atami!).

I love a pocket-size zine, since I like never want to be without a story to get lost in. Ker-bloom! always delivers a perfect bite-sized tale presented in a beautiful letterpress package. Issue #171 begins with the epic statement: “Sometimes it pays to be a known Lord of the Rings nerd.”

So perhaps you’d like to add your own story to the glorious chorus of voices in this universe? We’ve got two of my favorite books about writing in stock right now. 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg and many of the writer’s literary friends — including Carmen Maria Machado, Roxane Gay, and Kiese Laymon — just came out in paperback. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos is the book I would put into the hands of any storyteller who wants to deepen their own practice.

If you do decide to share your story with the world, please consider putting it into a zine and consigning it with us! You might want to grab a This is Going in My Perzine sticker to give folks a heads-up. 🙂

—   With love and solidarity, C.E. Hanifin

New Stuff This Week

Published on July 1, 2023 0 Comments

 

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Zines

The Wonder of It All #12 $3

Postcards from Irving #4 $2

Horror Macaroni #4 $5

zines by Erin Dorney: How to Bathroom, Accept Reject and more.

Molotov College Zine Edition an RPG by WH Arthur $15

Self Harm – A Zine about NSSI by Sharaya O $3

Comics

Smoke Signal #41 Keiichi Tanaami (Desert Island) $12

Glass Chamber #0 by Tia Roxae $5

Delia by Quinn Thomson $5

By the Moonlight by Mae Lyne $15

Comics by Carmen Johns $10 each: Diva World #1 + #2, How to Lose a Friend In Seventh 7th Grade #1-#3

Comics by Clara Brubaker $10 each: In Between Some Thoughts on Place, Bein’ Weird With Plants
Plus Sticker Sheets: Native Wildflowers of Illinois $12, Moths of North America $15

Graphic Novels

Dear Mini vol 1 A Graphic Memoir by Natalie Norris $29.99

The Comics Journal #309 $16.99

The Planetoid And Other Stories by Joe Orlando + Al Feldstein (Fantagraphics) $35

Big Ugly by Ellice Weaver (Avery Hill) $19.95

Film & Music Books

Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 by Chris Alexander $27.95

Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood – The Official Biography (Revised and Updated Edition) by Nina Antonia $24.95

Book of Days by Patti Smith $28.99

Outer Limits Stuff

Hellebore magazine: A Summoning of Ancient Terrors, issues #1-#9, $15 each
+
The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland, edited by Maria J. Perez Cuervo $34.95

Fiction Books

New Directions Storybook series:
Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg $18.95
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls $18.95

Lapvona: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh $18

Stray Dogs by Richard John Parfitt (Third Man Books) $16.95

Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink vol 1 the Opal and Other Stories $13.99

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

Postponed: Nic Collins: Handmade Electronic Music, 3rd Edition Release Event

Published on February 12, 2020 0 Comments

Nic Collins returns to Quimby’s for the release of the third edition of his book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge) on Saturday, June 20th!

Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making – as well as creatively cannibalizing – electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. You will also learn how to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion boxes, mixers, and unusual signal processors cheaply and quickly. At a time when computers dominate music production, this book offers a rare glimpse into the core technology of early live electronic music, as well as more recent developments at the hands of emerging artists.

This revised and expanded third edition has been updated throughout to reflect recent developments in technology and DIY approaches. New to this edition are chapters contributed by a diverse group of practitioners, addressing the latest developments in technology and creative trends, as well as an extensive companion website that provides media examples, tutorials, and further reading. This edition features:

*Over 50 new hands-on projects.
*New chapters and features on topics including soft circuitry, video hacking, neural networks, radio transmitters, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, data hacking, printing your own circuit boards, and the international DIY community
*A new companion website at www.HandmadeElectronicMusic.com, containing video tutorials, video clips, audio tracks, resource files, and additional chapters with deeper dives into technical concepts and hardware hacking scenes around the world

With a hands-on, experimental spirit, Nicolas Collins demystifies the process of crafting your own instruments and enables musicians, composers, artists, and anyone interested in music technology to draw on the creative potential of hardware hacking.

More info about this book.

ABOUT NICOLAS COLLINS
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. He has been a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1999, and a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Ghent) since 2016. From 1997 – 2017 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of homemade electronic circuitry and conventional acoustic instruments. His book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. nicolascollins.com