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Jeremy Kitchen Discusses Mr. Crabby You Have Died with Kirin Wachter-Grene, Oct 14th

Published on September 5, 2023 0 Comments
Oct ’23
14
7:00 pm

JEREMY KITCHEN

discusses his new book

MR. CRABBY YOU HAVE DIED

with literary scholar

KIRIN WACHTER-GRENE

Saturday, October 14th, 7pm

Free Event at Quimby’s Bookstore

Mr. Crabby You Have Died is the first full-length work by Jeremy Kitchen — a public librarian, former dope fiend, and U.S. Army artillery observer in Desert Storm. Swaying between memoir and fiction, Kitchen lays bare his world through a series of interlocking exorcisms that deny linear time and good taste. Lost years in the Sarin-laced Persian Gulf drift backwards into Detroit’s acid trash landscape, only to corkscrew forward again into a seemingly endless Chicago night of heroin, handguns, and idiot pranksterism.

Comic as it is horrifying, Mr. Crabby You Have Died is a collection of parables about the stupid beauty of youth, the boredom of addiction, and the intensity of dreams.

On Saturday nite, October 14th, Kitchen will discuss all things Mr. Crabby with Kirin Wachter-Grene, a writer and scholar based in Chicago. Wachter-Grene is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches classes on literature, history, and gender & sexuality studies.

Mr. Crabby You Have Died has been published by First To Knock out of Michigan City, Indiana. First To Knock titles have been featured in outlets such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Hermitix, CrimeReads, The Washington Post, Apocalypse Confidential, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Cinepunx, Tulsa Public Radio/NPR, KCRW Los Angeles, and Weird History. Chris Via of Leaf by Leaf has called First To Knock “one of my favorite presses.”

For more info: www.firsttoknock.com

Facebook event link here.

Zine Club Chicago 5th Anniversary Party: Juvenilia Edition with Special Guest Justin Kern of The Museum of the Unintentional, Sept. 16th!

Published on September 1, 2023 0 Comments
Sep ’23
16
6:00 pm

A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with photos of a vintage suitcase filled with ephemera and Justin Kern of the Museum of the Unintentional with his hand over half of his face, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: 5th Anniversary Party: Juvenilia Edition with Special Guest Justin Kern + The Museum of the Unintentional; In Person! Free!; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; 6-9 p.m. Friday, September 16, 2023”

Zine Club Chicago 5th Anniversary Party: Juvenilia Edition with
Special Guest Justin Kern of The Museum of the Unintentional
6-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.
Free!

This month, Zine Club Chicago is celebrating its 5-year anniversary here at Quimby’s Bookstore! Since 2018, these monthly meetups have been hosted in person and online by our shop. So of course we’re commemorating the occasion with a special event and party!

Join us for Zine Club Chicago 5th Anniversary Party: Juvenilia Edition with Special Guest Justin Kern of The Museum of the Unintentional, 6-9 p.m. Saturday, September 16 at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Wicker Park. Free!

We’re thrilled to welcome special guest Justin Kern of The Museum of the Unintentional presenting a collection of found, loaned and contributed multimedia expressions in pop-up style exhibition. In this first showing in Chicago, The Museum, largely contained in one musty suitcase, unfurls for a special presentation of writings, photos, cassettes and personal items in their context, once removed. In honor of this special anniversary at Quimby’s, a one-of-a-kind zine will serve as program and companion during your unique visit through ephemera in this uncollection, presented by conservateur naiveté Justin Kern, a Milwaukee musician, writer and public moron.

Justin Kern of the Museum of the Unintentional stands, with a drink in hand, next to a bronze statue of a person in a hunting cap with ear flaps.

And y’all are invited to contribute to this one-night-only museum installation! Bring an item that represents your own juvenilia: An early attempt to create something in one of your chosen art forms, whether that’s writing, comics, visual art, or the fanciful doodles you drew on your 9th-grade history notebook.

We’ll also be holding an open mic for anyone who would like to show off and discuss the juvenilia they’ve brought.

Contribute to and explore The Museum of the Unintentional from 6-7 p.m.; open mic begins at 7 p.m. Yes, we’ll have snacks on hand! Masks are strongly encouraged when you’re not noshing.

Online friends, Zine Club Chicago will be back on Zoom with y’all in October for a special event that will be part of our shop’s own 32nd anniversary celebrations. More info coming soon!

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.

Facebook link here. More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Description of image #1: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with photos of a vintage suitcase filled with ephemera and Justin Kern of the Museum of the Unintentional with his hand over half of his face, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: 5th Anniversary Party: Juvenilia Edition with Special Guest Justin Kern + The Museum of the Unintentional; In Person! Free!; Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. in Wicker Park; 6-9 p.m. Friday, September 16, 2023”

Description of image #2: Justin Kern of the Museum of the Unintentional stands, with a drink in hand, next to a bronze statue of a person in a hunting cap with ear flaps.

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

Published on August 29, 2023 0 Comments
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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M.S. Harkness Celebrates Time Under Tension: a Graphic Memoir at Quimby’s Bookstore With Evan Salazar & Caroline Cash, Oct 6th!

Published on August 18, 2023 0 Comments
Oct ’23
6
7:00 pm

M.S. Harkness Celebrates Time Under Tension: a Graphic Memoir
at Quimby’s Bookstore
With Evan Salazar & Caroline Cash
Fri, Oct 6th, 7pm
Free!

Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for dignity in a world that rarely affords it and taking agency of adulthood in the face of so many easy excuses not to.

M.S. Harkness is graduating from art school in Minneapolis and facing a crossroads in life. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a sexually abusive father on parole, and is in love with an aspiring MMA fighter who mostly hangs out with her to get high and already has a girlfriend and career prospects with a fight promotion. An art career feels untenable — as one professor tells her, “Don’t expect to get by on this fucked-up broke girl shit.” She decides to get a personal trainer’s certificate — it seems like a feasible and sensible career option — but continues to dabble as a sex worker and weed dealer because the money is too irresistible. With idle hands due to no classes or full-time work, M.S. has ample time to aimlessly fuck around — or, to get her shit together. “I want to be better, I want to be stable and solid. I don’t want to keep aimlessly shifting between untenable situations.”

Harkness’s bold, precise black-and-white cartooning and eye for storytelling invites the reader in, while her sharp wit and naturalist ear as a writer takes it away from there. Never didactic, always real, Time Under Tension is a spirited and assured work of graphic memoir.

M.S. Harkness was born in Oklahoma and lives in Columbus, Ohio. She was featured as an up and coming cartoonist at the Angouleme Comics Festival in France, and was a recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Artist Grant. Harkness occasionally teaches comics at Columbus College of Art & Design, in addition to working as a personal trainer. This is her third graphic novel, following Tinderella and Desperate Pleasures (both from Uncivilized Books). Find M.S. Harkness on IG at @m.s.harkness.

Joining the celebration of Time Under Tension are artists Evan Salazar and Caroline Cash.

Evan Salazar is a cartoonist originally from Tucson, Arizona. His main project is the self-published comic book Rodeo, which explores the secret passageways that connect memory, imagination, and family. Salazar has been published internationally, was the recipient of a 2020 MICE Mini-grant, participated in the Hocking Hills Cartoonist Retreat, founded the Tucson Comix Club, and has presented his work at comics festivals across the United States. He currently lives in Arizona with his dog, Margie. For more info see rodeocomics.com.

Ignatz award winning cartoonist Caroline Cash, known for such titles as Girl In the World and Pee Pee Poo Poo, used to work at Quimby’s. She can be found on IG at cash_browns.

 

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Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition, Aug 22nd

Published on August 5, 2023 0 Comments
Aug ’23
22
7:30 pm

Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition

7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22 on Zoom

Free!

Who are your zine heroes? This month, Zine Club Chicago is honoring the zinemakers we admire, those illustrious creators whose work most thrills and inspires us. Not all heroes wear capes, but ours might be wielding a long-arm stapler.

Grab your favorite zines made by your personal self-publishing icons, BYOS(nacks), and join us on Zoom for Zine Club Chicago Online: Zine Heroes Edition at 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22!

** 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 21 (the evening before our event). We’ll email you the Zoom link by 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Aug. 22.

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: https://zineclubchicagoshoutouts.spread.name/

More info on the Zine Club Chicago social media channels: @zineclubchicago

Description of image #1: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of zine hero (and former Quimby’s employee) Neil Brideau of Radiator Comics, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”

 

Description of image #2: A red-and-blue infographic flyer, with a photo of a stack of Crap Hound zines, and text that reads: “Zine Club Chicago: Zine Heroes Edition; Online! Free! Zoom info on quimbys.com; 7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, August 22, 2023”